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On the north side of Baofeng Mountain, across the continuous mountain forest, a 3-mile-long narrow canyon appeared in front of you, and countless black-armored soldiers were forming a long black dragon slowly passing through the canyon on the road at the canyon level.

The whole procession of about 60,000 men, stretching for several miles, the cavalry at the front had already passed through the canyon, but the following baggage troops were still circling in the mountains and forests.

"General, there are still less than 10 miles ahead of Dong'an City!"

At the exit of the canyon ahead, thousands of cavalry had completely driven out of the canyon, and a cavalry scout quickly rushed to Li Dingguo to report to him.

The army in front of him Hao Ran was the Eastern Army that should be stationed in Ji'an County, but under the leadership of Li Dingguo, the general of Zhengdong, quietly appeared at this necessary crossing to Changzhou.

"Wen Leopard, you immediately lead 3,000 light horsemen to go first, all the war horses and horses' hooves are wrapped in cloth, don't startle the snakes, if Dong'an City's defense is lax, you can directly wait for the opportunity to take Dong'an City, I will lead the army of the headquarters to arrive later!"

Li Dingguo looked up at the sky and commanded Xiangtiao.

Now that it was getting dark, he could reach Dong'an City before dark at the speed of light cavalry.

At this time, the army had just crossed the canyon, and the defenders of Dong'an City would not have expected that the southern royal army would be able to cross hundreds of thousands of Chengjia troops to launch a surprise attack on Dong'an City.

"Whoa!"

Xiang Tiao's expression perked up, and he quickly received the order.

"Yuanfu, you immediately lead the soldiers and horses of your headquarters to move forward lightly, and be ready to meet Wen Leopard at any time!" Then Li Dingguo ordered Zhou Cang again.

After all, the number of 3,000 cavalry is too small, and Dong'an City is an important town in the south of Changzhou, with more than 20,000 people in the city.

Once the war in Changzhou starts, Dong'an City will serve as an important bridgehead for the Eastern Army to conquer Changzhou, and there is no room for failure.

"Whoa!"

Soon, the 3,000 light cavalry led by Xiang Tiao and the 10,000 troops under Zhou Cang were quickly reassembled, and they left one after another, heading towards Dong'an City.

Dong'an City, located in a small basin on the side of Baofeng Mountain in the south of Changzhou, has four gates in the east, west, north and south, extending in all directions, convenient transportation, is not only a border town, but also a prosperous trade distribution area, the resident people and the floating population in the city account for almost half.

Although Dong'an City is an important border town, but because there are hundreds of meters high Baofeng Mountain and Yunlong Mountain Range traversing it, it is not easy for the army to march, and the logistics support is even more difficult to maintain, the 500,000 troops that Gongsun Shu and they united took nearly half a month, and used more than 100,000 laborers to support logistics to cross this area.

Therefore, the number of permanent garrisons in Dong'an City is not large, only 2,000 people per day.

This time, because Gongsun Shu led the troops to personally recruit the army, the defense of Dong'an City was strengthened, and the defenders were only 5,000, which was still a reserve of the Chengjia army, and the combat effectiveness was not strong.

As the sun set, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the entire land, and the soldiers guarding the city in front of the gate of Dong'an Castle were also covered with golden armor.

On the official road outside the south gate, a few pedestrians were hurriedly walking on the road, and the shadows under their feet were getting longer and longer under the slanting sun, and it was less than half an hour before the city gate was closed.

"Xiaodong, there seem to be fewer people entering the city today"

At the city gate, a city defender with a halberd leaned listlessly against the city wall, looking at a few people who came from afar, and said with a puzzled expression.

As an important market town on the southern edge of Changzhou, Dong'an City is far from being able to compete with most of the cities of Qilin or even Yongzhou, but at least hundreds of pedestrians and caravans enter the city every day before the gates close.

But today, it is less than thirty percent of the usual, and even the few people who are hurrying back on the road are all tenants who have gone out of the city to farm.

"Lao Tie, you and I are just a little soldier guarding the city, why do you care so much about these things, anyway, the sky is falling and there is a tall one on top, why bother asking for trouble, I am still waiting to close the city gate and go home to see my wife and children!"

The young soldier named Xiaodong pursed his lips when he heard this, and retorted indifferently.

"Xiaodong, how can you be a general if you don't want to make progress!"

The veteran named Lao Tie seemed to be accustomed to Xiaodong's mutual hatred, shook his head and taught him a sad face.

"Then you are always thinking so aggressively, why are you still guarding the city here?"

However, soon Xiaodong's words made him speechless.

In the midst of the mutual ridicule of the old and the young, time passed quickly, and when they were about to enter the city, there was a sudden movement outside the official road hundreds of meters.

Thundered~

With the light trembling of the earth, a black line slowly appeared in the sight of the two people in front of the city gate.

"What is this?"

In the dim vision, I saw that the black line was constantly beating slightly, and was slowly lengthening and widening.

"There is a situation outside the city, close the city gate quickly!"

Just when the two of them couldn't figure out the situation, the shouts of the captain of the guards on duty came from the castle tower.

"Yes! Be! ”

At this time, the two of them reacted impressively, and what appeared outside the city was actually a cavalry, which was rushing quickly in the direction of Dong'an City.

The two of them were immediately startled, and immediately entered the city neatly, and several soldiers who came down from the city tower began to slowly close the city gate.

Woo Woo Woo ~ A dense sound of breaking the air came from the sky, and thousands of black arrows shot at the castle tower in the cover of the evening night.

Yes~

Screams continued to sound on the towers, and dozens of defenders above the city gates, who had no time to dodge, fell in a rain of arrows.

"Archer, shoot!"

At this time, the captain on duty at the south gate was also alarmed, and came to the city wall and began to organize archers to counterattack, and an archer who was guarding the city drew his bow and threw it under the tower.

Woo Woo Woo ~ Ahhh

Unfortunately, the second wave of archers had not yet counterattacked, and the rain of arrows from the city struck again, and the black light arrows were densely swept above the battlements as if they were equipped with positioning devices, and many archers with extremely low defense were immediately hit by arrows.

Through the faint afterglow of the sun, the archers on the castle tower finally saw clearly the weapon in the hands of the attacking black-armored cavalry, the three-stone rhubarb crossbow.

In the era of cold weapons, this is a super lethal equipment, which was widely used in the Han Dynasty, mainly to equip infantry to restrain enemy cavalry.

Here, however, the 3,000 light cavalry were all armed with a three-stone rhubarb crossbow.

Due to the lack of materials and the excessive amount of manpower required to make the rhubarb crossbow, this weapon was not produced in the Seiko workshop, and these rhubarb crossbows were all opened by Sima Yu from the Ancient Artifact Ding. Moreover, although the rhubarb crossbow has a high lethality in attack, it has higher requirements for the user, has a slower rate of fire, and plays a role not as good as a bow and arrow on the battlefield.

Therefore, Sima Yu did not popularize the use of the whole army, although he had used the rhubarb crossbow on the battlefield in the past, it was mainly to win by surprise, and it could not be copied in large quantities.

At present, in the entire southern royal army, only the light cavalry is still equipped with this kind of weapon, with the long range and high penetration power of the big yellow crossbow, combined with the high mobility of the light cavalry, it can often stand in the first place in the raid station and win the surprise attack.

Under the firing of a round of big yellow crossbows, the archers on the city tower were instantly reduced by more than half.

"Kill!"

Without the resistance of the archers on the city tower, the 3,000 black-armored light cavalry quickly killed the city tower like a rolling torrent.

Each of the four cavalrymen held an iron chain and dragged an iron ram towards the city gate.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Several waves of rams continued to crash towards the city gate, and the city gate that had not yet been completely reached was directly smashed open, and thousands of light cavalry swarmed in from the city gate and killed directly into the city.

"General, no! The enemy army has entered the city! ”

In the mansion of the defender of Dong'an City, a soldier hurried to the mansion and said to Bai Chenghong, the untidy general of the defenders.

Judging from Bai Chenghong's clothes that have not yet been fully dressed, he may have just gotten up from the women's nest.

"What? Enemy forces are progressing? Come on! ”

After the defender of Dong'an City learned the news that the enemy army had entered the city, his first reaction was not to lead his troops to counterattack, but to flee from the north gate directly with his belongings and concubines under the escort of hundreds of soldiers.

Half an hour later, the fighting in the city was over.

After Xiang Tiao led his troops to break through the city gate, 3,000 cavalry did not encounter too strong resistance after entering the city, the general who defended the original Dong'an City had led his troops to flee at the moment of breaking the city, and only the remaining more than 3,000 defender soldiers had no desire to fight, and soon all disarmed and surrendered.

Dong'an City is in hand!