Chapter 188: First Battle Cavalry
The gate of the manor had already lowered the jack gate, Shi pulled a rope, jumped off the wall, helped Ji Xiaohan up, and asked, "Girl, can you still hold on?" ”
Ji Xiaohan's face was pale, cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, and he nodded with his support, "This big brother, I'm fine." ”
Shi Meng grabbed her arm and admonished, "Then pay attention, I'll pull you up." ”
After saying that, he yanked the rope violently, pressed his toes on the ground a little, and kicked his feet out of the wall to jump up the wall with his strength. After settling down, he let go of Ji Xiaohan.
Ji Xiaohan glanced at Su Ziheng weakly, gritted his teeth to endure the pain, bowed and saluted, "Thank you for saving your life." ”
Su Ziheng looked at her quietly, and said coldly: "Don't you blame me for sending you out?" Why thank me? ”
Ji Xiaohan shook his head and said, "The slave doesn't dare to blame the son. Besides, the son did nothing wrong, and the slave maid asked to go out by herself. can have such a result, and I can't complain about the son. If you want to blame, you can only blame them for being too bold! ”
Su Ziheng carefully observed the expression on her face, and saw that her expression did not seem to be fake, so he said lightly: "So far, aren't you going to tell me who they are?" ”
Without waiting for Ji Xiaohan to answer, Su Ziheng saw that the wound on her back was constantly oozing blood stains, and waved his hand and said, "That's it, you go down to treat the injury first." ”
Ji Xiaohan was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and said quickly: "Son, please be careful, they are the elite iron cavalry of the Mengyuan Empire, and the general who leads the troops is Babur, the commander of the thousand troops under the command of the Right Sage King Shu'er Che." He is unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, and the 1,000 iron cavalry under his command is the elite of the elite of the Mengyuan army. If you really can't resist it, please evacuate quickly. ”
"Meng Yuan's elite iron horse?" Su Ziheng smiled noncommittally, "Miss Xiaohan, you go to treat your injuries first, by the way, do you have any wound medicine on your body?" Do you need Su to provide it to you? ”
Su Ziheng bought a lot of Yunnan Baiyao in his previous life and put it in the base warehouse for later use, but unfortunately Xie Qingxuan later came up with a better gold sore medicine than Yunnan Baiyao, and his Yunnan Baiyao was not very useful.
Ji Xiaohanqiao nodded with a pale face, "Childe, please rest assured, the slave maid has injury medicine on her body, but it is only injured in the back, and it is inconvenient to take the medicine in person, and I also ask Childe to arrange a sister to help with the medicine." ”
Su Ziheng bowed his head and said: "This is easy to say, Ah Cai, you take this girl to find the eldest lady." Also, Miss Xie, please come over. He called over to one of the guards and commanded him.
Seeing Ji Xiaohan get off the women's wall, Su Ziheng turned back to Shi Meng and said, "Mengzi, are all the things for defending the city ready?" Especially for pottery grenades, it is necessary to ensure that there are three handfuls, and if it is not enough, send someone to notify the chief of the royal road and several craftsmen in the workshop to speed up the production. ”
Shi Meng scratched his head and said in a humble voice: "Master, at present, only two hundred pottery grenades have been made at most, and now there are no two of them." However, I have already informed Uncle Mao in the workshop, and Uncle Mao said that he will be able to make a batch soon. ”
Su Ziheng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "That's good, in addition, the guards with excellent grenade throwing ability will be dispatched over to be responsible for the protection of this courtyard wall, and the others will guard their respective positions to prevent sneak attacks." ”
"No!"
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Babur frowned and looked at the two-foot wall in front of him, and let out a long sigh, "Damn, I've been deceived by that insidious guy who has taken care of Dutimur again." also told Lao Tzu that it was just a manor, is there a manor about the same height as the city wall of Tanggu County? ”
But the matter has come to this, just now he ordered to shoot several people of Princess Yongning, even if he wanted to, it was impossible for him to repent.
"Come on, go up and test a few times."
With Babur's order, more than a dozen horsemen rushed out of the cavalry team and went straight to Sujiazhuang. When I came to the front of the closer, there was a trench nearly a zhang wide, and this distance was not impossible to cross, but if you didn't pay attention to it, you would fall into the ditch.
If an attack were launched from outside the trench, the damage to the wall would be limited; If you jump over the trenches, it is not conducive to the agility of the cavalry. I didn't expect the owner of this manor to be really capable.
Babur reined in the reins of his horse and stopped outside the trench, wondering what to do in the next battle. For him, the slightly troublesome thing is the two-zhang high wall, as long as he breaks through, slaughtering these Xia people is not as simple as killing chickens and slaughtering cattle.
"Drive!"
As soon as the dozen or so horsemen pulled the reins, their horses leaped high and were about to cross the trench.
Su Ziheng raised a red order flag in his hand, waved it down, and sneered: "Let's go!" ”
Suddenly, Shi Meng picked up a short spear and threw it at the dozen or so Mengyuan cavalrymen. Immediately afterwards, dozens of guards on the female wall followed Shi Meng's example, picked up a sharpened bamboo spear, and threw it down one after another.
"Ah......h In particular, the cavalry in the lead was shot through by Shi Menglian and his horse and landed in the trench.
"Well done!" Su Ziheng did not hesitate to praise them, and then instructed Li Dashan beside him: "Uncle Li, shoot the bow and arrow." ”
He was planning to shoot all the dozen or so cavalrymen under the wall in one go.
"Whoa...... "Babur exclaimed in frustration, he didn't expect it, but only a preliminary temptation, he lost nearly ten of his cavalry. His eyes were filled with rage, "Archers prepare, throw!" ”
Su Ziheng saw that the cavalry on the opposite side took off the curved bows on their backs one by one, and hurriedly shouted: "Put up your shield and pay attention to concealment." ”
At the moment, many guards supported a large wooden plank from the women's wall to serve as a shield. At the same time, through the gap in the shield, pay attention to the enemy's movements.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”
A rain of arrows rained down from the sky, but with little effect. On the one hand, the wall is quite high, and there are trenches outside to block it, so the Mengyuan cavalry can't get too close. Arrows shot in this way were either too low to hit the wall, or too high to fall into the courtyard.
After the rain of arrows, Babur saw that there were no casualties on the other side. couldn't help frowning, this Sujiazhuang was like a turtle hiding in a hard shell, and there was nowhere to start.
In a head-on battle, Babur thought that his 1,000 elite iron cavalry would not be inferior to any army. But it's really not good at siege warfare, not to mention, I set off in the morning too quickly, and I didn't bring any siege equipment.
In this way, if you want to build this manor, you have to think long-term, and you can't continue to do it like this. Otherwise, even if you fight in the end, you will have to lose a lot, which is too much to lose.
"Come on, divide the troops into two ways, and see if this manor is so tightly defended on all sides that there are no flaws to be found?"
Soon, a thousand-person cavalry team instantly turned into two teams and ran around the main house of Sujiazhuang. To Babur's disappointment, he didn't find much weakness to exploit.
You must know that this is a fortification that Su Ziheng mobilized more than a thousand displaced people and spent nearly ten days to perfect, how could he find a weak point so easily?