Chapter 160 The Second Battle of Naiheguan (2)
Unlike the battle of "Daheguan", the second battle of "Daheguan" was fired by a crossbow arrow shot out by Zhou Dingyuan.
A Jin soldier who had just jumped onto the wall of sheep and horses was penetrated by the roaring crossbow arrows, causing a bloody rain to fall at the feet of the living woman. The next card took off his hand, turned around on the ground, and bounced down the cliff, and fell down the mountain. Before he could reach the hillside, he scattered into pieces...
The living woman standing under the wall of sheep and horses stood on the ground, pressing the handle of the knife with her palms, her face was expressionless, and her thick lips moved: "Go up again, hurry!"
Four Jin soldiers came out, holding a scimitar on their mouths, holding a side sign in one hand, protecting their upper body, holding the temporarily tied wooden ladder with the other hand, and stomping up.
Screaming! There are eight crossbow arrows in total. When four Jin soldiers barely appeared on the wall of sheep and horses, they shot quickly and shot in no particular order.
Eight crossbow arrows, two of which shot missed, and four were penetrating the side cards of infantry wrapped in thick wood and wrapped in mature cowhide. They shot through the half-body leather armor of the Jin soldiers under the protection of the side cards. They penetrated the flesh and did not hurt the vital points, causing minor injuries; the last two were extremely accurate, one arrow penetrated the throat and the other arrow penetrated the cheek.
In just a moment, one will end with one death, one serious injury, and two minor injuries.
The body fell down and the injured retreated.
The living girl was still indifferent, and her lips tilted, and four Jin soldiers climbed up the wall.
This time, only four crossbow arrows were shot, killing one person. The other three Jin soldiers quickly raised the ladder to the other side of the Sheep and Horse Wall - but what they did was only here. The crossbow arrows shot one after another shot shot all three Jin soldiers on the Sheep and Horse Wall.
Three consecutive attacks were all shattered, leaving six corpses.
Wang Qian, who was huddled in the team, looked at the corpses. Thinking of the war that even the brothers broke into three months ago, I couldn't help but shivered. I felt that the weather was really cold to the bones...
Looking at these corpses, the expression on the living woman's face finally changed. His voice was low but clear, and it was clearly transmitted to every Jin soldier on the mountain road, and even the guardians of Naiheguan:
"The distance between Guancheng and Yangma Wall is only sixty steps, and the distance between sixty steps is broken and the other cards is injured. The Song army's standard crossbow should be used. When using this crossbow, ten arrows will be exhausted. Three bands of crossbow bows block, at most one time, only eight arrows were shot. This means that there are only eight crossbow bows in Guancheng, or only eight people can use this crossbow. Only two of them have accurate heads, four of them have mediocre shooting skills, and the other two are worse. How about it, do you understand?"
The Jin soldiers shouted in unison: "I understand!"
More than two hundred strong men shouted in unison, and the momentum was indeed quite strong. They almost overwhelmed the howling wind.
The living woman suddenly drew her sword and sheathed, her fingers covered with shooting holes, and her voice roared: "Then, it's our turn to start!"
Although the city of Guan was warmer than outside, the temperature was still low. Zhou Dingyuan's face turned red, his forehead was hot, his breathing was rapid, and he was anxious. This was certainly due to the old physical illness caused by the nervous and laborious work. The more important reason was that this Jin soldier who was raiding not only had strong combat power, but also his leader was skilled in combat formations. With just a few tentative attacks, he could see through the shortcomings of the defense of this level.
That's right, among the twenty-four people guarding the gate, only eight people could use crossbows, and few were shooting accurately. Once the Jin soldiers launched a wave-like attack... Zhou Dingyuan's head was already burning hot and painful.
But at this moment, the soldiers around him threw down the thunder bullets in their hands, turned around and took the bow and arrow from the weapon stand, and were so angry that they were: "We don't know how to use crossbows, but we can still use bows. Even if we can't shoot correctly, we can still stop it..."
"Stop! Put the bow and arrow back!" Zhou Dingyuan was anxious and scolded angrily, "The Jin soldiers are not able to figure out the situation in the city, and they still have some concerns. But if you all take the bow and arrow and shoot it out, maybe you don't have the strength to waste the arrows, and let the Jin soldiers figure out the number of people guarding the gate... By then, I'm afraid that the reinforcements will not be able to arrive at the moment..."
The soldiers also realized in a stern way that if a large city is located, there will be only more than twenty people to defend. The more than ten times more Jin soldiers under the city. Once the attacker understands the truth and the facts of the attacker, it will be chilling to think about it.
The soldiers in the whistle tower were stopped, but the soldiers who stood by on the sidelines on the third floor of the downstairs were obviously ashamed and angry, and they took their own bows and arrows and shot them randomly. Unfortunately, at a distance of 60 steps, the five-dou bow could not break the armor at all, and they could not penetrate the cards. The random shooting was so successful that there was no result in any battle.
Zhou Dingyuan roared at the sound tube angrily, and finally suppressed the meaningless action. Before he could return to the shooting hole, he heard the soldiers of the guard camp roaring in shock and anger.
Zhou Dingyuan rushed over quickly. As soon as he put his eyes in front of the shooting hole, he saw the side of the sheep and horse wall. The Jin soldiers seemed to have been trampled on an ant nest, and they were in a panic. They climbed, jumped, and rushed over the wall...
Zhou Dingyuan used all his strength to pedal the strings, then aimed the crossbow arrow at the shooting hole, and almost no aim was needed. He hung a knife and a Jin soldier who had just landed and stood firm and had no time to protect himself with his license to cry and fell to the ground.
And the other crossbow arrows almost didn't miss the arrows. However, such a blocking attack would be at most a few waves that could not be stopped at all...
The Jin soldiers were very fast, crossing the wall and pulling the ladder. One group of people held licenses in front of them to protect themselves, and the other group of people advanced with the ladder in the middle. The Jin soldiers who were adjoining them opened their bows and arrows, aiming at the shooting holes and kept firing arrows.
The Jin soldiers are all elite soldiers, and in the Jin army, the so-called elite refers to the exquisite cavalry and archery. Therefore, when the Jin soldiers advanced to a distance of 40 or 50 steps, they were able to accurately shoot the shooting hole half a foot high and one foot wide.
At the bottom of the bunker, a few screams came from, and three soldiers who were nervously peeking out were shot into the door and died immediately. The other soldiers either dodged quickly or just bent over and didn't appear in the shooting hole, which was a disaster.
However, only the bottom floor of the bunker had casualties. The shooting holes on the second, third and fourth floors could not be shot in due to the elevation angle. Although the powerful arrows made the shooting holes splash, they were just in danger. Without Zhou Dingyuan's warning, the guard soldiers at the bottom did not dare to show their heads at will, so they had to poke out slightly with the corners of their eyes to observe.
After more than ten casualties, the Jin soldiers finally broke through the narrow mountain road that only allowed four people to run in parallel and rushed to the Naihe Pass.
However, the range of ten feet in front of the gate is relatively wide. It is not a problem to squeeze into two or three hundred people. There is only a moat of more than a meter wide to be separated. Once the enemy rushed through the forty-step mountain road, he could deploy troops under the gate and be squeezed down the cliff. Of course, he could only deploy a small force, and a large group of troops would squeeze over. It was useless.
The living woman obviously saw this, so she only sent fifty Jin soldiers in one chariot. Although she was shot and killed and fell off the cliff when she passed the sheep and horse wall and the mountain road, more than ten Jin soldiers rushed to the city of Guan. Then the Jin soldiers surrounded her into a circle and blocked them with cards. Several people inside connected the four ladders head and tail. With the Jin soldiers shouting, the cards were withdrawn, and more than ten Jin soldiers rushed out quickly, erecting the ladders on the moat, one after another, rushing through the trenches...
At this time, due to the angle, the crossbow bow and arrow could not extend out of the shooting hole and shoot the Jin soldiers under the city of Guancheng. This was not the negligence of Di Lie when he built the pass, but because the shooting hole was originally used as a gun hole, and he had never considered using a crossbow to guard the pass, which led to the mistakes today.
Under the careful protection of two licensed guards, the living woman poked half of her head out from behind the sheep and horse wall, staring at the Jin soldiers' rushing forward and the enemy's counterattack. When she saw the Jin soldiers rushing through the moat erecting the ladders connected together, laying them on the city wall, preparing to climb to the city. The strange castle of the enemy's army, which made people feel chaotic, actually lacked effective defense methods.
The living girl excitedly punched the sheep and horse wall: "It's done..."
Before he finished speaking, Hulala threw out more than a dozen black iron balls in the eyes of the castle, some of which hit the heads of the climbing Jin soldiers, and some of which fell to the feet of the Jin soldiers under the city wall.
This group of Jin troops was almost blown up all the way, and they witnessed the 500 powerful heavy cavalry that were instantly destroyed. They were already frightened at the black iron ball. At first sight, they were horrified and shouted in unison to hide. However, there was not much place to hide under the base of the city wall. On the left was a cliff, on the right was a rock wall, and behind them was a moat flowing water... In a hurry, they jumped into the trenches, and eventually rushed down the cliff by the intense stream...
Boom boom boom boom boom! More than a dozen thunderbolt bombs exploded one after another, and the wooden ladder broke. The Jin soldiers who had climbed halfway down fell one after another, broke their hands and feet. The Jin soldiers who were running around like headless flies, unable to find a cover, and did not dare to jump into the trench all flew everywhere, making heart-wrenching screams...
After the explosion, the smoke filled the gunpowder and fired everywhere. The wooden ladder, clothes, and even the corpses lit up. None of the more than 30 Jin soldiers were spared and all died under the walls.
The living girl was stunned for a while before muttering to herself: "So that's it. It's this thing that defeated the 20,000 troops that Sa Li drank, and buried five hundred cavalry... "
After a brief confrontation, Zhou Dingyuan repelled several rounds of attacks of Jin soldiers, and the living woman side also lost one-fifth of its troops and did not dare to advance rashly. The battle entered a stalemate stage.
None of the soldiers in the security battalions in the bunker dared to leave the combat post or cheer loudly, for fear that the enemy would hear that they had few soldiers. The only thing they could do was to cheer each other up through the four-story soundtrack that penetrated the four-story building.
Zhou Dingyuan was sitting beside the wall, gasping for breath, and his whole body was exhausted. In the cold sky, a burst of sweat broke out. He glanced at the Ma Huang crossbow at his feet and sighed and shook his head. Zhou Dingyuan knew that he had no strength to pull the crossbow. Similarly, the other crossbowmen were exhausted and could no longer lead the bow to block the enemy in a short time. Without long-range strikes, he could only rely on the thunderbolt bombs to kill at close range. Although the effect was good, the stock of thunderbolt bombs was not large, and they were basically equipped according to the amount of three per person. In other words, the total number of thunderbolt bombs they had at present was only more than 50...
As long as reinforcements can be reached, not only will there be soldiers guarding the pass, but the bomb will be replenished.
Zhou Dingyuan was in a daze when he suddenly heard the soldiers who were arranged to act as observation posts beside him, "Huh!" and said, "Prime Minister, look at what those golden dogs are doing?"
The Jin soldiers were moving again? Zhou Dingyuan knocked his painful head hard and just stood up. Suddenly, the soldier screamed, and his body staggered back a few steps, falling head-on.
Zhou Dingyuan was shocked and looked closely, but saw a sharp arrow on his face, which penetrated his head from his cheeks, his face was covered with blood, his limbs twitched, and he saw that he was not alive. This was a four-meter-high closed bunker! What kind of archer can shoot arrows in?
Zhou Dingyuan had not figured out what was going on, and screams kept coming from each floor, and it was obviously also hit by sharp arrows. Due to the height and position of the shooting hole, the arrows shot in, basically either the middle face or the middle chest, and they were all fatal parts...
What was going on? Zhou Dingyuan clasped against the wall and slowly rubbed close to the nearest shooting hole he had. He gritted his teeth, quickly looked out, and then quickly retracted. Although he was just a short glance, the situation on the sheep and horse wall was still clearly visible, so that's it...
In a short glance, Zhou Dingyuan clearly saw that the commander of the Jin soldiers had taken out an incredible countermeasure - they used two two-meter-long wooden ladders to cross and nailed into a herringbone cloud ladder behind the wall of sheep and horses. The ladder was covered with a thick wooden board of more than meter wide, and several simple railings were nailed to prevent falling.
On this extremely crude ladder, six Jin soldiers were squatting or standing, divided into two rows of front and back, three in each row, plus four Jin soldiers squatting on the wall of sheep and horses, a total of ten. Ten Jin soldiers were in a staggered position, each with a strong bow of eight to one stone, and ten cold arrowheads aimed at the hundreds of holes on the bunker. Once someone showed their heads, they would shoot them with one arrow.
The cloud ladder made up for the height difference, and the Jin soldiers' archery skills were faster, accurate and ruthless. Suddenly, the soldiers of the security battalion who were spying on the movements of the Jin soldiers suffered a great loss. In just a short while, the losses were heavy. Those who were shot were not injured were all killed on the spot. What's more, most of the people who were shot were crossbowmen. The remaining crossbowmen who escaped by luck were exhausted, but they were unable to use crossbow bows to suppress the enemy. Instead, the Jin soldiers were punished by the free arrows and arrows, and they were suppressed to death.
With just ten archers, the defense in the bunker was completely blocked. Only elite Jin soldiers could do such powerful combat power in this era.
On a cold day, Zhou Dingyuan broke out in cold sweat. He rushed to the opening of the sound tube and shouted anxiously: "Report casualties, report casualties!"
"Two people died on the third floor."
"Three people died on the second floor."
"The first floor... I'm the only one left..."
Zhou Dingyuan shook his body and held the sound tube hard before he did not fall down.
There were only twenty-four soldiers in the four floors of the Kwantung City Gate, and six were assigned to guard each floor. During the first round of guarding the pass, three soldiers had been killed on the first floor of the lower floor. Now eight people were attacked by Jin soldiers on the fourth floor, and a total of eleven people were lost. In other words, in the end, only thirteen soldiers were left to guard the pass, and on average, only three people were only on each floor...
At this moment, a shout came from the sheep and horse wall. A soldier on the top floor quickly leaned out and turned around and looked at Zhou Dingyuan with a pale face: "Deputy...Deputy Head, the enemy charges again..."
Chapter completed!