Chapter 387: Lost City
When Dongcheng was attacked, Qin Ran was holding Hua Xiangrong, the head of Tianxiang Building, in the county Yahou Mansion and dreaming of sweet dreams, calloused hands, even in the dream, he was still dissatisfied with Hua Xiangrong's delicate body like jade pinching and touching, making Hua Xiangrong protest in his sleep, but there was no way to move his thick long-haired arms away.
Qin Ran faintly heard some movement in his dream, and the alertness he had cultivated over the years woke him up immediately, and he suddenly opened his eyes, like a beast with his hair standing on end when he encountered a strong enemy, listening to the sound outside.
Hua Xiangrong was awakened by Qin Ran's movements, and half of the thin silk filled with silk wool was dragged to the ground, revealing the seductive fragrant shoulders and jade arms.
She didn't know what was going on, she yawned lazily, looked at the darkness outside the window, only the green light came in, and said "It's still early", the plump and slender thighs were about to wrap around Qin Ran's thick waist and abdomen, and then sleep beautifully, Qin Ran suddenly pushed her away, fell off the bed, and her snow-white plump buttocks smashed on the brick floor, bringing out a wave-like tremor.
It's a pity that Qin Ran has no time to appreciate the stunning beauty of the world in front of him, grabbed the war halberd in front of the case and pushed open the window, the guards who were keeping vigil outside the courtyard were still drowsy, and they were not alert, and banged on the window with the war halberd, shouting and ordering: "Black Bull, Li Donkey, go out and see what's going on?" ”
Qin Ran was wearing heavy armor, cumbersome to wear, and finally put it on with the help of Hua Xiangrong, he walked out of the yard, at this time the guards outside had not figured out what was going on, only knew that there were several streets and alleys in the city that were walking together, and even several stables where they kept war horses were also mixed in, at this time the smoke was billowing and the fire was rising, and two or three hundred frightened war horses rushed out of the shed and scurried around the streets and alleys, with an amazing momentum.
Qin Ran sensed that the movement in Dongcheng was the most noisy, and the rest of the place should be a disturbance caused by the enemy scouts lurking in, intended to confuse the public.
Even in the city, the transmission of military orders was chaotic and slow, Qin Ran saw that the riot spread very quickly, and he couldn't wait for his subordinates to command the envoys to lead the elite to come over to meet, and the soldiers were very fast, he couldn't even wait for his subordinates to bring more war horses from the stable, so he first led the more than 100 guards assembled in the county government and the back house to rush to the east city gate.
Qin Ran led his troops out of the county government less than 100 meters, and collided with Kong Xirong, who led his troops to rush west along the long street from the east city gate, and the two sides were killed.
Qin Ran was also a brave and outstanding general in the Chuzhou Army, and he took the lead in colliding with Kong Xirong, who was wearing heavy armor and holding a horse slashing knife to urge the horse forward.
The two of them didn't speak, and after they took a look, they both shouted and destroyed the war horse under their crotch, wielded a halberd with a knife, and slashed angrily, and the halberd hit each other and hit a string of sparks.
After that, the armor soldiers of both sides rushed up, and the war horses under the crotches of the two were instantly stabbed to the ground by the spears in the hands of the opposing soldiers, blood splashed, and neighed in pain.
Kong Xirong's thigh and armor were pierced by the sharp spear stabbed by one of the opposing generals, but fortunately, the armor guards behind him were protected in time, and several Jianyong held iron shields to block more than a dozen spear stabs for him.
From the moment of this engagement, it can be seen that many of the guards around Qin Ran are skilled fighters, and the speed of the spear stabbing is fast and ruthless, and Kong Xirong also received two long knives on his shoulder.
However, the power of the long knife slash is not comparable to the spear stabbing, and the shoulder armor made of stainless steel is relatively thick, and it has not been cut through two marks.
Kong Xirong was inconvenient to move, but he didn't retreat, so on the long street that was forced by the street shops on both sides to be only more than two zhang wide, he limped forward with the generals, slashing one after another, slashing at the halberd spear and iron shield in front of him.
Two or three hundred people are fighting together in such a narrow space, and the flexibility is completely useless, and the strength of the skilled fighters is also suppressed, and the main thing is to compete for strength, once the iron shield is cut off, or the shield bearer stumbles and falls, he can only watch five or six sharp spears stab over, and if there are no colleagues on the left and right to cover with a shield in time, no matter how thick the heavy armor may not work.
If you want to talk about the strength of the force and the strength of the individual's body, the guards around Qin Ran are stronger, and even more well-trained, and there are many skilled fighters, in just a dozen breaths, seven or eight people around Kong Xirong were cut to the ground, and blood holes were stabbed out of their bodies.
However, Kong Xirong was surrounded by mourning soldiers who were not afraid of death, seven or eight people were cut to the ground, but the people behind them rushed forward more fiercely, without the slightest hesitation and pause, but the long street was too narrow, and more people could not squeeze into the front to fight.
The streets and alleys were so narrow that some people couldn't wait to climb onto the roofs, step on the broken eaves, and throw down the short spears in their hands, or pounce directly on them with flesh and blood.
The Chuzhou army was already a tiger, but except for the silver halberd guards beside His Royal Highness King Xin, Qin Ran had never seen any force that could imagine such a deadly onslaught before.
Such a lifeless way of playing made Qin Ran and the tiger and wolf pawns around him cowardly.
"Roar!"
Kong Xirong was hit by an arrow in the neck, although it was only inserted into the skin, but when he stretched out his hand, it was full of blood, and he roared on his face, which was even more heroic.
Everyone was wearing the military uniforms of the Chu State, and the opposite side was only wearing a white scarf around the neck to show the difference, Qin Ran still wanted to retract the attacking enemy with the most courageous posture at the beginning, and after a while, he found that the other party was really difficult to speak, but it was not easy to open his mouth and ask which side of the people dared to come to pick the tiger whiskers of the Chu Zhou army.
Although there was no place in the city for 2,000 elites and more than 2,000 war horses to settle together, fortunately, they were all requisitioning the mansions near the county government as military camps.
Qin Ran saw that the oncoming enemy army was really unable to move, and he retreated thirty or forty steps back to a compound requisitioned by the Chuzhou army to serve as a barracks, and he was forced to lead the remnants to retreat into the courtyard, thinking of organizing troops from other places to drive out the attacking enemies who had entered the city.
"Where did the enemy come from, have you found out?"
Qin Ran asked with a yellat at the guards beside him.
"I don't know, there are remnants of soldiers who have escaped at the east city gate, and they began to flee back to the city by mistakenly thinking that they were attacked by the grain conscripts, and they opened the city gate without vigilance and let them rush in." The guard replied in a mess.
"Dog! It's all a bunch of idiots who have no eyes for giving birth to a son! Qin Ran was so angry that he shouted, but seeing that the noise outside the courtyard was getting louder and louder, there were more and more water and fires, and the gate in the courtyard was smashed, he climbed to the top of the main house, and saw the enemy army coming in from the east city gate like a flood, and there was no pause at all, but directly dispersed, divided into a team of thirty or fifty people, and rushed from the alleys to Danyang City.
Seeing this scene, Qin Ran felt a sense of despair in his heart.
The speed of the attack is too fast.
Most of the defenders hadn't figured out what was going on at this time, and some of them reacted quickly, and they had just put on their armor and were about to come out for reinforcements, but when they got into the streets, they ran into the enemy head-on, and were quickly killed.
Except for the courtyard at his feet and the other three city gates that had not yet been affected, there was no decent defense at all in other places, let alone a counterattack, and even most of the defenders had not yet figured out from which gate the enemy was attacking from to the south, let alone which forces they were fighting with......
How will this battle be fought?
Qin Ran couldn't help but panic.
He only had 2,000 defenders in Danyang, but at this time, he saw that the attacking enemies who had already rushed in from the east city were almost more than 2,000, and outside the east city gate, which was blocked by the city wall, he didn't know how many enemy troops were waiting to rush in.
Seeing that the enemy army did not have to leave a single soldier and horse to reorganize the formation at the East City Gate, Qin Ran suspected that the number of enemy troops who came in by surprise was far beyond his imagination.
Where did this enemy army come from?
The soldiers and horses of the Anning Palace in Jinling?
It's not like, how many scouts does the Chuzhou army have to stare at Jinling, how can it be possible for a single soldier and horse of so many people to leak over?
Xinchang Hou Li Pu Department?
It's not right, even if Xinchang Hou Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng dare to tear their faces with them, they will squeeze out the few remaining soldiers in Taowu Ji, and there are less than 3,000 young people left in their hands to use.
Looking at the earth-shaking shouts outside the East City Gate, there are still two or three thousand people outside the city!
Is the state and county south of Danyang attached to the Anning Palace and gathered local soldiers from the state and county to attack Danyang?
There are elite forbidden troops stationed in the two states of Yuehang, but the road is still far away, and Huxiu, Changsu and other prefectures are closer to Danyang, but are the local state battalions in these states so capable of fighting?
Qin Ran was timid, worried that if he hesitated a little, he would be surrounded in the city and never be able to kill again.
After waiting for a while, he saw that the attacking enemy and soldiers and horses continued to come in from the east gate, so he jumped off the roof, rushed out of the backyard with the guards and more than 200 elites stationed in this courtyard, and rushed out of the backyard, killing and retreating from dozens of attacks on the enemy from the branch alleys, and retreating to the north city while fighting; At the same time, he sent someone to inform the other defenders of the city to go out of the city gate to join him.
Qin Ran fought out of the north gate of Danyang City with blood, and first retreated to the southern slope of Shunwang Mountain, which was five miles away from the north city, the main peak was only ten zhang high, and the east and west stretched for only more than two miles.
The attacking enemy was still busy controlling Danyang City and clearing the remnants of the city, and there were no men and horses chasing out of Danyang City for the time being, Qin Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and sent people to Dantu City in Linjiang and Jingshan Nunnery at the southeast foot of Baohua Mountain to report the news, while collecting the remnants of the soldiers who had fled from Danyang City in a hurry at the southern foot of Shunwang Mountain.
In addition to the soldiers and horses that ran away in other directions, Qin Ran saw that there were only seven or eight hundred remnants of soldiers and four or five hundred war horses around him, he was cunning in his heart, he wanted to cry without tears, and he didn't think about it without knowing who the enemy was, so he lost Danyang City inexplicably, and his soldiers lost more than half.
These are Chuzhou athletes, brothers who have followed him for many years, and he doesn't know how to explain to the commander Rao Geng, and how to face King Xin.