Chapter 30 fourth quarter

On the field outside the city, the torch stone chariot temporarily stopped shooting, and the intensive arrow rain at Shangyang Pass also suddenly stopped. The defensive infantry, which was 500 steps away from the city wall, retreated cautiously. The longbow shooter "Bauhinia Longshot" who is famous in Xiu country and Donglu was already lined up at the front, and a defensive wooden fence was erected in front of them.The archers falsely drew their longbows, and stuck all their sharp arrows in the soil beside them, so that they could be used at any time.Each of them received an exquisite longbow on the first day of joining the army. Unless accidentally damaged, this redbud wooden longbow will follow them until they retire or die in battle.They carefully tune and maintain their bows, oil their bowstrings, and practice shooting more than a hundred arrows a day to ensure that they are as familiar with their bows as they are with their fingers.The range of the redbud wooden bow can reach an astonishing three hundred steps, and its strength is still enough to penetrate iron armor.The proud archers waited in silence, their eyes piercing like eagles on the burning gates.

The shooters looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes, and the surroundings were as quiet as death, as if they could hear the violent heartbeat of their comrades. The soldiers of the Lower Tang Army held up a huge wrought iron shield with the thickness of a palm and the height of a person, covering it above their heads, and a square formation slowly advanced towards the Shangyang Pass.In the phalanx was a siege tool rhinoceros horn pushed by 120 people. This huge weapon made of a whole giant wood made a hammer and rumbled as it moved. The hammer was inlaid with a huge hammer made of cast iron. The head is as sharp as the horn of a rhinoceros.

Any gate would crumble to pieces before this massive and improved weapon, even the Apocalypse Gate made of pig iron.The giant shield formed a turtle-like defense, and the feathered arrows could not harm the warriors pushing the rhino horns under the shield. The only threat was hundreds of catties of boulders or wooden mines falling on the city.The terrible weight can crush the person under the shield into a pulp. Bauhinia Longshe raises his longbow to the sky and draws his longbow halfway, ready to shoot arrows at all the enemies who threaten the rhinoceros horn. The soldiers of the Xiatang Army are mixed in the most forward team of Bauhinia Longshe, pulling the bed crossbow with an iron hook with a wooden handle On the open crossbow, there are iron-headed arrows placed side by side, each with the length of a person. When all the arrows roar off the string, there will be no one on any section of the city wall in a short time. Dare to show your head.

The rhinoceros horn is approaching slowly, its sharp long horn will break through the already flimsy defense of Shangyang Pass, and the rest will only meet with short knives and fight in close quarters. However, there was no movement from the Li army, no rain of arrows, and no worrying logs or boulders thrown down. It seemed that there was no one on the burning city, and the banner of Lei Liezhihua had already been lowered.The rhinoceros horn rushed under the city gate, and the soldiers used dozens of long ropes to pull the giant mallet suspended by the iron chain, and then released them all together. The giant hammer of thousands of catties bombarded the city gate, and the city gate sounded like it was about to burst. There was a loud noise, and it was difficult to hold on.The soldiers did not give up, pulled the long rope again, and then released the giant hammer again.This time the bombardment achieved results. The sharp rhino horn pierced into the giant gate wrapped in wrought iron. The entire city gate vibrated, and lime rustled down the city wall.

Rhino Horn Charge launched bombardment repeatedly, and it was surrounded by 250 warriors holding high shields to defend it, and it was only a matter of time before the city gate collapsed. Xi Yuan leaned closer to his uncle: "With a few more blows, the city gate is bound to collapse. Mr. Li probably didn't expect that we would bring such a heavy thing to Shangyang Gate, right?" Xi Yan smoked a cigarette and shook his head: "Ordnance is a small way, and war is fought by people." As if in response to his words, the calm in Shangyang Pass was suddenly broken, and deep roars came out, like an ancient giant roaring in the darkness.The soldiers in a phalanx manipulating the rhino horn charge were stunned for a moment, and everyone felt a kind of fear at the same time, as if the giant beast was breaking free from the shackles of steel. Come out and bite.The roar was stronger than the next, almost breaking the city wall!

All the generals of the coalition army immediately gathered together, the six battle flags gathered, and the generals looked at each other silently. "The Li army is going out of the city to fight a decisive battle." Gu Yueyi praised in a low voice, "General Bai is very strategic, in such a strong windy weather, 300,000 catties of firewood were thrown into Shangyang Pass, they really couldn't stand the thick smoke .” "Leaving the city?" Xiyuan's face changed, "Then we should immediately withdraw the rhino horn charge! When the Li army leaves the city, our mere phalanx will be swallowed up immediately!"

Xi Yan pressed his nephew's shoulder: "It's too late, the phalanx was sent out to test it out, and such a group of people on the battlefield had little chance of surviving. Let them break down the gate of Shangyang Pass , complete the task." Bai Yi was silent, holding a bamboo flute, and knocking on the saddle in response to the roar from Shangyang Pass. "With the bravery of the Red Brigade, we may not have a sure chance of winning the decisive battle out of the city. We forced out the beast, but the beast is also very fierce. Isn't General Bai afraid that both of us will suffer?" Fei An said coldly.

"General Fei is still not happy that I didn't inform me of the time to attack the city in advance, but suddenly launched it?" Bai Yi leaned on the saddle and said calmly, "However, this method of driving wild beasts out of the hole is really too easy to defend. There is enough water prepared in the city, and the fire of 300,000 catties of firewood can be extinguished quickly, so the strategist's strategy is to be unexpected. Please forgive me, General Fei. I have to work all the generals to help me attack the city late at night. Bai Yi is here Sorry here." "Isn't it too late to say this now?" Gang Wuwei said with a blank expression, "I once saw the red brigade charging on the Juluyuan. Our archers are far from enough. They must charge forward with infantry, and infantry can hold shields. The target is small and not as easy to kill as cavalry. General Bai must have made sufficient preparations."

Bai Yi nodded slightly: "I'm ready. I've also prepared a banquet. Generals, we might as well watch the battle from the top. All generals are famous generals in the Eastern Continent, so there's no need to risk your life here." Cheng Kui frowned fiercely. He became famous in bloody battles, and he always led the army at the front. He also thought that if the leader wants to convince the crowd, he must charge at the front, but it is inconvenient to argue with Bai Yi. "Please!" Bai Yi gestured, turned his horse's head and left.Where he went, at the huge center of the 70,000 coalition army, a tall wooden tower had already been erected.

All the generals looked at his back, glanced at each other, and patted their horses to follow behind Bai Yi.No one likes Bai Yi's arrogance at the moment, but the majesty of the number one general in the Eastern Continent and his status as the commander of the coalition forces make it difficult for them to resist Bai Yi's invitation.This is also the first time they have felt Bai Yi's sharpness in so many days since they came here. He is still so quiet and doesn't talk much, but there is a sense of aggression in his calmness. Xi Yan, however, was still under the Mo flag, smoking slowly, squinting his eyes to look around.Xiyuan led the horse close to his uncle.

"Uncle, what else do you want to order?" Xi Yuan whispered. "Don't resist the Red Army Thunder Cavalry head-on, you just need to erect wooden towers to defend, your weak soldiers are too weak to fight against lions and tigers." Xi Yan didn't look at him, and puffed out a long puff of smoke, "and You were forced to take command when you met Li Gong, but this time you really want you to command the army to fight, and do it beautifully." "yes!" "But pay attention to the team that broke out from the Li army. If you find traces of the little princess among them, you must try your best to stop that team!" "yes!" "If you can't save her, then leave her alone, but you can't let Li Jun take her out of here!" Xi Yan turned to look at his nephew. Xiyuan shuddered: "Uncle mean?" "What a silly boy, I made it very clear, but you didn't understand it." Xi Yan patted his nephew's helmet, his voice was low, "That little princess may be the emperor's daughter, and half of us are here for her. There are endless hidden dangers in letting her fall into Li Jun's hands, and the emperor is so interested in her, it may not be because he wants to see a female emperor with the blood of Emperor Xi. She would rather die than fall into Li Guo's hands." Xiyuan looked at his uncle blankly, not knowing how to answer. "The art of war is deceitful, and the political situation is even more so." Xi Yan turned his horse's head and left. "Outside the battlefield, no matter how many conspiracies you have, you must not tell anyone." Rhino Horn Chong started the bombardment again. The tall city gate of Shangyang Pass has long been distorted and deformed by the raging fire and the strong impact. Red-hot iron bars and burning sawdust fell down one after another. The eyes of thousands of people outside the city were all focused on this city gate. . With a bang, the rhinoceros horn rushed into the city gate, and the heavy gate collapsed with the raging fire, and the burning giant fell heavily on the ground, splashing countless sparks, like the gate of hell opened.Just as the coalition soldiers were about to applaud, they saw a majestic neigh in the raging flames, and a black silhouette of a steed jumped up high, like a monster born from the fire. It landed on the tortoise shell-like defense, and its four hooves carried a force of over a thousand catties.The warriors holding their shields could not bear such a heavy pressure, and immediately fell down, their bones broken by their own shields.But the steed didn't stop, it walked forward at high speed on the layer of shield defense that was constantly collapsing, and the place it brought was howling.The warrior on horseback swept across the side of the horse with a nine-foot long sword. With just one blow, he cut off the four thick iron chains that hung the giant hammer.Thousands of kilograms of giant wooden mallets hit the center of the square formation, dozens of people died instantly, and the entire square formation fell apart. The red brigade soldiers who followed the horse out of the city roared and slashed and killed the terrified Xia Tang soldiers with their swords.These well-trained killers are not something the Xiatang soldiers can resist at all. Every time they just cross the face, the Xiatang soldiers also swing their knives, but the opponent's barbarian knife has already cut their throats, or When they raised their shields, the shields were deflected by the heavy force of the wild knife, and their throats were still severed with another knife.The coalition soldiers watching from a distance could no longer do anything. They even forgot to fire arrow rain and bed crossbows. They watched the blood-colored armored army advancing like fiery red giant ants in the forest in the southern part of Yuezhou. The group, wherever they went, was instantly covered in the red color of death. In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of Xiatang fighters in black disappeared into the red, and the red brigade soldiers stepped on their corpses and slowly left the city like a tide. The leading red horse roared and stood at the front, mixed with the red brigade, thousands of Thunder Riders lined up behind the red horse, tens of thousands of people beat the saddle with their weapons and shouted in a low voice .At this time, the other four city gates to the south opened together, and countless crimson figures strode out of Shangyang Pass. When Shangyangguan was designed, there were ten city gates. Leiyan Mountain and Suohe Mountain faced each other from east to west, so there were no city gates, and there were five gates each in the north and south directions.If 20,000 soldiers and horses leave the city in formation through one city gate, it will take at least half an hour for all of them to exit the gate, so Ying Wuyi ordered all five gates to be opened at once, and the speed at which the troops gathered outside the city immediately increased by four times. At this moment, Shangyang Pass is like a sluice gate. When it is opened, it releases a red tide. No one dares to intercept this red tide.The side of the coalition army was palpitatingly quiet, and everyone held their weapons tightly, watching helplessly as the scarlet army lined up outside the city wall in an orderly manner, raising red flags one after another. Finally all the Li army soldiers left the city, the red flags were flying, and the flames were flickering. The camps of both sides had never fought against each other at such a close distance.No one dared to move lightly, and no one could retreat. Bauhinia's long-shot archers are holding strong bows, and their arm strength has weakened.But the lieutenant general's command flag has not been waved for a long time, Li Jun's icy arrogance is like a huge wall in front of him, and the arrow has never been fired. In the absolute silence, the crackling of torches can be heard.The sweat from the palm of the hand dripped slowly along the longbow, hitting the feet with a "slap". Someone shuddered. A feathered arrow escaped from the archer's control and shot directly at the large red formation facing Li Guo!