Chapter 13: Fighting for Drums and Horns at the Beginning of the Smoke (3)
The Mongol forces in the distance began to move slowly again, and this time, about 2,000 soldiers in full armor marched forward to the front of the large formation under the guidance of the black battle flag.
The corners of Wang Deng's mouth, who had been calm as usual, suddenly twitched.
"Black Army! It's the Black Army! ”
Anyone who doesn't know the situation in the north has never heard what kind of team the black army is.
About 20 years ago, the famous Mongol general Mu Huali received the king's seal given by Genghis Khan Temujin as the commander-in-chief of the war against Jin.
Before the war with the Jin people, the powerful Shi Tianying, who was located in the central mansion of the Jin State Xingzhong in Liaodong, should lead the crowd to surrender first.
Shi Tianying is a famous hero in the north, not only skilled in bows and horses, superb in martial arts, but also good at manufacturing offensive and defensive equipment. Mu Huali was overjoyed, and immediately granted him an official position and ordered him to accompany the army to the south.
And Shi Tianying followed Mu Huali before and after more than 200 battles, taking the lead, doing everything he could, and praised his courage in the army. All his subordinates used black banners, and at that time he was one of the elite troops under Mu Huali's tent, known as the "Black Army".
Of course, the fortunate thing for the Song army is that the commander of this army is no longer the Shi Tianying who swept all over Shaanxi and Gansu with a bow and horse kung fu, which made the Jin people tremble. This trusted general of the Mongol Empire was killed in a Jin counter-offensive against Hezhong, and the name of the Black Army was never heard of in the north.
"I didn't expect them to be still there, I really didn't expect them to be there!" Wang Deng gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "That's it, it's not in vain to come to Shatou City this time, let's fight him happily." ”
But listening to the rumbling of drums, a team of samurai under the black flag held halberds or swords and cards, standing in an orderly manner, which was completely different from the Han'er military headquarters that attacked the city before.
The head of the thousand households in front shouted, and the black army strode forward with a cloud ladder under the guidance of the Xuan Banner.
The soldiers defending the city were all shocked by the elite troops that were marching forward.
The Mongols also sent arrows to support the second siege, and arrows flew like locusts.
"General Bamboo! Fire! "When the black army came into range, General Bamboo launched a heavy artillery attack on the enemy.
Immediately after a round of bombardment, the archers began to inflict supplementary damage with feathered arrows.
However, compared to the panicked performance of the first troops, although the sharp lead stone bullets also brought down many people, after a short and chaotic time, the black armor quickly regained formation and rushed towards the already unobstructed wall with more swift steps.
The archers in the city were accustomed to the rhythm of war, and they kept firing arrows, and the black soldiers kept falling from the arrows, but the remaining generals seemed to be oblivious to the casualties of their comrades, and they just blindly rushed forward with regimental badges on their heads.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! The officers sternly urged the archers to pull the strings desperately and pour their arrows down the city as fast as they could. But it seemed that all the efforts were not enough to stop the black banner from breaking through the corpse-filled moat and rushing under the wall.
Although the three-day construction of the city can be called a miracle by any point of view. But after all, the sloppy earth piles cannot be compared with the tall city walls.
In an instant, dozens of ladders were erected, and they were all crawling with soldiers who were engrossed in preparing to ascend the city.
"The Tartars are coming to the city!" Hu Yanyu ran back and forth on the wall, reminding: "Be ready to hook and fork, don't let the ladder get close to the city!" ”
As he spoke, the ladder slammed up against the wall.
There happened to be one that was about to lean against the wall next to Hu Yanyu, and several soldiers were holding hooks and spears and trying to push it away, but they all stabbed it in the air. The soldier lying on the top of the ladder shouted loudly with his sword in his hand, and was about to lean against the wall.
A warrior rushed over, stabbed the iron fork in his hand towards the ladder, just stuck the horizontal bar on the ladder, and pushed with both arms, and the ladder fell backwards with the screams of several soldiers who climbed the city.
"Eyes must be accurate, hands must be ruthless! Didn't the commander teach you during the training? Liu Quan roared at the sergeants who pierced the air: "The enemy's ladder will come up again, don't push me down mercifully!" ”
Most of the ladders that tried to reach the city were knocked over by the defenders' hooks and spears. With only two or three barely clinging to the wall, the soldiers of the Black Army began to move closer to the ladders, desperately trying to hold on to what was left.
The defenders rained down on the dense enemy below, and the huge blow fell from the sky, killing and wounding many black soldiers in a moment, and the soldiers under the city still shouted and thundered, firmly surrounding the only remaining ladder.
Liu Cheng took out the broken knife on his waist and wanted to cut the ladder that was already against the wall, but he didn't think that the upper end of the ladder had already been tied to an iron hook, and it was difficult to cut it just by grabbing it into the wooden stake.
A large man with chain mail jumped up from the ladder with an iron shield in his hand, stood on the wooden wall, and with a flash of iron spear in his left hand, he pierced the body of a soldier of the Tulong Army who appeared to be wielding a knife.
The big man drew his short gun and shouted at the flag head behind him, "Stick the flag on the wall of this thief bird!" ”
The Tatar army, which was watching the battle from a distance, saw their own black banners waving in the wind on the city walls, and cheered higher and higher. Immediately, several groups of Han soldiers dismounted and quickly stepped forward to support the black army who had landed in the city.
Liu Cheng dodged the short spear of the armored man sideways, and with a wave of the breaking knife in his hand, he ravaged up and started a close combat with the enemy.
Although he is also known as the best in martial arts on weekdays, the other party is obviously not an ordinary person. The two stood in one place with their knives and guns together.
At this time, the soldiers of the black army were climbing up behind the big man, and more and more began to occupy the wall.
Of course, Zheng Yunming, who was sitting on the north gate and had been observing the situation on the battlefield, saw all this in his eyes.
"Do you want to send out the back camp at this time? Or is it too early? Zheng Yunming was a little hesitant in his heart. Although it is said that the grasp of fighter planes is a kind of talent, in fact, except for a few geniuses with strong comprehension, the rest are all experience accumulated through continuous observation and exploration in the practice of war, and even making mistakes.
Reality does not allow for the slightest hesitation of the inexperienced.
Zheng Yunming hesitated so much, and the infantry of the brigade had already rushed to the north wall, or a tree ladder, or a human ladder, and started a full-scale attack on the north wall.
They were eyeing the defenders of the northern wall, and their attention was drawn to a few ladders of the Black Flag Army.
The unevenness of the wall's defense was exposed under the right amount of the enemy's onslaught.
In a short period of time, many walls have been climbed by enemy infantry, and Hu Yanyu's soldiers are overwhelmed with firefighting. And the more you move, the more flaws there are. The enemy soldiers were attacking like ants, and it was only a matter of time before the wall was lost.
Wang Deng saw the fierce attack of the enemy, turned to Zheng Yunming and said: "Please return to the camp as soon as possible, Wang Deng promises to lead the soldiers to meet the enemy bravely and drive the enemy back." ”
'Bastard!' Zheng Yunming said loudly: "The position of the general is here, and the Tartar wants to break through Shatou City, unless he steps over the corpse of the general!" ”
As he spoke, a stray arrow swept by and nailed to the moon card, which he was no longer a foot long.
At this time, Zheng Yunming seemed to be extremely calm, and he said without blinking: "Send a signal to let the Beiwei battalion dispatch, you take these fifty Beiwei on the city tower, and be sure to drive down all the thieves who killed the city!" ”
Before Wang Deng could answer, he suddenly heard the rumbling drums from Shatou City.
The soldiers of the Beiwei battalion of the brigade rushed towards the city wall in full armor, Ge Huai ran at the front of the team with a sword in his hand, and behind him was the banner of "Jinghu System Envoy Si Zhi Yingtian Chief Supervisor Beiwei".
Hundreds of athletes have been preparing for a long time, all of them are high-spirited, shouting loudly and killing towards the city wall.
The big man who was fighting with Liu Cheng saw that the defenders had sent reinforcements, pulled the short gun in his hand, forced Liu Cheng to take two steps back, and shouted: "Don't entangle with the southern barbarians!" Hold the ladder and let the brothers behind you come up and win! ”
When the black soldiers heard the order, they blocked the horse road to the city and the ladder that set up the wall, and put on a stubborn posture. Waiting for reinforcements from the army under the city to come up and give full play to his numerical advantage.
As soon as their attitude came out, the defenders of the city could not get close to the ladder, and the back army under the city was blocked on the road and could not get to the city, and the situation suddenly became serious.
Suddenly, a young general in white armor and silver helmet in the back battalion team stepped forward, climbed up the horse road with agility, opened the silver lacquer treasure carved bow in his hand, and fired arrows like beads in a very short distance, and suddenly several black officers and soldiers were hit by arrows in the throat and fell off the road.
The black soldiers guarding the horse road saw that the white-robed young man was fierce in the future, and they all rushed towards him with swords and guns. But I saw that the young general dodged left and right, jumping flexibly between the swords and guns of everyone, as if he was an elf shuttling on the horse road.
Under the chaotic battle, the soldiers of the Black Army guarding the horse crossing were gradually led under the wall.
Ge Huai roared angrily and rushed the big knife wheel in his hand onto the road like a windmill. The soldiers behind him followed him to the wall.
Seeing that Ma Dao was lost, the big man scolded viciously, and turned around several powerful assassinations in a row, trying to solve Liu Cheng in a short time.
Liu Quanwu dodged this ferocious attack with the group card, and was about to step forward to counterattack. Suddenly, I heard someone behind me shouting: "Captain Liu stands up, we're going to fire!" ”
When he turned his head to look, Ren Xiongwei and Han Shilang wrapped the bamboo general with a clamp quilt, one holding the head and the other holding the tail, and the muzzle of the cannon was pointing at the cloud ladder behind Liu Quan and the others.
Liu Quan's eyes were quick, and he turned sideways to pass the muzzle.
The big man naturally knew the power of this big bamboo tube, and hurriedly lowered his head and rolled to the side.
General Zhu spewed out huge fires and smoke, and Ren Xiongwei and Han Shilang were carried backwards by the recoil during the sound of cannons.