Chapter 226: Counterattack
At the time of the third watch, Guan Xinglong opened his eyes, jumped up from the bed, picked up his knife and walked out of the city tower, on the city wall, a large number of soldiers gathered in the dark, and there was no torch on the city, but by the faint moonlight, Guan Xinglong still saw a face full of too many emotions.
Guan Xinglong suddenly put the knife under his flank, put his fingers in front of his lips, made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "What are you doing, you want to report to Boyan that Lao Tzu is going out of the city?" ”
Guan Xinglong's joking words caused a burst of extremely low laughter in the city, and the originally tragic send-off suddenly became a little relaxed, "Little cubs, wait for Lao Tzu to come back and clean you up!" Armed with a knife, Shi Shiran walked down the city wall.
In the city, five hundred cavalrymen are drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in large pieces, this is all the cavalry in Dingyuan City, and the big guys also know that they will die for nine lives when they go out of the city this time, unless they are lucky, the possibility of coming back is extremely low. The foot soldiers on one side were busy wrapping the horses' hooves in soft cloth and chewing them.
Guan Xinglong didn't make any mobilization, strode to the middle of the cavalry, thrust the knife into the ground with a thud, reached out and grabbed a piece of hooves, bit his mouth full of oil, ate a few big bites, threw the hooves, picked up a big bowl of wine, drank it all with a grunt, looked at the cavalry who were about to attack with him, and said with a smile: "Young men, you can eat more meat, don't drink too much wine, be careful that you get faint while riding on a horse, and vomit before you fight!" ”
The cavalry laughed easily, and the crowd said: "General, I have a larger amount of wine than you, and I can drink several catties of wine. ”
Guan Xinglong smiled, "Bragging, when I come back, Lao Tzu will compete with you, and if Lao Tzu doesn't fill you up, he won't have the surname Guan away!" ”
"Don't worry, general, even if I get drunk, even if I vomit, I will vomit on the barbarian!" Another voice came.
The tense atmosphere slowly disappeared in the field, replaced by a sense of relaxation, as if everyone went out of the city this time not to do a decisive attack, but to go on a spring outing.
The drum of the fourth watch sounded, Guan Xinglong wiped his hand on the body of a foot soldier beside him, pulled out the thick-backed knife on the ground, and shouted in a low voice: "Young men, let's go!" ”
The cavalry stood up one after another, picked up the bayonet spear, wore the combat knife, inserted the crossbow in the waist, turned over the horse, on both sides of the horse's body, one by one the tied clay pots were filled with grease, their target was the baggage camp outside the West City, Guan Xinglong carefully observed in the past few days, and finally found this flaw, the garrison there was actually transferred to the front city wall one by one to attack, and after collecting the troops, he did not go back, but went to the main camp with Boyan.
"Raised by a son of a bitch, let you taste the power of Lao Tzu."
The fourth watch is the most tired and relaxed time for a person, Guan Xinglong firmly remembered the lesson Li Qing had taught him, at this time, he went out of the city to sneak attack, and he would not have dreamed that a Dingyuan city, with only a few thousand defenders, would have the courage to go out of the city to counterattack.
Boyan really didn't expect that the generals of the yellow and yellow banners didn't expect it, and even the ordinary soldiers didn't think that in their opinion, the defenders of Dingyuan were already the turtles in Wengzhong, and it was their greatest happiness to be able to defend the city, and it was impossible to go out of the city to fight, so when Guan Xinglong's five hundred cavalry quietly touched the heavy camp in the west of the city, the entire barbarian battalion was still unaware.
The guards of the baggage battalion were extremely lax, and the sentries of Guan Xinglong and the others should have been found sleeping soundly on the high sentry tower, and the battle line that was several miles wide also provided the greatest convenience for Guan Xinglong's covert attack.
"God help me!" Even Guan Xinglong himself didn't expect it to go so smoothly. When he touched a hundred steps away from the barbarians' baggage camp, Guan Xinglong began to lead the cavalry to accelerate, although the sound of the horses' hooves wrapped in soft cloth was light, but the five hundred horses ran with all their might, and the sound of vibration still alarmed the barbarians.
"Break the camp!" Guan Xinglong shouted in a deep voice.
Several heavily armored knights destroyed the horses, rushed to the fence of the camp with all their might, there was a loud bang, the horse overturned, and the fence was also shattered, Guan Xinglong did not hesitate, jumped in, waved the clay pot like a meteor hammer in his hand, and still put it under the tent, the cavalry behind him did the same, and threw the clay pot on the horseback one after another, and then the bayonet picked up the torch in the camp and threw it at the fourth-rate grease, boom, the tent and so on suddenly burned.
Outside the camp, several heavily armored knights who had just broken the camp got up in a daze, and as soon as they turned around, they put on heavy armor and ran towards the direction of Dingyuan City, their task had been completed, and it was their current task to go back alive.
Guan Xinglong shouted happily, brandished a broadsword with one arm, galloped back and forth in the blazing camp, trampled through tents, cut down rags, and set fire to a large number of baggage. Five hundred cavalry followed him closely, like a long dragon, trampling wantonly in the barbarian barracks.
When the fire in the baggage camp was blazing in the sky, Boyan was looking at the fire from the direction of the main camp in a rage, and the soldiers of the baggage camp finally reacted and began to resist in an organized manner.
"Fuck, pretty fast!" Guan Xinglong scolded: "Brothers, retreat, follow me and rush back!" ”
With a whistle, Guan Xinglong turned his horse's head and rushed to the outside of the camp.
Boyan's face was so gloomy that it seemed to be dripping water, and the general Su Han said cautiously: "Banner master, I will immediately lead the troops to rescue the baggage camp!" ”
Boyan said hatefully: "What are you going to do? The baggage camp is almost burned, take your men and horses, and stop the dog mongrels who want to go back to the city, and I'm going to skin them!" ”
"Yes, Banner Master!" Su Han quickly turned around and left.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, the sky was already bright, and the soldiers in the city, seeing their cavalry galloping, could not help but shout, and in the distance, the fire of the baggage camp still illuminated half of the sky.
But immediately, the soldiers closed their mouths, held their breath, and a biao cavalry quickly caught up, obviously the Dingzhou cavalry, which had been fighting for nearly an hour, was far inferior to the opponent's horsepower, and the distance was getting closer and closer, and at this speed, the Dingzhou cavalry was obviously too late to return to the city.
Wang Peng was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and feet, walked around the city, and kept thinking, "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”
Guan Xinglong obviously also discovered this problem, and ordered loudly on the galloping horse, "The front team will return to the city quickly, and the rear team will follow me to stop the enemy!" ”
A lieutenant shouted: "The general will go first, and I will stop the enemy!" ”
Guan Xinglong said angrily: "Dog said, do you have me, Lao Tzu can still kill it, you go back to a dead end, get out, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”
The lieutenant paused, "Take care, General!" Fiercely grabbed the horse's belly and led the front team to run to the city, while Guan Xinglong led the rear team to go around in a circle, and killed the chasing barbarians from the oblique thorns.
Su Han keenly noticed this, and immediately made a decision, and immediately divided his troops, one cavalry met Guan Xinglong, and the other cavalry went straight to Dingyuan City, he wanted to take this opportunity to seize the city gate.
Guan Xinglong gritted his teeth and killed among the barbarians, damn it, bad luck, Boyan's son of a bitch, instead of fighting the fire, he sent someone to block Lao Tzu's way, it seems that he is really back today.
Swinging the knife to slash left and right, while slashing, slowly approaching Dingyuan City.
The captain of the Dingzhou cavalry has seen that a gap has opened in the city gate, and it is still slowly expanding, and his heart can't help but relax, and when he looks back, he can't help but be shocked, the cavalry of the barbarians has been tightly embellished with his own team, and if he enters the city, then these barbarians are likely to rush into the city closely. Glancing at the city, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Brothers, the barbarians want to seize the city gate, let's not go back, kill back!" ”
"Kill back!" Nearly two hundred cavalrymen roared in unison.
"Close the gates!" The captain roared towards the city, leading two hundred cavalry to turn back, and the barbarian cavalry following behind obviously did not expect that these cavalry actually gave up the only way to escape back to the city, and actually turned around and killed back, and for a while, they were killed by the Dingzhou soldiers who were far less than them, and they actually rushed back and joined forces with Guan Xinglong.
"Dog, who told you to come back?" Guan Xinglong looked at the captain and said angrily.
"General, the barbarians are chasing closely, if the last general enters the city, those barbarians are likely to follow, the last general can't take risks, and is willing to live and die with the general." The lieutenant scrambled one of the enemy horsemen off his horse and said loudly.
"Well done!" Guan Xinglong laughed, "I don't have a bad seed in Dingzhou, follow me to the city, and let the archers in the city give these barbarians a good look!" ”
The two of them rushed to kill each other, slowly approaching the city.
"Archers, archers!" Wang Peng shouted in the city, looking at the group of archers with Yipin bows rushing up, Wang Peng said loudly: "Block the shot, stop the shot!" ”
"Eight bull crossbows, trebuchets, partitions, partitions!" Wang Peng shouted frantically, watching the eight-bull crossbow and trebuchet start to launch, and then turned around the city a few times, Shangguang suddenly aimed at the long rope of the tethered wood, his eyes suddenly lit up, and the rope was untied in three or two times, and the soldiers next to him saw Wang Peng's action, and suddenly realized, and they started to untie the long rope in the future.
The strong support from the city greatly relieved the pressure on Diguan Xinglong, and he began to get closer and closer to the city walls. Some of the soldiers had already reached under the city wall, and at this time, the city threw down the long rope, and some soldiers reached out and grabbed the rope, jumped up from their horses, alternating their hands, and climbed up with their feet on the wall, while the soldiers in the city also pulled hard.
"General Guan, General Guan!" Wang Peng screamed hoarsely, dancing the rope in his hand.
Guan Xinglong finally killed the captain to the city, Wang Peng and another soldier's rope were thrown down at the same time, Guan Xinglong bit the thick-backed knife in his mouth, grabbed the rope with one hand, and rose up.
With anger in his eyes, the boiled duck could fly away, and he rode forward, wound his arrows, and aimed at Guan Xinglong, who was rapidly rising.
Crashing and bursting arrows, Wang Peng in the city was shocked, and the three black shadows went straight to Guan Xinglong who was hanging in the air in a straight line, "General! He shouted.
Now Guan Xinglong, the captain who was hanging in the air at this moment, also saw the long arrow shot at Guan Xinglong, suddenly shouted, kicked and twisted his foot on the city wall, and threw it in the direction of Guan Xinglong. Exhaling heavily, the lieutenant fell down like a stone.
"Brother!" Guan Xinglong shouted, twisted his waist in mid-air, put the rope on his feet, and picked up the thick-backed knife with his free hands, and his feet were pulled up and down by Wang Peng and several soldiers. Su Han's continuous arrows came again, Guan Xinglong danced the thick-backed knife like a windmill, when the sound was continuous, and finally an arrow broke through the defense, and pierced into Guan Xinglong's thigh with a bang, Guan Xinglong gasped in pain, and at this moment, several pairs of powerful hands grabbed Guan Xinglong and pulled him into the city wall.
Guan Xinglong, who was facing the sky on his back, lay down on the cold ground, looking up at the sky, at this time, the first rays of sunlight were breaking through the sky, shining on the big banner of the Dingzhou Army in the city tower, reflecting the golden light, and on the city wall, thousands of soldiers were thundering.
(To be continued)