With the new round of offensive launched by the Huainan Army with all its strength, a low voice of cursing sounded again among the defending soldiers on the head of Dantu City.
Because they were the first to see a large number of unarmed people holding soil bags or wood and stone, including gray-haired old people and unclothed women.
"It's also driving the people to think first (to add trenches), don't these Huainan dogs have other means available..."
"It is precisely because the generations have nothing to do, they have repeatedly used this as a means..."
"Since I have learned about the sharpness of the firearms of our army, those Huainan bandits have only thought about using these lives to waste their weapons..."
"In the old way, firearms and crossbows prioritize those who are hiding behind, and the front is mainly to drive and deter; ... once you cross the boundary, you don't need to keep extra hands, and you can't let these official dogs easily fulfill their wishes..."
Then, there were many people who accompanied the camp. Behind the battlements, wooden fences, and earth fortresses, facing the soldiers who were waiting in line, they reiterated and emphasized:
"Remember, the momentary softness and indecision at this moment will only expose the flaws to the enemy, which will harm more brothers in the city and the people who believe in and support us..."
After a while, no matter how much the chaotic crowd dragged and moved, they were also driven by bloody knives and guns, and had to rush to within a stone's reach outside the city wall.
Then the fierce golden board sound of the city head suddenly sounded, and the big wooden single crossbow that was wound on the winch on the city head suddenly radiated in the buzzing of the string, and blasted the pungent black smoke one by one. Cast into the chaotic crowd.
Suddenly, it was like a swarm of ants being burned by pressing a cigarette butt. At the landing spots of these tobacco balls soaked in horse urine and lime water, the driven crowd was smoked and exploded, competing to retreat and escape.
Even the Huainan soldiers who stood behind and were responsible for driving away were not immune. They coughed loudly and had tears and noses running through the smoke, but they could no longer concentrate and take care of the escaped crowd in front of them.
Suddenly, these Huainan army's hard-to-drive rush to the city was already under the trend of disintegration, leaving only the sparse heads of headless flies in the smoke, and no longer the old view of menace. Up.
Seeing this kind of anticlimactic situation, the soldiers and civilians on the front of the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, Cao Shixiong, who was supervising the formation and observing the enemy's situation on the head of the city, had a thin and awe-inspiring face tightened. He immediately put down his hand and looked at the mirror tube and shouted in a deep voice:
"No, I'm afraid of fraud..."
Before his words fell, in the thicker smoke below the city, many brawny men covered in turbans suddenly rushed out amidst the rapid and low shouts. Although they were wearing tattered outer shirts, underneath was a faint light of armor, holding weapons and crossbows.
In just a breath, he sprinted close to the already filled-up city trench, and like the tide of a bank burst, poured into the gap in the broken corner of the city wall.
At this time, the preset cupping jars, ash bottles, falling rocks, and woods on the city’s head hurriedly crashed down like a awakening from a dream; then they were shot by the approaching enemy soldiers with bows and crossbows. The injury suppressed the past; it was not able to stop the influx of the gap in time.
At the same time, the enemy soldiers disguised as ordinary people also rushed to the earth barrier and wooden fence inside, and in the gaps between these fortifications, the dense spears, hooks, and forks slashed with all their strength. Harmony kills.
Although the first batch of enemy soldiers who rushed in did not chop a few times, they were knocked over, stabbed, and rolled to the ground, but more rear teams stepped on their dead or lingering bodies to rush forward.
He quickly raised up in the accumulation of corpses, and he just paved a low blood-colored slope from the defense line inside the wall, and leaped into it to make obvious gaps.
"If you can't stop it, don't you, you will die if you don't retreat..."
And under the tide of the enemy's offensive that broke into the corner of the city, the one who was the first to fight hard was Don't put Zhao Jue next to him. Some people yelled frustratedly, and then he was slashed to the ground and shouted loudly.
"If you can't stop it, you must stick to each other's positions, move closer to the remaining flags on the spot, and form a battle group to stabilize your position for backup... Cao Zuolang definitely won't... Even if you die, you have to buy more time..."
Then he was shot in the chest by a stream of arrows, and he categorically lost his voice in pain. However, in the exclamation of Zuo Jin, he grabbed the flag with quick eyesight and swiftly, stood up again, and swung the knife to cut off the arrow shaft exposed in his chest.
Only then did he touch the blood that was constantly overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and shouted harshly:
"I'm here, defending peace and fighting forever..."
"To defend peace, we will never retreat,"
"Fighting forever,"
"Fighting forever."
At this moment, the remnants of the soldiers leaning on their backs against the earth barrier and Mucha all yelled in response. Then another wounded soldier ignited the remaining explosive bombs around him angrily, and struggling to rush into the enemy with his swords and guns.
Amidst their jagged shouts and the rumbling of gray smoke, even the motivated Huainan soldiers shouting for killing were overwhelmed for a while.
"With me invincible, recreate peace..."
Then, the general roar echoed in the distance: and the reinforcements rushing out of the city square in hordes, they were like a blue-grey current, and they ran into the invading enemies that had become sparse;
The swords and cards were raised, the spears and spears were poked, pushing them backwards one after another, and finally they were diluted, diluted, and drowned in the momentum of the successor;
However, in the golden drum that shook the sky and the shouting and killing; outside the embankment at the other end of Dantu City, the reeds and weeds were miserable.
After the river receded, a mudflat full of pores was exposed. The Huainan Zuo Xiaoxiong Army all had Xu Jian during the sudden fall, and he also led a dying man and horse with short mouths, following the firewood that was constantly paving the way. , And quickly arrived under the embankment.
Then many more figures jumped up, probing their hands along the cracks in the embankment made of large pieces of rubble, climbing up like an ape. It wasn't until the moment he reached the top that he suddenly stopped, pulling out the short knife and the small crossbow containing the medicine arrow.
In the short and deep screams, a long rope ladder was quickly laid down from above. Subsequently, more soldiers wearing short armor and leather hips under the embankment crossed the embankment one after another.
Afterwards, the outer wall of Dantu City near the Dingbo Water Gate on the river bank was completely exposed in front of them. And within the distance from the embankment to the city wall, there were already corpses lying on the ground.
At this time, there was a rush of gongs on the wall that rang a few times, and then disappeared in the fleeting screams; and then several blood-covered figures appeared on the top of the city again, yes. So they put down a dozen climbing ropes.
After a while, there was a fierce scream of killing at the Dingbo Gate near the water, but it was hidden in the background of the reciprocating fighting in the northwest corner of the city;
And when the Huainan Zuo Xiaoxiong army suddenly fell, Xu Kan, amidst the breath of blood and fireworks, set foot on the gate tower of Dingbomen with ambition; everything was irretrievable.
Most of the hundreds of garrison and patrol members who guarded here died, and the rest were scattered. Although there were defenders who had killed from other gates on both ends of the city wall and wanted to take it back, they were unable to take it back. However they are.
And on the Chaicao Avenue paved in the tidal flat under the embankment behind him, an endless stream of Huainan soldiers and horses was detouring into the water gate; however, the movement on the river surface in the distance soon attracted most of his attention.
It was a water battle surrounding a nearby pontoon bridge crossing the river.
Beyond the range that the crossbows and stone cannons on the shore could not take into account, many small and medium-sized river boats full of soldiers were drawn from the riverside, and they were besieging and blocking them with bows and fire arrows. Several thieves were approaching Battleship.
These thief warships were full of scars and smoky traces. The bow of the largest of them was still missing a large part, but the sheer size of the ship’s high side still allowed those with hundreds of materials and dozens of materials. Jiang Chuan, a little helpless.
The arrows that are constantly shooting at the top are like mosquitoes biting the buffalo. They have not shaken the slow and steady progress of the other party. On the contrary, some ships have been smashed and broken one after another when they were unable to dodge. Overturned in the river.
Even if a fire was successfully lit, it was quickly extinguished in the waves of the waves; however, the condescending radiation from the thief boats caused these boats to be killed or injured one after another or floated on the river in smoke and fire.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Huainan soldiers watching the battle at the head of the city, the thief warship with the mutilated bow slowly crashed into the pontoon bridge passing by the Hengjiang River after a while.
Immediately, the Huainan army headed by Xu Kan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; because perhaps the impulse in the retrograde river was seriously insufficient, the thief ship failed to break the pontoon bridge connecting north and south as expected, but was instead The chains and the berth that fixed the bridge deck were hung up.
Then, he fell into the siege of more Huainan boats; more soldiers stepped aside and climbed onto the gunwale of the thief ship, and they fought on the spot. At this time, the regrouped thieves in the city also raised their cards and spears again, and culled under the cover of a salvo of bows and crossbows.
When Xu Kan was amidst the corpses, he once again repelled the counterattack of these thieves under the wall; when he looked back at the situation on the river, he found that it was already quite different.
The thief ship with its mutilated bow had already been ignited for most of the time by the flames, but the Huainan boats besieged on both sides of the pontoon bridge became sparser; only a lot of large fragments remained, and the rest of the thief The boat was deflecting away, and Xu Han couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the next moment there was a sudden change, and only heard the embedding place of the thief ship and the pontoon, suddenly a dark red fire appeared and an inexplicable dull noise appeared.
Then, the floating bridge that was swaying slightly in the river water was like a long snake that had been severed; it suddenly violently jittered and rolled up several sections of the slipway, and then collapsed into two pieces along the river.
Suddenly, the Huainan Army on the Dingbo Gate fell into a certain silence and horror. The Hengjiang pontoon bridge that ran through the north and south with great effort was destroyed.
"It's okay, our army still has two other large pontoons... but it's just a small one..."
Xu Kan, who was compelled to calm down, once again boosted his morale: However, before his words fell, he heard another, more rapid, golden board sound coming from the other end of the city. (End of this chapter)