The iron wire rope is made by twisting several thin iron wires and hemp silk. Its strength is much higher than the most commonly used hemp rope in the world. It suddenly stops three or five galloping horses. There is really nothing to make a fuss about.
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Of course, if Xu Zan set up an ambush here, he could not expect that a few wire ropes would cause much damage to the captives.
The first iron wire rope was used to intercept the troop of horsemen in the ambush area, and then several iron wire ropes were buried under dead branches and leaves, with both ends connected to the saddles of the war horses.
After coming down, pull up quickly. In addition to disturbing the enemy's horse, the more important thing is to cut the enemy's horse in a short period of time, restrict its retreat, and disengage.
Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, the ambush troops in the woods on both sides came out. Relying on the cover of the trees, they frequently drew their strong bows and fired into the shallow valley.
Xu Tang had already thrown Zhu Hang into the grass beside him, and galloped back with his men, saying: "Zhou Dan, Gou Xiongpao, the six of you and the young man rush forward to kill him, while the others are behind with crossbows.
Support! Your eyes are so fucking wide open, stop staring at my butt!"
When the battle at Majian River was at its fiercest, Xu Zang's rear hip was injured by a stray arrow. He felt humiliated and did not forget to give a warning at this time.
Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, using bows and crossbows to close in and shoot is the most common strategy.
However, the captives are all elites who have been in battle for a long time, and a few iron ropes cannot disturb or restrict them for too long. Even the seven or eight captives who were tripped at the beginning were severely thrown off their horses, but they could not be restrained for too long.
Only one person was unlucky enough to directly hit a tree stump, and was suddenly hit by a fallen horse behind him. He was already dying. The others fell to the ground covered with dead branches and leaves, even if they didn't have time to release their force immediately after touching the ground.
, and it is impossible to suffer serious injuries.
However, they are still reluctant to abandon the war horses under their crotches. They are also afraid that if they abandon the war horses at this time, it will be difficult to distance themselves in a short time, and they will be shot by the horses. At this time, they just take off the shield, draw the sword, and block the attacks from both wings.
He was shooting while trying to cut off the wire rope that was stretched across his front and back.
However, they will soon come to their senses.
At this time, the captive soldiers are in the south of the city, and there are 200 cavalry in the west of the city, blocking the other two sides of Jianye City. When they hear the sound of the horn, they will divide their troops and come for reinforcements as soon as possible; the captive soldiers are on both sides of the Pogangdu River.
In the military camp, there are more than a thousand soldiers who can be quickly dispatched at any time.
The opportunity left for Xu Fang and the others to truly achieve more results was actually very short. Simply using bows and crossbows to approach, gallop, or accumulate fire would have very limited lethality.
The opponent is an elite who is good at riding and shooting. They are all wearing armor and have shields. Even if there is no cover around them, it will be very difficult to shoot against them. How much damage can they suffer in a short period of time?
Xu Zang wanted to take advantage of the fact that these captive soldiers were restrained by iron ropes, and they didn't even know the strength of the ambush soldiers. They were panicked and unable to effectively advance or retreat with their horses or form a formation to resist quickly. He directly led his men to catch up and kill them with their horses.
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"kill!"
The sharp blade, carrying the charge of the war horse, stabbed a prisoner in the neck angrily, and its momentum was like thunder.
This soldier had just been thrown off his horse, and his head was a little dazed. He was using his shield to block the arrows that were fired at him from both sides. He had been hit by several arrows in his arms and thighs. He was bleeding profusely and his fur robe was stained red.
But the arrow wound is not fatal yet, and it has not completely knocked him down.
When the soldier saw Xu Tan standing in front of him and rode up, he was not intimidated by Xu Tan's strong momentum. He was about to duck under the horse's kicked front hooves and use his knife to poke the horse's belly, but he didn't want to
The blade stabbed diagonally at a weird angle.
The soldiers didn't know that at this moment, Xu Zang's body sitting on the saddle leaned back to the right in an extremely exaggerated posture, allowing the blade to stab diagonally against the right chest of the horse, and he ran forward with great precision and skill.
He grabbed the soldier's neck and fled.
In one fell swoop, he cut off the neck of the prisoner who was trying to get into the horse's belly, but the force of the attack was not finished, and he swept it away to the outside and front without any hesitation - from the change of situation, we can see Xu Wei's attitude toward himself.
The stabbed out is full of confidence.
A cold arc-shaped sword light was like the moon appearing at night. The blade moved to the right and wiped the chest of another soldier who was attacking at the same time. In an instant, the armor, skin, flesh and blood, and white bones were all revealed;
The prisoner didn't even have time to raise his knife to block it. He looked down at his chest and abdomen in disbelief, just like that, he was cut open.
The six cavalrymen on the left and right were slightly slower than Xu Pang, but only a few steps behind. There were numerous spear shadows and thorns like a forest and a mountain.
Although the Luqi were all elite veterans who had been in battle for a long time and were good at riding and shooting, Xu Pang and others were stronger, not to mention that they were ambushed and scattered, leaving no time to fight back.
As for the generals of Xu Zan's level, there are no generals of sufficient level to fight alone, join forces to fight, or simply take human lives to fill the siege. If there are only seven or eight or a dozen ordinary elite soldiers to besiege,
It's not enough for him to see.
Seeing Xu Teng charging into the formation, Wu Chishi, who was in charge of the ambush on the flank, immediately divided the ambush troops into two groups. One group continued to shoot accurately with bows and crossbows, and the other group also directly charged forward and entered the formation in order to kill more efficiently.
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It was indeed true. The number of cavalry on the outside was several times that of theirs, and they were not far away. How could there be time for them to slowly shoot at each other with their bows and crossbows?
When the soldiers realized that the iron ropes were unusually capable of being cut and severed by swords, they realized that the ambush in front of them was most likely to be elites from Beijing and Xiangyang. They thought that they should no longer try to gather to resist, but should start from
When they dispersed among the iron ropes and escaped, there were already more than twenty corpses lying in a pool of blood in the shallow valley.
Seeing the captive soldiers scattering and escaping, dozens of captive cavalrymen rushed over to meet them in the distance. Xu Zan waved his hand to stop the pursuit, and no one else pursued them recklessly.
Although he was confident that he could defeat the dozens of newly reinforced cavalrymen, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no casualties here, nor could he allow time for a leisurely retreat before a large group of cavalrymen came up to encircle them.
In addition to twenty-seven corpses left by the Japanese soldiers in the shallow valley where they ambush, seven more Japanese soldiers were seriously injured by arrows or swords and fell on the way to retreat.
"Did you see that this is called an ambush?" Xu Fang joked with Wu Chishi.
"The scouts of the Red Huren are as smart as monkeys. How can they be so foolish as to bite the hook?" Wu Jishi said unconvinced, "Besides, where can I find a bait as good as Mr. Zhu Hang?"
Zhu Hang limped over, his face a bit ugly; he had just been thrown directly from the saddle into the grass by Xu Tan, and his butt was still aching. No matter how stupid he was at this time, he still understood what the bastard Xu Tan was.
Thinking of delivering a message for him, he was just using him as bait; but he thought that this bastard was the best to be deceived among the younger generation in Chushan.
"Zhu Gong, look at such a commotion, can the capital be able to guess that the envoy has arrived in Jianye?" Seeing Zhu Tong coming over with his horse and helping Zhu Hang to sit on the saddle, Xu Zang asked Zhu Hang with a grin.
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There were not many blocking trees in the shallow valley. The weather was fine at this time, the blue sky was cloudless, and the earth was so cold that it turned white. From here, they could see the city wall for seven or eight miles, and could vaguely see the defenders standing on the wall.
, presumably the guards on the city wall could also clearly see the ambush that had just occurred in the shallow valley.
A mere ambush battle that took place near Jianye City certainly cannot explain anything, but combined with the mobilization of soldiers crossing the river in the past few days, combined with Xu Huai's weird and unpredictable tactics and military style over the years, combined with the Chi Hu people's attack on Beijing
Xiang's scruples, Zhu Hang thought that Jingzhong should have some guesses, but at the same time he knew that Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan, even Zhou He, Gao Chunnian and others would never take action just because of their guesses.
Their characteristics were fully demonstrated during the two sieges of Bianliang City.
Although Zhu Hang still wanted to enter the city, he saw that all the nearby horsemen were disturbed. In a short time, there were four to five hundred horsemen who appeared outside the east city.
It's just a matter of not acting rashly because of the reality on the side.
Of course, the soldiers may have completely misjudged the reason why the Imperial Guards were stationary in the city. Perhaps it was because they had a tacit understanding with Xu Huai at Niushou Mountain. In this case, an ambush suddenly occurred in the east of Jianye City, which naturally made the soldiers even more nervous.
Dare to act rashly.
"There is a group of more than a hundred infantrymen coming from the east. Their armors are in tatters. They must have fled into the Baohua Mountains before, and they are coming over to help!" A cavalryman rode over to report.
It was not that the Suwei Forbidden Army did not completely fight against the Japanese soldiers crossing the river. They only fought several small-scale sniper battles in the first two days when the Japanese navy attacked Jianye. When they saw that more than a thousand soldiers were lost, Wang Boqian and Yang Maoyan
Not daring to fight any more, he impatiently ordered all the troops not to go to war, and even severely punished several generals who sent troops without permission, killing them ruthlessly for their restless behavior.
In addition, the Jianye Navy was severely defeated, and not all 20,000 navy generals were annihilated in just one day. Some of the navy even fled to Jizhou and Huangzhou, where Xu Huai was
Niushou Mountain also collected many defeated navy soldiers; it is normal for some of the defeated navy generals to flee into Baohua Mountain nearby, and there may even be more than those fleeing upriver.
However, Baohua Mountain and Niushou Mountain are one in the east and the other in the west. In the past few days, the soldiers have blocked the Caochang River again. Xu Huai was in Niushou Mountain and was not in a hurry to directly send a messenger to contact Baohua Mountain - Baohua Mountain is far away from Jianye.
It is closer, developed earlier, and no military stronghold has been set up.
"Come on, let's go over quickly and intercept them. We don't need them to rush over to join in the fun now," Xu Tan said.
They have war horses and can advance and retreat quickly, but the imperial infantry are coming from Baohua Mountain. Once they are targeted by the captive cavalry, it will be difficult to withdraw calmly; they have to be intercepted before they leave the foothills of Baohua Mountain.
