Chapter 144 The vanguard of the roaring armored cavalry was the first to crash into the shield, and the direct collision of steel and steel made a deafening loud sound.
Hundreds of people of the Wind Army could not withstand such a strong impact with their shields, and fell backwards with a clatter, but they also succeeded in stopping the advance of the heavily armored cavalry.
Immediately afterward, more wind troops rushed out from behind the shields and slashed into the camp of the heavily armored cavalry, slashing the legs of the opposing horses with their ground hobbs.
After losing their horses, the heavy armored cavalry also lost their combat effectiveness, and after a short battle between the two sides, hundreds of heavy armored cavalry rolled off their horses, fell to the ground and were anxious and angry, and roared angrily.
And the wind army was not without casualties, many soldiers were pierced by the spears of the horsemen when they cut off the legs of horses, and screams were heard from the battlefield from time to time.
Zhang Zhouzhong effectively stopped the cavalry, and taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Bai Yong led the crowd to break through the barbarians at the gate and rush out.
The barbarians did not relent, and then pursued and killed, but soon the two sides ran to the range of Hengcheng, first let their own soldiers pass, and then the wind army on the city wall began to draw their bows and arrows, and shot the chasing barbarians in all directions, seeing that it was difficult to get a bargain, the barbarians could only collect their troops and retreat, and retreat to their own camp.
Bai Yong successfully broke through, but Zhang Zhou couldn't get out, and when he fought with the opponent's heavily armored cavalry, the surrounding barbarians had gathered a sea of people, surrounding them in three layers inside and three layers outside, and the water could not be passed.
Seeing that the cavalry was ineffective against them, the heavily armored cavalry retreated, and then the surrounding infantry stepped forward step by step.
Someone in the barbarian camp shouted in a blunt voice: "The commander of our army is gracious, as long as you disarm and surrender, I will spare you from death" Zhang Zhou heard the shouting, but without saying a word, he picked up a spear abandoned by the heavily armored cavalry from the ground and threw it fiercely in the direction from which the shout came.
In the ear chakra, he only heard a scream from the barbarian camp, and then the voice of persuasion to surrender was suddenly lost, and his action showed his determination to rather become a benevolent than surrender, and also opened the prelude to the siege of the barbarian army.
The barbarians roared and rushed up, standing with the wind army.
In terms of combat effectiveness, the wind army is not as good as the barbarians, in terms of numbers, the two sides are even more different, the battle is not long, the five thousand wind army has more than half of the casualties, although the barbarians also have a lot of casualties, but there are many people, the next group falls, immediately fill a group, can not kill, can not finish.
After fighting for a long time, Zhang Zhou's side of the soldiers has become fewer and fewer, on the other hand, there are more and more enemies, looking up, the crowd is surging, there is no end in sight, Zhang Zhou looked, sighed in his heart, he has been fighting for many years, but he didn't expect to die outside Hengcheng He gathered his scattered soldiers, gathered them together, surrounded them, and made a desperate fight.
At this time, the infantry of the barbarians withdrew, and the heavily armored cavalry returned to battle.
Now that the wind army could no longer parry the heavy armored cavalry, the barbarian cavalry walked past and split the wind army that had gathered together, and then the barbarian infantry that followed separated them and broke them individually.
The battle has been fought so far, not to mention that the ordinary Feng soldiers are desperate, even Zhang Zhou can't hold on anymore, the spirit armor on his body is broken and full of holes, blood is flowing all over his body, and people are so tired that they can't even lift their guns.
But the barbarians did not give them a chance to breathe at all, and the attacks were wave after wave, continuously.
Zhang Zhou couldn't remember how many barbarians he had killed, how many rounds of enemy attacks he had repelled, and in the end, there was not a single wind army around him, and there were only a sea of brute soldiers around him.
Seeing that Zhang Zhou had reached the end of the crossbow, and the barbarians did not want to increase casualties in vain, the siege of the infantry came to an end again, and they withdrew one after another, and the heavily armored cavalry re-entered the field in a neat phalanx and rushed towards Zhang Zhou.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhou looked up to the sky and laughed frantically, and without knowing where the strength in his body came from, he picked up his spear and ran towards the phalanx of the heavily armored cavalry.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, Zhang Zhou was drowned in the cavalry of Rulin, and at first he could still hear the shouting and fighting in the cavalry camp, but soon, the sound disappeared, and after the cavalry phalanx, Zhang Zhou's body could not even be found on the ground, there were only blood clots and broken armor, and a silver spear that was twisted and deformed.
It is difficult to say whether the sneak attack planned by Xiao Muqing was a success or a failure, although it successfully burned most of the grain and grass of the barbarian army, but Zhang Zhou and his five thousand soldiers were also damaged in the barbarian army camp, and more importantly, the grain and grass were burned, which made the barbarian army anxious, and they could no longer delay with the defenders of Hengcheng, so they could only be forced to choose a decisive battle.
In addition, Zhang Zhou was an old man of the Plains Army, quite prestigious, and his death not only dealt a great blow to the morale of the soldiers, but also greatly affected the people in the city, and the entire Hengcheng fell into a state of grief.
With such a result, Xiao Muqing was already prepared, a sneak attack on the enemy camp was a very dangerous thing, and life and death were unpredictable, and it was precisely because of this that he chose to let Zhang Zhou and Bai Yong go.
Although Zhang and Bai are only in their early thirties, they are both old men of the Plains Army, and they are highly respected, and every time they discuss important military situations, they have to look at the faces of these old people, which is troublesome and awkward, and Xiao Muqing is an ordinary soldier, but he is a subordinate of Zhang Zhou, Bai Yong, and Zhu Nuo, the three corps commanders, and Tang Yin intends to promote him to be in charge of the Plains Army, so can these former bosses willingly obey his dispatch Xiao Muqing is naturally not sure in his heart.
This time, Xiao Muqing sent Zhang Zhou and Bai Yong to attack the enemy camp, and it is difficult to say whether he deliberately wanted to kill these two people to save the trouble in the future.
In short, the Plains Army burned the grain and grass of the barbarian army, and Zhang Zhou would rather die than surrender in the operation, and died for his country.
As soon as the sky brightened, the siege of the barbarian army began again, but this time the siege was more ferocious than before, losing food and grass, the barbarian army had been on a desperate road, and could not break the city, they either retreated, or they had to starve to death outside the city.
The First Corps was reduced by 5,000 troops, and Zhang Zhou was killed, and his position was replaced by the original deputy corps commander, who lacked ability, and the command and transfer were far less stable than Zhang Zhou's, which directly led to the doubling of the pressure on the main gate of Hengcheng, which was almost entirely supported by Bai Yong's Second Corps.
Against brute soldiers, there can be no negligence, once there is a flaw, it is difficult to have a chance to make up for it.
At noon, the main gate of Hengcheng could no longer withstand the impact of the barbarian army, and a large number of barbarian soldiers broke through the defenders' defense line and poured into the city.
Xiao Muqing, Qiu Zhen and others were also on the side of the main gate, seeing the barbarians coming up, everyone was shocked, even Xiao Muqing couldn't stay on the tower, and personally came down to meet the enemy.
He is not a pure civilian official, nor is he a military general, he has no spiritual martial arts cultivation, but he has been on the battlefield for a long time and has actual combat experience, and it is really difficult for him to encounter the combined attack of several brute soldiers.
On the battlefield, the order that the soldiers hate to hear the most is to charge me, and the order they like to hear the most is to rush with me, and commanding the soldiers under his command to charge into battle and leading the soldiers under his command to charge into battle are completely different concepts.
Xiao Muqing, as the main general, was able to go into battle in person without fear of life and death, which greatly boosted the morale of the Feng army.
Driven by Xiao Muqing, the Feng army launched a counterattack against the barbarians who raided the city wall.
I saw that countless soldiers on both sides were crowded on the city wall, you pushed me and squeezed, because the city wall was too narrow, and so many people on both sides hugged together and couldn't open their weapons at all, so they could only be stronger than whom, either they pushed the other party off the city wall, or they were squeezed off the city wall by the other party.
The barbarian army had just climbed to the top of the city, and suffered a loss because of the unstable foothold, and some of the wind troops who could not withstand the morale of the rising army were forced to retreat again and again, and from time to time some people in the rear screamed and fell off the city wall.
Seeing that the barbarians were gradually unable to parry, Xiao Muqing also came to the spirit, used enough strength, and went to the forefront of his own camp, stabbing the enemy in front of him with his saber, while shouting loudly: "Brothers, work hard, follow me to kill the enemy soldiers, and avenge General Zhang."
Zhang Zhou, who died indirectly because of him, became a slogan for him to mobilize the emotions of his soldiers at this time.
Hearing Xiao Muqing's words, the soldiers of the Feng Army were filled with grief and indignation, and they all roared, and the ten percent of the strength that they could have used became twelve percent, and they worked together to resist the barbarians.
At this time, the brute soldiers could no longer parry.
Finally rushed to kill the thousands of barbarians on the city wall were forced down by the nearly 20,000 plain army, and the barbarians who fell from the city wall were like snowflakes, and the corpses under the city were already piled up.
Many of the barbarians were not dead when they landed, but they were immediately stoned to death by their comrades who fell down later, and the dead and wounded were too numerous to count, and the hearts of those who heard the screams and wails in a row were furious.
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The besieging side suffered heavy losses, but the siege did not mean to stop at all, a large number of barbarians with steel knives were still climbing up the city along the ladder from time to time, roaring and rushing towards the defenders, cutting down the enemy at the same time, they were also stabbed all over the bloody hole, insincere.
The two sides are constantly consuming, at this time the competition is no longer about combat effectiveness, but willpower, whoever can grit his teeth and survive may be the final winner.
At about the first hour of the afternoon, the Plains Army could not hold on.
The attack density of the Besa army was too great, and its generals were too fierce, like mad beasts, without caring about life and death, as if there was only one thought left in their minds, that is, to kill, under such a strong attack, the plains army used up all the city defense equipment on the city walls, and the next was bloody hand-to-hand combat.
Once close combat began, the Plains Army had no advantage at all, and was killed by the barbarians and retreated.
Now it is no longer an emergency on the side of the main gate, but on all four walls.
Xiao Muqing was also decisive, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, abandon the outer city wall, and defend the inner city wall instead.
At this time, the inner city wall that the soldiers and civilians of Hengcheng had worked so hard to build came into play.
The outer city wall of Hengcheng is three zhang three, about ten meters high, the inner city wall is five meters away from the outer city wall, the height is more than two zhang, a little more than six meters, retreat to the inner city wall, the height advantage is occupied by the barbarians, this is really a helpless move.
Because the distance between the two walls is too far, it is impossible to jump directly from the outer city wall to the inner city wall, but it can be a cloud ladder, and the cloud ladder can be set up from the outer city wall, which can be directly built on the inner city wall, and then the brute soldiers will rush to the inner city wall along the cloud ladder to kill.
It's just that it's easier said than done
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