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Chapter 1479 Conquering the Empire (25)

The stone slingers, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took the mallet and knocked on the pile. With a whoosh, dozens of stones weighing several kilograms rushed towards the tower with a whistling sound.

The archery tower with wheels below also moved forward under the vigorous push of a group of shield soldiers and archers following Li Haoran's order.The siege engine, which was covered with iron sheets all over its body, rushed straight to the gate of the city under the cover of a group of shield soldiers.

Under the command of the officer, the soldiers on the tower first aimed at the archery tower with bed crossbows and catapults to launch a counterattack. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the bed crossbow installed on the city wall was too low. None of the first rounds of shooting succeeded, but they did. The enemy soldiers wore several strings together.

As for those catapults, they were not only not accurate enough, but also seriously insufficient in power. They just happened to break a wooden fence of the watchtower like picking up dead chickens.Of course, there were dozens of Haoran Legionnaires who were unlucky enough to be crushed to death.

On Li Haoran's side, the catapult soldiers saw that the archery tower was in danger, and at the same time they also discovered the position of the bed crossbow catapult, and immediately adjusted the angle of the catapult, preparing to destroy these most threatening equipment as soon as possible.

Here, the other soldiers on the tower either opened their bows and arrows to aim at the enemy, or held oil tanks, wooden barrels and stones, quietly waiting for the enemy to arrive at the city, ready to give them a good look immediately.

In just a short while, Li Haoran's shield soldiers had already rushed to the bottom of the city tower, and set up a ladder under cover, while the sword soldiers immediately climbed up.

The soldiers upstairs waited for the opportunity, and threw the stone and wooden oil tanks down as if they didn’t want money. Hearing the screams from below, he quickly threw down the torches. A strange smell of barbecue was immediately accompanied by miserable howls. Soaring into the sky.

Then, the siege engine, which was the main force of the siege, finally arrived at the city gate and began to hit it, but it was also treated with fire and stones, but it was not burned on the spot because of the desperate guards of the shield soldiers.

The rumbling sound caused the siege engine to attract a large number of oil tanks. When the amount of oil was enough to soak the soil, the shield soldiers could no longer extinguish the flames on the siege engine, and even they could not escape Such a flame.

After confirming that one's own catapult had restrained most of the firepower of the enemy's bed crossbow and catapult, and the arrow tower was in a position where it could shoot at the city wall, it was the moment when the siege vehicle sent up earlier was destroyed.Only then did Li Haoran wave his hand, and the remaining siege vehicles immediately began to charge under the protection of the shield soldiers.

Li Haoran's soldiers raised their heads to attack the city. Of course it was extremely painful. In just a short while, one siege vehicle, three catapults, five arrow towers, and hundreds of ladders were destroyed. The soldiers even suffered more than [-] casualties. , Most of them were shot, smashed to death, or burned to death.

Of course, the soldiers on the tower were not having a good time.Three or four catapults and bed crossbows were smashed, and three or four hundred soldiers were smashed to death and shot dead.

One of the defensive sections was the worst, it was rushed up by the enemy army, and hundreds of people were directly hacked to death. If it wasn't for the generals on my side to press down the enemy army and destroy the ladder in time, I am afraid that this entire area Duan is about to fall into the hands of the enemy.

Although the battle looked very fierce, for both sides, this was just a warm-up battle, so when most of Li Haoran's soldiers had participated in the siege battle, Li Haoran retreated with a gong.

After cheering on the tower for a while, there was only a burst of panting. Everyone knew that the enemy army was just retreating to rest. Tomorrow's battle would definitely be much more intense than today.

The soldiers didn't think about anything, but the officers frowned at the corpses under the tower. If they didn't drag these corpses to bury them, the plague would probably appear in a short time, but if the enemy took the opportunity to send cavalry when they left the city If you charge for a while, won't you lose a group of people for nothing?

But Li Haoran obviously didn't have such insidious thoughts, on the contrary, he was very humane. When the troops retreated, he sent someone over to say that he would pick up the remains of the fallen soldiers.Of course, the officers on the tower were willing to accept this request. Since the biggest benefit was still on their own side, no one proposed to take advantage of the opportunity to attack and kill.

On the second day, Li Haoran was quite aware that not only had the name of the commander-in-chief on the city tower changed, but there were also several more officers in gorgeous military uniforms on the city wall. Looking at their proud faces, one could tell that the white-eyed wolves last night Li Hui's estate has been divided up.

Although Li Haoran was a bit sad, he was not very happy. The senior officers on the tower couldn't help frowning while they were proud.

Because in Li Haoran's camp, in addition to the banner of the [-]st Brigade of the [-]nd Division, the banner of the [-]th Brigade of the [-]st Division was also erected overnight. The brigade had already joined up with Li Haoran last night.

However, when Li Haoran began to divide the troops into dozens of teams, the senior officers on the tower frowned. Seeing that the opponent's move was obviously preparing for a wheel battle, the senior officers would not be worried because they could also use wheel battles.

But then they saw that the fifth brigade dispatched soldiers into Li Haoran's dozens of teams in batches, obviously preparing to use the old to bring in the new and conduct actual combat training on the spot.

Thinking of this, the senior officers couldn't help cursing, damn Zhao Hujun actually used his place as a training ground!If they dare to do so, doesn't it mean that they have great confidence in winning?

Why do they have such confidence?Is it based on the tens of thousands of people in front of you?Or will Zhao Hujun really call in the entire division?

When the senior officers were distressed, Li Haoran directly launched an attack without saying hello.

The intensity of the battle this time was much stronger than yesterday, because the number of siege equipment was more than double that of yesterday, so Zhao Hujun broke through several city defenses in a row, and launched a fierce fight.

If the sturdy city guard officers hadn't led their troops to rush up and seized back the control of these sections in real time, I'm afraid the city wall would have been firmly occupied by Zhao Hu's army, and the city would not be far from being broken.

This fight lasted from morning to dusk, and it was not until Li Haoran's troops had completely rotated that they retreated with gold and completely retreated to rest.

During this day, although the soldiers in the city also rotated into battle, they were the ones being attacked. Even if they withdrew to rest, they couldn't help worrying whether the city would be breached, so they couldn't rotate like Zhao Hujun outside the city. , despite the peace of mind of the rest.

Therefore, when Li Haoran retreated, his tense mind relaxed, and he immediately felt very tired, but he had to start cleaning up the wreckage on the tower under the scolding of the officer, which was extremely painful.

On the second day, when the senior officers saw the flag of the [-]rd Brigade of the [-]st Division of Zhao Hu's Army also erected, they felt very uncomfortable for a while.

Although the strength of the siege troops is at least five times greater than that of the defending troops to encircle the city, now the opponent is only a little more than yourself, so there is no need to worry.However, the continuous increase of the enemy's troops has greatly affected the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

Moreover, the officers still had a deep worry hidden in their hearts. Li Haoran said that day that the chaos in the east of the province was caused by Zhao Hu's army, and the troops of the entire division were rushing here.

If this is a lie, everyone naturally don't need to be nervous, just spend time with him.But if it is true, it means that most of the land in the east of the province may have fallen into the hands of Zhao Hujun. By that time, wouldn't his side become an isolated city?
That's a fart!I just don't know if the scouts I sent out broke out to find allies for rescue, but thinking about the scouts' abilities, it's really a bit mysterious.

It's just that people like myself are no longer willing to obey other people's orders, and finally took this opportunity to gain power and status, should they just give up?
Impossible, it is absolutely impossible!However, if he couldn't beat him, he would just surrender at that time. Maybe that Zhao Hu would use him again after seeing his bravery and skill in fighting.

In short, you should still be prepared with both hands.

When the battle was about to start, the eyeballs of these officers were rolling, and outsiders thought they were thinking about how to fight.

Judging from the requirements of encircling the city five times and attacking it ten times, the officers and soldiers in the city gradually became more at ease, after all, the enemy army now only has a little more people than themselves.

However, when the newly joined brigade donated the siege equipment and used all the siege equipment intensively, the mood of the defending troops sank immediately.

Nearly a hundred catapults fired a volley, and the overwhelming stone rain immediately fell on the city. Facing such an attack with nowhere to hide, it only depends on your character, whether the stone will hit you, as long as you On the tower, there is no need to think about hiding.

In addition to the stone rain, there are hundreds of archery towers lined up in a row, completely blocking the entire city wall, and approaching only tens of meters.

Relying on the protection of the barrier, the archers on the archery tower desperately shot arrows towards themselves.In this way, no matter how good your character is, if you can escape from the stone rain, you will inevitably be shot and killed by these archers.

Why not destroy these archery towers with bed crossbows and archers?Come on, who dares to risk the blow of the stone rain to control the bed crossbow and shoot the bow and arrow?

As for the enemy's siege engines?At this moment, it was too much to block the gate of the city, and it was already starting to hit the city wall directly.

Such a fierce attack made the city defenders almost unable to lift their heads. When Zhao Hujun began to rush up the tower, the officers who could not resist had to call out the team to be rotated in advance.

(End of this chapter)