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Chapter 128 Siege
The sky was gloomy, and the top of Huaihuang City was covered with a layer of white mist.

Suddenly, the sound of cavalry broke through the tranquility of the morning.

With the thunderous sound of iron hooves, large groups of Khitan cavalry with bald hair and wrapped in animal skins appeared in the mist.

Looking at it at a glance, in the haze, the sound shook and the horses roared, and it was hard to see how many soldiers and horses there were.

The news of the discovery of Khitan cavalry in the south of the city immediately spread throughout Huaihuang Town.

Suddenly, the smoke of the wolf billowed into the sky, and the sound of the horn of desolation rang again and again in the city.The women and children in Huaihuang Town were all panicked, while the men took up their swords and guns and went into battle.

On the south gate of the city that was just built, Tan Zong held an iron pestle, looked at the large Khitan cavalry below the city, laughed loudly, and said: "Wow! So many Khitan people just rushed out, let me kill them all .”

Seeing that Tanzong was going to fight out of the city, Ji Chuan, Liu Yi, and Zhou Xu's civil servants all changed their expressions.

"Captain Tan, no!" The three of them crossed their arms and legs to stop Tanzong.

"His grandma, why stop me, afraid that I won't be able to beat him?" Tan Zong shouted while touching his bald head and carrying the iron pestle.

When the three of them were stared at by Tanzong, they all felt terrified.

Ji Chuanqiang smiled and said: "Captain Tan is brave, wait for the Khitans to be opponents, but if you go out of the city to fight, if the Khitans take the opportunity to attack the city, it will be bad."

When Tan Zong heard this, the flesh on the two arms jumped and he said angrily: "You can't even stop a Khitan, you will only drag someone back."

At this time, a soldier strode up to Tanzong and said: "Lieutenant Tan, no Khitan cavalry has been found in the north, east or west of the city. It seems that the Khitan people want to take advantage of the fact that the south wall of our city has not been fully built. Break through the city and enter."

"I'm very afraid, although the city wall is not repaired, there is a wall of sheep and horses blocking it, and the Khitan cavalry can't charge up," Tanzong shouted at the moment, "Have the two thousand garrison troops been ordered?"

"Yes, Colonel Tan, we are calling."

"Tell them not to look elsewhere, and come to the south of the city to guard."

"How does this make it happen? What if the Khitan attack the city from the other three sides?" Ji Chuan said in shock.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, you scholars are afraid of wolves and tigers, so you get angry."

"Listen to me, come to the south of the city together, and guard it for me. There are also broken and broken crossbows in the storehouse, don't hide them, take them out for me, and show them to the Khitan barbarians. crossbow."

Everyone listened to Tan Zong's blind command here and shook their heads. I don't know how many Khitan cavalry were surrounded outside the city. The life and death of Li Chongjiu and Yinghefu's six hundred cavalry were uncertain. The situation in Huaihuang City is really a mess.

However, everyone really didn't follow Tan Zong's intention, and quietly left [-] garrison troops at each of the three city gates, and another [-] garrison soldiers patrolled the city.

In the south of the city, two hundred warriors and one thousand garrison troops entered the sheep and horse wall together, and the fire pier of the nearby taller, on the raised horse face wall, also climbed people, holding bows and arrows, and put them on strict guard. .

The Khitan cavalry besieged the city, and everyone knew that after breaking the city, they would be unlucky, so the women, children, old and weak mobilized spontaneously to carry arrows to the south of the city.

At this time of crisis, Huaihuang Town's [-] soldiers and civilians showed good organizational and mobilization capabilities, from the moment they noticed the appearance of the Khitan cavalry to the time the Khitans rested and prepared to launch an attack.

They are also ready.

As the sky brightened, two more Khitan cavalry joined in from a distance. The Khitan army was fully assembled, and the chief of the other side seemed to think it was wrong, and asked the defenders to continue preparing.

Woohoo!

At that moment, the horns of the Khitan army sounded, and the cavalrymen in the front row shouted loudly, raised their long knives and waved them.

Not long after, hundreds of Khitan cavalry, wrapped in animal skins obliquely and with one arm exposed, suddenly charged forward from behind the formation.

Everyone at the top of the city was amazed at what they saw. Could it be that the Khitans were going to attack the city with cavalry?

The horseshoes were galloping, all the riders galloped in the wind and lightning flashed, and when they came close, they saw the Khitans on horsebacks all raising their bows and shooting arrows.

At present, several teams are shouting badly.

At this time, the Khitan swiped the ground and shot random arrows from the saddle!

The arrow flew over the wall of sheep and horses, and the garrison with no combat experience was hit by the arrow at the moment.

After being hit by the arrow, they rolled and howled behind the wall of sheep and horses, so they lost more blood.

After a short period of panic, the current garrison, under the command of experienced soldiers, began to shoot arrows outside the sheep and horse wall in groups of several people.

The sheep and horse wall was repaired to a height of half a foot, enough for an adult man to expose his eyes. Under the command of the veterans, the garrison soldiers raised their nine-double bows together and shot at the cavalry passing by in front of them.

It doesn't matter whether the shots are accurate or not. Shooting randomly will always hit the target. It doesn't matter if the shots are powerful or not. Anyway, after the iron-clad arrowheads drew a trajectory in the air, they easily tore the leather robes of the Khitan cavalrymen. .

On the other hand, the bone arrows and stone arrows shot by the Khitan people, although they were fast and accurate, did not do much damage to the garrison troops.
After the two sides shot at each other all the way, the Khitan cavalry was unparalleled in riding and archery, while the Cangtou army relied on sharp weapons, and both sides suffered casualties.

After probing with cavalry and shooting, one of the Khitan troops pressed forward with a large green bull banner, indicating that an enemy chieftain personally stepped forward to command and sit in the fortress.

After a series of cheering shouts, hundreds of Khitan infantry armed with leather shields in one hand, bones in the other, long knives, and maces went into battle.

These Khitan infantry armed with leather shields lined up in a tight formation and slowly approached forward.

On the Huaihuang City side, all the wounded soldiers have been rescued by women and children.

Seeing the blood, the garrison soldiers were a little panicked when they went into battle for the first time, but seeing the heavily armed Khitan army approaching, everyone was overwhelmed.

The sheep and horse wall is only half a foot long, and the infantry can easily climb over the wall without any help. If the two sides engage in close combat, they will only serve as auxiliary soldiers, and they will definitely not be opponents of the brave Khitans.

Seeing that the Khitan infantry approached eighty paces in front of the sheep and horse wall, under the shouts of the government soldiers, the garrison troops also started to shoot arrows.

The Nine Dou Bow was only slightly better than the ordinary hunting bow, not to mention piercing through the leather shield, even if it was shot on the leather armor of the Khitan, it could barely penetrate. The opponent didn't care and continued to charge forward.

It can be said that three arrows are not as good as one sword.
The Khitan infantry, facing the arrow feathers fired by the Cangtou army, approached forty paces, when they arrived here, the horns of the Khitan troops sounded.

The savage Khitans, after hearing the order, all shouted at the same time, threw down their positions, carried leather shields, and charged towards the sheep and horse wall with skirmishers, ready to capture the city.

"it's time."

Tan Zong laughed loudly on the city wall, and immediately pressed his hand, a crossbow was broken on the top of the city, and the crossbows of the four stones were fired immediately.
As the name implies, a broken crossbow can be wound with both arms, while a kicked crossbow can be opened with feet or knees.

Fifty broken crossbows have a bow strength of two stones, and twenty stretched crossbows have a bow strength of three stones.

The arrows shot by the crossbow are like a sharp cutting machine, harvesting dozens of Khitan infantry charging ahead in the blink of an eye.

The arrows covered the hole's chest, all the Khitan soldiers in front of the formation didn't even make a sound, they flew up to the sky and died violently on the ground.

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(End of this chapter)