Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

In the early morning, the sun has not yet risen, and the world is shrouded in dim light and faint white fog. As usual, Guo Shao walked out of a tiled house with hammered willow branches in the wooden barrel at the door. He took the willow branches and started brushing his teeth.

Only at this time, the outside of Shouzhou City is so peaceful, and the surroundings gradually become lively, just like the early morning of the market, and like the sunrise, the craftsmen are just camping here, and the battle has not yet begun. People have just eaten breakfast and have not yet fully entered the state, and slowly began to prepare for the day's things, at this time the sun has not yet appeared. The generals did not urge too much.

Behind the wooden fence of the first earth wall, some soldiers were putting butter on the boulder, some were wiping them with cloths, and some craftsmen were hammering and rivets.

Finally, the first ray of sunlight like a sharp arrow pierced the mist, and the sky and the earth seemed to shine suddenly. A soldier straightened up, lazily trying to take a breath in the sun. But at this moment, suddenly the city gate opened slowly. The soldier couldn't believe his eyes, so he quickly rubbed his eyes and looked again. The suspension bridge was also being lowered.

"Bang!" The suspension bridge was on the bank of the dry moat. Suddenly a group of people and cavalry with horses in iron armor filed out.

Sergeant Zhou inside the fence was shocked. There, no one could believe that the Southern Tang Army could come out after being besieged for two months! Finally someone shouted: "Shouzhou soldiers are coming!"

Crowds of elite knights jogged forward with their heads up and riding horses. The vigorous figures and the brilliance of steel formed a powerful landscape in the rising sun.

Someone in the Tang army raised a sword and shouted: "The Tang army will win all battles!" The knights shouted "Ah", and the sound of horseshoes suddenly rushed, and the friction between the swordsmen and the armor sounded a metal-specific accent. . There was no deflection in the direction, as if it had been planned a long time ago, it was close to the Muzhai Gate in the Zhou Army fortification. On the arrow towers on both sides, a Zhou Jun archer opened the bowstring with his hand, and with a "slap", he drew the first arrow of the battle.

A knight hit an arrow under the collarbone, his body fell from the horse, and he fell heavily on the solid soil with a "clam".

At the gate of the village, some soldiers of the Zhou army were hurriedly putting their horses outside, hurriedly closing the gate of the village, and lifting the log up. "Swish..." A swarm of arrows flew up, some nailed to the wooden door, some passed through the gap, and several people fell down with shouts. These soldiers had no armor, only helmets and goggles. , The arrow means death and injury.

The cavalry rushed to the front of the village, turned around and rounded the door, a knight pulled the bowstring on his side with a very skillful movement. "Pop!" The arrow flew out from the side and pierced the eyebrow of a soldier. The knights in front dismounted one after another, moved away from the horse, and smashed open the gate.

Sergeant Zhou inside turned around and ran away. But at this time, the Tang Jun cavalry had rushed up. The knight in front was holding a sakura spear with his body on the side of the horse, and neatly slammed the spear into the soldier’s back, and heard a scream of "Ah". The knight then drew out the cherry spear again, and saw that the soldier fell on the ground, bleeding like a pillar. More cavalry rushed into the fortifications, people ran away and were slashed and killed.

A horse rushed to the side of a huge sling. The man on the horse smashed an earthen jar in his hand. With a "clam", the earthen jar was smashed on the wood, and thick black fire oil poured from the wooden stand. Come down. Almost at the same time, a torch turned upside down and flew over, with a "boom", and the flames and thick smoke suddenly burst together. The entire catapult was burnt in an instant, and its movements were clean and tidy.

...Guo Shao rode his horse to the west and looked very ugly as he watched the smoke billowing everywhere in the wilderness. At this time, a knight rushed over and met Guo Shao, and he hurriedly dismissed his report to report: "Tang soldiers gushing out from the west gate to attack my camp!"

Guo Shao didn't say anything. He just looked at the flames and black smoke everywhere in the distance, and felt that the report was nonsense.

Before long, Li Chuyun and several generals followed up on horseback along the road, and said: "The First Army is gathering into an army, and the two commanders are ready, come here!" When Guo Shao looked back, he heard "Kaka". Ka..." With the sound of footsteps, the infantry in line was trotting forward, and the generals riding horses shouted beside the team.

Guo Shao did not answer anyone's words. He looked at the scene in front of him and knew that Tang Jun had already breached the first line of defense at least; because the slings had limited range and were heavy, most of the equipment was in the first line of defense, and this was a heavy loss. But he didn't say anything that didn't matter. What's the point of saying those useless?

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said solemnly: "In the second line of defense, the First Army of the First Army of the Lower Battalion in front of the left wing (west) is located in the southeast of the city gate, and the dental soldiers of Suzhou Governor are stationed in Zhengnan... immediately take the flag, Send a quick horse to send orders, order the troops stationed in the same place not to be confused, and wait for the opportunity to move."

"Telling!"

Guo Shao added: "The commanders of the First Army of the Tiger and Jiefang Army immediately reinforce the West Gate."

At this time, a general said: "Seeing that something is wrong here, will the Second Army in the southeast rush over to reinforce it?"

Li Chuyun replied: "It should be. Wang Zhang won't die and wait for orders at this time."

The general warned again: "Will Tang Jun use the tactics of turning the tiger away from the mountain to attack the west?"

Li Chuyun pondered for a moment, and said: "Tang Bing was just a sudden attack. By surprise, he could break through my front. Now that the war is on, sending troops to the east may not be effective. Moreover, the defenders are limited, unless they want to abandon the city for a decisive battle. Otherwise, I will not. I think it's a clever way to make a noise at this time."

After hearing this, Guo Shao promptly said: "Send someone to order Wang Zhang to send reinforcements from the south of the city."

At this time, the forward infantry of the First Army had already advanced, and Guo Shao asked Li Chuyun to lead the First Army to follow up and attack the Southern Tang Army. Then he led Yang, Luo, Luo Yanhuan and their soldiers to the west of the city with a total of forty or fifty horses.

After running for two miles, I saw Tang Jun cavalry sweeping towards the south of the city with heavy cavalry. At first glance, the horses are galloping, but the Tang Jun forward has only two to three hundred horses.

The cavalry came from the west and prevailed. The large number of defenders in the front position of the Zhou army were in a mess. There were too many people to fight against the cavalry. They were extremely vulnerable. They were covered and killed by the cavalry.

When Luo Yanhuan saw this, he turned his head and asked for orders. Seeing Guo Shao nodded, he immediately rushed forward. Several soldiers followed him with dozens of riders. Guo Shao also rushed forward and drew the saber knife from his back.

"Pop!" Luo Yan leaned forward and rode. With one arrow, he killed several enemies in a row, rushed to the enemy, and then abandoned the bow and arrow and drew the iron sword. The generals carried long weapons to kill the generals, and all of them were determined to be military generals since they were young. Although there were few people, the Zhou Jun Ma team was very fierce. As soon as it received the enemy, it cut off the protruding part of the Tang Jun Ma team; following Tang Jun cavalry was shocked, afraid to step forward, turned the horse's head and ran west.

Guo Shao and others followed, and soon saw the Tang Army's infantry fighting in fierce smoke. It seemed that the Tang Army's large infantry also wanted to attack westward, but from the second fence of the flank, some Zhou Army's miscellaneous troops rushed out, and they were killing them in a mess.

The miscellaneous troops attacked by the Zhou army seemed to be some of the tooth soldiers of the Suzhou governor and a large group of village soldiers. There were very few people with incomplete armor, and limited combat power could not break the flank of the Southern Tang Army. Seeing a group of Tang Army infantrymen advancing here in the middle road, Guo Shao hurriedly shouted: "Go!"

The generals followed him and turned their horses around and ran backwards. The Nantang infantry team couldn't keep up with their legs and was quickly left behind.

After about a stick of incense, a commander of the First Army of the Tiger and Jie Army rushed to the battlefield first. All the troops ran hurriedly up to the battlefield, encountering the infantry brigade of Tang Jun rushing south. Without a word, the commander of the Tiger Jie army shouted: "Kill!" All the troops swarmed up and ran up desperately regardless of the queue. Two groups of men and horses fought in the middle, and the groups of swordsmen waved like a big pot of water boiling.

Soon the remaining six commanders of the Tigers and Czechs also arrived one after another. The front spread to the two wings, and several troops outflanked and fought. Not long after, the fighting Tang soldiers' infantry was defeated and fled westward ~www.readwn.com~ was covered and killed by the Tigers, and abandoned the body.

Guo Shao followed the tigers and horses to chase down Erlidi, and saw that the west gate of Shouzhou was opened. The cavalry of the Southern Tang Army took the lead in the city, and the army that did not disperse also followed into the city. Then came the messy rout.

Sergeant Tigers and soldiers turned straight out of the fence and chased the city gate. After a short while, the suspension bridge was pulled up, the soldiers behind were yelling, and many people rolled down into the dry river bed.

Guo Shao's generals and horses rushed to the gate first. At this time, arrows fell from the tower, and the soldiers who rushed too fast hit a few arrows. Everyone had to slap their horses and retreat. When the Tiger and Jiefang infantry followed, the Nantang rebel soldiers who had not entered the city simply descended one after another, and walked over with their backs to the city wall.

There was a wave of shouts from all sides, but the fighting had gradually ended.

Guo Shao felt that the battle was won because the circle of the fortifications was larger than the city wall. It was 200 steps away from the city, and the circumference was at least 20 miles. Not enough; it can't prevent Tang Jun from breaking through the defense. But because of the preparations, we encircled and intercepted from several sides, and defeated the Tang army...The enemy soldiers retreated into the city after they were defeated!

But in fact, the results cannot be calculated like that. I saw most of the catapults and ladders in the west of the city were still burning and smoking, a mess, and the ordnance parts that were being transported from Palgong Mountain on the edge of Fei Shui were burned all the way. Losing so much equipment at once was still rushed out of the city by the defenders. Guo Shao felt that things were very bad.

He had also been wary of Tang Jun might rush out to counterattack before, but he really couldn't tell. Liu Renzhan really did that! It is really surprised that Guo Shao is called.

In the thick smoke, Guo Shao sat immediately looking back at the surroundings for a long time without words, and fell into Chen Si. He suddenly said to Li Chuyun: "Maybe we are still careless. We didn't pay enough attention to the defender's counterattack before we were attacked?"