The nails were lowered again and again, and when they were lifted up, the pieces of meat and blood hanging from the one-foot-long spikes kept falling down. The corpses on the stone wall have been piled up half a meter high, and the ground below the corpses seems to have been full of blood, so that the blood no longer penetrates but gathers into a stream and flows down.
Within an hour, at least a thousand corpses had been laid under the short 100-meter-long stone wall, including Mongolian people and soldiers of the Black Banner Army.
A soldier of the Black Banner Army who was hit by an arrow couldn't stabilize his body and fell from the wall. He didn't die immediately when he landed on the thick pile of corpses, but before he could stand up, a dozen wolf cavalry roared and surrounded him. Several scimitars fell continuously, and soon the soldier of the Black Banner Army turned into a puddle of flesh.
When the scimitar was lowered and raised again, blood, pieces of internal organs, and bone scum were thrown into the air. In the sunlight, the blood reflected a blinding color.
"I fuck your ancestors!"
The soldiers of the Black Banner Army on the stone wall roared angrily, and put down the nail racket again. The heavy nail racket hit hard on the crowd besieging the Black Banner Army soldier. At least four wolf cavalrymen were knocked over and pierced by the nails. The leather armor on their bodies was wiped out, and more than one blood hole was left on each of them.
The wounds caused by densely packed nails were particularly terrifying, and even those who did not die on the spot would never see the hope of life again.
The sound of shouting and wailing continued over the canyon, and the beasts and birds in the jungle in the mountains were frightened and ran away. The strong bloody smell provoked several ferocious beasts to stand on the top of the cliff and look down, but they were frightened by the scene of blood and flesh flying below and fled. Sometimes, people are more beasts than beasts.
The battle was unprecedentedly fierce, and the Mengyuan people did not stop attacking after losing a thousand-man team. The second thousand-man team yelled, cleared the corpses on the road, and tried to push a battering ram closer. This battering ram was made extremely crudely, but it seemed that the giant wood that the two men embraced was heavy enough. If it swung up and hit the door, the only gate in the stone wall might not be able to withstand the impact.
"Ballista!"
When Xiahou Baichuan saw the battering ram, he shouted in a hoarse voice: "All ballistas, take down the battering ram!"
The soldiers of the Black Banner Army operating the ballista on the city wall have almost changed, and most of the first batch of people have been shot to death by random arrows. But they killed more enemies before they died. When the war started, the tension and fear before the war had disappeared, and what was left was a determination and revenge that must not let the enemy go.
On the grass field of Mandu Banner, the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty had nowhere to go home.
Today, these soldiers of the Black Banner Army are doing what the Mongols did back then, making those barbarians unable to return home!
After adjusting the direction, the soldiers operating the ballista loaded the heavy crossbow, twisted the coiling cable vigorously and then let go. The heavy crossbow flew straight out and knocked down the wolf cavalry who were pushing the battering ram. The first time there was no attack on the battering ram, the soldiers immediately adjusted their direction again.
The second round of heavy crossbows whizzed out again, and a heavy crossbow collided with the iron chain hanging from the giant wood by coincidence. With a bang, sparks were stirred up, the iron chain was broken, and the giant wood fell down and hit the base. , The base was smashed into pieces with a click, two wolf cavalrymen pushing the cart were knocked down, one had his head crushed, red blood and white brains were squeezed out from the crushed leather helmet, mixed The bean curd in soy sauce dripped down like a tick.
Another soldier's waist was crushed and his intestines were squeezed out, but he didn't die for a while. He howled bitterly and asked his comrades to save him. A wolf cavalry soldier beside him couldn't stand it anymore and stabbed him in the heart with a knife.
The battering ram was abolished and blocked the way behind, Zhe Liebie loudly ordered the soldiers to move the broken battering ram away, and the Black Banner Army archers who saw the right moment immediately poured down a rain of arrows, attacking The wolf cavalry near the city hammer fell down in an instant like weeds hit by hail.
An hour and a half later, more than half of the 500 Black Banner Army soldiers on the stone wall had been lost, and 100 soldiers from the two reserve teams had been replenished. People, the loss figure of one to seven is enough to illustrate the ferocity of the wolf cavalry. Although they are not used to this kind of fighting with two feet running and hands climbing, but their natural ruthlessness prevents them from shrinking back.
"Rocket!"
Xiahou Baichuan's voice was so loud that he could hardly make a sound: "Push them back, the people in front go down to rest, and the people from the reserve team come up to me!"
Following his order, the archers of the Black Banner Army ignited the feathered arrows wrapped in tarpaulin that had been prepared a long time ago and shot them out, one after another. After a few minutes, the formation of the wolf cavalry began to be chaotic. The wolf cavalry was hit by an arrow, and the flames appeared scattered at first, and finally began to spread into a ball of fire.
Because there are mostly bare cliffs on both sides of the canyon, Xiahou Baichuan will let people shoot rockets without worrying about causing wildfires.
The wolf cavalry didn't notice it, and neither did Zhe Liebie. The reason why those rockets landed and ignited was because black kerosene was splashed in many places in the canyon, although most of the kerosene was trampled by the wolf cavalry and stuck to it. It was on the boots, but it didn't stop the flames from burning.
The fire rose more than two meters, and hundreds of wolf cavalry who had no time to retreat were swallowed by the sea of flames. The soldiers behind were forced to retreat by the fire, and many had their beards and eyebrows burned off. The soldiers of the Black Banner Army standing on the stone wall felt the waves of heat coming towards their faces, and many of them sat on the ground tired and gasped for breath. The flames reddened their faces and illuminated their eyes.
Although tired, but so determined.
People from the reserve team rushed up and replaced the exhausted soldiers.
This kind of fire won't burn for too long, maybe half an hour later the enemy's second attack will come even more fiercely.
"Replenish the feather arrows and adjust the ballista!"
Xiahou Baichuan leaned on the battlements of the stone wall and gasped for orders. The soldiers of the reserve team carried bundles of feather arrows to the stone wall, and then filled the arrow pots of all the archers. The replaced soldiers sat down in the canyon on the west side of the city wall, everyone's expression was strangely calm.
Fang Jie looked at the soldiers and suddenly shouted: "Bring the wine!"
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In less than an hour, the flames in the canyon gradually extinguished, and there were charred corpses everywhere on the ground, exuding a stench. A few famished vultures have been circling the sky, seeming to fly down and peck at the carcass. Either because of the lingering fire, or because of the killing intent of the humans below, they didn't dive right away.
The wolf cavalry sat on the ground, looked up at the sky and waited for the vultures to come down. For them, being eaten by an eagle is not a disgrace, but a matter of pride. According to the custom of Mongolia and Yuan Dynasty, after the death of a person, the corpse is placed in a specific place, and the eagles and vultures are allowed to share the food.
But the Han people did not have such a custom. The Han people believed that wild beasts and raptors eating the dead bodies were disrespectful to the dead, so some people drew bows and shot arrows into the sky, but they missed. The frightened vultures croaked a few times in the sky, but they dared not leave. The feathered arrow fluttered down, looking a little lonely.
The one-hour interval passed quickly, especially when the wolf cavalrymen were driven to stand up by the centurions and thousands of commanders, their faces were a little dull.
The tragedy of the first battle was far beyond their imagination. They have been enslaving the Han people for more than three years. They are used to facing everything with the attitude of the winner, but now, they find that the attitude of the winner can no longer serve them. To bring victory, they have to fight for it desperately, which has not happened for a long, long time.
If the war hadn't stopped for an hour, the wolf cavalry had been charging and killing, and perhaps their mentality would not have changed. But this hour is enough to make them think about many things.
Zhe Liebie saw that the morale of the soldiers was actually a little low, and anger gushed out of his eyes.
"What are you doing?!"
Zhe Liebie shouted: "You are the people of Changshengtian, the descendants of the wolf god. Hundreds of years ago, under the leadership of the great golden family, your ancestors swept the entire grassland with machetes in their hands. At that time The enemies that our ancestors faced were a hundred times and a thousand times stronger than these Han people. The devil's subordinates were so fierce and brutal, but they couldn't frighten the descendants of the wolf god. The ancestors could even defeat the devil, but you! What face do you have? Claiming to be a descendant of the wolf god!"
Zhe Lie said angrily: "If they see you like this, they will bow their heads in shame!"
"The head of a Mongolian warrior never bows to the enemy! The war has just begun, and you have become cowards. How can you tell your wives when you return home? We escaped ? Or the return of glory after killing all the enemies?!"
The wolf cavalry raised their heads and looked at the stone wall.
"Kill them all!"
Zhe Lie shouted loudly.
"Huha!"
The response this time was not intense. The wolf cavalry all knew that Zhe Liebie had said something wrong just now. There was no chance for them to escape. That stone wall...why was it so high.
Just when Zhe Liebie was about to continue to attack with the rest of the troops, Kuoketai Menglie's personal soldiers came over aggressively, and the leading guard pointed at Zhe Liebie and said, "You are no longer the chief of the Wanfu, special service I have demoted you to be a centurion, take your cowards and go back to the back."
"No!"
Zhe Libie's face changed drastically: "I want to see Secret Service, please give me another chance! My people are not cowards, I will personally lead them to charge again!"
The guard sneered and said: "You and your people have completely disgraced the Mongolian Yuan Empire, and Teqin is extremely disappointed in you. The next thing has been handed over to Kufai Tieer by Teqin, and you have no chance."
Zhe Liebie saw that Kuobie Tie'er had brought people up from behind, and Kuobie Tie'er looked at him with eyes full of disdain.
"No!"
Zhe Lie pulled out the scimitar: "Go back and tell the special service, if I can't break through the stone wall this time, I will apologize with death! Not only me, but my people will also do the same to defend the dignity of the warrior!"
"Give you another chance!"
The voice of Kok Tai Menglie was heard in the distance, and Kok Tai Menglie, who had changed his horse, pointed at Zhe Liebie with his whip: "Last chance, if you can't break through the stone wall, even if you end your own Life, and your family will be ashamed because of you!"
"Xie Teqin!"
Zhe Liebie's eyes were bloodshot. He took off his leather armor and beat his chest with a machete: "Wolf cubs, have you heard that! You are all warriors and deserve a humiliating death. Or a glorious death?"
He put the scimitar in his mouth, reached out and grabbed the side of the ladder and lifted it up: "Kill!"
"Huha!"
The shouts this time were much louder than before, because these wolf cavalry knew that this time... there was really no way out.
In front is the stone wall of the Han people, and behind it is their dignity.