Yang Luo muttered behind him: "You are not a few years older than him, but the city government seems to be an old bureaucrat in his thirties and forties."

Zheng Yunming didn't know what to do, he ordered loudly: "The troops are advancing along the streets and alleys in separate ways!" Build a safe area on the West Gate! Evacuate the people to safety step by step! Place a barricade at the corner of the street, don't let a chaotic army break through! ”

As soon as the order was issued, several armies moved forward in separate ways, while containing the fleeing civilians, and on the other hand, they began to kill the rebellious enemy army.

At this time, the rebel army had already entered the vicinity of the Yamen to pacify the envoy, although the guards guarding the Yamen shot two people to death, and did not dare to easily invade the Yamen, but they burned down the houses on the nearby North Street, robbed the shops, and cursed loudly, and the momentum was violent, not only the people fled, but even the native soldiers and southern troops who maintained order in the city did not dare to approach.

The rebel army, which was wantonly destroying, found that the soldiers of the neat queue and the banner were waving their banners pressing towards them step by step from the west. A leader-like man whistled, and the rebels immediately stopped looting, and the crowd gathered into a huge group, waving blades in their hands and scolding and rushing towards the Tulong army.

The pikemen at the forefront of the Tulong army were soon attacked like a rain of bricks and tiles, some thrown from the front, some thrown at random by the rebels on the roofs on both sides of the long street, and despite their armor, many pikemen were hit in the head and arm, and they endured the pain and clenched the spears in their hands and continued to move forward.

At this time, I heard the order behind me: "The pikes stop advancing and split the line!" ”

A line of black oil guns parted from the middle of the road, standing on either side to make room for the rear team to move forward.

The soldiers of the brigade with huge bamboo leather cards ran from behind to the front of the group.

"Rear Army Shield Bearer!" Lu Qingchun, the deputy general of the rear army, stood at the front of the team, raised the wide leather bamboo card to cover his body, and shouted: "The 100-day training is only for today, and the turtle shield array will be formed!" ”

Two hundred shouted in unison, and raised their shields in front of them.

The leader shouted: "Forward formation!" ”

Twenty huge shields large enough to cover the body were held high, leaning closely against each other, forming an impenetrable shield wall.

"Left flank formation!"

The shield wall on the left side of the queue formed in an instant, obscuring the entire left wing under a sturdy leather card.

"The right flank is in formation!"

"Defenders in formation!"

The phalanx was surrounded by four shield walls, like a small city made of shields.

Lu Qingchun shouted: "Raise the shield over the top!" ”

The sergeants in the center of the shield city raised their shields and placed them above their heads, and the shields were densely arranged on the top of the army in the shape of fish scales, completely covering the top of the ranks.

The formation has been formed, and Lu Qingchun shouted intently: "All teams pay attention to the same footsteps, and the turtle shield advances!" ”

A huge tortoise shell made of countless shields shielded the Tulong officers and soldiers and launched an attack on the large group of rebels gathered near the Yamen of the Rulers.

The rebels saw that the southern army on the opposite side had formed an impenetrable shield array, and threw bricks and stones at the shield array even harder. But small stones and tiles certainly couldn't do any damage to the sturdy cowhide shields, and the shieldmen of the Earth Dragon Army stepped on the rubble under their feet, slowly moving closer to the rebels.

"Inform the archers and pay attention to the protection of the turtle shield array!" Wang Deng, who was watching the battle from the rear, found that some people in the chaotic army were ready to move, ready to use spears to stab the shield array.

The Turtle and Shield Array was popular for a long time in ancient times, when the cavalry equipment was still quite primitive and the infantry lacked sufficient combat skills. A large part of the damage on the battlefield is caused by bows and arrows.

The best option for dealing with bows and arrows is to put the shield without even an arrow inserted into it, which is the first means of protection that people can think of.

Thus the turtle shield formation was born. However, it is true that this formation has an excellent protective effect against light long-range weapons, and its disadvantages are also obvious.

Keeping hundreds of men moving in unison with shields is not something that can be done overnight, and it requires the soldiers to practice it day after day to become proficient. The cost of manpower and material resources invested in it is quite high.

But this costly formation cannot survive on the current field battlefield. Compared with the cavalry of the Qin and Han dynasties, who rode bareback horses covered with felt mats and fought with their legs clamped on the belly of the horse, the cavalry is now fully saddled, and the control of the war horse is also more flexible. Using a variety of lances and swords, they were able to easily break through the wall of human shields.

Today's infantry no longer only fight with rudimentary bronze swords and spears, but are equipped with a variety of pure steel weapons that have increased their lethality exponentially, not to mention the heavy axes that shield soldiers fear the most.

Not to mention, on today's battlefield, both light and heavy infantry can move flexibly and automatically, and even the soldiers wearing dozens of pounds of heavy armor are more mobile and flexible than this heavy and clumsy turtle, if they really form this formation on the field battlefield against the enemy, whether it is the Mongolian heavy cavalry with spears and fierce horses, the Southern Song Dynasty infantry with iron armor and spears, and even the Tibetan armies of Tubo, Dali and Goryeo can easily break it.

But fighting in the city is a different story.

Several rebels rushed towards the turtle shield array with vermilion lacquered wooden spears, and were soon shot through their bodies by the crossbow arrows shot from the turtle shield array.

The shieldmen in the front row are armed with melee crossbows that fire between shields, targeting the rebels with long weapons.

The enemy was even more alarmed when he saw that crossbow arrows were being fired from the shield array. A few brave and undaunted men rushed forward with axes, trying to cut a gap in the shield formation.

When they rushed to the shield array, the bamboo card slid to the side, and several hook and sickle spears with black spear heads suddenly came from the formation, hooking the enemy army by surprise and dragging them into the formation.

The archers who followed the turtle shield array began to rain arrows at the enemy, and the chaotic army that followed the heavy axemen was fired indiscriminately by the arrows, and they all gave up their weapons and turned around and fled for their lives.

The ranks of the rebels are beginning to retreat, and this is the best chance to retreat.

Hu Yanyu, who was standing behind the turtle shield array, smiled at Yang Yu and said, "Commander, let's try to see who throws it accurately and ruthlessly." ”

Yang Luo stretched out the tendons of his arm and sighed: "When you are old, you may not be as accurate as when you were young." As he spoke, he lit a thistle and put it in the leather pit, waving it above his head with a belt in his hand.

He sang while waving: "The children in the countryside are shocked when they hear the strings, who knows the fire meteor in the world?" The new loess is made of mud pills, the secret medicine of nitrate and sulfur is hidden in this, the skin is tightened, the white wolf tendon is flying, the flying light is like a whirlwind, the flying light flows into the enemy camp, suddenly like a thunderbolt to catch people's hearts, the thieves drag their guns and run away, only to know the true prestige of this thing"

The firetle terrestris that spun rapidly in the song crossed the trajectory of a meteor with crackling sparks, and fell into the chaos of the rebels, instantly making a loud roar, black smoke rose into the air, and the rebels scattered in all directions in the pungent smoke.

Imitating Yang Luo's appearance, the firearms players also began to wave the belts in their hands, throwing the firetle terrestris one by one at the enemy group.

Of course, the fire thistle terrestris has no real damage, but it is the best intimidation tool when dealing with the rampaging bandits, and the loud noise and pungent smoke make the soldiers of the enemy army frightened, and many of them put down their swords and guns and knelt on the ground waiting for the Tulong army to come and take prisoners.

The remaining recalcitrant ones quickly fled to Dongcheng, where they first began to rebel, and if they were able to protrude from Xiangyang City from the east gate to rob the civilian ships on the Han River, they might even flee to Mongolia.

But they soon found out that it was a dead end.

On the east gate, a large number of invincible soldiers brought by Li Hu, the commander of Zhenjiang, gathered and shouted loudly, swinging their swords and slashing at each sergeant with a crescent moon mark on his shoulder and arm (this is the armmark of the enemy).

The remnants of the enemy army fought hard to clash with each other, and it was impossible to get half a step close to the east gate except for adding to the grievances of the southern army.

At this time, the Tulong Army's military horses covered by the Turtle Shield Array on every street were outflanking in the direction of the East Gate. The Turtle Shield Formation pushed forward firmly, knocking aside any men and horses that stood in front with great inertia, and the swordsmen of the Earth Dragon Army followed forward, tying the dejected Northern Army ropes into a string and escorting them to the outside of the West Gate.

Thousands of enemy rebels crowded into the east gate found themselves in an encirclement of turtle and shield formations in several directions.

The occasional whims on the 20th were already in a desperate situation at this time.

There were still twenty steps away from the chaotic army that was huddled together, and with the clear orders of the generals of the various armies, the turtle shield array invariably stopped advancing.

In the shadow of the door flag, a general of the Earth Dragon Army jumped out of his horse, wearing a phoenix-winged helmet, and the chain armor on his body flashed silver-white light, and shouted angrily at the rebels: "If you don't tie your hands at this time, do you still want to die!" ”

Yang Wei frowned and looked at Wang Dengyao's martial appearance, and asked, "Why did he come forward again, the manager?" ”

Hu Yanyu didn't answer, but just pointed in the direction of the guide door.

At this time, the tower of the South Gate City was almost full of the top officials of Jinghu.

Under the city, swords, axes, canes, shackles, and torture instruments are readily available, and the soldiers will set up the solemn flag and the guard of honor to make all the guards of honor swing away, and the tall spears and dragon and tiger flags are extraordinary, so that the people who avoid disasters to the south gate are amazed, and they have a little more sense of security in their hearts.

Zhao Fan, who was sitting upright in the city, was as heavy as water.

There was such a big mess in Xiangyang City, even if he was lucky enough to keep the city, he would be able to do it as a control envoy.

Since he sat in the chair of the envoy of the Jinghu system, he has always aimed at his father, to be a hero and a good general of the Great Song Dynasty, to sweep away the captives for the emperor, and to recover the rivers and mountains for his ancestors.

Today's changes in Xiangyang are together, and all kinds of ambitious plans have come to naught.

From now on, what face will face the saint, what face will face the younger brother who is fighting in Huaidong, and what face will face the old man under the nine springs?