Chapter 665
The rain of arrows from the two wings of the city wall made Gongsun Kang, who was moving quickly, gasp, and the archers stood on top of the tower, condescendingly, so that he and the three thousand cavalry could only be beaten passively, and it would be difficult to hurt them even if they fired back with a salvo.
This situation was completely unexpected by Gongsun Kang, Xinchang City was now like a huge trap, and Wengcheng was the center of the pit, waiting for him to jump. But he has no other choice, only the option of rushing forward, maybe retreating now is a wise choice, even if it will increase the casualties, or even heavy losses, but the result of nearly half of the casualties without fighting the enemy head-on is not what he wants, which will become a stain on his life and be ridiculed.
But after all, he is the commander of the three armies, first of all, he can't care about personal honor and disgrace, but in the analysis of the form in an instant, turn the horse's head, the rear team becomes the front army, the front army becomes the rear team, retreat to the outer city gate and wait for Yangyi to arrive, although the casualties can be reduced, but the subsequent siege, there is enough waiting for this period of time for the Xinchang defenders to prepare to defend the city, and then attack the city, the number of casualties will only be greater, and it is the most unwise choice to choose to retreat now, once it is made, the gains outweigh the losses. On the other hand, if you rush to the inner city tower and hold the inner city gate and wait for reinforcements to arrive, the cavalry will be able to get into a fierce battle but minimize the casualties that follow, and will be able to easily capture Xinchang City.
It was precisely because of this trade-off that he made the most correct judgment for him, his eyes were red, and he roared: "Keep rushing!" The hiss was low and almost roaring, and under his leadership, he quickly attacked the inner city gate, and made rapid progress. It can be clearly felt that the rain of arrows on the two wings of the city wall is not dense.
At this moment, Li Xiang, who was in charge of commanding the mine army above the city tower, was smiling, looking at the rapidly advancing enemy army and unable to suppress his excitement, Yun Chang's plan was too cool. Killing people is almost slaughtered is the first time he has been fighting for so many years, and it is also the happiest time, and he doesn't have to think about casualties at all, which makes him want to shoot all the arrows in the quiver at once, but can't, in order to let the Xiangping army be fooled, go deep into the inner city gate. He even had to yell at him to shoot slowly and fuckingly, don't push the shit to retreat.
Li Xiang just scolded while observing the movements of Gongsun Kang's cavalry in Wengcheng, he couldn't retreat.
Gongsun Kang, who was advancing, kept striking the flying arrows. Compared with the airtight wind of the body protection before dancing like flying, the arrow rain is not in a hurry at this time, and there are only a dozen flying arrows, which is a piece of cake compared to before. You don't have to dial the spear in your hand. easily defended against a rain of arrows.
From this, it can be seen that the defenders must have arrived in a hurry, and there were not many arrows prepared, and most of the arrows had been consumed after the previous row of dense salvos, and at this moment the arrows were exhausted, and there would only be a situation where only a dozen arrows flew in.
Judging from the dense rain of arrows just now, at least 3,000 archers appeared on both sides of the tower, which accounted for one-third of the Xinchang defenders. Of course, Liu Lan's private songs are also included, in other words. At the inner gate of Xinchang he will encounter a maximum of 6,000 people to defend it, but if he can occupy the door, then it will inevitably appear like yesterday when the dragoons occupied the Xiangping suspension bridge, the advantage of empty people but can not deploy troops, such an opponent no matter how difficult it is, do not have to take it to heart, if you can enter the doorway, without the assistance of the archers of the city towers on both sides, it is only a matter of time to break through Xinchang City.
As soon as he thought of this, Gongsun Kang even slammed the horse's belly and rushed forward with a shout.
The rain of arrows on both wings disappeared completely, and Gongsun Kang finally breathed a sigh of relief, calmly controlled, and rushed to the inner city gate, but just as a group of cavalry horses and whips quickly passed through the center of the urn city, a sudden change occurred, and the galloping sound in front disappeared instantly, and then a loud roar sounded in the empty urn city.
There were a series of strange noises and the vanishing knights, which made Gongsun Kang suddenly realize that they had probably fallen into the preset pit in Xinchang City, otherwise there would never be this scene in front of them.
Stop moving forward, stop moving forward!
Gongsun Kang shouted, but because the sight was blocked by darkness and the inertia of the horses did not mean that they could stop at all, in Gongsun Kang's shouting, more and more knights fell into the pit due to inertia, and even Gongsun Kang himself, although he found out that the situation was wrong in the morning, the mount still moved forward more than ten meters after the reins, and saw that the distance from the pit was getting closer and closer, and he used his strength to restrain the reins, and the mount stood up because of the pain, and it happened to stop the horse on the edge of the pit.
'Restraining the Horse' made the frightened Gongsun Kang's hair stand on end all over his body, and his face was blue in an instant, but compared to escaping the catastrophe, the miserable screams in his ears made his scalp tingle even more, and the sorrowful roar of the war horse made his heart tremble, only a few centimeters away, he and his beloved horse were about to emit this tragic and distorted scream like them.
The breath of death made his brain sink into a fault, but fortunately, all the knights who arrived later reined in time, otherwise if he moved forward a little closer by an inch or two, Gongsun Kang would inevitably fall headlong.
After a full pause for dozens of seconds before the pit, Gongsun Kang finally had the courage to glance at the bottom of the pit, through the clear moonlight, you can clearly see that there is a huge pit with a width of three or four zhang and a depth of eight feet.
More than 100 people and horses were pierced by the huge bamboo tips of the ground thorns, especially in the middle of the pit, there was a scene of stringing sugar gourds, stacking a pile of human and horse corpses.
"Whew."
A long breath of turbidity, a breath of turbidity with palpitations.
There were all kinds of happy and lucky sounds in my ears, one after another. But more is the sound of cursing, cursing the damn trap, cursing the damn Xinchang ghost town, cursing the damn Liu Lan, and Gongsun Kang's eyes are red like spurting blood, and he retreats from the horse, although he didn't scold like a soldier, but in his heart he kept telling himself that he must control his anger now, even if he hates and wants to vent, then he has to wait until Liu Lan is caught, otherwise, if he continues to stay here, it will only increase the danger.
Gongsun Kang commanded the sergeant to make a detour to avoid the pit, and after repeated delays, he must rush to the city gate as soon as possible, otherwise the city gate will be closed, and it will really become a laughing stock.
Stealing chickens does not make rice, losing his wife and breaking his soldiers, Gongsun Kang will never allow it, absolutely not allow it.
Just as he bypassed the trap and continued to rush towards the inner city gate, he found that the city gate was closing, and watched Liu Lan turn around slowly, leaving him with a back, full of provocation.
Then the back disappeared in front of him little by little.
The inner city gate closed with a loud bang, and at this moment his veins were about to explode.
Gongsun Kang, whose eyes were bloodshot, roared, and under the roar, in the night sky, only one sentence echoed, and it did not stop for a long time.
"Liu Lan, I will never let you go!!" (To be continued......)