"Urgent gathering!"

The white moonlight sprinkled inside and outside the ice castle like mercury, and Liu Meng, the head of the first battalion of the chariot with his whole body neatly draped, stepped on the moonlight and returned to the ice tower where the capital was temporarily standby, and his eyes swept coldly over the subordinates who were lying or lying down, and suddenly let out a shout like a tiger's roar. "Urgent gathering!" The soldiers next to him blew the whistle on the side, and the piercing whistle made the hundred or so people in the ice castle immediately reflexively and quickly stand up and start to line up.

Wei Chigong quickly stood up with his sword in his hand, his eyes full of anticipation.

Liu Meng announced the reason for the sudden assembly, and tonight the four temporary cavalry battalions were about to leave the pass to launch a night attack, and in order to cooperate with the actions of the cavalry battalion, the infantry battalion, the chariot battalion, and the artillery battalion would all cooperate to support the operation tonight.

"All the crossbowmen immediately follow me to the city to prepare for long-range support, and the heavy infantry, sword and shield soldiers, and pikemen continue to stand by in place."

The excitement on Wei Chigong's face receded like a tide, and he was stunned, his heart full of loss. Cheng Mingzhen, Li Wenxiang, and Wu Wenguang were full of excitement, and they were all crossbowmen of the chariot battalion. Hearing the order to disband, Wei Chigong said a little unwillingly: "Dutou, we are also equipped with bows, and we can also provide long-range support for the cavalry." ”

Liu Meng glanced at Wei Chigong, and said with a dark face: "Yishi, obey the order." ”

"Dutou, I'm very accurate in archery, really." Yu Chigong was still fighting, and Cheng Yanjin also hurriedly said on the side, "My archery skills are also very good, count me in." ”

"Forgot what Jì Yi Shuai said? Soldiers take obedience as their duty! The order was to have crossbowmen in the chariot battalion, no heavy infantry and no pikemen. Stay here and don't make a fuss. We have 3,000 longbowmen and 4,000 crossbowmen to support the cavalry tonight, which is more than enough. No matter how much there is, there will be no place to stand in the city. After saying that, Liu Meng also ignored these two young soldiers who had been doing a lot of things since they joined the chariot battalion.

Yu Chigong and Cheng Yanjin retreated helplessly, Cheng Mingzhen squeezed his eyes at the two of them a little proudly, and then gritted his teeth and happily followed Liu Meng out of the tower with his crossbow machine, they all had a total of forty crossbowmen. All of them.

The moonlight tonight is very bright, which makes the Tongluo people under the city a little helpless, while frantically filling up. have to suffer more casualties. However, seeing that only the last trench remained, tonight's attack by the Tongluo people became more ferocious, and more troops were invested. Except for a reserve cavalry, Udir had already sent most of his men and horses to fill the trenches. At this time, I don't care about the regular army or the auxiliaries.

The horn is melodious. The drums thundered.

Listening to the sound of drums and horns on the opposite side, Cheng Mingzhen's heart also jumped wildly, and all the crossbowmen in the eastern camp had already rushed to the city and the two ice castles on both sides. Under the moonlight, the ice castle exudes a ghostly light, in order to cooperate with the cavalry raid, there are only a few torches lit on the city, which seems to be a little deserted, but a steady stream of crossbowmen are coming up the city. Not only were there rows of crossbowmen in front of the battlements, but they were behind them. The longbowmen lined up in a dense phalanx, waiting for the battle. In addition, the gunners of the artillery regiment had already stood in front of bed crossbows and catapults, and were ready to prepare for the attack.

Cheng Mingzhen and his two righteous brothers, Li Wenxiang and Wu Wenguang, were lined up on the left side of the three-zhang high, more than 1,000-step wide ice castle wall, standing behind the chest-high battlements, he poked his head out slightly, and his vision was very good in the moonlight, and the Tongluo people were frantically filling the trenches under the city, and from time to time they let out bursts of excited howls, as if they had opened the gate of the ice castle. Thousands of people crowded under the city, frantically moving earth to fill the trenches, this scene was very shocking to watch up close. He swallowed his saliva hard, calming down his heart that was beating faster and faster, and Li Wenxiang and Black Otter beside him also breathed heavily, and the two teenagers, like him, were also the first time to really participate in such a front-line battle. followed Yi Shuai before, at most, he just passed on military orders.

Liu Meng walked over with a two-person Fuyuan crossbow that normally requires two people to fire, and whispered to the forty crossbowmen in the city: "Pay attention to the order, you can't release the arrow without the order, do you hear?" ”

Cheng Ming nodded vigorously, looked over the helmets on the heads of the crossbowmen on his side, and looked at the top of the ice tower next to him, this ice tower is not only where the soldiers are on standby to rest, but also on the top of the tower There is also a catapult cart, and at the same time, it is also where the command flag for the battle is located.

Without waiting, with the sound of drums, high poles were erected on top of the ice towers, not only hanging lanterns one after another, but also two standard-bearers on them.

The lanterns lit up, one, two, three, and seven in a row, and at the same time the trumpeter blew the horn of the attack.

The attack began, and Liu Meng and other front-line commanding officers all blew the iron whistle in their mouths.

"Ready!"

The sound of horns, drums, whistles, shouts, all kinds of sounds sounded almost at the same time, Cheng Mingzhen felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, and he almost reflexively began to wind and load the crossbow according to the previous training steps, and then aim.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, arrows rained down. In fact, there was no need to aim at all, but the distance was only tens of paces, and the enemy was standing so densely, so many of their crossbowmen fired at the same time, and the crossbow arrows rained down. The Tongluo people did not expect that after the Han crossbowmen had been soft for three days, they suddenly rose up again in the middle of the night, and a large number of crossbows were fired, and under a wave of crossbow rain, countless people were taken away.

At this time, there was another drum in the city, but it was the longbowmen on the main fort and the side forts on both sides that were given the order to release their arrows.

Louder noises came from the front, left and right, and the whole sky was much brighter. The longbowmen of the arrow array fired rockets, 3,000 rockets thrown into the sky at the same time, and then roared to envelop the Tongluo people who were desperately filling the trenches in front of the pass.

After resting for three days, the archers at the head of the city finally showed their might again, and under the dense shooting of the crossbowmen who did not want to be expensive, the Tongluo people who filled the trench were shot crying and shouting for their mothers, holding their heads and running away.

And the fierce attack of the crossbowmen. It's just an appetizer tonight, Yi Feng didn't think about it at all, relying on the crossbowmen in the city. can directly annihilate an elite and fierce cavalry.

The crossbowmen were pouring arrows, and the artillerymen of the artillery regiment finally finished preparing to load their crossbows and began to fire, with boulders, ice bullets, and even fireballs pouring oil, as well as large crossbow guns smashing into the Tongluo people under the city.

Just after this terrifying onslaught. The gates of the ice castle creaked open, and the drawbridge was lowered and returned to the deep trench.

The Tongluo people who were covered by crossbowmen and artillerymen. I felt the ground shaking beneath me.

Many experienced Tongluo cavalrymen showed a look of disbelief on their faces, such a shock was definitely a harbinger of a large force of cavalry galloping. If it was on the plains, the Han people dared to send cavalry to attack them at night. They just can't ask for it. But at this time. They were suddenly covered by the overwhelming rain of bows and crossbows and arrows of the Han people, and they were caught off guard and the formation was completely scattered, and it was really a nightmare for the Han cavalry to suddenly kill out at this time.

Many Tongluo people, who were still holding large wooden shields and struggling to resist their bows and arrows, finally involuntarily let out a terrified scream: "Run! ”

The wooden shield could block the shot of the bow and crossbow, but it could not stop the impact of the cavalry's iron hooves.

Like a pack of wolves that suddenly appeared in the night, a cavalry torrent composed of 11,000 Xi warriors was rushing out of the ice castle. It rushed towards them like a flood breaking its banks. The first battalion of the elite provisional cavalry, composed of 3,000 leaders of the Xi tribe and the big and small tribes, rushed to the front, and the three cavalry battalions of the second, third, and fourth cavalry composed of three newly recruited Xi people and young men followed closely behind.

The dull and piercing sound of horses' hooves rolled in like thunder. These Xi warriors, who were once despised by the Tongluo people, are now supported by the long-range arrows and crossbows of the Sui army's crossbowmen, sending out a momentum that seems to sweep away and destroy mièyi qiē like a storm is coming. Under this thunderous cavalry raid, the Tongluo people, who had just been stunned by the Sui army's crossbowmen, were like local chickens and dogs, and the Tongluo people, who had scattered and fled for their lives, finally let out a cry of horror and despair in front of their opponents who had once despised and disdain.

The 11,000 Xi cavalry led by Su Zhi personally launched a complex counterattack against the Tongluo people, and in the middle of the night, the 11,000 cavalry suddenly broke out of the pass, which had been beaten by the Sui army's bow and ballista trucks. Fighting under the city, although the Xi cavalry with the support of the crossbowmen is not as strong as the Luo people, but the Tong Luo people are tired during this time, and the people are exhausted, on the contrary, the Xi people are recuperating and resting for a long time, and whenever the Tongluo people try to organize the formation, they will always suffer from the fierce attack of the Sui people's longbow and crossbow and artillery carts that come to the front and the left and right, in this case, the Tongluo people can only retreat again and again, miss the best opportunity to stabilize their positions, and are killed by the Xi people to the left and right, cutting down countless tribal warriors.

At the critical time, Udier personally led three thousand reserves to come forward to save the formation, and finally blocked the charge of Xi Ren, and responded to the defeated Tongluo cavalry, and then fought and retreated, until he retreated to five miles to the west, away from the longbow and crossbow on the Sui army city, and then stabilized his position.

After finally avoiding the Sui people's bows and crossbows, in the face of the Xi people who still dared to chase after him, Udir became angry and ordered the leopard riders to fight back. Udir believed that in a cavalry battle, ten Xi people would not be their opponents.

The anger made Udir forget one very important thing, that is, they were not only enemies in the east, they were dozens of miles away behind them, and there was also a Sui army.

When Udir and the angry Tongluo cavalry began to counterattack the Xi cavalry, and the two sides fought in the moonlit river valley, Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong had already arrived on the west side of the battlefield with more than 2,000 cavalry.

"General, we're here in time, let's attack!" Su Zhi's son, who stayed in the west to follow Shan Xiongxin's cavalry battalion, saw that the two sides were fighting fiercely, and hurriedly built a yì.

Shan Xiongxin stood on the hillside, looking at the battlefield from afar, but he shook his head unhurriedly: "Don't worry, the Tongluo people haven't put all their forces into it, and it's not the best time to kill them now." ”

Qin Qiong looked at Kedu's anxious appearance on the side, and said to Shan Xiongxinjian: "I think we can let the little general Kedu go to the Xi army, let them retreat in defeat, lead the Luo people to pursue, and then we will take advantage of the chaos to kill from behind." ”

"It's a way, is the little general willing to go?"

"I'll go right away."

Kedu ventured into the battlefield with a small group of cavalry, passed through the Tongluo cavalry, and finally reached the Xi people's formation and found Su Zhi. Under the banner of Jin Sanlu, Su Zhi's face was a little ugly, they attacked more than 7,000 Tongluo people tonight with 10,000 Xi cavalry, and they also had the strong support of the Sui army's previous bows and crossbows, but after the initial momentum under the city, now that the Tongluo people have stabilized, they have fallen to the bottom again.

When the blood-stained robe's daughter Manyue appeared in front of her son Kedu, Su Zhi showed a look of great joy on her face: "Has the Sui army cavalry battalion arrived, and where are they now?" "Before the battle, Yi Feng had already told him that in tonight's battle, the Xi brothers are the protagonists, not only will the crossbowmen help them open and provide support, but also the Sui cavalry battalion will be transferred to the battlefield to support.

"The cavalry battalion is behind the Tongluo people, General Shan and General Qin asked me to sue my father"

Su Zhi looked at the battlefield from afar, pondered for a moment, and finally slapped his thigh, "Okay, just do what the two generals said." ”

The sound of Mingjin sounded, and the Xi people began to retreat, and Udil, who had been staring at the battlefield, showed a hideous expression: "If you want to run, how can it be so easy, deer are just food for leopards, and you dare to provoke leopards at any time, and even want to run after provoking them, give orders, blow horns, don't let these deer escape into the ice castle, kill them all." ”

"Kill them all!" The annoyed Tongluo people shouted one after another, and the soldiers hurriedly pursued, and the reserve cavalry that had just been retained by Udil's side was finally killed.

The Xi cavalry desperately retreated eastward, chasing after the Luo cavalry, one chasing, one running, and soon the formation of the Luo people was getting wider and wider, and the back was finally defenseless.

As expected, Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong burst into laughter.

"It's our turn, kill!"

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.

More than 2,000 soldiers of the Huaihuang Cavalry Battalion and hundreds of Xi cavalry suddenly came out from behind the Tongluo people, giving the Tongluo people a heavy blow that they did not expect.

Shan Xiongxin brandished the Zaoyang lance and led the cavalry to slam the left side of the back of the Tongluo people, while Qin Qiong carried a spear and jumped on the horse and raised the spear, leading a cavalry to slam the right side of the back of the Tongluo people. The two cavalry were like two powerful iron pincers, clamping the rear team of the Tongluo people, and the powerful iron pincers were very light and crushed the rear wing of the Tongluo people, and the two cavalry began to converge together, straight into the leopard banner of Udil.

With the sudden change in the back of the Luo people, Su Zhi had also discovered that Su Zhi, who was being chased, was about to be defeated by deception, and hurriedly ordered to turn around and counterattack. The Xi army sounded the horn of attack, and one after another of the Xi cavalry turned around and turned back into the Tongluo army.

The Tongluo people suffered from the enemy on their backs, and suddenly became a great enemy, and fell into a bitter battle between two sides. (To be continued......)