Standing on the wall and hearing the sound of drums is very different from hearing it in the valley from afar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Heard in the valley in the distance, mixed with echoes, I didn't feel so oppressed, but standing on the wall of the pass and looking out of the pass, a row of big drums with a diameter of five or six feet in the Xixia army five hundred steps away was beaten at the same time, which made people's hearts shake strongly.

In the middle of a row of drums, there is a huge handsome flag of Western Xia, on which is an incomprehensible text, a huge bench under the banner of the handsome flag, and a Western Xia man with full armor sits on it.

With the sound of neat drums, dozens of phalanxes of about 100 people came out of the Western Xia army, and the Xia army in the phalanx was expressionless, and the pace pressed the sound of the drum to the slow march of Qingping Pass.

On the side of the Song army, the heads of all the teams on the wall began to shout loudly, and the soldiers who were sitting on the ground resting shouted, sorted out their ordnance, and set up quivers and stones, ready to meet another attack by the Xia army.

Yang Huairen could finally see what ancient warfare was like, and he curiously leaned on the recess of the female wall and looked into the distance.

Speaking from the heart, Yang Huairen was a little disappointed in his heart, he thought that he could see the pairs of cavalry of the Western Xia army violently rushing in the direction of Qingping Pass, and ten thousand horses galloping and raising dark clouds of dust.

Later, I thought that for the Xia army, this was a siege war, and the cavalry would become a target because the target was too big, but the infantry was the main force in the siege war.

Xia Jun was indeed not as terrible as he imagined, and the marching phalanx was quite neat, but unfortunately it was not fast, so it slowly and leisurely marched in the direction of Qingping Pass, without any intention of charging.

Yang Huairen turned his head to look at the people behind him, and they all looked down at the pass, his expression was slightly panicked, and his body couldn't stop trembling under the huge drum beat.

He knew that they were not afraid, after all, it was the first time that they were so close to the real war, and it was inevitable that their hearts would be excited, resulting in the inability to suppress the trembling of their bodies.

Huang Dayin patted everyone's shoulders one by one, shouting loudly to tell everyone not to panic, not to mess up, according to the method he said, a group of five people, to keep their positions.

In addition to Huang Dutou, Brother Hei Niu is the person who knows how to fight the best, and he began to assist Huang Dutou to command everyone to divide into two groups according to their own detachment, each of which is divided into two groups, and each group guards a notch in a female wall.

The adjacent team of defenders saw that Huang Dutou was bringing new recruits, and some people took the initiative to come over to calm everyone's nervousness and guide how to prevent Xia Jun from setting up a ladder and rushing to the city.

The tactic of guarding a notch in the women's wall in groups of five was also a relatively scientific way of defending the city at that time, and there were also corresponding special weapons to ensure this.

One of the five-man team was responsible for throwing stones with the aim of smashing down the soldiers who climbed up;

The two were sword and shield soldiers, who were responsible for raising shields to defend their comrades in the group from bows and arrows fired from under the city, and at the same time cutting off the hooks and ropes thrown by soldiers climbing the city walls;

The last two are pikemen, and the weapon is a special hook gun, in addition to the normal spear with a pointed head, there is also a hook like a bull's horn behind the spear head, which is used to flip the opponent's ladder.

The corner of the wall that Huang Dayin was in charge of happened to have fourteen notches that needed to be guarded, and after allocating personnel, he found that Yang Huairen and Lan Ruoxin were finally left out.

Huang Dutou also deliberately didn't want Hou Ye to take risks, but Yang Huairen stopped doing it, and scolded loudly, "Your grandma, buddies are all standing on the wall, and they didn't give me the task, is it really fake to be a buddy?" ”

Not only Huang Dutou heard it, but everyone Yang Huairen brought it over, but they all seemed to pretend not to hear.

Because they all think the same, Brother Ren is indeed a real man, but he is really not good at martial arts or anything, and he must not be allowed to stand on the edge of the female wall and take risks.

Yang Huairen originally thought that Lan Ruoxin beside him could support him, but Lan Ruoxin seemed to be the most satisfied person with this arrangement, standing beside him and grabbing his arm and preventing him from moving forward.

Yang Huairen was only helpless, but looking at Lan Ruoxin beside him nervously, a trace of tenderness flowed faintly in his heart.

He couldn't have imagined that Lan Ruoxin, who was originally cold and arrogant, was now leaning on him like a little woman, just to protect her lover and not let him take risks.

Yang Huairen's heart was moved, but now is not the time for children to grow up.

Seeing that Yang Huairen was a little pitiful, Tianba's younger brother sneered, "Brother, why don't you help your younger brother's group throw stones down later?" ”

Yang Huairen pouted a little unhappy, thinking about other work, he really couldn't help, throwing stones is not technical, he can try, he can't come to the real battlefield, he was pulled aside by a woman as an audience, right?

"It's still Tianba's brother who feels sorry for his brother, haha......"

Lan Ruoxin hesitated for a moment, thinking that he would hide behind the female wall and throw stones outside the wall, there would not be much danger, in case the Xia army attacked from this side, it would be a big deal that she knocked Yang Huairen out and pulled him down.

In the blink of an eye, the Xia army had marched to a place about two hundred steps away from the wall, and the appearance of the Xia soldiers could already be clearly seen from the wall, they still had one head and two eyes, and even their appearance was not much different from the Song army.

The drums of the Xia army stopped, and from the corridor between the Xia army's phalanx, several heralds holding order flags galloped to the forefront of the phalanx.

A long bull's horn sounded, and a heavy "whining" dragged out the tone, as if giving some command.

The commander of the herald began to wave the order flag in his hand in the air in a certain posture and order, and the Xia army phalanx suddenly dispersed after seeing the order flag waving, and the original marching phalanx became a horizontal queue.

The Xia soldiers in the queue took off their slightly elongated and almost oval-shaped shields from their backs and held them high above their heads at an angle of about forty-five degrees.

Following the waving of the flag in the hands of the commander, Yang Huairen was deeply shocked by the uniform movements of the Xia army, and he suddenly found that the army of the ancients could not be underestimated, although there was no such powerful firearms and equipment as in the era of cold weapons, but if you look at it from the perspective of army training, the military quality of the Xia army is still quite high.

It seems that Yeli Tuli is not only a fierce general who kills people without blinking, but also in terms of training soldiers, he is indeed a rare military talent in Western Xia.

On the side of the Song army, behind the infantry guarding the notch of the female wall, a row of archers appeared, one person every five steps, each carrying three quivers, and chose a position with a good view to stand still, but there was no intention of pulling the bow and opening the arrow.