Chapter 145: Seizure
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When attacking a city, it is common sense in the art of war to prevent the enemy from attacking the city with elites.
However, Wang Xuba, who rose up roughly, obviously didn't understand this truth very well, and was hit by Li Chongjiujia's half-crossing before, and he had seen the strength of the Sui army's armored cavalry, but this time he was still unprepared.
A rode out of the city, the only shortcoming, just a few days ago, the thieves attacked the city when the big wooden hammer left on the ground, slightly blocking the speed of the horse.
The armor in the city is killed, and every person is killed.
At the gates, the thieves were overwhelmed by their horses, and they fell by their swords or were struck high by their horses.
It is impossible for these ragged thieves to resist the armoured horsemen armed to the teeth.
Within a few dozen steps, Li Chongjiu led the armored cavalry to kill, and it was effortless at all.
The siege thieves in front of the city were already exhausted, and after dozens of people were killed, the whole line collapsed at the moment, and the killing hands of the overseers were weak, but they still couldn't stop the rout of the defeated army.
Seeing that the armor cavalry was near, the warlords themselves began to flee.
"Protect the Ballista!"
"Protect the Ballista!"
Among the thieves, there are still people who are well versed in the art of war, and they know that with the opponent's armored cavalry of less than fifty horses, they can't impulse the whole army of tens of thousands of people at all, and the opponent's target is where the ballista is.
So two rows of shield-swordsmen were assembled in front of the ballista.
These shields and swords are not general, and they are all iron shields in their hands. The long knife in his hand is sharp, not the rusty kitchen knife of an ordinary thief.
The thieves also know the importance of the crossbow, and in addition to the personal soldiers of Wang Suba's headquarters, there are only two hundred shield soldiers here.
As soon as the armored cavalry saw the shield soldiers in battle, they did not rush hard, and the back row held long weapons together. Xi Ren immediately used maces, big wooden sticks, and at the moment, with the speed of horsepower, smashed on the iron shield, like striking a big gong, and slammed into it.
Many thieves with shields were directly smashed by these hundreds of catties and broke their arms.
And the shield soldiers of the thieves are not helpless, they use iron shields to block the cavalry's blows, and they are all cats, turning knives to cut the hooves of horses.
The horse's hooves were cut off by a knife, and the armored wolf fell from his horse, and the opponent's shield soldier stepped forward, and he cut it with a knife and chopped it into pulp.
After the two sides slashed for a while, Wang Xu pulled out the banner and made the flag flutter.
The two or three thousand thieves who retreated along the siege were like frightened birds, and then retreated. Two or three thousand thieves were forced to retreat by fifty armor cavalry, which can be regarded as a loss of face.
After answering, at this time, nearly 10,000 troops from the back of the thieves stepped forward together, ready to rescue the ballista.
At this time, in the city gate, the fifty cavalry who responded in the rear had just squeezed out of the city gate, and all the whole team arrived.
Li Chongjiu gritted his teeth, and as soon as he urged the war horse, he rushed towards the crossbow cart, and all the armored horsemen on all sides also drove forward together, forming a triangular formation of cavalry impact.
The war horses are fighting hard, as if they are like summer thunder.
I only heard a bang, and I saw a scene of people turning over on their backs.
At present, more than a dozen war horses slammed into the sword and shield formation alive, smashing the opponent's formation into a gap.
And the cavalry that followed followed, with broadswords, maces, and with this gap, slashed with knives and smashed with sticks.
As soon as the shield army's formation was opened, the saber and stick were cut down on all sides along with the gap, and the war horses clashed, knocking people far away.
The thief's shield army finally couldn't resist, and the cavalry was so shocked that they dropped their shields and swords and fled in all directions.
"Destroy, no, destroy the two ballistas, and tow the remaining two ballistas back to the city!" Li Chongjiu shouted a command.
This winch crossbow is a sharp weapon of the Great Sui, and there are not many in Hejun, so Li Chongjiu changed his decision immediately.
Listening to Li Chongjiu's instructions, the armored horsemen slashed the back of the horse with the back of their knives.
After pulling the horse and suffering pain, he ran hard, and A rode aside to pull the horse, and let him carry the crossbow into the city gate. As for the other two beds, the armoured riders picked up their sticks and slashed at the carts, and soon the two ballistas became a pile of firewood.
And when the thieves saw that the enemy was about to enter the city, they were willing to miss this opportunity, and immediately shouted forward.
Li Chongjiu sneered a few times, and rode with the fifty armor around him without retreating, but instead advanced towards the other party to kill. The thieves were running wildly to rob the city gate, but they did not form a formation at all, and when they saw the cavalry coming violently, they were so frightened that they immediately stopped, erected bamboo spears and spears, and formed a formation to defend themselves in place.
The archers stepped forward one after another, and a round of random arrows flew in, and they were soft and weak, and they were like tickling on the iron armor.
Li Chongjiu did not rush directly into the fight, but just walked around like a demonstration, and after seeing the two ballistas entering the city gate, Li Chongjiu retreated with his armored horse.
At this time, the thieves woke up like a dream, knowing that they had fallen into a scheme, and chased the Sui army's horses together, shouting forward to grab the city gate.
Fifty horsemen entered the gate without landing, and even the cavalrymen who were injured and fell off their horses before rescued their horses for their companions and transported them into the city.
The two city gates weighing hundreds of pounds on the left and right are slowly closing under the impetus of eight big men on each side.
The thieves seemed to see the slightest opportunity, and rushed forward desperately, rushing towards the city gate.
As long as the city gate is snatched, tens of thousands of troops behind him can enter continuously, and with less than 2,000 defenders and people at the city gate, the whole city can be occupied in an hour.
At this time, there was a bang on the head of the city, and fifty strong bows were fired in a volley, and the first to rush to the city gate was not more than twenty paces away, and a dozen thieves were shot to death and nailed to the ground.
The follow-up thieves still did not give up, and continued to rush forward, and fifty strong bows drawn like a full moon shot towards the city.
The gates finally closed and closed tightly.
"More than 30 armor horses were damaged, two crossbow carts were destroyed, and two crossbow carts were seized."
Li Chongjiu shook his head, the loss of the armor cavalry is still too great, these are their own elites, after coming to Feihu County, the loss has exceeded forty people, and the minor injuries are not counted.
However, seeing the seized two-bed ballista, Li Chongjiu took a closer look and felt that it was still worth it. The 12-stone crossbow is a bed with three bows, two bows in front and one bow in the back, and it is said to be up to 400 paces away.
Regardless of whether it is convenient to fight in the field, whether it is attacking the city or defending the city, these 12-stone ballistas are all sharp weapons.
After entering the city, Gao Chu had already ordered the female wall to be moved, blocking the part that was shot through by the ballista in front of the city wall.
When Gao Chu saw Li Chongjiu riding his horse from the horse road to the city, he immediately said heartily: "Hou Ye is brave, if it weren't for Hou Ye breaking the bed crossbow, this city would be unsafe." ”
Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "How is the enemy army?" ”
Gao Chu laughed and said: "The enemy thief has lost at least two hundred people, and the siege has lost five or six hundred people, and now the bed crossbow has been captured or destroyed by Hou Ye, what is there left." ”