Chapter 269: Assault
As soon as this announcement came out, the leaders of the remaining waves of thieves, everyone was in danger, the White Dragon Righteous Army was the leader in the White Dragon Mountain Range, and his prestige was extremely high, and the leader of the White Dragon Righteous Army, Hu Cai, was a ruthless and ruthless person. The sentence in the announcement did not hesitate to pay any price, but it made these leaders immediately cut off the heart of surrendering to the court.
As for Wen Han, after hearing this announcement, he did not have any anger and irritability, but fell silent. For the next few days, there was surprisingly no movement.
A few days later, the White Dragon Rebels issued another notice, that is, to let all the leaders of the remaining waves of thieves go to his stockade, and Hu Cai promised that he would give high positions to these thieves leaders.
On behalf of the imperial court, Wen Han still didn't say a word, and there was no movement, so weird that people couldn't guess his next move.
Just when the remaining waves of thieves made up their minds and wanted to abandon the village and join the White Dragon Rebel Army. Except for the three stockades close to the White Dragon Righteous Army, the remaining two stockades, outside their earthen city, suddenly appeared court soldiers and horses.
At this time, the two leaders who learned that their Tucheng was besieged realized that the calm of the imperial army was the calm before the storm. The two armies of the imperial army, led by Wen Han and Gao Shun respectively, numbered more than 4,000 people, surrounded the two earthen cities, and the two leaders, seeing the dense court soldiers and horses outside the city, and the cold murderous weapons in their hands, immediately lost the heart to fight again, and ordered the thieves under their command, dropped their weapons, opened their own gates, and surrendered to the imperial army.
So, Wen Han incorporated two groups of thieves, of course, among these two waves of thieves, there were many people who didn't want to live a life of licking blood from the knife edge anymore, and went back to Hedong to live again.
After these thieves were dispersed, Wen Han's strength reached more than 10,000 people. But Wen Han didn't think that the number of troops under his command at the moment reached tens of thousands, how powerful he was.
Because he understood that among them, in addition to the 4,500 soldiers he brought from Hedong, who had a certain combat strength, the remaining 5,500 men and horses were all rabble. After a desperate battle with the White Dragon Thief, these more than 5,500 people were afraid that most of them would die.
The other three waves of thieves all joined the White Dragon Righteous Army, and the strength of the White Dragon Thieves reached more than 30,000 people for a time, which was three times the strength of Wen Han.
Time flies like a white horse, when Wen Han led 10,000 soldiers and horses to occupy an abandoned earthen city close to the White Dragon Thief Village, ready to fight to the death with the White Dragon Thief.
It has been two months since Wen Han first sent out the army. In just another month, the winter season will be over. In other words, Wen Han only has one month to divide the victory and defeat with these 30,000 white dragon thieves, so that he can rush to Xihe in time to fight Guo Da in Baibo Valley.
In Weng City, the crowd was surging. Originally, this earthen city was only enough to accommodate about 3,000 people, but now there are 10,000 people in this urn city, and each earthen house is full of more than a dozen people, but in this way, the crowd of people also feels a little warm in this cold winter.
Outside Weng City, Wen Han and Gao Shun and dozens of cavalry rode their horses and galloped through the snowy mountain road, stopping when they were about half a mile away from the White Dragon Thief Earth City.
Wen Han watched the scene in the White Dragon Thief Earth City from a distance, this earth city is far larger than the ordinary earth city, it is a hundred meters long, dozens of meters wide, the height of the city wall of the urn city is also ten meters high, and there are thousands of people patrolling the city head, and the garrison is tight.
After Wen Han looked at it for a while, he looked at the surrounding terrain with a solemn face, and after a while, Wen Han sighed deeply, and the breath in his mouth suddenly turned into a white mist in this ice and snow.
"Fan, why are you sighing?"
Gao Shun, who was beside him, saw Wen Han's solemn expression, so he opened his mouth and asked.
"I'm bothered. Boyi, you see, the place where the white dragon thief's earthen city was built was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it took advantage of the location. Although the 30,000 White Dragon Thieves were all rabble, their number was far more than three times that of our army. Moreover, although our army is said to have 10,000, the combat power among them is uneven.
Our side is attacking, the enemy is defending, and in this fight, our side will definitely have a disadvantage. And this situation is difficult to calculate, and the battle with the white dragon thief seems to be a hard battle. ”
"After this war, I don't know how many people will be left of these 10,000 people."
Gao Shun nodded silently and muttered. After Wen Han looked at it for a while, he turned his horse's head and led the people back to the Tucheng they occupied.
Along the way, Wen Han rarely spoke, and the unbearable look on his face gradually faded. Because he understands that in this troubled world, the dead are commonplace, and if he does not have a decisive and tenacious heart to kill, it is impossible to break out of a world that belongs to him in this troubled world.
Wen Han's soldiers and horses rested in Tucheng for a day to recuperate. The day seemed to go by very long, and some people were silent day by day. Perhaps, they understand that tomorrow they may well lose their lives.
Early in the morning of the second day, the cold wind was still biting, but the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the court did not seem to feel the slightest coldness at all, and the 2,000 soldiers of the trapped camp led by Gao Shun were even more scorching fires in their eyes, and their fighting spirit was proud. The 1,000 cavalry and 1,500 sword and shield hands behind Wen Han were also full of fighting spirit and firm eyes.
These 4,500 men were the soldiers and horses brought by Wen Han from Hedong, and they followed under the command of Wen Han and Gao Shun, and they had already experienced a lot of hard battles, so they had no fear, and their will had already been sharpened to the point of a spear.
Perhaps dyed by the majestic and tenacious momentum emanating from these 4,500 people, the 5,500 soldiers who had just joined the Hedong Army gradually faded in fear, and the hands of the guns they held unconsciously tightened a little.
Trample! Trample! Stomp ~!
10,000 soldiers and horses of the court walked in the white snow road, and every step they took could shake the snow off the surrounding dead trees. With the momentum of shaking the mountains and shaking the sea, they kept walking towards the urn city of the white dragon thief.
"Archer prepare!"
Just when the formation of 10,000 court soldiers and horses was only a few hundred meters away from the White Dragon Thief Earth City, Wen Han grabbed the reins and raised his sword and shouted. As soon as he gave the order, the formation behind him immediately changed, each team of 1,000 people, two teams on the left and right, a total of four teams, 4,000 archers rushed to the front of the formation, and each soldier neatly picked up the big bow behind his back, put the bow on the arrow, and aimed at the thieves who were also aiming at the top of the city at the same time.
"Shoot!"
Four thousand arrows flew into the sky, almost covering the sky above the earth city, and suddenly fell, like a torrential rain, accompanied by a series of screams, countless thieves fell from the arrows, and shook down piles of snow piled up on the top of the city.
"The court is mediocre, forcing us to have no land to cultivate, no rice to cook, and no way out. We waited for the uprising to start an uprising, and you waited for these court lackeys to distinguish between right and wrong, and they had to be wiped out.
We and the White Dragon Righteous will never succumb to your and other obscenities, sons and daughters take up your bows and arrows, and let these lackeys see the will of our White Dragon Righteous Warriors! ”
Wearing a tiger fur coat at the head of the city, wearing military armor inside, with a thick beard, and a strong and vicious beard like a bull and tiger, he saw that the soldiers and horses of the court attacked coldly, and he was so angry that he suddenly screamed, pointing at Wen Han's breach and scolding, and at the same time making the surrounding thieves launch a counterattack.
"Shield!"
And just when Hu Cai was scolding, Wen Han gave another order, and the 1,500 sword shield men who were lined up behind the four thousand archers hurriedly rushed forward and formed two shield walls with the shield walls in their hands.
And not long after the shield wall was formed, there were many thieves on the head of the city, and they fired the arrows in their hands, and Wen Han looked at it, and all he saw in his eyes was dense like ropes, one arrow after another.
The rapid and continuous sound of arrows striking shields was as loud as torrential rain falling on the earth. It's just that there are too many arrows, and fifteen hundred sword shield hands gritted their teeth and used all their strength to cling to the shield in their hands. Each shield was hit by no less than a hundred arrows, and after a single round of fire, their hands were almost shattered in pain.
And Wen Han also noticed the abnormality of the 1,500 sword shield hands, and hurriedly swung his sword again, causing the 4,000 archers to fight back. Under the city and above the city, the rain of arrows on both sides was like two huge waves, each rushing towards both directions. For a while, under the sky, all that came into view was the endless arrows.
Thieves continued to fall from the top of the city, but soon another wave of thieves rushed up to replace the dead thieves. And the shield wall composed of 1,500 sword shield hands was also hit back again and again by the arrows fired by the other party. Several sword and shield hands, their arms numb, and several arrows came at them, and as soon as they lost their strength, the shields in their hands fell off, and then several more arrows came and shot them away.
"Make it up, make it up! Make up for it! ”
The commander of the sword and shield hands hurriedly shouted, and suddenly the shield wall was retracted, but soon after the retraction, several more sword and shield hands lost their strength, and the shields fell, and they were knocked away by the crazy rain of arrows. As a result, the two shields shrank less and less, and the 4,000 archers they protected behind them were suddenly attacked by a rain of arrows, and the number of those who were hit by the arrows continued to increase dramatically.
Wen Han had a cold face, exhaled a big breath, and after giving Gao Shun a look, he raised the Tiger Slaughter Silver Spear and shouted.
"All the troops are attacking!"
As soon as Wen Han's voice fell, he rushed out as soon as he stepped on the belly of the cloudy horse, and the 1,000 cavalry and 1,500 gunners behind him followed Wen Han and launched a charge at the same time.
"Trap the camp and listen to the order, fire!"
"Fire! Fire! Fire! ”
And Gao Shun also roared loudly and led the two thousand trapped camps towards Tucheng, rushing away like a tide of fire. The 2,000 soldiers of the trapped camp, all like ghost soldiers on fire, burst out with the strength of their whole bodies, brandished the guns in their hands, shot down the arrows one by one, and rushed to the city gate at great speed.
Gao Shun rushed to the front, leading the soldiers trapped in the camp, and kept attacking the huge wooden gate of Tucheng, crashing with a bang. Soon, Wen Han led a thousand cavalry and fifteen hundred gunners to arrive, and at the same time launched an assault on the wooden gate.
Suddenly, the white dragon on the head of the city felt as if the earth city had been affected by a seven-magnitude earthquake, and it shook violently, and at the same time, a bloody and sharp and unbreakable momentum was surging like a tornado.
This is a terrifying and terrifying army.