Chapter 134: The Battle of the Imperial Palace (2)
The archers on the high walls did not distinguish between the soldiers below, but simply lowered their arrows in one go. Vertex Says X 23 U OM
Qiu Shuangliang looked up, there were less than thirty archers on the high wall, but these twenty or so people were much more threatening than these remnants in the alleyway.
These 20 people are the subordinates of the general Zhao Chang, when Zhao Chang defected to the great prince, these 20 people already knew that the master of what they were doing was someone else, in order to avoid too many people, the only people who knew the truth were not these 50 people, and this task was taken over by Zhao Chang.
These twenty or so people are not holding bows and arrows, but crossbow arrows fired in bursts, and the accuracy of crossbow arrows is not high, but now this situation does not need this accuracy, anyway, people are under the high wall, and they shoot randomly below.
It was dark, and those archers stood on a high place, looking up from the bottom there were only black shadows, each of which had five or six shots, but below, the light and shadow were intertwined, all kinds of light mixed together, the red light of the lights, the cold light of the weapons, and the blood light of the jets.
The soldiers in the autumn frost were okay, after all, they were prepared, but there were still some soldiers who were shot by crossbow arrows, but the enemy was miserable, and they were stabbed in the back, and eighty percent of those who were shot by crossbow arrows were enemy soldiers.
Qiu Shuangliang stood beside six rows of soldiers, all with a shield two feet wide and five feet long, much larger than the shields of those sword soldiers, these shield soldiers raised their shields, the six rows of shield soldiers will be connected to the short side, and the front and rear shield soldiers will be connected with the long side, forming a whole shield surface, almost blocking the roadway.
The light of the fire was above the shield, and from the point of view it looked like the moonlight shining on the surface of a scaly lake, and it was not the wind that stirred the lake, but the beast from the bottom of the lake.
The fire is above, in this dark shadow, under the shield, it is not an exaggeration to say that you can't see your fingers, but there is no trace of panic below, the shield is five feet long, and there is a certain gap between the two adjacent shield soldiers, and then the sword soldiers will pass through this gap and join the battle in the lane.
After the army, several flying swords flew up the high wall, and at the moment when those archers appeared, there were archers behind the army who attacked them, and I don't know how many people were hit, but the attack from the high wall stopped, but Qiu Shuangliang did not let the shield soldiers remove their shields because of this.
"Withdraw."
On the high wall, a leading archer shouted, the bow and arrow of the Qiu Shuangliang army had already hit the two of them just now, they didn't need to die here, they couldn't help the shield soldiers of Qiu Shuangliang, as for the guarding army, Qiu Shuangliang they would naturally kill them, how to die in the hands of Qiu Shuangliang's army is better than die in their hands, after all, the two armies are fighting lively, they can't be exposed yet.
The shouts in the lanes, the sound of the collision of soldiers, and the groans of pain resounded in the lanes, and even faintly spread to the outside of the palace, and the adults in the house also called the children to a room, covered the quilt and began to sleep, but where could they really sleep.
The alleyway was too intense to hear the shouts of the archers on the high walls and the sounds of the retreats.
The whole team moved forward in unison, forming a crushing momentum towards the front.
The enemy army was already frightened, and the archers above made them panic, but now the army in front of them pressed like a mountain, and after the shield soldiers blocked the light, it was dim, and when they looked at their eyes, they only felt that their souls were trembling.
The line grew longer and longer, the enemy army became smaller and smaller, and at last, the last man was swallowed up by the silver lake, and the whole alley was like a pool of water.
The shield soldiers are still holding their shields, and the sword soldiers are still pouring out, their first goal is to occupy this green dragon gate, and only when they really capture this green dragon gate, the soldiers behind will dare to let it in.
Coming out of the alleyway, the sword soldiers attacked the high wall, which was different from what he imagined, there was no one on the high wall at this time, not even the dead body, but there were obvious traces of blood.
"Go back to the prince, everything goes well."
A leading swordsman poked out of the platform and reported down.
As for the third prince, he was in the rear of the army at this time, alongside General Yu Canghai, but unfortunately General Yu Hao was dead, otherwise it would be the old General Yu Hao who stood beside him.
With the sound, the shield soldiers below also removed their shields and passed through the alley, and then there was a new battle, these shield soldiers had to be in front of the army, and the army after them also followed the general's lead.
There was no battle on the high wall just now, and Qiu Shuangliang thought, maybe the eldest prince is also preparing to compete with the third prince.
Although the Qinglongmen is dangerous, but the benefits are also very intuitive, after the Qinglongmen, it is the martial arts field, after all, the martial arts field is the place where the palace and its diplomacy are connected, what big activities are usually held, if the people can enter, it is also through this Qinglongmen, in order to prevent people with hearts, this 100-meter-long alley was specially built.
If the great prince has buried heavy troops in this Qinglongmen, it is a big deal that Qiu Shuangliang and others withdraw from the long alley and break it by attacking the city, but then the loss will be a little bigger, after all, the two of them are also princes when they say this, and they will destroy the palace by fighting for power.
But once you understand the disadvantages of Qinglongmen, after Qinglongmen, it will be the martial arts field, if there is no big place to integrate the army, then one by one will not become a gourd baby to save grandpa?
Even if Qiu Shuangliang and others enter the palace from the Vermilion Bird Gate or the White Tiger Gate, they are also gathering towards this martial arts field, as for the Xuanwu Gate, forget it, after all, the two are on opposite sides, if they can be big and cold, there is nothing to gather.
Of course, the large area of the martial arts arena is a good place to rectify the army in the autumn frost, but the people of the great prince will definitely not just watch them assemble.
What does it mean to wait for work? It's called waiting for work.
The shield soldiers in front rushed out of the long alley, as if the eyes were pitch black, this is not to say that it was dark, but the front was pitch black and full of black-armored soldiers, and the torches around were all lit, if you don't know, maybe you will think that the martial arts arena is holding some grand event, well, this is indeed a big event, but the red is not the lights, but the blood.
Daqi has the official armor of the four major ones, red, black and platinum.
Red, that is, the red armor, this kind of soldiers are generally distributed in some small cities, there is no big war, just an ordinary rank, but in this Kyoto, only the patrol will be this rank.
Black, that is, black armor, is the general rank of guarding the Quartet, such as the previous Liangyan City, most of the soldiers were black armor.
White is the rank with white stripes in the black armor, of which the proportion of white stripes accounts for 20%, specializing in real battles, and some of the generals of the third rank are in charge, where there is a battle, where to move.
Gold, is the white armor with gold stripes in the ranks, only in the hands of the second-rank generals, and this kind of team is also a minority, as the saying goes, the prime minister in front of the seven-rank officer, and these gold-armored soldiers count the strength of even the seventh-grade officer is polite.
In front of him, there was a large group of black warriors, a few of them were white-armored warriors, but the white pattern in the white armor only accounted for half of the armor, so of course it looked like a piece of black, but the gold-armored warriors hadn't seen it yet.