I, who plundered the heavens, have a hundred thousand dead

Chapter 60 Arrow Rain
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In Jiangning City, the Su family.

"Father, the good news is that the reinforcements from the imperial court have already arrived outside the city. I heard that this time the imperial court has come to 5 troops, while the thief army occupying Jiangning is only a few thousand people. It will not take long for us to recover Jiangning City."

"This is indeed good news. Since our Jiangning City was occupied by the thieves, not only our Su family's cloth shop has been closed, but even if we go out at will, we will be questioned by the thieves trained on the street. These days are really bad. It's a little sad!"

"That's right, since the Cloth Bank closed, our Su family has been losing money every day. If we can't open for a long time like this, our Su family's loss will be huge."

The two fathers and sons of the second room of the Su family were constantly communicating.

At this moment, in other parts of Jiangning City, those wealthy businessmen and some literati in Jiangning City in the past, after learning that 5 imperial troops came from outside the city.

Everyone was looking forward to it.

Because in the eyes of these people, the people currently occupying Jiangning City are all thieves who can't become a climate, especially those literati and writers in Jiangning City.

In fact, this is not surprising at all. After all, the Wu Dynasty has ruled this land for hundreds of years, and the majesty of the court has long been deeply rooted.

Although Li Yang's army of dead soldiers occupied Jiangning City, they did not kill the people in the city indiscriminately.

Nor did they raid the houses of merchants and gentry in the city to collect money.

During the few days that Li Yang's army of dead soldiers occupied Jiangning, they only occupied a few gates and county offices in Jiangning, and sent troops to surround the residences of the powerful and powerful people who were related to the imperial court.

And restricted the daily movement of everyone in the city.

In short, a policy comparable to a curfew was implemented.

But what Li Yang's army of dead soldiers did was rebellion. No matter what the rebellion was in any dynasty, unless the situation was already very unfavorable to the court, no one would be optimistic about these rebels.

At this time, Li Yang's army of dead soldiers existed under the title of rebel.

Outside Jiangning City, Dong Daofu, the commander-in-chief of the Wu Dynasty army who was expected by many people in the city to restore Jiangning, was also discussing with his generals in the simple camp.

"Judging from the previous battle against Lin, the group of thieves who occupied Jiangning is very likely to be an accomplice with Lin'an's group of thieves. Therefore, we cannot underestimate the group of thieves in Jiangning City."

"I decided to launch a tentative attack on Jiangning tomorrow morning, and first find out the general situation of the thieves in the city."

"In addition, strengthen the patrol tonight to prevent any possibility of night attack by the thieves."

"Yes, General!"

Although Dong Daofu brought a full [-] troops to besiege Jiangning this time, he did not despise him in the slightest due to the lessons learned from Lin An before.

All night without incident, the next morning.

After the army led by Dong Daofu completed the preparations for the war, they formed a square formation one by one and approached the city wall of Jiangning City.

On the city tower of Jiangnan City, Zhao Jun, the commander-in-chief in charge of all the dead in Jiangning City, stared calmly at the tens of thousands of troops of the Wu Dynasty in the distance.

"Have the archers ready to attack as soon as the army of the Wu Dynasty is within range."

Soon as time passed by, the advance army dispatched by Dong Daofu soon arrived at a distance of about 300 meters from the city gate.

This distance is impossible for ordinary bows and arrows to shoot so far, but if it is a large crossbow, it is completely able to achieve such a range.

But now, above the entire city gate, the Legion of the Dead had already prepared dozens of large crossbows waiting for the arrival of the Wu Dynasty army.

This kind of bed crossbow was originally not available in Jiangning, because this kind of bed crossbow is a big killer comparable to the cruise missile in modern society in this era.

The general city is not equipped with such weapons.

In the past, Lin'an was a major military center of the Wu Dynasty and a major route to the south, and its status was much higher than that of Jiangning.

In addition, Lin An was originally the place where the Secret Investigation Division of the Wu Dynasty secretly built and hoarded ordnance, so there were so many large bed crossbows, a large number of armored ordnance, and a large amount of gunpowder.

It can be said that in the entire Wu Dynasty, in terms of various materials and ordnance, apart from the Wudu in the north, only Lin An is the city that hoards the most of these materials.

Outside Jiangning City, when thousands of advance troops sent by Dong Daofu stopped a few hundred meters away from the city gate, they found that the dead soldiers inside the city gate did not have any plans to leave the city to fight.

Therefore, the general of the Wu Dynasty, who led the troops, immediately came down and let his soldiers push forward the equipment for siege.

After a lot of preparations, with the general's order, the sound of the war drums of the siege also became intense.

Soon, the advance army of the thousands of Wu Dynasty pushed the siege equipment and ladders and rushed to the city gate.

However, when the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty at the front were less than 50 meters away from the city wall, a large number of crossbow arrows suddenly flew from the city gate.

In an instant, the dense, like a rain of arrows, the crossbow arrows fell into the formation of the Wu Dynasty army outside the city with lightning speed.

In an instant, a large number of soldiers of the Wu Dynasty were shot and killed by this wave of crossbow arrows.

"It's a crossbow!" Behind the army, Dong Daofu looked at the rain of arrows that suddenly shot out from the city wall, his eyes fixed on the city tower in the distance.

"Where did this Jiangning City get so many heavy crossbow arrows?"

"Send the order, withdraw!" After being shocked, Dong Daofu quickly issued the order to withdraw.

Because he knew that in the face of such a dense amount of heavy crossbow arrows, if there were not enough protective equipment, if he wanted to get close to the city wall of Jiangning City, he could only use a large number of human lives to fill it.

After all, the power and range of this crossbow are far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows.

And the most important thing is that this kind of crossbow can be fired in groups.

As far as the size of the wave of crossbow arrows just now, Dong Daofu knew that there were at least 50 large heavy-duty crossbows on the city towers of Jiangning City.

With so many large crossbows, if they are shot in two batches, they can throw thousands of sharp arrows at one time.

If there are not enough protective equipment, his thousands of advance troops may not be close to the city gate, and most of them will be killed or injured.

Therefore, after the first wave of arrows fell, Dong Daofu immediately issued an order to retreat.

As a result, the fiery drums of war on the side of the Wu Dynasty army changed immediately.

The soldiers who were continuing to run in front heard the change in the sound of the war drums, and immediately began to turn around and start retreating.

However, the army of dead soldiers above the city gate must not allow them to evacuate easily.

As a result, another wave of arrows hit the direction of the Wu Chao army again after a few seconds.

In an instant, the retreating Wu Dynasty advance army lost hundreds of people.

(End of this chapter)