Chapter 261: The Battle of Blizzard
Over the years, the Khitan wolf cavalry army often went south to avoid disasters due to temperature, and in order to avoid natural disasters, they were a little fearless in battle.
This is also something that Liu Feng is more worried about at the moment, and when he was thinking about how to deal with the wolf rider, a captain of the Wind Wolf Guard walked in and reported loudly: "Report!" Wolf Rider Raid! ”
Everyone was shocked, and Liu Feng asked quietly, "Can you find out the details?" ”
The lieutenant saluted and said respectfully: "In the early morning, more than a thousand wolves rode outside the three passes, began to wander, and attacked our sentinels, and an hour later, more than a thousand wolf horses attacked, and so on, so far, six attacks have been carried out. ”
"Moreover, these wolf riders seem to be the elite wolf riders that poured out of the Xijin Mansion, and their combat power is very strong, and the wind wolf rider sentry did not take advantage of it, so ......" The captain hesitated a little,
Liu Feng frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay to be blunt!" ”
The lieutenant immediately beat his chest and saluted, and said in a loud voice: "My subordinates, the wolf cavalry will attack my three passes, but it will not attack the three passes, and it is the most likely that Xijing Datong Mansion will send troops and horses!" ”
Without waiting for Liu Feng to ask the reason, the captain continued to explain: "The three passes are strong, and the wolf cubs will not be so stupid to hit their heads open, and when it comes to the border passes such as Mayi, because the Great Zhou army is moving south, causing a void in defense, maybe the wolf riders will not return in vain." ”
Listening to his methodical analysis, Liu Feng and others also agreed.
Today's three passes in the north are not what they used to be, the passes are high and strong, and the defenders are even more powerful, not at all 100,000 wolf riders can take it, the wolf riders attack the three passes is nothing more than hurting others and hurting themselves, but Ma Yi is different, the defenders are mostly old and weak, and the city pass has not been repaired as hard as the three passes.
Liu Feng said slowly: "Yes, the analysis is very good, almost consistent with a certain guess, but at this time, you have to show the feeling that the enemy is approaching!" ”
The lieutenant stood up and saluted and left.
Zeng Yu saw the captain simply leaving, groaned for a while, and said worriedly: "This blizzard is coming so quickly, I'm afraid that the Mayi garrison is not ready yet!?" ”
Bayar also said in a deep voice: "I have to remind them, so as not to be caught off guard by the wolf horse!" ”
Wu Ze said with some disdain: "The Great Zhou Forbidden Army is so powerful, how can it not know how to take precautions?" ”
Liu Feng ignored the arguments of several people, muttered for a while, and said slowly: "Go!" Go to the pass and take a turn! ”
The group climbed the city pass and saw that the sergeants on duty were waiting for the battle, and the snowflakes were fluttering all over the sky, falling on the sergeants, and many sergeants became snowmen.
However, the logistics of the Fanyang Mansion Army are still very secure, and on the eve of the heavy snowfall, a large number of cotton linen clothes were distributed, which could be worn in the armor, which did not affect the armor and kept warm and comfortable.
For the wolf rider, the cotton and linen clothes of the Fan Yang Mansion army are extremely luxurious clothes, although the wolf riders have nitrate leather, but their nitrate fur technology is far less advanced than that of Fan Yang Mansion, so the fur worn on the body, under the cold wind, becomes hard, so uncomfortable.
The blizzard has completely covered the grassland with dry grass, and they have lost fuel, and their cattle and sheep will freeze to death.
On the pass of the three passes, more than a dozen arrow towers have been carefully built, these condescending arrow towers are actually poured with cement, strong and abnormal, although the cement is made of bamboo, but it is also the most primitive reinforced concrete, such a fortification, for the wolf rider, want to destroy it, I am afraid that it will take a lot of hard work.
On the top of the arrow tower, there is a rather spacious circular guardrail, which can accommodate thirty-six longbowmen at the same time, and on the arrow tower, two small ballistae are placed, which are specially set up for the Khitan Jingzhou military shield array.
The snow is getting thicker and thicker, standing on the city pass, looking into the distance, it is white, and I can only faintly see a few small dots moving back and forth, which is the wind wolf riding sentry outside the city pass.
Under the city pass, there are also sentinels returning from time to time, but there are also empty horses returning alone, and the war horses of the sentinels who have been sacrificed at that time are more bloody and wounded to return to the pass.
Outside the city pass, the hot war is still going on, but Liu Feng can't control the specific strength of the wolf cavalry, let alone the deployment of the wolf cavalry.
At the same time that Liu Feng was struggling to judge the direction of the wolf horse's attack, there were also traces of the wolf rider outside the city of Mayi, but the defenders in the city of Mayi under the blizzard did not find the arrival of the wolf horse.
And when the defenders of Mayi found the wolf rider, it was too late to close the city gate, and the fast impact of the wolf rider forced into the city gate and was storming the urn city, and a large number of wolf riders were also beginning to climb the city wall with hooks.
Although the defenders of Mayi were caught off guard by the wolf cavalry, the old army that had been at the border for a long time was not so easy to deal with.
And on such a battlefield, if the besieging side did not end the battle quickly, it would mean a lot of life, Ma Yi guard Wang Xingmin, on the urn city, constantly brandished the horse chopping knife to boost morale, so that the wolf cavalry casualties continued to increase, but it was also difficult to advance.
Although the wolf rider's attack was constantly defeated, the wolf rider still continued to surge, and the number of people increased, as if they had gone crazy, just thinking about breaking through the urn city, killing into the pass, and begging for a chance to live.
Under the attack of the wolf rider who was not afraid of death, Ma Yi's urn city was in danger, and he was rushed to the head of the urn city by the wolf rider several times, and Wang Xingming was also scarred at the moment, with a hoarse voice, he could no longer call out to the surrounding soldiers, but just slashed the wolf rider who rushed up.
The wolf rider held a unique round horse shield and rushed into the arrow array of the defenders of Mayi, and the arrows hit the round shield heavily, but it did not cause enough damage to the wolf rider, so that the original more wolf riders climbed the city.
And at this moment, Wang Xingmin, the guard general of Mayi, also seemed to understand that Mayi City was afraid that it would be lost in his hands, and he fell into a crazy situation with his will to die, and killed the wolf rider who climbed the city like an injury for his life.
There are such fierce generals, which also makes the defenders of Mayi, even if they are attacked several times, they can still press the wolf cavalry down again, so that the casualties of the wolf cavalry will rise sharply.
The snowflakes in the sky are falling, and the blood on the ground is like a river of blood, which is a battle for each other's survival space, which is the cause of the war brought about by the blizzard.