Chapter 207: Battle (Fourth Round)
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The king died, and Thang Long changed his life.
This accident was expected, but Li Junren, the king of Renxian, took the lead in this accident.
Today's Li Junren has the support of hundreds of officials in his name, is loved by the people, and has the edict of succession and the king's golden seal in his hand, which can be said to be justified. In terms of strength, Li Junren entered the Thang Long Mansion first, and he could completely defend the city and wait for work. At the same time, he also held one of the strongest horsemen in the country of Annam, the Thang Long Army, and he himself also placed 20,000 private troops outside the city.
You must know that Annan is not like the Ming Dynasty, you are embarrassed to say that you have a heavy army without 100,000 horses in the war. 20,000 soldiers and horses is already a force to be reckoned with in Annam.
At this moment, hearing that Li Zhiba was leading a large army to the city, although Li Junren frowned, he did not feel worried at all.
He just felt that Li was difficult to deal with and a figure that had to be eliminated, but he was not worried that he would affect his ascension to the throne.
Things have been carefully arranged until now, and Li Junren's plans have been realized one by one, and in his opinion, no one can stop him.
Li Junren walked to the tower of Shenglong Mansion accompanied by a group of guards, he looked condescendingly, Li Zhiba, who happened to be wearing a suit of armor, was riding a war horse in front of his soldiers and horses, Li Zhiba raised his head and shouted loudly to Li Junren: "Dog, let's just say that the little white face doesn't have a good thing, what do you mean by closing the city gate? If you don't open the city gate quickly, the widow wants to enter the city!"
"Widow?" Li Junren smiled and said, "The widow is the one who succeeds to the throne, and you call yourself a 'widow' but you want to rebel?"
"Let your mother's stinky fart, the widow is a righteous king, and you say that you are the rebel and thief who wants to rebel. Li Zhengba shouted.
"Justification?" Li Junren smiled, he took out his edict and the king's golden seal from his bosom and said: "This is the edict written by the new king to the widow, this is the king's golden seal, who do you say is the rightful king?"
"Edict of succession?" Li Zhiba raised his head and laughed, he also took out a piece of paper from his armor and said: "What a coincidence, the widow also has a copy of the edict of succession, hahaha"
Li Zhengba shook the edict, and then said: "By the way, this edict also states that there is a little bastard named Li Junren who entered the palace with swords, forcibly coerced the new king to write an edict of succession, and forcibly robbed the king's golden seal. Such a chaotic minister and thief, everyone will be punished!"
Li Junren's original expression suddenly became cold, he didn't expect Jiang Xia to write two edicts in advance. In this way, the edict of succession and the golden seal of the king that he had to find Jiang Xia in advance in Shenglong Mansion were useless, because the edict of succession that Jiang Xia handed to Li Zhiba had already determined that he Li Junren was a rebellious minister and thief who was plotting to usurp the throne.
Li Junren said coldly: "Okay, don't talk nonsense, if you want to enter the city, show your skills." ”
"What? Lao Tzu wants to enter the city, do you think you can stop me?" Li Zhiba said arrogantly, he raised his right hand, and all the soldiers and horses behind him began to retreat.
The soldiers on the tower immediately began to draw arrows, as long as Li dominated them and dared to rush into the range of arrows, they would be met by a rain of arrows.
Li Zhiba snorted coldly and rode back to the Chinese army. I saw the flag waving, and the cavalry that was originally in the front line went around the back from both sides, and the formation gradually evolved, and now the first and second rows were iron shield soldiers holding shields nearly two meters high, and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth rows were archers with strong crossbows.
The shield bearers raise their shields with skill, with the first row of shields raising their shields and the second row raising their shields. In this way, the archers behind them can basically receive the greatest protection. The soldiers behind the archers don't have to worry at all, because behind the archers are the shield spearmen. The round iron shield only needs to be half-crouched to protect most of the body, and the chance of being hit by an arrow is very small.
Judging from the arrangement of the battle formation alone, it is not difficult to see that Li Zhiba is a person who is good at marching and fighting, and the soldiers and horses under his command do live up to the name of elite soldiers.
The war drums of the attack sounded, and the army under Li Zhiba approached the city tower step by step. The soldiers on the castle tower also drew their bowstrings, and the sound of the bowstrings pulling seemed to stimulate the mood of all the soldiers on both sides of the war, and a rough and sharp gasp sounded in the air.
In order to maintain the formation, the soldiers on the besieging side would not go too fast, and everyone was waiting, waiting for the sentence of their own generals to "release arrows".
Finally, Li Zhiba's army entered the attack range of the opponent's arrows, and the vanguard troops had basically completely entered the attack range, and after the city tower and the city tower almost simultaneously shouted: "Release the arrows!"
Whoosh whoosh
Each side released the bowstring in their hands, and the arrow shot upwards into the sky, arcing in the air and falling straight down.
The arrow receives a power bonus from the fall, and the fall is more violent.
The soldiers on both sides couldn't dodge in the face of the rain of arrows, and basically could only silently recite the blessing of the Jade Emperor, hoping that the arrows would take a detour when they encountered them.
The soldiers on the castle tower used the battlements as cover, and although they could block most of the arrows, once they were hit by the arrows, they would be nailed to the ground and die a painful death.
Not to mention the soldiers under the city tower, who were already standing in a good position and shot arrows with stronger power.
Although they are holding shields, many people are actually knocked backwards or directly by the arrows when they fall. If a person falls, or there is a leak, the soldier is shot into a hornet's nest as if he were the prey of an arrow.
On the premise of sacrificing human lives, Li dominated's army advanced smoothly.
Li Junren, who had already gone down the city tower, went up to watch the battle on the gate tower behind the city tower, and was also a little breathless, after all, it was Li Zhiba who was a well-known fierce general in Annan, and Li Junren was also a little stunned when he faced him.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Li Junren ordered the guards beside him: "Immediately signal and let the soldiers and horses outside the city come to support." ”
"Yes!" the guard ordered to leave.
At this moment, Li Zhiba under the city tower has advanced to a certain distance, and several rounds of mutual fire on both sides have basically shot arrows into the air.
The formation of his soldiers and horses changed again, and the archers and iron shield soldiers in front of him dodged away, and the huge breaking mallets carried by more than forty soldiers rushed directly to the city gate.
The guard on the tower of the castle was startled when he saw it, and he cried out, "Stop them, stop them." Let those who are by the gates go and hold the gates!"
At this moment, there was not a single pedestrian on the street not far from the city gate, but now there were seven people walking. Take a closer look, isn't this just Jiang Xia and the others who just escaped?
Jiang Xia looked at the soldiers at the city gate and smiled slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Brothers, it's time for us to play!"
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