Chapter 259: The means are exhausted
A team of Hedong Army knights had already rushed to the camp. Some people took off their shields to protect them. Some people were galloping on horseback and shooting. They held the side arrows of the arrow tower and kept the arrows. These Hedong Knights were moving forward and retreating. They were flying. Almost every arrow of the archer who was the focus of protecting them fell into the trunk. Several people had already fallen into the trunk. Even if the distance was not close, the defenders in the camp were still wearing armor. But if they fell on the key points like the door, it would be just a word of death.
The Arrow Tower restrained the Hedong army and had to distribute some shooters to deal with them. The support force in front of the camp gate suddenly decreased. The prisoners who rushed to the city seemed to have found a way out and their movements were faster. The Hedong soldiers who were galloping to join the battlefield and rushed to the front of the camp, and the other team also rushed to shoot, suppressing and scrambling the defenders at the city. The other team turned over and dismounted. Everyone was wearing double-layer heavy armor. One hand grew a big stride shield, and the other hand was a one-hand heavy weapon such as copper hammer and iron mace. The formation was formed and the shield was covered in densely. Many shooters on the camp fort fired arrows at them, and they could not penetrate the shield formation.
There were no heavy combat equipment such as stone cannons above the camp. Someone threw his bow and arrow to pull the crossbow. Lin Yan shouted loudly: "Let them approach and see if they can chew us. Is the oil, fire, gold juice, and gray bottle ready?"
A personal guard replied loudly: "It's ready."
Lin Yan grinned: "Wait for my order."
Just in a few words, the prisoners under the city had already crossed the trench and suddenly shouted, rushed out from behind the craft, carrying the long ladder and rushed straight down the fort. The arrows were raining down, and the casualties were killed and injured. The prisoners' eyes were red. They shouted and leaned against the wall of the village. The most brave people immediately stepped up the wooden stick-edge ladder.
Above the camp, Lin Yan kept holding the chassis and staring at the progress of the war in front of the village. At his feet, a team of about 200 people had already gathered in the village. He was on standby at the gate of the city. Everyone was wearing armor and riding horses. It was the most elite of the crane control. This team of teams was ready to support the situation where the gate was broken at any time and used to launch a counterattack. The general who led the teams were also not far away from Lin Yan. He looked at Lin Yan from time to time.
Although the external war is not a big scene, the cruelty is far more than the normal offensive and defensive battles surrounding the city gates. If both sides have formal troops with equipment and orders, there is no reason why six or seven hundred people were killed or injured before they even approached a small outer fort. Any normal general would not easily fight for his life.
Lin Yan suddenly raised his head and ordered loudly: "Let me see if Li Keyong can chew on me."
Dozens of simple long ladders leaned against the trumpet of the Arctic Fort. Each ladder was pressed tightly by more than a dozen prisoners to prevent the defenders from pushing down the simple long ladder. The most brave points among the prisoners... or have been tortured for days. Today, the death and wounded and injured in the Hedong Army were numb. There were always hundreds of people climbing up the ladder, either bare hands, or a sharp wooden stick. They were unprotected and climbing towards the village wall desperately.
There was no arrow above the camp at this moment. Even the figures could not be seen. Only the fog was rolling on the wall. At this moment, thousands of prisoners gathered under the wall. No one was willing to think about what the defenders above the camp were preparing to deal with them. The wall was not very large. The circumference was only more than 300 steps. The defenders of one hundred people were just in line with such a large fort. Dozens of simple long ladders were leaning on them. They could be called dense. The long ladders were also crowded with people climbing upwards. Under the wall of the fort, there were more people looking up with red eyes.
Such a scene, such a crowd, would have drowned this fortress. Even the person who had been commanding the city had no sound at this moment. I don’t know where he died or whether he had died. In this situation, even if he knew that the defenders would not only have the means of arrows to release their arrows, and they could not help but think that thousands of people would sacrifice their lives. These few hundred defenders could only rely on their lives to pile up.
In the eyes of the city gate, Lin Yan and others who had been paying attention to the war, could not help but have the same idea for a moment. Looking from the city gate, it was not just these thousands of ragged and almost unarmed prisoners, like dense ants, were covered with camps. Behind them, there were also light cavalry of the Hedong Army plundering their wings and shooting upwards. A wave of arrow-growing Hedong people used heavy arrows to pass through the crowd and rushed straight into the camp.
Among the light cavalry on both sides, the Hedong Army infantry soldiers rolled upwards and followed the thousands of people to rush straight to the camp. The number of Hedong soldiers in this staircase formation was only 200. However, the momentum was so strong that it was farther away than the densely packed thousands of prisoners.
Each person has two armors, like a moving steel fortress. The sound of metal collisions is full of metal collisions. The outer armor and soldiers are covered with large shields. The middle armor and soldiers are full of long swords and hammers that are convenient for hand-to-hand combat. In each row, there are military generals shouting loudly to maintain the array. After dozens of steps, hundreds of fighting soldiers are following them to support the formation. They catch up from behind and clear the chaotic battlefield in front of them to clear a road for heavy armored soldiers to pass through.
These fighters were either wearing single shirts, or bare chests and exposed breasts. They were not worthy of growing weapons. Each person had a big knife around his waist. In addition to the big knife, some people also had a slap in their bows and bags, and sometimes shot a targetless arrow at the camp. However, these fighters who participated in the battle were more desperately cleaning the roads, pushing the rags away, pushing the corpses down the trenches, filling the roads passing more densely. Some people even crossed the trenches and continued to pull out the remaining deer villages.
They carried a big rope with them. After bolting the deer pendant that blocked the horse, several people worked together and shook and pulled out the deer village inserted into the land. Compared to the prisoners who had weak limbs and had no tools just now, I don’t know how fast it was. The side archery and crossbow arrows on the arrow tower kept flying over and over. These fighters who were fighting as auxiliary troops kept falling down. But these auxiliary troops knew the military laws and disciplines better than the prisoners. The flags did not shake. Whenever the horn of retreat did not ring, no one looked back. They just buried their heads and worked hard.
If you die and get injured, you drag it aside. On the battlefield, the prisoners shouted loudly, the leader commanding among the fighters, and when each line stopped for dozens of steps, the neat shouts and shouts from the heavy armored infantry soldiers of the Hedong Army reverberated into a ball and filled the camp, as if they could destroy the camp by relying on the sound waves alone.
Chapter completed!