Chapter 90 Hammer
"I was originally a carpenter, and after fighting, I had to go to the prison regardless of the outcome. But now you are under my control." Ye Tao said this to the army of more than 2,000 scattered soldiers. His expression was so indifferent, as if he was not going to lead them to blood, but to go to a sauna. "The city wall on the west has been fighting for two hours, and the south and north have been fighting for a while. There are enemies behind him waiting to attack. The two thousand infantry soldiers are tired now
Okay, we have to fight for two hours. Those who don’t want to die at the top of the city. Now, I’m too lazy to send a team to the top of the city. It’s not interesting to cut off your own heads... No one? That’s better. Go to the city in batches and replace the heavy infantry flag teams. Those who can play with the Divine Arm Bow and the Stone-Star Cart, and the Birds cannons will hand over quickly. Remember, two hours. If we can survive tonight, even if we can pass it, everyone knows the consequences."
Ye Tao's "mobilization" made everyone look at each other. But Ye Tao's current mentality is indeed like this. For him, death in battle is not a bad ending. But his posture of wearing armor and leaning on the stone hammer casually, and his tone still made everyone feel at ease. The blood stains that could not be washed away on the stone hammer made everyone understand that this is a general who will follow them to fight desperately. As for the identity of "carpenter",... isn't it nonsense? This is the idea of most soldiers.
Ye Tao's opening on the city was magnificent. His hammer hit the shield of a Captain Xiling who rushed to the top of the city with a shield. The shield was broken. The Captain let out a scream and fell from the top of the city.
"The entire Blood Qi army is down in the city, we will take over here." Ye Tao ordered.
"I can't go down." The gorgeous cloisonné decorative surface of Qiu Haohui's heavy armor was covered with a thick layer of blood.
"You can't walk any more. Let me go." Ye Tao waved his hand and asked someone to hold Qiu Haohui down.
When the miscellaneous army led by Ye Tao came to the city to fight, one battalion in Xiling was crippled and gradually contracted while the other battalion was taking over the offensive. He did not encounter much obstacle. The two thousand scattered soldiers took over the entire defense line of the city wall on the west side. According to the previous troops, each of them took up weapons and began to enter the battle in an orderly manner. Among these two thousand people, there were more than two hundred non-commissioned officers and officers from the Blood Qi Army, who would become the backbone of organizational defense.
Looking at the waves of enemies under the city, they formed arrays and began to attack the city walls. Ye Tao couldn't help but complain: "Damn! Why did you meet the elite?"
After the first batch of enemies rushed through three-dimensional strikes composed of multiple long-range weapons, the enemy can continuously attack the city wall. Although the entire process will still be constantly hit and harassed by long-range weapons, the soldiers on the city wall have different proficiency in operating equipment and need to constantly adjust the target, and they can no longer form a volley. Although the casualties caused by such fragmented attacks continue to increase, they are not as shocking as when starting to volley.
This group of Xiling soldiers who were striking were no different from the previous waves of enemies, but they could tell at a glance that they were different. From gathering arrays outside the range of the crossbows and catapults to rush to the city to set up a ladder to start climbing, this round of offensive came faster than before. Xiling now had no way to organize archers to concentrate on shooting. However, in this round of offensive, the scattered archers mixed in the infantry's queue and concentrated on blind shooting at the city head around the ladder. Arrows with narrow white tail feathers made soldiers who were obviously not fully armored were pressed on the city head and couldn't raise their heads. The opponent seemed to have keenly noticed that the heavy infantry's physical strength could not be held back, and knew that in their main attack direction, there was only a much weaker defensive force in comparison.
"Preserve the left and right sides. Put them up in the middle ladder!" This can't go on, Ye Tao decisively ordered and changed his defense method. Instead of letting the other party suppress the use of arrows like this, it is better to fight whether the other party is coming to the city or the soldiers on the top of the city kill people quickly. "Protect the equipment and prepare the crossbow."
The soldiers of Xiling immediately rushed to the top of the city. The first thing they were greeted was the arrows shot out by dense crossbows. Then, the soldiers of Dongping rushed up like a wolf and tiger. The actions of the arrowheads were always a little stagnant due to injuries, and these people were immediately pushed or thrown down the city. Gravity would complete the rest. They fought with the soldiers of Xiling, and the archers of Xiling under the city had to stop shooting arrows at the city that they could not see clearly, so as not to hurt their own people. But Dongping's
While fighting, the soldiers pulled out some people and shot the archers who had already been under the city wall with their hand crossbows. They poked out the city wall and pulled the trigger when they saw the archers aiming roughly. Anyway, the enemy under the city was so dense that the possibility of shooting was not very high. But many Xiling archers were in trouble with almost no fighting force. After all, they could not always pull the bows and shoot the guys who were poking their heads out of the city wall at any time. The crossbows that had been put on the string were so fast that these archers had no time to react.
Waving the stone hammer, Ye Tao gradually became a little crazy. At first, he was a little scared. Seeing ferocious faces roaring at him, waving a sharp and blood-stained knife in his hand. Fear was really an instinctive reaction. If he didn't want to wait for death, he could only wave the stone hammer in his hand and smash the scary face hard.
One, two, three... After solving several enemies in the melee, Ye Tao even found the strange sense of rhythm of wielding the stone hammer. The panic in his heart turned into plainness and gradually rose into fanaticism. As long as he saw where his comrades were struggling to resist the attack, or if a few people were besieged by more people, Ye Tao instinctively pounced on him and smashed the enemy with the hammer in his hand. There was no more moves, it was just a desperate posture. The carefully made armor on his body save him from being hurt to the greatest extent. But when he found that unless the enemy used positive power to concentrate the weak spots on the armor, although it would cause pain in his whole body, it would not really hurt him, and he began everyone's exchange-style fighting style against chopping. Although Lu Dan, who followed him closely, was frightened, this kind of fighting was indeed the most effective for Ye Tao, who was not very skilled.
"Cut the hammer!" A subordinate general in the city pointed at the top of the city and waved the stone hammer in his hand. He then knocked Ye Tao, who had just climbed up to the top of the city, knocking down like a gopherm. Beside him, several masked soldiers in leather armor, respectfully took the order and jumped towards the ladder. Their steps were much lighter and more powerful than ordinary soldiers. After a few strokes, they climbed the ladder along the ladder. Their steps even stepped on the shoulders and heads of their comrades, but it seemed that they were just a little light. There was no weight.
"Be careful!" Lu Dan's exclamation was too late. While he exclaimed, three crossbow arrows had already shot at Ye Tao one after another.
Almost subconsciously, Ye Tao raised his arm and turned to the side, but the crossbow arrow was still nailed to his body. The tough armor and the copper grid under the armor blocked it, and a crossbow arrow bounced open, one stuck in the gap in the armor, but another one was embedded in Ye Tao's ribs.
He let out a low roar, like a wounded beast. He broke the arrow shaft and rushed towards the unknown enemy without hesitation.
Lu Dan wanted to rush up to protect Ye Tao, but was entangled by two Xiling soldiers who had climbed to the top of the city. He quickly cut off the two miscellaneous soldiers and rushed forward.
Those masked soldiers were secret forces of Zang Keming, the commander of Moshui Camp. They often seized the pass and sniped important opponents during a war. This was called a group of people in the Wolf Guard. Zang Keming had less than twenty men under him. Now, in such a severe siege battle, he invested six people at once. It was already a huge move. The general under the city, instructing the Wolf Guard to raid Ye Tao, was considered to be aware of people and responsibilities.
If Ye Tao had a sensible string in his mind, he would never have pounced on him to fight such an enemy, but the constant death of his enemies and comrades had already broken his string. Two wolf guards rushed up from left to right. What they were holding was not the big sword, spear, scimitar, or dagger used by ordinary soldiers, but the blade stab without guards with deep blood grooves.
Ye Tao's power was unexpectedly great, and a wolf guard failed to block Ye Tao's hammer. Just as the wolf guard stepped back two steps and put his legs on the wall behind him. At the moment of balancing the center of gravity, he was already used to finding a bargain to pick up the land. The soldiers of Dongping were stinging the wolf guards and killed them on the spot. They even picked and swung them and threw the body down the top of the city.
Moshuiying is Zang Keming's soldiers, especially the few wolf guards who have made countless contributions. Almost everyone has their own unique skills. These people may not be called masters when they are put into the world. However, the army has skills and methods of acting in the army, and on the battlefield. These people can play several times the role of so-called first-class masters. Zang Keming was indeed angry when he threw the wolf guard into a bloody and simple siege battle. This wolf guard who died immediately had already made Zang Keming feel heartbroken for a long time.
Ye Tao is a rookie after all. His courage and his well-being and solid armor on him can indeed make him invincible when facing ordinary soldiers. However, once he faces the battlefield for a long time, he is inevitably in crisis. It seems that at a moment, a wolf guard invades Ye Tao, and his palms are imprinted behind Ye Tao's back. Then he confidently turns over and jumps away, avoiding the spears in the hands of the Dongping soldiers around him, and then jumps off directly from the city. The wolf guards who know that they are not good at this kind of meat grinder-style fighting saw that someone succeeded and retreats from the current battle. Although the walls of Baishi City are not low, they are not very high for them.
Ye Tao fell down. The two palms in his back did not hurt at the moment when they were in the middle palm. The powerful impact of Peiran Mo Yu randomly reminded Ye Tao of the mechanical stamping machine that has now become the treasure of many technical officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works. He almost immediately spit out two mouthfuls of blood and fell to the ground.
"Ye Tao!" Lu Dan snatched it up, full of anger. But this was a battlefield after all. After all, it was a battlefield. Years of training in the army, the princess's house guards and the nature of playing. The many exercises under the palace of the two armies have made him accustomed to the various casualties that may occur in the battlefield, such as the inconspicuous place, but once it really happened to the people around him, especially the protection object he was responsible for, he still erupted in an instant.
He slashed a few times without hesitation, making him closer to where Ye Tao fell, but the surging battle group rushed him away. Just as a soldier of Xiling was stabbing at Ye Tao with a spear in his hand, a guy in rough work clothes snatched him up next to him. He kicked the Xiling soldier away and pulled Ye Tao down.
Lu Dan knew this person very familiar. This guy was an apprentice in the camp of the Blood Qi Army in the Ye Family Workshop, responsible for the repair of various equipment. This time, the entire Blood Qi Army attacked, and was not going to bring these "non-combatants", but most of the apprentices still followed and played a big role in building the floating bridge. But Lu Dan did not expect that among these apprentices, this guy named Xu Ping was actually a master. Judging from the power of the kick he kicked out and the arc of the poor Xiling soldier flying out, it was impossible not to have ten or twenty years of skill, but Xu Ping looked like he was only twenty-five or six years old.
"I am from the princess's mansion." Xu Ping said, and this immediately answered all Lu Dan's questions. How could that magical princess, that great princess, not arrange a few reliable guards beside Ye Tao? "Young Master Lu. I will take the young master down to settle down. You will command everyone to take it for a while. I will let General Yu come up." When Lu Dan rushed to Xu Ping, Xu Ping had already carried Ye Tao on his back. Lu Dan agreed with Xu Ping's statement. Although Ye Tao was injured now and seemed to be in a coma, since there was someone like Xu Ping, he would definitely make good arrangements. And Lu Dan's most important responsibility now is to stabilize the battle formation. Don't let Ye Tao's efforts be wasted, and don't let the death and injury of so many brothers be in vain.
Lu Dan raised the stone hammer and nodded vigorously. Lu Dan shouted, inspiring the original scattered soldiers who had already fallen into fanaticism, wielding the stone hammer to save the field. Although Mo Shuiying was the elite force in Zang Keming's hands, no matter how elite soldiers were, they could not defeat the desperate people. Although the Dongping soldiers on the city were becoming increasingly sparse, the battle situation stabilized strangely.
Not long after, Yu Kang, who had just retreated, rushed up with a team of people. Although Yu Kang was tired, he was still somewhat exhausted compared to the heavy infantry of the Blood Qi Army who had been fighting for a long time. The group of people he brought with him could be regarded as the last batch of civil servants in Baishi City. Among them were the guards of the city guards, the guards in his own mansion, and the officials who were not under the military's jurisdiction in the city gate, and even the prisoners of the Baishi City Prison. The nearly 300 new force, regardless of the combat effectiveness, injected a new blood into the stalemate situation at the city. With the three axes of fierce rushing and fighting, a small section of the city wall was also recovered.
Finally, the Blood Qi Army had not been repaired for two hours. After an hour and a half, Qiu Haohui brought some soldiers who claimed to have recovered. Whether they were really recovered or just showing off their abilities, he could not care about it at this time. In desperation, Qiu Haohui also used a super rogue tactic. Several heavy infantry teams rushed to the most densely concentrated area of Xiling soldiers, and then the archers following behind covered the shooting regardless of their own people or enemies. The Blood Qi Army's heavy infantry was so meticulous that they were abnormally armor that they did not worry about arrows from any angle, but the Xiling soldiers who were attracted by them fell in batches.
After more and more heavy infantry and archers re-entered the battle, the battle all night finally came to an end. When the huge fire at the top of the city and under the city gradually faded, and when the dawn reappeared on the horizon, the most intense siege battle since the siege was sieged. Although the Blood Qi Army, the White Shi City defenders and the gathered scattered soldiers were indeed scarred and injured, the Xiling Army was even more miserable. That night, all the troops were put into rotation, and several major forces, including Moshui Camp, were crippled. In just one night, the Xiling Army was killed and injured by more than 12,000. This number is more than three times the loss of Baishi City in the Blood Qi Army as the core defense party. The comparison of troops inside and outside the city has undergone subtle changes.
Zang Keming could only send a military document asking for help to Tong Bingwen. While Tong Bingwen was surprised by the strength of the Blood Qi army, he had to mobilize a large army to siege Baishi City. The battle situation in Ning Shicheng was in a stalemate, but Tong Bingwen chose to siege instead of fighting. In comparison, he still felt that he was more confident in taking down Baishi City, which had weaker troops and city defense. In any case, he needed a strong support point on this front line, a city that could be used as a bargaining chip in the future.
Chapter completed!