Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 14: Wufang Town (4)
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The first ray of light in the morning spilled into the house through the wooden windows. Guo Shao could smell the moist and fresh morning breath from the air.
He just put on two pieces of armor with the help of Luo Mengzi, and the chest plate is covered with ring and lock armor on the inside and outside.
Luo Mengzi was chattering beside him: "I know I don’t have much abilities, but I understand that my eldest brother is capable! Just like this time, I can’t get ahead when I change to... Can't look forward to being an official.
But, I also think that the hot woman in the family can have a day, eat well and dress well, but the little money for being a soldier is too little.
In the future, I will get a little bit of my eldest brother, hehe..." Guo Shao said in his heart, even Luo Er has such thoughts, I'm afraid others would like to rush, but only this fellow will speak out.
He patted Luo Er on the shoulder and said, "As long as the elder brother has something, he will not treat him badly.
"Hearing Luo Mengzi mentioned the woman at home, he couldn't help but touch the auspicious charm hanging on his neck. After a while, he thought of Yulian, and after a while, the memory of past lives flashed through his mind.
For a while, I felt a little uneasy.
At this moment, I heard a "bang" suddenly, and an old man dressed in bamboo slammed open the door, kicked on the threshold and fell, gasping and coughing.
Guo Shao gently raised his chin and nodded, Luo Mengzi hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man.
"Qi and Khitan soldiers are here!" Guo Shao took a deep breath after hearing this, and said quickly, "The third brother, immediately knock on the gong to gather all the horses, notify the second brother, and the ministries will enter as scheduled. Location.
Alert! Luo Mengzi's face suddenly became solemn, and he clasped his fists and said: "Take Ling! "Guo Shao turned his head and asked: "How many people are there?" "I only saw a few cavalry soldiers, all armored and weapons are not Han people..." the old man stared and said, "I didn't dare to stay too much, so I hurried back down the path.
"Guo Shao took out a half-foot dagger from the head of the bed and hid it in his arms, then took the barrier knife on the wooden frame and hung it up, finally took the bow and quiver, and strode out the door.
Outside the "clanging" gongs kept ringing, there were dogs barking wildly, and chickens croaking and flying around, all for a while.
He walked straight up the city wall, and a few soldiers followed.
Looking into the distance, I saw a cavalry shadow slowly coming over at the end of my sight.
At this moment, there was a sound of heavy and neat footsteps behind him, and I saw Yang Biao and his 20th to 30th armed imperial soldiers gathered at the city gate.
On the other road, there were also three units of sergeants who continued to deploy to the center of the city. They were composed of dozens of old and weak soldiers.
These people are getting older, but they are all in the military, and they choose people who still have the strength to farm. In addition to poor physical strength, they are better, much better than pure civilians. In this era, It's not easy to use civilian husbands, because they don't use weapons at all, and they don't have a sense of battle formation.
Soon there was a burst of disturbing shouts in the city, most of the voices were "De Ling".
The village soldiers were divided into two groups, one group lined up on the spot, and a small group scattered on the four sides of the city wall. Some old and weak people around also followed the four walls with bamboo poles.
After a while, Mengzi Yang Biaoluo and several ten generals from the village also climbed up to the city, and continued to watch with Guo Shao.
After waiting for a long time, the small group of cavalry outside slowly approached, a total of eight people, all riding horses.
Gradually, it can be roughly distinguished from the armor of the Khitan.
After the Khitan nation entered the Hebei region, all parties learned a lot from the Han people, including armor, which looks similar at first glance, but it is still easy to distinguish.
First, the hats are different. The Han soldiers wear more integrated pockets. The Khitan soldiers have iron helmets and ear protectors. The ear protectors are like dog leather hats. This may be the reason why the Khitan side is relatively cold.
The fluorene headband on the breastplate and waist is also different.
The Qiba rider stopped one or two hundred steps away, turned the horse's head and circled the city wall again, still not close.
After walking like this for a long time, I simply turned around and ran away.
The people on the city wall sighed for a while, and Luo Mengzi laughed loudly: "Seeing our battle, I was scared away!" Yang Biao said: "It may be just a scout team, seeing that there is defense around the city. The young man is unwilling to rush in and went back to report the letter.
" Luo Mengzi said: "Then are they coming? "Yang Biao snorted, "You have to go to the Khitan people to ask."
" Guo Shao shouted loudly: "Send everyone to rest and not leave.
If there is nothing wrong at noon, send someone to the streets and call every family to deliver food.
"It's another long wait without problems, but everyone seems very calm.
Anyone who has experienced military conquests also understands that most of the time in a war is either walking, working, or waiting, and there is not much time to fight.
So this situation is normal now.
But the wait was not long this time, and it didn't take long to see a large group of people appearing in sight.
When I get closer, I can see the size of the opponent. There are 20 or 30 cavalry, and a large number of infantry, about one hundred and two, maybe one hundred and five.
Those infantrymen are holding spears, moving like a dark grove; cavalrymen have different weapons, some are spears, some are clubs, and the top is shaped like a large garlic. Guo Shao has served four times in the military. Nian, I know that this thing is called "Gu Duo", which is a kind of blunt weapon.
In addition, it seems that many people are equipped with bows and arrows and iron swords.
It’s a bit strange that there is a group of people in front of the enemy soldiers who don’t seem to be armed, and it looks messy at first glance.
Wait a little closer to confirm that those people are ordinary people.
Those people were driven to walk in weeping, and from time to time there was a whip "cracking" on them, screaming and crying noisily.
There are women in it... Obviously, the wars of this era are completely ignorant of women, children, and civilians; we have to wait until humans to endure more brutal|violence, and everyone is willing to sit down and set rules.
This group of Khitan soldiers didn't have siege equipment, but it didn't seem to need any equipment to fight walls like Wufang Town.
"Bitch!" Luo Mengzi's voice cursed.
Guo Shao ignored the scolding. He felt bad now: The Khitan came not from stragglers, but from an organized army, armed to more than 100 people.
Looking back at Wufang Town, there are only twenty or thirty people as a unit of force. The others are a group of old and weak, and the weapons are not complete... Guo Shaoton felt that this battle was a bit fierce.
But there is no other way, I have to bite the bullet and deal with it. Is it all right now with a white flag and surrender? The Khitan soldiers gradually approached, and still stopped one or two hundred steps away. Some people in front of them fell on the ground and wept bitterly, as if they had seen the coffin and dug pit they had prepared before them.
Three more riders rode out from the other side, not coming up to shout, but going around the city again.
Guo Shaoxin said: Don't look, I have already chosen the best offensive line for you.
There are walls and deep ditch on both sides, and there are traps in the deep ditch. Even if no one is defending, climbing in from the wall is very difficult; only the gate to the south is easier, there is no pit, there is a road, and The gate of the city was just a wooden nailed door, with light-transmitting holes everywhere.
If you don't just smash through the gate and the cavalry rush in first, why bother? As expected, the Khitan soldiers didn't move their direction, and directly whipped and drove the group of people to the city gate.
When the expelled people approached, Guo Shao waited to see the clothes they were wearing.
Almost all are shabby, earthy patched cotton and linen clothes of varying shades, and some are even ragged, and they are all poor farmers.
Want to come, those rich and powerful people would have ran into the town a long time ago when they heard the wind, and of course they would not wait to be caught...Because the Khitan army has poor siege ability, generally more solid cities are difficult to attack. It is relatively safe in towns.
"The whole army is in place!" Guo Shao shouted.
After Yang Biaosui, Luo Mengzi and others responded, they stepped down the earth wall, and then shouted the troops lined up inside the city gate to retreat to the streets on both sides.
At this time, the sound of bowstrings rang out of the city, and the Khitan cavalry randomly released arrows to shoot and kill the driven people from behind.
In fear, the people screamed and screamed and went straight to the gate, perhaps mixed with Qidan soldiers in disguise.
The town of Wufang is very short of bows and arrows, so naturally there is no way to stop the chaos from the wall. Guo Shao finally looked back and turned and hurriedly jumped off the wall.