Chapter 49: The First Battle of Attack and Defense
"Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and the hub was short-lived." Song Yu shouted such a sentence with the power of the dantian.
"The sun is like a cloud, and the arrows are fighting for the first." Some people spoke in response.
"Ling Yu is in a hurry, and his left side is injured and his right blade is injured." Song Yu yelled again.
"The haze is two rounds and four horses, and the jade is beating the drum." More people spoke out in response.
"When the sky is frightened, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned." Song Yu continued to yell.
"You can't get in and out, and you can't go back, and the plains are so far away." Most of them roared too.
"Take a long sword and carry a Qin bow, and your head will not be punished." Song Yu still roared loudly.
"Honesty is both brave and martial, and in the end it is strong and invincible." All the people shouted in unison.
"The body is dead, the god is the spirit, and the soul of the child is the ghost." Song Yu shouted with the people.
After the song, the atmosphere on the field has changed a lot, and everyone is obviously much more solemn. A suffocating aura of murder spread, as if by magic.
Of course, there is no magic in the poem, and this poem is an elegy that Song Yu taught the people of Pengcheng to sing when he was not overlooked a few years ago. This poem is called "National Mourning", which is an elegy written by Song Yu's master Qu Yuan to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Chu State. The poems are sincere and fiery, and the rhythm is clear and rapid, giving people a sense of awe-inspiring, tragic, upright and masculine. The soldiers of Pengcheng County loved the melody of this poem very much, so they often sang this song in the barracks, and gradually, "National Martyrdom" became the war song of Pengcheng County, which was sung by the people.
With a loud "whoosh", a huge arrow pierced the sky, passed through the top of Song Yu's head, shot into the city, and nailed to the earth. The arm-thick shaft of the arrow stuck diagonally into the ground, and some of the weak-minded people panicked.
"What did you promise me just now, shout it out and tell the thieves outside the city." Song Yu, who was still standing motionless on top of the city tower, roared loudly.
When the people saw Song Yu's heroic appearance, their hearts instantly settled down, and they shouted loudly: "Fight to the death and not retreat." ”
"Where is Peng Meng?" Song Yu began to assign tasks in front of everyone.
"The end will be." Peng Meng walked in front of him and replied. His posture was as straight as a pen, and his voice was as loud as thunder.
"I order you to select 500 sturdy warriors from among the people, and from now on you will train them, and I hope that in two days, you will give me 500 soldiers who have passed the army. Of course, the more the merrier. Song Yu ordered.
"The last general commands." Peng Meng knelt down on one knee and commanded.
"Where are Song Gang, Zheng Ling, and Zhao Gong?" Song Yu shouted loudly.
"The end will be." Three capable people walked up to Song Yu.
"I ordered the three of you to each lead 20 subordinate officials and gentry, and they had full authority to guard the northern, southern, and western cities. Song Yu said solemnly.
"The last general commands." The three of them surrendered their orders.
"The rest of the men will follow me to guard the eastern wall." Song Yu roared and ordered.
"No." A cadre of officials and gentry will answer.
"Defend Pengcheng." Song Yu raised his arms and exhaled.
"Defend your homeland." The people also raised their arms in response. And the subordinate officials and gentry also left in all directions to fulfill their duties.
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At two o'clock, the war finally began, hundreds of people pushed the ladder appeared in front of the people of Pengcheng, followed by two or three thousand troops composed of slaves, people, and elite soldiers, these people were the main force of the siege. On the left and right sides of the main force were cavalry units of nearly 1,000 men, and the besieging side was ready to attack.
At the same time, the defense system of the defending side was also largely completed, and it was ready for battle. The ground objects in the Three Arrows Land outside the city have long been bulldozed by the defenders of the city to ensure that the crossbowmen in the city can easily aim and shoot. A moat is flowing slowly 10 meters away from the base of the wall, about five or six meters wide, there is no bridge over the city, and it seems that there is no danger, but in fact, countless bamboo thorns of different lengths have been placed under the surface of the water overnight. There is no ground on the field, although it is convenient for the defenders to shoot, but at the same time it is convenient for the gallop of the cavalry outside the city and the movement of large machinery, so the horse gun is born because of the transport, the horse gun has been placed overnight on both sides of the river, the horse gun on the west bank of the river is shallow buried and easy to move, and the horse horse on the east bank of the river is mostly buried deep in the soil, and the range of arrangement is broad. The repulsion rifle was used to hinder the advance of the enemy's ladder and slow down the cavalry. Staggered wooden stakes were also erected at the base of the walls to prevent enemies from climbing the city and stabbing fallen enemies to death.
"Good job. It's nice to be able to do this in one night. Seeing the fortifications in front of him, Song Yu patted Peng Wei's shoulder, who was following him, and praised with a smile.
"This is all thanks to the people, who are familiar with the environment outside the city, thousands of people went into battle, and in less than a moment quietly completed the construction of the defensive line. Let's wait and see, now that our morale is like a rainbow, the thieves will definitely be repulsed, and they will die heavily. Peng Wei sneered.
At the same time, Xu Yan, Xu Ren, Xu Fu, Xu Ji, and Xu Yu looked at the defense line in front of them with a blue face.
"What to do." They were all the best of Xu Ba's sons and nephews, and although they had a wide range of knowledge, it was the first time they had seen such a complex defensive facility, so someone asked.
"Who knows, fight hard, didn't you come here like this before?" Xu Ren replied casually, don't look at his name as Ren, he is indeed an out-and-out bloodthirsty person.
"Kids. Sweep with me. Xu Ren shouted, beat the horse and galloped away. More than 300 cavalrymen behind him also left the main formation, raising a huge cloud of smoke and dust.
"A simple-minded, well-developed fellow." Xu Yan secretly slandered that he was the oldest of the five, and he was the smartest person.
"Big brother, should we follow?" Xu Fu asked.
"No need, let the second brother clear the way for us. Let all the horses have a bag of dirt on their backs, and as long as the second brother clears a road, we will gallop to the moat and fill in a few roads with earth. Xu Yan ordered.
At the same time, Peng Wei in the city was very nervous, his mouth kept babbling, and even Song Yu beside him couldn't hear what he was saying. When Xu Ren left the battle with more than 300 cavalry, Peng Wei instantly calmed down. He opened his mouth and ordered, "Prepare the repeater." (The repeater here is not a Zhuge repeater, but a long-range shooting weapon in the Warring States Period, which was a military weapon in the Warring States Period and was later lost.) )
Xu Ren led more than 300 cavalry to gallop on the field, and when there was still a mile away from the city wall, Peng Wei in the city ordered: "Repeater, shoot." In an instant, hundreds of giant arrows shot at the cavalry led by Xu Ren.
"Scatter." Xu Ren also spotted the giant arrow shooting at them, and he knew that this kind of giant arrow was not very accurate, so he decisively ordered. Sure enough, the giant arrows didn't kill many people, some of them directly inserted into the soil, and some of them only killed one person, but the death of the person was very miserable, and the person was directly pierced.
Xu Ren didn't care, laughed, and continued to speed up the horse, and his guards had to hurry up. For a while, there was a serious disconnect in the queue, Xu Ren and a few guards rushed to the front, while his men scattered behind them, and for a while they didn't have time to gather around the main general.
"Here's the opportunity, all the repeaters, concentrate on shooting the cavalry at the front." Peng Wei ordered.
"Whoosh, whoosh......" Dozens of arrows shot at Xu Ren, "Xu Ren, I see how you escaped." Peng Wei muttered to himself.
Xu Ren was stunned for a moment when he saw dozens of arrows shooting towards him, and a shout came from behind him: "General, danger!" Jump the horse! Xu Ren jumped off the horse without thinking.
Xu Ren was shot to the ground, and all the people saw this thrilling scene, and the people of Pengcheng cheered for a while.
"It's a shame that it's a little bit worse." Peng Wei punched the city wall and said in annoyance. Then he continued to shout to the repeater: "Repeater, keep shooting me, don't stop, shoot all the scum for me." ”
Jumping off the high-speed galloping horse, Xu Ren fell so hard that his head was full of gold stars. Lying on the ground, watching the giant arrows fly in front of him from time to time, listening to the howls of people and horses being pierced by arrows, Xu Ren closed his eyes in pain, he could think of the scene of his subordinates desperately charging to save himself from danger, but being pierced by giant arrows. He wanted to get up and get back on his horse, but he knew he couldn't, and without cover, his getting up would mean a dozen arrows flying towards him, and the result would be death.
The more Xu Ren thought about it, the more painful his heart became, and the pain in his heart made the figures of his brothers appear in his mind, and he muttered for help: "Big brother, come and save me, my brother can't hold on." ”
"Whoosh, swish, swish......" Hundreds of arrows kept pouring down on the field, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the knights.
"Big brother, I'm afraid the second brother won't be able to hold on, let's go and save him." Xu Yu and Xu Ren are brothers, and he saw his brother fall off the horse and never stand up again, panicked for a while, and he said to Xu Yan eagerly.
"What's the panic, the sky hasn't fallen yet. Fifth brother, lead 500 knights to save your second brother, and then take him back quickly for me. Xu Yan said calmly.
"I'll do it, boys, follow me." Xu Yu shouted, patted his horse and left, and the 500 subordinates behind him followed closely, raising a puff of sand and dust on the ground again.
On the wall of Pengcheng, Peng Wei's face became even more hideous, and he whispered to himself: "The fish has been hooked." ”