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

Chapter 63 The Death Cavalry Attacks
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Outside Jiangning City, as the tens of thousands of troops of the Wu Dynasty were ready for battle, the roaring drums of war also resounded in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a huge shield and a large number of siege machines were pushed to the front.

Each of these huge shields is equipped with wooden wheels, like a wooden carriage with a huge shield, and the surface of these shields is sealed with a layer of iron.

At this moment, with the sound of the war drums, each shield was pushed by more than a dozen soldiers of the Wu Dynasty and gradually charged towards Jiangning City.

Under these shields, there are more than a dozen people carrying ladders for siege and hiding behind the shield vehicles.

In addition to these shield vehicles, the Wu Dynasty army also pushed out a large heavy crossbow.

The arrows produced by these crossbows are very huge, and each of the fine iron arrows they shoot can easily penetrate into the interior of the city wall.

If these crossbow bolts are shot on the city wall, some soldiers with good skills can directly climb these crossbow arrows to the city wall.

Obviously, these days, Dong Daofu was very well prepared in order to crack the numerous arrow rain attacks in Jiangning City.

Soon, after the siege army led by Dong Daofu pushed a large number of siege equipment into the range of the crossbow arrows of the dead soldier army, the heavy crossbow arrows like long spears poured down as if they did not need money.

Although these waves of crossbow arrows are not as numerous as the original arrow-like crossbow arrows, their power is many times greater.

In addition, these heavy-duty crossbow arrows were thrown from the city wall, with weight blessings. These crossbow arrows, which are like spears, will be directly pierced by any siege equipment that hits the shield and Wu Chao's side.

The soldiers of the Wu Dynasty hiding behind these shields would also be directly stabbed to death by the piercing crossbow arrows.

However, the attack of this wave of arrows did not cause too many casualties to the Wu Dynasty army. Only a few dozen soldiers were unfortunately pierced by crossbow arrows and died.

And only a few of the shields and siege equipment lost the ability to continue fighting because they were tied with several crossbow arrows.

After a while, after several waves of arrows were fired from the city wall, the army on the Wu Dynasty side finally rushed under the city wall at the cost of hundreds of soldiers, and began to erect ladders to climb up the city wall to capture the city. control of the door.

However, when these soldiers of the Wu Dynasty rushed to the bottom of the city wall, although they were fortunate enough to escape the attack of the arrow rain, they were greeted by the attack of kerosene and rolling stones pouring down from the upper part of the city wall.

As a large amount of kerosene and rolling stones fell from the city wall, the entire city wall instantly became a sea of ​​fire, and there were screams at the same time.

In the rear of the army, Dong Daofu watched the scene below the city wall in the distance, but he did not say a word with a sullen face.

Soon, as time passed, although the siege army on the Wu Dynasty side suffered serious casualties, the army behind them kept climbing up the city wall without stopping.

For a time, many soldiers of the Wu Dynasty climbed the tower through the ladder and the crossbow arrows nailed on the city wall, and then started a fierce melee battle with the army of the dead above the tower.

A few hours later, although a large number of corpses were piled up under and above the city walls of Jiangning City, neither the army of the Wu Dynasty attacking the city nor the army of dead soldiers defending the city stopped at all.

And most of these fallen corpses were left by the army of the Wu Dynasty.

As for the Army of the Dead, after several hours of continuous fighting, although there were hundreds of casualties, thousands of corpses were left on the towers of Jiangning City.

Under the city wall, more soldiers of the Wu Dynasty turned into piles of charred corpses.

At the rear of the Wu Dynasty army, Dong Daofu became a little anxious when he looked at Jiangning City, which could not be conquered for a long time.

Because he knew that if he failed to capture Jiangning City today, the next siege would only be successful if he deployed more troops.

However, when Dong Daofu thought of Qin Siyuan's entrustment to him, his heart sank, and he decided to take a desperate gamble.

As long as he wins the bet, he will not only be able to destroy Jiangning City, but also gain the right to speak for Qin Siyuan in the court, and then the grand plan of the Northern Expedition can be successfully implemented.

Therefore, Dong Daofu's heart sank, and he directly ordered the entire army to charge.

Immediately, I saw Dong Daofu taking the lead and rushing away with the army towards the gate tower of Jiangning City.

On the city wall of Jiangning City, Zhao Jun, who was leading the army of dead soldiers, looked at this scene, but seemed unusually calm.

The corps of dead soldiers were also unaffected, and continued to fight with all their strength to those soldiers of the Wu Dynasty who had rushed to the tower.

Soon, as Dong Daofu personally led the army to attack the city, the number of soldiers of the Wu Dynasty who boarded the tower was also increasing.

And Zhao Jun, who was in command of the Corps of Dead Soldiers, also personally took all the guards to join the hand-to-hand battle of the tower.

Because these dead soldiers under Li Yang are not afraid of life and death, their combat power and fighting will are also much stronger than the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty.

Therefore, although the number of Wu Dynasty soldiers on the tower is increasing at this moment, the dead soldiers are still fighting with all their strength, without taking a half step back.

For a time, the army of the dead and the army of the Wu Dynasty also fell into a more fierce battle to the death above the city tower.

On the side of the Wu Dynasty army, after several hours of fierce fighting, the casualties have exceeded 2.

Although the casualties of the Corps of Death were much lower, there were also nearly 2000 casualties.

It is equivalent to a battle loss ratio of ten to one.

Although nearly 2000 casualties are an extremely huge number for the Dead Legion, the overall impact on the Dead Legion is not great.

Because a total of 15000 dead people gathered in Jiangning City.

So even though nearly 2000 dead soldiers were killed or injured, Zhao Jun, who was in charge of commanding the dead soldiers in Jiangning City, still had more than 1 dead soldiers who were not afraid of life and death.

On the other hand, the army of the Wu Dynasty on Dong Daofu's side is currently only less than 2.

Although the number is still much larger than the number of the dead soldiers, it is absolutely impossible for Dong Daofu to break through Jiangning City with this number of troops.

After all, Li Yang's army of dead soldiers was far more powerful than those soldiers of the Wu Dynasty.

Even if it is a first-level dead soldier, it can be done with one enemy and two, and it will not fall behind.

And those who served as the centurion and the corporal leader in the Corps of Dead soldiers were even more than a dozen masters with one enemy.

On the other side, just as the battle between the army of the Wu Dynasty and the army of dead soldiers on the city tower of Jiangning City was in full swing, outside Jiangning City, there was a sudden burst of shouts of killing from the camp of the army of the Wu Dynasty.

The thousands of people and horses that Dong Daofu left in the main camp were being slaughtered wildly and wantonly by hundreds of dead cavalry in black armor.

At the same time, a large number of tents and provisions in the entire camp were also set on fire with torches by the dead cavalry.

For a time, the large camp that had originally stationed tens of thousands of people was instantly filled with smoke and fire.

(End of this chapter)