Chapter 760: The Battle for the Gate
The sudden situation made Zhu Yuncai stunned, the doorman who was extremely brave just now had been severely injured by a feather arrow on his right arm, and even the three wolf thieves were extremely surprised. However, the development of events did not leave them time to continue to be stunned, and feathered arrows like flying locusts suddenly came. Soon, several soap officers fell off their horses with arrows, how could Zhu Yuncai ever see such a posture? He was originally a hunter who hunted, how did he change his identity in an instant and become a lamb to the slaughter?
At this moment, Zhu Yuncai didn't care about any decency, and hurriedly rolled to his side and fell to the ground with an arrow, not knowing whether he was alive or dead, hoping to escape the feather arrows that fell like rain. Looking at the soldiers defending the city, the man with an arrow in his right arm suddenly shouted a terrible warning sound.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
The bow and crossbow were strictly controlled by the imperial court, and those who held them privately were always punished as plotting rebellion, so the guards of the three guards guarding the door swept away their previous contempt and immediately waited for it. As the alarm sounded, the iron gate of the city gate began to fall slowly, and the iron chains and wheels made a piercing sound under the friction.
"Hurry up and take the city! We can't let the officers and soldiers fall the iron gates! ”
Even a few masked men rushed to the city wall, trying to seize control of the iron gate at the city gate. This iron gate is not an ordinary thing, it is easy to regain the gold when it falls, and it is not the power of a dozen people to re-hoist it, and it cannot be raised for a while. Therefore, once the iron gate falls, it is equivalent to the end of the hope of leaving the city.
It's just that these masked men despise the guards of the Three Guards guarding the city, and the guards sent by Li Xin to each gate of the inner city are all men and horses of the old camp of the Three Guards, all of whom are veterans of a hundred battles, not comparable to ordinary guards. Therefore, the soldiers in the city immediately entered a state of combat readiness after receiving the alarm from the guards under the city.
The masked men who had rushed to the corridor of the city wall could not even stand on their feet when they were jammed by a dense burst of musket projectiles.
The crackling of muskets was incessant, followed by a thick white smoke of gunpowder, which instantly hid the city, making it impossible to distinguish between reality and fiction. Whether it's visual or auditory stimulation, it's terrifying. Seeing the failure of the attempt to capture the city, the masked people immediately and decisively chose to give up.
"Quick, find a boulder to stop the iron gate, and if the iron gate falls, we will all be finished!"
One of the masked men, who looked like a leader, looked at the thief who was still stunned on the spot, and shouted, "What are you still stunned for? Don't you want to get out of town? Hurry up and help! ”
After this shouting reminder, the congratulatory person reacted, quickly leaned over and picked up the steel knife, ready to rush forward. However, more than a dozen guards of the Three Guards under the city had already formed a formation to guard the city gate, and several masked people who were the first to storm the gate were beheaded to the ground.
"Crossbowmen! Archery! Archery! ”
Seeing that the attack could not be achieved, the leader of the masked men immediately ordered the crossbowmen behind him to shoot arrows again. The soldiers under the city had no shields and no place to dodge, and in the face of the rain of arrows, several soldiers immediately fell to the ground.
There are 50 guards on duty in this Dinghuai Gate, if the alarm comes from outside the city, even if the gate can be opened to warn, a large group of people in the military camp in the city will go to the city wall, but this period takes at least a quarter of an hour or more, a quarter of an hour is really not long in normal times, but at this critical moment it is far from the water to quench the thirst.
So, they could only rely on these fifty men to fend off the raiders. Although there are many raiders, but the defenders of the city do not dare to rashly take the initiative to attack, at this moment the safest is naturally to form a formation and defend, waiting for reinforcements, if the rash attack once the failure is not too late to regret?
Especially under the suppression of the rain of arrows, the soldiers in the city could not rush to the city to reinforce under the rain of arrows, they could only wait for the other party to run out of arrows. It's not too long, and usually after six or seven rounds is the best time to counterattack.
In other words, the masked people can only rely on the time of these six or seven volleys to carry out an all-out attack, kill the defenders of the city, and seize the iron gate to stop the slowly falling iron gate from continuing to fall. This is their only chance, and they can only make a desperate bet and fight hard.
The masked leader raised the Yanling knife in his hand and shouted: "Rush with me!" Kill all the officers and soldiers! ”
As soon as the order was given, the rest of the masked people agreed one after another and rushed forward. Among them was the Jiangxi businessman surnamed Xue, as well as the servant who was not injured. The businessman surnamed Xue was already desperate, but unexpectedly, there was a turnaround, how could he work hard?
Dozens of people rushed forward together, but they couldn't take advantage of the three guards who were less than ten left. Although the guards of the Three Guards suffered heavy losses, they still maintained a strong combat effectiveness, and more than a dozen masked people were killed in an instant under the formation.
This sudden burst of combat power obviously made the leader very crazy!
"Rush! All rush to Lao Tzu, there are few of them, even if one is changed for another, we can rush over! Otherwise, you'll all have to die here! ”
Although the leader shouted resolutely, but in his heart he had already regretted his intestines, he originally thought that there were nearly 100 soldiers on his side, lurking in Nanjing City for many days, originally wanted to cooperate with Shao Hualong's actions, but how Cheng thought that Shao Hualong was stupid and abnormal, and there were no bones left to let people clean up between raising his hands. As a result, these people were trapped in the city, and every day they saw the officers and soldiers patrolling the city, they couldn't help but panic, so they all discussed and waited for the opportunity to rush out of the city.
And this time it was also a coincidence outside the Dinghuai Gate, seeing that someone was about to break out of the door, the leader suddenly had the idea of sneaking out of the city. He had already known the number and configuration of the defenders of this Dinghuai Gate, so he resolutely ordered a volley to attack.
But he never expected that the combat effectiveness of these gatekeepers guarding the city would be so strong, and in just two impacts, more than 20 of his people had died. Obviously, they had the advantage, but after a battle, they were not opponents at all.
At this time, the leader sighed gloomily, saying that the Three Guards were terrifying and powerful, and even the Tartars were not opponents, he had always thought that this was an exaggeration, but now it seemed that it was worthy of the name, and he also knew that he had underestimated the Three Guards too much, and now he was about to pay the irreparable price for his contempt comeback.
But now the situation is already the arrow fired, and there is no possibility of even wanting to collect it, and his choice now can only be to run to the black. Death or life is like a bet thrown, either win a lot or lose cleanly. Nothing left.
"Zhao Amao, your arm is injured like this, come here, I will take your position!"
Zhao Amao was the same as the Ming Sect pawn who had previously cut off the thief's arm and was hit by the masked man's arrow, and he was lucky not to die after two brutal battles. Everyone in the small formation they formed had a fixed position, and Zhao Amao's position was at the front of the whole formation, but because it was inconvenient for him to hold a knife because of the arrow in his right arm, he could only hold the knife in his left hand.
These veterans who joined the Three Guards in Datong Mansion have experienced almost all the major battles in which the Three Guards participated, and how many times they have lived and died, and those who can survive until now are all veterans of a hundred battles, and their experience and ability are second to none in the Three Guards. What's more, the Three Guards have always been good at fighting more with less, and defeating the strong with the weak. Although they were faced with masked people who were many times their size, they showed no fear at all.
There were only a few dozen masked people, even though they were less than ten in number, but they still didn't pay attention to them. They used their powerful combat power to make these people realize what it means to hit a stone with an egg, and let them taste the pain of kicking on an iron plate.
However, although the morale of the soldiers was high, the reality was clearly not as rosy as they thought. The masked men, who were more than a dozen times their size, rushed forward, and the soldiers with less than ten men were like small boats on a giant Lang shuttling and trembling. Zhao Amao tightly held the Yanling knife in his hand with his left hand, he was not afraid of death but was unwilling, unwilling that he could not die on the battlefield, but died in the hands of several little thieves.
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, the steel knife clenched in his left hand was subconsciously raised again!
The masked leader's third assault failed, and he knew he had lost his last chance......
But now the situation is already the arrow fired, and there is no possibility of even wanting to collect it, and his choice now can only be to run to the black. Death or life is like a bet thrown, either win a lot or lose cleanly. Nothing left.
"Zhao Amao, your arm is injured like this, come here, I will take your position!"
Zhao Amao was the same as the Ming Sect pawn who had previously cut off the thief's arm and was hit by the masked man's arrow, and he was lucky not to die after two brutal battles. Everyone in the small formation they formed had a fixed position, and Zhao Amao's position was at the front of the whole formation, but because it was inconvenient for him to hold a knife because of the arrow in his right arm, he could only hold the knife in his left hand.
These veterans who joined the Three Guards in Datong Mansion have experienced almost all the major battles in which the Three Guards participated, and how many times they have lived and died, and those who can survive until now are all veterans of a hundred battles, and their experience and ability are second to none in the Three Guards. What's more, the Three Guards have always been good at fighting more with less, and defeating the strong with the weak. Although they were faced with masked people who were many times their size, they showed no fear at all.
There were only a few dozen masked people, even though they were less than ten in number, but they still didn't pay attention to them. They used their powerful combat power to make these people realize what it means to hit a stone with an egg, and let them taste the pain of kicking on an iron plate.
However, although the morale of the soldiers was high, the reality was clearly not as rosy as they thought. The masked men, who were more than a dozen times their size, rushed forward, and the soldiers with less than ten men were like small boats on a giant Lang shuttling and trembling. Zhao Amao tightly held the Yanling knife in his hand with his left hand, he was not afraid of death but was unwilling, unwilling that he could not die on the battlefield, but died in the hands of several little thieves.
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, the steel knife clenched in his left hand was subconsciously raised again!
The masked leader's third assault failed, and he knew he had lost his last chance......