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Text Chapter 280: The troops are approaching the city, arrows are falling like rain

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    The flying yellow sand blocks out the sky and stretches for miles.  The smoke and dust were wrapped in an iron stream like a raging black tide. They could only hear the sound of horse hooves rolling in like thunder, but they couldn't tell exactly how many soldiers and horses the Chihu people sent to attack Luoyankou this time.  As soon as the Chihu army rushed 700 steps outside Xiongguan, Zhou Laosan threw out his command flag, and the soldiers under the city immediately slashed the brown ropes binding the springs with their swords.  The trebuchets hidden behind the city wall made a harsh sound of metal and wood rubbing against each other, and a round of heavy iron caltrops projectiles were thrown into the sky with a whining sound. Their sharp spikes shone with an ominous green color.  Light.  As soon as the trebuchet behind the Luoyankou city wall was launched, the Chihu army immediately slowed down its charge.  The formation quickly dispersed from left to right, and the battle-hardened cavalry raised shields of different sizes to block their heads.  Nearly a hundred iron caltrops crossed an arc and fell towards the front of the Red Hu army's charge.  Just as the thousands of Red Hu cavalrymen in the second row of the charging formation suddenly lowered their heads and half-crouched on their horses, several crossbow arrows shot up from behind their shoulders, forming a dense rain of arrows that shot into the sky and shot towards the falling iron.  Tribulus greets.  These crossbow arrows are obviously several times thicker than the arrows fired by ordinary hand crossbows, but compared with the arrows used by the machine crossbows at Luoyankou City, they are several times smaller.  The arrows flew up and collided with the caltrops in mid-air, making a "ding-dong-dang" sound and sparks flying everywhere.  Most of the nearly one hundred iron caltrops were picked up by the crossbow arrows and sank crookedly into the sand.  The remaining dozens of caltrops still smashed into the front edge of the cavalry's charge.  Zhou Laosan, the general guarding the gate at Luoyankou, has been fighting with the Chihu people for more than ten years, but he has never seen such heavy armored cavalry rushing at the front of the Chihu army.  First of all, let¡¯s talk about the war horse under its crotch. It can no longer be regarded as a ¡°horse¡±, but a strange beast that looks like a bull and a horse. Their bodies are larger than those of cows and horses, and their limbs are long, thick, and swollen.  Their muscles contain explosive power. They don't have the long necks of horses, but they have a single foot-long blue horn on their foreheads, which looks very ferocious and fierce.  The red-bearded knights who control this kind of monster to fight are connected with the monster by the steel armor they wear. The entire armor covers from the knight's head to the four-legged ankles of the mount, wrapping the man and the monster together.  A moving steel fortress.  The thick iron armor, coupled with the eight-foot-long spears and the six-foot-square broad shields in the hands of these knights, if ordinary war horses are allowed to carry such a weight, let alone running and charging, they may not even be able to stand.  These huge monsters can move as fast as the wind with their hooves flying.  As for the dry and soft sand, these monsters plowed deep ditches.  The iron caltrops the size of human heads fell down on their heads. These heavily armored knights stopped their mounts and at the same time pushed their six-foot giant shields upwards.  Although the knight and the crotch monster, coupled with the armor, gun and shield, can weigh thousands of pounds, they cannot hold up this solid iron caltrop falling from the sky.  The shield of the first heavy-armored knight hit by the iron caltrops was shattered into pieces. He and his mount rolled backwards and fell into the sand.  The caltrop flew up upon impact, but still had a third of its strength left. The surrounding heavy-armored knights turned their shields, and several people worked together to suppress the caltrop.  Looking at the companion who was half buried in the sand, although he struggled to get up on his mount, the arm holding the shield could no longer be raised.  Some caltrops were blocked by the heavily armored knights, but they bounced into the queue behind them.  Any red-hued cavalryman without heavy armor and shield would be choked by flying iron thorns, and his flesh and blood would immediately become mutilated. Even if his skin is only scratched by the poisonous iron thorns, he can only survive for three to five breaths. The drama is so dramatic.  The poison stains the blood and attacks the heart. The unfortunate person screams and falls off his horse, and his body gradually turns into pus and blood.  A round of iron caltrops was thrown, killing dozens of light armored cavalry in the Chihu army and knocking down many horses. However, the general guarding the gate, Zhou Laosan, frowned and looked stern.  Usually, when this iron caltrop trebuchet is in full force, the enemies that rush over will fall down piece by piece like wheat, and the sandy ground will turn into a swamp of blood.  Now, this round of projectiles only achieved such negligible results, which was really beyond his expectation.  You must know that due to the speed of the Chihu cavalry, this trebuchet can only launch twice. If it cannot kill a large number of enemy lives and frighten the enemy, then this expensive war weapon will lose its meaning.  Seeing that Chihu's army began to charge faster again, Zhou Laosan pressed his hands on the wall and shouted an order: "Six hundred-step crossbows fired in volley, the trebuchets quickly re-twisted their springs, all archers opened their eyes and took aim! Don't worry about the row in front.  Tie Gupao, I'm going to greet their rear troops!" Before Zhou Laosan could finish his words, a dozen black iron balls suddenly flew out from the dust of the Red Hu army's rear troops, and they were also flying in the air.  The arcs of the aisles hit the Luoyankou city wall.  "These barbarians, they even brought a trebuchet. Are they going to tear down the wall and fight me to death?" Zhou Laosan waved his hands and shouted, "All the people on the wall dispersed and took cover! The crossbow machine  Shooting a volley into the sky, how many people can be stopped??Count how much!  That kind of wheeled trebuchet cannot be fired continuously. It becomes useless after being used once. Children, don¡¯t panic!  "With a sound of "Peng", the soldiers hurriedly turned the crossbow machine, raised the arrow, and dozens of crossbow arrows left the string with a sharp sound of breaking wind. "Zhou Laosan is really lucky today, plus  The spring strength of the simple trebuchet equipped with a rotating shaft and sand pry in the Hu Yi army was a little insufficient. The dozen or so iron balls were hit by the crossbow arrows, and five or six of them were intercepted, and a few were not as good as the others.  After hitting the city wall, they were exhausted and fell into the sand. Only seven iron balls finally hit Luoyankou Xiongguan. Two of them hit the outer wall of the city wall, causing rubble to fly everywhere.  The brick city wall only swayed slightly, not much damage; another four fell on the top of the wall, knocking down two arrow towers, and several soldiers who were unable to dodge were crushed to death by the iron balls; there was another iron ball with the force of  It was so powerful that it flew over the city wall with a roar, smashing a trebuchet propped on the ground, and before using up its remaining power, it smashed several people on the side to bloody pulp. It turned out that these seven iron balls were caused by the defenders of Luoyankou.  The damage was minimal, but unexpectedly, when one of the iron balls rolled down the city, it happened to knock over a pile of kerosene barrels. The splashing kerosene was attracted by the overturned brazier, causing a large flame to burst out, and then burned down.  There were dozens of soldiers. The remaining soldiers were busy rushing to carry the wounded and extinguishing the fire with sand. For a while, there was a mess on the wall. Zhou Laosan yelled and issued a series of orders.  The generals of the Guards took the order and jumped away. Some summoned their subordinates to help control the spread of the fire; some directed the trebuchets and crossbows to reload the projectiles and crossbows; some raised their arms and shouted, hoping to arouse the soldiers.  Taking advantage of the small commotion on the top of the city and the opportunity for the crossbow arrows to be fired, the Chihu army stepped up their horses, threw off the cumbersome slinging machinery, and rushed four hundred steps outside the city wall in one breath.  In battle, the distance between 400 and 500 steps is a line of life and death. After crossing this line of life and death, the longbows on both sides can shoot at each other, and the enemy attacking the city is no longer a moving target that cannot fight back.  Among the Chihu army, the row of heavy armored cavalry driving monsters opened the way in front of them. They used their bodies to form a rapidly advancing shield line of defense, relying on their thick iron armor and giant shields to hold up the city.  The arrows rolled across the plain in front of the pass and charged wildly at the city wall. The long arrows thrown by Dayong's defenders were almost unable to cause effective damage to these heavy armored cavalry. They rushed all the way from 700 steps away to 400 steps away.  Among the approximately three thousand cavalry and heavy armored soldiers, only a few dozen were shot to the ground. Only the archers and generals who had practiced internal martial arts and poured their inner energy into the triangular iron-toothed arrows could shoot them at a distance of 400 paces.  Wearing iron armor, the rider inside was injured, but who could be sure about it when it was four hundred steps away? Even Zhou Laosan himself drew a bow and shot a pot of iron arrows, injuring a heavy armored cavalryman.  However, it was Mr. Sima Wenchi and several of his family members who were proficient in archery who managed to knock down more than ten people in a row with their extremely pure inner strength and the powerful iron-tied bow made by Blacksmith Zheng.  A heavy armored cavalryman. This negligible loss of manpower made the Chihu people even more ferocious.  There was a continuous chorus of shouts and shouts with unknown meanings, the riding whip was waved non-stop, and the charging speed was three points faster.  The heavy armored cavalry roared past, followed closely by the leather-armored light cavalry, which numbered nearly 20,000 people in four long snake formations.  These cavalrymen not only carried longbows, throwing spears, sabers and rattan shields, they also had iron crossbow brackets strapped to their backs, and weird crossbow boxes hung on both sides of their saddles.  The first wave of 5,000 cavalry rushed to 400 paces away without letting go of the buffering force. Upon hearing the order from the leader of the queue, all the light cavalry leaned over and hugged the horses' necks, while pulling the ropes with both hands.  The mechanical crossbows behind them and on the sides of the saddles creaked, and several arrows shot out of the air and were thrown towards the sky. This round of tens of thousands of heavy ironwood crossbow arrows rose to the highest point and turned, like a torrential rain.  Generally it covers the city wall of Luoyankou.  After the five thousand cavalrymen who formed the first long snake formation fired their crossbows, their shoulders and legs shook, and the empty crossbow boxes were abandoned on the sand.  The well-trained Chihu cavalry suddenly felt relaxed. They straightened their backs with the power of the galloping horses, raised their vine shields and continued to charge forward.  The next line of five thousand cavalrymen from the Long Snake Formation came one after another, throwing out crossbows exactly the same, taking off their burdens, and attacking with light equipment.  In the past four consecutive long snake arrays, the 20,000 cavalry shot almost 100,000 special iron wood crossbow arrows, as if there were four dense black clouds stacked together and pressed down the city head.  How terrifying is it to have a hundred thousand arrows piercing the sky?  Looking up from Luoyankou, one could hardly see the sky and clouds. Only the dense and deadly cold light stung the eyes, making one feel that the whole body was frozen and cold, and there was no way to dodge.  Even the monks of the Consecration Academy standing on the high platform looked horrified, and those who were less courageous couldI couldn't help but fight with each other, almost wanting to hold my head and run away.  The usually carefree monks have never experienced such a terrifying situation where thousands of arrows are imminent. How could they have imagined that such a fierce killing method would be performed in a mortal war?  Daozhenxiu was standing on the wall. If he hadn't used his magical power to protect himself, he would have been shot by thousands of arrows and he would have been dead.  Suddenly, a strange light suddenly appeared on the high platform. The monks showed their magical powers. The layers of precious rays of light protected the three-foot-wide platform airtight. Even Cheng Lun couldn't help but call out two magical powers.  The corpse was standing in front of him, his eyes burning to see how the guard general Zhou Laosan would resolve the crisis.  The monks were all shocked, but the general Zhou Laosan was experienced in battles. He had long been aware of the Chihu people's siege methods.  The defenders of Luoyankou often practiced various tactics in order to deal with the various strange moves of the Chihu people.  Although during this siege, the 3,000 heavily armored cavalry that opened the way had never appeared in the northwest desert, and the large formation of 20,000 people firing machine crossbows was also rare, but the defenders were not in a panic.  , they don¡¯t need Zhou Laosan to issue orders, they have their own strategies to deal with the rain of arrows.  Seeing the crowds on the city wall, all the soldiers rushed towards the arrow stack in front of them. They squatted down close to the arrow stack as high as one person, picked up the sandbags soaked in cold water next to them, covered them on the shields, and raised them above their heads.  The soldiers guarding the kerosene barrels cut off the ropes, and thousands of kerosene barrels poured out from the gap in the city wall and hit the sand outside the city.  The thin wooden barrel was torn apart, and thick black kerosene accumulated outside the city wall, forming a black moat.  There was a loud "bang" and arrows rained down on the city wall.  Looking from a distance, a cloud of smoke and dust suddenly exploded from the front city wall, as if a layer of lime had been scraped off.  Countless heavy ironwood arrows shot into the wall, causing the arrow stack to fly into pieces. However, the arrow stack was not only made of iron hoops nested in blue bricks, but was also poured with iron juice, making it extremely strong. Therefore, although the arrow rain was fierce,  But it still couldn't destroy the arrow stack.  The arrows were thrown in a slanting arc, not straight up and down. Therefore, as long as the arrow stack did not fall down, the guards huddled under the wall would not be able to touch a few arrows.  Even if an arrow falls on the heads of the soldiers, the water-soaked linen sandbag is enough to block the arrow, not to mention there is a shield underneath the sandbag?  Whenever a soldier was killed or injured, it was only because the hiding place he chose was not good, most of his body was exposed, or his skin was scratched by arrows that bounced around.  Four rounds of arrow rain destroyed it one after another, and a thick layer of stone skin was peeled off the entire front wall, exposing the crisscrossed iron bars in the masonry.  The upper half of the two closed city gates were densely packed with arrows.  Some braziers fell over and ignited the fire oil under the city wall. The raging fire rose several feet high, destroying a layer of stone wall and adding a wall of fire.  The general guarding the gate, Zhou Laosan, shook off the sandbags and stood up. While he ordered the guards to report the number of casualties, he ordered the soldiers on the wall to regroup and fire arrows at the rushing Red Hu cavalry.  Not long after, a general came forward to report that after withstanding this rain of arrows, 300 of the 5,000 archers and swordsmen and axemen on the city were dead, and more than 500 people were unable to fight anymore and have now been withdrawn.  The dead and wounded are replaced by new ones.  All the crossbows on the top of the city were destroyed, and most of the trebuchets under the city wall were unusable. The rain of arrows killed more than 200 soldiers hiding behind the city wall.  Zhou Laosan cursed loudly and smashed the standing platform in front of him into pieces with one punch. He pointed at the generals and shouted: "Is this grandma guarding the city with me or the barbarians? Are they the only ones who can shoot arrows? Pass the order."  , I will drag all the crossbows in the warehouse to the city wall, as well as the kerosene and thunder rollers, and throw them all outside the city wall. I will punish these barbarians who come to Luoyankou to run wild until they die!  No matter how many trebuchets I have left, even if I throw them with my hands, I will throw all the caltrops at the heads of the barbarians. Grandpa, I don¡¯t believe in this evil today. They dare to kill nearly a thousand of my brothers in Luoyankou.  I'm going to sacrifice them all to blood!" "Master, go and ask those Niubi Taoist priests, do they still have any sense of seeing the brothers in Luoyankou fighting for their lives and covering the city with blood?" Zhou Laosan rolled his eyes and looked at them.  Looking at him is a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar among his guards.  But the man glanced at the high platform behind the city wall and sighed: "The Taoist sect has a strict order since ancient times not to interfere in mortal wars. Unless the strange people among the barbarians take action, they can only stand by and watch." "What kind of bullshit strict order is this! That's it.  If we don¡¯t take our lives seriously, we will practice Taoism on pigs and dogs!¡± Zhou Laosan cursed at the high platform.  But the master stepped forward quickly, covered his general's open mouth, and said in a low voice: "General, be careful what you say, be careful what you say! It's not appropriate to get angry at this time. Killing Hu Yi is the most important thing."  ! ¡±  Zhou Laosan groaned, swung his arm and waved away the master's hand: "I have also read the Lao Shizi Taoist Scripture. It is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. Which one made them stare at others and die?" The master did not dare to say more.  , just shook his head and winked.  Zhou Laosan cursed a few words to vent his anger, and then went to dispatch troops to defend the city.  In a short time, the heavy armored cavalry in the forefront had already rushed two hundred steps away and continued to approach the city wall at high speed. The light cavalry in the rear followed closely behind, and the hooves of tens of thousands of war horses were flying, making the ground tremble.  .  The war drums are beating loudly, and the sound of bow strings is ringing.  The garrison archers on the top of Luoyankou Xiongguan City leaned out from the gaps in the arrow stacks and shot out arrows one after another.  Now that the distance between the two sides was close, the arrows could not hurt the heavy armored cavalry in front, but the light cavalry in the back became an excellent target for Dayong's archers to avenge their comrades.  Continuous arrows swept back and forth among Chihu's army, and cavalrymen kept falling over. Their bones and tendons were broken when they fell in the sand, and they were trampled to death by their companions behind who couldn't turn their horses' heads.  Mr. Sima Wenchi and a group of master diners occupied a masonry arrow tower alone.  The old gentleman's body was full of energy, his robes were bulging like balls, his hands were like wind, and his arrows were like shooting stars.  To fire arrows to kill people two to three hundred paces away, ordinary archers still rely on intensive shooting, but these masters can use their strong strength and strong bows in their hands to directly aim at the vital points of the Chihu cavalry and fire arrows.  .  Looking at old Mr. Sima Wenchi and those masters who are proficient in archery, their arrows are really perfect.  As soon as the bowstring sounded, a blood flower exploded in the Chihu formation in an instant, and a life was lost in front of the pass.  The things that killed people more violently and swiftly were the ten heavy machine crossbows that had just been dragged up the city wall, and the four remaining trebuchets behind the city wall.  The arrows fired by the ten crossbows would cause the heavy armored cavalry to fall down immediately and fight for their lives even if they were to meet them head-on.  The defenders aimed their crossbows at the light cavalry behind them and fired them. When a crossbow arrow flew out, a ditch of flesh and blood several feet long was cut out in the light cavalry queue. The thick arrows could  Seven or eight light cavalry were penetrated in succession, and a series of dying people were pierced by arrows and nailed to the sand, bleeding and wailing. This situation was very terrifying.  Although the four trebuchets only fired once, they took the lives of more than 300 Red Hu cavalry in one breath.  The whirling iron caltrops fell in pieces, covering a large area of ??the ground dozens of feet in radius. No matter whether they were humans or horses, they would die if they saw blood.  In the mighty Red Hu army, the poisonous iron caltrops opened up a place where people and horses were thrown to death.  The Chihu army approached Luoyankou Xiongguan without fear of death.  The 20,000 light cavalry skillfully controlled their horses and avoided the dense rain of arrows. While galloping on their horses, they could also draw their bows and strings to fire arrows at the defenders on the top of the city to fight back; the heavy armored cavalry at the front were only a few dozen  He was about to crash into the flames under the city wall just one step away. He didn't know whether the armored cavalry and monsters would be devoured by the fire.  The defenders held on to the rope and waited until the heavy armored cavalry took a few steps closer to lower the first round of cast iron thunder rollers from the top of the wall.  From the rear formation where the siege army was still hidden in the rolling sand and dust, there suddenly came a dull sound of drums. Even the noisy sound of bows and arrows on the city wall and the thunderous sound of horse hooves under the city wall were all indescribable.  This strange drum sound cannot be concealed.  I don¡¯t know who is playing the drum, and there is an indescribable rhythm in the drum sound.  In response to the increasingly urgent and passionate drumbeats, the Red Hu cavalrymen raised their swords at the same time and howled sharply toward the sky.  Each of them had a faint bloody aura rising from their bodies. They completely forgot about their injuries and no longer hesitated because of the falling arrows. They saw that the charging momentum of the Red Hu army became even more fierce.  Who said that a group of monks serving in the pavilion have no regard for human life?  These vigorous young monks could no longer bear it any longer. When Cheng Lun heard the sound of drums, he actually shouted with a voice full of joy: "How can we let the Hu Yi foreigners help them?"  Are you trying to be cruel? Fellow Taoists, please quickly follow me into the formation to kill the enemy!" After saying that, Po Jun Qi Sha's body swayed and turned into a streak of flames and black smoke, heading towards the rear of Chi Hu's army.  Needless to say, the other monks all looked happy and showed off their escape methods, rushing to chase after the magic corpse.  Du Banshan turned around to look at Yu He, only to see that there was nothing around him.  A black and white intertwined cold sword light passed by the side of Po Jun Qisha. Hearing the dragon's roar from the sword and seeing the cold light like lightning, Yu He closed the sword with his body and moved the Liangzhou Mansion Sacrifice Pavilion Group Xiu far away.  Left behind.
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