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Chapter 238 Climbing the City

On the top of the mountain, Li Chongjiu looked down.In the northeast corner of Liucheng, dressed in gray clothes and wearing soap scarves on their heads, thousands of Han soldiers carrying soil bags on their shoulders rushed towards the city of Liucheng like a gray tide.

On the top of the city built with yellow rammed earth, hundreds of soldiers from the Luo Yi Army gathered here to defend it.The defenders moved three war sheds over and used them as enemy towers. The archers defending the city were sheltered by the war sheds and shot arrows in them.After dismantling a three-arrow ballista in the north gate tower, it was pushed up from the distant city road.After the ballista was fixed, several crossbowmen twisted the winch, and the three-arrow ballista made a terrible rattling sound, and the three iron arrows, which were as tall as half a person, burst out with metallic light.

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When Ke Mulun picked up the second soil bag and was ready to go, he saw the head of a Han soldier tens of meters ahead, bursting with a bang, and the blood on the neck was sprayed three feet high, like a flower It bloomed in mid-air like a flower of blood, and the yellow-white brain was smeared all over the ground.Beside Ke Mulun was a young man from the Xi clan, his legs trembled, and when he dropped the soil bag in his hand, he suddenly jumped up and burst into tears.
Ke Mulun held his breath, and his legs trembled a little. He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of such a miserable death.He closed his eyes slightly, and E'Mu's appearance appeared in his mind. After opening his eyes, there was still a rain of arrows all around, like hell on earth.

"Press up all the buildings and carts, use arrows to suppress the enemy's crossbow carts, stone-throwing soldiers!" At this moment, he saw the commander's forehead, rode his horse, and shouted loudly with a machete in his hand.

Ke Mulun saw the soldiers under the buildings on the left and right, and they also exerted their strength together. More than a dozen rough, powerful, muscular men pushed a building car forward.The six wooden wheels supporting the downstairs cart moved slowly, and the wheels rolled over ruts on the muddy ground, carrying the ballista on the upstairs cart forward.And the archers and crossbowmen on the building car, as the building car advanced, also tried their best to sprinkle arrow rain towards the city wall.

Immediately, the building cart advanced to a distance of a hundred steps from the top of the city, and the power of the archer's arrows increased. In a blink of an eye, Ke Mulun saw a crossbowman holding an iron arrow behind the enemy's ballista, who was shot in the chest.The iron arrow in the opponent's hand fell to the ground, a mouthful of blood spewed out from his mouth, and then fell straight from the top of the city from the gap in the battlements.

Seeing this scene, Ke Mulun couldn't help but yelled a good word.However, before the call was halfway through, the commander-in-chief Ertuo waved the red flag, indicating that his side was preparing to fill the river.

Ke Mulun spat on the palm of his hand. At the same time, he leaned down and saw the enemy's counterattack from behind the battle shed, which became more and more intense.The crossbowman on the building car had to approach and shoot at the opponent's arrow stone, suppressing it with arrows, which was simply breaking the building with a building.The defenders were not to be outdone, a row of crossbowmen went up to the city wall, soaked the cotton cloth in tung oil, wrapped it with arrows and ignited it and shot at the defenders.The arrows flew across the front like streams of fire, and after hitting the building car, they stuck on it and burned.In the blink of an eye, five or six cars were already on fire.

The building car was on fire, and the soldiers on and off all screamed.The soldiers of the Cangtou army below quickly took off their clothes, frantically shook their clothes, and beat the flames on the building car.

bang bang!The battle drums behind him rushed, and the red flag in front suddenly shook down.

And Ke Mulun stretched his legs, and his body carrying the soil bag rushed away like an arrow off the string. Rockets whizzed one after another on top of his head, and the whistling arrows pierced the air beside his ears. and the screams of the dying.Ke Mulun knew in his heart that the archers and crossbowmen on his side car were almost buying time for them with their lives.

Ke Mulun walked very fast, and the dirt on his shoulders trembled. A brother directly in front of him was shot in his right leg by a rocket. The fire immediately set his clothes on fire. shouted.The arrow was originally aimed at Ke Mulun, but somehow it was blocked by the opponent, but he didn't feel a little bit in his heart, and he didn't see the slightest fear.

At this moment, Ke Mulun lowered his head and rushed forward, leaving behind the screams of the brother who blocked the arrow just now.This time he reached the moat without taking a few steps.Thanks to the efforts of the Pao Ze people, the moat has already been half filled.The dirt bag smashed into the moat with a bang, and the muddy water splashed on his face and clothes all over his face.Instead, Ke Mulun loosened his body and quickly ran back to the starting point.

And in the southwest corner of the city, the mound built by the warriors of Wugunai Mohe was several feet higher than the top of the city.The defenders were obviously insufficient, and the buildings in the northeast corner had drawn a lot of attention from the defenders, so there were only a few dozen defenders in the southwest corner, and Ugunai's advance could be described as fast.

After the earth mountain was higher than the city, the archers of Mohe climbed up the earth mountain, from high to low, and suppressed the defenders with bows and arrows.At the same time, using the cover of tall earth mountains, Mohe soldiers pushed dozens of large stones and giant trees.There are many mountains and rocks around Liucheng, and they are covered with dense forests. The most important thing is huge stones and big trees.

After the huge wood and boulder were pushed from the bottom of the earth mountain to the top of the earth mountain, they rolled the boulder from the mountain to the bottom of the city.The Mohe warriors shouted loudly, and huge rocks and trees rolled down the mountain one after another. The scene was very spectacular.After the earth and rock rolled down the mountain, they fell into the moat one after another.The river splashed violently, throwing up high sprays.An hour passed, and the moat was finally filled with earth and rocks.

On the northeastern wall, the drums turned to high pitched.The soldiers of the Han army and the Xi clan army marched in together after hearing the drum.

Half of the more than [-] building vehicles that attacked the city were destroyed by rock throwing or caught in burning.And a battle shed on the other side's city wall was also caught in the fire, and a trebuchet was skewed in half.On the yellow earth wall, like splashed ink, blood hangs vertically.And the corpses of more than a dozen city soldiers were lying crookedly on the battlements.

Now, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, the six ladders run over the filled moat and reach the bottom of the city wall.This siege ladder is not an ordinary bamboo ladder. There is a carriage under the ladder and built-in rollers.The compartment is completely enclosed and covered with rawhide.The soldiers who moved the ladder hid inside, and they were not afraid of bows and arrows when they reached the city.

After arriving under the city wall, the ladder stretched out and bit the parapet with the hook, and was firmly hooked on the city wall.At the bottom of the ladder, the officers and soldiers of the Xi Department came out of the van, holding leather shields and steel knives, and filed into the city to fight with the defenders.At this time Ke Mulun was already in the lead, picked up his broadsword, carried his love bow and followed a Xi clan soldier to climb up the ladder.

Ke Mulun raised his head, and saw a row of archers guarding the city behind the battlements showing their heads and their bows and arrows, firing arrows down together.His current brother, the leather shield was not covered, and was shot down from the top of the wall by an arrow.Ke Mulun, on the other hand, flew towards the arrow in front of him, holding the leather shield in his hand, and quickly climbed up the ladder.

After the archers retreated, more than a dozen scratching hooks stretched out from the crenels of the parapet, and rows of wood poked, pushed, and used all kinds of force to move up the ladder.Ke Mulun didn't wait for them to destroy him, but after walking a few steps quickly, he threw his body away, and jumped onto the battlement like a big bird.As soon as he landed, two defenders stabbed him with guns.

Ke Mulun couldn't wait, twisted his body, avoided the two snatches, and jumped onto the battlement on the right hand, but the brothers who followed him were not so lucky, and unfortunately shot him in the lower abdomen.The brother raised his head to the sky and screamed, and grabbed the gun tightly.The two defenders pushed him hard and pushed him out of the wall. The blood threw a spray of blood on the outer wall. The brother's eyes were extremely unwilling, and he tumbled in mid-air and fell from the top of the city. There was a muffled sound.

Ke Mulun saw the defenders standing in a row behind the city wall holding their swords and shields, and arrows shot mercilessly from behind the swords and shields.Ke Mulun protected his body with a leather shield, and suddenly jumped in.

And under the ladder, Qi Ashu led dozens of Xi tribe soldiers and approached the city wall quietly with various tools in their hands.The city wall is made of rammed earth, even after years of wind and sun, it is very hard.Qi Ashu pulled out the scimitar from his waist and slashed at it, leaving only a white mark on the wall.

Qi Ashu snorted, waved his hand, and his subordinates started to work.

Dozens of Xi soldiers first used shovels to dig a half-person-high earth pit under the city wall, stacked the excavated soil behind them and compacted it, then covered it with wooden boards, and then covered the wooden boards with a layer of cowhide. After watering and covering with a layer of soil, a wooden shed that can prevent arrows, fire attacks and hide can be built.

Under the wooden shed, the soldiers of the Xi tribe took off their clothes, with sweat hanging from their noses, and began to chisel the earth wall with a chisel and hammer.The rammed earth layer peeled off little by little, and Qi Ashu also went on the stage himself, knocked dozens of times vertically from left to right, and then pulled it out with all his strength, and a large lump of dirt as big as his face was picked off.
Qi Ashu nodded in satisfaction, and continued to lower his head.

Li Chongjiu looked from the top of the hill, on the city wall in the northeast corner, dozens of Han Xi warriors had gained a foothold for the siege soldiers.At this moment, the sky is already dark, and the city and the city are lit with pine lights, and the wind is deadly, and the cold stars in the sky are twinkling, which is the murderous aura.

The two armies were fighting at night with lights on, and the walls of Liucheng could be described as brightly lit.

Ugunai in the southwest corner was in a hurry to attack the city, restraining some of the defenders, and the horses galloped back and forth to report the military situation. Li Chongjiu knew that although they had also gained a foothold on the city wall, the progress was slow.In the northeast corner, our side has dug two large holes under the city that can allow one person to enter and exit.When the defenders found out, it was too late, so they could only drag a parapet wall from the city, block it behind the rammed earth wall, and set up a second line of defense to resist stubbornly.

However, as the foothold of the city wall became more stable, the soil work under the city wall would expand the city hole inch by inch.The two places in the northeast corner and the southwest corner are getting louder and louder. Li Chongjiu's attack deliberately chose two corners of the city wall, and avoided the city gate, just to take into account the nails, ballistas and catapults of the defenders on the tower. machine.

Therefore, all the troops were deployed on the walls on both sides. Although the casualties were reduced, the progress was also slower.
PS: There are a lot of things today, there is only one update for now, and two updates every day the day after tomorrow!

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