Chapter 289: Consumption
According to the prediction of the god of war Wu Jue, the tactics used by the Western Xia light cavalry when attacking the county seat of Yunmen Town should be to concentrate their forces to attack one of the two city gates, after all, their number is small, only 1,800 people, which is simply not enough to divide troops to attack two city gates at the same time. Follow? Dream?. lā
However, the truth ruthlessly slapped Wu Jue in the face and slapped him all the way.
When the light cavalry of the Western Xia Kingdom, wrapped in a smoky and choking torrent of foul smell and body odor, all roared with the slogan of "Whoa, whoa, whoop ......" in their mouths, and killed a stone's throw away from the city gate north of Yunmen Town, their team spread out in a strange fan, and it seemed that their intention was to use the strength of these thousands of people to surround the entire county town.
In the ten or so seconds when the god of war Wu Jue was stunned, the fan-shaped Western Xia light cavalry scattered into three teams of equal strength: one team, stopped advancing, and stayed at the place of a stone's throw outside the city gate, and silently confronted the defenders on the city gate tower; One team, rounding the west side of the city; The other group went around to the east of the city.
"Pass on my general order......" After seeing the enemy circling to the west and east of the city, Wu Jue, who had just woken up from the blindfold, hurriedly ordered a scout beside him: "Let General Wu Xuan, who is preparing in the city, immediately kick the city and defend the east and west ......sides of the city wall."
"Yes, general......" After receiving Wu Jue's general order, this little scout, who was not yet twenty years old, immediately rushed towards the city after making a salute to carry out the general's order.
At this moment, a more strange situation happened, the two teams of Western Xia light cavalry around the east and west of the city, close to the foot of the city wall, immediately dismounted, and then, they suddenly threw out a metal hook claw hanging with a long rope, "ding, ding, ding......" After countless crisp sounds, the hook claws that drew a parabola flying into the sky were hooked at the interface between the arrow battlements on the top of the city wall and the cracks in the wall.
"Iron Harriers!" After seeing the hook claws flying in the sky, Wu Jue, who had been in a hundred battles, finally recognized who his opponent was, and after shouting out the name of the opponent, he immediately ordered: "Except for the crossbowmen and archers who are still here to guard against the enemy's attack, the rest of the people are waiting for ......."
Under the leadership of Wu Jue's generals, the 1,000 forbidden troops who were originally guarding the city gate were divided again, except for the 300 crossbowmen and archers who stayed on the city gate tower to confront the enemy army outside the opposite stone's throw away, the remaining 700 people, divided into two groups, went around the east and west sides of the city wall, to deal with the group of enemies who relied on hook claws and ropes to kick the city.
The general of the Iron Harrier Army, who was waiting to confront the Great Song Forbidden Army on the north gate in the distance, had a sneer on his face after sensing the enemy's division of troops.
With the "Grim Reaper's Smile" from afar, people on the east and west sides of the city wall of Cloud Gate Town have begun to rush up one after another.
Fortunately, Wu Jue's order was timely, and when someone reached the top of the city walls on the east and west sides, the defenders he sent also ran in place, so a small-scale white-knuckle battle started on the city walls on the east and west sides of Yunmen Town.
The moment they handed it over, the soldiers of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty suddenly found that it was not the ordinary Western Xia enemy army who was fighting against them, this group of enemies was extremely fierce, and they came to the key point, and they were still stalking and fighting under serious injuries, looking like they were fighting to the death.
"Cut off the ropes, don't let their people come up again......" A low-ranking officer of the forbidden army who had just had one arm cut off continued to fight, and roared, however, before his roar fell, his head was cut off diagonally by a Western Xia scimitar warrior who had just cut off one of his legs.
Though a man is dead, his words are still in his ears. Although the low-ranking officer of the Forbidden Army who had made the idea had already hung up, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army, who had heard his order before his death, rushed to the edge of the arrow stack, raised their knives and slashed at the metal hooks embedded in the cracks in the wall.
Of course, the Western Xia warriors who had already kicked the city were also taking action to stop it, however, their number was not as large as the forbidden army after all, so in the end, they couldn't completely stop it, and eighty percent of the ten hook locks were cut off, and only a few barely survived under their desperate protection.
Up to this moment, the battle for the city wall between the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army and the Western Xia Iron Harrier Army had only lasted less than three minutes, however, its intensity had already entered the white-hot stage, and dozens of mutilated corpses of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army had been pounced on the city wall.
Of course, among the corpses of the forbidden army that were broken into pieces, there were also several relatively intact corpses of the Western Xia Iron Harrier Army, these barbarians, even if they were dead, still had a fierce look on their faces, exactly the same as when they were alive.
After fighting for another three or four minutes, and killing dozens of people to each other, the soldiers on both sides who had formed a confrontation on the east and west city walls realized that the other party was very "difficult", especially the soldiers of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty.
The soldiers of the forbidden army, who had been fighting for a long time, found that if they wanted to kill one of the other party, they had to take at least two people on their own, and sometimes they were unlucky, and even had to take three people.
Fortunately, the forbidden army had cut most of the ropes used by the enemy to kick the city earlier, and did not let all the three or four hundred people under the city come up, otherwise, they would have been unable to bear it by this time.
Now, on the city walls on the east and west sides, six or seven hundred soldiers of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, and the one or two hundred Xixia Iron Harrier Army that have reached the top, are in a state of parity.
After seeing that his subordinates were frustrated in the siege of the city, the commander of the Iron Harrier Army, who was watching, also understood that the surprise attack he was playing had failed, and if he wanted to take this small city, he had to find another way.
While his mind was pondering, he turned his head and asked his men, "Who is the defender of the city?" ”
The reason why he asked this was because he felt that he had met an opponent this time, and in the current situation, he rarely saw it in the Song Realm, and at a certain moment, he had to retreat, after all, the number of people under his command was relatively small and he couldn't afford it.
Although he had the idea of retreating in his heart, he also understood that he could not retreat, because, in the Western Xia Kingdom, which worshiped warriors, if a commander ordered his subordinates to retreat, then he would not be qualified to continue to be the boss, so he ......
"Back to the commander, my subordinates don't know ......" After listening to his boss's question, he also didn't know which general's subordinates of the Song Dynasty were guarding the city, so he replied embarrassedly.
"En......" Just when the commander of the Iron Harrier Army, who didn't get an answer, groaned unhappily, he, who had an animal-like instinct, suddenly felt a sense of crisis, so, after jumping off the war horse quickly, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Be careful......"
Before the words fell, there was a bang of "......boom", and the earth trembled......