Chapter 994: The Dead
"Attack!" The Shu Han lord who led the team roared loudly.
The debris in the streets was almost burning, and the sword and shield men rushed to the front, arrows whistling against their shields, but since they had already begun to charge, there was no reason to stop. The shield first hit the still burning debris, and sparks flew in all directions, and the soldiers behind the shield continued to run forward without blinking an eye.
"Dang!" The swords and lights were staggered, and the soldiers on both sides fought together.
"Let's go up too, outflank us from here." Cheng Feng said decisively.
When Li Xinchen was inspecting the Yulin riding training, he once made it clear that street fighting is also a science. It is indeed not a simple matter to set traps and ambushes in the middle of the town with the help of existing houses. Especially in this day and age, street fighting was not a good option for the defenders.
Defending the city must defend the field, but also the most orthodox military thought in ancient China, the important place outside the city is the first line of defense that needs to be guarded, once this line of defense is breached, then it is the outer city, and then the inner city, for a long time the defense mainly relies on the camp and the city wall.
This actually has a lot to do with the composition of the army, after all, the source of the army soldiers in this era is complex, and most of the training received is simple queue training, which can certainly allow the soldiers to be banned on the battlefield, but it also ignores the combat ability of its individual soldiers and squads, and the latter is the most important in street fighting.
Therefore, in many cases, once the city is breached, the defenders will no longer have to rely on, after all, after the city is broken, the enemy can rely on the streets to easily drive the retreating defenders out of the city.
But as Li Xinchen's subordinates, it should be regarded as the only team that pays attention to individual combat ability, and street fighting is also something that Yulin Cavalry cannot ignore.
Cheng Feng has been keenly aware that the team that Chen Shujian put in the streets and alleys is definitely not an idle person, and the other party has a high quality of individual combat, in other words, these guys are more like dead soldiers, the kind of dead soldiers who specialize in quickly attacking important government offices and important places in the city during the coup d'Γ©tat, and then control the overall situation.
But Cheng Feng was not afraid of this, Yulin Cavalry did not come to deal with a group of temporarily requisitioned people, they were the sharpest knife in Li Xinchen's hand to cut off Chen Shujian's shield.
The arrows whistled, and several Nanchen soldiers appeared on the roof of the street corner, but the Yulin cavalry, who had already been on guard, raised their shields to block it, and the crossbowmen behind had already aimed their short crossbows at the exposed heads.
One Arrow Penetrates!
All the movements were like flowing water, and Cheng Feng didn't look at the Nan Chen soldiers who were constantly shooting arrows overhead, he knew that his own crossbowmen behind him would give them a little name. Cheng Feng rushed straight into the courtyard along a collapsed outer wall, while several Nanchen soldiers jumped out directly from behind the rubble pile and broken wall.
"Dang!" Cheng Feng raised his knife to dodge the head-on slash, and then took a step back, and the shield in his hand went straight against the chest of the other soldier. Nan Chen's pawn obviously didn't expect the other party to defend with a knife and attack with a shield, and soon staggered back, but he no longer had a chance to step forward, and the Yulin cavalry that attacked at the same time from the left and right directly killed him.
"Poof!" With a muffled sound, Cheng Feng's shield was able to block the arrows that hit his chest, and he didn't dare to slack off, at this time, his own crossbowmen were still behind and didn't come up, so he simply rolled on the spot and hid behind the rubble.
The three or four crossbowmen behind hurriedly shot at the wall where the arrows came out, while the other few Yulin riders directly threw the lit torches into the next room, and the flames suddenly rose, and soon saw a pair of guys on fire running out of the house screaming, and before they could find water, they were easily killed by Yulin riders.
Cheng Feng sneered, I didn't expect these guys to be really ambushed in the house, but also, this kind of street house that opens the door front and back can not only prevent the enemy from rushing in from the wall, but also open the door and rush out directly.
At this moment, a small door behind him made a soft sound, Cheng Feng was stunned for a moment, the knife in his hand was clenched, and the door suddenly opened! Cheng Feng jumped up almost at the same time and directly threw the person in the lead to the ground.
"My own people!" Su Jian finally saw that the other party was wearing the same armor as himself, hurriedly put away the knife in his hand, and shouted.
Cheng Feng exhaled, let go of his hand, and the two of them glanced at it, Su Jian was a little surprised: "Yulin rides?" General Cheng? β
"Well, you guys?" Cheng Feng looked at the Bashu soldiers who rushed out after him.
"Su Jian under the command of the general of Zhengdong." Su Jian stumbled all the way with his soldiers, and he was about to get lost, but now he finally saw his own people.
"Where are you from?" Cheng Feng was a little surprised, most of the troops were on the street, how could there be a team that drilled houses like himself?
Su Jian's expression was solemn: "Originally, we were going to outflank from the alley over there, but we almost fell into an ambush, so we could only sweep house by house, and there were a lot of losses along the way, and the enemy seems to have been ready for street fighting, all the walls have been broken through, and we also found a lot of bows and crossbows and arrows in a cellar." β
Cheng Feng bowed slightly: "Especially in the houses along the street, there are many people. Although the cleaning is almost done now, it can be imagined that the warehouse in front of it must be more tightly armed. Our trebuchets and bed crossbows have not yet come up, and casualties will be inevitable if we attack. β
Su Jian's expression was a little solemn, and Cheng Feng patted him on the shoulder: "Scared?" β
"What's there to be afraid of, it's just a bunch of stubborn cockroaches."
Cheng Feng suddenly laughed: "Then let's go!" β
At this time, on a restaurant not far away, Li Xinchen walked quickly through the lobby where there were still a few corpses that had not been cleaned, and walked upstairs quickly, Xiao Shilian was already watching the battle situation in front of him, heard the footsteps behind him, turned around and said, "I didn't expect Chen Shujian to fight with us in the streets." β
"I saw it, it should be a dead soldier trained by Chen Shujian." Li Xinchen smiled bitterly, "This king of Changsha is not as honest as we imagined." β
Xiao Shilian obviously also thought of the dead soldiers of Chen Shuling who he had dealt with, and he didn't need to think about it to know what these dead soldiers were originally used for.
"Let's help Chen Shubao and Chen Shuling prevent disasters," Xiao Shilian couldn't help but complain, "What are you going to do next, I'm afraid the warehouse under the inner city is not so easy to fight, with the support of bows and crossbows and trebuchets in the city, and the warehouse itself has a walled wall and a ditch." β