Section 331 The back road
Under the ruthless drive of the Rongdi soldiers, although the city did not stop arrows and used various means to defend desperately, the number of dead under the city wall continued to increase. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info finally, it was finally raised to a height adjacent to the top of the city wall. Looking at the dead bodies of the Chu people close at hand, the officers and soldiers in the city all felt extremely desperate when they saw this situation.
The Aries King has issued an order to attack. Inspired by the hope of being able to enter the city and loot, the Rong Di soldiers rushed out of the formation with a howl, stepping on the corpses of the Chu victims one by one, and directly attacking the city.
Youzhou City has tall and solid city walls, and the armor and equipment are also very complete. Although the battle under the city was lost before, the troops were barely sufficient, and there were even various defensive equipment to help. However, even with such excellent conditions, in front of the Rong Di soldiers who rushed over with a howl and kept climbing up from the city wall, the soldiers of the Chu army, who were already frightened, did not dare to engage too much at all, and retreated on their own after only a little contact with the enemy, and did not dare to confront the Rong Di barbarians at all. They quickly retreated from the city walls, allowing the Rongdi soldiers to climb the city, and even some of the officers took the lead in escaping into the city.
Guan Yong and Li Guangfeng no longer had the strength to stop these deserters from crushing. Fear of death and cowardice has become a habit of the Chu army. At this time, even if you use a knife to kill someone and forcibly order the deserters to come back and defend the city, it is absolutely impossible to have any effect. Anyway, the result is the same whether to fight or not to fight. Youzhou is completely finished.
At this moment, one of Li Guangfeng's personal soldiers suddenly rushed to the city tower, his face full of panic and panic.
"Oh no, my lord!" shouted at the soldier as he ran.
Guan Yong and Li Guangfeng couldn't help but look over there at the same time.
"What the hell is going on!" After the pro-soldier ran closer, Guan Yong hurriedly asked loudly.
"General Wang, and Lord Li, they all ran away, they all ran away!"
The soldiers' faces were full of dust, and there was already a hint of crying in their voices: "They, they took their men and horses, and they all ran away!"
Suddenly, a wave of dizziness suddenly hit Li Guangfeng's heart.
These "adults" in the mouths of the pro-soldiers refer to the other generals who served as the generals of Youzhou City. These people are all official officials of the Great Chu State. Youzhou's predicament should be shared with the country. It's just that I didn't expect that at this critical juncture, these officials actually ignored the soldiers and civilians in the city and abandoned the city and fled.
Shameless!
With such a general who is greedy for life and afraid of death, my Great Chu State will be undefeated? Youzhou Town Guard Officer Yong roared angrily in his heart.
"General, don't be angry, even if such a rat who is greedy for life and afraid of death, even if he can escape with his life and deal with it according to his own national law, is he still afraid that he will not find justice? ”
Li Guangfeng, who was next to him, suddenly pulled Guan Yong's hand and reminded him not to lose his temper too much in front of his subordinates. After all, these are extraordinary times. If the morale of the army can be stabilized, maybe this Youzhou can still be defended.
"Yes, yes...... Let them go, and I'll be loyal to the country!"
Under Li Guangfeng's persuasion, Guan Yong finally regained some composure. He took a few deep breaths, and then, he looked at Li Guangfeng with a dejected face, and said dejectedly: "Lord Li, I won't persuade you to run away until now, you and I will stay separately until the end! Ben Jiang didn't want future generations to talk about it, so he always beat his chest and scolded Ben Jiang for nothing. ”
That being said, what to do after the "final", even if Guan Yong doesn't say it, of course both of them know.
Li Guangfeng looked at Guan Yong, then laughed, and then patted him on the shoulder.
"Okay! Okay! The big husband should be like this! General, then I'll go first!"
After speaking, Li Guangfeng arched his hand towards Guan Yong, turned around, and left the city tower without looking back, and then took his own soldiers and some troops who could still command and move to another place in the city to defend it.
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With the rout of the Chu army, the city defense battle of Youzhou City has come to an end. In the evening, under the continuous attack of the Rongdi soldiers, the east tower of the city gate had already caught fire, and the Rongdi soldiers swarmed into the city along the slope outside the city with the corpses of refugees, and the whole Youzhou was in chaos, with the sound of fighting and cries everywhere.
Youzhou City is already destined to fall into the hands of Prairie Rong Di.
The official Yong of Youzhou Town, who was on the city tower, was still standing on the city tower at this time, staring blankly at everything that was happening so far.
Dressed in the full uniform of the town guard general, he held the sword given by Emperor Shunming, and looked blankly at the group of barbarian soldiers swarming in as if he were on an ordinary parade.
After guarding Youzhou for many years, with Guan Yong's understanding of the Rong Di barbarians, he certainly knew the tragic fate he would suffer after the fall of Youzhou. This kind of big city, which has condensed the painstaking efforts of millions of Chu people for a hundred years, will become a den of thieves of Rong Di barbarians, and I don't know when it will be able to regain its glory and become the rivers and mountains of the Chu people again. The Chu soldiers and civilians in the city will face an unprecedented looting, many will die in the looting of the Rongdi soldiers, and those who survive will be reduced to slavery and mistreated as if they were worse than death.
"We are incompetent, we have a negative heart, we harm the people, our sins deserve death, our sins deserve death......"
Guan Yong's mind suddenly kept echoing Li Guangfeng's self-talk before.
He's right, we all deserve death!
The entire city of Youzhou is full of military generals who are afraid of the enemy like tigers, civil servants who talk about misleading the country, and the princes of Gon who are still fighting in the temple...... The result of the dispute was that over the past few hundred years, the armament of the state of Chu has become weaker and weaker, and its great power has been lost, resulting in military towns in various localities and a heavy number of private soldiers. Officials are full of fat food, and all generals have become merchants with only gold and silver in their eyes. When a war starts, who will fight at the risk of their own lives? Who will not be afraid of death?
"We are indeed sins that deserve death, and indeed sins deserve death!"
Under the agitation of the mood, Guan Yong couldn't help but cry, and couldn't help muttering to himself.
The tower was already on fire, and although the flames had not yet risen to the top, it was enough to threaten his life. But he didn't care, because he had decided to end his life right here.
Yes, under any circumstances cannot be a prisoner of Rong Di. He Tianyang is that kind of person, Guan Yong feels disgusting just thinking about it. The generals either died in battle or died. But they must not live by surrender.
What happened to Li Guangfeng?
Come to think of it, his current state is similar to his own. Perhaps, he will be on the road a little earlier than he does. That person is also upright, and would rather die than surrender.
Just as Guan Yong was holding the hilt of the knife and was about to pull out his weapon to kill himself, he suddenly heard a cry of horror mixed with ecstasy from the mouth of his own soldier.
"My lord, look over there, north, north direction, it's our people, it's our reinforcements arriving!"
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The sound of 10,000 horses galloping on the grassland was like thunder. There was a violent tremor like the earth roaring. Even the town guard officer Yong, who was standing at the head of Youzhou City, felt the fury and murderous intent that came to his body through the bricks and stones of the city wall under his feet.
The power of cavalry lies in the mobility that far exceeds that of the infantry. In terms of personal ability alone, Yang Tianhong should be regarded as the best cavalry general in the court of Chu State. After leading the army thousands of miles deep into the grassland, and wandering around the grassland like a plague god for a few months, these Lizhou recruits who followed him out of the customs had already been trained by Rong Di's flesh and blood into extremely ruthless madmen.
Yes, it's crazy.
Yang Tianhong knows very well that soldiers who can fight do not need any reason on the battlefield at all. The only thing that is needed is obedience!
The Lord is going to kill you, and you must not hesitate to slam into it with a sword or spear. Only such a soldier can become a real elite.
Killing is an addictive game. This kind of thing can only be called a game for soldiers. The more people you kill, the thicker the blood, the more you can ignore your own life in the battle array, and be truly selfless and absolutely brave.
According to the agreed time when entering the grassland, the scattered Lizhou cavalry completed the assembly at the designated position. All the leading generals are the generals of the Yang Mansion, and they are very aware of their grandfather's temper, and they dare not disobey the key issue of time. After counting, in addition to the part that escorted the booty and cattle, sheep and horses back to Lizhou, Yang Tianhong's cavalry that could be used to attack Youzhou still had more than 50,000 people.
In addition, there are 50,000 horses that Yang Han just brought from the direction of Lizhou. Assembled, the total number of soldiers that Yang Tianhong can use has exceeded 100,000.
The 100,000 cavalry roared like thunder, and in the midst of the sound of rolling hooves, the long thorny dragon spear that was held tightly in the hands of the cavalry and held horizontally in front of the cavalry formation seemed to have caused a tremor in the air at this moment, and it actually made a strange whistling sound. The cavalry in a straight line in that whistling sound was like a flood that had discharged the sluice, the momentum was like a rainbow, surging and rolling, and the front of the troops was directed at the right flank of Rong Di's main formation, which was storming Youzhou City.
"What the hell is going on? Why did the Chu people appear from behind us? And the scouts sent out? Are they all dead?"
In the Rongdi array, the aged Aries King rode on his horse, brandished his whip, and roared at the leaders of the Aries tribe gathered around: "Seeing that Youzhou is about to break the city, at this time, the cavalry of the Chu people appeared from behind us. Say, what the hell is going on?"
The big and small leaders of the Aries tribe, you look at me, I look at you, their eyes are full of surprise and doubt, obviously no one knows the answer.
For the news blockade on the battlefield, Yang Tianhong has always done a good job.
The Aries tribe sent up to 160,000 cavalry in this battle. Fortunately, the Aries King wants to get the two abundant fruits of Lizhou and Youzhou at the same time. With "Cell", a product that integrates another world's advanced concepts and some scientific and technological collections, Yang Tianhong's intelligence sources are much richer, and he has mastered all the movements of Grassland Rongdi.
Donghui Jing's 60,000 Rong Di soldiers and horses became the first prey that Yang Tianhong bit down. Of course, when the plan was first formulated, Yang Tianhong never imagined that things would become so successful. In any case, the Lizhou army is a new recruit, and its combat effectiveness is definitely not strong, and it can even be said to be weak. However, no matter how weak a recruit is, after a big war, he will always become more or less strong. The fact that the 100,000 Lizhou new army was able to rely on the Lizhou city wall to block the 60,000 elite Rong Di was already the best result in Yang Tianhong's plan. The main cavalry entered the grassland and harassed along the way, and Yang Tianhong would always deliberately let go of one or two live mouths every time he captured the herdsmen's camp. Of course, the direction in which these remnants of herders fled was controlled. If anyone dares to go in the direction of Lizhou, then the result is that there are cavalry following all the way. This is a cavalry squad of ten people. Surrounded and intercepted from several directions, creating an illusion of direction for the fugitives, believing that there was no way to live in the direction of Youzhou, where the army of the Aries King was located. The rest can only go to Dadan Yuwang's tent to report the news, or go to Lizhou and tell the eldest prince Donghuijing about the disaster on the grassland.
Blocking news, especially between the grassland and Youzhou. In Yang Tianhong's plan, it is the most important link. Only in this way can Rong Di, who attacked Lizhou, get the news, and then the battle is in chaos, so that the recruits in Lizhou can get the best opportunity to hone and win.
Of course, reinforcements will also be sent from the king's tent. However, the grassland is not as good as the land of Chu. In such an incomparably vast space, even leading millions of people and horses will be like the difference between the sea and a small rock. What's more, the war beasts domesticated by Yang Tianhong with special methods are extremely strong, and they far surpass ordinary war horses in terms of speed and physical fitness. Even if he was discovered by the reinforcements sent by Shan Yu Wang's tent, Yang Tianhong was sure enough to get out.
What's more, among the troops that attacked the grassland, there were still a considerable number of Guiyuan Sect monks. Although the rules of heaven and earth are restricted, monks cannot kill mortals, but it is still possible to use mana to create a few strong winds or sandstorms within a specified range. Speaking of which, there are so many things that Yang Tianhong needs the monks of the Guiyuan Sect to do, and the actions that the monks can participate in the war can only be like this. As long as he didn't take the initiative to kill people and contaminate the cause and effect of heaven and earth, then the monks of the Guiyuan Sect were also very willing to follow Yang Tianhong, a fellow disciple with a prominent status, and win their own interests in the war.
Just because you can't kill doesn't mean you can't kill the shaman. The rules of heaven and earth are not just punishments. For the Dao system, there are also rewards in the rules of heaven and earth. Just like those guys who had specially planned to turn Yang Tianhong into a rebel, the Central Plains monk killed the Rong Di shaman on the grassland, and he could also get a reward for reducing the level of the Heavenly Tribulation at the promotion level.
Yang Tianhong wants to turn Youzhou into a magnet and firmly absorb the 100,000 troops under the command of the Aries King. As long as Rong Di divides his troops, then Lizhou will become safe. It's just that Yang Tianhong himself didn't expect things to go so smoothly. Yang Han not only led his troops to block Rong Di's attack, but also beheaded Dong Huijing, the eldest prince of the Aries tribe, under the city of Lizhou, and annihilated as many as 60,000 Rong Di cavalry.
Speaking of which, if it weren't for the news from the fugitives on the grassland, Donghuijing would definitely not have been able to mess up. The timing of Yang Han's attack was very accurate, and he seized the critical time point when Rong Di did not occupy the chaos. After the war, it was reorganized again, and Yang Han selected 50,000 elite cavalry from the army and completed the assembly with Yang Tianhong's grassland raiding troops at the predetermined location.
As for Youzhou...... Yang Tianhong never considered that direction. In his mind, Youzhou was well defended, and it was a big city heavily garrisoned on the border of Chu State. Don't say that the Aries King only has 100,000 cavalry in his hands, even if this number doubles again, I'm afraid it will be a sigh for Youzhou, and there is nothing he can do.
Guiyuanzong's technology in forging is unique in the world. In order to achieve the best efficiency in the intelligence transmission work of the "cell", Yang Tianhong spared no expense to equip the "cell" with an extremely expensive remote communication type magic weapon. In addition to this, the "cell" also domesticated a considerable number of Haidongqing. With these things, Yang Tianhong has information from all sides at any time. For the war under Youzhou City, he naturally knows it in his heart.
Guan Yong and Li Guangfeng are indeed very temperamental officials of the Chu State. However, having solar terms does not mean having the ability. Speaking of which, the city defense of Youzhou has become what it is today, and it is also caused by Li Guangfeng and Guan Yong. The generals on the border need to do more than just understand military affairs. It is also necessary to understand that prevention is better than prevention, and at the same time to envisage all kinds of unfavorable situations in the future of war. Intelligence shows that after Li Guangfeng served as the assassin of Youzhou, he only knew how to recite poems all day long, and the literati atmosphere was strong, and Guan Yong, the town guard general, was also influenced by Li Guangfeng, and gradually neglected military affairs. In addition, He Tianyang, the guard of Tieyang Town, took the initiative to surrender and opened the head of a traitor. Now, the soldiers in Youzhou City have long been warless and will have no will to fight. The overall situation has become precarious.
In the plan, Youzhou City is the final part of the solution. The Aries King is an elite soldier, but he will also be defeated again and again under the tall walls of Youzhou. As long as you wait patiently until the end, with the elite cavalry that Yang Tianhong has experienced the war, he will definitely be able to win the battle.
Things didn't turn out much from what was originally expected. The only surprise was that Youzhou City didn't hold on. Yang Tianhong even has a little regret: if Youzhou can continue to consume part of Rong Di's troops, the upcoming cavalry battle may not be so difficult, and even as long as he leads the army to attack, the situation can become a one-sided war of annihilation against Rong Di.
The court of Chu really can't continue like this anymore. Otherwise, the destruction of the country and the annihilation of the nation will be the final end.
Rong Di is not a waste waiting to be caught. As many as tens of thousands of Rong Di soldiers, seeing that the cavalry brigade of the Chu army had begun to attack, no matter whether their personal thoughts were excited, fearful, or hesitant, they all roared at this moment.
The spearhead of the attack of the cavalry of the Chu army, and the edge of the Rong Di brigade had already begun to engage.
In an instant, all the sounds in the world seemed to disappear strangely, leaving only the sound of thousands of sharp arrows breaking through the air that suddenly rose from the main formation of the cavalry of the Chu army.
"Woo-"
This sound filled the eardrums of the cavalry of the Chu army, making them unconsciously look up at the arrows that were sent out, moving their eyes with the angle of the arrows, the arrows broke through the air, and the sound seemed to come back, and the cavalry officers beside them shouted the military order to continue to load arrows on the crossbow.
Hand crossbows are very useful. Especially when charging into battle, the rear cavalry can fire early, and the arrows will pass over the front row of dragon lancers, dealing projectile damage to Rong Di.
For cavalry, the best counter class is also cavalry. It's just that the Rong Di cavalry suddenly encountered an overwhelming array of arrows, the speed suddenly slowed down, and the direction of attack was also paused, and the Rong Di knight on the horse slapped the horse's buttocks desperately, but the war horse under the seat was evaluated according to the endurance, and the legs of some war horses seemed to be filled with lead, and they couldn't move no matter how they were beaten and how they were beaten. Until someone shouted, "Chu people shoot arrows!" The experienced Rongdi knight's face changed, and he jumped off the war horse like a desperate attempt to hide behind the war horse, while the inexperienced knight watched in a daze as a dark cloud like a locust pounced over
The Rongdi cavalry, who rushed to the front, opened their eyes wide, and despair appeared in their minds. In a moment, the screams from the Rongdi cavalry began to sound frequently, followed by the mournful roar of the war horses.
The power of the arrow is unmatched!(To be continued.) )