Li Chengzhong's eyes almost popped out of his head when he looked at the more than twenty war horses brought back by Zhong Silang.
"You mean, these horses were all snatched from the Khitan people?" Even though the fact was right in front of him, he still couldn't believe it. Ten people snatched more than twenty war horses from hundreds or even thousands of Khitan people.
Moreover, everyone came back intact and unscathed. This is really illogical. Oh, they were not unscathed. Two people suffered knife wounds on their arms, but the wounds were very shallow. In such a short period of time, they had already formed a shallow wound.
The scar will not affect the continued fighting at all.
After Zhong Shilang finished describing everything, he finally accepted the facts before him, so he asked Zhong Shilang to lead his brothers to eat something quickly, and then left the most elite guy at his side. With these ten people, he made preparations.
Team, Li Cheng Center is much more practical.
Turning his head and looking at the fat man, Li Chengzhong asked with great interest: "What do you call me?"
The fat man smiled, piled his fat face into a ball, and bowed and saluted: "Lao Dutou is worried about his heart. My surname is Wang. I am the second eldest in the family. You can call me Wang Erlang, and some acquaintances call you so."
Wang Xiaolang’s, because there are only two brothers in a certain family..."
Wang Erlang...Wang Xiaolang...Li Chengzhong suddenly remembered the story of the cowherd, and looked at the fat man in front of him with a strange expression for a while, until he felt uncomfortable all over, and kept coughing with an embarrassed expression.
"Wang Erxiao..." Li Chengzhong started chatting with the fat man in a playful manner: "Where are you from? What do you do for a living?"
"This person is from Luojiatun at the foot of the mountain. He makes a living by selling goods... Dutou, my name is not Wang Erxiao..." The fat man was obviously a little confused by this title.
"Well, Luojiatun, why isn't his surname Luo?" Li Chengzhong felt more and more happy the more he looked at the fat man, and couldn't help but continue joking.
"You guys are joking, most of the people in Luojiatun don't have the surname Luo..."
Just kidding, Li Chengzhong naturally wanted to praise and encourage the fat man who had bought him enough time. Listening to Li Chengzhong's words full of praise, the fat man was so happy that his heart felt like a flower blooming, but his face was serious instead.
After hearing a lot, he said solemnly: "How dare you spare your life before righteousness? This is all what you deserve, and you should not be praised by everyone!"
Li Chengzhong felt a little more at ease after hearing Fatty Wang Quan's introduction to the Khitan troops entering Bailang Mountain this time. If there were more than 400 troops, they were only more than a hundred more than himself. His confidence in defending the military stronghold was slightly strengthened.
"By the way, you can speak Khitan, right? Come on, come up on the stage, come to me, um..."
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When Wu Li and Ke Dan realized that they had been tricked by the fat man, they almost went crazy, especially when they led the army outside the military stronghold and found that the road leading to the military stronghold was really easy to recognize. This kind of
The anger rose to an uncontrollable height. Originally, as long as you walked along the road, you could easily reach the military camp, but because you trusted the fat man, everyone took countless unnecessary detours.
Well, even the war horses were snatched away, which was really embarrassing. It was like a slap in the face of Wuli and Kedan, making them extremely embarrassed and angry!
Especially Ke Dan, he has led the army for half his life and fought countless battles. How has he ever suffered such a loss? Ke Dan gritted his teeth and felt fierce in his heart, "Don't let me catch you..." For a moment, he felt in his heart
But at the first glance, Dan saw two people standing on the high platform inside the stone wall, a muscular officer, and a fat man who was smiling cautiously next to the officer. But Dan recognized the officer, and it was this officer who was standing there.
He led a group of soldiers under the Yuguan Pass and came out to form a formation, which frightened Kedan into delaying for several days before attacking the city and missed the best opportunity to attack the city. As for the fat man, even if he turned into ashes,
But Dan will never forget it!
These two liars - none of the Han people are good, they are all liars!
Ke Dan suppressed his anger and began to observe the military camp in front of him. He saw a low stone wall and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Just because of this, he wanted to block the Khitan warriors? Isn't that a joke? Then he saw the stone wall.
The gap on the side... Ke Dan thought of the open door of Yuguan. He stared at the gap, and the anger in his heart ignited again: "You want to play this kind of trick again? Do you really think I am Ke Dan?"
Is it that easy to deceive?"
If Kedan was still sober at this time, the words he heard next made him completely lose his mind. This sentence came from a fat man standing on a high platform inside the stone wall. The fat man's face was full of fat and he was crowded in.
At one point, he shouted in a strange tone: "Everyone in my family said that I am grateful to the Khitan nobleman for the gift of the war horse. If there is a fight later, I will show mercy!"
But Dan's mind buzzed, and something seemed to be moving upwards in his chest. He forgot to continue observing the entire battlefield, including the stone houses on both sides of the mountain walls, and even forgot about his subordinates.
The Khitan warriors have been running around in the mountains for several hours! If Wu Li hadn't been pulling him desperately, Kedan would have been in the front row of the attacking formation.
The first batch of Khitan soldiers to attack the gap consisted of fifty people. They were divided into two teams. The front team was thirty people, all armed with scimitars and leather shields. The leather shields were the round shields used by cavalry. They were not big and only enough.
Protect important parts such as the chest or face. A group of twenty people at the back, all archers, approached the gap in the stone wall under the cover of a group of Khitan soldiers in the front.
The Khitan soldiers carefully watched for a moment outside the gap. Seeing the long spears on both sides inside, they did not dare to push through. They ducked out from the back and to the side. The Khitan archers cocked their arrows and fired at the Lulong Army spearmen on the inside of the gap.
Because the Lulong Army spearmen were standing sideways facing the Khitan archers, and the soldiers in the first row were all wearing leather armor, many arrows bounced off due to the angle, and some of the arrows that hit were also embedded in the skin.
On the armor, the damage to the Lulong Army's spearmen was not great. After two rounds of shooting, a few leading archers saw the trick and shouted a few words in Khitan dialect. The Khitan archers changed the direction of their arrows and focused on shooting.
The faces, legs, etc. of the Lulong Army spearmen. At this moment, several Lulong Army soldiers were shot to the ground.
Following the screams of several Lulong soldiers who had been hit by arrows, the gun formation immediately showed signs of instability. Zhang Xingzhong was anxious and rushed over to use the handle of his gun to hit several soldiers who were talking and moving.
The soldiers did not dare to move anymore, so he ordered people to drag the fallen soldiers aside, take off their leather armor, and replace it with the soldiers who replaced them. The soldiers immediately took up the vacant positions.
Li Chengzhong stood on the high platform, holding a small flag in his hand. The flag was the orange command flag used by the Lu Long Army and was in the shape of a triangle. He carefully watched the Khitan soldiers outside the stone wall gradually huddled together, and then raised the command flag.
The flag was raised high and waved downward with force. Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao on the mountain walls on both sides had long been waiting for Li Chengzhong's order. When they saw the order flag waved, they ordered their archers to emerge from behind the stone house.
, bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and fired coveringly at the open space in front of the gap marked as Area 1.
The archers commanded by Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao achieved significant results. Because the Khitan soldiers stood very concentrated, more than ten arrows were knocked down in the first round, almost achieving the effect of the arrows hitting the target. Stone house on the side of the mountain
The archers popping up from everywhere made Ke Dan realize that he had made a serious mistake. After being stunned for a while, he quickly ordered a retreat. However, just as he was in a daze, Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao
Each of the archers under his command shot at least three arrows, and some of the quick ones shot four arrows. Under such killings, only eleven of the first batch of Khitan people were able to withdraw safely, and thirty-nine people lay on the rocks.
On the ground in front of the wall.
The battlefield was solemn, with only the cries of pain from the wounded Khitan soldiers lingering in the valley.
But Dan closed his eyes, feeling heartbroken. Thirty-nine people were killed in the first round of attack, which made him a little afraid to accept it. What's more, there were five warriors who were trained by him! He understood that he
Just now, he was blinded by anger and committed an impatience. He rashly launched an attack without fully observing the entire battlefield situation. This kind of mistake was a bit low-level, and he began to force himself to calm down due to embarrassment.
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After calming down, Kedan carefully recalled the scene just now and made a rough assessment of the situation at hand. The biggest threat now is the archers coming from above on both sides, but the archery skills of these archers are not accurate. They should be
A certain method of covering the shooting was adopted. Regarding the height of those archers, Ke Dan felt that he had no good method. In other words, others could shoot him, but he could not shoot others. The gun at the gap in the stone wall
The formation doesn't look like a decoration. It is indeed a bit tricky. If you insist on breaking through it, I'm afraid the casualties will be relatively large.
After thinking about it, Ke Dan set his sights on the stone wall. The stone wall was not high, only about a foot, and it didn't look thick. It could be passed by just turning over. In this case, why should we go through the gap?
What about breaking through the gun array? Thinking of this, he redid his plan and prepared to invest fifty people at once, in groups of five, to launch a linear offensive with ten attack points along the stone wall. In this case, he would attack in one go.
Ten people can climb into the stone wall, and thirty people can break into the stone wall in the blink of an eye. He feels that no matter what, thirty Khitan warriors guarding the jumping point in the stone wall can persist for a long time.
For a while, as long as there was time and space, the Khitan warriors would continue to climb into the stone wall. Moreover, under this situation, he did not think that the opponent's archers could still achieve the same attack effect just now.
Fifty Khitan people, in groups of five, quickly rushed under the stone wall and lined up ten attack points along the stone wall. Two of them half-bent down as support, with four hands overlapping in one place, attacking
The first step of his hand was to step on the thigh of one of them, and the second step was to step on the crossed arms of the two. As a support, the two people used their strength to throw upwards. The attacker used the force to turn over in the air and directly passed over.
The stone wall jumped in. This climbing method is commonly used by the Khitan people, and it is very effective for attacking those stronghold walls that are not high enough.
After the first attacker fell into the stone wall, the second attacker was immediately thrown into the stone wall by his companion who was supporting him, and then the third attacker...
The stone wall was ten feet high, and the trench inside the stone wall was as deep as one person. The height and depth were superimposed, and tragedy happened... The first wave of Khitan people who climbed into the stone wall were thrown to pieces.
The reason why there was no warning to the latecomers in time was because they were all stunned, and some of them were even thrown to the point of being knocked out of breath on the spot. The second wave was still like this, and it was not until the third wave jumped in that the miserable screams came from the bottom of the trench.
It was reported that the Lulong Army spearmen guarding the ditch were using wooden spears in their hands to assassinate the Khitan soldiers who fell at the bottom of the ditch. Li Chengzhong himself couldn't stand it anymore on the high platform. It felt like he was using a harpoon to kill the Khitan soldiers who fell at the bottom of the ditch.
It's like catching fish in a fish pond with lighted water.