Lord of the Desert

Chapter 350 Killing
After two siege battles, most of the ground outside Duanli City was deserted.

Hong Fan stepped out of the formation and walked toward the city. Everyone he saw had a fierce expression, and everyone was doing intense actions such as raising shields, running, filling in soil, and shooting.

There is a fishy smell in the wind.

There are occasional green bushes popping up among the desolation.

I don’t know whether it was irrigated by rain or sprinkled by last year’s blood.

After walking three hundred steps, Hong Fan stepped over the carcasses of Ju Ma and saw the skin-shielded chariot that was tied up like a hedgehog and the horse-trapping ditch in front of it.

It is only two meters wide and more than three meters deep. The bottom of the pit is filled with sharpened bamboo thorns.

This is a fiery killing ground for the auxiliary soldiers.

Hong Fan heard a low growl that sounded like he was cornered.

Following the sound, a shirtless man with a half-white beard rushed out from behind the shield cart carrying a bamboo basket filled with soil.

When he reached the edge of the trench, he knocked all the earth with his basket on the ground. Then when he turned back and ran fiercely, he was chased and shot down by an arrow.

I have the courage to grit my teeth and rescue him.

On the [-]-meter line of eight shield cars stretched horizontally, this kind of thing continued to happen.

Hong Fan took a long breath and quickened his pace.

From more than ten meters away, he began to carry the sand and accumulate kinetic energy.

When they reached the edge of the trench, several tons of earth rolled forward like water, filling up more than one meter in width at a time, and could withstand the movement of hundreds of auxiliary soldiers.

Hong Fan and Gu Yixin, dressed in commoners and with their backs straight, stood out on the battlefield.

After the dust rose, it attracted all the eyes between the two turrets.

The arrow whistle became louder for a moment.

The sound of wind was approaching, but Hong Fan didn't even raise his head. He used his sharp spear tip to smash the incoming arrows like a snake.

The second wave of sand was pulled from behind.

Change location.

Then comes the third level.

In a matter of minutes, a five-meter-wide trench was roughly filled.

The murderous intention came at this time.

Just as arrows rained down on Hong Fan, a double-headed star shuttle flew close to the ground and struck from the side.

Hong Fan sensed the changes in his innate aura and still concentrated on filling the soil.

As the majestic storm of energy and the sound of metal clanging rose and fell, no attack could come within three feet of him.

Attack and defense continue to count.

Tang Shengwang's cultivation was not as new as Gu Yi's, and it was even more difficult to take action from a distance of dozens of meters. Seeing the trenches being filled up easily by the sand world section by section, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.

But he did not dare to go to the city.

He has seen the gun leader become fierce.

One step at a time, going straight and forward; no matter how many arrows come in front of you or how many people are standing behind your opponent.

"Send more archers to me!"

Tang Shengwang was helpless and furious. He only regretted that the bed crossbow on the turret could not be adjusted to a negative shooting angle.

At the same time, Xu Yuntao saw the effect and sent reinforcements from the rear - hundreds of sniper teams, each with two people holding tower shields and three people using crossbows.

Bows and crossbows clashed at the top of the city, killing and wounding each other.

By the time the setting sun was like blood and Ming Jin retreated his troops, there were smooth roads dozens of meters wide leading directly to the city on three sides of the city.

On the corner tower, Tang Shengwang watched the enemy troops return to camp. Next to him, General Li Xiqi of the Tianfeng Army also looked solemn.

They originally expected to delay the attackers' peripheral fortifications for two or three days, but actually only lasted one afternoon.

Silent all night.

The next day, when dawn broke, there was still the mist from last night outside Duanli City.

The defenders looked from the top of the city and everywhere they looked, the wooden stockades and tents seemed to be submerged in the water.

After the meal was made, the sun was high and the mist died in the light.

The whole army came out of camp.

Hong Fan walked up the stairs to the generals' platform and saw several generals standing up to salute.

Pan Rui, who was leading the group yesterday, even came over to lead the way.

Duan Tiannan stayed in the camp to recuperate.

Qiu Yuankui sat alone in the main seat.

As usual, the person in charge of military affairs is Xu Yuntao.

"The most urgent task today is Duanli Chenghao."

He pointed his horsewhip far away and announced the final decision after last night's discussion before the battle.

Hong Fan sat aside and could clearly feel that the generals of the Bai Sheng Army were both high-spirited and confused at the same time.

The war progressed so quickly that both sides were caught off guard.As a result, the Craftsman Battalion was busy all night and only added eight large shield vehicles for the front army. In the pre-war plan, it would take them two or three days to reach the moat.

The gains made by Sand World in terms of fortifications exceeded everyone’s expectations.

But Xu Yuntao knew the importance of vigor to the attacking party. Now that he had the advantage, there was no reason to stop and wait.

"Duanli is indeed a fortified city, but the water system in the city is not abundant, so the city wall is shallow and narrow, only two feet wide and six feet deep."

He was pacing with his hands behind his back.

"There are only two ways to deal with Chenghao."

“The first is to build a floating bridge.”

"This move is fast and efficient. It can overwhelm small cities and military strongholds, but it cannot defeat large equipment."

"With the city defense and the number of experts in Duanli City, the floating bridge is not enough."

"Since the military meeting yesterday has decided, we should use the second method, fill the river!"

When saying this, Xu Yuntao even gritted his teeth.

As soon as the military order was issued, the war drums were beating.

At three o'clock in the morning, in the western section far away from the northern city wall and far away from the city gate, Yi Hong led his right army to press forward.

Like all cities that suppress fortresses, Duanli City has more than one urn city, and a ten thousand catty gate is hung behind each city gate.

Therefore, Bai Shengjun never thought of using the city gate as the main attack.

Sixteen shield carts approached the moat with freshly coated wet mud. The archers rushed to suppress them, and then a large number of shield soldiers covered the auxiliary soldiers and carried the soil forward.

At first, Hong Fan didn't understand Xu Yuntao's solemnity. He just felt that he was just repeating yesterday's work.

But as the two armies engaged in battle, he quickly realized the problem.

The earthwork transportation line is tens of meters longer. Although it is more exposed to the line of fire, the main problem still lies below the city.

The outer edge of the moat is only three or four feet away from the base of the city wall.

This distance is enough for the horse wall protruding from the wall to form a perfect crossfire, so that the effect of the large shield is greatly weakened.

In addition, there is a cow and horse wall across the city.

The inner and outer gates of the urn city opened and closed alternately, and hundreds of archers and spearmen came out.

With the help of the shooting holes on the cattle and horse walls, the soldiers filling the river not only had to be careful from above, but also had to face direct firepower from six meters away, and even long spears...

Even if the front line was deliberately loose, in just a quarter of an hour, Yi Hong's men had already lost the remaining fifty lives.

According to this approach, the city wall has not even been touched at the end of the day, and the casualties may be thousands.

The fighting never stops.

Hong Fan sat on the general stage, forcing himself to look at the casualties taking place below the city.

At this moment, their blood has not been drained and their bodies are still warm, so they are not figures in the battle damage statistics.

As for Xu Yuntao, from the moment the military order was issued, his face had nothing but ice-like coldness.

Half an hour later, Yi Hong's first messenger rushed to the general station and asked to withdraw and reorganize.

Xu Yuntao refused coldly.

Hong Fan stood up to ask for a fight, but was persuaded to stop.

Time is running out.

A year and a half ago, the war at the top of Jinhai City was equally brutal, but more straightforward - in two or three days, the two tribes used everything they had, and the swords went in white and came out red, and the winner was clear.

What Hong Fan saw at this time could only be described as torture.

Every bit of casualty was worked out slowly, like flesh and blood smoothing a steel file.

He couldn't sit still in his chair, so he turned his head and glanced at Xu Yuntao.

The latter's eyebrows were like iron, as if he didn't realize it.

With just one glance, Hong Fan understood what it meant to be kind and not to wield weapons.

The first wave of offensive lasted for an hour.

At noon, the generals had mutton soup and then marched for military meetings.

In a private discussion with Pan Rui, Hong Fan just learned about most of the battlefields in Dahua's history, and filling the river was actually not that troublesome.

Anyway, it is a job that ordinary people can do, and the people can be recruited on the spot.

If one day fails, it will take three days; if three days fail, it will take five days.

When a person dies, the corpse can fill the river, which saves earthwork and greatly consumes the wood arrows on the city.

This is also the tactical style that Xu Yuntao is familiar with and has been used by the Tianfeng Army to suppress the rebels for more than ten years.

But for various reasons, Yum Army cannot do this.

ps: I have checked a lot of information on medieval siege warfare in the past few days. After all, people fight people, and we can't just fool around like in the battle between snakes and people.

And the experiences in these chapters will also be Hong Fan's valuable asset.

He will also lead the army in battle in the future, and he will not be able to learn without a teacher.

(End of this chapter)