Chapter 666: Dangerous City
PS: These two chapters were updated five times yesterday, and they were updated normally tonight.
"General, barbarian cavalry and barbarian slave soldiers appeared on the grassland."
While Niu Ben and other generals were observing the Zhao King's army, a general suddenly came from the northern city of Juyongguan.
"This time, King Zhao and Zheng Chengwen are indeed preparing to attack Juyongguan at the same time inside and outside." Niu Ben frowned and said to Lu Fei: "Let's go to the North City Gate to see. The King Zhao's troops are just vanguards now. They will not attack the city for the time being. They will definitely wait for the soldiers and food and grass to arrive behind them."
Lu Fei nodded, this time he was responsible for the North Gate.
Left Ye Qingyun staring at King Zhao's soldiers, Niu Ben and his group arrived at the northern wall of Juyong Pass. At this time, the vast barbarian army on the grassland was coming towards the pass.
The barbarian army stopped five hundred meters outside the city. At this time, the slave soldiers held up their shields and blocked them. They learned the lesson of fighting against the King of Qi's army. This time they did not dare to approach the city wall rashly, so as not to be bombarded by artillery again.
Shortly after the barbarian army stopped, a cavalry suddenly stepped forward and shouted to the defenders on the city wall: "Bold madman, you dare to occupy Juyong Pass. Wushu Gu Taiji said, if you hand over Juyong Pass, you will spare your lives. If you don't follow, you will be slaughtered after the city is broken." Niu Ben looked cold. King Zhao and barbarians attacked Juyong Pass at the same time, which shows how important this Juyong Pass is. Otherwise, the barbarians must take a detour of 800 miles before they can invade Dayu from the king's fiefdom.
In this way, the supply line of the barbarians will be longer and they will always face the danger of being hijacked.
So for Niu Ben, this battle between both sides must be fought.
"It's so much nonsense to fight a war." Lu Fei was not in the mood to have a verbal battle with the barbarians. He patted an artillery on the shoulder and pointed at Zheng Chengwen who was surrounded by barbarian soldiers and said, "Give me a shot to the thief who recognizes the thief as his father."
"Yes." The artillery nodded, and the soldier in charge of the artillery immediately began to load.
For Lu Fei, he was not worried about this war. As before, the hope for the barbarian victory this time was to use the barbarians to become unfamiliar with heat weapons. They would not have thought that the things set up on the city wall can now reach three or four miles in effective range, and the firearms are now more powerful than before.
The cavalry yelled in front of the city gate for a while before returning.
Seeing that the cavalry's words were not responded, Zheng Chengwen showed an impatient look. He said to the barbarian general beside him, "General Duolong, according to our agreement with the King of Zhao's army, today is the time to attack the city."
"I understand." Duolon smiled evilly. He made a cavalry sound the horn of attack. At this time, the barbarian cavalry quickly flashed out a path, and the barbarian slave soldiers carrying the ladder immediately rushed towards the city wall.
At the same time, Niu Ben saw the barbarian artillery hidden among the slave soldiers. When these slave soldiers attacked the city, these artillery took the opportunity to move forward.
The barbarians suddenly launched an attack, which made Niu Ben and Lu Fei a little stunned. When they came to their senses, they immediately prepared for the soldiers.
"Let the artillery bombard the barbarian artillery immediately, and they must not let them open the city wall." Niu Ben looked serious. If the city gate was broken, 100,000 people would attack the city, it would be a disaster.
At this moment, Niu Ben suddenly felt unprecedented pressure.
"kill!"
The slave soldiers shouted, and bombarded the cannons, and densely packed slave soldiers rushed towards Juyong Pass.
"Bang bang bang..." Facing the barbarian slave soldiers who rushed over like military ants, the musketeers began to spray fire tongues freely, and the barbarian slave soldiers rushing in the front row fell down one by one like cutting rice. But even so, the slave soldiers behind had already rushed towards Juyong Pass regardless of everything.
At this moment, the barbarians once again showed their fearlessness.
For this battle, Niu Ben mobilized most of the soldiers to other city gates, because the north wall of Juyong Pass was the most dangerous and difficult to attack.
The south wall of Juyong Pass is very weak. They were the Shanhaiguan built from the inside, so they knew this shortcoming very well.
So under this arrangement, the number of soldiers in Beicheng was more than 6,000, but these 6,000 people were all rifled rifles.
The barbarian slave soldiers who rushed over from a long distance would shoot.
Duolon obviously discovered this, and the soldiers of King Qi could kill their slave soldiers from a long distance.
But even so, they still couldn't stop more than 70,000 slave soldiers from climbing the city wall.
Soon, some slave soldiers climbed up from the ladder and fought with soldiers guarding the city.
Lu Fei held a long sword in his hand and kept slashing the slave soldiers rushing up, while the other soldiers established protective circles for the artillery to prevent the gunner from being killed by the slave soldiers.
Niu Ben saw all this in their eyes. At this time, everyone looked solemn, and war was never easy.
When the slave soldiers rushed up the city wall, Duolon ordered the slave soldiers to push the cannons to the gate of Juyongguan.
"Prepare for artillery shooting!" Niu Ben's tone was filled with a hint of anxiety.
The artillery soldiers all looked serious, but they were not panicked. More than a year of war allowed them to remain calm in the face of war. They aimed at the barbarian artillery and ignited it quickly. If they could not stop the barbarian artillery from bombarding the city gate, they would likely lose this war.
Once the firearm loses its long-range advantage, the number of people will become the advantage of the barbarians, and even if one of them is ten, they will not be able to win.
The shells kept rushing towards the barbarian artillery, and some shells accurately hit the barbarian artillery, which made the barbarian artillery panic suddenly appear. Some artillery even ran around to avoid the attack of the shells. Many barbarian artillery were bombarded by artillery shells in the chaos.
There were more and more barbarian slave soldiers on the top of the city. Niu Ben was also anxious when he was commanding the artillery. He also drew his sword and joined the battle for the city wall, leaving behind the words "continue to fight the artillery soldiers of the barbarians."
Lu Fei was almost soaked in the blood of the slave soldiers, and threw another slave soldier down the city wall. He looked at the situation outside the city wall.
At this time, the barbarian artillery became chaotic because of the artillery. The artillery focused on bombarding the barbarian artillery, but more slave soldiers climbed the city walls. More and more soldiers gave up shooting at this time and used bayonets to fight with slave soldiers.
"General, we need support here now, otherwise we can't stand it." The situation became more and more serious. Lu Fei realized that he was overestimating the combat power of the firearms. Compared with the army of King Yan and King Liang, the barbarians were obviously much more difficult to deal with.
Chapter completed!