Chapter 290: Besieging the Town
The north wind howled fiercely, blowing on the face like a knife cut, and the town of Vidin, which was silent in the snowy night, had been surrounded by Enek's large army, but there was no movement in the town after the town was surrounded, which made Enek's soldiers at a loss.
"What's going on? Why stand still, why don't you attack it? Enek grabbed the hilt of his sword and pushed the soldiers in his way, walking to the front and angrily.
The Wu Zhu, who was leading the team at the front of the town, saw that Enek was coming in person, so he greeted him and said: "Your Highness, why are you here, it is dangerous here, Your Highness should go to the rear to command!" ”
Enek spat out a single word: "Say! ”
"Yes!" Wu Zhu had to say: "Your Highness, there is a strangeness in this town, we have so many people and horses, even if the people in the town sleep and die, they will definitely be awakened, but now there is no movement in the town, this thing is strange!" The subordinates feel that there is a conspiracy in this, and there is likely to be an ambush in the town, so the subordinates think it is better to be careful! ”
Enek looked at the gate of the town and said disappreciatively, "Even if there is a strange ambush here, what can it be?" My army of 20,000 can trample this small town of Vidin with one person and one foot, don't hesitate any longer, I order you to attack immediately! ”
In terms of ability, Enek is not only inferior to his father Attila, but also his elder brother Erak is not comparable, and even inferior to his younger brother Deng Zhixik, in history, after the fall of the Xiongnu Empire, only Deng Zhixik persevered to the end, and re-developed in the South Russian steppe on the northern shore of the Black Sea to try to rebuild the Xiongnu Empire, but because of bad luck. He was defeated and killed in an attack on the Byzantine Empire along the west coast of the Black Sea, and his head was hung by the Byzantine Empire in the city of Constantinople.
It's clear from Enek's personality and way of doing things that he's not a good leader, but that's not a good thing for some. For example, Agul, Agul's teacher is Attila's chief shaman, but he has no rights in front of Attila and can only divination, but Agul is different, Agul is very important under Enek, not only for Enek's divination. The official position is still very high, and he has a lot of power, all because Enek's own ability is not good. He had to rely on Agul to advise him and help him consolidate his power.
A lord who has such ability, who is often confused, and who does not distinguish between right and wrong, is like a fish in water for some ministers who are not right-minded and full of crooked ways. But for those ministers who are upright, decent, and loyal. It was a disaster, and the Vultures were one of them, he was a warrior and a loyal man, and although he knew that Enek's orders were somewhat unreliable, he couldn't help but listen to them, because he didn't have the ability to make Enek change his decision, and since he couldn't change Enek's decision. Then you can only comply.
"Yes!" Wu Zhu agreed, and then pulled out his waist knife and pointed at the gate of the town and shouted: "Attack!" Knock open the door".
A road gets out of the way. More than a dozen strong men carried a thick and long tree that had just been cut to the gate of the town, the branches of the tree had been cut off, the head and tail were cut off, only a log in the middle, the log was very thick and heavy, but a dozen people carried it was very easy, they came quickly, and hit the end of the log on the gate of the town, only to hear a "bump", the gate of the town made a huge noise, and was almost knocked open.
At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from the gate of the town: "Shoot-"
As soon as the voice fell, a large number of soldiers appeared above the walls of the town, and these soldiers were holding bows and arrows, and they opened their bows and shots, and the ......arrows kept shooting down from the walls.
At such a close distance, several waves of arrows in a row were almost all missiles, almost every arrow took a human life, and the sudden bow and arrow strikes caused Wu Zhu's men to suffer heavy losses, and a large number of screams appeared very bleakly in the snowy night, and the silence of the town was completely broken at this moment.
The dozen or so strong men who carried the logs against the gate of the town were all shot, and the logs fell to the ground and no one cared, and a rain of arrows kept shooting down on the wall, and the front of the Enek soldiers who surrounded the town suffered the most severe losses, and after suffering heavy casualties, the soldiers behind had to retreat quickly until they retreated to a distance of an arrow.
"Bastard, the cunning Qin Dong really set up an ambush in the town, Qin Dong, I want to kill your whole family, you damn slave!" Enek saw that his soldiers had suffered such a great loss under the rain of arrows just now, and he was immediately a little angry, his face turned red with anger, and he cursed without hesitation.
"Your Highness is angry!" The military advisor Agul persuaded: "Your Highness, you can't be angry at will when fighting, anger is easy to make people lose their minds, our soldiers and horses occupy the absolute cleanup, and a few dead people are nothing, Your Highness, please see, the wall of the town opposite is not high, as long as the impact speed is too fast, lightly armed soldiers can directly climb over the wall!" ”
Enek looked at the wall, and found that the wall was really not high, a soldier without weight, as long as the speed of the sprint was fast, he could use the speed of the sprint to turn over the wall, but there were Modo's archers on the wall, and the sprint would definitely bring a lot of casualties, he frowned and said: "It's okay to rush again, but the other party has a large number of archers on the wall, and if you rush hard, the casualties will be very large!" ”
Agul Jian said: "Your Highness doesn't need to worry, we can organize archers to cover behind, just wait for the charging soldiers to rush out, and the archers behind will immediately suppress the wall, as long as our soldiers can rush to the wall, it will be considered successful, and then it will be a hand-to-hand battle, and the bow and arrow will no longer work!" ”
This is indeed a good way, and the fact that in this era can come up with the method of using long-range weapons to suppress the enemy's firepower and at the same time let the infantry attack, already shows that the way of thinking of the person who came up with this method is different from ordinary people.
"Good!" As soon as Enek heard that it was feasible, he immediately made a decision, and immediately asked the archers of the Vulture Organization to prepare in the back, and organized a large number of soldiers without armor and leather armor to prepare to charge with weapons.
After the preparation was completed, Wu Zhu looked at Enek, and Enek waved his hand: "Wu Zhu, this time you will personally lead the team and kill me into the town, and this king will let the archers cover you behind."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Wu Zhu carried his scimitar and shouted: "Warriors, rush with me, climb over the wall, kill into the town, kill—"
"Kill-" When the Wu Zhu rushed out with his scimitar, the soldiers behind him all rushed towards the wall with their scimitars in their hands.
As the attacking soldiers ran some distance, Enek estimated that he was almost there, and immediately drew his Damascus scimitar and shouted: "Archers come forward - prepare to suppress the enemy wall - shoot - ".
The overwhelming arrows flew into the sky, and then formed a huge black curtain in the sky, shrouding a section of the wall, and just showing his head on the wall, raising his bow and arrows, ready to shoot those soldiers who were running towards the wall, Modo Archer was immediately hit by a rain of arrows, and a scream sounded one after another.
Hearing the incessant screams coming from the wall, Enek knew that he had done it right this time, and was overjoyed: "Okay, just do it, continue to suppress, shoot-"
After four rounds of continuous shooting, Enek saw that the soldiers who were rushing to the front were already close to the city wall, and could no longer shoot arrows, because any more arrows would hurt his own people, and he immediately shouted: "Stop shooting, and organize a second group of soldiers to rush over to support the first group of vultures!" ”
Although Enek is not very capable in many aspects, he also has a unique side in commanding operations, otherwise he would not have known to send a second wave of soldiers to support at this time, which is the experience he has accumulated from fighting with Attila in the past.
"Kill, kill!" A second group of soldiers was soon dispatched.
At this time, some of the first group of soldiers had already climbed over the wall and landed in the town to fight with Modo's soldiers, and many were climbing over the wall, and the shouts and killings in the town became more and more frequent.
In the center of the town, Modo sat in a chair and listened to his commander's report on the battle outside, and when he learned that Enek's men had broken over the wall into the town, he ordered: "Pass my order, all the first-line soldiers retreat, and use the archers to stop the other party's pursuit!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, a horn sounded, and all the soldiers under Modo's men who were fighting with Enek's soldiers turned around and ran, regardless of whether Enek's soldiers would not be killed from behind, Enek's soldiers immediately chased and killed, but when those Modo's soldiers ran through the alley under the wall and entered the street, a large number of archers suddenly appeared from both sides, and a rain of arrows came, shooting and killing many of Enek's soldiers who were chasing and killing. The streets of the town were empty, and there was no one left.
Enek's soldiers, who stormed the town, began to search the alleys and houses, but unbeknownst to them, Modo had sent people to surround the Enek soldiers who had entered the town and shot them in a concentrated manner.
At the same time, another of Modo's tactics began to be implemented, sending a group of men to cut off the connection between the army sent by Enek to attack the town and the army outside the town, and this group of men and horses once again grabbed the town's walls, driving all Enek's follow-up reinforcements back.
"What's going on, what's going on, how did you guys get back?" Enek shouted at the second wave of reinforcements who had been driven back.
A commander hung his head and said: "Your Highness, the other party suddenly killed, we couldn't react, we were cut off from the front soldiers, we couldn't echo back and forth, the people and horses in front of me were still in the town, my side suffered a lot of losses, and I had no choice but to retreat back, please surrender your highness!" ”
Military Agul said with a solemn face: "The group of people who entered the town, I am afraid that there will be many bad luck, and the general Wuzhu is only afraid that it is dangerous!" (To be continued......)