Chapter 87: The North Gate (End)
"One, two, three, hard!" With the rhythmic command of the leading thousands of households, dozens of foot soldiers pushed the heavy crashing car forward, and rushed towards the city gate at high speed, and the head of the iron-clad log in front of the car was sharpened to the ground, and it hit it with strong kinetic energy, and there was a loud "bang". The defenders behind the gates were desperately holding on to all sorts of things, and everyone was covered in dust falling from the wall tiles.
"Brothers, Taishou will arrive immediately with reinforcements, hold on!" The defenders in front of the city gate lined up a phalanx to block the city gate and the stairs on the city wall on both sides, and a deputy raised a loudspeaker and shouted loudly, there were almost more than 3,000 people here, most of them were forbidden troops, except for Liu Yu who was transferred from the west gate, and the remaining old soldiers in the original defenders.
Most of the city walls have been lost, and the retreating village soldiers are forming a horizontal formation on the periphery, shooting at the enemy troops at the head of the city and on the stairs with bows and arrows, and the enemy troops who have entered the city wall have not had much upper hand for a while, but because of the loss of the cover of the female wall, they are unbearable, and from time to time someone is hit by an arrow and falls from the head of the city.
However, the shape outside the city gate was very severe, and the sound of knocking on the door knocked on the hearts of every defender like rolling thunder, everyone knew that once the door was broken, it would encounter a direct attack by the superior enemy forces outside the city, and at that moment, it was only a matter of time before it was lost.
Then another violent impact came, and the two iron gates, which had been closed by the latches of the thick crossbars, suddenly recessed inward, pushing the defenders behind the gates towards the phalanx, and the observant could already see that the crossbar was cracked in the middle, and the gate was about to be knocked open.
In desperation, the deputy commander commanded the phalanx to move slowly into the city and let the city gate out, because if he didn't do this, the city gate would fall and fall into the phalanx after the next impact. The gap left by the defenders' movement was quickly filled by enemy troops on the stairs on either side, and a great Mongol man reached out to retrieve the wooden latch.
As soon as his hand touched the crossbar, there was a loud noise, and the big iron nail that held the gate of the city was knocked off the bricks and flew out, and the two gates fell down, crushing everyone behind the gate, and the car could not stop the collision, and ran over the fallen door, and rushed headlong into his own people who had just rushed down the stairs.
"Yan Che'er, let your people get ready, advance a thousand-person team, and after gaining a firm foothold, let those Han troops expand the results." Because the city walls and towers had already fallen into his own hands, Asahan led his men to follow directly behind the thousand-man team that slammed the door, and stood not far from the drawbridge.
"Rest assured, my commander, Yan Che'er will bring the head of the guard to your horse." Yan Che'er waved his hand excitedly, and the cavalry behind him began to form a team, lining up a long formation of two horses and a row, and the cavalrymen drew their scimitars one after another, waiting for the moment to break the door.
The fall of the city gate made the Han soldiers outside cheer together, and the cavalry slowly began to accelerate with the long formation of cavalry, and the foot soldiers in front hurriedly gave way to the road. After the collision, the sergeant pushed the car to the side, and the cavalry was already flat in front of it, directly facing the phalanx of the defenders.
The deputy commander of the defending army did not expect that the enemy would ride directly into the city, and when he saw the enemy infantry in front of him, he got out of the way, and there was a rumbling sound in his ears, and his face turned white all of a sudden. Although the phalanx in front of him was numerous, not many of them had spears in their hands, and even these people did not have time to move to the front, because the cavalry of the Tartars had already rushed up and knocked several forbidden troops who instinctively raised their shields to resist directly into the air.
Although the two horsemen finally fell under the swords and spears of the defenders, the huge phalanx was dented in the middle under the repeated onslaught of the cavalry that followed. Seeing this situation, the deputy commander was so anxious that he could only try his best to prevent the rout of the forbidden army, and the frightened township soldiers also reacted, turned their targets one after another, and began to shoot at the cavalry.
"The brothers in front of you have taken notice, and immediately spread out to both sides, and immediately to both sides!" Suddenly, a loud voice sounded behind the phalanx, and there was no need to look back, most of the forbidden troops knew that it was their own Taishou coming, and they scattered to both sides, looking like the phalanx had collapsed from the middle.
The cavalry that broke through suddenly felt a sudden opening in front of them, and a large avenue appeared in front of them, and under the push and shove of the large group of men and horses behind, they involuntarily rushed forward. One of the Tartars who rushed to the top of the head raised his head, and the sight that appeared in his eyes made him stunned, and the rope in his hand was loosened.
"Woo~Woo~Woo" A few strange sounds sounded, and a tall iron cart rushed along the passage that the defenders gave way to, with a few feet of forearms stretched forward flatly, holding a large iron bucket, the edge of the iron bucket was full of sharp steel giant teeth, and the whole shape was like a steel giant beast running with a bloody mouth.
Liu Yu in the cab stepped on the accelerator suddenly, and the excavator under him accelerated again, and the Tartar in front was rushed by the iron bucket and cut in two. The car was castrated, crashed headlong into the cavalry brigade, and for a time the severed arms and stumps flew together, and the blood was the same color as human flesh, and it was forced to run a bloody road in the dense crowd, and it did not stop until the city gate.
Without waiting for the stunned Tartar to come back to his senses, Liu Yu slammed the steering wheel, and the car retreated backwards towards the original road, and the cavalry who came in from the city gate immediately filled the gap, and gathered a dense crowd at the city gate again. Only a moment later, the soul-destroying voice sounded again, and the tall iron cart roared again towards the city gates.
"You shouldn't call it an excavator, you should call it a combine." Liu Yu was secretly arguing, the windshield in front of the car had been covered with blood, and it could not be completely cleaned with the wipers, with the hazy image, he rushed forward again and again, retreated, and rushed forward again, until there was no longer a cavalry to be seen at the city gate.
Liu Yu looked at the fuel level indicator on the car, and the fuel tank was leaking, which he deliberately made. The excavator was parked in the hole of the city gate, where the city gate was originally placed, just blocking the road into the city. Liu Yu pushed the car door, jumped out of the car, and walked backwards with such a swagger.
Stepping on the flesh and blood all over the ground, Liu Yu clasped his hands, his right hand was on top of the bracelet on his left wrist, he tried to raise his head and did not look at the ground, there was silence around the north gate, both the enemy and the defenders were stunned by this hellish scene, and just like that, he watched Liu Yu walk all the way until he walked into the defenders' formation.
finally stopped in front of his own people, Liu Yu was stunned in a cold sweat, feeling a little afraid, this forced to pretend to be a little too much. It's just that the matter is not over yet, not far from the city gate hole, the Han army at the end of the suspension bridge is swarming up, seemingly pushing the excavator parked in the city gate.
"Normal people never look back at the explosion!" Liu Yu snorted lightly, took out the cottage Zhibao in his arms, lit it with a "poof", and threw it back in a dashing manner, and the dazed defenders followed the strange iron box that was blazing, until it tumbled and fell to the ground.
A fire suddenly ignited on the flesh road, and the water rushed towards the city gate, and the entire excavator was instantly wrapped in the fire, and then there was a loud "boom", and the whole car exploded, and the surrounding foot soldiers were blown up to cry wolf, and the city gate was completely blocked by the fire.
"Target Tower, put!" Hearing the sound of the explosion, several seven-tip catapults that were pushed to the back of the street bounced up under the pull of a group of sergeants, and one by one the fire oil bombs flew towards the north gate tower, and the extremely close range guided these fire bombs almost missed, and the wooden buildings were ignited by fire oil and ignited a raging fire, which suddenly collapsed and swept the nearby enemies in.
"It's our turn, the whole army assault! Sheet armor is not left. Jiang Ning shouted, the spear in his hand was raised diagonally, his legs clamped the horse's belly, the war horse under his crotch began to accelerate slowly, a standard-bearer followed closely with his flag, and the cavalry behind shouted in unison, and the tide rushed to the remaining tartars near the city gate.
The garrison infantry phalanx of the defenders who had restored their consciousness was launched again, and under the command of Liu Yu, they fired a rain of arrows at the enemy troops on the city wall, and for a time the arrows were all over the sky. Jiang Ning's cavalry arrived in an instant, and the somewhat chaotic Tartar cavalry on the side of the city gate reacted, raised their scimitars and rushed over, and a miserable scream sounded between the two horses.
"Ho!" With a loud roar, Cheolhyuk jumped from the ruins of the castle tower, black as a huge piece of charcoal. His feet landed on a corpse, and as soon as he stood firm, the flail in his hand swept out, knocking a Janissary cavalryman off his horse.
The two horsemen swung their sabers and stepped forward together, Zhehe lowered his head to avoid the light of the sword, the big shield in his hand was raised, and the other saber made a dull sound on it, Zhehe got up and turned his head to swing the flail forward, hitting the tail of the horse in front of him, and the galloping horse was knocked to the ground, throwing off the cavalry on his back.
Zhehe strode forward and was about to take the life of the cavalry on the ground, a spear had already broken through the air, and with the momentum of the horse, it pierced the double iron armor on his body one after another, and split it from his shoulder, Zhehe howled in pain, and the chain flail in his hand had fallen to the ground.
"Suffer death!" Jiang Ning abandoned his gun and drew his knife, and the sword flashed between the wrong horses, and Zhehe's huge head flew up with an iron helmet, and his huge body did not fall immediately, and a cavity of hot blood rushed out of his neck cavity and sprinkled on the bloody street.
With the addition of the cavalry, the enemy troops scattered near the city gate were quickly cleared, and the defenders of the city began to divide into two groups and quickly attacked the city wall, and the few surviving foot soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit fled down the ladder to the city.
Stepping on the corpses all over the ground, Liu Yu took his own soldiers to walk up to the city tower that was still burning, the enemy troops under the city were fleeing outward, and the drawbridge was crowded with people, he turned around and took a fire oil bomb from a personal soldier, lit it with a match, and threw it on the suspension bridge, "Bang! A fire broke out on the bridge deck.
"Burn it!" Liu Yu gave a faint order, and a moment later, countless fire oil bombs were thrown from the city, igniting the drawbridge, and the enemy on the bridge had to jump into the river and swim desperately towards the opposite bank. Liu Yu raised his head, and the slanting sun was like blood, shining on the head of the city that had gone through the war, and there was a golden light.