readx; Zhao Shujiao's judgment was not wrong at all. www.biquge.info Soon, the sound of rolling thunder turned into a "boom, boom" earth-shattering horseshoe sound, the whole earth was trembling, and the rammed earth city wall of Xifengkou, which had been in disrepair for a long time, and even some clods of soil were shaken down from the wall!

In the deafening sound of horses' hooves, the boundless cavalry team quickly rushed towards the Xifeng Pass. Completely different from the ancient tribal army of 'Mongolian', this army has a clear banner, and the eight banners are surrounded by the 'elite' cavalry wearing heavy armor, and they are pressed in a row, which really has the tendency of overwhelming the mountains and seas. On the apricot yellow 'color' flag in the center, there is also an embroidered five-clawed golden dragon with teeth and claws, which is the Huangluo umbrella cover!

In an instant, Zhao Shujiao made a correct judgment: "The whole army of the Tartars is here, and the strength is at least more than 100,000!" Chinese officer, light the beacon fire, and immediately pass the book to Shanhaiguan and Jingshi Feige! ”

"But it takes at least two hours for the carrier pigeons to come and go," said the lieutenant officer hesitantly, "and there are so many Tartars, but we only have a few hundred... Please tell the general, what should we do? ”

"Of course, it's to defend the city, and the terrain here is favorable. Do you want to return to Zunhua? Zhao Shujiao said categorically, "You immediately send people back to Zunhua and Jizhou to transfer troops, as long as the cavalry, the infantry army stays to defend the city." The sooner the better! ”

In an instant, the piercing and ugly sound of the horn sounded, and the Houjin army marched in an orderly manner in a neat phalanx, getting closer and closer to the Xifengkou City Pass. At the same time, several carrier pigeons also fluttered their wings from the head of Xifengkou City, and disappeared into the morning light in a blink of an eye. The morning sun is not dazzling, but it can still bring a little warmth when sprinkled on people. Zhao Shujiao glanced up at the blood-colored sun, was silent for a moment, and said to himself and everyone: "You must hold on until noon, you must hold on until the carrier pigeon flies back!" ”

After a short while, the enemy had advanced to within five hundred paces, and after a brief pause to arrange the formation more neatly and densely, he pressed on the pass again. Zhao Shujiao patted the battlement mouth depressedly and said: "It's a pity that there are no cannons at Xifengkou, otherwise if you bombard the Tartars now, you will definitely kill a lot of people with one shot!" ”

When the enemy army advanced to about 200 steps, Zhao Shujiao had already seen it very clearly. Responsible for attacking the city pass head-on, it is the Han army's Han 'traitor' troops under the Yellow Banner, which is also the usual trick of the Tatars, when attacking the city, let them die first, and when the defenders are almost consumed, the 'female' Allah will go to the city again. However, the Han Army's Zhenghuang Banner is also the strongest in combat effectiveness among the Han 'traitor' troops, and it seems that the battle of the Tartars is inevitable, and it is necessary to take Xifengkou in a short time.

In the east and west, the 'Nü' Zhen Eight Flags are on horseback, with the blue flag and the blue flag in the east, and the red flag and the red flag in the west, which seems to be intended to directly cross the majestic Yanshan Mountains. Zhao Shujiao couldn't help but be surprised, because the 'female' real people could only exert their greatest combat effectiveness on horses, and the invincible and proud achievements in the past were also achieved by relying on cavalry. Now that the horse is abandoned to climb the mountain, the combat effectiveness is naturally greatly reduced; But this move is also unexpected, in the past, the Ming army only needed to garrison troops to defend the pass, but the Yanshan Mountain Range stretches for hundreds of miles, as long as it takes some effort to climb the mountain, you can pass everywhere, and there is nothing to defend at all!

Of course, the speed of crossing mountains and mountains is definitely not comparable to that of a horse and a flat river. Before the soldiers of the Four Banners arrived at the foot of the mountain, the Han Army's Zhenghuang Banner had advanced to within 100 steps, and an earth-shattering shout broke out, rushing towards the Xifeng Pass. Zhao Shujiao gritted his teeth and said: "Don't pay attention to the enemy troops who climb the mountain, we can only defend the Xifeng Pass." Shoot the arrows! ”

At the sound of an order, the rain of arrows 'shot' down the city like flying locusts. The garrison of Xifengkou are all local veterans of Jizhou, and there is no combat effectiveness, but the three hundred Chinese troops led by Zhao led by his relatives are the 'elite' sharp soldiers who have been baptized by the battlefield in Liaodong, and this round of arrow rain 'shooting' is full of power, plus the front of Xifengkou is very narrow, and the formation of the enemy's charge is very dense, and there is no way to avoid it, so it can be said that there is no shortage of arrows, and a miserable howl sounded outside the city in an instant, and dozens of enemy soldiers fell in a pool of blood with arrows.

However, the enemy army was unmoved, and the fallen people were simply ignored, and were soon trampled into a puddle of 'meat' mud by the large army that followed behind. It was not until they were only twenty paces away from the city wall that the archers formed a phalanx to 'shoot' at the head of the city, and the rest of the soldiers continued to rush forward. There was no moat at the Beidi Pass, so these Han 'traitor' troops quickly stuck to the city wall, squeezed into a large black oppressive group, and began to attack the city.

In the face of this desperate fighting style that completely disregarded casualties, even the Chinese soldiers and soldiers taught by Zhao Shuo couldn't help but show 'fear' and 'color'. Zhao Shujiao's expression was as usual, carrying a sword to inspect and supervise the battle back and forth at the head of the city.

As the minutes ticked by, the corpses of the enemy piled up under the city, but the casualties of the defenders also increased rapidly, and one after another fell with arrows. Taking advantage of the slight decrease in the momentum of the rain of arrows at the head of the city, the enemy troops who climbed the city wall climbed up desperately, and someone had already 'exposed' an ugly head with braids like a rat's tail from the battlement!

At this critical moment, Zhao led the sword back to the sheath, stepped forward, and reached out to grab a traitorous soldier. Don't look at him this year, he is sixty years old, but his arm strength is extremely large, otherwise how could Man Gui suffer under him?

And this Han 'traitor' is far worse than Man Gui, and when he was mentioned by Zhao Shujiao, he was like catching a little 'chicken', and he was mentioned in mid-air. Looking at the enemy with a frightened face, Zhao Shujiao laughed and said, "Bastard, let me go down!" ”

As he spoke, he threw the man far away with his arms. This is not a free-fall movement, after paying attention to Zhao Shujiao's Qianjun power, this guy is like a cannonball, accurately smashing into the phalanx of archers who are 'shooting' at the head of the city, and knocking down more than a dozen at once, and the enemy can't help but be in a big 'chaos'.

Zhao Shujiao immediately snatched the bow and arrow of a Chinese soldier beside him, and at the same time put three arrows on the bowstring, and shouted: "Hand me the arrow!" ”

As he spoke, he opened his bow and 'shot' three sharp arrows at the enemy archers. His archery skills among the generals of the Ming army were second only to He Kegang, and the enemy troops under the city were very dense, and he didn't even need to aim, and immediately three enemy soldiers were pierced through the 'chest' by an arrow and died.

Immediately after that, Zhao Shujiao did not stop, took the three arrows handed by the Chinese army, and in less than a second, the three arrows were fired again. In this way, in just over a minute, Zhao Shujiao alone 'shot' more than 100 arrows! Under the encouragement of the main general, the defenders at the head of the city also excited the 'spirit' arrows like rain, and they simply 'shot' the phalanx of nearly 1,000 archers under the city. Without the cover of the archers, the infantry army of the ant annex to the siege of the city is basically slaughtered, and in the time of a meal, the city of Xifengkou is already a sea of corpses and blood, but the city pass is still immovable!

It may not be able to bear such serious casualties, the first 'wave' attack of the Han army's Zhenghuang Banner finally ended, and the frightened remnants of the soldiers rushed away with their heads in their arms. Only then did Zhao Shujiao put down his bow and arrows, shook his tired and sore arms, and held the battlement mouth to the sky and laughed wildly!

Infected by the 'spirit' of the main general, all the defenders also laughed, but nearly a hundred people had already died heroically, and they could no longer laugh.

However, Zhao Shujiao's laughter suddenly stopped, because he had already seen that the peaks on both sides of the city pass were already fluttering the banner of the 'female' real person!

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