Chapter 239: Close the Wall
Albus's men descended the mountain to respond to their orders, and began to gallop in formation, and when they were in range, they threw the arrows in their hands directly and withdrew towards the gate.
After an arrow was fired, the Ordos elite cavalry didn't look at it, and directly circled the horse back, took out the arrow and wound it as it ran, and then ran in a circle, throwing the arrow again as before.
This Albus had 10,000 men under his command, so he divided them into 10,000 troops, and so on, constantly throwing arrows at the gate! This is the Mongol method of running and shooting, with the help of the impact of horses, throwing arrows, in this way, but also not afraid of the high wall of the defenders, the arrows thrown out, also seven or eight times out of ten, are thrown on the wall.
The defenders at the gate also learned about Ordos's tactics for a long time! Seeing the dense rain of arrows shooting down, they found the wall battlements to dodge, and on the other hand, they fired back with strong bows and crossbows in the shooting holes. The two sides directly used this bow and arrows to start the prelude to the war.
The Ordos people have a lot of people, a lot of arrows, and good tactics, but they are always pressing the Ming army on the wall. Although the Ming army has high walls to help and commanders like Dingguo Gong here, for a while, they can only be helplessly suppressed and miserable.
In this way, at least three or five hundred people of the Ming army were killed by arrows, and five or six hundred people were wounded, so they could only go to the rear to rest.
Seeing that the counterattack against Guan was getting weaker and weaker, Albus sent a horn to the other nobles to take action. These nobles had already agreed with Albus, and when they saw Albus's order, they directly sent 5,000 cavalry under their command to run towards the wall.
The Great Wall is generally built on top of the lofty mountains, although under the high mountains, there are plains, but if you want to attack the Great Wall, you must climb the steep mountains, and you can't attack it on horseback anyway!
After the 5,000 Ordos cavalry rode their horses to the bottom of the mountain, they immediately abandoned their horses, took out ropes and scratched and other climbing objects, and began to climb the steep mountain wall.
Dingguo Gong has been at war with the Ordos for more than a month, but he is also well aware of the Ordos' attack methods, and when he saw the Ordos people starting to climb the wall, he did not order an attack.
It was only when Ordos was halfway through that he ordered the defenders to smash down the rolling stones, sassal wood, gold juice and boiling oil and other sharp weapons to defend the city.
It was not the first time that those Ordos people had attacked the city like this, but they were all scattered.
But it was inevitable that he was hit by the rolling stone and wood, splashed with gold juice and boiling oil, and fell down the mountain with a miserable howl.
However, when the Ming army showed its head and threw these sharp weapons to defend the city, it would also be immediately taken care of by the Ordos rushing array.
Often just show your head and leave what you have in your hand, you will be shot by a few arrows and die directly on the wall.
It's just that the Ming army is also bloody, watching their comrades die, but they are still under the order of Dingguo Gong, regardless of the things that defend the city, they have killed 5,000 Ordos people.
The two armies clashed like this, and fought for another half an hour, but people were killed at every moment!
Originally, the siege army of 5,000 Ordos has only more than 3,000 people left, and the other 2,000 have fallen off the cliff and are shattered!
However, the Ming army paid more than 300 dead and more than 700 wounded.
In less than an hour after the start of the war, the combat strength of the Ming army dropped by as much as two percent.
Looking at the black cloud-like Ordos army outside, Wei Bin couldn't help but open his mouth to light the beacon fire and ask for reinforcements.
Dingguo Gong directly refuted it, and then said: "Unless they can be made to attack the city with all their might!
Wei Bin's face turned blue and white when he heard this, and he was obviously extremely annoyed!
It's just that this time it is Dingguo Gong as the commander, although he is the supervising army, but he has not been able to achieve authority above Dingguo Gong, so he can only swallow his anger and continue to watch this offensive and defensive battle.
When the Ordos nobles saw that their 5,000 men and horses had lost 2,000 in battle, they sent someone to inform Albus and ordered him to command men to attack the city.
Albus heard the decision of the great nobles, but he was indignant in his heart, but he had to follow it.
After all, although he is also a nobleman, among the six nobles who came with him, his power is only medium.
These six nobles were advised by him to attack the nest, so it is also appropriate for him to send troops.
It's just that Albus knows that he can't let his subordinates be under this wall, the damage is too great, otherwise he is afraid that his position will not be guaranteed. But the collegial agreement of several nobles could not but be followed.
When he was in a dilemma, Albus saw Asig beside him at a glance, and immediately thought about it, and said directly to Ashige: "Ahige, you quickly take your headquarters and go to cooperate with our Ordos army to attack the city!"
It suddenly occurred to Albus that Ashig had brought 5,000 men and horses to join him.
Now is the time to employ people, as long as the two thousand people of Ahig are sent, those nobles will not say anything about themselves.
Ashige was stunned when he heard this, and then he didn't feel the anger of departure!
He led the crowd to join Albus, but he didn't come to be his Albus's cannon fodder lackey!
But now it is on the battlefield, if you don't listen to Albus, I'm afraid that these tens of thousands of Ordos elite horsemen will directly kill themselves and others on the spot.
Thinking of this, Ashig couldn't help but regret it, why bother to take refuge in this Albus!
But there was no room for regret, and Ashig had no choice but to take the order and come to his subordinates.
At this time, there were only three people who followed Ashig to vote for Albus, the Six Heavenly Kings Ilede, the Heavenly Spider Hall Master Lai Yunpeng, and the Heavenly Day Hall Zhuhang!
Among them, Zhang Hang is not very old, and he is a disciple of Sikong Xuan.
He was originally the same as Min Guoyuan and Lai Yunpeng, both of whom were from the Great Heavenly King faction.
But the Great Heavenly King was destroyed, and they had no choice but to vote for Ashig.
However, several other masters under Ahige's command, Min Guoyuan, the master of the Tianfeng Hall, fled directly on the battlefield and now has no whereabouts.
After the Eight Heavenly King Wu Zhengfang was left behind by Ashige, he is now dead in the hands of Ren Bufan.
Therefore, when Ashige brought Albus's order, Zhang Hang directly objected: "Lord Ahige, the brothers follow you, but they just want to find a way to live, not to die! If you listen to Ordos and attack the wall, I am afraid that half of the only 5,000 brothers here will survive in the end!"
"Lord Ashige doesn't want to, Brother Zhang!" "Ilede is the Six Heavenly King, and his status was originally higher than Zhang Hang, but if today's Wang faction has become a cloud of smoke, Elode has no Heavenly King's shelf, so he can only say with a pleasant face, "If we disobey the order before the battle, we are afraid that the sharp arrows of Ordos will be shot on our heads soon?"
"Then can we only obey the orders of the Ordos people and attack the Great Wall?" Lai Yunpeng, who asked the question, was more than fifty years old, and was the first batch of old men who followed the Great Heavenly King back then.
"Besides, there is no other way!" Ahig also regretted it, but now there is no remedy, his strength is not as good as others, so he can only obey orders, he said at the moment, "A few of us have good martial arts, and there are not many Ming troops on the wall, and when the time comes, a few of us will take the lead in rushing up, maybe we can stand in a place." Then the brothers will be able to conquer this place if they go on again! In this way, we can be regarded as having made a great contribution, and when the time comes, Ordos will always leave us a mouthful of soup to drink! In this way, we will have a chance to turn over!"
"What Lord Ashig said is true! brothers, let's fight!" Elode was the most loyal to Ashige, and at this time, he couldn't help but open his mouth to persuade Zhang Hang and Lai Yunpeng for Ashige.
"That's it, that's it, that's it, that's all!" Zhang Hang had to wave his hand, signaling his agreement with Ashig's decision.
Lai Yunpeng saw that Zhang Hang agreed, but he didn't say anything more.
Seeing that the few remaining masters under his command had agreed, Ashig breathed a sigh of relief, and when he summoned the last two thousand subordinates, together with several masters, he rushed towards the wall of the Great Wall.
Dingguo Gong, who was on the wall, saw that there were 5,000 men and horses, and he didn't pay attention to it, and still didn't send anyone to light the beacon fire, but he didn't hurry up and arrange the defense.
Obviously, in his heart, these 5,000 people can only do nothing, and they must still be blocked by themselves under this wall.
In just a moment, Asig and the others came to the wall.
The four masters blended into their subordinates together, and scattered together to climb up.
In order to paralyze the Ming army, these four people did not use any superior martial arts to climb up, but slowly went up with their subordinates.
When he saw the rolling wood and stones smashing in, he made a light effort and avoided it directly.
On this battlefield, there was great chaos, and Dingguo Gong naturally didn't notice the strangeness of these four people.
In this way, these four people slowly climbed up with the disciples of the Heavenly King Sect, and although two or three hundred brothers were killed or wounded, they still climbed up firmly and slowly.
When he was only twenty steps away from the wall, Dingguo Gong finally reacted, found that there was something wrong with this group of people, and immediately ordered people to attack this group of people with all their strength to prevent this group of people from coming up.
But this distance, for the four masters of Ashig, is just a matter of indulgence.
Seeing that they could no longer hide their tracks, the four of them immediately jumped and directly pushed away the arrows, rolling stones and wood, etc., and jumped to the wall in an instant.
When the Ming army on the wall saw the enemy suddenly jumping up, they couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and they were all armed with swords and guns, and they swarmed to kill.
In fact, if the battle formation of the Ming army is used completely, even the first-class masters in the rivers and lakes can be killed by a steady stream of Ming troops.