Chapter 305: Aerial Lead
In Yecang City, there has been a situation of closing the door and beating the dog, except for the gate leading to Zhenxian City, the other three city gates have been completely blocked by the Jingyi army, an army guards a city gate, how arrogant the Xiliang cavalry rushed in, how anxious they are now.
Chishu Hitomi kicked over a Western Liang cavalryman on horseback, snatched his mount, and ordered the Horn Flagbearer to wave the flag and assemble all the Western Liang troops in the city. After all, they have 30,000 cavalry, but because of the way of the Liang people, they lost their sense of proportion for a while, as long as there is the commander's reunification order, they are still a cavalry corps that can fight well.
Sure enough, it was only a stick of incense, and the Xiliang cavalry who were originally busy burning and looting in the city immediately gathered behind Chishu Hitomi under the order of the horn, and immediately put up a formation. The Xiliang cavalry occupied a major avenue in Yecang City, and they used this avenue as their battlefield, forming a formation that Pei Zhenghao had become a centipede formation.
The Xiliang cavalry made timely adjustments according to the terrain, and they lined up on the avenue in a column, but at the same time, according to each street that extended out, they cooperated and sent a team of men and horses, like a big tree growing side branches from the side of the side. If you look down from the air, the arrangement of such an army really looks like an eight-legged centipede, lying across the body and entrenched in the Night Cang City.
The reason why the Xiliang army wanted to do this was to deal with the soldiers of the Liang Dynasty who were constantly pouring out from all directions. In order to create the illusion of emptiness in the city, the soldiers of the Jingyi Army changed into the clothes of ordinary people and hid in their homes until the Xiliang Army broke into the city before resuming their identity as soldiers.
Pei Zhenghao took the golden armor guard to block the path of the Xiliang army's advance; The Pacifier and Rusty Guards constantly harass the enemy from the flanks; The Han Dao Guard and the Red Guard cut off the back road of the Xiliang army; The guards went up to the roof.
Chishu Hitomi let the previous vanguard resist the attack of the Golden Guard, and he retreated to the center of the army, and began to retreat in the direction they came, even if he couldn't capture Yecang City, he had to bring his army back, so that he could have a chance to turn over. As for the losses in the process, I can't feel sorry for it, the vanguard is broken, and the small forces that extend out are just sacrifices that must be made for the retreat of the army.
Pei Zhenghao saw the true intention of Chishu Pupil, he looked at Xiao Yunqi beside him, and the latter said decisively: "Just like last time, none of the enemies who dare to break into Yecang City can be spared!" ”
The Jingyi Army issued a new order to move, and the lead guard, who had been running on the eaves, received the signal. Although Lu Xiang ran fast enough, he was paying attention to the movement in the direction of the General's Mansion throughout the whole process, and they immediately began to execute new orders after the battle outside the city, but the time in the middle was really too short, and before they were completely in place, the military order had already been issued.
"Duan Lang!" Lu Xiang could only shout at Duan Lang, who was not far from him.
Duan Lang understood Lu Xiang's intentions, and now his steps became even more hurried, after jumping over a bungalow, he was the first person among the guards to see the Xiliang army. As long as he crossed this street that was not wide, and on the other side was still a continuous bungalow, Duan Lang finally ran a section and flew in the air as he approached the end. It's finally time to show off your skills!
Duan Lang jerked a lead on his waist, and a belt-like thing that had been tied to his waist suddenly appeared several holes, and from these holes, short and thin short crossbows shot out, shooting into the Xiliang army below with a strong impact. These short crossbows are short, concise, and powerful, and once they penetrate the human body, they will plunge headlong into the body and be difficult to take out, even if they do not penetrate directly.
This explains why the guards are slow to move, and after the battle at the gates, they must enter the armory in the shortest possible time to complete the assembly of their blades. It is the belt-like crossbow leather seat, which is made of cowhide, and the special short crossbow is pulled to the tightest position through the silver wire, and then tied to his waist, leaving a silver wire below the navel for people to pull. As soon as the silver threads are pulled out, the short crossbows that had been firmly twisted will immediately shoot out of the corresponding holes like springs. The power of the short crossbow depends on the strength of the silver thread, and the tighter the twist, the greater the force of the ejection, and the greater the lethality.
After completing the jump, Duan Lang landed on the opposite eaves, his legs were weak and he almost didn't fall, but below was the Xiliang army, once he fell, he would immediately become a meat puree. Duan Lang didn't have the courage to look back, his heart was beating extremely fast, this part of the run had exhausted his strength, he had to stop and take a breath, otherwise he really didn't have the strength to fight anymore.
Since Duan Lang was the first to take the lead, more of the leading guards also jumped everywhere and shot short crossbows, inflicting a lot of blows on the Xiliang army. The first time it worked, and when the old trick was repeated next, the Xiliang army was also ready to counterattack. When more and more soldiers jumped into the air to shoot short crossbows, spears from the ground also began to shoot into the air, and spears with a whistling sound directly stabbed into the soldiers' bodies.
If they have completed their mission, they can still be regarded as dead, and those soldiers who were shot down by spears before they could pull the lead are really not worth dying. Duan Lang watched his men die in battle, and a raging fire burned in his heart again.
Lu Xiang and the soldiers behind him were all in place, and when the Xiliang army focused on the robes that were rising in the air, he waved his arms, and the soldiers unleashed their crossbows, which were one of the few killer weapons in the armory, and they would not be used until they had to.
What the guards prepared for the Xiliang army was a crossbow, which needed to be built by three people before it could be used. In a group of three, take out a crossbow that they carry, and then use the mortise and tenon structure to connect the three sections into a whole, this crossbow with three people wide can be equipped with six feather arrows at the same time, and the replacement time is greatly shortened, after completing the first wave of shooting, the two can immediately carry out the second wave of arrows, the original time difference is greatly compressed, and the attack power of the enemy is more powerful.
The blow overhead really made the Xiliang army suffer a lot, but this was not enough to make them feel bad, the Zhenfu guard and the rusty guard fought in the streets, never attacked on a large scale, and always attacked the Xiliang soldiers according to the gap, once the tentacles of the centipede began to stretch out to deal with it head-on, they immediately hid into the street.
Chishu Pupil no longer has the dream of winning supreme military feats, his only consideration is to leave Yecang City alive, this city is indeed the nightmare of the Xiliang people, and anyone who dares to covet Yecang City will not end well.
The mobility of the cavalry is the strongest, as long as the commander adjusts the formation, the army immediately takes the head as the tail and the tail as the head, turns the direction, no longer entangles with the Liang army, and strives to break through to the city gate. Returning according to the original route is currently the safest route, but Chishu Hitomi still missed a move in his panic, that is, the Han Dao Guard and the Red Guard, they did not take the initiative to participate in the battle, their responsibility was to guard the city gate and not give the Xiliang army any way back.
Seeing that the head of the city was already close at hand, the pioneers who ran at the forefront saw at the same time the cold sword guards who were waiting for the battle and the red guards who bent their bows and arrows at the head of the city.
"Put!"
With Ling Feiyan's order, the female warriors of the Red Guard fired a wave of feather arrows at the same time, shooting the Xiliang cavalry off their horses one after another. The Xiliang cavalry behind immediately formed a shield array, and they ran for a while with their shields only to find that the feather arrows they did not expect were shooting, until someone began to peek at them and found that the shouting guard had come to the front on horseback, and cut off the outstretched head from the horse with a knife.
The Red Guards had planned to shoot only one round, but when they were done, the Cold Knife Guard began to fight in close combat. The area near the city gate is not very wide, and there is no room for war horses tossing back and forth, the soldiers of the Cold Sword Guard took the lead in running out of the first column and squatting, and then the soldiers of the second column stepped on the shoulders of the previous row of robes and jumped in the air to attack the Xiliang cavalry. Then the soldiers of the third column followed, jumping up and killing more enemies, and after three rounds, the soldiers of the first column stood up and cut off the hooves of their horses with their long knives.
Chishu Hitomi, who was in the middle of the army, saw that the battle heart at the city gate was already half cold, could it be that he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Luo Lunmo?