Chapter 305: Soaring Fire
Although they wore light armor, they were designed and built by Wang Jingxuan at his own expense and invited famous generals, and although their escort ability was not as good as that of heavy infantry, it was much higher than that of other light armored troops, and it had the speed and flexibility that heavy troops did not have.
This 50,000-strong force has never participated in a single battle since it was formed. This time, Wang Jingxuan specially brought this army to show his face in front of the king and everyone.
Wang Jingxuan divided the "Haw Par Army" into three teams, with the main force of 20,000 people in the center, aiming directly at the main fort of Mingyang Fort, and the other two teams of 15,000 men each, seizing 500 meters on each side of the main fort.
He asked all officers and men not to carry torches, to wear black clothes, to wear light cloth shoes, to carry a short knife in their mouths, a light round shield in their left hand, and a short-handled simple knife in their right hand. The purpose of this equipment is to minimize the possibility of making various sounds, and in addition, to make the officers and men as light as possible, so as to facilitate their high-speed assaults. In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, he ordered the army not to be dispatched for the time being, so as not to startle the snakes.
In fact, according to their comprehensive analysis before the battle: the defenders of Black Cloud City started with a maximum of 50,000 to 60,000 people, and after two days of fierce fighting, they lost at least half of them. The quality of the Haw Par Army's individual soldiers is very high, and even in the face of the armies of other countries, it can be used as one. Even if there are still forty or fifty thousand people left in the Black Cloud City on the opposite side, it is still a knife to kill chickens. So it is simply superfluous to dispatch a large army at this time. What's more, Wang Jingxuan thinks that the certainty of the success of the sneak attack is very large, because the other party has not moved in the past two days, presumably the troops have been disabled and are trying to rest.
The moon had set, the stars had receded, and the darkest hour of the night was just before the sun was about to rise. The tens of thousands of troops only let out a very light "rustle" footsteps, and rushed towards the Qinglong defense line that stood tall in the distance.
The city walls were lit with torches and banners for hunting, and the atmosphere was very peaceful, and the defenders seemed to be asleep, and the tired footsteps of the occasional patrol post could be heard. The officers and men of the Haw Par Army did not use bows and arrows to cover, but hurriedly threw their flying claws or set up ladders to climb the city walls.
The defenders of the Qinglong Kingdom, who were drowsy and relaxed, were stunned to see many black-clothed people rushing to the city, and immediately threw down the long weapons in their hands in a panic, turned around and ran. Don't run, he still tore his throat and shouted desperately: "Siege!" "The people of the Northern Alliance are coming up!" "Run for your life!"
Before coming, the officers and soldiers of the Haw Par Army had heard about the bravery and fearlessness of the officers and men of Heiyun Village. There is also gossip that says: Those guys in Black Cloud City are all extremely brave, and only 10,000 or 20,000 people have beaten the 100,000 army of the Northern Alliance, and they are in a hurry.
So today they are holding back their strength to compete. I didn't expect that when I came into contact today, it was not like that at all. The army of Black Cloud City collapsed at the touch of a button, and the entire defense line was instantly plunged into chaos.
The officers and soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army rushed to the city like ants, while the officers and soldiers of the Qinglong Kingdom who had just come to their senses threw away their armor and fled as fast as they could. The entire defense line fell completely into the hands of the Haw Par Army in an instant.
The exuberant officers and soldiers of Black Cloud City immediately rushed down the city wall and pursued the fleeing defenders. They pursued for about a mile or so, and found a long ditch about four meters wide and two meters deep in front of them. The ditch was very long, and the whole was in a semicircle in front of the pursuers. There are many planks on the ditch. The officers and soldiers of Black Cloud City, who had fled for their lives, ran over the plank, and the plank was then pulled away.
Only a few of the soldiers of the Black Cloud City Tiger and Leopard Army who followed behind crossed the deep ditch, but they soon realized that something was wrong, because the enemy troops who were still fleeing frantically just now were slaughtered one by one with hideous faces. No matter how heroic you are, when you are suddenly surrounded by countless vicious people, I believe you will definitely feel like you are in a deep nightmare.
When the vast majority of the officers and men of the Haw Par Army suddenly saw such a big ditch, they immediately stopped. In fact, the ditch itself is not very wide, and for them, most of them can jump over.
But think about it: when you are running at high speed in the dark night, and suddenly see such a big ditch in front of you, I believe that the first reaction of most people is, of course, to stop quickly.
They crowded on the edge of the pit and made a mess, and many of them were hit by the people who rushed up from behind and fell into the ditch. At this moment, they were hit head-on by a torrential rain of arrows.
Countless arrows blew like a gust of wind, and people fell in pieces like mowing grass. Only then did they find that the opposite side of the ditch was filled with countless soldiers of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, each of whom had a bow and crossbow in his hand.
"Fooled!" "We're in ambush!" The officers and men of the Haw Par Army no longer relented, but turned back one after another, seizing the road and fleeing. But they immediately found that a fire had been burned on the walls of the entire Mingyang Fort defensive line, and the fire was so fierce that the raging flames burned half of the sky red for a while.
It was only then that it was remembered that when they had just climbed the city walls, they smelled a strong mixed smell, of wine, of oil, of sulphur, and what seemed to be the smell of a lot of freshly sawn wood.
It turned out that they had already prepared a big fire
There were countless arrows in front and a sky-high fire in the back, and few of the officers and men of the Haw Par Army carried bows and arrows in order to fight each other in close combat, so the blow was completely one-sided. More than 50,000 people have fallen into a desperate situation that the heavens should not be and the earth is not spiritual.
The officers and men of the Tiger and Leopard Army were not willing to perish, and they fought like beasts, organizing several large-scale counter-charges, hoping to cross the deep ditch in the face of the rain of arrows, and then fight to the death with the army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.
But on the opposite side were not only the more than 10,000 defenders guarding the castle's defense line, but also the more than 10,000 Heishui River troops led by Liang Xu and others, and the more than 30,000 Qilin Tiger Ben troops led by Quan Zhonghan.
Each of them had plenty of arrows in place during the two days—a considerable number of which had been fired during the Northern Confederacy's siege.
The Tiger and Par Army made several fierce charges, but suffered heavy losses under the dense rain of arrows and had to retreat. Seeing that their numbers were getting dwindling, some of the soldiers of Black Cloud City began to re-erect planks on the ditch so that the large army could cross the deep ditch and speed up the sweep and annihilate the remnants of the Tiger and Par Army