Volume 1 Scholarly Temperament Chapter 39 Bringing the King into the Urn
In order to create the momentum of the army's pressure, hundreds of war horses were mixed in the cavalry corps, and these war horses were not ridden, but the artillery battle was fixed on horseback, and the special cavalry was responsible for guiding; The other part of the cavalry had a gong in their hands, which was beaten in the process of running.
Just after the ugly hour, the Guangyuan army with torches rode towards Yinzhou City and whipped their horses, and all the artillery battles were ignited at the same time, and the frightened horses were even more neighing, and the sound of the gong made the originally silent plain immediately stir.
Hearing the movement, the defenders of Yinzhou City poked their heads out and saw an unknown army approaching rapidly not far away, with a large number of people, smoke and dust, and bright torches, so frightened that they hurriedly sounded the horn to guard the whole city.
Before the Yinzhou defenders were assembled at the head of the city, the rain of swords from the enemy army had fallen intensively, and the prepared and late Xia Tang defenders were shot into hedgehogs, and they could not organize an effective counterattack in a short time. Closely followed by the cavalry is the siege of the infantry, the use of the cavalry archery time, they quickly shorten the distance, shoulders are all "ladders", the night was stunned by the Tang Dynasty defenders naturally could not find the enemy's so-called "ladders" are just ordinary people's homes of wooden ladders, in the siege war is not to play a role, after all, the task of the Guangyuan Army is not really to siege the city.
As expected, the Guangyuan army attracted most of the attention of Yinzhou City, and the Xuanjia army led by King Yu had quickly approached the southeast gate of Yinzhou City. After King Yu at the front of the team straightened his right hand and made a fist gesture, the rusty guard behind him took his bow and arrows, and the first group of stormtroopers of the Golden Armor Guard split up and headed towards the city walls on both sides.
Put! With a command from the Thunderbolt, the Rusty Guard rained down the first wave of arrows. In addition to the long range and great strength, the bows and arrows of the Liang Dynasty also have an advantage that the Lower Tang Army does not have, that is, the frequency of replacement is high, after the first round of shooting, the second round of archers will continue to fire, so that the Lower Tang Army at the head of the city can not raise its head at all. After a few rounds of arrow rain, the fastest climbing warrior still managed to reach the female wall, although the first warrior to set foot on the city did not hold out for too long under the siege of the enemy and became a ghost under the knife, but his sacrifice bought precious time for the robes, more and more soldiers climbed the city, in order to prevent injury to their own people, the arrow rain under the city was also significantly weakened, replaced by the short knife at the head of the city, hand-to-hand combat.
Jin Jiawei did not let the king of Yu under the city wait too long, and the southeast gate of Yinzhou City was slowly opened. King Yu led the army into the city, the guard force of the southeast gate was very weak, and they fled without a few battles, and the avenue leading to the Yinzhou Mansion was displayed in front of the Xuanjia army. The people of the city who woke up from their sleep behaved differently: the people of the Liang Dynasty rejoiced when they saw the army of their mother country; The people of the Lower Tang Dynasty fled in all directions.
Except for a small number of soldiers who stayed behind to guard the city gate, more than 10,000 Xuanjia troops quickly marched towards the official residence. The official residence of Yinzhou City is built in the center of the city, covering an area of half an acre, and the streets are connected on three sides, only the north is Ci'an Temple. The Xuanjia Army did not encounter much resistance along the way, until outside the official residence, the old and weak soldiers dispersed in a hurry, handing over such a strategic command to others.
"Disperse immediately!" King Yu vaguely sensed that something was wrong, except for the Ci'an Temple in the north, which had a relatively open ground, the remaining three streets were not wide, and it was undoubtedly a dangerous layout for the troops to line up in the streets.
Sou! A feather arrow broke through the air, broken into two under Geng Yan's knife, the remnant arrow has not yet landed, the dense arrow rain has fallen from the sky, the same arrow rain, this time the two sides of the opponent swapped positions, the attacking side is the Xia Tang defenders, and the defender is the Xuanjia army.
"Defensive Shield!"
The streets were not wide enough for the soldiers to form out and scramble, and the soldiers who had time to dodge in the future became targets. To make matters worse, they couldn't see where the arrows were coming from, and all they could feel was that there were ambushes in all directions, and there was no way to hide.
"Retreat to the north!"
The team of 10,000 people slid out of a street in a serpentine shape, and when they arrived at Ci'an Temple, everyone felt suddenly enlightened, and they were finally able to set up a battle to meet the battle. As a well-trained army, the Rusty Guard, the Cold Sword Guard, and the Golden Armor Guard each performed their duties, and each set up a position, and when they were about to fight to the death, the rain of arrows disappeared in the twilight, and the surrounding area returned to its previous state again, as if the round after round of arrow rain was just a dream that everyone had together, but everyone knew very well, how could all this be a dream? Lying in front of them were the robes that had fought side by side, his blood still flowing, and their eyes were not closed.
The lights in Yinzhou City are flickering, but the silence is suffocating, the eyes of many soldiers are constantly turning, sweat has wet their backs, they are nervous, quite nervous, as a Xuanjia army, they are not too afraid of death, but the fragility of people's hearts lies in the fear of the unknown. What is unknown? Everything in front of you is unknown, where is the enemy? Where do feathered arrows come from? The shouts of killing at the southwest gate echoed in the city, but the land under their feet was silent, and they couldn't figure it out for a while.
Ye Kai and Zhao Kexin's guards on the left and right were on the side of King Yu, Ye Kai wanted to say something, but when he glanced at Zhao Kexin, he saw that she was observing the surroundings very seriously, so he had to look for Xuan Shaoning's figure in the crowd. At this moment, the two of them were really far away from each other, and the Han Dao Guard was in the area between the Ci'an Temple and the official residence. Compared to the victory just now, Xuan Shaoning has not had time to celebrate that he is already in a predicament at the moment, he does not have much practical experience, and what is worse is that he once studied in Qingshan Academy and can't think of it at all, and he can't find a solution at all.
In fact, this silence did not last long, and a Jinjiawei soldier standing beside Shi Gong Zhengyuan coughed, this cough was not tight, but he directly coughed up blood and it was out of control, the more he coughed, the more he coughed, the more he fell to the ground and spit out blood. Shi Gong Zhengyuan hurriedly helped him up, only to find that his eyes were bloodshot, his face was blue, and the green tendons on his neck were bulging. Poisoned! Shi Gong Zhengyuan hurriedly looked through his body to see if there was a wound on his body, and sure enough, there was an arrow wound on his back, and the flesh at the wound was already purple.
Arrow clusters are poisonous! Just as he was about to blurt out, soldiers spitting blood appeared in the battle array, and Shi Gong Zhengyuan checked several people one after another and found arrow wounds, which caused panic in the battle group.
"General! There was a ....... in the cluster of arrows, "Before Shi Gong Zhengyuan finished shouting, there was a sound of running in the three streets, it was the orderly running sound of a group of people, the sound was neat and loud from the three opposites at the same time, judging from the sound of running, there were quite a few people.
"Prepare for battle! The Golden Guards were in charge of the enemies on the southeast side, the Annan Mansion soldiers faced the enemies in the west, and the Rusty Guards and the Cold Sword Guards immediately occupied the high ground! "King Yu's military order was carried out as quickly as possible: Zhan Ting led his troops to storm the tower of Ci'an Temple, and Tong Xin led his troops to climb the roof of the mansion.
King Yu discarded his horse, held Ma Shuo, and prepared for hand-to-hand combat. Rushing from three directions was indeed the Lower Tang army in brown uniforms, each of their faces were painted bright red by paint, and when they saw the troops of the Liang Dynasty, they shouted loudly, and all the teeth exposed were pitch black, which made people feel jealous. But these rich surface decorations did not have much of a deterrent effect on Geng Yan and Miao Wei, and they also led the crowd to greet the enemy without showing weakness, and immediately the sound of weapon handover and shouting of killing resounded in the sky.
Tong Xin, who jumped on the roof of the mansion, leaned over and looked at the school martial arts field of the official residence, and was really taken aback: hundreds of armored bronze men were lined up on the entire school martial arts field. It is said that it is a bronze man in armor, because these people are indeed wearing jet-black armor, and the exposed parts of each person's body are the color of brass, and they are wearing a helmet decorated with a wolf's head on their heads, and they all hold a blade in their right hands that is higher than that of a bronze man, this blade is something Tong Xin has never seen: the blade with a faint blue luster is bent near the head, the arc is somewhat similar to the lower Xuanyue, and the head is very similar to the sickle used by the peasants, but the size of this blade is several times that of an ordinary sickle, and it also flashes with a faint blue luster. The group of bronze men faced the same direction, and in front of them stood another bronze figure, his same attire and the same blade, the only difference being that his face was covered by an iron mask that covered the lower part of his nose and exposed the above, and this mask was engraved with teeth like animal fangs. All the bronze figures are neat and solemn, and it also depends on the bright moon tonight, otherwise it is really difficult to see it in the first place.
Tong Xin observed for a long time, but did not see these bronze figures move, thinking that they were really copper, so he waved his hand, and the soldiers of the Cold Sword Guard climbed over the wall one after another, and everyone who entered the school martial arts field was shocked by the entire bronze figures, including Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang.
"Now the Tang people are really chattering, let so many bronze people in the official residence!"
Xuan Shaoning stopped Duan Lang and said: "I don't have time to comment now, we must quickly go to the highest place to find a way to retreat, and return to the southeast city gate as soon as possible!" ”
Duan Lang nodded, he took a second look when he was about to run past the leader of the bronze man, and clearly saw the bronze man's eyes blinking, although the pace under his feet did not stop, but his eyes could not leave the bronze man, he wanted to prove that he was not dazzled.
Duan Lang recalled this period of war, and he really hoped that he was dazzled at that moment, but the truth happened in the direction he was most unwilling. The bronze leader's eyes moved with the movement of Duan Lang's figure, and when he saw Duan Lang's face change, both cheeks of the bronze leader twitched upwards at the same time, and Duan Lang felt that he was laughing.
"Shaoning!"
Before the words fell, Xuan Shaoning turned around, and a robed human head landed at his feet from the sky. Duan Lang didn't have time to see how all this happened, all he saw now was the bronze leader raising the huge scythe in his hand, and there were blood stains flowing from the scythe.
These bronze men are alive! With the movement of the bronze leader, all the bronze people moved, and they slowly raised the scythe in their hands, as if in response to their leader. This was the last moment, and the next moment in the eyes of the dozens of Cold Sword Guard warriors was that their bodies were standing in place, still holding blades in their hands, but their heads broke away from their bodies without warning and fell into nothingness. Even Tong Xin, who was standing on the roof, didn't see clearly how these bronze men took action to end the lives of his subordinates, and the only thing he could judge was that these enemies in front of him were fierce and ruthless.
Tong Xin bent his bow and arrows, took out three arrows from the quiver at one time and aimed them at the bronze leader, and the three arrows flew to the target from three angles with the help of the wind in the air. The scythe in the bronze leader's hand struck a turn, easily sweeping away the attack of the feathered arrows. Tong Xin ran along the ridge of the roof, he had only one goal in his eyes, as long as he seized the opportunity to release the arrow, the feather arrows broke through the air, each of them went towards the goal, each arrow failed to complete the mission, or was blocked, or directly cut in two, until Tong Xin could no longer touch the feather arrow in the quiver.
The cheeks of the bronze leader rose at the same time again, it was a smile, and this Tong Xin also confirmed that the bronze leader was smiling at himself. The smile hadn't completely disappeared from Tong Xin's eyes, and the bronze leader had already come to Tong Xin's side a stone's throw away, and the speed of his figure completely mismatched his burly figure. At this moment, the leader of the bronze people stood on the roof, with his back to the moonlight, the black armor and blades, and the brass skin, no matter how you look at it, it is not a living person, but more like a devil who is active at night, especially the pair of scarlet eyes, a living monster.
Tong Xin clenched the bow in his right hand, and pressed his left hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist, he knew that the enemy in front of him was not easy to deal with, and he glanced at King Yu out of the corner of his eye, he had the protection of two personal guards, and there was no worry about life for the time being.
Just as the leader of the bronze men swung his scythe to cut off the first head, hundreds of bronze men began to cut the head at the same time, and their goal was simple, that is, to take off the enemy's head with the fewest tricks and the fastest. After a few moves, Xuan Shaoning found that these bronze men were simply killing machines, the armor on their bodies was thick, their bodies were fast, their shots were clean and concise, and after taking off a head, Shengsheng picked out the two eyeballs on the head with his hands and put them into his chest, and immediately began to look for the next target.
"Shaoning ......" Duan Lang leaned his back against Xuan Shaoning, and wanted to say something but got stuck in his throat.
"This battle ...... It's hard to fight! Xuan Shaoning leaned back to Duan Lang and said his answer.