Chapter 16: The Chick of October and the Wolf Smoke of the Counterattack. above
Smoke erupted from the city walls, and the Rose Banner of Glory of the city of Puren swelled back and forth in the thick smoke of war. The guards of Puren City formed a formation of a shield wall, low in front and high in the back, and flexibly used the combination of long and short to aim the dense gun array at the bandits who poured into the city wall, and waited for them to rush to meet the enemy at the same time! In an instant, the city guards were fighting with the enemy.
Most of these thieves came from ordinary peasant families, and they had no choice but to fall into the grass because they couldn't survive in this chaotic and dark world. At first, they will feel fear and even regret because they kill for the first time, and when the day of fighting or plundering is over, there are not a few people who run away from the team because they can't bear the fear of killing.
But year after year, the warriors who have been fighting in the bloody storm for a long time behind Salou and adapted to the bloodshed and killing are growing at an astonishing rate, not to mention that they are not equipped with the elite of the old members, and they are riding horses and wearing armor, and the whole thing is like a killing machine.
But it is by the small axe and short spear in the hand, as well as the unfathomable momentum and the grinding of brutal combat! Each of these bandits has completed the transformation from ordinary people to warriors. They are ruthless, strong-willed, and face them calmly, and they will not show mercy.
When the spears of the enemy and the enemy staggered each other's bodies and shields, the city guards suffered a loss on the spot!
Because these bandits have honed their skills after fighting for a long time, standing on the city wall that is only two people shoulder wide, the first bandit jumped off the battlements and ran away, with the help of the power of the sprint, he stepped forward and stabbed hard! With the sound of the howling wind, the spear in his hand slammed into the shield of the city guard, knocking the Pullen soldier to the ground on the spot.
The other bandits also showed their skills, and they divided their troops into two routes, one along the eastern wall, and the other along the western wall, and on each side of the city wall there was a group of Pulun city guards and a group of peasant soldiers to defend, and there were not many people less than twenty or so.
"Kill them all! Grab all the food and wealth in this town!! ”
"Kill all their men and old men! Then let's have fun with the women of the town for three days and three nights! ”
The bandits' eyes were red with excitement, and they shouted chilling slogans, and the offensive was like a wave. From the city walls, a large number of bandits were pouring into the city walls from the ladders.
The city guards struggled to support until most of the bandits had basically entered the city wall, and the momentum of the impact finally eased slightly, and the captain of the city guard squad responsible for leading the command immediately seized this opportunity to breathe and immediately ordered!
Although the city guards have never seen blood, they have been on the real battlefield. However, they have the most perfect training system and practice tutorials in the whole world, Han Tianxiang himself is a history lover, and the history of the whole world is a bloody history of war and destruction, destruction and rebirth. So in the process of studying history, it is almost inevitable to come into contact with the military level.
Therefore, although the modern training model from more than 900 years later could not give these soldiers much improvement in combat experience, three months of moderate-intensity training was enough to improve the qualities that this city guard army must have. For example, brainwashing loyalty, absolute obedience of subordinates to superiors, and targeted muscle training and physical training every day.
Because most of the predecessors of these city guards were members of hunting teams, their physical qualities are still very good, plus some members of the logging team who are temporarily transferred, most of these people are also engaged in physical labor, so they have the conditions to become soldiers by nature.
In the past few months, because the soldiers mainly use spears and shields as the main mode, the requirements for arm strength and endurance are very high, every day all the soldiers have to get up before dawn in the morning to divide into teams, a total of 50 people, a team of 25 people to hunt, and a team to stay for training. The training includes running, splitting, fast formation, reflex formation, and hanging water tied to wood for rallying.
The training time of the city guard is from half past five in the morning to the end of the sun at noon, from 1 pm to six pm rest, and then from seven o'clock to light the torch for large-scale rapid march training at night, simply put, in addition to the above training content, the night will also go out in a team to run five kilometers around the town and time, if today's running speed is slower than the next day's second team, Then on the night of the third day, these guys had the privilege of tasting what Han Tianxiang said about the terrible thing of armed cross-country five kilometers.
Everyone has to drag a log weighing nearly 30 pounds on their backs to run back and forth for five kilometers, several times down to make everyone talk about "martial arts" color change, and even some feel that if it goes on like this, the soldiers who will be played to death plan to escape at night, but the next morning will be obediently caught back by the veterans of forest hunting led by Ni as prey, after a whipping, the next day shine has to continue to practice!
Behind such high-intensity training is Han Tianxiang's strong uneasiness about the outside world, as well as the anxiety that the national capital is gradually becoming bigger and stronger, but there is no corresponding armed defense. Therefore, although Han Tianxiang knew that such exercise would inevitably cause a lot of counterarguments, he still implemented his strategy with iron and blood and even ruthlessness. Because Han Tianxiang knows that the pain now is for the glory of the future, so as long as it is not a collective death, even if it is one, two, four, or five, he must continue!
Because-
"-Array!! One horse and one river!! “
The city guards roared in unison, and the two men in the front row quickly crouched down and smashed their shields into the ground at an angle, while the men also half-crouched to leave a gap between the two to handle their spears.
"The first row has set up a trench! Lumbar position! The second row of spears forward! Arm bone position! Third row ready! Head level! “
The two city guards in the second row, armed with spears, were ordered to lower their spears and form a parallel line of spear defense with the soldiers in the front row. At the same time, the third and fourth rows of spearmen also moved forward at the same time, taking advantage of the spears of more than three to five meters, and pressed back the charging momentum of the bandits!
- Poof! Poof! The sudden spear array pierced the heads of the two bandits who bore the brunt of the air with a whistling sound, and then the second row immediately collected the guns after penetrating, and the third row held a five-meter spear, and the city guards who raised 1.7 meters high immediately made up for it, and the two cold rays flashed, and pierced the hearts and throats of the two bandits.
In the blink of an eye, four bandits fell on the city wall one after the other, and their blood suddenly stained the color of the city wall, turning red and bloody......
But the bandits would have flinched so easily, and their vanguard was only slightly stunned, and after paying the price of the lives of several of their companions, they roared and became even more frenzied! It seems that the death of the comrades who died under the spear not only did not deter the momentum of these bandits, but stimulated their blood!
The bandits all seemed to be dying, "whooping" with knives and axes and rushed towards the spear array, and the city guards also gritted their teeth desperately, according to the usual training of three or two to take over, the two shield players in the front row did not need to attack, as long as they concentrated on holding the specially reinforced shield defense, and even if they died in battle, the members of the second row would immediately throw down the spears in their hands and take out the shields on their backs, forming the second batch of city guard shield guards to continue to provide protection for the team.
"Whoa, whoa!! Kill them all!! The bandits were not afraid of death, and suddenly forced the city guards back four or five meters, and several members of the city guards died tragically under the knives of the bandits, and some peasant soldiers were also hacked to death by the fierce bandits.
The city guards resisted desperately but were still defeated, retreating from the central wall to the south, all the way to the east gate of Puren! That's the gateway to the city of Pullen! There is no way back for them! And less than ten meters away from them was the castle tower where Han Tianxiang, the king of Pulun, stood.
"Everyone, listen up! The torture and grinding we have been in training is all for today!! For King Puron and King Pulon City!! Don't disappoint those family members who give us meat to eat first every day! Don't forget the king of jì, who personally led people up the mountain every day to find herbs to heal our wounds, and his hard work was in vain! And most importantly, don't forget that behind us is the last line of defense of the Princely City!! You can't go back even if you die!! - Pulen King City!! “
"Glory Rose!!"
The roar of his comrades around him gave the soldiers the confidence to survive and the will to defeat the enemy! The defensive line, which was already about to be forced into a corner, finally stopped under the desperate obstruction of the city guards regardless of life and death! The bandits' attacks eased again.
Less than seven meters along the way, nearly twenty Pulun soldiers have fallen on the left and right sides together, and the entire city wall has been stained red with blood all the way, and fallen corpses can be seen everywhere!
"Kill them all!! Kill all these bastards!! ”
Just when the battle situation finally stabilized, suddenly the bandits broke out in unison again, this sound seemed to give the bandits unlimited power, and the originally calm sea not only became turbulent again, but even directly set off a huge tsunami this time!
The wave of attacks of the bandits was overwhelming again, and this time they learned to send thirteen people to resist the attack of the city guards from the west, concentrated the main force, turned the spearhead, and more than seventy bandits rushed through the spear array of the city guards with their flesh and blood!
At the moment when the formation broke, the bandits screamed and suddenly became entangled with the city guards on the Eastern Front!
The city guards tried desperately to block it, and the flag-bearers waved the Rose of Glory flag in the center of the line to cheer up the soldiers. However, under the crushing of both the quantity and quality of the bandits, the defense of the front seemed to be in jeopardy.
"No back! Those who retreat will not be killed!! For the royal city of Puren!! Glory Rose!! “
At this time, all the city guards were red-eyed! And at the same time, the high and solidified morale of the city guards slowly worked, and the honest and simple face quickly became extremely hideous and terrifying, each of them glared angrily, stared fiercely ahead, the muscles of the whole body crackled, and a chilling breath emanated from their spirit and spirit, from the inside to the outside!
The city guards were killed on the Eastern Front (morale collapsed, and their backs to the enemy were beheaded. After the cost of the death of three city guards, they finally held the line again!
And at this time, almost every city guard was covered in blood and angry! A pair of big red eyes scanned each bandit, they were silent and fearless! After some of the wounded and fallen city guards were pulled to the rear, they silently got up from the ground, picked up their shields, picked up their spears, and formed a line again in front of the bandits.
From the beginning of the battle to the present, almost everyone of the city guards has not even said a word! They have consistently followed the laws of the army, remaining silent, ruthless, and even mechanical, and unwavering! It's like a reef in the sea, let you go to the waves! I'm as immobile as a mountain!
"Ha, ha... Haah......" One of the bandits gasped for breath and looked at the city guards who were once again arrayed in a group with wide eyes, and for a moment he felt that he had a feeling of bitterness that he couldn't speak. He considered himself a veteran after several battles. But it was the first time he had encountered such a tricky opponent, who were as hard and stubborn as stones in the sea!