Chapter 70: Bloodstained Phoenix City (4)

More than a dozen iron horsemen were skilled in riding, and suddenly pulled the reins in front of the city gate to stop the war horses.

Another bolt of lightning pierced the night sky that was black into the thick inkstone, and the light emitted by the lightning flashed away, and in the moment when the lightning crossed for a short time, the soldiers in the city saw the dozen or so knights in the fiery red Dazhao Zhen Army uniforms.

"But the messenger of the northern fort?" Wang Xuan looked at the dozen or so knights under the city and asked Yu Tianyuan.

"It's definitely not the messenger of the northern fort!" Yu Tianyuan shook his head, "The messenger of the northern military fort, I am familiar with it, Cao Erdan's soldiers and horses are not stable, how can they have such exquisite riding skills." Besides, where do we have such a tall and majestic war horse in Phoenix?! ”

Phoenix City is a bitter cold and poor place, and there is no food and salary for a long time, and it is not easy for the soldiers to have a hungry stomach, and they can't afford to raise expensive war horses. Phoenix City is a huge military town, there are only about fifty war horses, among which there are many bad horses, the crotch of these dozen knights under the city tower is tall and strong, and the entire Phoenix City is only Lin Xin and Wang Xuan, the mounts of the two battalion generals can compare. These knights are definitely not the town army of Phoenix.

"Who is under the city! Get your name in! The night was thick, and Lin Xin could only see a dozen sparse figures downstairs in the city, and shouted at the dozen or so figures.

"Jinzhou reinforcement scouts, quickly open the city gate and let me and others enter the city, we have something important to report!" From below the city came the knight's majestic voice.

Lin Xin pondered for a moment, motioned to the soldiers around him to bend their bows and arrows, and at the same time asked sharply: "Since you are a scout for reinforcements from Jinzhou, why don't you go to the south gate and go to the north gate?!" ”

The south gate is the closest to Jinzhou, and the reinforcements from Jinzhou should be the first to pass through the south gate according to common sense. Lin Xin couldn't help but be vigilant.

The dozen or so knights under the city tower did not respond for a long time, and Lin Xinka couldn't see the movements of the dozen knights under the city tower, but vaguely heard the sound of arrows winding.

The comer is not good! Lin Xin was suddenly shocked, these knights were not reinforcements from Golden State! It's from the north gate again, it's the Liao army! These fucking knights are Manshu cavalry, who came to trick the city gates!

"It's Manyu! Shoot the arrows! Lin Xin opened his throat and shouted.

The fifty or sixty archers in the city were already ready to shoot their arrows, raising their bows and arrows to shoot at the scattered dozen people under the city tower.

Arrows pierced through the rain curtain and swished out with the sharp sound of arrows, and a dozen figures scattered to launch a counterattack on the Phoenix defenders on the tower.

These knights were all selected by the Liao army and deceived the dead soldiers who opened the city gates, and they were all elite fighters who were good at fighting. The first wave of arrows of the Liao army actually hit the nine town soldiers in the city, and the arrows hit the face gate, throat and other vital points! Nine townsmen fell suddenly.

A sharp arrow with a sharp whistle passed through Lin Xin's shoulder, and pierced into the pillar of the watchtower with a loud sound, and the arrow actually sank into the pillar by nearly two inches! It can be seen that the arm strength of the Liao army knights under the city is amazing! This Liao army must be the elite of the Liao army!

Lin Xin gasped, the Liao army's archery skills were terrifying!

"Get down!" Lin Xin ordered the soldiers in the city to lie down, and more than a dozen soldiers in the city had fallen with arrows, and they couldn't get cheap with the Liao army with superb archery. Moreover, the lights on the city tower were on, and the Liao army under the city could see them clearly, but they could only see the vague figure of the Liao army.

After Lin Xin gave the order, the Zhao soldiers in the city lay down under the battlements to avoid the arrows of the Liao army. Yu Tianyuan smashed his fist on the battlements, and fifty or sixty archers suppressed more than a dozen archers of the Liao army, and killed and injured more than a dozen people! It's really his (mother's) nest.

Seeing that the Zhao army in the city shrank under the battlement to avoid the arrows, the dozen knights under the city did not continue to release arrows towards the city, and a knight at the head raised his hand, and more than a dozen knights turned the dock and returned to the camp at the same time almost in an instant.

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves gradually moving away, Lin Xin was relieved, let out a long sigh of relief, and ordered: "Hit the bell!" Alarm sounds, the Manchu are coming. ”

The bell in the tower was struck, and the dull bell spread throughout the bleak and calm border city, breaking the silence of the border city. conveyed a bad news to the soldiers and civilians in the city: the Liao army is coming.

The notoriety of the Liao army has already spread throughout the entire eastern Liaodong region, and although Phoenix City is located in a remote area, it rarely has the opportunity to engage with the Liao army, but it has long heard of the bad behavior of the Liao army. The Liao army's massacre of 60,000 Zhao soldiers on the beach in Yingzhou can even cure the children's night cry in Phoenix. In the minds of the soldiers and civilians of Phoenix City, the Liao Army is a demonic existence, and they have long equated the Liao Army with the devil.

Lin Xin is still very young, although the outside world has a reputation for him as young and promising, but during the six years of guarding Phoenix, Lin Xin and the Liao army did not have rich combat experience, and only had a few small-scale friction battles with the Liao army. But this time Lin Xin knew very well that this time it was not a simple small-scale military friction, this time the Liao army was pressed into Phoenix City by a large army!

Terror will spread, and the Liao army's many victories and slaughter of the Zhao army have spread throughout Liaodong. In all parts of Liaodong, both the imperial court and the private soldiers of various families were afraid of the Liao army. Now, Lin Xin is no exception, Lin Xin tried his best to control his nervousness, at this critical moment, he is the backbone of Phoenix City, and the spiritual pillar of the military and people of Phoenix City, if he is afraid and chaotic, the defenders of Phoenix City will collapse. What awaits Phoenix City will be the same as the cities of Sahan City and Liaoyang City, and the people of the whole city will be slaughtered by the butcher's knife of the Liao army and reduced to hell on earth.

"The order went down, all the soldiers went to the city to defend the city, and the rolling wood, thunder and stone and other things defending the city were quickly prepared, ready to meet the Liao army, and organized all the young and strong people in the city to help fight. The old and weak women and children made fires and cooked to comfort the soldiers defending the city. Lin Xinqiang calmed down and issued an order to mobilize the entire city to defend the city.

After giving the order, Lin Xin watched the soldiers in the city clean up the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and carried the soldiers who were wounded by arrows into the watchtower for treatment.

Three miles away from Phoenix City, three thousand Liao army iron horsemen had already set up camp in the clearing. The dead soldiers of the Liao army failed to deceive the gates of Phoenix, and nearly a thousand Liao troops remained in place, waiting for their commander Wanyan Haiya to give the order to attack the city.

"General Achille, what's wrong with your arm." Chen Yankai saw that Achiller's left arm was bleeding, and stepped forward to ask.

Every time he fights, Achiller likes to charge into battle and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, and this time the Liao army sent more than a dozen dead soldiers to open the gate of Phoenix City, and Achille is the captain of this dead soldier team.

"The thief (mother) let Zhao Ren's arrow bite." Achiller didn't care about this injury, he had eighteen knife wounds on his body, and arrow wounds the size of money eyes were densely covered all over his body, and he couldn't count them, this injury was nothing to him, just an extra money eye on his arm. Achille patted the chain mail lining his military robe, and the chain mail was slapped, "Covered by chain mail, and the arrow hit the body like a tickle." ”

"It's okay if it doesn't hurt." Chen Yankai bowed deeply to Achiller, "General, Your Royal Highness is waiting for the general to return. ”

Achiller exhaled: "The deception failed, and Achiller is ashamed of the Third Highness." “

Since suffering the setback of the siege of Pingshan Fort, Achille has behaved much more calmly, and no longer looks like a reckless man in his clothes as before.

"The slave failed to deceive the door, please punish the Third Highness." The Liao State is not like the Great Zhao subordinates who call the king and the prince all vassals, and the Manshu people still follow the old customs after the Li Kingdom, not only the slaves call themselves slaves to their masters, but the courtiers are also slaves to the kings and princes.

"Get up." Wan Yan Haiya glanced at Achiller lightly, and he also didn't have much hope for Achiller to lead the dead to open the gate of Phoenix City. He just had the mentality of giving it a try, if he could open the gate of Phoenix, it would naturally be best to capture Phoenix City in a battle, and if he couldn't open the gate, he would lead the army to attack.

Achille got up in panic and waited for Yan Haiya to give the order.

"Achille, this commander ordered you to be the vanguard of the front army, lead a thousand Manshu warriors to attack the city, and take Phoenix City in one battle!" Wanyan Haiya gave the order to attack Phoenix City. Wan Yan Haiya joined the army when he was a child, and he has developed the habit of calling himself a commander and a general in the army.

"The minion has to be ordered!" Achille was ordered to withdraw from the tent.

The 1,000 Liao army that had been dormant in front of it for a long time was already ready to attack, and they rushed to Phoenix City just waiting for the commander to give an order.

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In the vast twilight, more than 20 flaming red lanterns are very dazzling in the dark.

This is He Tengxiao's fleet, the visibility of the ships at night is poor, and the ships are prone to collisions and accidents, in order to avoid collisions, each ship has a conspicuous red light.

From time to time, the fleet came with a burst of loud trumpets, dotting this bleak and desolate remote border town.

"Ke Dinghai! Come here! He Tengxiao's brows were almost twisted into a Sichuan character.

Ke Dinghai ran over shirtless and panting, and the fiery red light reflected his solid and toned muscles.

"At this speed, when will we get to Phoenix?!" He Tengxiao pointed to the boat going upstream, obviously, he was not satisfied with the speed of the boat now.

"Lord Qianhu, according to the current speed, it will take two days to get to Phoenix City!" Ke Dinghai gasped and said, "The water suddenly becomes turbulent, we are going against the current, there is no wind, and we rely on the oars to help!" ”

After the fleet entered the Great Insect River, the rain increased greatly, the river water rose sharply, and the speed of the fleet slowed down suddenly because of the faster water flowed upstream. He Tengxiao ordered all the soldiers and sailors to row together, and the speed of the boat was raised. Due to the strong current, even though they were already paddling hard, the speed of the boat was still only one-third of what it was when they first entered the Great Worm River. What was supposed to be a one-day voyage is now a three-day journey!

"Drums! Everybody paddle hard! Phoenix can't wait for us to do that! He Tengxiao rolled up his sleeves and played a big oar.

"The subordinates have orders!" Ke Dinghai hurriedly clenched his fists, ran to the golden drum in three steps and two steps, picked up the drumstick and smashed it into the cowhide drum surface.

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