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Chapter 1430 Defending the City (5)

The people of Jinwen City have been evacuated for more than ten days. In the past ten days, the number of Shanyue soldiers has increased by several thousand almost every day.

Now the camp of Shanyue soldiers has expanded several times, and the number of soldiers has reached [-] to [-].From fighting on one wall to now fighting on four walls, that is to say, Jinwen City was surrounded by [-] to [-] mountain Yue soldiers.

But Zhao Hu and the soldiers didn't care much.

This gradually increasing concentration of the battle is the best for training the soldiers. After more than ten days of fighting in the morning, noon, and night every day, the soldiers can be said to have rotated more than ten times, which means that they have participated in ten battles. After several battles, almost everyone saw blood on their hands, and they could be called veterans.

In the ten days of battle, the Shanyue soldiers have more and more advanced siege weapons. At the beginning, the ladder was a threat, and then the arrow tower and the crash vehicle appeared. The latter two things, especially the triangular one Hitting a city car was really helpless at first.

But it is true that war can make people progress. The arrow tower was burned with a bow and arrow with a small oil tank, and the thick-skinned fireproof car crashed into the city more easily. Isn't it going to crash into the city?When it came to the city, it threw down a pile of hay, poured a can of oil, and set a fire on it. Before the car caught fire, the people inside would be smothered to death.

Later, a catapult appeared. When this thing first appeared, everyone was shocked. It was too far away to be destroyed.But I don't know if the technology is not enough or the materials are not good enough. This catapult can't throw big stones, and the accuracy is not enough. Sometimes it is thrown inside the city and sometimes outside the city.

After gaining experience, these catapults can all be thrown on the tower.

However, Zhao Hu's soldiers have also gained experience. When they saw the catapults starting, they all raised their shields with one hand and slashed with the other. As long as the small stones they send out don't hit the head directly, they won't die. Even if the head is hard, they will be hit It was just in a coma, so Zhao Hubing quickly regarded the catapult as non-existent.

And the Shanyue soldiers who thought that they would be successful with the help of the catapults, excitedly and eagerly attacked the tower, after being hit by their own catapults several times, went back to protest, and the catapults of the Shanyue soldiers disappeared on the battlefield .

With so many siege equipment, it was the ladder that caused Zhao Hubing the biggest loss.

This area is a world of mountains and forests, nothing else, wood is everywhere, relying on the large number of people, the most powerful mountain vietnamese soldiers actually erected a thousand ladders on each city wall, you know the city wall is only a few kilometers long, only a few meters Just a ladder, the density is amazing.

The sight of [-] ladders full of people climbing was so terrifying that even Zhao Hu thought he couldn't stop it, so he personally led the supervisory team to fight.

But it's a pity that there are too many ladders, and there are fewer people to climb each ladder. Thinking about the need for at least four people to support a ladder, there are 6000 people here who cannot participate in the battle, and each city wall must have at least 8000 archers. , Another [-] people were lost.There are more than [-] people who are allocated, and only five or six people climb each ladder.

After Zhao Hu left some people to defend the archers, two people were drawn from each ladder to take charge, and it was still possible.This battle was the biggest loss for the Shanyue soldiers, because Zhao Hubing killed two or three people on each ladder, and the Shanyue soldiers lost more than 1 people at one time.

The losses in the past few days combined were not as great as this time. Since then, although the number of Shanyue soldiers has increased, they have never used more than a thousand ladders.

Once again, the Shanyue soldiers were repelled. The soldiers lost their previous excitement, and they didn't feel sad for the departure of their comrades. They just evacuated as usual.

Zhao Hu has always maintained a rotation system, only the most dangerous siege was the whole army dispatched.Now these soldiers can be said to be all elite veterans.

The mountain group didn't show up in the first few days of the battle for more than ten days, but they began to join the battle more and more frequently in the next few days.

How do you know who is a member of the mountain group?As long as you see a strong man with quick hands and feet, rushing up the tower to chop a few people and then retreating, he must be a member of the mountain regiment.

Encountering such a guy, Zhao Hubing would besiege them with friends and friends. After killing two or three hundred of these people, there was no one like a lone hero who killed one by one and evacuated. , but they were replaced by Shanyue elites who know how to cooperate and advance and retreat. It can be said that everyone has played experience.

"My lord, it seems that the large army of bandits is coming soon, should we look for an opportunity to evacuate?" Zhou Wen asked.

Looking at the scene in the city, I saw a piece of ruins, and all the houses were demolished by Zhao Hubing to make city defense materials. Regarding this, Zhao Hu could only sigh and said: "Well, depending on the situation, the opponent's attacks are also getting more and more powerful. It's fierce, I paid attention, at least a thousand members of the mountain regiment were dispatched this time."

"Ah, thousands of people, what a big deal, no wonder the loss is so big this time." Zhou Wen smacked his lips and said.

"Well, how about the losses of the enemy and us so far?" Zhao Hu asked.

"I don't know the number of bandits' wounded soldiers, but there are more than 3000 buried corpses. More than [-] people died in the battle on our side, and about [-] were disabled." Zhou Wen replied.

"Well, is the list of the dead brothers properly registered?" Zhao Hu asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Wen knew that Zhao Hu was about to evacuate, and hurriedly said: "The relics and ashes of the brothers have been properly arranged according to the army establishment, and arrangements have been made for the wounded and sick. As long as you give an order, you can get on the carriage immediately. Evacuate."

When the people evacuated, the wealthy households left hundreds of poor horses for Zhao Hu. Some of the strong men were carpenters and blacksmiths, and they were good at making simple carriages.So Zhao Hu now has enough carriages to carry the ashes of wounded soldiers and martyrs.

Zhao Hu nodded: "Well, since this is the case, prepare immediately and withdraw tonight."

"Ah? Oh, yes, but there are still a lot of food and supplies left, what should we do with them?" Zhou Wen couldn't figure out how to say that wind is rain. He was discussing when to evacuate, but it turned into evacuating immediately, but that's okay, Lest you have long nights and dreams.

"First change a new set of clothes for the brothers, then prepare a month's rations, pick out the weapons and take them away, and see if there is any space in the carriage for the rest of the supplies, load the ones that can be loaded, and pile up the extra At the gate of the city." Zhao Hu said.

"Pile them at the gate of the city? Oh, to stop the speed of the bandits, those savages must only be interested in grabbing these supplies when they see them. The city gate is blocked, so let's see how long it will take them to enter the city." Zhou Wen laughed.

When the order came out, most of the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief knowing that they were finally about to withdraw.

Although I am used to fighting now, and my body is still in good shape due to the rotation system, my mind is very tired, and now I can finally relax.

Under the desire to leave quickly, the soldiers didn't even eat dinner, and quickly packed their bags, and they were ready when night fell.

Seeing that the preparations were completed, Zhao Hu gave an order, and the ruffian was gagged and opened the city gate in the dark without lighting a torch.

The carriage and the carriage were pulled out for a mile, and the forward lit a few torches to illuminate the road, and the speed also increased slightly.After walking for about four or five kilometers, the whole team lit torches and sped up a little.After running for dozens of kilometers, I stopped to find a corner to camp and rest.

Because the Shanyue soldiers were afraid of being defeated one by one by Zhao Hu's soldiers, they did not camp at the other three gates except the original camp, and they were also used to Zhao Hu's soldiers besieging the city.

In their view, abandoning the guarded city by the imperial army was a felony, so no Shanyue people noticed that Zhao Hu and the others had slipped away quickly.

When Zhao Hu left the city, the Shanyue camp had already had dinner, rested, and planned battles.

In the main camp, Lei Ming was asking Tang Feng: "Uncle, the other leaders have great opinions now. They sacrificed a total of 3 or 3000 people, but they didn't even break through the city gate. The soldiers sacrificed only two to [-] people.

"I think uncle will be blamed if we procrastinate. Now that we have experience in siege, ice oil should be usable, right? No need, we're almost at the end of our food stock."

Tang Feng smiled, it seems that his nephew is getting impatient, but like he said, so many people died in battle without any progress. It is not good to think that the reputation of the mountain group is false.

So he nodded and said: "Since you want to use ice oil, let's gather the leaders tonight and let them see the tribes in the place where Shanyue originated. They are not comparable to these small tribes."

"Yes!" Lei Ming immediately said excitedly.

Suddenly summoned at night, most of the Shanyue soldiers stood up weakly, and they were about to prepare for a night attack again.

The Shanyue soldiers had no interest in such useless kung fu, because more people fell down on the road during night raids and were trampled to death by themselves than in battle.After so many days of ineffective fighting, the fierce and warlike Shanyue soldiers lost their interest in fighting.

However, after discovering that the entire battalion was mobilized and everyone was allowed to light torches, the Shanyue soldiers were a little excited. Are they planning to carry out an all-night siege operation?
But when they saw a catapult taking the lead, everyone was dumbfounded, especially those leaders.

Why are you using the catapult again?Even if this catapult is well made, it might work better than before, but what good is only one?Do you want to break the city with such a catapult?

With doubts, tens of thousands of torches followed the catapult to the launch distance.

The catapult began to adjust its position, and saw the catapult igniting the oiled stones, and then these flaming stones flew towards the distant city.Flint flies across the night sky, it looks good, but when it hits the city gate, the accuracy is still so bad?

(End of this chapter)