: Defend the city

On the Yacheng, Qian Chuanfu was wearing armor and leaning against a female wall. He was stuffing dry cakes into his mouth with bites. His fair and handsome face had turned black and thin at this time, and his eyes were covered with bloodshot, as if he had changed his body. Only when the tendons of his jaws were twitching hard, the pair of dimples appeared, and he could still vaguely see his handsome appearance. These days, the Runzhou army took turns to attack, and he almost didn't go down the top of the city, and he was really exhausted. As he was eating, he fell asleep with the dry cakes in his mouth.

As the sound of war drums sounded, the vanguard of the Runzhou Army began to move forward slowly, and there was about two arrows away from the gate of Yacheng. Before entering Yacheng, Qian Chuanzhao had already burned all the houses near the gate to a quiet fire. Although this trick killed countless Changzhou people, it was indeed very effective. The Runzhou Army siege had no cover at all, and it was really bleeding a lot here. Looking from a distance, there was nothing but the fragments of the siege equipment and Heng Chen's corpse on the empty ground, just like a ghost.

Qian Chuanyou's hands and feet twitched twice, as if he heard something in his dream. He suddenly got up and looked out from the female wall. He saw that the open space outside Yacheng was covered with soldiers from Runzhou Army. The soldiers in the front were only ten feet away from the city wall. He quickly jumped up and ran around the city wall, kicking the guards who had been fighting hard for many days and were asleep during the battle.

At this time, the Runzhou soldiers in front had already entered the range of the crossbow. Under the fierce attacks these days, most of the female walls at the top of the city had been destroyed, and the money running on the top of the city was still uncovered. The soldiers saw someone running on the top of the city and opened their crossbows and shot over there. The soldiers behind them burst into shouts and raised the long ladder to rush towards the top of the city.

Qian Chuanqian reminded more than a dozen people, picked up the gong and hit it hard. Seeing that the soldiers were all in their place, they felt a burst of pain on their shoulders. When they turned around, they realized that there was an arrow on their shoulders. Fortunately, there was a layer of fine scale armor in his leather armor, and the arrows were not deep, so they were not seriously injured. However, they didn't care about so much at this time, so they lifted the horizontal sword and round shield and rushed over.

At this time, more than ten cloud ladders had already been put on the top of the city. After the Runzhou soldiers captured Changzhou City these days, they demolished many houses and used the materials to make siege equipment. These cloud ladders were specially used for siege. One section had iron hooks. Once they were put on the top of the city, they would hook them. No matter how hard you tried, they could not push them. Compared with the temporarily prepared bamboo and wood ladders, they were naturally completely different. When the ladders were put on the top of the city, the selection leader, wearing heavy armor, carried a knife and axe, and pushed the big shield up the top of the head and went up the ladder. They carefully tilted the shield, forming a sharp angle on the edge of the shield and the long ladder, and tried their best to reduce the area of ​​bombing. In this way, not to mention a crossbow, if you are lucky, even stones and rolling wood can be unloaded to the side.

The defenders' crossbows have little effect on the enemy's selection of the city. There are not many stone rolling woods. As the enemy soldiers are getting closer and closer to the city, they can already see their eyes like hungry wolf through the gaps in the shield. The defenders on the front of the city have to risk being shot by the enemy crossbowmen under the city, and poke out and stab with a spear. From time to time, someone is shot by the crossbow and falls from the city wall with screams.

"Go to the horse face and shoot from the side." Qian Chuanqian shouted loudly, and the first one rushed to a nearby horse face. Since the female wall on the horse face protruding on the city wall had almost been damaged and almost unrestrained, the defenders avoided the place intentionally or unintentionally. Qian Chuanqian had just jumped onto the horse face and saw that a Runzhou military pioneer was no more than four feet away from the head of the city. The soldier held a shield and shouted a horizontal knife with a four-foot blade. Generally speaking, few short blades used in one arm were longer than two and a half feet long.

However, he was able to wear heavy armor, holding a large shield in one hand and waving such a long horizontal sword in the other hand, and his arm strength was evident. The defenders at the city were stabbed several times in a row, and they were separated by the opponent with a shield. Seeing that the opponent was up to the next level, the range of attacks was the short-soldiers. At that time, the long soldiers he used could not be used anymore, so he gritted his teeth and aimed at the shaking figure under the shield, and used all his strength to stab him with a spear. Even if he could not pierce the opponent, he would stab the opponent down the head of the city. After all, there was only a wooden pole under the opponent's feet, which was not as solid as his feet.

The defender stabbed the spear, but there was no feeling of stabbing the real thing in his hand. He couldn't help but lean forward. If he hadn't grabbed the iron hook of the ladder in his hand, he would have almost fallen to the city. It turned out that the selection team below had a lot of experience in fighting. He had guessed the opponent's actions and used a false force in his hand. As soon as the opponent stabbed the shield, he pushed the spear aside. He took advantage of the momentum and slashed it with his backhand, and just slashed it. He heard a scream and saw a figure falling from the side.

The selection leader killed the opponent and almost fell down from the ladder. Fortunately, he reacted very quickly and hugged the handrail of the ladder and did not fall down. Looking at the blade like a forest under his feet, even though he was as brave as a fight, a cold sweat oozed out of his back. At this moment, he suddenly felt a severe pain in his right shoulder and had been shot into an arrow.

"How could there be arrows shooting here?" The selector turned his face and saw a defender officer bent his bow and arrow on the protruding horse face. Then he felt a chill in his eyebrows and knew nothing.

After Qian Chuanqian shot and killed the selection front, he shot the enemy's selection front on the left and right ladders down the city. Although the selection fronts were all elite soldiers who had been through many battles, they had nowhere to dodge on the ladders, and their shields had to guard against the enemy soldiers above their heads. Facing the arrows shot from the side, they could only wait for death. For a moment, the Runzhou Army's offensive could not help but suffocate.

Seeing this, the guards around couldn't help but feel their morale boosted. They rushed to the horse's face and shot the enemy soldiers who had already rushed to the city wall with crossbows. The civilians also took the opportunity to carry sandbags of firewood to the horse's face to replace the broken female wall.

"What a pity, the grease has been used up, and even the iron pot for boiling water has been broken. Otherwise, the Runzhou thieves will be very excited." Qian Chuanyou used a strong bow of two stones, shooting six or seven arrows in a row, and his arms were a little sour and numb. He retreated to the side and sighed while resting. There were only more than 400 guards in the city who could fight these days, and the grease and rolling stones were almost used. Fortunately, the food and arrows were still abundant. In addition, the soil of Changzhou has always been solid, so the other party could not use the cave-ground attack method, otherwise they would not last for so many days. It was just a matter of time to break the city with more than 10,000 people against seven hundred people. It was a matter of time to break the city. I don't know when the Guangling army will be able to cross the river. Thinking of this, Qian Chuanyou couldn't help but be in awe.

"It's time to go to the city, Guo Da is here to go to the city. Get it harder and pour it in." A sudden noise broke out from the city, awakening Qian Chuan from his reverie. I saw that the city was killed not far away, and more than 20 guards were surrounded by airtight. They could only judge the intensity of the battle by the flash of weapons waving rapidly in the crowd.

"What happened? Didn't you just defeat the Runzhou thieves?" Qian Chuanqian rushed over quickly. It turned out that in order to facilitate defense, this Yacheng looked down from above, not a straight line, but a prominent corner. There is a watchtower at the top of the corner, which is the strongest place for defense. In this way, the enemy troops attacking the city walls on both sides will be attacked by the side firepower fired from the corner of the wall. However, in this way, the ladder on the corner of the wall will not be attacked by the side public attack on the horse surface of other sections of the city wall. In order to protect this weakness, the corner of the city wall not only has the most guards, but also has the protection of the Hope Tower. Unfortunately, after these days, the Hope Tower located on the Tukou corner almost concentrated the largest part of the firepower of the Runzhou Army and was almost completely destroyed. The attention of the defenders was attracted by the enemy soldiers on other sections, and the Runzhou soldiers' selection attack came from this deadly point.

When the money rushes to the corner, the Runzhou army had already risen up, and was fighting with the defenders surrounded by all sides. However, in contrast to the number of people on both sides, the defenders were forced to retreat step by step. The man in the head was magnificent, eight feet tall, covered in iron armor, and a little exposed skin was also entangled with muscles, just like a steel cast. The big shield had long been thrown aside, wielding a saber with both hands like a windmill, all of which were advancing. The sword was aimed at the edge of the sword, and all the guards were invincible and forced to retreat step by step. There were a few clever ones who wanted to avoid their edge and fight from the side, but they did not expect that his two companions would cooperate very well. Once they were blocked, the big man slashed over with a knife, which could not be blocked, and he immediately understood his life.

Qian Chuanqiu saw his subordinates in a mess and shouted angrily: "What are you messing with? Use a spear to thorn him to the wall, and then shoot him with a crossbow." The guards woke up as if they were dreaming, and took two steps back and reorganized the formation. But at this time, the enemy's front-end selection came up again. Qian Chuanqiu poked out of the female wall. He saw that the enemy soldiers were crowded with people on the ladder and were rushing up one after another. He knew that his soldiers could not consume the opponent in terms of physical strength or number of people. If they continued to consume this, they would not survive the next time even if they repel the enemy soldiers this time. While anxious, they suddenly saw the abandoned box house on the side. They could not help but have an idea and shouted: "Hurry to put it down with this room and assassinate the enemy soldiers on the ladder from the side." As he said that, he pushed the box house to the edge of the city, then went into the house first, waiting for the soldiers to pull the box house down the city.
Chapter completed!