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"My lord! My lord! Our reinforcements are coming! ”
Feng Dunian, the sixty-year-old city guard of Qinzhou City, struggled to sit up from the bed when he heard this, and with the assistance of the two maids, he dressed up and walked out of the house tremblingly, and there was a dazzling sunlight outside that had not been seen for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
A general was waiting anxiously to the side, and Feng Wannian grabbed his arm and asked eagerly, "Is the old general coming back?" The general's face was slightly ugly, and he shook his head and said, "It's not an old general." ”
Feng Wannian asked a little confusedly, "Isn't it?" So it's the people from Fengxiang Mansion? The general shook his head again and said embarrassedly: "My subordinates don't know where they came from. Feng Wannian glared at him and said, "Help me go up to the city to have a look!" ”
The carriage carried Feng Wannian all the way to the city wall, and he lifted the curtain of the carriage to see the ordinary people begging for food in the streets. Qinzhou City, which has been held on for three months, has reached the point of desperation, and the food originally hoarded is only enough to eat for more than a month, but now it has been eaten for three months! The old, the weak, the sick, the disabled and starved to death, but even so, the food was still decreasing day by day. Today, it is on the verge of running out of food.
Feng Dunian has been a city guard in Qinzhou City for more than ten years, this is the most difficult period of his tenure, but fortunately, he is familiar with everything here, and in the face of the crazy attack of the Western Xia people, he tried his best to survive the three months. But at the moment, he really can't hold on, if the Tanguts continue to besiege, at most another month, without the Tanguts to attack, this city will also be destroyed by famine.
If there are no reinforcements to relieve the siege, the only way to go is to surrender!
Thinking of the reinforcements, Feng Wannian's eyes were full of hope, he imagined that outside the city was an endless Dahua army, their sharp arrows covering the sky and the sun, their horses' hooves making the earth and valley tremble, and the light of their swords and guns refracted by the sun could dazzle the eyes of the enemy!
As for himself, he was rewarded by the emperor after the siege of the city was lifted, and became a great figure admired and praised by the people.
Although it is not clear where these reinforcements came from, none of this matters, as long as they can relieve the siege of Qinzhou City!
Full of expectations, Feng Dunian led the generals to climb the city tower, and the scene in front of him suddenly made his heart completely cold.
On the opposite side of the huge Western Xia army was a small Dahua army in stark contrast, and they set up an awl formation, and the formation was still neat, but the number was really pitiful.
A general with good eyesight beside him roughly counted them, and then said in a deep voice: "There are about 3,000 of them, more than 200 war horses, more than 500 crossbowmen, and the rest are all infantry......
When he said this, he kept his mouth shut, and the situation of the Tangut people had long been clear to everyone. On the battlefield, these two teams with extremely disparity in strength are about to start a battle, and the outcome is unknown to everyone.
Feng Wannian snorted, and in extreme disappointment, he felt that he had been mocked fiercely. Three thousand against fifty thousand! Do they think they are heavenly soldiers? Or did they just come here to hang around and escape, in order to prove that they had rescued Qinzhou City?
"They won't fight ......"
"That's right, they will definitely flee, this battle can't be fought!"
"Bastard! Is this playing tricks on us? ”
The generals behind him let out angry and disappointed voices, and Feng Wannian turned around and prepared to leave, he was really not in the mood to watch this farce.
At this moment, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed, and something unexpected happened.
"They charged! They actually charged! Someone shouted, everyone's eyes looked at the sparsely numbered team, and the unknown general on the war horse waved the war knife in his hand and charged at the Western Xia army camp opposite!
"Crazy ......," someone muttered in a low voice.
Feng Wannian frowned, he turned around, looked at the charging team in disbelief, and kept saying in his heart: "Impossible, they can't do this, that's an enemy army of 50,000 people!" ”
"They're going to be wiped out!" Someone said behind Feng Wannian, Feng Wannian turned his head to stare at the person who spoke, and the person lowered his head and did not dare to look directly. Moving his gaze back to the team, Feng Wannian shook his head: "Stupid! ”
The commander of the Western Xia army, Zhiduo Hu Zong, who also thought that the other party was really stupid, showed a disdainful expression, and he gave the order: the crossbowmen were ready to shoot arrows, and 1,000 iron harriers and 2,000 foot bastards then charged the enemy.
With 3,000 troops against this Dahua army, Zhiduo Hu Zong thought that this was a reward for the courage of this team, and they dared to attack in the face of an enemy army several times their size, such an opponent deserved respect, although their behavior was very stupid, and it could even be said that they were committing suicide!
Arrows like flying locusts fell from the sky, and Gao Sheng swung his long knife to cut off the arrows that shot at him, and he shouted loudly: "Shield array! Shield Formation! "The Dahua soldiers erected their shields to form a strange shield array, which was taught to them by Wu Zheng, a shield array called the tortoiseshell array, which almost all of them were covered by huge shields.
Although there were occasional arrows that pierced through the gaps between the shields and hit the soldiers inside, causing some casualties, the shield formation had minimized the level of casualties suffered by the soldiers under a dense rain of arrows, thus preserving strength.
The casualties of the cavalry wandering outside were slightly heavier, and after the rain of arrows, only more than 70 of the more than 200 cavalrymen remained, and they and their horses were full of sharp arrows and fell on the way to the local camp.
The strange shield array of the Dahua army was able to withstand the attack of the rain of arrows, which surprised Zhiduo Hu Zong a little, but this did not change anything, and the Iron Harriers and Bubazi who were about to enter the battlefield would tear them to pieces.
Seeing thousands of men and horses rushing out of the Western Xia military camp, Gao Sheng knew that the other party would no longer shoot arrows, but would instead use hand-to-hand combat, which was exactly what he expected. He waved his long knife again and shouted, "Kill! ”
Two teams of more than 3,000 people violently collided together, and the ferocious momentum was no less than that of an army of tens of thousands of people charging at each other. The swinging long knife slashed at the shield wrapped in animal skins with a muffled sound, and the cries of pain and screams accompanied by bursts of blood resounded in the crowd rushing to kill each other, and the blood waves rolled and severed limbs flew at the junction of the two sides!
This...... Is it really Dahua's army? No! Even the Northwest Army does not have such strong combat effectiveness!
Zhiduo Hu Zong had serious doubts about his eyes, among all the opponents he had come into contact with, he had never seen such a fierce warrior, perhaps, only the Tiger and Wolf Division of the Golden Man was its opponent! When did Dahua's warriors be so able to fight? Who trained such a brave warrior? Who are their generals?
At the same moment, Feng Wannian, who had the same idea, slammed his fist on the stone wall, and his heart was uncontrollable. If Dahua's soldiers are like this team, who would dare to ride on our heads?
In his emotion, that magical and brave team tore through the local defense line and rushed straight towards the middle camp where the Zhiduo Hu Sect was located! And there, the elite Western Xia soldiers were ready to defend, their spears like a forest pointed straight ahead, and behind them were countless "iron harriers" who were urgently mobilizing.
In order to wipe out this team, the Tanguts transferred back some of the besieging forces!
Zhiduo Hu Zong was on horseback, he had already made up his mind to eat this team completely, and there were not even bones left! He knew that what he was going to destroy now was not only Dahua's army, but also Dahua's spirit, the indomitable spirit!