Invincible son

Chapter 289 288 [Dead Man]

Qi Huaijing had heard from an old man in the village that there would occasionally be thunder when the sky was clear in summer, so after hearing the suspected thunder outside the city, he didn't realize what it meant.

In fact, he is not to blame for this. The last time the Western Wu people committed a large-scale violation of the border dates back to 14 years ago. They only attacked Hucheng, and the border military village was not affected at that time.However, Dong Da, who was sitting next to him, changed his face drastically, stood up straight with his hands on the ground, and threw himself forward on the city wall to look west.

Qi Huaijing followed up blankly, and then saw dense black dots appearing in his vision.

"That's the Western Wu cavalry!"

Dong Da roared angrily, turned around and ran quickly to the bottom of the city tower, kicked over the sentinel who was still enjoying the shade, and cursed: "The people from Xiwu are coming, you fucking hurry up and notify Cao Hu!"

The man stared at Dong Da dumbfounded, and immediately ran down the city.

Dong Da went straight into the city tower, jumped up the stairs in two or three steps, rushed to the attic and tried his best to ring the big warning bell.

The melodious bell echoed over Daokou Village, and the soldiers in the village responded immediately.Cao Hu was not considered an outstanding young general in the Daliang Army, but he did not dare to be sloppy in basic drills. Similar training has been done many times in the past.After the bell rang, he and the guerrilla sentinels quickly boarded the city tower, and the soldiers rushed to the city wall they were in charge of with their weapons.

Dong Da came out from the tower, ignored Cao Hu who was hurriedly walking, walked up to Qi Huaijing, and said in a low voice, "Be careful later."

Qi Huaijing swallowed nervously.

At this moment, those black spots on the west side have revealed their real bodies. First, there were two teams of Xiwu Qingqi, each with about [-] people.They drew a semicircle from the left and right sides and went around to the east of the military city.With these thousand light cavalry cutting off the back road, it is absolutely impossible for the soldiers of Daokou village to rush out to deliver the letter.

Cao Hu's eyes were gloomy, and he said angrily: "Beat the drums and light the beacon fire."

The soldiers took orders and left.

The second drum continued to sound, and the peasants in the village hurriedly took out the defense equipment from the warehouse according to their respective areas of responsibility, and transported them to the city wall, such as rolling logs, stones and flying hooks.Cao Hu's personal soldiers came to the center of the stockade, where a tall tower was built, imitating the beacon tower in the beacon tower, with the fire during the day and the fire at night, which can serve as a warning.

These military strongholds on the border of Lingzhou are not only to restrain the cavalry of Western Wu, but also to prevent the raids of Western Wu people in a timely and effective manner.Although after capturing Hucheng, Daliang could also send out riders to the Gaoyang Plain to scout the movements of the Western Wu people, but judging from the actual effect, Daliang Rangers were obviously weaker than the more elite and powerful West Wu Rangers.

In this context, the role of the army village is beyond doubt.

When the wolf smoke rose into the sky, the Xiwu army also completed the siege of Daokou Village.

The siege began immediately.

Cao Hu hid behind the wall, carefully observing the enemies below the city.Judging from the formation, the total number of Western Wu cavalry is about three to four thousand, and the infantry is close to [-]. They did not carry large siege equipment, only about twenty or thirty ladders.Cao Hu heaved a sigh of relief. He had not received the general orders and reminders from the Guping camp, so he was a little caught off guard by the sudden attack of the Western Wu people. class of utensils.

"Archers get ready!" Cao Hu roared loudly.

The military equipment in Daokou Village is 37 infantry, [-] cavalry and [-] archers.This is the unified configuration of the [-] military strongholds on the border of Daliang. The main task of the infantry and archers is to defend the city, and the duty of the cavalry is to wait for an opportunity to harass the luggage of the Western Wu people when the opponent is aggressively attacking.

The five hundred longbowmen immediately opened their bows and set up arrows, aiming at the Western Wu infantry approaching with their shields up below the city.

Dong Da pressed Qi Huaijing's shoulder with one hand and the city wall with the other, frowned and said, "There is something wrong with the people of Western Wu."

Qi Huaijing asked puzzledly: "Uncle Dong, what's the problem?"

Dong Da said in a deep voice: "They seem to be very confident, and they didn't disperse their troops to the east and south. There are city gates on both sides, which is logically their main attack direction. Even if they can climb the city wall from here, can't they Can you still go through the stockade to open the city gate?"

Qi Huaijing was not stupid, he was just born unsuited to be on the battlefield, and now he came to his senses after hearing Dong Da's words.

The wall where they are now is on the west side, and this side of the wall has no gates.

According to Dong Da's words, even if the people of Western Wu could climb the city wall, would they have to go through the entire village to open the east gate?Although urns were built outside the city gates on both sides, it was more difficult to attack by force, but it was also much more convenient than attacking from the west.

"Do you want to remind Commander Cao?" Qi Huaijing asked nervously.

Dong Da shook his head and said, "It's useless."

Qi Huaijing didn't understand why it was useless, but he couldn't allow him to think wildly at this time, because the people from Xiwu immediately launched an attack after they adjusted their formation a little.

Qingqi suppresses the formation, and arrows are like locusts.

Before Cao Hu's order came out, the sharp arrows flying from the city took the lives of more than a dozen Daliang soldiers in an instant.

"Fire the arrow!" he yelled viciously.

The two sides shot at each other, and it took only a moment for the archer of the big beam to be suppressed by the Qingqi under the city.The reason is that the Qingqi itself is constantly moving, and it is difficult to shoot them, but the archers of the beams are confined to the narrow walls of the city. Even with the cover of the wall and shields, they are not opponents of the Qingqi under the city. .

Sharp arrows kept flying overhead, Qi Huaijing hid behind the wall, holding his spear in both hands, his body trembling involuntarily.

It is difficult for people who have not actually set foot on the battlefield to feel the fear of walking on the verge of death.

Dong Da lay down between the wall stacks, ignoring the sharp arrows that kept whistling, and observed the movements of the people of Western Wu extremely calmly.

The Western Wu infantry marched in line, with shield players covering in front, and the ladder behind them was gradually approaching the city wall.

Daokou Village and most of the military villages did not excavate the moat. For the military city with a circumference of only more than ten miles, neither the moat nor the trench could prevent the enemy from climbing the city.

The big beam archer has been completely suppressed by the Western Wu Qingqi, and even if he occasionally shoots a few cold arrows, it will have little effect on the overall battle situation.

The Western Wu infantry approached the city wall as quickly as ants, and more than ten ladders rose from the ground and successfully erected on the six-foot-high city wall.

Dong Da frowned as he watched those infantrymen bravely climb up the ladder without any fear of the rolling logs and stones that kept falling down.

He turned his head and looked to the far right. Cao Hu was giving orders to the soldiers around him, when one of them suddenly touched his back slowly.

"Cao Hu!"

Dong Da's beard and hair were all stretched out. At this moment, he didn't care about the sharp arrow flying up from below, and rushed towards him like an angry tiger.

It's too late.

The soldier took out an extremely sharp dagger from behind, and when everyone was caught off guard, he suddenly inserted the dagger into Cao Hu's throat.

The leader of Daokou village was killed.

(End of this chapter)