Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 126 Blood Banner

A dozen or so stone bullets carried in a leather bag slammed on the city wall like celestial maidens scattered flowers. 'Crack! ' With a muffled sound, a bed crossbow was hit, and the arm of the bed crossbow broke into several pieces.

"Boom!" The remaining stone bullets hit more than a dozen soldiers of the Tian family army on the city wall. The dozen of them were smashed to blood and flesh.

"Marshal, it's not a solution to go on like this!" Song Anping said anxiously: "Let them bombard like this again, the morale we finally raised will be gone!"

Tian Luo gritted his teeth and said, "Remove the soldiers..."

Although the Tian family army retreated, Chen Wen did not directly order the troops to attack, but continued to bombard the city wall with stones like a cat playing with a mouse.

The trebuchet is a weapon, unlike a cannon, which is fired too fast for too long, and the barrel is overheated, and it is easy to explode.Although due to wear and tear, the trebuchet will also be destroyed.However, replacing parts is not difficult.

"One, two, three" more than 100 soldiers of the Chen family's army pulled the rope and ran towards each other. They swung out their long arms and threw more than a dozen stone balls the size of footballs into the air, spinning in the air. , roaring and hitting the city wall.

The hit rate of the trebuchet was less than [-]%, but Chen Wen adopted this kind of cover-type attack of casting a big net and pulling a big fish, which increased the hit rate of the order.A dozen stone bullets in a leather bag can cover a radius of several tens of feet, and with a dozen stone bullets, there will always be those who are lucky enough to hit the bed crossbow or the city defenders.

In just a quarter of an hour, sixteen catapults fired six rounds, and more than 300 stone bullets hit the city wall, causing the destruction of as many as 28 bed crossbows on the city wall.

Song Anping and Tian Dashan were in a hurry. Although Tian's army suffered few casualties under the stone bomb attack, there were more than a hundred casualties. This price can be borne, but the loss of the bed crossbow has already exceeded half. Ants attacking the city, how can they resist?
"Young commander, why don't you lead the death squad to go out of the city to attack and destroy the enemy's trebuchets!" Tian Dashan is a member of Tian Luo's clan. Both of his parents died when he was young. Very loyal.

Tian Luo had a wry smile on his face. Back then he used a similar method to attack Banxian Castle. Gao Jingzong launched a counterattack with recruits who didn't even have warm weapons.As a result, Tian Luo's troops were defeated in one fell swoop.Now, he also wanted to imitate Gao Jingzong, but he just looked at the soldiers around him with panic and anxiety on their faces, and he reluctantly dismissed this idea.

To go out of the city and counterattack, two conditions must be met, "resolute" and "quick",
It's a pity that Tianjiabao doesn't have the strength to counterattack now.

Chen Wen ordered the troops to continue to bombard Tianjiabao. This bombardment lasted for three days and fired nearly [-] stone bombs. It not only destroyed the bed crossbow on the Tianjiabao city wall, but also destroyed the tung oil stored on the city wall. , The stone rolling and the rolling wood destroyed a lot.

Three days later, Tianjiabao's real crisis came.

Chen Wen gave the order: "Siege the city!"

'Boom!Boom!Boom! 'The great war drums sounded.

"Woo—" The low-pitched horns resounded across the earth, and ten thousand Chen Liujun took the lead in the battle. They rushed in like clear water, holding shields and carrying hundreds of climbing ladders several feet high. The sound is loud.

On the city wall, arrows from the Tian family army rained down like rain, but they lacked effective long-range suppression weapons such as bed crossbows, and the siege troops were protected by shields.advance ferociously.Bing arrows are special arrows for defending the city, slightly longer and heavier than ordinary arrows, although the range is not as good as the field sheep's head arrow, but shooting from the city wall, with the help of kinetic energy and potential energy, the lethality is good.

Although many attacking Chen Liujun were shot down by the defenders' arrows, Chen Liujun's offensive like a tide had no effect at all.The soldiers of Chen Liujun, who had rich combat experience, knew very well that siege was a matter of effort, either success or death.The more you fear death, the faster you die.

Finally, the first ladder was successfully placed on the city wall, and the general Chen Liujun, who was holding a round shield with one hand, began to climb up.The defenders of Tianjiabao did not back down either, either raising their yakshas to smash at the ladders, or slapping the ladders with their maces.

For the defense of a city, the most difficult thing to defend is not the city wall.It is the city gate, no matter how weak the city is, it is stronger than the city gate.However, at this time, the siege vehicles that threatened Tianjiabao the most appeared.

The main weapon of the siege engine is a thick log suspended on the beam by ropes or chains inside. The log has a metal cap on the back end and a metal head on the front end. Most of them are made into the shape of a sheep's head, which is called siege. hammer.During the siege, the soldiers in the siege vehicle jointly grasped the battering ram and moved backwards and slammed it into the city gate, relying on inertia and kinetic energy to destroy the gate or the latch structure behind the gate.

Once the city rush vehicle weighing nearly ten thousand catties is started, there is no city gate that can hold on.

The offensive and defensive sides fought fiercely around the city walls and gates.Arrows from both sides came and went, and knives, spears, daggers, and spears all showed their magical powers.The tragic siege battle devoured the lives of both sides all the time.

Generally speaking, the loss of the attacking side is greater than that of the defending side.However, the advantage of more than ten times the number of people offset the terrain advantage of the Tian family army, and the battlefield situation gradually tilted in the unfavorable direction for the Tian family army.

After nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, Chen Liujun suffered more than 500 casualties, but there was no sign of retreating.However, the Tian family army, which suffered no more than [-] casualties, could no longer hold on.

"Commander, the Bingshen enemy building has more than 70 casualties, and it can't hold on anymore, and urgently needs support!"

"Marshal, General Song was injured by a heavy arrow, and Zuo Haoshuai has taken over the position of superintendent!"

"Marshal, the city gate can't hold on anymore!"

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Bad news came one by one. First, Song Anping was shot in the chest by a stray arrow. This was a sniper shot by a sharp arrow in the enemy army with a cold arrow.The armor-piercing arrow fired by Sanshi Qiangbow pierced Song Anping's breastplate, injuring Song Anping's lungs and had to withdraw from the battle.

Tian Luo shouted: "Raise the blood flag!"

The blood flag is a collective honor cultivated by Lu Longtian's Qihuo army during more than [-] years of fighting against Hu, and it can be regarded as the last war mobilization order.Once the blood flag is hoisted, all people in Lulong Town, no matter whether they are soldiers or civilians, no matter whether men or women, no matter if they are old or weak, women or children, they will all go to battle without dying.

"Master, isn't it too early!"

"Go!" Tian Luo gritted his teeth and said, "Since our army is showing its defeat, the enemy will not know it. This will only make them crazier."

As more and more soldiers of Chen Liu's army rushed up the city wall, seeing that victory was in sight, without Guo Yang's order, all the soldiers of Guo Yang's army showed fierce eyes.

If you don't take advantage of it, you're a bastard.

All the begging army has no military pay, and their income depends on rewards for military exploits, and looting after breaking the city is their only means of making a fortune.These beggars roared with red eyes, and rushed up screaming.With [-] to [-] Guo Yang troops joining the battle, the pressure on Tian Luo's army became even greater.

"Captain, if you don't come, Luo Ke won't be able to hold on anymore!"

(End of this chapter)