Chapter 470: Assault at the End
By the time Shen was gone, it was already dark.
Outside Luoyang City, in the camp of the Yellow Turban East Route Army, Zhang Yan and more than 20 Yellow Turban generals rode outside the camp, observing the attack of the troops at close range, and an anxiety unexpectedly appeared on everyone's faces. Several times they thought that Luoyang City had been captured, but soon it became only their own illusion, and the tenacity of Luoyang's defenders was far beyond their understanding.
Zhang Yan's brows were furrowed, and other yellow turban collars could not be known, but Zhang Yan was very aware of the strength of the siege troops of the Eastern Route Army this time, which was the elite of the Montenegrin Army. In fact, the 40,000 Montenegrin troops who came to Luoyang with Zhang Yan this time were all strong soldiers selected from millions of people!
These soldiers can be called experienced in a hundred battles, have rich combat experience, have always been brave and tenacious on the battlefield, and do not know what to fear, but at this time, Zhang Yan has already felt the change in the feelings of the soldiers, and the confidence of the Montenegrin army has been somewhat suppressed.
One battalion after another was sent up, and it seemed that when each battalion went up, it was able to crush the defenders on the city with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and it seemed that there were not many defenders on the city wall. But so far, the east city wall of Luoyang is like a monster that can devour skills, and the soldiers of the Black Mountain Army have been swallowed up one after another, and the corpses under the city wall are like mountains.
The defenders of Luoyang were very tight in numbers, so from the very beginning of the battle, the Luoyang army spared no effort to destroy the siege equipment. There seems to be an endless supply of fire oil and wood in the city, which caused the Yellow Turban Army's hard-built Chongcheng wood and cloud ladder to catch fire one after another, and when all the cloud ladders were unusable, it was the end of the Yellow Turban Army's second wave of attacks.
The defenders of the city are so tenacious!
The biggest headache for the Yellow Turban Army was not the defenders in the city, but the Flying Wing Battalion led by Zhao Yun. The Yellow Turbans mobilized many forces in the hope of annihilating the attacking winged battalion, but this mere force of several hundred men could always seize the slightest fleeting opportunity to kill again and again while the encirclement was still closed.
After the second wave of attacks began, the Flying Wing Battalion attacked from the north gate first, and took the Yellow Turban North Route Army by surprise. Some of the soldiers in the Northern Route Army already had a psychological shadow on this cavalry unit, and when they saw the Flying Wing Battalion slaughtering towards the East City, many people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Finally gone, let's continue to deal with the defenders in the city." â
But before they could regroup and start the siege, the wings turned around and came back. In the last round of attacks, it was precisely because of the death-defying assault of the Flying Wing Battalion that the Yellow Turban Army's position was disrupted, and this time Zhang Yan had already prepared.
When the Flying Wing Battalion came out of the city from the north gate, the Yellow Turban Army in the eastern city was ready, and when Zhao Yun just turned the corner, he saw a large area of black pressed heads, heads arranged in a neat phalanx!
These "heads" were also in a very special position, very close to the corner of the wall, and they knew that the winged battalion had been moving within a hundred paces of the wall in order to get support from the city, which also made the cavalry inevitably slow down when turning the corner. It only takes a distance of more than 100 meters for the cavalry to reach its maximum again, but these "heads" just stifle the space added by the cavalry.
Just thousands of heads can't scare Zhao Yun, the problem is that the weapons held on the bodies under these heads, the big shield of the warriors in the first row, form an iron wall; The Yellow Turbans in the second row held an elongated spear in their hands, which rested on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row; Then came the third row of guns on the shoulders of the soldiers in the second row...... The head of the gun flashed with cold light, what a forest of guns!
Seeing this battle, Zhao Yun returned with his troops without saying a word, and the cavalry troops drew a semicircular trajectory to the outside of the city wall and returned to the northern city. However, in the process of turning, the soldiers at the tail of the flying wing battalion had already made contact with the Montenegrin army who had caught up, and more than 30 cavalrymen were stabbed off their horses by the Montenegrin army, and then they were stabbed to death by random guns!
The Flying Wing Battalion did not let the enemy take advantage of it, and the rows of guns that suddenly came out of the cavalry pierced into the enemy's body with the momentum of wind and thunder, and even some soldiers of the Black Mountain Army were picked up by the spears of the Flying Wing Cavalry. When turning, the winged battalion still maintained a certain height.
There was no time to grieve for the dead warriors, and Zhao Yun needed to bring the remaining warriors back safely. Under the attack of the Yellow Turban North Route Army and the East Route Army, it was impossible to open the city gate and enter the city from the north gate at this time, so Zhao Yun chose to lead the team to kill the west city.
With the strong sprinting power of the Wuhuan horse and the bonus of the main general's "cavalry proficiency", the Flying Wing Battalion returned to the city smoothly after paying a slight price. But Zhao Yun did not let the troops rest, and the troops passed through the city and once again killed them from the south gate!
This cavalry unit continued to attack, counting from noon, and now the Flying Wing Battalion has made five sorties, and the Flying Wing Battalion has been reduced to 528 cavalry. In the five sorties, either from the south gate, from the north gate, or from the west gate to fight for a long time, never from the east gate, the Montenegrin army is different from other peasant armies, their combat effectiveness is stronger.
The five sorties effectively relieved the pressure on the south and north cities, and now they are preparing for the sixth sortie, and the target is the east gate.
-- The attack and defense of Dongcheng was the most intense, because there was a master like Liu Xing in charge, supporting back and forth on the city wall, the defenders of Dongcheng caused great damage to the Montenegrin army, and also made Zhao Yun feel at ease to go to support Nancheng and Beicheng first. But until now, the martial arts division and troops in Dongcheng have suffered heavy losses, the defense line has been crumbling, and the Flying Wing Battalion has to face the Black Mountain Army!
Another reason is that when Zhang Yan realized that most of the Flying Wing Battalion's attacks came from the west gate, he decisively sent 10,000 Black Mountain troops from Dongcheng back to the west of Luoyang City, guarding outside the range of the defenders at the head of the city. This force could not carry out a siege, but it could effectively block the attack route of the Flying Wing Battalion, and the space of the Flying Wing Battalion was getting narrower and narrower.
This was the first time that the Flying Wing Battalion had launched a frontal assault on the Yellow Turbans outside the East Gate, the first, and perhaps the last.
After a long "squeak", the east gate slowly opened, and the first person to leave the city was still Zhao Yun, and the soldiers of the Flying Wing Battalion rushed out. In order to cooperate with the Flying Wing Battalion Shun LĂŹ out of the city, the defenders of the eastern city launched a fierce counterattack against the besieging enemy, and the archers braved the arrows fired from outside the city to fight back.
The cavalry successfully exited the city and threw the Yellow Turban Army beneath the city walls into chaos within five minutes, but then the situation fell into the hands of the Montenegrin army. When a group of pikemen of the Yellow Turban Army surrounded them, even with the full support of the defenders at the head of the city, the casualties of the Flying Wing Battalion inevitably increased.
Zhao Yun's white robe has long been dyed blood-red, and the silver spear is still as fast as lightning, with Zilong's martial arts, as well as his other monomer characteristic "Pegasus", it is not difficult for Zilong to fight his way out of the encirclement single-handedly, but how can Zhao Yun abandon these brothers who have been following him closely?
From another point of view, even if Zilong breaks through alone, after the Flying Wing Battalion is completely wiped out, the defenders at the head of the city will lose their only strategy, and it may only take half an hour for the city to be broken!
At the last moment, Zhao Yun chose to live and die with his soldiers, and the flying wing battalion rushed left and right and seemed to try to move outside the southern and northern cities, but they were forced back by the gun array of the Montenegrin army. To the surprise of Zhang Yan and others, Zilong suddenly led the army to kill the camp where he was.
"It seems that they are desperate, if this small group of cavalry with only more than 4oo people left can rush here, then the Montenegrin army will not have to mix!" Zhang Yan sneered, the location of the Flying Wing Battalion was at least 12oo steps away from the location of the generals of the Eastern Route Army, which was almost an insurmountable distance.
Although the Montenegrin army did not expect that the remnants of the small army on the opposite side would dare to break away from the protection of the defenders of the city and attack the large camp on the side, but after the initial little panic, the Montenegrin army troops quickly shrank to the center.
After breaking through the three hastily formed defense lines one after another, the Flying Wing Battalion was still 7oo steps away from Zhang Yan and the others, and the defense line of the Montenegrin Army finally became relatively solid, and a phalanx of 3,000 people blocked the way of the Flying Wing Battalion's advance. Fortunately, this force did not have many spears that would scare the cavalry.
Zilong let out a long roar, ignoring the phalanx in front of him, and the Flying Wing Battalion killed it without hesitation. The seemingly solid defense line immediately appeared under Zilong's attack, and the strength of the king-level military general was fully reflected, and the flying wing battalion was like a sharp iron cone, cutting the Black Mountain military formation in half!
5oo steps.
After breaking through the blocked enemy army, there was a larger phalanx 2oo steps ahead, led by two generals of the Montenegrin army.
With the bow in his hand, an arrow was fired, and the two generals fell in response.
Zhao Yun had long been able to kill multiple arrows with one arrow, and before that, Zilong had not exposed the maximum range of the stringless bow!
After shooting the general, the stringless bow in Zilong's hand was repeated, and the war horse had already shot more than 20 enemies before rushing to the phalanx, but unfortunately, the people who came to Luoyang this time were the elite of the Black Mountain Army, and the death of the generals did not make their formation collapse. The Montenegrin Army, with its flesh and blood and strong formation, dragged down the Flying Wing Battalion before it broke through the phalanx.
The cavalry that has lost its degree, the cavalry who are besieged, has only one fate: death!
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the camp of the Yellow Turban East Road Army, and then the audience quickly fell silent: a middle-aged man in a green robe stood leisurely beside Zhang Yan, and a simple sword was resting on the neck of the Montenegrin military leader.
"Big brother!" Zilong choked up and exclaimed.
Wang Yue is here!
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