Northern Dynasties

Chapter 478
It was another peaceful morning, and the soldiers on guard at night on the top of the city yawned and rubbed their sleepy eyes, secretly rejoicing in their hearts.

As guards guarding border towns in the Eastern Dynasty, their tasks are also not easy, especially since Hou Jing's rebellion, while guarding against sneak attacks from the west, they also have to be vigilant about the rear, and each of them has suffered in their hearts. Great pressure.

Some of the guards here are elite Jinyang soldiers stationed by Jinyang, and some are local people in Heluo.But no matter what their backgrounds were, in order to prevent them from fleeing to the enemy, a military order had been issued many days ago to transfer their wives, children, and family members to the rear of the city, and at the same time allow them to defend the city and fight without distraction.

It took a long time until the sky brightened, and the smoke rising from the city had cleared away, and the armored soldiers who changed their defenses came to the top of the city belatedly.The already hungry soldiers on the top of the city were able to disarm and disarm, and went down to the top of the city to go home for dinner.

However, this tranquility was soon broken. Accompanied by the urgent and noisy warning drums and horns from the guard post outside the city, a group of armored soldiers was running along the river valley from the east. While running, they kept shouting violently. Voice.

Some soldiers at the guard posts along the river valley were hacked to the ground by the sudden appearance of the enemy soldiers before they could withdraw to the city. The bloody scene immediately made the heart beat faster and the spirit tense up.

"What's going on? How did these enemy soldiers come from the east? Could it be that Guancheng has already..."

The guards who had just climbed to the top of the city were also shocked at the moment. Although they saw only a few hundred enemy soldiers, because the enemy attack happened too suddenly, and the enemy appeared in an unexpected direction, they were shocked for a while. I can't help but panic.

At this time, a city guard general quickly climbed to the top of the city, looked down for a while, and then shouted loudly: "Quick, hurry up and act as a warning!"

There are many peaks and ridges in the Xiaoshan Mountains, and the effect of the beacon warning is not very good, but it is also one of the few methods that can quickly deliver military emergency reports to distant friendly forces.

While the enemy army continued to rush towards the city, many soldiers defending the city quickly climbed to the top of the city under the guidance and urging of the commanders. However, it will take some time to establish an effective defensive counterattack line.

Because in the past period of time, their main defense was the enemy from the upper reaches of the valley and water in the west, so bows, knives, arrows, arrows, earthworks and other equipment and materials were also stored in the west of the city in case the enemy attacked directly, but they didn't want the enemy to come from the east. Although there are not many of them, the east gate, which is poorly arranged, seems to be exposed to the enemy.

"It is necessary to prevent the thieves from suspecting the soldiers. Just take enough equipment and materials, and don't transport them out indiscriminately!"

A short and stocky general with a saber in his hand came quickly to the west of the warehouse, and shouted to the commanders who led the soldiers here to pick up the ordnance. His name was Xu Wei, and he was an experienced Beizhen veteran. He didn't lose his footing because of the sudden enemy attack. He still had a plan in mind, and soon thought of a possibility.

This person's voice hadn't finished, as if in response to him, there was a loud warning sound outside the west city.Xu Wei's expression also changed when he heard the sound. While ordering the department to supervise the use of military equipment, he ordered people to continue to gather the soldiers in the city to stand by, and he quickly boarded the top of the west city.

The west side was originally the position where the defenders focused on guarding and deploying. A garrison was even set up at the mouth of the valley with [-] soldiers stationed there to resist the enemy.

So even though the warning sound had been sounded for a while, there was still no trace of the enemy in his field of vision, but Xu Wei could tell from the more rapid and dense sound of the warning drum that there were a lot of enemies.

Taking advantage of the fact that the invading enemy was still blocked by the West Valley Garrison, Xu Wei quickly ordered a group of soldiers to go out and deal with the fortifications such as the ditches and fences in front of the city gate.

With a slightly sharp cracking sound, the sound of the police drum stopped abruptly. Xu Wei, who was still busy directing the soldiers to defend inside and outside the town, was shocked: "So fast..."

Although the sound of the police drums disappeared, the valley here did not quiet down either. Instead, there was the sound of shouts reverberating in the valley. The soldiers in the west of the city stared to the west, and the first thing that caught their eyes was hundreds of armed soldiers. Bow Qingqi.

This cavalry formation is limited by the terrain of the river valley, and it is not dense and vast, but the momentum is fast, and it only takes a few tens of breaths to cover a distance of several miles.

When they rushed to the city, there were still some guards who hadn't had time to withdraw into the city.Although the fences and ditches intercepted their charge, the arrows they shot pierced through this space in an instant, killing several guards who retreated in panic under the city wall.

The front pawns formed an array outside the city, and the rear division led by Li Tai also moved towards it quickly. When he saw the ditches and fences outside the city gate, Li Tai frowned.

The fortifications outside the city are well built, and the criss-cross trenches make it almost impossible to rush under the city wall. This shows that the generals defending the city are determined to focus on defending the city, and do not consider going out of the city to attack the enemy. Both offense and defense leave a channel for advance and retreat.

Moreover, on the side of the city facing the Gushui River, there are two solid and solid wooden refusal horses extending from under the city wall to the turbulent Gushui River, separating things from the east and west, so as not to be encircled by people.

Although the previous plan was to make a quick decision, in the face of such a defensive situation, we can only move forward step by step.

Li Tai ordered the back road to vacate empty vehicles and asked the soldiers to load earth and rocks with sacks, and used these earth and rock vehicles as weirs to block the flow of valley water pouring into the trenches. At the same time, he ordered a group of soldiers to advance along the river, trying Chop and pull out those wooden stakes to resist horses, and open up east-west roads.

But most of these repelling horses were within the shooting range of the arrow tower. As soon as the infantry approached, a rain of arrows fell from the horse-faced tower that protruded from the city wall.

Seeing that there was no way to attack quickly, Li Tai first ordered the brigade to line up here first, and while pushing down the ditches and fences one by one, he built siege equipment such as ladders and chariots.Fortunately, there are dense mountains and forests here, and tall trees abound, so it is difficult to cut them all down, so it is convenient to obtain materials locally.

The guard Xu Wei saw that although the enemy's offensive was blocked, they were still advancing in an orderly and steady manner, and his heart was a little heavy.

Seeing that the beacon smoke at the top of the city did not rise very high, it was blown away by the turbulent mountain wind above. It was obvious that the news could not be transmitted to the distance, so Xu Wei planned to concentrate the superior forces in the city to solve the noisy situation in the east of the city. A team of enemies.

He summoned more than 300 strong soldiers in the city to put on armor and mount horses, and gathered inside the city gate. He first ordered the soldiers on the top of the city to use a round of strong bows to shoot back the enemy soldiers who were wandering under the city wall looking for loopholes. Immediately after ordering the city gate to be opened, more than 300 elite cavalry rushed out of the city and rushed towards the enemy soldiers.

Although He Ruodun spoke viciously, he was not a foolish man. After infiltrating here with Han Xiong, he observed the surrounding terrain before he formally appeared. Then he led the crowd around the city to make trouble, seeing the guards' strong bows covering their shots, he knew the police in his heart, and ordered his subordinates to run straight north, while he led several elite personal soldiers to the rear.

Two legs can't always run with four legs. Although He Ruodun saw the opportunity early, the enemy's light cavalry rushed out quickly, and quickly closed the distance between each other.

He Ruodun, who was at the back of the team, took his time and drew an arrow straight from the back of Hu Lu's waist to draw the bow and shoot. The powerful arrow shot out instantly, and when the arrow feather stopped again, the front arrow had already stably inserted into the frontmost enemy cavalry. On the chest, and the enemy cavalry still rushed out more than ten feet according to the inertia, and then rolled down from the horse's buttocks.

Shooting and killing a soldier with one arrow is not He Ruodun's skill. Before the first arrow hits the target, the second arrow flies out again. The distance between the two arrows is not far away, and they hit the target almost at the same time. The two enemy soldiers were directly shot and killed.

"Good marksmanship!"

Although Han Xiong, who led the soldiers to line up to the north, was somewhat displeased with He Ruodun's arrogant tone, he couldn't help but applaud and applaud after seeing this scene.

He Ruodun had no time to respond at the moment, as soon as he entered the battle formation with his bow in his hand, he seemed to be a different person than usual. He had not yet reached the limit of his skills when he fired two arrows in succession, and then he took three arrows in succession, and his body was also like that. The bowstring was tense, and after the last arrow was released, he didn't care about the result at all, and jumped up directly.

He grabbed the saddle of a galloping horse that had already rushed in front of him, pushed the knight who was about to fall off the horse, drew out his saber, and slashed at another knight nearby, forcefully pulled the horse's head, and borrowed what he had shot and killed several people before. The vacated position was empty, and he rushed the galloping horse out of its inherent momentum, killing and seizing the horse in one go, and with his own strength, he deflected the entire cavalry team's momentum by more than ten feet, and failed to charge straight. Han Xiong waited for the formation to face him.

When the rear cavalry realized something was wrong, the flanks were exposed in front of the infantry. Han Xiong and others had watched He Ruodun's performance before, and now their blood was surging. With the single blow and the inertia of the galloping horse charging sideways, dozens of cavalrymen were pierced or swept down from the side in an instant.

Han Xiong, who was the number one fierce general in Western Henan, took advantage of the gap in the enemy cavalry and roared, stabbing obliquely with the long lance in his hand, piercing through three cavalry with one blow, causing the enemy cavalry to be cut off in the middle, and the rear was even more difficult because of this. People are on their backs.

(End of this chapter)