The Emperor is Above

Chapter 563: Fortress Attack and Defense

The Xianyu army was in complete silence.

This silence did not represent their fear, but more of anger.

King Xianyu looked calm, but there was anger hidden deep in his eyes.

“As expected of a Xing person who was able to restore his country after being destroyed twice, even though it has been a hundred years since King Ye Yan died in battle, he is still so brave and good at fighting.

They even made such a strange chariot. It seems that I really underestimated them. I ordered the craftsmen and slaves to speed up the construction of the equipment and continue the siege tomorrow morning."

Due to his anger, King Xianyu wanted to continue attacking without stopping, but the remaining rationality in his heart told him that it would be better to slow down.

Especially when King Xianyu found out that he had ordered another attack on the city tomorrow, many Xianyu generals were obviously relieved, which made him feel even more aggrieved.

As Xian Yu's army slowly retreated, the Xing soldiers on the top of the border town fortress cheered.

Yang Lezi smiled proudly at Huo Yun: "Look, did you see that? That's enough for the past two days. We only need to hold on for another eight days."

"The next eight days will be the biggest test!"

Shangqing Huo Yun shook his head helplessly at Yang Lezi's optimism, "King Xianyu's elite army has not been deployed, especially because of concerns about the giant warriors in the Xianyu army.

Today, only a hundred giant warriors appeared on the side of Xianyu's army, and the first line of defense that was originally planned to hold for three days was instantly shattered.

According to the information sent by Longcheng Yi Yaqing, there are at least 800 giant warriors in Xianyu's army. If all of them were to appear, it would be very terrifying. "

"It's a real problem!"

Yang Lezi nodded seriously, "A stone bullet with a diameter of more than five feet weighs at least six or seven thousand pounds, and can be thrown three hundred feet away by hand.

This shows that these giant warriors are very powerful, each of them is at least as powerful as a third-grade warrior, and if they attack the city wall by force, they will pose a great threat."

"There's no point worrying about that now!"

Huo Yun looked solemnly at the orderly camping of the Xianyu army outside the city, "Fortunately, you led people to ambush the Vulture Knights and the Eagle Shooters today.

"He killed sixty or seventy vulture knights and eagle shooters in one go, and King Xianyu's vulture knights lost one eighth of their number, which is a great achievement."

As night falls, the night passes in a flash.

On the morning of the third day, just as the sky was getting light, Xianyu's army launched an attack.

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers held large shields to defend against arrows, and some carried ladders to attempt to attack the city.

When the armored vehicles appeared in the border town fortress, these Xianyu soldiers turned around and ran back without hesitation.

It turned out that the Xianyu people dug a trench under the cover of night and hid the giant warriors in it. When the armored vehicles rushed out, they threw stones and bullets crazily again.

"Boom boom boom——"

Stone bullets weighing six or seven thousand kilograms, with unstoppable momentum, hit the armored vehicles hard.

After facing such a heavy blow, most tanks could continue to move and attack after making a dull sound.

A small number of tanks were hit in vital parts, causing the lighter ones to slow down and their armor to be damaged, while the more serious ones were directly hit with a huge scar and had no power to move forward.

The armored chariots that had been exchanged at a huge price suffered heavy losses in the face of the crazy attacks of the giant warriors, which made Yang Lezi Shangqing feel very distressed. Even though at least a thousand elite soldiers of Xianyu were killed in the pursuit battle just now, it still made him feel that it was not worth it, so he had to withdraw the chariots from the battle.

The armored vehicles were forced to withdraw from the battlefield, which made King Xianyu overjoyed. He ordered a fierce attack on the border town fortress.

Tens of thousands of Xianyu soldiers pushed forward huge chariots such as siege towers and ladders, as well as relatively simple siege equipment such as catapults.

However, before these Xianyu soldiers could rush to within 200 feet of the city wall, they were destroyed by the catapults and crossbow carts on the wall and had to be defeated again.

The Xianyu people attacked five or six times in one day, but faced with the fierce counterattack of the Xing soldiers, especially the appearance of the crystal bomb, King Xianyu had to cancel the attack with reluctance.

On the fourth day, Xianyu's army did not rush to launch an attack.

At the border town fortress, one can see that Xianyu Camp is manufacturing more powerful siege weapons.

By the sixth day, all eight hundred giant warriors of Xianyu's army had appeared. Although the remaining seven hundred giant warriors were not as tall as the giants of the Qingtian clan, they were all about three feet and five feet or four feet tall.

King Xianyu ordered the giant warriors to cover the Xianyu soldiers in their forced siege of the city, and also sent out all the vulture knights to cooperate with the archers to capture the high fortresses on both sides of the canyon from the air.

The Flying Bear Army, the Iron Cavalry Army, the Blood Cavalry Army, and the Fire Cavalry Army were on standby at all times. These were King Xianyu's elite personal troops, and he was reluctant to use them unless it was absolutely necessary.

The battle of this day entered a fierce state from the very beginning.

The military forces of two civilizations collided here, one representing creation and construction, while the other was more about destruction and conquest.

The Xing State soldiers in the border town fortress were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but fortunately the geographical advantages of the border town fortress made things much easier for them. In addition, the high morale brought by the results of the battles in the past few days also boosted the soldiers' fighting spirit.

Huo Yun, who had fought against enemies in border towns many times, was secretly glad that this year's Xing State was different from previous years.

In the past, Xing State had low labor productivity. Once a war broke out in the autumn, it would inevitably affect the autumn grain output, leading to hunger in the winter.

This year, the entire northern Xinjiang has brand new spring farming tools, horse-drawn harvesters, threshers, etc., so both the elderly and women can engage in farming and harvesting.

Coupled with the increase in planting area brought about by the significant improvement in farming efficiency, the soldiers in the border towns finally no longer have to worry about the embarrassing situation of lack of food and clothing.

The defense of the main wall of the border town fortress is quite strong, but the situation of the fortresses high up in the canyons on both sides is not so good.

These forts were built at strategic locations on both sides of the canyon as part of the fortress' three-dimensional defense, cooperating with the main city walls to counterattack the attackers from multiple directions.

Most fortresses were stationed with dozens or even one or two hundred soldiers, so it was easy to defend these not-so-large fortresses.

However, after the Vulture Knights joined forces with the Eagle Shooters, the original advantages of the fortress disappeared completely, and ordinary soldiers were no match for Eagle Shooters of rank five or above.

The skilled archer shot sharp arrows into the fortress through every hole and crevice in the fortress, killing the defenders inside.

As the soldiers of the State of Xing in the fortresses continued to die in battle, dozens of fortresses fell one after another, completely eliminating the worries of the attacking soldiers, which made the attacking Xianyu army even more fanatical.

In the end, it was the massive use of crystal bombs that forced the Xianyu army to continue retreating.

The defeat of Xian Yu's army did not mean that the border town fortress had regained its safety. The loss of the fortress on high ground was always the biggest threat to the border town fortress.

As long as the Xing State cannot recapture these fortresses and guard them firmly, it can be said that this fortress has lost 30%.

(End of this chapter)