Chapter 277: Rift Plains
However, after Hu Ying took over the city defense in the east of the city from Lin Qianmo, he handed it over to Deng Ning, and in the next three days and three nights, it was actually three days in full swing. Because Deng Ning wanted to frame a full 700 giant crossbow carts into two crossbow walls, and then cover them with mud to cover people's eyes and ears. How could Lin Qianmo know that there was a reason why the soil of this city wall was so soft. If it is firmly filled, how can you easily expose the crossbow head when it is time to use it?
All this is the secret strategy set by Emperor Zhu Yutang in Taiye City, although Zhu Yutang seems to be negligent after ascending the throne, but when she was the princess of the prison country, there is no place in the states and counties of the blue sea that she has not inspected, and she knows everything about the border town like Linzhou City, of course, she knows that the swamps in the east of the city will form ice fields in winter. The crossbow wall against the cavalry array is undoubtedly a matter of leisure, and if the cavalry of Imulan enters the firing range, it will naturally be shot into a honeycomb, and if it does not enter the firing range......
That's okay.
Deng Ning watched Imuran's cavalry carefully retreat to the east for another mile or two, looked back at the attendants beside him and said with a smile: "Your Majesty's calculations, Imuran's cavalry has really retreated, everything is under Your Majesty's control!" ”
Here, Golihan's cavalry formation was still slowly advancing, the crossbow wall in the distance seemed to have stopped firing, and countless crossbow arrows were densely planted on the ice field, but the ice under his feet remained unmoving.
The crossbow array and the cavalry array are looking at each other from a distance, and there is no intersection. Suddenly, Gorihan saw the eastern gate of the city open wide, and a crowd of soldiers poured out.
Do you really want to pursue our cavalry with infantry? It is said that the women of Bihai are clever, and they can only sit at home and embroider needles, and they become stupid when they arrive on the battlefield.
The cavalry behind him also saw the soldiers lining up from the city gate from a distance, and they all put their hands on the pergola to watch.
They wanted to find out what class it was. Cavalry? Archer? Or infantry?
But it's neither.
I saw that some of the soldiers in the blue sea were carrying big drums, and some were holding gongs and cymbals.
Originally, some people suspected that they had seen it wrong, but after those soldiers lined up neatly, they began to beat gongs and drums, and for a while the gongs and drums shook the sky, and the entire ice field echoed.
This is a real marching band!
Since ancient times, there have been military bands with the army, especially war drums or golden gongs, which are necessary in the army. But an army of 50,000 people is only enough to be matched with more than 30 drummers at most, and there are thousands of drummers and gongmen in this large row in front of him.
Is this trying to kill us with the sound of gongs and drums?
The Imulans couldn't help it, and they laughed heartily, saying that the southerners sometimes use gongs and drums to drive away evil spirits and pray in the prayer ceremony, but it is the first time they have seen this on the battlefield to drive away the enemy.
The people of the Blue Sea Kingdom must have lost their minds and gone crazy.
Deng Ning stood at the head of the city, saw that the military band of 1,000 people was already in place, and shouted: "The thorn hammer team listens to the order and goes out of the city to dig!" ”
Immediately, a group of soldiers poured out of the East City Gate at the order, and these soldiers all held a large iron hammer in their hands, and the hammer was covered with thorns like maces, which was very sharp. The soldiers walked to the ice field in front of the city gate and slammed into the ground.
Although the ice was very thick, it was not able to withstand the large number of people and iron tools, and soon, a small hole was dug into the ground, and after a small piece of ice was chiseled, the ice water spread out of the hole.
The Thornhammers continued to dig out along the hole, slowly extending like a spider's web along the cracks that appeared along the hole, but the ice still didn't move.
At this moment, the military band of 1,000 people suddenly changed its formation, and played vigorously around the mouth of the cave, and the sound of the blowing was louder than before.
At the same time, the hammers of the Thornhammers hit the ice very rhythmically, almost like beating the beat of the marching band.
The more he looked at it, the more he wondered, and when he listened carefully, he felt that the military band was not playing a song, but the rhythm was neat and fast, like a torrential rain.
Immediately afterward, he felt something strange under his feet, and he could clearly feel that the entire ice field was trembling faintly like a catastrophe of earth collapse, and the war horse under his crotch also looked very uneasy, and kept neighing.
Suddenly, there was a dull popping sound from a distance, and Gorihan, who had lived in the northern desert for a long time, knew that it was the sound of a huge ice breaking when a glacier melted.
Don't...... The ice sheet cracked?
When Gorihan was startled, he heard the crackling sound one after another, as if it had detonated a powder magazine, and for a moment it overshadowed the sound of gongs and drums, and resounded through the ice field.
"Look! The ice is cracking! A few well-eyed soldiers pointed to the distance in horror.
Sure enough, a huge crack began to extend rapidly from the gate of the East City, like a twisted snake, devouring the ice along the road, breaking the entire ice field in half wherever it passed!
How so...... The Great Witch God has obviously sprinkled crystal powder!
With such a thick layer of ice, even a heavy chariot can pass through, how can a few gongs and drums be shattered?
Ge Lihan suppressed the surprise in his heart, looked at the huge crack that was rushing towards the middle of Imuran's cavalry formation, and suddenly found something.
Giant crossbow arrows!
Only then did he realize that the distribution of those giant crossbow arrows after landing was not scattered everywhere, but was nailed into a trajectory like a stake, and the crack traveled along that trajectory!
It turned out that the giant crossbow arrow was not intended to hit Imuran's cavalry formation from the beginning!
Ge Lihan secretly shouted that it was not good, look at the direction, if it goes on like this, the crack will go straight to Boduyan and the cavalry formation!
He was about to open his mouth to give the order, but it was too late.
From afar, there was the sound of a huge ice collapsing, mixed with the wails of countless cavalry and the neighing of war horses. The neat cavalry formation was pinched into two sections from the middle by the rift. The fissures continued to widen to both sides, and in a short time a glacier more than ten zhang wide had formed.
Countless cavalrymen fell into the glacier, and although there was no turbulent water under the ice, the unfathomable deep pools were more terrifying than the rivers. The chasm is like the mouth of a giant whale. All the cavalry caught in it, no matter how many, was devoured little by little.
Gorihan was closest to the phalanx of Beduyan, and he could see that most of the phalanx of Beduyan and the head of the third formation were engulfed by the fissure, although the horses of the cut were as fast as the wind, but there was a fissure in front of them, and the heavy shield cavalry of Wodar, who was slow to move, was blocked in the rear, and it was difficult to retreat, and if they fled westward, they would enter the range of the crossbow wall in the distance, so without waiting for Gelihan's order, the cavalry of Chebuhua had fled eastward.
Ge Lihan is a veteran of the battlefield, and the enemy has such intentions, and he can think of only one purpose: to cut off the cavalry formation of the blood clan and attack it separately. But the fissure in the glacier in front of him could not be crossed, and it was a fact that the cavalry formation of 13,000 men was cut in two, and his orders could not be reached in the cavalry formation of Chebuhua and Wodar.
As the head of the four generals, the only way to do this now is to gather all the cavalry formations that can be assembled first, reorganize the army and then deal with it. And the cavalry formation on the north shore can only be handed over to Chebuhua and Wodar to improvise......
"Order all the men on the south bank of the rift to follow me quickly and assemble in the southeast corner of the swamp!"
Corrihan's cavalry was at the very top, and all the horses were intact. The soldiers looked at the tragic image in the distance, and with trepidation, they turned their horses' heads and galloped forward with Gorihan.
They were not afraid of fighting on the battlefield, but the natural power of the landslide in front of them was too shocking, so they had to have some fear.
The double-sword cavalry formation that didn't take any flowers was suddenly stopped in front of the rift and fled for a while. Fortunately, the horse under the crotch was as fast as the wind, and it didn't take a wolf howl, and all the scattered cavalry moved closer to him.
Before the expedition, he made an oath with the soldiers in the battalion, and this time he would cut off more enemy heads than the cavalry of the remaining seven battalions, but before he could fight a person, he had lost thirty percent of his troops, so that he gritted his teeth in anger!
He raised his twin swords and shouted: "The stinky women of the Bihai Kingdom have caused Yin to harm us so many brothers, I will not spend today not avenging them, the gods will not forgive!" Whoever rushes into the east gate with me to take Hu Ying's head, come with me, and those who are afraid of death will hide behind the shield of Wodar on the side! ”
There were many fierce and fierce people among the two-knife cavalry who did not cut flowers, and their style of action was diametrically opposed to the Wodar cavalry who were like a turtle shell on their backs.
With a twist of his horse's head, he took the remaining more than 2,000 people from the double-sword cavalry formation and circled around the side of Wodar's cavalry formation, and went straight to the rear of Wodar. This place is not far from the north shore of the ice field, if you want to lead the troops back to see Qi Lie first, you can reach the camp safely without breaking a single soldier.
However, he is not a cut, not a wodar.
He saw that there was a remnant of ice on the north shore of the glacier fissure that had not collapsed, and that this ice had led straight to the east gate.
As long as you are fast enough, you can rush into the city gate and take down Hu Ying!
I don't take aim at the prey, and I never get away with it.
The corners of his mouth showed a wicked smile, and he was just about to charge, when he was suddenly slapped behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Bo Duyan!
"Good fellow, you're not dead."
Bo Duyan panted and said with a wry smile: "It's a big fate, but it's a pity that most of my cavalry formation has fallen into the ice pool and sunk to the bottom, and only about a part of it has escaped to the south bank, and Ge Lihan should have taken it away by this time." I still picked up a war horse in your formation with my eyes and hands to catch up with you. Your Horse...... It's fast enough. ”
"It's good that you're not dead! I'm going to do a big deal! You see, they don't have a city wall, only a broken city gate, let's go into the city together to get Hu Ying's head, do you dare to come? ”
"Come!" Bo Duyan was not so excited as he didn't spend it, and he was very calm.
For a moment, he didn't understand what he meant.
Most of the cavalry under his command died, and the life and death of the rest were uncertain. The blood clan attaches the most importance to glory, and they can't take the head of the enemy's commander, so they can't be happy.
"Okay, since you have the same guts as me, come up!"
Bo Duyan was stunned, come up?
Che Buhua sneered: "You are good at archery, but your riding skills are too bad, and you can't keep up with my horse, you ride the same horse with me, I shoot at you, and I will definitely succeed!" ”