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Chapter 515: Returning Home and Taking Revenge

The Mengyuan people did not use war drums to attack with huge horns, and the sound was low, but it could be transmitted for dozens of miles. In addition to the men and horses guarded in the rear, about 30,000 cavalrymen left their beloved horses, either armed with scimitars and shields, or holding Han spears that were not easy to use, or carrying ladders or pushing the rudimentary battering ram slowly approaching the valley.

Because of the narrowness of the valley, the 30,000 wolf horsemen who attacked the main attack could only enter like a long dragon. While marching, the wolf knights struck their breastplates with their scimitars. Because the stone wall was built a mile away in the valley, it was impossible for a team of 30,000 men to enter the canyon completely. At this time, they were beating on their breastplates, which was to boost their morale and see off their comrades in front.

The leather armor that steppe wolves ride is exceptionally tough, which is not unrelated to their living habits. Prairie people eat meat with their bare hands, and almost do not eat other pasta vegetarian food except for roasted naan, and after eating the meat handle, the oil on the hand of the leather armor is wiped on a smear, and over time, the greasy and thick layer on the leather armor cannot be hit by rain.

The oil-soaked leather armor became extremely tough, and the feather arrows could not penetrate it even if it was weaker. However, the difficulties faced by the wolf riders now are not only the siege battles that they are not familiar with, but also the weapons in their hands. For foot combat, the scimitar is much less powerful than cavalry combat. The curvature of the scimitar can cause maximum damage to the enemy when passing by in cavalry combat, and the wounds caused by the scimitar are very long, and even if they are not fatal, they will die from excessive blood loss, and the medical level of this era is not enough for military doctors to easily deal with such injuries.

However, in foot combat, the scimitar was too short, and it was at a disadvantage compared to the Han soldiers armed with long lances and spears. Even compared to the Great Sui infantry standard horizontal knife, it is still a lot shorter, which is a fatal flaw on the battlefield.

Kuktai Menglie personally commanded, and after watching the team enter the canyon, he raised the command flag in his hand high, the huge horn blew, and the advancing team slowly stopped. Because the Mengyuan people have no experience in foot combat, they don't habitually form a formation like the Great Sui soldiers when they stop, and they look a little scattered.

But the Mengyuan Wolf Cavalry has a very complete structure, with a team of ten, a team of 100, a team of 1000, a team of 1,000 people, and a team of 10,000 people, each of whom gathers under the leadership of the leader, so although it is scattered, it is not chaotic.

"Farewell to the Devil"

Koktai Menglie commanded: "Take three thousand people, and you fight the first formation." Don't post it, you take two thousand people for the second formation, Mahan, you take two thousand people for the third formation, you must break the enemy in one battle, the Great Khan is still waiting for us to go back, your family is also waiting for you to go back, it has been almost three years since you left the grassland, and the cubs in the family have grown up a lot. Do you miss your warm yurt, do you miss your white women, do you miss the days of hunting horses on the pasture, then go! ”

He pointed the banner towards the stone wall: "Cut off the heads of your enemies with your sharp scimitars, and the Immortal Heaven will grant you infinite strength, and the light of the Golden Family will shine on you, and you will be invulnerable!" Let those Han people see who the real warriors are! ”

"Phew!"

The wolf knights shouted loudly, and no one noticed that Meng Lie's words were different from before. He didn't mention King Ming this time, and he didn't mention the Great Wheel Temple of Daxue Mountain.

The wolf knights were thinking of answering their hometown as soon as they could finish the battle, hugging their plump wives and holding their children high above their heads. Who cares who is not mentioned in Meng Lie's words, they have already returned to their hearts like arrows.

"Warriors!"

Zhe Split Bee drew his scimitar and pointed forward: "Rush in the direction of the Great Khan's summons, and let those weak Han people cry and beg under the scimitar!" You are all wolves who grew up drinking blood, and the Han people are destined to be devoured by us! ”

"Phew!"

"Phew!"

The shouts of the charge echoed through the canyon, and the sound swirled back and forth across the canyon.

The first team of thousands, led by the commander, began to speed up and rush, and the men at the front rushed forward like crazy with a ladder, in such a narrow area, they knew that dodging and stagnation would not bring good luck, and the only hope of surviving from the enemy's feathered arrows was to rush to the bottom of the stone wall as soon as possible. The wolf cavalry behind the ladder held their cavalry shields on their chests, trying their best to cover the vital points. But the cavalry shield is too small, and even the upper body can't cover it completely.

This way of attacking with his own two legs makes every wolf knight feel that he is no longer a giant. When on horseback, they are faster than the wind. But now, they have to make themselves run, run as hard as they can.

When the horns of the charging bull sounded, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army on the stone wall put their feather arrows on the bowstring, their faces were solemn, and many of them were breathing heavily to stabilize themselves. More than a dozen heavy crossbows mounted on the stone wall had already tightened the coiling ropes, and they would roar out like angry dragons at the first command.

Xiahou Baichuan glanced back at General Fang Jie, who was standing on the other side of the stone wall, and then also took a deep breath. After months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. This is the first battle he led his troops to fight after becoming Fang Jie's subordinates, he now knows what kind of person Fang Xie is, he will never exclude and suppress people with merit and ability, as long as he fights this battle well, then he can be regarded as truly standing in his position in the Black Flag Army.

From the four products of the majestic Lang will.

It is precisely because he has been working hard in the military for many years that he knows how difficult it is for the children of the poor family to rise to this height. Basically, the generals above the fifth rank in the army are all from various families in the Great Sui. If they want to get ahead, they can only wait for the war. But in the war, it is difficult for even a poor child to rise to this position among 10,000 or 50,000 people. There is no doubt that Xiahou Baichuan is lucky, because the previous King of Xujun and the current General Fang are not the kind of people who drink the blood of soldiers.

He knew that he was now extremely close to the pinnacle of his life, and as long as he survived this battle, there would be no problem for a four-grade Eagle Yang Lang at that time. It is not far from the peak of the military generals. Of course, most people don't make the leap from the fourth grade to the third grade in their lifetime, but this is the beginning of hope, isn't it?

What's more, Fang Xie is a just and fair leader.

He glanced at Fang Xie and felt Fang Jie's trust in him.

"Everyone!"

He drew his sword and pointed it at the wolf rider.

"Take revenge!"

This tiger roar suppressed the whirring sound of the wolf cavalry's charge, and it floated back and forth in the canyon.

Take revenge! Take revenge! Take revenge!

This voice is like a lot of unjust souls shouting together in mid-air.

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With a buzz, more than a dozen heavy crossbows took the lead, plowing out a few gaps in the wolf's array more than two hundred paces away, leaving no living mouth where the heavy crossbow flew in a straight line. Under such a dense formation, Meng Yuan Wolf rode with his head down and ran forward, and there was no possibility of dodging.

After the crossbow was fired, the archers on the stone wall rode within a hundred and fifty paces and began to harvest life, and the feathered arrows were shot one after another, without having to aim at all. The narrowness of space inevitably leads to the concentration of forces on the attacking side, and the initial period of time for the defending side is the most favorable time to strike at the enemy.

The feathered arrows that rained down kept knocking the wolf rider over, and even the cowardly could not run back at this time. The wolf cavalry in the back desperately pushed forward, the dead people in front of them layer by layer, and the soldiers who ran in front of the hundred-man team were lucky to survive three rounds of feather arrows and not even ten soldiers who were not dead.

The two hundred-man detachments died before they could reach within fifty paces of the stone wall, and the people behind were pushed by the people behind them and could not stop at all, and the wolf knights rushed forward like a tidal wave of waves on the corpses of their comrades. The archers on the stone wall were divided into two rows, and the first row of archers sent the feathered arrows out neatly when they took the arrows, and then they took the arrows, and the first row had already shot again.

In this way, the action is repeated mechanically, neatly and orderly.

Xiahou Baichuan walked back and forth behind the archers, from one end to the other, constantly shouting loudly, and the man with a hoarse voice at this time looked particularly attractive. The male demeanor on the battlefield is fully revealed, and this is originally a contest between men.

Half an hour later, finally a wolf cavalry carried the ladder to the bottom of the stone wall, these soldiers were not skilled in erecting the ladder, but because of the poor cooperation between each other, a lot of time was delayed, every second on the battlefield was bloody, and the delay was enough to make more people die.

The archers on the stone wall began to divide their work, the first row of archers leaning down and shooting down the wall, and the second row continued to fight the wolf cavalry who had not yet come close. At this moment, seeing that some soldiers rushed to the city wall and gave a loud order, the wolf-riding archers began to shoot suppressively at the besieging soldiers. Every wolf cavalry is a good archer, and this is the ability created by the environment in which they live.

A thousand-strong team of archers began to counterattack, and the feathered arrows flew into the sky and landed on the stone wall, and the soldiers of the Black Flag Army defending the city immediately fell down one floor, and the hundreds of archers in the front row almost lost more than eighty percent. The soldiers fell, and those behind immediately came up. The feather arrows were so dense that they collided in mid-air, and the white feathers that landed on the ground seemed to be overgrown with weeds.

"Nail shot!"

Xiahou Baichuan ordered loudly: "Put the nail and shoot!" ”

Five feet long, three feet wide, the racket full of wolf tooth nails was put down, and the wolf cavalry under the base of the wall was slapped to death. Then the Black Flag soldiers struggled to pull the wolf's teeth up again, and then put them down. The wolf tooth spike, which was more than a foot long, easily pierced the leather helmet of the wolf cavalry, and then punctured the skull. When the nail was pulled up, there was even the corpse of a wolf cavalryman hanging on it.

"Cut the rope!"

Zhebi roared in the back, but the sound did not reach the ears of the wolf cavalry at the front. The wolf cavalry, who were not familiar with siege warfare, were frightened by the power of the nail shoot, and no one could react at the first time to cut the rope of the nail shoot. So the first time I put the nail and shoot it, I didn't destroy one.

When the corpses piled up under the base of the wall, the first ladder was finally built on the stone wall. The moment the simple ladder leaned against the wall, the wolf cavalry burst into cheers, as if they had seen the hope of victory. Unfortunately, the Han soldiers, who were too familiar with the defense of the city to be familiar with, were not nervous at all, and they used their hooks to push the ladder up, and the ladder was smashed down with the soldiers hanging on it.

The cloud ladder that fell from the sky smashed a gap in the dense formation behind it, and the soldiers under the ladder immediately wailed.

From the beginning of the war, there was no temptation and went directly into a tragic battle, the wolf cavalry returned home, but the soldiers of the Black Flag Army were eager for revenge, such a battle was destined to be bloody and abnormal. The soldiers of the Black Flag Army on the stone wall did not take half a step back under the blow of the feather arrow, and attached their hatred to the feather arrow to vent and vent.

Xiahou Baichuan couldn't help but be in a trance, as if he had returned to the tragic battle more than three years ago. The Han soldiers, who had lost their command, began to collapse, but dozens or hundreds of them formed small counterattack arrays, and few surrendered.

The blood of that battle smeared the entire Mandu Banner grassland, and the blood of today's battle is destined to fill the entire canyon.

Black flags fluttered on the stone walls, swaying the blood and dignity of men.