Chapter 228: Rain of Arrows at the City Gate

When Gao Biying learned that Ximen had missed, Bai Heng's army had already entered half of the city, and she didn't have time to think about it, Gao Biying first sent three communication teams to deliver a letter to Xiang Luyang who was staying in Tunliu from three different directions, she knew that Xing Jiamu was attacking the city with such fanfare, and he must have been prepared to guard against Tunliu.

Since he could think of guarding against a sneak attack in the direction of Tunliu, then he must also think of intercepting the people sent out to report the news from his side, and it was because of this that Gao Biying would send three troops to report to Xiang Luyang.

After sending out the signal corps, Gao Biying personally led 20,000 cavalry to the west gate to support, although the number of people in his city is not as large as the official army, but fortunately, his people are mobile, 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry reserves, ready to rush to the city gate to support.

When Gao Biying took over Zichang County, she knew that the city walls of Zichang County could not stop the officers and troops for long, and she would eventually rely on street battles and tug-of-war to drag down the enemy, so at the beginning of the war, he made most of the troops into mobile troops, so that they were ready to respond everywhere at any time.

When Gao Biying felt the West Gate, the entire West Gate was already in a mess, the official army had been mixed with the rebel army, and now there was no way to use distant weapons such as bows and arrows and cannons, and the most effective way now was hand-to-hand combat, whoever was ruthless enough and who was not afraid of death would win.

The 20,000 cavalry, in the not very spacious city, were pulled into dozens of columns, and the first time they were put into battle was very limited.

Although the number of people involved in the battle was small, fortunately, the 20,000 cavalry were divided into many directions, and they continued to pour out from various alleys, intervening in the battle from multiple directions at the same time, which made Bai Heng a headache.

Now because the place is too narrow, the 50,000 people on their side can't be deployed at all, most of them are squeezed behind, and the other side is now on the front line of the enemy's cavalry, these people rely on horses and spear chiefs, and crush their own team to death.

After a short period of commotion, these rebels cooperated more and more tacitly, and the infantry, who had been trampled on by their own horses from time to time, were now able to shuttle freely under their horses, and from time to time they could make up for their own men.

Seeing that his team was being pressed closer and closer to the city gate, Gao Hansong beside Bai Heng spoke: "It's not a way to go on like this, our team can't be opened, and sooner or later they will be driven out, or we will send someone to move the cannon on the city wall, or send archers to the wall, and disrupt the formation behind them first!" ”

Bai Heng said: "Just do as you say, you will organize people to carry cannons to the city wall now, and I will cover you here." ”

After the division of labor between the two, Gao Hansong organized people to start climbing the city wall, and now the city wall has been occupied by his own side, and it is not difficult to go to the city wall, as long as he arranges more people to go up the wall, use a rope to hang the cannon up, and set it up, this battle can basically be over.

Hu Jinquan, who was bandaging his wounds beside Gao Biying, saw that the enemy had increased his troops on the city wall again, and he also brought ropes, so he knew that they might be transporting cannons to the city wall.

Pushing away the soldier who bandaged his wound, he stood up violently and was about to lead people to rush to the city wall, seeing that Hu Jinquan was going to take someone to rob the city wall, Gao Biying hurriedly stopped him and said: "You bandage the wound first, I have my own arrangements for the things on the city wall, you don't have to care." ”

Hu Jinquan said anxiously: "But now they have to transport cannons to the city, if they let them put the cannons on the mount, we will be finished." ”

Gao Biying smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know in my heart, what I'm waiting for is their cannons, if it weren't for these cannons, I would have driven them out of the city a long time ago, and I can keep them until now." ”

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Gao Biying's gourd, Hu Jinquan still chose to obey the order, because in his opinion, Gao Biying and Xiang Luyang are similar, they are both masters, and what they want to do must have a certain basis, otherwise they would not have developed Ansai to what it is today in such a short period of time.

When Gao Hansong first started to lift the cannons, he was worried that the rebel army would send people to storm the city wall, so he had always sent people to guard the stairs on both sides of the city wall, carefully guarding against the enemy's sneak attack, but now that more than 30 cannons have been hoisted, and there is no movement on the other side, so he has relaxed his vigilance.

While directing the outside of the city to continue to hang the cannon, he arranged for the people in the city to hurry up and set up the run, adjust the height of the gun, and prepare to fire at any time.

Bai Heng saw that the progress on Gao Hansong's side was relatively smooth, so he didn't urge his people to enter the city too much, and let the rebel army force their people to the city gate step by step.

Bai Heng did this, not because he couldn't expand the territory at the gate, but because he didn't want to expand the territory now, his own territory was big, his own people would be mixed with the rebel army, and when the cannon was fired, there would be casualties on his side, and now he would compress all the people to the city gate, and when the cannon sounded, Gao Biying's team must have been the most ruthlessly bombed, and when the time came, he was organizing people, taking advantage of the chaos of the rebel army, he pushed all the people to the city in one go, at that time, all 50,000 people were deployed, Look at these rebels, how do they still compete with themselves.

Looking at the running on the city wall, it was almost enough, Gao Hansong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, his task was finally completed, and now he could finally sit back and wait for the fruits of victory.

As soon as he relaxed, an arrow flew out of the ranks of the rebels, and instead of shooting at the crowd, it flew straight upwards.

When the arrow rose to a height of about ten zhang, it suddenly exploded in the sky, and a loud sound spread throughout the battlefield.

When the rebels heard this loud noise, all the soldiers who had not fought with the officers and soldiers took their bows and arrows from their backs and aimed them at the city wall.

Another arrow rose into the air, and another loud bang was heard, and all the arrows on the strings of the rebel army were shot at the wall with this loud bang.

When the first loud bang came, Gao Hansong noticed the movements of the rebel army, and before he had time to think about it, as soon as Gao Hansong turned over, he jumped out of the city wall, stepped on the ladder on the city wall, jumped into the air for the second time, and when he landed, he was already outside the moat.

More than 20,000 arrows, almost at the same time, all flew towards the city wall, and for a time there were screams and screams, and people kept falling from the city wall, and those who did not fall were also shot into hedgehogs.

After the first round of arrow rain passed, the war drum behind Gao Biying suddenly made a rapid sound, and after the rebel army at the front heard the drum, everyone rushed towards the official army like crazy, and after half a pillar of incense, the official army was driven out of the city gate.