Chapter 867: Night Battle
The night passes, the day comes, the day passes, and the night comes.
At the top of the incomplete earthen city, the soldiers looked at the mouth of the canyon with clairvoyance, and did not dare to leave.
Near the mouth of the canyon, the Ning Army scout who was crawling in the grass moved his body cautiously, and looked into the canyon by the moonlight, the canyon was like a giant beast with its mouth open, not knowing what monster it would spit out in the next breath.
At this moment, the scout heard a slight sound, it was a very strange sound, like a thick layer of sand on the drum surface of a war drum, and the drumsticks fell, and the sand was shaken, but he did not hear the sound of the drums, but he could faintly hear the sound of the sand falling, fine and dense.
Here it comes!
The scout raised his head violently, quickly got up from the grass, accelerated and galloped, the horse hid behind the tree, he galloped over, rode on the horse and galloped back towards the ancient city of Beima, he didn't dare to take out the fireworks for warning, that would make the black warriors also alert in advance, he would carry the fire fold and constantly move up and down in front of him, blocking it with his body, so that the light would not be seen by the people behind him.
No matter how bright the moonlight was, it couldn't illuminate the whole night, but fortunately, the Ning soldiers at the highest place were attentive enough, and when they saw the little light in the distance, they immediately shouted down: "Enemy attack!" ”
Ning Jun, who was sitting quietly behind the low wall of Tucheng, all stood up, and at that moment, there was no need for anyone to give an order.
In the sky, an eagle owl with a body length of nearly three feet slid through the air, its huge wings spread out and made people shudder, it stared at the war horse galloping forward below, as if it wanted to pounce at any time, and finally it gave up not the size of the war horse, but the cold light reflected from the knight on the horse's back.
It is not difficult for an eagle owl of this size to fly into the sky with a fat calf, and the night is its own world, even if it is a falcon resting quietly in the night, it will be the target of its hunting.
Looking down from the sky, the eagle owl spreads its wings and glides, and under the huge wings of the eagle owl, the war horse gallops.
It seems to be more acute than a person, the war horse felt the threat from the sky, and began to speed up, the reaction of the war horse made the scout subconsciously look up, the black shadow covered the moon and flashed, he pulled out the long knife tied to his back, and the cold light exploded under the moon.
The eagle owl let out a terrible cry and spread its wings and flew away.
On the side of Tucheng, the scouts came back one by one, and the soldiers on both sides of Tucheng also had scouts to summon them, and everyone took off their hard bows and placed the quiver at their feet.
"Don't worry about the arrows."
Shen Leng said as he walked around: "In the dark night, the enemy is not good at judging how many of us are, the more arrows they shoot, the more they can't figure it out, now is not the time to give Daning a distressed silver, don't worry about shooting accurately, listen to my orders to send arrows." ”
"Whew!"
The soldiers responded in a low voice, as if an ancient beast had awakened in the earthen city.
On the horizon, the black cavalry is rushing towards this side like a tide, if you see this kind of galloping scene of thousands of horses during the day, it will be shocking, and at night, it will bring people an irresistible pressure, and you will be delusional that it is not a cavalry but a rolling wave.
Shen Leng took off the iron tire bow, grabbed three feather arrows with one hand and pressed them on the bowstring, his eyes kept staring ahead.
In fact, when he saw the wolf smoke rising from the black warrior beacon tower one by one during the day, he knew that the reinforcements of the black warriors would come soon, and the first to rush over would be the white black warrior defenders, who were only sixty miles away from here.
"Put!"
With Shen Leng snorting, the sound tore through the night, more penetrating than the sound of heavy horses' hooves.
Call!
A feathered arrow flew out neatly, and the eagle owl, which was still hovering in the distance, screamed in surprise and flew away quickly.
Looking up from the ground, you will see black shadows quickly passing under the moon, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air is dense and terrifying.
The black cavalry who was galloping suddenly fell, the war horse was hit by an arrow in the neck, the war horse fell forward under severe pain, the black cavalry on horseback was thrown out before he had time to react, he got up in a panic after he landed, and at the moment he stood up, he saw that the war horse had arrived in front of him, with a muffled bang, the soldier was knocked out by the horse galloping from behind, the soldier fell to the ground again, how could he not stand up, under the severe pain, all the strength seemed to be imprisoned.
With a thud, a horse's hoof stepped on his chest, his body bent upwards violently, his chest seemed to be trampled through, his broken ribs were inserted into his internal organs, and blood spurted out of his mouth and nose.
The horse that had stepped on the man lost its center of gravity and deviated to one side, crashing into the horse of another knight beside him, and the two horses became entangled and fell at the same time.
The moment the feather arrow fell, the horse neighed, the people wailed, and the night gave a layer of cover to the killing, but it was only a layer, and when this layer of cover was unraveled, the killing would reveal its original hideousness.
The breastplate of a black warrior was pierced by feather arrows one after another, and the oncoming feather arrows became more powerful because of his forward speed, and the arrows pushed the man off the horse's back, and the man fell to the ground and was trampled to death by the horse.
"Attack!"
In the army of black warriors, as someone shouted violently, the horn whined.
Without pause, without hesitation, the cavalry of the Black Warriors rushed towards the side of Tucheng, and they did not even reduce their speed, some of these soldiers were from the Southern Courtyard Battalion, some were from various tribes, and some were the soldiers of the Northern Courtyard Battalion who had fled here from the defeat of Xifengkou, they all knew very well what kind of opponent the Ning people were, that was the enemy in fate.
Among the fine feather arrows, an arm-thick heavy crossbow roared out, and the powerful force made the heavy crossbow quickly surpass the surrounding feather arrows, the arrow and the heavy crossbow were like flying fish, and the heavy crossbow was a dragon, the heavy crossbow arrow was like a backward departure but surpassed all the dragon kings under his command, and slammed into the chest of a cavalryman, under the huge force, the body of the cavalry was knocked out of the horse, and the heavy crossbow arrow hung on the corpse and hit the second cavalryman.
The soldier who fell to the ground was not dead for a moment, looking down at the heavy crossbow that had passed through his chest and wailing, his hand wanting to touch but not daring to touch, this was his last pity for himself before he died.
A group of war horses carried the knights to charge towards the earth city, when there were less than ten zhang or so from the earth city, the war horses suddenly fell down one by one, and the war horses that overturned at such a speed can throw people to pieces, and the legs of the war horses will also be broken.
That's a trap.
The soldiers of the Ning army dug a dense pit outside the earthen city, and once the hooves of the war horses stepped into the pits, they would immediately overturn, and the fallen war horses tripped the war horses behind, and a ghost cried wolf.
The person who fell down was shot over by Ning Jun's feather arrow before he had time to stand up, and at night, even if the moonlight was bright, he couldn't see the direction of the feather arrow, and only when he got to the front of him did he find out where he had time to avoid it, not to mention that Ning Jun's feather arrow was so dense that there was no way to avoid it.
Tucheng is too short, but outside the Tucheng, the soldiers of the Ning Army placed the horse rejection stake, one by one sharpened wood rose outward, the war horse that was lucky enough to avoid the horse trap did not have time to stop, in the night it hit the horse rejection pile, the wood pierced deeply into the body of the war horse, the neighing of the war horse was so fierce, the knight on the back of the horse fell down and smashed on the horse rejection pile, and the blood gushing out of the horse spilled his body.
"General!"
A black martial arts captain rode back from the front, rushed up the high slope on the side of the battlefield, jumped down from his horse and fell to his knees: "There is a large group of Ning troops in the ancient city of Beima to block it, with dense feather arrows and heavy crossbows, they have dug countless horse traps outside the earth city, and our cavalry can't rush up. ”
The black military general who led the army was none other than Koroleo.
After the battle of the Three-Eyed Tiger Mountain Pass, he learned the different combat effectiveness of the Ning army, and the leading general of the Ning army had two young men who made him feel scared, one was called Shen Leng and the other was called Meng Changan, and those two people were two knives.
He had felt the fear of being dominated by those two people on the battlefield, and when he met Ning Jun again in the dark night, the names of those two young Ning generals involuntarily appeared in his mind.
"How many people are there in the Ning army?"
"Judging by the feather arrows, there are no less than 10,000 people."
After listening to this, Koroleo fell silent, such a dark night, even though the cavalry has an unparalleled speed advantage, but the dense horse traps and horse rejection piles outside the Tucheng City make the attack extremely difficult, it is the most effective and simple tactic for the Ningguo border army to fight against the black cavalry, it doesn't seem to be a whimsy, but this simple tactic has a huge lethality to the cavalry.
Especially at night, it was impossible for the cavalry to see clearly the pits on the ground in front of them.
"Try it from both sides."
Coroleo, who had been silent for a long time, commanded.
Nearly an hour later, another scout rushed back: "General, there are Ning troops on both sides of the earth city, and I can't see how many people there are in the dark night, and it is difficult for the team to climb up the dirt slope and be suppressed by the Ning army archers. ”
Koroleo frowned, the Ning army was assigned to defense, and it was impermeable, which showed that the general who led the troops was thoughtful.
"Wait, wait an hour."
Corolio said suddenly, and all his men were stunned.
"General! Don't Gucheng is still waiting for our support! ”
"General, if other ancient cities are breached, our defense line will be over."
"General......
"Shut up!"
Corolio's eyes suddenly froze: "Don't I know what you said?" Are you all more than I thought? ”
All of his men fell silent and bowed their heads.
Koroleo sat on horseback and looked at the night sky: "Let the soldiers press, but don't storm it, don't let the Ning army have a chance to breathe, from now on, only press and not attack within an hour, and organize the cavalry to charge again after an hour, now go and assign scouts to see if there is a suitable way to bypass." ”
He dismounted and sat down cross-legged on the high slope: "When charging, select two thousand men to dismount, drive two thousand war horses forward, and the soldiers are behind the horses, so that the horses can storm the Ning army's defense line." ”
He fell silent again, but this time for a short time.
"If two thousand is not enough, three thousand, and if three thousand is not enough, five thousand, I would rather lose more horses than lose you."
The generals leaned over: "General! ”
Coroleo let out a long breath: "The Ning people know us better than ourselves, and we don't know the Ning people more and more...... Maybe the balance has already tilted, and we are the ones who want to press the balance back, if we are all dead, the black martial arts will be over, order to rest, an hour later, I will personally lead the team to attack, there are those who escape, there is no mercy! ”
"Yes!"
A group of people stood neatly and solemnly: "Serve the black army!" ”