Chapter 245: Besieging the Vanguard Camp
As Nangong Fu said to everyone, the camp is surrounded by deer and horses that are specially designed to deal with the cavalry of the captives attacking the camp, and there are three layers in front and back, so that the captives will never be able to directly impact the camp. The inner fence is about two feet high, and the outer layer is tied with an iron shield, which is simply a wall, even if the cavalry tries to break through the barrier of the deer and the horse, they will definitely be stopped by this fortification!
The wall is like the city wall, and there is a high platform for people to stand on, and the height is just above the upper body. At the front is a row of sword and shield soldiers, with swords in their right hands and tower shields in their left hands, closely protecting their compatriots behind them. There was a spear in the gap between the two shields, which was a row of spear guards behind the sword and shield soldiers, and the third row behind them were archers, each of whom had two full quivers, and there were other sergeants behind them who were ready to fill the vacancy, which was ready for a fierce battle!
There are eight towering large arrow towers in eight directions within the wall, about ten feet above the ground. Each tower is divided into three floors, full of shooting holes, and can accommodate twenty to thirty people, half archers and half crossbow archers.
There are also more than a dozen small arrow towers scattered between each large arrow tower, although they are only about five zhang high, but they can also accommodate a team of five to eight archers, which is enough to inflict a covering arrow rain attack on the nearby enemies outside the wall.
Further down the arrow tower is the phalanx of longbowmen of the Susu Army, once an enemy is within attack range, the archers on the arrow tower will give a signal, and these people will use a dense rain of arrows to carry out indiscriminate covering attacks on the enemy!
The people of the Central Plains are not good at fighting on the plains, but they have a rich set of strategies for holding the city, whether it is the archers, sword and shield soldiers, pikemen standing on the wall, or the orderly archer phalanx behind them, they are specially designed to deal with the impact of the captive cavalry.
Even if the number of captives is several times that of the Nangong family's Su army, and there is such a tight fortification and personnel arrangement, the Nangong family is not afraid to fight the wolf king!
By the time Nangong Fu and everyone quietly touched the rear of the Wolf King's army formation, the battle had already begun.
The shouts of killing on the ground shook the earth, and thousands of heavily armored cavalry archers charged forward. They were heavily armed from horses to individuals, and even the heads of the horses were heavily helmeted, leaving only a dent in their armor when the arrows were fired. Unless the arrows are fired from a powerful crossbow within a hundred paces and are concentrated head-on, or the arrows are fired through gaps in the armor, they and the horses under them will not be harmed at all
In the vanguard of these heavily armored archers, they were followed by thousands of ordinary captives, all armed with bows. The war horses under the crotch neighed, and the sound of the horses' hooves was like thunder, piercing the clouds and cracking stones, they did not directly impact the camp, but divided into three echelons around the camp and began to circle around, the arrows were already on the strings, ready to shoot at any time!
Behind them are a matrix of infantry and archers ready to go, all to cover their advance!
The Su army did not panic, and the crossbowmen on the arrow tower and the arrow tower responded calmly. The attack distance of the captive war bow is about 120 steps, and the speed of the war horse can range from 150 to 180 steps, and the attack distance of the crossbow arrow starts at 200 steps!
However, due to the low firing frequency of the crossbow itself, it is a group of two, one of whom is responsible for winding and the other is responsible for shooting. The interval between their attacks will be made up by the archers around them.
I saw that before those heavy armored cavalry rushed within their attack distance, dozens of people in the first row were immediately killed by crossbow arrows, even if they were wearing special fine steel armor, they couldn't withstand the frontal attack of the crossbow!
This is not the end of it! Immediately after the attack of the crossbow, pieces of arrows rained down from the sky! The heavy cavalry was fine, and the damage was limited, but those light cavalry who followed closely behind immediately turned on their backs, and as long as they were within the coverage of the rain of arrows, no amount of protection could save their lives!
However, after this round of attacks, the cavalry also approached their attack range, and one by one began to shoot at the camp with bows and arrows on horseback~, and the Su army was immediately damaged!
They aim specifically at the archers on the wall, and as soon as the archers of the Susu army are ready to attack, they will shoot at the moment when the tower shield opens, and the sharp arrows will pass through the slightly open gap between the tower shields, and they will shoot the spearmen or archers behind them!
This was especially evident when the cavalry archers rushed within a hundred and fifty paces of the wall. The offensive of the archers of the Susu Army on the wall was suppressed by nearly half compared to before, and although they were still attacking, they were far less than before. Fortunately, however, the attacks on the turrets and towers were not greatly affected, as the archers took advantage of their superiority and began to shoot at the enemies who rushed closer, while the crossbowmen aimed at the captive archers who were cruising and shooting in the distance.
However, the cavalry and archery skills of the captives were really good, and I saw them leaping back and forth on horseback, adjusting their distance from time to time to avoid the arrows that were being shot, and they were all scattered, so that the speed of their attrition was always within an acceptable range. On the other hand, the Su army on the wall has been significantly damaged.
The corners of the mouth of an old man wearing a felt hat and two goatees flashed on the golden canopy carriage, it was the wolf king himself! The whole yellow tiger skin was laid on his seat from top to bottom, and the tiger's head was trampled under his feet, and there were three arrow holes in his forehead, which he shot at the age of fifty-three during a hunting tour, and even directly shook the Khan of Yutian at that time!
On his seat lay a mask, its fangs shining silver, and a silver horn on the left and right of his forehead, like a crescent!
Unicorn Charm!
The wolf king rubbed the mountain ghost mask in his hand, and looked at the Nangong family's pioneer camp in the distance, his eyes were full of forest. With a slight lift of his right hand, the three people who had been following the golden canopy carriage immediately jumped off their horses and knelt down on one knee in front of the carriage.
Most of the captive warriors are wearing soft fur dashi, firstly, to facilitate their movements, after all, it will be very inconvenient to wear iron armor and open a bow and arrows, and secondly, because the northern region lacks the technology and mineral resources to smelt iron, so most of the captive warriors basically have no decent iron tools except for the scimitar they carry, let alone iron armor.
All three of them were dressed differently, but two of them were wearing fur armor rarely seen in the North, with a cold, silvery-white sheen that glistened in the sunlight, indicating that they had a status that was very different from ordinary captive warriors.
"Yelu Hefeng, you take a thousand men to attack from the west, remember not to fight, just fight. The wolf king's voice was calm and cold, and his eyes narrowed slightly to reveal a hint of danger, which was really like a wolf.
Yelu Hefeng was a strong man with a beard, his muscles were as strong as iron, and he had a scar on his head, which went straight from his head to the right side of his face, almost cutting his head in half! He smiled slightly, and the whole scar twisted up on his face like a snake, making his smile extremely strange.
"Wanyan Luda, you can take a thousand men to attack from the east and hold back. ”
"Yes. "Wanyan Luda is a lean young man, he seems to be the youngest of the three, and he is not as strong as the other two, but his arms are quite long, and his right index finger has a thread-like wrench, and there is a deep furrow on it, which seems to be made by long-term drawing. The longbow on his back is quite huge, and if you look closely, it is actually an iron-tired bow! And the bowstring on it is made of two bowstrings, plus the iron-tired bow itself, the power is doubled!
Two of the three generals under his command came at this moment, so that the wolf king had absolute confidence in taking the vanguard camp of the Susu Army. As long as it proceeds step by step, the entire Yunzhou will be completely under the control of the captive, and there will be no need to worry about the threat from the extreme north of the Northern Region!
Thinking of this, the wolf king's eyebrows gradually stretched.
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