At the head of Raoyang City, thousands of soldiers and civilians defending the city watched the sixty-one cavalry Tiance knights risk death to assault, and finally filled the trenches for the city to be driven away, and the thousands of people who were bound to die won the precious time to enter the city, but the sixty-one cavalry Tiance knights were almost wiped out at this moment, leaving only a few horsemen who broke into the middle and were still surrounded by hundreds of times the Youzhou rebels, fighting bloodily.

At this time, tens of thousands of Youzhou infantry cavalry regrouped in the sound of military trumpets and rushed to the Raoyang City Gate again, and there were still more than 3,000 people outside the city gate crowded into a big pimple, struggling to pour into the city.

Lu Quancheng wiped the blood and tears on his face, and ordered loudly: "Go down to two hundred more people, go to the city gate to maintain order, and urge the people not to mess up, and the speed is faster!" ”

Two hundred people ran down the city wall in response, and Lu Quancheng shouted at the thousands of soldiers guarding the city at the head of the city: "In order to save these thousands of people, sixty-one Tiance knights and almost all the battles, 10,000 Youzhou foot cavalry attacked the city again, there are still thousands of people under the city, now it's time for us to get up, all the crossbowmen are ready to kill these Youzhou rebels!" ”

Twenty-four eight-ox crossbows were fired at the same time, and twenty-four gunpowder crossbow guns with thick arms fired at the remaining twenty-one Youzhou rebels' trebuchets with precision, and after a violent rumbling bang, the twenty-one trebuchets were torn apart, the levers of the wooden frame were broken, the counterweights fell, and the stones rolled to the ground, and the damage could not be more complete.

Under Raoyang City, Zhang Xing and the five hundred Raoyang defenders watched these sixty-one Tiance knights, still fighting desperately and bloodily with their last breath, until they were overwhelmed by enemies hundreds of times their size, and until they were deeply encircled and killed, they all had red eyes and tears flowed out of their eyes.

At this time, 10,000 Youzhou infantry reorganized their formation. Once again, there was a tide rushing towards the Raoyang City Gate, and the five hundred people led by Zhang Xing were like a reef that was about to be flooded at any time, but none of the five hundred improvised defenders retreated or showed a panicked and frightened expression in their eyes!

Instead of flinching and frightened, everyone's eyes were literally bursting with flames!

This Youzhou rebel army, what is there in Datang that can't stand you! Since An Lushan mongrel Hu has been in charge of Hebei. More than eighty percent of the taxes in Hebei must be discharged to Fanyang; For more than 100 years, these Hu people who were moved into Hebei not only occupied the most fertile land, but also almost did not have to pay taxes at all.

More than seventy years ago, the Turks rebelled. After that, the Khitan and Xi followed, for decades, the land of Hebei is the hardest hit area of these Hu Lu into the Kou, there are more than 500 Han soldiers present, which has no blood feud with these Hu Lu rebellion!

Not to mention the tragic scene of witnessing the sixty-one Heavenly Knights sacrifice their lives to serve the country without hesitation, fighting to the last person, and finally winning more than ten breaths of time for thousands of people to flee for their lives. And how not to let these 500 people who witnessed the whole process have their blood gushing and their blood boiling. Just want to kill the enemy side by side with such a well-written man?

Not to mention that these Youzhou rebels have slaughtered villages and destroyed villages in various parts of Hebei Province these days, annihilated silver and plundered, and killed their own villagers, and half of the people who were driven to fill in the trenches still know each other, and the atrocities of these Youzhou rebels. It also shows that if you don't fight hard with them, what kind of fate will happen to those who are waiting for you, the people of the Han family in Hebei!

Looking at the more than 4,000 Youzhou light riders who had begun to accelerate and trot. Zhang Xing glanced at the five hundred sons under his command, and roared loudly: "Fight to the death and don't retreat!" ”

"Fight to the death!" The five hundred Raoyang defenders roared in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

Almost at the same time, behind the crowd of people, an old farmer in Hebei who was in his fifties but still sturdy, was suddenly awakened by this roar, looked back at the Youzhou light rider rushing over like a tide, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Don't squeeze any further!" Our lives were saved by these military masters, and we are under this city, fighting with these Youzhou rebels! Revenge! ”

More people were frightened, turned their heads to look, and shouted: "Fight with them!" ”

"Revenge!"

Immediately, thousands of Hebei Dao people who were crying and screaming and wanted to squeeze into the city gate turned their heads and ran behind the five hundred Raoyang defenders, picked up the weapons on the ground, and picked up the clay pots on the ground and stood by.

Li Riyue, the former king of Xi who pressed the formation behind more than 4,000 cavalry troops, looked at everything in front of him, the strong crossbows on and under the city wall were like a forest, and more than a thousand crossbow arrows were glowing with a cold cold light, in the face of the attack of the Youzhou cavalry, these people did not panic, their eyes were just burning with hatred and anger, and his heart couldn't help but sink down.

I don't know why, Li Riyue suddenly had a feeling that he would not be able to capture this Raoyang City today.

The horse speed of the Youzhou cavalry has been raised, and they soon ran into a distance of 100 paces, and the defenders who were obviously five hundred recruits were still immovable, looking at the crossbow arrows that were steaming with cold light, and some of the Youzhou knights who were running in the front row were also a little panicked at this time.

While charging, many Youzhou Hu Qi silently recited in their hearts: "Collapse, collapse!" ”

In this era, wars are fought many times with momentum, especially for the grassland Hu cavalry who are only good at fighting with the wind, they followed An Lushan to rebel this time, although they were bewitched by An Lushan, but their biggest mind was still to go south and loot, so naturally they would not have any desperate mentality.

The sixty-one Heavenly Knights just now had actually made them frightened, and they broke out with a fierce fight to the death, in the final analysis, it was also because of fear, they were frightened by the decisive charge of these sixty-one horses, so they had to kill each other desperately to calm the fear in their hearts.

But until they rushed to almost sixty paces, the faces of the soldiers on both sides could see each other, and the five hundred Raoyang defenders on the opposite side still did not move, and these Hulu knights were suddenly a little depressed, and their momentum was weak.

At this moment, a long swan sounded, the sound of the tooth trigger pulling, the sound of the bow and crossbow vibrating, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot out from under the city wall and on the city wall at the same time, whistling into the Youzhou cavalry army formation that had begun to be chaotic.

Blood splashed, screams and neighing of war horses rang out in the sky, just the first round of arrow rain, and the front two or three rows of the four thousand Youzhou cavalry were almost swept away.

The corpses of the rebels and the corpses of the war horses in Youzhou almost covered the land where they had wantonly driven and slaughtered the people of the Han family before. Blood gushed out and stained every inch of the land, and how many of the rebels' wounded screamed and struggled in this pool of blood, and then they were trampled into flesh by the cavalry behind!

The muscles on Li Riyue's face were extremely distorted, and his eyes were red, these five thousand light cavalry were all his own army of King Xi, the most elite cavalry of the Xi clan. It was consumed in the hands of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, and his heart was dripping blood.

But at this time, even if you retreat, you can't retreat, and the best way is to rush through the thin four-layer army formation of 500 people in one go, and kill into the unarmed people who are still crowded at the city gate behind them!

You can only give it a go, there are still sixty steps left, as long as you can break through, the front is the city gate, as long as you can break through!

However, things developed next. But his mood sank to the bottom, and without waiting for the cavalry behind him to run into a distance of fifty paces, thousands of crossbowmen took over the strong crossbows of the people and companions behind, and then there was another round of intensive shooting, and the hundreds of most elite pro-troops under his command were swept away again.

Seeing such a tragic scene in front, the Xi light cavalry in the rear no longer had the courage to continue to charge at this time, or subconsciously stopped the war horse. Or desperately make sharp turns to both sides, and the whole cavalry is in chaos.

This was followed by a third round of arrow rain. There were also explosions of twenty-four gunpowder crossbows in the middle, and in the dense rain of arrows and twenty-four fires, hundreds of Xi knights were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, screaming and wailing.

And the more than 1,000 Youzhou knights who were lucky enough not to die finally let out an exclamation and cry at this time, desperate to escape from this Shura battlefield. Many of them didn't even know the direction, they just galloped and crashed into the more than 5,000-foot army led by Shen Zigong.

While jogging, the more than 5,000 Youzhou infantry watched the arrows in front of them like flying locusts, and only three rounds of arrow rain shot more than 4,000 Youzhou light cavalry to the ground. Most of the dead and wounded, and then dozens of war horses rushed towards him, and they were all terrified.

Shen Zigong was at the back of the infantry formation, watching all this blankly, and he couldn't help but tremble, until the seven or eight cavalry rout soldiers at the front finally collided with his own infantry, he suddenly woke up, and shouted loudly to the other infantry to release arrows at these dozens of cavalry routs.

The most taboo thing to do when marching and fighting is to be attacked by a small number of chaotic troops in the rear formation, which will not only disrupt the formation, but also hit morale, causing a chain reaction like an avalanche, and the retreat of a small force will suddenly evolve into a large rout of the whole army -- this is not how the Qin army was defeated before the Battle of Weishui.

Shen Zigong's response was naturally not wrong, but seeing dozens of his own cavalry being shot into hedgehogs by his own people, the morale of these more than 5,000 infantry was also greatly damaged; What's even worse is that at this time, the vanguard of 5,000 infantry has unconsciously run into the range of the Raoyang defenders.

So, a moment later, the vanguard of the five thousand Youzhou infantry was violently hit by thousands of crossbow arrows on and under the city of Raoyang, and they were frightened by the desperate charge of sixty-one Tiance knights before, and then they were infected by the rout and panic in front of them, and at this time the arrow rain really shot to their side, and then they collapsed!

Shi Siming, who was riding his horse and standing on the mound to command, looked at all this in front of him blankly, and he didn't understand the most basic truth of not fighting.

But he couldn't understand how the five hundred Raoyang defenders on the opposite side, who were firmly in front of thousands of Han people, and even the thousands of crossbowmen on the city wall, were almost all a rabble of mixed up, how could they have such psychological quality, not collapse in the face of cavalry charges, and wait until sixty paces before firing a salvo together?

This concentration and discipline have almost caught up with the elite soldiers of a hundred battles!

If these Tang Dynasty defenders along the way are like this, what else will they talk about fighting the Yellow River, fighting to Dugi Road, and fighting to Chang'an!

And the war has reached this point, and the 11,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry were beaten and fled by more than 1,000 Raoyang defenders and thousands of people who were temporarily put together, how will this battle be fought in the future? Do these more than 100,000 Youzhou still have morale?

Thinking of this, Shi Siming's eyes were red all of a sudden, and then he saw at a glance that he was still surrounded by hundreds of his own pro-army at this moment, and he was constantly fighting - he was taken away by Mo Qiufeng's sixty-one horseman's momentum before, and felt that his thoughts were out of reach, so he ordered that Mo Qiufeng must be captured alive, and then defeat him mentally, and then kill him with a sword, and his thoughts will be understood.

At this moment, in the middle of the battle group, only the leading captain of the six cavalry who had been surrounded before was left, but he was still fighting with all his might, and from time to time there were still knights on his side who were picked off his horse. At this time, Shi Siming no longer thought about defeating the other party mentally, and with red eyes, he ordered loudly and angrily: "Kill him quickly!" Kill him! ”

It was this Tiance lieutenant, with a decisive charge of sixty-one horsemen, who not only disrupted the offensive rhythm of the 11,000 cavalry on his side, but also bought more than ten precious moments of time for thousands of people to enter the city; It made the morale of thousands of Raoyang defenders and people in the rear even higher, and finally played at a super level!

In everything, these sixty-one Heavenly Knights are the culprits! So be sure to kill him!

After killing this Tiance military captain, and then chopping it into meat sauce in front of thousands of soldiers defending the city, and demonstrating, these thousands of Raoyang defenders should also be frightened, right?

And his side still has enough military advantages, and he can still surround this Raoyang City, and then collect and drive thousands of people from Hebei to the north, so that they can fill the trenches with soil in batches, and they can always beat Raoyang down, and when the time comes, the soldiers and civilians in this city will be slaughtered, and the morale of the soldiers under his command can be restored!

However, at this moment, Shi Siming suddenly heard two terrible eagle chirps, and a black Hai Dongqing flew over from the west, and his gray-white Hai Dongqing tore and bit in the sky, as if his Hai Dongqing was still at a disadvantage.

Just when Shi Siming was stunned, in the northwest direction of the battlefield, more than a dozen light cavalry sentry scouts who had been released by themselves were desperately fleeing to this side in embarrassment at this moment, and behind them was a knight of the Tiance Army who was riding a jujube red sweat and blood horse, with black armor all over his body, with a treasure bow in his hand that did not know how many stones, and the arrows were shot out almost in a line, and only two of them could not breathe, and these dozen or so horse sentry spouts were hit by arrows and fell off their horses one after another!

Shi Siming had never seen such a fast archery speed, nor had he ever seen such a fast war horse, in the blink of an eye, this Tiance knight rushed to within three hundred steps of him, and then he actually began to bend his bow and arrows again, this time his target turned out to be himself!

Seeing a black dot shoot over like lightning, followed by a violent scream, Shi Siming was suddenly shocked, almost subconsciously lowered his body, lay down on the war horse, and a feathered arrow flew over his back, and then the war horse was picked down, but he was killed by the second arrow immediately after the first arrow.

Shi Siming's soul was almost out of his body at this moment, and every inch of the pores of his body couldn't help but tighten, but it was his experience in a hundred battles that saved him, and he subconsciously picked up the stirrups and fell off the horse, and rolled out sideways.

"Dashuai!"

"Dashuai!"

At the same time that dozens of Shi Siming's guards exclaimed loudly, they heard a loud and high-pitched swan sound suddenly coming from the northwest direction, and several guards couldn't help but look to the northwest, and saw that a wave of cavalry composed of cavalry had appeared on the western skyline, and on the heads of each cavalry, the fiery red helmets kept jumping up and down, like a group of burning flames.

And at this time, there was a burst of earth-shattering cheers from the head of Raoyang City, and the reinforcements from Changshan finally arrived! (To be continued.) )