Yongding Prefecture, as a border state capital, has much tighter defenses than Yongping County, Beifeng County and other small counties affiliated with it.
There were originally 30,000 soldiers stationed here, and they were all elite soldiers.
Plus the 30,000 soldiers from Beifeng County and Yongping County!
A total of 60,000 troops!
This time Nuan Nuan led 55,000 troops out of the city, leaving only 5,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilian soldiers to defend the city.
In this battle, they really wanted to defend the city. In addition to enough supplies to feed a population of 400,000 people for a year, the city also had a state capital with nearly 400,000 people from two counties inside!
So this time, Nuan Nuan brought almost all the soldiers out of the city to fight.
Only 5,000 soldiers were left to guard the city, and they also commanded the civilian soldiers in the city what to do if they encountered a strong enemy attack on the city.
After all, the number of people is really huge, and there will always be enemy soldiers rushing to the city gate to attack the city.
"Come on!" Cao Zihao shouted, holding up his spear, and walked alongside Wen Nuan at the front!
The 50,000-strong army followed and shouted: "Charge!"
The people in the city, watching the army rush out of the city gate, clenched their fists and shouted in unison: "Charge!!"
This battle must be defended, otherwise the consequences of a successful siege by the enemy would be disastrous.
The prefect of Yongding City walked up to a big drum and played the drum vigorously himself.
He shouted loudly: "We must win! Nalan Kingdom must win!"
The people in the city and the soldiers on the city wall followed the drumming and shouting: "We must win! We must win! We must win!..."
The sound resounded through the sky and shocked the soul!
An army of more than 50,000 people rushed out of the city gate!
The sound of trumpets and the sound of bells and drums are exciting!
That speed is much faster than the advancing enemy troops!
That sound was much louder than the advancing enemy troops!
More than 50,000 people stepped out of the half-million-strong army!
Such momentum!
Such courage to move forward!
The Beiming soldiers who were not close yet but were about to get closer felt an inexplicable sense of timidity in their hearts!
They couldn't help but think of the time when their 300,000-strong army attacked a small town in Yongding City, but Princess Hui'an led 20,000 soldiers, leaving them in a state of disarray and suffering heavy damage!
The first few rows of soldiers from Nalan Kingdom were pushing carts of various shapes.
The first row of soldiers, pushing carts and fifty-fifty repeating crossbows.
The carts were loaded with crotons, which had been warmed and treated with concoction.
The aroma is delicious!
When the two armies were still 500 meters away, they met in full force.
The soldiers in the first row quickly dumped all the crotons in the cart on the ground.
In an instant, the rich aroma of green grass emitted, making people sniff in unconsciously.
The aroma is blown out by the north wind.
Hou Gefan didn't understand for a moment what the enemy was doing with so many beans on the ground!
But he smelled a scent and thought it was poisonous, so he immediately said: "Hold your breath!"
The soldiers of Beiming Kingdom held their breath one after another, but they could hold their breath, but animals could not.
The aroma of green vegetables is particularly attractive to horses that have been hungry for two days.
And the warmth also adds a little spice that makes the horse even more frantic when he smells it.
The enemy horses became a little restless smelling the aroma.
Their four hooves couldn't help but speed up, trying to rush forward to find food.
The soldiers of Beiming Kingdom were so frightened that they quickly tightened their reins and controlled their horses!
Nuan Nuan glanced at the horses that were starting to stir behind him and smiled slightly.
The weight of the scent smelled by the horses is still relatively small, so Beiming's soldiers can still control it, but if they wait a little longer, let's see if they can still control their horses!
It's a pity that this spice is difficult to make and the raw materials are hard to find. Otherwise, we can get more and use it specifically to deal with the enemy's cavalry!
Nuan Nuan watched the two armies getting closer and closer.
Four hundred meters!
Three hundred meters!
Nuan Nuan waved the command flag and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
The soldiers in the front rows of both sides quickly stepped forward and raised their shields to form an iron wall. The soldiers a hundred meters in front quickly placed their shields on their heads.
The method of resisting the rain of arrows on the battlefield is the same for both sides!
So the competition is about which family has more soldiers who are good at archery and can pierce the enemy with a hundred steps!
The fifty-arrow repeating crossbow released sharp arrows one after another in an instant.
The soldiers of Beiming Kingdom and the ballistae with twenty arrows fired quickly also fired arrows.
In an instant, the sky was filled with rain arrows.
Densely packed and dazzling.
The arrows will eventually run out, and the rain of arrows stopped after a while.
Many soldiers on both sides were hit by arrows.
If you really want to talk about it, Beiming Kingdom has more, because the fifty-arrow repeating crossbow is so powerful!
At this time, the distance between the two armies was closer.
The enemy troops from Beiming rushed forward with their spears!
"Thunderbolt at your service!" Wen Nuan waved his flag when he saw the opponent's arrows gradually dwindling, and waved his command flag and ordered loudly.
So one thunderbolt was thrown out.
The Beiming Kingdom has not yet developed such a powerful thunderbolt, so when the soldiers of the Nalan Kingdom threw thunderbolts, they threw giant firecrackers!
Accompanied by "boom" sounds, figures were blown away one by one!
The purpose of Nuan Nuan is to delay as much time as possible until reinforcements arrive!
If you want to delay the time until reinforcements arrive, you will naturally try your best to prevent the two armies from confronting each other head-on.
After using up the Thunderbolt, Nuan Nuan waved the command flag again and loudly ordered:
"set fire!"
The battlefield was too noisy and chaotic, and the soldiers might not be able to hear the general's orders. They all relied on the flags to act.
When the soldiers pushing the carts saw Warm's instructions, they immediately took out the fire sticks, blew on them, and then lit the straw on the bottom of the cart where the crotons had been loaded.
The fire broke out instantly!
This cart is coated with a thick layer of tung oil, so it burns very quickly.
Suddenly the whole car was on fire.
The soldiers of Nalan Kingdom set the cart on fire, pushed the cart, and rushed toward the enemy with all their strength!
There were even soldiers holding a long bamboo pole with an iron hook, holding it against the burning board, and pushed it hard in front of the Beiming enemy who rushed forward regardless of their own safety.
Then the iron hook at the other end of the bamboo pole hooked the cart and swept the cart to the left and right.
Suddenly, a row of burning carts swept across in front of the Beiming soldiers, blocking their progress!
When Bei Mingjun was hit by a train, his body instantly caught fire.
In the winter, he was wearing armor and thick cotton clothes, which were difficult to take off.
He screamed when he was burned by the fire!
At the moment of life and death on the battlefield, their companions did not have time to care for them. They could only roll on the ground, hoping to put out the fire~
The soldiers who were on fire had no choice but to roll on the ground.
It's just that the fire burned the cart, and the crotons left on the straw on the cart were burned by the fire, and the aroma in the air became stronger!
The horses became more and more manic, and many of them were no longer controlled by the soldiers and ran forward desperately.
The scene became chaotic.