Horse on the World

Chapter 886 Blocking ([-])

Qian Duo of Yanzigou had no intention of hiding his whereabouts after setting up the defense line. Instead, he raised his flag high above the Yanzigou. After setting up the defense line, Dingzhou soldiers ushered in another happy period. During the rest time, at this time, Liao Bin's headquarters in Tianzishan was still tens of miles away from Yanzigou.It takes half a day to arrive.
When Liao Bin learned that Yanzigou had been occupied by the Dingzhou army, his face turned white, which was like strangling him by the throat, but when he heard that it was only Qian Duo's troops blocking his way, and The opponent was also playing with great fanfare, and when he didn't hide it at all, a feeling of being humiliated made Liao Bin's face turn red again.
"A mere two or three thousand soldiers, you want to block my way?" Liao Bin sneered, "Advance faster, I want one blow to be effective and defeat the enemy in front of me."

At three quarters in the afternoon, Liao Bin's troops arrived at Yanzigou.Just as Qian Duo expected, the main direction of Liao Bin's attack was Zuo Liang's Le Buping Department. Facing Qian Duo on the gap to block the troops head-on, he just sent a pawn of about a thousand people to approach slowly, ready Clear up the obstacles such as the refusal horse of Changyorish.

The two V-shaped mountain beams look very close, but in fact, apart from the intersection point, the nearest point is also hundreds of meters away. The left beam is relatively gentle, while the right beam is extremely steep, with high cliffs and jagged rocks , difficult to climb.
Le Buping cleaned up everything that blocked the line of sight in front of the position, and even some protruding rocks were pried off by him. The bare steep slope was about 45 degrees, and it was unobstructed from the top.In addition to the frontal defensive position, Le Buping also deployed 500 people on a protruding hill to his left to prevent opponents from going around the hill, control this commanding height and attack his own defense line.
Seeing the densely packed enemy troops at the bottom of the Yanzi Ditch, Le Buping laughed, "Liao Bin, this is bullying me who don't have heavy weapons. It's a great job to invest so many troops at the bottom of the ditch at once." Target, what a pity, if I had a ten or twenty trebuchet, after one round, wouldn’t blood flow like a river?”

"General Le, there is no trebuchet, don't we still have these big trees, shall we give them a surprise first?" A school captain laughed.
"Of course, let them surprise first!" Le Buping stared at the enemy who had already begun to climb up.

"Get ready, launch!" The captain turned around and slashed downward with his hand.
The loose buckle of the rope that was tied to the big tree was jerked open, and the bent tree trunk was straightened suddenly, and a rain of stones suddenly appeared in the sky, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and then with a whistling sound. The sound fell to the bottom of the valley.

The Minzhou army raised their heads and saw the falling stone rain, their eyes flashed with horror. The stone bullets are generally not big, and the largest one weighs only a few kilograms, but falling from such a high altitude, the lethality is not small.The soldiers raised their shields one after another, protected their heads, shouted, and climbed up desperately. Faced with such a blow, there was no good way to defend. They could only move forward quickly, trying to avoid the stone rain. In order to avoid the blow.

However, the Minzhou Army invested too many troops under the Zuoliang. The enemy on the hillside could climb up and try to dodge, but the army at the bottom of the valley could not do anything. Amidst the screams, this round of stone rain I don't know how many people were overthrown.

Although the Minzhou army climbing up escaped the rain of stones on their heads, the defending troops at the top of the slope appeared one by one amidst the shouts and pushed down pieces of roughly rounded stone bullets. The huge boulder weighing about [-] jin rolled down all the way, the momentum was astonishing, and there was nothing to stop it, not to mention that the Minzhou army did not have Mengchong vehicles and other things at this time, even if there were, this kind of boulder rolling down from the steep slope could not be stopped of.
Where the boulder passed, ghosts were crying and wolves were howling. Countless soldiers were knocked into the air and flattened. On the slope, in a short while, there were all broken arms and limbs. The most terrifying thing is that some people were flattened into the ground. Some of the softer ground above the ramp.Occasionally, the boulder that crashed down was hindered, so it jumped up, jumped into the air, and fell with a huge whistling sound. Amidst the loud noise, it fell to the ground and fell into several pieces. The minzhou soldiers who had escaped fell down one by one screaming among the flying rubble, rolling and howling in pain.

The first round of attacks ended hastily like this.Except for the blood and dead bodies on the ramp, the Minzhou army found nothing.
"General Liao, it seems that the Dingzhou army has arrived in Dali a long time in advance. They have made full preparations. We will suffer a big loss if we attack like this. The so-called one man blocks the pass, and ten thousand men can't open it. We can't worry. I can do it step by step!" Kou Zhonghua looked at the bare slope and those huge stones that had obviously been polished, all of these will take time.

"You are right, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, felling trees, cutting them into wooden stakes, and then slowly nailing them up along the slope, blocking these boulders as much as possible. As long as you can attack the top of the slope, Then, relying on the advantage of numbers, we will win easily." Liao Bin said with a gloomy face: "Zhonghua, you will direct the attack on Zuoliang, and I will lead a direct attack on the gap. Both sides will attack at the same time, so that they can't take care of it. We can't support each other, and in addition, let Ma Gang lead a group of people to attack the right beam to contain the enemy troops on the right beam, so that they can't be distracted and make trouble."
"clear!"

Kou Zhonghua nodded and said, both of them are generals who have experienced many battles, and the terrain here is clear at a glance. Apart from harassment, there is not much threat to Youliang.

Liao Bin led his troops to attack directly at the gap, while Kou Zhonghua took over the attack on Le Buping on the left beam. First, Kou Zhonghua sent a unit to attack the commanding height on the left side of Le Buping, the nameless hill, and more soldiers Then drag the cut wooden stakes up the ramp, and start nailing them on the ramp in a haphazard manner.

"Rolling stone!" Le Buping once again ordered to throw down the boulder.
The boulder turned, smashing and flattening the soldiers who were nailing wooden piles one by one, and there was a loud bang, and the Minzhou army at the bottom of the valley also rushed forward one after another, carrying the wooden piles, rushing up the ramp frantically, brandishing hammers , Nail the wooden stakes down, the ones in front were knocked over, and the ones behind jumped up and continued the work in front.
On the hundreds of meters of slope, the obstacles formed by wooden piles began to slowly extend upwards.

"Archers, shoot!" Seeing that the boulder was rolling and started to be blocked by more and more dense wooden piles on the hillside, Le Buping gave up rolling the boulder again, and rows of archers appeared on the top of the slope. He bent his bow and set up an arrow, shooting at the minzhou soldiers below.

Kou Zhonghua lifted dozens of eight-ox crossbows up the ramp, but the eight-ox crossbows couldn't be fixed, so he forced the soldiers to resist them from behind. Every time they fired, the strong recoil would make the soldiers behind them unable to stand still, and the big ones He screamed and rolled down, but with the joint efforts of several people, he still held the eight-ox crossbow firmly, and a crossbow arrow shot up to the top of the slope to cover the soldiers moving forward.

The Minzhou army approached the top of the slope step by step.

Qian Duo knelt on one knee on the city wall, bent his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the infantry in the distance ahead who were clearing away obstacles such as Juma.
With a whoosh, the long arrow shot out from the string, and shot through the gap between the two shields. There was a scream from the opposite side, and a soldier turned over and fell to the ground.

"Aim it, shoot for me!" Qian Duo spat and said fiercely.

In the rain of arrows, Minzhou soldiers struggled to clean up the Juma in front.
"Throw stones!" Qian Duo ordered.

There was the sound of catapulting stones from behind, and the two trebuchets threw stone bombs weighing about ten kilograms, which hit the infantry group on the opposite side heavily, knocking down the soldiers one after another.

The Minzhou army launched a fierce attack at the two defensive positions of Yanzigou at the same time.

After paying the price of more than a hundred people, the Minzhou soldiers finally cleared a passage, and after that passage, the Minzhou soldiers' cavalry was ready to go.
A sinister smile appeared on Qian Duo's face, "Ba Niu crossbow, get ready, aim for me, the enemy's cavalry is about to charge." This simple city wall is not high, and the enemy soldiers are riding on horseback, wielding knives and guns , You can go to the defensive soldiers on the wall.

The horses began to trot, and then accelerated. The cavalry let out a cry, and charged forward along the cleared passage. Almost at the same time, the eight-ox crossbow on the city wall made a sound of collapse, and a crossbow arrow fell off the string. Then, the cavalry shot at the charging cavalry. The cavalry had huge targets and were distributed in a limited space. The ten eight-ox crossbows densely scattered on the city wall could fire forty arrows at one time, almost completely sealing off the entire passage. ．

The strength of the crossbow arrows is incomparable. When it hits the cavalry, it will fly them far away from the horse and smash into the horses behind. If it hits the horse, it can also shoot the galloping horse on the spot The ground caused a group of cavalry behind to turn their backs.
Seeing the chaos of the Minzhou Army in front of him, Qian Duole laughed loudly, stood up with bare arms, waved the hammer in his hand, and shouted wildly: "Liao Bin, come on, come on, grandpa is waiting here And you!"
Liao Bin heard Qian Duo's unbridled shout, looked at the shirtless figure on the opposite city wall with a livid face, gritted his teeth and said: "When I catch you, I will definitely execute you piece by piece! Pass my order, attack, regardless of casualties, regardless of casualties, if anyone retreats, kill Wuhe!"
"Call me dozens of Baoxu crossbows, and shoot down this broken city wall!"
Under Liao Bin's strict order, Minzhou soldiers began to flock to the gap one after another.

On the left beam, Le Buping led two hundred soldiers to start the first counterattack. He rushed out from the fortifications at the top of the slope. Le Buping took the lead, holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, and rushed to the middle of the slope, condescendingly. Poke the charging enemies to the ground one by one.
With the advantage of the terrain, the Dingzhou army's counterattack was very effective. After a round of charge, the Minzhou army who rushed up the hillside was driven back again.

(End of this chapter)