"damn it!"

Zheng Yuanyun clenched his fist fiercely.

It has to be said that the quality of his soldiers is still higher than that of Ouyang Lixing. Even after just experiencing a round of artillery bombardment, after his order, the archers quickly drew their bows and nocked arrows towards the city.

Madly pouring out arrows.

However.

In addition to the small ladders forming a cloud ladder, there were also huge shields inside the hundreds of packages.

Only a small number of soldiers assembled the ladder, but more soldiers dug out shields from the packages, raised the shields high above their heads, and you can see that next to each package, they were assembled into a flower in an instant.

A huge steel flower made of shields!

The steel flowers had just bloomed, and the arrow rain was about to arrive. It was as if the two sides had rehearsed countless times, and the timing was just right.

For a moment, sparks flew everywhere, and the rain of arrows hit the giant shield. The only effect it could produce was countless dense crisp sounds. In addition, countless sparks were splashed.

Zheng Yuanyun regrets it!

If he had known this was the case, he should not have ordered the archers to attack. Even if the trebuchet did not do enough damage at the near end, it would still be no problem to smash a few shields.

As a result, a round of arrows rained down, and only a sound was heard.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the towering ladders were finally assembled. The vanguard soldiers shouted slogans and put the ladders up to the top of Iai City one by one. They did not care about their own lives and climbed up with their heads buried.

"Lift it, lift it all for me!"

Zheng Yuanyun roared angrily and directed the soldiers to raise the ladder.

But where is it so easy to catch?

The end of the ladder that supports the ground is a sharp steel nail, which is deeply inserted into the ground. The end that is placed on the city head has two barbs. Once it is placed on the city head, the barbs are embedded in the ground.

There are gaps in the city wall, and the weight added by the soldiers stepping on the ladder makes it not so easy to overturn the ladder.

A soldier gritted his teeth and lifted it twice, but was unable to pull out the barb from the crack in the city wall. Just when he was sweating profusely in anxiety, Zheng Yuanyun roared again:

“If you can’t lift it, cut it off!”

The barbs are made of fine iron, so it's not easy to break them, but the ladder itself is just wood, so it's still possible to cut it off with just a lot of strength.

The only difficulty is that the defenders at the top of the city need to lean out of the city wall to cut down the wooden part. And leaning out half of the body means giving up the protection of the city wall. The vanguard below does not come with bare hands.

of.

In addition to using siege catapults to throw siege equipment from a long distance, the vanguard troops all carried bows and arrows on their backs. No, after resisting a wave of arrows from the city head, the vanguard troops below the city also held bows and arrows.

He raised his arrow to the sky and shot.

The distance between the two sides is already very close. Even from the bottom up, the arrow rain from Ouyang Lixing's side is also very powerful. At least he cannot let the other side easily lean out and cut off the ladder.

For a time, Zheng Yuanyun was also full of firepower, and he threw the rolling stones, wooden logs, etc. that he had prepared in advance at the city. In addition, although he could not reach out to cut off the ladder, he poured kerosene along the barbs,

It's no problem to ignite it again.

In an instant, countless fire snakes suddenly rolled up from the top of Iihe City, but the lengths of these fire snakes varied.

The first wave of soldiers who climbed the ladder were not unprepared. They all wore thick deerskin gloves on their hands. The fire snakes burned down the ladder. When they reached the first soldier, they were burned by the deerskin gloves.

The thick deerskin gloves not only blocked the heat, but also prevented the flames from spreading under the body.

Although the ladder is made of wood and can easily be ignited, it is not that fragile after all. Even if it is burned, it will have to burn for a while. Taking advantage of this time, the soldiers climbed crazily and were about to reach the top of the city...

at the same time.

"attack!"

Determined to capture Iihe City, Ouyang Lixing naturally would not waste his advantage of having many soldiers and generals. When the battle at the main gate of Iihe City was in full swing, the gates on the left and right also shook with blood-heated war drums.

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After Ouyang Lixing divided his troops to attack various city gates, he never took back the one million troops, but distributed them everywhere in a siege.

At this moment, the battle at the main city gate has begun, and the other two locations are not idle either. The vanguard troops are also leading the battle, almost copying the tactics at the main city gate. The siege sling towers have also been transported to the two battlefields. For a time, the entire Iai area

The pressure on the city increased sharply.

Zheng Yuanyun had already been informed of all this, but he could only listen.

There are only so many troops. He had divided his troops as early as the first battle. Whether he can hold it or not, there will only be so many troops.

Fortunately, Ouyang Li's siege tactics were still more conventional. Although the ladder was put up on the top of the city in a short time, the battle really started at this time.

The ladder was still holding on, but the soldiers who finally climbed to the top of the city were cleared away in a very short period of time. After all, Zheng Yuanyun used a method of fighting that did not care about consumption and the fatigue level of the soldiers, so he used all his troops.

They were placed at the top of the city. Although the total number of troops was much smaller than that of Ouyang Lixing, if they were only compared with the soldiers on hundreds of ladders, they still had the big advantage.

Moreover, it had been a long time since the last wave of battles, and the last wave of battles only caused the catapult troops to fire a few cannons, and there was no physical loss at all.

At this moment, everyone is so powerful that even if the opponent is on top of the city, everyone will swarm them, chop them down and kick them down with a few swords.

Screams of pain continued for a while, and in a short time, there were corpses on the ground under the walls of Iai Castle.

Outside the field, Ouyang Lixing gritted his teeth and watched. Apart from letting the siege catapults, which had temporarily stopped attracting firepower, secretly advance a lot further and be ready with fire support at any time, he did not have any instructions for the hand-to-hand combat on top of the city.

Although I really don’t want my brothers from Fengqi Province to spill their blood in Nantes Province, but since we have decided to attack the city, the necessary sacrifices will still be made.

And he has done what he can to the extreme. Through the arrangement of the siege trebuchet, he ensured that the vanguard was very fast during the charge, avoiding being hit by the trebuchet, and thus sacrificing himself to the enemy.

Reached the lowest.

As for the hand-to-hand combat during the siege, this must be faced.

In order to travel lightly, heavy siege equipment such as rams did not appear on the battlefield. Even now, Zheng Yuanyun was put on the top of the city by a ladder, but Zheng Yuanyun was still paying attention to the movements on his side, easily
Chapter completed!