People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 409 Siege Weapon, War Rookie

Under the morning light, the small Meiling Pass showed a sense of calm.

Li Xuan was riding on a tall horse, the long lance in his hand was slanted to the ground, with a slight turn of the lance, the sharp edge immediately shone with a cold light.

With his stern gaze, he looked across the Meiling Pass to the majestic mountains behind him.

After taking down Meiling Pass, it will strangle the countless mountains behind and enter the Wuzhou passage.

The tall horse carried Li Xuan slowly in front of the formation, and the eyes of countless people fell on Li Xuan.

Li Xuan's gaze finally landed on Meiling Pass.

The city is two feet high, four hundred paces on the left and right sides.

There are traces of wind and rain on the stone wall, and even a layer of patina can be seen faintly.

There are two turrets on the city, and an urn city inside, but it is located at the north gate of Guancheng, which is used to defend against the Tianyin believers rushing out from Wuzhou.

The south gate of Guancheng did not have these things, which greatly reduced the difficulty for Li Xuan's Wuzhou army to capture the south gate.

Li Xuan's sharp eyes flicked over the large and small gaps in the city wall, and all the details were integrated into his mind.

……

Looking up, Li Xuan saw Zuo Fei, Ye Wanwan, Zhang Wanyu, He Qinger and others standing on the city wall at a glance.

Li Xuan's eyes were very indifferent, and she had already looked away without taking a few more glances.

He reached out and pressed the horse, and the tall horse under his crotch immediately made a restless sound.

All this, in the eyes of everyone in the distance, they felt a silent ridicule.

Last night, they worked hard all night, but in the end it was just useless.

Li Xuan and many of his guards are staying here safe and sound.

It was as if Li Xuan knew everything that Zhang Wanyu and the others did last night.

While their faces were hot, several people subconsciously looked at each other.

Li Xuan withdrew his cold eyes from the city wall and landed on his own formation behind him.

Qi Guang led one or two hundred soldiers to stand in the center.

The first three rows are full of muscular shield soldiers.

They held thick shields in their hands, and all bows and arrows in front of them would be blocked by them immediately.

Behind the shields are vanguards carrying four ladders.

Behind the vanguard is a soldier with a sharp long knife. They will follow closely behind the vanguard and rush to the city wall.

Behind these people, there are more than a dozen archers holding longbows. They are the best among the archers of Wuzhou soldiers.

50 meters from the left and right sides of the Wuzhou soldiers, there is a team of Kuaiji government soldiers wearing chain mail.

The number of Fubing is not large, the same shields, ladders and long knives, archers.

However, compared to the soldiers in the central government, they are fewer in number, but they are also more elite and full of murderous intent.

Behind the siege soldiers was a crossbowman holding a crossbow.

Thirty crossbows were lined up, and the arrows of the crossbows flickered, as if in an instant, countless arrows would cover the city.

On both sides of the crossbow formation, there are two wells with a height of two feet and three feet, which are higher than the city wall of Meiling Pass.

There are more than a dozen archers standing on it, aiming at the direction of the city wall, ready to shoot at any time.

Behind this group of people, there are a total of eight catapults lined up.

Four of these catapults were directly transported from Zhoucheng, and two were quickly assembled by Feng Hua using the semi-finished products of Lanxi County after Li Xuan took over Lanxi County. Only the last two were craftsmen. It was built overnight with local materials.

Fortunately, they brought a lot of things from the prefectures and counties, and only then did they successfully build two planes.

Without these things, just wood, they can't even try to build anything.

Pieces of stones the size of wooden basins were placed behind the catapult, and the Lanxi County soldiers kept bringing stones up from behind.

But most of these stones are not as round as yesterday.

Everything is in order, the voice is low, but full of killing intent.

Looking from the front to the back, even Li Xuan herself felt chills.

……

Li Xuan turned around again, looked at the city wall, and met Zhang Wanyu's eyes on the top of the city for a moment.

In the silence, there seemed to be electric sparks flashing in the eyes of the two of them.

The expression on Zhang Wanyu's face was unusually dignified, her eyes passed over Li Xuan, and landed on the neatly arranged array behind Li Xuan.

From these alone, she knew that Li Xuan was by no means a novice in siege.

For the whole day yesterday, except for the very first appearance, Li Xuan never showed up again.

No one knew exactly what he was doing, but as soon as he appeared, all the pressure immediately weighed heavily on everyone's hearts.

Zhang Wanyu subconsciously withdrew her gaze and looked at the people around her.

She and Ye Wanwan were in pretty good condition, but everyone else, including Zuo Fei and He Qinger, had bloodshot eyes.

Leaving aside the fights after nightfall last night, after the few of them left, the catapults outside would drop more than a dozen stone bullets into the city every half an hour.

The loud noise and the tragic wailing made it impossible for the soldiers in the city to rest in peace.

At dawn, Wuzhou soldiers started a new wave of bombardment, that is, after the bombardment, Li Xuan showed up with people.

His appearance was even earlier than the return of Ye Wanwan and the others.

been played.

A few of them were played by Li Xuan.

Zhang Wanyu's face immediately flushed with anger.

"Get ready to fight to the death. Whether you can hold this checkpoint depends on today." After Zhang Wanyu finished speaking, she looked sideways at Zuo Fei.

Li Xuan's strategy is very obvious, he is doing the strategy of exhausting soldiers, harassing the black pawns of Tianyin Sect on the city wall all night.

Although the number of black pawns is not much smaller than that of Wuzhou soldiers, it is hard to say how much energy these people have left after staying up all night.

In particular, boulders were thrown up by catapults from time to time, making people even more troubled and disturbed.

Especially those who were lucky enough to survive under the stone, wailing miserably all night, made people feel extremely irritated.

A whole night passed, the entire Meiling Pass was closed, and everyone's physical strength and morale had been reduced to the limit.

In addition, it has been a whole night, and the black pawn has not been able to have a proper meal.

Once the battle starts, it's really hard to say how much combat power will be left.

……

"Let's start." Li Xuan said lightly, pointing forward with the sharp lance in his hand.

The next moment, the black armored soldier behind him thumped the big drum beside him.

The sound of "dong dong dong" drums was deafening and resounded in all directions.

At this moment, the Wuzhou soldiers in the middle strode past Li Xuan.

These soldiers took a hundred steps forward very quickly, approaching the city wall extremely, and then inserted the shields in their hands into the soil amidst the sound of drums, and hid themselves firmly under the shields.

The soldiers behind followed quickly, especially the archers. As soon as they arrived at the designated position, they drew out their longbows and shot several arrows at the city wall.

The scattered bows and arrows were directly nailed to the city wall, and then fell to the ground without hurting any of the black pawns on the wall.

There was no need for Zuo Fei's order at all, and the black pawns on the city wall immediately returned their arrows.

However, these long arrows were only nailed to the shield on the ground in the end, and did not hurt any archers at all.

Both sides were out of effective range of each other.

"Stop, stop, stop quickly, they are consuming our bows and arrows." Zuo Fei immediately realized Li Xuan's insidiousness, and quickly ordered his men to stop shooting.

However, the archers who heard his order stopped shooting immediately, but there were bursts of confusion on their faces.

There is no shortage of bows and arrows in their warehouses now, even if they are used up, what is the use.

"They are not consuming your bows and arrows, but consuming your arm strength." Zhang Wanyu stared at Zuo Fei coldly, and then said bluntly: "Once an archer loses his arm strength and cannot open his bow, it is considered as a gift for you." Too many arrows are useless."

Hearing what Zhang Wanyu said, the expressions of the archers on the city wall couldn't help but change immediately.

Because from last night to now, they haven't had much rest at all, and their arm strength has been consumed a lot...

At this moment, as if she understood something, Zhang Wanyu suddenly raised her head and looked at Li Xuan who was under the city wall.

However, at this moment Li Xuan didn't look up at the city wall at all, but just lowered his head, as if thinking about something.

In the sound of "squeaks", two huge well rails slowly moved forward from both sides.

The Kuaiji government guards on both sides surrounded the well, relying on the well, and slowly moved forward.

Zhang Wanyu now fully understands that those Wuzhou soldiers in the center in front of the city gate are just vases used to attract the main force.

These people's combat strength and psychological quality are simply not comparable to those of the soldiers in Kuaiji Mansion.

They are only used for consumption, the real main force for attacking the city is the Kuaiji government soldiers on both sides.

……

Siege, siege.

Those Kuaiji government soldiers had surpassed the Wuzhou soldiers who were motionless on the ground in a blink of an eye.

Above the well, countless sharp arrows shot straight towards the city like dark clouds.

"Om..." The black pawn on the city wall reacted a little slower, and was immediately shot to death by a precise bow and arrow.

At this moment, more sharp arrows shot directly towards Jinglan from the city wall.

But just listening to "Duo Duo Duo", with a sound, the bow and arrow were directly nailed to the wooden board in the middle of the well, and there was no way to hurt the archer above.

The bow and arrow range of Tianyin Heizu is about ten feet shorter than that of Kuaiji Fubing.

It is this distance of ten feet that determines the life and death of many people.

When Li Xuan saw this scene, a slight sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Some of the Kuaiji government soldiers under him are mountain hunters he recruited in Hangzhou, and some are the children of great masters he recruited from the rich families in the county magistrate and state city.

These people have been proficient in bows and horses since childhood, and the way of bows and arrows is more than one step better than ordinary people.

Although the black pawns of Tianyin Sect can be called elite, they are still inferior to these people.

Not to mention, after a night of exhaustion, it is hard to say how much strength they will have to stay.

After some shooting, they immediately fell into a disadvantage.

At this moment, Li Xuan suddenly raised his head, with a cruel sneer on the corner of his mouth.

Li Xuan swung his right hand sharply.

The next moment, with a loud bang, eight boulders smashed to the top of the city at the same time.

Huge boulders were constantly spinning in mid-air. Compared to before, these boulders were not so round.

The moment he saw the big stone, the black soldiers on the city wall subconsciously hid behind the parapet, but...

With a "bang", the stone hit the city wall fiercely, and then exploded.

Countless gravels shot directly at the city wall, and under the powerful speed, the black pawns on the city wall were smashed to death.

Even more unlucky, he directly cracked his forehead and was killed instantly.

These stones turned out to be a kind of stone that could be cracked easily.

The gravel flew randomly, and the city wall was suddenly a mess.

No one knew how Li Xuan came up with the idea of ​​using these stones as tools for the catapult.

Zuo Fei was stunned.

"Raise the shield, raise the shield!" Zhang Wanyu kicked Zuofei from behind.

Only then did Zuo Fei react immediately, and immediately shouted: "Look for the shield, look for the shield!"

There was a panic on the city wall for a while, and at this moment, the Kuaiji government soldiers under the city rushed forward quickly, carrying the ladder in their hands and rushed towards the top of the city. Some archers reacted at this time, just now Opening the longbow, a long arrow from the opposite side has already been shot fiercely, and the arrow pierced through their necks.

With a sound of "bang", a ladder has been put on the top of the city.

The Kuaiji government soldiers below began to climb up quickly.

The bows and arrows and catapults above the head are still going on, but they have deliberately avoided the position of the Kuaiji government soldiers.

……

Under the city wall, the soldiers of Wuzhou had squatted quietly on the ground, and no one cared about them anymore at this time.

Li Xuan's eyes moved from the Wuzhou soldiers to the city wall.

It was completely clear in my heart: it turns out that these Tianyin Sect members have never fought a city defense battle, or even a siege battle.

Compared to Li Xuan, they were even more rookies in war.

Then, next, it's time to die.

(End of this chapter)