Chapter 273
"Zuo Xiang, you are indeed a wise old man, cunning and sly. I really admire you. From the intelligence we just obtained, it is indeed as you guessed, our reinforcements will arrive soon." Li Hao glanced at Zuo Xiang and praised him.
As soon as Li Hao said this, Zuo Xiang was unhappy.
Please explain to me what it means to be a wise old man, cunning and sly, okay?
Can't you use words like smart and wise to describe me?
Zuo Xiang felt bitter, but he couldn't say it. He could only look at Li Hao with resentment.
"Okay, since the purpose of the rebels has been figured out, let's go down and prepare. They want a decisive battle, which is impossible. Order all the guards responsible for the city defense to guard carefully and not let any problems occur."
"Also order the logistics to send all the defensive supplies needed on the city wall to me. I am afraid they will face the largest-scale siege next." Li Hao said with a serious face.
Success or failure depends on this one move. If they fail, they will run away. Anyway, all the gold, silver and jewelry in the Great Xia Royal City have entered Li Hao's system space.
Even if the Great Xia Royal City was captured by Zhang Zhongjian, he would not suffer much loss. Anyway, this was their Li Yuanhao's territory and had nothing to do with him.
With the deafening sound of war drums, the rebels began to prepare at the urging of their respective leaders.
The defenders on the city were also fully prepared, with rolling logs, slings, fierce fire oil, etc., and they stared at the rebel camp with no fear in their eyes, full of excitement and expectation.
These veterans knew very well what the rebels' full-line attack meant. Three days, as long as they could hold on for these three days, the rebels' offensive would collapse without a fight, and the Great Xia Royal City would be safe.
The defenders' eyes were full of hope, but the rebels' eyes were full of despair.
The heads of the Xibeihuo families of the major aristocratic families also looked miserable. What a matter, what they thought was a sure thing, now it has come to this point.
Now they all hated Zhang Zhongjian to death. Perhaps after this battle, it was unknown whether they could survive.
"All archers, ready, shoot..."
As the rebel army entered the killing range of the arrows, the defenders on the city wall began to pour arrows at the rebels.
Yes, pouring. The arrows in the royal city armory were piled up like a mountain, enough for the defenders to use without restraint for several months. In addition, they took the dilution of Xiao Huan Dan, and their arm strength and physical strength increased a lot.
These defenders are in the category of supermen among ordinary people. With a pair of unicorn arms, pulling a strong bow and a crossbow is as easy as pulling cotton yarn.
Seeing this situation, the officers guarding the city simply took out all the strong bows in the warehouse.
The reserve team behind each person had a bow. Anyway, as long as they could not shoot the densely packed heads outside the city, they could shoot people.
As for the rebels, they lacked archers, and the bows and arrows were soaked in rain for days, so they were not well kept, which made the archers, a long-range support force, basically disabled.
Therefore, the soldiers attacking the city outside the city not only did not have their own archers to support them, but also faced a dense rain of arrows like locusts on the top of the city.
"Swish..." With the sound of sharp blades entering the body, the rebels rushing outside the city fell to the ground like wheat being cut.
Those who were shot by arrows like this basically died. During the process of arrows being shot, the speed of the arrow plus the weight of the arrow head when it fell from the air caused the arrow to be stabbed into the body in the middle.
Some arrows even pierced from the top of the head, and in the end, the feathers at the tail of the arrow were left fluttering in the wind, and the person who was shot was already dead.
Archers are a waste of hands. They usually don't have swords, but only a quiver with twenty or so feather arrows.
If an ordinary archer can shoot eight arrows accurately when his physical strength is full, he is the king of archers.
Of course, the standard of these eight arrows is to be able to pull the strong bow to the full and penetrate the leather armor.
The number of archers in the city defense army is limited, and the damage they can cause to the rebels is limited in the past, because after shooting a certain number of arrows, the archers have to rest.
But today, the defenders in the city gave them a blow. The arrows in the sky were like locusts, stabbing down densely. One wave after another, making it impossible to avoid.
They wanted to retreat, but behind them were the supervisors composed of the children of the noble families. They took a step back and their bodies were immediately separated, which was horrible.
The rebels were extremely terrified, and they could only rush to the front of the city in the rain of arrows and use everything they could to climb up the city wall.
But halfway upThe rebels suddenly found that what lay ahead of them was not wealth and glory, but rolling logs, boulders, and flaming oil. In a short time, from the city wall to the archers' range, the rebels were lying dead all over the ground, with heavy casualties.
The battlefield at this time became a Shura field, with only blood all over the ground and only painful groans.
"All personnel, if you feel exhausted, come and drink the holy water immediately. With the holy water, we will be fearless." The commander of the archer brigade brought the cauldron to the back of the archer phalanx for their convenience. ”
“Long live the general, long live the queen…” As a childish voice shouted, the entire royal city defenders were boiling.
This battle was the easiest one since the rebels besieged the city, and it was also the one that killed the most enemies.
In this battle, each archer shot an average of 10 to 20 arrows, which was unthinkable in the past.
At the beginning, they could shoot an average of eight arrows. But as the war dragged on, their physical strength was seriously depleted, and the number of times they could shoot arrows with full bows became less and less.
Until they drank the diluted Xiao Huan Dan liquid provided by the general, their physical strength increased significantly, and now ten or twenty arrows are not a dream for them.
And Murong Fu and the generals defending the city seemed to have seen the important role of Xiao Huan Dan for archers.
Murong Fu immediately arranged that the logistics department would give priority to providing them with diluted Xiao Huan Dan to ensure their mental state and physical strength.
“Li Hao, I didn’t expect that I still couldn’t take you down even though I had such a big advantage. God is so unfair! "Zhang Zhongjian looked at the soldiers who chopped the military supervisor into pieces and fled quickly to the rear. He felt sad and spurted out a mouthful of blood. His breath also weakened a lot.
"Sir, our army has been defeated. They are now full of fear of the royal city. We can't stop them at all." The fake Huyan family head said with a painful face.
Just now, the rebels who failed to attack the city, because they saw no way to survive, drew their swords and killed all the Jin army of the Huyan family, and then they ran out of the city and hid.