Chapter 409

Si Qingyuan said: Liulang, I will hold you with your strength!

Liu Lang said: Very good!Wife, what are your tricks?

Si Qingyuan said: Our quick action team just now had already been taken to the top of the cliff, but unfortunately they were discovered by the soldiers guarding the city. Because of their poor martial arts, they did not attack. This time!We two lead some masters to attack. That place is the commanding heights of Yinmachuan. Once occupied, it will cause a fatal blow to Yinmachuan's defense.You use your wind, fire, and thunder formation to attract the defenders. I use my magical actions to transform into a butterfly and rush up. Then I kill all the troops and let our team attack the Yinmachuan defenders in that place.

Liulang said happily: That’s great!

So Liulang immediately organized a thousand elite archers, and brought all the crossbows. Liulang personally fought the front line, rushed to the bottom of the cliff, and began to hike and climb upwards. Si Qingyuan followed closely behind him, but she left Liulang for a distance horizontally. When the two were halfway through, the defenders above discovered Liulang's traces, and immediately countless arrows shot over. Liulang quickly stopped and used the wind and fire thunder formation defense.

Si Qingyuan did not stop. Relying on his excellent light skills, Si Qingyuan, who looked like a huge butterfly, took advantage of the fact that the defenders did not pay attention to him and rushed to the top of the mountain. When the defenders found something was wrong, Si Qingyuan had already jumped up, swung the sword in his hand, like cutting tofu, and drove away more than a hundred Mongolian soldiers on it. Liulang took the opportunity to rush up and at the same time he called the thousand elites behind to follow. Although the speed of those people was not as fast as the two, they all rushed up smoothly. After coming up, they immediately set off crossbows, aimed at the Mongolian soldiers guarding the city and shot fiercely. Suddenly, sharp arrows flew from the heads of the Mongolian soldiers. They died one after another.

This greatly weakened the strength to defend the city. In addition, Sima Ziyan attacked fiercely, and the large army rushed up and quickly occupied the city wall of Yinmachuan. After the swordsmen rushed into the city, they started a fierce street battle with the Mongolian soldiers. In this kind of ground confrontation, the swordsmen had a great advantage. Before dawn, Yinmachuan had all been taken down.

Yinmachuan left a knife leader to clean up the battlefield. Liulang heard Sima Ziyan's idea and the army would not rest and immediately attack Ulan.

Before leaving, Scar Liu Lai said to Liulang: Report to the Sixth General, the land of Yanmachuan is seventy miles north of Mongolia, which is the Sanhe Horse Farm in Mongolia. There are no less than 100,000 best war horses in Mongolia. If you attack Ulan now, you don’t have time to clean up there. Don’t beg for your order. Three thousand soldiers are enough. I will help you take down Sanhe Horse Farm.

Liulang patted his shoulder and said: Father-in-law!Good thing, if you take the Sanhe Horse Farm, I will remember the first merit for you. With this merit, it is legitimate to be the governor of Shahe County.

Scar Liu laughed and said: I just think about you, for fear that others will have any objections, so I want to ask for credit.

Liulang agreed and asked Gai Tianjiao to assist Scar Liu to lead 3,000 troops to attack Sanhe Horse Farm, and at the same time he led 30,000 troops to reach the Mongolian capital Ulan. Although 30,000 troops could not defeat Ulan, so many troops could calm the Mongols in Ulan.

Riorang's real purpose is to disrupt the current situation.

Sima Ziyan said: Yinmachuan has fallen, and Ulan may have received the news. I guess Ulan's side is likely to send a large army to stop us halfway through our march.

Liulang said: What do Ziyan thinks we should do?

Sima Ziyan said: Yinmachuan is only one day away from Ulan. I checked the map and we set up an ambush halfway. The Mongolian army that attacked us in the future will have a wake-up call and catch him off guard!

Shahe County is lost.

Yinmachuan lost.

The little Mongolian prince screamed in anger and was about to lead the army to fight to the death with Liulang.

The Empress Dowager scolded her and then found several confidant ministers to discuss the matter.

King Changping had just finished dealing with Liu Qing's time. Princess Lanya and Mrs. Minghu had been arrested by him. Although Liu Qing had already told Minghu and Lanya the news he received in advance, the two still failed to escape the clutches of King Changping!

King Changping thought it was not too late, so he immediately sent two confidant generals to lead 500 cavalrymen, crushing the two women on the carriage, and then sent them to the country of Bingxuehan overnight.

After King Changping handled this matter, he heard that Yinmachuan had lost his troops and the swordsmen who revolted in Shahe had already led their troops to Ulan.

So he hurried to discuss the matter with the Queen Mother.

King Changping expressed his opinion: This matter seems not as simple as we originally thought. This should be a well-planned central flowering tactic.With the courage and ability of those Shahe slaves, even if they cause trouble, they would definitely not dare to take Shahe County. But now this army dares to attack Ulan!They must have strong backings to do so, otherwise, would they dare to take our royal city with a mob of 30,000 to 40,000 people?

The Queen Mother nodded repeatedly and said: I think so too. In your opinion, what should we do now?

King Changping said: Even if the troops in Shahe are twice as powerful as the troops, they will definitely not pose a threat to the Ulan Royal City. I think their intention is like disrupting the situation and cooperating with the attack on the Liao soldiers under the banner of Ear.

The Empress Dowager nodded and said: The Ai family also has a lot of feelings. Now these mobs are already at the city, so we should always resist the enemy.

King Changping said: I will lead my troops to suppress them immediately.

The Queen Mother asked again: How was the other one done?

King Changping’s Dao: It’s done, Princess Lanya is now on her way to the Ice and Snow Cold Kingdom.

The Empress Dowager nodded and said to King Yongle: You should prepare a generous gift immediately, go to the country of ice and snow, and submit letters from Ai's family to the king of Han country.

The King of Yongle immediately went down to handle the matter, and the Empress Dowager immediately asked the little Mongolian prince to appoint King Changping as the general, leading 50,000 troops to fight.

When the army of King Yongle came forward, Liulang's army had already begun to prepare for war, and the vanguard army of King Changping also began to attack. Both wings were cavalry, with three thousand cavalry on both sides. The purpose of these cavalry was not to charge, but to clear obstacles for the army behind, but to destroy all fences and watchtowers in the fastest time. The sharp arrows flying behind the fence still could not stop the cavalry from approaching and destroying the fence.

In the fortifications known as the new army of the Knife, the wooden fence was buried deep, but two or three war horses pulled a section of the fence together and were quickly pulled out of the soil. Even if the cavalry on the war horse was shot and killed, the war horses were still running wildly. As long as most of the fences were destroyed, the cavalry's mission would be almost completed. The part that could not be destroyed was over. After the first wave of attacks, all the cavalry stopped attacking, and a large number of infantry slowly advanced under the neat shield walls under the illumination of torches.

Now the shield used by Mongolian soldiers has put a lot of effort into it. The wooden shield is wrapped with a layer of cooked cowhide that was originally intended to be made of leather armor. A round copper piece is nailed to the middle of the shield. The copper piece is as big as a washbasin, and the shield is of course a tower shield that is more than one meter. In this way, although the huge shield becomes extremely bulky, it can withstand the continuous shooting of crossbow arrows.

There was a neat shield wall in front, and the soldiers behind also raised the ordinary shields in their hands upwards, and ordinary rain of arrows kept falling from the sky. The archers in the Knife Barracks received the order to shoot all the distributed arrows, and not leave any one!

The camp reserves a large number of arrows, which are not used at this time, and in the end, the enemy will use them on their own people.

Most of the crossbow arrows shot out by the knife hand were blocked by the shield. Seeing the rockets shot out again in the sky, the officer in command finally saw the enemy's movements clearly. When he found that the crossbow was suppressed, the officer in command issued the same order at the same time, that is, to let the crossbowman in the front row squat down and shoot the enemy's calves.

No matter how big the shield in the enemy's hand is, it cannot protect the whole body. The shield wall in advance mainly protects the parts above the thighs. In this way, the calves of these people are completely out of protection. As long as a crossbow is shot, although it is not fatal, it can prevent the enemy from moving forward, becoming disabled, and becoming an obstacle and burden behind it!

However, this can only delay the speed of the Mongolian soldiers' advancement.

Someone in front of him was caught in an arrow and could no longer move. The person behind him immediately helped him take the shield in his hand and quickly changed positions, so that the injured person would sit directly on the ground. The team would continue to move forward and constantly bypass the injured person. However, the injured person would have no shield protection at this time. Although he would not be trampled to death by his companions, the arrows falling from the sky made many wounded soldiers directly nailed to the ground by arrows. At this time, all shields were precious and must not be wasted on a useless wounded soldier.

The Mongolian soldiers were getting closer and closer. The crossbowmen shot all the arrows in the arrow box as fast as possible. Then they quickly retreated, no longer staying behind their companions, but retreated to the location where the second line of defense was being built. There were prepared crossbows and arrow boxes, and a series of crossbows could not fall into the enemy's hands. At the same time, they could also cover their companions' retreat in subsequent battles.

Five hundred archers continued to shoot arrows to block subsequent enemies, and everyone else replaced melee weapons, with the shield player in front, the spearman and the mountain axeman in the middle, and the single sword player behind.

At this time, the shield player at the front was ready, and the enemy ten steps away had rushed forward.

At such a close distance, the huge shield wall did not disappear, but the speed changed and became faster. The Mongolian soldiers grabbed the shield with their hands and used their entire body to increase the impact of the shield, and directly crashed into the shield wall composed of soldiers. The huge impact force made the shield formation in front of the formation loosen. Some soldiers had to take two or three steps in a row, and then rely on the help of their companions around them to kill the enemy who hit the shield formation. However, when all the enemies who bumped into the shield were lying down, the shield player could no longer return to his previous position. The enemy's desperate impact completely tore up, and the enemy who followed behind occupied the torn gap and did not retreat.

The swordsman coalition forces slowly retreated in the plan.

Retreat is not about turning around and running away. There is also a way to retreat. After hearing the horn sound, the soldiers in front no longer reserved the enemy. They used all their strength to slash and attacked them. The enemies fighting with them fell a lot. The distance between the three steps appeared like this. The soldiers covered in blood quickly turned around as soon as possible and fled to the rear. The enemies who were disrupted immediately began to chase in an instant, but they encountered the oncoming javelin. Another group of people fell down. At such a close distance, the javelin drilled in from their chests and then came out from their backs.

Recently, it was only seven steps away, and all the soldiers retreated quickly. After a chaos, the Mongolian soldiers were of course chasing quickly, but when the person they wanted to kill disappeared behind a shield wall, another round of javelin came towards him. Whoever rushed in front, whoever rushed the fastest, would die the fastest.