Chapter 388: Where Are the Officers and Soldiers?
At this time, several bandits are rushing to ...... Linhanmen ...... Nearby, while showing off their might, they suddenly heard a rumbling sound endlessly, and a group of cavalry strangely appeared from the city gate. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As soon as they appeared, an icy chill spread around the city gates.
"What is this?"
"Official...... Soldiers? ”
The cavalry rushed closer and closer, and quickly formed a queue of five cavalry, and at this time, the thieves and horses also saw the appearance of those cavalry.
A tall horse, all the knights are dressed in fiery red cotton armor, and the feeling of the armor is quite scraped, it must be dark armor with iron leaves inside. Their hats and iron helmets floated high with red tassels on their helmets, and the armor of the red calico cloth was covered with thick copper nails, which shimmered with a penetrating metallic light.
Where did this army come from, making people feel so palpitated?
Before the thieves could react, they accelerated, and the heavy hooves of the horses slammed against the bluestone slabs of the street with a dull sound. Their cold rifles were pointed at the terrified thieves, and they rushed at them like a tidal wave.
"It's officers and soldiers!"
The thieves let out a terrible scream.
"Meet the ...... Enemy"
Many people shouted in despair, but they gathered together, there was no team momentum to speak of, and the horsepower was not let go, how to face it?
Before they could figure out how to deal with it, the cavalry came straight at them without mercy.
The people screamed and the horses neighed, and there was a miserable howl, and the thieves and horses were knocked over on their backs.
The heavy cavalry spears of those cavalrymen pierced their chests and continued to pierce them mercilessly. Several Shunxiang Army soldiers in the front row, and even the cavalry spears in their hands pierced the bodies of several thieves in a row, stringing them together.
For a time, in the north of the city near the "Linhan Gate", the strong smell of blood spread, as well as the sound of weapons and the terrible howls before death, sounded one after another.
The battle was short and fierce, and after the cavalry of the Shunxiang Army in the front row rushed away from the thief team, they did not stop, holding knives and guns, and continued to rush forward to kill.
The thieves who were lucky enough to remain were cleaned up by their later comrades-in-arms.
"Kill the thieves!"
More and more cavalry of the Shunxiang Army rushed into the North Street from the "Linhan Gate", and they maintained the momentum of five cavalry and one column, rolling on the street.
The main street of Xiangyang is flat and wide, especially the east and west streets, the north and south streets, each of which is three or four miles long and seven or eight zhang wide, and it is not difficult to maintain the momentum of five horses and one column.
The thieves and horses encountered along the way did not come back together. In the eyes of the thieves, these officers and soldiers are all heavily armored and heavy-armed, and when they march, they are like mountains and seas, how can they resist the kind of majesty that rolls in? They all pulled their horses and fled in a panic.
Not to mention these thieves who fled in a panic, they were the people of Xiangyang who fled on the street, and when they saw the cavalry rolling over, they also fled in a panic.
They remembered the reading just now, saying that it was the Dingguo general on the east road of Xuanfu Town who led the army to help, and the people who had heard of Wang Dou's reputation were more peaceful, looking at the prestige of Wang Shi, the thieves were in trouble.
They either hid in the alleys to avoid being hit by the cavalry, or they hid in the alleys and went straight home from the familiar alleys, waiting for the chaos to settle down.
Wang Dou's army entered the city, except for a general cavalry to the west gate, a general cavalry to the east gate well, and the rest followed him to the Xiangwang Mansion in the south of the city.
Mercedes-Benz in the wide Xiangyang City North Street, in front of him is his own rolling and riding, Wang Dou is in a happy mood, Xiangyang, the general trend has been determined.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong, he entered the city from the west gate, and just led the army to the Wangfu Street near Xiangwangfu, which was later called the place of Green Shadow Wall Lane, he heard the whistling sound of the Shunxiang army, and then the voice of the reading mixed with the northern accent, saying that the general of Dingguo came to help.
He roared angrily: "What's the matter, where did this officer and soldier come from, and who is Wang Dou?" ”
Li Dingguo thought thoughtfully: "Wang Dou, I seem to have heard of this person's name. ”…,
Sun Kewang was a burly figure, wearing heavy armor that was rare in the rebel army, and his face was full of hideous color, he shouted: "Father, let the child bring some old battalion brothers over, no matter what officers and soldiers come to help, the child will kill them without leaving a piece of armor." ”
Zhang Xianzhong was about to speak, but he heard the roar of Beicheng's hooves, and then a burst of crying sounded, and soon, he saw his subordinates rushing towards him. At first, they were in twos and threes, and then in groups, all of them looked frightened, crying for their fathers and mothers, just saying that they had met officers and soldiers, and they were very powerful.
Some of the routs even screamed and rode out of the city, even ignoring Zhang Xianzhong, the commander, they were all elite horsemen, but now they have become like this, obviously seeing the horror brought to them by the officers and soldiers.
Zhang Xianzhong was even more angry, and ordered to cut down several routs in a row, but it didn't make any difference.
At this time, the rumbling of horses' hooves was closer, and it was obvious that the officers and cavalry of the brigade had rushed in.
Seeing that there was some commotion among the people next to him, Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth: "Lao Tzu worked hard to defeat Xiangyang City, who dares to pick peaches from Lao Tzu?" What are the officers and soldiers, it's not that Lao Tzu hasn't fought, that fierce as a tiger is called a fierce general, isn't it that Lao Tzu cut off his son and nephew? ”
He waved his hand violently: "Children, come with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, those officers and soldiers have three heads and six arms, Lao Tzu will beat them!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong has a lot of combat experience, and he knows that in the interior of this city, the elite cavalry team is not easy to perform, so it is better to dismount and fight on foot, and use strong bows and crossbows to shoot those officers and soldiers. As long as they resisted a wave of impact, the officers and soldiers behind lost their speed and let themselves be slaughtered.
Under the leadership of Zhang Xianzhong, the old camp thieves turned around and came to the South Street, plus the righteous son Ai Nengqi led hundreds of people from the palace square to help, and the elite cavalry gathered next to Zhang Xianzhong has exceeded 1,000 people. Most of these people can shoot with strong bows and arrows.
They lined up the streets with several layers of archers, and behind the archers were a dense crowd of hand-to-hand fighters armed with shields and broadswords. Originally, Zhang Xianzhong wanted to lead the army to fight at the entrance of Nanjiekou, where the terrain was wider, but the officers and soldiers had already rushed in, and they were afraid that they would not have time to arrange the troops, so they waited here.
It didn't take long for the sound of horses' hooves rumbling on the street from North Street to South Street.
Finally, the rolling elite figures of those officials and soldiers penetrated into the eyes of Zhang Xianzhong and others.
Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: "Where did the officers and soldiers come from, so elite?" ”
The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty all have armor, although those officers and soldiers are wearing cotton armor, and they are all riding high-headed war horses, although Zhang Xianzhong was a little surprised, but it did not surprise him who was well-informed.
Embroidered pillow soldiers, I don't know how many I have seen in Zhang Xianzhong's military career. What shocked Zhang Xianzhong was that the momentum and murderous aura on this army were not the army that had experienced a hundred battles and crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood.
As a general, especially a leader of a rogue who fights in an old war, the first skill of everyone is to judge the combat ability of an army from the appearance and morale of the army.
Zhang Xianzhong's expression became solemn, no wonder the brothers on the other side of North Street were quickly defeated, no wonder they faced such officers and soldiers.
Looks like there's a tough fight.
However, he was confident that under the strong bows and crossbows of the soldiers of his old battalion, this cavalry still didn't want to rush over, after all, the streets were narrow, no better than the field, and the advantages of the cavalry could not be used.
However, to Zhang Xianzhong's disappointment, those cavalry slowly stopped two hundred paces away. Then some military orders came out over there, and soon, these cavalry retreated, and some bird milling soldiers appeared in front of Zhang Xianzhong and others.
These bird millers seemed to be more well-armed, and instead of the cotton armor worn by the cavalrymen they had seen before, they were iron armor of one color, and the leaves of the armor were exposed, all in the style of bright armor. The bird mill in his hand was also a little strange, and it seemed to be longer than everyone had seen.