Liu Dashao said that after half an hour, the siege was not delayed for a quarter of an hour.

The hour hand of the sundial stayed at its proper position, and Liu Dashao made a handsome order, and the war drums sounded outside the city.

In the face of Gulan City, Liu Mingzhi only dispatched 30,000 iron cavalry led by Duan Buyan, and the rest were all foot soldiers, and in the face of the city, the advantages of the cavalry could not be brought into play at all, but would become a live target for others.

The soldiers of the Western Expedition may have a deep understanding of Liu Dashao's way of using troops, not to mention anything else, it is covered by a rain of arrows and a strong crush with the advantage of equipment.

Especially after Ye Baotong and Cheng Kai got Liu Dashao's handsome order, the arrows in their hands covered the city wall as if they didn't want money.

Each of the 40,000 archers had one feathered arrow, and in an instant, 40,000 arrows were consumed.

For the first time, the Gulan city guard Shanlebel felt what it meant to be afraid, and Shanlebe, who was hiding on the city tower with a shield, looked at the soldiers under his command who were cowering at the battlements of the city wall and did not dare to move, and his heart was clouded.

The 70,000-strong defenders had only 20,000 shield soldiers, and when he heard the screams of his soldiers and archers trying to fight back, he was instantly pierced through his body by two or three feathered arrows.

The advantages of equipment differences are vividly reflected in this short moment!

Gu Mo Rongrong was also stunned to look at the arrows that shot at the head of Gulan City, she finally understood why Sand City was captured in less than half an hour.

According to this dispatch, there is no short-term contact at all, and the defenders on the city wall are suppressed only by relying on the rain of arrows, and they dare not show their heads, and it is simply intolerable that the city will not fall under this kind of offensive!

Liu Mingzhi looked at the situation on the city wall, his face was calm and calm, less than half a pillar of incense, 40,000 people in 40,000 pieces, and the non-stop shooting of four horses had consumed a full 600,000 feather arrows.

"Order Ye Baotong, the catapult advances fifty steps to replace the kerosene bomb!"

"Order!"

In just half an hour, sixteen hundred catapults, under the cover of the shield bearers, advanced fifty paces towards the city of Quran and came to a halt.

Torches with black smoke crackled and burned, and jars of kerosene for the lighting of the people were ignited and thrown onto the walls.

When the wine jar fell on the city wall, it was a raging fire, and the Guran city defenders instantly became fire men and screamed on the city wall.

Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Your Royal Highness Princess, send an order to General Zasang, immediately break through the city gate, and the cloud ladder will start attacking the city under the cover of the archers!" ”

"Yes!"

Gu Mo Rongrong immediately rode towards Zhasang's phalanx and galloped to deliver Liu Dashao's order!

“&…… ￥%%#&”

Liu Mingzhi suddenly heard the galloping horses on both sides and the sound of shouting and killing, and glanced towards the city, and he couldn't imagine that Shanlebe would dare to let the cavalry under his command go out of the city to meet the enemy.

However, there were only 70,000 defenders in the entire city of Gulan, and the cavalry was only 10,000 at best.

Sure enough, the scout rushed over: "Report! The south gate and the north gate of Gulan City each rushed out with 5,000 cavalry and rushed towards our army's array! ”

"Ning Chao!"

"The last general!"

"Lead 10,000 light cavalry and 5,000 heavy cavalry to intercept the enemy army coming from the north gate, the light cavalry is responsible for reducing the speed of the enemy cavalry, do not melee with them, besiege them and charge the heavy cavalry immediately!"

"Order!"

"Han Peng!"

"The last general!"

"Also lead a team of cavalry to intercept the enemy cavalry at the South City Gate!"

"The last will be ordered!"

Liu Mingzhi took out the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the tower above the ancient Lan City, the back of Shanlebei shrunk behind the battlements, his heart was a little dignified, and he finally met an opponent who did not waste his brainpower in vain!

After pondering for a moment, Liu Dashao directly ordered Song Qing for the sake of insurance!

"Vice General Song!"

"The last general!"

"Lead five thousand Mo swordsmen to aid Ning Chao!"

"Order!"

"Seal the best!"

"The last general!"

"Rush to the aid of Han Peng!"

"The two of you do your best to save the war horses of the Western Regions, if you can't kill them all, you can't let the brothers exchange their lives for war horses!"

"Order!"

As Liu Mingzhi expected, neither the light cavalry led by Han Peng nor Ning Chao was the opponent of the cavalry of Gulan City, and the horseman's riding skills in the Western Regions were so superb that they were dazzling.

Fortunately, the two of them had already been instructed to not let the light cavalry and the enemy meet in short arms, and directly staggered and detoured, wrapping the enemy's 5,000 iron cavalry in it!

The circle gradually shrank, and the cavalry of the Quran City simply did not have enough range to charge the horses.

Seeing that the time was almost there, the order flag in the hands of Ning Chao and Han Peng waved slightly, and the light cavalry immediately spread out, revealing a gap.

Seeing this, the cavalry of Gulan City thought that the enemy had made a mistake, and immediately rushed towards the gap under the leadership of the leader, but the heavy cavalry that was ready to attack immediately surrounded the gap with a thunderous force.

In terms of speed, the heavy cavalry is not in a hurry to one-tenth of the cavalry of the Western Regions, but once it is caught in close combat, the gap is immediately manifested!

The battle of the cavalry can be described as miserable, the horse lance of the heavy cavalry easily penetrates the leather armor of the cavalry of the Qulan City, but the scimitar in his hand leaves a white mark on the heavy armor of the enemy at most.

What made the Gulan City cavalry dumbfounded was that the soldiers of the Great Dragon Heavy Cavalry were protected by masks on helmets around their necks, and there was no place to start!

Listening to the screams of the soldiers under his command, a man under the command of a cavalry commander shouted in the Western Regions.

"Attack their legs, don't melee with them, let's play to our strengths!"

In the stunned look of the Great Dragon Soldier, the Gulan City cavalry once again showed their superb riding skills, hanging their bodies on the side of the horse's belly, and the scimitar in their hands slashed at the legs of the Great Dragon Heavy Cavalry without hesitation.

The horses neighed and wailed, and many of the heavy cavalry were thrown out and rolled on the ground a few times before stopping.

These heavy cavalry, who fell to the ground, immediately found a slightly open place to shrink into a ball according to the method of training, and protected their vital points with thick heavy armor from being trampled by the hooves of the horses.

Ning Chao was dumbfounded and looked at the more than 2,000 Gulan City cavalry who rushed out of the heavy cavalry phalanx by cutting off the horse's legs, and he finally understood why the marshal attached so much importance to the cavalry of the Western Regions!

In addition to the legs of the horses, the heavy cavalry is basically covered with heavy armor, and in such a desperate situation, the cavalry of Gulan City can still come up with a way to break out of the encirclement by cutting off the legs of the horses, which is simply incredible!

Ning Chao waved the command flag in his hand: "The light cavalry entangles the enemy cavalry and don't let them kill back, cover the heavy cavalry brothers who fell off their horses and evacuate!" ”

With an order, 10,000 light cavalry immediately surrounded the cavalry of Gulan City, and the heavy cavalry that fell under the war horse immediately began to support each other and withdraw from the battlefield.

As for the war horses lying on the ground and wailing, although their hearts were bleeding from pain, they didn't dare to stay at all.

Although they feel sorry for their mounts, they also know that this is on the battlefield, and the most important thing is to keep people!

They also did not dare to disobey the orders of the commander, and before the expedition, the commander repeatedly warned the soldiers of the cavalry.

"People are always more important than horses!"

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