Chapter 96 Arrangement
Wu Yingying waved his hand and said: "The matter has come to this, I am in the same boat, why be polite." "Looking closely, there is a big bag on Yu Yan's forehead, and his right thigh is tightly wrapped in a white cloth, and traces of blood leach out of it, thinking that he was injured in the melee with the Song army just now.
After thanking Wu Yingying, he didn't wait to wrap his wounds carefully, and said: "The northern soldiers deceive people too much, so I will lead the troops to fight again." He turned back and shouted to his subordinate cavalry: "The Song people slaughtered my comrades, insulted my father, the black cloud man, dare to fight!"
The cavalry of Heiyundu raised their iron lances and shouted in unison: "Dare to fight, dare to fight!" Even the war horses under their crotch also neighed, and the momentum was overwhelming.
The battle was fierce, and less than 800 of the more than 1,000 cavalry remained, all of them were wounded, but they were still full of fighting spirit, and in this blazing fire, it was as terrifying as the evil ghosts in hell.
Wu Yingying sighed in his heart, Heiyun did not live up to the name of the first elite in the south of the Yangtze River, although the trapped beasts were still fighting, this momentum was directly catching up with the power of Xiang Yu's twenty-eight knights and three Han formations! But he was about to take advantage of the elite of Heiyundu to break through the siege, how could he give up like this. Immediately grabbed the reins of Yu Yan's mount and said, "General Yu, why don't you protect these more than 1,000 Black Cloud disciples and deal with the Song people again!"
If there is still a way to live, how can Yu Yan lead the cavalry to fight with the Song soldiers on the royal street, but what remains is to make the enemy pay the greatest price, don't despise Jiangnan's intentions. Seeing Wu Yingying say this, and knowing that he had always been resourceful and scheming, he lowered his head and asked: "The Lord has surrendered, the city gates on all sides are occupied by the Song people, and the 200,000 troops have divided my 50,000 Jinling Tang army, is there anything to do?"
Wu Yingying nodded affirmatively and said, "Although it is impossible to turn things around for the time being, there is still a chance to keep hundreds of seeds in the Black Cloud Capital for the next day." He looked around, and there was not a single living Song soldier nearby, so he lowered his voice and said to Yu Yan: "The city wall of the Song people's broken city has collapsed, and the existing fortifications are still built by my brother and I personally supervised the soldiers, and one of them is very weak, and it can't stop the black clouds from waiting for the armored cavalry to force the assault. I have already stocked up near the gap with a great deal of crossbows, saltpeter, brimstone, and other things to attack the city walls, as well as dry food for a thousand men for three days. ”
"Is this serious?" Seeing that there was a glimmer of life, Yu Yan couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Wu Yingying nodded and said: "Really, I was looking for a strong force to break through together, and the sky had eyes, and I actually met General Yu's strong army." Seeing that Yu Yan still had a hint of hesitation, Wu Yingying said again: "Without further ado, the Song people know that there is a large group of Black Cloud cavalry here, and they will inevitably mobilize heavy troops to besiege it. ”
Yu Yan pondered for a moment, patted his thigh, and said: "Okay, my Heiyun still has the lives of these eight hundred brothers left, even if it is saved by Wu Jiedu!" Immediately ordered his subordinates to lead dozens of war horses that had lost their masters, let Wu Yingying and his personal guards ride, the two families cooperated, and rushed to the gap in the east city wall at a gallop, this cavalry group of nearly 1,000 people ran with unparalleled might, and the Song army in the city could not be stopped at all, and the Song army was difficult to come for a while.
Before coming to the mansion that Sogdian Lieutenant Shi Yuanguang had arranged in advance to assemble the army, Captain Chase, who was dressed as a foot soldier of the Crane Army, greeted him and said, "The brothers are already here, and more than 500 non-commissioned officers who dare to fight have been gathered from all over the city. ”
Wu Yingying looked behind Chase, Huang Wen also changed into a costume of the Crane Control Army, and was protected in the middle by several guards, he smiled and nodded in the direction where she was, and then said to Chase: "There is already chaos in the city, without further ado, immediately form a team and highlight the city with the black clouds." ”
"Obey!" Chase replied loudly, turning around.
The originally quiet mansion suddenly became agitated, and half of Shi Yuanguang and other guards from the Divine Guard Army were tightly clustered around Wu Yingying. The other half were temporarily used as low-level officers to lead more than 500 non-commissioned officers, who carried crossbows and assembled wooden cannons, which, along with other supplies, were hidden by Shi Yuanguang in a huge dark room warehouse in the mansion earlier. The Sogdians traveled all over the world in business, and what they were most afraid of was encountering robberies on the land, because they had a unique experience in hiding goods.
Wu Yingying first led the elite infantry to hide behind a street corner not far from the gap in the eastern city wall. After Shi Yuanguang urged the weaker soldiers to set up wooden cannons in the back, Wu Yingying ordered all the ignited saltpeter and sulfur and other materials to be projected onto the Song military fortifications at the gap. Taking advantage of the moment when the Song army's fortifications were shrouded in a puff of smoke, Chase led the soldiers armed with strong crossbows to immediately run two hundred steps from the street entrance, and fired at the fortifications, and the crossbow fire just stopped. Wu Yingying shouted angrily, and rushed to the Song army's fortifications with the one hundred and twenty foot soldiers who dared to fight, and fought with the Song army in the gap fortifications.
While Wu Yingying entangled the Song army with sword and shield soldiers, Chase and Shi Yuanguang, who came from behind, led most of the foot soldiers to desperately dismantle the weakest section of the fortifications at the gap in the city wall, because these fortifications were originally built by these people who urged the soldiers, so they were easy to dismantle. As a gap was opened enough for five horses to pass side by side, the Black Cloud Cavalry rushed through the gap, and the horses climbed up the rubble formed by the collapse of the city wall, and then jumped down condescendingly, and when they reached the flat ground below the city, they even ran with their hooves, and the Song army defending the city could only hope for the dust. And Wu Yingying, Chase and other divine guards, together with some infantry soldiers of other armies, also climbed on the surplus war horses of the black clouds, and cooperated with a cavalry of more than 1,000 scales, and actually broke through the Jinling city defense that had been occupied by the Song people, and went all the way to the east.
The foot soldiers of the Southern Tang Army, who did not climb on horseback or could not ride horses, also rushed out of the gap and stumbled towards the outside of the city, during which many people were killed by the crossbow arrows of the Song army at the head of the city, but many still escaped from the range of the crossbow fire of the city wall. This short-lived breakout battle killed more than 200 Song soldiers, while the Tang army itself killed more than 400 people, most of whom were killed from behind by the Song army with crossbow arrows at the head of the city when they were running out of the city.
The war horse began to pant, seeing that the Song army in the rear did not chase after him, Yu Yan ordered the Black Cloud Cavalry to slow down their mounts and advance slowly, and they did not encounter Song soldiers to intercept them along the way.
Wu Yingying controlled the reins with both hands, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and followed the Black Cloud Capital cavalry to gallop forward. Although Huang Wen was born in Jiangmen, she vaguely remembered that her father had taken her to ride a horse when she was a child, but since she entered the palace, she had only taken a chariot, so she had to take a selected horse with Wu Yingying's Palace.