Chapter Ninety-Five: A Short Fierce Battle
"Woo woo woo ......"
The sound of the low horn continued, and the five thousand people went straight to Yanzhou City, and when they approached the city gate, they drew an arc and walked around the city.
"Shoot the arrows!" The commander shouted loudly, and a dark cloud rose everywhere, heading straight for Yanzhou City.
"Raise your shield! Avoid! The teams shouted bitterly.
After three days of baptism of arrow rain, even the young and strong also slowly adapted to the siege technique of the Ya cavalry, early when the Ya cavalry released arrows, they hid, only a very small number of unlucky soldiers, were shot by stray arrows, causing a burst of screams.
For three days, the cavalry did not send foot soldiers to attack the city, but ran back and forth, walking around the city, constantly raining arrows towards the city walls.
What made the faces of the officials of the Governor's Mansion gloomy was that many of these feathered arrows were sold by the government army, while the guards on the city wall lacked bows and arrows and other counterattack weapons.
"! It's this hand again, firing arrows every day, it's really embarrassing, why don't we have archers! Why are these feathered arrows the government military system? Many soldiers scolded secretly.
"Ula ......"
After several rounds of arrow rain, the five thousand men turned back to the camp, leaving a cloud of smoke and dust in their wake.
"My lord, if you let the soldiers go down to the city, just leave a little surveillance, anyway, they are only archery, not siege." A Qu Chang said to Sima Yun.
Sima Yun pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, in case the people of the Yan Dynasty suddenly attack the city, we will be in danger, let's guard it honestly, I believe that the reinforcements should be coming soon." ”
In the past three days, except for asking Li Ruolan about the reactions of the people on the city wall when he was fighting outside the city that day, and recording some of them, so that the Shadow Guard and the Blood Shadow Guard could secretly investigate and monitor, the rest of the time was spent training soldiers in the West Battalion. In addition to the weapons brought by the three thousand soldiers, Zhao Xun also changed the armor he got from the treasury to them and practiced riding hard. As for the siege of the city, they don't care about it at all, and just take care of the west city.
"My lord, what is the same as the cavalry of the Yan Dynasty today in the first three days, firing arrows around the city, and the rest do nothing, I don't know what to do." Wei Chen came back to report to Zhao Xun about the situation in Dongcheng today.
"Weird! What is this Tatar doing when he falls to the ground? Reinforcements from Shunzhou, Yingzhou, and Weizhou are about to arrive, and they don't attack the city, what are they doing staying here every day? There must be some conspiracy! But what does this have to do with me? Zhao Xun smiled dumbly,
"Okay, don't worry about him, no matter what the people want to do, sooner or later we will know, our task now is to train the soldiers, and the rest, don't worry about him."
"My lord! My lord! When I went around today, I found that less than ten miles outside the west gate of Yanzhou City, there was a dock fort, no, it should be said that it was a small city! Do adults know what I'm seeing? I saw the same banner as it had been three days ago, and it was supposed to be the team's station, or rather its nest! Ju He said excitedly.
"Oh? The army's nest? Huhule raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully.
"How's the guards doing?"
"This villain is not clear, but it doesn't seem to be very tight, except for the sentry on the four city walls, I didn't find any signs of a large army, it seems that they were all transferred to Yanzhou City." Ju He said.
"Then let us take him, so that we can avenge our soldiers; Second, it can also hit the morale of the city, although we haven't thought about taking Yanzhou City yet, but it's not almost. Xu Mang said.
"Who said we didn't plan to take Yanzhou City? We are now preparing to attack Yanzhou City. However, it is not impossible to take this dock fort first. Xu Mang, Ju He, Ju Tu, Tu Yan, the four of you work together to take this dock fort. Although we have broken through a lot of dock forts in Yanzhou Mansion, we must be careful here and must not be careless. Last time, that group was so powerful, maybe there are such troops left in this dock fort. ”
The four of them received the order and went straight to Gushan Fort, and the stable Gushan Fort also ushered in the attack of the Tatar people.
"Report! The secret sentry on the southeast side sent a message, and there were four thousand people of the Yan cavalry coming, the purpose of which was to fortify the mountain. ”
"It's finally here, this time to make them look good!" Zhao Kang laughed.
"It seems that the losses they suffered in the pro-guard camp last time were not enough! This time, when he saw our fire unicorn banner, he came to die again. Li Lingfeng said with murderous intent on his face.
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
In the sound of the horn, countless cavalry rushed out from afar, thousands of horses galloping, rolling up smoke and dust in the sky.
"Is it finally here?"
Zhao Kangsen smiled, crouched on the city wall, and stared coldly at the rushing enemy.
"Shieldbearer prepare! Archers ready! Zhao Kang ordered in a cold voice.
"Your Excellency has an order! Shield hand ready! Archers ready! ”
"Your Excellency has an order! Shield hand ready! Archers ready! ”
The heralds roared back and forth over the walls.
Xu Mang, Ju He, Ju Tu, and Tu Yan went straight to the east gate, and Gushan Fort only had two gates, east and west, and the cavalry naturally would not be reluctant to seek far.
"Pay attention to it, don't show your head, when the rain of arrows comes, be careful to dodge!" The veterans led the recruit soldiers who were instructed again and again.
"Shoot the arrows!"
"Woo Woo ......"
A dark cloud floated up and fell straight down on the wall of Gushan Fort.
"Raise your shield! Avoid! ”
"Bouncing ......"
Like rain hitting the pipa, the sound was deafening, countless feather arrows sank into the shield, and the Huolin army, which had already trained many times, rarely suffered casualties.
"Don't come out, there's more!" An old soldier shouted at the soldier who was about to look out.
"Boom, Boom" was another rain ......of arrows.
After the rain of arrows, the cavalry of the Arrows, as customary, passed around the city and continued the next round of shooting.
"Sigh the law ......"
A series of war horses screamed from the front of the team, more than ten galloping war horses fell to the ground, the whole cavalry on the war horse was thrown off the horse far away, and the cavalry behind could not stop, followed by the same as all the front, the war horse fell to the ground, and after dozens of horses, the cavalry behind restrained the galloping fast horse.
"What's going on?"
Xu Mang asked angrily.
"My lord, it's not good, there are horse traps in front of us, and our horses have all tripped up!" One of the soldiers said breathlessly.
"What? Trapped? Damn it! U-turn and retreat! Xu Mang shouted angrily.
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!" The herald gave the order urgently.
"Pullback? If you come and don't leave anything behind, you just leave, that's not good, holding Gushan Fort is not a place to come if you want to come, and you can leave if you want! Command, release the arrows! ”
"Archer, release the arrow!"
"Xiu Xiu ......" changed the identity of the arrow this time, and the resister was the chaotic Shen Ya cavalry below, but it had the advantage of the Huolin Army, the city wall, and the shield, not to mention, the Huolin Army was condescending. In an instant, the archers hiding behind the female wall released their arrows in unison, and the same rain of arrows fell and fell into the sky above the Ya cavalry.
"Puff puff ......"
This time it was the sound of arrows shooting into the flesh, and the cavalry of the Devil was not good at making armor in order to facilitate riding and shooting. The soldiers who only wore cloth clothes were wiped out this time.
"Shoot again!"
"Woo Woo ......"
A series of arrows rained down on the cavalry that had just slowed down because of the trap and turned around and retreated, and suddenly countless cavalry fell off their horses, and many of them were injured and trampled to death by the chaotic hooves after falling off their horses.
"Damn! We've got it! Shoot the arrows! Jutu and Tuyan, who were following behind, shouted angrily and shot towards the city wall.
Two thousand cavalry then fired arrows at the city wall, and another black cloud rose from the ground.
"The shield hand holds the shield to defend, and the archer continues to fire arrows from the firing port!" Li Lingfeng shouted.
The two sides shot at each other, the Huolin army was condescending, occupying the terrain, and had a shield to protect it, occupying the advantage of the armor, while the Yan cavalry was good at shooting and occupied the advantage of skilled troops, but compared to the advantage of the Huolin army, it was still far behind.
"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Velocity! It is necessary to deal with the more than 1,000 cavalry who have reduced their speed. Li Lingfeng shouted loudly. Feathered arrows came and went in the sky, up and down, all rushing towards their goals. On the walls of Gushan Fort, from time to time, a soldier was shot and fell to the ground, and then was pulled away by the rest of the people, and new archers continued to be replaced, and the Huolin army was damaged, but the Yan cavalry below fell more.
In the rain of arrows under the rapid speed, the cavalry rode their horses and fled, and the cavalry was constantly shot by arrows, and remained on the ground forever, unable to get up again, and the soldiers next to them fled as if they did not see it.
Xu Mang turned around and looked at his soldiers, wanting to cry without tears, more than a thousand soldiers, now there are less than 400 people left, Juhe's 1,000-person team, there are nearly half of them, and in an instant, nearly 1,000 warriors fell in front of this dock fort. Xu Mang looked at the red unicorn banner on the dock fort, and hated it, and even the big eyes of the unicorn seemed to be laughing at his stupidity.
"What to do? Our running is useless to them, and we can't gallop away from the traps all around, but once we slow down, we will be the target of the Yan army! Jutu scratched his ears and cheeks, and said helplessly.
"What else can I do? We have no ladders, no siege equipment, and we can't gallop fast at the foot of the city walls, so what else can we do? ”
"Ju He, how did you find out the news? Didn't you say there weren't many left-behind soldiers here? You see, there are at least more than 3,000 people on the city wall, plus the rest of the manpower, it is estimated that there are no less than 5,000 people, maybe more! You're going to kill us! ”
Ju He also wanted to cry without tears, and more than 300 of his soldiers fell. I had to say bitterly: "How do I know what's going on?" We haven't seen so many soldiers. ”
"They must have lurked under the walls and deliberately lured us to the bait!" Tuyan looked at the soldiers on the city wall and said helplessly.
"Withdraw!" The four of them discussed it for a while, and said helplessly, and finally had to leave nearly a thousand corpses and gallop away.