Chapter 1350 - 331: Bloody Battle (2)_2

Chapter 1350: Chapter 331: Bloody Battle (2)_2

Fortunately, the crossbow bolt was pulled out quickly, and Hui An was fine, otherwise, Guo Dong really wouldn’t know what to do.

"I have a snake in my chest!"

"Puh!"

Hui An, with a face covered in blood, spoke as if the blood and guts on his face would fall into his mouth, making his speech somewhat indistinct.

At the same time, he sprayed blood foam all over Guo Dong’s face.

Whew,

Good heavens,

The smell is intense!

Perhaps it was psychological, but Guo Dong felt that even when his father slaughtered a pig for the New Year, it didn’t smell this strong.

The distance had been stretched to a certain point now.

The small shields on each level of the arrow tower had been lowered, and the archers inside began to retaliate.

The small shields functioned like crenellations, ensuring the firing angle while protecting the archers behind them. While opening up completely made it easier to shoot others, it also made it easier to be shot by others.

Perhaps realizing that the shooters on their side of the arrow tower had started to fight back, although the Chu people didn’t lessen their attacks, Guo Dong and Hui An felt much more at ease.

At least,

we are no longer being purely on the defensive!

"Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!!!!!!!!!"

The auxiliary troops at the rear started to advance with shields held high, covering a batch of archers. The arrow tower advanced first, and once it reached a position where it could retaliate, the rear echelon immediately followed up.

For a moment, the retaliatory strength of the Yan people below the city walls increased further, and the warriors at Xuehai Pass had a foundation in mounted archery. Many were skilled in pulling strong bows and shooting accurately, so even below the city walls, they could inflict significant damage on the Chu people above.

"Thump! Thump thump! Thump! Thump thump!!!!!!!"

The wild people slave soldiers carrying bamboo baskets began to swarm forward.

Guo Dong and Hui An noticed that wild slaves kept rushing past them. These wild people had barely any protection, and some were even barely clothed. It’s imaginable how unsafe they must feel on such a battlefield.

But filling the trench and moat depended on them.

Many wild people were shot with arrows mid-way because once they appeared, the Chu people on the city walls also noticed these vulnerable slaves. Compared to shooting those arrow towers and Yan archers protected by shield bearers, shooting these earth-filling wild people was clearly more efficient.

"Ah!"

In front, a wild person was shot in the neck, blood splattering everywhere, and the basket on his back scattered to the ground.

Guo Dong and Hui An remained unmoved, continuing to push the arrow tower forward.

Another wild person had already filled their brought earth into the trench and was returning. While running back, an arrow hit his right arm, causing him to stumble and roll to the ground, right at Guo Dong and Hui An’s feet.

Guo Dong instinctively moved his shield and sheltered him together.

This wild person looked up at Guo Dong, immediately holding his arm to stand up. He was clearly in pain but still forced himself to endure.

Next,

he surprisingly didn’t continue rushing back to the rear but turned around to retrieve the bamboo basket he had just dropped.

He knew that only by bringing back the bamboo basket could he get bamboo tokens to exchange for enough food today.

He also had two Ah Brothers among the slave soldiers in the military camp. By exchanging a bamboo token, he could get a full meal for himself and his two Ah Brothers tonight.

"Hey!"

Guo Dong shouted anxiously.

Actually, as a Yan person, he wasn’t concerned about these lowly wild people at all, but here, on the battlefield, all racial and regional prejudices vanished in an instant.

Everyone, regardless of status, were fellow soldiers.

Because what everyone was risking their lives for, was to conquer the city walls before them.

The wild person picked up the bamboo basket and had taken only a few steps back when an arrow struck his back.

"Puh!"

The bamboo basket he just picked up rolled down again, and he fell face down on the ground. He seemed to want to struggle, but he clearly could not get up again;

Before he died, what he thought of wasn’t just that his two Ah Brothers wouldn’t have food tonight, but also that tomorrow, they would be sent again to continue filling the earth.

"Stars..."

"Dongzi, move aside!"

Hui An suddenly rushed forward, knocking Guo Dong over, rolling them both to the other side.

"Boom!"

Inside the Chu people’s city walls, a trebuchet was launched, clearly targeting these tall arrow towers.

The arrow tower Guo Dong and Hui An had been protecting and pushing forward was hit by two huge stones in succession. The arrow tower’s defenses had been modified, but no matter how they were modified, they couldn’t withstand such an impact.

The arrow tower was smashed in half, and the upper part fell precisely on the spot where Guo Dong and Hui An had been. If Hui An hadn’t predicted the trajectory when the huge stone flew out from within the Chu people’s city walls, they might have been crushed to death by the collapsing arrow tower.

Many of the archers inside the arrow tower were injured; some who weren’t immediately crawled out, seeking cover, or picked up shields if there were shields on the ground, and bows and arrows if there were, continuing to fight.

As long as there was no order to retreat from the rear, they couldn’t retreat no matter what the situation, or else they would be dealt with by military law.

The Chu people’s long-delayed trebuchet launch inflicted significant damage on the Yan Army.

However, the Yan people, who had long had contingency plans, quickly calculated the approximate location of the Chu people’s trebuchet within the city based on the trajectory of the huge stones.