"Master National Adviser, General Lin, please be sure to send troops northward!" The reconnaissance cavalry sent by Lin Hu knelt down and begged again and again, and found the Goshawk army thirty miles to the southwest.
"Go back and tell General Lin that I will be there soon." Goshawk said a little indifferently, not looking at the scout, but directly at the lake bay twenty miles away. The burly
His stature is not inferior to that of Lin Hu, but he seems to be a little shorter than his own son.
"Master National Preceptor, it has been confirmed that Helian Chenwu and all his main forces are at the Central Army. General Lin said that as the leader of Tianlong, please send at least five thousand riders to assist in the battle!" Seeing Goshawk briefly
After stopping for a while and continuing southbound, the reconnaissance horse suddenly stepped forward and blocked the horse in front of the goshawk.
"Then did he take back the previous military order?" Goshawk suppressed his anger, glared at the scout fiercely, and took a detour.
"No, no." The scout cavalry knew that the other party was referring to the military order that arrived at midnight and besieged the Eastern Zhou camp. After being glared at by the goshawk, he lay on the ground and did not dare to take any drastic action again.
"Go back and tell Lin Hu that this king will carry out his second military order immediately!" Goshawk coldly left the scout behind and began to accelerate towards the lake shore.
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After running for more than twenty miles on the dark ice, with less than a hundred soldiers left around him, Lin Hu felt as if he was in a dream, and all the wealth he had accumulated over the past twenty years had been wiped out!
A mile away, the pursuers behind him were still clinging to their guns. Even after two battles, the opponent's horses were obviously better than his own, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they were caught up! Lin Hu didn't dare to think about it anymore. Fortunately, Lin Hu didn't dare to think about it anymore.
, Counting the time, Goshawk's army is coming soon. With his new force joining in, he will definitely be able to win a battle against the tired soldiers of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty!
"Sir, these are our reconnaissance cavalry!" The military advisor next to Lin Hu recognized the four cavalry running toward him at a glance.
"Turn around quickly and run together!" Lin Hu roared from a distance. As expected, the four scouts quickly stopped and turned around, running with Lin Hu. Because they also heard the sound of horse hooves on the ice, which was definitely not what they were seeing.
Bai Lai Qi can send it out.
"Where is the goshawk? How far away is it?" Lin Hu asked loudly from far away.
"He didn't send any soldiers and went south again, at least thirty miles away from here!" the scout quickly replied.
Lin Hu, who ran close to the scout, was about to slap the scout with his palm, but he finally lowered his hand raised in mid-air. That man was one of his most trusted subordinates, and hitting him would have no effect!
The pursuers behind him were outflanking him from both sides, and would complete the encirclement in two or three miles at most. In order to prevent him from running away, the enemy cavalry did not even attack directly and adopted an encirclement strategy!
Lin Hu suddenly stopped and whispered: "Come down, your Majesty will not kill you!"
Lin Hu's sudden stop made the Bai Lai Cavalry around him feel at a loss. They rushed forward for dozens of feet before stopping one after another. Due to this pause, the white-robed army of thousands of cavalry immediately surrounded the Bai Lai Cavalry in the middle.
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"I lost, they surrendered!" Lin Hu only said six words before falling down from his horse.
Those behind him were brothers who had fought with him for a long time. Lin Hu could not bear to have them slaughtered again;
When he tried his best to take the last three swords from He Qizhou, he had already suffered serious internal injuries and had no time to force out the true energy from his body. It was meaningless for him to try his best to kill a few more enemy soldiers;
Although Helian Chenwu said he would not kill anyone if he surrendered, but did he still have the face to surrender?
Lin Hu could not make any better choice than death, so after saying these six words, he cut off his heart and died, not even wanting to look at the group of crying and shouting subordinates running toward him.
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Sixty thousand laborers worked hard day and night. An ice wall two feet high and four feet thick appeared on the ice on the shore of the lake. It stretched for five miles and was connected to the ridges on both sides. Behind the ice wall, on the ridge were two men holding various weapons.
Thousands of soldiers and 5,000 strong men who volunteered to hold on, and nearly 90,000 people in the three harbors were concentrated in the middle and largest harbor. If the ridges on both sides were breached, the two bays in the middle could still be defended.
A ridge.
The ice cubes were all taken from the lake about ten feet south of the ice wall, and an ice trough about eight feet wide was cut out. Due to the time when the ice was taken out, many places in the ice trough were already two or three inches thick.
Thick ice, but less than an inch thick in most places.
At the end of the morning, the sky was still pitch black. Twenty feet behind the ice trough, a group of about a hundred cavalrymen were fighting. The weapons in each person's hands were either heavy hammers or giant axes. But at this time, everyone was looking at three horses.
The war horse fell on the ice and was twitching, while the three cavalrymen were trembling while quickly stripping off their clothes.
Linghuye approached slowly and coldly ordered the horse to be killed. It was he who had just ordered the cavalry to smash through a section of the ice wall, and then the three cavalry at the front suddenly fell into the ditch where the ice cracked.
In the trough, when he was rescued, the men and horses lost their fighting power!
"Try to see if you can walk over and dismount to attack!" Linghuye said to the group of big men still sitting on the horse. More than a hundred people immediately dismounted. The two of them tried it first. The ice surface could barely bear the weight of one person, and the ice trough
It's not too wide, you can cross it with a light step, and then more than a hundred people rush towards the ice wall in the middle harbor at the same time!
"Shoot an arrow!" Hundreds of people suddenly appeared from behind the ice wall and shot at the strong men who were crossing the ice trough. Since there was only a distance of about ten feet, there was no possibility for those strong men to escape.
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The defenders' bows were not very strong and could not penetrate the thick armor of the Goshawk soldiers. However, some weakly protected areas such as the face, joints, and calves could not block the attack of the arrow rain. Just two rounds of random shots could reach close range.
Half of the Northern Zhou soldiers were injured. Some of them were crossing the ice trough and fell heavily on the ice after being shot, smashing the ice and falling into the water!
Linghuye, who was standing far behind the ice trough, seemed to have predicted this and immediately asked the two battalions of archers behind him to fight back. This was the truly powerful rain of arrows! More than ten archers behind the ice wall were immediately shot.
, the others shrank their heads.
"Ignore the injured and those who fell into the water, rush forward!" Linghuye directed the fifty or so uninjured men to march forward. As long as a section of the ice wall was broken, the army behind him could do whatever they wanted.
The wall-breaking men who had escaped the rain of arrows successfully rushed under the ice wall and hit the ice with their heavy weapons, causing ice chips to fly randomly.
Without Linghuye opening his mouth, dozens of other soldiers rushed out from the dark military formation behind him to rescue the wall-breakers who were injured by arrows.
The two battalions of archers selected by Linghu Ye were almost all sharpshooters. They were keeping their bows open and keeping an eye on the movement on the ice wall. As soon as someone showed up, an arrow would be fired at them.
No one dared to stand up on the ice wall, but huge pieces of ice fell from the top of the wall and hit the head of the person who hit the wall hard. The shape of each piece of ice on the wall was exactly the same, and they were all big.
They look like buckets, each weighing thirty or forty kilograms. Each ice bucket has a hemp rope frozen in it, making it easier for the wall defenders to lift, pull, pull and throw it!
Also in one day, tens of thousands of these city-defending weapons were easily made using thousands of buckets! The wall-smashers under the ice wall were knocked down in an instant, and the remaining dozen people had to flee in embarrassment.
Along the wall, return to the vicinity of the ice chute.
Looking at the ice wall they smashed through, it didn't move at all, but there were some small pits with a depth of less than half a foot! But the people on the wall still seemed uneasy. There was water flowing down from many places on the wall. Wherever it passed, people immediately
The ice walls that had been smashed were immediately repaired!
When building the wall yesterday, we poured layers of ice and water in this way. The ice wall was no less strong than a brick city wall. The south-facing side of the ice wall also became extremely smooth. If there were no ladders and other equipment to attack the city,
Equipment, don't even think about climbing up.
Looking at the inside of the ice wall, the base is composed of several steps made of ice blocks. The bottom is larger and the top is smaller. The narrowest point is four feet. A person standing on it can easily defend.
The steps are covered with heavy "ice lumps", as well as archers, spearmen, knife and ax hands, pitchfork hands, kitchen knife hands, rolling pin hands... Anyway, all the weapons that can be collected and the people who use these weapons are standing there.
Under the ice wall, this is the first and only line of defense!
It's quite spectacular further in. There is an ice cave every ten feet. There are six or seven people guarding each cave. From time to time, they use ice drills to break open the ice that has quickly formed, and buckets of lake water are handed over.
At the top of the city, continue to reinforce the already strong ice wall.
"Linghuye, try to send some people to attack the mountains on both sides!" Goshawk, who had been silent all this time, walked to Linghuye's side. He also saw how difficult it was to break through this line of defense without siege equipment.
"Yes, Harrier Battalion 1 and 2, you go to the northeastern foothills to attack; Falcon Battalion 1 and 2, you go to the western mountains to attack. Whoever breaks through the defense line first will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!" Linghuye immediately ordered the Fourth Battalion.
The commander immediately took the order to go on an expedition.
At the same time, Linghuye sent people several times to try to attack different sections of the wall, but all failed. About half an hour later, the attacking teams at the foothills on the east and west sides brought bad news again. It was really difficult to attack by force.
It is too big. On the hillside near the lake shore, the trees have been cut down and a thick layer of ice has been poured on it. It is quite difficult to go up.
Different from the mob defending the ice wall, the regular armies of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were stationed on the hillsides on both sides. Their individual combat power was even stronger than that of Linghuye's Kulun soldiers. They attacked several times, lost troops and generals, and made no progress at all. Therefore, they sent people to Linghu Ye.
Hu Ye requested to send more manpower.
"Your Majesty, why don't you walk a little longer and go around the back mountain?" Ling Huye didn't dare to make any more decisions and asked Gosying for instructions.
"Let's go from the middle! Break the wall!" Goshawk did not lose confidence because of repeated setbacks, and firmly stated his next tactic: "Archers be on guard, you and me, plus those with six or more lines in the guard camp.
Attack the wall by force, prepare two hundred strong men, wait until we stand firm on the wall and then break through the wall!"