Chapter 453 The Collapse of the Coalition Forces Ten
The catapult cart is huge in size, and in order to carry weight, it is basically fixed on the top of the city. After being destroyed, it cannot be moved from other places in a short time. [26nbsp;] Without the catapult cart, the lethality of the crossbow cannot completely destroy the pontoon bridge. Although the destructive power of the rolling stone is also very strong, it cannot reach the position of the pontoon bridge. The cavalry of the coalition forces can launch a charge continuously.
However, there are still many wooden rocks on the city wall. When attacking the coalition forces rushing into the city gate, a large number of wooden rocks gradually blocked the city gate. If you want to pass through the city gate, you need to constantly clean up the wooden rocks. The city wall is connected, allowing soldiers to quickly rescue each other and transport supplies to each other. The wooden rocks at other locations of the city wall are constantly gathering at the city gate above the city gate, which makes it more difficult for the coalition forces to rush into the city gate.
Although the city walls are interconnected, there is a fortress with node effect every other section. Even if the enemy attacks the city wall, they can use these nodes to defend to prevent more walls from falling. The steps of the city wall in the city are not only straight and steep, but also very narrow, and can only pass by two people side by side, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even if the enemy rushes into the city, it is difficult to capture the city wall.
While the cavalry charged, the coalition forces also sent a large number of shield soldiers to climb the wall with ladders, which restrained a large number of defenders. The infantry and engineers of the coalition forces were responsible for cleaning the wooden rocks at the city gate. Although the casualties of the coalition forces continued to increase, they finally broke through the second defensive line on the Western Front.
The city gate is only twenty meters wide, and the main road connecting the city gate in the city is less than thirty meters wide, so it is difficult to spread even if there are many troops. Moreover, there are a lot of firewood on the road, and there are many half-foot-long steel nails buried under the firewood. There are a large number of crossbow soldiers on the houses on both sides. The coalition forces broke through the second defense line, but it is still difficult to move forward.
After many cavalrymen were stabbed by steel nails on the ground, the coalition immediately sent engineers and shield soldiers to clean up the steel nails underground. But even with shields, the bows and arrows shot from the houses on both sides made the soldiers unable to defend themselves. The steel nails were covered under firewood and embedded in the square bricks on the ground, and it was extremely difficult to get them out.
The houses on both sides had been closed by wooden boards. When the infantry decided to move the firewood piled up on the ground to the roadside, they suddenly stabbed a spear out of the house. In an instant, hundreds of soldiers were assassinated by sudden attacks. When the enemy opened the wooden boards that closed the house and entered the house, they found that the ambushed Daqin spearmen inside had already escaped from the window on the back wall.
Although the coalition forces entered the city gate to the west, they had to pay a huge price for every step forward. However, the coalition general had already received a strict order, and he had only one week. Otherwise, he would have to admit that he had failed and withdraw his troops. This was a great shame for a general of Wan Qing Kingdom, so he decided to take down the border city at all costs.
However, Daqin was well prepared and blocked it layer by layer. Although it broke through the second line of defense in the border city, the Qin troops suffered little losses, but the casualties of the coalition forces continued to rise. However, General Wanqing could not take care of so many at this time, and mobilized four elite troops of Wanqing corps to rush into the city gate after the vanguard.
The main road is a straight road more than ten miles long. The road covered with firewood on the ground is only a few miles. After paying a huge price, the engineers and shield soldiers in front basically set off thousands of steel nail bricks hidden under the firewood on the firewood. There was no obstacle to the charge of the troops. The brigade of cavalry from Daqin had already seen the frontal charge, and the next step should be the frontal charge to decide the outcome.
The four cavalry corps and shield soldiers who entered the city first had already suffered most of the casualties during the break through the second defense line and clearing the steel nails. The morale was low and the team was not in order. If they were responsible for the charge, they would probably be defeated by the cavalry troops waiting for their leisure. The defeated soldiers would be repelled outside the city. At that time, even the floating bridge would be difficult to protect, and everything would need to start over again.
General Wan Qing certainly understood the principle of making a concerted effort, and knew that the vanguard coalition had no combat power at this time, so he decided to send Wan Qing's elite troops. Without those institutions, he would charge head-on. Of course, Wan Qing's elite army had the strongest strength and was completely sure to defeat the Qin Dynasty in one battle.
When Wan Qing elites rushed into the city gate, the steel nails on the road ahead had been basically removed. Although the firewood on the ground still affected the progress of the war horses, as long as the speed was not too fast, it would not have much impact on the war horses. Under the intensive attacks of bows and arrows on both sides, more than 20,000 soldiers were killed or injured, and the general could not ask for the ground to be completely cleaned.
General Wan Qing has always been steadily and steadily, but at this time he could no longer follow the steps and could not even pay attention to the defenders at the city. He could only let the troops rush through the city gate quickly. As long as the Qin troops and the main general's camp in the city were cleared, the troops at the city would be trapped on the city wall, and they would naturally be destroyed without any attack.
But just as the four elite legions of Wanqing rushed into the city for several miles and were about to fight with the elite troops of Daqin, the sharp arrows shot from both sides of the road were suddenly changed to rockets. The rockets immediately ignited the firewood on the ground, and the entire avenue immediately ignited a raging fire. The four Wanqing legions and the coalition soldiers hiding on both sides of the avenue were immediately covered by the fire.
The vanguard general of the coalition army thought that the firewood laid on the road of Daqin was to cover up steel nails, but he did not expect it to be for fire attack. Even if the elite of Wanqing was a thousand commander, only officers with more than a thousand commanders could have a monster mount. Even if the war horse was trained, they would be afraid of flames, let alone such a big fire.
The coalition forces were trapped in the sea of fire in chaos. Even if the soldiers could still keep calm as much as possible, the war horses were already frightened in the fire. The avenue was only thirty meters, and it was too narrow for the large troops of such a scale to march. The frightened horses made the neat coalition forces collided with each other, and the team was in chaos.
The elite general of Wan Qing was quite quick to react. Because the distance between the soldiers of the army was narrow, there was no time to turn around and escape, and it was unrealistic to put out the fire. The only way to survive was to rush forward. As long as you rush through the area covered by firewood, you naturally don’t need to be afraid of fire attacks. General Wan Qing immediately shouted loudly to order the troops to charge forward with all their might.
However, the Wanqing army was in chaos at this time, and many soldiers were knocked down by the frightened horses. The frightened horses ran and bumped around, which made the war horses that could barely remain stable immediately unable to maintain their formation. The soldiers who were falling off immediately caught fire and were then kicked and trampled by the war horses. A large number of war horses were burned by the fire, and some war horses fell to the ground, blocking the way forward of the war horses behind them.