Chapter 186: The Attack Begins
Huang Shu led Dian Wei and three hundred soldiers to quickly remove the obstacles blocking the entrance of the pass. Huangfu Chaobo quickly signaled the soldiers at the top of the city to untie the cables of the suspension bridge fixed on the wall of the pass, and put down the suspension bridge. After Huang Shu and the others passed, they immediately pulled up the suspension bridge. Originally, Huangfu Chaobo was going to stop the soldiers from pulling up the suspension bridge, but after thinking about it later, he stopped talking.
The horse thieves outside the wall couldn't help being very happy when they saw that the guards above the wall actually came out to fight, especially Xu Datou and Scarface. Scarface proudly raised his head at Xu Datou, lightly lifted the horse rope, kicked the horse and walked forward, and said as he walked: "Hey, that kid, quickly report your name, your uncle Scar Don't kill the nameless ghost..."
Huang Xu didn't bother to talk to him, so Tima rushed towards him. Seeing this, Scarface yelled and rushed forward with his knife. Seeing that the two were getting close, Scarface raised his knife towards Huang Xu. Xu slashed towards him, but what he didn't expect was that Huang Xu seemed to have raised the saber in his hand without much effort, but easily flew the saber in his hand. Then, when Scarface was still in a state of confusion, Huang Xu's big knife turned quickly, and with one stroke, he chopped off Scarface's head, and there was only a "plop", and Scarface's body fell off the horse When he got down, as for his head, Huang Xu didn't even think about picking it up, and just rolled to a place more than ten steps away. However, he could tell that the horse with the scarred face was a fine horse, so he easily led his horse over, turned the horse's head and returned to the front of the wall. He casually handed over the horse to the martial artist beside him, then raised his knife and pointed at the horse thief, "Who else wants to come up to die!"
"Hiss..." Huang Xu raised the knife in his hand, and quickly killed Scarface, which shocked the other horse thieves. You know, Scarface has a bad reputation among horse thieves, cruel and merciless , and also has a strong swordsmanship, otherwise, nearly a hundred horse thieves would not have gathered. What everyone didn't expect was that this young general was cut off from his horse after failing to go a round. This made the other horse thieves feel sad. Everyone glanced at each other without saying a word, and they all took two steps back in a tacit understanding . The soldiers on Huangfu Chaobo's side were all cheering. Huang Xu saw that the horse thieves were afraid to come forward to fight, so he didn't say anything more, and arranged for the soldiers to retreat slowly into the pass wall. After Huang Xu led people up the wall, the generals looked at him differently. The arrangement before the battle had already convinced everyone, but they didn't expect the battle before the battle to be so strong. In Huangfu Chaobo's view, Huang Xu It has been approved by everyone.
The next thing was simple. The horse thieves were frightened by Huang Xu's amazing knife, and they didn't dare to come forward to challenge them. They had to wait for the horse thieves from Taniguchi to cut down the trees and send them over. However, the horse thieves thought that there were no cavalry in the town. Only a dozen or so horse thieves were left on the horse to monitor the movement in the pass, and the others got off their horses and rested aside in twos and threes. Looking at the performance of the horse thief, everyone felt that it was a pity that their own cavalry was not in the pass. If they sent a hundred cavalry to rush out now, with one or two generals in front as the vanguard, they would probably catch the horse thief by surprise.
Time passed in the stalemate between the two sides. An hour later, the horse thieves who returned to the valley to cut trees dragged a large number of trees to the valley. Huangfu Chaobo looked up and saw two hundred horse thieves each letting their horses drag a Two trees came over, because both the trench and the wall were only one foot long, so the timbers were only five feet long. It seemed that the horse thieves were really ready to attack.
Sure enough, when all the wood arrived, the horse thieves began to make large shields and wooden ladders. A quarter of an hour later, the horse thieves prepared a few large shields and a few wooden siege ladders, and then began to prepare to attack the pass wall. Xu Datou also attacked several small villages and towns before, so he still has some experience in siege. He first picked out all the horse thieves who could ride and shoot,
Prepare to use cavalry and shooting to suppress the archers on the wall, and then incite those loyal to Scarface's subordinates to fight the first battle. So, every ten horse thieves supported a large shield more than one foot high, a total of five large shields walked slowly towards the trench at the same time, and behind them were dozens of horse thieves who could ride and shoot. As for the other horse thieves, apart from a few other groups of horse thieves, they were divided into groups of ten, and a ladder was placed beside each group, waiting for the horse thieves in front to put their large shields on the ditch to use as a drawbridge. Faced with these simple siege equipment of the horse thieves, Huangfu Chaobo and the others were helpless. After all, they only had archers on their side and no other defense equipment. They could only wait for the horse thieves to reach the range of the bow and arrow.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the horse thieves finally came within the attack range of the bows and arrows. The archers who had already been arranged in place shot the arrows in their hands under Huang Xu's order. Unfortunately, all the bows and arrows were shot on the big wooden shield. , There is no threat to horse thieves at all. Seeing that the arrows on the wall couldn't threaten them, the horse thieves immediately increased their morale, cheered and accelerated their attack towards the wall. Soon the horse thief's shield reached the front of the trench, and the horse thief behind saw that the shield had reached the front of the trench. Xu Datou immediately ordered the horse thief carrying the ladder to get ready to attack the city. city.
"Bah..." After a few loud noises, three of the five large shields had been set up on the trench. However, because there was no protection from the shield, the archers on the wall immediately shot the next round of bows and arrows at the trench. Horse thieves, I saw more than a dozen horse thieves fell to the ground immediately. Seeing that the horse thief in front was hit by an arrow, the horse thief behind who was carrying the shield immediately accelerated to meet the horse thief who had no protection. The horse bandit archers that had been prepared were also in place, and the bows and arrows of both sides were desperately shooting towards the enemy. It is a pity that although there were more than a hundred horse bandit archers, their positions were lower than those on the wall. So I suffered a little bit from bow and arrow shooting. But soon, the horse thieves holding the siege ladder also attacked in front of the trench. This time, although the horse thieves also had to attack against the bow and arrow, it was better to have their own bow and arrow cover, not to mention that some of these horse thieves were still caught. First. Not only that, as the horse thief got closer and closer to the wall, the archers on the wall had to retreat. Huang Xu immediately commanded the sword and shield soldiers to step forward, followed by the spear, ready to face the horse thief who climbed the wall. However, The retreating archers did not sit idle, but continued to shoot in order to block the attack of the horse thieves.
Seeing that the horse thieves were about to attack the wall, Huang Xu said: "Dian Wei guards the left side, Zhou Cang guards the right side, this general guards the middle, and Dugu Xiong and Dugu Ba are ready to support at any time. Generals, prepare for battle. Kill. . . ”
"Kill..." Everyone responded loudly when they heard it;