Chapter Twenty-Eight: Defending Shouzhou (3)
The cavalry of the Red Horse Expedition Army to fill the river withdrew, and it was the 1,000 cavalry that had been pressed behind that charged.
A thousand cavalrymen were divided into four teams, with sabers in their mouths and hooks in their hands, and rushed through the four gaps in the moat, which were filled in two feet wide, and the horses that had rushed through the moat ran under the city walls, moving so fast that even the archers could not take aim.
"Brush brush brush", the cavalry threw the round hook in his hand into the air, and countless hooks flew up to the city head accurately, and the sharp hooks were firmly hung on the battlements of the city head.
The agile cavalry grabbed the rope, jumped up from the horse, and with the agility of an ape, they quickly climbed to the top of the city, and under the city wall, only the horses that were uncontrolled were left, and they were still running according to the original route.
At this time, even a fool can see that the red horse detective wants to test a simple hook and climb into the city.
"Cut the ropes and don't let the enemy climb up to the top of the city!" Hao 13 shouted loudly, swinging his knife and slashing at a hook in front of him.
However, the rope at the front end of the hook was made of unknown materials, Hao Shisan swung three times in a row, but did not cut the rope, and a steel helmet of a Mengyuan soldier leaked out of the battlement.
Hao Shisan swung his knife and slashed at the man, "touching" only heard the sound of weapons colliding, the soldier who climbed the city didn't want to die like this, so he freed up one hand and raised his saber to meet the attack.
That soldier, the reaction was fast enough, after all, most of the strength in his body was all in his other arm, supported on the rope, how could he be able to resist Hao Shisan's full blow?
The man who beat him was neither a man trembling with his hands and feet, nor a dying soldier hungry, but a pair of advantageous arms capable of shooting his head with one hand.
The Mengyuan soldier, his hand was cut off the rope, and with a miserable scream, he planted the high city head, and with a "poof" sound, he smashed on the blue brick road under the city, bleeding from the seven orifices.
Red Horse Exploration Army and Military Households, who have fought for the Menggu Great Khan for generations, are professional killing machines, and are also physical mortals raised by their fathers and mothers, so they lose their own military array advantages when they scratch the city, and they also greatly reduce their ability to kill.
Two fists are hard to beat four hands! The Red Horse Exploration Army is a thug against four-handed, six-handed, and eight-handed.
Rao was like this, and several brave Red Horse Tanjun climbed the city wall, cut down the Red Turban soldiers at the battlement, and jumped into the crowd of the Red Turban Army.
However, the soldiers who followed behind were blocked under the city wall, and several people fought alone, unable to protect the front and the back, and the left and right, and were all overturned on the city.
"Fear not, brethren, for they will not be able to break the city with ropes, so they will be hit with rolling logs and stones!" Hao 13 saw the enemy's disadvantage in scratching the city, and shouted loudly.
Huge logs and stones were thrown from the top of the city, and countless screams were heard from outside the city.
The Red Turban Army finally reacted from the initial panic and fear, adapted to it, and issued a peaceful counterattack.
Mortal womb in the flesh! The Red Horse Detective Army is also a mortal in the flesh!
The soldiers of the Red Horse Exploration Army, who had suffered from the siege, had never encountered such strong resistance, or rather, they underestimated the enemy and the combat effectiveness of Hao Thirteen's Red Turban Army.
There are those who have been beaten to the head of the city with knives and guns, some who have been hit by log stones, some have arrows on their bodies, and a thousand of the Red Horse Detectives in the city have been killed and wounded, how can it be a tragic word?
"Woo-woo-woo-"
Seeing the stubborn resistance and heavy casualties of his attacking soldiers, Yasutai sounded the horn of retreat, leaving three or four hundred corpses behind.
He underestimated the enemy!
Shouzhou City was only 700 horsemen, plus Wu Liuqi's 1,000 Han army, how could it encounter such stubborn resistance?
Even if it is the elite of the brave Liu Futong Red Turban Army, such a small army can't withstand the three rounds of bows and arrows of the Red Horse Exploration Army, and it will be crushed? How could the Red Turban Army in the city have such a strong will to fight?
Wu Liuqi's 1,000 Han army, Hao 13 paid the guan, and even the food and salary owed to them by the Mengyuan court for half a year were also repaid.
Money is the lowest means of improving combat effectiveness, and behind military salaries, there is also morality and popular will.
The soldiers who newly joined the Red Turban Army, regardless of whether they were old or young, were all imprisoned for two months, and the people of Shouzhou City, regardless of age and age, each received a bucket of rice in the treasury of the Shouzhou Red Turban Army according to their heads.
Hao Shisan, the head of the Shouzhou Red Turban Army, also promised to cancel the tax for one year, and also abolished Meng Yuan's ****** ****, whose son does not marry a daughter-in-law? Who doesn't have a daughter, sister, or sister?
Do you want to slaughter the city? It also condensed the determination of the Shouzhou army and people to resist, how could Yesutai capture Shouzhou City without siege equipment?
Sutai is not willing to fail like this.
The Red Turban Army had no fierce fire oil, no thunder, no bed crossbows, no catapults, these heavy weapons of defense, but a temporary rabble.
The Red Horse Expedition has an absolute advantage in the bow and arrow, and the rabble cannot withstand the pressure of the Red Horse Expeditionary Army's strong offensive.
It was also readjusted and organized an attack again.
After three rounds of heavy arrow volleys from the archers of the Red Horse Exploration Army, a thousand cavalrymen once again wounded their swords, brandished hooks and curled up, concocted in the same way, and scratched the city.
The rear team of more than 1,000 cavalry did not leave a single one, and slowly followed up and pressed up, all of them opened their bows and shot flat at the battlements at the head of the city.
The children of the Red Horse Exploration Army have been soldiers for generations, and began to learn to ride and shoot arrows when they could walk, and the level of the bow and arrow was surprisingly accurate, and the Red Turban Army who fought and threw stones at the head of the city fell out of the city one after another.
Under this round of bow and arrow strikes, the Red Turban Army suffered heavy casualties, and the casualty ratio was more than half.
Ye Sutai looked at the casualties of the Red Turban Army, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Governor, my brothers are dying, allow the people to go to the city to help defend it!" Wu Liuqi was covered in blood, and he didn't know if it was the blood of the enemy, or the blood of his comrades, or his own blood.
Wu Liuqi's left army, which was defending the front, was the most experienced soldier in the Shouzhou Red Turban Army, and in the face of such large casualties, seeing that the city was not safe, he had to put forward his ideas to Hao Shisan.
Fu Youde's right army in Shouzhou City was responsible for the defense of the city on three sides, and its troops were stretched, and Hao Shisan's 2,000 Chinese army, as a reserve, was responsible for taking advantage of the opportunity to go out of the city to surprise the enemy, and this force could not be moved.
Wu Liuqi had no choice but to suggest that Hao Shisan let the people go to the city to assist in the defense.
In order to avoid the enemy's bow and arrows, Hao 13 hid under the battlement and cut down a Red Horse Detective soldier who had just jumped onto the city.
The people in Shouzhou City had just received a bucket of rice from Hao Shisan, and they also threatened to slaughter the city, and the people were pushed down to Hao Shisan's side under such a double influence.
The people of Shouzhou spontaneously carried their iron teeth, ready to go to the city to fight, and Hao Shisan, the Red Turban Army, and the Shouzhou City lived and died together, but they were blocked by Hao Shisan's soldiers of the Chinese army of thousands of households outside the city, and the people were not allowed to participate in the battle.
"No way!" Hao 13 said firmly: "The people have not been trained in combat, and they don't know how to avoid arrows, and the enemy's arrow rain is so dense that the people go to the city, which can only increase the casualties of the people." ”
"How can we let the people die for us? Zhang Thirty-one! Pass my order and let the soldiers of the Chinese army go to the city wall! Hao Thirteen shouted as the centurion of the guards Zhang Thirty-one ordered.
"Chief, no, the Chinese army is all pressed, and after the casualties are too large, there will be no soldiers who can go out of the city to raid." Wu Liuqi exhorted hoarsely.
"That can't let the people die in vain! The Chinese army Qianhu left two pear flower gun hundred-man teams under the city gate, and the rest went to the city to defend! That's it! ”
The situation became more and more urgent, and more and more Mengyuan soldiers climbed to the top of the city to fight with the red turban sabers on the city's head, sword to sword, and fist to fist.
Half of the cavalry had already landed in the city, and firing feathered arrows could easily cause accidental injuries to one's own side, so the shooting of bows and arrows was stopped.
The destruction of the city is at this time.
The battle policy of the Meng Yuan generals won the true biography of Genghis Khan, and the battlefield felt as sharp as a wolf, and once the time was ripe, the main general led the whole army to charge.
Ye Sutai drew his saber and waved it and shouted: "Children, the city is broken at this time, the girls and treasures of Shouzhou are waiting for my brave warriors, rush with me!" "Take the lead and rush out.
The main general charged, as well as the temptation of beauties and finances, Meng Yuan Chima explored the army and pressed it all.
The Red Turban Army of Hao 13 has been watching from the wall, and they have long been grinding their fists, and under the leadership of the monkey Zhang Thirty-one, they rushed to the city like a tide.
The people carrying brick farm tools, without the restraint of the Red Turban Army, followed closely behind the thousands of soldiers of the Red Turban Army, like a flood that opened the floodgates, surging up to the city.
At this time, the individual combat quality of the Red Turban Army was not as good as the Red Horse Exploration Army, which was born in a generation of military households, but the good tiger could not stand the wolves, and a steady stream of people were mixed with the Red Turban Army, which flooded the city of Mengyuan Red Horse Exploration Army.
One-third of the Red Horse Exploration Army that climbed to the top of the city did not have the impact advantage of cavalry, nor did it have the advantage of formation, and faced the disadvantage of one person against a few or a dozen.
Defeated!
Also defeated by Sutai!
Defeated in this way! How can cavalry be used as infantry? Moreover, without the cover of heavy weapons, more than half of the cavalry of the 3,000 Red Horse Exploration Army was lost.
His steel helmet fell off during the retreat, his hair was as messy as dead grass washed by the rain, and half of his face was bruised and swollen from the bricks that he didn't know who had thrown them.
He also scolded angrily: "When Lao Tzu's infantry arrives, there will be no piece of armor left in Shouzhou City that I killed!" ”