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Chapter 583: Sudden Encounter

Attacking cities where the facilities are complete and soldiers dare to die have always been the nightmare of the generals of that era. Whether the commander is mediocre or clever, facing such city defense, the only thing that can be done is to use the soldiers' blood and corpses to exchange for a road to successfully reaching the top.

The Meng people are not good at siegeing the city, and defending the city is obvious to all. With only a few thousand people, they cannot even cover the city walls. However, under the attack of the Zhengbei Army, which is absolutely superior, they stubbornly resisted waves of attacks. Even if the young and strong people were forced to go up to the city wall, even if they did not know any killing skills, they could just hold up the stone and smash it down, push the pounding wood and roll it down, and pick up the hot hot oil that burns down, overturn it, which can cause huge damage to the siege.

Romon was not very good at defending the city, but he knew that Yumen Pass must not be lost. Shi Gandang had many tricks to attack the city, just to force Romon to reveal flaws on someone's location, so he could take advantage of the opportunity to go up. After many times of distress on the city wall, Romon came up with a trick. He organized two or three hundred cavalrymen to lead the horses onto the city wall. When in danger there, these cavalrymen rode their horses to the rescue. Relying on their excellent cavalry, they interspered and detoured the city wall, and rushed to the distressed place as quickly as possible, and drove the Northern Army who was sieging the city wall again.

The war was in an extremely fierce showdown from the beginning. Shi Gandang was too familiar with Yumen Pass. He didn't need to test it, so he knew that there were heavy troops on the city and it was a little weak. The attack of the Northern Army was also extremely targeted. Therefore, during the first day's attack, the Eighth Battalion of the Northern Army climbed the city wall several times, but was driven down again under the opponent's decisive counterattack.

When the last ray of light of the sun disappeared on the top of the mountain, the Northern Army finally began to retreat to the distant camp like a tide. Today's attack ended here. There were bloodstains everywhere on the city and the broken soldiers and broken blades, and the bodies that fell to the ground were obviously fierce.

After one day's battle, both sides lost more than a thousand people. The Mongolian army guarding the city died mostly young and strong men who first went up to the city wall to participate in the war. They may be familiar with war, but they are definitely unfamiliar with participating in the war. Inability to effectively protect themselves is the fatal weakness of young and strong men. This also led to heavy casualties.

Seeing the Northern Army retreating, Romon sat in the pool of blood on the city wall. On this day, he was so tired that he almost lost his strength. Unlike his opponents who had sufficient troops, he bet everyone up, and even himself had to carry a sword to fight, but fortunately he finally came to an end. The battle this day made him feel confident and defending the city, but that's how it sounds!

The stone-throwing tools that the Zhengbei Army had made the night before, and the siege platform was almost flattened by the opponent. In their opinion, these things were originally disposable items. In just one night, they could make the same or even more simple siege equipment.

Wan Shichang walked into Shi Gandang's tent in a depressed mood.

"I'll come here in person tomorrow!" He looked at Shi Gandang.

Shi Gandang rubbed his temples and his head hurt a little. Looking at the Yumen Pass defense map in front of him, he found that the Yumen Pass defense was the same as before. The problem was that even if he knew it clearly, he could not break the opponent's defense. Hearing Wan Shichang's words, he raised his head, "If you don't think of any special method, it will be difficult to get the hard attack!"

"I'll go in person!" Wan Shichang said stubbornly, "There are not many people in Meng, even if two fight one, we can still get it."

Shi Gandang sucked in the cold air and listened with his ears.

"It's wind blowing, it seems that the weather is about to change! Don't rain. If there are a few rains, our fun will be heavy!" Shi Gandang said worriedly: "As soon as it rains, the road from behind us will become muddy. At that time, the transportation of logistics supplies will become a big problem. If we can't get Yumen Pass for a while, we really want to leave here."

"So I'm going to come here in person!" Wan Shichang said: "It's indeed changing. I just came back from patrol outside. The wind smelled like it, and it must be raining!"

It seemed to be reflecting the words of the two of them. With a bang, something hit the tent. Then, there was a constant crackling sound, and the raindrops as big as beans poured down, covering the entire camp in a rain curtain.

The two looked at each other in surprise.

"Even if it rains, I have to fight tomorrow!" Wan Shichang stood up suddenly. Heavy rain was an obstacle for us, and it was not a good thing for those who guarded the city!"

Han Hai led dozens of personal soldiers to gallop on the road to Yumen Pass, strengthened the defense of Yumen Pass, and then drew troops from Anqing and Shibao to cross the Bayankala Mountains and raid Yizhou. This was his mission. He rushed all the way, and he basically rested for three or four hours every day. For several days, everyone was a little tired.

"General Han, it's going to rain. Hurry in the dark. If it rains heavily, the road will be muddy and it will be bad if you break your horse's legs. Let's take a break!" A personal soldier shouted at Han Haidao in the wind. "This place is not far from Yumen Pass, we will definitely arrive tomorrow!"

Stalking the horses and feeling the growing wind and the wetness in the wind, Han Hai nodded, "Sharpening the knife will not delay the chopping work. Find a place to shelter from the rain, rest for a night, so that the horse can also rest, recover its strength, and set off tomorrow morning. There is a large forest there. Where can we go, we can simply build a shack to shelter from the rain using the trees."

"Yes, General!" The group slowed down and headed towards Lin Zichi on the side.

Dozens of war horses were galloping together, and even in the strong wind, the sound of hooves was still so obvious. A group of people arrived first in the forest, busy cutting branches. Some of them bent and tied the thinner trees together to form a vault, and then put the cut branches on it. It took not long to take a simple shack to set up. When the sound of horse hooves was heard, the group was stunned and turned to look in the direction where the sound of horse hooves came.

"Master Swede, are you my brother nearby?" said one person.

"Impossible!" The burly man, known as the whistle captain, listened to the sound of the horse's hooves, "Our whistle cavalry team has at most ten people. Listening to this sound, I am afraid that dozens of people will put out the torches. Be careful not to scare the war horses!"

Several torches were immediately thrown to the ground, and they were wiped out in a few seconds, and the forest suddenly fell into darkness.

"Search the guy!" said the burly man in a low voice.

These people were the whistle-riding cavalry sent by Shi Gandang, who attacked Yumen Pass. They originally wanted to set up a shack in this forest to shelter from the rain and patrol again at dawn, but they didn't want to bump into Han Hai's men here.

Looking at the dozens of torches, Han Hai and his group led their war horses to the depths of the forest. A whistleman quietly took out a crossbow, "The chief of the whistleman, it's Meng Gouzi!"

The burly man spat, "What a Meng Gouzi, although he was wearing Meng Gouzi's costume, he was a group of surrendered fake Meng Gouzi. Brothers, give them some cruel things."

"Captain of the Swede, there are so many people!"

"They are in the open and we are in the dark, so fuck him first. These fake dogs are cowards, afraid of death. Without any attack, ten of us are enough to deal with them!" The burly man sneered. "Riding a crossbow!"

Han Hai naturally didn't know that there were already ten pairs of eyes staring at them in the forest. Ten crossbows were aimed at them with cold light. As long as they got closer, they would be hit hard by crossbow arrows.

"Get closer, closer!" The burly man silently said in his heart. The newly dispatched crossbow can shoot three shots at a time, but the problem is that the range is too close. Once the distance is far, the lethality will be insufficient.

With a click, Han Hai's feet stepped on a branch, his body staggered and almost fell down.

"Be careful, General!" The personal soldiers on one side quickly walked up to support Han Hai. Under the reflection of the torch, Han Hai suddenly saw two tied trees not far ahead, as well as the messy branches on the ground.

"Stop!" He suddenly raised his hand, "There are people in the forest!"

Seeing Han Hai's gesture, the burly man knew that he had revealed his flaws. Regardless of the distance, he shouted loudly, "Start!"

As soon as the two words were out, ten people pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and there was a constant sound of whizzing sound. Dozens of crossbow arrows rushed out of the darkness and headed straight for Han Hai and his group under the torch.

"Enemy attack!" Han Hai exclaimed, and heard the sound of crossbow arrow breaking through the air. He immediately fitted and fell to the ground. The moment he fell down, he pulled out the sword from his waist. With a press of his hand, he almost stuck to the ground and rushed forward.

In the end, it exceeded the effective range of crossbow riding. In this round of crossbow arrows, although it hit the opponent unexpectedly, many people were hit by crossbow arrows, but they did not kill the opponent in a straightforward manner. Only one guy was unlucky and was hit by an arrow in the eye. He immediately rolled on the ground and howled in pain.

"Kill!" The burly man pulled out his big sword and roared and rushed out of the forest.

The group of personal guards led by Han Hai were all from Xiangshan Prefecture soldiers. They were able to stand out from the Three Thousand Xiangshan Prefecture soldiers and were selected as personal soldiers of the Han father and son. Knowing that they were all very capable people. The sudden attack also caused them a short period of chaos. However, after Han Hai drew his sword forward, the group of people immediately reacted and drew out the sword in a very short time. The escort followed Han Hai to kill him.

The wind became even stronger, and the bean-sized raindrops were sandwiched in the wind and were about to come down, making a rustling sound. The wind and raindrops completely covered up the shouts of dozens of people.

As soon as they fought, the burly man noticed the difficulty of his opponent, which was a huge difference from the opponent he reflected. The two sides fought for more than ten times, and screams kept ringing. The burly man finally realized something was wrong. The nine people he led were all elites in the eighth battalion, and could become whistle cavalry. In either aspect, they were the best choice in the army, but they could only maintain a one-to-one casualty rate between confronting the enemy. This was just a surprise attack that caught the opponent off guard. In just a short time, five of the enemies fell down, and five of their own people fell down, and the rest were already surrounded by the opponent.

The enemy who fought with him was far more skillful than him. After the two of them fought for more than ten moves, he had to take more than ten steps back. Looking at the opponent's ferocious face, the burly man knew that he would kick the iron plate today and would be spared. With a gritted teeth, he took out a short iron tube from his arms, raised his hand, and the iron tube flew out of his hand and flew into the air, making a sharp whistle. Even the masterpiece of wind and rain could not cover up its chirping.
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