Chapter 211: Resistance
The horses neighed at the crotch of the night, and the men stood up, refusing to rush forward no matter how much they were whipped, and looking ahead, the narrow streets were stacked with the corpses of the Uighurs, and many of the horsemen died, but the horses were wounded and half paralyzed on the ground, and let out a wail. Twenty-five heavily armored foot soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in a dense row in the narrow streets, the hardwood spears they held in their hands were thin in front and thick in the back, the center of gravity was between the sergeant's palms, the tips of the spears shone with blood and cold light, and drooped slightly, and many Uighurs abandoned their horses, and Xitu crawled over the ground with a hunched body, and was nailed to the ground by the spears stabbed from above. The second row of armor soldiers rested their spears on the shoulders of the first row of armorers, and the third row of armor soldiers rested their spears on the shoulders of the second row of armorers.
Ye Luofu estimated in his heart that from the beginning of the charge to the present, the casualties of the cavalry on his side were close to more than 200 people, but those Han troops hid behind the spears of nearly fifteen feet, and the damage was minimal, and what was even more infuriating was that the cavalry bows used by the Uighur cavalry were difficult to hurt these Han people with tight armor protection from a distance, and once they got a little closer, under the counterattack of the enemy crossbowmen, the casualties were even heavier than the hard rush of the spear array.
Unlike the roaring Uighur warriors, the Han army, though ruthless, was so silent that even when the Uighur knights were decapitated with pleasure by the Uighur knights, they rarely let out screams. This silent perseverance is more terrifying than a hoarse shouting of battle, and Ye Luosu judged in his heart that these Han troops were definitely fierce soldiers in a hundred battles, if not, how could they be so indifferent in the moment of life and death. In front of the silent Han army, the Uighur cavalry was still full of fierce shouts, but no one dared to step forward bravely.
The battlefield of the two armies is a long and narrow street that runs through the north and south, and the south leads directly to the camp in the south of Ganzhou City, which is also the urn city of the South City Tower. This Ganzhou city is the first to return to the righteous army festival to make Zhang Zhang Yichao to prevent the harassment of the Tubo cavalry and specially renovated, because Ganzhou is in the north and Tubo is in the south, so specially in the south gate to build an urn city, also as a cavalry barracks, both offensive and defensive, if the Tubo people attack directly from the south gate, they have to face two city gates, and the five thousand elite cavalry in the urn city barracks can be killed from the city gate at any time. In order to prevent the rebellion of the army of the Nancheng camp, and in order to resist after the loss of the south gate, the Nancheng camp only opened a camp gate, that is, the inner gate of the urn city, and the only way to the south gate in the city is this street that runs through the north and south, as long as this street is guarded, it is impossible for the Tubo army that captured the Nancheng camp to roar through the city.
At that time, the Guiyi Army and the Tubo people fought in Hexi for many years, and the blood flowed like a river, and Zhang Yichao did everything to prevent the Tubo from entering the Kou. On the other hand, in addition to sending a small group of cavalry to monitor, the Lanzhou army was still thin outside the southern city, and these Uighur cavalry with a way to escape naturally would not desperately attack the Han army's tight spear formation, Mo knife formation, and strong crossbow formation, and after losing more than 100 lives, they almost gave up completely.
The wind whistling from north to south, with a little smell of blood, this narrow alley has become a cemetery for the Uighur cavalry, and several guards beside him looked at each other, with a mixture of ashamed hope, and it was self-evident that they hoped that he would simply give the order to retreat, and the painful groans of the wounded soldiers not far away were their urging. It was already clear to the Timber that the Han army had only taken control of the eastern gates, and that the other three gates were still in the hands of the Uighurs. But the Han people were not without troops, they still had thousands of cavalry waiting outside the city, but they were not willing to spend their precious cavalry in this street battle. Damn, even the Han Chinese knew that cavalry was not good for street fighting, but who made the Uighurs not have the toughest infantry they were. Such a powerful enemy army, once it retreats, may have no chance of turning the tables. Nightfall was in pain, and the whip clattered on the saddle, indicating that he was particularly depressed.
What he didn't expect was that on the other side of this long street, the horizontal camp was speeding up, and it was still one street away from completely blocking this long street. The centurion Shi Kaimin ran panting, and the noses of the Uighur soldiers on his shoulders swayed back and forth, which was very funny, and the Lanzhou army had many ways to calculate the number of enemies killed, and there was no uniform rule, and the horizontal camp was to cut off the nose as a record. After cleaning up the Uighur defenders in Dongchenglou, the centurion Shi Kaimin wore the tall noses of more than 100 Uighurs dressed in a string on his shoulders, which was particularly obstructive when he ran, and Shi Kaimin simply threw it on the side of the road and shouted: "It's all the merits of our camp, and the meat is still in the pot when it's rotten." ”
The reason why he said this was that the Chengying battalion that attacked the East City Tower with the horizontal camp was full of fierce soldiers, everyone had a hundred and ten lives in their hands, and they were arrogant and disdainful of snatching the first merit with ordinary sergeants, while the Bashan Battalion took the great merit of entering the city undercover and capturing the city tower, and the fragmentary credit for calculating the number of enemy soldiers killed was dispensable, so the number of enemies killed on the south city tower was considered to be the horizontal camp. Having said that, the so-called Wen Wu first, Wu Wu no second, all the people in the Heng camp looked at the two battalion leaders proudly, and they all held their breath, and heard that there was a large force of enemy cavalry attacking the infantry formation on the side of Nancheng, and they rushed over in a hurry.
The Lanzhou army spared no effort in the cultivation of middle-level officers, and street fighting was not conducive to cavalry, which was the tactical consensus of all infantry officers, so I heard that the enemy's cavalry did not flee, but brazenly attacked a strict infantry formation in the city, Shi Yuanguang suddenly felt that this kind of stupid and stupid bird had not been encountered in a hundred years, and it was said that there were Uighur nobles among them, and it was not to be missed, so he couldn't take a break, and hurriedly rushed to the south of the city with the horizontal camp. Who knew that he rushed to the intersection of the long street, but was stopped by the people of the White Feather Battalion, the sergeant returned, and the people were preparing to launch an attack, to completely defeat the enemy cavalry, please ask the brothers of the horizontal camp to guard the street entrances everywhere, and kill the head, as long as the White Feather Battalion broke the enemy's great merit, the decapitation was only given to the brothers of the horizontal camp.
As soon as the horizontal camp heard the news, they all wailed loudly, could it be that the five hundred elite sword and shield men of the Lanzhou horizontal camp always have to wipe people's buttocks?" Shi Kaimin muttered in a low voice, it is indeed the rule in the army to come first and then come, in desperation, arrange for his sergeants to guard a street entrance, the front row formed a stable shield array, the back row took down the hard bow behind the back, cameo as an archer, and the foot soldiers shot the huge light cavalry on this street and alley, which was much simpler than in the wilderness.