Xu Ren led more than 100 people all the way to collect the knights who had fallen from their horses, and these knights were all elites who could ride on horses and walk off horses. They hold shields in one hand to protect people; Holding a crossbow in one hand, waiting for the opportunity to provoke, more than a hundred people gathered together, formed a small phalanx, and quickly marched towards the city.

When Xu Ren arrived at the horse rejection gun formation, there were already more than 200 fallen knights around him, and Xu Ren had been charging forward when he was on the horse, and he was still leading the way in the infantry formation.

"General! Checkmate! Checkmate! A knight galloped from the rejection and shouted.

"Come to the horse to avoid the battle, and the violators are ruthless." Seeing a horse galloping from the rejection array, Xu Ren shouted loudly.

Hearing the sound, the knight raised his knife and cut off the horse's legs, and for a while the horse died immediately, and the knight fell into the formation under the effect of inertia: "General, Vice General Xu sent me to report to you, he has attacked the moat, and has led his men to fill in three roads on the moat, Vice General Xu hopes that the general will hurry up and expand the results of the battle." ”

"How about the casualties." Xu Ren asked worriedly, if the casualties of the former army were too large, it would be useless for him to go with such a few people.

"The horses are almost all gone." The knight of the report seems to be a man who loves horses, and he speaks not first of people, but of horses.

"Why are the horses gone?" Xu Ren hurriedly asked again, he needed to understand the situation of the front army in detail before he could make the corresponding judgment, and then make the corresponding arrangements.

"The arrows fired from the city were so dense that the men could not protect their horses at the same time, so after five or six rounds of rain of arrows we could hardly find a single live horse in our position. On the current position, all the knights are now infantry. And the horse I just rode was the only one of the few horses left alive in the former army. ”

"The horse is gone, and the man must have suffered heavy casualties! How many people are left? Xu Ren asked again, this was his main concern.

"Not many people died, and by the time I left, there should have been more than 400 people." The knight snapped his fingers, thought for a moment, and replied.

"Horses are dead, but people aren't dead." Xu Ren asked suspiciously.

The knight who reported replied with a grateful tone, "Thanks to Vice Admiral Xu, it was he who came up with a clever plan that allowed so many of us to survive." When Vice Admiral Xu saw that a large number of horse carcasses were lying by the moat, he ordered us to pile the carcasses of the horses together, so that people could hide behind the carcasses of the horses, and not worry about the arrows shot from the front, and the people became safer; In addition to this benefit, it is also possible to safely install a crossbow bolt behind the horse's carcass, and then poke its head out from behind the horse's carcass to fight back. In this way, although our side only had more than 400 people, we killed and wounded many people in the city at one time, which made their offensive weaken. ”

Xu Ren was stunned when he heard this, then smiled, and praised Xu Zhen in his mouth: "I didn't expect that this deputy general of mine was still a little anxious. ”

The clerk who had been following Xu Ren also smiled when he heard this, and congratulated Xu Ren and said, "Congratulations to the general for getting a wise general." ”

Xu Ren was embarrassed when he heard his secretary's praise, and he immediately said modestly: "It's Xu Zhen who is angry, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

After speaking, he skipped the topic of Xu Zhen and instructed the clerk: "You lead a dozen people to the rear formation to report the military situation to my eldest brother in the front, so that he must march forward quickly and without mistakes." ”

After instructing the clerk, Xu Ren loudly ordered the more than 200 people around him: "The whole army should speed up the march, join up with the comrades in front, and expand the results as much as possible." ”

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Looking at Peng Wei's series of arrangements outside the city, one ring after another, the besieging side of the city was calculated to the extreme. First, he carried out a crossbow attack on Xu Ren's cavalry group at a distance of 600 meters to 500 meters, forcing it to speed up and quickly escape the crossbow strike area. The existence of inertia makes the knight riding on a horse galloping horse at high speed when the horse falls into the pit, and the arrows fired by the repeater will ruthlessly harvest the lives of the fallen horsemen and the lives of the panicked knights. In the actual battle, in the area of the trapping pit, Xu Ren's team left the corpses of seventy or eighty people.

After the thrilling experience of the pit, the knights who passed through the trap will be loosened, so the thistles laid in advance in the area of 400 to 300 meters will become the second nightmare of the cavalry group, and the thistles will completely disrupt their cavalry formation, and at this time, the almost uninterrupted dense crossbow arrows falling from the sky will once again harvest the lives of the knights. In reality, Xu Ren's cavalry group once again lost seventy or eighty lives in this area, and more than a hundred people fell from their horses here.

The cavalry that loses its speed is like a target in the war, and the next rejection of the horse and the spear formation will be the grave that Xu Ren has prepared for these knights. At five o'clock, the cavalry group, which had lost its mobility, arrived at the rejecting horse gun formation. It was in this area that Peng Wei lost control of the battlefield.

A repellent pistol is an obstacle in which multiple spears are inserted into a log to block the charge of enemy cavalry. It is used on the defensive side, as an auxiliary device when building a position, and is also often used to block roads. Peng Wei had a whim, and set up a horse rejection array on both sides of the moat, and he set up half of the horse rejection guns in Peng Cheng here. There are 5 rows of rejecting pistols, each row of rejecting pistols is connected by iron chains, according to Peng Wei's vision, Xu Ren's cavalry group will be forced to divert in order to pass through here, and once the cavalry is dispersed, it will be completely destroyed. However, things did not develop according to Peng Wei's imagination.

When Xu Zhen arrived here, he saw at a glance that there was something greasy in it. Clever he led more than 100 people to abandon the horse for the foot, under the cover of the cavalry behind him, cut off the chain of the horse rejection gun connected in front of him, and then moved the horse rejection gun one by one, step by step, after paying dozens of people to die, opened up a road for five horses to go parallel, so a large number of cavalry was preserved, straight to the moat.

The situation then deteriorated more and more, and became more and more detached from Peng Wei's plan. Although Peng Wei ordered a rain of arrows to be poured continuously in the area where the cavalry was located, they were all defused by the enemy army, and the killing effect was not great, and the knights under the city also began to counterattack, shooting and killing hundreds of people in the city, and the two sides formed a confrontation for a while.

At six o'clock, above the city, Peng Wei was condescending, watching the movements of the enemy troops under the city, thinking about how to deal with it. "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" rows of thick crossbow arrows flew up the city, "General, be careful." A soldier pounced on Peng Wei, who had lost his mind.

Peng Wei couldn't reach it, and was hit by the small soldiers, and fell to the ground heavily. "Shaft, interfere with military affairs, you want to die." Peng Wei, who was lying on the ground, scolded angrily.

Xiao Bing also fell not lightly, and in the face of Peng Wei's accusation, he didn't say anything, and pointed his finger upward. Peng Wei turned over, only to see waves of thick arrows in the sky rain down into the city and nail into the city walls. Peng Wei crawled to the edge of the city wall and looked out of the city through his lookout eyes.

Arrows flew neatly into the sky from the area of the trap pit, and Peng Wei suddenly figured out the source of the giant arrows, and also realized that the battle situation was completely out of control.

"General, general, the people in the city have suffered heavy casualties, and we have no power to fight back, what should we do." At this moment, Peng Wei's lieutenant ran to Peng Wei's side and asked loudly.

"Calm down, it's not as bad as you think. Order all the repeaters to turn their targets and cover the crossbow formations that strike at the enemy's rear. Peng Wei decisively ordered, "Let the crossbowmen not stop." As long as the enemy's vanguard is destroyed by us, we still have hope of victory. ”

At the same time, in the rear army camp under the city, Xu Yan was also giving orders to his subordinates. "This is the person sent by your second brother, he roughly informed me of the military situation ahead, and now everyone is listening to my orders." Xu Yan said solemnly.

"Fifth brother, I have already organized 300 cavalry troops and 500 infantry, and I order you to immediately take them forward to rescue your second brother. Your mission is to hold the front line desperately. ”

"Honorable Order." Xu Yu sighed, and then took the arrow given by Xu Yan and quickly ran to the front of the rear army's large array.

"Third brother, I order you to set off immediately, go to our rear army camp, and quickly bring the generals and divisions, the sooner you come, the fewer casualties we will have."

"Honorable Order." Xu Ji answered, and then ran alone in the opposite direction to Xu Ji.

"Xu Hua, I will leave you with 500 infantry, you must hold the crossbow formation with 500 crossbowmen, and maintain the continuous and powerful firepower of the crossbow array."

"The last general will definitely swear to protect the repeater array." Xu Hua took the arrow and swore by pointing to the sky.

"The rest of the people, each of them returned to their positions, organized the personnel, and after a quarter of an hour, we all moved forward quickly."

"The Last General's Order." Everyone shouted in response, and then scattered. For a while, the rear army was lively in the big array, everyone began to sharpen their knives and guns, and there was a solemn atmosphere in the entire large array, which even the people in the city a few hundred meters away could feel it.