The Mongols used huge ox horns instead of war drums to attack. The sound was low, but it could be heard for tens of miles. In addition to the men and horses on guard in the rear, about 30,000 cavalry left their beloved horses, or held scimitar shields, or held Han Chinese spears that were not easy to handle, or carried ladders, or pushed The crude battering ram slowly approached the valley.
Because of the narrow valley, the main attacking 30,000 wolf cavalry could only enter like a long dragon. While marching, the wolf knights beat their breastplates with machetes. Because the stone wall was built a mile away in the valley, it was impossible for a team of 30,000 people to fully enter the valley. At this time, they were beating their breastplates to boost their morale and see off their comrades in front.
The leather armor that the prairie wolves ride is extraordinarily tough, and this has something to do with their living habits. Grassland people eat meat with bare hands, and hardly eat pasta and vegetarian food except roasted naan. After eating the meat, they wipe the oil on their hands on the leather armor. Layer, the rain can not penetrate.
The oil-soaked leather armor became extremely resilient, and even feathered arrows with less strength could not pierce it. However, the difficulties facing the wolf cavalry now are not only the siege battle they are not familiar with, but also the weapons in their hands. For infantry combat, the power of the scimitar is much smaller than that of cavalry combat. The arc of the scimitar can cause maximum damage to the enemy when passing by in a riding battle. The wounds caused by the scimitar are very long. Even if the wound is not fatal, it will die due to excessive blood loss. The medical level of this era , is not enough for military doctors to easily deal with such injuries.
But in foot combat, the scimitar is too short, and it is at a disadvantage compared with Han soldiers holding long spears. Even compared to the Sui infantry standard horizontal knife, it is still much shorter, which is a fatal flaw on the battlefield.
Kuoketai Menglie personally commanded, and after watching the team enter the canyon, he raised the command flag in his hand high, and the huge horn blew, and the advancing team slowly stopped. Because the Mongols did not have much experience in infantry combat, and when they stopped, they did not form a formation as habitually as the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, and they seemed a little scattered.
However, the Mengyuan Wolf Cavalry has a very complete organizational system. Teams of ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand are gathered under the leadership of the leader, so although they are scattered, they are not chaotic.
"Farewell."
Kuoketai Menglie ordered: "Bring three thousand-man teams, you play the first team. Farewell to Tieer, you bring two thousand-man teams for the second team, Mahan, you bring two thousand-man teams for the second team." Three battles, be sure to defeat the enemy in one battle. Dahan is still waiting for us to go back, and your family is also waiting for you to go back. It has been almost three years since you left the grassland. The cubs in the family have grown up a lot. Miss you Warm yurts, do you miss your white women, do you miss the days of shooting and hunting horses on the pasture, then go!"
He pointed the command flag towards the stone wall: "Use your sharp machete to cut off the enemy's head, and Changshengtian will bestow you with infinite strength. The light of the Golden Family shines on you, and you will be invulnerable! Let those Han people Let's see who is the real warrior!"
"Huha!"
The wolf knights shouted loudly, no one noticed that Meng Lie's words were different from the past. He didn't mention King Ming this time, and he didn't mention Daxue Mountain Dalun Temple.
The wolf knight soldiers thought in their hearts to finish the battle soon and return to their hometown, hugging their plump wives and holding their children high above their heads. Who would care who was not mentioned in Menglie's words, they were already returning home.
"Warriors!"
Zhe Liebie drew out his scimitar and pointed forward: "Follow the direction called by the sweat, and let those weak Han people cry and beg under the scimitar! You are all wolves who grew up drinking blood, and the Han people are destined to be The sheep we devour!"
"Huha!"
"Huha!"
The shout of charging resounded through the canyon, and the voice circled back and forth over the canyon.
Under the leadership of the commander, the first thousand-man team began to run at high speed, and the people in the front rushed forward like crazy holding a ladder. With good luck, the only hope of surviving the enemy's feathered arrows is to rush under the stone wall as soon as possible. The wolf cavalry behind the ladder put the cavalry shield on his chest, trying his best to cover his vitals. But the cavalry shield is too small to cover even the upper body.
This kind of offensive method of running wildly with his own two legs made every wolf knight soldier feel that he was no longer a giant. On horseback, they can travel faster than the wind. But now, they had to make themselves run, desperately running.
When the horns of the charge sounded, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army on the stone wall put their feather arrows on the bowstring one after another. Their faces were solemn, and many of them took deep breaths to stabilize themselves. The more than a dozen heavy crossbows installed on the stone wall have already tightened their coils, and the heavy crossbows will roar out like an angry dragon just waiting for an order.
Xiahou Baichuan glanced back at General Fang Jie who was standing on the other side of the stone wall, and then took a deep breath. After months of waiting, this day has finally arrived. This is the first battle he has led after he became Fang Jie's subordinate. He now knows what kind of person Fang Jie is. He will never crowd out and suppress those who have merit and ability. , then it can be regarded as a real firm position in the Black Banner Army.
From the fourth rank of Xiong Wei Lang Jiang.
It is precisely because he has worked hard in the military for many years that he knows how difficult it is for a child from a poor family to rise to this height. Basically, the generals above the fifth rank in the army are all from various families in the Sui Dynasty. If poor children like them want to make their mark, they can only wait for the war. But in the war, among 10,000 or 50,000 people, it is very difficult for even a poor boy to rise to this position. There is no doubt that Xiahou Baichuan is lucky, because neither the previous King Xu Jun nor the current General Fang are the kind of people who drink the blood of soldiers.
He knew that he was extremely close to the peak of his life now, as long as he survived this battle, there would be no problem for him to be a fourth-rank Ying Yanglang. It's not far away from the top three generals. Of course, most people have never crossed from the fourth rank to the third rank in their lifetime, but this is just the beginning of hope, isn't it.
What's more, Fang Jie is a fair and just leader.
He glanced at Fang Xie and felt Fang Xie's trust in him.
"Everyone!"
He pulled out the horizontal knife and pointed it at the wolf rider.
"Revenge!"
This tiger roar suppressed the roar of the wolf cavalry's charge, and it floated back and forth in the canyon.
Take revenge! Take revenge! Take revenge!
This sound, as if there were many innocent souls shouting together in mid-air.
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With a buzzing sound, more than a dozen heavy crossbows took the lead, plowing out several gaps in the array of wolf riders more than two hundred steps away, leaving no survivors in the straight line where the heavy crossbows flew. In such a dense formation, the Mongolian wolf cavalry had no possibility of dodging except for running forward with their heads down.
After the heavy crossbow showed its power, the archers on the stone wall began to reap their lives within 150 steps of the wolf cavalry. Feathered arrows were shot out one after another without even needing to aim. The narrowness of the space will inevitably lead to a dense force on the attacking side. For the defensive side, the initial period is the most favorable time to attack the enemy.
The feathered arrows that fell like raindrops kept knocking the wolf riders over. Even the timid ones could not run back at this time. The wolf cavalry in the back pushed forward desperately, and the dead people in the front were replaced layer by layer. The centurions running in the front were lucky to survive three rounds of feather arrows. nothing.
The two centurions were completely dead before reaching within fifty steps of the stone wall. The people behind were pushed by the people behind and couldn't stop at all. The wolf knights stepped on the corpses of their comrades and turned the waves Like the tide rushing forward. The archers on the stone wall were divided into two rows. When the first row shot feather arrows and took out the arrows, the second row of archers sent out the feather arrows neatly. Then they took the arrows, and the first row had shot again.
In this way, the movements are repeated mechanically, neatly and orderly.
Xiahou Baichuan walked back and forth behind the archer, from one end to the other, shouting constantly, at this time the man with a hoarse voice seemed particularly attractive. The male demeanor on the battlefield is fully revealed, which is originally a contest for men.
Half an hour later, some wolf cavalry finally carried the ladders to the bottom of the stone wall. These soldiers were not proficient in erecting the ladders, but a lot of time was wasted because of poor coordination with each other. Every second on the battlefield was bloody. The delay was long enough to cause many more deaths.
The archers on the stone wall began to divide the work. The first row of archers leaned forward and shot down the wall, and the second row continued to attack the wolf cavalry who hadn't come close. At this moment, Zhe Liebie, who saw soldiers rushing to the city wall, gave an order loudly, and the archers of the wolf cavalry began to shoot suppressively for the soldiers who were besieging the city. Every wolf cavalry is an excellent archer, which is the ability created by the living environment.
The archers of a thousand-man team started to fight back, and the feather arrows flew into the sky densely and then fell on the stone wall. The soldiers of the Black Banner Army defending the city immediately fell to the next floor, and the hundreds of archers in the front row almost lost 80%. above. The soldiers fell, and those behind immediately stepped up. The feather arrows were so dense that they collided in mid-air, and the white feathers that fell on the ground seemed to be covered with weeds.
"Pin shot!"
Xiahou Baichuan ordered loudly: "Put nails on!"
Five feet long and three feet wide, the racket covered with maces was lowered, and it slammed the wolf cavalry under the wall to death. Then the soldiers of the Black Banner Army pulled up the mace with all their strength, and then put it down. The mace over a foot long easily pierced the wolf cavalry's leather helmet, and then pierced the skull. When the nail rack was pulled up, there were even corpses of wolf cavalrymen hanging on it.
"Cut the rope!"
Zhe Liebie roared from behind, but his voice was not clearly conveyed to the ears of the wolf cavalry at the front. The wolf cavalry, who were not familiar with siege warfare, were frightened by the power of the spike, and no one could react immediately to cut off the rope of the spike. So for the first time, the nails were put down and no one was destroyed.
When the corpses piled up one layer under the base of the wall, finally the first ladder was put on the stone wall. The moment the simple ladder leaned against the wall, the wolf cavalry burst into cheers, as if they had already seen the hope of victory. It's a pity that the Han soldiers who were so familiar with the defense of the city were not nervous at all. They used the hook to push the ladder up and pushed it out, and the ladder and the soldiers hanging on it smashed down hard.
The cloud ladder falling from the sky smashed a gap in the dense formation behind, and the soldiers under the ladder immediately wailed.
From the beginning of the war, there was no temptation and it directly entered into a brutal fight. The wolf cavalry were eager to return home, but the soldiers of the Black Banner Army were eager to take revenge. Such a battle was destined to be bloody. The soldiers of the Black Banner Army on the stone wall stepped back under the blow of the feather arrow, and attached their hatred to the feather arrow to vent their hatred.
Xiahou Baichuan couldn't help being in a daze for a moment, as if he had returned to the tragic battle more than three years ago. The Han soldiers who lost their command began to collapse, but dozens or hundreds of them formed small counterattack formations, and few of them surrendered.
The blood of that battle covered the entire Mandu Banner Grassland, and the blood of today's battle is destined to fill the entire canyon.
The black flag fluttered on the stone wall, swaying the blood and dignity of a man.