The black clouds are squeezing the city and are about to destroy it!

This black cloud is not in the sky, but in front of the city wall.

As the arrows came and went, blood flowers bloomed, screaming and screaming, and playing the melody of death.

"Shooting the Crossbow formation!"

The command of hissing sounded, and the soldiers of the defenders poked out the trough and pointed the rebel crossbow formation twenty feet away to the hanging knife. The teeth were poured down, the bowstring was loose, and the whistling rebounded violently. It was more than two feet long.

The arrow pole, pressed against a two-two-two conical armor-breaking arrow cluster, broke through the air.

The dense and sharp roaring sound covered the sky and the earth, stabbing the rebel crossbow formation like a sudden rain.

"Adhere to arrows! Avoid arrows!" Officers at all levels shouted urgently.

The rebel crossbowmen who were preparing to shoot in a kneeling position all quickly lowered their heads, hid their faces, and curled up their bodies as much as possible to form a defensive shape.

The crossbow arrow fell and hit the iron armor, and the jingling sounded like a piece.

Some of them were bounced away, but more of them penetrated the armor pieces and penetrated deeply into the flesh and blood body.

Amid the chaotic wailings, the officers' orders rang again.

"Counterattack! Counterattack!"

"My mother, as long as you are not dead, I will ejaculate me!"

"Don't be fucked, shoot it back and shoot it back, and hold the top of the city. The brothers in front have already arrived at the city!"

"Don't stop, just turn the strings and shoot again after shooting!"

Under the urging of the officers, the rebel crossbowmen no longer followed the volley, raised the crossbow and shot upwards at the top of the city.

After shooting, sit on the ground, stretch your feet flat, put the kick ring at the front end of the crossbow arm into the soles of the foot, clamp the crossbow arm with both legs, pull the crossbow string with both hands, pull the crossbow string back with the force of the legs and waist, and pull the crossbow string on the

After the machine teeth, he then got up and knelt on one knee, took out the crossbow arrow and put it into the groove on the crossbow arm, aimed at the battlement at the city head through Wangshan, and shot again.

Crossbow arrows kept flying into the mercerized corners accurately, shooting the outward defenders to the ground. Although the defenders had armor, they had no defense on the front door. Once they were shot, they would be dead for a lifetime.

Relying on the suppression of the crossbowmen, the rebels' Pancheng troops continued to advance, and some people had already rushed to the bottom of the wall.

The carriage was parked five or six meters away from the city wall, and there was no shielding effect when it went further.

The rebels carrying ladders rushed out from both sides of the platoon and ran to the city. When they arrived, they immediately put the ladder on the city wall.

The defenders on the city were braved by the rain of arrows, holding the push rod and pushing out hard, but the rebels under the city rushed to the foot of the ladder, pressing the ladder to prevent the defenders from pushing it down.

Soon, forty or fifty ladders leaned against the city wall, and some brave rebels simply took off their heavy armor, hung their weapons on their bodies, stepped on their comrades' bodies, jumped onto the ladder, and climbed up quickly.

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Clay pots kept falling from the top of the city. After hitting hard objects, they broke one after another, spilling out white lime powder, rising and falling into the crowd, making their heads, faces and bodies covered.

"Ph, ph..."

"Ah! My eyes..."

Before they could react, a boiling and stinky and pungent golden juice poured down immediately.

When the golden juice was poured on his body, he suddenly caused a burst of terrifying screams. Even if he was covered with armor, it was useless. There would still be hot juice in the gap.

After the quicklime that had fallen was met with water, it immediately reacted violently and released terrifying heat instantly. For a moment, the city seemed to have turned into a steamer, and white smoke rose up, wrapping everyone in.

Even if the rebel soldiers were not dead, they could not bear the pain of burning their flesh. After losing sight, they were even more panicked. They danced and ran around, and they didn't care about pressing the ladder.

So many ladders were pushed away from the city and fell outwards. The rebels on the ladders fell one after another, smashing into the crowd below, adding to the chaos.

However, the crossbow arrows shot by the rebel crossbowmen were even more dense, and screams continued to sound at the top of the city. I don’t know how many people died under the arrows.

The crossbow cart never stopped shooting for a moment. As long as the thick giant crossbow lands accurately on the top of the city, it will definitely cause damage.

In order to attack the rebels in Pancheng, the defenders often had to poke their bodies out of the city wall, so the casualties were even worse.

Even so, the defenders tried to prevent the rebels from climbing to the city at all costs.

The reason why ancient troops often used climbing the city as their primary contribution is that once someone successfully climbed up, it was equivalent to tearing a hole open, and then a steady stream of people rushed up from this hole.

At this time, the defenders will lose sight of one thing and it will be difficult to strike the city again, so there will be an avalanche effect and more and more places will be broken through.

That is, the young soldiers in Wujiang City are not a major town in the border city, and this time they were siege, otherwise the first defensive battle should not have happened in front of the city wall.

The city wall can give the defenders a height advantage, but the width of the city wall limits the investment of troops. The siege often has stronger troops and a wider tactical space.

In this way, limited firepower output is often difficult to prevent the siege from approaching the city wall unless the troops are organized to go out of the city to harass the city.

A normal defense system will definitely be established on the periphery, with fortresses and soldiers, echoing each other, making it impossible for the enemy to completely surround the city.

When a war breaks out, the defenders will do their best to ensure the improvement of the peripheral system. No matter where the crisis occurs, as long as there are mobile troops in the city, they will definitely be sent to rescue.

Once the periphery is lost, it will not only be surrounded by the enemy, but also isolate reinforcements and material passages, turning into a dead city and an isolated city.

Sometimes, the defenders even give up the protection of the city wall and directly line up outside the city to fight with the siege. Anyway, as long as there is a choice, the enemy will not easily attack the city wall.

If there is no way, we must try our best to prevent the enemy from climbing to the city. It often means that the city defense begins to collapse, and under the enemy's superior forces, we will gradually lose control of the city wall.

As for street fighting, it is simply a big joke, at most it is just a dying struggle.

The city walls can not only block people from outside, but also lock people inside.

With ancient organizational capabilities and communication methods, when the failed party scattered the army into the city, it basically let go of sheep, and don’t expect them to have the intention of actively resisting.

Moreover, ancient buildings were all made of wood, and the enemy didn't have to do too much else. As long as you occupy the city wall and set fire to the city, you can also fight a street battle with a hammer.

As long as the generals guarding the city are not stuck by the door, if they refuse to surrender after seeing that the city is destined to be lost, they would rather organize the army to break through than stay in the city for unnecessary struggle.

Therefore, for Wujiang City, although the city wall is the first line of defense, it is also the last line of defense.

The defenders tried every means to prevent the rebels from entering the city. The oil, the wood, the stones, and the thunder were shattering down the city. Fire was everywhere and thick smoke was rolling.

In just over a moment, nearly a thousand rebels had been killed or injured, but the remaining rebels, even though they risked such huge casualties, had to climb up the city.

If the people who climbed the city fell, they would change the person and continue climbing. If the ladder was pushed down, they would help them up and then stand them up. If they couldn't suppress them, they would pile up the bodies.

The rebels who were still alive under the city were red at this moment, and there was only one thought in their minds, climb up!

The 600 Fenghua Army on the top of the city were killed and injured by more than 400, and more than 1,000 people and soldiers also suffered most of them. They still fought to the death and refused to retreat, but the defense was inevitably getting lower and lower.

Under a burning ladder, the rebels saw that most of their subordinates were killed or injured, and less than a dozen people were left. They were very irritable and looked around.

Then he saw that although a ladder was pushed away from the wall, it did not fall down because of the pile of corpses at the foot of the ladder, but stood straight, and there seemed to be no guards on the front of the city.

He gritted his teeth hard, picked up an iron bone, and inserted it back, "It's all my goddamn it and I'm here!"

Stepping on the pile of corpses, the rebels rushed to the ladder, put it back to the city wall, and then climbed up.

Maybe this guy was lucky, or maybe the black smoke came out of his ancestral grave that he actually climbed to the top of the city successfully.

He stepped onto the trunk happily, but he knew that a wounded soldier was sitting under the trunk. After hearing the movement, he turned his head and looked at it, and exclaimed in shock, "The thief army comes up..."

The rebels jumped down and pulled out the iron bones and smashed the wounded's head, but the brains burst out were all over.

He hurriedly reached out to wipe it, but at this time, a Minzhuang who heard the call saw him, "There is a thief army! There is a thief army!"

While Min Zhuang shouted, he had no time to find weapons. He rushed up without any armed force, pounced on the rebels, hugged him tightly, and then pushed him to the clutch with his inertia. Then the two of them were They climbed over the female wall together and fell off the city.

Although Du's head fell down, the rebels following him emerged from the cliff.

There were only four or five Min Zhuang who were responsible for carrying wounded soldiers in the nearest place. They all witnessed the scene just now.

Perhaps because of the fact that these civil and brave men all rushed over, one of the middle-aged men who ran the front rushed forward, without thinking, rushed towards the rebels who were about to jump off the cliff.

After seeing that his companions fell into the city with the rebels again, the other civilians did not have time to feel sad. They lay on the wall and looked down, and saw that the rebels were still climbing up on the ladder.

"There are also the thief army! There are also the thief army!"

"You can't let these prisoners come up!"

"I'm a mother! Three hundred guan! It's worth it!"

"Dad! My child earns you three acres of land!"

Four young and old people folded together against the ladder, stepped on the wall, pushed out with all their strength, and threw them out together with the ladder.

The defenders who were a little far away rushed over and looked down. The four men at the end of the fallen ladder were twitching slightly, but they were still holding the ladder tightly. Under the ladder, there were still six or seven pressing under the ladder. A rebel with varying injuries.

Chen Xiaokun and Zhao Mengqi also discovered this scene, their faces were very ugly. They knew that the Fenghua Army had less than 200 people left, so they could not take into account the defense of the entire city wall. However, except for more than 60 squads, there was no force in the city that could be replenished. .

"Call all the bright people here."

"But, Liu Xiuli still has more than 200 elite soldiers and has not been used." Chen Xiaokun frowned.

The more than 200 garrison troops in Mao Liang had a weak combat power and were arranged to defend the other three walls, which also meant to serve as the final reserve team.

"Look at the front of you first. If the city is broken through, everything will be stopped."

Zhao Mengqi can't come up with other methods for the time being. The iron eggs he brought had been used up last night. Although he had already arranged to go to the city to collect raw materials and configure new gunpowder, he didn't know when it would be ready, nor did he know how to match it.

How much to give.

Charcoal is easy to find, and saltpeter can be made into ice. In summer, many wealthy families will prepare some. However, although sulfur is a traditional Chinese medicine, the available amount is usually very small, and even in the medicine shop, there will not be too much.
Chapter completed!