Chapter 584: The Fierce Battle (1)
The next day, the rising sun rose! The delicate red sunlight smeared a layer of blood on the eastern sky!
Li Ke's face was solemn, standing on the city wall, silent.
"Your Highness, ten thousand soldiers of the Ghost Face Cavalry have already lined up to wait for the order!" Zheyu walked forward and thought to Li Ke and said.
"Well- let them take their place!" Li Ke said lightly.
"No" Zheyu agreed and strode away from the city tower.
After a while, tens of thousands of black-clad ghost-faced knight soldiers appeared on the head of Liangzhou City. They were still wearing characteristic bronze masks, with tall bodies, and stood quietly on the head of the city.
At this time, Sun Erlang, Li Yan, Li Zong, Yuwen Guo, and Xue Rengui all walked up to the city tower and stood beside Li Ke, accompanying Li Ke silently. Everyone was waiting for the coalition forces of Tubo and Tuyuhun, wanting to see their catapult carts and ladders, and thinking in their minds what unexpected situations would happen today and what measures would they take to defend the city!
A rumbling sound came into Li Ke and everyone's ears, and a black line appeared on the western horizon.
Everyone knew very well that this was the Iron Cavalry of the Tubo and Tuyuhun coalition forces. Gradually, simple ladders and large catapults appeared behind the Iron Cavalry. The number of them surprised Li Ke very much. He did not expect that Lu Dongzan would be so cruel and could build hundreds of cloud ladders and catapults. He didn't think about it carefully and felt that there was no need to be surprised. The 300,000 Tubo and Tuyuhun coalition forces were dispatched to attack the city, and even if 100,000 were dispatched to attack the city, there would be 200,000 left in the camp. Two hundred thousand could participate in the construction of catapults and ladders, which would be possible to build as many as possible, let alone these hundreds!
Slowly, when they could clearly see the flag in the center of the cavalry, the cavalry of Tubo and Tuyuhun stopped their war horses, and they began to set up formations, and the catapult carts began to visit the positions calmly, and the ladder was pushed to the front of the army. Li Ke and the generals watched Tubo and Tuyuhun placing catapult carts, and they watched Tubo and Tuyuhun start a new round of siege.
After a while, 20,000 infantrymen of Tubo and Tuyuhun appeared behind the cloud ladder, and they began to push the cloud ladder towards Liangzhou City. The catapult cart placed behind also began to fill stones and began a round of test shots. After the first round of test shots, no stone hit the city wall. The Tubo people began to move the catapult cart slowly forward and constantly adjust the best catapult position.
"Get ready!" Li Ke said lightly.
"No" the generals took the order, left with great strides, and returned to their posts.
Behind Li Ke, only Li Yan and Li Zong were left. Yuwen Guo and Xue Rengui were also arranged by Li Ke to the city wall to assist Sun Erlang in defending the city.
"Start - siege!" Seeing that the catapult cart was placed, Sang Xiong issued an order to siege the city. He saw that 20,000 Tubo and Tuyuhun infantry divided into ten teams of 2,000 people, pushing the ladder slowly towards Liangzhou City. The catapult cart behind the Tubo army also began to exert force, throwing the huge stones at Liangzhou City.
"Touch--" I heard a muffled sound, and a large stone hit the walls of Liangzhou City. The banner on the city tower was trembling. Then came a continuous rumbling sound, and countless large stones hit Liangzhou City.
"Hidden--" Sun Erlang shouted loudly, waved the flag, and saw the soldiers guarding the city blocking under the city wall.
The crossbows, which were out of the dead corner, also began to show their power, shooting arrows about two meters long at the ladders that had entered the range and the siege soldiers behind the ladders.
The accuracy of the crossbow was very high, and I heard constant screams, and many Tubo and Tuyuhun fell to the ground.
Li Ke stood on the city tower, frowned as he looked at the ladder that was approaching.
He said to Wang Zhongchang beside him, "Order, aim the crossbow on the city tower at the cloud ladder, shoot the cloud ladder and the people above, or shoot the cloud ladder to me, and the others don't have to worry about it!"
"No" Wang Zhongchang took the order and quickly walked towards Sun Erlang.
Wang Zhongchang came to Sun Erlang, who was commanding the army to defend the city on the city wall and sent Li Ke's order to him. Sun Erlang nodded to show his understanding and immediately waved the order flag, and saw the crossbowmen constantly adjusting the angle and direction.
After the adjustment, he saw him aiming at a ladder rushing in the front.
"Swoosh--" I heard a sound of hissing through the air. A long arrow flew into the cloud ladder in a flash. The Tubo soldiers on the cloud ladder were not careful and pierced through the body by the long arrows and shot two Tubo infantry down the cloud ladder. However, the power of the long arrows did not diminish. Another round of flying shot through a Tuyuhun infantry running forward on the ground.
As soon as the crossbow shot an arrow, a large rock flew from afar and hit the side of the crossbow. The soldiers on the crossbow were so scared that they shrank under the city wall.
Obviously, the catapult cart was also paying attention to the movement of the crossbow, and could target the catapult cart that was deployed against the crossbow. Otherwise, the catapult cart would not have been almost killed by the catapult cart as soon as the crossbow shot to death! However, even though the catapult cart was used against the crossbow, Li Ke had ordered the bed crossbow to be mounted in a dead corner of Liangzhou City. Therefore, no matter how powerful the catapult cart was, the stone was hit near the crossbow and could not hit the crossbow at all.
After several tests, the crossbowmen were no longer afraid and began to shoot accurately. When the ladder moved to a distance of nearly 300 steps from Liangzhou City, they had lost about ten. But even so, compared with hundreds of ladders, the amount of losses was minimal.
The soldiers of Tubo and Tuyuhun, with the help of the catapult, rushed to the city of Liangzhou quickly. They began to climb onto the city wall.
Seeing his people rushing to the city of Liangzhou, Lu Dongzan decisively directed the stone casting cart, adjusted the distance forward again, and sent the large stones to the top of the Liangzhou city tower.
"Be careful of your highness!" A white light flashed, and Wang Zhongchang quickly swung out and cut off a large stone flying towards Li Ke.
"Your Highness, it's better to go down to the city later. It's dangerous here!" Wang Zhongchang's face oozed with sweat. The scene just now was too thrilling. He knew that the Northern King would really have three games and two games. Not to mention how the court dealt with him, the people from the Black Guard could shave themselves alive.
"You don't have to be nervous. The Tubo catapult cart is not so accurate yet. It's just luck!" Li Ke said lightly.
In fact, Li Ke was not unaware of the danger, but in the past half month of siege, he has been standing in this position and has become the pillar of the defending soldiers and given spiritual support to the soldiers who defended the city. Therefore, he knew how much panic it would cause to everyone's hearts when he left at this time. Moreover, today's offensive is not like in the past, and it will definitely be a fierce battle. Only by his existence can his presence stimulate the blood and willpower of the defending soldiers.
"No" Wang Zhongchang did not speak, but focused on Li Ke's direction and focused on his vigilantly.
At this time, Sun Erlang suddenly ordered the flag to rise, and the archers bent their bows and arrows, shooting the arrow feathers at the climbing Tubo and Tuyuhun infantry attacking the city.
"Ah—" A desolate scream made me feel as if I were living people coming to the region, and I saw the climbing soldiers rolling down the city wall like ripe grapes, and smashing on the body of the companions who were about to climb under the corner of the city wall.
Such shooting came suddenly and in time, instantly suppressing the aura of the Tubo and Tuyuhun infantry!
Chapter completed!