Chapter 36 Introducing the King into the Urn
Among the 20,000 troops of Guangyuan Army, half of the cavalry were replenished. According to the plan, the cavalry was the first to charge. In order to create the momentum of the army, hundreds of war horses were mixed into the cavalry corps. These war horses were not ridden, but firecrackers were fixed on the horse's back, and special cavalry were guided by special cavalry. The other cavalry had a gong in their hands and beat them during the raid.
Just after the ugly moment, Guangyuan Army holding torches rode a horse and whip it towards Yinzhou City. At the same time, all the firecrackers were ignited, and the frightened horses were neighing. The sound of the gongs made the originally silent plains immediately riot.
When the defenders of Yinzhou City heard the movement, they poked their heads out and saw an unknown army that was approaching quickly not far away. They were crowded with people and dust, and the torches were bright. They were so scared that they quickly blew the Niukeon to warn the whole city.
Before the Yinzhou defenders gathered at the city wall, the sword rain from the enemy had already fallen densely. The prepared and the Tang defenders who had not had time to prepare were shot into hedgehogs, and they could not organize an effective counterattack in a short period of time. Following the cavalry were infantry sieges and sieges. Using the time of cavalry shooting archery, they quickly shortened the distance and carried "cloud ladders" on their shoulders. The Tang defenders, who were stunned in the night, naturally could not find that the so-called "cloud ladders" of the enemy were just wooden ladders in the homes of ordinary people and could not play any role in siege. After all, the task of the Guangyuan Army was not really siege.
As expected, Guangyuan Army attracted most of the attention of Yinzhou City. The Xuanjia Army led by King Yu had quickly approached the southeast gate of Yinzhou City. After the King Yu in front of the team stretched out his right hand and clenched his fist, the rust guards behind him took a bow and arrow, and the first batch of Golden Armor Guards headed towards the city walls on both sides.
Let it go! With the order of Zhan Ting, the Rust Claw Guards sprinkled the first wave of arrow rain. In addition to the long range and great power of the Liang Dynasty's bows and arrows have another advantage that the Tang army does not have, that is, the replacement frequency is high. After the first round, the archers in the second round continued to fire. In this way, the rain of arrows after round made the Tang army at the top of the city unable to raise their heads. The golden armor guards threw their flying claws one after another, and they cooperated with each other to climb along the city wall.
After several rounds of arrow rain, the fastest-climbing golden armored guard warrior still successfully reached the female wall. Although the first warrior to step onto the city did not persist for too long under the enemy's siege, his sacrifice bought precious time for the robes. More and more soldiers climbed to the city. In order to prevent injuries to their own people, the arrow rain under the city was also significantly weakened, and replaced by short swords at the city head and fighting close to each other.
The Jinjia Guard did not let the King of Yu wait too long, and the southeast gate of Yinzhou City was slowly opened. The King of Yu led his army into the city. The guards at the southeast gate were very weak. After several battles, they fled one after another. The road leading to the Yinzhou official residence was displayed in front of the Xuanjia Army. The people in the city who woke up from their sleep showed different expressions: the people of the Liang Dynasty were happy when they saw the army of their mother country; while the people of the Tang Dynasty fled in scattered.
In addition to a small number of soldiers who stayed to guard the city gate, more than 10,000 Xuanjia Army quickly advanced towards the official residence. The official residence of Yinzhou City was built in the center of the city, covering an area of half acre, and understood the streets on all sides. Only Ci'an Temple was on the north side. Xuanjia Army did not face much resistance along the way until outside the official residence, the old, weak and remnants scattered, and handed over such a strategic command.
"Dispers apart immediately!" King Yu vaguely realized something was wrong. Except for the relatively open ground in Ci'an Temple in the north, the remaining three streets were not considered wide. Arranged by the army in the streets was undoubtedly a dangerous layout.
Wow! A feather arrow broke through the air and broke into two pieces under Geng Yan's knife. Before the remaining arrows had landed, the dense rain of arrows had fallen from the sky. It was also a rain of arrows. This time, the two sides against each other exchanged positions. The attacking party was the Tang Dynasty defender, and the defense party was the Xuanjia Army.
"Defensive shield formation!"
The streets were not wide enough to allow the soldiers to set up their formations. In a hurry, the soldiers who had not had time to hide became targets. What's worse was that they didn't see clearly where these arrows were shot. What they could feel was that there were ambushing from all directions and there was no way to hide.
“Retreat to the north!”
A team of ten thousand people slid out of a street in a snake shape. After coming to Ci'an Temple, everyone felt suddenly enlightened and finally could set up a formation to fight. As a well-trained army, the Rust Claw Guard, the Cold Knife Guard, and the Golden Armor Guard each performed their duties and set up their formations. When they were about to fight to the death, the arrow rain disappeared and the surroundings returned to their previous state again, as if the round of arrow rains after round just now were just a dream for everyone, but everyone knew very well, how could all this be a dream? What was lying in front of them was the robes that had fought side by side, his blood was still flowing, and their eyes were not closed.
The lights in Yinzhou City were flashing, but they were so quiet that they were suffocating. Many soldiers' eyes were constantly turning, and sweat had wet their backs. They were nervous and quite nervous. As the Xuanjia Army, they were not too afraid of death, but the fragility of people's hearts lies in fear of the unknown. What is the unknown? Everything in front of them is unknown. Where is the enemy? Where is the feather arrow from? The shouts of killing at the southwest city gate echoed in the city, but the land under their feet was silent and could not figure it out for a moment.
Ye Kai and Zhao Kexin were on the left and right side of the guards next to King Yu. Ye Kai wanted to say something, and peeked at Zhao Kexin, she observed her surroundings with great seriousness, and had to look for Xuan Shaoning in the crowd. At this moment, they were really far apart. Han Dao Guard was in the area between Ci'an Temple and the official residence. Compared to the victory of the tiger's mouth, Xuan Shaoning was in trouble before he could celebrate. He had little practical experience. What's worse is that he couldn't remember at all when he studied at Qingshan Academy and could not find a solution.
In fact, the silence did not last long. A golden-armored guard soldier standing next to Shi Gong Zhengyuan coughed. The cough was not very tight, but he coughed out blood and it was out of control. The more he coughed, he fell to the ground and spit out blood. Shi Gong Zhengyuan hurriedly helped him up, and then he found that his eyes were covered with blood, his face turned ashen, and the blue veins on his neck were swelling. He was poisoned! Shi Gong Zhengyuan hurriedly looked for the wound on his body. Sure enough, there was an arrow wound on his back, and the flesh on the wound was already purple.
The arrow cluster was poisonous! Just as it was about to blurt out, soldiers spitting blood appeared in the battle formation. Shi Gong Zhengyuan checked several people one after another and found arrow injuries, which caused panic in the battle group.
"General! There are arrows..." Before Shi Gong Zhengyuan finished shouting, the sound of running came from the three streets. It was the sound of an orderly running group of people, with neat and loud sound coming from three reverse directions at the same time. Just judging from the running sound, there were a large number of people coming.
"Prepare for the battle! The Golden Armored Guards are responsible for the enemies on both sides of the southeast. The Annan Mansion soldiers face the enemies on the west. The Rust Jade Guards and the Han Dao Guards immediately occupy the high ground!" King Yu's military order was implemented as fast as possible: Zhan Ting led his troops into the Ci'an Temple Tower, and Tong Xin led his troops to climb to the roof of the mansion.
King Yu abandoned the war horse, held Ma Shuo in his hand, and prepared for close combat. The troops who rushed over from three directions were indeed the Tang army in brown war uniforms. Each of their faces was painted bright red from paint. When they saw the Liang Dynasty's troops, they shouted loudly, and their exposed teeth were all pitch black, which made people feel scared. But these rich surface modifications did not have much deterrence to Geng Yan and Miao Wei. They led the crowd to welcome the enemy without showing any weakness, and immediately the sound of weapons handing over and the sound of killing resounded in the sky.
Tongxin, who jumped onto the roof of the mansion, leaned over to look at the martial arts field of the official residence, was really surprised: hundreds of armored bronze men were arranged in a row on the entire school martial arts field. They were said to be armored bronze men, because these people were indeed wearing pitch-black armor, and each person's body exposed in the color of brass. He was wearing a helmet decorated with the head of the wolf, and his right hand was holding a weapon higher than the bronze man. This weapon was never seen by Tongxin: the blade with a faint blue luster was curved near the head, with a curve similar to the lower Xuanyue, and his head was very similar to a sickle used by farmers.
The knife, but the size of this weapon is several times that of an ordinary sickle, and it also flashes with a dark blue luster. A group of black bronze men faced the same direction, and another bronze man stood in front of them. His same outfit and the same weapon, the only difference is that his face was an iron mask, which covered the parts below his nose and exposed the above parts. The mask was engraved with teeth like animal fangs. All the bronze men were neat and solemn, which depended on the bright moon tonight, otherwise it would be really hard to see it at the first time.
Tong Xin observed for a long time but did not see these bronze men moving. I thought it was really copper, so he waved his hand and the soldiers of the Han Dao Guard climbed over the wall. Everyone who entered the school martial arts field was shocked by the entire piece of bronze men, including Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang.
"The Tang people are really nagging now. They put so many bronze men in the official residence!"
Xuan Shaoning stopped Duan Lang and said: "Now there is no time to comment. We must quickly go to the highest point to find the way to retreat and return to the southeast gate as soon as possible!"
Duan Lang nodded. When he was about to run past the bronze man leader, he took a look more and clearly saw the bronze man's eyes blinking. Although the steps under his feet did not stop, his eyes could not be separated from the bronze man. He wanted to prove that he was not confused.
Duan Lang recalled this war. He really hoped that he was confused at that moment, but the facts happened in the direction he was most reluctant to do. The eyes of the bronze leader turned as Duan Lang's body moved. When he saw Duan Lang's face change, the cheeks of the bronze leader twitched upward at the same time. Duan Lang felt that he was smiling.
"Shaoning!"
Before he finished speaking, Xuan Shaoning turned around and a robe head landed at his feet from the sky. Duan Lang had no time to see how all this happened. What he saw now was the bronze leader holding up the huge scythe in his hand, and blood was flowing from the scythe.
These bronze men are alive! With the movement of the bronze leader, all the bronze men moved. They slowly raised the sickle in their hands, as if responding to their leaders. This was the last moment. The next moment he saw dozens of cold sword guards saw their bodies standing in place, holding weapons in their hands, but their heads left their bodies without warning and fell into nothingness. Even the Tongxin standing on the roof did not see clearly how these bronze men took action to end the lives of their subordinates. The only thing he could judge was that the enemies in front of him were fierce and ruthless.
Tong Xin bent his bow and arrow, took out three arrows from the quiver at one time, aimed at the bronze leader and shot them. The three arrows flew to the target from three angles in the air with the help of wind. The sickle in the hands of the bronze leader made a turn and swept away the feather arrow's attack easily. Tong Xin ran along the roof. There was only one target in his eyes. As long as he seized the opportunity, he shot the arrow. The feather arrow broke through the air, and each arrow went towards the target. Each arrow failed to complete his mission, either blocked or cut directly into two pieces, until Tong Xin could no longer touch the feather arrow in the quiver.
The bronze leader's cheeks floated up at the same time again. It was a smile. The boy's letter was confirmed. The bronze leader was smiling at him. Before his smile had completely disappeared from Tongxin's eyes, the bronze leader had already arrived at Tongxin's side with an arrow. His body was completely different from his burly figure. At this moment, the bronze leader was standing on the roof with his back facing the moonlight, with his dark armor and weapons, and his brass skin. He was not a living person no matter how he looked, but more like a devil moving at night, especially his scarlet eyes, a living monster.
Tong Xin held the bow tightly with his right hand and pressed his left hand on the hilt of the knife around his waist. He knew that the enemy in front of him was difficult to deal with. He glanced at King Yu from the corner of his eyes. He had the protection of two personal guards and had no worries about life for the time being. From the sound of fighting in the sky, Tong Xin understood that he had to fight quickly, so that he could find a way out for the entire army.
Just when the bronze leader waved his sickle to cut off the first head, hundreds of bronze men began to cut the head at the same time. Their goal was very simple, using the least tricks to remove the enemy's head as fast as possible. After a few moves, Xuan Shaoning discovered that these bronze men were simply killing machines, with thick armor on their bodies, and they were fast and clean and concise. After taking off one head, they used their hands to pick out the two eyeballs on the head and put them into their chests, and immediately began to look for the next target.
"Shaoning..." Duan Lang leaned against Xuan Shaoning, and wanted to say something but got stuck in his throat.
Chapter completed!