Chapter 70: The Seven Beacons

"Captain Ao, what shall we do?"

The generals at the head of Yanbei Pass City discovered the movements of the legal army, and they had already left the Guancheng and inserted the horse army led by Ao He near the enemy formation from one side, and they intuitively felt the menacing approach of the legal army on the opposite side.

If only the two phalanxes of the Lv Striker Army followed, they could also charge and kill, block the enemy's approach, and entangle and cut them off.

But thousands of enemy cavalry killed, most of them were lightly armored rangers, and they also ran headlong, which was no different from looking for death.

Ao He's hand clenched the heavy spear tightly, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Break into the enemy formation along the moat, cut off the enemy formation, and see if the enemy army can be dispersed, regardless of success or failure, everyone will immediately go west, and no fighting!" ”

Fortunately, the enemy army was still some distance from the battlefield, and he still wanted to try it.

If they can disperse the enemy army before they can reach the battlefield later, they can buy time for the soldiers in the city to come out and redeploy the defensive offensive.

The soldiers of the Ma Army were not ambiguous, and the three lieutenants immediately adjusted the queue.

More than 1,500 horsemen, with Ao He as the first to lead the military horse camp as the arrow, the left and right Yu Hou army two horse military camps fell behind, directly turned to the attack, and killed the legal army under the city.

Although the Chinese army horse camp is not an armored horse, it is also an elite rushing formation, with a long lance in hand, wearing willow leaf cold forging armor, and the seats are all high-headed horses with strong momentum.

The left and right Yuhou military horse camps, mostly for rangers, good at riding and shooting, with fish scales and light armor, with two bows, three pots of arrows, and a scimitar and a gun.

Although time is tight at the moment, Ao He is very calm, calmly pressing the horse's speed, leaving the horse with the power to charge.

When the enemy was 300 paces, the two battalions behind him rode lightly and quickly on horseback to advance sideways, and the formation was dispersed into a line, and they swept out, facing the legal army that was on guard, and there was a round of projectiles, and then they turned around and returned to the tail of the formation.

The French army returned fire with a rain of arrows, but most of them were left behind by the fast horses.

At this time, the Chinese army horse camp, which had already started to speed again, took Ao He as the first, followed by the kill, Ao He's heavy spear passed through the shield, and the whole army even picked up the shield on the spear, waved it away, like a stone smashed into the water, directly broke into the formation, and the heavy spear slapped left and right, quickly disrupting the enemy formation.

Behind him, the long lance flashed with a dazzling cold light, and then broke through the gap into the formation, tearing the gap in the temporary array of the legal army bigger and bigger.

The two battalions of light cavalry then rushed in in a line, and the bowstrings trembled incessantly, and the feathered arrows were quickly fired into the interior of the enemy formations on both sides from the place where they tore through the enemy formations.

The enemy formation was in a mess, the front cavalry broke the formation, and the rear light cavalry mended the knife, and at the same time reduced the pressure on both sides of the elite cavalry to avoid being caught in the middle, falling into a fierce battle, and being trapped on the spot.

On the battlefield under the city, the legal army was like a large rectangular banner, which was brutally torn apart from one side, bounded by a moat, and divided between the two.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was gradually approaching, Ao He led his army to leave a rain of arrows on the other side of the river, and then turned to the tail to kill, swept south from the weak point of the enemy's position in the west, ran to the city, and then went south, crossed the city and turned westward.

At the head of the city, Yan Lun personally led strange soldiers and jumped two battalions with a total of 1,000 people, trapped the Dengcheng law army in a section of the city wall, and surrounded and killed them on three sides.

The Chinese army Lang general Wang Luan, two battalions of crossbowmen, one battalion of sword and shield men, and three captains, each guarding a section of the city wall, commanded the crossbowmen to do their best, and shot the legal army that poured into the city.

Yan Xia has a short knife in her hand, acting like a ghost, where there is a legal army, her figure will appear there, one by one, the legal army will die under its knife.

The stone cannons in the city were once again revealed, staring at the vicinity of the moat to smash and prevent the enemy from crossing the river, and one by one the cloth balls and rockets soaked in fire oil set up the road where the legal army took off the bridge and filled the sandbags, and set it on fire.

Although it could not last, it was enough to continue to divide the enemy army, giving the Zhenbei army more time to destroy the enemy who crossed the river and approached the city.

The part of the vanguard army crossing the river was hit by a series of fierce blows, and the flames were billowing behind them, and finally it gradually fell into confusion, and the offensive rushing to the head of the city suddenly slowed down.

Under the pressure of the defenders at the head of the city, the enemy army on the city wall was quickly annihilated.

After the last ladder was ignited by a barrel of oil, the vanguard army began to retreat, some of them did not care about the traps at the bottom of the moat, and they did not care whether the water was clean or dirty, they jumped into the water and swam north, some directly howled, rushed across the sea of fire, and returned from a long distance, and some scattered to both sides and were shot by the defenders on the east and west walls......

The fierce battle lasted for two or three hours before it came to an abrupt end.

An even more jaw-dropping scene appeared.

The law army rushed to the city, went directly around the moat, and stepped to the south of the city, ignoring the falling rocks that kept flying in the city, and swept by at great speed from one side.

The 30,000 legal troops who were attracted by this group of elite cavalry and shared the firepower were then slaughtered, and the defeated vanguard army bypassed both sides of the array, and regrouped in one place.

Seeing the stone cannons in the city shattered and a large number of houses were smashed and collapsed, the moment of joy that he had just gained quickly dispersed.

And these 30,000 legal troops, in addition to the auxiliary troops with stone artillery carts and crossbows, slowly pulled apart, and lined up in three sides outside the attack range of the Guancheng, not only forming a north-south attack on the two towns, but also encircling the Yanbei Guancheng on three sides.

"Again!!"

Zhongjun Lang slashed Wang Luan with a long knife on the city wall, and drank angrily.

Yan Xia looked at their generals and shook his head directly, "You guys are really powerful, it's not fishy to eat a hundred beans, and you're surrounded by people again and again, you really don't have a good memory at all?" ”

The generals' faces turned red.

But this Chi Yan Gu Mo Ying, every time he doesn't play cards according to common sense, and the siege techniques are different every time, and they are unexpected.

And there are just so many people in the Communist Party, and the opposite side is in a situation of strong attack, and a decisive battle is today, and they don't have the strength to die, and they can't deal with it with all their might.

"The key is not in the siege, but in the fine horsemen."

Yan Lun then spoke.

The thousands of elite cavalry of the legal army did not stop at all, nor did they have the intention of besieging their exit from the southern city, but went straight south.

It made him worried.

Whenever there is a big war, it is also the norm for the two armies to attack each other's hinterland behind each other.

It is precisely like this, in addition to the county soldiers and township soldiers, there are also a large number of people in the counties and counties in the border areas of Bac Giang Prefecture, which can be said to be all soldiers, and everyone has two or three swords and spears at home, in case of emergency.

And as long as the border passes are burned and wolf-smoked, they will directly retreat to the neighboring cities.

Even if it is too late to retreat, near the village, there are often a large number of traps such as horse pits, which can be slightly resisted.

If the local government army is not summoned, it will also be dispatched with all its strength to resist and exterminate the enemy army that plunders the territory, protect the grain route, and provide assistance to the people everywhere.

But this time, so far, they have no stable logistical support, but they are not afraid that the legal army is running for food.

But because of this, the biggest goal and possibility are gone, and it is becoming more and more difficult to guess what the intention of this legal army is.

Three or five thousand people seem to be a small number compared to the size of the 200,000-strong army of the law.

But in fact, it is also a strong enemy that cannot be ignored, if they have been converging in one place and not dividing their troops, whether it is the county towns or the battalions of the Yingyang Mansion Army, it will be a great trouble.

If one of them doesn't deal with it well, they will be stirred up in the rear and set on fire everywhere.

Wang Luan also agreed: "Fortunately, the general let the Ma army out, and Ao He will know what to do." ”

Yan Lun nodded and snorted.

Although in contrast, he hoped that the wolf cavalry general Xiao Wei could lead the army to arrive quickly, but at the moment, he couldn't refute the spirit of the generals.

The legal army's offensive gradually stopped as the sun set westward, and Yan Xia was not good at military affairs, and he did not have the mind to discuss it with them, so he said:

"Later, I will take Yu'er back to Bac Ninh, and if I find and encounter them on the way, I will try to kill them, but it may not be big, you still have to deal with it as soon as possible."

Yan Xia is well aware of his personal strength, and his insignificance and powerlessness in the face of the army.

Today's majesty is also obtained under the cover of the soldiers who are fighting together beside her, and it is just a role to take the lead and defeat the opponent's momentum.

But that's all, if you fight again tomorrow, the legal army that has suffered this big loss will also be targeted.

She didn't want to risk her own life and that of her apprentices to pay for others, and throw them all here.

It's just that she doesn't have any emotion for Daqin after all, after leaving here, she will entangle the people in the Northland Secret Dao, give full play to her connections, and try her best to find out and eliminate that elite horse.

But whether it will succeed, she can't guarantee.

You can let these generals relax their hearts, but they can't really pin all their hopes on themselves.

Yan Lun took the lead and thanked him: "Thank you seniors, seniors are high-minded." ”

Wang Luan and other generals also thanked Yan Xia one after another.

They didn't know, and they didn't think that Senior Qin Yu, who had a frosty face all day long, and wanted to whip them all hard, would appear in the city today.

Thanking him at this time is not only because of Yan Xia's current words.

Although Zijin Xianning died aggrieved, his martial arts were powerful and obvious to all present.

If it weren't for Yan Xia's action to kill him neatly, it is said whether the city would be taken today, but the casualties of the soldiers and the difficulty of killing the enemy army would have to at least quadruple.

This gratitude is also sincere and heartfelt.

But Yan Xia still didn't give any truth to them, and turned around and left.

Wang Luan and the others glanced at each other, and then focused their eyes on Yan Lun, asking him to take out a charter and then how to deal with it.

Yan Lun said firmly: "Seven more beacon fires." ”

Daqin border pass, beacon fire is also a military order.

There are three beacon fires, which belong to the city, and all the generals and colonels return to the city to prepare for the war, waiting for dispatch.

There are five beacon fires, and the city belongs, regardless of the turn of leisure and rest, all the rear soldiers return to the city and fight with all their arms.

Seven beacons, the enemy army arrived, all the cities and counties in the border passes, recovered and prepared for war, and the water and land official posts along the way warned the capital.

Nine beacons, the border pass will be broken, the city will be lost, the news of Beijing, please prepare for war!

When the Zijin Xianning Forward Army approached, seven beacon fires were lit at Yanbei Pass to warn all places.

Today's repetition is not only a warning, but also an urge.