Ke Dan looked at the newly closed door of Yuguan and cursed: "Damn it!"
Wuli asked strangely: "Uncle Dan, what's wrong?"
But Dan gritted his teeth and said: "The door is closed and sealed."
Wu Li didn't understand, so he asked again: "Aren't they closed for construction these days? We all know that. Is there any problem?"
Ke Dan explained: "The problem is that it was too fast. A few days ago, we just built the scaffolding, but overnight, the door was sealed. It means that they were just pretending a few days ago and wanted me to think they were not afraid."
Wu Li said: "But Uncle Dan is saying that they have a guilty conscience?"
But Dan said bitterly: "That's right! It seems that there are not many people in Yuguan. If I had known earlier, I should have led people to charge their array that day... Damn it..."
Wuli didn't have so many regrets. Hearing that there were few soldiers in Yuguan, he couldn't help but feel excited: "Then let's attack the city!"
Ke Dan nodded and signaled behind him. A group of cavalry dismounted and divided into two teams of ten people each. One team came to the foot of the hill where the fortress was located, and the other team came to Juma under Guancheng. The two teams
Everyone was holding a bow and arrow. After entering the position, they took off the quiver from behind, took out the arrows in the quiver one by one, and inserted them into the ground at their feet.
Li Chengzhong lay on the crenellation of the pass wall and looked down carefully, sizing up the Khitans attacking the city. After careful counting, the Khitans attacking Yuguan totaled more than 730 people, according to their equipment and horses.
Look, more than 340 of them are regular soldiers, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers.
"What is this going to do?" Li Chengzhong asked Zhang Xingzhong who was standing aside.
Zhang Xing took a deep breath and said: "It looks like... we are about to attack the city. This is the Khitan archers preparing."
"We're about to attack the city now? There's no cloud chariot... no door-rushing chariot... no archery tower... nothing..." Li Chengzhong was speechless, looking at the five wooden frames lying at the feet of the auxiliary soldiers behind the Khitan formation.
Ladder: "Is it just those wooden ladders?"
Zhang Xing nodded: "It seems...that's really the case..."
Li Chengzhong couldn't believe it. When he saw several passages emerging from the Khitan army formation and the auxiliary soldiers carrying wooden ladders arriving outside Juma, he was really sure that the opponent was really going to attack the city, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
: "It seems that the previous worries were really unnecessary."
Since a Khitan military camp was re-erected outside the pass yesterday evening, preparations for defending the city have been stepped up in Yuguan. Due to tight time and limited conditions, all the original defensive equipment in Yuguan were burned by the Khitans, so Li Chengzhong
There was no way to make fire oil cans, racket poles and the like. We could only order people to set up fire stoves on the towers and boil several large pots of boiling water, preparing to pour the boiling water down in case of emergency. In addition, there was a pile of fire on the wall.
Some stones can also have the effect of hitting people. From last night to this morning, the scene when the Lulong Army attacked Weizhou flashed in his mind. If those huge siege equipment were used to attack Yuguan, Yuguan is now
Under certain conditions, Li Chengzhong was really helpless.
However, since there were only a few wooden ladders, Li Chengzhong felt relieved. But the next development surprised Li Chengzhong. It is true that the Khitan people are nomads, and it is true that they do not have large siege equipment, but if you can rest assured,
It is completely taken for granted. In fact, the Khitan's secret to siege the city is very simple, which is to rely on accurate archers to suppress it from a distance to ensure that manpower can be delivered to the top of the city. Such a simple method has made Yuguan City inaccessible.
The Pingzhou Army suffered a lot of losses.
The places where the resisting horses were set up under the pass were marked by Li Chengzhong as areas seven, eight, and nine. When the Khitans began to move the resisting horses, Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao on the fortress divided into two groups and started covering the shooting according to the previous drill.
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Meng Xuxing commanded the first group. He loudly ordered his ten archers to string their arrows, and then shouted: "Eight!" The ten archers showed their heads at the same time and shot towards Area 8. Ten arrows covered the area.
In Area 8, seven of them were shot in the open space, and three of them hit the Khitan auxiliary soldiers who were moving their horses. Two of them did not hurt anyone due to the angle and strength, and only one shot in the
On the arm of an auxiliary soldier. The auxiliary soldier yelled, covered his arm and retreated.
The first round of feather arrows was able to shoot down one person. Li Chengzhong was quite satisfied with the effect, but what worried him was that the first group of archers on the fortress also suffered losses. Just when they showed up to shoot arrows,
The group of Khitan archers under the fortress also fired arrows from their bowstrings. These arrows were not only powerful, but also extremely accurate. Two of them scattered the bridles of the Pingzhou Army archers on the fortress, frightening them.
The two archers screamed, thinking they had been hit by arrows, and stayed there numbly, with pale faces. They were dragged to the ground by their companions, thus avoiding becoming the target of the next round of arrows from the Khitan people.
. Three more arrows passed by the ears of two archers, only a few inches away from hitting the target. The other two arrows hit the chest of an archer from the Pingzhou Army, shooting the man down on the spot. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead!
This kind of accuracy was so amazing that Li Chengzhong's lips were a little dry and he couldn't help but swallow. In fact, only six of the ten Khitan archers fired arrows. The other four did not find a good opportunity due to the angle, so they did not fire.
Bow. They moved a few steps to the side, and then continued to stand calmly, looking up at the fortress, always ready for the next round of shooting.
Li Chengzhong hurriedly called Wang Dalang over, ordered him to go to the fortress, and ordered Meng Xu
To win, you must interfere with the Khitan archers' accuracy at all costs.
Li Chengzhong did not have high expectations for his new recruits. He believed that with the ability of the Khitan archers, it was a luxury to successfully suppress the opponents in archery, so he simply ordered the defenders on Guancheng to retreat slightly.
The last step was to avoid the Khitan's long-range attack. In other words, he decided to put the Khitan on Guancheng to fight. According to the previous deployment and rehearsal, the spearmen would resist the enemy's soldiers who boarded the city, and the sword and shield soldiers would make up for the defensive gap.
loopholes.
By the time Wang Dalang conveyed Li Chengzhong's order to the fortress, Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao had already directed their men to shoot three rounds at areas seven, eight, and nine. The result of these three rounds was that they shot down two Khitan auxiliary soldiers.
Three of them were wounded themselves. So Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao changed the target of attack according to Li Chengzhong's order, and started shooting at each other with the Khitan archers. Because they had to avoid the arrows shot from the fortress, the Khitan archers' accuracy was also compromised.
, is no longer as accurate as before.
The other pair of Khitan archers under Guancheng have not fired an arrow yet. They are staring at Guancheng, looking for the target. The Khitan's long-range suppression tactics worked, and the auxiliary soldiers quickly cleared away the resisting horses under Guancheng and carried them with them.
Wooden ladders were set up on the wall. A group of Khitan soldiers quickly drove under the wooden ladders, and one person climbed on each wooden ladder.
Li Chengzhong put the first team of spearmen led by Zhang Xingzhong on Guancheng, two by two, holding wooden guns and staring closely at the crenellations. He himself retreated to the gate tower, where the burned remains had been cleared away.
A small open space was left, where he and Zhou Qidao were waiting with thirty sword and shield players. In the school field under Guancheng, Jiang Miao led another team of spearmen and reserve teams to rest.
The Khitan people built five wooden ladders on the Guan wall. Five Khitan soldiers held sharp knives in their mouths and climbed with both hands. They quickly reached the top of the wooden ladder. This position was at the same level as the Guan wall, at the low wall between the two crenels.
The Khitan soldier paused for a moment at the top of the wooden ladder, put the saber in his mouth into his hand, then put strength under his feet and jumped in directly.
Liu Jinhou is a Han refugee from outside the customs. He grew up by the Bailang River. The Khitan people came here a month ago. He could only take his elderly father and gentle wife and leave the land that his family had cultivated for decades.
, fled to Pingzhou and enlisted in the Pingzhou Army. The reason why he chose to be a soldier was not only that the Pingzhou Army could get three rations to feed his father and wife, but also the hatred for the Khitan people in his heart.
and his reluctance to leave his family's land. Although the Pingzhou Governor's Office granted him fifty acres of wasteland at the foot of Jieshi Mountain, Bai Langshui, whose father had lived with him for decades, still often appeared in his dreams, causing him to often dream about it at midnight.
return.
What Li Dutou said that day was right. After escaping from Yuguan, where else could he go? Instead of continuing to escape, it is better to fight for his life here. Maybe, as Li Dutou said, he could fight back outside the pass and regain himself.
Where is their home? Therefore, Liu Jinhou worked very hard during these two days of training. His hard work was noticed by the team leader Zhong Silang, who made him the commander.
Liu Jinhou stared at the low wall between the two crenels and held his breath. He saw a black shadow flash out. The speed was so fast and violent. He was so nervous that he almost shouted out, but the repeated training in these two days made him
The shouts were swallowed back until the figure came out and jumped in...
"Kill!" Liu Jinhou shouted loudly, and thrust the wooden spear in his hand into the chest. Because it was his first actual combat, the tip of the spear he thrust out was not accurate. On the contrary, it deflected upward and stabbed the Khitan man's chest.
Right shoulder.
The Khitan man did not raise a shield as he had guessed in the previous training, but only had a saber. However, the Khitan man reacted quickly, and instantly raised his sword to block, knocking out Liu Jinhou's wooden spear. He was about to swing
The knife was downwards, slashing Liu Jinhou to death in the chest with the door wide open in front of him, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his thigh, and he suddenly became unsteady and fell forward.
Liu Jinhou's companions stood on one side of the crenel. The Khitan's eyes were attracted by Liu Jinhou in front of him, so they did not notice the wooden spear he thrust at him. When Liu Jinhou and his companions saw the Khitan man lying at their feet, they hurriedly waved the wooden spear in their hands.
The gun was used as a wooden stick, and he smashed it down on the head and face. Several sticks hit the back of the Khitan man's head, and the Khitan man fainted immediately. Liu Jinhou woke up when he saw that the Khitan man had stopped moving, and quickly turned the gun head and gave it to the Khitan man.
The man was heartbroken. Liu Jinhou, who killed the Khitan man, and his companions looked at each other. They were breathing heavily, and the palms of their hands holding the guns were soaked.
Wu Li watched the five warriors from his tribe quickly climb up the wooden ladder, and then leap into the city with their swords in hand. He felt excited. But then, he only heard some faint shouts, and there was no movement on the city.
So he tugged on Kedan's sleeves and asked, "Uncle Kedan, how come there are five people in there..."
Ke Dan frowned and stared at the city with wide eyes. The city was quiet, and there seemed to be no reaction at all. Could it be that all five people were killed in an instant? Impossible, those were five elite members of the Division.
Warriors, no matter what you say, you can't fail to stir up a wave! Seeing the archers under Guancheng with their bows ready to shoot at any time, they also looked at each other, as if they didn't know what was happening on the top of the city, but Dan simply gritted his teeth and waved his hand.
, the Khitan soldiers waiting at the foot of Guancheng immediately continued to climb up the wooden ladder. This time, the first person to climb had just reached the top of the wooden ladder, and the second person followed him up the ladder. Two people climbed up a wooden ladder at the same time,
This is already the maximum bearing capacity of the ladder. If one more person is added, the wooden ladder will not be able to support it.