In order to prevent Jing Man from discovering the ambush in the city in advance, the two wide and thick city gates were only slightly opened. In this way, the outside could not see the inside of the city, and the inside of the city could not see the outside situation.
There was a hint of nervousness on his serious, dark and simple face, his eyes fixed on the half-opened city gate, and the hand holding the sword was covered in sweat.
Liu Jing was also a little nervous, but he looked calm and calm and asked with a smile: "Is this the first time Bomu has experienced war?"
He nodded solemnly. When he was the city warden, the most he could do was to catch lawless people. Following Liu Jing to capture the district hero and his gang members was the biggest scene he had ever experienced. However, compared with what he encountered today, it was insignificant. A big witch.
In fact, Zheng Zheng was not the only one who was feeling nervous. Even Liu Zhu, who was in charge of the fleet and was used to the wind and rain, and Yu Zheng, who was a ranger and was capable of killing people, were also nervous at this moment. After all, the person they were about to fight was the legendary one. Jing Man is a wild man by nature, brave and good at fighting.
Wang Qiang, on the other hand, looked particularly calm. Liu Jing nodded secretly, thinking that he was indeed a "gambler" and indeed had extraordinary courage.
Last year, Wang Qiang led his fleet back north. When he was besieged by Jingman in the waters of Lingxian County, he made a decisive decision to abandon the sunken ship and break out of the encirclement. It seemed ruthless, but it was the best choice at the time.
If it had been anyone else, the loss might have been more than just one cargo ship. This is why Liu Jing did not blame Wang Qiang at all afterwards.
"We will win this battle." Liu Jing said confidently, and then he looked slightly startled. Only then did he realize that his brother Liu Liang was missing.
"Where is Ziming?" Consultant Liu Jing asked.
"Ziming followed Brother Ma out of the city." Liu Zhu replied cautiously.
"Nonsense!" Liu Jing's expression suddenly changed when he heard this, and he said angrily: "He has just turned sixteen this year, has not fully grown up, and his skills are not good. How can he go to the battlefield to fight against the Jingman?"
Liu Jing had high hopes for Liu Liang and regarded him as his "horse of a thousand miles" and carefully trained him in the hope that he could become his right-hand man in the future. If he died halfway, not to mention wasting all his efforts, it would also be a huge loss to him.
However, Liu Jing soon stopped caring about Liu Liang, because Jing Man was already "close at hand".
More than three hundred Jingman arrived outside the moat. Since Hengshan Township is located on the west bank of the Xiang River, the Han people took advantage of the favorable conditions and diverted the Xiang River as a moat, which was thirteen or four feet wide.
While Jing Man was waiting, densely packed heads suddenly appeared on the city wall. With a cry of killing, bows and crossbows rang out, and arrows rained down.
Since the city gate of Hengshan Township was open, the Jing barbarians relaxed their vigilance and were completely unprepared. They were attacked intensively by arrows from the city. The people in the front row fell to the ground in pieces like cut wheat.
Scar-faced Jingman was so angry that he flew into a rage and cursed angrily: "Han dogs have no faith! Shameless! Today we will slaughter this city! Kill all the Han dogs! Kill them!"
This time, no one in Jing Man retreated, and under the leadership of Scarface and other leaders, they rushed towards the city gate along the moat bridge.
It's not that the Jingman people didn't think that there might be an ambush in the city, but they didn't care. What they were afraid of was that the Han people would occupy the city and defend it. They were not good at attacking the city and could only look at the city and sigh. Now the Han people gave up their advantage and opened the city gate themselves, no matter what was behind them. They are fearless of any conspiracy.
The Jingman soldiers held up their spears and braved the rain of arrows. With their bare feet, they howled all the way to the city. They crowded into a ball and opened the city gate.
The first thing that caught Jing Man's eyes were rows of Han soldiers wearing hoods, iron armor, and holding halberds. They stood twenty steps away, silent, and prepared.
The Jingman who were still outside the city did not know what was going on inside. They were constantly being attacked by crossbows from the city. They raised their crossbows to fight back while pushing forward.
The situation did not allow the Jingman in the front row to hesitate, either proactively or passively to attack the opponent.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Before the Jingman men could charge far, they suffered heavy casualties. Not only were they attacked from the front and back by the opposing military formations and the city, but there were also a large number of crossbowmen ambushed on the walls on the left and right sides. Arrows were fired from all directions, such as
Attacked like a ****, even if the Jingman raised their spears to defend themselves, they were still killed and wounded in a mess.
Scarfaced Jingman rushed to the front and received the biggest attack. Even though the wooden stick in his hand blocked most of the attacks, he was hit by two arrows in the chest. The wound hurt like a needle prick, and blood rushed to his throat.
He could hardly breathe.
The scar-faced Jingman knew that he was seriously injured and had little life to live. His eyes were bloodshot and his canthus was about to burst, so he howled to his heart's content and attacked the Han people's tight military formation.
"boom!"
The scar-faced Jingman used the last strength of his life and slammed into the Han wall. The next moment, his body was cut into pieces by several halberds, and he fell to the ground like a rag doll.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
The Jingman who followed Scarface hit the Han wall one after another like a tide, and Xuan'er was easily killed by the spear and halberd behind him.
The desperate charge they made at the cost of their lives was not in vain. The Han people's wall suddenly became uneven and had many gaps. However, the gap between the equipment of the two sides, especially the protective gear, was so huge that it was like a world of difference.
Otherwise, even if the Jing Man behind rushes into the gap, it will be difficult to expand the victory, and they will be killed by the Han army in a blink of an eye.
Although the Jing Man were barbaric and aggressive, they were not completely fearless. When hundreds of their companions fell under the walls of the Han people, there were currently less than two hundred who could still fight, and they lost nearly 100,000 yuan.
Half a day later, looking at the still tight walls of the Han people and the arrows flying everywhere, Jing Man couldn't help but feel his liver and gallbladder split, his courage was gone, and he turned around and ran away.
"We won." Liu Jing, who was standing at the back, couldn't help but smile like a winner when he saw this.
Seriously, he breathed a long sigh of relief and commented: "They are indeed barbarians. Although they are brave, they are still brave."
Liu Jing nodded and said: "Yes, Jingman's bravery ultimately harmed themselves. If they can retreat decisively when they discover there is a trap in the city, even if we can win, we will not be able to achieve full success."
Compared with entering the city, the Jingmans paid a much higher price when leaving the city, because after the defeat, the barbarians panicked and scrambled for their lives, and could no longer maintain their formation. As a result, the casualties became even more heavy.
The Jingman people who had escaped from the city swarmed onto the bridge. In the panic, some people were sometimes pushed off the bridge and fell into the moat. Their fate was either drowning or being shot by the Han people on the city wall.
In the end, the number of Jingman who escaped to the "safe zone" was less than a hundred, and almost all of them were injured. There was a big mountain not far from the outskirts of Hengshan Township. As long as they escaped into the mountain, they would be safe.
However, at this moment, there was a thunderous sound of horse hooves, and dozens of Han armored knights, with spears and swords raised, came fiercely from the west.