Rebirth of the deer dragon, the leader of the dragon

Chapter 758 Offense and Defense
Things went smoothly. Zhang Dingbian and Zhang Bixian really wanted to seize power. They secretly asked their family members to pack their bags and prepare to leave Kuiyang secretly.But he didn't expect Hong Tianxiao to come at this time, completely smashing Zhang Dingbian's conspiracy and controlling his parents and family.

At the same time, after receiving Hong Tianxiao's letter from Feige, Xu Da immediately led his army across the river. At the same time, Zhang Dingbian and Zhang Bixian also had to agree to serve Daming. Since then, Dahan's territory has been owned by Daming.

King Ruyang originally wanted to wait for a long time before Zhang Dingbian and the others couldn't hide the news of Chen Youliang's murder, so they would be in chaos without a fight, but he didn't want to be taken advantage of by Hong Tianxiao, so he couldn't help being very annoyed, disregarding Zhao Min's persuasion, Continue to send a large army to attack.It's just that today is different from the past. Zhang Dingbian raised his army to join Daming, and Xu Da and Liu Bowen led an army of 15 for reinforcements. The strength of the Ming army was actually [-] higher than King Ruyang's army. King Ruyang chose to attack fiercely at this time. , is really the next step.

Under Liu Bowen's planning, Zhang Dingbian pretended to be in a stalemate with the Mongolian army, while Xu Da led an army of [-] to quietly go around behind the Mongolian army, preparing for a front and back attack.

As a result, King Ruyang was unprepared for a while, and was flanked by the Ming army twice. Almost half of the 30 troops lost, and King Ruyang retreated with only [-] remnants.

As a result, all areas west of Henan and Hebei fell completely into the hands of the Ming army. In addition to the land occupied by Zhang Shicheng, the territory of the Yuan court has been limited to Dadu, Hebei, Tianjin, Liaoning and other places, and the situation is precarious.

Emperor Yuanshun was naturally very angry at the defeat of King Ruyang, but he did not behead him. After all, he has no generals in his hands now. Kill King Ruyang at this time, who will lead the army to resist the aggressiveness of the Ming army.

Emperor Yuan Shun gritted his teeth and handed over all the troops in Dadu to King Ruyang, telling him to block Hong Tianxiao's eastward advance no matter what.King Ruyang also understood that the situation had reached a point where no retreat was allowed, and he issued a military order in front of Emperor Yuanshun. If he was defeated again, he would send someone to bring his head.

However, the morale of the Yuan army was far inferior to that of the Ming army. Although King Ruyang fought hard to resist, the battle line kept retreating until they reached Langfang, Hebei, where there was no place to retreat, and the metropolis was behind them.Once Langfang was captured, the Ming army could march straight into Dadu, and if Dadu was captured again, the Yuan court would be over.

However, at this time, some changes took place in the whole battle situation. Although King Ruyang retreated steadily, Taishi Tuotuo was the main force in defeating Zhang Shicheng, and even shot and killed Zhang Shicheng.Originally, Tuotuo should take the opportunity to advance and uproot Zhang Shicheng's forces at once, but the situation on King Ruyang's side was too critical. Tuotuo had to withdraw the army to Dadu, supporting King Ruyang while defending Dadu. defense.Emperor Yuan Shun had handed over two-thirds of the army to King Ruyang, and most of the defenses were extremely weak. Once King Ruyang was defeated, most of them would not be able to defend even a day.

Under the city of Langfang, an offensive and defensive battle that could almost determine the situation of the national war broke out.

"Drummer", Xu Da yelled, and a giant war drum placed on a pulley with wooden wheels was slowly pushed out. A burly man held a drum hammer and began to beat the drum rhythmically. When the command of "Dong Dong" was issued, it seemed that countless war drums were beating around Langfang City at the same time, one after another, creating a symphony of drums.

With the sound of drums, the offensive and defensive battle of Langfang kicked off. At this time, there were killings everywhere, and the shouts shook the sky. There were thousands of Ming soldiers in bright armor and holding giant shields walking neatly around Langfang City. , From these Ming soldiers, it can be seen that the morale of the Ming army is very high.

These Ming soldiers rushed to a place fifty steps away from the city, stopped moving forward, squatted down quickly, and each of them raised their big shields high, forming a huge shield formation.There were random arrows flying over the city, but they all landed on the shield, making a crisp metal collision sound.

Then, another group of thousands of archers rushed up, hid behind the shield, and shot arrows one by one, and a large rain of arrows flew towards the wall.The bows and arrows held by this kind of archers are different from ordinary bows and arrows. The bows and arrows are almost half the size of ordinary bows and arrows, so the shooting range is much longer. Bows and arrows are much stronger.

However, this kind of bow and arrow has a disadvantage. It requires relatively high arm strength for the archer. It is very difficult for ordinary soldiers to pull such a strong bow. After twenty arrows, they were unable to lift their bows anymore. Even so, the Yuan soldiers of the four sects paid a price of nearly 2000 people, and it even hit the morale of the Yuan army.

Seeing that the arrows were almost shot, Xu Da ordered the drummer of the giant drum to beat the siege drum. Immediately after the shieldmen and archers began to retreat, the siege army rushed over like a tide and began to attack the city with all its strength.The equipment of the Ming army is quite good. Not only does each person hold a simple sword, but also a shield, which can be used to block the bows and arrows flying down from the city, and to resist the enemy's swords and spears when they step on the top of the city. .

The situation of the four sects is similar, and almost all of them are currently dominated by the Ming army.At the east gate, King Ruyang saw that the number of arrows decreased significantly, and they could not pose a threat to the opponent. Without even thinking about it, King Ruyang reacted instinctively, and shouted in an extremely majestic voice: "Stop shooting arrows, prepare for boiling oil, boiling water, and falling rocks!" .”

After King Ruyang finished speaking, a team of more than 3000 archers suddenly rushed out from the Ming army. In fact, they were the same Ming soldiers who used strong bows to shoot arrows just now. This time they were fully armed and shot at the city wall Come, each shot three bows and arrows, and then automatically retreated to the formation.Then a group of Ming soldiers rushed out of the formation, pushing a chariot made of a giant log, and slammed into the city gate, followed by countless Ming soldiers holding shields and simple knives like ants.

Simen's situation is basically the same, and the offensive and defensive battle between the two armies finally kicked off.And that team of strong archers was also divided into five teams, with 600 people in each team, and each shot ten arrows. Once the first team shot ten arrows, the second team, who had been waiting for a long time, would immediately continue with their bows. The first pair retreated to rest in the formation, and the third team came behind the second team and waited for the second team to shoot all ten arrows.

Such alternate archery, five teams, continued in a row, posed a big threat to the Yuan army at the top of the city, and this threat could only be relieved when the Ming soldiers climbed to the top of the city.

King Ruyang took the lead and led the Yuan soldiers guarding the city on the front line. The two elders Xuanming closely guarded his safety. Together with the Yuan soldiers, they braved countless flying arrows to push the ladder with all their strength.

At the same time as the ladder fell, Ming soldiers who climbed halfway or almost reached the top of the city screamed and fell from the air. Some fell to their deaths on the spot, and some fell to their limbs.However, almost no one in the Ming soldiers felt afraid, and each of them went forward one after another.As soon as the ladder fell down, many Ming soldiers put it up again regardless of the danger of their lives, and continued to climb in the midst of gongs and drums.There are nearly [-] ladders on each city gate, and finally Ming soldiers climbed to the top of the city. Although they could escape the attack of Yuan soldiers from the top of the city by virtue of their shields, they were surrounded by countless Yuan soldiers when they stepped into the city. They were surrounded and killed, and the corpses were still brought to the city.

At this time, Yuan Bing got a pot of boiling water from somewhere, and poured the boiling water on Pancheng Mingbing.Immediately, these Ming soldiers screamed and fell down the ladder, and those who fell to death were relieved, while those who did not fall to death continued to roll under the city, howling in pain, which made one's hair stand on end.

King Ruyang also ordered the Yuan soldiers to move huge boulders to smash the ladders. There were screams in the city for a while, blood and flesh flew all over the city. The dead bodies climbed up, all of them looked numb, brave and not afraid of death, and the Yuan army would never relent, killing people like hemp, and at the same time the wounded were transported to the city for treatment in a steady stream.

At the same time, after noticing the boiling oil on the city, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, Hua Yun, and Mu Ying, who were in charge of attacking the city from all sides, issued an order almost at the same time, ordering the strong archers to replace their bows and arrows with rockets, and smoke to the top of the city shoot everywhere.Sure enough, these smoking places were the cauldrons of the Chengtou Yuan Army's boiling water. Due to the long range of the strong archers, most of the rockets fell into the cauldron, igniting a raging fire.

Originally, these cauldrons were hidden behind to prevent the rockets of the Ming army, but King Ruyang and the others never expected that the Ming army had such a strong bow with such a long range, they were caught off guard and ordered the fire brigade to put out the fire.However, these fires undoubtedly hit the morale of the Yuan army at the top of the city, and at the same time greatly increased the morale of the Ming army. Due to concerns about the fire behind them, the south gate relaxed a little, and nearly a hundred Ming soldiers climbed to the top of the city. Ah Er tried his best to block the Ming army who continued to climb. I am afraid that the south gate would not be able to defend at that time.

The offensive and defensive battle of Langfang was quite fierce. Arrows flew in the sky from time to time, swords and swords were shadowed on the city wall, and the blood flowing out stained the stone wall. Almost every ladder had soldiers from both sides fighting with their lives. How many yuan soldiers who rushed over were killed, even if they stepped into the city, they still could not escape the fate of death. Within a radius of ten miles of Langfang, the sound of drums beating and shouts of killing could be heard.

The number of deaths on both sides began to rise steadily. Judging from the number of deaths alone, the Yuan army defending the city was not at an advantage, because the number of deaths on both sides was almost the same.

Next, the two sides attacked each other with arrows and stone firearms. There were impact marks on the outer wall of the city head, but the general structure was not damaged.Due to the insufficient preparation of defense equipment in Langfang City, they were almost helpless in the face of the powerful bow attack of the Ming army that lasted for nearly two hours, and the number of Yuan soldiers who died under this strong bow continued to increase.

Just when King Ruyang thought that it would be difficult for Langfang Cheng to hold on for another hour, Mingjin suddenly sounded from the Ming army, and immediately, the Ming army on all sides receded like a tide again.Seeing the Ming army retreating, King Ruyang couldn't help buttocks sitting on the ground, threw away the steel knife in his hand, gasped for breath, wiped the blood and sweat from his forehead, and screamed inwardly.

Not only Ruyang King was almost exhausted, but Xuanming and Elder Xuanming also had almost exhausted their skills, a pair of judge pens and a deer stick were covered with blood.

(End of this chapter)