Chapter 32: Torturous
“Shoot!”
Although there were only fifty people, they still caused considerable damage despite being in a condescending position.
They are not scattering aimlessly, but precise shooting after selecting a target.
Those who are confident in their archery skills come to the enemy in the face.
People with average archery skills will pick up people in the back row who have no armor or only leather armor to shoot.
The screams kept ringing.
The arrows were like strong winds, repeatedly destroying the dead grass. The enemy fell down in large areas, and the killing effect was very impressive.
The enemy is also fighting back.
Shao Xun stood on the wall, and Chen Yougen and Wang Queer held up large shields to cover the left and right sides.
Under the dense arrows, the sound of whistling through the air and the "dongdong" sound of being shot on the shield could be heard. Fortunately for Chen Yougen, Wang Queer, who was weak, had already taken two steps back unconsciously, and it was very difficult to raise the shield.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Shao Xun's eyes kept wandering around the crowd. After finding the target, he raised his hand and shot without aiming at all. He relied entirely on feeling, but his hit rate was very high.
As for the military archery assessment, shooting with raised hands is one of the bonus points. During the training, some people were taking aim at them, and Shao Xun would scold them when they came up to them. If he continued to take aim at them like this, his body would be filled with arrows shot by the enemy.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" After raising his hand and shooting, Shao Xun performed another act of opening the bow from left to right, and the arrows flew out, shooting down one person on the spot and knocking off the helmet of another person.
He picked valuable targets, either officers, flag bearers, advocates, or battlefield messengers running around quickly.
Under his operation, the enemy troops soon became sluggish and their formation was somewhat chaotic.
Often after the first group of people carrying simple wooden ladders to climb the wall are repelled, the second group cannot come up quickly, wasting the achievements of the previous group of people who sacrificed their lives.
But there are many of them after all. After the sword and shield soldiers pay attention to cover, it is not that easy to shoot the officers. What's more, there are only fifty archers on Piyong's side. After each person shoots a dozen arrows, his arms begin to get weak and his strength gradually weakens. As a result, the shooting speed slows down and the accuracy decreases - in short, the lethality decreases.
After a few more hasty shots, Shao Xun ordered them to go down to rest while the enemy army was retreating, and another group of people who could only skillfully wield a bow and arrows came up.
At this time, the hand-to-hand combat also reached a fever pitch.
"Kill!" Huang Biao roared angrily and thrust out the spear in his hand like lightning.
“Kill!” The sergeants also thrust out their spears.
Before the enemy could react, they saw several spears coming towards them.
Some people screamed loudly, some fell down, and some people mustered up the courage to rush and hit them with the help of their thick armor.
For this kind of people, there are people who hold wooden poles, spurges, and long-handled axes to greet them. The core point is to take advantage of their unsteady footing to hit them head and face with heavy blunt weapons, killing or injuring them, or knocking down high walls.
This is the advantage of defending the city. In ancient times, there were even veterans and warriors who were knocked down by boys and hacked to death by women after climbing up the city wall.
However, Piyong’s courtyard wall is not a serious city wall. There are no professional city defense facilities, and many city defense equipment cannot be deployed. However, it is much more difficult. This directly reflects on the battle situation, that is, there are not many casualties on our side. Small.
After Shao Xun shot arrows for a while, he felt that someone was already staring at him, and his physical strength was also very high, so he decisively picked up a long-handled ax, changed his position, waved his hands, and pointed at the crawler. Anyone who comes up is just smashed.
"Go to hell!" The enemy soldier holding the Huanshou sword was wearing heavy armor and his whole body was covered tightly. After stepping on the wall with his legs, he held a thrust spear in his left armpit. He swung the sword with his right hand to cut off the spear shaft, then avoided the head of Senhan's spear that was aimed at the door, ran up and crashed into the crowd, causing chaos in an instant.
"Poof!" The long-handled ax slashed down diagonally, with so much force that the enemy soldier staggered a few steps and fell into the wall from the other end. The soldiers who were resting swarmed up and killed him with short soldiers.
"Bang!" Shao Xun kept moving, and the long-handled ax struck an enemy soldier who had just climbed up.
This person seems to have been awarded three layers of armor. He is extremely strong and strong. With his angry eyes, he looks majestic and murderous.
The ax hit him hard in the face. Before he could even utter a cry, his face changed shape visibly, and with a plop, he fell to the ground on his back against the wall.
This was not over yet, another warrior with heavy armor came up from the front left, and behind him, there were two more people wearing leather armor, using their hands and feet together, and jumped onto the wall.
The warrior at the head was already fighting with the defenders. Shao Xun had no time to think and subconsciously struck the two men behind him with an axe.
"Poof!" The sharp ax blade cut through the flesh and removed the person's entire arm. Blood gushed out and sprayed on the other person's face, making him stunned for a moment.
Shao Xun kept moving and took a step forward, withdrew his ax and swept it down the city. "Ah!" There was also a scream from behind. Shao Xun turned around and saw that the heavily armored warrior had his throat cut by Huang Biao after killing one person and wounding another, and fell helplessly at the top of the city.
"Huhu!" The heavy breathing sound was clearly audible.
Fighting face to face is really grueling, and the test is the courage to see the red with the bayonet. In this case, your physical strength will be exhausted faster than usual, which will make you highly nervous and make you - abnormal!
"Kill!" Shao Xun casually smashed the helmet of another heavily armored warrior with a casual axe, and kicked the wall down quickly.
Later, he carried the ax and went to another place where the situation was critical to put out the fire.
People keep falling down around us, and people keep coming up.
After killing an unknown number of people, Shao Xun had several arrows stuck in his body. The damage wasn't serious, it didn't even penetrate the flesh, but it showed how intense the battle was.
Do you want this?
They are just a flank within a flank, but they are playing so excitingly that the lower-level warriors are really cannon fodder!
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At the end of the day's battle, the high walls were filled with wailing.
Shao Xun took off his armor, and Wang Queer carefully bound his wounds.
Mi Huang, Yu Liang, Yang Bao and others gathered around and listened to his words.
"No need to panic." Shao Xun frowned and said calmly: "The first three days of the offensive and defensive battle are the most dangerous. After this battle, it will be basically stable."
"Today the enemy has chosen There are many elites, wearing heavy armor, hoping to defeat the city with one blow, but we are defeated. Not everyone can be a leader. Once these people are used up, things will be easier to handle. "
“Think about it, how much trouble these elite picks will cause us if we fight in the field with the enemy, but now they are easily killed by us relying on the high wall, isn’t it a big profit?”
"Don't worry, the thieves have no plans to capture our place. Meng Chao may still be thinking about going to the east of the city to gain military exploits. We will hold on and never surrender. Seeing that he has nothing to do, he is reluctant to lose his elite soldiers. , so I retreated."
"Be alert at night, I will patrol at any time. Anyone who neglects his duty or neglects military affairs has nothing to say and will be killed without mercy."
Shao Xun. He was talking eloquently, with the tone of an official, but everyone - including Mi Huang - took it for granted, nodding his head repeatedly and loudly agreeing.
Even high-ranking disciples like Yu Liang, who used to criticize people of Shao Xun's status, are now honest. Shao Dubo is always putting out fires. He probably killed more than twenty people today, so he can be called a divine general.
Without him, it’s hard to say how Piyong would have ended.
On this basis, no one has the right to discriminate against him - if I really look down on him, I have to keep it in my heart and not say it out loud. The whole family is here, so I don’t dare to lose my temper.
"What Mr. Shao said is right. If we surrender, we won't get any good results. We can only bear it to the end. From today on, whoever dares to surrender, don't blame me for being unkind." Shao Xun said to Shao Xun. After that, Mi Huang was the first to express support, with a serious tone.
"No." Not only did the governor Yang Bao and several team leaders responded, but also Yu Liang and another young man from the Xu family in the East China Sea also answered.
Shao Xun couldn't help but look at him one more time.
Like the Mi family, the Xu family is also a local noble family in the East China Sea Kingdom. In terms of status at this time, it is actually not that high. At least, when he was talking to Yu Liang of the Yu family in Yingchuan, he obviously kept a very low profile, even though the Yu family was not a powerful person.
The young man’s name is Xu Lang. He is eighteen years old and came to the capital for some unknown reason. Anyway, he took the Mihuang route and ran to Piyong to seek refuge.
I met Shao Xun a few times and didn’t say much. Even after being reduced to this state, he was still arrogant.
The legacy of caste society in the Jin Dynasty is not shallow.
Perhaps in Xu Lang's heart, he didn't think Shao Xun was so powerful at all, even if he fucked me. After all, this is an era when both land and aircraft can serve as commanders of an army of more than 200,000 people. It is not surprising to have such an idea.
"In that case, everyone should perform their duties and follow the steps step by step." Shao Xun nodded, looked at Yu Liang and Yang Bao, and said: "The bandit army is a ragtag army, and they may not have the ability to fight at night, but If you don't take precautions, you will be in trouble tonight."
"No." Yu Liang and Yang Bao agreed immediately.
They also understand the general situation.
The Jizhou Dudu District originally had 40,000 soldiers, but now it has more than 200,000 troops. Most of them are actually farmers farming and do not have much fighting capacity.
In fact, even Shibing has been corrupted a lot. Otherwise, can we allow the refugee commander to run around as if he were in no one's land?
Of course, then again, the capabilities of Piyong's defenders are not that great either, they are just inferior to each other. Tonight, we will use our best to defend ourselves and try to weaken the enemy's morale for a few more days, and it will almost be over.
Shao Xun thinks more than them...
(End of this chapter)