The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 776: mob
Chapter 776: The Mob
The army behind Liu Hong made way for the passage, and the three thousand soldiers brought by Bai Qingyan rushed forward.
At Zhao Ran’s command, the soldiers of Niujiao Mountain shouted and changed their formation. They formed a team of six, with four people wearing light shields in the front. Three of the light shields were of different shapes. The middle one was a square field-shaped light shield with four even sides①, and the two sides were Gui field-shaped light shields with three even sides②. The one in the back was a normal shield. The four shields protected the soldiers with bags on the back and they approached the two corners of the city wall steadily and quickly.
Liu Hong looked at the soldiers in teams of six passing by him rapidly, and was somewhat confused. He wondered what the use of these soldiers holding these shields of various shapes was.
“Princess Zhenguo, what’s the use of having six soldiers in a team with shields like that in their hands?” Liu Hong asked.
“There are six people in a group, and there are four shields in a group. Three of the shields have hidden buckles inside. The hidden buckles connect them together, forming a trinity. General Liu will know it just by looking at it…” Bai Qing said.
Soon, the first team of six people arrived under the city wall.
This city wall was built against the cliffs on both sides. The team leader ordered three people to interlock their shields to form a large shield in the shape of a Minota. The longest side of the shield was pressed against the city wall, slanting above their heads to block the arrows shot down from the city wall for the two people who were riveting into the city wall.
Seeing that the arrows were useless, the Liang army on the city wall hurriedly ordered people to bring stones to smash the shields.
But the shields were interlocked and slanted, and the impact of the stones falling from the city wall caused the three people holding the shields to slide down. The shields were firmly stuck on the rivets as thick as a rolling pin that had just been riveted into the city wall. The stones rolled down the Mitian-shaped slope, but the end of the rivet… passed through the round ring of the rope tied to their bodies, causing a violent noise.
The three soldiers holding the Minita shield stepped on the rivets and raised their shields upwards. The two soldiers who were embedding rivets followed closely behind them, took a step forward steadily, and then riveted a rivet into the city wall…
The only person holding a normal defensive shield was right under the city wall, hiding in the angle between the shield and the wall, holding a rope in his hand, but no one knew what it was for.
Under the city wall of Qingxi Mountain Pass, the soldiers of Niujiao Mountain gathered together, with six people in a team, interlocking shields, and climbing the city wall.
From afar, the soldiers of Niujiao Mountain were like ivy with vigorous vitality, climbing up the city wall little by little… densely packed, and they swallowed up more than half of the wall calmly and without haste.
Occasionally, a soldier would slip, and the soldier squatting in the angle between the shield and the wall… holding the rope would immediately grab the rope tightly and pull hard…
The soldier who was about to fall was pulled up by the rope tied to his body and passed through the rivet round ring. A hand stretched out from under the Minato-shaped shield and pulled the soldier back under the shield.
Seeing this, many Jin army soldiers who were attacking the city went to help pull the ropes, which speeded up the siege at a visibly faster rate.
As soon as one team climbed up, the rope ladder would be thrown down. The Niujiaoshan soldiers who first rushed up the city wall drew their swords and defended the ropes. Soon, one Jin army after another climbed up the city wall and fought a bloody battle with the Liang army!
The Jin army faced fewer and fewer obstacles in climbing the city wall, and their climbing speed became faster and faster.
Soon, the city wall was densely packed with Jin troops climbing up using ropes and ladders. Soon… the entire city wall was filled with Jin troops, and dozens of ladders were pushed to the front of the city wall, which was a thrilling sight.
The Qingxishan Pass, known as the most powerful pass in the world, was as weak as paper in front of Bai Qingyan’s soldiers!
Liu Hong was shocked when he saw such a shocking scene. He turned to look at Bai Qingyan, who was standing in the heavy rain with calm eyes.
Looking behind Bai Qingyan, there were small teams of soldiers, each staring at the city wall with sharp eyes, waiting for Bai Qingyan’s order at any time to become the next wave of warriors to sprint and climb the city wall.
This… is the bandit-suppression army that the Zhenguo Princess trained in Shuoyang? A mob?!
Liu Hong seemed to have heard someone mention that when Bai Qingyan followed King Zhenguo to the battlefield, she was always the vanguard because Bai Qingyan had a female guard team under her command, which were always used as weapons to break down cities. Could it be that… the female guard team used to attack cities in this way?
Daliang has always had a lot of rain…and the Qingxi Mountain Pass is extremely important, so when Daliang built the city walls of the various passes, they did not use earth walls. They were afraid that heavy rains would cause the earth walls to collapse, and if another country attacked the Qingxi Mountain Pass, they would be unable to defend themselves.
Liang State was already ahead of other countries in the technology of building city walls with stones, but because it consumed huge manpower and material resources, when constructing the Qingxi Mountain Pass, the builders used the cliffs of two steep mountains to create an extremely high and difficult to climb stone city wall!
But it was precisely because Liang State built its city walls with stone that these Niujiaoshan soldiers had the opportunity today. If it was an earth wall, after being washed by rain for so long, even if the rivets were embedded in it, if people stepped on it with their weight, the wall would not be able to hold the nails well and would still fall down.
Now, the rivets are embedded in the cracks of the stone wall, using the force to support it, making it very stable…
But in Bai Qingyan’s eyes, these soldiers from Niujiao Mountain are still very young. They have not been trained for a long time and have never experienced actual combat. They need to undergo the baptism of real war like the soldiers of the Tiger Eagle Camp, so that they can grow into truly useful brave soldiers.
Seeing the Zhao flag hanging high on the city wall and the Liang army flag falling, Bai Qingyan pulled the reins hard, and the warhorse under him kicked and turned to Liu Hong: “General, give the order!”
Liu Hong knew that the time had come. The Jin army had already rushed into the wall. Once the Liang army’s flag fell, some soldiers must have gone to open the door.
Liu Hong drew his sword and shouted, “Soldiers of the Jin army! The Liang army’s flag has fallen! The Liang army is doomed to fail! Kill!”
The Jin army’s blood suddenly boiled, and as Liu Hong’s chariot rushed forward, the Jin army soldiers roared and rushed towards the city wall of Qingxishan Pass.
Bai Qingyan took off the Sun-Shooting Bow from behind him, held the reins with one hand, and rushed out with a kick on the horse’s belly.
Inside the heavy gate of Qingxishan Pass, the Jin army that climbed over the city wall mercilessly killed those soldiers who were blocking the gate with their bodies. Outside the gate, the battering rams like armored beasts hit the gate again, and the last wooden pillar between the two doors inside the city gate finally had a crack.
The Liang army on the city wall no longer had the power to stop the Jin army, and all that flowed down the city wall was blood!
The Jin army soldiers pulled the battering ram as far as possible, and some soldiers were busy clearing the obstacles in front of the battering ram… either the corpses and broken limbs of the Liang or Jin army. They roared and pushed the battering ram with all their strength towards the center of the two gates. They all knew that with this final blow, they would definitely break open the city gate.
The ancient and heavy gate at the Qingxi Mountain Pass was finally knocked open…
① Square field (straight field): rectangular with four evenly spaced square sides.
② Keita: Triangle, sometimes also refers to an isosceles triangle.
③Jitian: trapezoidal.
From the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
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