Section 4 Spear and Shield
Early the next morning, Wufeng ordered Xiao Tang to make logistics arrangements in the rear, and he and Cui Wenxiu led the second, third, and fourth brigades and the two reorganized soldiers to the west city wall. Mu Lige led the 1st Brigade, the 5th Brigade and the other two reorganized wings to stay in the city and stand by. Until noon, the enemy did not move much, and Wu Feng also felt a little strange, in fact, at this time, the infantry of the Rope people had not yet arrived due to speed, and Kurdo and the others did not plan to carry out a siege battle on this day, and they were also preparing to attack after a day's rest.
On October 12, the day passed peacefully, and both sides appeared very calm. But Wu Feng knew that this was just the calm before the storm, and he believed that the enemy would not drag on like this, and that would not be good for them.
The sun finally rose on October 13, and the enemy army outside the city finally moved. With the sound of low horns, the soldiers in the enemy camp continued to appear on the horizon, and more and more, the infantry lined up in a neat phalanx, taking a solid step, and the black pressure rushed towards Qingyang Mansion City one after another, the infantry was flanked by a cavalry phalanx, the tall and burly soldiers were wrapped in iron armor, the fat and strong war horses were roaring and galloping, and the hooves of thousands of war horses were so neat and orderly, like the sound of a giant stepping on the earth, and the earth trembled.
The riding skills of the Luope people are indeed worthy of their reputation, and it can be seen from the skillful horse control skills alone that they are worthy of being the best among the nomads, and Wu Feng can't help but secretly admire. Kurdo also deliberately put on a strong formation, wanting to crush the opponent from the momentum. The soldiers on the city wall were a little shocked, Wu Feng and Cui Wenxiu also sensed the enemy's intentions, and the two of them quietly patrolled along the city wall, and joked with the familiar soldiers from time to time.
With the sound of a terrible trumpet, the Rope infantry launched the first wave of attacks with leather shields held high and sandbags on their backs, and the cavalry also lay on their horses, divided into several groups and rushed to the moat with sandbags on their backs, throwing sandbags into the river. Other soldiers also raised their shields and bows to cover the attack. In order to attack the city walls, the moat must first be resolved. This is a question that everyone knows, and the question is that it is not something that ordinary people can predict at what cost it will take to fill this moat.
Wave after wave of offensives are like a tide, the officers on the city wall, running back and forth, waving the weapons in their hands, keep drinking the soldiers under their hands, wave after wave of arrows poured down, constantly splashing blood flowers under the city, and the giant trebuchet is even more terrifying, the grinding disc-sized stones are thrown high, accurately fall into the enemy camp, causing great damage, the soldiers are often smashed by men and horses to the bones and tendons, brains overflowing, flesh and blood blurred, miserable, screams, moans, cries one after another-
The time of the day passed quickly, and when the sun was gradually setting in the west, Luo was finally sounded by the call to collect troops, and the soldiers on both sides breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Feng, who had been paying close attention to the development of the battle situation on the city tower, also breathed a sigh of relief, the combat effectiveness of the Luobei people should not be underestimated, the iron-like discipline and the spirit of not fearing death are indeed not something that ordinary teams can have, and it is no wonder that they can win many battles and battles.
There was not much suspense on the first day of the battle, and in the absence of a solution to the moat, the advantage of the defending side was very obvious. After counting the battlefield, Cui Wenxiu reported the situation to Wufeng, and his side killed 168 people and wounded 325 people, of which 117 were seriously injured. The enemy estimated that more than 4,000 people had been killed and countless wounded.
After listening to the report, Wufeng nodded and motioned for Cui Wenxiu to sit down, "Wenxiu, I'm afraid the war will become more and more difficult and cruel, today's results are caused by the fact that the enemy can't fight back at all, you go down to warn all the soldiers, don't have paralyzing thoughts, and strengthen your guard at night to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of loopholes." The enemy's combat effectiveness is worthy of its name, and the training of our troops must be strengthened after the war. Cui Wenxiu saw that although his boss was very appreciative of the enemy's combat effectiveness, he did not have a trace of worry, and his heart was still full of confidence in victory, and his originally somewhat uneasy mood suddenly relaxed, and he suddenly found a fact that he had never paid attention to, whenever he listened to the arrangement of the boss, who was nearly ten years younger than himself, he was always indescribably relieved, as if everything was under his control, and there was no need to worry at all, maybe this was his natural leadership charm.
The gloomy weather could not stop the fighting spirit of the two sides, and when the dark sky turned white again, it heralded the arrival of a new day, and also indicated that the bloody battle between the two sides would start again. With the sound of the horn outside the city, the war drums on the head of the city also sounded, and the offensive and defensive battle between the two sides began again.
Today's attack of the Luope people has obviously changed, the dense phalanx has changed to a looser echelon attack, dozens of large wooden shields that have been made overnight have also been raised, these large wooden shields are four meters high, three meters wide, every ten warriors push forward, can effectively defend against the enemy's bow and crossbow attacks, they will line up every three wooden shields, the soldiers carrying sandbags hide behind them, slowly advance forward, and when they advance to the moat, the soldiers behind the wooden shields will throw the sandbags into the river, and then, the soldiers are holding the wooden shields and retreating, this method can effectively protect the soldiers from the bow and arrow weapons――
However, Wu Feng also had a plan to prevent this kind of attack, and he transferred three more giant trebuchets that had been arranged on the other three walls overnight, so that the number of trebuchets on the west wall reached fourteen, and he ordered the soldiers who were riding the trebuchets to concentrate on the accurate bombardment of the wooden shields, which often collapsed after several boulder blows, and the soldiers hiding behind them were exposed to the arrows and immediately turned into a pile of corpses. But just that, the progress of the Ropes in filling the moat has been greatly accelerated, and the attack on the defenders on the walls has been greatly strengthened.
The fierce battle lasted until the afternoon, after dozens of large wooden shields were intact and nearly 5,000 corpses were dropped, a few sections of the moat in the west of Qingyang City were finally filled, the sky gradually darkened, and the horn of the troops sounded again. This time, although the Luope people collected their troops and returned to the camp, they stationed a cavalry unit to monitor the Wufeng side, probably to prevent the defending side from taking advantage of the cover of night to re-channel the moat, it seems that this wide and deep moat did make the besieging side lacking siege tools suffer enough, so that they had to take precautions to avoid the loss of the day in vain.
When night fell completely, Wu Feng had dinner, and after instructing the guards not to follow, he walked alone to the top of the western city wall, looking into the distance, a few miles away the camp of Luopei was a spark, and if you listened carefully, you could even hear the neighing of horses. With the blazing torches on the city wall and looking at the corpses all over the city, Wu Feng felt a sad emotion for no reason, and even Wu Feng himself was a little surprised by his own feelings. Tomorrow will be the hardest and most cruel day, and how many brothers who are familiar with themselves will shed their heads and blood here to defend this city and the people who defend it, and this wall will become a silent witness to tomorrow's history. Shook his head, as if to shake off the decadent mood that can be said to be written, took two deep breaths, stood still in the middle of the city tower, and couldn't help but let out a long howl, the soldiers patrolling around looked at his young commander in amazement, Wu Feng ignored it, his eyes fixed on the Luobei camp in the distance, and thought silently in his heart, let the storm come more violently, ask the world, who is the hero, just look at the Ming Dynasty-
In the camp of Luope, Kurdo, Geya, and Hason were also inspecting the various departments overnight, and constantly cheering up the soldiers who had already been holding back their red eyes, and the soldiers were all in high morale, and asked to act as the vanguard and take the lead in the attack, and the three were very satisfied, and asked the soldiers to seize the time to rest, maintain a good condition, and prepare for tomorrow's battle. The three of them returned to the tent in Kurdo, and decided to attack with all their might tomorrow, and strive to settle the battle in half a day.
"It was a day I will never forget, and even many years later, the scene of this day will still be in my nightmare. -- Li Wufeng -- Excerpt from "Waving the World--My Memories"--
At 10 a.m. on October 15, 691 in the continental calendar, the decisive battle began. In order to ensure that he could take the city in one day, Kurdo even ordered 40,000 light cavalry to abandon their horses and launch a general attack with the remaining 20,000 or so infantry. Under the escort of more than 30,000 iron cavalry, the 60,000 Duoluobei soldiers roared, shouted, pushed the city chariots, carried the ladders, carried the crashing wood, brandished their weapons, densely packed, like ants, launched a charge at the west gate of Qingyang City.
The first wave of attacking infantry, with leather shields and raining arrows, soon poured under the walls, but the soldiers defending on the walls rolled logs, Seeing this, Kurdo immediately ordered the cavalry to press forward, because the Rope light cavalry all brought their own bows and arrows, Kurdo ordered them to approach and use bows and arrows to suppress the enemy on the city wall, under the rain of arrows one after another, the soldiers defending on the city wall also suffered great casualties, Wufeng immediately ordered all the trebuchets to concentrate on the approaching enemy cavalry units to bombard, in a burst of "squeaks" In the sound, the boulder fell from the sky, and smashed the cavalry who entered the range of the trebuchet into flesh and mud, this move immediately had a very good effect, and the cavalry saw that as soon as their comrades entered the range of the trebuchet, they were smashed by the falling boulders, and they all grabbed the reins of the horses, and did not dare to get too close, so that although there was no threat of boulders, the threat to the imperial soldiers on the city wall was greatly reduced.
However, the infantry attack under the city did not weaken in the slightest, and wave after wave of soldiers poured under the city wall to erect the ladders, and the rushing carts also continued to attack the weaker areas of the city wall, and some of the city walls were already shaking. The fierce Luo Pei soldiers stared at the blood-red eyes, bit the weapon in their mouths, braved the rolling wood, stones and even boiling oil smashed down on the city wall, and climbed up frantically, and the soldiers defending on the city wall also killed red eyes, bows and arrows, rolling wood, and stones poured down, once a Luo Pei soldier broke through the defense and rushed to the city wall, the soldiers next to him did not hesitate to raise the weapons in their hands and rush to desperately, everyone knew that once the enemy successfully rushed to the city wall, that is, the time for the whole army to be annihilated-
Looking at the ever-expanding casualty numbers of his subordinates, Kurdo was expressionless, and still kept ordering the retreating troops to regroup and organize another attack, and even ordered officers below the rank of senior general to personally lead the attack. Under the personal leadership of the officer, the morale of the Luo Pei soldiers, who were already a little slack, rose again, and the anxious Ha Xian ignored the dissuasion of Kurdo and Geya, personally went out and led a team of Luo Pei soldiers to attack, seeing that his deputy commander was the first to take the lead, the Luo Pei soldiers were even more provoked to the frenzy, and they flocked to the top of the city without sacrificing their lives, and suddenly, there was an unnoticed gap in the city wall in the northwest corner, and Ha Xian, who was commanding under the city, immediately discovered this, he took three steps and two steps, and came to the city wall in the northwest corner, and the soldiers behind him immediately set up the ladder, and he jumped on the city wall in a few vertical leaps, and several imperial soldiers around him immediately screamed and pounced, where are they Haxian's opponents, the two of them fell under Haxian's sabers, and the Luope soldiers under the city wall also took advantage of the situation, and the nearby defending soldiers couldn't parry, and they were defeated and retreated, seeing that this section of the city wall was about to be lost, at the critical moment, a burly figure appeared next to the imperial soldiers who fell one after another, "You go to deal with those people, I will deal with this person!" The soldiers who followed immediately rushed towards the Luope soldiers who were constantly climbing up like hungry tigers and sheep-
Coming to reinforce is Wufeng's pro-guards, led by the first to challenge Wufeng's private Kang Jianguo, he is now the squadron leader of the pro-guard squadron, after the failure of the challenge Wufeng, he admired Wufeng so much that he threw himself to the ground, Wufeng also felt that his martial arts foundation was quite good, so he taught his martial arts in addition to internal strength, because internal strength is to lay a good foundation since childhood, can not be changed at will. In the past three years, Kang Jianguo has trained quite hard, and his martial arts have also improved by leaps and bounds, especially the "Blood Killing Knife Method" taught to him by Wu Feng, and he has practiced it even more.
Ha Xian also saw that this person was not an idle person, and reported the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and the two immediately fought together. And the Luo Pei soldiers behind Ha Xian were unlucky, because Kang Jianguo brought these guards were selected from the best in the army, and they were all taught by Wu Feng personally, and the martial arts were not trivial, and immediately killed these ordinary Luo Pei soldiers, who were fighting fiercely with Kang Jianguo, saw that the situation was not right, and knew that if he did not escape, he would have to become a prisoner of the enemy, forcing Kang Jianguo to leave, jumping on the city, two vertical jumps, and jumping off the city wall again. The surrounding Imperial soldiers also discovered the problem here, and they also came over to reinforce it, and the originally precarious gap was finally plugged again-
After discovering that Haxian had broken through the gap in the northwest corner, Kurdo, who was closely following the development of the battle situation, immediately ordered Geya to lead the elite troops to attack the weakest southwest corner of the city wall, on the one hand, to reduce the pressure on Haxian, and on the other hand, he also wanted to use Haxian's breakthrough to cause the opponent's attention to focus on the northwest corner, and his side happened to open the gap from the southwest. But he didn't expect that in just a few moments, the soldiers who broke through from the northwest corner would be wiped out, and Haxian would be forced to retreat. The offensive and defensive battles in the southwest corner were more intense, and Geya's personal participation in the battle also greatly boosted the fighting spirit of the Luope soldiers. Due to the relatively short terrain in the southwest corner, the city wall is also thinner, the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides are unprecedentedly fierce, under the leadership of Geya, the charge of the Luope soldiers is higher than a wave, and several sections of the city wall have changed hands several times, but under Cui Wenxiu's tenacious defensive counterattack, the defense line has never collapsed, Geya has also clashed with Cui Wenxiu several times, but they have not taken advantage -
The fierce battle continued until the sun went down in the afternoon, and both sides paid a heavy price, and the battle was always in a stalemate, until in the end Kurdo saw that he could not win, and had to order the retreat of his troops.
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