Chapter 384 Preparations before the siege
Seeing Zheng Anmin leading his troops to charge, Xing, who had been observing the city for a long time, did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered: "Archer, shoot arrows!"
There were about two thousand archers arranged above the city head. At this moment, when he heard Xing Jun's order, he immediately pulled the bow and arrow and shot towards the red flame dragon rider under the city wall.
"Ding Ding Ding ~"
The arrow branches pouring down from the city were as dense as raindrops, hitting the armor of the Red Flame Dragon Knight, making waves of metal collision sounds, but the effect was almost nothing.
After a rain of arrows, the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry did not lose any of its personnel and continued to rush towards the defeated soldiers under the city.
Although the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry was heavily armored, because the Red Blood Dragon Capture's horsepower was amazing, they had only time to release a rain of arrows above the city, and they had already rushed to the defeated soldiers under the city.
A fully armored heavy cavalry brought about the pressure brought by the attack on the front line, which was no less than a charge tank on the real side, so the defeated soldiers who were already killed had no intention of resisting and directly scattered and continued to flee.
But how could their speed be comparable to that of the Red Flame Dragon Knight? In addition, they were not in a queue at all. In many places, there were a bunch of people who could not run at all.
After a while, the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry directly entered the formation. Facing these defeated soldiers who had no intention of fighting, the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry was not ruthless at all. As he raised his sword, he quickly broke out a bloody path.
"How could they be so fast?"
Xing Jun stood above the city and looked at the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry below in disbelief. He was obviously a heavy armored cavalry, but he had just had time to fire an arrow when they rushed over. What was the point of riding?
Because he was shocked by the speed of the Red Flame Dragon Rider, Xing Jun did not pay much attention to the effect of the wave of arrow rain just now. He just felt that the effect seemed not very good, but whether he had shot people to death was that because the Red Flame Dragon Rider was too fast, he did not see it either.
At this moment, seeing the Red Flame Dragon Rider chasing his soldiers under the city wall as if cutting vegetables, his face was so gloomy that water was almost dripping. After a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Shoot the arrow!"
"Shoot the arrow?"
Liang Ming was stunned for a moment, and he didn't react. Now the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry was chasing Deng Yu and the others to kill. The two were mixed together, where would they release arrows?
After a moment, he reacted and looked at Xing Jun in disbelief and said, "Sir, there are still our brothers under the city. If they shoot arrows, they will not be able to escape death!"
Xing Jun stared at Liang Ming with a cold look and said, "Or why don't you go down and save them?"
"this……"
After hearing Xingjun said this, Liang Ming couldn't speak. Although he couldn't bear to have his robes shot by his own people, he wanted to let himself go and save them...
Liang Ming looked at the red flame dragon cavalry like a wolf and a tiger under the city, and felt that it was safer to stay on the city wall. As for those comrades, at worst, they could wait until next year and burn more paper money for them.
"snort!"
Xing Jun snorted coldly, then ordered in a very firm tone: "Shot the arrow immediately!"
After receiving the order to shoot arrows, an uproar came from the Bow Barracks. It was obvious that they were shooting their own people, which made them unable to do anything. However, under the pressure of the supervisor, they could not delay for too long. After a while, the rain of arrows began to pour down from the top of the city.
After the rain of arrows fell, the screams at the city immediately increased several times.
Although the order to shoot the arrow was made by Zheng Jun, he still closed his eyes unbearably when he heard the screams below, "This battle was a failure, but I only made a mistake in making the decision, which caused the soldiers to die. I was really uneasy."
"However, if they can severely damage this Red Flame Dragon Knight with their sacrifice, I think they will be very happy even if they die..."
"No, sir, this is not right!!!"
Liang Ming kept staring at the bottom to observe the situation. Just as Xing Jun was comforting himself, he noticed something strange and immediately shouted: "Stop, stop quickly, don't let go!!!"
With Liang Ming's order, the Bowing Barracks quickly stopped shooting arrows. Xing Jun looked at Liang Ming with some confusion and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Sir, please see for yourself."
Liang Ming pointed at the city wall with a very ugly expression and signaled Xing Jun to see it himself.
"There is nothing strange below?"
Xing Jun glanced down. At this time, under the double attack of the archer and the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, the defeated soldiers had almost been killed, and the corpses of the defeated soldiers were everywhere. At this time, the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry was chasing the remaining defeated soldiers. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with them.
Wait a minute...
Xing Jun suddenly realized the problem, took a step forward, poked his head out to look down the city, "This is not right! Where is the corpse? Where are their corpses!!!"
The city was covered with corpses of defeated soldiers, and the corpses of the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, but he didn't see any of them!
"No corpse."
Liang Ming showed a bitter smile on his face, "Because there were no dead people."
"How is this possible!"
Xing Jun turned around and stared at Liang Ming with a ferocious expression, and roared loudly: "The archers have shot at them for so long, how could they not have died? Do you think they are all martial gods?"
"I don't know if they are the Martial God's Beizhi, but they are indeed no one dead."
Liang Ming could understand Xing Jun's mood, so he did not care about Xing Jun's tone, but explained: "I saw it very clearly just now. When the rain of arrows fell on the cavalry, they were almost blocked by their armor. Even if there were occasional arrows shot into the gaps in their armor, they could not hurt them at all."
Liang Ming was not wrong with what he saw, because the heavy armor of the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry is divided into two layers, and the outer layer is a metal armor made of ink iron, which is the main defense part.
On the inner layer, the link between the armor is wrapped with a lining sewn from animal skin, which further strengthens the defense of the heavy armor.
In addition, the Red Flame Dragon Knights are all in the physical training realm, and their bodies are far superior to those of ordinary people. After these two levels of weakening, ordinary arrow branches cannot hurt them at all.
"how so?"
Xing Jun looked at the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry below with a little lost consciousness. As a general, although he did not have heavy armored cavalry under his command, he still knew a little.
Although this kind of heavy armor has a strong defense and the bow and arrow are not very lethal to them, you fight against the rain of arrows and don’t even have any casualties. Isn’t this a bit too much?
Seeing that the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry had killed all the soldiers under the city and began to retreat, Xing Jun took a deep breath, suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart, and ordered: "Go and prepare more boiling oil and gold juice immediately and hang it on the city wall."
"In addition, transfer the arc sagittals over. If these cavalry dare to get closer and shoot them directly with the arc sagittals, I don't believe that they can even withstand the arc sagittals."
Arc sagittarius belongs to war weapons, so the specialty arrow storage is not too much. Its function is generally used to suppress enemy masters and prevent the opponent's stronger generals from rushing directly to the city wall. It is a deterrent weapon.
But Xing Jun couldn't take care of so much at this moment. If the Red Flame Dragon Knight appeared under the city so unscrupulously, Zhao Yuancheng's morale would be gone.
After saying this, Xing Jun felt that it was not enough and continued to speak: "Also, block all the six city gates for me and block them, so as not to leave any gaps."
Generally, a city defended will not block the city gate. After all, the city gate is not much weaker than the city wall, and it is extremely difficult to break through the city wall.
In addition, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. If there is any emergency, if there is a better opportunity, such as reinforcements coming or the enemy's inexplicably bombing the camp, it is possible to open the city gate to turn into an attack at any time.
At this time, Xing Jun asked his subordinates to block the city gate, which meant that he completely gave up the opportunity to attack. Even if he encountered a great opportunity, he would never be able to go out of the city to fight again.
Although Liang Ming was a little surprised when he heard this, after thinking about the combat effectiveness of the Red Flame Dragon Knight just now, he nodded with consent, thinking that this should be true.
Otherwise, if there is any "good opportunity", then I will be the one who needs to go out of the city to raid. If I am ambushed by this Red Flame Dragon Knight again, I will have to end up like Deng Yu.
Thinking of Deng Yu who was in the bone-making realm just now, he was beheaded by the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry like a miscellaneous soldier, Liang Ming couldn't help but shudder.
He was not afraid of the warriors who died in battle, but he was a little reluctant to die like Deng Yu.
Therefore, he immediately bowed his hands to Xing Jun and promised: "Don't worry, I will send someone to block the city gate now, so that even if they have locked the city gate, they will not be able to enter Zhaoyuan City without three days."
Of course, the implication of this statement is also very clear, that is, if the city gate is blocked and they want to leave the city, it will take three days to clear the city gate.
Xing Jun heard Liang Ming’s implication, but he didn’t say much, just nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll leave this matter to you, you can do it immediately!”
"promise!"
Liang Ming responded loudly, and immediately led his troops to block the city gate with stones.
In the central tent of the Yuzhi Army, Mo Zizai, Zhou Qi, Yang Yanzhang, Han Qu, Li Huaien and other generals sat upright in the camp. After Zheng Anming settled down and came in, the few people immediately looked at him.
"how?"
Mo Zizai looked at Zheng Anming and asked, "What are the gains in this attack?"
"The two thousand soldiers who left the city have been completely wiped out."
Zheng Anmin first reported the results of the battle, and then said, "But the generals guarding the city were more cautious. He watched these two thousand soldiers die under the city, and there was no intention of opening the city gate."
Speaking of this, Zheng Anmin said with some concern: "And, after this battle, the guards would definitely be more cautious. It would be almost impossible to get the imperial edict in the far city."
“As expected.”
Mo Zizai and others were not too surprised. After all, the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry's intention to chase the enemy was too obvious. As long as the guards of the Yuancheng were not stupid, it would be impossible to easily open the city gate and let the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry take the opportunity to rush in.
So although the Red Flame Dragon Knight did not achieve its final goal this time, they were not too disappointed.
"Since you can't take it right, you can only attack."
Siege wars, especially in strong attacks, are generally wars of attrition and have almost no technical content.
One side is responsible for attacking and the other side is responsible for defending. It depends on which side cannot hold on first. As long as one side cannot hold on, the winner will naturally be decided.
Therefore, in this case, Mo Zizai was not in a hurry to attack the city. After all, his soldiers would not fly. If he wanted to attack Zhaoyuan City, he had to have enough siege equipment.
So he was not in a hurry in the first few days. He patiently built siege equipment with his army, but what Xing Jun on the city was a little confused was that Mo Zizai's army had built in the past few days seemed to have siege ladders. Other siege equipment such as wells, rushing cars, ladders, etc. seemed to have not made any of them, which made Xing Jun a little confused.
"Does Mo Zizai plan to capture my imperial edict on the city ladder?"
After this thought flashed through Xing Jun's mind, he immediately shook his head and threw away this ridiculous idea. The attack was consumed. Even if Mo Zizai had five thousand red flame dragon cavalry as strong as he wanted to capture his Zhaoyuancheng by just siege ladder, he would look down on him too much at Zhaoyuancheng. Could it be that he really used his Zhaoyuancheng as mud?
Although he was very angry at Mo Zizai's contemptuous attitude, Xing Jun, who had just suffered a great loss, has now become very cautious. He pondered for a moment, then summoned Liang Ming and ordered: "Go to the warehouse to get the hot oil and put it on the top of the city for backup."
"Hard-tempered turmeric?"
When Liang Ming heard that Xing Jun was about to take the hot turbulent oil over, he couldn't help but hesitate, "Sir, isn't it too early to take the hot turbulent oil over now?"
It is difficult to store things like harsh turtle oil, so Zhaoyuan City does not have much inventory. In addition, this thing is powerful, so when defending the city, it is usually regarded as a last resort.
When it is the most difficult time to defend the city, take it out. The unextinguishable flame can not only shock the enemy, but also enhance the morale on your side. It can be regarded as the last shot of the soldiers guarding the city.
"It's not too early."
Xing Jun was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope. He was afraid that Mo Zizai would make any trouble again, so he said firmly: "The hot turmeric oil is just for the sake of accident. If something happens to me, it will be too late to get it temporarily."
"Isn't this the case?"
Liang Ming looked at the cautious Xing Jun and always felt that he was scared by the Red Flame Dragon Knight, but who made him his immediate boss? So he just muttered in his heart, and didn't say much, and asked the soldiers to move the fierce turbulent oil to the city wall one by one.
As both sides prepared more and more, the atmosphere under Zhaoyuan City became more and more tense, and the war was about to break out.
Chapter completed!