Chapter 20: The Siege (2)
"The general has an order, the first team advances, climbs the wall. The second team advanced three hundred meters and was stationed. ”
A strong and deep voice sounded from above the cart, spreading far away from the top platform, and within a few miles, it was as if it were speaking in the ear, and it was clearly audible.
The people on the hillside were moved again, and a general blurted out: "What a superb skill, this person's internal strength is strong enough to rank among the world's first-rate masters, I can't imagine that this little fifth column is actually a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger." ”
When Emperor Han Xian saw it, it turned out to be Liu Zhengzhong, the commander of the Yellow Dragon Legion. Among the five major legions of the Han Dynasty, the four major legions were controlled by the four great families, and only the forbidden army Huanglong Legion, which guarded Kyoto, was the imperial guard. And every commander of the Yellow Dragon Legion is from the imperial Liu family, and he is also one of the emperor's most trusted people.
"Zhengzhong, how is this person's martial arts compared to you?" In the mind of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Zhengzhong is already one of the masters in the world, and it is only four people in the palace who are offered to each other.
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is never in time, in the opinion of the minister, only the four first-class offerings in the palace can compare with him." Liu Zhengzhong bowed and said.
"What? Is it so powerful? So who is this? Emperor Han Xian turned to Gu Dao Beard, but saw that he was also puzzled, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Gu Aiqing must still not know." ”
Gu Dao's face was blue and red, and he was so choked that he couldn't speak.
The three thousand-strong teams that were originally guarding in front of the cart heard the order, and the team on the left ran forward neatly. After nearly a month of siege, although Lin'an was not breached, the moat outside the city had been filled with the Han army's own flesh and blood. They ran under the walls of the city by the corpses of their fellow citizens, stones and debris, set up ladders and began to climb upwards. The middle team also began to move, and they ran forward for 300 meters, stopping at a distance of 500 meters from the city gate. It was already within the range of the trebuchet, but the living people on the wall in front of them had been shot by Jebel, so no one had tampered with the trebuchet and would not pose a threat to them.
Seeing that the Han army began to climb the city wall, the commander of the Caesar people could not hold back and gave the order to die, and countless Caesar soldiers were forced to rush up the city wall, trying to stop the advance of the Han army.
Tebabe seemed to see the most ridiculous thing in the world, and his exotic handsome face twitched slightly, revealing a disdainful smile. Raising their bows and arrows again, the new Caesar people immediately got a taste of their ancestors. But this time, instead of shooting them directly, Jebe shot through their hands and feet, pinning them firmly to the ground and the wall. The Caesars, who had been wounded by arrows, suffered great pain because their bodies were pierced into the wall, and they could not bear it anymore, and they howled like pigs, and for a moment the ghosts on the walls of the city cried and howled, and it was not very lively. However, the effect was so evident that the Caesars did not heed the urging of the governors, but were unwilling to rush forward, and successfully ascended to the top of the city with the first group of 3,000 soldiers.
At this time, the front door of Lin'an City suddenly opened, and a pair of heavily armored knights wearing shiny armor galloped out, their target was Jebel on the cart, only by getting rid of this super threat, Lin'an City could be defended.
"Oh no, it's heavy cavalry, and the fifth column is light infantry, how can you contend with it?" Emperor Han Xian's face changed and he exclaimed.
Heavy cavalry was a unique class of Caesars, and all cavalry, including men and horses, were heavily armoured, armed with spears and machetes. Their impact was unbelievably strong, and they were not afraid of ordinary swords, and in the first encounter, the unsuspecting Han army suffered heavy losses, and everyone was impressed. There are no troops in the Han army that can directly confront this branch of the army, not even the red sea in the northern frontier. When encountering them, the only way to avoid them is to adopt roundabout tactics.
Fortunately, their armor was too heavy to carry out a long battle, and the requirements for knights and horses were also very harsh, and the total number of heavy cavalry in the city was only 5,000 of the 150,000 men. After several encounters, it has been sharply reduced to 3,000 people, and it is easy not to use it. But at this moment, it was already an important juncture of life and death, and the Caesar people had no choice but to use their ultimate weapon in advance.
Once the hoplites charged, their momentum was huge and unstoppable. They move forward bravely, and everything that stands in their way will be completely torn apart by them. Michel was a commander of a thousand cavalry in hoplites, and he was the first to charge every time, and today is no exception. He liked nothing more than to see the enemy troops in their path fleeing in panic every time he charged, and now he had a thousand-man squad in front of him, and based on previous experience, they should have fled in panic, but now he could not see any fluctuations.
Wouldn't it be stupid, the burly man stood there stunned, not knowing what he was giggling at, and there were two huge bronze lions behind him, was this the obstacle he had set up? These Han people underestimate our riding skills, so let me teach them a lesson. When he thought of this, he suddenly saw a scene that he couldn't believe.
The heavy cavalry rushed straight towards the cart, and the first to bear the brunt was Qin Yong's first unit under Xu Haifeng, who was stationed five hundred meters in front of the city gate. Looking at the oncoming torrent of steel, he smiled happily, touched his hands back, and the two bronze lions were twisted by his neck at the same time and lifted upside down. At this time, the hoplites in front had rushed in front of him, and he waved his right hand forward, and Michelle and his horse were smashed into the air like paper paste.
"Am I dreaming? But why does it hurt so much? On her deathbed, Michelle couldn't believe what she had seen.
Qin Yong waved two bronze lions and led the soldiers to rush forward, his two weapons were too terrifying, they really touched the broken bones and bones, and rubbed the broken bones and tendons. If the hoplite cavalry is an all-pervasive steel nail, then he is an indestructible hammer, he rushed up against the enemy's large army, and won with a hard encounter, and the strong one wins, and the first nearly 1,000 iron cavalry were beaten by him and collapsed.
The horn sounded, and the cavalry that followed turned their horses, and they circled in both directions. The heavy cavalry, which had always been moving forward, was forced to choose to retreat and evade in the face of the stronger Qin Yong.
"The courage of the overlord, the courage of the overlord." Emperor Han Xian was so excited that he just wanted to open his mouth and scold, he had not been so excited since he ascended the throne. If it weren't for his self-respecting identity, he would have jumped up a long time ago, Xiao is like this, and he is also full of spring breeze at this moment: "Who is this person?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, this person's name is Qin Yong, and he is the first brave general under Xu Haifeng." Gu Dao hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
Glancing at Gu Dao's beard, Emperor Han Xian wondered strangely, why did this person remember so clearly, while the others didn't know anything.
The hoplites bypassed Qin Yong's headquarters, and their target was Jebe on the top of the cart, and at this moment there were only a thousand slave soldiers dressed in cloth and armed with inferior steel knives. Although there were still 3,000 lancers of the Red Sea behind them, everyone knew that the light cavalry could not compete with the heavy cavalry head-on, and even if these 4,000 people combined, it was impossible to stop the iron hooves of the 2,000 heavy cavalry.
However, in the face of the increasingly approaching hoplites, the red lancers did not step forward to protect them, but retreated dozens of meters under the order of Xiang Ming. So there were only a thousand slave soldiers left.
Finally, the first wave of the hoplite attack was officially launched, and the cavalry raised their spears diagonally and aimed at the enemy in front of them, trying to pierce them one by one. A dozen or so slave soldiers in front of him suddenly bowed down, and they rolled in the direction of the cavalry. What a stupid move, rushing in under the galloping iron hooves of ten thousand horses, wouldn't it be immediately trampled into meat sauce.
However, the amazing scene played out again. When the horse's feet stepped on their bodies, they did not dodge or hide their wounds, but opened their arms and held the horse's legs firmly. The galloping horse was suddenly grabbed by the leg and fell down one by one, and the knight on the horse flew forward fiercely. The slave soldiers in the second row had been waiting for a long time, and they took steel knives and stabbed the dizzy knights in the neck.
Although the hoplites claim to be covered in armor, there are some places where they really can't wear armor, such as the neck, in order not to affect the rotation of the head, their approach is to put the lower edge of the helmet long, covering the neck, once they fall, the helmet falls off, and the heavy armor on their bodies has become a burden, and they can't stop the slaughter of the slave soldiers without moving. Although the cavalry kept a certain distance when they charged, the anomaly protruded, and the second wave of cavalry could not retract their horses and still collided fiercely.
The first row of slave soldiers who had completed the mission stood up casually, saying that they were nothing, referring to their demeanor, but they had already suffered great injuries from their bodies. Some had drooping arms, apparently broken by horses, some swayed when they stood up, because their legs were not working, and even worse, some had a large hole in their stomachs, and their intestines and internal organs were faintly visible. They didn't care about the wounds on their bodies at all, and immediately rushed to the next group of enemies.
Caesar's cavalry were almost mad with such a fierce fear, and every time these noble knights attacked before, they were invincible, and they could be crushed and scattered even in the face of several times the enemy. But today, I first met a brutal and fierce Qin Yong, and then met a whole thousand crazy people. This group of madmen does not take their lives seriously at all, whether it is the enemy's or their own, in their blood, killing has become instinct, the only motivation to support their survival.
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