Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

After the three rounds of arrow shooting, Pang Feihu and Fatty Zhu continued to urge everyone on the top of the city to draw their arrows and draw their strings, ready to start the next three rounds of arrow shooting.

It's a pity that things on the battlefield are changing rapidly.

Before the defenders could pull out their arrows and buckle them, the hundreds of thieves below had already killed the city gate.

Zheng Sanjiang rode shirtless on a horse among hundreds of people, and he could clearly see the three rounds of arrows shot from the tower just now.After seeing it, he couldn't help but believe Guan Jiujiu's words, the two hundred government servants guarding the city are really rotten, they are not even qualified for the most basic archery, so they still guard your mother's city.

Thinking of this, he once again gained confidence in himself to take the lead this time, seeing that the heavens favored him, Zheng Sanjiang, and such a dignified thing as siege could give him the lead.

Immediately, he stepped up his pace of attacking the city, and shouted to his subordinates who had already rushed under the city gate and began to slam into the door: "Brothers, the officials guarding the city are a bunch of waste, look at the arrows they shoot, it's just a waste of time!" Like an old woman, limp and weak, wow haha. Brothers, work harder, whoever is the first to rush up the tower, after entering the city, I will reward him with 500 taels of silver, plus five women, can you hear me clearly?"

Boom~~

500 taels of silver can buy land and a house, which is enough to become a rich man in the countryside, and five women are enough to fulfill anyone's dream of wives and concubines.

As soon as Zheng Sanjiang's words came out, there was an upsurge among the thieves again. The thieves who hadn't run to the city gate stepped up their pace more and more, but what about the thieves who ran to the city gate?

They were divided into two groups, one group squeezed outside the city gate and hit the city gate of the east gate of Longxi desperately, and the other group set up bamboo ladders in groups of three or four, climbing towards the top of the city tower like flowers blooming on all sides.

The situation at this time is like a strong wind blowing towards the reeds - one side.

Fatty Zhu, who leaned over the tower and looked down, turned pale with shock, and shouted, "No, no, bandits are starting to climb up, what should we do, what should we do?"

"Brother Guo, our side is the same."

"No way, I have too few people on my side, hurry up to reinforce my side, there are too many bandits."

And Pang Feihu also ran up to Guo Ye, panting and shouting: "Brother, the bandits have already started crashing into the city gate. There are only a dozen brothers downstairs supporting them. I don't think they can last long."

Guo Ye was not in a hurry. Since he had already expected the thieves to attack violently, there was still a countermeasure for the current situation.

Immediately, he shouted to everyone: "Brothers, give up bows and arrows, move rocks and smash them down, and smash them down hard for me."

Then he said to Pang Feihu: "Brother Pang Pang, you take some brothers down the tower and block the city gate with all your might, so that the thieves cannot break through the city gate. Otherwise, all previous efforts will be in vain."

Pang Feihu cupped his fists to accept the order, and called nearly twenty policemen to follow him downstairs.

With Guo Ye's order, all the defenders put down their bows and crossbows one after another, picked up the stones that had been prepared by their feet, and smashed them down hard.

In an instant,

Nearly a hundred large rocks fell down like meteorites from the sky, and the effect was immediately apparent.

The physical work of throwing rocks down the city is not like drawing a bow and archery, it requires technical content.

Plop, plop, the stones fell like the sound of thunder, ranging from one or two people to as many as three or five. Most of the thieves who gathered together were hit by the stones and fell from the bamboo ladder to the city.

For a while, there were bursts of mournful screams and howling ghosts and wolves from below the city.

Seeing this, Zheng Sanjiang, who had been careful not to step forward to personally attack the city, suddenly panicked. After a rough calculation, at least five, no.

Big loss.

Looking at the dead and wounded bandits, Zheng Sanjiang felt it was a lie if he didn't feel sorry for them, especially the hundred or so bandits he brought over himself, they were brothers who had been by his side for several years.

However, this did not frighten Zheng Sanjiang away. In his opinion, there are at most a hundred people on the tower, not to mention that when the stones are used up, the physical strength of the people is also used up.

He couldn't just give up like this, otherwise the agreement he and Guan Jiujiu had secretly reached would not be fulfilled.

Paralyzed, die as soon as you die, and when you are clean, I will recruit a new batch. These days, there are wine, meat, and women. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to recruit the unscrupulous people who go up the mountain to be bandits?

Immediately, Zheng Sanjiang shouted to the front: "Brothers, don't crowd together, separate out, separate out a dozen or twenty ladders, and everyone climbs up in different directions. We have many people, they are few, they insist on It won't be long. Lao Tzu Zheng Sanjiang still said that whoever climbs the top of the city first will be rewarded with an additional 1000 taels of silver, and women will be rewarded with ten more, have you heard it?"

wow~~

Guo Ye will use the heavy reward to bring out brave men, and Zheng Sanjiang will do the same, but there is beauty in his heavy reward, how can the group of thugs under him not covet their lives?

But Zheng Sanjiang's words did bear fruit, those thieves divided nearly [-] bamboo ladders and temporarily assembled them into three or five cloud ladders, which were set up in different positions, and then some thieves who were not afraid of death began to climb and die. rise.

Looking at the city tower again, Zheng Sanjiang's yelling has already attracted Guo Ye's attention. Guo Ye looked at Zheng Sanjiang and found Zheng Sanjiang's figure. He asked Fatty Zhu beside him, "Who is this person?"

Fatty Zhu recalled what Zheng Sanjiang said just now, and guessed: "This fellow called himself Zheng Sanjiang just now, could it be Zheng Sanjiang, the leader of water bandits in the Minjiang River?"

As soon as Guo Ye heard the name, he immediately thought of Qin Wei in the prison, and snorted, "So it's that bastard who swore to his elder brother, hehe, bring a bow and arrow someday."

Fatty Zhu was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Brother, do you want to shoot that thief yourself?"

As he spoke, he ran to a yamen servant and picked up an iron tire bow and a quiver, and handed them to Guo Ye.

Guo Ye nodded and said with a smile, "Isn't he noisy? Look at me, brother, I shot him through the throat, and I'll show you what it means to blow blood with an arrow."

Fatty Zhu compared the distance from here to Zheng Sanjiang, smacked his lips and exclaimed in surprise: "Hey, it's nearly a hundred feet (one foot is about three meters), little brother, can you do it?"

Guo Ye pursed his lips, and hummed in his heart, you must know that my brother will accompany our director to the archery range as a sparring partner in later generations, is it a waste of time?Anyway, brother, I am also a major in amateur, is it good to be an amateur in major?

Immediately, he smiled at Fatty Zhu and said, "Is it possible? You can remove the word 'ma', will it work?"

As he spoke, he weighed the iron tire bow in his hand, and suddenly frowned and said, "No, no, it's too light. Hurry up and find a heavier one. It's too light to be strong, and it can't be reached by long-distance."

After Fatty Zhu listened, he went to the ground to search several times.

Guo Ye weighed them in his hands one after another, and also shouted dissatisfiedly: "Too light, too light, is there any heavier?"

Fatty Zhu begged for mercy with a bitter face: "My dear brother, we have this kind of iron tire bows in our yamen's treasury. Where can I get better bows now, old Zhu?"

Hearing this, Guo Ye thinks about it too, how could such a good bow and arrow appear in the treasury of a small county government? Forget it, Zheng Sanjiang was lucky enough to escape Lao Tzu's deadly arrow, just remember for now.

Just when Guo Ye was about to give up, a shout suddenly came from the corner of the stairs of the tower: "Haha, the good bow is here, Brother Guo, don't worry!"

Hearing this, he saw that it was Sun Mingyan, the son of the rogue leader in the south of the city, and following him, three hundred rogues from the south of the city rushed up the tower one after another.

Sun Mingyan raised a huge black bow and arrow in his hand as he ran forward, and roared awe-inspiringly:

"Haha... Mr. Sun led three hundred brave men from the south of the city to help Brother Guo defend the city!!!"

Chapter 124 Battle to defend Longxi County (5)

Strictly speaking, what Sun Mingyan held in his hand was not a bow, but a crossbow.

Guo Ye, who was a fan of the puppet army in later generations, still remembers that this kind of crossbow machine has its own special name, which is called Fuyuan crossbow.

Fuyuan crossbow, one of the four major crossbows in the Tang army, is specially used by cavalry, with an effective range of 450 steps, about [-] meters.

The characteristic of this crossbow is that it is light, dexterous and easy to carry. Its range and accuracy are higher than that of ordinary bows and arrows. It is mostly equipped by elite cavalry in the army.

Usually an elite cavalry, in addition to a horizontal knife, is equipped with a pair of fuyuan crossbows and 36 iron tail crossbow arrows.

The crossbow arrows are made of fine iron from the beginning to the end. After being installed and shot, because of the iron material, they often shoot out with a sharp scream, and the sound is like thunder.Therefore, the arrows of the Fuyuan Crossbow are also called "Thunder Arrows".