Chapter 242: Flying Locusts in the Dark Night
"The Shi family's army is cavalry, and they abandon their horses to defend the city, and there will inevitably be all kinds of problems. Defending the city is not only based on the height of the city wall, but also depends on who will defend it, and their four or five thousand dismounted cavalry want to defend the two cities of Jiangyang and Luchuan, which is purely a fool's dream. What we have to consider is how to avoid the real and make up for the false, and get to the top of the city as soon as possible with the minimum casualties, forcing them to get on their horses and fight with Da Xiyi and their three cavalry. ”
"The merit of seizing the city, no one can snatch it away from our Yugang army, and the desperate things will be handed over to Cangji to ride them" Wen Zhanyang was afraid that his one-tenacious deputy general would really give up his life and forget his death at that time, and he would take the lives of 30,000 brothers to fight to the death with the other party, so he had to make his words clear.
"Wen Shuai, don't worry, I know it!" Cheng Lin waved his hand and slapped his breastplate with a bang.
However, after the movements of Cheng Lin's hand stopped, the dull voice continued to echo in the ears of several people like an echo, and became bigger and bigger, as if countless locusts came from far and near, overwhelmingly.
"What sound?" Wen Zhanyang and Cheng Lin looked at each other, both a little dazed for a moment.
A moment later, the voice was close at hand, with a long, suppressed scream with a terrible cracking sound.
"It's an arrow!
Wen Zhanyang finally reacted, but it was too late. Before he could finish speaking, arrows rained down outside the tent, followed by the great painful screams of the pack rhinos, and the tooth-aching grinding sound of the tent being torn apart by the arrows.
Countless sleeping Yugang soldiers were nailed to the ground like prey by long arrows shot from nowhere before they could wake up, and of course, many more were seriously injured but did not breathe for a while, screaming and waking up from their sleep. In a moment, the entire camp of the Yugang Army was like an ant's nest poured with a spoonful of hot oil, and it suddenly became a purgatory on earth.
Wen Zhanyang's tent was located in the center of the entire camp, and was not covered by this sudden rain of arrows at the first time, but at this time, above their heads, it was as if a dark cloud formed by long arrows was slowly blown by the wind.
The spear in Wen Zhanyang's hand swayed the spear, dancing into a light shield, and the attacking long arrow was smashed into pieces, protecting himself and Cheng Lin at the same time, but the other sergeants obviously did not have this strength, and they didn't even have time to pick up their weapons and put on heavy armor, so they had already fallen in a pool of blood.
"Enemy attack! The whole army is breaking through to the north!" Wen Zhanyang's voice echoed in the camp, and many sergeants who had not yet been hit by the arrow did not even have time to take their weapons, so they ran desperately towards the outside of the camp, like a flock of sheep swarming out of the sheepfold.
However, the attackers also seemed to hear Wen Zhanyang's shout, and the rain of arrows also slowly moved north with these sergeants, and many of them were pierced through the hearts by long arrows falling from the sky before they could run a few steps, and never got up again.
From the time the first arrow landed until now, a tea time has passed, but this rain of arrows seems to be endless, and it has never stopped! The 30,000-strong Yugang army has already suffered more than half of the casualties in this short tea time!
Everyone listened to the order, scattered in all directions, widened the distance between them, and randomly chose the direction...... Break through!" never thought that he would be attacked on the territory of Yuzhou, the formation of the Yugang army when they camped was extremely dense, resulting in heavy casualties at the first time of the attack, Wen Zhanyang, who had recovered from the initial panic, finally issued the first correct command, and the word "escape" that had already reached his lips was swallowed alive and replaced by a breakthrough.
At this time, Wen Zhanyang's heart was still full of doubts, here, the only enemy they could encounter was the cavalry from the Shi family in Yunqi City, but this cavalry was only four or five thousand people, but just now, the dense rain of arrows that fell was probably as many as forty or fifty thousand! Could it be that the reinforcements of the Shi family had already arrived? Why didn't we receive any news? How did such a huge number of Shi family's troops pass through the reconnaissance line of the Cangji cavalry in front of them and kill here? What are Da Xiyi and his Cangji riding for?
With the issuance of Wen Zhanyang's order to break through, the remaining more than 10,000 Gang troops began to flee in all directions like scattered swarms, and as the distance between these sergeants widened, the rain of arrows that had greatly reduced their killing efficiency finally stopped.
As soon as the rain of arrows had stopped for less than ten breaths, the sergeants of the Yugang Army felt the ground under their feet begin to tremble, and the sound of hooves was like thunder, approaching from a distance at an extremely fast speed.
In the dim moonlight, a constantly beating black line appeared at the end of the Yugang Army's sight. The black line was so long that both ends were hidden in the night, and there was no edge in sight.
As this black line approached rapidly, everyone saw that the formation adopted by the attacking enemy was actually a single-layer formation that would hardly be used when the two armies were fighting, and countless cavalry stood shoulder to shoulder with each other, turning into a large net covering the sky, as if preparing to wipe out the remnants of this more than 10,000 people.
If on the formal battlefield, Wen Zhanyang only needs to concentrate superior forces, he can easily poke a hole in this net, making this huge net completely invalid. However, after the baptism of arrows, the sergeants who were given the order to break out of the siege have completely lost the possibility of getting together again.
No matter how fast the fleeing Yugang army ran on two legs, how could they catch up with the speed of the cavalry? After a short time, there was an unclothed and defenseless Yugang sergeant who was pierced through by the opponent's shot, and then flew away with the tip of the spear, and was trampled into a pulp by the iron hooves of the Xiaoyue Dragon Horse.
Xue Zhiyong is a commander in the Yugang army, he was lucky to escape from the first wave of arrows, and the three sergeants who slept in the same tent with him were all shot, he didn't even scratch the oil skin, and when he escaped, he grabbed a spear from his side.
Seeing that he was about to be caught up by the cavalry behind him, he was naturally unwilling to become the soul of the other party's spear in the middle of the cold window, Xue Zhiyong gathered his right hand, and the spear in his hand turned into a bolt of lightning, and shot towards the nearest cavalryman with a silver-white spear.
He believed that the blow that he had condensed with the true essence of his half body and the strength of his whole body would definitely be able to penetrate the ordinary cavalry in front of him and his horse, tearing a small crack in this boundless net of killing.
The silver-white spear was extremely conspicuous in the dark night, and the cavalryman on the opposite side could naturally see it clearly, and the spear in his hand accurately hit the spear thrown by Xue Zhiyong.
However, the power carried by Xue Zhiyong's gun was too great, and the cavalryman's blow only changed the direction of the spear, but did not completely knock it to the ground.
The spear, which had changed direction, flew towards the mount under the crotch of another cavalryman next to him, and when he was unsuspected, a shot pierced the mount's softest abdomen!
Although he was a little surprised that the first cavalryman was able to accurately block his own blow, Xue Zhiyong did not let this surprise waste even a little bit of his time, but at the moment when the spear changed direction, he also changed the direction of his own advance, and ran towards the cavalryman who was hit by the spear.
Whether the mount fell to the ground or soared from the front hooves due to pain, Xue Zhiyong was confident that he would seize that moment of opportunity and break out of this huge net!
If the other party turns around and chases after him, then it will inevitably cause chaos in the formation, creating an opportunity for other Yugang army sergeants to take advantage of, and if the other party does not come to chase him, then he will disappear into the vast dark night in the shortest time to save his life.
However, just when Xue Zhiyong was only four or five zhang away from the sergeant, he was extremely shocked to see that the spear infused with all his strength and half-body true yuan actually cut a flash of fire on the belly of the mount, and then fell weakly into the dust, and the mount that was shot continued to rush towards him as if it had no consciousness!
The spear in the cavalryman's hand, like a poisonous snake, passed through his chest, bringing a puddle of warm blood and taking away Xue Zhiyong's last hope of survival. When his body was provoked by the spear and flew into the air, he was shocked to see that on the body of the mount, there was a head with a lion's head and antlers, and a pair of eyes the size of a baby's fist, revealing a trace of extremely human disdain towards him.