Chapter Eighty-Four: Confrontation
The sun was already high in the sky, and the soldiers leaned against the wall in twos and threes with the food brought by the village women. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info There is no big fish and meat, just ordinary coarse dry food and vegetable soup without much oil.
There are no greens in winter, and the so-called vegetable leaves are all frozen greens that are usually collected and picked by women and children, and they have a strange smell of green when they are drunk. However, frozen green can not only supplement vitamins, but also effectively prevent and treat frostbite, so the villagers drink it with relish.
After a long wait, most of the veterans of the Liang Army were calm. After two months of war, they had long since become accustomed to this slow-paced way of fighting. Fighting is not a continuous fight, most of the time it is either walking, working, or stupid, etc., and there are not many opportunities to really have a good time.
But this time there were some exceptions, and it didn't take long for Li Yi to run back with his three subordinates, and behind them, there was a large group of people who followed closely. When we got a little closer, we could see the size of the other side: there were twenty or thirty cavalry, and the rest were all foot soldiers, about four hundred men in all.
The enemy infantry was armed with spears and moved like a dark grove; The weapons of the cavalry were a variety of weapons, apparently based on personal preference, some with spears and some with broadswords with long handles. In addition, no matter on foot, they are also equipped with bows and arrows and ring knives.
In front of the Huns, there seems to be a group of people who are not armed, and they look chaotic. It was only when I got closer that I realized that those people were ordinary people. They were driven along, and from time to time whips "crackled" on their bodies, screaming and crying in a row.
It is the consistent practice of the Huns to drive the Han people to fill the ravines, if the defending side is soft-hearted and opens the city gate, the Huns who are mixed in with the people will take the opportunity to storm the gate, but if they ignore it, it will greatly damage morale. This trick is used by the barbarians very slippery, and I don't know how many Central Plains cities have been broken by this method.
"Brute!" Suo Sanjie scolded.
"These eight lambs!" The others cursed.
Zhang Jun ignored the scolding, he was observing the situation with a serious face. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this group of Huns is not like a straggler who fights and plunders the grass valley, but a formed army, almost armed to the teeth. Looking back at Liujiazhai, there are only more than 300 people who can be regarded as elite soldiers who can fight hard battles, and the rest are a bunch of rookies, and their weapons are still not used.
But now, he has no other way but to deal with it!
The Huns approached, still stopping two hundred paces away, and some of the people in front of them collapsed to the ground, they had already expected their fate, and the cries and shouts were mixed together, and it was extremely miserable.
At this time, three more horsemen rode out from the opposite side and observed back and forth in front of the village.
Liujiazhai is surrounded by high mountains on both sides, only the front is very flat, and the gate of the village is just a wooden plank, and there are holes that are transparent everywhere. The Huns have always been arrogant, and if they don't directly break open the city gate and rush in, will they still have to trouble climbing the mountain?
As expected, after a short queue rectification, the Huns directly drove the people to the city gate.
This time, the Hun army led the troops, but it was the centurion named Vulture Star.
Since they were deceived by Zhang Jun's "hungry horse bell" plan that night, they began to search everywhere for the traces of the Liang army. According to the lieutenant general's speculation, the Liang army should be heading towards Jincheng, so he led most of his men and horses to the northwest to chase after him. Because of the loss of men and horses, Vulture did not want to do any more thankless work, so he found an excuse and chased him southwest with another centurion.
The 200 of them arrived in Caohan, just in time for the county lieutenant of Caohan to exterminate Hanzhai. The two sides hit it off, divided the accounts in four or six accounts, and had already divided the seizure of Hanzhai in advance.
When the driven people approached, the people in the stockade saw that they were almost all dressed in tattered linen clothes, and some were even naked, revealing their thin bodies.
"All in place!" Han Hu shouted loudly.
At this time, the sound of bowstrings sounded outside the city, and the twenty or thirty Hun cavalry galloped forward, indiscriminately firing arrows, some of which were thrown far away from the city, and some of whom shot the people who were driven away directly from behind.
Not only did the new soldiers on the outer wall scramble to dodge the arrows, but the people were frightened and screamed and went straight to the city gate. Liujiazhai did not have much stock of bows and arrows, and the new soldiers couldn't do anything to the people at all, so naturally they couldn't stop the chaotic people from rushing to the door from the wall. Zhang Jun slapped the wall battlement fiercely, and also turned around and hurriedly ran down the earthen wall.
"Bang bang!"
"Bang!"
The sound of the city gate being slammed by countless limbs slammed into everyone's hearts like an invisible sledgehammer······
At the door, more than a dozen strong men were pressing against the gate with wooden planks, and some even shouted: "Outside, don't bump into it!" ”
Zhang Jun stood behind, through the gap in the wooden door, but he happened to see a familiar figure - Zhang Laohan!
He was shocked to see that the old man had lost an arm, and was following the crowd half-dead, moving forward like a walking corpse.
"Zhang Laohan!" Zhang Jun couldn't help but shout.
When the old man heard someone shouting to him, his numb face seemed to have a look on his face, and he raised his head to look inside the door, and he saw a young young man in armor.
"Ahh Ah······h Zhang Laohan suddenly opened his mouth and called twice, but his teeth had already been struck by the gong, and his voice was hoarse, so he couldn't hear what he shouted again.
"Kill Hulu, kill Hulu······" Two lines of muddy tears lay down the old skin, and he fell to the ground, tearing his throat and shouting a few words in a slurred voice.
"Boom!" At this moment, without waiting for everyone to react, the city gate finally couldn't withstand the destruction of the chaotic people, and collapsed in an instant!
First, a crowd of chaotic people poured in and fled everywhere. In the sound of hurried and chaotic horses' hooves, twenty or thirty horsemen rushed straight into the village. When the first horse swept past Zhang Laohan, he dragged a long-handled broadsword and slashed it, and the old man was immediately torn apart.
But the Hun cavalry was soon forced to restrain their horses, because what appeared in front of them was not the road that they could sprint as they imagined, but a deep ravine, and on the other side of the ravine, another wooden wall.
The Hun cavalry and foot soldiers who followed in did not know it, and were still pushing forward. Many Hun cavalry soldiers were squeezed into the ditch with men and horses, and were directly pierced by the bamboo wood and animal bones sharpened at the bottom.
Zhang Jun had already come to the back wall, and he saw that the new soldiers on the outer wall were standing together in a dense group, constantly piercing downward with the bamboo spears in their hands. The Huns were crowded between the inner and outer walls for a while, and they were a little flustered, unable to effectively counterattack, and were caught off guard.
It is said that the nomads are very alert and run fast together in suspicion. But the Huns did not retreat. They have conquered everywhere by force for many years, where can they be so easily frightened?
I saw that a man who looked like a general was shouting vigorously in the Xiongnu dialect, and soon, the civilians who were in the way were cut down, and the cavalry dismounted one after another and hid behind the horses. A large shield was passed in from behind, and in just a few moments, the Huns formed a simple irregular circle. Everyone shrank inside, slowly retreating outward.
The worst happened, Zhang Jun was afraid that the Huns would retreat first and then try to find a breakthrough from somewhere else. If the battle blooms everywhere, the Liang army will undoubtedly be exhausted, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to defend.
We can't wait any longer, we have to strike decisively!