Chapter 675: The Beimang Army is at the city, and the Wogong City is dead.
A vanguard general is standing on the top of the high city and sounded the last horn on the battlefield.
No matter how enemies and we are, inside and outside the city of Wagong, nearly 20,000 dead people are destined to be unable to hear this sound.
Outside the Bow City, there are no more beacons everywhere igniting the fire of peace.
The Beimang vanguard army was at the city.
Strong winds, yellow sand, barren land, and strong winds blow these dry loess into the air and hit the flags. In front of the Beimang battle formation outside the city, elite cavalry continued to speed and pass on military orders. At the top of the city, large crossbows were ready to go, and all the generals at the city subconsciously clasped the hilt.
A loud and sharp horn suddenly rang out!
If the people in the north mongol siege the city in the southward stream of Beimang, at this time, they would mostly drive the people and surrendered soldiers to rush forward. Not only did they fill the trenches, but they could also consume a large amount of arrows from the guards. At most, they would be supplemented with auxiliary soldiers to push shields and chariots forward. Infantry and cavalry flocked out, and tens of thousands of arrows were fired at the same time, which would achieve the effect of “the battlements arrows are like rain, and the hanging cards are like hedgehogs”. As long as the guards are unstable in the morale of the army, with the bravery of the Beimang military soldiers, they can be defeated in one battle after climbing the city. But today this time the army is approaching Wogong City. Under the leadership of commander Yang Yuanzan, the military service of the Beimang Eastern Front shows a completely different siege style from the previous two hundred years of the Northern Barbarians’ invasion. While the three thousand cavalry guards of the central army were charged on each of the left and right wings, there was a kind of military weapon that rarely appeared in the northwest frontier in previous years, and surfaced in a large-scale assembly – a catapult!
Yang Yuanzan set up no less than 600 catapults almost overnight. The biggest one needs two hundred people with outstanding strength, and a huge rock weighs 100 kilograms! The six hundred catapults not only carried a considerable number of huge rocks when the chariots headed south, but also plundered all the big rocks north of Wogong City along the way after entering Hulukou. At this time, all the soldiers of Beimang who were still holding their troops couldn’t help but look up, quietly waiting for the spectacular scene: countless huge rocks were thrown into the sky, and then they hit the walls of the Wogong City, or landed on the military roads around the city and the city.
The six hundred catapults seem to be facing the Hogong City, and if you look from the other side of the city, you will know that you have a curve. The strong are placed at the center of the arc farthest from the city, the weak are placed at the left and right, and so on.
I don’t know who was the first to shout “The wind rises from the north”, and the Beimang army near the catapult car tried their best to yell out these four words.
The first hundred pounds of flint specially wrapped in oil cloth was lit, flew high and threw it towards the wading bow city.
That scene was like a fire spirit in the heavenly court landing on earth.
Hundreds of huge rocks followed the flint and smashed the first city at Youzhou Hulukou. All the soldiers of Beimang were shocked by this strange siege.
The huge rock fell on the top of the city, fell inside the city, or was a wallStop rolling into the moat.
Inside and outside the city, the sound of wind and thunder were everywhere.
Everyone seemed to feel the tremor of the earth, and the wading bow city was sobbing silently.
And the six thousand miraculous cavalry who had predated the casting of stones but were slower than the huge rocks hit the city, of course, did not directly attack the city. Unless it is absolutely necessary to attack the city with cavalry, even the commanding generals who have great achievements will not be able to afford such pain. The function of these cavalry is only to escort infantry to advance two hundred steps outside the city, and help their infantry suppress the crossbows on the top of the city to kill them. The two-wing cavalry, which had been pulled a distance with the infantry, no longer drove forward after a rain of arrows at the top of the city, ran away from moving outward, making room for the cavalry behind them. Therefore, the two cavalry were like a flood encountered a reef, but did not collide with it, and dispersed left and right. A leading strong cavalryman turned around and glanced back as he turned around.
At the top of the city, as the commander of Yang Yuanzan’s direct subordinate army, he knew that the existence of 600 catapults, and he also knew the power of catapults earlier than the ordinary catapults. Originally, in his opinion, he didn’t need two cavalry guards. The defenders of Wogong City would be so scared that they couldn’t raise their heads and allowed the infantry outside the city to advance all the way out of the trench, but during the charge, casualties continued to occur in front and behind him. The crossbow on the top of the city was shot in a burst of force, and two cavalry were directly penetrated by a huge crossbow arrow! The bodies of the two riders were hung on crossbow arrows and nailed to the ground on the spot. If you have heard of the sharp crossbow in Beiliang, then when the huge rocks exploded into countless walls, the rain of arrows on the Wogong City was still orderly, which made this leader complicated. He once saw with his own eyes that two Youzhou soldiers were smashed by huge rocks, and the nearby city archers still shot quite a certain level of feather arrows. The commander of thousands of men curled his lips. Are these Youzhou people really not afraid of death? They are just spreading meat at their feet!
After the huge rock smashing the city and the Beimang two-wing cavalry, the crossbows and arrows of the Beimang City were increasingly concentrated on the siege infantry of the Beimang Central Army. Infantrymen and shield chariots were constantly penetrated by bed and crossbows, and some unlucky infantry were even shot directly into the chest with a crossbow, and were slid backwards by the huge inertia momentum, causing the shield and shield soldiers behind to fall to the ground. More often than not, they were shot by the bows and arrows on the top of the city and were killed on the way forward, especially when the infantry front was uneven, the most brave and brave soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were rushing to the front began to be deliberately targeted by the archers on the top of the city.
The rain of arrows is not weak, but it falls into the dense swarm of locusts, like a drop in the bucket, and it is still endless to kill.
The slightly crowded infantrymen, who were like black locusts, ignored the bodies and injuries under their feet and continued to rush forward.
A burly armored archer in the city pulled his bow like a full moon. He was about to shoot a leader of a Beimang man who was loudly ordering to fill the trenches when he was shot through his throat by a feather arrow.
His body was pulled randomly into one place, and soon the archers behind him were quickly repaired.Up position.
Continuously pulling the bow, especially killing the enemy with a full bow, will damage the arm. In the Youzhou army, there are strict military orders for the draw of bows a few steps away from the enemy, and when to use a bow and crossbow are even more deeply rooted in people’s hearts. The crossbow first, then the bow, and then the crossbow is the iron law of Northern Liang that cannot be struck by thunder. Among them, “first crossbow” is mainly composed of bed crossbow, waist crossbow and foot crossbow. As one of the three cities in Hulukou, Youzhou, the number of bed crossbows is not as exaggerated as that of Beiliang Hutou City, but this is not because the general Yan Wenluan would not have a bed crossbow, but because the size of the bed crossbows limits the number of bed crossbows. However, in the previous mutual shooting, there were still huge casualties on the Beimang Central Army, and the enemy troops were directly killed and injured under the crossbow with hardwood as iron pieces and feathers. There were as many as a hundred people under the observation. Two of the Beimang Central Army generals who were under the ranks were accidentally shot and killed by a big bed crossbow on the spot. I think this will definitely make two thousand men who are already very far away from the city wall die with their eyes closed, because their Southern Dynasty craftsmen always say that their large crossbows are no less than those of Beiliang in terms of range and muscle strength. But when they really get to the battlefield, they realize that this is not the case at all!
Before the two-wing cavalry protected the arrows and rains, and even before the various types of crossbows on Beimang’s side were shot out earlier, the bed crossbow and waist-induced crossbow of the Wagong City had already been shot out from the top of the city.
If the huge rocks of the catapult cart had suppressed the crossbow rain at the top of the city to a certain extent, I am afraid that the central infantry even died near the moat would have been a luxury. Dismounting the horse and siege the city is the worst thing that Beimang’s athletes are not good at. If they fight with the Beiliang cavalry on the back of a horse, they will not be afraid even if the battle is at a disadvantage. However, riding without horses is really a matter of being in a mess. Fortunately, the infantry responsible for siege this time were all from the border towns of the Southern Dynasties, and they were always inferior to the Beimang Army. Their life and death were not very concerning compared to the elite cavalry on both wings.