Chapter 92: Critical
. Although the soldiers at the first squad were elite, their individual combat power was still inferior to the three hundred tent soldiers on the opposite side. What was even more annoying is that the cave in the city gate was only so big that the soldiers at the first squad could not even show the advantage of the number of people. Crushing into the narrow door, both sides fought desperately, and the ground was full of fallen corpses.
When Wang Min rode his horse to the south city gate, he was facing such a situation. He only looked at the battle situation in the city gate, and Wang Min's heart was cold. He took two steps at three steps and rushed to the city wall. The cavalry opposite was clearly visible. At the speed of the Meng cavalry, it only took half a stick of incense to get here, and the time for half a stick of incense was not enough to let the defenders in the city eliminate this Mongolian army.
Lucheng is about to fall. Wang Min made this judgment immediately.
After grabbing a officer in Renyong's uniform, Wang Min ordered loudly: "Lead your men to build a line of defense fifty meters away from the city gate with their horses, deer antlers, and everything you can find. "
"Yes, General Wang!" Wang Min's arrival made these soldiers find their backbone at once. Wang Min was a general who was familiar to them. The Renyong Captain quickly led the soldiers under his command and brought all the obstacles that could be built in sight, forming a line of defense about two meters high not far from the city gate.
"Carry down all the crossbows on the city walls and set them here! All the soldiers you can find are gathered here, ready to deal with the impact of the enemy cavalry!" Wang Min hoarsely.
There were a total of ten crossbows on the southern city wall. At Wang Min's order, the ten crossbows were quickly lifted down.
Under Wang Min's command, about 500 soldiers quickly gathered on this line of defense.
"Bed crossbow, aim me at the city gate and shoot!" Wang Min shouted.
Captain Renyong was shocked, "General, there are hundreds of our brothers there!" In the cave in the city gate, Sima Dan led more than a hundred people to attack forward, but the progress was minimal.
Wang Min had a blue face, "Behind us, there are 100,000 people in Lucheng City! Shoot!" He rushed forward, kicked a soldier away, reached out to pull the trigger of a crossbow, and with a buzzing sound, the powerful crossbow arrows shot towards the city gate with a roar. Regardless of the enemy and us, the powerful crossbows shot down both sides like candied haws.
Tuli didn't expect that the opponent's general was so decisive. He actually used a powerful crossbow to shoot without distinguishing the enemy and us. When he turned around, he saw that the cavalry was already in front of him. His eyes were blood red and he shouted: "It's time to be loyal to the country, and he will never retreat! Guard the city gate."
The howling crossbow shot down both sides of the enemy and us in a series. The Mongolian tent soldiers suffered heavy losses in an instant, but they still firmly guarded the city gate.
The sound of horse hooves behind him, Yao Meng rushed from behind. When he saw Wang Min, he was a little surprised. He no longer cared about anything at this time, "General Wang, what should I do?" He waited for Wang Min's orders habitually.
"Can't be able to defend it anymore!" Wang Min's words were sobbing, "Yao Meng, take your other soldiers to retreat to the north gate, build a defense line at the north gate, guard the north gate tightly, and let the people in the city retreat."
"General, I'm here to stop me. You go to the North Gate to command." Yao Meng shouted.
"Get out!" Wang Min shouted angrily: "Get out, go to the North Gate quickly. I will buy you half an hour at most. Take the other three posts of the First Battalion to guard the North Gate wall."
"As for orders, general!" Yao Meng heard the sound of the iron cavalry rolling outside the city, knew that he could no longer delay, so he turned his horse's head and shouted: "Follow me!"
More than two thousand other first battalion soldiers who were quickly gathering here from the barracks retreated quickly to the north gate.
Sima Dan was lucky and retreated from the city gate alive. He was covered in blood and lay behind the defense line, panting constantly. Wang Min looked at the man's uniform and knew that this man was the first whistle general, but he didn't know him. Obviously, he had just been promoted and kicked him, "Get up and prepare for battle. What's your name?"
"The last general Sima Dan!" Sima Dan said loudly and jumped up.
Wang Min was slightly stunned. It turned out to be from the Sima family.
The first war horse jumped into the outside of the city gate, and the black war horse was following him. Almost as soon as the war horse was revealed, the roar of the crossbow sounded, and the powerful crossbow arrow shot the horse in the opposite direction. With a bang, the heavy horse fell to the ground. The horse knight was immediately pressed under the horse, and immediately stepped on the meat for the later generations.
"Brothers of the First Strike, fight. Let's fight for a little more time, and the people of Lucheng will withdraw one more person. Fight until death!" Wang Min waved his sword and shouted loudly.
The fierce aura that the soldiers of the First Battalion had formed for a long time was successfully aroused at this moment, "I will not stop until death!"
More than ten crossbows were fired one after another, sealing the cave in the city gate. In a moment, the cave in the city gate was blocked by the corpses of people.
Mengqi rushed up one by one, waved the iron hook, dragged the dead bodies away, cleared the way forward, and reversed it. Dozens of people fell down.
Outside the city, the soldiers of the big tent rushed up, waved their long rope rings in their hands, and the rope rings flew high high, accurately covering the battlements more than ten meters high. The soldiers on the horse used the momentum of the horse to pull the rope sleeves hard, flew high, and climbed up quickly along the walls of the city wall.
After half a stick of incense, hundreds of soldiers from the city walls waved their sabers and rushed from the city wall toward the line of defense built by Wang Min.
"Sima Dan, guard here, there is a crossbow to seal the city gate." Wang Min shouted at Sima Dan beside him, and he pulled out his waist knife and rushed towards the enemy who rushed from the city wall with one or two hundred soldiers. At this time, more and more enemies were emerging from the city wall.
Hundred miles away from Lucheng, thousands of cavalry of the Gorgos tribe under Jamuha and the remaining hundreds of tent soldiers had fought several times with Sima Rui's main force of Lucheng City. In the first day of the first day, dozens of bed crossbows gathered together by the border troops of Lucheng caused great damage to Ruth's left-wing Gorgos tribe on the spot. Once these powerful bed crossbows had the advantage of clustering, their destructive power would immediately appear. The Gorgos tribe, who used the storm-shooting tactics with the Eagle-billed Rock Horse Bandits, lost hundreds of lives in the first wave under the fan strike of dozens of bed crossbows. The powerful bed crossbows sometimes took two lives with one arrow.
If the bed crossbow hadn't been fired too slowly, Ruth's loss would have been greater. Gorgos's troops used the gap between the bed crossbow shooting, galloped in and out, assaulted rapidly, and shot back and forth.
The first wave of shooting of the crossbows achieved great results, but the opponents were prepared for the next time, and the effect was greatly reduced. However, the Lucheng border troops, which were closely crowded together, fought back with mountainous gun forests and bows and arrows in the gun forest, which made the opponent helpless for a while. The dense formations and fearless soldiers have always been the magic potion to restrain the cavalry, not to mention that there are dozens of crossbows waiting for an opportunity to launch.
Ruth and Lu Tai took turns to attack, but they still couldn't take down the sting in front of them.
Sima Rui looked at the direction of Lucheng, his eyes full of worry, and looked at Chen Feng beside him, "What should I do now? If you continue to waste this, the enemy will not care about it, which will be a big disadvantage for us. There is only danger in Lucheng."
Chen Feng closed his eyes and said for a while: "I'm afraid there is no need to think about Lucheng anymore. What you have to do now is to preserve the little force in your hands. There will be a large-scale war with the Mongolian army next. Within hundreds of miles around Lucheng, you are the only unit."
Sima Rui was stunned for a while, reached out to call a guard, whispered a few instructions, and the guard nodded and rode away.
"But now, I can't get rid of the other party's entanglement!"
"It will take until night." Chen Feng opened his eyes and looked at the cavalry opposite him, "People can persist, but war horses cannot. They need to rest and eat. This group of Mongol cavalry fought a big battle with us. Now that there is no rest, we have fought with you for so long. It is already the end of our strength. If we persist, we can get rid of them at night."
Sima Rui nodded, "That's all!"
The two armies confronted each other, and on a small oasis that was only dozens of miles away from them, Yun Zhao, Hong Niangzi, Sanyan Tiger, Yan Xiaoyi, and ten thousand yuan and other remnants of Yingzui Rock gathered here. The atmosphere above the oasis was extremely solemn. In this battle, Yingzui Rock was a big defeat.
"What should we do now? The people in the old nest are still in the hands of the other party, and the old boss has also fallen into Sima Rui's hands. What should we do?" Yan Xiaoyi twitched his nose and looked at the people in front of him.
Yun Zhao was silent for a while, "Wait, wait for the opportunity, Xiao Yi, have you sent out to detect the contingent?"
Yan Xiaoyi nodded, "I've been sent out, I should be back soon."
The Hong Madam hugged her head, squatted on the ground, her shoulders twitched, obviously crying. Yun Zhao walked over and patted her spine gently: "Miaomiao, don't worry, we can definitely rescue Uncle Chen. Now the Mongolian army should fight Sima Rui. We will follow us all the way and there will be a chance."
The Hong Madam raised her head. She, who had always been extremely strong, finally showed her daughter's fragile side, her face full of tears, "Yun Zhao, what should we do? Can Uncle Chen really save her?"
"Yes, we will definitely save Uncle Chen." Yun Zhao clenched his fist and punched him hard on the ground. "Sima Rui, a bastard, has tied himself up, not only harmed us, but also the people of Lucheng. One day, I will pull his head off."
He grabbed Yun Zhao's arm tightly, as if he had found support. The Hong Madam put her head on Yun Zhao's strong arm and cried whimperingly. "Yun Zhao, Uncle Chen is my only relative. Promise me that you must rescue him."
Yun Zhao nodded silently and reached out to bring the sad Hongniang into his arms, "Uncle Chen will never fall into the hands of this bastard Sima Rui in his heroic life."
With the sound of horse hooves in the distance, Yan Xiaoyi stood up, "Our people are back."
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Chapter completed!