Horse on the World

Chapter 443 Silent Ferocity

Usually at this time, the sky should already be bright, but today, there is a layer of mist floating around, and the eyes are a little hazy, and the steep edge of the Nine Knife Peak looks more and more sinister. It was easily torn into sections, exposing whitish rocks.

In the distance of the mist, there was a sound of dull drums, uniform and monotonous, but it seemed to be moving forward. Immediately, a row of soldiers came out of the fog and stood on the top of the main peak of Jiudao Peak. They could vaguely see the distance With the sound of rumbling footsteps, the team gradually approached, numbering in the thousands.The only reason why the sound is so clear is that thousands of people are taking uniform steps, rising and falling with the drumbeat, and the ground seems to tremble with each step.

There were no hoarse shouts, no frantic shouts to kill, only boundless silence and extremely depressing solemnity.Wan Changlin's hands trembled slightly on Nine Swords Peak. He was a mighty general himself, and Liao Bin, the commander of Quanzhou, was even better at running the army. But seeing the appearance of Dingzhou soldiers, he still couldn't help trembling. Is it the Dingzhou soldier who is the best in the world?Thousands of Jiudaozhai soldiers on the peak also seemed to be infected, the noise gradually stopped, and gradually became silent.

Rumbling, rumbling, the infantry phalanx arrived at the foot of the mountain one by one, and stopped silently. In the distance, there was a louder roar. It was a cavalry team. A large flag with the character "Li" pierced through the mist and appeared in front of everyone. Immediately before the eyes, teams of cavalry came galloping, arrayed behind the infantry phalanx.

Under the banner is the legendary Li Qing of the Great Chu?Wan Changlin opened his eyes wide and tried his best to distinguish the other party, but the distance between the two sides was too far, and there was a blurry figure, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

The sound of the drums stopped, and the sound of the horn came clearly. There was a deathly silence on the peak and below, only the sound of the horn echoed in the air. Elder Wan could hear that the other party was playing a tune. The melody gradually rises from the gentleness at the beginning, faintly resembling the sound of gold and iron horses.

Suddenly the drums sounded, and this time there seemed to be hundreds of drums beating at the same time, each blow falling exactly at the lowering point of the horn.The drums and trumpets are in harmony, and the melody is filled with a tragic atmosphere.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

The silent phalanx suddenly burst into a sky-shattering roar. Following the roar of the infantry phalanx, the cavalry behind raised their long sabers, cutting through the smog with a bright blade, "Kill!"

With the sound of shouts, the pervasive mist seemed to be frightened. With a bang, it dissipated without a trace in an instant. The sun pierced through the clouds and reflected on the army formation at the foot of the mountain, casting a layer of golden light on it. .

The infantry phalanx, which shouted several times to kill, had condensed their fighting spirit to the highest point, and then fell silent again, looking firmly at the winding and only road leading to the top of the mountain. The road of death soaked in blood.

Without hesitation, a school lieutenant Yunhui stepped forward, holding a large shield in his hand, and walked towards the path that was several steps wide. Behind him, two rows of soldiers followed closely, each with a hand in his hand. Shield, with a knife in one hand.After taking a few steps, the captain began to run in small steps, his speed getting faster and faster.

Following his jumping figure, the drumbeat sounded again behind him.

Wan Changlin's face was ashen, looking back at the soldiers behind him, he said in a deep voice: "Only those who have the will to die can survive. Facing such a strong soldier, there is no chance of any luck. Brothers, if you want to live, you must boldly Face death!"

From the day Chen Shouxin started working as a bandit with Wan Changlin, he was a guy who dared to die. He was as bold as a fight and never knew what to be afraid of. But today, he was a little hairy, and his clenched palms were wet with sweat.In the face of the enemy, he has seen roaring like a lunatic, and he has seen red-eyed people rushing to death, but he has never seen anything like this.

Silent, silently advancing, silently running, the battle has already begun, but he couldn't hear the screams that made him boil, but the silence that made his heart palpitate.

He is the guard at the first checkpoint of Jiudao Peak, and he has hundreds of people under him.Looking at the Dingzhou military officer approaching gradually, Chen Shouxin seemed to see contempt from the other party's looking up. Although he knew that the other party could not see him at all, Chen Shouxin felt that way, the officer did not see him at all. .

"Get ready to roll the stone!" he ordered, "I want to see if you will scream when you die!" He gritted his teeth and pounded on the wall of the checkpoint.

The polished round stone ball weighing nearly a hundred catties was pushed to the pass, and Zhen Shouxin glanced at the Dingzhou officer again, "Let it go!" As soon as a few soldiers exerted their strength, the stone ball immediately rolled down the path .

In the captain's eyes, the stone ball was not getting bigger and getting closer, his face changed color slightly, but he remained motionless. He slammed the huge shield in his hand to the ground with all his strength, and then he kicked his legs back in a lunge-like step, sideways He passed one shoulder and pressed against the shield with all his strength. He wanted to bear the impact of the stone ball with his flesh and blood.

The figure around him was shaking, and it was several soldiers behind him who grabbed a few steps in front of him. With the same movement, their commander was blocked behind, and more soldiers crowded up, their shields stood on the ground, and the people immediately Hold on.

With a bang, the stone ball slammed heavily on the shields in the first row. The shields were shattered, and the soldiers in front were shattered. Blood spurted wildly from their mouths, and they fell limply, but they successfully blocked the most violent blow of the stone ball. The stone ball ran over their corpses and hit the shields of the soldiers in the second row again. There was a rattling sound, and the shields were dented inward. The sound of the shoulder fracture could be clearly heard, but the legs that stood behind did not feel any movement. No shaking.The stone bullet stopped, and immediately several soldiers rushed forward, exerting their strength together, and pushed the stone bullet aside.

The soldiers behind immediately surged forward and advanced rapidly.

Chen Shouxin stared dumbfounded at everything in front of him. To block the impact of the stone ball is to kill himself. No one can block such an impact. However, these Dingzhou soldiers greeted death calmly and calmly. The smallest price stopped him.

"Play, keep playing!" He roared tremblingly.

"Archer, shoot!"

The same storyline was repeated on this road less than [-] meters away. The trail was stained red with blood, and the red liquid could even be seen flowing, and the sound of ticking ticking could be heard.At the cost of their lives, Dingzhou soldiers marched towards the first checkpoint step by step, and then advanced again.

Chen Shouxin finally saw the lieutenant Yunhui, who was the first to set foot on this road, fall down. About 20 meters away from the checkpoint, he was shot in the face by a feathered arrow, watching the lieutenant fall straight Going down, he let out a long sigh of relief.It seemed that the suppressed depression dissipated a lot with the fall of the captain.

"Ready to fight!" As soon as he breathed out, he felt the whole checkpoint shake, which was because Dingzhou soldiers rushed up and hit the barrier wall.

Because of the terrain, the checkpoints on Jiudao Peak are not high, most of them are only about five or six meters, but because the attacker needs to attack upwards, the difficulty is even greater.Everyone was crowded under the wall, and the rolling stone had completely lost its effect. Chen Shouxin picked up a stone weighing more than ten kilograms, stood on top of the wall with a grinning grin, and shouted, "Smash his mother!"

Just after shouting, before he had time to throw the stone in his hand, there were a few whoosh sounds, and the sound of breaking through the air came from below. Chen Shouxin felt a sharp pain, and the stone in his hand fell off, and there was a muffled sound, Chen Shouxin One turned over and fell down, with two feathered arrows stuck in his chest, jumped up, and pulled out the long arrows stuck in the armor, blood followed, Chen Shouxin couldn't help but gasped, what the fuck, what? Thing, I can also shoot through this armor.Fortunately, his armor was very good, if the quality was a little lower, the impact of these two arrows would have killed him.

The city wall was not high, and even though they were attacking from their backs, the archers who rushed up from behind completely gave up their protection, drew the first-grade bows in their hands, and shot armor-piercing arrows into the city like raindrops.These archers have excellent armor, which can block ordinary arrows, but they can't stop the hard hitting of stones anyway.An archer shoots one or two arrows at most, and then falls to the ground, unable to get up again.

But above the checkpoint, Chen Shouxin's subordinates also began to suffer large-scale casualties. The armor of these soldiers could not stop Dingzhou's armor-piercing arrows.

With the lesson learned from last time, Chen Shouxin didn't dare to be careless anymore. He hid behind the wall, raised his strong bow, aimed at the Dingzhou soldiers under the city, and shot them one by one. It's very good, but it can't stand against his superb arrow skills, every arrow goes straight to the door of the throat, and one shot will take a life.

The corpses under the city gradually piled up, and Chen Shouxin also paid the price of nearly 200 people.

The buzzing sound startled Chen Shouxin. There were eight oxen crossbows above the checkpoint, but below the city, under such terrain, how could the opponent have eight oxen crossbows?

He stood up, and after just one glance, he felt hot all over. Damn it, it can still be used like this.

More than a dozen Dingzhou soldiers carried the Ba Niu Crossbow on their shoulders. The people in front knelt down and the people behind stood up straight, forming an artificial platform. The Ba Niu Crossbow had a stable shooting surface. Looking at Dingzhou The unique long crossbow that shoots four times made Chen Guo tremble with confidence.

With a sharp bow and arrow, with a whoosh, a person carrying a crossbow on the horn was shot down. Just as the man fell, a person next to him immediately stepped up and lifted the crossbow again. At the same time, several faces The big shield stood up, blocking the soldiers who raised the crossbow.

There was a sudden buzzing sound, Chen Shouxin shrunk his neck subconsciously, and the row of four eight-ox crossbows shot up against the city wall. out, far behind the pass.

The sound of snatching was endless, and in the blink of an eye, the other party set up three eight-ox crossbows before the pass, and the crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm were fiercely inserted into the city wall.Immediately afterwards, Dingzhou soldiers, like apes, put their knives in their mouths and climbed up along the spears stuck on the wall with their hands alternated.

For the first time, close hand-to-hand combat appeared on the checkpoint. Although the soldier was killed on the top of the city soon, it represented the beginning of another stage of the siege battle.

(End of this chapter)