Chapter 51: The 'wolf' tide is surging
"Great wolf god, we are your most loyal people, please don't eat... Yes! ”
Many Turkic tribes take the wolf as a totem, worship the wolf god, at the beginning of the intersection of Erdao Street and Zhaojia Lane, there is a Turk who naively thinks that he is a believer in the wolf god and will not be attacked by the wolves, so he automatically gave up resistance, threw his weapon aside, and prayed sincerely on the ground.
The people around him were a little moved when they saw this, and they planned to follow suit, but the wolf moved faster.
A wild wolf, who had some scruples about the Turkic shield wall, was wandering in front of the formation, and suddenly saw someone showing a flaw, and immediately pounced on the man's shoulder and bit him, intending to drag him out of the line.
The man screamed loudly in pain, completely extinguishing the thoughts of the other Turks kneeling on the ground and praying!
"Kill this wolf! Don't forget your legs are tied together! This idiot has been dragged out, and you won't live long! ”
The veteran soldier in charge of commanding the Turks, seeing this, hurriedly reminded him in blunt Turkic words, and the Turks woke up like a dream after hearing it, and then remembered that they and the man were grasshoppers on the same rope, and hurriedly used the weapons in their hands to kill the wild wolves.
After the wild wolf was injured, he quickly let go and retreated, and the Turks wanted to chase after him, but they were stopped by the veteran
"Don't chase, keep in formation, if the formation is messed up, no one will survive!"
The Turks hesitated to stop and look around, only to see that they had almost rushed out of the intersection, and around them, dozens of wild wolves were staring at them, waiting for them to disperse in formation.
The Turks felt a chill in their hearts, remembering the wolf hunting method they had seen in the steppe before, wasn't it just to disperse the beasts first, and then surround them?
The Turks immediately stopped their steps and retreated to the middle of the intersection to line up, these Turks had fought and had good basic tactical literacy. They formed a formation of a hundred men in five rows, and the ankles of each row were tied together by ropes, and they had to advance and retreat together.
The Turks in the first two rows were holding shields, they squatted on the ground with short soldiers in their hands, held their shields in front of them to form a shield wall, and blocked the street entrance, and the Turks in the back three rows stretched out spears and other long soldiers from the heads of the first row, and as soon as the wild wolves approached, they stabbed hard to force the wild wolves away.
There are a total of five street entrances in Erdao Street and Sandao Street, and the intersection of Zhaojiaxiang Street is only one of them, and the street entrances are specially selected, each of which is a very long lane, and there is no fork on either side, and even if there is, it has long been blocked. The defensive line was built in the middle and front of the roadway, in which there were four or five Turkic phalanxes at each street entrance, and as long as one or two squares were not known side by side, the street entrance could be completely sealed, and the rest of the people waited behind as a reserve.
Behind the Turks, there were hundreds of militiamen with spears, even if the reserve army was also a warlord, and more than 100 crossbowmen stood on the commanding heights on both sides of the street, shooting at the wolves below with their bows and crossbows, and they also carried oil-soaked firewood and grass to the roofs, and used fire to block them if necessary, all of which were prepared before the battle.
The militia brought furniture, stones, and sandbags from nearby houses, and built a simple barricade in the middle of the alley behind the Turks, and horses were placed in front of the barricade, and the materials for building the barricade were also prepared in advance, and the speed of construction was very fast, and the barricade might have been completed before the wolf demon in the encirclement found out that the situation was wrong.
The mobile unit, which consisted entirely of veterans, did not participate in the operation of blocking the street entrance, but divided into several teams to clear out the small groups of wild wolves that had not entered the encirclement in other parts of the city, while Pan Xiaogu, his personal guards and staff officers, moved to the nearest stronghold to direct the operation.
At first, the wolf's attack on the street entrance was not violent, but after a few simple attempts, after hanging up a dozen wild wolves, he retreated far away to the human confrontation outside the alleyway, and after about half an hour, the wolf demon in the encirclement finally noticed the abnormality and found that all the exits in this area were blocked by humans!
Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~
There was a series of rapid howls from within the encirclement, sounding very urgent.
The wild wolf that was originally wandering at the entrance of Zhaojia Alley and confronting humans, was stunned for a moment after hearing the howl, and then rushed towards the defense line at the entrance of the street!
"The wolf is coming, release the arrows!" The little leader commanding the crossbowmen shouted
The crossbowmen occupying the high ground each aimed at their targets and fired their crossbows, and the wolves uncharacteristically did not dodge or dodge, and continued to charge in the face of the rain of arrows.
Seeing the indomitable posture of the wild wolf, there was a burst of chirping and screaming from the Turkic phalanx, because the shouting was too rapid and fast, and the veteran who knew Turkic did not understand a word.
"Shut up Lao Tzu, who will shout at me to cut him and feed the wolf!"
The veteran successfully suppressed the Turkic commotion, and at this time the wild wolves also rushed to the Turkic phalanx.
The wild wolf that rushed over first did not slow down, and directly hit the shield wall, the strength of the wild wolf was great, and the person holding the shield was knocked to the ground at once, of course, this wild wolf was not good, not only hit his head and bleed, but also entered a state of vertigo, and was stabbed to death by the nearby Turks with knives (spears).
Immediately afterwards, more and more wild wolves hit the shield wall with suicidal collisions, and countless gaps were knocked out by the wild wolves in the shield wall, but fortunately, there were not many wild wolves in this batch, only a few dozen, and they were quickly wiped out.
After killing all the wolves in front of them, the surviving Turks raised their hands in cheer, and the veteran in charge of the command couldn't help but grin when they looked at them, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore.
There was a noisy sound of footsteps in the direction of the alley, and then the figure of a wild wolf appeared at the alley, and then another. As soon as the wolves saw the human defense, they immediately rushed over, and new wolves kept appearing behind them, and soon hundreds of wolves rushed into the alley, filling the first half of the alley, and the crossbowmen on the roof didn't even need to aim, they could shoot at the target with their eyes closed.
This is not a small scene like dozens of wild wolves, hundreds of wild wolves gathered together, it was really like a tide, and many Turks were so frightened that they urinated directly, and they didn't even have the idea of escaping.
The wild wolves didn't care about the state of the Turks, they crashed into the Turkic defense line wave after wave, and even some wild wolves jumped up directly and pounced on the back row of the Turks, even if they were stabbed to death by the raised weapon, the corpse could also knock down the people below.
The Turkic phalanx in the front row was overwhelmed by wolves almost instantly, and most of the Turkic phalanx in the back row were also entangled with wild wolves, and the alleys were filled with the screams of Turks and the roars of wild beasts, and the strong smell of blood could be smelled from afar.
"Set fire to the alley!" The temporary commander on the roof commanded with a pale face.