Chapter 98 The situation is critical
Looking at the Japanese pirates rushing towards him, the soldiers on the city wall who had never experienced the war were all panicked. While they were secretly looking out of the city wall, they began to prepare for counterattack under the scolding of the officers.
Soon, a group of Japanese pirates rushed to the city wall with a long ladder. With their efforts, a long ladder was mounted on the top of the city. Soon several Japanese pirates climbed up along the ladder.
"Quick, push the ladder out...to push..."
A soldier waved the knife in his hand and shouted loudly. Under his command, several soldiers ran over with a long bamboo pole. The fork of the bamboo pole hit the head of the cloud ladder outside. Then several soldiers pushed the cloud ladder outside hard. The long cloud ladder was slowly pushed away from the city. Then there was only a burst of screams heard, and the cloud ladder fell down the back. Several Japanese pirates who were climbing up the cloud ladder fell heavily to the ground.
"good……"
The soldiers on the top of the city cheered when they saw this. But before they could finish cheering, dozens of arrows shot up at the top of the city. Several soldiers near the squadron were either shot into the front door or into the body, and fell to the ground screaming.
"アーぁ(archery)...people die (shoot those wise men)..."
At some point, a group of Japanese pirate archers had arrived at the city and were shooting arrows at the city wall under the command of a Japanese pirate leader. The Japanese pirates used a Japanese pirate's Japanese pirates' archers were very different from the bows and arrows of the Ming army. The most prominent feature of their archers is that they are "short and long at the bottom". The holding parts are generally two-thirds downward, forming the characteristics of weak and strong at the bottom. Therefore, when using Japanese archers, you must master skillful skills. Therefore, although the range of bamboo archers is not far, the power is not very large, but the accuracy is particularly good. This round of arrow rain caught the defending soldiers off guard, and the first round of arrow rain hit more than a dozen soldiers.
Looking at the screaming companions, the soldiers on the city were even more panicked. Although the officers next to them kept scolding, no one dared to pick up the bamboo poles on the ground again. The Japanese pirates under the city wall took advantage of the panic of the soldiers on the city wall and set up a ladder again. A Japanese pirate climbed up the city.
"Gong Guardian, the bandits have attacked the city. Hurry up and order the soldiers to drive the Japanese pirates down!"
Wu Zhenliang, on the city gate tower, looked at the ferocious Japanese pirates under the city wall, roaring and crawling towards the city wall, and arrows were constantly shooting towards the city wall, and soldiers kept falling under the Japanese pirates' arrows. He had never seen such a cruel scene before, but his legs were so scared that he was weak. At this time, he no longer cared about the prefect's airs and grabbed Gong Daxian's arm and said anxiously: "Gong Shou, the bandits are coming! Hurry up and lead the troops to kill them!"
Gong Daxian, who was caught in pain, looked at Wu Zhenliang with a pale face and couldn't help but feel contempt. This guy seemed to be full of authority on weekdays, but at this time he was afraid. Seeing that he looked like a prefect of Yizhou now, he didn't show it. Instead, he responded loudly, then went down the city gate tower and came to the city wall to join the battlefield with dozens of his servants.
In the late Ming Dynasty, it was normal for generals to raise family members. Gong Daxian's more than 60 servants were all wearing iron armor and holding heavy swords. Because it was related to their own family's wealth and life, Gong Daxian often urged these servants to practice hard every day. When these servants joined the battlefield, the situation on the city wall was immediately reversed. Due to the limited lethality of the bows and arrows of the Japanese pirates, it was difficult to penetrate the iron armor worn by the servants. Therefore, these servants could rest assured to poke their bodies out of the battlements to fight the Japanese pirates who had climbed up the city wall. For a time, the Japanese pirates who had just climbed to the city were cut off by the servants.
Seeing the Japanese pirates being beaten down one by one, Masaharu Tanikawa, who had advanced to more than 300 meters outside the city wall, said to Homosa Kana with some concern: "Master Homosa, the Ming people have the advantage of the city wall. Now the warriors have suffered heavy casualties. Should they let them retreat temporarily and rest for a while before attacking?"
"No!" Kana Naota said decisively: "The attack cannot be stopped. You can immediately pass my order to let Suzuki lead his men to continue to step forward and replace Sakai's team. After two quarters of an hour of attack, Asano's team will follow. Akito must not give Akito a chance to breathe!"
"ah……"
Tanikawa Masaharu shouted out in surprise. He didn't understand why Homokara Kane would give such an order. Didn't he know that the team would suffer a lot of casualties?
"Baga...b..." Seeing that Tanikawa Masaharu did not execute his order, Homoka Kaora was furious and reached out and slapped him in the face, "Didn't you hear me?"
“Hayi…”
Tanikawa Masaharu was angry when she saw Naoka Kamikata, and she didn't dare to say anything more, so she quickly conveyed her order.
The attack continued. After the fierce attack lasted for more than half an hour, the servants led by Wu Zhenliang began to slow down. You should know that each of these servants had to wear 40 or 50 kilograms of iron armor and held seven or eight kilograms of weapons, and fought with the Japanese pirates for so long. This consumed a lot of physical energy. Even though they could eat a full meal every day, they couldn't stand it after continuous high-intensity battles, and gradually their physical strength began to stop being supported.
"kill!"
The steel knife in Wu Zhenliang's hand slashed at the Japanese pirate who had just poked his head out of the city wall. The Japanese pirate had already been prepared before coming up. Seeing the steel knife chopped off from his head, he raised the Japanese pirate with his right hand to block the steel knife. After the two weapons collided, it made a crisp sound. However, what was different from Wu Zhenliang's expectation was that the Japanese pirate was not chopped down by him, but blocked his attack. On the contrary, Wu Zhenliang was shocked by the recoil force and took several steps backwards.
This time, Wu Zhenliang's expectation came out. During the attack just now, the Japanese pirates who had just climbed to the top of the city had no place to leverage their strength, and they had to hold the ladder with one hand, so they could only use the power of one hand to resist the attack. Therefore, it was difficult to resist Wu Zhenliang who stood steadily on the top of the city and attacked with all his strength. Generally speaking, as long as Wu Zhenliang cut them down with one knife, they would either lose their weapons or be cut off the ladder. But now Wu Zhenliang's attack has failed, which shows that Wu Zhenliang's physical strength is consumed very much.
Thinking of this, Wu Zhenliang's face immediately became male and even his physical strength began to become exhausted, so the other servants were naturally almost the same.
In fact, as Wu Zhenliang expected, just as his face changed drastically, a scream rang out next to him. It turned out that a Japanese pirate actually jumped onto the city wall and waved the Japanese sword in his hand to chop a servant to the ground.
"No, go over and block him quickly. You must not let the bandits go up to the city wall!" Wu Zhenliang shouted.
However, just as Wu Zhenliang was screaming, the Japanese pirate had already taken the opportunity to climb up the city wall. He was down-to-earth and immediately slashed at Wu Zhenliang with his sword in both hands. He had clearly seen it just now that the armor on this Ming officer was different from other Ming soldiers, and it was very gorgeous. It seemed that he should be the leader of this Ming army.
Chapter completed!