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Volume 5: Breaking the Array Chapter 43: Canglang (2)

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    The tide of rebels has arrived, and there are hundreds of Yan soldiers beside each ladder.

    The eyes of the Tongluo people, the Turks, the Khitans, and the Xi people all reflected a greedy and fierce light similar to primitive beasts, as if Suiyang City was already a piece of fat that reached their mouths and could be swallowed at any time.

    The ladder has been put up on the city wall. With the help of their companions, the first batch of rebel soldiers began to attack Suiyang North City!

    But after hearing a few low "buzzing" sounds, the rebels' killer crossbow was finally launched!

    Two Turkic soldiers worked together to use ropes to connect the crossbow string buckle to the winch. A dozen Khitan people turned the winch, opened the crossbow string, and installed the giant arrow.

    At this time, a rebel general holding a black and red flag waved the flag vigorously and shouted loudly.

    "One, two, shoot!"

    I saw a strong, bare-chested Tongluo man rounding his arms and slamming the trigger on the crossbow with a sledgehammer. At that moment, the string bomb was fired, and the crossbow arrows flew towards the Suiyang tower.

    "Swift!"

    The huge crossbow arrows flew with great momentum, and shot through a civilian man who was making boiling water next to the crenel, and nailed him to the ground.  Due to the strong inertia, the huge arrow clusters were actually embedded in the brick surface, which made people sigh with admiration.

    "Hold your head, get down! Everyone get down!" Lei Wanchun was angry and annoyed. First they used catapults, then they used bed crossbows. The rebels used all possible means, and the successive fierce attacks had seriously destroyed the area.  The city defense of Suiyang City.

    Even if the brothers survived this hysterical onslaught, how should they deal with the subsequent fierce siege?

    That was a knife-on-knife hand-to-hand fight!  Losing the advantage of the terrain, what can they do to fight against the rebels who are several times their size!

    "Hey!"

    The drums beat continuously, shouting to kill and shake the sky.  The war entered its most tragic stage.  Due to the use of catapults, the Tang army on the top of the city suffered large casualties.

    "Brothers from the second team and the third team, bend your bows and get ready!" Cui Shu, the deputy general of Beicheng City Defense, commanded loudly. With the cover of catapults and crossbows, the rebels moved very fast, and now they have gradually entered the range of bows and arrows.

    ¡°You little bastard, why don¡¯t you throw stones at grandpa if you can!¡±

    Fire Chief Lin Mu spat out a mouthful of phlegm and loudly greeted the rebels' relatives.  Since the charging rebels had already reached the city, they had stopped throwing stones and firing crossbows. The soldiers at the top of Suiyang City could also take a breather.

    "Stop talking nonsense and draw your bow!" Cui Shu glared at Lin Mu and said, "If it's a man, shoot it back for me! The rebels have projectiles and ballistas, and we also have bows and arrows! Can you use the bow and arrows?  All the rebels have been shot to death. I will be the first to submit to you!" After a pause, Cui Shu continued: "Hey, you don't need to hide it for me. If the crossbow arrows are shot, the big deal is that Xiao Zhang Tanhua will make thousands of scarecrows.  , throw it down to the tower to borrow arrows!"

    As soon as he said these words, the originally gloomy and solemn atmosphere became relaxed for a while, and many veterans who had experienced the war a few months ago burst into laughter.  It turns out that everyone had a shortage of arrows a few months ago. At that time, Xiao Zhang Tanhua came up with a clever trick and used thousands of scarecrows to defraud 100,000 feathered arrows, which was supposed to solve Suiyang City's urgent need.

    Yes, the winner on the battlefield is not necessarily the strong one. As long as everyone works hard enough, nothing is impossible!

    One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred steps!

    "Shoot!" Cui Shu gave the order, and hundreds of eagle-feather arrows roared out from the crenellations at the top of the city and scattered towards the bottom of the city.  Brothers don't need to consider the angle at all. They only need to fully draw the bowstring and diffuse it into the air to effectively kill the rebel soldiers. There are too many rebel soldiers under the city tower!

    The feathered arrows weaved into a dense black arrow net, whizzing out from the crenel, thrown high and then capsized on top of Hu Bing's head.

    "Ah!" The rebel soldiers rushing in the front row were shot by flying arrows and fell off the ladder.  They were too impatient, and the huge reward blinded their brains. In order to speed up the climb, they actually threw away the rhinoceros shields in their hands and climbed towards the top of Suiyang North City at full speed!

    "Pick up the shields in your hands and protect your vital points, you bunch of idiots!" Asnarusa's eyes were red. The Tang army had just fired a round of arrows and killed nearly 200 of his soldiers. If this continues, he will not wait until  When they reached the top of the city, all their soldiers were dead.

    Damn it!  A bunch of bastards who just hide behind the city wall and shoot cold arrows, don't let grandpa climb up there!

    Hearing Master Ashnarusa¡¯s order, the rebel soldiers in the back row gradually came to their senses and began to cover the vital parts of their heads with narrow shields. As for other parts of the body, they could no longer care about them.  They held a shield in one hand and a ladder in the other, gritting their teeth and rushing towards the city wall with all their might.?.  A large number of archers under the cover of long shields, guarded by their companions, began to counterattack.  They didn't care whether the arrows would hit themselves, but rushed to a certain distance, drew their bows and released arrows. The arrows flew out diagonally and landed in the Tang army's formation on the city wall in a parabola.  Some of the Tang Army's archers on the city wall also began to fall, but when one Tang Army's archer fell, someone immediately stood on his body and took his place to fire arrows.

    "Make it up, make it up, don't give the rebels a chance, use your arrows to greet them in the face, greet them in the face!" Cui Shu was almost exhausted from exhaustion, but still refused to take a step back and kept shouting.  To cheer up the soldiers.  As a veteran of many battles, he needs to pass on his experience to these new recruits at a specific time.  After all, sometimes blood and courage are not enough on the battlefield. Proper skills can avoid your own casualties to the greatest extent.

    No one retreated, no one hesitated.  Everyone knows who the enemy is in front of them, Hulu, they are a group of murderous devils.  If they were allowed to capture Suiyang City, not only themselves, but also millions of people on Jianghuai Road behind Suiyang City would suffer disaster.

    They are Tang people!

    The rebels set up their troops from Fan Yang and succeeded all the way, but what about them?  They retreated from Hebei to Xingyang, from Xingyang to Luoyang, and from Luoyang to Chang'an.

    Now they can¡¯t even defend Suiyang City?

    After Suiyang, there will be no more Tang Dynasty!

    They can¡¯t take another half step back!

    Seeing that the long-range fire cover of the rebels was gradually coming down, Wang Jie, the captain in charge of rear fire support, roared loudly:

    "Go and move the rocks, as many as you can, and smash them down from the crenels!"

    They had used up all the stones and rolling wood in the city, but they used one night to demolish all the houses near the city wall.  Although the stones obtained are not many, they can solve an urgent need.

    Now they absolutely cannot allow the rebels to successfully climb the city wall, they must create enough trouble for them in the process of climbing!

    "One, two, throw it!" On Suiyang North City, a few soldiers bravely lifted a boulder weighing more than a hundred kilograms and threw it down from the crenel.  The boulder hit a rebel soldier who was climbing a ladder with great force, breaking his sternum through his chainmail armor.  The soldier cried out in pain and fell down from the ladder.

    Lang Li excitedly punched Wang Jie and said happily: "Brother Wang, you are here, we can hardly hold on any longer!"

    Wang Jie chuckled softly and said: "How can I have the nerve to watch my brothers work hard without helping me? Brothers working together can be as sharp as gold. We are brothers who have lived together!"

    "Okay, okay, let's kill the damn ones together. Kill one to earn one, kill two to earn a pair!" Lang Lihao suddenly became excited and said loudly.

    "Kill his mother, kill his mother!" All the soldiers responded with their swords raised.

    They were destined not to leave Suiyang City alive, which they knew clearly from the moment they decided to stay and follow Xiao Zhang Tanhua.  But so what?

    They will still guard the already devastated Suiyang City without hesitation, and guard the dignity of the Tang Dynasty!

    This is the dignity that belongs to countless Tang people and cannot be trampled upon by barbarians!

    A large number of rebel soldiers were steadily attacking Suiyang under the protection of giant shields.  Although the feather arrows cover a wide area, they are powerless against thick shields. If Wang Jie does not rush to reinforce the enemy immediately, I am afraid that the rebel soldiers will be able to attack the city in an instant.

    But now everything is different!  With the 200 garrison troops under Lang Li and the 300 soldiers brought by Wang Jie, the Tang army's effective strength at the crenellation already totaled 500 men.  Huge stones and rolling logs fell from the crenels, smashing through the rhinoceros shields that the rebel soldiers relied on, and smashing the shoulder bones and ribs of the rebel soldiers.  The rebels screamed in agony, fell down in mid-air, and died!

    ¡°Fuck him, hehe!¡±

    Lang Li waved his fists excitedly and wiped the sweat from his forehead, as excited as a child.

    Who among them is not a child?  If it weren't for this war, most of them would still be at home reviewing the books of sages and preparing for the scientific examination, right?

    A war changed the fate of many people!

    ps: I have always believed that war is indispensable, but avoid it if you can. Don¡¯t you see that countless heroes are looking for titles, but they all die in the sand pits and in the fields.
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