Bai Minzhong pulled out the monocular in his hand, and the situation in the distance was instantly clear.

The first thing that caught his eye was the cavalry, I was afraid that there were thousands of horses, Bai Minzhong's hand trembled slightly. The hand was raised slightly, and a large banner suddenly appeared.

He slowly lowered the binoculars, snapped them together, and said in a low voice, "Beat the drum!" ”

At the same time, above the city, Ding Ci also slowly put down the telescope in his hand, and unlike Bai Minzhong's composure, Ding Ci's hand was shaking violently.

He stood tall and saw a little farther.

In addition to the large number of cavalry, there were also footmen who could not be seen at a glance. The army of 50,000 is just a number in intelligence, but when it really appears in front of everyone, the overwhelming pressure is still like a landslide and tsunami, which makes everyone change color.

Knock knock knock!

Hundreds of drums sounded at the right time.

Immediately after, long horns sounded.

The drums beat are dull and intense.

The sound of the trumpet is long and desolate!

The two converged, and a tragic atmosphere emerged.

When it comes to the experience of the two armies fighting, no one here can be richer than Bai Minzhong.

Today is a battle against the water, there is no way out, if the morale is taken by the opponent again, then this battle, before it is fought, it will lose three points first.

The sound of drums and trumpets also reminded Ding in front.

With the reins of his horse, he leaped out of the ranks, came to the front of the whole group, turned the horse's head, choked, and raised his saber out of its sheath.

"Brothers, today's battle is for the fathers and villagers behind us, for your own wives and children, for our Jingnan, and for our Datang!"

He took off his helmet and grabbed his hair with one hand, and waved his saber with a soft click, and he actually cut off his hair against his scalp.

Thousands of Jing Nanjun who witnessed this scene exclaimed softly in unison.

The hair and skin of the body, being affected by his parents, and cutting his hair in public is not a trivial matter, especially for a person of Ding Jian's status.

"Today's battle, win or die, vow not to take a step back."

Bai Qian rode out of the horse, and stood side by side with Ding Jian, also taking the helmet, drawing the knife, pulling the knife, the knife flashed, and the hair broke in response.

"There is no advance or retreat, there is no whirlwind in death, defend your hometown, defend your hometown!"

Ding Xiong jumped out of the horse.

Ding Wei jumped out.

In the Jingnan army, one by one, the generals stood on the left and right of the two, repeating the previous actions of the two in unison.

"There is no advance or retreat, death does not hammer, defend the hometown, defend the hometown!"

First dozens of generals, then thousands of soldiers, and then the whole army roared in unison, and the roar slowly spread from the city to the city.

The deafening shouts continued.

Dai Chaole stopped his horse and listened to the shouts in the distance, his face sneering.

"The morale of the Jingnan Army seems to be not bad!" He Zhang said in a low voice.

"It's not about fighting a war with anyone's loud voice!" Dai Chao said disdainfully: "I hope they can still shout after the battle between the two armies." ”

"At that time, I will definitely shout, but most likely it is to shout spare my life!" Cai Quan laughed.

In the distance, several scouts galloped back.

"Returning to the marshal, the Jingnan army is about 20,000 people, and they are in battle under the city!" The scout arched.

"Castle battle!" Dai Chao was stunned at first, and then laughed: "Bai Minzhong is still a little arrogant, he actually dares me to fight in the field, it doesn't matter, it also saves me a lot of effort, in Jiangling City, there are now at most 20,000 soldiers, Bai Minzhong actually pulled all of them outside the city to fight to the death with me, put him to death and live, not bad, I have to look at him a few times." ”

"Dashuai, since this person has pulled out all the elites, the defensive strength in the city must be weak, but I am afraid that most of them are young and strong, this is a good opportunity!" He Zhang was overjoyed.

"Bai Minzhong is also an old man, how could he make such a suicidal act?" Cai Quan was puzzled.

"These people are accustomed to being the king and hegemon in the local area, and they don't know what the outside world is. If he thinks that he has enough food for the soldiers, he ignores the heroes of the world, and today we will let him see what a real elite soldier is! Dai Chao sneered: "He wants to defeat the main force of our Chinese army in one fell swoop, so as to thwart our attempt to attack Jiangling Mansion this time." Well, I'll give him this chance. ”

"Please command!" He Zhang, Cai Quan and the two arched their hands.

"He Zhang, you lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Dongcheng."

"Cai Quan, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xicheng!"

"I personally led the main force of 20,000 Chinese troops and had a good fight with Bai Minzhong. The south gate, I left it for them to escape. ”

"Yes." He Zhang and Cai Quan gave up their hands and left the Chinese army with their horses. Immediately, the two armies of soldiers and horses, one on the left and one on the right, divided their troops and headed in the east-west direction. However, the central army of the Liang army was still under the leadership of the cavalry, still advancing in the direction of Beicheng.

At a distance of about a mile, the horn of the Liang army sounded, and the moving army paused and began to reorganize the formation. Of the 20,000 troops, the cavalry alone exceeded 5,000.

There are many cavalry in the northern army, although the Liang army is not as numerous as the cavalry under Li Ze, but the number of cavalry is still not comparable to the Jingnan army, and more importantly, the war horses of the Liang army are basically a head higher than the war horses of the Jingnan army.

This is also the reason why Dai Chao did not put Jingnanjun in his eyes.

If the other party is defending the city, he will still feel a little nerve-wracking, but if it is a field battle, he really doesn't take the other party in his eyes.

The cavalry was in front of the column, and the infantry was behind, and Dai Chao was ready to use the cavalry to break the opponent's military formation in one fell swoop.

"Drums, cavalry, charge!"

Dai Chao narrowed his eyes and looked at the Jingnan army standing against the fortified city, and without too much hesitation, he gave the order to attack.

In the roaring shout, about 1,000 horsemen at the front of the Liang army suddenly accelerated and rushed forward. Behind them, a second wave of 1,000 cavalry rode their horses and trotted slowly.

Although only a small half of the Liang cavalry charged, thousands of horses' hooves trampled on the ground at the same time, and the earth couldn't help but tremble, and the entire city wall seemed to shake.

Ding Ci swallowed a mouthful of saliva, raised his hand and shouted: "Trebuchet, put it!" ”

With a roar, dozens of trebuchets in the city raised their long throwing arms high, and one by one the net pockets flew into the sky, and the sharp stone chips in the net pockets broke free in the air and flew towards the galloping cavalry with a sharp whistling.

Three hundred paces, one after another strong crossbow arrows flew out from the top of the city.

The flying stone shards hit the galloping cavalry, and they fell off their horses with a scream, and before they could make a second reaction, they were already trampled under the hooves of the cavalry in the rear, and when this wave of cavalry rode past, only a mass of meat sauce remained on the ground.

The crossbow flew through the cavalry, and after hitting the first man, it was still in power, and flew out upside down with this cavalry, stabbing the second man and ramming the third.

Hundreds of horsemen disappeared into the charging ranks.

The Jingnan army stood in place, not moving at all.

The horse's hooves trampled on the seemingly empty ground, and with a barely audible sound, an iron rod more than half a foot long suddenly bounced up from the ground, connected to a thin steel wire, and the other end of the steel wire was tied to another iron rod more than a foot away.

The clattering sound was accompanied by the wailing of the war horse and fell to the ground, and the thin steel wire was as sharp as a knife before galloping the horse, easily cutting off the horse's hooves.

As soon as the horse fell, the knight naturally fell.

Three hundred steps away from the Jingnan Army, I don't know how many such mechanisms have been buried on the ground, and there is no pattern to be found, and there seems to be such thin steel wires everywhere.

Compared to the slow-firing trebuchets and crossbows, these inconspicuous gadgets caused more damage to the Liang cavalry.

Of course, the wires were very thin, and under such a great impact, although they had completed the task of cutting the horses' hooves, they themselves were immediately broken with great force.

The cavalry that followed jumped over the fallen horses and continued to charge.

A hundred paces, already close at hand, the horsemen on the horse clamped their cavalry spears under their ribs, and their whole bodies leaned down, ready to charge at the thick army formation of the other side.

"Up!" Accompanied by the roar of a Jingnan officer. The soldiers in the Jingnan army raised a rope from the ground and pulled it back with force.

There was a bang, and rows of wooden fences popped up on the ground.

The wooden fences were not fully erected, but were diagonally upwards at a forty-five degree angle, and the front of each fence was cut into a spear shape.

The horses neighed and stood up, but they were still unable to stop moving forward, and the horses in the front row slammed into these wooden fences, and their stomachs were broken.

The speed of the charge was immediately stopped.

"Arrows!"

With a buzzing sound, crossbow arrows as dense as flying locusts flew up from the Jingnan army and fell towards the cavalry, whose speed had almost completely stagnated.

The crossbow machine of the Don Army, as well as the armor-piercing cone.

The corners of Dai Chao's mouth twitched a few times, there were so many small tricks of the Jingnan Army, more than a thousand steps away, more than a thousand cavalry in the first wave of charge, rushed to the time when they were only a hundred steps away from the enemy formation, and half of them fell.

"Cavalry, sortie!" Ding Jian waved in front of the sword, Ding Wei Ding Xiong shouted, jumped out of the horse, and the only two thousand cavalry of the Jingnan army outside the city rushed out with a shout under the leadership of the two.

They effortlessly cut into the first wave of the chaotic Liang cavalry, and the bayonets in their hands stabbed out ferociously, knocking off their opponents one by one.

Then, they welcomed the second wave of the Liang army with a thousand cavalry.

"Stop this!" In the distance, Dai Chao exhaled heavily, and he almost spent nearly a thousand cavalry in exchange for the opportunity to engage the opponent in hand-to-hand combat. He waved his hand, and the third and fourth waves of cavalry jumped out in turn.

Ding Jian did not look at the fierce battle between the two thousand cavalry led by Ding Wei and Ding Xiong in front of him and the opponent, but shouted loudly.

"Rack your gun, forward!"