Chapter 147: Soldiers Out of the City
The sad soldiers will win.
Cao Xin could only bet like this once.
Li Che's head was hanging high outside, and Wang Mingren died on the spot under the cover of thousands of arrows. This was certainly difficult to arouse the shared hatred of all soldiers in the city in a short period of time, but over time, as the incident fermented, the anxiety and the concerns of failure would inevitably spread in the city, which was extremely unfavorable for trapping the city.
Today is the day when Chengde soldiers have the highest fighting spirit.
It would be a pity if you don’t make good use of such morale.
Cao Xin made a quick decision and turned today into a day of decisive battle with his opponent.
Cao Xin was truly lonely.
Not only did he send all the soldiers in the city, but he even sent all the 20,000 soldiers from the palace that he brought out of the city. Only thousands of soldiers were left in the city to defend the city. Once the decisive battle outside was unfavorable and he encountered failure, Lu Long's army would take the opportunity to counterattack the city. If Chengde was not good, he would suffer a complete failure.
The order was issued, and the army left the city. Cao Xin stood on the top of the city. Although his face pretended to be calm, his heart was actually turbulent. His fingers pressed on the city wall turned white, his veins were exposed, and his muscles on his face were jumping inadvertently.
Gongsun Changming sighed. When things were at this point, Cao Xin's decision was the most correct. He reached out and gently patted the other party's hand.
"The soldiers will win!"
"It must be." Cao Xin replied affirmatively.
Someone grabbed Cao Xin's calves, Cao Xin lowered his head and saw the fat Wang Wenshu climbing up from the ground with difficulty. When he saw Cao Xin's order to cover the shooting, Wang Wenshu could no longer see his son in his eyes, he screamed and fainted on the city wall.
At this time, his binding had been untied and the person finally woke up slowly.
"Wen Shu, you have the same heart as me." Cao Xin grabbed him from the ground, locked the other person's shoulder blades with both hands, and whispered.
Wang Wenshu burst into tears speechlessly.
"Brother-in-law, I'm going to go out of the city to fight." His tone was firm.
Cao Xin looked at Wang Wenshu's fat body helplessly: "Where can you still step onto the battlefield with your current body?"
"I can!" Wang Wenshu turned around and walked staggeringly towards the city.
Wang Feng's Zhenwu Army was the absolute main force in the besieged enemy troops. Five thousand armored soldiers and 30,000 palace soldiers were concentrated outside the north gate, and there were three thousand armored soldiers and 20,000 palace soldiers. At this moment, the blessing of more than a thousand armored soldiers and thousands of palace soldiers brought by Shi Yi, and his strength became stronger.
Between the city wall and the Zhenwu Army, thousands of Khitan cavalry filled it, traveling back and forth.
This battle was not easy for Shi Yi. He fought with Li Che in Hejian, and although he finally won a great victory and wiped out Li Che's troops, most of his troops were injured and killed. The 5,000 Khitan soldiers of the Yelu Cavalry suffered even more heavy losses, and more than 2,000 cavalry were lost.
Today's battle was originally expected by Shi Yi.
He just wanted to inspire the German army to go out of the city to fight him.
The strength of his and Wang Feng is now much stronger than that of the Chengde army in the city. In this way, the Chengde army will not be able to take over the city, so they have to force the attack, and the loss of the siege will definitely be far higher than the loss of field battles.
He angered the German army and let them go out of the city to fight, turning their greatest advantage of relying on the city wall into nothingness.
So from the beginning, Shi Yi took a stance that seemed to be strong in attacking the city wall, but in fact he was an absolute defensive lineup.
The only thing beyond his expectations was that when Cheng De went out of the city to attack, his situation became more violent.
He naturally knew about Chengde Wolf Rider, but he was deeply suspicious of how much combat effectiveness the Chengde Wolf Rider, who had not fought for more than ten years.
Then he saw a scene that made him angry.
When Yelu Yuan's troops saw Chengde Wolf Cavalry, they led their troops to go left and right. Yelu Qi had just come to fight from Hejian Prefecture with Shi Yi, and had never seen the might of Chengde Wolf Cavalry. Naturally, they led their troops to meet them. When the cavalry fought, they had never been afraid of others except for losing to Zhang Zhongwu's cavalry troops.
Then, Yeluqi's subordinates were subjected to a one-sided massacre.
When he was at the Hejian Prefecture City, the five hundred cavalry led by Li Che killed them to a defeat, and the cavalry was only a candidate for the Chengde Wolf Cavalry. At this moment, although the cavalry led by You Yong and Min Rou only had more than a hundred cavalry, its combat ability was far greater than the five hundred cavalry led by Li Che.
Hundreds of horse-killing swords opened up a flesh-and-blood alley between the Yelu cavalry's troops like a whirlwind.
Yelu Qi finally understood why Yelu Yuan led his troops to both sides when he saw this army appear.
Naturally, people seek benefits and avoid harm.
The Khitan army did not have strict battlefield discipline like the Tang army. When Chengde wolf riding seemed to be chopping and killing, when he saw Yelu Yuan's tribes avoiding him, Yelu Qi's tribes naturally gave up a passage without waiting for his order.
This made Shi Yi so angry that he smoked his orifices.
Once the cavalry was handed over, the main force of the Zhenwu Army's troops was exposed to the direct attack of the Chengde Army, and it did not play the role he had expected earlier.
While he was angry, Chengde Wolf Cavalry's combat ability also made him secretly shocked. The cavalry of the Grand Commander Zhang Zhongwu was already the best cavalry in the world, but compared to the Wolf Cavalry, it still seemed to have shortcomings. Fortunately, the other side only had a hundred cavalry.
Shi Yi secretly estimated in his heart that if he had a cavalry of more than a thousand men at this time, it would be enough to wipe out the Chengde Wolf Cavalry here. But the problem is that he did not.
Zhang Zhongwu's cavalry were all arranged along the Hedong line.
What Chengde Wolf Cavalry encountered was the solid infantry lineup of Zhenwu Army. The large shield was the wall, the spear was the forest, and the crossbows were covered. Naturally, they would not hit the iron wall of the bronze wall. As cavalry, they had opened a passage for the soldiers behind them, and the rest needed the soldiers to break through the turtle formation.
The wolf cavalry quickly turned and chased the Khitan cavalry that was evading.
The sky suddenly darkened, and countless crossbow arrows descended from the sky like locusts.
Behind Chengdelang rode, two thousand soldiers shouted in unison, holding the shield in their hands above their heads, causing their bodies to disappear from the earth. When they looked down on the city, they could only see a flat wall made of shields pushing forward.
With a loud bang, the two armies collided heavily.
Shi Yi's eyes did not fall on the central army that was suffering from a fierce attack. His eyes swept over the Chengde Wolf Cavalry. Although the Chengde Wolf Cavalry was powerful and wherever he went, the Khitan cavalry was overturned, but the huge gap in the number of people made them not very threatened. If they persist in this way, the quantitative change would eventually lead to a qualitative change. The Chengde Wolf Cavalry could not play a decisive role on the battlefield. They could only be deeply entangled with the Khitan cavalry.
At this moment, his eyes fell on the left.
Because the Zhenwu Army there could no longer stop the attack from the city.
General Chengde from where to attack was Liang Han, who was another acquaintance. However, what attracted Shi Yi's attention was the five hundred soldiers behind Liang Han.
From the beginning of leaving the city, the soldier who shouted one, two, one, and two in unison seemed particularly unique. The distance between the city wall and the Zhenwu Army was about a thousand meters long. Although the two armies were moving opposite each other, the other side obviously walked faster, and more importantly, they were more neat.
Unlike the Zhenwu Army, every time they advance dozens of steps, they have to stop and adjust their formation. This team of soldiers has never stopped from beginning to end, but their lineup is naturally kept very neatly.
From the beginning of sprinting to the subsequent trot, but the last quick run attack, the soldiers who were shouting one, two, one, two, and chopped the Zhenwu Army into pieces as soon as they came into contact with the Zhenwu Army.
Shi Yi's pupils contracted a little.
Don't underestimate the integrity of the lineup during the attack. It is related to whether an army can burst out all its power in the moment of contact. This soldier used the explosive power of this moment to the extreme, at least in Shi Yi's opinion. The Zhenwu Army was still busy adjusting its formation at the moment, but the other party had already rushed up.
While running, Zhenwu Army, who accidentally ran to the front, was immediately hit by a catastrophe.
The equipment of both sides is the same, both shields and horizontal swords, but just such a small gap makes one side achieve great results without any effort.
Hundreds of horizontal swords are raised and fallen at the same time. It is naturally pleasing to watch from a distance, but the person involved will never think so. The sword light is like a wall wherever he looks. When facing such an attack, the despair in his heart is not worthy of being told by outsiders.
Hu Shier accepted this soldier for a very short time, so he only remembered one thing and acted consistently.
The young master told him that in combat with cold weapons, there is only one thing, unity is strength. Forming even a short-term advantageous force in some areas is enough to destroy the opponent.
His soldiers, unlike the battles in other places, shouted wildly, and from beginning to end, only two words were spit out of their mouths.
One, two!
Keep stepping forward and raise your knife!
Er took another step forward and cut off the knife.
The shield was horizontally placed on the chest and clamped the vital points of the chest and abdomen. With one or two sounds, it was a knife.
Someone fell down in front, and someone made up behind.
In addition to them, Liang Han, who led the troops, had already forgotten that he was the chief general of a ten thousand army. He had already transformed into a madman and directly crashed into the Zhenwu Army's formation. He held a horizontal knife in both hands and slashed left and right. Fortunately, the more than ten thousand government soldiers followed the path opened by the five hundred soldiers in front of him, constantly advancing and expanding the results from left to left. At this time, he basically relied on the personal abilities of the officers among the government soldiers.
Chapter completed!