Dark Fairy

Chapter 365

It was only a day and a half since the battle flag was hung on the tallest stone tower in Yongchuan City, signaling that the city had officially entered a state of war.

It started to rain that morning, and the pattering rain was not too heavy. Instead, it brought a lot of coolness, which made the soldiers on the city wall who had been highly nervous and had to endure the heat these days feel comfortable.

That is, the rain falls into a thin layer of rain curtain, which is fine in the near area, but the vision in the distance will be blocked and blurred.

It was also because of this that many Qi practitioners who stood guard on the city wall had joined in by performing their spells.However, it is still impossible to see as far and as clearly as on a sunny day.

As noon approached, the rain began to decrease slightly, and the soldiers on the city wall who had been exposed to the rain all morning already felt a little cold.

"what is that?"

"where?"

"Over there! Do you see it? It's about two miles to the right, as if something is moving?"

"Let me take a look? I can't see clearly. But it seems that something is moving. Hold up a flag and ask the adults to take a look."

"Yes!"

A soldier on sentry duty on a section of the city wall rubbed his eyes and nervously warned the team leader next to him. The two said a few words quickly, then raised a yellow flag, and soon a Qi practitioner ran away. come over.

Using this technique, one can clearly see the details on ordinary calligraphy and paintings several miles away. Now it is affected by the rain, but there is still no problem in places one or two miles away.When the running Qi practitioner saw clearly the direction the soldier was pointing, his expression immediately changed. He picked up the copper flute around his neck and put it in his mouth to play.

"toot toot"

The piercing sound of the copper flute opened the prelude to another life-and-death battle in Yongchuan City after decades.

As the rain gradually subsided, the line of sight began to become clearer. More and more people looked down from the top of the city and could see a dark "line" emerging from the undulating open land in the distance, and saw a side that belonged exclusively to the barbarians. The flag of the leading general.It seemed that the moment it appeared, it competed with the Liu character flag flying high on the city top.

First, there were bursts of roaring and dull drums, which sounded unhurriedly from the top of the city, urging the auxiliary soldiers to take out boxes of feathered arrows and insert them into the red mud next to the parapet for the archers to use.At the same time, the sharp nails and stones weighing five to six kilograms or even ten kilograms that were transported to the city wall early on made the originally wide battle lane on the city wall suddenly become a bit crowded. up.

Suddenly, the drumming stopped, and the surroundings seemed to change from noisy to silent.

It wasn't until the "black line" that had turned into a dark crowd approached for a mile and a half that the flag bearer appeared on the eye-catching flag stand on the top of the city, and spread it around four times to ensure that everyone on the city wall could see clearly semaphore.

"The trebuchet is ready! Yili!"

Unlike the catapults on the top of the city that weigh less than ten catties, the stones thrown by the trebuchet can weigh 25 to [-] catties, and the longest throwing distance is a little more than one mile.It's just that the accuracy is not high, but it is still very useful for dealing with large targets or dense battle formations.Especially in the case of using kerosene bombs, it is a murderous weapon.

Of course, there are also some larger trebuchets that can throw hundreds of catties of stones for miles.For example, there are Pengshan Pass and Pengshan City.But there is no one in Yongchuan City, because that kind of trebuchet requires special materials, a special magic circle and spirit stone drive, and the cost is extremely expensive.However, the battle in Yongchuan City came in a hurry, and there was no chance to equip this kind of weapon for defending the city.

At present, the catapults gathered under the city wall to meet the enemy, that is, the 27 trebuchets on the east and south walls, were made by Liu Jianyu in the last month. Two of them did not even have varnish. Okay, let's push it over.

With the sound of the mechanism of the trebuchet, the long arm was pulled down and laid flat, and then, under the handling of each of the strong auxiliary soldiers, stones of about [-] kilograms were put into the throwing bag of the trebuchet.It's only ten breaths before and after.

When the calibration soldiers beside the trebuchet raised the green flag in their hands, feedback was also received from the top of the city.

"put!"

There was a trembling sound, and the wrestlers beside the 27 trebuchets smashed their sledgehammers at the launching mechanism. The sound of mechanical force venting was accompanied by the whistling of boulders, over the top of the city wall, Throwing towards the barbarian army formation one mile away
Officially kicked off the offensive and defensive drama.

However, the sound of drums and orders only sounded in the ears, but it did not substantially affect the defensive pace of the industrial park outside Yongchuan City's east city.

Just looking at the number of soldiers on the city wall and the fact that there is no trebuchet under the city wall, you can tell that this is not the focus of Yongchuan City's defense.

Because half of the east city is actually surrounded by Changshui just like the north city, and continuing to the east is a forested area. The entire terrain is narrow and not suitable as the main direction of attack, because it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.According to Liu Jianyu's judgment, at least in the early stages of the attack and defense, the barbarians would not spend any effort attacking the east wall.It would be better to concentrate on attacking the west and south.

It is also based on this consideration that Liu Jianyu did not let Bailang completely destroy the industrial park from the beginning, but tried to defend it for a while, and then retreated to the city wall if it was impossible.In this way, we can try to leave one more choice for Yongchuan City.

However, as before, Hong Chaojun's judgment on Yunyan's side will always be unexpected.You think that the barbarians will not attack for the time being, but they just came.

It's just that it came so quietly that it didn't attract the attention of the lookout post on the city wall.

It wasn't a large group of people who came, but a small group of barbarians whose number was no more than fifty.They did not move with the army, but detoured over the mountains and forests farther outside the east city, avoiding the checkpoints on the city wall, and using the cover raised by the magic circle as a barrier, they touched the vicinity of the industrial park all the way .

Similar to what Hong Chao had guessed, the barbarian general Meng Kui was injured and dragged down the army. As a result, Liu Jianyu's whimsical water attack caused heavy damage to the side army.If you just go back like this, Meng Kui will definitely die, not to mention that it will humiliate the will of the "God".

The last point cannot be tolerated by the top and bottom of Yunyan's army.

Death is acceptable, but the glory of God must not be tarnished.All stains will be washed clean with the blood of the enemy!

Therefore, Meng Kui's troops clearly knew how risky it would be if they insisted on attacking when food, grass and ordnance were damaged in large quantities, but they still chose the reason for attacking.

Although Meng Kui likes to kill and rush ahead, it doesn't mean he will only be reckless. After calming down, he will still study his opponent and synthesize the information in his hand.For example, the terrain of Yongchuan City and the focus of city defense are all within the scope of intelligence.The people who were caught when they captured Shuangqing City alone were enough to provide these things.

In order to quickly capture the city, the enemy is not given the possibility of escaping by water.Meng Kui's idea is: surprise attack and attack east and west!
Quickly break through the weak position of Yongchuan City, and then damage the city wall, causing a gap in the defense of Yongchuan City, and then expand the gap to take it in one fell swoop!
(End of this chapter)