Volume 1 The Son-in-law Conquers the World Chapter 14 The First Head-to-Head Confrontation
A Tatar soldier knelt on the ground, trembling with fright, "The third prince of Qiyu, I don't know what kind of magic the other party's Ming soldiers used, for a while, the ground was burning, so that the brothers in the front row were not in a hurry to retreat, their whole bodies were burning, and the brothers couldn't extinguish the fire even if they tried their best, after the sneak attack was exposed, in order to preserve their strength, I ordered to withdraw with my brothers!" ”
"Rubbish!" Latour picked up the glass and threw it on the ground, shouting angrily!
And Bart, who was sitting on the side, had a deep understanding, after all, he was also teased by the other party's soldiers once, even more ruthless than this time, "How many people have we lost?" ”
"About sixty people!" The man didn't dare to raise his head and whispered.
When Bart heard this, he let out a sigh of relief, "Third Prince, fortunately, it didn't hurt the vitality, after these two sneak attack battles, I found that the commander of Huangling City is good at using insidious stratagems, if that's the case?" We might as well come to Ming! ”
Latour also calmed down at this time, the size had already lost two games, and he also roughly understood the strategy of the opposite side, "What do you mean?" ”
Bart hurriedly stood up, "Third Prince, compared with the defenders of Huangling City, we can be described as strong soldiers!" Since we have strong strength, it is better to fight clearly, let's have a real competition tomorrow, I don't believe that our thousands of warriors can't take down the city of his hundreds of defenders! ”
When Latour heard this, he also agreed very much, and nodded, "That's it, I expect that the other side is a person who can only play smart, pass my order, rest tonight, and raise troops!" Tomorrow we will attack Huangling City head-on! ”
"The third prince is wise!" Bart exclaimed.
Before dawn the next day, Zhao Xuanyi and Shen Wei went up to the city wall, Zhao Xuanyi knew in his heart that there must be a big battle today, so he was also very worried, if the two sides were evenly matched, Zhao Xuanyi dared to lie on the city wall to sleep, but the reality is not optimistic!
"Are the enemy forces coming?" Zhao Xuanyi looked at Sun Yan who was standing guard and asked.
"Centurion, not yet! Our scouts haven't heard from us either, so they shouldn't have come yet! Sun Yan replied.
Zhao Xuanyi looked under the city wall again, "How is the project below?" Are they all done? ”
"It's already done, Tang Tianli and some of them went up to the city wall to sleep an hour ago, and the following deployments are all seated according to the instructions of the adults!" Although they have been prepared, everyone knows in their hearts that it is still unknown whether they can pass this ghost gate today, seeing that Zhao Xuanyi is so nervous, the hearts of the soldiers are also raised!
Zhao Xuanyi stood on the city wall and looked into the distance, at this moment he knew that the real battlefield and the game are not one percent the same, and he can watch all the soldiers in the game coldly, they are nothing more than their own chess pieces, life and death are only for victory!
But now that he is really standing on the city wall, seeing these soldiers who have been with him for a few days, Zhao Xuanyi doesn't want any of them to lose their lives because of his command, this may be the responsibility!
"Wang Yunchuan, Wang Yunlong!" Zhao Xuanyi hurriedly shouted.
"The subordinates are here!" Wang Yunchuan's two brothers hurriedly walked over!
Zhao Xuanyi looked at the two of them, his eyes were very relieved, fortunately, there were still a few masters who could be used, "We only have less than three hundred arrows in total, I will give all the arrows to you two brothers now, and you will find eight brothers with good archery skills!" ”
"When the war begins, you must do it, kill a person with an arrow, don't shoot it randomly, you can kill it when you get close, in short, you can't waste arrows, do you hear?"
"Yes! Subordinates understand! Shen Wei and Wang Yunlong shouted loudly.
Zhao Xuanyi looked at Sun Yan on the side, "Give all the arrows to the two brothers, and dispose of them at will, and you must protect yourself, we have few people, we can only guard on the city wall, and we can only fight with the enemy in close combat, you must pay attention to safety!" ”
Wang Yunchuan and Wang Yunlong glanced at each other, their eyes were full of emotion, they didn't expect that the official would care so much about the lives of his subordinates, "I must live up to the trust of the centurion!" ”
Zhao Xuanyi turned his head and looked left and right, "Where is Tang Tianli?" ”
"This? Sleep underneath too! "Sun Yanxin said, didn't I just finish speaking?
"What the hell are you sleeping? Transfer it to Lao Tzu, and he will sleep when he dies! Zhao Xuanyi scolded loudly.
"Yes!" Sun Yan hurriedly ran down the city wall, and said in his heart that today's centurion is a little strange!
Tang Tianli rubbed his eyes and ran over, "Centurion, I'm here!" ”
Zhao Xuanyi looked at Tang Tianli's two dark circles, and knew that this was a serious lack of sleep, but now he couldn't control these anymore, "Tang Tianli, you find a few with great strength, when the enemy attacks, you don't have to care about anything else, you can play with these falling stones for me!" Pull, throw, and I will definitely smash the enemy troops under the city walls into meatloaf! ”
"Yes! Centurion, rest assured, our brothers have strength! Tang Tianli found that Zhao Xuanyi trusted himself very much, and he usually gave himself jobs when he had them, and he was in a very good mood to be reused!
"Okay, if you are sleepy, you will sleep again, sleep on the city wall, and the enemy army will enter the battle as soon as it comes!" Zhao Xuanyi patted Tang Tianli's shoulder and said.
"Yes!" After Tang Tianli finished speaking, he turned around and left!
Zhao Xuanyi looked at Huo Zhigang on the side, "You, it's not a joke to issue the shield to the soldiers defending the city now, the bows and arrows of the Tatars are not a joke, they are good at riding and shooting, and they have natural skills, so they must let everyone protect their own safety!" ”
Huo Zhigang turned his head and looked behind him, his face full of embarrassment, "Centurion, we only have seventeen shields, but we have more than eighty people!" How can this be divided? ”
When Zhao Xuanyi heard this, his head seemed to have been struck by lightning, and he made a mistake in his busyness, how could he forget about the defense? Fortunately, the city wall is high enough, "You order to go down, don't attack blindly, let's only defend and not attack, and fight when the enemy army reaches the city gate!" Hide all under the walls in case of opposing archers! ”
"Yes! This doesn't need to be taught, the brothers' hiding kung fu is very good! Huo Zhigang said with a smile.
Zhao Xuanyi thought about it carefully, and that's right! If all the people are hiding, then the archers of the opposing side will not be fools and will not attack, and when the enemy army leaves, as soon as we show our heads, will we not become a living target?
"In this way, I will give you a task now!" Zhao Xuanyi attached himself to Huo Zhigang's ear and whispered a few words!
After Huo Zhigang heard this, he hurriedly nodded, "Yes, I know, my subordinates will do it!" ”
Ordering everything, Zhao Xuanyi sat on the ground a little weakly, this feeling of waiting for a big battle seemed to be similar to the feeling of waiting for death, panic in his heart, and hopelessness in his eyes! Looking up at the sky, is this the last time I see the moon?
Shen Wei sat beside Zhao Xuanyi, he could also see Zhao Xuanyi's worries, and comforted him softly, "Young master, the plan is up to the people, everything you can do has been done, and the rest depends on the will of God!" ”
Zhao Xuanyi sighed, thinking about it carefully, he was really unlucky, he finally lived once, and he would encounter such unfair treatment, even if he gave himself five hundred elite soldiers now, the thousand people on the other side would not be enough to warm up for himself!
The morning star slowly receded, and the long dark night was driven away by the dawn with all its might, like a group of warriors who broke out of the darkness, occupying the sky and returning a piece of light to the earth!
The sound of horses' hooves and footsteps came in the distance, the Tatar army had advanced towards Huangling City, they were magnificent, the number was huge, in front of them were three hundred cavalry, the whole body was heavy animal skin long clothes, the wolf tooth scimitar in the hand, since ancient times the cavalry liked to use the scimitar, convenient and fast!
Behind them were two hundred archers, each carrying a quiver of twenty arrows, holding a curved bow of bamboo and wood in their hands, their eyes as sharp as falcons, and their bows and arrows as full as the full moon!
The third group is the knife and axeman, the weapons in their hands are complex, not very uniform, there are wolf tooth scimitars, there are giant axes and stone hammers, and some people are holding daggers, carrying flying claws on their backs, walking calmly and powerfully, with murderous in their eyes, the continuous defeats in the past few days have made this group of grassland warriors hold back their anger in their hearts, and they can finally break out today!
"Here, the enemy is coming!" Sun Yan pointed to the distance and shouted.
A sentence was like a flat ground exploding a mine, all the soldiers got up to watch, only to see a group of moving people pressed by the black hundreds of meters away, looking at who else could it be if it wasn't a Tatar?
"Ready to fight, ready to fight! All in their place! Zhao Xuanyi shouted loudly.
Wang Yunchuan and his brother Wang Yunlong each took four archers to ambush on the east and west sides of the city wall, Tang Tianli also led people to grab the rope in their hands, all hidden under the city wall, Shen Wei commanded other soldiers, ready to defend, for a time everyone on the city wall ran around, everyone entered the battle state!
Zhao Xuanyi saw the powerful aura of the army opposite, and he was also a little scared in his heart, looking at the momentum of the opposite side, today is endless, then come! I've already set up the Dragon Gate Formation, it's up to you to see if you have the ability to break my formation!
And Li Hanyan, who was hiding behind the hill, was also a little worried at the moment, seeing that the two sides had become a confrontation, he knew that today was a fierce battle, what did he do? Lead your men up to help? Or continue watching the play here? I was a little uncertain for a while!
The Tatar army stopped at a distance of three hundred meters, and their strength was represented by their strong numbers, and simply pulling the team apart could cause a strong sense of oppression on the other side! Latu sat on the carriage and looked at the walls of Huangling City in the distance, with a smile on his face, and it seemed that the opposite side was ready.
Bart quickly came to Latour's side, "Third Prince, today is the moment for our two armies to fight to the death, and my subordinates are willing to lead the vanguard troops to break the city!" ”
Latour nodded with satisfaction, "Okay!" My tribe has a fearless warrior like you, so why worry about big things? Our soldiers are under your command, and let me see how you break the city! ”
"Prince Xie!" Bart shouted loudly, looking back at Huangling City, the hatred in his heart had filled his chest, remembering that he had been humiliated by the soldiers opposite, running naked on this land, a mouthful of blood almost didn't spurt out, he must take revenge today!
"All the warriors ordered me to command, a hundred axemen I charged, fifty archers reached fifty paces outside the city to attack, climbers quickly climbed the wall, a hundred axemen set up ladders to attack the wall with climbers, and twenty axemen broke the gates with smashing wood! Do you understand? ”
"Got it!" The roar of nearly a thousand people made the Ming army a few hundred meters away hear it clearly, and this roar also hit the fear in their hearts, all the soldiers held their weapons tightly in their hands, and a few timid legs began to tremble.
"Follow me!" Bart shouted, led nearly three hundred Tatar soldiers, shouted loudly and rushed to the gate of Huangling City, some of them shouted angrily, some let out some incomprehensible strange screams, raised weapons in their hands, and desperately charged towards Huangling City!
Zhao Xuanyi watched the opposite side attack, the pressure in his heart instantly came up, his breathing became a little difficult, and sweat oozed from his forehead, worthy of a nomadic crowd, even if he didn't ride a horse, the speed was still so fast, the distance of three hundred cloths, less than a minute, he had already run half of it!
Zhao Xuanyi saw that the distance was almost there, and shouted loudly, "Everyone is hiding, don't attack!" When all the soldiers heard this, they hurriedly hid their heads behind the city walls, leaving only their eyes to look at the enemy troops outside!
While speaking, Bart had already led the leading troops to rush to the city gate a hundred paces away, and when he arrived here, Bart suddenly stopped, and waved his big hand, "Rush, kill that group of white-skinned girls!" ”
"Kill!" A hundred axemen continued to charge forward, but they forgot one thing, that is, the hundred traps at the gate of the city, a group of soldiers were charging, and suddenly their feet were empty, and one of them turned over and fell into the trap, and then there was a piercing scream!
Bart took a look before walking the mountain, only to see that the trap was already equipped with weapons, some were scimitars, some were bamboo thorns, and one after another soldiers fell into the trap, and in the blink of an eye, there were nearly thirty people!
"Good!" Zhao Xuanyi shouted, happy! Killing dozens of people is not a trap set in vain! But the soldiers on the opposite side were not stupid, and when they saw that dozens of people had fallen into the trap, they immediately stopped!
Bart shouted, "Watch out for the traps, concentrate all on the middle route, and continue the attack!" ”
"Yes!" All the soldiers moved closer to the middle, forming a long snake formation with a width of about ten meters to continue to attack, the role of these traps was not so obvious, the soldiers on the city wall were not out for a long time, this group of Tatar soldiers began to use weapons to detect, as long as they cut the air with a knife, there was a trap below, and they naturally avoided it, and they were about to attack the city!
Tang Tianli saw it clearly, a hundred traps didn't even kill fifty people, it was really a pity, "Centurion, don't we do it yet?" ”
Zhao Xuanyi shook his head and motioned Tang Tianli with his hand to calm down, "It's not time yet, don't worry!" ”
Bart led the remaining 200 people to rush through the trap pit, and when they came to the city, they saw that the defenders of Huangling City had not yet come out, and immediately ordered the archers to "line up on both wings and prepare to attack!" Climbers, high ladders, and a quick siege! ”