Chapter 47: Blood Battle

  At this time, the cloud ladder on the city head had been set up firmly. The left sentinel Yang Xiao was looking at the watch hole of the nearby wall, and several Qing soldiers with heavy armor and shields were climbing up the cloud ladder, shouting "Jinju, fall!"

  At that moment, the two auxiliary soldiers lifted the large pot with iron bars and carried it to a high place at the mouth of the kiln. With great effort, they poured out the boiling excrement inside, like a waterfall pouring down, emitting a golden light in the sunlight.

  A pungent smell filled the air, and a blood-curdling scream rose up. The three or four golden armored soldiers climbing the cloud ladder, as well as several unarmored golden soldiers holding the wooden ladder below, were all drenched in scalding hot feces, covering their bodies and faces. They immediately let out a blood-curdling cry and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth on the ground, emitting an inhuman howl.

  Those few men holding large shields were also useless, as the scalding hot dung poured down on them, and no one could escape. Each of them fell to the ground with their skin ripped open. Even the cotton armor on their bodies was sizzling and smoking, revealing the iron leaves underneath. As for those below who had no shield protection, they were even more miserable, with their hands and faces completely scorched, exposing the white bones inside.

  These people rolled on the ground, screaming in horror. They poured excrement over themselves and suffered severe burns all over their bodies. Even if they didn't die immediately, in this scorching weather, the excrement would deeply corrode into their wounds, causing severe infection and rotting of the flesh, making survival impossible.

  These people's bodies also had a foul odor that came from the golden liquid flowing down from the cloud ladder, which made the nearby Jin soldiers vomit uncontrollably.

  In just this moment, six or seven Golden Soldiers at Cloud Ladder were seriously injured and had no chance of survival.

  Look at their miserable appearance, the Jin army soldiers who are about to climb the city wall or beside the moat are extremely cruel and evil. They look up at the high city wall with a hesitant and fearful expression on their faces.

  Not only that, but also on this section of the city wall, there were constantly falling rocks, although not very accurate, but still causing casualties to the Jin soldiers who were climbing the city, especially those without armor or only wearing cotton armor, many were crushed to death or injured!

  Some large millstones were dropped from above, and even if the dead soldiers held up their shields, they still had their hands and feet crushed.

  The city below continued to have Jin soldiers crying out and falling down. This small piece of land was a death zone.

  Look at those golden soldiers who are hesitant to advance. The ox record Zhu Wei, who was commanding outside the trench, was furious. The drummer beside him immediately sounded the drum to urge them on, and some of the white armored soldiers' arrows were also drawn and shot, not aiming at the city head, but at their comrades below the city.

  The white armoured soldiers among the golden armoured ones, apart from providing support, also had the role of supervising and pressing the formation. Once the vanguard hesitated or fled, these white armoured soldiers would execute them. Under such pressure, those dead soldiers regained their courage, and after two cloud ladders were pushed up, they picked up their knives and shields again, climbing from the cloud ladders to the city wall.

  Just as the cloud ladder was leaning against, after a few golden soldiers climbed up, there was another pot of boiling and smelly gold liquid poured down from the top of the city wall, making these golden soldiers scream and fall to the ground, rolling around and screaming miserably. Fortunately, after three pots of gold liquid were poured down from the city wall, no more gold liquid came pouring down, probably because the righteous army inside the city wall had run out of gold liquid, and even the number of boulders thrown down was greatly reduced.

  The golden armor under the city was greatly shaken. Next, more than 20 dead soldiers climbed up from three cloud ladders.

  But just at this moment, from the left wall of the city and the right side of the earthen castle, those leaf family soldiers who had disappeared from the loopholes for a long time began to appear again. They stretched out several black crossbows from both sides to attack, their crossbows were fierce, and those Jin soldiers who were hit, even if they wore several layers of heavy armor, would die with their armor broken, screaming as they fell off the cloud ladder.

  At this time, the dozens of golden armored bowmen under the city wall had already felt insufficient arm strength after shooting a few rounds earlier, and the number of arrows that could suppress and press down had greatly decreased, and the threat was no longer sufficient. Those dead soldiers were busy climbing the city wall and couldn't shoot arrows either. The strongest dozen or so white armored soldiers were far outside the moat, and they were also powerless against the crossbowmen in the Divine Machine Battalion of the Ye family army on the other side of the horse-faced city.

  At this time, the advantage of the crossbowmen of Lu Yunbao was revealed. Unlike bows and arrows, they did not need strong arm strength to fire the crossbows. At the same time, 10 shots could be fired instantly. The number also far exceeded that of the enemy army. As long as there was a sufficient supply of arrows, they could shoot continuously.

  ……

  "The warriors suffered heavy casualties."

  On the outer side of the moat, not far away, Niu Lu Zhuwei was in front, with shield cars on both sides and under the heavy guard of white armor soldiers beside him, just looking at the city head, beating his chest in pain and regret.

  Niú Lù Zhū Wěi fèng nà jiǎ lè zhāng jīng zhī lìng, dài lǐng zhàn bīng liǎng bǎi, fǔ bīng sān bǎi lái gōng qǔ chéng chí. Bù liào méi děng kào jìn chéng bǎo. Jūn zhōng jiù yǒu shí yú rén shāng wáng, dōu shì sǐ zài chéng tóu yì jūn de tóu shí qì zhī xià, qí zhōng gèng yǒu jǐ gè shì zhàn bīng, yǒu yī gè bái jiǎ bīng de xiǎo tuǐ hái bèi dào pì de zhàn mǎ yā duàn.

  In this section of the road rushing to the castle, more than a dozen Jin soldiers were killed or injured by the continuous crossbowmen of the Ye family army's Divine Machine Division on the city wall.

  After approaching the city, Niu Lu Zhu Wei divided his troops into two routes. On the left side of the city gate, Niu Lu Zhang Jing led more than 150 combat soldiers and more than 200 auxiliary soldiers to command the attack personally. On the right side of the city wall, a separate detachment of more than 50 horse infantry and 100 auxiliary soldiers was led by another Niu Lu to launch an attack.

  The following war soldiers and archers covered, those who followed the role of filling trenches, clearing trenches before the anti-cavalry barriers, abatis, and caltrops, only on the side of Niu Lu Zhuwei, there were more than 40 casualties in the army. Among them, more than a dozen people were heavily armored soldiers.

  Especially those barefoot or only wearing socks, they not only had to withstand the shooting of the Ye family army on the city wall, but also when clearing the iron caltrops, many barefoot porters' feet were pierced by the sharp iron caltrops. When moving the wooden fences full of iron spikes, many people's hands were injured.

  It was easy to clear the thorny bushes in front of the trench, and then fill up a section of the trench that was over ten steps long so it could be crossed. The Jin army began to climb up the cloud ladder to ascend the city wall, but here they were hit by the stone and gold liquid projectiles shot from the top of the city wall by the Ye family's soldiers, and also suffered many casualties under the shooting from both sides by the Divine Machinery Battalion.

  Roughly estimated, there were nearly thirty casualties among the Golden Soldiers here, and in fact more than half of them were heavily armored warriors. Before even climbing over the city walls, the casualties were already so severe, how could it not make Niu Lu Zhu Wei beat his chest in grief?

  From the left side of the south gate wall to the moat, this section was filled with the bodies of Jin soldiers and the wounded who were crying out in pain. The dead all had extremely large mouths. Especially those Jin soldiers who were scalded to death or injured by boiling oil and crushed by rolling logs and stones, their appearance was even more miserable.