At Zuowuguan outpost, arrows were flying back and forth like locusts, and the casualties of Shiwei people and frontier troops at the outpost continued to increase.
Moreover, as the number of Shiwei people crossing the river on the trench bridge increased, the defensive pressure on the outpost also continued to increase. At first, the Shiwei people were passively beaten, but when the siege tower approached fifty steps, the outpost captain Xie Kaizheng
Seeing the crowds of people in Shiwei, their scalps were numb.
"Tiao Wengcheng's third regiment comes up!"
"Rope crossbow, attack the siege tower!"
Xie Kaizheng, the outpost captain, issued two military orders in succession.
The crossbowmen in the two turrets and four horse-faced beds heard the shrill whistles.
A captain in the left turret who was controlling the bed crossbow listened carefully to the whistle, suddenly turned his head and ordered to his men: "Change the rope crossbow!"
I saw only two frontier soldiers. One of them picked out a one-foot-long crossbow arrow with a circlip barb from the crossbow. The other frontier soldier put a hemp rope on the thick crossbow arrow shaft, stretched the hemp rope, and shouted
A voice: "Okay!"
"shoot!"
"Boom!"
The corps commander used a wooden hammer to hit the huge crossbow machine of the bed crossbow hard.
A giant crossbow with a rope was fired! The target was pointed directly at the siege tower.
At the same time, giant crossbows were fired from various places in the turrets and horse-faced archery towers.
The siege tower wrapped in cowhide and smeared with mud instantly turned into a big fish caught on a fishhook.
The Shiwei people below the city were slightly distracted as they watched their siege towers being tied up with ropes.
But the frontier troops in the corner tower and horse-faced archery tower were not in a daze.
"pull!"
The frontier troops in the corner towers and horse-faced archery towers, except for the crossbowmen, were pulling on the hemp ropes and working together.
The hemp rope on the siege tower outside the city straightened instantly. Some crossbow arrows passed through the cowhide but did not hit the wooden frame. The crossbow arrows were suddenly pulled out from the body of Wei Ren in the siege tower and flew up in the direction of the rope.
, knocking away the surrounding Shiwei people, and then the cowhide wrapped around the siege tower caught the crossbow arrow, but with the pulling of the hemp rope, the cowhide fixed with wooden nails on the siege tower was lifted.
From the turrets and horse-faced archery towers on the city wall, the sound of wrestling of the border troops could be heard, but some of the border troops were still wrestling, and they shot at the wooden frame of the siege tower.
With the joint efforts of the border troops, the siege tower began to tilt slowly. When one side of the siege tower began to lift, the faces of the Shiwei people inside and outside the siege tower changed greatly, and the Shiwei people next to the wooden wheel also paid attention.
No longer able to raise his shield, he hurriedly rushed towards the siege tower's wooden wheel, which was as tall as a man.
The crossbowmen who were shooting at Shiwei's archers on the city wall and on the siege tower now aimed at Shiwei's sword and shieldmen who had no shield cover.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!..."
The crossbowmen's shooting became the key to determining the outcome of the wrestling match.
When the center of the siege tower shifted again with the hemp rope, the huge siege tower no longer provided protection for the Shiwei people, but instead became a weapon to plunder the lives of the Shiwei people.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
Amidst the huge roar of six consecutive siege towers hitting the ground, only the horse face in front of the main arrow tower was still standing, while the remaining siege towers fell to the ground.
The roar was mixed with the pop of a human body being smashed!
After the roar, there were fierce shouts from people in Shiwei.
The Shiwei striker was in trouble.
Six of the eight siege towers transported across the river collapsed. The collapse of the huge siege tower not only meant that the Shiwei forward lost three-quarters of the siege tower, but also meant that the Shiwei people around the siege tower appeared.
Huge damage.
"Push quickly! Push quickly!" The Shiwei centurions under the only two remaining siege towers hurriedly urged their men to push the siege towers to the outpost wall.
However, the two left and right horses who had freed their hands fired another round of crossbows.
As the sun rose in the east, the Shiwei people finally failed to save their remaining siege tower.
"Woo...Woo...Woo..." The Nine Hu people blew the horn of the attack.
The Shiwei forward no longer paid attention to the siege tower, but pushed the cloud ladder and carried the light ladder quickly towards the outpost wall.
The first people to come into contact with the city wall were the shield bearers carrying the light ladder. They had just carried the light ladder on one shoulder and a huge shield in the other hand and rushed through the arrow rain of the outpost crossbowmen.
Light ladders began to be set up one after another, and the light ladders with undercuts landed on various parts of the outpost city wall with a "pop!"
The light ladder, which was lengthened to five feet, was set up on the wooden wall of the outpost.
"The enemy has set up a ladder, get on the archers!" I saw the brigade commander on the horse giving an order, and his four groups of archers rushed out of the archery tower and started shooting at the side of the light ladder, but were blocked by shields.
The Shiwei shieldmen held up their shields to protect the feet of the light ladder. When they arrived at the place, some of them put up shields, and six strong Shiwei shieldmen put down their shields and raised the light ladder.
The two Shiwei shieldmen put down their shields. With the protection of the shields, they were no longer afraid of the tricky arrows of the frontier army. They took out the short shovels from their waists and began to dig a small hole half a meter deep in the ground.
"Fall!" The Wei people in the shield room cheered, and the foot of the light ladder got stuck in the pit.
The cheers attracted the attention of the horse-faced crossbowmen, and the two crossbows fired arrows.
The shield that had just blocked the red feather arrow was immediately thrown away. The archer on the horse showed no mercy at all. The red feather arrow that had just been blocked by the shield drilled in through the gap exposed by Shi Wei's shield formation. The small shield formed by Shi Wei's shield hand
The formation collapsed instantly.
According to the vision of the Ross Army Corps, the siege vanguard composed of siege towers, ladders, and light ladders should quickly scale the city wall. However, the reality is that the trench bridge unit is under fire from crossbows, and the siege tower relies on its huge size.
Although some lives were lost due to the crossbow shooting through the cowhide, the Shiwei people could fully bear this loss.
However, there were not many ladders that could be transported across the river. Especially the ladders with bases, several were shot down by crossbows and blocked on the trench bridge, causing the trench bridge to be interrupted. Although it did not take long before it was destroyed by Shi Wei
The people were pushed into the moat under the trench bridge, but the smooth siege drill of the Shiwei people in the Jiuhu camp made the Ross officer regiment very satisfied. As long as these Shiwei people had wine as a reward, they would do whatever they were told.
Many people in the Ross officer corps who were knights were thinking about recruiting a few Shiwei people as their retinues.
However, when it came to the battlefield, there were many situations. The eight siege towers that were transported across the river collapsed. Not only did they kill many Shiwei people, but they also became an obstacle to the attack by cloud ladders and light ladders. However, Shiwei archers also had
In a bunker, even if they shoot from above and below, they at the bottom will still suffer. However, in a siege battle, the siege team will always be at a disadvantage.
Whether it is siege towers, cloud ladders, light ladders, etc., these siege equipment can weaken this disadvantage to a certain extent.
The battle at the outpost continued, and the Shiwei people who lost their siege tower became more militant under the stimulation of blood.
With the installation of cloud and light ladders, the pressure on the frontier troops on the outpost city wall increased.
The people of Shiwei, who were as dense as locusts, stepped on the corpses of their own people and began to swarm towards the city wall. The crossbowmen stopped shooting, took their own bows, ran to the edge of the archery tower, and started shooting at Shiwei under the city wall. At this time
The crossbowmen also gave up firing crossbows and replaced them with their own bows. Although the armband crossbow was good, the shooting speed was too slow.
At this time, there is no need to aim under the crowded city wall. When the bow is fully drawn and the arrow is released, there will always be Shiwei to catch the arrow.
Shi Wei's sword and shield hand held the shield and began to climb up the ladder to the city wall, while Shi Wei's archers began to shoot at the outposts on the city wall.
At this time, the border troops who were red-eyed with the killings and the Shiwei people who were stung by the casualties no longer cared whether they were injured.
When the auxiliary soldiers on the outpost city wall were transferred to the city wall by the fourth regiment in Wengcheng, they had already transported down three regiments of the outpost border army, the auxiliary regiment attached to the outpost border army, and the two auxiliary troops who came from Qianguan to support them.
The auxiliary corps, a total of 800 auxiliary soldiers, not only had to transport dead and wounded border troops down the city wall, but also carried bundles of ten pots of arrows to supplement the consumption of crossbowmen on the city wall.
When the sun rose from the sky, the rays of dawn illuminated the earth. Xie Kaizheng, the outpost captain, looked at the frontier troops on the main archery tower and ordered again: "Come up, the fifth regiment of Wengcheng, the first regiment of outpost, the second regiment of Wengcheng, and the first regiment of Wengcheng."
The first regiment, the second regiment went to Wengcheng for repairs."
At this time, no one from the Shiwei people could climb up the city wall. It was not a good time to change defenses at this time. However, Xie Kaizheng knew that in the three moments from the Shiwei people's attack to now, more than half of the four regiments had suffered casualties, and the remaining
If half of the people don't get repaired, they may lose their strength. Those who lose their strength often need several days to recover. This battle is hard to fight.
Just in time for a new batch of fresh troops to come up and give the Shiwei people a surprise.
In the military hall, the order of outpost Colonel Xie Kaizheng's change of defense was not reached. When the change of defense was just completed on the outpost city wall, Su Ce knew about the order of outpost Colonel Xie Kaizheng's change of defense.
As a general, Su Ce does not have to fight on the front lines until the last moment, but Su Ce cannot watch the fighting at the outposts indifferently.
The outposts on the left and right can be discarded, but neither the front, rear, or left gates can be discarded.
Therefore, Su Ce also made the final adjustments to his troops in the past few days while the Jiuhu people made siege equipment.
Four thousand old soldiers and four thousand new soldiers were mixed into sixteen battalions, with each battalion having 500 men. The remaining two thousand new soldiers were used as auxiliary soldiers, and were organized into five auxiliary battalions, with each battalion having 400 men.
In addition to the three battalions of troops given to the outpost, among the other six captains, the three captains of the left and right fortresses in front of the pass gave two battalions of troops. The three captains of the left and right imperial guards in Houguan now only have one battalion of troops, and the left and right captains each have two battalions of troops. Su
There was only one first battalion of auxiliary soldiers in Ce's hands to communicate with various ministries. The remaining four battalions of auxiliary soldiers were responsible for transporting the bodies of the wounded, arrows, food, water bags and other chores.
What the Xie family wanted was a chance to prove, and Xie Kaizheng had to risk his life, but the 1,500 soldiers and 400 auxiliary soldiers under his command were soldiers from Anbei and Su Ce.
People will always die in a war, but it is always better to die less. Compassion cannot command troops, and Su Ce still can't do it now.
"Send an order to Captain Chang Yu of the Left Command to change the outposts and move a battalion of soldiers to move the tired troops to the pass." Su Ce saw Xie Kaizheng's plan through Xie Kaizheng's change of defense order, which was to kill the Wei people in a head-to-head battle.
His courage allowed the enemy to give up their fierce attack and use fatigue warfare to buy themselves more time.
Xie Kaizheng had been in the frontier army for ten years and knew very well what Su Ce had told him before. Whether the outpost was lost or not, he was the bait that Su Ce put in the mouths of the Jiuhu people. Su Ce wanted to use this bait to kill a large number of enemies.
Since the army is bait, I won't feel bad if I abandon it.
Xie Kaizheng is also a human being and wants to live, and if he wants to live, he needs to be valuable. At least he wants Su Ce to see his value. Only in this way will Su Ce not risk his life.
This is not a plot against Xie Kaizheng by Su Ce, nor is it because Xie Kaizheng is greedy for life and afraid of death. In the army, people are always risking their lives to fight for their future. After the war, he stayed alive and sheltered him for three generations. If he died, it would be over.
Xie Kaizheng will not blame Su Ce for letting him fight a lifeless battle, and Su Ce does not have to blame himself for Xie Kaizheng's life and death. Everything is his own choice.
In his name, Su Ce fought in an isolated city and established himself as the military leader.
The outpost is broken, Xie Kaizheng is dead!
Zuo Wu defeated, Su Ce died!
They are all gamblers in the military, and no one needs to grudge anyone else, and no one needs to pity anyone else.
Upon hearing Su Ce's order to change defenses, Xie Kaizheng knew that this was Su Ce's cherishment of his soldiers, but to him, it was also a favor. He thanked Kaizheng for accepting this favor and would repay it after the war.
"The messenger, report to the captain, the outpost is safe!" Xie Kaizheng asked the messenger to report to Su Ce. The content was meaningless, but it showed his gratitude.
The soldiers went down to deliver the order. Xie Kaizheng looked at the battle outside the main archery tower. The Shiwei people began to use cloud ladders and light ladders to climb up the city wall regardless of casualties. However, even the Shiwei sword and shield wielders who climbed up would be beaten by the wooden forks held by the two men.
Push down the city wall, or be assassinated by the spears of the frontier soldiers behind the wooden parapet, not to mention the outpost frontier army archers who were on horseback shooting at Shiwei archers, taking the time to shoot down a few Shiwei sword shields that climbed high.
hand.
"That's almost it! Send the order, set fire to the water channel!" Xie Kaizheng issued another military order to the soldiers who had just returned.
The military order was sent back to Wengcheng. The frontier troops guarding the waterway entrance heard the military order and dumped nearly a hundred barrels of kerosene next to the waterway into the waterway.
The water channel here is the water source of the moat. The reason why these frontier troops guard this place is to prevent the enemy from digging into the city wall along the water channel. Another important responsibility of theirs is being fulfilled at this time.
The water channel has a square hole more than one meter high and two meters wide at the bottom of the city wall.
The flow of water in the waterway is not fast, but the smell is not very good, because this waterway happens to be a turbid waterway, and all the filth in Zuowuguan is discharged from here, so the smell is naturally unpleasant.
Soon, dark brown or even blackened fire oil flowed out of Zuowuguan along the water flow in the waterway.
The fierce fire oil is lighter than water and is insoluble in water. It quickly flows along the water channel and flows into the moat. The moat runs from east to west. Because the river channel is wide and deep, the drop is not large, so the flow rate is not fast, but dozens of barrels of fierce fire oil are also slow.
Slowly the moat was covered.
Since there is a saying that a long-term attack cannot be defeated, there is also a saying that a long-term defense will lead to losses.
Xie Kaizheng looked at the rising sun and the fierce fire oil spreading from the east side to the west side of the moat, and shouted to the messenger: "Archers, rivers, rockets, throw!"
Xie Kaizheng did not use the bed crossbow or armband crossbow, because the crossbow arrows were too fast and would not easily ignite the fire oil when they were plunged into the water. Instead, he used a strong bow to throw the arrows. Firstly, the arrow speed was not fast, and secondly, the throw distance was just enough, and the crossbow arrows
It’s more expensive than feather arrows! It’s good to save some money.
As rockets streaked across the sky, the entire moat, which was more than a mile long, burst into flames. The fire oil began to burn, and the thick fire and smoke blocked the possibility of Shiwei people crossing the bridge.
At this time, the people of Shiwei were facing archers on both sides, and their faces were covered with gold juice, poured with hot oil, burned with fire, and sulfur smoke was dazzling. Under the city wall, there were more than ten layers of corpses, and the pile of corpses was piled up over ten feet.
After suffering huge casualties, Shi Wei, who had just climbed onto the city wall, had no time to expand the gap to climb the city wall. When he turned around, his way back was cut off by a river of fire.
Seeing that the Shiwei people were cut off from their retreat, the long-suppressed outpost soldiers shouted loudly: "Victory", "We have won"... The outpost soldiers with high morale strangled all the Shiwei people who climbed the city in one go.
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The fierce fire oil baked the trench bridge, and the trench bridge made by Ross's craftsmen began to burn. The Jiuhu Supervisory Army who was blocking the deserters on the trench bridge could not stop the flow of people along the trench bridge even though they killed more than a dozen Shiwei people.
The deserters returned to the bubble, but with the creaking sounds one after another, the trench bridges were crowded with people on the bridges, and the fire burned under the bridges. When they burned themselves, they began to break until the trench bridges fell into the water, and the floating ones were still there.
It burns, and what sinks to the bottom of the water no longer burns, but it also loses its effect.
The Shiwei people who were left on the south bank of the moat could only face the merciless shooting of the outpost soldiers.
It took an entire hour from the time Shiwei launched his attack at dawn until the flames on the moat disappeared. The vanguard, composed of 20,000 Shiwei people, returned to the camp with less than 10,000 people, and half of them were injured.
Counting the casualties from the previous trial attack, the casualties of the Shiwei people were already 20,000.
Of the 50,000 Shiwei people, there are now less than 40,000 left, including 6,000 to 7,000 wounded.
The people of Shiwei have no intention of fighting anymore unless they are given more wine to numb their fearful nerves.
The Shiwei people suffered heavy losses, and most of the siege equipment made by Ross craftsmen was lost. Alagbari gave up the afternoon attack, and the Jiuhu corpse collection team walked out of the camp under the banner of Aragbari.
The frontier troops at the outpost did not stop the Jiuhu people from collecting the corpses. If the tens of thousands of corpses outside the city were not dealt with in the high temperature in June, a plague might result.
The Jiuhu people and the Dagan people have been fighting for hundreds of years, and they have already formed post-war rules. In the afternoon, the Jiuhu people's corpse collection team found a deep valley near the west mountain range before the camp and Zuowuguan. The tall
The trees had been cut down by the former Zuowu defenders, but there were still long crooked trees and shrubs left, one layer of corpses and one layer of wood. The Shiwei people reluctantly helped. In the evening, a fire was lit in the deep valley, and the fire lasted the whole time.
Two days and three nights.
Thousands of people in the pass crowded the military medical camp, and the general kiln also began to process the remains of the dead frontier soldiers. Four hundred and thirty-nine general jars were used, and the soldiers and officials posted a list of each general jar.
Su Ce had someone put the general jar in the left hall where the general jar was parked. Su Ce had been doing official business in the Bingge Hall these days, so the left hall was empty, and it was just right to place the general jar. Su Ce would stay there when he had nothing to do in the past two days.
In the left hall, I was in a daze looking at the increasing number of general cans.
Li Huaimin waited on Su Ce to eat on time, and did not say much at other times. Once a general becomes famous, his bones will wither. This is a hurdle that a commander must overcome. As a general, he must obey military orders, and as a commander, every step he takes
Every military order counts as a human life.
Being a general and a commander, they carry different responsibilities on their shoulders. Li Huaimin guided Su Ce to fight against his own kindness in his heart, and the pain he felt could only be overcome by himself.
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