Chapter 165: Fill it with life
No matter what, we still have to fight the battles that need to be fought. This is the duty of a general!
Forcibly suppressing the feeling of powerlessness in his heart, Feng Wu did his best to direct the soldiers to attack the city.
The huge siege tower was pushed to the front line, and the catapults loaded with huge rocks roared frequently, ejecting huge black shadows one after another.
Unfortunately, Bo'an City was separated by a moat, and the defenders at the top of the city responded with arrows and stones, which made it impossible for Feng Wu's troops to reach an effective attack distance for a while. The archers on the siege tower did not have enough shooting range, so they managed to shoot most of the sharp arrows.
It can only fall into the river.
The catapult is slightly better. With its powerful ejection ability, it can hit the stones to the roots of the city wall. It is as strong as the Boan city wall, and it can't even be scratched.
Feng Wu was so angry that he clenched his steel teeth.
In order to attack the defenders at the top of the city, he ordered three times to risk advancing the siege equipment another fifty meters. However, the result was that the defenders enjoyed more comfortable long-range attacks and lost five siege towers in vain.
With a dozen catapults.
"What are the stormtroopers doing? Are they not ready yet?"
Feng Wu turned around and yelled angrily.
"Stormtroopers in position!"
Hearing the same loud response from behind, a team of tens of thousands of people, led by a school captain, quickly approached from the flank.
Each of these people carried a sampan wrapped in cowhide on their backs. Their bodies were slightly tilted forward, and their entire bodies were hidden under the sampan.
The biggest obstacle to attacking Bo'an City is the moat, which is about thirty meters wide. It is precisely because of this river that Feng Wu cannot send out a powerful siege ram, and neither can siege towers or catapults.
To reach the most effective attack distance, let alone attack equipment such as ladders, are of no use.
To defeat Bo'an City, you must first reach the moat.
But the moat is both wide and deep, so if you want to fill it with sandbags... Feng Wu feels that it would be faster to fill it with corpses directly.
That's why he organized this charge team of tens of thousands of people. The sampans carried by these soldiers can not only be used as shields during the charge, but also can defend against the arrow attack on the city head. After rushing into the moat,
, and immediately used it as a ship.
The deliberately polished sampan has very little resistance in the water. You only need to hold the sampan and jump into the water, then push hard towards the shore, and you can jump more than half the distance in the blink of an eye.
For the stormtroopers, the biggest threat is the hundreds of trebuchets on the city tower. However, the attack speed of the trebuchets is too slow and their accuracy is poor.
, the threat will be reduced by half.
The characteristic of a trebuchet is that the farther away it is, the more powerful it is, but the closer it is to the city wall, the effect will be greatly reduced. After it rushes into the moat, the trebuchet is almost unable to attack due to the angle.
It was necessary to rush across the river. Only after the stormtroopers rushed across the river to cut off the ropes of the suspension bridge and lowered the suspension bridge could they create the possibility for the troops behind to attack the city gate.
The more than 10,000 soldiers all looked determined. The stormtroopers were, at best or at worst, death squads. It was conceivable that when the battle began, not even one-tenth of the tens of thousands of them would survive.
Pretty good.
"attack!"
Feng Wu gritted his teeth, pointed his spear at Bo'an City, and shouted in a slightly low voice: "After this battle, whether you live or die, you will be my Feng Wu's dead brothers, and your family will be my Feng Wu's family!"
There is no need to explain the implication of these words. The people present who were selected into the stormtroopers were all brave and not afraid of death. After receiving Feng Wu's assurance, the circles under his eyes immediately turned red.
"rush!"
Following the roar of the leading captain, tens of thousands of soldiers responded in unison, their voice shaking the sky. With an indomitable determination to die, they launched a death charge towards Bo'an City!
More than 10,000 soldiers carrying sampans on their backs rushed forward. From above, it looked like tens of thousands of dead leaves suddenly appeared in the sea. They were swayed by the wind and spread to the entire ocean.
In order to reduce the damage of the trebuchets on the city tower as much as possible, the extra 10,000 charging soldiers were spread out, almost covering the entire funnel-shaped terrain in front of Bo'an City. Although there were many trebuchets on the city tower, the damage each shell could cause was
It was limited, and every attack gap caused the Zhu Yan Empire's charge suicide squads to advance a lot further.
But the casualties were still heavy.
Feng Wu's eyelids twitched wildly as he saw that in just a few breaths, more than half of the tens of thousands of his brothers had been damaged. Those who had been shot by stray arrows had been smashed to pieces by huge boulders filled with kerosene and shells.
, on the not too far road leading to Bo'an City, there were broken arms and limbs everywhere.
War is about taking human lives!
On the watchtower at the rear, Zhang Chengwang's expression was calm, not as dizzy as Feng Wu's. He turned his head, glanced at the silent high-ranking generals, and said indifferently: "Let's go to the other two troops."
The other two generals at the level of governors on the tower were shocked, and they immediately accepted the order with their hands raised.
Stimulated by the blood on the battlefield ahead, these generals did not show fear and fear, but instead aroused the blood in their chests, vowing to tear the turtle shell-like Bo'an City in front of them to pieces so as to avenge the death of their Zhu Yan disciples.
Blood feud!
The two men came down from the city, but they were well prepared. Each of them led another 200,000 troops ready to go. However, they did not engage in the frontal battlefield. Instead, they took a detour and went straight to the two auxiliary gates of Bo'an City.
And go.
When the two people got off the tower, Zhang Chengwang glanced at Guo Zi and the two people who were also being held on the tower, and saw that these two people seemed to be attracted by the battlefield in front of them, with all their minds focused on the battle, with faces on their faces.
I don't have any worries about myself.
Are you really confident or are you just pretending?
The corners of Zhang Chengwang's mouth curled up slightly into a sneer.
Yes or no, you will know immediately!
"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow!"
At the top of Bo'an City, the captain in charge of commanding the city defense shouted urgently, "Be ready to break down the wood and roll the stones, ready to go into battle at any time!"
Although the tens of thousands of stormtroopers from the Zhu Yan Empire suffered heavy casualties, there were still more than 3,000 people who rushed to the moat. At this distance, the opponent's positions were extremely scattered, and the trebuchets had little effect.
The captain who defends the city is called Liu Feng, who is also an experienced general who defends the city. After seeing that the opponent sent a sampan charge, he recruited a large number of archers to man the tower. At this moment, more than 50,000 bows and arrows gathered on the city.
With his hands, he fired a volley, and the arrow rain was so dense that it was almost airtight.
However, the results were not high.
The stormtroopers who rushed to the moat took off the sampan and threw it into the river. There was actually a huge shield tied behind their backs. After jumping on the sampan, the shield lay across the front, blocking a lot of damage from the arrow rain for the soldiers.
Chapter completed!