Chapter 85: The Battle of the Capital (4)
It must be that the capital is different from any other city outside, and there are at least 60,000 people in the Imperial Forest Army guarding it alone, not counting the city defense army and logistics army that are called miscellaneous troops. Now, although the vanguard of the Suzaku Army and the rebel troops have attacked the city wall, they will immediately face a tidal wave of city defenses.
On the city wall at this time, you come and go, and the soldiers on both sides fight to the death. It wasn't that there were soldiers who fell from the high walls, but most of them were soldiers of the rebels and the official army, and only one or two unlucky ones were soldiers of the Suzaku Army. Finally, with the loss of more than 10,000 people, the Imperial Forest Army and the city defenders finally drove down the Suzaku Army and the rebels who had climbed the city wall.
Rihito watched coldly from afar, and when he saw the desperate resistance of the Imperial Guards and the city defenders, he couldn't figure it out. Why is it that a Mongol in history was able to scatter and flee like a dry duck against these heroic teams against his own people?
But if you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, and now you have to deal with the Imperial Forest Army and the city defenders who are desperately resisting on the city wall in front of you. He immediately sent an order to his herald: "Mingjin, let the people above withdraw." ”
When the rebel troops heard Mingjin, they panicked and did not continue to run back. The soldiers of the Suzaku Army were all elites who had been trained for a long time, and they immediately launched an effective defense, maintaining the integrity and aggressiveness of the team, and slowly retreated.
When everyone had retreated, Rihito immediately ordered: "All catapults are ready." ”
Suddenly, there was a squeak of sour teeth in the entire joint team, and after a while, the herald reported: "Master Qiqi, all the catapults have been prepared, please give the order." ”
Liren's face sank at this time, and he said loudly: "The target is opposite the city wall, and the bomb is exploded, ~~ attack." ”
"Report the bomb, target the city wall, ready to put ~!" The heralds passed down one by one, and finally only a thump was heard, and one by one black round explosive bombs flew out of the barracks in a parabolic state.
The guards and defenders on the city wall were already familiar with the black objects that were about to be smashed on the city wall, and seeing their arrival, these guards and city defenders immediately adopted the strategy of lying on the ground. Because of the explosion last time, many soldiers who were scared to the ground survived, and as long as they were standing soldiers, they would not survive at all. But this time the explosion was not like the last time, just a burst. Instead, it continued to explode for an hour, and it was only when I knew that part of the wall where the Imperial Forest Army and the city defenders were located had collapsed, and only then did I gradually hear the sound of the explosion decrease.
When all the soldiers on the city wall stood up, they found that the entire section of the city wall was already full of holes, and it was a large section of the collapse. However, the remnants of the city wall were still so high that most of the combined forces could not enter the city at all. But before the generals of the Imperial Forest Army and the city garrison could rejoice, there was another muffled sound of bumps, accompanied by the vibration of the ground, which instantly reached their ears and bodies.
At this time, a royal forest soldier raised his head and looked, his face was pale and trembling, and he pointed to the middle section of the city wall and shouted loudly: "Look, they actually shot such a big stone~~, the city~~city~~ The city wall has fallen~!" ”
"What wall has fallen?" One of the generals didn't believe it at all, and he hurriedly stood up and looked in the direction that the head was pointing to, waiting for him to understand. The soldiers of the combined forces were already less than fifty paces away from the city walls.
General Yu, who was in charge of guarding the city wall, also found that the city wall had completely collapsed at this time, so he hurriedly ordered the Imperial Forest Army and the city defenders to arrive: "Quick, shoot the bows and arrows on the city, and the others will give me the others, block the city wall, and don't let the enemy in." Fast~! ”
Suddenly, the horned bows on the city wall rushed to fire arrow feathers, and flew towards the vanguard that was rushing forward. However, this time the vanguard was obviously different from the previous troops who rushed to the city wall, they presented a phalanx, these people in the phalanx were holding tall rectangular shields in the first row, and in the compact shields, only the soldiers wearing the bust armor that protected the vital points could only be faintly seen, and the soldiers behind them raised the shields in their hands above their heads, protecting the upper direction of the surrounding left and right, and the soldiers on both sides used their shields to protect the left and right of the whole team.
The commander of the Imperial Forest Army had never seen such a formation, and he was stunned for a moment. Just when he was stunned, the troops of the two sides collided together, and the troops of the Royal Forest Army only had a few round and small shields, and after facing the big rectangular shields, they were obviously not the opponents of the other party, and the Royal Forest Army was knocked back one after another. But between these retreats, long spearheads appeared in the middle of the opponent's phalanx from time to time. These spearheads were still bright when they stretched out, and when they retracted, they were already stained with blood on their faces.
Patches of the Imperial Foresters and the City Defenders fell when they fought with such a strange phalanx, and streams of blood poured out of the bodies of the fallen men. The general in command could no longer hold his breath and immediately shouted: "Quick, spearmen give me up." ”
Suddenly, a group of soldiers with war spears more than three meters long appeared in the mouth of the city wall, and these soldiers rushed towards the gap with the war spears in their hands in their hands. Seeing that the shield phalanx might suffer, I saw that a gap suddenly opened in the middle of each phalanx, and from the inside, there was a burst of flying locusts, and I saw that the spearmen of the defending troops suddenly fell into a groove.
The generals defending the city finally knew that these strange phalanxes were not as useless as they seemed, but had caused a lot of damage to their own troops.
Rihito had been paying attention to the deployment of the army from behind, and when he saw that the phalanx had already launched the secret weapon hidden in the middle, he immediately gave the order: "Longbowmen, target the city wall~~ to launch." Cavalry sortie~! ”
With two successive orders, the soldiers in the front row of the neat combined army immediately and methodically separated the countless passages, and the mighty cavalry finally rushed out of it. Finally, the cavalry kicked off the decisive battle, and the phalanx in front dispersed into small assault groups of five when the cavalry arrived, and followed by the cavalry to launch a charge against the already disorganized spearmen.
One by one, the horses of the cavalry were stabbed down, and the teams of spearmen were divided and eaten by the phalanx troops that followed closely behind. Finally, the wise general in the city could no longer hold his breath, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "Quick, all up, plug the gap for me." ”
But it was obviously too late to give such an order, and the cavalry had retreated to the rear under the protection of the phalanx soldiers after a reunited, and now the officers and troops had to face the phalanx infantry and rebels who had all rushed into the gap. At this time, the strength of the Suzaku Army was finally presented in front of the world, and only one soldier of the Suzaku Army could generally kill ten or even more than a dozen officers and soldiers with the cooperation of his comrades. On the other hand, the Imperial Forest Army, which is known as the backbone of the imperial court, is a soldier who can only deal with a soldier of the Suzaku Army. Such a ratio would have given the defenders of the castle enough strength to drive away the Suzaku army that had already rushed into the castle.
However, behind the Suzaku Army there were a number of rebels comparable to them, and although they did not have the terrifying combat power of the Suzaku Army, they were similar in number to the troops in the city. Suddenly, there were screams at these openings, mainly because the soldiers in the inner team of the city lost their will and were killed more loudly.
Watching the battle here, Liren frowned and gave an order to the heralds: "Raise the red flag and let them use secret weapons." ”
Suddenly, a red flag fluttered on the side of the united army, and suddenly there was a surprising scene at the opening, only to see the soldiers of the Suzaku Army forming a strong human wall under the cover of shields. The officers and soldiers in the city thought that the other party was invincible and wanted to escape, and when they rushed to the front of the human city wall about twenty paces, they saw black objects emitting white smoke thrown from behind the human city wall.
Before they could see what it was, they heard an earth-shattering explosion ringing in their ears. After a while, many officers and soldiers could no longer get up from the ground.
But this was not the end of the city, the human wall was slowly moving forward, and as they moved, they threw black objects the size of melons from behind the wall. Suddenly, the officers and soldiers who wanted to protect their positions within the city wall encountered a scene that they had never seen in their lives.
The officers and soldiers who had not yet rushed to the front saw their own soldiers at the gap, and after the black object fell to the ground, with an explosion, they suddenly fell one by one, and many surviving soldiers could not stand it and fled back.
When the generals in the city saw the situation in front of them, they immediately gave a fierce order: "Overseer team~!" Runaway slash~! ”
The soldiers who barely escaped never thought that they would be hacked to death by their own people. The soldiers, who had not yet arrived at the location of the Warlord, saw their comrades being killed, and thought that there was something ignorant behind them that strangled them. Eventually, their fears overcame their senses, and they raised their knives and slashed at the Warlords who had slain their comrades.
Seeing that the official army began to break and flee, the human city wall suddenly turned into a team of five, and they followed the frantic rout of the official army and rushed to the overseer team that was still killing their own people, and their rear.
"Kill~~!" "Rush~~!"
"Capture Shi Miyuan alive~~!" "Surrender and don't kill~~!"
Suddenly, the soldiers of the Suzaku Army and the soldiers of the rebel army shouted loudly and shook the sky, and with excitement, they finally broke through the last line of defense of the official army.