Because unlike in the daytime, you can still think of ways to avoid the flying arrows, but this is a blind light, and the arrows don’t have eyes, so they only matter where they hit.
If you are unlucky and happen to be hit by an arrow, you can only blame your own bad luck.
Of course, the same is true for the soldiers guarding the city. They can only shoot blindly. Whether they can hit their opponents depends entirely on God's will.
Of the 800 Wei troops, only 700 were guarding the city at the top of the city, and another 100 were at the bottom of the city within the gate. They were to prevent the city from being breached and could also become the last line of defense.
Of these seven hundred people, half were responsible for firing arrows at the Shu army, while the other half were busy preparing rolling logs and rocks to wait for the Shu army to approach the city wall.
Before the soldiers from both sides got close, people kept falling to the ground, whether on the city tower or in the wilderness outside the city.
Wails and roars came and went.
The arrows were shot indiscriminately, and many Han soldiers were hit by arrows, but most of them were shot in non-fatal places, but this was their first time participating in a battle.
The Shu army was still a little flustered.
Whenever a comrade falls to the ground next to him, the heartbeats of the soldiers next to him will speed up, and they themselves can hear their own heartbeats.
But this is a battlefield, and they have no option to retreat. They can't retreat, they can only move forward desperately.
"Kill!"
"Ah!"
"Roar!"
Crying to kill, roaring, roaring, perhaps this is the only way to release the fear of death in their hearts at this moment.
As more and more companions fell, the fear that was there before was soon covered up by anger.
I want to live!
Only kill the enemy.
Kill!
Kill!
The soldiers constantly remind themselves that the only way to survive is to defeat the enemy in front of them.
Not long after, the Han army gradually reached the base of the city wall.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The long rope was thrown to the high city head by inertia, and then clenched with the iron hook to chop into the city wall.
This is the equipment that every soldier in the Han army has. This is also a skill they have trained for more than a year, and it is the equipment used for rock climbing.
Iron hooks were constantly being thrown up to the top of the city, and some hooks directly hit the Wei army on the city, or directly hooked the Wei army.
However, the Han troops under the city couldn't care whether they hooked people or city walls. Once they felt that the other end of the rope had hooked something, they would pull it.
If he hooks the Wei army and pulls hard, the soldier will soon be dragged off the top of the city, and then either hit hard on the ground, or directly on the Han army below the city.
Whether they hit the ground or the Han soldiers, there was only one result waiting for them - death.
Or fall to death.
Or he would be hacked to death by the nearby Han army.
Of course, if it hits the Han army, the people hit will be hit so hard that some will be seriously injured, and some will be killed on the spot.
The Han army was close to the base of the city wall, and the Wei army's rolling logs and stones fell down one after another from the tower.
As soon as these people rushed to the base of the city wall and the ropes in their hands were fixed, they were hit by rolling logs and stones thrown from above, causing them to fall over and screams could be heard everywhere.
Of course there are lucky people.
Neither the rolling logs, rocks nor the Wei troops flying down from the air hit them, so they could take advantage of the situation and use the rope to climb to the top of the city.
However, the Wei troops on the city tower were naturally not just decorations. When they saw an iron hook hanging on the city wall, they either raised their swords and cut the rope, or waited until the Han troops just poked their heads out from the edge of the city wall, waiting for their swords to be used.
He greeted me.
After finally climbing to the top of the city, one Han army might have to face three or four or five Wei troops, and almost no one was spared. The Han troops who first climbed to the top of the city all died for their country.
They sacrificed their lives, but bought a lot of time for their companions who followed.
Although the Wuguan defenders were stubborn, their numbers were still too small. After a fierce attack by the Han army regardless of the cost, the Wei army's decline was fully evident.
At the same time, those Han troops approaching the city wall along the mountain faced an excellent opportunity.
Because after a period of fighting, the Wei army did not even notice that there were 500 Han troops holding long ladders on both sides of the mountains.
This is also the strategy Yang Tongshan set early in the morning.
Trebuchets and large troops attacked head-on, drawing all the defenders' attention to the city gate, which was in the middle.
When the Wei army was attracted, the five hundred people took the opportunity to climb up the tower from both sides by relying on long ladders.
Faced with more than 4,000 people taking turns to attack, there were only more than 700 Wei troops on the tower. Their troops were originally very small, and they encountered such constant attacks from the Han army.
Only half an hour passed, and the Wei army guarding the city was reduced to four to five hundred people, but the barrier was several hundred meters long.
In addition, during this period, the Han army mainly attacked the gate position, and gaps were quickly exposed on both sides. Although Yang Lipu also arranged some soldiers to defend here, as time went by, the battle above the gate became tense.
The soldiers who originally defended both sides were constantly being deployed to defend above the gate, which gave the five hundred Han troops who had been hiding under the shade of the trees with long ladders an opportunity to attack.
Wuguan City is thirty meters high, and the long ladders of the Han army were made according to this height. When the long ladders were constantly erected at the top of the city, it frightened the few Wei army guards on both sides.
Whenever the long ladders made a snapping sound, they rushed over and used wooden forks to overturn the long ladders.
But their number is too small now, and the number of long ladders is increasing. They can't push them all even if they want to push them. As soon as the one here is overturned, several long ladders appear on the other side.
After a while, the Han army climbed up the long ladder to the top of Wuguan City. When they came up, they started a desperate fight with the Wei army on the city.
As more and more Han troops boarded the tower, the towers on both sides of Wuguan were occupied by Han troops. Then more Han troops rushed to both sides and climbed up the Wuguan tower via long ladders.
There were still three to four hundred Wei troops left above the gate. Facing more and more Han troops, they had no time to throw rolling logs and rocks, nor did they have time to fire arrows at the Han troops outside the city.
They need to quickly knock down the Han troops on both sides of the city tower, otherwise the pressure on them will increase and it will only be a matter of time before the city is broken.
However, without the arrows and the attacks of rolling logs and rocks, the Han army who climbed the city with ropes would have an easier time.
Moreover, most of the Han troops who had already boarded the tower stayed on the tower to fight hand-to-hand with the Wei army, while some of them separated and used ropes to quickly slide into Wuguan City.
There were only a hundred Wei soldiers guarding the city. Facing the wolf-like and tiger-like Han army, they were exhausted. After less than half an hour, all the Wei soldiers in the city were killed by the Han army.
After getting rid of the Wei army in the city, the Han army sergeants rushed over and opened the closed Wuguan city gate. The Han soldiers who were still attacking the city outside the city suddenly poured into Wuguan city like a tide.
As more and more Han troops entered the city, the only two to three hundred Wei troops remaining on the tower were soon outnumbered and were either killed or chose to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Han troops.