Volume 1 Disputes and Troubled Times Chapter 38 The First Battle of the Chicken
Wang Rong originally thought that he would be able to have at least three months of rest and recuperation, and he would be able to wait for the autumn harvest peacefully, but unfortunately it backfired. When there was still a month before the autumn harvest, the Badgers gathered a large number of people and horses outside the Wolf Mountain, including the Danlin, the Gourd, the Tree, the Grace and other tribes, all of which were young and strong.
According to the news from the Tianluo Division of the Detective Division, the number of troops assembled by the Fierce Beard this time was more than 30,000, and Wang Rong expressed his satisfaction with the work efficiency of the fifth candidate. If there is no establishment of the Investigation Division, it is estimated that the news that the Devils are preparing to attack Shuofang County will come very late, and the reason why intelligence is important is that it is time-sensitive.
"Captain, the top priority now is to transfer the soldiers of the three cities of Linhe, Linrong and Woye to the Chicken Fortress and the Lotus Plug."
This is not the first time that Sledgehammer has asked Wang Rong to fight, but Wang Rong has refused.
"Take a look at this information, don't rush to war." Wang Rong handed the information from Tianluo to Sledgehammer. Yuan Tiangang took it, looked at it carefully, raised his head, his eyes widened, and his face was incredulous.
"Captain, where did this news come from? It's too detailed. ”
Wang Rong said with a mysterious face: "Don't worry about it, according to the intelligence, the target of the Devil Man this time is the abandoned Chicken Horse, you also know the terrain of the Chicken Horse, you can't put too many troops, you lead the Second Regiment of Woye City to the Chicken Horse, you have to obey Wumo's command, you know?" Wang Rong said with a serious face.
"Whoa!" Sledgehammer took the military order and left the Governor's Mansion, and soon more than 500 village soldiers set off westward with full force.
Wang Rong looked at the map, his eyes were sharp, and he said solemnly: "Wang Hao, send someone to pass this military order to Li Shuo and Yin He, and the Linrong Township soldiers will go northwest to the city of Lu, and I will wait for them there." ”
Wang Mo bowed down to take the military order, and soon found a personal guard and sent him to Linrong City to deliver the order.
Now the Western Governor's Mansion has four cities and two fortresses, and the land in Linhe, Linrong and Woye City has been re-measured, and the land tax is collected according to the area and output of the land, and the tax rate is one ten. Even though it is past the season of wheat and rice, it is possible to grow vegetables.
The city is owned by the land government, rents the seeds, collects taxes, and the tax rate is also one of ten taxes, and it is Wang Rong's experimental base. In industry, the masters have mastered the process of blast furnace ironmaking and are slowly researching and experimenting. Hinges, inverted chains, pulleys and other appliances have also been developed and widely used in industrial production and construction.
In the past two months, the Western Governor's Mansion has worked hard to recruit displaced people, and the population of the city has rapidly increased from more than 2,000 to more than 5,000. Wang Rong selected 2,000 township soldiers from these more than 5,000 people and organized them into the 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Luchuan Army, with 1,000 people in each regiment.
Wang Rong took his personal guards and the army to practice in the city for three days, and Li Shuo and Yin He rushed to the city with 500 Linrong villagers. Two days later, Wu Xinghan and Shao Hongxuan came to the city with five hundred Linhe Township soldiers.
Wu Xinghan looked at the thousands of soldiers and horses in the barracks, the corners of his mouth twitched, he tilted his head and asked, "Lao Shao, do you calculate, how many soldiers do we have in the Western Governor's Mansion now?" ”
Shao Hongxuan thought about it carefully and said: "Over there, the old wolf and the old dog are really not as good as the wolf dog, all the good soldiers we recruited are let them be drawn, their regiment is already a thousand people, and it has already been full." I heard that the chicken is also full, plus the 500 people of the sledgehammer, our 500 people, and the 500 people of Linrong City. With the addition of the Commander's army, the number of soldiers under the commander now has more than 5,000 people. ”
Wu Xinghan nodded and said, "Yes, if you look at their equipment again, if you want to say that this is not the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Army, do you believe it?" ”
Speaking of this, Shao Hongxuan was also silent. More than 3,000 people were assembled in the barracks, each with a war horse and a horse and mule. These were more than 6,000 animals, each with a bow, a pot of arrows, a saber, a log shield, and a pair of armor. All of this equipment was shipped out of the city in the past two months.
What's even more outrageous is that the armor piece on the armor is not the kind of black pig iron sheet, but the stainless steel sheet, if it wasn't for Shao Hongxuan's curiosity at that time and knocked it with his finger, he would have been fooled. Not to mention the saber, a new method of making it was adopted, and his original knife was cut off with a single sword. There is also a shield, although the inside is wood, but the outside is not cowhide or sheepskin, but a whole steel plate, which is nailed to the back of the steel plate. With such extravagant armament, Lord Commander doesn't seem to be satisfied.
Wang Rong looked at the soldiers in front of him who were armed to the teeth, his brows furrowed slightly, if the conditions were enough, he would like to have each person equipped with a crossbow, this thing is much more powerful than a weak bow.
"Captain, shall we go?" Wang Mo asked in a low voice.
"Let's go, head for the chicken."
Under the order, more than 3,000 people have ridden the horse mule, this kind of mare born horse mule, physique, character biased towards horses, large size, strong durability, light walking, comfortable riding, docile temperament, easy to raise. The horses were tethered to the side and followed.
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"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The rumbling of war drums echoed in the rooster, and the guard of the rooster rehearsed the drums and got up from the camp as soon as he heard the drums, quickly put on his armor, and put a two-handed broadsword on his back. The guards on duty at night had already poured into the tent with armor and blades.
The barracks in the camp were full of people, and a soldier of the Lieutenant's Mansion came out of the tent and quickly ran towards the city wall. The chicken is located on the west side of the gorge, the cliff building, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but no matter how difficult it is to attack, the bearded people also have to attack, so let the chicken pass away, once the enemy comes to close the door and beat the dog, then even the grassland can not go back.
When Wumo came to the city with Meng Song, a sledgehammer and an iron tower, he saw a large number of bad-bearded people rushing to the city wall with flying ladders, and after setting up the flying ladders on the city wall, the sound of low horns sounded one after another, and countless bad-bearded people climbed towards the city head with their blades.
Just two years after Dayong signed a peace treaty with the Qiangfang Khanate, the Qiangmen unilaterally violated the contract and attacked Shuofang County, and Dayong was accustomed to the treachery of the Qiangbeard Khanate.
This time, Hu Yanyun, the right general, personally led the 30,000 troops south to attack Shuofang County, and the military law was formulated very strictly, and a special supervision team was set up. If there is a strict law, there will be a reward, and those who take the lead in the city will be promoted to three levels, rewarded with 100 stones, 100 horses of cloth, and two beauties. In order to survive, and at the same time for a better life, the besiegers had to muster up the courage to climb to the top of the city.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
From time to time, the sound of the bowstring breaking through the air rang out from the battlements of the city walls. The archers of the Governor's Mansion hidden at the battlements stared closely at the mantle who was climbing upward, and at the right time, he threw arrows, and the arrows that shot out from the battlement were quick and fast, and the sharp arrows easily tore the leather robes worn by the mantle, and the screams came from the ladder, and the arrows rolled down the ladder with the injured man, and smashed to the ground under the city wall with the bade people under him.
And the bearded people under the city wall are not to be outdone, they are the eagles on the grassland, the bow and horses are skillful, a large number of arrows from under the city wall, suppressing the archers of the Duweifu on the wall.
Under the city wall, the hundreds of elders of the bearded people shouted loudly and encouraged the soldiers around them.
"Whew!" "Whew!" "Whew!"
A wolf howl erupted under the city wall, and under the cover of the bad-bearded archers, the half-armored bad-bearded chief took the lead on the city wall, and the soldiers of the Duweifu Township who were defending at the battlement mouth spat blood and leaned on the city wall with scattered eyes.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Du Yuhou of the Governor's Mansion on the side held the ring head knife in his hand with both hands, and waved his knife to look at the bearded captain who had climbed the city wall.
The sharp blade of the saber in Du Yuhou's hand cut off the scimitar in the hand of the bearded hundred, and the knife momentum did not stop, directly splitting the helmet of the bearded beard and the head in half. Du Yuhou's huge strength pushed out the corpse of the bearded man, and directly smashed a bearded soldier who was ascending the city to the city.
In the whole city, such a situation happens frequently, Wumo is not ready to fight to the death with the badhead, he doesn't have so many people, he can't afford to consume, so he put the enemy on the city, and the channel leading to the city is specially arranged, even if the head of the city is lost, the street fighting in the city will make the bade man bleed.
Letting the enemy go up to the city did not mean that he would not defend it, and the two soldiers held a log together and threw it off the wall. The rolling log made a free fall movement and quickly smashed on the heads of the mustards gathered under the city, and the first to bear the brunt did not even scream, but fell to the ground and was directly stoned to death. There were also some unlucky ones who were badly wounded, and lay on the ground wailing, stirring up chaos among the Badgers who had gathered in the city.
And not only the rolling wood fell, but the stone also fell. There is also a wolf tooth slap that makes the hearts of the bade beards fearful, and the iron thorns on the top of the paddle hang minced meat, and the bright red blood drips down like rain.
"Bell-" "Boom-"
At the head of the wall, the soldier of the Governor's Mansion picked up the sledgehammer in his hand and smashed it down, the crossbow string of the bed crossbow was instantly straightened, and the crossbow gun was shot out, and with the whistling wind, it fell through the sky into the surging crowd under the city wall. The crossbow spear pierced through the chest of one of the man's beards like a knife cutting tofu, and the castration continued unabated, piercing two or three people in succession, and finally nailing four or five people to the ground like a meat skewer. The checkmate struggled on the barrel of the ballista and let out a terrible scream.
"Boom-" "Boom-" "Boom-"
A few more sounds came, and the bed crossbows on the wall were activated one after another, and the crossbow guns formed a row, plowing out lines of blood in the formation of the Bearded Army, bringing up bursts of mournful wails and a rain of blood sprinkled all over the sky, inflicting a huge blow on the enemy, both physically and mentally.