Chapter 553 Undead
In the night, Guo Daizhao's temporary fourth regiment of light cavalry rushed to the front of the Qiang camp and fired a few arrows before running away. The Qiang cavalry chased after them holding torches. Past.
Suddenly, in the dark night, another light cavalry charged towards the Qiang camp, but the fifth regiment came out from another city gate.
It was the Qiang sentry cavalry who blew the horn again.
The Qiang battalion soon sent another cavalry out of the camp to intercept.
The fifth regiment also swam but did not strike, and only wandered around the periphery of the Qiang camp.
Soon the sixth regiment, the seventh regiment, and the eighth regiment attacked in sequence, and the Qiang people also sent troops and horses one after another. In the dark night, the sight was not good.
Amidst the din, Xi Junma quietly left the city with ten soldiers and headed east.
Tonight Qin Lang dispatched five light cavalry regiments to feint several times to attract the Qiang people's attention and let Xi Jun buy a good ride and leave in disorder.
Of course, the 1,200 soldiers in the sixth regiment have long been exhausted. Tonight, Qin Lang will let them vent their anger, and by the way, the old thief Tuoba will not let him sleep peacefully. I want to tell the old thief that the Five Star Fort is not only good at defending, but also attacking.
dawn.
The five light cavalry regiments disengaged one after another, and each returned to the Five Star Fort.
When the Qiang people approached the city, they were shot back by the archers on the fort.
Guo Daizhao and others were triumphant, holding their spears and horses high, singing the song of King Qin breaking the formation and returning.
Guo Daizhao, headed by Guo Daizhao, had three Qiang heads on his black-lacquered horses, and there were more than a dozen cavalry behind them with Qiang heads stuck on their guns.
That kind of chaotic feint attack in the night, they can still kill the enemy, and even after killing the enemy, they can get their head back, which is really tough.
After the battle last night, the defeated soldiers were all elated, and their depression that had been in their chests for many days was swept away.
"Liu Jishi, please check the head and register military merits." Guo Daizhao shouted.
Liu Jishi stood there with his hands behind his back, looking at the group of men who were full of murderous looks, and at the heads, "Just cut off the ears back, why bother to bring back this **** head, it's annoying to see .”
Guo Daizhao and others didn't take it seriously. A group of guys triumphantly made loud noises on purpose, threw their heads off the guns, and some guys even kicked their feet like balls.
Qin Lang came over.
"Are there any casualties?"
Guo Daizhao nodded, "Three brothers were killed, but we got all the bodies back, and injured a dozen more."
He himself was also shot by an arrow in one arm, and the white scarf wrapped in it had already been dyed black and purple.
Qin Lang nodded, "Brothers have worked hard, first go back to the barracks and remove the armor, bandage the wounded, wash and change into fresh robes for the uninjured, and then the kitchen has prepared a hearty breakfast for you."
Five light cavalry regiments were dispatched overnight, and these defeated soldiers proved that they were not weak with their actual achievements.
They fought with thousands of Qiang cavalry last night, and they were not compared. They still retreated unscathed, and brought back more than a hundred heads, and some did not.
A thousand Qingqi were dispatched, thirty-seven were killed and more than a hundred were slightly injured.
The casualties were actually not bad, but Qin Lang was a little heartbroken. If they were defending the city and fighting, the casualties would not be so great.
Fortunately, Xi Jun bought and left successfully.
"Mr. Wei, we tormented the Qiang people quite a lot last night. I think we can come here every night from now on." Guo Daizhao said with a smile.
"The Qiang people were prepared last night, and after last night, they will be even more prepared."
"It's okay, just go out for a walk. It's boring to squat in the city every day. Even if the Qiang people are prepared, they can't make them comfortable. You have to toss him."
The sun rises.
The Qiang people seem annoyed.
Finally began to attack the city again.
The Qiang improvised a lot of simple large shields and made it look like an ugly tortoise cover, and then hid many soldiers hiding inside and moved towards the castle.
Looking closer, those turtle covers are actually covered with a lot of rawhide.
"The Qiang people are ruthless."
"That's good." Qin Lang said, he hoped that the Qiang people would smash the Five-Star Fort, so as to maximize the value of the role of the bastion.
"Let the crossbows be prepared. In addition, the stone cannons in the city are prepared. To deal with this kind of rough big tortoise shell, ordinary bows and crossbows are useless, and we have to use big guys."
Liang Jianfang obeyed the order and left.
The Qiang people learned the lesson of the last siege this time, and this time they dispatched a large number of tortoise shells. They first assembled outside the range of the castle, and then quickly rushed to the embankment with the tortoise shells on them.
After rushing to the embankment, no one inside came out to cut the pickets. Instead, they stretched out many wooden poles and pushed groups of dead grass and branches to the pickets.
The firelighter was thrown out.
The flames rise.
The Qiang people switched to attacking with fire, intending to use fire to burn the sharp stakes that hindered them. I have to say that this is still very smart, knowing that the five elements can restrain each other, and fire can restrain wood.
There was a scream in the sky.
The eight cows and three bows on the front row of fortresses finally launched, and each ballista was wound up with a ratchet wheel. After the old crossbowman took aim, he knocked down the machine bracket with a wooden hammer, and immediately the ballista as thick as an egg roared and shot out.
Ballistas one after another began to show their power.
Although the ballista is not accurate enough, it has a long range and great power.
When the first round of crossbow guns was fired, dozens of giant tortoise shells had already been damaged in front of the embankment, some were directly shattered and torn apart, and some were pierced and firmly nailed to the ground.
Rough wood, thick rawhide, etc. can't stop the ferocious crossbow gun.
Tuoba Chici was still watching the battle under his banner today. He had seen fires everywhere, and thought that this fire attack strategy was very useful. Who would have thought that the next moment, the tortoise shell would be smashed to the ground.
Those huge crossbows made Tuoba Chici take a deep breath. When he was in Chang'an, he had seen this kind of weapon used by the imperial army of the Sui Dynasty, and it was very impressive. It's just that he didn't expect that there were such eight-ox crossbows in the five-star castle, let alone so many.
It is estimated that there were hundreds of giant crossbows in the attack just now.
Before he could recover from it.
There was a louder scream in the air.
"Oh my God!" Someone exclaimed.
I saw stones flying out of the main city, at least the size of a human head, weighing dozens of catties, flying all over the sky like this.
The next moment, with an astonishing howling sound, he crossed several lines of defense and enveloped the heads of the siege Qiang people.
Stone bullets fell all over the sky.
A tortoise shield pierced by a giant crossbow, but still controlled by the Qiang people, was hit by a stone bullet falling from the sky, and it collapsed in an instant, and was directly smashed to the ground.
Dozens of Qiang people below were smashed to the ground, and many of them vomited blood and died on the spot.
A stone bullet smashed into the air and hit the ground. The polished round stone bullet made a deep hole in the ground, and then bounced up again.
When the bouncing stone bullet fell again, it hit a piece of turtle shell, and after the shell collapsed, it continued to roll forward.
The rolling stone bullets rushed under a turtle shell, and suddenly the densely packed Qiang people screamed repeatedly, and several Qiang people's legs were directly broken by the rolling stones.
One after another, the stone bullets roared.
Although ten may not be able to hit one, but even if only one is hit, its lethality and deterrent effect are very amazing, not to mention that there is a **** in front of the embankment, even if the stone bomb hits empty, it will continue to bounce and roll. The lethality of the stone bomb with huge inertia is still astonishing.
It hurts when you touch it, and hurts when you touch it.
Sometimes it just rolled into a group of Qiang soldiers and could break four or five legs in one go.
The attacking Qiang soldiers were directly stunned by these two rounds of attacks.
When the second wave of crossbow carts started to shoot another crossbow gun, the Qiang couldn't stand it anymore, they threw down the thick turtle top, **** the arrow-proof wooden shield, **** the fire-proof rawhide, they I just want to leave the castle quickly and escape the range of the Tang people.
The Qiang people fled in all directions rolling and crawling.
On the fortress, the archers also took up their bows and arrows, and began to aim at these Qiang people who had lost the protection of their turtle shells. These people only wanted to run away, completely exposing their backs.
The archers shot one arrow after another, this is a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Afternoon.
The wind stops and the clouds close.
The battlefield was filled with the smell of blood, vultures came smelling the smell, and crows were also circling around. From time to time, they pounced on the corpses of the Qiang people on the ground, tearing the flesh with sharp claws and sharp beaks, and fed them into their stomachs.
One place is in a mess.
There are corpses everywhere, broken turtle shields, crossbow guns stuck in the ground, and stone bullets everywhere.
Tuoba Chici turned around and left. This loss was worse than last time.
The last time 2,000 people attacked, only about 200 were lost, and those who died of serious injuries later were only in the early 300s. But today, they used the tortoise shield, which can prevent arrows and fire, and the fire attack technique, but the result was even worse.
The Tang people had a large number of heavy crossbow carts and stone cannons that they couldn't imagine, and they collapsed in a few hits. Chi Ci also saw clearly that the ballistas and stone cannons of the Tang people did not do much damage, but their power was too terrifying, directly destroying the morale of the Qiang people. When they turned around and fled, they were mercilessly harvested by Tang archers.
At least 500 off.
Back to the big tent, Chi Ci panted heavily.
"My lord, the Tang people in the city said, let us get them six hundred left ears, and then we can collect the corpse."
"Get out!" Tuoba Chici yelled, and the Qiang soldiers quickly withdrew.
A group of Qiang leaders sat together again, all silent.
Finally, Tuoba Si stood up and spoke first.
"Uncle, we can't continue to fight like this. This castle is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. With Qin Lang personally sitting in the castle, with so many elites and so many powerful weapons, it is impossible for us to take it by force. No matter how many With double the number of people, unless we really use human lives to fill it and pay 10,000 to 20,000 casualties, it is impossible to capture it."
This time, no one scolded Sitou for being cowardly.
The leader who led his troops to attack the city twice was even more disheartened and unable to speak a word.
Everyone understands that this fortress is simply a hellish slaughterhouse, and no matter how many people go there, it will be given away for nothing.
"Unless we can also build a thousand or eight hundred stone cannons, or have hundreds of ballistas like the Tang people, otherwise, it is impossible for us to take this castle."
Tuoba Chici's face was as deep as water, and he didn't say a word. All the leaders lowered their heads and didn't say a word.
Attack, unable to attack, retreat, but not reconciled.
At the moment, it is difficult to ride a tiger, a dilemma.
(end of this chapter)