Chapter Thirty-Nine: A City Within a City
The military town of Xiaohana Road is a rectangular earthen building with an inner corridor, the outer wall is about five or six meters high, made of bricks and soil, very solid, and the inside is a two-story building, each floor is built on the side of the courtyard There is a circle of wooden corridors, along the corridor can go around the courtyard, and each room has a door and the same as the corridor.
The inner courtyard is spacious and can be used for daily training.
Directly in front of you is a thick iron gate.
This kind of tulou has excellent defensibility, the outer window of the room can be used as an arrow hole, and the roof can also be defended by troops, even if the enemy attacks the tulou, the defender can also use the cloister as a cover to surround and shoot the enemy who rushes into the inner courtyard.
From the outside, this is a large civilian tulou, and when all the residents inside are replaced by soldiers, the tulou becomes a military town.
There were also 900 hook and sickle gunners and 300 archers in the tulou.
The hook and sickle gunners were well-trained, not only with excellent marksmanship but also good at archery, but these three hundred archers were ordinary people who were temporarily transferred to strengthen their defenses, and they did not have much combat experience, and once the battle was over, they would be sent home.
At this time, the lieutenant of the hook and sickle team was in a somewhat anxious mood.
An hour earlier, the chieftain, Bran, had sent his guards back and taken a group of men with him, saying that he wanted to solve some minor trouble.
He didn't take it to heart at first, after all, Bran was a sixth-level samurai, not something ordinary people could defeat, not to mention a hundred hook and sickle gunners.
But an hour has passed, and they haven't come back yet, and the deputy general thinks of the recent situation, and his heart is slightly nervous:
"Did something happen?"
"Do you want to send someone to check it out?"
He was looking down in thought, when suddenly a soldier's shout came from outside the door:
"The leader is back!"
"Open the door, the leader is injured!"
The adjutant general's heart jumped violently when he heard the sound, Huo got up, rushed to the door and shouted: "Wait for the door to open!" ”
It's still a step too late!
The soldiers at the gate found Bran outside the military town covered in blood, seriously injured and unconscious, and before they had time to think about it, they lifted the heavy deadbolt -
Bang Dang! The gate slammed open, and hundreds of people poured in.
Tall, plainly dressed, with a strong look, armed with bows and arrows and shields, and two men carrying large wooden boxes on their backs.
Seeing these people, the gunmen in the military town, including the adjutant general, couldn't help but feel nervous.
Over the years, in order to improve the strength of the Hook and Sickle team, Bran has very strict requirements for the Hook and Sickle Gunners, and every day he has to not only practice his gun skills, but also practice the Hook and Sickle Formation. After years of training, the strength of the gunners has improved by leaps and bounds, and they are much more than ordinary soldiers, and their eyesight is naturally extraordinary.
These people are agile and neatly formed, as if they are one, although they are dressed ordinarily, they are actually well-trained, and their strength is probably above themselves.
And what do they have in their hands?
Shield or door panel?
Isn't that an exaggeration!
The other party rushed into the inner courtyard and did not rush around, but quickly formed a phalanx, with more than 100 people standing on the outside with huge shields in hand, and surrounded the others in the middle.
At this time, by the light of the fire at the gate, several soldiers saw that the leader Bran was thrown aside, and there was no movement, and he had already lost his breath.
"The leader is dead!" They couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
"Surround them and kill them!" The lieutenant came back to his senses in an instant and shouted loudly.
The hook-sickle gunners were well trained, with six hundred men surrounding the phalanx, and another three hundred, carrying longbows on their backs, ascended to the second floor, ready to attack with bows and arrows.
"Stupid pig! Find cover first, then release the arrows! "Seeing those ordinary archers who were temporarily transferred, they were still stunned there, and the lieutenant general was so angry that he scolded!
This group of raw melons and eggs, in a daze at this time, aren't they looking for death?
It was late at night, but the light of the fires around him illuminated everything in the inner courtyard clearly, and the lieutenant general stood on the dim cloister, staring intently into the field.
The people in the phalanx stood there silently, not moving.
The heavy shield the size of the door panel was dull, and there was no material to be seen, like a huge stone slab, and the pieces were arranged neatly.
It's like there's an extra town in the military town!
"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! ”
"Shoot them!"
The lieutenant general hid in the darkness and gave orders loudly, and the opponent could not shrink at this time, which was a good time to attack.
Whoosh! Hundreds of arrows were fired into the town in the wind, and they were none other than the three hundred hook-sickle gunners in the cloister upstairs.
I have to say that their archery skills are very good, covering the sky above the entire phalanx, and if the opponent does not dodge in time, he will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
"Cover the sky!" As soon as the arrow left the string, there was a sudden cry from the shield wall.
Swish! The formation of the shield wall changed suddenly, and one heavy shield was quickly raised over the head, and the end and left and right were closely connected, forming several huge shields to face the air.
Bite! Bite! Order! The arrow hit the giant shield and was bounced everywhere.
The attack didn't work!
"Kill!" When the hook and sickle saw that the heavy shield was lifted, these people had no protection in front of them, and they shouted to kill and stabbed angrily, and the huge hook struck the opponent's legs.
Suddenly a deep roar came from within the shield wall:
"Shoot the arrows!"
Collapse! Collapse! Collapse!
The heavy bowstring trembled abruptly, and it was clearly audible in the shouts of killing.
Burst! Burst! Burst!
The arrow burst out of the string and with great force, piercing the Hook Scythe's chest at once, and the great force carried their bodies straight back and knocked down those behind them.
The gunners were scrambled by the sudden burst of fire, dead and wounded, and groaned in pain.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Collapse! Collapse!
"Shoot the arrows!"
Collapse! Collapse!
……
Three rounds of rapid ejaculation, it is a bloody massacre!
Rao is these gunmen are well-trained and determined, and they are also terrified at this time.
Before the hook and sickle array that he was proud of had not yet wielded its might, it was broken up by the other party, and nearly half of his brothers were killed in battle.
They were terrified and humiliated! Neither retreat, nor advance!
Those ordinary archers who had been temporarily recruited had seen such a bloody and terrifying scene, and they were so frightened that they trembled all over, their legs and stomachs turned tendons, and they were timid and peed their pants directly.
The face of the killer did not change, as if he were doing something insignificant, the bowstring trembled constantly, and the town was surrounded by corpses......
At some point, the arrows in the cloister on the second floor stopped, and apart from the slight groaning, there was only a deathly silence at the scene!
"Spread out! Spread out! ”
"Retreat to the cloister!"
The adjutant general looked at the dozens of gunmen left in the field, and his eyes bulged out.
Only then did he know why the other party would use such a strange combination of shield archers.
"It seems that the only way to rely on the defense of the cloister, stall for time, and find another opportunity to ask for help!" The adjutant general knew that six miles away from Xiaohuadao, there was a cavalry stationed, and if he wanted to break through the iron bucket formation in front of him, he was afraid that he could only rely on the impact of the cavalry.
The red wolf smoke used to call for help at night was located in the direction of the gate of the military town, and after seeing the terrifying power of the opponent's bow and arrow, the adjutant general did not immediately issue an order for help.
Collapse! Suddenly, a feathered arrow flew straight towards the lieutenant general with a screeching sound, but the lieutenant was hiding behind the cloister column, and the feathered arrow could not directly hit him.
Boom! The feather arrow sank deep into the pillar, making a crisp loud sound, and the pillar seemed to tremble lightly in pain, and the lieutenant shrank his head in fright, leaned sideways, and leaned against the pillar.
How could these soldiers be so tough? The strength is not much better than Huang Jiawei!
Boom! Another feathered arrow hitting the neutral post!
The lieutenant didn't think much about it, anyway, this column was thicker than the mouth of the bowl, and the power of the feather arrow was impossible to penetrate.
It's safe here for now!
Boom! Another feathered arrow hitting the neutral post!
These fools are really persevering!
……
Perhaps hearing the taunts of the lieutenant, the bow and arrow finally stopped firing.
The lieutenant general secretly aimed at the inner courtyard, and the shield wall still stood in the center of the inner courtyard, surrounded by mountains of corpses!
The scene was quiet, but the adjutant could faintly hear someone talking.
"What's the distance?"
"About fifty meters!"
"A little further to the left!"
"Wind!"
"Angle Banxuan!"
"Tuning is complete!"
……
Suddenly, a feeling of extreme danger appeared in the adjutant general's heart, and he pulled his neck and shouted:
"Quick, light the wolf smoke, call for help-"
Airplanes!
Burst!
A heavy bolt pierced the post and pierced the lieutenant's neck.
The roar stopped abruptly!