Chapter 178: Unknown Cavalry
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Hearing Xie Sheng's words, Li Ying's eyes lit up, and he nodded secretly, Yi Zhen and Xie Sheng don't want any credit, this sounds good! He turned his head to look at Fu Chen, who shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Fu Chen was a military candidate of Hecheng Fortress, and he was neither under the management of the county government nor the county government, but directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Hecheng Fortress is a small place, and the military candidate is just a small official with a sesame seed, if he wants to transfer out of Hecheng Fortress and have a better future, he must make meritorious contributions.
Defeating the rising sun, which was captured by the rebels, is a great credit in his opinion. As for whether he helped Yi Zhen and Xie Sheng, or helped Li Ying, it didn't matter to him, as long as he could participate in it and intervene.
Seeing that Fu Chen had no opinion, Li Ying smiled on his back, and said to Xie Sheng haughtily: "What is the merit or not, you and I are loyal to the Son of Heaven and do things for the imperial court!" ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xie Sheng nodded again and again, and said with a smile on his face: "This time, I hope that County Lieutenant Li and Fu Junhou can help each other!" ”
Li Yingzheng said: "Let my brothers rest for a morning, and after lunch, our department will launch a strong attack on the rebels!" ”
Xie Sheng frowned secretly, now that you are all in the rising sun, you should attack the city immediately, delay for a moment more, and there will be one more variable!
He was about to speak, Yi Zhen made a color to him, signaling him to be like this, with Li Ying's person, he could agree to attack the city this afternoon, which is already very good.
After talking for a while, Yi Zhen and Xie Sheng sent Li Ying and Fu Chen to rest.
Back in the Chinese military tent, Xie Sheng sat down, slapped the table hard, and said indignantly: "Li Ying is hateful, he is full of promotions and fortunes, how can he care about the safety of the imperial court!" ”
Yi Zhen smiled bitterly and sighed: "Everyone in the officialdom is like this today, how can the world not be chaotic?" ”
Xie Sheng shook his head again and again, sighing for a long time.
A morning passed in a calm and calm manner, at noon, the soldiers of Shandu County and the Hecheng Fortress Army had lunch, and still did not want to go out of the camp to attack the city, Xie Sheng couldn't sit still, went to Li Ying, and asked him to immediately send troops to attack the city.
Li Yingle looked at Xie Sheng, who was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and said calmly: "County Lieutenant Xie, don't worry! The rebels are in the city, and they can't run if they want to, so it's not too late for the brothers to take a nap and then attack the city. ”
If it weren't for the fact that there was a request for someone, Xie Sheng really wanted to point at Li Ying's nose and scold at this time. Such a delay in the fighter plane is simply abhorrent. But the soldiers and horses are in the hands of others, and it is useless for him to be in a hurry.
It wasn't until the end of the day, that is, at one o'clock in the afternoon, that Li Ying and Fu Chen began to assemble their troops.
Seeing that Li Ying and Fu Chen were finally going to fight, Xie Sheng breathed a long sigh of relief, and he gathered all the Chaoyang County soldiers who only had more than 600 people left, and followed the Shandu County soldiers and the Hecheng Fortress Army to attack the city together.
An army of nearly 3,000 men marched out of the camp and headed straight for the rising sun. One hundred and fifty paces away from Chaoyang City, Li Ying raised his arm and ordered the army to stop advancing.
He looked at the head of Chaoyang City, and the banners of the Zhutiandu Department were erected on the head of the city, as for the specific number of defenders, it was not clear from such a distance.
Just as he was squinting his eyes and looking back and forth, Xie Sheng urged the horse to come to his approach and asked, "County Lieutenant Li, why did you suddenly stop?" Now is a good opportunity to recapture the rising sun! ”
Li Ying glanced at him and asked, "County Lieutenant Xie said that there are less than a hundred defenders left in the city?" I look at the defenders at the head of Chaoyang City, it doesn't look like there are only such a few people! ”
In fact, he couldn't see how many defenders there were, but the banner erected at the head of the city and the pillars of the Tiandu Department made him feel quite bottomless.
"County Lieutenant Li, I can take my life as a guarantee, the number of defenders is no more than one hundred and fifty people! And most of the remaining defenders should be wounded soldiers, and they are already at the end of their crossbows! Xie Sheng said urgently.
Li Ying glanced at Xie Sheng again, pondered for a moment, and ordered left and right: "Beat the drum, march!" ”
As Li Ying gave an order, the thunderous drums immediately sounded in the camp of the officers and soldiers, and then the Shandu County soldiers began to move forward. Seeing this, Fu Chen immediately waved his hand forward, and the Hecheng Fortress Army also began to advance forward.
Seeing that the county soldiers and the fortress army had finally launched an attack, Xie Sheng mentioned that half of his heart had fallen.
He shouted to the left and right: "The whole army is advancing, cooperate with the Shandu County soldiers and the Hecheng Fortress Army, in this battle, our army must recapture Chaoyang!" ”
"Roar-" The soldiers of Chaoyang County roared in unison and marched forward.
An army of nearly 3,000 people, divided into three camps, approached Chaoyang City in unison.
Liu Xiu and the others, who were standing on the head of the city, could see clearly, and people subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands.
With 100 people against 3,000 people, they don't even have any hope of winning this battle, but as Liu Xiu said, both horizontal and vertical are one death, it is better to die vigorously, and pull a few more points before dying.
Liu Xiu took out the Chixiao Sword under his ribs and shouted loudly: "If you can win this battle, I invite you to drink in the city, if you can't win, I will wait until the underground to get drunk again!" ”
People looked at Liu Xiu and responded in unison: "We swear to live and die with the general, advance and retreat together!" ”
Liu Xiu pointed the sword in his hand forward and shouted, "All brothers, prepare bows and arrows!" ”
At this time, you don't have to worry about any archers or non-archers, as long as you still have the strength, as long as you can pull the bow away, let the arrows out!
As the enemy forces outside the city continued to approach, people's emotions became more and more tense, and people's palms were full of cold sweat.
Yan Guang walked to Liu Xiu's side and whispered: "Lord, I am waiting here to defend against the enemy, and the lord can take the opportunity to go to Beicheng." ”
The implication is that they attract the attention of the enemy army and cover Liu Xiu's quiet escape from Beicheng.
Liu Xiu shook his head slowly, and said quietly: "The loyal soul and bones are piled up on the mountain base, and a few people have returned from the battle since ancient times!" "The brothers are willing to live and die with him, advance and retreat together, but he wants to escape alone, this kind of thing, Liu Xiu can't do it.
"The lord ......" "Ziling doesn't have to persuade me!" I have already said, win, we will see you in the city, defeat, goodbye underground! As he spoke, Liu Xiu picked up a longbow from the ground, twisted the bow and set up an arrow, pulled the bowstring full, and then aimed at the enemy phalanx outside the city and shot it fiercely
Go for an arrow.
The arrow first flew into the air, drawing an arc, and then fell at a rapid speed, nailing itself into the crowd of people in the phalanx.
Whether this arrow hit anyone or not, even Liu Xiu himself didn't see it clearly, he immediately picked up the second arrow, and still shot at the crowd outside.
As Liu Xiu released his arrows, other people in the city also shot arrows.
Some of the arrows could still be shot into the crowd of officers and soldiers, and some of the arrows fell to the ground as soon as they flew out of the city wall. Such a sparse arrow shot can be said to be very little of a threat to the 3,000 army.
The soldiers of Shandu County, Chaoyang County, and Hecheng Fortress were almost not hindered, and they smoothly advanced to the city wall of Chaoyang City.
Liu Xiu threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, picked up the Chixiao Sword again, and shouted: "Be a man or a ghost, fight here, brothers, prepare to kill the enemy!" ”
"Kill—" shouted the defenders of the city, who were less than a hundred men, in unison.
Just as they were preparing to fight to the death with the attacking enemy army, suddenly, a group of soldiers and horses rushed from behind the officers and soldiers.
It is not clear how many people there are in this army, but judging from the dust raised in the sky, it can be judged that there are a lot of them, and the speed of the team marching is extremely fast, and the dust raised is rushing towards them.
Gradually, the officers and soldiers preparing to attack the city heard the muffled thunder coming from behind, and people could even feel the ground trembling slightly under their feet.
The people gave up the siege and turned their heads to look back.
Yi Zhen, Xie Sheng, Li Ying, and Fu Chen were no exception, looking at the fast original group of people in the rear, they all frowned in unison. Xie Sheng and Fu Chen, who have rich combat experience, said in unison: "It's cavalry!" ”
Hearing the words of the two of them, Yi Zhen and Li Ying's faces were full of inexplicability.
Cavalry? Where did the cavalry come from? There was no news from the county government, saying that cavalry would be sent to reinforce Chaoyang! Li Ying's eyes rolled, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, "Could it be the cavalry of the anti-army?" ”
Yi Zhen, Xie Sheng, and Fu Chen glanced at him strangely.
Where did the cavalry come from? When the Chungling army rebelled, even Liu Xiu's younger brother Liu Xiu did not have a war horse to ride, but rode a cow, and the poor and white Chungling rebel army could still afford cavalry? The world's ridiculous.
Li Ying also realized that he was wrong, and muttered: "This is strange, where did such a cavalry come from?" ”
"I'll take a look!" Fu Chen urged the war horse under his crotch and went straight to the cavalry to meet him.
When the distance between the two sides was only a few dozen paces, he stopped his horse, stood in front of this cavalry, and shouted: "I am waiting for Fu Chen with the Cheng Fortress Army, but you are the brother of the county army?" ”
No one answered his question, and the cavalry continued to gallop forward at a rapid pace, while at the same time, a horse rushed out of the cavalry and came straight at him at a faster speed.
The military general on the horse, with a copper helmet on his head, wearing copper armor, a red big coat behind his back, and a red horse with a jujube on his crotch, ran like a red cloud.
Looking at his face, he has thick eyebrows, big ringed eyes, and a full beard, and his appearance is vicious, like a ghost who hooks the soul. He was holding a large golden knife with eight iron rings hanging from it, and this knife was called the Nine Ears and Eight Rings Knife.
Seeing the appearance of the person who came, Fu Chen subconsciously asked, "Who is coming?" Quote your name! ”
"Ma Wu Ma Zi Zhang!" With the words, the vicious man had already arrived in front of Fu Chen, and he swept past Fu Chen with men and horses, and at the same time swept out a golden light.
Fu Chen didn't even see what was going on, but he felt that his body suddenly flew lightly.
It flew all the way up the air, paused for a moment, and then fell rapidly.
Boom! He fell to the ground, but strangely, he didn't feel the slightest pain, but saw a man and a horse standing not far from him, and strangely, the person sitting on the horse only had a body, no head.
Burst!
A fountain of blood erupted from the short neck of the corpse, and the headless corpse shook twice on the horse, and tumbled down, and the ownerless horse fled in fright.
Hundreds of cavalry rushed forward, and without a moment's pause, trampled over the headless corpse. The fierce man with the golden knife did not even look back, pointed the knife in his hand forward, and shouted: "Kill! Kill all the officers and soldiers outside the city! ”