Chapter 105: Tentative Confrontation
There was a series of footsteps on the street, one by one the soldiers of Longyang County ran through the long street, on both sides of the chaotic street, the people with shocked faces were hurrying home, and the soldiers standing on the side of the street pressed the head of the sword, looking at the soldiers who fell behind the team and urged: "Go to the city tower, hurry up!" Hurry up! ”
Knock knock!
The drumbeat of war has been sounded on the west and south city gates, and the sound of fighting is faintly coming from there.
On the west city wall, a large shield is erected on the female wall, and the Longyang soldiers on the head of the city are all in uniform uniforms, wearing half of leather armor on their upper bodies, and they are looking nervously outside the city at the moment, and the black crowd is moving from several miles away, spanning three or four miles, occupying their field of vision, which is still 40,000 people.
They heard that the rebel army on the opposite side defeated 100,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, captured the Yantang Pass, which was fortified and thickened, and even the Xirong people on the grassland were defeated and built a multi-mile-long Jingguan.
Thinking of this, many people felt a chill creep up the back of their necks.
"Standing shield, deal with it calmly!" The colonels of the various sections of the city roared at the head of the city.
Wang Chengwu was the first time to command the army, and he took a fake festival to supervise the army, which was never in any dynasty or generation, and he knew that if it weren't for the lack of training of the Gyeonggi soldiers and horses, he needed to delay time, and he would not have such an opportunity even if he waited for another ten years.
But now he waited for his chance to prove himself in the first fight.
The soldiers, Simas, and captains at the head of the city were still running, constantly adjusting the position of the defense of the city section, and someone shouted: "There are cavalry under the city, stand shields!" ”
The next moment.
There was a trembling sound, and a dense wave of arrows flew up to the city, nailed to the shields and wall battlements, and there was a loud noise, and some arrows shot through the gaps in the shields and shot at people's shoulders and necks, and the wails of soldiers sounded.
The archers on the head of the city stepped forward, their shields moved out of space, and the rain of arrows also flew into the sky, pouring down towards the galloping horses outside the city.
Unfortunately, it had little effect, and when the rain of arrows fell, the horse team named the Wolf Rider of the Prefecture had already run two hundred paces away, leaving only a series of arrows stuck in the ground behind the opponent.
"Keep an eye out for this cavalry!" Wang Chengwu stood behind the shield with his personal guards, watching the distant horse team turn out of a long arc, he frowned slightly, turned his head to look at the advancing military formation, set up the formation, and did not move at all after a while.
"Why don't you move?"
He has martial arts, the realm is about four grades, his eyesight is excellent, and in his field of vision, the rebel army is densely numbered, and the formation lined up is also decent.
But there was always an atmosphere that made him uneasy.
Wang Chengwu hurriedly turned around and called the herald: "That cavalry is testing the weakness of the defense, tell the guards of each gate, only need to set up a shield and return fire with bows and arrows, and nothing else is allowed!" ”
The herald turned and ran.
Wang Chengwu didn't dare to delay for a moment, urging the generals around him to set up defenses, surrounded by soldiers running around, their faces were somewhat nervous and panicked, on the stairs on both sides of the city tower, a large number of young people in the city were carrying wood, and soldiers were holding barrels of arrows under the battlements of the wall near the city.
Just as he was thinking about which city gate the rebels would choose to attack after testing the four gates, the guards on the side suddenly spoke: "Dudu, the rebels have moved again!" ”
In an instant, the sound of dull footsteps came from the outskirts of the city, and in the distance, the rebel array began to move forward again.
"What are these rebels doing?" Wang Chengwu muttered with some doubts.
Whining!
Woooooo
The desolate horn echoed in the sky, because it was not a field battle, the military formations did not need to be lined up too far, and at a glance, it was full of dense figures, walking slowly forward, towards the huge city on the opposite side.
"Stop!"
Soon, in front of the horse formation, Li Dao raised his hand, waved the command to pass the flag, and the commanders and lieutenants of the various formations shouted orders, and the mighty military formation stopped 'booming'.
"Qi Youhu led your Qi family cavalry, ran on both wings of the big array, and monitored the city gate!"
Five hundred cavalry galloped on horseback, and the young general in iron armor shouted in a high-pitched voice, leading his cavalry around the line of two or three miles, his eyes swept over the city wall, and then fell to the city gate below the tower.
And in the direction of the entire array, the knights who gave the order were speeding in the various small arrays in the front array, and a voice sounded, roaring: "Emperor! ”
With the order, in the two 10,000-strong army formations in front, Dong Zhuo and Zhang Liao raised their hands one after another, gesticulating and giving orders, and the arrays around the two suddenly changed.
One by one, the figures stepped on heavy steps, moving left and right, freeing up the gap, and the shields and swords collided as they walked, making a slight whirrence, and the two 10,000-strong army formations quickly turned into ten battalion-level arrays, and a large number of ladders were carried in the middle of the crowd of soldiers.
The big trick is rolling.
On a huge ancestral car, Su Chen, dressed in silver armor and wearing a red cloak, sat on the big chair on the chariot, he put down the "Mengde Soldier's Book" and looked at the outline of the city wall in front of him.
"The general sent by the prince of Yan State, supervising the soldiers and horses, should be capable."
In an instant, Su Chen issued an order: "Order, Zhou Cang and Niu Gai will each lead a battalion, and they will be tempted once!" ”
Let the rider gallop out.
Soon, the drum cart was pulled from behind, and the war drums suddenly sounded, and the surging sound was deafening.
On the city wall where the drums were heard, countless figures were shaking, and the approach of the war made the faces with nervousness and panic, and the spearmen rushed behind the big shield at the command of the general, and the archers gathered in the upper, middle and lower sections of the city with quivers, each with only two hundred archers.
They tried to adjust their breathing, and the hands holding the bow were trembling slightly.
Later, beyond the city walls, the streets and alleys of the city are lined with houses, and at the beating of war drums, the pedestrians who stay in the streets run in fear, and those who stay at home close their doors and windows.
At this moment, the same thought came to the hearts of many people.
"There's a war!"
"The rebels are attacking the city!"
……
Knock Knock Knock –
In the sound of war drums, a battalion of Bingzhou and Xiliang, a total of 4,000 people, marched towards the city wall with the terrifying sound of roaring and roaring, and a large shield was connected into a piece, covering the foot soldiers and ladders walking with bows below, mixed with archers, and in the process of moving forward, they rushed out of the side of the formation from time to time, and shot arrows at the head of the city, suppressing the head of the city.
The array pushed on both sides was close to the city walls.
The arrows rained down on the shield and hit the ground, and the moment it stopped, the shield was opened, and the figures of the bow under the shield rushed out like a flood bursting the embankment, and the soldiers carrying the ladder rushed to the city wall quickly, and the arrows were still shooting down, and on the way to the charge, people kept falling.
The moment it was close to the wall, the shield wall was erected again, and dozens of people stood up by dozens of people in a battalion of cloud ladders, and dozens of people held the cloud ladders, and their bodies fell down together, and the huge pulling force directly plunged the iron hooks on the cloud ladders into the masonry and fixed them.
"And Zhou Erlang (Xiliang Erlang) kill!"
The different voices of Zhou Cang and Niu Gai let out the same scream under the two city walls, and the soldiers of Bingzhou and Xiliang with knives in their mouths climbed up like ant colonies along the ladder!
In the first wave, the tentative battle began.