Will Ming

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Chapter 460 Attacking Chang'an ([-])

Wu Benlang guarded the Golden Light Gate with Wei Xiaojie. He didn't sleep well last night. Before dawn, he got up and inspected the city wall, checking the equipment and arrows used to defend the city.The day before yesterday, Li Yuan's rebels had arrived outside Chang'an City, and he never returned home after climbing the city wall.To be honest, Da Sui had been an official for so many years, he never imagined that the capital Chang'an would be besieged one day.In his opinion, the most stable and stable places in the world are Chang'an and Luoyang. With the national power of the Great Sui Dynasty and the mighty soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty, how could the capital be besieged?

Looking at the black rebels outside the city and the endless camps, Wei Xiaojie felt as if a huge rock was blocked in his heart, and he even had difficulty breathing.

The once mighty Great Sui Dynasty, the once most powerful government soldiers in the world, and the country that once made the common people proud of, are now completely changed.

But he never thought of surrendering, because he was a general of the Sui Dynasty.

His duty is to guard the capital, and he must fulfill his duties as a soldier!

Wei Xiaojie clenched his fists when he heard the sound of horns coming from the rebel camp outside the city.He stood between the two crenels, and slowly put his hand on the handle of the knife.

Even if the city defense of Chang'an City cannot be called the strongest in the world, it can only be compared with Luoyang, the eastern capital.The city wall is five feet high, and twenty soldiers can march side by side on the city wall!A ballista is arranged every 30 meters, which is the number one weapon for defending the city.Arrow towers, horse faces, everything is available, and a mace is set up between every three crenels, which can easily smash the rebels standing under the city wall into a pulp!

So Wei Xiaojie didn't have much worry in his heart, what was just sad.

What he cannot accept is that the capital is under siege.

Seeing that the rebels outside the city had begun to speed up, his hand holding the handle of the knife became more and more forceful.

"Ballista!"

When the shield hand of the rebels outside the city protected the archers and entered the range of the ballista, Wei Xiaojie suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife and shouted to the outside of the city: "Let it go!"

The churning sound of the ballista's cables was painful to hear, and that sound was like the cracking of broken bones.The giant crossbow on the ballista has been loaded. It is more than ten feet long, with fine steel as the front and thin iron as the feather. The giant crossbow with the thickness of the calf can easily blast the horse into two pieces.This kind of bed crossbow has a shooting range of more than 300 meters. Once it is shot into a crowd, it can thread more than a dozen people into skewers in one go!

Following Wei Xiaojie's order, dozens of giant crossbows shot out at the same time.Just like dozens of black lightning bolts split from the city wall, they smashed into the formation of Li Jiajun with incomparable speed.

The soldier holding the shield couldn't help trembling when he heard the sound of the coils loosening suddenly on the city wall, and then prayed in his heart not to be targeted by that damned crossbow.In front of the giant crossbow, manpower is simply vulnerable.

Bang!

A huge crossbow directly hit an infantry shield. The infantry shield wrapped in two layers of cowhide could easily block the spiked arrows, but it couldn't stop the giant crossbow that hit the shield like a cannonball. The crossbow easily cracked the shield, made of fine steel The point of the arrow hit the shield bearer's head immediately, and before the soldier could react, his head exploded like a watermelon smashed by a hammer, and the crossbow shattered his head and pierced into it again. In the chest of the archer behind him.

A huge and hideous blood hole was blasted on the archer's chest, and the giant crossbow hit the third person's body without stopping, smashing half of the third person's shoulder, and then found the fourth person. After getting into the chest, the power still remained undiminished, and bumped into the fifth person, the sixth person, the seventh person, and the eighth person one after another.

Four or five corpses hung on the crossbow and finally slowed down its speed. After opening a bloody hole in the lower abdomen of the ninth person, the crossbow stopped its own journey and took the lives of nine people.

After a round of giant crossbow attacks, several blood lines were drawn in the formation of the Li family army, and each blood line was a small space, and there was no living person on this blood line.

"Rush forward, speed up! Rush forward, the crossbow will be useless when you reach the city!"

Li Biao yelled loudly, and while yelling, he struck the shield in his hand with a horizontal knife vigorously to attract the soldiers' attention.

Not every giant crossbow caused damage. After dozens of giant crossbows fired in volley, the Li family's army lost only more than [-] people, but the deterrent effect of this attack was large enough.Many people were so frightened that they peed their pants, cried and squatted on the ground, never daring to stand up again.

"Go ahead, idiot!"

The veterans dragged the scared recruits forward, cursing as they ran: "Idiots will stop! Standing still is the target of the enemy's archers!"

The shieldmen charged forward like crazy with their shields on, as did the archers among them.The bed crossbow shoots far but not close, and when it gets close to the city wall, the bed crossbow loses its use.

"Archer!"

Wei Xiaojie raised the horizontal knife again and shouted loudly: "Throw!"

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After four rounds of feather arrows, the archers of the Li family army outside the city finally rushed within range.Under the cover of the shield array, they began to frantically fight back against the defenders on the city wall. On the [-]-meter-wide front, the density of feather arrows was staggering.The defenders on the city wall are condescending and occupy an advantage, but as long as they lean out, they may be shot to death by feather arrows.

"Shoot! Suppress the Ballista!"

Li Biao yelled loudly, then turned around and cursed: "Why hasn't the battering ram come up yet! Ladder, put the ladder up!"

More than a dozen people carried a ladder and rushed down the city. The soldiers gritted their teeth and blushed and erected the ladder. The archers immediately stood up from behind their shields and shot fiercely at the defenders on the city wall. Covered by arrows, the Sui army on the city wall was too suppressed to look up.The soldiers who attacked the city took the opportunity to put the ladder on the city wall, and taking advantage of the time when the archers below the city changed their arrows, the Sui army immediately stood up and shot randomly towards the city.In an instant, the Li family army under the city fell to the ground.

"Go up!"

Li Biao pointed to the ladder and shouted: "Archers! Stand up, don't hide behind the shield like a bastard, suppress the defenders, suppress the defenders!"

"Go up! Go up, don't rush indiscriminately, protect the ladder, and let the follow-up people climb the city!"

A few brave soldiers held the horizontal knife in their mouths, holding the trembling ladder with both hands and jumped up nimbly like monkeys, but they only climbed halfway, and several Sui soldiers defending the city stood up bravely under the rain of arrows , holding the ladder with the hook, everyone shouted in unison, and then pushed the ladder outward with all their strength.The ladder slowly changed from leaning against the city wall to being vertical to the ground, and then gradually accelerated and shot down towards the ground.

The soldiers who climbed up the ladder jumped down screaming, and immediately broke their legs. Before they got up, the ladder slapped them hard.For a moment, the blood was bloody.

"Put nails!"

Wei Xiaojie ran back and forth on the city wall, giving orders loudly.

The racket covered with maces was smashed down from the city wall, and the soldiers standing under the wall to avoid the feather arrows were immediately smashed to pieces. There are corpses hooked by nails one by one.

"Cut the rope!"

Li Biao roared hoarsely, his eyes had turned red.

The soldiers who escaped the nail rack by chance immediately swung their horizontal knives and slashed at the nail rack. Many nail racks were cut off from their ropes and fell down.Li Biao roared like a beast, loudly ordering the archers to shoot.The density of feathered arrows is beyond imagination, and they can even collide in mid-air.

The Sui army who had been hit by an arrow fell down from the city wall wailing, regardless of the fact that he was already dead after landing. It became a pile of meat paste.Minced meat splashed everywhere stuck to people's faces, but no one cared about it.

"Shoot! Shoot!"

While urging the archers to fight back, Li Biao organized the attacking soldiers to erect ladders.

Wei Xiaojie looked at the battering ram that was getting closer, and his face became a little dignified: "Ballista, smash the battering ram first! Don't let it approach, let it go!"

Six or seven ballistas aimed at the huge battering ram at the same time, and the giant crossbow roared out, immediately knocking down the soldiers pushing the carts, and the archers on the city wall also knew that once the big guy was allowed to approach, the city gate would be destroyed. No matter how strong it is, it cannot withstand dozens of impacts.

A dense mass of feathered arrows was thrown, and the giant crossbow was firing continuously.In just a few minutes, thousands of feathered arrows and more than a dozen giant crossbows fell near the battering ram!

In a few minutes, the Li Jiajun soldiers pushing the cart were cleaned up!

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"This can't work!"

Liu Wenjing didn't know when she came to Yin Kaishan's side, frowned and said, "Even if you fill it with human lives, your 1 people can't fill it up as high as the city wall!"

Liu Wenjing was the leader of the left army, and Yin Kaishan was the general of the left leader. Knowing how resourceful this man was, he turned around and asked, "What can Mr. Liu do?"

"Let the soldiers withdraw first. I will ask Tang Gong to order the construction of a building cart, which is slightly higher than the city wall. Send archers to shoot and suppress the defenders on the tower cart. On the city wall, the soldiers stepped on wooden boards from the building carts to climb the city, and they won a battle!"

"Not yet!"

Yin Kaishan shook his head and said: "The attack was withdrawn just now, and the morale of the army will definitely float!"

"You can only kill a lot of soldiers in vain!"

"Soldier, be shrouded in horse leather!"

Yin Kaishan didn't listen to Liu Wenjing's suggestion, and ordered loudly: "Wang Shubao! Take your people up, even if you use people to pile up, you must pile up a Yuliang Road for me to climb the city!"

Wang Shubao agreed loudly, and then took