Chapter 43: The City Gate 2
Three hundred steps outside the north west gate, on the outermost side of the common people under the city, a thin military formation is gradually taking shape. The villagers were not unfazed by the war, they were just frightened, and once they lined up horizontally with wooden pestles in their hands, they trembled and begged for mercy and stood still. As soon as the formation was formed, the other honorable men in the fleeing crowd kept kicking people out, and even some women were shouting 'Men to fight', and it was they who kept pushing the men out of the queue.
It's just that no one cares about the lives of the people in the city. In the eyes of the county officials, there must be Qin and Wei spies mixed in among these people, and in the thinking of the county prince Chen Jian and the county Sima Chen, there are already 50,000 people in the city, and there is not enough food. If these 20,000 villagers are released into the city, the corn will be eaten up in two months. The waterway is not broken, but what if it does? No one dares to pack tickets in the war, and last year, the county prince of Xixian County also said that the Chengyang waterway is endless, what is the result?
"It's a Rong person." In the city tower of the North East Gate, the general of sanitation Yang Yu saw the cavalry of the Qin State from the Lu Li mirror. Although they were dressed in the armor of the Qin army, they were all haired, with small sleeves on the left side under the armor, and they were wearing boots that were not available in other countries, which was undoubtedly a Rong person.
"I'm afraid it's a righteous canal." The military rate next to it also has Lu Lijing, and the cavalry is still two miles away. In the continuous sound of drums at the head of the city, the officers operating the crossbows were shouting the password, and the artillery men of the trebuchets under the city shouted "Finished loading" - if the Qin cavalry was more than 300 paces away, they must taste the power of the artillery.
"Driving ——!" The city was in front of him, and the thin military government was less than fifty paces, and at this moment, the two horses in the chariot were bumped, and they couldn't stand on their knees. Zheng Rong jerked angrily, but no matter how he pumped, the horse just didn't move. He had no choice but to turn around and help his father get out of the car, and rushed forward with his sister Zheng Ying.
"Yo ho yo ......" Yiqu people shouted louder and louder on horseback, and they were very close, very close. Zheng Rong only felt that the back of his head was full of the sound of horses' hooves, and he dragged his father to run wildly. Zheng Chang was old, and he could withstand such a violent run, and he fell to the ground after a dozen steps.
"Father!" Zheng Rong had to stop and ran back to pick up his father, and Zheng Ying also stopped and ran back to help.
"Hurry up. You wait to go. Zheng Chang, who was covered with dust, told his son, but he still carried it.
The sound of hooves became louder and louder, the earth began to tremble, and with an 'ah' blow, Zheng Ying, who was running, suddenly threw himself to the ground, with a feather arrow stuck in his heart. Zheng Rong, who was running in front, trembled in his heart, and tears suddenly flowed down, but he didn't dare to stop, and went straight to the back of the military formation with one breath. What he didn't see was that a young armor soldier met the Qin cavalry and rushed towards Zheng Ying, who had fallen to the ground.
"Stop! Stand——! "The galloping Qin cavalry is like a sandstorm sweeping everything, and the horse is not daring to face it before it reaches its might. Taro Stick stood in the front row of the military formation along with several other distinguished soldiers—they were used to standing in the front row of the military formation, far apart from each other. There was no knife drawn, everyone held a pestle, and silently recited something in their mouths, only the taro gang standing at the gap in the ox cart told loudly, and told the soldiers around and behind him to stand.
"Yoho ——!" The shouts of the cavalry came and went, and instead of rushing straight into the military formation covered by a sparse chariot formation in front of them, they fired arrows thirty paces away. Seeing the rain of arrows coming, the taro gang raised the lid of the wooden box and reminded his comrades: "Arrows! ”
Some of the foot soldiers in the front row carried the villagers to the dustpan, others held the lid of the cage box, and even when they raised their 'shields', some of them were still hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and Taro Bangzi was one of them, and an arrow was shot at his forehead. But no one noticed his fall until they couldn't hear the reassuring voice.
'Rumbling ......' The cavalry of the Qin army swept outside the negligent car formation, and the military formation was engulfed in dust in an instant. And at the North Central Gate, which was not protected by the military formation, the cavalry rushed directly into the crowd and slashed wildly. The frightened villagers rushed forward, and the people at the moat were pushed into the water one after another, and the sharp bamboo trees pierced the drowning people until the corpses were covered with bamboo poles. This was actually the intention of the cavalry, to drive these people into the water so that they could fill the moat.
"Ready. Put ——! "The trebuchet in the city adjusted its direction again, aimed the landing point in the direction of the Beizhong City Gate, and with the order to launch, there was a 'cluck', and the boom 'whirred' with a leather bag bounced.
"Put!" The crossbows at the head of the city were also shooting. The arrows were difficult to see until they hit the cavalry below the city, and the remaining arrows pinned them to the ground with men and horses. And when the 400 catties of stone bullets fall, as long as the cavalry that is hit by it even the people and horses will become meat sauce, what is even more terrible is that the stone bullets will jump, the stone chips will splash, and those who touch it will either die or be injured.
It's a pity that no matter how powerful the arrows and stone projectiles are, they can't deal with the cavalry that has already rushed into the crowd. Some of the cavalry even jumped off their horses, swung their swords and began to drive people into the water. The villagers who didn't know that the road ahead was also a dead end rushed desperately forward, and they kept trampling on the front rush, just waiting to fall into the moat and be stabbed to death by bamboo and wood. The water in the pond soon turned red, and the county officials in the city couldn't bear to look at it directly.
"Where's the taro gang? What about taro? The cavalry swept by, and the young man Yushi, who had just gone to save people, miraculously ran back with Zheng Ying on his back.
"Return! Back to the line! As soon as the taro gang died, Chen He had already become the highest officer in the military array, and this former servant seemed to be a different person, standing at the forefront of the military array without fear of life and death. He saw that the enemy horsemen who had swept through his line were about to rush again.
"Stop! Stand! He followed the tone of the taro gang and pacified the military formation, which was about one hundred and fifty columns wide and no thicker than ten rows.
'Rumbling ......' dust makes people can't open their eyes, and if you really open your eyes, the sand will fly into your eyes and make your eyes wet. With tears in his eyes, Chen He watched the enemy cavalry get closer and closer, they raised their bows, released arrows, and then swung their swords and rushed straight through the gap in the chariot formation. Standing in the front row, holding a pestle, he bore the brunt of the attack.
'Bang——! In his vague thinking, he felt as if he was flying in mid-air, a feeling he had never felt before, but then he knew nothing.
"Kill! Kill ——! The undead young man shouted wildly, and after the broken pestle was thrown away, he rushed towards the cavalry who had stopped castration. The blade that slashed in the shout did not cut the knight's iron sword, but the downward slash wounded the horse. The horse neighed and kicked into his own people. The cavalry galloped horribly, but once it was trapped in the formation, there was nothing to be feared, and with the shouts of the honored soldiers, the foot soldiers no longer cared about the array, and surrounded the cavalry who rushed into the formation and stabbed them with wooden pestles.
It was a chaotic battle, but because of the ox carts in front of the formation, the subsequent cavalry could only sweep by, ready for the next round of charge. Luckily, the thorn crossbow at the head of the city finally shot. Half of the villagers in the North Middle Gate were stabbed and drowned in the moat by enemy cavalry, and they would never dare to let this tragedy repeat itself at the North West Gate. The crossbow began to fire rapidly, and one long arrow after another flew towards the cavalry who were preparing for the next round of charge.
"Stand, stand, stand......" In the scuffle, someone stepped on Chen Ji, who was knocked unconscious by the cavalry, he muttered two words, and quickly got up as soon as he woke up. When he got up, he saw the enemy cavalry gathering again a hundred paces away, pointing ahead and shouting: "Array! Array——! ”
"Array! Array! Several red-eyed warriors saw the cavalry that was about to rush in the direction he pointed, and hurriedly lined up again. Many of them had broken their pestles and their shields were gone, and this time they had to rely on their bodies to stop the cavalry.
"Yo-ho--" the cavalry shouted, not wanting to give the enemy too much time to breathe, and when the army outside the North West Gate was still in chaos, they rode forward. The bolts of the crossbow kept flying, killing their companions, and the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchets 'thuded' and then bounced, taking away one rider after another, but they still charged. They knew that if they rushed through the thin enemy formation, they would be able to drive the black-pressed crowd by the moat into the water.
"Drive!" The last 30 paces reach the fastest speed. In front of him was a military formation, but every foot soldier had a horrified look on his face, except for the commander who commanded the formation with a strange smile on his face.
After the arrows, the galloping cavalry leaped over the staggered array of carts and 'boom——! The half-ton war horse crashed into the front foot soldiers, in their screams, the war horses trampled on the bodies of others and continued to rush forward, just when the knights thought that they had broken through this thin military formation, the cage boxes and dustpans on the ground behind the military formation made the war horses stand suddenly, this was only a few, more cavalry rushed in, and then neighed, and the men and horses fell to the ground. The dustpan of the cage like iron dysentery either caused the horses to break their legs or crack their hooves.
A pause is death, and when the cavalry stopped, Chen He, who was dripping with blood on his thighs, rushed up from the rear with his undead foot soldiers. The cavalry that rushed in was no more than two or three hundred, but there were nearly a thousand foot soldiers who were not killed. They were already mad, and rushed to their horses without fear of death, beating and dragging them, and some even pulled the cavalry off their horses.
"Woo——、 woo——、 woo-" is different from the sound of drums and gold, this is the clarion call of the Yiqu people to collect their troops. Hearing the sound of the horn, the cavalry who drove people into the water at the North Middle Gate and the cavalry surrounded by the foot soldiers at the North West Gate all turned their horses' heads and rode back. Some of them were killed or shot, while others rode to the place where the horn was sounded.
The foot soldiers who couldn't catch up were unwilling, and at this time someone shouted, "Wang pawn! The king's pawn is out of the city! ”
It's not a king's pawn, it's a sanitation. More than 3,000 sanitation and palace armor have left the city from the north east gate, and they are a new army in the true sense. The four-meter-long iron spear was raised in his hand, and a small shield was hung on his left arm, but this was not what attracted attention, what was really incomprehensible was the military formation they listed
- The formation of the army is completely broken. The 15x15 Giant Iron Spear Formation did not lean against each other at all, but left a gap of about ten paces. Keeping the line intact was the golden rule of the horizontal line era, and no one dared to break the formation, as this would cause the enemy to hook them from the flank. Once the flank is attacked by the enemy, the result is that the army will collapse or collapse.
"What kind of formation is this?" The left general Wang Jian followed the cavalry to attack Chencheng. The war was brutal, and if the moat was not filled with the corpses of the Chu people, it would have to be filled with the corpses of the Qin soldiers, so he suggested expelling the Chu people into the pool. This task was only half completed - the North Central Gate drove down countless Chu people, but because the North West Gate had a thin military formation, the Yiqu cavalry rushed twice and did not break away. At this time, the Chu army went out of the city and put on an incredible military formation.
"It's King Jing's spear array." The cavalry general Xin Sheng was also there, and last year he heard that King Jing had a spear formation.
"Can I rush it?" Wang Jian was not a cavalry general, and had no right to order the cavalry to storm the enemy formation.
"There are not many elite horses, Jing people's arrows and stone bullets are strong, and Yiqu is afraid of unwillingness." Xin Sheng shook his head and said, the Chu army only walked within three hundred steps of the city wall, not to fight, but to save people.