Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 236
Outside the north gate of Liyang, there was an uproar against Yingtian. The Han army was fighting with the Chu army, but there was silence outside the east gate.

Outside the east gate, apart from a dozen rangers who were wandering back and forth, there was no sign of a single Han army. In the battle of Liyang, the strategic intention of Zhou Yin, Jin She, and Li Zuoche was to capture Liyang. Pulling out the nail that the Chu army had carved into Jiangbei, they didn't really care about whether the defenders in the city could be wiped out. Therefore, the Han army did not besiege the city on all sides.

Suddenly, a veteran of the Han army seemed to realize something, and slowly turned his horse's head.

When the veterans of the Han army looked intently, they saw that the suspension bridge in front of them suddenly lowered slowly, and the city gates that were originally closed were slowly opened with harsh creaking sounds. The sound of a sudden sound came from inside the city gate. At this moment, the veteran of the Han army clearly felt that the ground under his feet was trembling slightly.

"what happened?"

"The Chu army is going to counterattack?!"

"Impossible. Seeing that the north gate is about to fall, how can the Chu army still have the strength to counterattack?"

"Damn it, don't Chu Jun know that the city is about to break down, so they want to leave the city early and escape?"

Dozens of Han cavalry who were wandering around also gathered behind the veterans of the Han army, pointing and whispering to the open city gate one by one.

The complexion of the veteran of the Han army suddenly changed. Could it be that this momentum is a large group of cavalry?
While thinking about it, a row of four sharp spears protruded from the city gate first, followed by four ghostly cavalry of the Chu army. These four cavalry were wrapped in man and horse Inside the heavy armor, even the face of the cavalry was covered with a layer of cold visor, which looked so gloomy, so ferocious, and so ferocious!
"This is... what kind of cavalry?!"

"My God, where did these monsters come from?"

"Wearing such a heavy iron armor, can the horse carry it?"

"You're blind, don't you see that the horses of the Chu army are all seven or eight feet tall at the shoulder?"

"Oh my god, oh my god, these monsters are coming, run, let's run!"

The dozens of Han cavalry guarding outside the city gate suddenly became agitated, and before the veterans of the Han army gave orders, they turned their horses and fled towards the north gate one by one. At this moment, they just wanted to escape as far as possible.

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Outside the north gate, the Han army was in the rear.

Li Zuoche and Zhou Yinzheng were standing on the watchtower rebuilt from Jinglan to observe the battle situation at the North Gate.

Zhou Yin patted the guardrail of the watchtower fiercely, and said excitedly: "General Li, more than a dozen teams of dead soldiers have rushed to the top of the wall, and the Chu army on the top of the wall has almost reached its limit. If there is an accident, as long as three to five teams of light soldiers and dead soldiers rush to the top of the wall, the Chu army should completely collapse, haha!"

Li Zuoche nodded, and also said: "There is still the top of the city, it should almost be smashed!"

As soon as the words fell, a rush of horseshoes suddenly came from the direction of the east gate. When Li Zuoche and Zhou Yin looked down anxiously, they saw a dozen rangers galloping from the direction of the east gate. Leading his horse galloped, he yelled: "Chu cavalry, the large group of Chu cavalry is out of the city to counterattack, out of the city to counterattack..."

"Huh? Chu army cavalry?!" Li Zuoche's expression changed slightly when he heard this.

"What? Counterattack, at this time?!" Zhou Yin's face was full of disbelief, and he was about to destroy the city. Taking it outside the city to counterattack, isn't that courting death?Really think that a few hundred cavalry can turn the tide of the battle, when the tens of thousands of troops outside the city can't be deployed?

Just as the two of them were wondering, there was already the sound of rumbling horseshoes from the direction of the north gate.

In the dust flying all over the sky, a group of cavalrymen wrapped in heavy iron armor rushed out like ghosts. The first cavalryman suddenly raised his long sword, and the ironclad cavalry behind him slowly spread out towards the two wings. It took less than a moment Then he set up a cavalry array with a width of more than two hundred steps. The cavalry array was divided into two rows, front and rear, and crossed!

Immediately behind these hundreds of cavalry are more cavalry of the Chu army, at least thousands of cavalry!

Zhou Yin's pupils shrank sharply in an instant, and the hundreds of towering spears held by the cavalry in front were like a cold forest of death, which gave him a very bad feeling. Zhou Yin turned around and yelled at Zhou Huan Said: "The order, all the military pawns are dispatched, and they must be blocked at all costs, to block them..."

"Here!" Zhou Huan responded with a bang, then turned his head and shouted, "The phalanx of military soldiers... Attack! Attack!"

Zhou Yin's military order was quickly conveyed, and groups of heavily armed soldiers in armor and shields surged out of the Han army formation outside the north gate, facing the heavy cavalry of the Chu army crushing ahead. Thick and dense formations, full of 200 heavily armored soldiers, also formed a defensive formation with a width of more than 500 steps, with [-] people in each row, six rows in front and back!
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"Oh..." Meng Keng raised his sword and howled, and the horse under his crotch began to speed up instantly.

More than [-] heavy-armored cavalry behind them also urged their horses to accelerate. In less than a moment, more than [-] heavy-armored cavalry completed their acceleration and began to sprint at a high speed. The iron hoof hit the ground heavily, like the drumbeat of death, hitting the heart of the heavily armored Han army on the opposite side one after another.

Suddenly, it was less than fifty steps away from the phalanx of the Han army's soldiers.

"Ha!" Meng Keng shouted loudly, raised the horizontal knife in the air and cut it down suddenly. The next moment, more than 300 heavy armored cavalry simultaneously suppressed the lances in their hands, and more than [-] lances were intertwined in an instant. There were two rows of spear forests in the front and back, and the cold lances, like the fangs of steel beasts, bit fiercely at the heavy armor of the Han army in front.

In the blink of an eye, the heavy cavalry of the Chu army sprinting extremely violently crashed into the densely armored formation of the Han army, and the heavy armor of the Han army in the two rows in front were stabbed with their shields by the cavalry spears of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army. It was a double penetration, but after piercing through two rows of heavy armor of the Han army in a row, the lance of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army also broke in the middle due to the heavy load.

However, the sprint of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army did not stop slightly because of the breaking of the lance!
In fact, the real killing method of heavy cavalry is not riding a spear, but the violent and violent impact in the cold weapon era. A simple calculation, a tall horse weighing nearly [-] kilograms, plus a horse weighing nearly [-] kilograms A knight weighing [-] kg and heavy armor weighing at least [-] kg weighed more than a ton!
A heavy armored cavalry weighing more than one ton is almost a miniature car. When a miniature car crashes into a dense crowd at a speed of at least [-] kilometers per hour, and the driver will never step on the brakes to slow down, but will desperately step on the accelerator Accelerate, at this point you can fully imagine what the scene will be like?
How can the charge of the heavy armored cavalry be cruel? !

The iron cavalry galloped wildly, and in an instant, the sound of people and horses colliding, the clanging of weapons, the crackling of bones breaking, and the wailing and screaming of Han soldiers before they died, all intertwined into one piece, 300 The cavalry array formed by the heavy cavalry of the Chu army is like a huge blood plow, which plows the dense array of heavy armor of the Han army to pieces.

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The Han army is in the rear, on the watchtower.

Li Zuoche and Zhou Yin couldn't believe their eyes. The dense array formed by three thousand soldiers allowed the Chu cavalry to break through so easily?What the hell kind of cavalry is this? !Where did Xiang Zhuang'er find such a brutal cavalryman? !As long as the Chu State has three thousand cavalrymen like this, who else in the world can be the enemy?
"Not good!" Li Zuoche suddenly realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned around and shouted, "The order is for the archers to retreat, the well lane, the ladder, and the siege vehicles, retreat quickly..." However, Li Zuoche It was only at that time that I thought of letting the heavy equipment such as Jinglan, ladders, and siege vehicles retreat horizontally, but it was obviously too late.

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Outside the north gate, after the heavy cavalry of the Chu army broke through the phalanx of the heavily armored pawns of the Han army, they just adjusted their formation a little, and then continued to rush towards the light soldiers of the Han army crowded outside the north gate. Even the dense array of heavy armor of the Han army can't resist the violent impact of the attack, and the light soldiers of the Han army are even more helpless.

Where the Chu army's heavy cavalry passed, the Han army's light soldiers fled in all directions like waves splitting.

Nearly a thousand Chu army Qingqi rushed into the Han army formation, and then sheepskin bags filled with kerosene rained down on the clumsy wells, ladders, and siege vehicles that were too late to retreat. In the sound of "popping" one after another, hundreds of sheepskin sacs burst open one after another, and sticky sticky fire oil splashed out immediately.

Hundreds of Chu cavalry holding torches finally galloped past the north gate. With the torches in their hands flying out, the wells, ladders, and siege vehicles abandoned by the Han army outside the north gate burst into flames. The light soldiers of the Han army who escaped from the wells, ladders, and siege vehicles were immediately swallowed by the churning fire.

After burning all the wells, ladders, and siege vehicles, nearly a thousand Qing cavalry of the Chu army rushed back and forth a few times, at least shooting and killing nearly a thousand Han troops, and finally escorted three hundred heavy cavalry from the west gate of Liyang. After returning to the city, the whole process lasted less than half an hour, and the casualties of the cavalry of the Chu army were less than a hundred cavalry, which can be described as negligible.

However, the Han army suffered more than [-] casualties. More importantly, all the wells, ladders, and siege vehicles were burned. I am afraid that this siege battle cannot continue.

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The Han army is in the rear, on the watchtower.

Li Zuoche and Zhou Yin's eyes were straightened, and they couldn't recover for a long time!
After a long time, Zhou Huan rushed up to the watchtower angrily, and shouted to Zhou Yin: "Father, Jin She, the treacherous villain, has already withdrawn with his troops!"

"Withdraw? Withdraw!" Zhou Yin sighed and said, "We should also withdraw!"

On the other side, Li Zuoche has already hurried down from the watchtower with his sword and lost all the siege equipment. Jin She has also withdrawn his troops. The three-way coalition has actually disintegrated. There is no need to continue this battle Now, let's think about how to deal with Chu Jun's next revenge, right?
(End of this chapter)