Fu Song

Chapter 142 The First Day

If you stand tall, you will naturally see far.

Standing on the tower, Zuo Qiuming could clearly see the Guangrui Army's barracks and formations not far away.

Naturally, I saw at a glance the prisoners of war and civilians who were being expelled from the rear continuously.

In an instant, he understood what the other party wanted to do.

Zuo Qiuming, whose face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, murmured and cursed in fear. To be honest, he didn't expect that Xiao Ding would force these people to attack Yanzhou City as pioneers at first.

But scolding is scolding, turning around and thinking about it, if I were in Xiao Ding's current situation, I'm afraid I would use the same method.

Recruiting several generals under his command, Zuo Qiuming gave some strict instructions.

The captives under the city, the people and the defenders in Yanzhou City are more or less restrained. If the city is a little soft because of these relations, everyone will go to Xiao Ding's prisoner-of-war camp together as companions. Everything must be made clear to everyone.

If you want to survive by yourself, you have to harden your heart, not to mention your fellow countrymen and relatives, even your father and son, you should not hesitate for a moment to shoot the arrow.

Either you die, or he dies.

Drums rumble.

Teams of soldiers poured out of the barracks, and with the accompaniment of drums, they neatly pressed towards the city wall.

Halfway through the march, the team stopped and began to organize their formation.

At this moment, the team of thousands of people turned into three phalanxes, with a distance of about [-] steps between each phalanx.

Each phalanx is a row of sword and shield soldiers sandwiching a row of crossbowmen.

The drum sounded again, and the square formation in the middle began to move forward steadily, but the two square formations on both sides were more than ten steps behind before following up.

The sound of shouting sounded, and under the command of the officer, the shields in the hands of the sword and shield soldiers were sometimes raised and sometimes put down, because they were well-trained and looked extremely neat, standing on the top of the city and watching this scene, if it was not hostile The two sides will definitely cheer a few words, but now, it can only be life and death.

The crossbowman in the city has already stretched the crossbow in his hand, aiming down, just waiting for the opponent to enter the range.

With a whoosh, a stone bomb flew up from the city, whistling with a violent wind, and with a bang, it landed less than a few steps away from the first row of soldiers in the middle phalanx, smashing the ground a deep hole. Deep potholes.

"Speed ​​up, go forward!" The officer yelled sharply.

The phalanx, which was still as stable as an old dog just now, gave a cry, and immediately ran forward.

In the sky, more stone bullets whizzed towards them, and the howling sound from the eight-ox crossbow was even more frightening.

No one went to see these things flying in the sky. Everyone knew very well that at this time, it was their own luck to fight. Anyway, no matter if it was a stone bullet or a crossbow arrow, if they rubbed a little bit of it, they would die. .Fortunately, the rate of fire of these two gadgets is extremely slow. Whether it is a trebuchet or a crossbow, each one requires dozens of people to operate.There is a relatively long interval between each round of shooting.Moreover, they all have a shooting range. After passing this dangerous area, their threat is greatly reduced.

"Raise the shield, drop it!" Li Yi roared.

The middlemost phalanx he commanded stopped immediately, and the sword and shield hand raised the large shield in his hand, trying to cover the vital points of himself and an archer behind him, and the archer, He raised the divine arm bow in his hand. The first crossbow arrow was loaded before he set off. At this time, he just needs to shoot it out.

They can shoot the enemies in the city, and the opponents in the city can also shoot them.

Almost at the same time, the humming and firing sound of the divine arm bow was heard continuously from above and below the city.

Li Yi shot the first arrow in his hand. He immediately got short and hid behind the shield. He stepped on the arm of the bow and drew a crossbow arrow from the quiver. With a soft cracking sound, the divine arm bow was wound up again.

The divine arm bow is extremely powerful, but at the same time, it is extremely troublesome to wind it. You must rely on the strength of your feet and waist to wind the crossbow.

There were screams from around him, some companions were shot and fell to the ground, and some crossbow arrows pierced Li Yi's body with howling sounds. He raised the divine arm bow in his hand.

With a whoosh, a soldier of the Dingnan Army with half of his body exposed was shot by him and fell headlong off the city wall.

As Li Yi, who followed Xiao Ding to participate in the battle of ten people challenging a hundred people in Shanglinyuan, he could remain calm like an outsider when facing any battle.

Behind them, the sound of dense drumbeats sounded again. This time, it was no longer the army that struck with the drumbeats, but the captives and the salt workers who were driven away.

Everyone carried a straw bag filled with sand or snow.

Run under the city wall, drop this straw bag, and run back.No matter who it is, as long as they can cast five such straw bags, they will be released immediately and regain their freedom.

Those who are unwilling have only one end, and that is death.If there is a little resistance, the swords and guns of Guangrui soldiers will be added.

Going forward, it is possible to die.

If you disobey the orders of the soldiers in front of you, you will die immediately.

Which is more important, as long as it is an individual can distinguish clearly.

On the top of the city, Zuo Qiuming's fists were clenched and cracked. These straw bags were used by those salt farms to hold salt, but now they have become a sharp weapon for the Guangrui army.Right now, snowflakes are all over the mountains and plains. Guangrui Army only needs to fill the snow into straw bags to build a slope under the city, and even save the work of digging sand and soil.

"Shoot them to death!" Zuo Qiuming yelled angrily, seeing that many of those guys running wildly carrying sandbags were wearing the uniforms of the Dingnan Army, he was even more furious.

However, these people are very experienced. Unlike those salt workers who run in a straight line with only one heart, these people hold straw bags to their chests and keep turning and changing their routes during the running process. , In addition, there are three Guangrui army phalanxes shooting at them under the city, which greatly reduces the pressure. Of these prisoners of war, seven or eight out of ten can escape after dropping the straw bags, but those ordinary It is already good if half of the salt workers can come back.

The first batch just ran back, and the second batch is already on the way.

The difference from before is that at this moment, the road ahead is already covered with fallen corpses.

"Help, help me!" A salt worker who was shot by an arrow fell to the ground, and in pain stretched out his hand to ask for help from the frantically running people, and to the phalanx of the Guangrui Army not far from him.

But no one paid him any attention.

At this moment, he was not the only one calling for help.

On the road of attack, many were hit by feather arrows and injured by trebuchets.Everyone can't take care of themselves, who can take care of others?

Now the trebuchets in the city are no longer throwing a single stone bullet, but a large number of stone flakes packed in a net bag. After this thing flies into the air and breaks free from the shackles of the net bag, it can cover a large area. , it may not be able to kill people immediately, but it is easy to hurt you.

"General, we have to go out of the city to fight, and we can't let them pile up the straw bags." Zheng Jiang Liu Yan trotted to Zuo Qiuming.

"What are those people doing? They are waiting for us to go out of the city to fight!" Zuo Qiuming pointed at the three phalanxes with some pain, "We are short of troops. Every death of an elite soldier means one less."

"General, we can lure these people into Wengcheng and kill them in large numbers!" Liu Yan suggested: "These people are eager to destroy the city, and they will eventually lead troops out to fight, pretending to be defeated and retreating. These people will definitely follow up. As long as they enter Wengcheng, it will be a dead end. Even if Xiao Ding has a lot of people, if we kill hundreds of people at once, it will be a great blow to him, and his morale will definitely be affected. As long as they are unable to organize an attack today, we will Even if you win, right?"

Zuo Qiuming pondered for a moment, and finally nodded. He was worried about the lack of people, and Xiao Ding was worried about not having enough time.There is still hope outside of him, as long as the reinforcements arrive, the battle will be won.What Liu Yan said was not unreasonable.

The feathered arrows like flying locusts on the city stopped suddenly, Li Yi stood up straight and felt strange, he saw the city gate in front of him wide open, and the Dingnan army poured out from Neriwu .

Out of town to fight?

Li Yi was overjoyed.

"Attention all troops, retreat."

He roared, and there were more than [-] soldiers left under his command, turning around in unison.

But when Li Yi retreated, the two phalanxes on both sides pushed up in the opposite direction.

Taking thirty steps back, Li Yi regrouped and turned around, while Liu Yan, who rushed out from the city, rushed straight into the newly formed concave lineup.

"Fuck them to death!" Li Yi charged up with a knife.

On the top of the city, Zuo Qiuming watched all this in horror and anger. The opponent changed formation, reorganized the army, and attacked. In the blink of an eye, he completed a series of seemingly simple but actually extremely difficult military moves. During a battle, if such a formation is not properly transformed, the enemy will take advantage of it, making it tricky and clumsy.

The ease with which the opponent completed it also trapped Liu Yan in a three-sided siege.

Now, he can only hope that Liu Yan can react quickly, turn around and run away quickly without getting entangled with the enemy. Under such circumstances, running away will not arouse the suspicion of the enemy. As long as these enemies can be introduced to Wengcheng, then it is considered It's done.

Liu Yan did exactly that.

After a short fight, he turned and ran.

His enemies pursued desperately behind him.

The broken troops are being swallowed by the opponent one by one.

Come on, come on, come with me!
Liu Yan didn't run fast at all.

But the result disappointed him greatly.

Because his opponent stopped suddenly, then turned and walked away without hesitation.

What Liu Yan didn't know was that the model of Yanzhou City was now placed in Xiao Ding's big tent. Behind the gate of the East City, there was a huge Weng City. Li Yi knew it very well.

(End of this chapter)