Chapter 544: Arrows Rain Down 1/2
"You and your children should be careful in the past two days, and hide immediately if there is an accident." The herdsman gave his wife a final remonstrance.
Hearing her husband's words, the wife immediately remembered that on the morning of the last time the Black Wolf Tribe was attacked by the Wind Tribe, her husband had given her a similar admonition, could it be that her husband was going to do the last thing again.
The wife understands the situation of her family very well, since the black wolf tribe was hit hard last year, her family suffered a lot of white eyes in the black wolf tribe, her husband was often whipped by the leader, and then the husband attracted the wind tribe to attack the black wolf tribe, and her family joined the wind tribe, but in the wind tribe, her family is still suffering from white eyes, and her husband wants to carry out the last thing, she can understand and support her husband's decision.
"You have to be careful, the child and I will wait for you to come back." The wife said with red eyes.
"I'll definitely be back." The herdsman said in a firm tone, as if he was cheering himself up from the bottom of his heart.
In fact, the herdsmen also know that this time is more dangerous than the last time, the last time was that they led the way for the wind tribe to attack the black wolf tribe, and their family successfully joined the wind tribe, this time it was the wind tribe that attacked the powerful farming tribe, the process was different, even if the wind tribe could not defeat the enemy, it could escape like the black wolf tribe, but its fate was unknown.
The strength of the farming tribe impressed the herdsman, and the herdsman knew that he could also die in this battle that was about to break out, and even if he didn't die in the battle, the Wind Tribe would return with a crushing defeat and be killed by the Wind Leader.
The best outcome is that the farming tribe can kill all the people led by the wind leader, surrender to the enemy himself, and then take the enemy to the wind tribe's residence, completely destroy the wind tribe, and then surrender to the farming tribe with his wife.
There was no time to think about it, the wind leader was gathering the people who went out on the expedition, two hundred soldiers and two hundred women, gathered in the open space of the tribe's residence, and after everyone arrived, under the leadership of the wind leader, galloped in the direction where the farming tribe was located.
One person and three horses, more than a thousand war horses galloped in the grassland, every two quarters of an hour or so, they would change the war horses they were riding, and they kept a fast speed, and soon, the city appeared in their field of vision.
Accumulation of the city
The soldiers on the guard on the city wall found that the four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe appeared in the distance, and the target was to store the city, the distance was too far to determine how many enemies there were, and the sound of the vigilant gong immediately resounded throughout the city, and under the command of Lu Zhe and Mu Shi, all the participants quickly moved and gathered towards their positions.
Both longbowmen and shortbowmen climbed the walls, the enemy was cavalry, and their own side was guarded by the walls, and the archers were the main force of output.
Behind the closed west gate of the city, the cavalry gathered at the front, and if there were too few enemies, the cavalry would obey the command and rush out of the city to pursue the defeated enemy, and if there were too many enemies, the cavalry would abandon their horses and climb the city wall and shoot the enemy with bows.
Behind the cavalry, there were as many as seventy wagons pulling goods, some of which were single horses and others were double horses, and if necessary, the warriors would follow the cavalry in pursuit of the enemy.
After everything was prepared, Hu Nan, Lu Zhe, and Mu Shi all stood on the west wall of the city, looking west to observe the enemy's movements.
"Hey, the number of enemies is not too much, it feels like the number of enemies that came last time, that is, the number of war horses is more, and the people of the nomadic tribe are almost all one person with two horses or one person with three horses, and there are few single horses."
Seeing the situation of the four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe, Lu Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, the last time there were so many enemies, they defeated the enemy, this time the enemy was almost the same as the last time, his own strength was stronger, just the people who could draw the bow and shoot arrows were more than the number of enemies, and one person and one arrow could completely destroy all the enemies.
What's more, they also have cavalry, so they don't need to worry about incoming enemies, but need to think about how to destroy more enemies.
After determining that the number of enemies was only about 400, Hu Nan, Lu Zhe, and Mu Shi quickly made a decision, leaving 200 archers and some sword and shield soldiers and pikemen on the city wall, and mobilizing 150 archers and 300 sword and shield soldiers and pikemen to go down the city wall.
A carriage could carry seven or eight people, one driver, two archers, and two sword and shield men on each carriage, and the remaining vacancies were filled by pikemen.
The west gate was directly opened, and the cavalry and "chariots" hid on both sides, and when the enemy was about to be defeated, the cavalry and the battlefield rushed out.
Nearly two miles to the west of the city, the four hundred cavalry of the Wind tribe rushed towards the city without stopping, the wind leader almost rushed to the front, and beside him were two people who had been in charge of monitoring the herdsmen before, and the two explained the situation of the city to the wind leader.
"Chief, the enemy is inside and outside that thing (the wall)."
"What's that?" The leader asked.
"I don't know, it may be used to block the enemy, we can bypass it from both sides."
"When you get close, go around from both sides, surround the enemy, and don't let one enemy run away."
The Wind Tribe has four hundred horsemen, two hundred warriors in front, and two hundred women in the rear, and the herdsmen's position is already at the back of the two hundred warriors, almost retreating into the women's queue, and the Wind Tribal people despise it, if it weren't for the fact that the battle was about to break out, there would definitely be many people laughing at the herdsmen.
Unbeknownst to them, the herders were trying to survive the battle.
On the city wall, all the warriors obeyed the order to crouch down and hide behind the battlement wall, not showing their figures, so as not to frighten the enemy.
Three hundred zhang
Two hundred zhang
One hundred zhang
The four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe are still advancing, and the warriors of the Xia Kingdom on the city wall are still hiding.
Eighty zhang
Sixty zhang
The four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe had already entered the range of the longbowmen of the Xia Kingdom, and without receiving orders, the longbowmen were all waiting honestly.
Fifty zhang
Forty zhang
Thirty zhang
The four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe were still advancing, and the speed of their advance had increased a lot, almost in a state of sprinting.
At this time, the archers on the city wall received an order, and they drew their arrows, put them on the bow, and pulled the bowstring slightly, ready for battle.
Twenty-five zhang
Twenty zhang
The four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe in the sprint still had no other changes, and the open West City Gate had already made them give up bypassing from both sides, and decided to rush in directly through the West City Gate opened in the middle.
Bang!
A gong sounded, and the next moment, two hundred longbowmen and shortbowmen suddenly stood up, opened their bows with all their arms, aimed, and shot arrows, and the two hundred arrows turned into a rain of arrows and fell to the four hundred horsemen of the Wind Tribe.
"It's not good, get out of the way." When the Wind Leader saw the sudden rain of arrows on the city wall, he didn't have time to say much, so he immediately slid his body down, and hid on the right side of the horse's belly with a difficult movement, dodging the two arrows that came from him.