Chapter 2 (18) Breaking the Barrier (Part II)
One hundred and fifty steps.
There was still no movement under the closed walls. Only the sound of gurgling water came from the low water gate where the wall on the west side met the cliff wall.
Shang Cheng had a cold face, holding a straight knife in both hands, and followed the old border soldier in front of him step by step. He could hear Jiang Si's heavy gasps, and he could see the bloodshot eyes of a group of "covering" soldiers next to him scorching in the darkness. He also heard a few crows croaking in the distance behind the wall......
One hundred steps.
Through the faint light of the twinkling stars, I could see the continuous battlements on the black wall. There were no bows, no arrows, and no shadows of the Turbates. There was nothing there, only two wooden poles on the tower of the city gate to provoke two large lanterns, reflecting the black flag waving slightly in the night wind, illuminating the three words "Guangping Dang" directly above the city gate. The bonfire was set up thirty or forty paces away, and beside the blazing fire there was not even a single sentry on duty; The open doorway was reflected in the light of the fire, like an ancient beast with a deep, black mouth......
Seventy steps.
He clenched the straight knife tighter. Why did the crows cry in the middle of the night, why couldn't you see the enemy on the wall, and why didn't there be any movement on the walls...... These questions that suddenly poured into his mind and had no answers were all left behind by him, and he now only thought about one thing and rushed over one by one, rushed into Guangping Station, killed all the enemies who dared to resist, and then went home!
Fifty steps.
The bonfire had been left behind him; He stared at the city gate hole, jumped lightly under his feet, and flexibly stepped over a few miscellaneous trees with branches and leaves scattered indiscriminately on the official road. The city gate was already close at hand, and he could already cast his eyes through the unobstructed doorway to the other side of the wall—although it was still dark behind the wall, and he couldn't see anything clearly, but he could vaguely detect several rows of black shadows standing there!
There is an ambush!
His heart suddenly tightened!
"Kill!" The leading officer in the front row suddenly raised his knife and shouted loudly the moment he saw that this was a trap set up by the Tujitz people.
"Kill!" More than a dozen soldiers shouted in unison, and the swords, guns, and shields in their hands pounced.
"Kill!" Shang Cheng roared hysterically in a hoarse voice, without the slightest hesitation under his feet, he had already passed the leading soldier in a few steps, and rushed towards the city gate like a whirlwind with a straight knife obliquely.
At this moment, with a short order from the city gate, the sound of feather arrows swishing above and below the city sounded like a pearl, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people fell in the soldiers who were trying to climb over and bypass those miscellaneous trees.
"Archers! Above! Someone screamed in the dark. Immediately, several soldiers stepped forward to pull their bows and arrows, raised their left hand and their right arm with force, raised their bows to their eyes, glanced at them, and loosened their fingers, and with the buzzing sound of the bowstring vibrating, a feathered arrow rushed towards the city.
A few feathered arrows immediately attracted a rain of arrows from the top of the city, and a few archers who were still within the light of the bonfire became the living targets of the Turrets in the city, and more than half of them did not have time to shoot a second arrow, so they fell in this rain of arrows. But they bought precious time for the people behind, and a dozen or twenty people climbed over the barricades, and rushed to the city gate with swords and guns.
At this time, Shang Cheng had already rushed into the city gate, and rushed straight at the two rows of people with bows and arrows on the other floor of the doorway.
Although the Tuqi people who were ambushed on the other side of the wall lit the torches, the light of the torches could only illuminate the distance of six or seven paces, and when a few archers suddenly noticed that a black shadow was getting bigger and bigger under the light and shadow of the bonfire outside the wall, where was it too late to bend their bows and arrows? Before he could catch the tail of the feather in the quiver, he saw a big man rushing out of the door, and he jumped up with two steps on the ground, and he slashed at himself with a straight knife in his hand......
Shang Cheng stepped on the ground with his left foot and dragged the straight knife in his hand, and cut off the arm of a Tuqi archer on the right, gritted his teeth and twisted his eyebrows to pull the knife and send it again, and with an angry roar in his mouth, the sharp blade of the straight knife had already penetrated the leather shield in the hand of a Tuqi man in the back row, and stabbed into the man's chest with a poof. Immediately, blood flowed from the mouth of the Turquoise. The man's eyes bulged out, and his distracted gaze slowly moved from the half-cut blade of the knife on his chest to Shang Cheng's face, and then from Shang Cheng's cold and gloomy face to the vast and dim sky, grasping the knife shaft, he spat out a long breath and fell to the ground softly.
Shang Cheng didn't glance at the man, he stepped sideways and kicked on a leather shield with a muffled bang, and the screaming and rushing man retreated several steps in succession, Shang Cheng had already pulled out the straight knife and danced in a circle, forcing away the two scimitars and half-spinning their bodies, and slashing horizontally through the belly of an archer who couldn't dodge, and the steaming five organs and six abdomen immediately burst out with blood. The archer howled in his mouth, threw the bow and went to cover his belly, and Jiang Si, who caught up, chopped his neck with a knife......
The two of them killed two or three more of the Tuqi archers, and the Tuqi people also recovered from the initial shock and panic, and with a few orders, dozens of enemies were immediately divided into two teams, one group of people around the wall to block the later border soldiers in the doorway, and the other team outflanked the two from three sides, and in the blink of an eye, they crackled and fought with the two of them. A few of the escaped archers also stood behind and shot cold arrows, and three or five border soldiers who were not afraid of death were shot down by them in the doorway. As soon as he took over this time, the situation changed greatly, and in an instant, Jiang Si was hit by knives and guns in his shoulders and thighs one after another. As he gritted his teeth, an arrow burst through the crowd and into his right ear, and his body thrust into his chest, one after the other, and two scimitars slashed at his chest and back at the same time......
When Jiang Si fell, Shang Cheng was also surrounded by four or five Tuqi people, and there was no time to rescue. Now there are a few colors hanging on his arms and legs, and his body is covered with blood as if he has been soaked in a blood tank.
He blocked two times and took a step back, and then blocked two times and took a step back, and was forced back to the door opening by several Turrets in a wheezing breath, and sideways let a Turquoise who was sneaking up from behind, and when he wanted to swing the knife again, he only heard a "bell" sound, and the straight knife smashed on the stone above the doorway. Several opponents took advantage of the opportunity, and all of them pounced on him with a scimitar with a hideous face, eager to cut him into several pieces one by one
As soon as Shang Cheng let go of his hand, he abandoned the straight knife, and regardless of the scimitars that came over from both sides, he pounced on the opponent in front of him, raised his right arm with his left hand, stretched out his right hand and grabbed the man's left shoulder, snorted in his nose, and the two arms were forced at the same time, and the man was involuntarily dragged in front of him, and he had been dragged off the ground by his feet in desperate struggle, and he hit his head on the opponent's face.
In the clear crisp sound of the bones shattering, the man fainted without snorting.
He casually threw down the enemy who was as soft as a mess of mud, and as soon as he raised his legs and arms, he stretched out his arms and pulled another opponent - one by one, the man was already stupid by the scene just now, holding a sword and shield in his hand, neither blocking nor avoiding, so he was dragged in front of him in a dumb way, one by one, his left arm locked the man's throat, his right hand broke the man's head, a pair of eyes as deep as a backwater pond, but stared condescendingly at another trembling soldier, the corners of his mouth slightly twitched, his hands were forced, and there was a click, The head of the man in his arms suddenly tilted at an unusually strange angle......
The entrance to the door suddenly smelled of feces and urine. The Tuqi man who was targeted by Shang Cheng turned out to be incontinent.
The other two Tuqi soldiers were hunched over and clinging to their scimitars, their four bloodshot eyes fixed on Shang Cheng's body, but they didn't dare to step forward even half a step under their feet. There were also several Tuqi people around who witnessed Shang Cheng's killing of the two people in a row, and they were all desperately swallowing their saliva. It wasn't until a petty officer in the group of Turgites gave a new order that they cautiously surrounded Shang Cheng in the middle again.
The extremely short confrontation at the entrance of the door saved Shang Cheng's life. With a crossbow machine resounding, the little officer was instantly knocked out by the powerful crossbow arrows, and after a few steps, Sun Zhongshan took a dozen soldiers and Xiang Yong broke through the rain of arrows on the wall and rushed over.
Shang Cheng grabbed the scimitar thrown by the enemy from the ground, pounced on it and chopped over a Tuqi man with two or three clicks, and Sun Zhongshan and the others also killed two enemies in a row, gradually gaining a firm foothold and slowly expanding around. Although the remaining warriors were also fierce and brave, how could they withstand the culling of this group of fierce tigers and hungry wolves, and in a hurry, they left a few corpses of their companions and fought and retreated.
Zhao Shishi was also caught in this batch of reinforcements. He held a spear in his hand, and when Shang Cheng Sun Zhongshan forced a leader of the Tuqi people wearing a feather helmet and iron armor to be in a hurry, he saw that Leng Zi stabbed a gun under the armpit of the officer, twisted it before he pulled it out with blood and flesh, and without looking at the enemy, he asked Shang Cheng, who was covered with blood and his face was covered with blood: "Brother monk, are you okay?" ”
Shang Cheng ignored him, threw the scimitar in his hand, picked up the officer's saber, grabbed Sun Zhongshan and said, "Quickly take people up the city wall!" ”
Sun Zhongshan immediately reacted to the enemy on the city wall one by one, pressing the outside team to shoot arrows, or the large team would not be able to pass at all; And if these archers are not removed, if they shoot arrows at the wall, the gate will not be able to be defended. He immediately dragged one of the soldiers and told him to lead a few men to fight at the wall.
While speaking, there were constantly border soldiers rushing through the door hole to join the battle group, the sound of ping-pong weapon fighting was mixed with shouts and shouts, and from time to time there were one or two miserable howls when people were dying, and in a moment the opponents near the door hole were cleared, and the remaining twenty or thirty Tu Jie people were no longer entangled and fighting, and withdrew dozens of steps to re-form the formation. The border soldiers had to guard against the Turquoise in front of them, and at the same time draw out their men to attack the enemy on the side wall, and they did not have enough strength to expand the results of the battle for a while.
Shang Cheng was a little restless. He felt that since the Turks had set a trap, it was impossible to have such a small means; The Turgis are strong in cavalry and horse warfare, but the opponents who are currently fighting only with them are fighting on foot, and there must be a mystery in the middle; Besides, for the people of Tuqi who went south, Guangping Station was the throat of life and death, how could it be possible to leave only this little manpower?
A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, he pulled Sun Zhongshan's arm and hurriedly asked, "Is the big team coming?" ”
"It's coming!"
"All up?"
"Where?"
"The general has already arrived outside the wall with his people, just wait for ......"
Shang Cheng interrupted him: "Withdraw!" Tell them to evacuate! Fall back! Without waiting for Sun Zhongshan to speak, he raised his voice and shouted to the people around him, "Retreat!" Fast! Fall back! ”
The surrounding soldiers were all frightened by him, and looked at him and Sun Zhongshan, all with confused and hesitant expressions on their faces. Sun Zhongshan's face was already dark, his waist knife was clenched in his hand, his teeth were bitten, and his cheek muscles immediately bulged out one by one, and when he saw that he was about to march forward in the next moment, he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing from a distance......
Almost at the same moment, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard from the other side of the wall.
The enemy on the wall signaled that the siege was closed, and the cavalry of the Tu Chuan brigade in ambush finally began to move, outflanking the last Zhao army from the front and rear one by one......