Chapter 258: Burning the City
"Square!"
When he was less than fifty steps away from the battlefield, Zhang Ren shouted angrily, and Li Yan, who had already discovered that Zhang Ren had killed, decisively let go of the crumbling defense line through a big gap, and did not prepare for Alcott's next moment to be inertia and stride forward a few steps, and then as soon as he raised his head, Zhang Ren's terrifying smile appeared in front of him.
Bite~
Hurriedly slashed the sword, after knocking the stabbing cold rays away, Alcott did not hesitate to retreat in stride, Zhang Ren belongs to the old opponent, he is too familiar, and he must not be a strong opponent!
And since Zhang Ren came down from the east gate, wouldn't Baker, who was attacking the east gate at this time, have an excellent opportunity, if he can break through the city in one fell swoop, this is much better than him going to support, at least in terms of morale can be greatly improved.
He firmly believed that as long as Zhang Ren did not guard the city wall, with Baker's strength, there would be absolutely no problem in capturing the East Gate! After all, he can take Simon, and there is no reason why Baker, who is stronger, can't do it.
"Phalanx! Stop Zhang Ren! ”
The shadow of the man, the bark of the tree, after hearing Alcott shout the word Zhang Ren, the Kshatriya warriors who had been attacking fiercely before instantly became cautious, and the slightly scattered attacking team quickly gathered together to form a huge phalanx blocking the entire street.
Zhang Ren personally led the troops to assault, which is definitely worth their cautious treatment!
A spear was straight up, the lights were flickering, and the cold stars were dotted, and the Kshatriya warrior holding the shield in front of him only shrunk his body into a ball, and used the not huge shield to protect his upper body, not even daring to carry out the slightest counterattack, but silently bearing the attack from Zhang Ren and many Han soldiers.
As Zhang Ren personally led the troops to help, and as soon as he entered the field, a strong offensive broke out to beat the enemy army back and retreat, those Li Yan and Wu Lan's personal followers of the soldiers were demoralized, picked up the big knife in their hands and followed Zhang Ren towards the Guishan soldiers and horses.
For a while, the tide of the battle began to turn, and the Han army, which had been beaten and retreated, began a strong counterattack, once forcing Alcott back more than 40 steps.
"General, is Dongcheng okay?"
Li Yan, who knew that Zhang Ren's Dongcheng Qiang had actually suffered a strong attack, couldn't help but be a little worried, according to the information he learned, the enemy momentum in Dongcheng was actually stronger, and the number of attackers was more, but because of Zhang Ren's town guard, the battle line was temporarily stabilized, and now the No. 1 general in Yizhou has come here, and the situation in Dongcheng is difficult to say.
"It's okay, Zhang Ren is guarding the city wall at this time!"
Zhang Ren smiled slightly, now he still feels that he is really witty, this kind of excellent plan can be thought of, as long as the herald does not speak, does not run around, his identity will not be exposed, more than two hundred calm, confident, confident Han family soldiers to resist the siege of three thousand Guishan soldiers and horses, it is not impossible.
"This~"
Li Yan was slightly stunned after hearing this, and he didn't react to what Zhang Ren said for a while, but nodded blankly, anyway, as long as the east city wall is not lost, there is Zhang Ren personally here to resist this Guishan army and horses, just one word, steady!
And as long as they delay a little longer, when their headquarters soldiers and horses are gathered, it will not be easy for these Guishan soldiers to run!
Three quarters of an hour later
Alcott, who was in a stalemate with Zhang Ren, couldn't help but become anxious in his heart, he had dragged Zhang Ren for so long, why hadn't his boss broken in from the east gate, attacked him back and forth, and even killed Zhang Ren!
"General, there is a Han army in the rear that is about to be killed, about five hundred people!"
Just as Alcott was anxiously preparing to kill him, a spy silently approached him and whispered
"What! How far away! ”
"It's less than a mile away!"
"Hateful!"
Alcot couldn't help but roar angrily, a good siege of the city, seeing that most of it has been successful, I don't know what the hell is going on Baker's side, is it going to fall short now?!
"General, why don't you set fire to Yongchang City? Even if you can't burn, you have to destroy the huge amount of defense materials! ”
The people who came didn't think about it opened their mouths to make suggestions, obviously because they had already intended this.
"Huh?"
After hearing this, Alcott's heart sank, and his eyes were slightly condensed, who is this guy? It's pretty ruthless, but it's good!
"Tell me, your name?"
"Boyle, my name is Boyle!"
"Good! With your two hundred soldiers and horses, this matter will be handed over to you to do, and at the same time write down the defensive deployment of the West City, and I will press the soldiers and horses to slowly retreat to the West Gate, if this matter is successful, remember you a big attack! ”
After listening to Boyle's suggestion, Alcott decisively nodded and agreed, he couldn't destroy the materials of other city walls, and it would be good to destroy the West City, and when their army arrived, it would be of great help to take advantage of the lack of preparation in the West City to launch a strong attack.
"Order!"
When the spy heard Alcott's promise, he was overjoyed, and he didn't want to find out information in this enemy city, for the sake of this kind of opportunity to soar into the sky, and now the time to show his strengths has arrived, and he must perform well!
"Come with me!"
With a wave of his hand, two hundred elite Kshatriya warriors quickly left their camp and rushed towards the west of the city with Boyle.
"Use this tung oil to burn those catapults, siege crossbows!"
"You, lead a hundred people to burn down those houses with these fire arrows!"
"You guys, come with me and destroy the city gates!"
With Boyle's prepared dispatch, the large number of houses in the west of the city began to burn first, followed by nearly twenty catapults neatly arranged under the city walls.
"What's going on!"
Zhu Jun, who was rushing towards the west of the city, looked up and saw that the fire in the west of the city was suddenly bright, and the smell of fireworks reached the tip of his nose with the evening breeze.
"Bastard! Hurry to march, kill! ”
Zhu Jun, who instantly guessed what the Guishan soldiers and horses were doing in the city, was so angry that he was ready to retain enough physical strength to deal with the difficult battle that might come, but now he couldn't take care of it, so he rushed over first and chopped those bastards who dared to burn his Yongchang into minced meat!
"Hey, it's coming so fast!"
Just now the city gate was demolished, and Boyle, who had climbed the city wall, looked at the more than 500 soldiers and horses who were killing him not far away by the huge firelight, and frowned slightly, although it was a little far away, but as a senior spy, his vision was still very sufficient, just by looking at the armor worn by the veteran, he knew that he was definitely a battle-hardened general!
"Go and inform the general, the enemy reinforcements are coming, evacuate quickly! The rest, assemble! ”
casually ordered a Kshatriya warrior and sent him to summon the message, Boyle picked up the Han rhubarb bow next to him and checked it, it was quite heavy!
"Fire arrows are ready to stop the Han army!"
At the sound of an order, the two hundred Shatriya warriors soon climbed the city wall, picked up the longbow of the Han family, and used the arrows of the Han family to start a rain of arrows towards Zhu Jun.
"Hateful!"
A sword slashed the fire arrows that shot at him, Zhu Jun roared angrily, looking at this workmanship, he knew that it was his own thing, and now it was actually used to attack him! Fortunately, the siege crossbow that just flew over did not come, otherwise it would be a big trouble.
"Two hundred meters, assault!"
With a finger of the sword in his hand, the five hundred guards under his command roared angrily, staring at the rain of arrows that were not dense and began to charge.
On the other side, after receiving Boyle's summons, Alcott looked at the east gate, which was completely unmoved, gritted his teeth, or led the troops to start withdrawing, and there was no point in a stalemate, Baker couldn't attack it, and it was impossible for him to take the entire Yongchang City with his 2,000 men alone.
With the evacuation of Alcott, after hesitating for a moment, Zhang Ren and the others also led their troops to follow, and they also saw the fire in the west of the city, if they didn't follow, the ghost knows if these alien races would go elsewhere to plague them Yongchang City!
At the west gate of the city, Boyle, who was trying his best to protect the city gate, saw that Alcott led his troops to kill, and decisively broke out a wave of fierce counterattack to knock Zhu Jun back a few steps, so he hurriedly made peace with his soldiers and quickly withdrew from Yongchang City.