Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 161 The Second Day of Fierce Battle
Sure enough, it was only [-]:[-] in the morning, and the Tuqi were lined up under the Fengbao.

With the sound of a horn, the first batch of hundreds of cavaliers charged the Fengbao.

Facing the enemy's attack, everyone felt heavy.

Except for a few new recruits like Liu Meng, all the veterans understood that the plan of the sudden cavalry was to consume.

Consume Tang Jun's arrows, consume Tang Jun's physical strength, and consume Tang Jun's morale and combat power.

This is a clear, aboveboard scheme.

Tang Jun did not receive a military order and could not retreat.

Before he had time to think about the consequences, the enemy army had already rushed to the range of the arrows.

All the soldiers of the Eighth Regiment started shooting at the enemy.

It's a pity, except for a few sharpshooters like Liu Meng, Zhang Xiaojing, and Xiao Gui.

The Tang army must shoot at least three arrows before they can kill a sudden knight soldier.

Fortunately, with the miraculous existence of Liu Meng, the enemy retreated after dropping forty corpses in the first wave of attack.

Immediately afterwards, the second wave of the enemy's attack began.

Tang Jun, who had no time to rest, cheered up again and continued to resist the enemy's attack.

After another fierce battle, after half an hour of offensive and defensive battles, the enemy retreated again.

Liu Meng took the time to take a look, and there were only more than 130 people left alive in the Eighth Regiment.

This still counts as minor injuries, and those who can continue to fight are included.

But the number of soldiers who died in battle was as many as nearly a hundred.

It was only the second day, Liu Meng lamented in his heart.

In the play, during the Battle of Beacon Fort, the Eighth Regiment held on for seven days.

In one morning, Tuqi attacked three times, leaving more than 200 corpses behind, and began to eat barbecue with yelling.

On the city wall, the remaining soldiers of the Tang army ate fried noodles in silence.

Liu Meng ate a roast chicken in the space on the pretext of going to the toilet.

This was prepared by Honggu for Liu Meng and stored in the warehouse.

After lunch, the sudden knights began to assemble again.

There are three hundred people on the other side, while Tang Jun only has a hundred people.

Obviously, the battle in the afternoon will be the most violent attack period of the cavalry.

Liu Meng's eyes scanned the city wall, and the captain's eyes were stern, checking the situation of the sudden cavalry from the battlements;

Wen Wuji and Zhang Xiaojing climbed on the crenel together, looking at the Tuqi on the opposite side.

On the highest part of the city wall, under the flag of the Eighth Regiment Army, Xiao Gui sat down with his back against the city wall, staring at the sky in a trance.

Suddenly, the trumpet of the sudden cavalry sounded, and a hundred sudden cavalry soldiers, with swords and bows, rushed towards the beacon castle with shouts.

The captain shouted loudly, telling everyone to prepare for the battle.

Everyone, looking at the few arrows in the quiver, knew in their hearts that the fierce hand-to-hand combat was about to begin.

Sure enough, after a few waves of arrow rain, except for Liu Meng and Zhang Xiaojing, all the Tang troops had no arrows.

He could only pick up the Tang knife and spear, and squatted nervously behind the wall, ready to welcome the enemy to step up to the top of the city and start hand-to-hand combat.

Liu Meng kept firing his bow and arrows without stopping.

Once his right hand started to go numb, Liu Meng would always find an opportunity to dodge into the space, and after recovering his strength, he would go out of the space again and continue shooting arrows.

But when the manpower is limited, no matter how good Liu Meng's archery skills are, there are still sudden knights who step up to the top of the city.

Liu Meng didn't care about these sudden knight soldiers who stepped up to the top of the wall.

He continued to shoot arrows, and shot the sudden knights who climbed the ladder.

He thought very clearly that as long as the follow-up cavaliers couldn't keep up, there would be no danger of the city wall falling.

This battle lasts for two hours, until the sun sets and the sunset glows.

More than half of the sudden knight soldiers were killed or injured, and the remaining sudden knight soldiers were no longer enough to capture the beacon castle, so they withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.

Looking at the swarming and retreating knights, the captain let out a heavy breath.

The day's attack was finally resisted.

However, he was inevitably worried.

The person who went back to report the letter logically said that he had already returned to the camp. Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?

Beacon Fort is only fifty miles away from the camp, and it only takes half a day to send a report quickly.

But it has been a day and a night, and the reinforcements have not come yet.

The captain already had a bad feeling in his heart, after all, he was an officer.

Knowing the key point, it is very likely that his group has been used as bait.

Attract the sudden cavalry army, intending to surround and eliminate these sudden cavalry soldiers.

Earn astonishing military exploits, and I and others may not be able to support the encirclement of the army and die here.

Although the captain had guesses in his heart, he didn't dare to withdraw from the Fengbao.

The fleeing generals of the Tang Army will not end well.

My family members will also be ridiculed by the world and will not be able to live locally.

Looking at the dozens of people still alive on the city wall, the captain closed his eyes in pain.

I can only say 'sorry' to the opponent's soldiers in my heart.

Liu Meng saw the captain's expression.

But he guessed the captain and had already thought of the ending.

Regarding his stupid loyalty, Liu Meng was noncommittal.

Liu Meng wouldn't have stayed here if he didn't want to have an accident and let the protagonists Zhang Xiaojing and Xiao Gui die here.

Just when everyone's morale was low, Wen Wuji began to tell everyone about the luxurious style of Chang'an.

Not surprisingly, these leading soldiers were attracted by Wen Wuji's narration.

Forget about the tough battles.

In the middle of the night, Liu Meng slipped down the city wall again, while collecting arrows, he went outside the Tuqiren's camp to observe.

Looking at their situation, Liu Meng guessed that the Tuqi people would not launch an attack tomorrow.

They stayed here, waiting for the follow-up cavalry reinforcements to arrive and take down the Beacon Fort in one fell swoop.

While Liu Meng breathed a sigh of relief, when he returned outside the city wall, he took out a whole mutton from the warehouse.

Standing on his shoulders, he held a dozen quiveres in one hand.

Except for a barrel of bow and arrow left on the surface, the rest are all crossbow arrows.

Fortunately, Liu Meng has the convenience of a warehouse, after putting the arrows on the ground into the warehouse.

With the sorting function of the warehouse, it only takes a blink of an eye to separate the arrows and put them into the quiver.

Standing under the city wall, Liu Meng yelled softly, Wen Wuji and Zhang Xiaojing happened to be on duty at night.

The two knew that Liu Meng went down to collect arrows at night, and they had the experience of the previous night.

The two of them were not worried that Liu Meng would be caught by the Tuqi people.

At this time, hearing Liu Meng's yell, the two hurriedly looked down from the crenel.

But under the moonlight, he saw a whole slaughtered sheep on Liu Meng's shoulder.

When the two saw each other, they couldn't help salivating faster, and swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva forcefully.

He hastily lowered the rope, and after Liu Meng tied the sheep, he impatiently pulled it up.

Liu Meng didn't need the help of the two of them, he climbed up with the help of the thick arrows shot at the city wall by the cavalry during the day.

Seeing that Liu Meng not only got back a whole sheep, but also more than a dozen crossbow arrows from the quiver.

Everyone looked at Liu Meng's eyes and became shocked and admiring.

(End of this chapter)