Chapter 71 The Last Madness (Part 2)
Because the east wall of Shenchi was a tofu project, Fan Junzhang easily collapsed with a catapult. Although the collapsed city wall was only the upper half, the soil and rocks fell outside the city after the collapse of the city wall formed a steep slope.
Although it is not easy to climb this steep slope, the soldiers of the Tianxing Army led by Fan Junzhang flocked to him like a tide.
Due to the unexpected collapse of the city wall, the Tang soldiers who were originally defending here were swallowed up by more than 200 people. Except for a few dozen soldiers, who were dug out of the mound by other Tang soldiers, the other soldiers were buried under the city wall in this way.
More than a hundred surviving soldiers of the Third Regiment subconsciously shot arrows. The formation of the Tianxing Army soldiers was too dense. As long as the direction was good, they didn't even need to aim.
Arrows were flying in the air, and the soldiers of Tianxing Army were roaring and screaming. Many soldiers of Tianxing Army were caught in arrows and fell to the ground. The soldiers on the ground were soon stepped into meat paste by the soldiers of Tianxing Army behind, and finally turned into dust. Life was as cheap as grass.
The soldiers of the Tang army naturally fought to the death. Although there were only a thin military formation like more than one hundred people, it was simply delusional to imagine using bows and arrows to suppress more than twenty times the enemy. The archers of the Tianxing Army began to shoot archery rain onto the city walls.
The shooting of hundreds or thousands of arrows in front of the Tang army soldiers really gave up the idea of using a crossbow to block the enemy from climbing the city wall. If they fight at close range, they still have the power to fight.
After all, the gap in the city wall was only more than one hundred steps, and no matter how many people the Tianxing Army had in this range, it was impossible to play. However, shooting at medium and long distances with them was completely a behavior of abuse. After just a rain of arrows, almost all the soldiers of the Tang army were shot.
If it weren't for the Dingyuan Army's soldiers' equipment, all of them were iron armor, I'm afraid this round of arrow rain would be enough to wipe out the Third Regiment. Fortunately, the Third Regiment had stainless steel armor defense, and the Tianxing Army archers did not use armor-breaking arrows. The more than a hundred Tang soldiers, except for more than a dozen unlucky men who were hit on the throat or face and died in battle, were still jumping around even though the others were like hedgehogs and covered with thorns (arrows).
The melee battle begins with hand and blades.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The soldiers on both sides shouted in a stern manner, waving their weapons to slash and kill.
Shenchi City, at this time, was like pouring a scoop of cold water into a boiling oil pan, and it instantly boiled.
At this time, the formation of only more than a hundred people was barely blocking the gap. Fan Junzhang did not directly participate in the attack. He was the commander of the entire army, not the captain of the suicide squad. His position was in the command position. Looking at the thin formation of the city wall, he believed that the Tang army would definitely not be able to withstand the superior force of two thousand men and twenty times the strength.
However, the fact slapped Fan Junzhang hard.
Time passed by a stick of incense, and the soldiers of Tianxing Army were fighting and killing under the city wall.
After two incense sticks, the soldiers of Tianxing Army were still fighting under the city.
During the Cold Weapon War, it is indeed easy to have more appalling military achievements. For example, Xijun of the Tang Dynasty bought a hundred cavalry and defeated ten thousand enemies. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Liangzhou Supervisor (this was an official position invented by the Jin Dynasty, similar to the current political commissar). Beigong Chun led 1,000 Liangzhou infantry and cavalry, defeated Liu Cong's 100,000 troops under Luoyang City, and naturally there were 7,000 troops in Chen Qingzhi and defeated hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northern Wei Dynasty. There were also Ran Min, 3,000 Han cavalry defeated the 100,000 troops in the Xiongnu, beheaded more than 30,000 levels, and chased them to a hundred miles. Xie Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated more than one million troops in the Di Qin Fu Jian with 80,000 troops.
With such a dazzling record, there is a prerequisite. The equipment of both sides is not proportional. The more people, the equipment must be poor, otherwise such a record will not exist at all. Now the soldiers of the Tang army are wearing bright light and steel armor, and can withstand the crude weapons in the hands of the Tianxing army soldiers. However, the horizontal sword in the hands of the Tang army soldiers can make the Tianxing army soldiers lose their combat effectiveness with just one knife.
The advantage in equipment can naturally be offset by the advantage of the number of people to a certain extent. As the battle continues, the soldiers of the Tang army fell one by one in the pool of blood.
Under the light of the fire, there were less than thirty Tang soldiers standing on the gap in the Shenchi City Wall. However, these thirty Tang soldiers were like stubborn stones. No matter how the Tianxing Army rushed around, they were still motionless.
"Ho ho. Ho ho--" The surviving Tang soldiers let out a roar like a wild beast. In fact, fighting to the death was not the original creation of Chen Ying. Chen Ying gave the hope of regaining Hedong. As long as they recover Hedong and Taiyuan, they will be the heroes of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, they will be no problem to win a wife and a son and return home in a pure manner. Even if they die in battle, their families can receive 20 and a half years of tax pensions from the Tang Dynasty.
Chen Ying was filled with a strong belief in the Tang army soldiers and injected his soul into their army. He would draw his sword whenever he was surrounded by a heavy siege, even if he had many enemies and few, as long as he had a breath, he would fight to the end.
So, even though there were only thirty people, even though they were already scarred, they did not give up and still gritted their teeth and persevered.
Crazy is not the patent of Dingyuan Army soldiers. In the offensive state, Tianxing Army looked at the only twenty or thirty scarred soldiers left in the Tang army, and they also made a ruthless roar. With the roar, hundreds of soldiers rushed towards each other, replacing the weak and weak Tianxing Army soldiers who had just rushed to the weak. This round of attack was completely different than before!
The new army joined, and they took the shield as the lead. There was no gap between the shield and the shield. The shield slowly advanced like a wall. No matter how hard the surviving Tang soldiers tried, they could not cut the shield wrapped in iron. Hundreds of Tianxing soldiers pushed the shield player in front, pushing up like bulldozers.
The surviving Tang soldiers waved their weapons frantically, either poking, stabbing, chopping or chopping, but none of this helped. They were like a small stone in front of a bulldozer, pressing by the shield wall and slowly retreating.
Fan Junzhang, who was watching the formation under the city, was overjoyed when he saw this: "The first one would like to climb to reward tens of thousands of dollars!"
The soldiers of Tianxing Army, who originally had the absolute advantage, were even more excited at this time. They roared: "Tianxing Army is victorious, and the general is mighty."
The surviving Tang soldiers at the gap were pushed to the center of the city wall and forced them into a dead corner.
More than a dozen surviving people were full of grief and anger, but they could do nothing.
At this moment, the Tang army chief Ji Huailiang roared to the sky: "The moon was bright in the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty was passive, and the people of the Long March have not returned!"
More than a dozen surviving Tang army soldiers also shouted: "But let the flying general in Longcheng be there, and the Huma will not be able to cross Yinshan."
Fan Junzhang said expressionlessly: "All heroes, each of them will be their masters, and they will reward their entire bodies!"
Fan Junzhang did not persuade him to surrender, and he knew that these Tang soldiers would not surrender at all.
Ji Huailiang slowly knelt down towards Yanmen Pass: "General, humble and incompetent!"
After saying that, Ji Huailiang and more than a dozen surviving soldiers surrounded each other, waiting for the last moment to arrive.
Chapter completed!