The enemy abandoned their horses in order to attack the city. Unexpectedly, they sent cavalry into the city.
The infantry basically had no resistance against the cavalry. Coupled with the covering fire of the crossbowmen on the city wall, the first group of enemy troops that rushed to the city suffered a devastating blow and suffered heavy casualties.
However, the enemy did not retreat because of this. On the contrary, it aroused ferocity. The soldiers behind even gave up the cover of the bulldozers and rushed out directly.
After fighting for such a long time, the two sides have never had a close confrontation. They have been in a situation of being beaten and unable to fight back, and they have long been exhausted.
Now it is rare to have such an opportunity to fight at close range, and the enemy troops swarm forward like crazy.
In hand-to-hand combat, the strong fighting power of the grassland people was immediately revealed. Even in the face of the impact of the cavalry, they still did not flinch, and even jumped up to try to pull the cavalry off their horses.
However, they soon realized the power of advanced weapons. As long as the enemy did not have a heavy wooden shield, the cavalry held black steel knives, and coupled with the impact of the horses, they could easily split a person into two pieces.
For a moment, broken limbs and broken arms were flying under the city wall, blood spurted out, and both sides were killing each other like crazy.
Soon, intensive gongs sounded on the city wall. The cavalry troops rushed out from the left side gate, fought a bloody path in front of the city wall, and then withdrew from the right side gate.
The enemy still wanted to pursue, but was met with an overwhelming rain of arrows, and could only watch helplessly as the enemy retreated back into the city.
This short charge lasted only a few minutes from start to finish. Just when Aguta was furious and wanted to send more troops to attack the city, a group of cavalry appeared from behind and charged over fiercely.
This forced him to suspend his plan to send more troops to attack the city. After all, the 30,000 cavalrymen of Essien outside were the main target.
He had always believed that the 30,000-strong army was always wandering nearby. Except for the last night attack, it finally appeared again today.
Relatively speaking, the Fucha Department naturally gives priority to targeting the Essien Department. As long as there is an opportunity to weaken the Essien Department, the Fucha Department will naturally not let it go easily.
If it could replace the Essin tribe, the Fucha tribe would be the master of the grassland, which would be much more cost-effective than attacking Dasheng.
However, when Agutu mobilized his army to fight, he found that the opponent only made a false shot, shot a few rounds of arrows, then circled and ran away.
Although Agutu sent troops to chase after him, he still began to have doubts. Whether it was the last night attack or this raid, if a fight really broke out, he would definitely suffer heavy losses, but the other party missed such a good opportunity twice in a row.
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This is obviously unreasonable.
Last time it was dark, so I couldn't tell how many people there were on the other side, but I guess it wasn't too many. But in this raid, any veteran with more experience could tell that it was about three thousand.
Why are there only 3,000 people left out of 30,000 people?
Did you deliberately send only 3,000 men to fight in order to lure me into a trap?
Or?
"hiss……"
Aguta suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.
If Essien's cavalry had only been these three thousand since the beginning of the siege, where had the other cavalry gone?
It has been more than ten days since the siege began. If the Essien cavalry detours and goes straight to the Fucha tribe's lair...
Agutu shook his head, as if to get rid of this terrible thought. If the Essien tribe really took a detour and stole the house, I am afraid they would have gone on a killing spree by now.
Although there are still defenders in the Fucha tribe, their combat effectiveness can only be considered average. Facing the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Essien tribe, it is hard to say whether they can defend the city.
However, guesses are just guesses. The Essien tribe only sent 3,000 men to fight every time. Another possibility was that they wanted to lure themselves into a trap. Once they pursued the enemy impulsively, they might fall into a trap.
After much thought, Aguta decided to attack the city.
As long as I continue to attack the city, I am not afraid that you will not come out.
If Essien's cavalry retreats, he can kill the Dasheng soldiers in front of him and return to support without worrying about being attacked from the front or back.
So the army continued to attack the city.
For just a moment, the soldiers in Tucheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang Xuan counted the cavalry that went into battle. In just a short period of time, more than thirty people were killed and nearly a hundred were injured.
He knew that it was a point of close combat and that death and injury were inevitable, so he suppressed the unbearable feeling in his heart and continued to supervise the battle.
Digging a hole is a good method, but it is just a surprise. Once the enemy fights head-on, it will have little effect.
Mainly relying on the new weapons to enhance the combat effectiveness of the sergeants, they can persist until now.
Calculating the time, it has been eighteen days since we set off from Durm. According to the distance, the fight should have started. It won't be long before the news that the nest was stolen will probably spread.
Besides, there were only 3,000 Essien cavalrymen in both attacks, so no matter how stupid Aguta was, he should have seen some clues.
Therefore, you should think of ways to contain the other party now.
As for how to contain it?
Yang Xuan had already thought of a plan.
Seeing the enemy attack again, Yang Xuan was forced to defend, but while defending, he slowly began to let go.
The trebuchet no longer throws stone projectiles, but throws some random things, even directly throws dirt.
This can create the illusion that they are about to run out of ammunition and food.
The defense intensity weakened, and the enemy's return artillery took the opportunity to move forward. After a few rounds of attacks, most of the trebuchets on the city head were destroyed, and the remaining trebuchets stopped firing. It seemed that the Tucheng had abandoned the city wall.
Defense.
Aguta was overjoyed when he saw that the city was about to be breached, and once again increased the intensity of the attack. Without defense, the soldiers swarmed up and chipped away at the wall.
After digging for a while, I finally remembered that the pit was dug outside, so the inside should be higher than the outside. This kind of digging is equivalent to digging a tunnel.
They quickly filled up the soil and built a ladder, but as soon as they climbed up the city wall, they were shot down by a hail of arrows.
But even so, they still climbed up like crazy.
Some of the soldiers who were shot down survived, and the last news given was that there were still about 5,000 people inside.
After receiving the news, Aguta smiled proudly and ordered to strengthen the attack again.
In his opinion, this is already the last struggle in Tucheng.
As long as the Tucheng is captured, even if Essien's cavalry attacks, they can completely retreat into the Tucheng to defend, repair and then counterattack.
By this time the battle was going on and it was almost dark.
The reason why the enemy army saw only about 5,000 people was that Yang Xuan was already arranging the soldiers to retreat.
While it was dark, they withdrew from the other side of the city and built a defensive position outside the city, that is, dug a hole, to prevent the enemy's cavalry from pursuing them.
At this time, the city was still continuing to fight back. Not only were there crossbows, but trebuchets were also throwing mud and gravel intermittently to prevent the enemy from entering the city.
The Huihui artillery was already close to the city wall and fired. It is not known whether it hit or not, but there were obviously fewer and fewer trebuchets still firing in the city.
However, the stone bullets they shot in would soon be thrown out, causing considerable casualties to the soldiers gathered under the city wall.
Aguta simply ordered the Huihui artillery to stop attacking so as not to deliver ammunition to the opponent.
When the sky turned completely dark, Agu Tu had already climbed onto the city wall in person. At a glance, he saw that at the other end of the city, Dasheng soldiers were fighting and retreating, and finally withdrew from the city gate.
Aguta immediately ordered the cavalry to pursue them. On the grassland, how could two legs outrun four legs? When they withdrew from the city, it meant that they were dead. The only difference was the time.