Chapter 44: Success and Failure (II)
Li Yue narrowed his eyes, was silent for a moment, and finally pulled out the sword at his waist and waved it forward.
Beside him, more than 400 cavalry urged the war horses and galloped towards the crowd not far away.
The cavalry turned into a black torrent, and when it was not far from the slaves, dozens of horses at the front let out several screams and fell collectively, and were immediately crushed by their companions behind.
The iron nails that pierced the horse's hooves did not stop the cavalry's advance, and after only a moment of stagnation, the cavalry drove their horses and galloped towards the slaves in the blood of their companions.
The cavalry rushed into the slaves.
The crowd without armor was powerless to resist in the face of the cavalry assembled and sprinting.
Standing in the front row of the crowd, many slaves who bravely rushed forward with iron weapons fell in front of the iron horsemen first.
Then there are the defenseless young and strong.
Finally, there is the defenseless old and weak.
Countless human heads burst up and fell to the ground with the remnants.
The cavalry surrounded the Yue, and led the cavalry to intersperse among the five thousand slaves.
Along the way, rivers of blood flowed, and a large number of slaves scattered and fled, hiding from the swarming cavalry.
Exclamations and screams resounded through the crowd, and the fleeing slaves were looking for shelter to hide, intending to continue their stubborn resistance.
The cavalry rushed out of the crowd.
Riding on horseback, the red-covered Liyue lowered his head, and his numb and sore hands gripped the iron-inlaid blade hard.
The shiny white blade was covered with viscous blood, and the blood flowed down the blade.
Liyue closed his eyes, pulled up the reins, and rode his horse towards the wooden village.
Also covered in blood, only more than 300 cavalry remained close to him and walked towards the wooden village.
The general guarding the wooden village asked people to put down the drawbridge.
More than 100 foot soldiers surrounded the partial generals and walked out of the wooden village.
The two armies met on the bank of the ditch in front of the wall, and the whole team calmly retreated to the wooden village for a while.
When all the cavalry had entered the wooden village and the drawbridge over the river had been pulled up, the slaves gathered together again and poured over.
The slaves had been starved of food for many days, and when they first started the rebellion, they felt that they were surrounding the road to transport the grain.
I also feel that I have blocked the waterway into the village.
But the reason why they surrounded the wooden village and wanted to break it was because of the grain stored in the wooden village.
Because the slaves thought that there was still grain in the wooden village.
Even if there is no grain in the wooden village, there will be grain trucks transporting it.
Without food, the slaves had to starve to death.
No one wants to die.
The walls of the wooden village were nearly five meters high, the slaves lacked iron weapons in their hands, and there were no bows and arrows, and the cavalry arrived too quickly.
There are more than 5,000 slaves, and even the wooden ladder has not been built.
Seeing the cavalry rushing into the wooden village and the slaves gathered outside the village, several people in the crowd deliberated for a moment and made a decision.
Siege.
The cavalry field advantage was too strong, and the slaves could not stop the cavalry.
But the cavalry could not defend the city, and the slaves still had a lot of boats and ships, so they could go together by water.
The slaves, stimulated by the cavalry, quickly built a wooden ladder to climb the city.
After an hour, the slaves began to fill in several passages that had not yet dried up, but were much shallower than in other places.
Three hours later, the hemp rope was tied to the wooden sticks, and the fifty ladders that were built to climb the city were set up on the wall of the wooden village.
Countless slaves flowed through the blocked river, and the sewage that still reached the instep of their feet washed under the wall.
Following the crude ladder sticks, surrounding the wooden village, the ant-like dense slaves quickly climbed upward.
The wall is wide, and there are too few more than 100 foot soldiers to defend it.
Liyue didn't let people go up to the walled wall to defend, and he directly ordered the suspension bridge to be lowered.
Seeing the falling suspension bridge, two slaves with long beards rushed forward happily, trying to cut the rope that could pull the suspension bridge.
Then he saw the cavalry rushing out of the gate, followed by the foot soldiers.
After resting in the wooden village for a long time, the cavalry's physical strength recovered a lot.
And this time, Liyue rode a horse and charged at the forefront, and at the moment of rushing off the suspension bridge, he danced with a long knife in his hand.
The sword light passed, and the sound was like the wind.
Several of the slaves were decapitated, their bodies bloody, steamy, and the blood sprayed like boiling hot water from the depths of the earth.
"Charge!"
The long knife swung forward, and the blood adhered to the knife body was vigorously thrown out, and Li Yue's face was solemn, his eyes were fierce, and he urged the horse to rush forward.
The torrent of cavalry once again broke through the crowd of slaves.
In fact, in the face of the rushing cavalry, the slaves were afraid to avoid it.
The cavalry did not chase and kill the scattered slaves, but just followed behind Liyue and rushed forward with all their might.
The infantry following the cavalry were surrounded by the influx of slaves, and they rushed towards the infantry surrounded by the slaves.
The cavalry rode their horses and rushed towards the surrounded infantry as they left the Yue.
During the rapid sprint, Li Yue raised his long knife and waved it horizontally, shouting: "Points!"
The charging cavalry split in two, and two torrents rushed straight into the flanks of the infantry.
Charge straight at the minions who are surrounded by the two flanks of the infantry.
The swift cavalry rushed into the crowd surrounding the infantry, like a pack of wolves into a flock of sheep, like boiling water splashing thin ice.
But the next moment, the cavalry, who failed to break through, was also surrounded by the crowd.
Blood flowed on the dark red ground, and the sound of horses' hooves roared and the shouts of killing were piercing.
Twenty small boats, carrying more than eighty slaves, broke through the stagnant water and slid to the sluice gates of the waterway.
The floodgates have already been opened.
The slaves who successfully climbed the wall along the wooden ladder could not find an enemy on the retaining wall behind the wall.
The helmet on his head didn't know where it had been thrown off, and Li Yue swung his long knife diagonally, splitting the slaves who rushed to the horse in two.
A rock the size of a horse's head flew from nowhere, rushing towards the front gate of Liyue.
Flipping the long knife in his hand, the blade stood in front of his face, knocking the oncoming rocks away.
The huge force made Li Yue's arm numb, and the horse under his crotch also whispered in pain, leaned and lay on his side to the ground, and the body on the horse's back was crooked, but at the last moment of landing, his feet jumped hard.
When he leaped off his horse and landed on the ground, he could not stand on his feet, fell on his side, and his long knife came out of his hand.
Li Yue stretched out his hand and touched the hilt of the sword at his waist, but several slaves had already surrounded him.
At the critical moment, two cavalrymen rode their horses and rushed to Liyue's side, and a few shots overturned the slaves who rushed towards Liyue.
But when Liyue drew his sword and stood up, the two cavalrymen had been knocked down by the flying stones.
The number of slaves was nearly 5,000, and compared with the more than 400 county soldiers in Dingbian County, the advantage was too obvious.
As for the desperate departure from Vietnam that gave up the village and led the army to make a desperate bet, the situation has become more and more unfavorable.
At this moment, the sound of war drums was heard in the distance.
The drums beat high-pitched and thunderous in the ears.
It was clear that the drums were coming from not far away.
Dusk is approaching and night is approaching.
Countless soldiers rushed outside the wooden village with the night.
The stag flag and the green satin banner painted with the word "Wen" stood in the middle of the soldiers.
Countless unarmored soldiers rushed to the battlefield outside the walled area with their weapons, and the long sound of trumpets echoed through the air.
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