Thundered......

The sky seemed to explode with endless thunder, and when thousands of fleeing civilians were less than a thousand meters away from the city wall, the cavalry of the Xia army appeared.

They were divided into more than a dozen parts, gathered from different directions, and they were all light cavalry with one man and two horses, and they were spread out so much that they seemed to be all over the mountains.

Before this, they were all driving the people slowly, deliberately giving them enough time to come to the city of Dengzhou, until this moment they accelerated to gallop, just to create this kind of powerful thunderstorm momentum to increase the psychological pressure on the fleeing people and the officers and soldiers in the city.

The people mustered up the last bit of strength in their bodies, and ran to the city with a cry, shouting hoarsely, begging the officers and men to open the city gate and let them in.

Thousands of lives were about to dissipate under the butcher's knife and arrows, but none of the defenders on the city walls dared to ask the prefect to order the city gate to be opened.

The reason is very simple, everyone understands that this is a conspiracy of the enemy army, and if it is to save these thousands of people, it is equivalent to pushing more than 200,000 residents of the city into the fire pit.

All the officials, including Governor Chen, Deng Hai and Zheng Xiuying, could only stand stupidly on the city wall, staring at the people below with grief, and no one had any good way to think of it, but to watch them lose their lives soon after.

"This world is too small, and it still can't accommodate so many living beings."

Deng Hai sighed: "Lord Chen, if we can keep the city from losing, even if we have done our duty, you don't have to blame yourself." ”

Deng Hai was worried that Governor Chen, as a civilian official, could not truly understand the cruelty of war, and if he made some kind of wrong decision out of the kindness of a woman, it would be a complete defeat, and no one would be spared.

On the battlefield, what we are most afraid of is the blind command of civilian officials who do not understand military affairs, and this kind of mistake must be avoided as much as possible

Governor Chen's body trembled, he didn't say a word, he was already speechless, don't look at him as an official for more than 20 years, but it was the first time he faced the war, and he really didn't know what he should do.

He felt that he could not bear it, and if he saw the bloody images of so many people being slaughtered, he feared that he would collapse to the ground.

These are all the people under their own rule, how can they know this with peace of mind in the future, they really shouldn't have been transferred to Dengzhou City in the first place, and it is better to serve as a general judge in any city government far from the border, than in today's situation.

The position of general judge is the second-in-command of a city government, and he has been in this position for many years, and he has not been able to advance, so he cleared the way and came to Dengzhou City on the border line to serve as the prefect. I also wanted to make some political achievements in a down-to-earth manner, so that I could hope to be transferred to the capital to continue to advance, but I didn't want to encounter this situation in Dengzhou City, which had not been in war for decades, and it was only the third year since I came here......

By this time, hundreds of enemy cavalry had approached 200 meters, and they drew their bows on their horses and threw them, of course, targeting the fallen people in the city.

Hundreds of arrows, when they rose high into the air and then fell, looked a little sparse, but because the people were too densely packed together by the moat, there were still many sharp arrows that got into the fragile flesh.

"Ahh

The people were only wearing thin cloth clothes, without any protective measures, although there were not many people who were shot directly, but there were dozens of people who screamed and lay on the ground, and many more people screamed and pushed each other, crowded each other, poof, poof, and then more than a dozen people were squeezed into the moat, and the people who were not good at water struggled for a few times before being dragged down to the bottom by others who had lost their minds......

Governor Chen couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he could only wave his arms and shout: "Shoot them, shoot them quickly."

There are several bed crossbows on the city wall, which can attack hundreds of meters away, and the officers and soldiers also have light crossbows in their hands, which are also slightly smaller in their hands, and they can shoot farther than ordinary bows and arrows. However, the enemy cavalry would not approach at all, and only ran quickly at a distance of 200 meters, and the formation was quite scattered, in this case, even if the crossbow arrows were fired, it would not have any effect.

But even so, he couldn't watch and do nothing, Deng Hai still ordered the arrow to be released, humming ...... The bowstrings on the walls shook, and dozens of powerful crossbow arrows flew towards the enemy.

"Wooha"

The enemy cavalry wielded sabers or longbows, shouted and galloped at great speed, and relied on fast movement to dodge the crossbow arrows, and did not even bother to do the stunts that were dodging immediately.

Dozens of crossbow arrows only shot two people off the horse, one of them was purely a factor of luck, and the other was the result created by the deputy general Zheng Xiuying holding a strong crossbow.

Therefore, the soldiers of the regular army are all elite people selected from the local garrison army, all of them practice martial arts, practice every day, and everyone wears armor, even if it is a light cavalry, the iron-clad armor on the body is more than 30 catties, which can effectively protect the vital parts everywhere.

Therefore, it is really quite difficult to shoot them from such a distance.

"Go on, go on, get them away"

Governor Chen's face turned red, and he was still jumping to his feet and shouting, although he didn't understand military affairs, but as a civilian official, he was still a little bloody.

"My lord, it doesn't make much sense. ”

Deng Hai grabbed him and whispered to dissuade: "The number of arrows is limited, and they should be reserved for use at critical moments, and they can't be wasted." ”

"Isn't it critical now?"

The blood vessels between Governor Chen's head and neck swelled, and he shouted hoarsely: "So many people are down there, no matter what, you have to make them pay."

Deng Hai shook his head silently, and said secretly in his heart: How do you know Lu Dao, what I am worried about is not these two thousand cavalry, but tens of thousands of troops that may be killed

Horses are precious, and two thousand cavalry is almost all the cavalry in a regular legion, and the Xia army has invested so much effort that it is impossible not to have overall planning and follow-up measures.

Deng Hai originally had a trace of luck, hoping that the two thousand cavalry would just be a false alarm, and there would not be such a large scale, but now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he basically believes that if the regular army of the Song Dynasty cannot be rescued, Dengzhou City will be in danger.

"Send someone to ask for help, and someone from the capital and Jin'an City will have to go."

Deng Hai gave an order to one of his own soldiers.

The soldiers took the order and left, Zheng Xiuying approached and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Qian, do you want me to go to ask for help in person?"

The Zheng family in the capital still has some influence in the court.

Deng Hai thought for a moment and replied: "If you want to go, you can only leave at night, the small elite of the enemy army must have blocked all the main roads." ”

Dengzhou City's defensive strength was already seriously insufficient, and if Zheng Xiuying went to the capital to ask for help, Deng Hai would not be able to escort her again. As a martial artist, she is alone at night, so the safety factor will be greater.

Zheng Xiuying nodded in response.

All in all, the thousands of people outside the city can only be hard-hearted and give up, there is no possibility of saving, anyway, the defending officers and soldiers of Dengzhou City have no way to think about it, at most it means shooting a few crossbow arrows.

At this moment, hundreds of enemy cavalry are rushing diagonally, and the distance is close to 200 meters, they will still throw arrows, continue to shoot and kill the people outside the city, and if they shoot an arrow, they will immediately retreat, and will not give the defending side a chance to carry out an effective counterattack with a strong crossbow.

Governor Chen had completely comprehended the cunning and cruelty of the enemy, and he couldn't bear to look at it, so he stomped heavily on his right foot, and planned to retreat from the city wall, covering his eyes like an ostrich

But at this moment, a rather different roar was faintly heard in the distance, and the movement was not very loud, but it was extremely low.

Boom Boom Boom ......

It was as if there were countless hammers slamming into the ground.

"It's ......"

Deng Hai's complexion changed greatly, and he immediately raised his feet to look east, although he hadn't seen anything yet, he whispered in his mouth: "Iron armor heavy cavalry, how can there be iron armored heavy cavalry......

The ironclad heavy cavalry was the most depleting to horses, and each of the three countries could only afford a small number of heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry of the Song Dynasty was only five hundred horses, and Deng Hai was fortunate enough to hear the sound of the heavy cavalry trampling the earth, which was the feeling at this moment.

"However, heavy cavalry has always been the most valuable type of troops, and it can't be used easily, how could it come to such a remote place as Dengzhou City?"

Deng Hai believes that neither his country nor the Xia country will be willing to use heavy cavalry for long-distance raids and put it into a war zone as remote as Dengzhou City that has little military significance.

Thundered......

The dull sound of running thunder seemed to have suddenly increased dozens of times, indicating that the speed of this cavalry's attack was quite fast, even beyond imagination.

"How is that possible?"

Deng Hai was stunned, and watched as a metallic color reflecting a deep luster spread rapidly in his field of vision, and in the blink of an eye, it changed from a vague copper wire to an extremely clear team.

A low dark bronze color, the men and horses were all dressed in heavy armor, but they ran like lightning, and they were much faster than the light cavalry.

No

Not only light riding, but even a mad mustang without even a saddle on its back, did not have such exaggerated speed

Thundered......

This heavy cavalry was arranged in a triangular formation, with a sharp cone in front, but the leader was not wearing armor, the horse body was pitch black, but the neck and the back of the horse's hips seemed to be burning with red flames, and the knight on the horse was only wearing a black samurai uniform, not a piece of metal armor.

Under his leadership, hundreds of cavalry swept in like an unstoppable metal wave, and launched a surprise attack on the 2,000 cavalry of the Xia army at an unbelievable speed.

The garrison officers and soldiers on the city wall condescended to see clearly, they were all stunned, and on the plain below the city, the cavalry of the Xia army was even more stunned and had no time to react, and they didn't even know where this team of ironclad heavy cavalry jumped out of Lu Dao.

Thundered......

The earth trembled, and it seemed that under that piece of iron hooves, hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers would be trampled to pieces.

The Xia cavalry only felt that a torrent of steel was flying in front of them, and before they could figure out what was going on, they rushed closer.

Even if someone has an idea in their head, they are surprised: how can they be so fast, are they wearing paper shells smeared with copper powder?

Sou

More than a hundred meters away, when the two teams were about to collide head-on, Luo Chong pulled his bow and shot arrows, and a black line flew towards the figure wearing silver armor in the enemy formation at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

That guy was brightly armoured and wore a dark red cloak, and his majestic appearance looked like the top general in this team.

Capture the thief first and capture the king, and if he is finished, this cavalry group will have no leader, and its reaction ability will plummet several times, and the soldiers will inevitably panic.