Chinese New Year

Chapter 515: Fall of the City and Choice
"Swoosh! Whoosh!" Dense arrows were shot not at the Jin army outside the city, but at the Shi army fighting with them.

"Rebellion, damn it! Kill them all." A heavily armored warrior rushed into the crowd of stone soldiers, slashing left and right with his thick-backed machete, making the stone soldiers flee in panic.

Several servants holding large shields and long spears followed closely beside him, blocking left and right, striking horizontally and stabbing vertically, in a very methodical manner.

Although there were only six or seven of them, they defeated the stone soldiers on the opposite side.

Obviously, this kind of group combat coordination is something they practice frequently, and they use it with ease and with amazing power.

"Kill the bandits!" Behind the heavily-armored warrior, hundreds of people rushed up the narrow street, the crowd was in an uproar.

The "thieves" killed before were Jin thieves, and the "thieves" killed now are Han thieves. The meaning has undergone a major change.

But they are too lazy to distinguish.

In the past, people often said that soldiers serving their generals was an important sign of warlordism, but in an era when fortresses and manors were everywhere, this was commonplace.

Not only do the soldiers have personal dependence relationships, but their entire families have personal dependence relationships, and even have been dependent for several generations.

In their eyes, there was no emperor, no court, no governors, no governors, only the head of the family. Whoever the head of the family ordered to be beaten, they would beat, without thinking, without any hesitation.

Therefore, when the mutiny occurred, they took action immediately and rushed into the streets and launched a surprise attack on the stone soldiers.

But the strange thing is that they had no intention of surrendering to the Jin army, and no one was even sent to open the city gates. Instead, they all fought with the stone soldiers.

When Ji Bao and more than a thousand people arrived at the South Gate, his own soldiers had already retreated in full force and were rushing to the back in a noisy manner.

"Shoot!" Dense arrows flew in from the narrow streets, and the fleeing stone soldiers fell to the ground one after another, screaming in pain.

"Ji Bao, you will not die well!"

"He even killed his own people. He deserves to die."

"Brother-in-law, I'm Xiaoliu, don't cum."

Ji Bao remained unmoved and continued to order archery.

In an instant, hundreds of Stone Soldiers who had fled were slaughtered.

Spearmen and sword and shield soldiers came out from the crowd and fought with the rebellious soldiers from the fort.

The blood flowed, quickly filling the pits and ruts on the bluestone slabs, and then gathered into streams.

In the houses on both sides of the street, the old, the weak, women and children were trembling with fear. They piled all the movable things in their homes behind the doors and windows, and then held them against the doors and windows to prevent the fleeing soldiers from rushing in or being robbed by the blood-thirsty warriors.

What happens in the city cannot be hidden from outside.

More than 2,000 soldiers from Xuchang had just rested and were preparing to launch the first wave of offensive after nightfall, but they waited for a long time without hearing the drum sound of the advance.

At this moment, more than a thousand Silver Spear Army soldiers pushed ladder carts and carried long ladders, quickly passed them and arrived at the base of the city wall.

There were only a few soldiers left on the top of the city wall. When they saw them, they shouted and warned them repeatedly. But no one came to reinforce them in a short time. They were all fighting each other.

Someone stuck his head out of the parapet and bumped into a man who had climbed to the top of a long ladder and was holding a steel knife.

The fight started immediately and screams cut through the night sky.

"Boom!" A ladder truck arrived at the foot of the city.

The ladder was pushed out quickly, and the grappling hook at the front end firmly hooked onto the city wall.

One after another, the Silver Spear Army warriors climbed out of the ladder truck, stepped on the ladder, and rushed to the top of the city.

The few dozen guards on the south city wall held out for a while, but soon collapsed crying and screaming.

When the Silver Spear Army reached the horse trail entrance, they formed a battle formation and faced outwards, gathering more people to climb onto the top of the city wall.

In just a short while, there were no less than three hundred warriors rushing up the south city wall.

"Kill the bandits!" The Silver Spear Army warriors lined up in a row, with large shields in front and long spears in the back. Some people stood high on the city wall, drawing their bows and arrows, and shooting at the city.

The enemy army, which had just escaped from the melee and was in a confused state, inevitably collapsed after this.

They were running around like ants on a hot pan, shouting and screaming, completely losing their minds.

Ji Bao waved his sword and shouted loudly in the crowd, calling on everyone to come closer to him.

No one listened.

Once a person loses his reason, his fear will be infinitely magnified, he will become hysterical and shout, and you will strangely find that his strength is incredibly great and you cannot stop him. You will not be able to calm down until he has vented all his anger.

This is the camp explosion, which is what generals have always worried about the most.

Ji Bao's personal soldiers were also thrown into disarray.

They were twisting and turning and could not stand at all. They could only protect their leader and escape.

"Squeak——" The city gate was opened by someone.

Again, more than a thousand Silver Spear Soldiers led the way, followed closely by more than two thousand Xuchang soldiers, who charged in from the south gate.

They lined up in neat rows and advanced against the wall.

Wherever it passed, the "puff puff" sound continued, like a ruthless killing machine.

The enemy soldiers ran and rushed towards us, and were fired upon directly.

The enemy soldiers fled backwards, but they were not in a hurry. They caught up with them at a constant pace and stabbed them with their spears.

Not long after, shouts and screams were heard from the east of the city.

The vanguard team composed of the garrison troops and the government soldiers attacked the top of the city wall, killed the enemy soldiers step by step, and then opened the city gate.

The Silver Spear Army and the Tuntian Army swarmed in, advancing from the east and west, attacking from both sides. Anyang no longer had any chance of turning the tables.

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In fact, fierce fighting also broke out in the north of the city, but not on the top of the city wall, but in the area around Anyang Bridge.

A troop of enemy cavalry arrived hastily.

They did not come to reinforce Anyang, and it was difficult to enter the city due to the Huan River. Their arrival was more of a psychological rescue, that is, to let the defenders know that they were not alone and strengthen their determination to defend to the end.

In addition, one of their roles was to find shallow waters to wade across, use the mobility of the cavalry, and repeatedly harass the Jin army from the periphery, making it impossible for them to boldly attack the city with all their might.

But it seemed to be a little late. Within ten days, Anyang looked shaky, which was quite surprising.

In the darkness of night, the commander observed for a long time, then listened attentively to the movements inside and outside Anyang City, and remained silent for a long time.

At the hour of Xu, he made up his mind and resolutely ordered the cavalry to dismount. He selected five hundred men and launched an attack on the five hundred Jin soldiers stationed north of Anyang Bridge.

Hundreds of cavalry followed closely behind, preparing to launch a frontal charge.

Not long into the battle, the sound of killing shook the sky north of Anyang Bridge.

In the blazing fire, the figure of a long-handled axe flashed and chopped down heavily.

The painful neighing of the warhorse pierced the night air.

After the knight fell to the ground, he was slashed hard by the long sword, and his intestines were immediately ripped open.

He screamed in pain and stuffed his intestines, which had slipped to the ground and were covered in blood and dust, into his stomach. As he was stuffing them, he stopped moving.

The hook-and-sickle spear extended from the ground, restraining the legs of the galloping horse, and the knight was thrown out by inertia.

He was a very good rider and his movements were very agile. He adjusted his posture before flying out and rolled forward after landing to relieve the impact.

There was a spear abandoned by someone on the ground. He picked it up immediately, stepped forward with the spear in hand, and observed the surroundings.

"Whoosh!" The long sword came down heavily with a whistling sound as it broke through the air.

The force and speed are so great that it is simply astonishing.

"Bang!" The head flew out.

His body did not fall down for a while, and he still maintained the action of striding forward with the gun in hand, but his empty neck seemed to have a fountain, and blood gushed out, splashing onto the ground and raising countless dust.

The first five hundred enemy soldiers who rushed over had been almost all killed.

The soldiers from various counties in Luonan were pleasantly surprised to find that the enemy cavalry actually dismounted and fought with them!

Is there such a good thing?

Is there such a fool?

As a result, everyone worked hard and strived to be the first.

They rushed out of the trench wall and faced the enemy, engaging in a fight between men. Even more people formed a combat team of five, equipped with spears, bows, long-handled axes, hook-and-sickle spears, swords and shields, and launched an active attack on the enemy who was still on horseback.

Under the cover of night, the sound of killing was like thunder.

In the firelight, blood was dripping.

The enemy soldiers who dismounted and fought on foot were knocked down like melons and vegetables, and a large group of palace soldiers formed a formation and attacked, like a moving jungle of spears.

"Kill!" Nearly three thousand people roared in unison, their fighting spirit high.

Some of the enemy cavalry had been chopped down earlier, and the rest were a little frightened. They turned their horses around and reorganized their formation at a distance.

"Kill!" The soldiers quickened their pace.

The spear jungle moved northward little by little, launching a resolute charge.

The enemy cavalry retreated again.

The spear jungle moved forward again.

The enemy cavalry retreated again.

Under the cover of night, the spectacular sight of infantry and cavalry fighting each other appeared.

Three thousand infantrymen marched forward.

More than 2,000 enemy cavalry retreated in a hurry. For a while, the horses were neighing and the officers were furious.

A "rustling" sound was heard.

The enemy commander looked in the direction of the sound, but saw nothing but darkness in the distance. There was only the sound of huge splashes on the surface of the Huanshui River and the occasional neighing of war horses.

"Retreat!" He was startled and reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

Before leaving, he looked back at Anyang City for the last time.

The shouting and killing on the top of the city wall was gradually coming to an end, and the sound of fighting inside the city was even more intense than before.

He understood that Anyang had entered into street fighting and this was the final moment.

The 3,000 cavalrymen he brought were unable to break through the Jin army's outer blockade, unable to send a signal to the defenders to hold their ground, and even less able to rush into the city and fight with them.

Once Anyang is lost, Yecheng will face the enemy head-on.

Fight, stay, or leave, these three choices are before Da Hu. It's time to make a decision as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)