Eagle Archer's Gale Sword

() "Boom, boom, boom..." A dull drumming sound pulled Hou Qingyun back from his meditation. After he finished adjusting his breath, he opened his eyes. The room was empty, and Xia Gulan had disappeared.net

Hou Qingyun didn't know what time it was, but felt that the sound of the drum beating seemed to be the sound of an order. He walked out the door and found a servant to inquire.

He continued to inquire, and learned that Xia Gulan had gone to the top of the city with the volunteers to help defend the city, and immediately walked out of the lord's mansion.

Pedestrians hurried to and fro on the streets of Anfeng, groups of Song army officers and soldiers shouted and carried bundles of arrows up the city wall, Hou Qingyun didn't know where to go to find Xia Gulan and Qiu Qianzhang, and followed a group of heroes dressed as Jianghu people. The head of the city.

This group of people from Jianghu rushed to the city to meet the enemy, their expressions showed no fear, one of them laughed and said: "The golden dog suffered a big loss last night, the old dog Anzhen is impatient, he is too busy to come and take revenge on us!"

"Come again today to see who has killed more golden dogs."

"By the way, when are you guys going to get Anzhen's old dog's head back?"

The few people talked and laughed freely, without paying attention to the hundreds of thousands of golden soldiers. Although they were a little arrogant, the optimistic attitude of ordinary young people made Hou Qingyun understand the current situation: the situation of the Song people is not too bad.

One of them suddenly saw Hou Qingyun silently following him, and asked, "Brother, are you alone?"

Hou Qingyun said: "Before the people from my gang arrived, I was walking fast, so I came first."

Hou Qingyun followed a few people to the top of the city. Although the top of Anfeng City is not as majestic as Xiangyang City, it is still tall and solid. There are densely packed Song soldiers with bows and crossbows, and they are on guard. Many machine gunners are loading arrows into the crossbow.

Hou Qingyun had seen this kind of bed crossbow when he attacked Duan Tiande's fleet at night in Guiyunzhuang. It could be loaded with huge crossbow bolts, or it could be replaced with a machine gun, loaded with accumulated arrows. It was a great weapon for defending the city.

Over the years, the Song people, who were far inferior in physical fitness to the Jurchens, were able to repeatedly keep the Kingdom of Jin out of the Huaihe River, all thanks to the use of equipment.

The people of the Song Dynasty had few horses, and there was basically no large group of cavalry. When fighting against the cavalry of the Jin people, the spearmen were in the front to reject them, and the rear formed a formation with strong bows and crossbows. Guards on both wings.

Sixty to seventy percent of the Song army's infantry were crossbowmen. Of course, these people were not pure archers. Most of them were equipped with swords, and they could also fight close combat if they were close.

Therefore, the Song army with a solid city wall guard is indeed difficult to attack. Before the popularization of hot weapons, the Jin people really had no better way. They finally collected gunpowder from all over the country and secretly transported it to Anfeng. As a result, they have not yet started loading and making siege The firearm was completely burned by the rebel army.

It is a trivial matter to kill one or two thousand soldiers, but the gunpowder and firearms are very difficult to match, and the loss is incalculable.

It was only noon at this time, and it was only three hours since the heroes returned to Anfeng in the early morning. Some heroes were still asleep, but most of them had a short rest and had already rushed to the top of the city again.

Qiu Qianzhang was wearing the knee-length scale armor that Hou Qingyun saw last night, an iron helmet on his head, and his whole body was tightly wrapped. He looked serious and was discussing something with the city guard of Anfeng.

Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Mu Nianci, the four elders of the Beggar Clan were lined up between the battlements, the Quanzhen four sons, the Jiangnan Six Monsters, and others were scattered on the east, west, and north walls of the city, and they were all ready to fight.

Xia Gulan was also looking into the distance from the top of the city, as if she had a feeling, she turned her head and met Hou Qingyun's eyes, Hou Qingyun immediately came out of the crowd and came to her side, the two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't say much .

Although it was noon at this time, the clouds were densely covered, the wind was howling, and the light was not very good.

Hou Qingyun looked into the distance, and saw that there were densely packed golden soldiers several miles away. The banners were flying in the camp, and the infantry was firmly in the center. There were [-] cavalry on each of the left and right wings.

Hou Qingyun had never experienced a battle formation, so he turned around and asked Guo Jing who had been fighting with the Jinren for several months, Guo Jing said in a deep voice: "This is the most common attacking camp. There are only more than 2 defenders in Anfeng, but the Jinren have With more than [-] infantry and more than [-] cavalry, the Yijin people relied on their numbers and power to attack the city by force..."

"The reason why the Jin soldiers are divided into left and right wings with the cavalry is that one is to attack when our side opens the city gate to make a surprise attack; the other is to guard against the Song army in Shouzhou."

"Brother Hou, don't worry, the Jinren don't have any firearms, so they won't be able to attack Anfeng City Wall with these methods alone!" Huang Rong smiled sweetly when she saw Hou Qingyun's serious face.

At this time, Huang Rong put on a military uniform, and the exquisite and compact armor was put on her body, highlighting her slender and slender figure.

"This girl who is like a genie in the world has finally embarked on the righteous route with Guo Jing, but with me as a variable, she will not fall to the head of Xiangyang City!"

While Hou Qingyun was feeling emotional in his heart, the Jin soldiers had already launched the siege battle step by step.

The sound of the horn of 'woo woo' came from the camp of the Chinese army, desolate and desolate.Under the leadership of their respective generals, the infantry of the [-] square formations surged up from the east and south of the city, while the cavalry slowly followed, guarding the two sides, and did not participate in the siege, but only suppressed the formation.

The soldiers of Song Dynasty held their breaths, but the only way to do this was to use the manipulative manipulative catapult to hurl stones randomly, throwing stones ranging from tens of kilograms to tens of kilograms into the densely packed infantry camp. .

Of course, the stones were not mainly for killing, but for destroying the advancing formation of the Jin soldiers and smashing the ladder vehicles used by the Jin soldiers to attack the city.

The catapults, including Huang Rong, calibrated their trebuchets against the ladder carts slowly advancing. I don't know how they calibrated them. Anyway, before the Jin soldiers advanced to the city of Anfeng, more than a dozen wooden ladder carts had already arrived. All were crushed by stones.

When the Jin soldiers entered the firing line, the generals defending the city gave the order to release the arrows, and the Song soldiers on the city wall formed neat rows and took turns to release the arrows.All of a sudden, arrows flew like springs, falling into the golden soldiers' camp one after another.

Jin Bing is not a fool. The infantry in the front rows are all guarded by huge shields, but the shields cannot be completely airtight, there are always gaps.

Under the impact of rounds of arrow rain, even with shields, they were not immune. After suffering heavy casualties, the infantry had already attacked the city, and many archers also bent their bows to fight back.

Although the Jin soldiers came from the bottom up and were sporadic, Song soldiers from the top of the city were hit by arrows from time to time, or were thrown into the city wall and died, or were replaced by their companions.

Unless the golden soldiers attack the top of the city and start a fierce head-to-head confrontation, Jianghu people like the Jiangnan Six Monsters and the Quanzhen Four Sons will not have much effect except to wave the flag and shout.

On the other hand, Guo Jing, who studied under the "Prairie Arrow God" Zhebie, is very powerful. He has superb internal skills and good eyes. After firing seven arrows in a row, three orderlies and three centurions fell to the ground.

There was also a commander riding a tall horse with an unruly face who charged too close, and was also shot through the chest by an arrow, and fell off the horse.

Seeing Guo Jing's bravery, the Song soldiers and the rebels who guarded the city praised Guo Jing in unison, which boosted their morale.But the golden soldiers under the city turned a blind eye to them, swarming to the bottom of the city, out of the ladder, on the top of the city, and filed up the wall, but the arrows from the top of the city fell like rain, and the golden soldiers suffered heavy casualties. There is a pile of corpses piled up under the city, and it is hard to do anything.Begging to share