On the top of the inner city, the commander of the first 30,000 Yuan troops to resist was Ma Yan, the general under Yuan Shao. Ma Yan stood on the city wall with two layers of iron shields on his head, braved the rain of arrows, and loudly commanded the seemingly panicked Yuan Jun: "Hurry! The sword and shield raised the shield in front of his hand, and the spearman was ready to poke the Yan army's ladder over! Quick! Quick!!"

After Ma Yan's repeated shouts and shouts, the panicked Yuan Jun began to gradually restore order. Ten thousand swords, shields and hands raised their shields and formed a connected shield array on the top of the city, effectively resisting the arrows of Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu; at the same time, ten thousand spearmen stepped forward and stabbed them with their spears to the top of the ladder that emerged on the city wall.

Punching over the ladder with a long spear was a common method for the defense in ancient times. Ao Lie was prepared for this. When he asked the craftsmen who were in charge to make the ladder, he proposed a little innovation. At the top of the ladder, three upper, middle and lower barbs were set up, with each barb being five feet apart, so as to avoid the ladder being overturned by the enemy in the siege, thereby reducing the damage in the battle.

The barbs installed at the top of the ladder are shaped like eagle claws. Each barb has three barbs. Once they are placed on the city wall, these barbs will firmly grasp the city wall and will not be easily overturned by the enemy's spearmen. The reason why three barbs are equipped is to adapt to walls of different heights. For a low city wall like New Hanoi City in front of you, you can only use the row of barbs on the bottom layer of the ladder.

Yuan Jun's spearmen stabbed several times one after another, but the Yan army's ladder was not overturned as they imagined, and was still steadily on the city wall. This accident was far beyond Yuan Jun's expectations. Ma Yan observed carefully and then discovered the difference between the Yan army's ladder. It was the row of barbs at the bottom of the ladder that the Yan army could make the ladder as stable as Mount Tai.

Immediately, Ma Yan shouted loudly: "College knife hand comes forward. Chop off the barbs on the Yan army's cloud ladder!" The last ten thousand Yuan soldiers agreed, strode forward, waved the heavy mountain knife in their hands, and chopped down hard on the ladder. The so-called school knife hand is the infantry holding the mountain knife. The weapons in their hands are similar to those of later generations, and the blade is not bent. It is much wider than ordinary battle knives, and is most suitable for chopping.

While Yuan's military academy's knife hands were struggling to chop the cloud ladder, Zhang Xiu on the outer city became anxious. He knew that the barbs installed on the cloud ladder only played the role of stabilizing the cloud ladder, and it was not very solid in itself. He could not resist the fierce chops and slashes of Yuan's knife hands. "Concentrate the firepower and shoot the school knife hands hard!" Zhang Xiu shouted loudly to the crossbowman behind him.

Ten thousand Yan army crossbowmen immediately bent their bows and arrows, shooting towards the school knife hands that were half exposed under Yuan Junshi. The rain of arrows in the sky once again cut through the sky and fell towards the city of the inner city like a tide. The Yuan army knife hands, who were only concerned about slashing, immediately suffered a large number of casualties. Nearly a thousand people were hit by the vital points, and the mountain knife in their hands fell off their hands and fell to the ground with a bang. Then, their bodies fell weakly to the ground, becoming an obstacle to the feet of the later generations.

"Don't be afraid! Don't stop! Continue to chop! Otherwise, let the Yan army attack the city and we will all die!" Ma Yan shouted at the top of his lungs. Under Ma Yan's guidance, the morale of the school knifemen was driven. He felt a little straight, and he gritted his teeth and poked out his body huddled under the shield formation, raised the mountain knife in his hand, and chopped down the barb on the ladder.

The arrow rain in Zhang Xiu's troops did not stop, and the target was the school knife hands that were struggling to chop the cloud ladder; and the Yuan army's knife hands did not stop, and under Ma Yan's shouting, they completely ignored their own safety. They chopped the Yan army's ladder one after another.

Finally, with the efforts of the Yuan Military Academy's knifemen, the barb of the first ladder was cut off. The Yuan army's spearmen who had already been waiting beside him saw it clearly. He immediately stepped forward, and a team of ten people raised their spears at the same time, shouted, and stabbed them at the top of the ladder with all their strength.

With a thud, the top of the ladder immediately appeared with the joint cooperation of the spearmen, and it expanded rapidly. Finally, with a crack sound, the top of the ladder separated from the entire ladder, losing the fulcrum at the top. The ladder began to tilt slowly backwards, and became faster and faster, and finally inevitably fell backwards with a roar. On this ladder, dozens of elite Qilin Army soldiers were climbing hard. After feeling the tilt of the ladder, they immediately knew that something was wrong. Although the walls of the inner city were low, they were three feet high. If they fell from such a height, with the physical fitness of the Qilin Army, they would also be seriously injured. They were not afraid of being injured or even death, but they were afraid of losing the opportunity to siege this time. After training for so long, they had to give up halfway. This made the hearts of the dozens of Qilin Army soldiers who fell with the ladder were filled with humiliation and unwillingness.

Under whom, dozens of Qilin soldiers who were about to be thrown off the city wall ignored the threat of serious injuries or even death, and looked firmly at the city wall that was getting farther and farther away from them. No one made a cry for help, but shouted in a sonorous and powerful voice: "The courage of Qilin, I am invincible!" They used this method to vent the complex emotions in their hearts, and at the same time inspiring other Qilin elites to move forward bravely and never give up!

Plop - In the end, the tilted ladder collided with the hard ground. Dozens of Qilin soldiers were shocked and injured without exception. More than a dozen elite soldiers spit out blood in their mouths, and their eyes began to dissipate firmly. At this moment, their lives bravely came to an end. But more people barely got up from the ground, spit out several large mouthfuls of blood, and then continued to join the siege of the city.

Gan Ning, who was in the middle of another ladder, witnessed this tragic scene with his own eyes. His eyes instantly turned blood red, and endless murderous intent shot out from his bloodthirsty eyes. "Aim at the wrist of the knife clerk, crossbow strike!" Gan Ning tried his best and shouted to his subordinates.

Because Yuan Jun's school knife hands were all huddled inside the walls of the inner city, and only one arm was poked out to chop the ladder, Gan Ning had been enduring it and did not let the elite Qilin Army shoot with the Xizi crossbow on his arm. You must know that in order not to affect the sergeant's waving movement, this kind of crossbow with rings was very small and could only accommodate three crossbow arrows. Gan Ning was originally planning to climb to the top of the city and use his crossbow to clear out a foothold, but now, seeing the casualties of his subordinates, Gan Ning was angry and no longer cared about anything else, so he immediately issued a crossbow order.

Peng Peng Peng—

A wave of vibrating crossbows sounded, and the Kirin elites climbed upwards and aimed at the target and issued the first crossbow arrow in the crossbow. Don’t think that the Kirin army is a naval army, and their crossbow shooting skills and accuracy are not good. On the contrary, in water battles, crossbows are often conventional weapons to launch the first wave of attacks. Therefore, under the deliberate training of Gan Ning, the Kirin elites’ shooting skills have the accuracy that is no less than the other three land combat elites such as the Blood Killing Army.

The next moment, the pain of the school knife hands immediately sounded on the inner city walls. Hundreds of school knife hands were shot through their wrists, and the mountain knife fell to the ground, covering their wrists and howled in pain. Some more, their fingers were shot off by the flying crossbow arrow. As the saying goes, ten fingers are connected to the heart, and a few fingers may not have much impact on their future lives, but at present, the heart-wrenching pain is not something they can bear. Their screams are the most tragic among the hundreds of school knife hands that were shot by the arrow.

The battle began to become fierce at the beginning. The city and the city wanted to tear each other apart. A battle with life and courage became more and more intense. The Qilin Army gradually approached the city wall under the cover of the crossbowmen behind and on the outer wall, and at the same time entered the most dangerous area. At this time, the Yuan army on the city wall could already stab down with long spears to directly kill the elite Qilin Army. Every step forward in the Qilin Army had to pay the price of bleeding. At this moment, the Qilin Army had more than 3,000 people could no longer gallop across rivers, lakes and seas. Similarly, the Yuan army's combat losses were higher than that of the Qilin Army. Under the attack of Ganning, Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu, the 30,000 Yuan army on the top of the city was now less than 20,000.

It was about to approach the city wall, but the ladder where Gan Ning was located was cut off at this critical moment, and then it was overturned by Yuan Jun's spearmen and tilted backwards. Gan Ning was calm in the face of danger, letting his hands loosen the ladder, kicking hard under his feet, and using the reaction force to fly away from the falling ladder and landing towards the inner city wall. In the air, Gan Ning copied back with both hands and held the Qingtian double halberd behind him in his hand. In the middle, he raised his left hand first and inserted it hard towards the city wall. The sharp halberd tip was easily inserted into the city wall like cutting tofu. Gan Ning stopped his falling body and hung it on the city wall. Then, Gan Ning raised his right hand and inserted it one foot above the left hand halberd, then pulled out the left hand halberd, and then inserted it above the right hand halberd. With such a staggered hand, Gan Ning was the first to climb to the top of the inner city in a brave manner!

Seeing his commander climbing the city alone, the remaining more than 17,000 Qilin troops accelerated their speed and climbed up with both hands and feet. Some Qilin troops who were approaching the city were pulled out the slashing sabre behind their backhand with their right hand, and maintained their body upward movements with their left hand and feet. At the same time, they waved the sabre and chopped the tip of the spear that stabbed down from the city.

The Qilin Army has excellent physical fitness and has been training in the water all year round to create their physical coordination. However, the foothold under their feet is the cloud ladder, which cannot fully exert force, which greatly reduces their combat effectiveness. Moreover, they attack from bottom to top. However, the Yuan army has a condescending advantage. As one goes up and down, the Qilin Army cannot display their abilities at all. From time to time, someone is stabbed by Yuan Jun's spearmen. From the top of the cloud ladder, he falls to the ground with a gust of wind.

However, in the face of death, no one retreated in such a difficult situation. When the people in front fell, the later generations immediately filled the gap and climbed towards the city with sacrificing their lives. Their eyes were full of perseverance!

On the exterior wall, watching the elite Qilin Army fight tenaciously, Zhou Yu sincerely exclaimed: "The Qilin Army is really an army that cannot be defeated or dragged down. The flag of the Qilin Army will never be erased!"
Chapter completed!