Taking a deep breath, Hu Limu stared at the group of Ming soldiers who suddenly appeared outside the city gate, gritted his teeth and said: "Let's take a look first. If there are not many people, we will rush out. If..."
Outside the city gate, Sun Qiu was leading the way, with thousands of people and horses behind him blocking the direction of the city gate. Looking from inside the city gate, he could only see a dark mass of people and horses outside the city gate.
Miao Yuan, the head of the Lu family and others fled into the city in great embarrassment, with lingering fears. Only about one-third of the servants who were walking in front and out of the city gate first escaped now.
return.
However, these servants who escaped were greatly stimulated one by one. Some of them went crazy and howled like headless flies and ran towards the Tatars behind them.
Seeing the frightened servant running over, Hu Limu was simmering with anger in his heart. Seeing this, he couldn't help but swung his sword and chopped one of the servants to the ground.
When the other Tatar soldiers saw this, they also followed suit. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen servants were killed on the spot. Miao Yuan and others were so frightened that they stopped and did not dare to get too close to Hu Limu and others.
, for fear of being hacked to death by Hu Limu and others.
After looking around, Miao Yuan and the other family heads looked at each other, gritted their teeth and ran into the night along the roadside.
Hu Limu and the others saw Miao Yuan and his group escaping into the night but did not stop them. With squinting eyes, Hu Limu looked at a deputy general beside him and said: "Take a team of troops and go to test for me how many Ming troops there are outside the city."
people?"
Hu Limu had no other choice. At this moment, he still hoped to rush out from the south city gate. After all, if he changed direction and went to the east and west city gates, those two gates would also be guarded by Ming soldiers.
So instead of spending time changing direction, it is better to keep hope in front of you.
When the general heard this, he couldn't help but show a look of fear on his face. He was not a fool. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty outside the city blocked the city gate, completely blocking their way. What happened to those servants before?
They saw it with their own eyes.
Especially now at the gate of the city, the dense arrows nailed hundreds of corpses to the ground, and the smell of blood filled the air, which could not be more dazzling.
At this moment, Hu Limu actually asked him to lead a team to attack the Ming army outside the city gate. This was a mission with a narrow escape from death. Unless he was extremely lucky, he might be shot into a hornet's nest as soon as he went out.
But looking at Hu Limu's stunned face, especially the bloody scimitar in Hu Limu's hand, the deputy general couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart. He could guarantee that if he refused, the scimitar in Hu Limu's hand would be the next moment.
It will hit him.
Gritting his teeth, the lieutenant nodded to Hulimu and shouted loudly, followed by hundreds of people behind him and rushed towards the city gate.
Sun Qiu, who was guarding outside the city gate, was naturally aware of Hu Limu's group. The previous wave of arrows scared Miao Yuan and others away, so Sun Qiu was fully prepared.
If Hu Limu and his party retreated, Sun Qiu would definitely catch up immediately and pursue them one after another. However, Hu Limu and his party had no intention of retreating, so Sun Qiu would not rush forward rashly.
The ground shook, and a bright light flashed in Sun Qiu's eyes, staring at the city gate. Behind him, more than a thousand archers bent their bows and set arrows to lock the city gate.
When a group of Tatar soldiers rushed out of the city gate, they heard Sun Qiu's indifferent shout: "Shoot!"
Almost in an instant, thousands of arrows fell together. Originally, there were only a few hundred soldiers. With this wave of arrows, almost 60 to 70% of the Tatar soldiers were shot dead on the spot. Even if it was a fluke,
Many of the soldiers who escaped the disaster had arrows stuck in their bodies, but they just did not fall off their horses.
After a wave of arrows, there were only a hundred or so Tatar soldiers left who had barely escaped falling from their horses.
Most of the more than a hundred cavalrymen were injured. They rushed forward and were about to attack the Ming army. But at this moment, the archers ducked to both sides and shouted at the same time. Then they saw a
A spear almost ten feet long thrust forward like a forest.
Pfft, pfft
If thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charge, the spear array may not be very effective, but now there are only a few hundred Tatar cavalry left, and these hundreds of people are almost
In an instant, he was pierced by the forest of spears.
In the blink of an eye, the Tatars sent by Hu Limu to test Sun Qiu and the Ming soldiers were completely wiped out.
Hu Limu saw this scene clearly, but Hu Limu did not show any sadness at the sacrifice of his men. Instead, he showed a bit of a sneer.
There was a bit of a sneer on Hu Limu's lips. The lieutenant did indeed die in battle, but in Hu Limu's view, his death in battle was not meaningless.
At least it allowed him to see clearly the specific strength of the Ming Dynasty.
Just like Xu Tianzuo's troops who guarded the city gate at the north city gate before, the lethality they showed was too strong.
Under that situation, even Hu Limu couldn't guarantee that the people he led could rush out of the city gate. But now when facing Sun Qiu's troops, Hu Limu was keenly aware that he would stop at the south city gate.
There were not too many soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty.
Although there were many archers, at least he sent hundreds of them, and more than a hundred people rushed to the Ming army formation. This was what made him most excited.
What the cavalry feared the most was to be shot dead without even getting close to the enemy, especially since Ming Dynasty had always relied on firearms to deal with the cavalry, and just now he had not seen any trace of firearms at all.
In Hu Limu's mind, the threat posed by Sun Qiu's men was naturally greatly reduced, which at least gave Hu Limu some hope of killing them.
Sun Qiu frowned when he heard Hu Limu's laughter coming from the city, and said in a deep voice: "Soldiers, get ready for battle!"
As a general, Sun Qiu could naturally hear the tenacious fighting spirit revealed in Hu Limu's laughter, and naturally ordered his men to prepare immediately.
I saw a group of soldiers coming out from behind the spearmen. In their hands, the black holes of the guns were pointed at the city gate. More than a thousand archers on both sides were also locked at the city gate.
It can be said that Sun Qiu's firepower output troops are all ready at this moment.
The ground shook, and just by listening to the movement, one could tell that the number of cavalry in this wave was not large at all.
Hu Limu still has nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses, but after the wave just now, Hu Limu only has about 2,000 people left.
However, these are more than 2,000 cavalry. Once they charge, the momentum will be very astonishing. It is really placed on the plain. Even if more than 10,000 infantry encounter thousands of cavalry, they will only be able to parry.
Fortunately, these Tatar cavalry are in the city. If the city gate can accommodate pedestrians, the city gate can be considered spacious. However, for the cavalry who need enough space to spread out, the width of the city gate is only a few feet.
But it seemed too narrow, not enough for the cavalry to spread out.
But even so, the soldiers under Hu Limu also beat the horses under them crazily and charged towards the outside of the city.
Without Sun Qiu's orders, the soldiers who had already kept an eye on the city gate responded one by one.
I saw a hail of arrows directly covering it, and dozens or hundreds of Tatar soldiers fell directly. Although the fall of these soldiers had a certain impact on the Tatar soldiers who rushed out from behind, these Tatar soldiers were really
He was so fierce that he didn't care whether his companions fell off their horses in front of him, and directly urged the horse under him to rush forward in an unstoppable manner.
Boom, boom, boom
Along with a roaring sound, hundreds of muskets were fired in the smoke, and suddenly there was a scream.
The Tatar cavalry who had been lucky enough to escape the baptism of arrows had not yet had a smile on their faces. The result was a flash of fire, followed by severe pain in their bodies, and they fell off their horses one by one.
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After being showered with arrows and intercepted by fire cannons, only a few war horses were able to rush forward.
Although the sudden display of firearms was a bit beyond Hulimu's expectation, Hulimu could probably tell by just listening to the sound of the firecrackers that there were not that many firecrackers and archers outside the city. As long as they were willing to charge, they might not be able to escape.
hope.
Hu Limu hid among the large group of people and shouted loudly: "Come on! God bless you!"
"Blessed by the eternal God!"
"Blessed by the eternal God!"
A Tatar soldier rushed out of the city gate like crazy. Although they were greeted by a rain of arrows, these soldiers didn't care too much and just rushed forward.
Sun Qiu couldn't help but frowned when he saw this situation.
If he had known that the Tatars would rush out from the south gate, then he would definitely have left all his archers and muskets here at the south gate.
After all, he divided his muskets and archers into three parts to guard three city gates respectively. This naturally dispersed his own strength.
Otherwise, all the archers and muskets are here, and those who guard Hu Limu's men will never be able to rush to the front of the formation.
"Shield bearer, spear bearer, enter!"
There was a crash, and more than two thousand soldiers stepped forward.
A heavy banging sound of collision came, and rows of soldiers holding shields in front were violently rushed away by the cavalry. The Tatars who rushed into the formation howled and waved their bent weapons crazily.
Knives, and some even shot arrows out of their hands.
The casualties finally appeared. One shield bearer fell to the ground and one spear bearer was beheaded.
[Something has delayed it, there will be an update soon]
