Chapter 46: Eight Directions Press the Sword to Hide the Wind and Thunder (4)

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As the foot soldiers pushing the arrow guard approached the walled city, the Black Khan cavalry also appeared.

Basically, they were hussars without armor. After leaving the village, he detoured to the north, divided his troops and went out, feinting to attack the camps on the east and north sides, and judging his intentions, it was to contain the defenders in two places.

In addition, there were more than 2,000 cavalrymen wearing armor, who were in a posture of pressing the formation, facing the main gate of the barracks.

There were no trenches dug at the main gate on all sides of the barracks, and of course there would be no drawbridge, and the road in front of the gate was flat and wide. If the gate of the camp is breached, it will be able to drive straight in.

Wang Sunsin did not try to fill the loopholes in the defensive line, because they would get in the way when attacking. As for whether it would become the target of the enemy's main attack, Wang Sunchen did not care. Without this confidence, he would not have led his troops all the way west.

Wang Sunchen saw the arrangement of the enemy army and felt that something was wrong.

The numbers of Ghulam and Iqta did not match the reality, and it was clear that many of the elite had taken off their armor and mixed in with the miscellaneous troops to attack.

Among the foot soldiers, they all wore only helmets, shields and scimitars, and it was impossible to distinguish which of those people was elite and which was miscellaneous. There were only a few soldiers standing on each of the arrow-blocking vehicles, all of them wearing armor without exception, and all of them were tall and majestic.

Wang Sunchen furrowed his brows and glanced westward. The Black Khan Army, which had bypassed the large camp to the south, had already approached the western camp, and if they had not detoured further north to attack Beizhai, then they would have definitely targeted the western camp.

In terms of numbers and the speed of action, there are undoubtedly many elites among the Black Khans who are about to attack the western camp.

This must be an inside affair in their own army, which has been spied on by the enemy in the past few days. Except for the Nanying side, the other three sides of Zhilu Road were Tubo and Uighurs who were not strong in combat.

However, there are city gates behind the camps on all sides, and you can borrow the inner passages in the city to switch positions for defense at any time. If you want to capture any of these strongholds, you must use the numerical advantage to contain the other three directions.

And now the deployment of the Black Khan Army is indeed to contain the Han army in the south with a part of the main force, and to contain the east and north camps with a small number of cavalry. The remaining main force went all out to break through the western camp.

Such a layout can be seen with little eyesight, but the advantage of the Black Khan army's strength makes them not worry that the Song army can have a coping arrangement.

The projection speed of the thunderbolt cannon is getting faster and faster, and whether it hits or not, at least the whistling stone can delay the enemy. Stones, ice cubes, at this time have become projected ammunition, the power is not much worse than stones, although the accuracy has dropped, but now it is only to be able to increase the speed of fire.

Unfortunately, most of the shots missed, and although the arrow blocking vehicle had a simple structure, it was the most suitable siege weapon at the moment.

In previous attacks, the Black Khans had already determined the extent of the pit. Those pits could sink the horse's feet, but there was no way to get a long sleigh and easily cross it. The wide and narrow trenches were also like a smooth road for the sleds pushed by the infantry. Replaced with a four-wheeled siege vehicle, it has long been in the pits and ditches and cannot retreat.

However, the sled went smoothly, but the soldiers who followed behind were stuck in the pit and some fell into the ditch. Their movements were much more agile than those of the war horses, and few of them were injured, but their speed inevitably slowed down. The crossbowmen in the camp did not miss the opportunity for the Black Khan warriors to disconnect from the vehicles in front. Having lost the protection in front of them, they immediately became the targets of arrows and fire, and in an instant they fell down as hedgehogs.

It's just that these casualties didn't alarm anyone at all. A group of black sweat soldiers in front of the southern camp had forgotten everything and were running wildly, sprinting at the back of the strongest, using the fastest speed to reach the bottom of the wall

The Black Khan army on the west camp did not aim at the main gate of the camp, and just bypassed the south camp, but also rushed directly to the nearest section of the wall.

In the western camp that was attacked by the enemy, Li Quanzhong and his subordinates were listening to the instructions of Wang Sunchen's generals and hurried to the place where they faced the attack.

Although they don't have a god arm bow, they do have normal bows and arrows. In addition to the Han army, the Tibetans and Uighurs used their own bows and arrows.

As the van got closer, a line of archers appeared on the wall, aimed at the planks of the cart, and fired rockets.

At least half of the rockets were stuck in the planks, and the oil cloth wrapped around them was still burning.

Li Quanzhong stared nervously at the flames, hoping to ignite the arrow-blocking carts and repel the attack.

It is true that there are woods near the city, but it is not enough to supply tens of thousands of troops to build equipment, build camps, and provide long-term heating. If it is burned out, it will take time to look farther to find the source of the wood, and it will take time to transport it. At that time, there will probably not be enough food and grass.

However, for the arrow blocking vehicle, the rocket will not have much impact for a while. The pungent smell of the burning grease made the black sweat soldiers pushing the cart behind move faster. They chose to attack the enemy camp at the risk of being pierced by arrows at any time, that is, to attack the wall as quickly as possible.

To the south and west, in the face of heavy planks, the means available to them were lackluster. The cannon can't be smashed, and the heavy crossbow can't be shot, and the ignition can't be burned for a while, which is making people helpless.

The simple sleds, relying on skis five or six feet long, smoothly crossed the pits and trenches and reached the outside of the wall.

During this time, Wang Sunsin and his subordinate generals gave very few orders to shoot. A panicked wave shoots, not to mention the waste of arrows, and it will be chaotic. Even if the arrow blocking car can block the arrows, it can't push the cart up the wall, and finally let go of the car and face the barracks.

The wall is not a straight line. When any walled fort and camp was built in the Great Song Dynasty, one of the most important criteria for its exterior wall was that it was not as straight as curved. The folded exterior wall allows the shooters to gather in the protrusions. The combined shots can easily cleanse the enemy troops attacking under the wall from both sides with a rain of arrows.

Wang Sunsin stretched out his bow and arrows, and stood on the snow wall behind the camp fence with a row of sharpshooters with divine arm bows.

He did not incite the eloquence of the soldiers, nor did he use the means of sucking carbuncles and living together to win over the hearts of the army, and the only thing Wang Sunchen would do was to stand in front of the battle and never leave behind. As for command, he has enough reliable generals and is also confident that he can pull out from the front at any time.

A quarter of the more than 60 arrow-blocking vehicles in the south were stuck in a deep trench at the back of the mountain, but the remaining arrow-blocking vehicles all crossed smoothly and then crashed heavily into the wall.

The muffled sound of knock, knock, knock sounded one after another outside the wall of the Han army camp. This was the first time that the Black Khans had attacked so close to the fortifications.

The wall is only five feet high, but wearing armor, normal people don't want to jump over it. However, behind the wooden plank on the front of the arrow stopper, there are several steps nailed, which are the support behind the arrow shield and the pedal for jumping up the wall.

The dawn of victory was in sight, and the black sweat warriors who had been standing in the car rushed up the stairs, chanting the name of Allah and swinging their scimitars at the enemy in front of them.

Wang Sunchen was just a few steps away, raised his hand to pluck the string, and the arrow flew out like a streamer. A Black Khan warrior who had just jumped up from the shield roared angrily, and sharp arrows pierced through his eyes. The second warrior was about to rush towards Wang Sun-sin, when a second arrow followed and shot him on the spot.

The sound of the bowstring was as rapid as rain, and before the rest of the armor soldiers had time to step on the stairs, they were hit by arrows one by one, and even if they escaped to death, they had no strength to fight again. More than a dozen of Wang Sunchen's personal soldiers didn't have time to make a single move, so Wang Sunchen robbed him of all the credit.

But Wang Sunchen was only one person, and although his arrows were strong, he only shot a few enemy soldiers in the nearest place.

But the guards of the southern camp didn't need him to worry about it. The archers standing on the protrusion of the wall, constantly receiving the Divine Arm Bow that had been drawn from behind, wound it and aimed at the target, and then buckled the teeth.

Shooting close to the eyelids, no matter how solid the armor is, it can't stop the power of the Divine Arm Bow. When the divine arm bow was first formed, it was able to pierce the iron shaft seventy steps away. Now the Divine Arm Bow has been improved several times, and within one or twenty steps, the iron armor is all pierced.

A black sweat warrior nearly seven feet tall stepped onto the wall, causing a whirlwind. But immediately, more than a dozen crossbows were aimed at him at the front and back. Before he could make any moves, the arrows enveloped him. In the blink of an eye, the iron armor on his body was full of holes, and only a few places could be seen on the outside of the short wooden feather tail.

The huge body froze for a moment, and fell heavily to the outside of the camp. The Black Khan soldiers who followed him, at this moment, their movements froze. The warriors who were obviously the backbone of the main heart were shot so easily, and their fighting spirit plummeted.

However, these armor soldiers still bought time for the soldiers behind, and more and more black sweat soldiers rushed outside the village. Some threw short axes, some opened their bows to shoot, and the interfered Divine Arm archers slowed down their firing speed at once. With the gap, there were suddenly more Black Khan soldiers rushing to the city.

"Attack!"

Wang Sunchen had already retreated at this time and gave orders by the walled gate.

The gate of the fortress was wide open, and the archers of the protrusions of the walled walls on both sides shot rapidly, and the enemy troops who had just cleaned the outside of the city gate, two hundred Han soldiers wearing heavy armor, immediately rushed out of the door with swords.

Several Black Khan Armorers led a group of warriors to rush forward, their courage was not lost to anyone, and the scimitar in their hands was also sharp as cutting gold and jade.

But the swords came down, and even if he was wearing armor, he couldn't block the slash that concentrated the strength of his whole body. Like paper, it was cut off, and the human body behind the armor was also broken by the long blade. Blood splattered through the cracks in his armor, and one foot after another stepped over him.

After going out, the two hundred warriors immediately separated from the left and right, and slashed all the way along the wall. The horse chopping knife was cut out in a row, and the scimitar of the black sweat man was far from being a three-foot long blade. Any enemy who stands in the way of the sword is cut to pieces.

With the shot of the Divine Arm Bow, there was a bloody light outside the village in an instant, and the enemy troops who were still rushing towards the city were chased all over the ground like rabbits. And without backup, the Black Khan soldiers who attacked the wall were killed in an instant. During this time, the Iqta heavy cavalry attempted to storm the open gates, but were deterred by a series of thunderbolts fired at the road.

Dropping the water bladder filled with oil, burning the arrow blocking cars one by one, the attacking soldiers slowly retreated, and returned to the village one by one.

At this time, Wang Sunsin personally led the reinforcements and rushed to the camp on the west side.