The Age of Lords Reborn

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Mo Xiaobai and Zhou Yu's judgments were correct. Less than a day later, a coalition regiment of 5000 men, armed with a lot of siege equipment, slowly set up battle at the east gate of Xingyang City.

"We should really be thankful that Xingyang City is not big, and the total length of a city wall is only three hundred feet."

Standing at the top of the city, Mo Xiaobai shook his head and sighed: "If it were a big city like Luoyang, even if there were thousands of soldiers, it would not be enough to just lay out a city defense."

Xingyang is not Luoyang, but Mo Xiaobai has less than 1000 pawns available at the moment.

Nearly 600 rangers, plus 200 guards, faced six or seven times as many enemy troops. Mo Xiaobai rubbed his chin, no matter how he thought about it, he had a bad feeling.

Fortunately, although Xingyang is small, it is not without some advantages.After the Xingyang Order opened the military equipment warehouse, most of the various military equipment in Xingyang have already been sent to the city.

There are no large equipment, but there is no shortage of long spears, large shields, arrows and strong bows.

"Fighting warriors, we'll see you show your power first in this battle." A glance swept across the group of rangers who were almost armed with strong bows behind them.Mo Xiaobai smiled and said.

"Ah."

Although Ju Meng has always been quite famous, but this is the first time that he really wants to lead the army into battle.Nodding dully as a response, it is not difficult to see that this Henan hero is actually a little nervous.

When the coalition forces gradually stopped one mile outside the city, the rear troops quickly came out with a trebuchet and five ladders.

The five corps belonging to different battle formations immediately took over, and each carried a ladder, as if they were ready to attack.

"Archers attack, shield soldiers guard in front!"

As the commander of this 5000 soldiers, Pang De, who was appointed by Zhifu to attack Xingyang, did not let the five infantry go out first. With a wave of his right hand, he first gave an attack order to the two troops behind him.

200 round shield soldiers and 500 archers were dispatched in ten rows and kept approaching the city.

Seeing that the coalition forces began to move in the distance, Zhou Yu, who took over the command at the head of Xingyang City, immediately raised his hand.

As soon as Zhou Yu raised his hand, many rangers knew how to bend their bows and set arrows.

200 meter

150 meter

100 meter

The enemy army outside the city gradually approached. When the distance from the city was only 80, Zhou Yu suddenly pressed down his raised arms.

"Whoosh whoosh"

Sharp arrows flew down from the top of the city, hitting the mixed soldiers outside the city overwhelmingly.

The soldiers outside the city relied on their round shields to resist a small part of the arrows, and still maintained their original speed and formation to sprint forward. It was not until they reached the position of 50 meters that the archers drew their bowstrings one by one.

There are shield soldiers under the city, and Xingyang also has large shields from the military equipment storehouse.

A hundred soldiers put a large shield on the top of the city, and soon the top and bottom of the city wall were covered by the sound of 'jingling'.

"on!"

Seeing that the Xingyang defenders were confronting the archers, Pang De immediately ordered to let the five melee corps that were ready to go join the battle.

Each regiment is a standard 500-man team. When 2500 soldiers rushed to the city, the east gate of Xingyang City, which is not too wide, was immediately surrounded by the enemy.

"The fierce battle is about to begin." Mo Xiaobai murmured while holding the spear tightly with both hands.

In this battle, he also had to take the lead.

On the right side of Mo Xiaobai, Dumb looked at the densely packed soldiers below, and after a while said in a low voice: "Today's battle, in terms of the degree of danger, is comparable to the battle in Shache King City in the Western Regions."

"It's more than that, I at least had a bottom in that battle, but now I don't have a bottom at all."

What Mo Xiaobai said was the truth. At the beginning of the First World War in the Western Regions, the situation seemed dangerous, but he was under his control from the beginning to the end.

Unlike the current battle situation, Mo Xiaobai is really not sure that he can hold Xingyang steadily.

When the ladders leaned against the side of the vertical wall, without Mo Xiaobai's command, the surrounding soldiers had already lifted the huge stones and heavy wood beside them.

Stick to the city, and these city defense supplies can also play a role in deciding the outcome.

As the siege battle officially started, screams of soldiers were heard from the city.

But the city wall of Xingyang is not considered high. As long as you catch the gap once or twice, you can easily climb up the wall with a height of less than two feet along the ladder.

"Get off me!"

Mo Xiaobai stabbed forward with the tip of his spear, and accurately hit the left chest of a soldier holding a simple knife.The arm was strengthened again in the next moment, and the Pu Daobing who was about to step into the city wall in front of him was thrown out of the city.

Duan on the side was not idle either, he raised a big rock weighing at least forty catties and swung it down, smashing the climbing soldiers back to the ground.

Joining the battle so early was completely helpless for Mo Xiaobai and the others.The plight of the shortage of troops forced the two to go all out from the moment the war started.

Mechanically repeating the same action, at the same time trying to avoid random arrows that occasionally fly over from outside the city.Although the situation is not good, at least the three-acre land around him is firmly protected.

Mo Xiaobai and Ah-Dai worked together and cooperated with the surrounding Han soldiers to defend a ladder attack point.Zhou Yu, who was a hundred meters away, Ju Meng, who was walking further away, and Captain Ma Lin, also defended their own 'turfs'.

Only the climbing direction of the fifth ladder was not commanded, and only the rangers were free to stop it.Fortunately, although rangers do not have access to soldiers, the strength of each individual is higher than that of soldiers, and there are no mistakes in a short period of time.

Siege warfare has always been brutal.

Especially on the siege side, the number of casualties increased almost every second.

Seeing that the five ladders were dispatched together but failed to achieve much results, and instead fell into an endless tug-of-war, Pound waved his right hand to signal the catapult to enter the stage.

Unlike ordinary second-tier archers, who need to be at a distance of 50 steps to launch a threatening offensive against the city, the catapult only pushed forward 45 steps before stopping.

Perhaps seeing that the strength of 'Mo Xiaobai' and 'Dumb' is much lower than that of Zhou Yu and Ju Meng, Pound's order to the catapult team was to attack Mo Xiaobai's position first.

It didn't take long for the huge stone to be thrown from installation to throwing, and the first trial throwing started soon.

Accompanied by a "creaking" sound of a mechanical impact, the casserole-sized stone only flew for a short second before hitting the edge of the stone wall behind Mo Xiaobai with a "boom".

Ever since he was reborn, he has always bullied others with Yuanrong crossbows and catapults. Now, for the first time, he was attacked with a catapult. Mo Xiaobai shrank his head, and his face naturally looked ugly.

Duan glanced at the cracked stone, and couldn't help swallowing up and down his throat.If this thing fell on him, he would have died of pain if he hadn't been crushed to death.

But before he could speak, a second flying stone flew in from outside the city.There was obviously an adjustment this time, and it happened to hit Mo Xiaobai and Duan's heads impartially.

"Boom~"

The two subconsciously rolled over to avoid it. At the same time, a huge boulder fell from the sky and slammed into the stone slab they were standing on just now.

The boulder cracked in all directions, leaving a deep impact mark.

"We're being watched."

Rolling around to avoid the heavy blow from the pelting stones, Duan came back to his senses and immediately leaned his back against the wall and asked Mo Xiaobai who was five meters away: "Now I can't stand up, what should I do?"

"Raise the shield, carry it hard!"

Without hesitation, Mo Xiaobai gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what method we use, we can't let them break through here."

(End of this chapter)