Outside the city of Hezhou, the extremely boring horn horn suddenly started to sound again.
Beidi infantry wearing animal robes and armor, marching in phalanx, accompanied by the command of each Di captain, set up the city ladder and gradually approached the city gate.
The goshawks flying in the sky began to swoop down towards the city head with the sound of long whistles.
"Drive them away with torches. The remaining people should immediately protect their eyes!" Lian Yong shouted immediately.
On the top of the city, countless halberds were wrapped in fire cloth, and they were constantly burning toward the flying eagles.
Xu Mu gritted his teeth and stared straight ahead.
Beside him, two or three goshawks flew towards him, and Si Hu slapped them with his palms, causing their feathers to fly away.
"Brother Mu, these eagles are useless."
"it works."
Xu Mu took a deep breath. The so-called goshawk was nothing more than seizing air supremacy and deceiving others. As Xu Mu expected, before the goshawk could escape, the Di people's infantry below were already approaching the city.
There is only a dry moat left from the city's ancient walls.
"Lean over!" several generals shouted in surprise.
As soon as the sound fell, and as the defenders on the city head lowered their heads, there was a burst of fire and rocks, roaring past from the sky.
Densely packed flying arrows were also thrown down, covering the sky and the sun, and Di Gou's cheers roared crazily from a distance.
Hiding under the female wall, no one dared to move. What these goshawks, slinging stones, and those densely packed flying arrows did was nothing more than push the siege equipment under the city wall, allowing the infantry phalanx to approach the city gate.
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"Kick the rocks out for me!" a commanding general said through clenched teeth.
In the open space near the city gate, five catapults were waiting in full formation. Not to be outdone, they filled up the fire and collapsed rocks and roared towards the outside of the city.
Vaguely, Xu Mu could hear the screams of the Qingbeidi people.
As if to relieve their anger, the catapults on both sides threw fire and rocks at each other desperately, dragging out streaks of smoke, and thick smoke enveloped the entire sky.
This type of fighting with cold weapons has always been a matter of life and death.
On top of the city, even if they took shelter on the female wall, there were still many unlucky people who were either shattered to pieces when the fire and rocks fell on them, or were burned by the fire and jumped off the city wall.
All around, one could see clearly filled with gunpowder smoke and corpses lying in robes.
The horn horn outside the city suddenly changed to a long and aggressive tone. The roaring catapult also stopped making noise for a moment.
Xu Mu knew that at this moment, the Beidi people were already approaching the city gate.
"Climb the city -" a Beidi Duhou, riding his horse across the moat, raised his scimitar and shouted.
The Beidi infantry carrying the city ladder roared forward and rushed forward.
A huge ladder truck ran over the simple bridge built and pressed under the city gate.
"rise!"
The veteran general Lian Yong's beard and hair grew wild, and after roaring angrily, the countless defenders who had been hiding behind the female wall also stood up coldly.
"Pull the strings full!"
"call."
Thousands of city garrison troops filled the city walls of Hezhou. Listening to Lian Yong's order, they all raised their bows and fired at the city gates.
The first group of Beidi people who rushed forward suffered heavy casualties immediately.
"Diaozaki!"
The Yaksha Lei, which was full of thorns from the wolf fangs, suddenly rolled down when the man behind him suddenly let go.
They crushed the city ladder and killed many Beidi people who climbed to the city.
"Pour the fire oil!"
Jars of kerosene were dripping down the city wall. Hidden archers used kerosene arrows to ignite the flames, and the sky was filled with fire, which immediately started burning.
Three or four teams of Beidi people, carrying mud-covered curtains, quickly approached the city wall and quickly wiped out the fire.
"How can these Beidi dogs be so powerful?" Even Si Hu couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Mu also frowned. It must be said that this generation of Beidi Khan was indeed a tycoon and had absorbed many offensive and defensive methods from the Central Plains.
The most basic strategy has always been to block the enemy with troops and to cover it with water and soil.
"Shoot them to death!" Yu Wen was furious. He commanded the bows beside him and threw the flying arrows into the sky, forming a dense rain of arrows and killing most of the groups of Di people fighting the fire.
"Fire barrel! Throw the fire barrel now!"
The fire barrels filled with fire and broken rocks roared and rolled down from the top of the city. Fortunately, two or three of them rolled down to Beidi's infantry phalanx, which exploded all of a sudden.
The fire started in layers, and it didn't take long before it rolled into a small sea of flames.
"The injured are leaving the city! The third battalion of Yuzhou is going to the top of the city immediately!"
Groups of reserve defenders showed no signs of panic on their faces and roared towards the city to die.
"Be careful that Digou gets there first——"
Lian Yong raised his knife and chopped the body of a Di man who had climbed into the city, blood splattered all over his body.
"Exchange your bow for a long halberd, and knock over Di Gou's city ladder."
The halberds stabbed the Beidi soldiers who climbed up first, killing them and rolling them down.
Xu Mu could clearly see that there were corpses everywhere under the city ravine at this time, like a purgatory on earth.
"General, Di Gou's ladder is close to the city wall!"
Hearing this sentence, Xu Mu's face became darker and darker.
In ancient ladder trucks, the ladder body was a folding structure connected by rotating shafts. The main ladder stopped under the city, and the auxiliary ladder went up the city. In this way, the danger of erecting ladders in front of the city was reduced.
Before the advent of fire barrel-type pipe guns, the ladder was almost the overlord of the siege party, and it must be used to its fullest extent.
"Climb the wall!"
The ladder truck stopped at an extremely tricky angle on the city wall. Then, countless Beidi people held up their leather shields and roared as they climbed up the ladder and jumped to the top of the city.
Many defenders at the top of the city wanted to shoot kerosene arrows at the ladder truck.
Unexpectedly, a huge bamboo shield coated with mud was raised to protect the entire ladder truck.
Neither ordinary arrows nor kerosene arrows can penetrate it. But if you throw flint stones directly, where will the strength come from.
"Si Hu, go get the flying musket."
Xu Mu was a little lucky that he had used some flint-breaking stones to prepare a killing weapon in advance.
Hearing Xu Mu's words, Si Hu suddenly became happy and ran down the city wall in a hurry. After a while, he carried four or five iron guns on his back and walked up again.
These iron guns were all tied with a thin bamboo tube. In the bamboo tube, there was not only gunpowder taken from the flint stone, but also iron fragments, arsenic and other things were added according to Xu Mu's wishes.
When lit, have Si Hu throw it directly towards the target.
Even if the target is farther away, with Si Hu's strength, he should be able to hit it. Of course, the accuracy can only be prayed for.
"Brother Mu, please see clearly."
Si Hu laughed innocently, grabbed an iron gun, and threw it forward with a muffled sound.
The ladder truck missed, but instead hit a Di people's phalanx hundreds of steps away. After more than a dozen people were killed, they yelled and cursed their mothers.
Xu Mu hesitated for a while, wondering whether to switch to Chang Wei.
"Brother Mu, look again!"
Si Hu also lost his temper, grabbed two flying muskets, and roared in the direction of the ladder truck.
In front of Xu Mu, the arrogant ladder car, the overlord of the city siege, first had its protective bamboo shield exploded, and then, a corner of the side body of the car collapsed and was on the verge of crumbling.
On the ladder truck, the faces of many Beidi people who were still jumping into the city with knives in their mouths turned pale in an instant.