Chapter 826: Not Total Destruction
Outside Huangsha City, Li Tie had only fought two rounds with Xie Liancheng, and the feeling of being unable to use his power was still fresh in his memory.
He never expected that he would experience it again here.
But what he can be sure of is that the black-faced man opposite him is far less powerful than Jie Liancheng.
At first, Jie Liancheng was fighting one against two, and he easily defused his offensive and counterattacked directly, leaving him with no room to fight back.
But although this black-faced man was able to defuse attacks, he was suppressed by him in the only confrontation and could only defend passively throughout the whole process.
Not to mention that Jie Liancheng was not even serious at that time, but the black-faced man was concentrating on parrying the whole process.
After a simple comparison, the gap between the two is still huge.
At this moment, the deafening shouts of killing continued to come from outside the military camp. Li Tie knew that the enemy should have begun to attack the city.
“Damn it!”
Li Tie tried to hold the weapon, feeling the tearing pain, and cursed in his mouth.
In his current state, his hands are half disabled and he has basically lost his ability to fight.
Anyway, I have no fighting ability. Instead of going out to affect morale and get in the way, it is better to stay here so that I don’t have to be a burden to my comrades.
As for this city defense battle...
His defeat must have affected his own morale, which made Li Tie feel a little uncomfortable.
But even so, he didn't think the other party could break through Anling City.
This is not only the trust in Shi Lei as the commander-in-chief, but also because of the strength of both sides.
The enemy might have some misunderstanding about their garrison strength.
If they have only one thousand garrison troops at the moment, and almost four thousand siege troops, they can indeed fight a reliable battle, but now they have nearly three thousand garrison troops!
Taking into account the advantages in weapons and equipment, even if they fight head-on, they may not be afraid of the 4,000 troops on the opposite side, not to mention that they still have Anling City to provide them with a city defense advantage.
As soon as the siege battle started, Liang Guo's large forces immediately started to advance. At the same time, as important siege tools, siege towers and battering rams also advanced together with the large forces.
Faced with such a battle, Shi Lei did not hide from them, but gave the order directly with a big move.
"City defense crossbows are ready!"
With Shi Lei's order, a city defense crossbow with a crossbow length of two meters quickly opened its stand and was set up on the Anling City. On the wall.
“Teams 1, 2, and 3 attack the opponent’s battering ram, and teams four to eight attack the opponent’s siege tower together. As soon as the opponent enters the attack range, there is no need to wait, just aim and fire directly!”
At this moment, the Liang Kingdom's siege troops on the other side were far from approaching their Anling City wall. Under this situation, Shi Lei directly gave up the space on the wall to the crossbow troops responsible for operating the city defense crossbows.
The only goal is to defeat the siege equipment on the opposite side in the shortest possible time.
The crossbow troops, who had received the order in advance, locked the target throughout the entire process, and only waited for the target to enter their attack range. Without saying a word, they opened fire immediately!
At the same time, they were attacked by concentrated fire from the first team, second team and third team. Crossbow arrows like iron guns burst out one after another. In the blink of an eye, they were accompanied by the people below who were pushing the battering ram forward. All the enemy soldiers were destroyed in an instant!
In comparison, the siege tower on the opposite side is much more resistant to beating.
In order to improve the defense, the surface of the tower should be covered with a layer of iron sheet. According to the destructive power of the city defense crossbow, although it can directly penetrate the iron sheet, it is difficult to completely destroy it in a short time. Of course, for situations like this, the crossbow troops usually train during their daily training.
The best way is to directly blow up the wheel installed at the bottom of the siege tower!
But this is a difficult job.
On the one hand, it is an angle problem, which is destined to not be that easy to attack. On the other hand, compared to the main body of the siege tower, the wheels at the bottom are much smaller, which is not conducive to aiming.
Quickly adjust the attack angle, and multiple teams cooperate with each other to launch concentrated fire attacks on the bottom wheel of a siege tower from multiple angles.
Increase their success rate directly with the simplest and crudest amount.
After a round of concentrated fire attack, one wheel of the siege tower that was hit by the concentrated fire was blown out on the spot.
In an instant, the center of gravity of the siege tower shifted, and the side that lost support could not bear its own huge weight. The related structures broke and fell to the ground.
Amid the roar, many Liang soldiers who had no time to react were killed on the spot.
"What's going on? Why did the siege tower fall down?!"
The movement on the front line quickly attracted the attention of Coach Liang Jun.
The transmission of information in this era is not that fast, and the same is true on the battlefield. He is now staying at the rear to command operations. He is too far away from the front line. With just a pair of naked eyes, he cannot see clearly the top of the Anling City wall. To deploy something, he had to rely on the messengers who shuttled across the battlefield to provide him with information.
During this process, the city defense army led by Shi Lei will not stop their offensive.
After a quick reload, there was another concentrated fire attack, and the second Liang Jun siege tower fell down. The eyelids of the Liang Jun coach at the rear jumped.
Although in siege battles, as a siege party, it is normal for siege equipment to be taken care of by the opponent, but this was the first time that he had seen two siege towers fall down just halfway through the advance.
Compared to the huge and conspicuous siege tower, he did not know yet that the siege ram was also blown up.
Their siege force only had four siege towers in total, and half of them fell in the blink of an eye. This doubled the pressure on Coach Liang Jun, and he even began to feel a little resigned in his heart.
However, what he was worried about did not happen. During the time when the other two siege towers collapsed, the remaining two siege towers had been successfully pushed to the opposite wall. .
Seeing this scene in his eyes, coach Liang Jun couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was a blessing that everything was not wiped out.
If all four siege towers fell down, there would be no need to fight the siege battle in front of them.
However, what he didn't know was that the remaining two siege towers were deliberately kept by Shi Lei.
Their city defense advantage can only be fully demonstrated by attacking the city from the opposite side.
At the same time, using city defense warfare to train new recruits and quickly reduce the strength of the opposite side was also Shi Lei's purpose.
Otherwise, if we wait to go out of the city to attack, the new recruits who lack actual combat experience will face the enemy directly, and the casualties will probably be huge.
Based on this premise, if the opponent directly ordered a retreat because all the siege equipment was destroyed, it would be difficult for him.
Then they deliberately left two siege towers for the other side to push up, creating opportunities for their own side to train new recruits and reduce the strength of the opposing side.
(End of this chapter)