Dangqu City is not big, with only four miles of city revolving around. Each lifang in the city has high and thick walls, separated by lateral roads. Some of the lifangs belong to the government's county temples, warehouses, military camps, stables, etc., and some are residences of the people.
Most of these lifangs are named after their surnames, either "Fengli" or "Xuli". Each lifang is a place where a large family gathers and tribes. There were originally fourteen such lifangs, and one was rebuilt into a military camp by Lei Yuan a few days ago. There were thirteen left, accounting for more than half of the entire city lifang.
After the barbarian soldiers entered the city in large numbers, they ran forward along the road, but there was no resistance on the road. They subconsciously ran, rushed to the other wall, and were shot back by rainy arrows on the wall.
The scene they imagined was a chaos in the city, and the people were running around and there was a willing robbery. When they retreated a little far from the city wall and looked left and right, they were all tall rammed earth walls. Someone discovered the door under the wall and rammed it a few times. The door panel was still moving, and the back was obviously blocked.
What should I do next?
The barbarian soldiers stood there in a daze.
Compared with the cities in prosperous areas, such as Dangqu and Hanchang, small cities embedded in the barbarian territory, are naturally far inferior in scale. However, these small cities appear in the form of military trests and attach great importance to defense during construction. In particular, Dangqu City, which was built fifty years ago by Feng Fu, who was then the general of chariots, gathered local tribes and worked together to build them once, which was really solid.
The barbarian soldiers who first entered the city were still hesitating. More people from the rear rushed in and collided with the people in front. They launched another rush towards the city wall, but so many people were crowded on the road, and the archers on the top of the city almost didn't need to aim. Each bow would win one.
Their rush could not even reach the pace that connected the ground and the city wall, and then collapsed again.
There were several leaders who looked like high-ranking Yimao shouted irritably: "Exhaust the torch! Exhaust the torch soon!"
The position was low and he was holding a torch, which was really using himself as a target. Others reacted and quickly threw the torch on the ground. Some people were too anxious and even stepped on their bare soles, not caring about the burning of bubbles in the soles of their feet.
But what should happen after the torch is extinguished?
The soldiers were full of killing and bloodthirsty thoughts. When they rushed into the city, each of them turned into a wild beast. Wherever they could see, there were only hunters and no prey.
Although the walls of Lifang are not as high as those of the city wall, because the roads in the city are narrower, when you look up, it looks particularly tall, as if it is about to collapse and overwhelm everyone, which is shocking.
"Climb in! Climb the wall!" The Yimai shouted and ran towards a nearby lifang.
When the barbarians entered the city, the Lifang was silent everywhere and there was no response. But when they tried to climb over the wall and enter the Lifang, the fierce battle suddenly broke out.
The barbarians either climbed the trees outside the wall or used the spear and spear in their hands as support to attack any nearby Lifang. However, the interior of the Lifang was obviously ready, and a large amount of earth and stones were thrown down from the wall, which made the attackers unable to raise their heads.
Some barbarians had the experience of attacking Han cities. Before attacking, they cut down trees and tied them into long ladders with straw ropes. When the ladder was placed on the wall, they bit weapons such as knives and axes in their mouths, and their hands and feet were used to rush up along the ladder, and soon entered the inside of the wall.
The clan tribes guarded in the Lifang fought fiercely with them, throwing some injured barbarian soldiers out of the wall from time to time. Sometimes they splashed blood, sometimes screamed, and smashed heavily into the dense queue of the attacking party, leading many people down.
More battles unfold directly at the top of the wall. In the narrow space, neither side was willing to take a step back, with swords and guns raised at the same time, broken arms and limbs flying, howlings and shouts came one after another. The blood overflowed on the platform at the top of the wall, flowing along the wall to the ground, leaving traces on the rammed earth wall, like a bright red waterfall.
A large number of barbarian soldiers were still rushing into the city. Their fighting style was no different from the hungry ghosts under Shamoke that Lei Yuan had seen before. They were purely stacked by human lives. The walls everywhere were towering, and the heroic tribes behind the walls fought each other, and it seemed that there was no possibility of being shaken in a short period of time.
Feng Xi sighed: "What a pity. This kind of shouting of killing was not caused by the orderly confrontation of the large group of people. If Xu Huang gets closer, he should have found that something is wrong."
As a surrendered general of the Cao army, Feng Xi once led an army with his brother Feng Kai, participated in many battles in Hebei and Central Plains, and dealt with Xu Huang. He knew very well that although Xu Huang was brave, he was invincible first and then fought. He was probably not an ordinary mediocre general who easily fell into the trap.
Lei Yuan nodded.
At this time, Lei Yuan and Feng Xi led their entourage soldiers to advance slowly along the road at the top of the city wall.
The sky seemed to be a little bright, and there was no need to undulate the open torches when walking on the flat city. There were hundreds of crossbowmen on the city. They were always vigilant to pay attention to the bottom, running back and forth, maintaining the density of arrows, so as not to be looked at by the barbarians and killing them to the city.
A team of crossbowmen ran from the front, and Lei Yuan made way to the outside and let them pass by in a hurry. Then he returned to the inside of the city wall to see the situation inside the city.
He asked a crossbowman: "Are there any new trends?"
This crossbowman is named Jiang Li, and he is an old qualification in the Lei family. Although his talent is limited and he has never been promoted, he has many years of military experience here. As a crossbowman, he is undoubtedly qualified.
After hearing Lei Yuan's inquiry, he raised his arms and pointed to the northeast corner of the city that was separated by a lifang: "Just this time, the county temple was almost opened. Deng Bomiao personally led some people to fight, killing the barbarians and blocking the gap."
"Ha?" Lei Yuan really didn't expect that Deng Zhi was quite brave and not a weak scholar.
Feng Xi laughed and said, "Deng Bomiao must be furious this time. If the general sees him after the war, he must be careful."
Thinking of Deng Zhi's temper, Lei Yuan couldn't help but feel silenced.
After a while, he said, "Although it was to defeat Cao's army, he finally used the entire Dangqu City as a battlefield. It would be a big loss for him to lose his temper."
Li Qi followed Lei Yuan and asked at this time: "Why is he so angry? Didn't he stand with us?"
Lei Yuan shook his head and said, "Of course not. Deng Zhi and the local wealthy families are actually not with us. They are only willing to fight against the barbarians, and hope that the war between the lord and Cao Mengde has nothing to do with them."
"It's very childish." Feng Xidao.
Lei Yuan agreed: "It's really very naive."
After so many years of troubled times, most of the heroes who were fighting for the world had been defeated. Only a few people were able to pursue the final victory. At this critical moment, each side tried its best to squeeze out every force and devoted itself to confrontation. And in the local area, there was no room for anything.
Deng Zhi and the wealthy families probably couldn't see the changes in the situation because they lived in the mountains for too long.
Fortunately, Lei Yuan and his companions understood it very clearly. These days, they have made so many defense preparations in and outside the city to get the people in Dangqu City to take over when necessary.
Therefore, Lei Yuan opened the door and let the enemy enter the city. This is because only by forcing them to kill and see blood can they truly put their positions and thoughts; they can give up their stupid self-protection ideas and stand with the winner.
However, Lei Yuan originally thought that he could trap the elite Cao's army into the city, but he did not expect that the barbarians who broke in were the ones.
This is not bad. If the strength of the rich people in Dangqu City can trap Xu Huang, it would be the best; even if it is like now, it would be great to just trap the large army of barbarians.
Deng Zhi is right. If you want to settle the situation in Brazil, it will ultimately depend on the result of the direct confrontation between Cao and Liu.
Previously, Xu Huang planned to attract the Jingzhou army to the road to Hanchang, and use a siege to decide the victory or defeat with a wait-to-work interception; and now, Lei Yuan hopes to see the battlefield methods of this famous general in Cao's camp under Dangqu City.
Lei Yuan turned around and looked at the team outside the city.
That was Xu Huang's team. The moment they stood up from the field, they had fallen into the eyes of the people who were exploring the city. Just as they were going, Lei Yuan and Feng Xi were tracking their movements on the city wall.
Lei Yuan noticed that when the troops approached the city gate, they had obvious hesitation. They stopped and slightly shrank their formation. A powerful general in the queue came out from behind, shouting at a small number of elite Cao troops guarding the city and asking about something.
Lei Yuan and Feng Xi looked at each other and said, "It's time for Gan Ning to move."
The next moment, hundreds of soldiers emerged from a hill opposite the city gate. Their appearance was very close to Xu Huang's troops, and their swords, guns and armors shone brightly in the slightest exchange between day and night.
Chapter completed!