Three Kingdoms: Jiangdong is no longer a rat

Chapter 51 First up
Looking at the densely packed enemy troops, the defenders on the city wall were stunned.

Not long ago, they were still enjoying the tranquility of the rainy night in the gate tower, thinking of returning to the city for a big meal after the morning shift change. However, in just two quarters of an hour, the shadow of death suddenly loomed over them, leaving them at a loss.

At this moment, the blood flowing in their bodies seemed to have solidified, and the intense fear made their hands and feet become a little stiff.

They only have 150 people, how can they resist an enemy that is ten times their number!
The overwhelming number of arrows alone were enough to overwhelm them and make them unable to raise their heads.

Although the accuracy of these arrows was very poor, there were too many of them. As soon as they showed their bodies, they would be shot with dense arrows. If they were a little slower to dodge, they would probably be shot like hedgehogs.

More than a dozen defenders in the arrow tower had already hidden behind the wall, looking at the arrows passing through the arrow windows from time to time, and did not dare to show their heads. Only more than 30 archers on the gate tower relied on the terrain and counterattacked from a high position, but most of them were just pretending and could not pose any threat to the enemy.

Regardless of numbers, morale or eliteness, they were crushed by the enemy.

If escape was not punishable by death, if there was not still a glimmer of hope for reinforcements in people's hearts, if no one had taken the initiative to step forward, I am afraid the situation would have gotten out of control immediately.

During this brief yet long moment of panic, the defenders on the city wall suddenly felt that the rain of arrows around them had become much sparser.

Some experienced defenders immediately realized that the enemy was about to climb the city!
Amid the desperate shouts of the village chief and the team leader, they tried hard to suppress their inner fear, and stuck their heads out from the parapet. Just one look made their hearts suddenly shrink, and a chill ran up their spines to their foreheads.

The enemy soldiers on the ladders had climbed to a place only one meter away from the parapet.

The section of the city wall on the left side of the South Gate was originally a weak point in defense. Some places were even earth walls, and the height was only five or six meters. Compared with the city walls of large cities that were eight or nine meters or even more than ten meters high, it was really a world of difference!
At the critical moment of life and death, the defenders did not have time to think too much and their bodies reacted instinctively. Some swung their swords at the soldiers climbing the city wall, some picked up stones and threw them down, and some grabbed the ladder and tried to push it down.

However, the grappling hooks on the top of these ladders have already latched onto the parapet, and the bases are held tightly by several strong soldiers. How can they be easily pushed down? Without the combined strength of several people, it would be impossible to do so.

However, those waist-thick stones played a huge role at this moment. Every time a stone was thrown down, a soldier would immediately fall off the ladder with a scream.

Soon, another defender brought caltrops and threw them down the city wall, which immediately caused screams.

The brutal siege officially began at this moment.

Fan Yan stood in an open space one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, with a row of soldiers holding shields in front of him.

He watched expressionlessly as a soldier fell from the ladder, the veins bulging from his hand gripping the hilt of his sword. He said in a deep voice, "Order all the archers to fire at the gatehouse and arrow tower. Supervisors, advance. Anyone who retreats in the face of battle will be executed immediately!"

A messenger left quickly.

Chen Gan, standing beside him, stared at the city wall with bloodshot eyes. He then turned to Fan Yan and said, "There's no time to lose. If we can't reach the city wall in one fell swoop, once reinforcements arrive, the situation will turn dire. How can we face the young master? I'm leading the assault!"

Xu Sheng and Zhao Cuo hesitated for a while and then asked to fight.

Fan Yan knew that Xu Sheng was a person Yan Yi valued very much, and Zhao Cuo was unable to handle the heavy responsibility for a while, so he looked at Chen Gan and said, "You go!"

Chen Gan nodded heavily, turned around and strode away, his heavy chain mail making a rustling sound as he walked.

More than a dozen soldiers who had fought alongside him through thick and thin followed closely behind. Although Chen Gan was reckless, he was very experienced in combat. After all, he had emerged from a pile of corpses. He immediately selected a section of the city wall as the main attack direction.

This part of the city wall is made entirely of earth and is less than six meters high. Moreover, due to its distance from the gatehouse, the boiling oil is often exhausted by the time it reaches the first few battlements. The dozens of reinforcements that have just arrived are also reinforcements from other places. It can be said to be an excellent breakthrough point.

Chen Gan came to the bottom of the ladder, sheathed his sword, put on his iron helmet, and put his wooden shield behind him. He did not climb from the front of the ladder, but went around to the inside of the ladder and climbed up from the inside.

In this way, concealment is immediately greatly enhanced, but climbing upwards from the inside requires very strong arm strength, which is far from being as easy as climbing from the front with only the help of foot strength.

He was seen holding the ladder firmly with both hands, stepping on the ladder rails with both feet, and hanging upside down, like a nimble monkey, climbing up slowly. When he was one meter away from the parapet, he stopped and shouted to a soldier who had climbed to his knees, signaling him to stop.

There were two soldiers above this soldier. The first soldier had just climbed to the parapet when he was stabbed in the chest by a spear from a defender. He immediately let out a scream and was then chopped down by another defender with a knife and fell off the ladder.

The second soldier gritted his teeth, raised his wooden shield, and mustered up the courage to continue climbing up. Before he reached the battlement, he was hit on the head by an oncoming stone.

At the moment when the soldier fell off the ladder, Chen Gan used his hands and feet to exert force, and with the help of his strong waist strength, he suddenly flipped from the back of the ladder to the front, took two steps in an instant, and climbed to the top of the ladder.

The two soldiers standing behind the parapet were shocked. They never expected that an enemy would suddenly appear on the ladder that was already empty. In addition, Chen Gan was tall and strong, with an intimidating aura, so they were stunned for a moment.

Taking advantage of this fleeting moment, Chen Gan suddenly stretched out his left arm, grabbed the collar of a defender, shouted loudly, lifted him up, and dragged him out of the parapet.

The soldier fell off the city wall like a kite with a broken string and was hacked to death by several soldiers below the city.

Another defender had reacted by then, exerting force with both arms and thrusting the spear at Chen Gan's chest.

Chen Gan dodged to the right, but although he avoided the vital parts, his left upper arm was pierced by the spear and blood was gushing out.

He didn't care at all, as if the left arm was not his own. He just groaned, then immediately drew his sword with his right hand and chopped it on the defender's face, killing him.

Then he quickly climbed up the battlement, swung his sword to block a long sword coming from the left, and jumped into the city wall.

Before he could even stand firm, several defenders on both sides had already rushed in front of him. Chen Gan had no time to think. Relying on the experience accumulated from long-term fighting, he turned his body to the right, attacked from behind but was the first to arrive, and knocked down the defender in front of him. He turned his back to the defender on the other side and took two hits.

Because he was protected by armor and a wooden shield, the two long swords that hit his back only made him stagger, but did not cause any obvious injuries.

Chen Gan turned around quickly, swung his sword and knocked down a defender. He exerted force with his right arm and threw the sword in his hand, and the blade penetrated deeply into the abdomen of the second soldier.

A trace of fear flashed in the soldier's eyes, and he fell to the ground.

Chen Gan shouted loudly, pulled out the spear that was still stuck in his left arm with his right hand, and waved the spear to force back several defenders who came to support him.

For a moment, no one could get close to him!

(End of this chapter)