Chapter 69 Siege
Chen Li returned to the mansion, summoned all the members of the "wolf pack" and granted them the token, allowing them to lurk in important places day and night, and if they find a rebel, they will behead them immediately.
He believed that with the loyalty and skills of these people, it was more than enough to deal with the rebels.
After handling the reported matter, he personally filled his BMW with forage and drinking water, prepared a piece of armor, and then sat in front of a large whetstone to sharpen his knife.
He is not used to letting his servants maintain the weapons he uses. Only when he does these things himself can he feel fulfilled in holding the power of life and death.
As soon as dawn, the guards came to report that the enemy had made moves and were preparing to attack the city.
Chen Li hurriedly climbed the city wall and looked at the enemy troops slowly walking towards the distance.
Soon, the dark Wu Jun held the shield and a long sword in his hand, took neat steps, shouted slogans, and stopped at a thousand steps below the city.
Suddenly, countless flags under Nanchang City fluttered in the wind, just like the waves of the sea kept surging. Tens of thousands of soldiers held swords and guns in their hands. The shining light made people's eyes hurt. The huge horns were raised to the sky, blowing together, destroying people's hearts. The snare drums on the high ground slowly pounded, and the dull sound was majestic.
This shocking momentum contains a murderous aura. The new recruits watching the city have never seen such a scene, and some people are shaking their calves.
After a while, hundreds of ladders were placed at the feet of the first row of soldiers, followed by dozens of large trenchers, and behind them was a row of crossbows, with one-meter-long crossbow arrows already bored.
Just looking at these powerful weapons, you can tell that Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to win this time and wanted to win Nanchang City as quickly as possible.
A loud soldier ran to the city wall on a horse and raised his head and said loudly: "Listen to the city, the King of Wu is about to attack the city, with no eyes and no sharp swords, and it is still too late to open the city and surrender. You all saw that the King of Wu led a 500,000 army to siege the city, how can the small Nanchang City resist our army's charge? If we resist stubbornly, there is only a dead end."
He pulled his horse around the city, shouting three times before going back.
Chen Li couldn't help laughing as he looked at it. The ancients were really interesting to fight. They were about to start and they were talking nonsense. Otherwise, they would destroy their majesty first.
He was too lazy to respond and said to He Yanjiang beside him: "Xiao He, let this kid make a fool of himself, then, kill him if he doesn't like him."
He Yanjiang bent his bow in his hand and aimed at him. When he saw the shouting man about to run out five hundred steps, he shot his arrow with a "swoosh!"
With a whistling arrow, it shot on the horse's head. The horse neighed miserably, rushed forward five feet away and fell head-on. The soldiers riding and shouting at the horse immediately got out of the horse.
The soldier got up from the ground in a mess, limped, and fled to his team as fast as possible.
A shot hit by an arrow at a distance of 500 steps was indeed rare. The defenders on the city couldn't help but shout: "You can shoot well, and you'll have another arrow."
It won’t work anymore. This is already the farthest distance that the strongest bow and arrow can shoot. If it is farther away, there will be no accurate head and the arrows shot will be weak.
Xu Da stood on the platform and looked at the horses who were shot to the ground. Not only was he secretly shocked, but he was a rare archer in the world, and even Chang Yuchun might not have such accuracy.
He looked at the timing drip and said to the military drummer beside him: "Beat the drum."
The drummer standing by the drum had already rolled up his sleeves and held the drumsticks. As soon as Xu Da's voice fell, he stepped forward to the snare drum that was on a high place, and began to hit hard. As the drum sounded, dozens of painted corners were blown, and the sound of "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
After the attack signal sounded, those crossbows that had been ready to stop began to fire crossbow arrows.
These super bed crossbows are really terrifying. The sound of huge arrows it emits is amazing. You can hear them fifty steps away. How amazing is dozens of fire together?
The giant arrows that were whistling away accurately hit the city wall. Several stupid soldiers were shot and flew far away, without even screaming.
Some of them were shot on the battlements, which made the battlements almost collapsed. The soldiers on the city were frightened by such a giant arrow that they had never seen before, and they were all huddled behind the city wall and shivered.
This giant arrow is not only unprecedented in power, but also has a short loading time. In just a short while, the second wave of giant arrows shot towards the city. Several large flags on the city were shot down on the spot. The soldiers holding the flag were so scared that they hurriedly helped up half of the flagpole, huddled behind the battlements and stood with both hands.
If the priest flag in the army cannot be erected, they will be a death sentence, because the flag is a symbol of the army and it cannot fall down no matter what.
After several rounds of giant arrows shot, the siegeman, who had already been on standby, shouted, and several people held long swords in one hand and dragged a ladder in the other to rush down the city.
The giant arrows were still firing, and the siege soldiers under the city had already pounced under the city wall. They quickly put the ladder on the high city. At the same time, the catapults following the siege soldiers were slowly pushed to a distance of 500 steps.
The round stone as big as a human head was launched from the catapult to the top of the city. The flying stones that had already been considered far away fell on the city like raindrops. The soldiers who were hit were seriously injured even if they were not killed. Some of the flying stones that fell into the city hit the prepared soldiers. For a moment, screams came and went one after another.
The ancients were really thief. They not only threw round stones, but also fired some warm stones in it. Although the small stones were much less fatal, they were large in number and could even hurt people if they fell from the air.
Although the giant arrow shot from the crossbow stopped, the fireballs emitted by the catapult fell everywhere, and some things were ignited and fire was everywhere.
Although the ancients did not have long spears and cannons, the destructive power of this large cold weapon was also amazing.
As soon as the long-distance attack weapon stopped, the Wu soldiers were almost climbing to the top of the city with their shields.
Zhang Bixian suddenly stood up from behind the city wall and shouted: "Give me a fierce fight back."
The defenders on the city stood up from behind the city wall, raised the stones under their feet, and hit the Wu army on the ladder.
Although many Wu Jun who were about to climb up protected their heads with shields, they could not bear it even if they were hit by stones. With the screams, the top fell down and hit the people below. From top to bottom, almost none of them survived and all rolled down.
The defenders on the city either used stones, bows and arrows, or rolling wood to slaughter the Wu army that was sieging the city. Some used long spears to stab the enemy troops that were about to climb up, some grabbed the top of the ladder and tried their best to lift the ladder, and some scooped up the hot water and poured it down.
Chapter completed!