Chapter 82: Back to the City
Less than a day later, the Tartar attacks began again, and strangely they did not seem to want to storm the city. Every time they reached the moat, they shot a rain of arrows at the head of the city, and then threw down a few corpses, and then the hula hula retreated, and then the return cannon behind the battle began to fire, throwing huge stone projectiles.
The curtain at the head of the city at the west gate was stretched high, and it was torn far behind by the flying stone bullets, and then slid down the cloth and fell under the city walls. Only a few stone bullets hit the female wall directly, making a dull sound that shook the neighborhood.
"Here we go again." The golden pheasant slave looked at the approaching Tartar army formation, and said irritably, the firing of the return cannon stopped, and the infantry formation began to advance again, this is the fourth time today. The dense shield was blocked by the general array, and the damage of the arrows was greatly reduced.
Liu Yu ignored the pheasant slave's complaints, stared at the outside of the city with a calm face, in his binoculars, behind the enemy's big array, not only did not Boyan have the Chinese army, but there was not even a person who looked like a big official. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, what does the Tartar want to do.
He looked at the large array carefully, and felt strange, as if something was missing. Turning his field of vision a little farther away, he returned to the east and west of the cannon and stood one by one, like a monster that could devour people at any time. Liu Yu's mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about the possibilities he could think of.
Tong guò walkie-talkie Liu Yu contacted Jin Ming, Jiang Cai, Liu Shiyong and others, and sure enough, just like his own side, the Tartars attacked repeatedly and unhurriedly. Yuan Hong's side was also the same as usual, the rangers outside the city blocked the way out of the city, but they had no intention of attacking the city.
called the observation post outside the city, and found nothing unusual elsewhere, but the most critical Li Shiyi's team couldn't be contacted. All the spies out of the city have brought two walkie-talkies, and it has only been five days, at least one should be available, listening to the rustle in the walkie-talkie, Liu Yu was troubled by the lack of information for the first time.
"Iron egg, delaying the military plane is a capital crime, do you know." Li Shiyi's voice was not high, and the sergeant standing in front of him listened to it in his ears, like a heavy hammer, his knees fell involuntarily, and his front body fell to the ground, his whole body trembled like a chaff sieve, but he couldn't say a word.
Li Shiyi is really angry and wants to kill people now, the walkie-talkie in his hand suddenly pressed and did not respond, and the red light did not turn on. I turned to the cave to get another one, but I found that the cloth wrapped in the machine was already wet, and when I asked, I found out that the sergeant in charge of keeping it accidentally dropped the package into the rock water, and it took a long time to salvage it, and I never dared to sue him.
When I opened the package, the walkie-talkie inside was really unusable. But what's the use of killing him, I just saw in the binoculars that the Tartars were making some kind of movement, and the siege equipment, including the return cannon and the arrow cart, was moving. In order to avoid the sight of the city, he deliberately stayed far away, but he appeared right under Li Shiyi's nose.
In this Niushou Mountain, Li Shiyi was not sure if there were other spy teams in existence, but he couldn't hold this illusion, and the only way was to find a way to warn the city. In front of their group is the south gate of Jiankang City, if you want to reach the edge of the city, in addition to the Tartar scouts on the periphery, there is also a military camp that you can't see at a glance, and you can rush over directly, which is no different from sending you to death.
"Get up, Tai Shou often says a sentence called 'A man has gold under his knees', and when I was in Lin'an, the official school parade forbidden army never asked me to bend my knees. The mistake has been made, and he is not a military judge, and if he wants to be guilty, he will wait until he enters the city. Hearing Li Shiyi's words, another sergeant pulled up the iron egg on the ground and waited for his instructions.
Before going down the mountain, Li Shiyi smashed two walkie-talkies with stones, dug a pit and buried them. Lifting the equipment scattered in the cave, two crossbows, two boxes of crossbow arrows, and three sabers, which were all the weapons of their group, the two sergeants packed up and silently followed him.
The mountains and forests below the mountainside of Niushou Mountain have been cut down almost completely, and they appear bare and uncovered, and Li Shiyi and the other three can only jump and rise in the middle of the boulders, slowly approaching the foot of the mountain. Lying behind a rock, Li Shiyi carefully stretched out the telescope, and the figure of the enemy not far away was already clearly visible.
There was no chance at all, the Tartar cavalry stood guard on the outermost perimeter, and a little bit of the foot soldiers walked in unison to the Guò avenue, and a little behind, many people and soldiers were desperately pulling a return cannon. Li Shiyi looked at it for a while, then took the three of them back, preparing to go around in a bigger circle.
"Dutou, do you think the Tartars will really attack our north gate?" On top of the female wall, a villager asked, leaning against a black lacquered bow and a pot of feather arrows at his feet.
"What? I'm scared. Look at your young age, have you ever killed someone? "It's an old pawn who speaks, yesterday he was still a personal soldier of the Si Mansion, and he was just transferred to be a team leader, although there are only more than 100 village soldiers under him, but he is still very satisfied with being able to go up to the city wall.
"Where did the head of the capital say, there was chaos in the city that day, and a certain person also followed the judgment to fight, and shot six with his own hands, not eight rebels." The village soldier struggled to straighten his chest and wrenched his fingers to recall his watch.
"I really can't see it, good boy, the Tartars and those rebels are like birds, and they don't have a single hand, you just shoot directly, if they dare to come, we will beat his mother." The old soldier patted the village soldier on the shoulder appreciatively, took out a pack of cigarettes and distributed it to everyone, Liu Yu has not been to the department much recently, and they don't have much inventory.
Yuan Hong is not interested in the kind of things that can swallow clouds and spit out fog, and always feels that things like Wushisan will wear down people's will. However, he didn't interfere with his subordinates smoking, these old soldiers were all soldiers, and they were able to mingle with his subordinates soon after they came, and Yuan Hong was happy to see it.
After the old pawn joined the team, Yuan Hong only watched their respective training processes, and then stopped caring about these things, and stared intently at the movements outside the city. Liu Yu's call not long ago made him even more careless, and even the food sent from home was put aside without moving.
"Li Tou, I'll go and lure away the Tartars, and you can see a gap and enter the city. Don't fight with me, I made a mistake and admit it. After Tie Dan finished speaking, without waiting for Li Shiyi to answer, he loaded the crossbow arrow into the crossbow, put it on his back and rode out on his horse.
The horse was snatched by the three of them after killing two lone Tartar scouts by surprise, and they went around to the north gate, only to find that there was no Tartar army here, only more than a hundred cavalry wandering around the outside of the city. The attention of these rangers was in the direction of the city gate, so they were touched close by Li Shiyi and them.
Iron Egg had slowly approached a group of rangers, all sitting around the ground eating, talking and laughing loudly, and the horses grazing on the side at will. Soon the two Tartars spotted the sudden appearance of the Han Chinese, one drawing his scimitar, the other looking at him warily with a bow and arrow.
Li Shiyi handed another crossbow to the sergeant beside him, there was only one chance, he had the best riding skills among the three, and the task of rushing to the head of the city was not to let him go. The other two will help him cover and hold off the Tartars' pursuers as much as possible.
Iron Dan's face was filled with a bright smile, as if he had seen an old friend he hadn't seen for many years, and his hands were also raised, indicating that he had no weapons. At this time, in the eyes of the Tartars, there was no difference between this kind of dressed Han and the new annexed army under Lu Wenhuan, and when they saw him coming alone, they didn't care, the two lowered the sword and bow in their hands, and greeted him in a language that Tie Dan couldn't understand.
Iron Egg threw a hare on the horse's back towards the two of them, which had been hunted by the horse's original owner, and had not had time to skin and eat the meat. The tartar with the knife was taken aback, and when he found that it was a hare, he laughed at once, returned the knife to the sheath, and stooped down to pick it up.
Tie Dan's left hand quickly took the crossbow on his back, and without hesitation, pressed the trigger, and the crossbow arrow shot into the chest of the man holding the bow and tartar like lightning, and because the distance was too close, only a short section was exposed. At the same time, his right hand had already pulled out the bending knife at his waist, and with his legs clamping the horse's belly, the war horse suddenly accelerated, knocking the bent Tartar into the air.
Taking advantage of the fact that the group of Tartars were shocked by the sudden change, the iron egg galloped past, and the two standing Tartars were cut to the ground with the bending knife in his hand, and the movement finally alarmed the nearby Tartars, and all the people turned over and chased around him.
"Right now, protect me." Li Shiyi whipped the horse's back fiercely, and the horse that stepped down was in pain, and spread its hooves and rushed forward. The last sergeant "whoosh" shot his crossbow arrow, nailed it to the horse of a Tartar, and lifted the Tartar to the ground.
Tie Dan and another sergeant attracted the attention of most of the Tartars, and there were only a dozen horsemen chasing Li Shiyi, a distance of no more than a hundred paces. Li Shiyi crouched on the horse's back, arrows flying above his head from time to time, he didn't dare to look behind at all, just desperately urged the horse to run forward.
"Ahh Li Shiyi heard a miserable scream very clearly, it was the last sergeant who sent it, and Tie Dan didn't know where to run for a long time. The sight of the city was already in his eyes, and if he held on a little longer, he would be within range of the defenders.
Yuan Hong, who was on the city tower, had already discovered the abnormality outside the city, and at his signal, the guards all took up arms. The cavalry in the telescopic lens could not see his face clearly, and his clothes were indeed a forbidden army, but he was afraid of deception, so he did not immediately order the city gate to be opened.
"Crossbowmen ready, target the Tartar cavalry behind." The distance was close enough that there was no need to use a telescope, Yuan Hong picked up his big bow, drew a feather arrow and mounted it, and stared at the cavalry who was quickly approaching the moat.
Li Shiyi was jolting up and down with the gallop of the war horse, and suddenly the war horse under his crotch neighed, and a stumble lifted him off the horse. Ignoring the pain, Li Shiyi got up and ran forward, and a strong attack from behind him knocked him forward and rose into the air, and he fell into the moat with a "plop" in a hazy way.
"Shoot the arrows and go down to the city to save people." The big bow in Yuan Hong's hand trembled, and a Tartar who rushed to the side of the moat fell down, and as soon as the words fell, various arrows at the head of the city flew towards the Tartar scouts who were close to the outside of the city.