The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 730 I Don't Believe in Xu Shiji, But I Believe in His Majesty
The continuous day-long offensive and defensive battle brought the offensive and defensive battle outside the Sui Army camp to an extremely bloody moment. More than 20 coalition soldiers took turns to launch fierce attacks on the Sui Army camp.The sound of horns, drums, arrows leaving the string, the sound of stones whistling, and the sound of killing resounded across the field. Arrows rained like locusts inside and outside the camp, weaving a rainstorm-like arrow net in the air.

The Sui army camp was condescending, making it difficult for coalition soldiers to attack. Only the slope about one mile wide in front was easy to attack, making this the main attack point of the coalition forces.

This section of the camp has been in a place of cruel fighting from the very beginning. Numerous ladders were erected on the two-foot-high wall. Soldiers from the coalition army were climbing on the board wall, fighting to the death with soldiers from the Sui army. Slashing with swords and stabbing with spears, soldiers continued to fall from the camp. The protracted war made it difficult to distinguish whether it was the soldiers of the coalition army or the soldiers of the Sui army.

On the inner side of the camp wall, the crossbowmen of the Sui army fired arrows from the arrow holes, overturning groups of allied soldiers who were rushing forward with rams on their backs.The protracted battle piled up the corpses of coalition soldiers outside the wall to a height of more than three feet, almost blocking the arrow holes.

Every time a soldier fell to the ground for the enemy and our masters, someone quickly stepped up. Zhang Zhenzhou stood on the lookout, watching the opponent's army indifferently. As the general of the three armies, Zhang Zhenzhou, who was at a high place, was naturally the easiest to attract firepower.The arrows that appeared from time to time almost passed close to his body, but he didn't even blink his eyes. More than a dozen personal guards stood in front of him with large shields, and arrows were thrown from time to time and were bounced off.

Even Feng An and Meng Haigong looked at the enemy general standing on the lookout like a javelin. Although he was protected by a shield, they had to admire his courage.

As time passed, the counterattack on the camp was gradually suppressed. After all, there was no room for many people in such a large space, and it took time to take over the defense and evacuate the wounded soldiers.

Seeing this, Feng An gave an order: "Archers and Jinglan chariots move forward! Sword and shield hands are behind to cover."

The sound of the rumbling drums changed immediately. When the drums gradually weakened, the main attacker began to move forward, and the archers no longer retreated after releasing their arrows. Immediately after they stepped forward to release arrows, the rain of arrows from the coalition forces gradually became more violent, and more and more Sui soldiers in the camp were injured.

Zhang Zhenzhou was not surprised but happy, and said sharply: "Let go!"

"crunch~"

Suddenly there was a tooth-piercing sound in the camp. Nearly a hundred catapults swung their long arms, and the overwhelming gravel was thrown out like a torrential rain. The fist-sized gravel had sharp tips The howling sound, carrying a terrifying power, slammed into the formation of the coalition army.

Although these crushed stones are not as shocking as a single boulder, the soldiers of the coalition army are densely populated, and the fist-sized stones have the power to penetrate the shield under the power of the catapult and the inertia of falling from the sky.

The moment the charging coalition soldiers fell with the crushed stones, they fell in pieces. Even the wooden shields that could defend against sharp arrows were crushed in an instant by the impact of the crushed stones; When it hits a person, it will immediately become a huge blood hole. Even if it does not hurt the vitals, it is enough to make people lose their combat effectiveness. When the soldiers of the coalition army keep pressing on, falling to the ground with serious injuries means being trampled into mud by one's own soldiers.

"Click"

"Ah~"

The fragile shield was smashed, and the archers and shieldmen behind the shield were smashed to pieces of flesh and blood by the stones, screaming horribly.With only a rain of gravel, the coalition formation in front of the camp was completely empty, and soldiers with broken limbs and arms could be seen everywhere. Some even had their internal organs blown out, and the entire battlefield instantly turned into a hell on earth.

"This..." Not only the coalition soldiers were frightened, but Zhang Zhenzhou was also shocked by this wave of blows.

In previous offensive and defensive battles, the catapults threw a large boulder, but Yang Tong changed this rule. Last year, when he and Du Fuwei fought against Li Mi’s army in Xiang’an County, Lujiang, they changed the boulder into gravel. , and achieved brilliant results; although Zhang Zhenzhou knew this style of play, it was the first time he saw the terrifying lethality produced by replacing the boulder with gravel. For a while, there was a brief silence inside and outside the camp.

"crunch~"

The dull creaking sound broke the short silence again, and the faces of the soldiers of the coalition army flashed a look of horror, and with the sound of a scream, another wave of stone rain hit the sky and covered the sky.

"Run." Someone roared angrily, he ignored the sound of the battle drums from the rear ordering to move forward, turned around and ran crazily.

On a Jinglan car used as a lookout, Feng An sneered with an ugly face: "The supervisory team will come forward to me. Anyone who escapes will be killed without mercy!"

"Here!" When Jing Lan got off the car, a ready-made supervisor roared, stepped forward and mercilessly beheaded the coalition soldiers who wanted to escape, causing the chaos to stop, and launched a more violent attack on the Sui army camp again. .

"The catapult continues to launch!" Zhang Zhenzhou roared excitedly. The morale of the enemy army has finally been suppressed for several days, and the next battle will definitely be much easier.

The strong method of killing deserters by the supervising team has existed since ancient times, but it can only achieve temporary results. If it kills too much, it will be backlashed, so it will not use the supervising team unless it is absolutely necessary.Now that the coalition forces have mobilized the supervising team, the next offensive and defensive battle will of course become more brutal.But as long as this wave of the most violent offensive is suppressed, the coalition soldiers can only retreat and regroup to fight again, and the coalition army is composed of a group of mobs. When their blood cools down, the sense of fear will begin to appear.

. . . . . . . . . .

"Brother Feng, what should we do now?" Meng Haigong watched his soldiers' morale continue to drop under the blows of catapults. But it was obvious that he was not working hard, and this situation made him very worried.

Feng Ang looked at the tall Jinglan cart in front of him and said: "Although the covering blow of the crushed stones thrown by the catapult is powerful, it is extremely slow to fill and cannot cause fatal damage to the Jinglan cart. It can speed up the Jinglan cart. Let the soldiers feel free to shoot arrows. At the same time, the lineup of soldiers attacking the battalion will be looser, and the losses will naturally be much smaller."

Now the drums of war change again.

The coalition soldiers began to change, and more than 30 well rail vehicles were pushed out.

These well fence carts are as high as three feet, much higher than the camp of the Sui Army's camp. Ten archers and more than 50 heavy soldiers, under the protection of the shield soldiers, desperately pushed the well rail, and slowly approached the Sui army camp.

"Strong crossbow throwing." Zuo Tiancheng, who was commanding in front, issued an order, and a puff of arrows burst out of the air immediately, pouring towards the Jinglan cart, but was blocked by the baffle on the Jinglan cart, and the falling arrows Most of it is also covered by the shield below.

The Jinglan car stopped about fifty steps in front of the camp, and the archers on it were condescending and rained arrows on the Sui soldiers on the camp wall.

The army also approached slowly, and under the protection of shields, groups of coalition soldiers rushed forward carrying bumpers, ready to hit the camp wall.

"Project fire oil."

Following Zuo Tiancheng's order, the catapult passed the clay pot filled with kerosene over the heads of the coalition forces, smashed into the crowd, and smashed into the Jinglan cart.

After the clay pot was shattered, rockets flew out one by one.Immediately, flames rose and thick smoke rose everywhere. Although the lethality of the fire was far less than that of stones, the panic it caused could damage the morale of the coalition forces and disrupt the rhythm of the coalition forces attacking the camp.Every time the flames shot up into the sky, the soldiers of the coalition army would run around shouting and yelling.There were also six well rails that were drenched in kerosene. When the rocket was nailed, the raging flames burned instantly, and soon turned into big fireballs. The archers on it ran down one after another. , jumped from the top, broke his hands and feet, and was soon engulfed by the fire on the ground.

At this time, a group of soldiers from the coalition rushed up carrying a ramming log. With a muffled sound, the camp wall shook violently, followed by a second violent collision, and finally a corner of the board wall collapsed, forming a two-foot-long wall. the gap.

Jiang Shanhe and Feng Zhidai Daxi, who were commanding the battle ahead, glanced at each other, and said loudly to Shanhe, "Go to the camp for me. The first one to enter the camp will be rewarded with 500 taels!"

There must be a brave man under the reward, and hundreds of coalition soldiers rushed to the gap frantically wielding swords.However, it is not a wide avenue to greet them, but a winding path, each path can only allow two people to pass, and the two sides are lined with sharp antlers buried deep in the ground. If you are careful, you will be hurt by the sharp thorns.Dozens of steps away, there is another camp wall as high as ten feet long.

When the coalition soldiers entered, they were able to maintain restraint at first and keep a certain distance from each other, but as more and more soldiers squeezed in, the space allowed for them to move became smaller and smaller. Under the crowding, They were all stabbed.

At this time, groups of Sui Army archers appeared on the second camp wall, holding a large crossbow, and they shot fiercely at the soldiers of the coalition army.

Although the range of the crossbow is not as good as that of the bow, as long as it is within the range, its power is unparalleled. The two-stone crossbow can penetrate heavy armor within [-] steps.With the firing of crossbow arrows one after another, the soldiers of the coalition army fell down in pieces, and their lives were harvested by the crossbowmen.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Sui army on both sides of the gap, led by two school lieutenants, swung their weapons and slashed wildly. The soldiers of the coalition army who poured in were bloody and bloody, killing hundreds of people in a row, and finally withstood the first wave. Attacking frantically, the two sides started a bloody fight before the gap. Sui soldiers on the camp wall threw down sandbags used to defend against rockets one by one, and filled up the two-foot-wide gap.

Zhang Zhenzhou, who was watching from behind, was very calm. There were still [-] soldiers in the barracks. As long as he commanded properly, he could rely on the barracks to resist the enemy's crazy attack. Although the enemy's army was twice as large as his own, his combat power was far inferior to his own. soldiers.

Seeing that the coalition forces in front of the battalion were once again in a dense state, they shouted: "Use gravel instead of catapults, and hit the enemy two hundred paces away."

The catapults of the Sui army had three scales. The range of the rocks was different when the arm was stopped within different scales. step range.

When the soldiers heard the order, they quickly adjusted their shooting range, and the overwhelming gravel was quickly thrown out. The gravel passed over the heads of the defenders and smashed towards the two hundred paces outside the camp.

This range is where the enemy army is densest. Tens of thousands of coalition soldiers held shields to resist the arrows, but they couldn't stop the rain of gravel from the air. As the stones fell in the air, the soldiers were smashed His bones were broken, his tendons were broken, and his flesh was bloody.

The coalition soldiers outside the camp suddenly became chaotic, turned around and fled one after another, and retreated like a tide. Without follow-up support, the soldiers who invaded the camp were difficult to maintain and were quickly wiped out.

Jiang Shanhe and Feng Zhidai yelled and cursed loudly, but they couldn't stop the defeated soldiers from retreating. Seeing the fierce attack of the enemy's catapults, it was indeed extremely lethal, so they had to turn their horses and go back to ask.

Feng Zhidai looked at Feng An and Meng Haigong who were in the Jinglan chariot, and said loudly: "Father, uncle, the enemy's catapults are too sharp, which caused us to fall short."

Feng An and Meng Haigong commanded the overall battle from a high place, and he could clearly see the battle ahead.

Feng An looked towards the Sui army camp, and said coldly: "The Sui army camp is not as strong as imagined. We also used catapults to smash down the walls of the camp, and then we could directly rush into the enemy camp."

Feng Zhidai said: "But our army's catapults haven't arrived yet..."

"..." Feng An looked at the troops with increasing casualties under the pressure of the opponent's slings and bows, his heart twitched a few times, and the sky was turning dark. After the catapults arrived, they attacked the camp overnight. Another army was assigned to send the wounded soldiers back to the camp."

"Here." Feng Zhidai took the order and left.

"Clang clang ~"

With the crisp sound of gold ringing, the coalition soldiers receded like a tide.

Inside the Sui Army's barracks, Zhang Zhenzhou, who was watching the wall, said to Fang Xuanling beside him, "The first day is over."

"As the saying goes, go all out, then decline again, and die three times. After today, the next step will be easy." Fang Xuanling watched the enemy's rear with a telescope, and said with a smile: "It seems that Feng An and Meng Haigong I plan to make persistent efforts, I am afraid there will be a hard fight tonight, the general should be mentally prepared."

"Hmm!" Zhang Zhenzhou looked at the enemy soldiers who hadn't retreated, and the heavily armored euphorbia soldiers covering the retreat of the front army, and sighed: "If it weren't for this heavy armored soldier, it would be the time for the cavalry to attack. Great timing."

"No problem." Fang Xuanling chuckled, "Don't forget, we still have another cavalry outside."

"Although this Xu Shiji is Li Mi's general, is he really capable?" Zhang Zhenzhou frowned.

"Whether Xu Shiji is capable or not, I don't know; but I trust the Holy One." Fang Xuanling said.

Zhang Zhenzhou smiled reassuringly: "That's right, the Holy One is unrivaled in his ability to know and employ people. He said that Xu Shiji has the ability, so he must have the ability."

"That's right. I don't believe in Xu Shiji, but I believe in the Holy One." Qin Qiong on the side also smiled.

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