Chapter 87: The Tiger's Mouth (6)
In order to ensure that the battle could be completed in one fell swoop, Jerewolf and Brie agreed that Brie would launch a feint attack and intercept in the south, so as to prevent Breth from escaping after the Murowei broke the camp, while his own forces would attack in the north. Although Brie was angry at Jerewolf's previous actions, he finally agreed for the sake of the bigger picture.
Just after the fifth watch of this day, Yelu Wolf and Bri led their troops out of the camp at the same time, one south and one north launched a flank attack, which made Pala feel great pressure, but he still quickly saw the main direction of the Khitans, so he discussed with Xie Ra and transferred him to the north to deal with Yelu Wolf. Naturally, it was not easy to say much, so he agreed.
Jerewolf was no one like Brie, he had prepared a large number of baggage weapons such as battering rams and long wooden ladders, as well as twenty improvised trebuchets made of improvised timber. The first round of attack was as fierce as a storm, twenty trebuchets were thrown at the same time from a distance of two hundred paces, and the large and rough cobblestones like pumpkins rained down on the wall, not only inflicting huge losses on the 5,000 men who had been relieved, but also destroying the corner towers and arrow towers one by one, and then concentrating on the gate and throwing them at the gate.
Seeing this, Xie Ra was very anxious, and immediately approached Betha and proposed to send light cavalry to destroy his trebuchet. When this situation was in danger, Brown had no objection, and ordered Shoder and Xie Ra to send 2,000 horsemen each to attack from the camp at Xiyuanmen.
Soon, Shodell and Xie Ra gathered their soldiers, and 4,000 light horsemen marched out of the battalion. Xie Ra took advantage of this free time and said to Chaudel: "Your two thousand elite horsemen are responsible for destroying the trebuchet, and I will break off with you. ”
Shodell nodded in agreement, and the two divided into two teams, the front and back, and accelerated to the north battlefield. After the Khitan rangers found out, they reported the situation to Yelu Wolf in due course.
"The fish has taken the bait...... Who would lead the attack with me to intercept this light horse? Jeruwolf laughed and looked around.
"Please leave the Sumire with me for 3,000 horsemen, and never teach him to get away with a single soldier!" Mu Lun shouted orders.
"Good...... The trapped beasts are still fighting, and they can't fight hard, just take a detour to stop them! Jerewolf commanded.
When Mu Lun heard this, he immediately understood, and immediately led 3,000 people to leave the battlefield far west.
At this time, Xie Ra and Xiao Deer attacked the trebuchet array at the same time, and Yelu Wolf De divided three thousand horsemen to intercept it, and the two sides immediately fought in one place. Schodel's elite cavalry once again showed its extraordinary combat power, and when it rushed back and forth, it coordinated with great skill, and immediately fought its way out like a storm and waves, heading straight for the trebuchet group in the front of the Khitan army.
And the combat strength of the men and horses of Xie Ra was much worse, and they followed in the rear, so they were not so lucky, and they were immediately cut into two sections by the Khitan soldiers, and the front and back were disjointed and lost their care, and the rear team was gradually strangled. Fortunately, with a warrior like Sodi by his side, although Xie Ra has losses, he still has the power to protect himself.
Chaudel finally led his troops close to the trebuchet array, and only the last fifty paces remained, and the Prancing Horse was within reach. At this moment, a bowstring sound was suddenly heard, and dense arrows were like a dark cloud under the hood.
"Raise your shield!" Xiao De, who was at the front, shouted, holding two knives in his hand and flying around, and there was a "ding" sound, and he rushed out unscathed. Only two or three breaths, another round of arrow rain came to the face, but this arrow was a flat shot, Xiao Deer did not dare to slack off, his left hand held a shield to protect the neck of the war horse, and his right hand slapped with a single knife, and finally a hundred dense and negligent, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in the calf. But at this time, he was only thirty paces away from the enemy's formation, and he had no time to take care of it.
Hundreds of Khitan archers exclaimed in surprise, and immediately rushed away in line on the left and right, revealing the sword and shield armies covering the trebuchets behind.
"Kill!" Xiao Der shouted in surprise and joy, jumped into the enemy formation with his legs between the belly of the horse, slashed left and right with the double knives in his hands, and the Khitan sword and shield men who killed him scattered and fled, and the two thousand horsemen behind him followed up, and the chamber Wei cavalry divided into joint attacks, and the war knives violently pierced the fragile parts such as the trebuchet ox tendon noose, and suddenly, one after another trebuchet overturned and collapsed.
"Bastard! It's this cavalry again! Under the wolf's head of the Chinese army, Yelu Wolf De saw that the trebuchet that took two days to build, and in a blink of an eye, it overturned as many as eleven or twelve, and suddenly his nose was crooked, and he roared angrily: "Pass the left and right two armies!" Surround and annihilate this cavalry with me......"
The horn whined, the Khitan cavalry was ordered to start moving, outflanking left and right, and the sword and shield infantry began to retreat like a tide.
Xiao Deer scanned the battlefield, suddenly came to his senses, and in a hurry, he gritted his teeth and made a decision, giving up the opportunity to continue destroying the trebuchet, turning the horse's head and following the Khitan sword and shield hand to cover the kill, and stabbing obliquely into the left side of the rear team. The two queues had just joined forces, and the Khitan cavalry had already surrounded them.
Cavalry is only suitable for mobile combat, and once it loses the speed advantage of the charge, it can only be a lamb to the slaughter, and Shodell and Xie Ra are now in such a dilemma. The Khitan cavalry surrounded and outflanked them left and right, and tried to divide them again, but they were unsuccessful, so they adopted the tactics of following and encroaching on the periphery, gradually depleting their forces.
In response to the success of Xiao Deer, seeing that he had followed, Xie Ra no longer wanted to fight, so he and Sodi led the troops to fight up, and finally saw that there was no more invincible cavalry in front, thinking that they were fighting their way out of the encirclement. Xie Ra turned his head and took a rough glance, and found that the two thousand horsemen were nearly half less, shouted fiercely, kicked the horse's belly hard, and increased the horse's speed again, and suddenly heard the sound of the horse's hooves like muffled thunder, and another team of Khitan riders in the distance with billowing smoke and dust rushed straight to it, and it was two hundred steps away in an instant.
Xie Ra was shocked, greeted Sodi, and suddenly turned to the southwest, the distance of two hundred steps was instantaneous, the cavalry was caught off guard, and happened to pass by Xie Ra, but collided head-on with the remaining thousand horsemen of the rear team Xiao Deer, Xiao Deer suddenly fell into a heavy siege again, and life and death were unpredictable.
Xie Ra was about to leave the battlefield at this time, so he naturally ignored him anymore, and the two of them led thousands of remnants of the army to return to the camp, and Xiao Der actually returned in embarrassment with a saddle, but he was hit by several arrows, and his face was like gold paper, which was obviously not lightly injured, and he lost too much blood, and there were only a hundred horses left in his department.
When Pyra heard the news, he rushed to the camp to inspect it, and he could not blame anything for such a tragic situation, so he ordered the old and weak defenders to take care of it, and hurried back to the wall to participate in the defensive battle himself.
With nearly 2,000 casualties and the destruction of most of the trebuchets in a raid, Jerewolf was so angry that instead of letting the soldiers rest, he threw in more troops, intensified the attack, and adopted the same method as Brie, striking the door and climbing the wall and cutting down the wooden wall at the same time.
As a result, the camp was full of dangers, and the Khitan soldiers climbed the wall many times. Pyra had to devote all his troops, and even the old and weak had to participate in the carrying of arrows and rolling logs and stones. The battle became more and more tragic, but Pla could not think about it, so he could only wait for reinforcements with his eyes on the left and right.