Chapter 41: Covering the Armor and Destroying the Enemy
The Montenegrin army attacked the city and occupied the entire city gate tower without much effort.
The few armoured armoured troops at the head of the city were defeated by them, but for a moment they could only maintain the front line on the steps of the city, and although it was difficult to inflict casualties on them, Guo Daxian had already seen the dawn of a great victory.
"Open the gates!"
With a bang, the drawbridge was lowered, and then the gates slowly opened.
But, but the Montenegrin army hasn't gone down to open the door yet!
This change shocked Guo Daxian, looking back at the pass, the entire Black Mountain company camp rose up because of the drop of the suspension bridge, and countless Black Mountain men rushed to the slowly opening city gate with weapons in their hands.
"Don't come here...... There is an ambush! Guo Daxian shouted loudly to the city, his voice passed through the heavy rain curtain, and when he arrived at the city, he only shouted indistinctly from the true meaning, "Go back, go back!" ”
The moment the city gate opened, he heard the shouts of the closed door set off a stormy wave, it was a sound that the sky was dead, that was a sound that the yellow sky was standing.
In this way, they commemorate the great sages and mentors who changed everything about them, and although Zhang Jiao has been dead for many years, Huang Tian's legacy is still being carried out by the Yellow Turban remnants who are active in various places, as long as there is still a person in the world with a yellow scarf tied to his forehead, as long as there is still a person who remembers that the sky is dead...... The Great Virtuous Master is still in this world, even though his followers are no longer visible.
They knew that above the Nine Heavens, the eyes of the great sages and good teachers must still be watching them.
They knew that under the Nine Earths, the gentle words of the Great Sage and Good Master must still be in every dream.
This is their way, there is no end, they will carry the will of the yellow sky to the underworld.
The gates of the city were completely opened.
The rain fell from the distant horizon, dripping onto the black and red armor, splashing a little water.
Iron horses galloping, short swords and battle axes unsheathed, and hideous demon masks like cage tigers, with the unique whistle of the Qiang people, charged out frantically, and were meeting the Black Mountain army charging towards the city gate.
The Montenegrin army is endless, as far as the eye can see, the figure of the Montenegrin army, these tough Jizhou men holding short knives and spears thought that the opening of the city gate would greet them with the face of the robe with a smile in the dark night, but they didn't expect that what was waiting for them was the endless Liangzhou armored army.
"Armor Break!" Gan Ning took the lead, and the horse rushed out of the city gate like a black streamer, followed by the armored heavy horses that poured out like a tide. The horses neighed, the iron hooves roared, and they rushed towards the Black Mountain Army with an unrivaled momentum.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.
In the face of the extremely vicious and roaring to kill the ghostly Liangzhou armored army, even the conceited and brave Zhou Cang did not have the courage to fight with it, let alone ordinary Black Mountain sergeants.
Only at this time will most of the Yellow Turban remnants remember that the men stationed at this pass had also stopped the footsteps of the great sages and good teachers many years ago.
Although there were thousands of Montenegrin troops rushing to the city gate outside the camp, it was difficult to raise the fighting spirit in the face of the armor and heavy cavalry that surpassed their armor and armament...... Especially in the dark night when it is impossible to distinguish the number of enemy troops.
The forward line of the Montenegrin army was blocked by the armored iron cavalry, and the huge battle axes flew like toys to the machetes and spears chopped by the Montenegrin sergeants, and the screams, horses, and neighs exploded with thunder under the gate of this night.
A bolt of lightning struck the mountains, thunder gusted, and the rain fell even louder.
Bright lightning instantly illuminated the knights on horseback covered in demonic armor, and their appearance was as terrifying as the armor.
Ma Yue climbed to the top of the city, the pouring rain was on his armor, and the vision in front of him was also blocked by the heavy rain, but he could still clearly see that the charging troops of the Black Mountain Army were cut through it by the armored army killed in the pass, like a sharp knife.
Isn't the armor army just a knife? It is the sharpest blade in Ma Yue's hands.
His gaze looked at the company camp ten miles away, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the heavy rain. The feeling annoyed him. But at the same time, he was also pleased, Ma Yue turned his head and shouted: "Command the whole army, bring all the baggage, throw the prisoners in the pass, gather in the south of the pass, we will abandon the pass and break through!" ”
He can't see the camp of the Montenegrin army, can the Montenegrin army see his camp clearly?
If you don't leave now, when will you stay?
This heavy rain is simply a godsend, otherwise I am afraid that I will be attacked by the Montenegrin army on both sides until the grain and grass are exhausted.
The Montenegrin army front was crushed by the armored army, and the armored army moved forward under the leadership of Gan Ning, and the Montenegrin army that blocked the road was either knocked away by the war horse or split by the battle axe, and the armored war horses rushed away like a chariot and the cycle repeated, and the Montenegrin army broke and fled.
The defeat was like a mountain, the front was blocked, the rear army did not know where to go, and Pei Yuanshao hurriedly ordered the Montenegrin army to withdraw to the camp and defend it.
In his cognition, although the Liangzhou armored army has strong impact and strong armament, it is still cavalry after all, and as long as it retreats to the camp, there will be no more unnecessary casualties.
This is really the best way to survive the armored iron cavalry in Shangliangzhou, the standing weapons at this stage can not pose a mortal threat to the iron cavalry covering heavy armor, even in the siege war, it takes five or six ordinary soldiers to overturn an armored army, not to mention that now they are all sitting on their fully equipped mounts, which is like a tiger with wings, and no one can stop them.
Zhou Cang stood in the camp with his sword in his hand, the heavy rain made him unable to see the battle situation in front of him, but he clearly felt the tremor of the ground under his feet, and he knew that he had been tricked.
"Watch the camp gate and listen to my instructions!" Zhou Cang climbed the heights and looked, first saw his own sergeants retreating one by one, more than 5,000 out of the camp, and only 2,000 or 3,000 people returned, and they couldn't stop retreating in horror, and some of the sergeants even lost their weapons...... Even if there is an ambush in the city, it won't be like this, right?
Suddenly, following the shouts, he saw those Liangzhou iron horsemen wielding battle axes to slash their own foot soldiers, and the moment he saw them, Zhou Cang could already imagine how this war was lost.
"Cunning Ma Yue!" Zhou Cang fiercely suppressed his voice and scolded angrily, and hurriedly ordered the foot soldiers to prepare for the emergency enemy outside the camp gate. "Bend your bow and shoot them at me!"
At this time, no one cared about the problem of the bow and arrow being accurate in the rain, so he opened the bow and shot at the ironclad cavalry galloping in the rain. Rows of arrows rained down, even if the arrows flew in the air and fell into the ground after flying dozens of steps, even if the arrows hit the iron cavalry and couldn't even get up a spark, the Montenegrin army still used their bows to throw them, just to make these cavalry stop.
Pei Yuanshao clenched his ring knife and gritted his teeth, he always had his back to the camp and slowly retreated, ready to fight to the death with the armored army that broke into the camp. It was only when he retreated into the camp and saw with his own eyes that the solid wooden door was closed, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he feel the cold all over his body.
The heavy rain was soaking the rudimentary armor, and the clothes lined with sweat were also soaked, so that he was not aware of the difference between life and death, and the cold that invaded his flesh and bones at this moment made him tremble.
Zhou Cang's eyes widened, and he stood on the arrow tower and watched the armored cavalry in the distance stationing their horses dozens of steps away from the camp.
'Finally stopped', Zhou Cang's heart palpitated.
Then, he saw a man in the Liangzhou armored army lined up unveiling the demon armor and smiling grimly with a battle axe. Zhou Cang had never seen this man, but he remembered this face deeply. The blood stains on the battle axe fell from the axe edge mixed with the rain, Gan Ning drove his horse back, and the hundreds of Liangzhou armored troops who had brought nightmares to the Montenegrin army on this night slowly retreated, hiding in the darkness of the heavy rain.
Gan Ning failed to return to the pass, because the Xiliang army had already prepared to leave the pass. Groups of Liangzhou cavalry braved the heavy rain to prepare their baggage, and left Yuyuan Pass all the way north on this rainy night.
Since he couldn't burn the baggage of the Montenegrin army, he could only detour to the Huayin line again to go to the Mianchi garrison, and wait until he joined forces with Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng, and then seek a way to break the Montenegrin army.
Although the Montenegrin army still surrounded the pass, they no longer dared to do anything like stealing the pass. The rain fell heavily for two days, and the opposite pass could not be seen for two days. However, he was afraid that the Liangzhou armored army would come to attack the camp, and he defended it strictly day and night, and was tortured by the ghost weather and the Liangzhou army, and scolded Ma Yue in the camp all day long, but he never dared to go to the empty city with a flag.
On the third day, Zhou Cang finally couldn't bear to send scouts to climb the city to find out, only then did he know that the Liangzhou army had already withdrawn from the city, leaving only Sun Qing and the four hundred black mountain captives in the previous defenders.
It's just too late, Sun Qing was humiliated, and he suffered from the wind and cold in the night when the rain was pouring, and finally he couldn't bear the illness and starved to death on the night of the second day. He was accompanied by more than 200 Montenegrin captives, and the remaining surviving men were also weak and sick, and their days were short.
The Montenegrin army sent a scout horse to track Ma Yue's whereabouts, but the heavy rain for several days had already washed away the footprints on the road. Ma Yue had already disappeared into the rainy night at the Yuyuan Pass.
In this siege, the Montenegrin army failed to take advantage of the slightest advantage, and lost thousands of soldiers.
However, on the third day of the Black Mountain Army's reoccupation of Yuyuan Pass, the horses that ran back from the west reported that at the foot of Bear's Ears Mountain west of Luhun, the three sides fought endlessly. And none of them are Black Mountain soldiers and horses, one of them seems to be Liangzhou's armored heavy cavalry.
Zhou Cang laughed when he heard this, and immediately ordered someone to tell Zhang Yan to continue to increase troops to the two passes of Taigu and Yuyuan, and he ordered the soldiers and horses of the second pass and led the mighty 30,000 Black Mountain Army with Pei Yuanshao, Guo Daxian, Yu Yigen and others to pursue westward.
He knew that most of the three troops were the troops who came to King Qin, even if it was one enemy and three, Zhou Cang was still not afraid, not to mention that the three sides attacked each other?
At the foot of Bears Ears Mountain, it is a smooth road, and it is the most suitable for the Montenegrin army with a large number of troops to fight to the death with the Han army!
"Ma Yue, don't be defeated by others, Grandpa Zhou is here to take your life!"