Hutou City in Liangzhou has become the second Diaoyutai in the Central Plains.
It's just that the Xu family's iron cavalry, which was powerful in the Central Plains, was blocked that time, and this time it was the Longyan'er Plain outside the city that was densely crowded with horseshoes in Beimang.
Dong Zhuo, the great king of the Southern Court, personally brought a crow fence to inspect a siege infantry that was ready to go. Beside this fat man was a pair of noble young men and women. Among them was the young man who looked like a sick child. There are many weights, and none of them are simple. The spring Nabo in the four big Nabo in Beimang, the leader of the army Jilang in front of the curtain in the Southern Dynasty, and the divination operator in Chess and Sword Yuefu. Of course, the most fundamental identity is the eldest son of Tuoba Bodhisattva. , Tuoba Qiyun. The woman who had just been formally deprived of Xia Nabo's title by Hulukou Pioneer General Zhong Tan was Yelu Yuhu. This pair of men and women, almost outside the calabash mouth, succeeded in counting Xu Fengnian who went deep into the hinterland of the border between the two countries, but it was a pity that Yuan Zuozong led an army of 10,000 snow dragon cavalry to the battlefield, which made them and the Taiping order fall short.
Dong Zhuo pointed at Hutou City with his horsewhip, and said: "Hutou City, which is said to be able to support ten years of war, has exhausted the winch wood and used up more than half of the bricks and mud in less than half a year. There are countless iron owls, abducting guns, and shooting poles cut off by our side. There are only three bed crossbows at the head of the city, which are still intact, and the damaged crossbows have piled up into mountains. Of course, the small and medium-sized crossbows in the city are light There must still be a lot of crossbows, and there are still hundreds of thousands of arrows in stock. However, compared with Xiangfan City, which had no more than 100,000 soldiers but 300,000 people, Hutou City has a fatal flaw. Too few. The bow and crossbow are dead and broken. You can go to the inventory and carry a brand new one. The Beiliang Frontier Army in Hutou City is not a god, and its arm strength is far inferior to the early stage. If you two have the opportunity to watch the battle nearby, you should be able to see it. The arm that most of the archers in the city used to hold the bow was tied with a strong bandage. To put it bluntly, as long as I give me another three months, I, Dong Zhuo, can stand a hundred steps outside the city without a problem. A few sharp archers can kill me through armor."
Tuoba Qiyun exuded a faint medicinal smell from his body, with a dignified expression, noncommittal.
His Majesty personally deprived Xia Nabo, so Yelu Yuhu ran to Hutou City in a fit of anger to "relax". She glanced playfully at this fat man who was as loud as he was in the king's court. The thirty-five-year-old king of Nanyuan has a million soldiers in his hands, which is almost the same as the combined strength of the old Liang king Xu Xiao and Liang Liao Gu Jiantang. . It was this guy who insisted on attacking Beiliang first, and made such a big commotion that both His Majesty and the Taiping Order were under great pressure. As a result, except for Yang Yuanzan on the eastern front, who was barely equal to his merits and demerits, the other two fronts were eclipsed. Especially Fatty Dong himself, who was abruptly blocked from Liangzhou Pass by a tiger-headed city. Even Liu Gui, who lost only a few thousand troops, has already been scolded as an old dog in the temple of Xijing. For the time being, no one has the courage to impeach the coach Dong Zhuo. Yelu Yuhu is very curious about this person who calls His Majesty the emperor's sister in private Fatty, how long can you carry it
Dong Zhuo seemed to mention three months casually, and sneered at Yelu Yuhumen, who was well-regulated in the temple. Has she and Tuoba Qiyun helped pass the message to some people? Or could it be that His Majesty the Emperor and the Taiping Order, who had placed great expectations on Dong Zhuo, couldn't hold back anymore
Tuoba Qiyun finally said: "General Dong, I have been to the Northwest Camp in the Longyaner Plain."
Dong Zhuo hummed.
Thinking of the so-called Northwest Camp, Yelu Yuhu suddenly felt a little disgusted, what a camp is, it is a place where patients and corpses are piled up, just piled up! The Southern Dynasties accumulated strength for 20 years, and all their brains were inclined to attack, especially the siege materials. Otherwise, they would not be able to pull out nearly a thousand large and small catapults in one go. However, Bei Mang has never been good at dealing with the wounded in battle. Don't pay attention. In the scorching sun, Yelu Yuhu, who was wearing a gorgeous golden armor, was already dripping with sweat. She had a natural yearning for war, yearning for the pleasure of exchanging lives on horseback, and yearning for the feeling of being driven into the enemy's head with an arrow. Yelu Yuhu was used to seeing dead people, but she was as determined as she was when she arrived at the Northwest Camp, and she almost couldn't help vomiting. Carloads of corpses dragged from the battlefield were all thrown into the dug The big pit, maybe the wounded soldiers were lying not far from the pit, howling in pain. Many wounded soldiers who were bloody and bloody from the defense equipment begged for a happy death.
At that time, Tuoba Qiyun was standing on the edge of a new pit where seven or eight hundred corpses had already been piled up, and asked the soldier in charge of pouring lime for a basin. Yelu Yuhu, who covered his mouth and nose with a piece of thick cotton cloth, watched the Chun Nabo throw handfuls of lime expressionlessly.
She suddenly realized that since she was a child, she was even more hard-hearted than the boy in the prairie. After seeing that scene, she felt a little sad for the first time.
Tuoba Qiyun's thinking jumped a lot, and he changed the subject slowly and said: "General Dong is in a hurry to attack Beiliang, but he is in a hurry to attack Hutou City."
The resilience and combat habits of the nomads made Beimang's low demand for food and grass far exceed the imagination of the Central Plains cavalry. At least Beimang still has no shortage of food and grass. However, if it is possible to send troops south in the season of high autumn and high horses, Beimang can be more at ease in the deadlocked situation. Tuoba Qiyun didn't want to say too many afterthoughts, not to mention why Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling went south in the spring, it had its own reason. What Tuoba Qiyun really wanted to say was the second half of the sentence. If Dong Zhuo's Eastern Front attacked the city recklessly from the beginning and took down Hutou City in one go, the situation would not be so difficult now. This is not Tuoba Qiyun accusing Dong Zhuo of not doing enough to fight Tiger Head City. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Dong Zhuo's deployment, but since Dong Zhuo is the king of the South Court and the commander of a million-strong army, he should show more legitimate results.
Dong Zhuo nodded and said: "At the beginning, I suspected that besides the thousands of fine cavalry in the spy report, there was also an iron cavalry hidden in Hutou City, such as the six thousand iron pagodas that belonged to the old male beasts and were later assigned to the Qi Dang Kingdom. I suspect that at least one of the two real heavy cavalry troops in Beiliang with a total number of around 9,000 will hide in Hutou City. Because I think that since Chu Lushan dared to put the Duhufu in Huaiyang Pass behind Hutou City , It must be a head-to-head battle with me. To the south of Hutou City and the north of Liuya Fuling, I will fight with me in a battle that will involve both light and heavy cavalry."
Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice: "Until that scheming ambush, I first used four thousand cavalry as a bait on the tooth slope, and Wei Liang, the leader of the Fuling Army, really rushed in greedily, and was disrupted by the eight thousand ambush troops. If it wasn't for the little captain of Beiliang begging Fulongguan for his bad deeds, he was too heroic to help the Poria cavalry to open a breakthrough, otherwise the ambush soldiers in Beiliang would also enter the battlefield on time, and my Dong family The cavalry will also move accordingly. In the end, on that battlefield, I was able to seduce the soldiers and horses of Fuling and Liuya together with the powerful forces of Huaiyang Pass, and even the cavalry of Hutou City. Come on, it will become a situation where the cavalry of the two sides are swapped. Even if I, Dong Zhuo, are at a disadvantage, as long as the mobility of the Beiliang cavalry defense line south of Hutou City is destroyed, whether Hutou City can be defeated or not, it will be all right. Not a problem anymore."
Dong Zhuo laughed at himself: "Perhaps many people in Beiliang's Protectorate will scold the little captain begging for Longguan in their hearts. He used his strength in the wrong place, but in fact Liangzhou escaped by luck. A tiger head city It's not scary, what's scary is the flexible cavalry behind it that don't want to kill the enemy, but only to contain it. I, Dong Zhuo, am not sure if I think too much, or Chu Lushan is lucky, or in fact, I think more than I do. .”
Yelu Yuhu frowned and said: "Can't we attack the whole line, including the two towns of Fuling and Liuya? Anyway, we have an absolute advantage in military strength, and if we don't fight, we won't fight!"
Dong Zhuo laughed it off without explaining anything. Tuoba Qiyun shook his head and said: "It's not that you can't put all your eggs in one basket, but it doesn't make much sense..."
Just when Tuoba Qiyun was about to explain the specific mystery to Yelu Yuhu, Dong Zhuo rode his horse towards a disgraced convoy along the edge behind the infantry phalanx. After seeing the great king of the South Courtyard, the chief quickly got off his horse and reported the battle situation to Dong Zhuo. It turned out that these corpses were all dragged out of the tunnels into the city. The Beimang siege catapults had intermittent attacks, but this "unsuitable" siege move never stopped, but it never had any significant effect. A group of 500 soldiers entered Hutou City, but they were quickly intercepted and killed by patrolling soldiers, and the rest died in the narrow roads in the tunnel, or were easily blocked and killed at the entrance of the cave by waiting for rabbits. It is reported that Liu Jinu, the lord of the city, had already made preparations. He dug more than ten deep holes up to three feet deep in various important places in the city, and let the soldiers with keen ears stay in them. If there is any movement within hundreds or even thousands of steps around, the fighter plane can be caught immediately, and then it is easy to dig a hole horizontally to set up an ambush or use a windmill to fan the smoke and lime.
The commander had retired to the second line because he lost an arm in the Chongzhen Ant High School. After the one-armed man reported the general battle situation and the death toll, his eyes were reddish, and he lowered his head and said softly: "General, one by one Sixteen tunnels, including this one, we have almost 5,000 brothers who died underground, is it worth it? It would be great if we could die on the top of the Tiger Head City."
Dong Zhuo said calmly: "Go to the Northwest Camp."
The one-armed commander raised his remaining arm and wiped his eyes. After getting on his horse, he led the convoy full of dead bodies away.
Yelu Yuhu felt angry for no reason, took a deep breath, and asked the king of the Southern Court: "Beiliang was an expert at digging tunnels when he attacked Xiangfan City in Qingzhou. Since he can attack, it is natural for him to defend. It's not young children either. What's more, the thousands of Northern Liang cavalry in the city have obviously gone to the top of the city, even if hundreds of people survived and entered the ground of the city, so what?"
Dong Zhuo smiled, as if he deliberately didn't want to mention the 5,000 dead men who failed to build an inch of merit, and said: "There was a cavalry army in the city two days ago, and they had to go up to the city to participate in the defense. It is true that the number of infantry is much higher than that, I originally had two thousand commanders leading people to attack the top of the city, and the distance between the two troops was only 400 steps, and they were almost able to gain a firm foothold on the top of the city."
Dong Zhuo pressed his thumb and index finger together, "It's just a little short."
Tuoba Qiyun said helplessly: "This little opportunity was bought at such a huge price by General Dong's order that each of our commanders should have almost 400 casualties before retreating."
Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "It's not halfway through yet."
Yelu Yuhu asked in an almost questioning tone: "Dare to ask the general, how many grassland sons died under his own sword?"
Dong Zhuo thought about it carefully, and replied: "There are three thousand commanders, and there are many centurion commanders. Together with ordinary soldiers, if I remember correctly, there are 2,700 as of yesterday."
Yelu Yuhu said angrily: "Aren't you afraid of triggering a mutiny?!"
Dong Zhuo asked back: "If you kill so many bastards who flinch from the battle, will you mutiny?"
Yelu Yuhu sneered and said: "Indeed, the general has 100,000 Dong family's private army who are almost undamaged, and he is a famous general who uses soldiers with meticulous attention to detail, so he will definitely be able to kill the signs."
Tuoba Qiyun said: "Stop talking."
Yelu Yuhu hesitated to speak, but after seeing Chun Nabo's displeased expression, she finally stopped provoking that king of Nanyuan who was not worthy of his name in her opinion.
The two riders bid farewell to Dong Zhuo and left.
Yelu Yuhu turned his head to look at the burly figure who had parked his horse on the spot, and said in a low voice: "This fat man, leading soldiers is just like that, but he is really capable when he is an official. He has fought all battles to this extent. Forgot to follow someone's wishes and beat those prairie forces under Hutou City bit by bit. A commander consumed the direct troops brought from the tribe, but under the rapid rotation, where would the follow-up troops come from? Come? Either it was taken from the military town of the Southern Dynasty and mixed with sand, or the two remnants were simply mixed together. According to this method, can the big Xitiao become a small Xitiao?"
Yelu Yuhu's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It's all the customs brought by the adherents of the Central Plains in the Southern Dynasties. The Zhao family in Liyang used the Guangling Road to take back military power from the local vassals and generals. We are not bad at all. If you hurt your muscles and bones here, even if you break through Beiliang and enter the Central Plains in the future, you will still have a few of your own people left!"
Tuoba Qiyun smiled, "You, too much complaining to prevent heartbreak."
Yelu Yuhu glared at each other, "You can still laugh?! Do you think you can stay out of the matter with the surname Tuoba?!"
Tuoba Qiyun shook his head, smiled and said nothing.
The fat man who looked at Hutou City alone from the guard of the crow fence saw the siege infantry rushing in like a steady stream of waves, and then the tide surged along the city wall and then spread upwards.
He beckoned to a young military officer who was accompanying him, and said, "Go ahead, order, first, stop digging tunnels from today. Second, the infantry will intensify their siege efforts, and they can only withdraw when more than half of the casualties are during the day. Not taking battle damage as a prerequisite for retreat, each commander only needs to persist in attacking under Hutou City for an hour. Third, pass the news to Xijing, and the entire Southern Dynasty, no matter whether the surname is Jia, B, C, Ding, as long as the family is above the spectrum, Take out all the wine in the cellar and use it to heal the wounds of the wounded soldiers on the Eastern Front. Remember, it is all the wine of all the families in the Southern Dynasty. And so on. Four, tonight I will summon all the commanders and commanders of the Eastern Front who are not on the battlefield."
The military man quickly left to convey the military order.
Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice, "Yelu Chucai!"
A school lieutenant who was temporarily acting as the leader of the crow's column hurriedly rode close to him. This time, this general, who was both a member of the Northern Mang Imperial Account and the brother-in-law of the king of the Southern Academy, did not dare to smile. As long as his brother-in-law called his real name, it meant he was Something big is about to happen. His older sister, Yelu Chucai, is Dong Zhuo's eldest daughter-in-law. She also has the surname of Yelu, and she is much richer than Yelu Yuhu. The chairs are farther away, and Yelu Chucai never had that extravagant hope. He wanted to be a pure military commander galloping on the battlefield since he was a child. After having Dong Zhuo, a brother-in-law who is very appetizing, he has been in the Dong family's army for the past few years. However, during this expedition to the South and North Liang, his brother-in-law, who has always been very talkative, refused to agree to him as a pioneer, which hurt Yelu Chucai very much. Not long ago even Dong's family went to Liuzhou with his own troops. Yelu Chucai felt resentful like a widow during this time.
Dong Zhuo glanced at this little brother-in-law, and said with a smile: "I have a job for you, but the journey is a bit far away, do you want to take it?"
Yelu Chucai asked cautiously, "Can you get military merit?"
Dong Zhuo said, "Not necessarily."
Yelu Chucai said decisively: "Then don't go!"
Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "It's okay if you don't go, anyway, you have a chance to attack the city tomorrow. I'll just change people."
Yelu Chucai was confused, "Siege?"
Dong Zhuo nodded, "My Dong family's 12,000 infantry will be handed over to you, and we will attack Tiger Head City tomorrow."
Yelu Chucai opened his mouth wide in surprise. Considering his figure, his mouth was really wide open. He was so different from his sister's appearance that he was born with the same father and mother. Yelu Chucai's eyes suddenly became hot, and he didn't call Dong Zhuo his brother-in-law, but respectfully called out to the general, "The last general is from a cavalry army, so let me dismount and attack the city. One live!"
Dong Zhuo stared at this guy, and said calmly: "I will hand over the 80,000 cavalry troops of the Dong family to you, and rush to the outside of the gourd mouth as quickly as possible. Although I have already arranged people to watch over there, I still don't feel relieved there. Also, Before you leave, write a suicide note, if you die, I will have an explanation for your sister."
Yelu Chucai, who moved Beimang with his reputation for cynicism, grinned, clenched his fist and thumped his chest heavily, "General, if... the end will mean that if you don't come back, you won't have a chance to see the general and my sister." The children are gone, tell them later, their uncle, the only regret is that they can't ride on their necks to play."
Dong Zhuo hesitated for a moment, "If it's the same with you or without you at the mouth of the gourd, don't be brave. Since you like children, marry a wife and give birth."
Yelu Chucai nodded and rode away.
Dong Zhuo remained motionless, no one could hear the fat man talking to himself, he was repeating a number, "Thirty-eight, thirty-eight..."
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In Hutou City, the most towering watchtowers and archery towers in the north have become the main targets of Beimang catapults, and the building where the main general Liu Jinu is located is even further back, and the threat posed by the catapults is not enough. Fatal, but those Beimang archers who participated in the siege and were able to get close to the top of the city are all proud of hitting this building with one arrow. Although they are not counted as military exploits, they will be treated as heroes after withdrawing from the battlefield .
Liu Jinu was standing next to the table with the map of Hutou City. Various details of the battlefield had been marked on the map, such as the degree of damage to the city wall, the area where the bed crossbow was lost, the dangerous battlements that had been hastily filled several times, etc. wait. Liu Jinu stared at the northeast area of the city defense map. After the bed crossbows here were first destroyed, in the past half a decade, Beimang has focused on increasing the attack density and attack power here while not giving up the attacking force in the north direction. thickness, a large number of siege equipment began to shift from the northwest to the northeast.
A school captain patrolling the city strode into the floor and laughed loudly: "General, these northern mang barbarians really don't have a long memory. More than 700 'rats' died today, and half of them were suffocated to death. After the people went down, they were slaughtered without much effort. As usual, the tunnel has been filled in for us, and there will be two acupoint masters and a cavalry guarding the nearby area day and night."
Liu Jinu nodded, raised his head and asked, "Have you used up all the Dalei hanging outside the watchtower wall?"
Dalei is a special soft curtain used in the Central Plains to deal with sieges. It is tightly woven from coarse hemp and coated with mud to prevent fire. It is very effective against stones and rockets. Although the walls of Hutou City are extremely strong, if there were no thunderbolts to slow down the huge impact of the flying stones, Hutou City would not be so easy to mend.
A lieutenant said helplessly: "Yes, I didn't expect these barbarians to get so many catapults. Fortunately, the general was prepared, otherwise it would be really dangerous. And our water bags are also in a hurry. The city wall is also a headache. There is no problem with the water source, but the water bags made of cows, horses, livestock fur and offal offspring can't keep up. The gang of barbarians poured oil on the city head with all their might, supplemented by arrows like rain of fire, That's insane. Luckily, our muddy brooms for fire attacks can be reused."
Liu Jinu, who hadn't slept much for two days and two nights, picked up an arrow on the table and handed it to a school lieutenant beside him, "Look carefully, all of you."
The arrow retrieved from the top of the city was passed around, and Liu Jinu said: "In the past, there were such arrows in Beimang's siege, but they were not on a large scale. It was only these two days that they began to appear in large numbers. The current configuration of Beimang’s elite cavalry is consistent, and the extended arrows are used to penetrate our Beiliang armor, but the remaining half are mixed with outdated copper-cast arrows and iron-cast arrows born in the Dafeng Dynasty, all of which are flat and square .It’s different now, it’s more subdivided, so even cone arrows and iron spine arrows have appeared.”
Liu Jinu put down the arrow, "The reason why I say this is because of the cohesion of the recent siege of Beimang. I dare say that Beimang is taking a breath. It's a bit like a duel between Jianghu masters. Before the wave of offensive, this will be an opportunity for us, of course, it may also be a trap. But no matter what, we should try once. So these days I deliberately let the cavalry go to the top of the city to make up for it, so as to give the defenders a break At the same time, it is to let our cavalry go out of the city by surprise."
A school lieutenant who was in charge of guarding the city gate and who had slapped the barbarians on the head of Beimang two days ago asked, "Do you need us to cooperate with the infantry at the top of the city and fight more fiercely?"
Liu Jinu shook his head and said, "No, just in case it's superfluous."
Liu Jinu slowly closed his eyes, not sure if he was so sleepy and had to rest for a while, or he was looking for a fighter in his mind.
Liu Jinu suddenly opened his eyes, pressed his fists on the table, and stared at the two cavalry captains in the city who were eager to try, "Bei Mang is responsible for protecting the cavalry that echoes the two wings of the infantry. I have been slacking off after watching the theater for a long time. Tonight Just tonight, 2,000 cavalry troops will be placed behind the north gate, and they will charge at random after leaving the city. One thousand cavalry troops will attack the flanks at each of the east and west gates. Remember! Only half an hour, I will only give the three cavalry at most half an hour , no matter how many Beimang infantry are killed or wounded, they must return immediately, and must not be resigned to fighting, and half an hour later, I will open the gate again in Hutou City."
Liu Jinu suddenly called out to the two captains who were ordered to resign, "Tell the brothers in advance, maybe Beimang won't even give us the chance to reopen Hutou City!"
A senior colonel with gray hair nodded and said, "Understood!"
Two cavalry captains of the same generation walked out of the house, and the younger captain looked behind him ghostly, and then said to the old captain: "Old Captain, what are you talking about? Do you really want to make things clear?"
The old man stopped, put his hands on the railing, and remained silent.
The middle-aged captain understood it, so he stopped talking. In fact, he himself meant the same thing.
The old man turned his head and said with a smile: "Xiao Song, even though we have the same rank, you have been a corporal under my command for three years. Let alone a captain today, you are a general and also my soldier. So this trip Go out of the city to kill the enemy, I will come, you stay in the city and continue to preside over the affairs of the cavalry."
The middle-aged captain turned around and left, "Then I'll reason with General Liu."
The old man kicked the guy's ass, and cursed softly, "Get back! Listen to me."
When Lieutenant Song turned around again, the old man pointed to the north and said softly: "I only have one son and one daughter, and my son died in the hinterland of Beimang in the first year of Yonghui. Later, he also died outside the Liangzhou Pass eight years ago. Fortunately, I have grandchildren, and the incense of the He family has not been broken after all. But the feeling of a white-haired person giving a black-haired person is really uncomfortable."
The old man smiled, "I know you fought with my son-in-law back then, and you also complained that I chose him as my son-in-law instead of you. So all these years in Hutou City, you boy have often avoided me, just my temper , if it was changed to thirty years ago, you would have been beaten all over the place."
The middle-aged captain rolled his eyes and muttered, "You can beat me."
The old man didn't bother to care about anything with this kid, and he said sincerely: "Not counting the many years of fighting in the Central Plains, it has been almost twenty years since I took root in Beiliang. I have a family and live a peaceful life. Even if a relative dies at home, the children can still wear sackcloth and filial piety. Unlike the troubled times when I was young, living is more difficult than dying. As an old man, I return to my hometown occasionally and watch the children practice calligraphy every day. That posture is decent, holding a writing brush is more skillful than my grandfather holding a spear, listening to their reading outside the study, the world in Beiliang is really good."
The old man patted Colonel Song on the shoulder, "In such a good world, it can last for a few more days. As for me, no matter whether the city gate can be opened for the second time tonight, I don't plan to go back. You let me get off the horse in the future Go to the top of the city to fight the barbarians of the North Mang, if you can't kill a few people, it's better to kill more on horseback. Xiao Song, after saying that, are you still rushing out of the city with the old leader?"
The middle-aged captain slowly clasped his fists together, but he couldn't say a lot of words.
The old man laughed and strode away.
As a result, the guy surnamed Song kicked his ass, and the latter ran downstairs like a gust of wind, and only said, "Old Biaochang, if I didn't take your daughter away back then, I swear that I will kick you once in this life." Feet, don't be angry!"
The old man patted the armor behind him casually, and said with a smile, "You bastard! It's a good thing I didn't choose you as my son-in-law back then."
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Beimang attacked the city day and night, and piles of huge bonfires were burning on the battlefield outside the city.
Both inside and outside of Hutou City have long been used to being arrogant.
Zheng Zi Shi.
In the Taoist alchemy classics, it is regarded as "the beginning of Yangsheng, the time of fire".
On the three squares directly leading to the three gates of Hutou City, a cavalry army began to go into battle each, with long spears hanging from their saddles, cold knives on their waists, and bows and crossbows.
The leading veteran in the north position stretched out his hand to hold the spear that he had snatched from General Xichu, a member of the West Wall, and said with a smile: "Old guy, after congratulating me on my surname, have you not wronged you?"
When the creaking sound of the door slowly opening came, the old man suddenly clamped his horse's belly and began to charge.
In order to cooperate with the departure of the three cavalry troops, especially the Zhengbei cavalry army, without giving away signs too early, the arrow rain at the north gate of the city was specially targeted at the barbarians near the gate of the city.
So when the Beimang infantry who were caught off guard found that the city gate had taken the initiative to rise, they were a little dazed for a while, and even the ranger scouts who were in charge of supervising the battle and wandering hundreds of steps behind the city did not immediately recover. The rangers were a little dumbfounded when they saw a cavalry roaring out from the main gate, but soon someone turned the horse's head and frantically whipped the horse, and came from a gap specially set aside by the three infantry formations. gallop away.
When they turned around to convey the urgent military information, the soldiers of Beimang near the gate of the city were shot in the head by the cavalry, or were shot backwards by a direct shot.
When the cavalry faced the infantry without formation, killing people was actually like cutting wheat with a knife.
If the well-armored cavalry confronted each other head-on, both sides could take advantage of the huge inertia of the horse's charge, which would cause huge damage to the spear itself and the arms of the cavalry, but now
The old captain, who is no longer familiar with battle formations, pays attention to his breathing from the beginning. He is not in a hurry. He will never wish to kill dozens of enemies in one breath like Lengtouqing. The old captain did not pursue the charge of horses too much. As a few leaders of a conical cavalry army, they should be like this, otherwise it will destroy the offensive pace of the entire cavalry, and even cause the formation of the cavalry to split apart. The situation was negligible, but the old man, as a real lieutenant of Liangzhou side riders, had fought on horseback for most of his life, so he would naturally act like this.
On the right hand side of the city gate, a thousand-man team from the Northern Mang Barbarians was climbing the city. The thousand-man team behind them hadn't moved forward to take turns to attack the city. On the left hand, there happened to be two thousand-man commanders who were handing over soldiers and horses.
The old lieutenant said in a low voice to the cavalry deputy: "Each lead a thousand cavalry, and you go around the city!"
The 2,000-man cavalry quickly separated left and right, sliding away like a stream of water meeting a rock.
The old man led a thousand riders straight to the full-strength Beimang thousand-man team.
Seeing that there was no escape, six or seven Beimang soldiers in leather armor gritted their teeth and charged forward together.
The old lieutenant rushed over, pointing the tip of his spear slightly downward, aiming at the neck of a Northern Mang soldier. The huge penetrating force knocked the soldier holding his knife high so that his feet were lifted off the ground. And the moment before the spear was about to be nailed into the enemy's neck, the old man let go of the spear imperceptibly with both hands. The next moment, he quickly grasped the body of the gun again. The position of the grip was only shifted by less than an inch, but he let go of the spear The short one-inch distance created can allow the old man to relieve 50 to 60% of the resistance brought by the long spear sprinting to kill.
The old man gently pulled the spear back, pulled out the spear head from the corpse's neck, and continued to charge forward.
This is the precious experience that the old man accumulated as a member of the Xu family's iron cavalry when he was young, galloping and fighting in the Central Plains. The younger generation of Beiliang cavalry knows this trick, but generally speaking, it is not used. After all, Beimang is also a cavalry army, so there is no need for such "fancy" tricks. But right now it makes sense. Faced with a large number of infantry, this small number of cavalry troops will naturally kill more enemies the later they release their spears.
The six or seven Northern Mang soldiers were rushed past and died instantly.
The soldiers farther away on both sides, after the thousand cavalry quickly spread out the charge line, could not escape.
The worst one was that after narrowly avoiding Yiqi's long spear, he was hit and killed by the second cavalry in Hutou City with his horse on the spot.
In the eyes of the infantry of the thousand-man team not far away, this cavalry army that came out of the city in a tapered shape almost came in a circle after a few blinks of an eye, and instantly extended the front line to a row of more than a hundred cavalry. .
Commander Bei Mang roared angrily: "Stand up shields in the front row! Archers get ready!"
The old captain sneered, he didn't have a spear to resist the horse formation, and he didn't have heavy armor on his body, just relying on two or three rows of scattered shield pawns, trying to block the charge of my Beiliang cavalry
I, He Lianshan, am an old soldier from Beiliang who even rushed through the Western Chu Euphorbia soldiers!
Haven't you worked hard to attack the city for more than half a year
Today Lao Tzu’s Hutou City Cavalry Army will teach you how to be human!
When his ride suddenly accelerated.
First of all, this row of elite Beiliang cavalry rushed forward one after another by relying on the corner of their eyes, and soon continued to maintain that almost completely straight and perfect front line.
The same is true for the cavalry behind this row.
This is true for a thousand riders.
This is the Beiliang iron cavalry!
The old captain randomly pushed aside an oncoming arrow, and didn't even care about the one that hit the shoulder armor.
At the moment when the riding step touched it, the sky and the earth seemed to stand still.
I saw big Beiliang horses jumping high above that line, above the heads of the first row of Beimang soldiers kneeling and holding up their shields, it was truly spectacular!
When the horse's hooves finally hit the ground neatly, it was the time of death.
A captain of Hutou City with astonishing physical strength stabbed fiercely into the chest of an archer in the back row of Beimang with his spear, and dragged the blood gushing corpse back all the way. The captain of the cavalry army suddenly pushed the spear, and then let go of his hand. The moment the horse rushed between the two corpses, the captain bent down and grasped the end of the spear tightly, and let go of the spear in one breath. Pulled out from the corpse, like a tacit understanding of the Beiliang war horse, it suddenly burst into an astonishing second charge, smashing away the third Beimang barbarian who was trying to chop at his master's arm.
There were only a few shield soldiers, a certain number of archers, and most of the city-climbing swordsmen. The thousand-man infantry phalanx without any thickness was rushed past by the thousand men and one thousand horses.
More than 900 riders in Hutou City did not stop.
They didn't care about the Beimang thousand-man team that was full of casualties.
Continue to run to the second infantry phalanx with a distance of a thousand steps. Unlike the first one, which is in a hurry, the archers in the next phalanx have more opportunities to throw shots. Hundreds of shield pawns, sparsely mixed with a dozen spears of little use, it is really difficult for this commander who has to hold Buddha's feet temporarily. But farther away, a neighboring flanking cavalry army began to rush reinforcements along the gap between the infantry.
The old lieutenant who had the arrow nailed into his shoulder began to slow down the horse intentionally or unintentionally, breathing gently as the horse's back rose and fell.
The old man looked beyond the second infantry formation and looked further away. Out of the corner of his eye, he paid attention to the movement on the left and right sides. The cavalry army on the right wing of Beimang was about 2,000 people.
The old lieutenant shouted loudly: "Break through the left-hand half of the front line, and then just charge to the left, and let the Beimang reinforcement cavalry eat ashes behind our ass!"
With a distance of less than five hundred steps, the cavalry began to accelerate their charge.
The striker began to deviate to the left.
After several rounds of intensive arrow rain, the seven hundred tiger head city cavalrymen thinned half of their infantry formation and successfully rushed to the left. This time, they slammed into the third formation without reservation.
After the collision, except for the fifty or sixty cavalry who were still holding long spears, this cavalry army, which seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, began to change into Beiliang swords.
But this time, abandoning the gun and changing the knife, to this North