The horns of the tiger tooth flag were pulled to the southeast, and the volley was snapped in the air.

The sandstorm was like fog and smoke, and the sky and the earth were dim.

The entire city of Datong moved.

All the people in the changing of the guard were called up to the city, participated in the defense, and looked down from the sky, and on the streets like a net, the moving sergeants and militiamen were like ants, looking for their place in the hurricane.

In the distance, a black tide loomed in the dust and smoke, slowly moving forward, faster and faster, faster and faster!

The small black dot magnified dozens of times in the blink of an eye, turning into thousands of troops and horses, and went straight to the West Gate.

The front team of horses was about 7,000 people, the leading rider was wrapped in red silk and planted a blue flag on his back, the rest were wearing black and shiny heavy armor, a scimitar hanging from his waist, a long quiver on his shoulder, a large bow on his back, and his crotch horse was also covered with black armor and a mask, revealing only two eyes.

The large bow on their backs was about six feet long, and the bow was wrapped in cen wood and twisted with ox tendons, which looked rather stout, and had an inverted ring at the grip.

When there were still eighty or ninety zhang away from the city, the horse team suddenly turned a corner, the direction of travel was changed to parallel to the moat, the heavy armored soldiers moved in unison, picked up the bow and drew arrows, retreated the stirrup with one foot, turned over on the horse, the ring sleeve of the bow body has been set on the foot, raised the leg and pointed obliquely at the sky, the index finger is as thick, the three-edged heavy arrow as long as five feet is in place, the back waist is straight, the arms are called force, the rattling bow is full, a sharp whistle, ten thousand arrows are fired in unison, and shoot to the head of the city!

The series of actions was completed in one go, and it was only a matter of the blink of an eye from the turn of the horse team to the rain of arrows that covered the city.

The defenders at the front of the city screamed repeatedly, and the leather shields with two palms thick were actually pierced by heavy arrows, passing through their arms, and the rest of the people hurriedly fell low.

The fact that the enemy's cavalry archery unit was able to shoot so accurately with the tip of its toes during the high-speed march shows that it is well-trained on weekdays. General Yan climbed the arrow tower to watch the situation, knowing that they were trying to force the soldiers on the edge of the city to avoid being counterattacked, and it was not a good strategy to resist it under such a dense arrow situation, so he ordered the troops to be careful not to show their heads, and at the same time ordered the two floors of the arrow tower to open the firing ports and shoot at them condescendingly.

The bow of the Ming army was weak, the strength was insufficient, the arrows were all winged, they lost their accuracy in strong winds, and the enemy's heavy armor could not pose a threat to them at all. General Yan looked at the oncoming wind and sand, and thought to himself how God could help the Tartars, it would be too unfavorable for the defenders to go on like this.

In the current situation, we can only use artillery bombardment, but the enemy's main force has not yet arrived, and the ribbon formation of the cavalry and archery units is not dense, so if we use it now, we will not be able to exert much power, and it will be a pity to waste ammunition.

The front of the enemy's horse team galloped to the opposite corner of the city and turned back, and continued to shoot on the way, the leader of the team chased the tail of the team, forming a cycle like a chain, they had adjusted the angle of the bow to the air, and the strong arrow was shot in the air, falling in a high parabola, avoiding the horizontal shield defense, and heading straight for the head of the Ming army.

The heavy arrow is full of weight, fall down and open the bricks through the ground, tie up and do not fall, look at it from a distance, the city seems to grow countless sorghum, there is no place at all, the screams of the Ming army running in all directions are connected, many people are hit by arrows in the head and shoulders, a stumble is nailed to the ground by a few arrows, the people who can't squeeze into the enemy tower squatted under the shield, listening to the sound of tuk tuk above their heads, the teeth are fighting with the clang, and there are many veterans, stationed at the border for so many years, I have never seen such a battle!

General Yan calculated in his heart: The distance from the northwest corner to the southwest corner of the city is about 1,500 steps, the cavalry and archery troops gallop faster, and a single person can shoot at least 20 strong arrows in a round trip, and the team of 7,000 people can only walk a cycle outside the city, and there are more than 140,000 arrows shot into the city!

Look at the position of the head flag, the enemy is already in the second circle.

"Could it be that I have concentrated all the arrows of the whole army on these 7,000 archers?" General Yan clenched and loosened his fists repeatedly, adjusting his mood, knowing that no matter how many arrows the enemy had, he would quickly run out, and as long as he held on for a while, he would have the opportunity to turn over.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting at the door of the arrow tower: "Second chief! The arrow is too fierce, don't go!"

Looking down, a person in the city held half of the door panel, in the rain of arrows, the wounded were dragged back to the arrow tower, out once, dozens of arrows were nailed on the door panel, back and forth several times, the door panel almost became a huge brush.

The man saw that the last few wounded people who were struggling were hit by several arrows in an instant, and they were crying for their lives, and it was too late to save them, so they had to retreat and return.

The enemy army outside the city is still shooting like a lantern, and there are two teams of cavalry in the dim sand and fog in the distance, and the black pressure is covered with the wilderness, and it is roughly estimated that each team of riders is more than 15,000, and the two teams each have a leading banner, the left is black and the right is red, and the big characters are written on the book, all of which are in the Ba Si Pa script, and there are slightly smaller Chinese characters next to it, the left team flag is written Bo, and the team on the right is written Su, although it is coming with the wind, the flag horn can be fluttered backwards against the wind, the speed is unimaginable.

General Yan raised his clairvoyance to look out, knowing that the military flag had always been embroidered with Mongolian and Chinese bilinguals to promote its prestige. Looking at the font size, the people who come must be Bozhigude and Sukhbashou. These two are brave and good at fighting, and their military achievements are excellent, and I used the ace army as soon as I came up, and it seems that this raid is inevitable for him.

The two armies galloped as hard as they could, and the cavalry with the ladder between their armpits looked sideways at each other, lest they let the other side take the lead.

Strangely, many of the horses on the right were not saddled and unmounted, but were urged to the front.

The vanguard cavalry separated in two strikes, giving way to the road, and the arrows continued to move.

General Yan waved his hand and shouted: "Prepare for shelling!"

The gunner was ordered to raise his shield and step forward, trying to reload and prepare for fire, but the shield could not protect his whole body, and he was injured by the rain of arrows as soon as he showed his head, and could not get close to the fort.

The two enemy teams are approaching in the blink of an eye!

Several centurions in the Sukhba Shou army on the right rushed out, galloped to the moat, dismounted and lined up along the river, each separated by a few steps, turned around with their knives and waited, the unridden war horse was destroyed by the rear army and stepped forward, the centurion scimitar was everywhere, pounced and cut off the horse's head, and the horse's corpse fell into the river by momentum and inertia.

In the blink of an eye, the water of the moat has been stained red with blood, and the Ming army in the city is frightened, knowing that the Tartars live on nomadic herding and cherish horses very much.

The arrows stopped suddenly, the Tatar cavalry archery unit completed its mission, the quiver was empty, and all of them were withdrawn, not folding one man and one horse. At the same time, the cavalry formation of the left team Bozhgud's army rushed forward, and the soldiers bent down and pulled the front rope on their chests, and the armor cover on the back of their shoulders opened, and a ball of white soft cloth popped out, and the folded skeleton in the soft cloth was fluffy and bulging in the wind, and it was spread out as a giant kite with eagle wings that was more than a foot wide, and everyone withdrew their feet and jumped violently—

The horse rushed forward and pulled up the kither rope, and the Tartar soldiers rose up with the help of the powerful wind, and suddenly hundreds of people turned into crane-feathered eagles and pierced into the city!

The horses they rode rushed to the moat, and they were all beheaded by the centurion, and after twenty counts, the corpses of the horses were piled up, and the moat was filled and intercepted, and the rear army trampled the corpses until they reached the bottom of the city, and drove the ladder!

General Yan saw clearly: the length of the kite rope tied to the waist of the enemy soldiers was slightly higher than the city wall, and this move was nothing more than to take advantage of the wind to rise, and as soon as the height was reached, the rope was cut and fell to the head of the city, and the role of the war horse was more like a stone thrower. At that time, an order was given, the whole army moved in unison, the archers on the arrow tower aimed at the air and fired, the firearms battalion on the side of the female wall came out, the sound of guns rang out repeatedly, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the smell of gunpowder was choking.

The enemy army has nowhere to avoid in the air, either dead or wounded, many people have several arrows in their bodies drooping their heads, their hands and feet are lowered, and they are blown away by the wind, the rest of the people bend their bows and shoot condescendingly, and the Ming army on the ground also has casualties, and some of them have penetrated the arrow net and landed on the city in the gap between the reloading of the firecrackers, and the defenders started hand-to-hand combat on the spot, the Tartar soldiers spared their lives, the scimitars flew everywhere with blood and rain, and they were unstoppable, and the defenders were terrified and retreated. But in order to buy time for the ground troops going up the ladder, these enemies only fought around the battlements, which seemed to be very lawful, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of people had climbed up to the top of the city!

General Yan thought to himself, "This is all because the city wall is strong, and now the enemy has air troops to reach the head of the city, and the defensive advantage is immediately invisible; if there are more people who come up and open the city gate, then Datong will be finished, and this army must be extinguished as soon as possible! Before the order is given, a group of people have already rushed forward with a roar!

There were seventeen people in this team, all dressed in black robes, holding long swords, and their heads were recognizable, and they were actually a group of nuns.

The head of the body is thin, phoenix eyes and thin lips, there is a cold breath in his eyes, the long sword stabs the enemy's throat, a sword is merciless, the body is everywhere, the Tartars fly one after another, and fall down the city!

When the army saw that even this group of young nuns were so brave, were they not as good as a girl? All of them were angry and screamed, swept away the decadence when they were suppressed by the rain of arrows, and rushed forward with guns and knives!

Tartars are brave, after all, the people who climb the head of the city are a minority, how can they withstand the siege of everyone, a few airborne troops and a small number of enemy troops who climbed the city first have been all killed, everyone is embraced, rolling wood and stones are thrown down the battlements one by one, the Tartars seem to have fallen into the garlic tank at the bottom, one by one the bones are broken and the tendons are broken, the miserable sound continues, the people on the ladder are smashed to the ** burst before they climb halfway, they have fallen down, not much effort, the corpses under the ladder have become a mountain. The gunners quickly loaded the shells and fired, more than a dozen cannons fired in succession, and the shells exploded in the Tartar army, and suddenly the severed limbs and horse legs flew together, blood and gunpowder smoke danced together, and the Tartars could not resist and retreated slightly. The defenders were about to celebrate this stage of victory, when suddenly shadows covered their bodies, and when they looked up, more than 1,000 enemy soldiers rode the wind, and the eagle-winged giant kite on their backs covered the already dark sky.