Amid the rumbling sound of horse hooves, a dark horse team rushed in like mudslides after a heavy rain.
(Please visit us using the pinyin domain name of this site.) The cannons on the top of the city were still roaring, shaking Huang San's ears in the array buzzing.The shelling failed to stop the horse team from advancing. After a burst of shelling, the loading was slow, and the horse team quickly approached the Zhuque Army's place more than 100 steps.Huang San could already hear the alternating and rhythmic sound of horse hooves, the friction of iron armor, the impact of swords, and even a rough and strong panting sound.At this time, someone in the horse team shouted "Long Live" and immediately received the response from the crowd. People shouted loudly, as if celebrating victory.
In this situation, it is obvious that the official cavalry is about to start charging.
The generals in the Vermilion Bird Army shouted to prepare, and the muskets were familiar with the sound of armor rubbing when they lifted the firearm.
Huang San suddenly felt a palm on his shoulder. When he looked back, Lao Han was nodding to him.
Lao Han is a musketeer who has recently participated in training. After the team re-arranged, he happened to be standing behind Huang San.
The two of them can only express trust in this way.
At this time, the horse team opposite had accelerated and rushed towards him.
The arrogant horse's head and the swords and guns shining in the sun swept across like lightning.
Bang bang bang... After the choking smell of gunfire started, almost a while later, the musketeers had just changed teams, and the ones behind had no time to reload. The cavalry had already arrived from the foggy gunfire.
The cavalry charges for more than 100 steps, as if they are only in the blink of an eye.
If the cavalry is determined to charge and fight against the enemy, the musket formation cannot be stopped at all, let alone the multi-circular formation for deep defense.
The officials of the hundreds of households shouted loudly in the middle: Launch with all their might!The spear formation is firmly in position, and those who retreat are killed!
A large number of cavalry arrived, and even the hair in their noses could be seen clearly by a few steps away. The convex gun almost shot against the cavalry's chest.
Not far away, a cavalry was hit by several shots in a row, blood was stormy, the spear in his hand was also thrown away, and the horse under his seat was shot and kneeled on the ground with his front hooves.
But the dead people still couldn't stop the momentum, and they moved forward with the people and the horses.
The man and horse weighed one or two thousand pounds and fell into the circular formation in the northwest corner. The spearmen in the front could not stop it at all, and instantly broke a gap.
At this time, more and more cavalry were around, and a general roared and rushed into the formation with his long halberd.
The officials of the households in the middle drew their swords and moved forward. Unexpectedly, with the momentum of impact, the long halberd easily broke the armor of the households and pierced directly from the front chest, and pierced out bloodily in the front section.
With a bang, the horse-riding general was shot in his left chest, then discarded the long halberd that was stabbed into his body, pulled out a slender sabre from his back and slashed it, but soon the back of his waist was pierced by the spear, and the musketeers in the inner circle pulled out their waist knives and pulled them off their horses and chopped them up to the point of blood.
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Looking down from the city wall, the camp in the northwest corner had been broken, and a large number of cavalry fought with the Suzaku Army's infantry. The infantry that had lost the formation was swung from a high place by a sabre, causing heavy casualties.
The screams and the sound of shaking and the tearing and friction of the metal that was sour, were chaotic, and blood was everywhere.
The explosion of the firearms continued, and three formations remained in the system.
The official and horse teams were not relaxed either. They passed through the round formation, suffered great casualties in musket shooting, and scenes of people turning over and overturning can be seen everywhere.
After the cavalry suffered casualties in the first round of impact, their momentum had significantly weakened. Some cavalrymen were running with three-eyed guns and bows and arrows and fought back nearby, and few people rushed to the round formation again.
At this moment, there was a noise in the north gate, and a large number of infantrymen rushed into the city.After a while, someone came to report: The official army broke through the city gate with a rushing car and rushed into the northern city!
No need to report, Zhang Ning has seen it on the city wall.
Why is it the North City that was captured, not the farther East City?
It is indeed unexpected that the combat effectiveness of the official army infantry can actually break through the city gate in such a short time.
The defenders are indeed short of troops and the city defense is also very weak, but the siege troops also need to pay a lot of casualties to break the city. This requires morale and great tolerance. How can the combat effectiveness of the official and infantry forces break the city?
The troops and combat plans were deployed before the war started, and now they are trapped in the battlefield and cannot change anything except the use of reserve teams.But Zhang Ning did not have a reserve force because the troops were not enough.
He tried hard to remain calm and said to his left and right: The cavalry under the city has been abandoned. As long as we persist, we still have hope of winning when the cavalry completely retreated.
At this time, the government troops rushing into the city first began to attack the walls of each gate, and they attacked from the stone steps of the inner wall.The defenders on the city wall met with him at the stairs, and the battle had spread to the west city.
When Lao Xu saw the crowds of officials and soldiers on the city wall, he couldn't help but say: This place is very dangerous, so it's better for the boss to leave first.
Where to leave?
Zhang Ning said: I am here until the soldiers win, no one can retreat, and there is no place to retreat.
He turned around and ordered: Send someone to send an order to Yao Erlang, give up the defense of each city, and go to Xicheng to defend all the cities, beware of the government infantry breaking through Xicheng too quickly, and penetrate through the west gate to threaten the rear wing of our main force; the artillery team members also go down to the city and line up in the west gate... Wang Xian, you take the guard to reinforce the city.
Wang Xian was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you want it!He pulled out his knife and called on the twelve guards standing on the left and right to head north.
At this moment, Wang Xian truly felt that he had no choice in his heart when he came to vote for Zhang Ning.
Most of the descendants of Jianwen Yuchen like Xiang Wang Xian have a heavy and humiliating experience behind them.
In the past, he could only hide in a mountainous forest and survive, and he was afraid of the officers and soldiers.
Today, he finally could compete with them face to face, and still fight to the death without losing his dignity in a critical situation. This is exactly what he has always hoped to encounter.
He led his men to the north for a while, and saw the two armies in the stone steps in the inner city fighting together. The people were surging up and down the stone steps. This scene made him feel inexplicably excited.
Wang Xian pulled out his knife and shouted: Kill!
Then he led the way forward.
A soldier stabbed Wang Xian with a spear. Wang Xian grabbed it with one hand, then jumped down, waved his hand, and screamed, and a hot blood splattered his face.
The officer soldiers holding spears were suddenly rushed to the front and did not react for a while. The spears could not attack him. Wang Xian took the opportunity to pick up the knife and slash.
At this time, there was a severe pain in his thigh, and he was stabbed by the person behind him. In the pain, he knelt down on one knee, holding a knife in his hand and stabbed forward violently.
At this time, the soldiers of the Suzaku Army, who were originally disadvantaged, were infected and counterattacked. The narrow stone steps were crowded. Both sides stabbed each other, and only the hissing sound of swords and guns entering the flesh were heard. The ground was covered with corpses and pools of blood, and the entire stone steps were dyed red.
Sure enough, many officers and soldiers rushed from the Cross Street to the West City.
The north city was set on fire because the houses and buildings were mostly made of wood, and the fire soon spread and could not be stopped. The raging fire burned half of the sky, and the thick smoke almost enveloped the entire city.
Yao Erlang and the remaining infantry gave up the North City and East City and rushed to the west city wall. There were still about one hundred people, most of them musketeers, and most of them were musketeers. Most of the melee guards had died in battle.
There were dozens of artillery soldiers who had operated artillery before. At this time, they had given up the artillery and walked down the city wall to form a formation with other soldiers.
The last sin is worthy of death!
Yao Erlang fell to his knees in front of the chair when he walked up to the city wall. He guarded the city with the city walls, but he didn't hold it for half an hour. He really felt guilty. The enemy soldiers rushed to the city and set up a ladder like an ants to climb. We could only deal with it and could not fight back.There was no moat outside the city, and after the rushing car passed the trench we dug, we arrived at the city gate.I asked someone to carry stones and wood to seal the city gate, but I still couldn't stop it...
Zhang Ning did not blame him, but helped him up and said: Nearly half of the defenders were killed or killed, and they could still be mobilized to the West City, which is very admirable.You immediately go down to the city to lead the army to fight, and you must never let the enemy soldiers break through the West Gate!
Zhang Ning turned his head and looked down at the battle under the city. Although the Suzaku Army also suffered many casualties, the official cavalry suffered even greater losses in the strong rush. The cavalry that had lost its impact had already shown signs of collapse.
However, if Zhu Yong's large number of infantry troops took the opportunity to participate in the melee and did not collapse; then the Suzaku Army was most likely to face a catastrophe, after all, the troops were much smaller.
Since Zhu Yong chose the infantry to attack the city before the war and indeed hit Zhang Ning's weak link, he could only let the infantry defeat the defenders from the city and run through the outside of the west city to participate in the battle.
He could not give way to the infantry to withdraw from the city and then take a detour to the west city to fight, because it would take a long time for the infantry, who had been trapped in the city to retreat and form a formation.
At this time, nearly two hundred people in Xicheng will be the key to the victory or defeat of this battle.
The battle was like this because Zhang Ning did not intend to take a defensive attitude from the beginning, otherwise the official army would withdraw the outside army into the city to defend the city as soon as it attacked the city. With Zhu Yong's current troops, it would be impossible for him to break through the city.
The main force of the Suzaku Army confronted the cavalry outside the city. It seemed to be defense, but it was actually an offense. Their failure to take the initiative was a matter of mobility and could only lure the cavalry to come and fight.
Zhang Ning had already heard the chaotic footsteps on the long street, and a large number of government and infantry were rushing towards this side.
Yao Erlang came to the city and shouted loudly: Arrange!
About two hundred people, perhaps even fewer, they formed four deep square arrays one after another. The first row was the spearmen, the second row was mainly the cannon bars, and the two rows were the spearmen, equipped with short guns, single swords and rattan cards.
Looking back outside the city, nearly half of the casualties were gathering again after interspersed through the Suzaku Army's circular formation, hoping to launch another attack.
Zhang Ning judged that this would be the last charge the horse team could make. He forced an attack on the camp that could not be completely torn apart despite the damage to the battle, and the elite's endurance stopped here.
The Vermilion Bird Army round formation that was completely dispersed and almost completely killed or injured was only about 34 people left, most of whom were injured, but they could still take the opportunity to reorganize a small round formation and fight against the back.
This scene shocked Zhang Ning. It was completely reasonable for the elite soldiers with more than half of the casualties to collapse and escape, but those people did not run away. Maybe they knew that the world was so big but there was no place to run away.
We are determined to fight to the last soldier!Yao Erlang in the city shouted loudly, for the dignity and glory of the Suzaku Army!This sentence shows that he is a person who is greatly influenced by his cousin Zhang Ning.
(Please visit us using the pinyin domain name of this site.) The cannons on the top of the city were still roaring, shaking Huang San's ears in the array buzzing.The shelling failed to stop the horse team from advancing. After a burst of shelling, the loading was slow, and the horse team quickly approached the Zhuque Army's place more than 100 steps.Huang San could already hear the alternating and rhythmic sound of horse hooves, the friction of iron armor, the impact of swords, and even a rough and strong panting sound.At this time, someone in the horse team shouted "Long Live" and immediately received the response from the crowd. People shouted loudly, as if celebrating victory.
In this situation, it is obvious that the official cavalry is about to start charging.
The generals in the Vermilion Bird Army shouted to prepare, and the muskets were familiar with the sound of armor rubbing when they lifted the firearm.
Huang San suddenly felt a palm on his shoulder. When he looked back, Lao Han was nodding to him.
Lao Han is a musketeer who has recently participated in training. After the team re-arranged, he happened to be standing behind Huang San.
The two of them can only express trust in this way.
At this time, the horse team opposite had accelerated and rushed towards him.
The arrogant horse's head and the swords and guns shining in the sun swept across like lightning.
Bang bang bang... After the choking smell of gunfire started, almost a while later, the musketeers had just changed teams, and the ones behind had no time to reload. The cavalry had already arrived from the foggy gunfire.
The cavalry charges for more than 100 steps, as if they are only in the blink of an eye.
If the cavalry is determined to charge and fight against the enemy, the musket formation cannot be stopped at all, let alone the multi-circular formation for deep defense.
The officials of the hundreds of households shouted loudly in the middle: Launch with all their might!The spear formation is firmly in position, and those who retreat are killed!
A large number of cavalry arrived, and even the hair in their noses could be seen clearly by a few steps away. The convex gun almost shot against the cavalry's chest.
Not far away, a cavalry was hit by several shots in a row, blood was stormy, the spear in his hand was also thrown away, and the horse under his seat was shot and kneeled on the ground with his front hooves.
But the dead people still couldn't stop the momentum, and they moved forward with the people and the horses.
The man and horse weighed one or two thousand pounds and fell into the circular formation in the northwest corner. The spearmen in the front could not stop it at all, and instantly broke a gap.
At this time, more and more cavalry were around, and a general roared and rushed into the formation with his long halberd.
The officials of the households in the middle drew their swords and moved forward. Unexpectedly, with the momentum of impact, the long halberd easily broke the armor of the households and pierced directly from the front chest, and pierced out bloodily in the front section.
With a bang, the horse-riding general was shot in his left chest, then discarded the long halberd that was stabbed into his body, pulled out a slender sabre from his back and slashed it, but soon the back of his waist was pierced by the spear, and the musketeers in the inner circle pulled out their waist knives and pulled them off their horses and chopped them up to the point of blood.
……
Looking down from the city wall, the camp in the northwest corner had been broken, and a large number of cavalry fought with the Suzaku Army's infantry. The infantry that had lost the formation was swung from a high place by a sabre, causing heavy casualties.
The screams and the sound of shaking and the tearing and friction of the metal that was sour, were chaotic, and blood was everywhere.
The explosion of the firearms continued, and three formations remained in the system.
The official and horse teams were not relaxed either. They passed through the round formation, suffered great casualties in musket shooting, and scenes of people turning over and overturning can be seen everywhere.
After the cavalry suffered casualties in the first round of impact, their momentum had significantly weakened. Some cavalrymen were running with three-eyed guns and bows and arrows and fought back nearby, and few people rushed to the round formation again.
At this moment, there was a noise in the north gate, and a large number of infantrymen rushed into the city.After a while, someone came to report: The official army broke through the city gate with a rushing car and rushed into the northern city!
No need to report, Zhang Ning has seen it on the city wall.
Why is it the North City that was captured, not the farther East City?
It is indeed unexpected that the combat effectiveness of the official army infantry can actually break through the city gate in such a short time.
The defenders are indeed short of troops and the city defense is also very weak, but the siege troops also need to pay a lot of casualties to break the city. This requires morale and great tolerance. How can the combat effectiveness of the official and infantry forces break the city?
The troops and combat plans were deployed before the war started, and now they are trapped in the battlefield and cannot change anything except the use of reserve teams.But Zhang Ning did not have a reserve force because the troops were not enough.
He tried hard to remain calm and said to his left and right: The cavalry under the city has been abandoned. As long as we persist, we still have hope of winning when the cavalry completely retreated.
At this time, the government troops rushing into the city first began to attack the walls of each gate, and they attacked from the stone steps of the inner wall.The defenders on the city wall met with him at the stairs, and the battle had spread to the west city.
When Lao Xu saw the crowds of officials and soldiers on the city wall, he couldn't help but say: This place is very dangerous, so it's better for the boss to leave first.
Where to leave?
Zhang Ning said: I am here until the soldiers win, no one can retreat, and there is no place to retreat.
He turned around and ordered: Send someone to send an order to Yao Erlang, give up the defense of each city, and go to Xicheng to defend all the cities, beware of the government infantry breaking through Xicheng too quickly, and penetrate through the west gate to threaten the rear wing of our main force; the artillery team members also go down to the city and line up in the west gate... Wang Xian, you take the guard to reinforce the city.
Wang Xian was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you want it!He pulled out his knife and called on the twelve guards standing on the left and right to head north.
At this moment, Wang Xian truly felt that he had no choice in his heart when he came to vote for Zhang Ning.
Most of the descendants of Jianwen Yuchen like Xiang Wang Xian have a heavy and humiliating experience behind them.
In the past, he could only hide in a mountainous forest and survive, and he was afraid of the officers and soldiers.
Today, he finally could compete with them face to face, and still fight to the death without losing his dignity in a critical situation. This is exactly what he has always hoped to encounter.
He led his men to the north for a while, and saw the two armies in the stone steps in the inner city fighting together. The people were surging up and down the stone steps. This scene made him feel inexplicably excited.
Wang Xian pulled out his knife and shouted: Kill!
Then he led the way forward.
A soldier stabbed Wang Xian with a spear. Wang Xian grabbed it with one hand, then jumped down, waved his hand, and screamed, and a hot blood splattered his face.
The officer soldiers holding spears were suddenly rushed to the front and did not react for a while. The spears could not attack him. Wang Xian took the opportunity to pick up the knife and slash.
At this time, there was a severe pain in his thigh, and he was stabbed by the person behind him. In the pain, he knelt down on one knee, holding a knife in his hand and stabbed forward violently.
At this time, the soldiers of the Suzaku Army, who were originally disadvantaged, were infected and counterattacked. The narrow stone steps were crowded. Both sides stabbed each other, and only the hissing sound of swords and guns entering the flesh were heard. The ground was covered with corpses and pools of blood, and the entire stone steps were dyed red.
Sure enough, many officers and soldiers rushed from the Cross Street to the West City.
The north city was set on fire because the houses and buildings were mostly made of wood, and the fire soon spread and could not be stopped. The raging fire burned half of the sky, and the thick smoke almost enveloped the entire city.
Yao Erlang and the remaining infantry gave up the North City and East City and rushed to the west city wall. There were still about one hundred people, most of them musketeers, and most of them were musketeers. Most of the melee guards had died in battle.
There were dozens of artillery soldiers who had operated artillery before. At this time, they had given up the artillery and walked down the city wall to form a formation with other soldiers.
The last sin is worthy of death!
Yao Erlang fell to his knees in front of the chair when he walked up to the city wall. He guarded the city with the city walls, but he didn't hold it for half an hour. He really felt guilty. The enemy soldiers rushed to the city and set up a ladder like an ants to climb. We could only deal with it and could not fight back.There was no moat outside the city, and after the rushing car passed the trench we dug, we arrived at the city gate.I asked someone to carry stones and wood to seal the city gate, but I still couldn't stop it...
Zhang Ning did not blame him, but helped him up and said: Nearly half of the defenders were killed or killed, and they could still be mobilized to the West City, which is very admirable.You immediately go down to the city to lead the army to fight, and you must never let the enemy soldiers break through the West Gate!
Zhang Ning turned his head and looked down at the battle under the city. Although the Suzaku Army also suffered many casualties, the official cavalry suffered even greater losses in the strong rush. The cavalry that had lost its impact had already shown signs of collapse.
However, if Zhu Yong's large number of infantry troops took the opportunity to participate in the melee and did not collapse; then the Suzaku Army was most likely to face a catastrophe, after all, the troops were much smaller.
Since Zhu Yong chose the infantry to attack the city before the war and indeed hit Zhang Ning's weak link, he could only let the infantry defeat the defenders from the city and run through the outside of the west city to participate in the battle.
He could not give way to the infantry to withdraw from the city and then take a detour to the west city to fight, because it would take a long time for the infantry, who had been trapped in the city to retreat and form a formation.
At this time, nearly two hundred people in Xicheng will be the key to the victory or defeat of this battle.
The battle was like this because Zhang Ning did not intend to take a defensive attitude from the beginning, otherwise the official army would withdraw the outside army into the city to defend the city as soon as it attacked the city. With Zhu Yong's current troops, it would be impossible for him to break through the city.
The main force of the Suzaku Army confronted the cavalry outside the city. It seemed to be defense, but it was actually an offense. Their failure to take the initiative was a matter of mobility and could only lure the cavalry to come and fight.
Zhang Ning had already heard the chaotic footsteps on the long street, and a large number of government and infantry were rushing towards this side.
Yao Erlang came to the city and shouted loudly: Arrange!
About two hundred people, perhaps even fewer, they formed four deep square arrays one after another. The first row was the spearmen, the second row was mainly the cannon bars, and the two rows were the spearmen, equipped with short guns, single swords and rattan cards.
Looking back outside the city, nearly half of the casualties were gathering again after interspersed through the Suzaku Army's circular formation, hoping to launch another attack.
Zhang Ning judged that this would be the last charge the horse team could make. He forced an attack on the camp that could not be completely torn apart despite the damage to the battle, and the elite's endurance stopped here.
The Vermilion Bird Army round formation that was completely dispersed and almost completely killed or injured was only about 34 people left, most of whom were injured, but they could still take the opportunity to reorganize a small round formation and fight against the back.
This scene shocked Zhang Ning. It was completely reasonable for the elite soldiers with more than half of the casualties to collapse and escape, but those people did not run away. Maybe they knew that the world was so big but there was no place to run away.
We are determined to fight to the last soldier!Yao Erlang in the city shouted loudly, for the dignity and glory of the Suzaku Army!This sentence shows that he is a person who is greatly influenced by his cousin Zhang Ning.