Chapter 194: Tentative Offensive
"Wow, wow."
The neat military boots ran slowly from far to near.
The enemy soldiers in front of the city wall were steady and tidy, and slowly approached the city gate.
The pressure that came to face made all the soldiers defending on the city wall look solemn. In fact, it didn't need a reminder for the rest of their lives. All the soldiers defending on the city wall can see that the enclave sergeants who attacked this time were far from comparable to the enemy troops they encountered before.
Soon, the enemy's phalanx moved into the range of the bow and arrow, but the rest of his life did not immediately order the attack.
There were about twenty soldiers in each row of enemy troops, arranged neatly. At the front was a row of neatly large shields, followed by other soldiers closely behind. Each of them held small shields, firmly blocking the key points of their exposed necks. The advance formation was tight and there were no obvious flaws.
The maximum distance between the crossbows will lose strength. It is OK to deal with the loose formations of the previous ones, but it cannot attack immediately against such close and well-trained sergeants.
The square formation kept moving forward from time to time, until the enemy troops in the middle had entered the range, Yu Sheng then gave a loud order.
"Attack the sergeant at the third row and release it!"
"Swoosh!"
The sound of arrow feathers breaking through the air came neatly, and headed straight for the third row of soldiers. The third row of soldiers had already escaped from the guards of the big shield, and their defense was slightly weaker than the two rows in front.
The sound of "dang, dang" comes from time to time, and most of the arrow feathers are blocked by the enemy's shields or armor. Only a few arrow feathers shot into the enemy's formation at a tricky angle, causing a small amount of damage.
In the first wave of arrow feathers, only a few enemy troops fell down, and a vacant appeared in the square formation immediately, but it was instantly filled.
Yu Sheng stood above the city, frowned, thought for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Free shooting, prepare for the rolling stones and wood!"
"Swoosh, swosh."
The sound of arrow feathers breaking through the air is endless, but the killing effect on the lower square formation is very small. The enemy is much better than the enemy troops I have encountered in terms of formation, equipment and personal qualities. This is definitely not the first time the army in front of us has participated in a siege.
Huang Yuchen stood above the city, holding a long sword in his hand, and stood quietly. Looking at the enemy formation that was constantly approaching below, a brief estimate was that there were about 2,000 enemy troops in front of him. These people alone would definitely not be able to break through Changxiangcheng. The intention of the enemy general was obvious, just to test Changxiangcheng's defensive ability, but for the Changxiangcheng defenders, they had to do their best.
Huang Yuchen thought in his mind that if the enemy really rushed to the city wall, he would immediately activate two fire formations. The pure fire elemental flames of the fire formation that were several meters long would swallow a large number of enemy troops in an instant, making defending the city much easier.
On the city wall, many soldiers saw that the arrow feathers did not work, so they put down their longbows and replaced them with more powerful crossbows. The crossbow arrows were activated and immediately caused considerable damage to the enemy.
The power of crossbow arrows is much stronger than that of longbow arrow feathers, mainly because the bow string of the crossbow is composed of the flesh tendons of three beasts, which is much stronger than the single beast tendon of the longbow, but it is not so easy to open the bow string of the crossbow arrows, so the attack frequency of the crossbow arrows is much slower than that of the longbow.
As long as the crossbow arrow is shot onto the enemy's armor, it will immediately drill into the armor and directly kill the enemy. However, this expedition, the number of crossbow arrows carried was not large, each with only twenty arrow feathers, and the crossbow arrow arrows were
Yu is extremely difficult to replenish, so it cannot attack unconditionally.
Although the enemy's phalanx was baptized by longbows and crossbow arrows and suffered considerable casualties, the formation was not chaotic and did not look at all panic. Every vacant position brought by injured or dead sergeants would be immediately filled by the sergeants behind him. Until the enemy's phalanx advances near the city wall, there is no big turmoil in the entire phalanx.
"Rolling Stone!"
Yu Sheng saw that the enemy's formation had advanced to the city wall, but the crossbow arrows could not be used freely, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to lift the huge rocks that had been lifted on the city wall and smashed them under the city wall.
"boom!"
In an instant, the soldiers in the front row of the enemy's phalanx received the first damage from the rolling stones. The huge rocks thrown from the city walls that were several feet high were not very effective in defending them. As long as they were hit, they would die immediately on the spot.
With Yu Sheng's order, several huge rocks were immediately pushed down on the city wall, causing brief damage to the enemy's phalanx. Other soldiers on the city wall took advantage of the enemy's brief panic and immediately fired thousands of arrows at once, killing and injuring a large number of enemy soldiers.
In an instant, under Changxiang City, there was a wailing sound. The enemy could no longer maintain the complete formation as before, but it quickly changed its formation. All the soldiers aimed the shield in their hands at the city wall, leaving a path in the middle. The ladder hand at the end of the square formation immediately carried the ladder and ran quickly, heading straight for the city wall.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng condensed his eyes and immediately ordered: "Cloud Ladder Hand! Kill immediately!"
With a command, dozens of arrow feathers immediately rushed towards the ladder in the middle of the enemy, and the sound of breaking through the air resounded through the sky.
For the cloud ladders who were under the city without any protection, these dozens of arrow feathers became their death talisman. Due to the arrow feathers, all the cloud ladders died immediately.
The long ladder stopped where he was, and the enemy troops responsible for building the ladder remained alive.
In the enemy's phalanx, another group of soldiers immediately walked out and went forward to carry the ladder and charged again. Without Yu Sheng's order, dozens of arrow feathers roared over and several enemy soldiers died on the spot again.
At this moment, the enemy in front had already arrived in front of the main gate of Changxiangcheng. The big shield raised its head and defended the arrow feathers pouring down from the city wall. The long sword in his hand kept slashing, slashing the city gate of Changxiangcheng like a lifeless person.
Of course, they saw the formation that shines brightly on the city wall, but they didn't care. The enclave army did not have a formation wizard, and there were very few soldiers who knew the formation. Moreover, in such a tense and fierce siege battle, no one would care too much about the fluorescence in front of them.
Huang Yuchen looked at Yu Sheng with a look of inquisitiveness in his eyes. Yu Sheng turned his head, glanced at Huang Yuchen lightly, and shook his head gently.
At this time, Huang Yuchen must have wanted to immediately inspire several Lihuo Formations and kill all the enemies in front of him who had rushed to the edge of the city wall. At such a close distance, the Lihuo Formation would cause great damage, and all the enemy troops in front of the formation would be burned to death. But Yu Sheng did not give orders to Huang Yuchen, so Huang Yuchen could only frown, stand on the city wall, and wait quietly.
He had no crossbows at his hand, nor any other weapons for long-range killing. If he wanted to kill the enemy troops under the city, he could only throw out the weapons placed behind him. However, after thinking about it, he gave up this idea.
It must make sense that he would not inspire the Lihuo Formation for the rest of his life.
Faced with so many enemy troops, it is not beneficial to easily expose the formation cards, and the enemy is already there at this moment.
With the army approaching, Huang Yuchen no longer has time to go down to the city to arrange the formation again. The twenty fire formations on the city wall can be said to be the last trump card of Changxiangcheng's defense.
Moreover, it is still unknown whether the Lihuo Array can withstand the reaction force brought by the Lihuo Array by stimulating the Lihuo Array.
After Yu Sheng shook his head slightly at Huang Yuchen, he immediately ordered the soldiers beside him: "Mumu, city gate!"
The soldiers beside him nodded immediately, pushed the huge wood that had been prepared long ago to the battlement behind him, and retreated straight down from the city wall. Below the city wall was the enemy's large shield defense.
But the thick trees were pushed down from the city wall. Unless the soldiers holding the shields below had martial arts cultivation, they would definitely not be able to bear such weight. They heard only a few dull sounds, and the soldiers with the giant shield didn't even have time to scream. They were directly slapped on the helmet by the giant shield in their hands, and died of blood from their seven orifices.
As the soldiers who went forward to carry the ladder continued to die, and the soldiers who attacked the city gate were also killed, at this moment, the enemy's attack could basically be declared defeat.
Sure enough, the crisp metal pounding sound came from the enemy camp in the distance.
“Double ding.”
The soldiers under the city immediately began to retreat, but they still did not forget to hold the shield in their hands, try to maintain the formation and retreat slowly.
Then, Yu Sheng ordered the bows and arrows to be fired at the same time, and countless arrow feathers cut through the sky, killing many enemy troops again, and the remaining enemy troops retreated from the range of the bows and arrows.
During this siege, the enemy did not carry any large siege equipment, and there was no one in the city rushing car, which was obviously to test Changxiangcheng's defense ability. After this battle, the two thousand enemy troops who came to attack paid the price of seven or eight hundred deaths.
On the wall, although there were no casualties on the defensive side, it consumed a large amount of defensive equipment, including rolling stones, wood and a large number of arrow feathers, but only caused seven or eight hundred casualties to the enemy.
When the enemy troops are at the city, it is no longer possible to open the city gate to clean up the battlefield, recycle consumable items such as arrow feathers, and use a little more war materials in the city.
Seeing the enemy retreat, Yu Sheng immediately began to check the remaining supplies, and the battle at the back door was over.
After checking the front and rear walls, a rough estimate was obtained. This time, the enemy's tentative attack consumed a total of war materials, including arrow feathers, rolling stones, crossbow arrows, etc., which reduced a total of 20%, and the killing and damage to the enemy was about 1,300.
One thousand three hundred people are nothing to the size of the enemy's siege 20,000 soldiers. However, 20% of the materials consumed were irreparable for Changxiangcheng.
The number of enemy troops has not decreased significantly. According to the materials in the city now, if the enemy troops flock in at this moment, they will be completely engaged in battle regardless of consumption. Even if all the materials they have now poured down, they will not be able to completely repel the enemy. In the end, they will only inevitably enter hand-to-hand combat.
Yu Sheng stood on the city wall with his brows frowned.
The enemy's attack did not attack the hills on both sides. The soldiers on the hills received no damage, but if nothing unexpected happened, the enemy would immediately launch a tentative attack on the hills on both sides.
"Immediately notify the hills that all the troops will prepare for combat. The enemy's attack will come soon!" Yu Sheng ordered the messenger behind him. When the messenger heard this, he immediately jumped down from the city wall and rushed to the hills.
At the same time, the enemy's formation moved again.
Chapter completed!