Chapter 94: Chang'an Rebellion (8)
Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Without warning, the sound of drums pierced the quiet night sky, and at the same time, it was noisy and clear, and it also opened the horn of the cavalry attack.
After forming a sharp formation, which had been stationary, the statue-like cavalry seemed to be suddenly energized, and the horses began to gallop forward.
The cavalry began to speed up, and in the dark and silent night, on the vast Xingqing Palace South Square, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves clearly reached the ears of everyone in the square.
The moment the cavalry that formed the front arrow formation began to charge, the Tongyang Gate directly south of Xingqing Palace also slowly opened, and forty Mo sword soldiers and sixty crossbowmen holding torches rushed out of the palace gate.
The bright torches were like lights in such a dark night, but at this moment, everyone's attention was drawn to the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, but no one cared about these infantry except the cavalry at the front of the front of the arrow.
As time passed, the speed of the two hundred cavalry's front arrow formation charged due south became faster and faster, and the shock caused by the rumble of the horses' hooves became stronger and stronger.
Normally, there are only two results for the heavy infantry of the heavy cavalry to storm the formation, and the death is miserable and ugly, but this premise is that the heavy infantry is in formation.
In order to protect the camp on the square to build and store siege equipment, Ju Wenzhen left thousands of Shence troops in the square, including the 3,000 hardcore "True Shence Rebels".
In fact, when the drums of war suddenly sounded and the cavalry began to whip up, the sleeping rebels who were camped around the fires had already been awakened.
However, no one would have thought that the guards of Xingqing Palace would dare to take out the only hole cards to make a surprise attack at this time.
In the dark night when you can't see your fingers, the "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The sound of war drums was like a pair of huge hands, grappling at the hearts of every rebel in the square, making them feel like they couldn't breathe.
Under the oppressive feeling brought by the charging war horses, it is an impossible task to let the rebels who are awakened and frightened form a dense defensive formation, and defend against the cavalry killed from the darkness.
In the midst of the panic, chaos inevitably ensued.
The continuous ejection of arrows from the center of the Blade Array deepened the confusion among the rebels.
However, the bright fires in the square pointed the way for the cavalry charge.
With a cavalryman holding a horse's head at the front as the edge, the cavalry that formed the front arrow formation cut into the chaotic rebels like a snow-bright steel knife.
Cause chaos with archers, open the way with mounted cavalry, but it is indeed the cavalry that lags the last to cause casualties, along the path opened by the mounted cavalry, wielding Tang knives and short spears in their hands to frantically slash and slash every rebel they can encounter.
The rebels standing on the square only felt that the cavalry was killing frantically, but the Emperor Li Yu, who was sitting on the wall of Xingqing Palace, could clearly see the battle situation in the entire square.
The forty Mo swordsmen and sixty crossbowmen led by Guo Rong personally left the palace wall and walked forward for about seventy or eighty steps before stopping, and came together to form a defensive circle.
The path traveled by the charging cavalry was actually a circle centered on this simple circle formation formed by Guo Rong himself.
Mo Lingjun, who was at the forefront of the cavalry, used his amazing horsemanship, vision, and judgment to carve out a round, murdered and blood-stained path among the dense rebels.
With the cavalry led by Mo Lingjun as the pen, the circle formation led by Guo Rong as the axis, and the entire Xingqing Palace South Square as the paper, the circle drawn was already halfway through.
The Blade Array had completely wiped out the rebels' camp of thousands of people, and the fear of the frenzied killing was deeply engraved in the enemy's mind compared to the direct killing and damage to the siege equipment.
So much so that when they broke through the encirclement and arrived at the Tongyang Gate behind the circle formation led by Guo Rong, none of the thousands of surviving Shence troops in the square dared to pursue.
So much so that Guo Rong, who had been preparing for death for a long time, was stunned to find that all his previous preparations had been made in vain again.
When Guo Rong returned to Xingqing Palace with Mo Dao soldiers and archers, he found that the problem of breaking off that Mo Lingjun was worried about at the beginning did not exist.
The only value of his venture to leave Xingqing Palace this time was to be a beacon to guide Mo Lingjun.
When Guo Rong led the broken foot soldiers back to Xingqing Palace and closed the palace gate again, the palace gate immediately let out a tsunami-like cheer.
Soon, this cheer and excitement spread throughout the entire Xingqing Palace.
As the victorious side, there was no problem for Xingqing Palace to cheer, but in fact, when Ju Wenzhen heard his godson Chen Hongzhi report that the defenders of Xingqing Palace launched a sneak attack in the middle of the night, the whole person began to laugh out loud.
The cavalry raid of no more than 200 people in the middle of the night brought losses of more than 1,000 to itself, damaged a large number of precious siege equipment, and caused immeasurable losses to morale.
Under such an astonishing loss, the reaction of his godfather, who is known for his wisdom, was actually laughing?
It really made Chen Hongzhi scratch his head!
For Ju Wenzhen, this wave of late-night raids was indeed unexpected by him, but so what!
Ju Wenzhen has experienced war, but how can there be immortals in war, and Ju Wenzhen, who has tens of thousands of rebels, is afraid of the loss of one or two thousand people?
What he feared was that the defenders were well prepared and had sufficient troops, turning the Xingqing Palace in front of him into an impregnable fortress.
Last night, I used a little trick to put pressure on the defender, and now the defender has taken the risk!
Dare to send cavalry to raid in the dark night, Ju Wen admires the courage of the defender's commander,
The night raid was able to be so swift and efficient, and Ju Wenzhen admired the superb horsemanship and combat skills of these cavalrymen.
However, this can only show one point, Xingqing Palace's preparations are actually very inadequate, and the troops are definitely not sufficient, and yesterday's indiscriminate attack has already caused them heavy losses!
Then what else to consider, storm Xingqing Palace, first nail yourself in the eye, and catch the emperor in the flesh!
"Hiroshi!"
"Father!"
"Adjust the plan, continue to block the market in the north of Chang'an City, closely monitor several family generals including Guo and Wei, and if they dare to make any changes, they will do it directly and kill them all!"
"Don't attack Daming Palace from the north of the city, the Forbidden Garden and Longshouyuan will leave 5,000 people to blockade, and the rest will also be transferred to Chang'an City."
"The walls of Taiji Palace are too high, and they will no longer be attacked, but instead besieged, put all the troops that originally planned to attack Taiji Palace into Xingqing Palace, and mobilize all the eight bull crossbows, a full 30,000 people, I don't believe that Xingqing Palace can hold for long!"
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