Approaching the position, Li Xingchen didn't hesitate much. The cavalry rushed directly over the hillside and went around to the back of the valley. There was a gentle slope to go up the mountain, and there was an open place halfway up the mountain where the horses could rest.
And Niu Tong immediately greeted him: "General!"
"Is everything arranged?"
"Everything follows the general's command!"
Li Xingchen nodded slightly and walked quickly up the hillside. His position was set up on two trenches. The half-man-high parapet was enough for Li Xingchen to observe and defend. Li Xingchen's flag was flying behind him, as if to tell Yu Yi that as long as
If he can rush to this place, victory will belong to him. Cheng Feng and a famous soldier arrayed along the parapet. They are Li Xingchen's last support, and at this distance, it is difficult for the Northern Zhou army to directly hurt them.
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Yu Yi's attack came very quickly. Obviously, he didn't intend to give Li Xinchen any more opportunities to rest and improve his defense. Li Xinchen was known to be good at defense. But after all, it was his first attack, so Yu Yi was still cautious enough.
The hand is in front, the crossbowman is in the middle, and the spearman is in the back. It is a standard offensive lineup.
For Yu Xi, who is the forward, it is obvious that he is far less calm than his father who gave the order. The defense line in front of him gives him a strange feeling. It is not that everyone has seen trenches and wooden piles, but trenches usually appear in places.
Outside the city, the wooden piles were used to resist cavalry. Now Li Xingchen actually let his people lie down in the ditch and set up a large number of wooden piles on the hillside. This made Yu Xi unable to understand.
What does it mean?
The hillside where the wooden stakes are set up is still some distance away from the first line of defense on the mountain, so at least when entering the wooden stake area, Yu Xi does not have to worry about being attacked by crossbows on the mountain. In fact, the horse-riding crossbows commonly used in the northwest are
At this time, the Northern Zhou army had already entered the shooting range. However, there were too few powerful crossbows in Li Xingchen's hands. Most of them were homemade bows and arrows. Arrows in twos and threes could hardly pose any threat to the enemy. Instead, it was better to wait.
The enemy is closer.
Yu Xi was about to bypass the first two wooden stakes when a scream suddenly came from in front of him. The soldiers walking on Yu Xi's left and right stepped into the traps at the same time. All of these traps were shallow pits with barbs inserted into them. The soldiers
If you stepped in, you would almost die or be injured. And soon similar situations appeared around you. Yu Xi stopped immediately and looked at the grass in front of him. Just now, he didn't think there was anything strange about this, but now he suddenly realized
I realized that I was only a hair away from death.
"Quick, follow their path up!"
A battle leader obviously noticed the clue and shouted.
The suddenly panicked team moved again, but they were obviously much more cautious than before. Teams of soldiers carefully groped their way up, and the winding path made them tremble with fear.
At this time, Li Xingchen on the hillside waved his hand decisively.
The arrows roared, and the short spears followed closely, rushing towards the intersection of several roads!
The sudden arrows suddenly confused the soldiers who were climbing up carefully. Arrows kept whizzing into their chests. Many soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty screamed and fell down the hillside. Moreover, they had been walking along a path before.
The road goes up, and when one person rolls down, he soon drags the people behind him with him. In an instant, all the mountain roads are in chaos!
Arrows were still pouring down, but Yu Xi gritted his teeth, picked up his shield, and rushed forward with his body bent. The arrows hit the shield with a "pop". Yu Xi only felt that the shield was getting heavier and heavier, and he didn't know what was above it.
No matter how many arrows were inserted, he could only grit his teeth and continue upward. At this moment, a short spear hit the shield with a loud "bang", and Yu Xi immediately grunted and staggered back.
Fortunately, the guards behind and beside him had quick eyesight and quick hands, and stepped forward to support him, while the other two guards came over in a hurry to cover Yu Xi with their shields.
At this time, some soldiers could no longer stand the stalemate and jumped out of the path. However, before he could take a few steps forward, he fell directly into the trap with a groan. The traps at the foot of the mountain were relatively sparse, and
On the mountainside, especially near the end of the wooden piles, the traps were extremely dense and almost connected around the road. Soon the soldiers fell in and there was no sound.
I don't know which soldier reacted first and stepped directly over the trap on his own body. However, before he could take a few steps forward, he fell into a new trap. The barb at the bottom of the pit would soon be gone.
took his life.
The arrows on the hillside rested for a moment, and then came more fiercely. The infantrymen held nothing more than ordinary round shields, which could not cover all parts of their bodies, especially Yu Xi's personal guards, who had more
They all focused on helping Yu Xi block the arrows, but he didn't do much to block them, so soon several of the guards in front of Yu Xi were hit by arrows and fell down.
"Major General, retreat quickly!" One of the guards shouted loudly, regardless of the arrow stuck in his back.
At this time, Yu Xi gritted his teeth and pointed to the trap that had been stepped on: "Don't panic, let's rush up from this place!"
As he spoke, Yu Xi jumped into the pit and stepped on several corpses to move forward with difficulty. The guards behind him did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly followed and surpassed Yu Xi. After crossing the two pits,
No one had set foot in it before. One of the guards gritted his teeth and rushed forward first, and soon fell into a new trap. Behind him, Yu Xi hardly hesitated at all, stepping on the body of the guard and climbing up with difficulty.
out of this sizable trap.
There was already stone ground in front of him, and there was no such frightening barren grassland. Yu Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently, the enemies on the hillside also discovered him, and arrows whizzed towards him. Fortunately, Yu Xi was beside him.
Several of his personal guards reacted quickly enough and rushed forward to block the situation. More soldiers began to follow suit, but most of them did not have the consciousness to sacrifice for the Major General like Yu Xi's personal guards.
No one was willing to move forward when they were crowded next to the pit. For a while, they became a living target for the crossbowmen on the hillside. In the end, the soldiers behind directly pushed all the corpses of the people in front into the pit before they could continue to move forward.
Compared with someone taking the initiative to step forward to create a path, this way of progress requires more sacrifices every time. However, these corpses were pushed into the pit and the pit that was not too deep was quickly filled up, and the following
Naturally, people do not need to climb up and down like Yu Xi, it can even be said to be "walking on flat ground".
Standing at the foot of the hillside, Yu Yi almost had his teeth broken as he watched his soldiers advance with such difficulty.
This is building a "road" with life.
At this time, Li Xingchen on the hillside said nothing.
What appeared before his eyes was Chi Guoguo's dark side of human nature. (To be continued)