Chapter 315: City Defense
"Hold on!" Luo Yuan's voice was like a rock, suppressing the soldiers' tense nerves.
The Iron Pagoda in the front row is less than a hundred steps away from the city wall.
Luo Yuan raised his arm and swung it down suddenly!
"put--!!!"
“Buzz——!!!”
There was a dull, heart-pounding sound of bowstrings.
It was not a sporadic shooting, but tens of thousands of arrows were released at the same heartbeat!
The sky seemed to darken suddenly.
Immediately afterwards, a dark cloud made of death, with a piercing scream, tore through the air and accurately covered the charging torrent!
“Puff, puff, puff, puff…!”
“Ding-dang-dang…!”
Arrows rain down!
The heavy armor of the Iron Pagoda can withstand ordinary stray arrows, but under such dense and close-range shooting, even the strongest armor will have gaps.
The sharp armor-piercing arrows were like bloodthirsty poisonous bees, searching for the gaps under the visor, the joints, and the relatively weak neck, chest and abdomen of the warhorse!
In an instant, the Iron Pagoda people and horses that were rushing in the front were thrown to the ground.
The heavy iron armor hit the ground with a dull thud. The following cavalrymen were unable to stop in time and crashed into it hard, triggering a chain of chaos and trampling.
The momentum of the steel torrent was halted.
"Rolling logs and rocks--!!!" Luo Yuan's orders continued without stopping, roaring throughout the city walls!
"roar!!!"
The soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, roared like wild beasts and worked together to push the huge rolling logs and heavy stones piled behind the battlements down the city wall!
These angular creatures of death slammed down the steep slope of the city wall and slammed into the crowded enemy troops below, who were in chaos due to the rain of arrows!
“Boom! Snap!”
"ah--!!!"
Screams, the sound of bones breaking, and the sound of heavy objects colliding instantly replaced the charge horn!
Rolling logs and rocks were like the millstones of hell, plowing a series of shocking alleys of flesh and blood in the densely packed charging columns.
The heavy cavalrymen who were hit turned into a pool of blood and flesh, along with their horses. Those who managed to escape were knocked to the ground by the huge impact force and flying debris, and then trampled into meat paste by their companions who rushed up.
"Kerosene! Burn these bastards to death--!!!"
Ge Jiyong, who was in charge of defending the gap, had his hair and beard standing up, his eyes were blood red, and he was roaring angrily.
Hot, sticky kerosene was poured down from huge wooden barrels.
It poured on the enemy heavy armored infantry and subsequent cavalry who were crowded in the gap and trying to climb up.
"ignition--!"
Burning rockets were fired down!
"boom--!!!"
Flames shot up into the sky! Tongues of fire greedily licked the armor and flesh soaked in kerosene, instantly transforming the gap into a sea of purgatory!
The inhuman screams echoed through the sky. Countless fire men struggled and rolled frantically in the flames, emitting a sickening burnt smell.
The burning armored infantry became moving torches, disrupting the formation coming up from behind.
"Hold the gap! Don't retreat a single step—!"
Luo Yuan's figure was firmly nailed to the highest point of the city wall.
He was no longer silent, and every roar was like thunder, precisely commanding the defenses in various places.
The wounds on his body continued to burst due to the violent movements. Blood soaked through the tattered armor and dripped down his boots onto the bricks under his feet, but he seemed unaware of it.
The pair of eyes, sunken in the shadow of the helmet, were now frighteningly bright, burning with flames that were enough to burn away all humiliation!
On the city wall, archers mechanically repeated the actions of nocking arrows, drawing bows, and shooting.
Their arms were already sore and numb, their knuckles cracked, but no one stopped.
Arrows flew like locusts, continuously harvesting the lives of the enemy troops surging below.
When they ran out of logs and rocks, they tore down the tower's beams and pillars and picked up broken bricks and smashed them down!
"Kill one and it's a win! Kill two and it's a profit!"
"For my dead brothers!"
"In order to get home alive—!"
The offensive of the Northern Di coalition forces was like violent waves, hitting the reefs of Shufeng Pass one after another.
Each charge left a trail of corpses in its wake, and each time was fiercely pushed back by even more stubborn resistance.
But these people were like crazy, completely brainwashed by their Khan. They didn't care how many troops were sent in and just kept rushing forward.
Ashina Duoji was watching from behind with bloodshot eyes.
The Iron Pagoda, which he was so proud of, was smashed and bleeding under the broken wall, and could not move forward!
"Waste! They're all waste! Charge! Charge! Tear them apart!!"
He brandished his scimitar, roared furiously, and whipped the supervision team to drive more soldiers into the meat grinder-like battlefield.
However, morale ebbed and flowed.
The momentum of the charge inevitably began to weaken and stagnate in the face of the huge casualties and the rock-hard morale of the Shuofeng Pass defenders...
Shuofeng Pass still stands tall in the purgatory of blood and fire!
The "Dayan" battle flag on the wall of the pass, although smoked and burned and pierced by arrows, still fluttered unyieldingly behind Luo Yuan.
The figure under the banner declared to the entire Northern Di coalition with an iron will and flesh and blood:
The aura of the Dayan men is no less than that of any jackals, wolves, tigers or leopards!
However, the enemy's number of people was too large, and there were more and more gaps in the city wall.
It was as if the dam was finally torn open by the raging flood, leaving a fatal crack.
One, two, ten... More and more Beidi soldiers climbed up the wall of Shufeng Pass, stepping on the corpses of their companions and roaring.
Ashina Duoji laughed wildly and killed an Iron Buddha who had tried to escape with one sword, and blood splattered all over his face.
"Kill! Kill them all! Guancheng belongs to us, Beidi!"
The defense line on the city wall was torn to pieces in an instant.
The defending soldiers were already exhausted. Faced with this sudden close combat, many of them did not even have time to raise their heavy weapons before they were overwhelmed by the swarming enemies.
Screams, the dull thud of weapons entering flesh, and the crisp sound of bones breaking instantly replaced the previous roars and the sound of arrows breaking through the air.
Ge Jiyong's eyes were bloodshot, he roared wildly, wielded his heavy battle axe, and charged back and forth in the gap.
Every swing brought about a bloody storm, trying to plug the biggest gap.
But there were too many enemies. When one was chopped down, two or three more would immediately take his place.
He had several wounds on his body that were deep enough to see the bone, and blood soaked his battle robe.
"General! The gap is no longer tenable!"
A personal soldier shouted hoarsely, and before he finished speaking, a wolf-tooth arrow shot towards him.
He just managed to block it with his sword.
Luo Yuan stood at the highest point of the city wall. As far as his eyes could see, the city wall was already a Shura scene.
In the recent round of city defense battles, more than 100,000 enemy troops were successfully killed.
However, the remaining 400,000 is much more than theirs.
Under the siege of the enemy, the defending soldiers were swallowed up and extinguished one by one like candles in the wind.
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