"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Stack the things up!"
Various instructions could be heard on the walls of Guangyang Prefecture. The final preparations before the war were being made here. The things being carried up were standard consumables in this kind of war, such as rolling logs and wooden shields.
Guangyang Prefecture has a large stock of these things, and coupled with the thickest city wall in this area, even though the enemy has more people than their own, Hong Yi and his men are still confident that they can at least hold on this time.
In addition, the city gate facing Qixia Mountain has been directly blocked by various huge stones. Not to mention outsiders trying to break in, even if our own people want to reopen it, it would be very difficult. This is the option of cutting off the opponent's ability to break in.
“Here it comes!”
Following the spy's shout, a black line appeared on the distant horizon, and within a few seconds, an army of several thousand people appeared before their eyes.
"Prepare for battle!" Captain Cheng roared, then pulled the prefect back two steps.
The shield soldiers on both sides quickly closed in and filled this last gap.
After the two sides entered the combat distance, the opposing camp quickly split into three parts. The first part was led by Gan Ning, with about two thousand people. They were there to ram the wall. In ordinary wars, the people responsible for this task were all dead soldiers, but Noah preferred to take an unconventional approach and directly use his main general to ram the wall.
The second group leader Hong Yi and his men were not clear about it, but looking at the various siege equipment carried by the soldiers, they knew what the mission of this group was.
The third group was the enemy's harassment team, an archer unit of about 1,500 people, which was used to suppress the soldiers on the city walls.
The orange tactics flashed across the enemy's third army formation, and the advanced precision tactics were attached to the soldiers. In the next three attacks, the enemy's arrows would be as accurate as if they had eyes.
After the tactics were attached, one arrow after another was shot out from the enemy's camp. The rotating arrows formed a huge net in the air and fell towards the top of the city. The momentum was enough to scare most ordinary people to the point of peeing their pants.
Although the soldiers in the front row could not see the flying arrows, they could still feel the pressure from above their heads. However, even if they felt it, they could only curl up their bodies smaller and give all the space to the shields in their hands. At this time, the chance of death would be greater if the defensive formation was destroyed. What's more, there were people on all sides, so they could not run away even if they wanted to.
Tap, tap, tap. The sound of woodpeckers rang out on the top of the city. Soldiers kept falling down because their wooden shields were shot through. However, under the defense of the formation, the enemy's rain of arrows had little effect and not even a hole was made.
This just saved the use of a tactic. The enemy forces Guangyang Prefecture was definitely facing were more than one. If they fought head-on and face to face, they would not be able to last more than two days.
However, this was actually within Captain Cheng's calculations, because in the siege battle in the world of Swordsman, when the defenders were already well prepared, the initial rain of arrows was just the very first appetizer.
Who wouldn't have a thick wooden shield at home? The more affluent families even had an iron shield for each person. At this time, even if the shooting was accurate, what would it matter? Once the formation was formed, there was no gap left. If you wanted to cause damage, you had to break the shield first.
However, the enemy is not stupid. This waste of arrows and tactics certainly has its meaning, which is to help the forwards quickly reach the right location, try to occupy the top of the city or directly destroy the city wall.
After three consecutive waves of arrows, the enemy's main force had crossed the stop line and was less than a hundred meters away from the city wall.
After the distance of one hundred meters was passed, Captain Cheng on the high ground drew out the sword in his hand and swung it towards the sky. With precise combat methods, the shield-bearing soldiers in the front row immediately made way, exposing the archer troops that had been on standby for a long time. The moment the archers appeared, they released the bowstrings in their hands, and with the sound of the bowstrings breaking through the air, the arrows shot directly at the charging troops below.
Tactics-aggression is like fire!
Gan Ning, who was at the front of the battle formation, waved the chain knife in his hand, and a huge rotating fire circle with a radius of more than ten meters stayed in his hand for only a few seconds before being thrown out directly. In the process of hitting the top of the city wall, it also burned a large number of arrows.
The battle became intense as soon as it started. Gan Ning's tit-for-tat tactics showed that he and his soldiers had no intention of leaving the battlefield alive. The two thousand people who rushed over had only one purpose, which was to blast open the city gate!
Now it is time for the masters of Guangyang Prefecture to take action. They can either use their martial arts to break up, deflect or dissolve the opponent's tactics, or directly use defensive tactics to offset it.
As the strongest individual warrior in Guangyang Prefecture, Hong Yi naturally took the lead at this time.
Clang! The Changhong Sword is unsheathed!
A red light burst out directly from Hong Yi's hand. In the early morning, it looked like a rainbow in the clear sky.
The red dragon is out of the cage!
The rainbow flickering in the sky returned to Hong Yi's sword after a brief moment.
Hong Yi jumped up by stepping on the back of the soldier in front of him. The Changhong Sword in his hand turned into a huge red dragon, twisting its body and crashing directly into the rapidly rotating fire circle.
The moment the two touched, Chi Qiu's body, controlled by Hong Yi, flashed quickly and slapped the four sides of the fire circle, directly destroying the stability of the fire circle. But before the fireworks dissipated, a black iron chain with a metallic luster and a sharp long needle pierced out directly from the fire.
Hong Yi flipped his wrist, and Chi Qiu flipped, biting the chain with his fangs and claws. Relying on the magic weapon, Hong Yi directly cut off the chain that was shot at him.
As the tail of the chain knife was falling, Gan Ning jumped out from the fire in another direction, with the armor knife in his hand raised.
Tactics-aggression is like fire!
The soldiers who were holding their positions below once again provided conditions for Gan Ning to use his tactics. The momentum of the armored knife in his hand became stronger and stronger. At the moment of chopping down, the big knife condensed from flames chopped directly at Hong Yi's head.
This knife was intended to take off Hong Yi's head while simultaneously clearing out the row of soldiers behind Hong Yi!
Changhong Sword Technique-piercing through clouds and fog!
Taking his teammates behind him into consideration, Hong Yi had to retreat instead of advancing. Compared with Gan Ning's violent indulgence, Hong Yi's move concentrated all his internal strength within three inches of the sword, and the key was to break!
The moment the sword tips and blades collided, a huge shock wave burst out, blowing the ordinary soldiers on the city wall to the ground, making them unable to stand steadily.
At this moment, a rain of arrows from the enemy's rear camp arrived again. The defensive formation on the city wall had long been destroyed in the collision between Gan Ning and Hong Yi. Fortunately, there were enough military advisors on the Guangyang Prefecture's side. At the moment the sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard, evasive tactics were already covered on the city wall.
The huge repulsive field formed by the tactics will deflect all the arrows, and those that cannot be deflected will be directly turned into ashes by the colliding force.
The dust and pulverized gravel raised by the shock wave, the arrows that turned into ashes, and the scattered flames together formed a thick barrier that covered the top of the city.
The prefect's expression remained unchanged. He gathered the literary energy in his chest and exhaled it longly. The literary energy turned into an invisible soldier and rushed towards the barrier on the top of the city wall.
With these extra eyes, the prefect searched for Hong Yi in the barrier. If he had died on the battlefield, Gan Ning must be killed as soon as possible. Otherwise, Guangyang Prefecture would soon be defeated if no one could confront the unified tactics head-on.
Inside the barrier, Hong Yi and Gan Ning kept moving in the air. With their vision completely blocked, both of them could only rely on their memories to find one or two footholds.
Obviously, in this regard, Hong Yi is much stronger than Gan Ning. After all, he has been in this city for so long. When Gan Ning was unstable, Hong Yi made a sudden attack and knocked Gan Ning's armor knife away with the Changhong sword in his hand.
Then he staggered and fell into Gan Ning's arms, using the Sun Shining over Nine Provinces move, and pressed his palm on Gan Ning's heart. The Feihong internal force in Hong Yi's body rushed into Gan Ning's body, directly causing Gan Ning's cardiac arrest.
The moment Gan Ning lost the ability to resist, Hong Yi pressed down the Changhong Sword in his right hand and chopped off Gan Ning's head with one sword. Blood spurted out and washed Hong Yi's face thoroughly.
Before he could catch his breath, Hong Yi noticed movement behind him again. When he turned around, he realized that it was the soldiers transformed from the prefect's literary aura. Then, they followed him tacitly and left the barrier.
After passing the front row of soldiers, Hong Yi fell to the ground with a thud. Gan Ning's tactics were not so easy to deal with. After using clever strength to break the opponent's tactics, Hong Yi was already seriously injured. In addition, he used his internal strength to perform light skills to stabilize his body in the shock wave, which made his injuries even more serious. So after seizing the opportunity to take Gan Ning away, he was already exhausted.
The logistics soldiers quickly helped the unconscious Hong Yi and took him to the medical officer under the city wall. The Changhong Sword was just stuck on the city wall, and no one dared to take it. This was not because of any humility, but because without recognition, the power of the Changhong Sword itself was enough to cause trouble for many people.
Gan Ning is dead. Under normal circumstances, the rebels should have retreated quickly and retained as many troops as possible to support the next wave of attack. However, these guys only have that one thought in their minds. None of them is normal.
The second group of soldiers took advantage of the short time that the barrier remained to set up the ladders directly on the top of the city wall, and then began to rush up together with the remaining soldiers of the first group.
Tactics - Ladder!
The gray tactics were released from the hands of the second group of generals, and they went up against the trend along each of their own ladders, connecting these ladders and the parapet on the city wall together. If there was no such tactics, all the remaining masters on the city wall would have been killed one by one. For them, it was not difficult to destroy a ladder.
Under the command of Captain Cheng and the various thousand-household soldiers, the soldiers on the city wall did not immediately attack the people climbing the ladders, but waited until the fastest few people grabbed the parapet before starting to take action.
In this situation, the archers in the enemy's rear camp indeed stopped their attack. After all, these rebels who were about to climb to the top of the city wall would become good human shields.
After making sure that the enemy's rear camp had given up bows and arrows and was preparing to switch from archers to infantry to participate in the siege, Captain Cheng struck the big bell beside him forcefully. Then the Six Gates Constables and the Embroidered Uniform Guards who had been among the soldiers immediately took action, relying on their martial arts to kill all the rebels in a short period of time.
While they were taking action, the ordinary soldiers also picked up the rolling logs placed on the back half of the city wall, placed them on ladders and pushed them down with all their strength.
Because there were only so many ladders and the enemy archers had been converted into infantry, the safety of Guangyang Prefecture did not face much of a challenge in the next few hours. But to be honest, chopping people down would get tiring, especially when the enemy would not surrender.
After merging with a dozen small rebel forces in the surrounding areas, the number of soldiers from Qixia Mountain reached 7,521. The corpses and blood of these people dyed the city wall blood red, and the smell of blood kept drifting into the city on the wind.
On the other side, with the full treatment of the medical officer, Hong Yi finally woke up.
The wounds on the body have begun to heal slowly under the stimulation of the cold jade bed and the special internal force of the medical officer, but it will take some time for the broken bones and torn muscles to recover.
"What's the situation? What time is it now?" Hong Yi opened his eyes and found that Zhuifeng, who was supposed to be protecting Chen Hai, was standing next to him.
"We won this time. Don't worry. The people above are cleaning up the battlefield. It's almost ten o'clock now." Zhuifeng looked at him and whispered.
"Cough cough." Hong Yi coughed twice and tried to struggle to get up.
The medical officer frowned, pressed his finger on Hong Yi's pulse, and Hong Yi fell down with a numb feeling.
"Doctor, I have to go to the battlefield." Hong Yi said weakly.
"Go to the battlefield? You can't even withstand a slight push from me now, so why are you going to the battlefield?" said the medical officer dissatisfiedly.
"Yes, Hong Yi, you should have a good rest. The situation has changed. The rebels who were originally expected to arrive at twelve o'clock seem to be entangled by some troops." Zhuifeng explained. This was also the reason why he did not stay with Chen Hai all the time.
"What unit are we holding back? Where?" Hong Yi asked. He was a little confused. The carrier pigeons were released in the early morning when the sun was about to rise. According to the time, the rebels who arrived at twelve o'clock would pass through their defense zone before other surrounding troops received the pigeons.
"It was around five in the morning. When we were about to start the battle, the other side stopped. It was in Taiyuan Prefecture. The specific situation is not very clear yet."
After listening to Zhuifeng's words, Hong Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief, adjusted his posture to make himself more comfortable, and received treatment peacefully in bed.
His original plan was to return to the top of the city wall after killing a vanguard, receiving treatment to the point where he could walk, pick up the Changhong Sword and zoom in, trying to kill another vanguard. That would at least give the surrounding troops time to join the battle. The price would be that even if he, the leader of the Seven Swords, was lucky, he would have to retire.