Bloody battle against Tielingwei
Xiao Liuzi led most of the soldiers and horses to support Nancheng, leaving only more than 100 people to guard the other defensive sections.
By the time he reached the southern city, many of the enemies had already attacked, and they were united with the enemies on the city walls.
What's more, they have already hit the urn city gate, and they plan to open the city gate from the inside.
The urn city was one of the main defenses of the ancient city.
A small city was built at the outer entrance of the city gate, which was the same height as the big city, and its shape was either round or square.
The round one is like an urn, so it is called the urn city; Fangzhi is also known as Fangcheng.
The urn city was located on the side, which strengthened the defense.
It was discovered earlier that the urn city was placed at the gate of the six city gates of the Goguryeo inner city, and it was more common for the Liao Dynasty and its cities to set up urn cities.
During the Zhaoxuan period of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a curved wall similar to the urn city outside the gate of the Marquis of Jiaqu in Gansu Province, which may be the prototype of the urn city.
Urn City, also known as Moon City, Quchi, is an annex building attached to the city gate and connected with the city wall in the ancient city, mostly semicircular, and a few are square or rectangular.
When the enemy invades the urn city, if the main city gate and the urn city gate are closed, the defenders can form a "turtle in the urn" against the enemy.
It would be different if it was opened from the inside, and when the urn city and the city gates were opened, the enemies under the city would be able to rush in.
Xiao Liuzi fought to the south of the city and looked at the black and oppressive enemies under the city, and only felt that his scalp was numb.
"Clean up the enemies of Urn City, and the others will follow me."
The enemy who attacked the gate of the urn must die, and in addition to this, the city wall must also be defended.
The enemy's offensive under the walls was inexhaustible, wave after wave, and if the enemy who attacked the walls was not pushed back, sooner or later they would hit under the city gates and open the gates.
The most uncomfortable thing is that the enemy took advantage of the fog to constantly throw arrows in different directions to hit the soldiers defending the city.
The enemy can see and hit them, but they can't even touch the shadow of the enemy, which is really embarrassing.
Xiao Liuzi slashed at the enemies who attacked the city wall in a row, while observing the direction of the enemy's arrows.
He found that the enemy's rain of arrows was in the southwest direction of the south of the city, in the south, and in the southeast, and then returned to the south, and finally ran to the southwest.
When the rain of arrows in the southwest stopped, Xiao Liuzi's eyes lit up and he suddenly ordered.
"Due south, the rain of arrows strikes, the longest distance, each person shoots three arrows in a row."
By the time the battle had been fought, the fog on the city had been dispersed.
The heralds beat drums and waved flags to give directions.
Behind the fog due south, the three thousand elite horsemen sent by Amin Belle had just gathered, and they were about to shoot a wave of arrows.
Just as they were bending their bows and arrows, three arrows suddenly struck one after another.
The soldiers of this city were more numerous than they were, and they shot more arrows than they were.
In the blink of an eye, both the enemies and the horses gathered here were all shot into hedgehogs.
After the rain of arrows, the knights suddenly fell silent.
Where they gathered, there was a wailing.
Except for the dozens of horsemen standing on the edge of the moat, most of them survived.
Just then, the fog began to break down.
I can finally see the situation here.
Xiao Liuzi glanced at it and smiled proudly.
"Shoot them!"
Xiao Liuzi looked at the dozens of horses within the attack distance and immediately ordered.
The dozens of horsemen were also treacherous, and after the dense fog cleared, they ran out of the range of bows and arrows as soon as possible.
The enemies who attacked the city could not be attacked for a long time, and the elite cavalry who supervised the battle suffered heavy losses, so they no longer had the heart to fight to the death, and retreated back from the city one by one.
But what is strange is that these people did not leave after retreating, but gathered in front of the dozens of horsemen.
"You... Family... Escape... Die, attack... Live. ”
The dozens of horsemen roared at the Han slaves in a broken Chinese dialect.
They whipped the Han Chinese slaves in the face with horsewhips, forcing them to continue the siege.
No wonder these people would be so desperate, it was Amin Belle who arrested their family members and forced the young men among the Han slaves to take their lives to attack the city.
If you can capture it, it is naturally good, if you can't capture it, it is also very cost-effective to use these slaves to consume some of the enemy's lives.
"Bow... Shield... Good weapon... Above... Kill! "They pointed to the corpses of their comrades who had been shot to death, and allowed these Han Chinese slaves to attack the city with their weapons.
Originally, some people were still hesitating, they were looking at the dozens of horses in front of them and moved their murderous intent.
But before they could act, some people had already run over and snatched shields and bows and arrows back, and if there was the first, there would be the second, and then the group of people rushed up, for fear that they would not be able to grab good weapons if they ran slowly.
Originally, the soldiers on the city wall wanted to shoot them, but these guys ran too fast.
Some of them had a lot of strength, and ran over to find a corpse and ran away.
After fighting for so long, more than 4,000 of the more than 10,000 people have survived.
Those who snatched the equipment among them changed into leather armor, took shields, and tightened their grip on the bows and arrows and swords of the fine grain, and waited for the orders of the dozens of horsemen one by one.
Under the rule of the Later Jin, these people have developed a servile nature, which is a distorted psychology that originates from the exploited under the slave system, who are accustomed to submitting to the exploiting class and dare not change, and safeguarding the interests of the exploiting class under the premise of not benefiting themselves.
Coupled with the fact that their families are in the hands of these people, they are even more afraid to make any changes.
This distorted psychology is the product of violent intimidation, profit temptation, and ideological imprisonment.
It is a limited rational choice in reality based on the desire to survive and according to personal cognition under extreme emotions.
"Kill!"
The dozens of horsemen who were lucky enough to survive pointed to the walls of the southern city and gave an order.
The slaves, knowing that they were going to die, screamed, twisted, and roared wildly.
When the dozens of horsemen saw the slaves attacking, they immediately turned their horses and fled.
Among these there were also those who were good at bows and arrows.
They are highly skilled, running and shooting.
The defenders of the walls either hid behind the battlements or raised their shields to avoid the arrows they fired.
Xiao Liuzi also flashed behind the battlement wall, and looked at the battlement next to him with seven or eight arrows in a row.
He picked up the arrow that had fallen on the wall, losing its power, and smashed it in the mouth.
From the arc of these arrows, as well as the strength of the landing, Xiao Liuzi already knew that this wave of enemies was not the material for archery at all.
"Two arrows per person, a rain of arrows, destroy them."
Xiao Liuzi got up, leaned against the wall, played with the arrows in his hand, and ordered.
More than 4,000 people had no chance of winning against more than twice as many soldiers defending the city.
Xiao Liuzi couldn't figure out why these people were doing a senseless attack.
This is not an attack at all, this is a send-off.
"Xiuxiu~"
The soldiers of the city bent their bows and arrows, and fired two arrows at great speed.
In the eyes of the enemy under the city, the enemy in the city only shot an arrow and stopped.
They still wondered, did the enemy defending the city have good intentions?
Why are you still merciful to their subordinates?
There were many enemies who had such doubts, but before they could think about it, their eyes went black and they fell.
After a few breaths, the battlefield was quiet.
The besieging enemy was completely annihilated.