The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 377 Battlefield
"Shield—"

"Hurry up!"

Zhou Guangfu yelled loudly. He stopped behind the wall, watched the densely packed phalanx slowly advancing, smashed the wall bricks, and cursed: "Damn!"

Turning around, I looked at the general who was following closely. The armor on the opponent still had the blood stains from yesterday's battle, "Is there enough wood in this city section?! Let the young and strong who are burning gold juice below hurry up!"

Pushing away the general, crowded the passing soldiers to the next section of the city, looking for his father Zhou Dewei.Downstairs, the old man was laying out the blueprints of city defense and sharing tasks with the generals around him.

"Father! Father!"

Zhou Guangfu rushed over, "The Khitans are going to attack the city!"

Over there, Zhou Dewei raised his face, and walked quickly to the back of the wall. In his vision, a large formation of Khitan people was approaching. Dozens of hundreds of archery towers and cloud carts were being pushed to stand tall among the crowd, heading towards the city wall. Surrounded.

The wind blew over, caressing the old man's long white beard swaying slightly in the wind, he turned his head, and saw everyone clasped their fists.

"Everyone, after this battle, I hope I can drink wine with all my colleagues—"

All of them clasped their fists in silence, pressed the hilt of their swords, turned around and dragged their cloaks to the sections of the city they were in charge of. The old man took a breath, looked at his eldest son Zhou Guangfu, and nodded at his son with a low voice.

"Guangfu, go, don't embarrass the Zhou family and King Jin!"

"The child takes orders!"

Zhou Guangfu bowed his hands to accept the order, walked a few steps, stopped and turned around, looked at his old father, bowed down and bowed down, and when he raised his eyes again, there was a look of death in his eyes.

After a short period of silence, the young and strong soldiers running back and forth on the city wall felt something.

The atmosphere has changed.

Faintly, there was a booming sound.

Dense black dots rose in the bright morning sun, Zhou Dewei looked serious, then turned around and shouted: "Set up a shield, defend—"

The personal guards rushed forward frantically, pulled the old man back and retreated, one after another shields were erected from their hands, covering the surroundings of the general airtightly, and in the sight of the rest of the people, black spots rising from the sky flew over densely ,getting bigger.

"defense!"

"Avoid—"

Different voices came from the mouth of the general, and the soldiers ran wildly, or hid under the female wall with their weapons in their hands, or stood behind the shield walls erected one after another, breathing heavily.

instantly.

The rebuilt city wall was attacked violently again. Hundreds of boulders flew all over the sky, and rocks the size of millstones poured down on the city wall like hail, and a voice screamed: "Back -" was covered by the loud bang Going down, the stone bullet smashed into the wall, the stone chips splashed, and the huge wall was thrown up, directly pressing down a soldier with a shield behind him.

Then more stone bullets fell on the top of the city like a doomsday, hitting the city wall and falling straight to the moat, splashing countless water, or flying into the crowd of people forming a formation, forcefully pushing out a long bloodstain, leaving a place on the ground Remnant organs.

There are also high flying over the city wall and the towering towers below, falling to the streets and alleys of the houses in the city, causing chaos and people screaming.

The sky is full of clouds.

The Khitan emperor's banner fluttered in the wind, and in the golden morning sun, Yelu Abaoji looked at the city wall that stretched for more than ten miles. Hearing the screams and roars, he raised his hand expressionlessly.

"Khitan warrior!"

With a loud and bold voice, he took off the hilt of the knife, and the blade was slowly unsheathed against the sunlight, and the tens of thousands of people in front of him started to move.

"The city of the Han people has blocked the wolves in the north for a long time. Now" the emperor in military uniform slowly raised his blade, raised it in the sunlight, and then cut through the air and slashed forward: "Attack ! Take this city and take it captive—"

woohoo~~
woohoo-

The desolate bullhorn sounded over the field, and the eight square formations listed by the tribal army in front stepped neatly and followed the cloud cart, or moved towards the city wall with the ladder, and the cavalry guarding on both sides began to gallop, rushing into the arrows. range, throwing arrows towards the top of the city.

The Jin soldiers on the city wall were also commanded by various commanders and generals to fight back. Thousands of arrows grazed the same feathered arrows shot from below and crashed together, or staggered and overwhelmed the advancing below. 'Ant colony', the marching team yelled Khitan's words, and the shields turned up almost at the same time, and pushed to the top of the head.

In an instant, the sound of countless arrows being nailed to the shield was heard, and some arrows also passed through the gaps, piercing the thighs, arms, shoulders and necks of people, causing bloody spray, but it did not affect the speed of approaching the city wall at all.

In the waiting gun formation, soldiers one by one squeezed the handles of their guns tightly, with the shield pawns standing in front of them, breathing more and more heavily, until the moment when the iron hook of the ladder was hung on the wall stack.

The tense nerves finally broke at this moment!
"Ahhh-"

Several people, more than a dozen people rushed to lift the iron hook, roaring hysterically, and pushed down the unsecured ladder. A long mark was soon filled by the Khitan soldiers who rushed in, picked up the ladder and climbed up again.

Holding the blade in his mouth, he climbed up with his comrades, crossed the wall, took the blade from his mouth, and rushed directly to the stabbing spears, and was pierced through the body and pushed off the city wall.

"Step forward! Push down the Khitan ladder—"

The forward-moving spears stabbed frantically, the shield pawns held their large shields and brandished their blades, the archers hid behind them and shot cold, and shot an arrow, nailing a Khitan soldier who climbed up, and lay motionless on the wall.

On each stretch of the city wall, there are a large number of Khitan soldiers climbing up like a colony of ants, a mighty pile of people, more than a dozen buildings and cars pushing forward, and the Khitan archers above are constantly running towards the city. Jin soldiers shoot.

Zhou Guangfu stumbled back, stepped on a corpse behind him and fell to the ground, then picked up the blade that was left behind, rushed to the city wall again, and killed the Khitan people who climbed up.

The real attack and defense of the city wall began.

Southwest of Youzhou.

The sun was shining on the ground, and the grass was lush. A worm struggled to climb to the tip of the leaf, and then the grass was trampled into the soil by the falling iron hoof.

Boom boom boom.
The churning iron hooves shook the ground, and seven thousand cavalrymen rushed across the plain, followed closely by the long dragon, and the infantry were speeding up their march. The leading general occasionally stopped to ask the scouts who had heard the news, and summoned the deputy general. , looking at the map unfolded in his hand.

"We arrived in Xinzhou ahead, and the scouts came to report. Xinzhou has not yet reached the enemy. There are only some Khitan scouts wandering around. They must have found out that we are waiting for reinforcements. According to my opinion, Xinzhou should not be stationed at all. Just go around and go from there. From the west, head towards Yelu Abaoji!"

Li Siyuan traced the route on the map with his fingers, raised his eyes and looked to the north again, and after speaking, Shi Jingtang, who was riding a horse beside him, agreed with his suggestion.

The two fought in Shu, and they already had a lot of experience in outflanking and going around.

"Listen to you, then make a detour, maybe you can still join the governor who came from Yunzhou!"

"Well, Li Cunxiao is very familiar with the areas of Datong and Yunzhou. According to the time, he should have arrived in the west of Youzhou."

The two had roughly the same opinion, so there was nothing to argue about. After making up his mind, Li Siyuan immediately gave an order, and the team turned and went straight to the north.

At the same time, in the northwest, the bright sunshine is gradually getting overcast.

On the quiet land, the sound of rumbling hooves spread, forming a long line of cavalry, one man and two horses running along the road at the foot of the mountain, passing through the battlefield at the fastest speed.

(End of this chapter)