Chapter 145 Captured
When siegeing the city, preventing the enemy from leaving the city to attack with elite troops is common knowledge in military tactics at that time.
However, Wang Xuba, who was rising up from a thick and thick, obviously did not understand this truth. He was attacked by Li Chong's nine-armor cavalry halfway through the past, and had already seen the power of the Sui army's armor cavalry, but this time he was still not prepared.
The Arc Cavalry left the city smoothly, but the only shortcoming was that a few big wooden hammers left on the ground when the bandits attacked the city slightly stopped the horse.
The armored cavalry in the city came out and chopped them up whenever they met.
At the city gate, the bandits were invincible by war horses, and they all fell under the knife or were hit by horses and flew high.
It is impossible to resist these ragged thieves and armed cavalry armed to their teeth.
Within a few dozen steps, Li Chongjiu led the armored cavalry to attack without any effort.
The thieves in the siege ahead were already exhausted. After dozens of people were killed, they collapsed all over the line. The supervising team's killing hands were weak, and they still could not stop the defeated army from defeating.
Seeing that the armored cavalry was coming close, the supervisory team began to flee.
"Protect the crossbow!"
"Protect the crossbow!"
Among the bandits, there are still people who are familiar with military tactics. They know that with the opponent's armored cavalry of less than fifty cavalry, they cannot impulse the entire army of tens of thousands of people. The opponent's target is the crossbow chariot.
So two rows of shield and sword warriors were assembled in front of the crossbow.
These shields and swords are not ordinary, and they are all holding iron shields. The sharp sword in their hands is not the rusty kitchen knife of ordinary thieves.
The bandits also knew that the crossbow chariot was important. In addition to Wang Xudai's personal soldiers, there were only two hundred shields and swords here.
When the armored cavalry saw the shield soldiers coming into battle, they did not rush hard, and the rear row held long weapons together. The Xi people immediately used to use maces and big wooden sticks. At that time, they swung on the iron shield with the speed of the horse's rushing force, as if they were knocking on the big gong, and they were pounding.
Many shield-holding thieves were directly broken by these hundreds of pounds of force.
The shield soldiers of the bandits were not those who were waiting to be captured. They used iron shields to block the cavalry and attacked them, all of them were cats and flipped their swords to cut off the horse's hooves.
The horse's hooves were cut off by a knife, and the armored cavalry fell off the horse in a mess. The opponent's shield soldiers stepped forward and chopped them away randomly, chopping them into meat paste.
After the two sides cut each other for a while, Wang Xu drew his flag and ordered the flag to flip.
The two or three thousand thieves who retreated on the entire siege were like frightened birds, then retreated. The two or three thousand thieves were forced to retreat by fifty-armored cavalry, which was considered to have lost all their faces.
After receiving the response, nearly 10,000 new forces from the bandits came forward together to prepare for rescue crossbows.
At this time, in the city gate, the fifty-armored cavalry that were connected to the back formation had just squeezed out of the city gate, and all the team arrived.
Li Chongjiu gritted his teeth, and immediately rushed towards the crossbow, and all the armored cavalry drove forward together, forming a triangular formation for cavalry to attack.
The horses are fighting for their hooves, as if they are thunder in summer.
With a bang, I saw a scene of people stumbleing on their backs.
At present, more than a dozen war horses crashed into the sword and shield formation alive, breaking a gap in the opponent's formation.
The cavalry that followed followed, holding a big knife and a mace, and following this gap, they cut with a knife and smashed it with a stick.
As soon as the shield army was opened, the saber and stick were cut down from all directions along the gap, and the war horses clashed, and even knocked people to fly far away.
The bandits' shield army finally couldn't resist, and the cavalry's impact dropped their shields and swords and fled everywhere.
"Do not, destroy two crossbow chariots, drag the other two crossbow chariots back to the city!" Li Chongjiu shouted a loud order.
This winch crossbow is a sharp weapon of the Great Sui Dynasty, and there are not many in Hejun County. Li Chongjiu immediately changed his decision.
Following Li Chongjiu's instructions, the Arctic Cavalry cut the back of the horse's buttocks with the back of the knife.
After pulling the horse in pain, he ran hard. Arc riding on the side was rushing to pull the horse, and let Zhi carry the crossbow cart into the city gate. As for the other two beds, Arc riders swung big sticks and smashed and slashed the cart with big swords. Soon after, the two beds of crossbow carts turned into a pile of firewood.
When the thieves saw that the enemy cavalry was about to enter the city, they were not willing to miss this opportunity, so they shouted forward.
Li Chongjiu sneered a few times, and took the fifty-armored cavalry around him to fight against him. Instead, he advanced and rushed towards the other side. The bandits were running wildly to steal the city gate, but they did not form a formation at all. When they saw the cavalry coming in a fierce manner, they were shocked and stopped immediately, raised bamboo spears and spears, and formed formations on the spot to defend themselves.
Archers stepped forward one after another, and a round of arrows flew over, soft and weak, shooting on the iron armor was like scratching it.
Li Chongjiu did not rush into the fight directly, but just walked around like a demonstration. After seeing two crossbows entering the city gate, Li Chongjiu retreated with his armored cavalry.
At this time, the thieves woke up as if they were dreaming. They knew they had fallen into a trap, so they chased the Sui army's butt and shouted to rob the city gate.
A fifty-armored cavalry entered the door without falling. Even the injured and dismissed cavalry rescued the horses for their companions and transported them into the city.
The two city gates weighing hundreds of pounds on both sides are slowly closing under the push of eight men on both sides.
The thieves seemed to have seen a glimmer of opportunity, and ran forward desperately and rushed to the city gate.
As long as you steal all the city gates, tens of thousands of troops behind you can enter continuously. With less than two thousand defenders and civilians who are strong in the city gates, you can occupy the entire city in one hour.
At this time, there was a sound of a buzz on the top of the city, fifty strong bows shot together, and the first one who rushed to the gate was only twenty steps away, more than a dozen thieves were shot to death and nailed to the ground.
The subsequent thieves still did not give up and continued to rush forward. They shot down the city with fifty strong bows that were like a full moon.
The city gate finally closed slowly and closed tightly.
"More than 30 armored horses were damaged, two crossbows were destroyed, and two crossbows were seized."
Li Chongjiu shook his head. The loss of the Arc Cavalry was still too great. These were all his elites. After coming to Feihu County, the loss had exceeded forty people, and the minor injuries were not counted.
However, after seeing the captured two-bed crossbow chariots, Li Chongjiu looked carefully and felt that it was worth it. The twelve stone crossbows were three bows and one bed, with two bows in front and one bow behind, which was said to be four hundred steps away.
Not to mention whether field battles are convenient, whether it is siege or defending the city, these twelve stone crossbows are all powerful tools.
After entering the city, Gao Chu had already ordered the girl's wall to be moved to block the part that was shot through by a crossbow.
When Gao Chu saw Li Chongjiu straddling his horse from the horse road to the city, he immediately said sincerely: "The Marquis is brave. If the Marquis had not broken the crossbow, this city would have been out of stock."
Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "How about the enemy?"
Gao Chu laughed and said, "The enemy thief had already broken into the formation, and at least two hundred people were damaged, and another five or six hundred people were lost to the siege. Now the crossbow was seized or destroyed by the Marquis. What's the strength left?"
Chapter completed!