Chapter 164: Then to Ma Yi
Hu Yanzhuo looked coldly at the battle at Yanmen Pass, and kept cursing the meanness of the Han people in his heart, it has been two days since the siege of the city, and the head of the city is still facing the Hutu army with 500 archers and 500 pikemen, and the two-day attack seems to have not happened.
Originally, the soldiers told that there were only less than 200 defenders in Yanmen Pass, but when he sent the soldiers to attack the city, he found that things were not so simple, and he lost nearly 3,000 Tu soldiers in two days, but the defenders on the city wall were not less, which made him somewhat bottomless.
"Send two hundred cavalrymen to release arrows under the city and suppress the archers on the city walls," Hu Yanzhuo ordered to the guards beside him.
"Marshal, if the cavalry comes forward, I'm afraid there will be casualties, or still..."
"Go and order, where did so much nonsense come from"
Hu Yanzhuo raised his horse whip and whipped it on the pro-soldier, who didn't dare to say a word when he was beaten, turned his horse, and gave an order to the cavalry behind.
Hu Yanzhuo didn't want the Huns' soldiers to die in the siege battle, but Hutu's archers couldn't get close to the city wall at all, and if the Huns didn't send troops forward, Hugh Tu's soldiers would be very angry.
In less than a moment, two hundred Hun cavalry, galloping towards the city wall, one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, stretched out the bow and arrows, with the inertia of the war horse galloped forward dozens of steps, a rain of arrows flew to the archer camp on the city wall, and suddenly dozens of people fell to the ground with arrows.
After the Hun cavalry finished shooting an arrow, they turned their horses' heads and quickly fled from the range of the archers on the city wall, and only a few unlucky children fell off their horses after being shot by arrows.
Suddenly, a rain of arrows suddenly disrupted the defense on the city wall, Hugh Tu took this opportunity to climb up, and suddenly one or two hundred people climbed the city wall, and the pikemen on the city wall appeared chaotic for a while, and the casualties also increased, but fortunately, two hundred three-star pikemen hid on the stairs behind them quickly killed and stabilized the situation.
Fan Chong looked at the Hun soldiers in the distance, showing a sneer, he saw the cavalry rushing just now, naturally knew the plans of the Hun generals, the reason why they did not arrange in advance, but in order not to startle the snake, the Huns tasted the sweetness, and naturally used it again.
Sure enough, as Fan Chong expected, in less than half an hour, two hundred Hun cavalry killed again, the archers had already prepared, facing a rain of arrows to shoot first, two rain of arrows met in the air, this time the Huns had a lot of unlucky ghosts, at least fifty or sixty people fell to the ground with arrows, and the archers on the city wall were only a dozen soldiers were wounded by bows and arrows because of the cover of sword and shield soldiers.
From the morning to noon, the Huns suffered a small loss, and did not send the Hun cavalry to harass with arrows, and the offensive of the Hugh butchers suddenly increased a lot, as if they did not want to die, Fan Chong also hurriedly sent two hundred and one star pikemen to the city to guard, but the two hundred and three star pikemen on the stairs were not sent up just in case.
At this moment, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a team of Huns rode horses and rushed over, there were five or six hundred people, still the original recipe, or the original taste. The sword and shield men of the city wall had set their wooden shields above the heads of the archers, and the archers had drawn their bows and aimed their arrows at the cavalry below the walls.
Two rains of arrows flew out, but they passed by and shot towards the camp of the pikemen, and suddenly brought a burst of blood. The pikemen fell to the ground with arrows. Even the Hugh Tu people who fought fiercely on the city walls became the ghosts of the arrows.
In a burst of attack, at least two hundred pikemen fell to the ground. There were at least a hundred people who slaughtered him.
Fan Chong felt distressed when he saw it, he didn't expect this Hun general to be so ruthless, and there were Hugh slaughterers on it, and he didn't care about it at all. Most of these soldiers have been sharpened, and most of them have been promoted to two stars, and after a day of fighting, half of them can be promoted to three stars.
The Hun cavalry also paid the price, and at least more than a hundred people fell off their horses. Trampled into a pulp by the horses that followed.
The ensuing offensive intensified. Thick corpses have been piled up under the city wall, and the entire west city wall of Yanmen has been stained red with blood, and the blood under the city wall is like a river, and it is difficult to penetrate into the soil for a while, forming a large and small blood pit, as if it is purgatory on earth.
It wasn't until the sky was completely dark that the Huns slowly retreated.
Looking at the enemy troops in the distance, Fan Chong's heart couldn't help but become heavy. The casualties have been counted, the casualties of the defenders of Yanmen Pass have exceeded 1,000, and the casualties of the Hugh Tu people today are at least more than 1,500 people, and the Huns have also suffered nearly 300 casualties.
Although the casualties of the Hugh slaughter were more than those of the Han army, the number of Hugh slaughter was large. There are still 8,000 Hun soldiers watching from the side, and now the defenders of Yanmen Pass are less than 6,000, but fortunately, the elites are all there, so Fan Chong's heart is a little more steady.
At dawn the next day, the horn of the Huns attack had been sounded, and fierce fighting broke out again, to Huyanzhuo's madness, the defenders on the city wall were still 500 pikemen, 500 archers, and neatly dressed. Even the corpses under the walls were swept away, and not even a single arrow could be found, as if yesterday's fierce battle had never happened.
Fan Chong just didn't want the Hun generals to see the reality of Yanmen Pass, and different soldiers were guarding the city every day, which would give the enemy an illusion, as if the defenders of Yanmen Pass were endless and bottomless.
In the middle, the Hun cavalry ran a few times to release arrows, but fortunately, the pikemen were prepared and tried to find a place to hide, but the Huns were very cunning, sometimes shooting archers, sometimes shooting pikemen, so that Fan Chong couldn't help frowning. He misses Chu Yu a little now, if Chu Yu is here, the range of these archers can be increased by twenty steps, so that the three-star archers can shoot two rounds of arrows.
The siege lasted another three days, and many of the defenders on the walls were wounded and rotated. The changes on the city wall naturally can't escape Hu Yanzhuo's eyes.
"It's just a small skill of carving insects, in the face of strength, it is vulnerable"
Hu Yanzhuo snorted coldly and ordered the soldiers to continue the siege.
"Kill a Han sergeant, reward a cow, climb the city wall and reward a sheep"
Hu Yanzhuo's voice was very loud, and it spread throughout the battlefield, and Hugh Tu people heard it. The offense is sharper. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards.
The city walls were very dangerous, and he almost missed several times.
Now there are only more than 3,000 defenders on the city wall, and the two basically have no one-star soldiers, Fan Chong wants to re-recruit some one-star archers, but he does not have the authority of Yanmen Pass, so he can only wait for Wang Gang to come and make plans.
An army is mighty and has once again come to a fork in the road. Not far away is a county seat, although the sky has darkened, but the two big characters above the city gate are particularly eye-catching.
Mayi
This is the first time Wang Gang came to this world and looked up to see it. For Wang Gang, as in the place where he was born, the army followed another road to Yanmen Pass, while Wang Gang stood at the intersection, looking at the walls of Mayi from afar, before leaving for a long time.