The next day, he led 300 artillery and 500 pikemen to arrive as scheduled.

Liu Tang said: "We have so many troops in Black Dragon City, and the people of Black Dragon City may not dare to attack the city, it is better for my brother to lead the troops to retreat, I and Yuye stay to defend the city, and when the battle is fierce, my brother will be able to bring people out suddenly to get twice the result with half the effort." ”

Chao Gai was very pleased, it seemed that Liu Tang had grown up very quickly and said: "Okay, let's lead the others back twenty miles back to camp, let's keep the contact." ”

Chao Gai took Yuan Lang, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and others back for more than ten miles, and found a remote place to press the camp. Liu Tang began to prepare in Zhennan City, and this time he brought a total of 300 artillery and 500 spearmen, a total of 800 people, all of whom were arranged on the city wall. The walls were surrounded on all sides, and the muzzles of the guns were erected and aimed outside.

As for Liu Tang and his 1,000 cavalry, he hid in the city and waited until noon, when the enemy's reinforcements arrived. The observer on the fort of Zhennan noticed a huge procession coming from the north, with a neat thousand cavalry in front and three thousand infantry behind. There are many types of infantry, including pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, archers, and so on.

The mighty procession drove over, and the city wall shouted: "Except for the artillerymen, the pikemen are not allowed to show their heads, waiting for orders." ”

When the soldiers of Black Dragon City arrived, they were obviously a little surprised, and when they saw that the flags on the city had changed, they immediately sent a small colonel to the city to question. Apparently they did not meet Jerodalang who had fled.

"Who are you, and why have you taken our city?" The colonel said.

"I really didn't know it was your city, but when we came, we saw that the city was empty and we came in." ”

"Get out of here, or we're going to attack."

"If you have the guts, you will fight, if you don't have the guts, you will leave quickly, be careful that even you will be beaten." As he spoke, he shot an arrow down, but this arrow was not accurate, and it was shot at the foot of the little colonel.

There's nothing to talk about, since the city is occupied by someone else, it has to be fought, although the soldiers of Black Dragon City are not as good as the Liao soldiers of decades ago, they are not all waste. Immediately, the drums of war in the army were beating, the sword and card players were guarding, the archers were behind, followed by the soldiers with ladders, and the infantry rushed forward.

Zhennan Fort is surrounded by two gates, one south gate and one north gate. The Black Dragon City Army attacked the north gate, and it was a team of 1,000 people as soon as it came up, this is no longer a temptation, just ask a slap city to send a thousand people at once, can't you take it? The Black Dragon City Army also felt that this was a safe take, just waiting for the defeat to enter the city.

On the city wall, the fifty tiger squatting cannons have already been loaded with gunpowder, quietly waiting for the order, the condescending shooting angle is better, although the scattered bullets are still lethal on 200 meters, but the wild decided to wait until 150 meters before firing the cannon, this time it is the regular army, not the black wolf bandits. These infantry all had leather armor, and even occasionally iron armor, and the shield bearer also held a shield, and it was too far to see what material it was made of.

The speed of the Black Dragon City Army's charge was still very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was within one hundred and fifty meters, and the archers were ready to release their arrows some distance further.

At this moment, with the command of the urging field, fifty artillery pieces opened fire, and the city wall was instantly filled with gunsmoke, and the scorching iron sand flew towards the Black Dragon City Army. The shield soldiers in the first row took relatively thick shields, but the archers in the back were miserable, and the thin leather armor had no way to block the iron sand.

When he saw it, the effect of this round of artillery was not very good, and there were only 200 people in fifty cannons, especially the shield soldiers.

However, the Black Dragon City Army did not see it that way, a thousand troops attacked the city, and they lost hundreds of soldiers before they even touched the city wall, and they were also frightened, and some people turned around and ran.

Those who came quickly returned quickly, and in the blink of an eye, there were only about 200 wounded and dead soldiers left on the ground.

The soldiers in the city were delighted and cheered incessantly. The artillerymen hurriedly loaded their ammunition and prepared for the next round of attack of the Black Dragon Army.

The Black Dragon Army retreated, and it didn't take long for another army to be organized, this time pressed up by two fronts. Attacking the north and west, two thousand infantry were dispatched.

Seeing that there were many people in this guy, the tiger squat cannon first hit a round of solid iron eggs, which were bigger than eggs and the iron elastic was very powerful, killing and wounding the Black Dragon City army hundreds of meters away. The formation of the Black Dragon City army was in chaos, and it didn't matter what the formation was, the officers urged a military army and could charge directly. The infantry quickly charged to Zhennan Fort, and the artillery fired another round, eliminating hundreds of people, but the rate of fire was too slow, and eight hundred pikemen appeared in a while, and for a while the flag flew above the city, and it was not clear how many men and horses there were.

However, pikemen also have a drawback, that is, they do not have the range of archers, and can only throw stones and earth blocks down.

At this time, the city gate suddenly opened, and Liu Tang led a thousand cavalry to rush out, sweeping away the attacking two thousand infantry. Most of the cavalry used cavalry knives, which were very sharp, and with the help of horse speed, they could easily cut the necks of infantry.

After rushing back and forth for a while, the two thousand infantry were already in chaos, trampling on each other and suffering countless casualties, and retreated without waiting for Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

On a small dirt slope in the south, Chao Gai and others were watching the enemy's formation.

Chao Gai said: "What do you think of Yuan Lang, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng. ”

Yuan Lang shook his head and said: "It's a little incredible, the infantry in Black Dragon City is too weak, although the cavalry is the nemesis of the infantry, but you see, this group of infantry is completely a rabble, and they don't even have the courage to fight. ”

Lu Fang said: "This is a bait, we have been based on Black Dragon Island for more than half a year, it is impossible for Black Dragon City not to know, and even our strength, strengths, and weaknesses are clear to them." We don't know much about them, but being able to force the black werewolves with five thousand light horsemen to the south shows that the strength of Black Dragon City must be extraordinary, at least it has the ability to gain a foothold. ”

"Just try it in the past, I will take a thousand cavalry out, and the enemy's rear hand will definitely appear." Guo Sheng said.

Chao Gai nodded: "Okay, the enemy situation is unknown, be careful, and retreat immediately if there is anything wrong." ”

"Yes."

Guo Sheng led a thousand cavalry to rush over with shouts, Guo Sheng's team is also more miscellaneous, with spears, cavalry knives, and a small number of cavalry archers, generally belonging to the kind of cavalry with weak combat effectiveness, but it is more than enough to deal with these miscellaneous soldiers in front of him.

Sure enough, the soldiers of Black Dragon City immediately looked a little flustered when they saw that a team of men and horses came out behind them, but at this time, something unexpected happened, the thousand Black Dragon City cavalry quickly changed horses, the war horses were put on armor, and the people were also put on armor with only their eyes exposed. The sturdy iron armor looked heavy, and the men and horses were like moving iron towers, and they turned out to be heavy cavalry.

Don't say that Guo Sheng, even Liu Tang was dumbfounded. The bow and arrow of the cavalry archer shoots past, unless it can be called the horse eye or the human eye, shooting other places does not work at all, but how many marksmen are there in the army.

As soon as he made contact, he immediately lost a lot, and the cavalry knife machete left nothing on the opponent's armor except a white spot.

Liu Tang shouted: "Collect the troops." "On the city wall, the cavalry quickly retreated, and Guo Sheng also fled with his troops.

On the city wall, the Tiger Squat Cannon was ordered to fire, and the effect of the scattered Tiger Squat Cannon was not good, and it seemed that it was difficult for the iron sand to penetrate their iron armor.

"Change the solid iron eggs, the pikemen bid for the guns, and cover the battalion commander into the city."

The pikemen threw all the spears, not to mention, the spears still had a certain effect, so that the enemy's heavy cavalry had a little casualties, and the pursuit was not so tight.

The tiger squat cannon was fired again, and the power of the solid iron bullet was really not covered, and more than a dozen ironclad heavy cavalry were hit and directly knocked off their horses. It's a pity that the hit rate is not good, and the deterrent effect is too poor.

Fortunately, there was a tiger squatting cannon to block it, Liu Tang led the army into the city, and Liu Tang scolded when he entered the city, "Straight mother thief, mixed with iron armor, afraid of death and afraid of being like this, what kind of battle, our spears and cavalry knives are not used, it seems that only the heavy guys can deal with them." ”

Yuye said: "Even the shotgun can't beat them, and the iron armor defense of this body is really strong." ”

After counting the men and horses, Liu Tang brought out a thousand cavalry and came back with nine hundred, and the one hundred were probably killed. After fighting for so long, this time I was aggrieved and fled back directly.

Liu Tang said that let the artillery bombard hard, all solid iron bullets, and no matter how ruthless it is, it will be hit.

The ironclad heavy cavalry was not a fool, and when they saw that they couldn't get a bargain, they immediately retreated.

Besides, Guo Sheng's speed was fast, and the escape back was also fast, because he saw the opportunity quickly, the soldiers lost relatively little.

Guo Sheng said: "The defeat is coming, please punish Chao Tuan." ”

Chao Gai said: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, just retreat for the time being, and then think about the way to break the enemy when you turn back." ”

On the same day, the soldiers and horses of the Black Dragon City also pressed the camp five miles outside the city, Chao Gai and others were not hiding, and came to the south of the city to press the camp, in order to prevent the heavy armored iron cavalry from rushing to the camp, this time the camp was particularly strong, and there was a trench dug, and it was absolutely impossible for the heavy armored cavalry to come.

In the evening, Chao Gai of the Chinese army invited Liu Tang to come over to discuss the matter, Liu Tang's anger had not subsided, and they were looking for teeth all over the ground shouting that they were going to fight.

Liu Tang proposed: "The enemy's armor is quite heavy, and it will definitely not be used at night, so why don't we go to the camp at night?" ”

Chao Gai said: "This kind of heavy armored cavalry is known as the Iron Floating Tu, which means the iron tower, and the cavalry and war horses are covered in armor and have extremely strong combat effectiveness. They also had the disadvantage that they were not as agile as the light cavalry. If our 4,000 light cavalry wants to break his 1,000 Iron Floating Massacre, the loss will definitely be heavy, so we need to think about it in the long run. Tonight, Liu Tang took Lu Fang and 2,000 cavalry to rob the camp, and they were only allowed to set fire outside, and they were not allowed to enter. ”

"Yes." Liu Tang took Lu Fang to go, and the two thousand cavalry arrived at the Tiefutu in Black Dragon City halfway through, and this group of cattle also wanted to rob the camp. Liu Tang and Lu Fang charged and played the characteristics of light cavalry to fight around the surroundings, and the feather arrows flew indiscriminately.

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