Chapter 664: Powerful Crossbowmen
"General Gongsun, General Yan, King Wuhuan, although there are more than 1,000 Hun cavalry, but our army is tens of thousands. Xu Youdao.
At such a moment, although the three of them had their own thoughts, they also understood that the most important thing was to defeat the defenders of Youbeiping, and immediately sent the most elite cavalry under their command forward.
The addition of elite cavalry, so that the pressure of the Huns doubled, the enemy's bow and arrows, caused them the greatest casualties, and the galloping horses, but also made it difficult for the dense formation of the enemy to dodge, the biggest damage of the cavalry is that the war horses under them, in such a chaotic situation, as long as the war horses are trampled, it is difficult to have a way to live.
"General, there are too many enemies, we can't stop them." The commander said in an anxious tone, these Hun cavalry are all warriors in the tribe.
When Hu Chuquan received the order, he understood that this battle had reached such a point, but the Huns had no way to retreat, he could choose to escape, but after escaping, what kind of punishment would the Xiongnu tribes in Bingzhou receive, Yu Fuluo had sent someone to inform him before, as long as the Xianbei people were defeated, the Marquis of Jin would promise a city for the Huns to survive, this condition was a big pie for the Huns, enough to make the Huns crazy, although they moved into the Han border for many years, they still survived in a tribal way, Living in the city was the dream of most Huns
"You can't retreat, you must block the enemy." Hu Chuquan ordered in a firm tone.
The commander of the thousand commanders wanted to speak and stopped, but when he saw Hu Chuquan's expression, he had no choice but to lead the cavalry to kill him again.
The battle that broke out at the city gate was tragic, a Hun cavalry fell off the horse, a coalition soldier fell, but the Huns seemed to not know fear, in the face of a steady stream of enemy troops, still desperately launched a charge, such a spirit, so that the coalition soldiers were stunned, even if they were self-proclaimed warriors, after seeing the Huns like this, they were also stunned, Wuhuan people are also known as warriors, but in the face of such a war situation, they will choose to flee more.
"The Huns are crazy and will not retreat from fighting to the death." His face changed slightly and he scolded angrily: "Stupid Huns, for the Marquis of Jin, they are so desperate. ”
"Hmph, doesn't King Wuhuan also have two thousand cavalry in Youzhou? Isn't it like this to work for the Marquis of Jin? Yan Rou retorted.
"Although the Huns are brave, there are only 2,000 people, as long as they are defeated, then Tian Yu has no support, and they must only flee." Xu You hurriedly said, the war has been going on to this extent, and Badun and Yan Rou still haven't let go of their past grievances, such a coalition army, if it is after Lu Bu arrives, it will definitely be difficult to succeed.
After Chen Zhi heard the faint sound of fighting in the east of the city, he sensed that something was wrong, every night, the city is forbidden for the people to move around casually, so it seems that only the enemy army raided, the night made it difficult for many soldiers to see things, and if the city was attacked at night, the enemy's losses would be greater.
After receiving the news from Tian Yu, Chen Zhi's face changed greatly, leaving Zhao Wuzhen to guard the south of the city, leading 2,000 soldiers to the east of the city.
On the way, Chen saw hundreds of cavalry approaching him.
"Alert!"
"Who's up ahead?" As soon as the soldier who had gone to inquire finished speaking, he was greeted by several arrows.
"Prepare for battle!" Chen Zhi shouted.
The soldiers who had already wound the crossbow pointed their crossbow arrows at the cavalry, and after the cavalry reached a distance of about 100 paces, Chen gave an order, and the crossbow arrows began to shoot continuously.
In the face of the endless crossbow arrows, the cavalry under Yan Rou's command was shocked, in the past, when facing the foot soldiers, they had an absolute advantage, but the foot soldiers in front of them slowly moved forward, but they gave them a strong threat, under the continuous crossbow arrows, the cavalry did not dare to step forward easily, and the dead cavalry brought great trouble to their advance.
The leading general gave an order, and hundreds of cavalry diverted, and they had the same purpose as the Wuhuan cavalry, which was to plunge Youbeiping into chaos.
When Chen arrived in the east of the city, the battle in the east of the city had reached a fever pitch, the continuous death of the robe Ze, so that the soldiers on both sides were red-eyed, and the blood made them gradually forget the fear in their hearts, but a closer look will find that although the number of the enemy army is large, but the strength of the Huns has made the enemy army firmly suppressed on the front line of the city gate, except for the enemy army that initially entered the city, the other coalition forces have not entered the city at all.
The Huns relied on the powerful impact of the cavalry to resist the enemy's entry into the city, but saw several Hun cavalry to the city gate of the enemy launched a death charge, in the process of charging, the cavalry on the horse may have died, but the war horse under the body is still galloping, at such a fast speed, no one wants to flesh and blood and the war horse hard to fight, it is inevitable that there will be retreat.
Huchuquan relied on this method to block the enemy's entry into the city, and such a time was exchanged for the lives of the Huns.
"Brothers, the enemy army is about to enter the city, pick up the crossbow arrows in your hands and kill all the enemy troops!" Chen Zhi's eyes were red and he ordered, before he may have had some prejudice against the Huns in his heart, but now the Huns have made Chen Zhi admire with practical actions, if they can hold the right Beiping this time, the greatest credit is the Huns, the Huns used their death charge, so that the Youzhou army that killed was shocked.
The arrival of reinforcements made Hu Chuquan breathe a sigh of relief, blocking the enemy for half an hour, and there were only more than 500 cavalry left beside him, such a way of death, so that Hu Chuquan felt aggrieved, they were warriors on the grassland, they should not die in the narrow city like this, but fortunately stopped the enemy's attack.
Some enemy soldiers had already noticed Chen Zhi and the others, and turned to kill Chen Dao.
A sparse rain of arrows, under the huge shield of the shield soldiers, failed to cause damage to the soldiers under Chen Zhi's command.
"Shoot the arrows! Advance! Chen Zhi ordered, this is also the most effective method of attack he has found, with continuous crossbow arrows, his own soldiers continue to move forward, can inflict more damage on the enemy, more likely to collapse the enemy army.
The soldiers of the coalition army who were deployed on the front line of the city gate fell into the continuous crossbow arrows, and the continuous crossbow arrows made the soldiers of the coalition army frightened, and a famous robe fell, but he never touched the enemy.
With the suppression of Chen Zhi's crossbowmen, Hu Chuquan was able to free his hands and ordered his cavalry to cooperate with Chen Zhi to drive the enemy to the range of Chen Zhi's crossbowmen.
The offensive was paused, and Gongsun Kang frowned slightly, "How is it in the city?" ”
"General, the reinforcements in the city have arrived, it is the army that rushed to the aid of Youbeiping, our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and they are about to be forced into the city gate."
(End of chapter)