Chapter 673: Siege (Part 2)

"Da Shanyu, this is not the way to go, let the subordinates lead people to charge and kill them, destroy their spirit, let our army breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, take the opportunity to repair the city wall!"

Ke Bi Neng, who was also paying attention to this battlefield, was speechless for a long time watching the overwhelming attack, but a Xianbei general behind him took the initiative to ask Ying Ying to speak.

"Take the initiative to go out of the city to charge? How to charge? It's not like you haven't seen the battle situation in the past few days. The enemy's elite cavalry is even stronger than six elite ten thousand cavalry. How do we charge?"

Ke Bineng didn't respond, but another Xianbei general retorted.

"Hmph, that's better than a coward like you who only dares to hide in the city!"

"you……"

"Okay! The enemy is still arguing with each other, what's the point?" Ke Bi Neng interrupted the quarrel between the two with a cold snort and waved his hands.

"What Mobuer said makes sense. Allowing the Han people to wreak havoc will not only affect the morale of our army, but will also be detrimental to our defense. Mobuer, since you took the initiative to invite Ying, then Ben Shanyu will agree to you, and you will lead 20,000 elite troops to charge For a while, kill the enemy's vigor!"

"My lord, this is inappropriate..." The Xianbei military general who was arguing with Mo Buer wanted to remonstrate after hearing this, but was interrupted by Ke Bi Neng directly waving: "Okay, just follow the order!"

"It's your lord!" Mo Buer shouted excitedly, and before leaving, he took a provocative look at the general he was arguing with.

"Kera, you are leading 30,000 elite soldiers, and you are ready to support them at any time."

The Xianbei general named Kera was obviously taken aback when he heard the words, and Ke Bineng frowned: "Why, didn't you hear the order clearly?"

"Forgive me, my lord. This subordinate will take orders."

After Kera retreated, Suo Nu, who had been silent all this time, asked in a low voice: "My lord, there has always been a gap between Kera and Mobuer, so it's a bit inappropriate for Kera to hold back Mobuer's ear?"

Ke Bi Neng glanced at Suo Nu when he heard the words, shook his head and left without saying anything, making Suo Nu look confused.

Kera, Suonu, and Mobuler are all senior generals who are qualified to understand the situation of Touman City's defense. In other words, the three of them are the objects of Kebi's doubts!

Kebi can't effectively determine who is the traitor, so he can only slowly test it out through various methods.

Not long after, the city gate slowly opened, and Xianbei Jingqi rushed out of the three city gates, one main, two pairs, and directly attacked the siege troops not far away.

"Quick, protect the siege troops!"

Seeing the Xianbei army rushing out, Kou Xian immediately shouted.

In fact, Kou Xian's order is completely redundant. Each bed crossbow or torch stone chariot is equipped with a different number of elite infantry. Responsibility for safety.

Seeing that the Xianbei people took the initiative to go out of the city, the mechanical soldiers adjusted the shooting height of the bed crossbow, while the infantry in charge of protection consciously set up a shield wall with spears and shields to resist the attack of the Xianbei cavalry.

"put!"

With the roar of the crossbow commander (each bed crossbow has a commander, similar to the gunner of the modern army), the strings of the crossbow made a thunderous sound, and the ten-foot-long crossbow arrow with the thickness of an arm struck directly like lightning. Xianbei cavalry.

Fortunately, this crossbow hit a senior general of the Xianbei Army. The general was powerless to resist the violent crossbow, and the breastplate was directly pierced like paper.

After the crossbow arrows penetrated through the Xianbei general, the momentum continued unabated. Behind the general, the horse of a Xianbei cavalry was directly torn apart by the crossbow arrows, and the knight fell to the ground with a thud.

Heavy bed crossbows are very effective against dense camp enemy forces, but not every bed crossbow can react in a short time and reset a new attack angle.

In addition, after all, the bed crossbow is designed for super-large targets like city walls, and its accuracy is very touching. Attacking moving cavalry can only rely on luck.

Finally, the attack speed of the bed crossbow is very slow. It requires soldiers to use a professional winch to wind it, which is time-consuming and laborious. It takes about two minutes to wind it once.

For high-speed mobile cavalry units, the heavy bed crossbow basically only has one chance to attack.

For cavalry, the use of bed crossbow attacks is somewhat overpowering,

Even the elite soldiers of the Black Armored Xuanqi could not survive being directly hit by the bed crossbow.

The rate of fire is slow, the hit rate is low, the power is excessive, and the cost-effective ratio is touching. No one in the normal army uses heavy bed crossbows to attack the army.

The real long-range attack methods against the army are bows and arrows, continuous crossbows, and small and medium ballistas.

In the end, Mobuer paid 2,000 casualties and approached the bed crossbow troops.

However, this does not mean that he can successfully complete the task.

The elite infantry unit guarding the ballista took action, with the shield array in front, and the Zhanglong steel gun stretched out from the attack space reserved in the shield array, pointing directly at the incoming Xianbei cavalry.

This classic tactic of imperial cavalry on foot left a deep impression on Ke Bineng's army in the previous battle. The Xianbei cavalry who had suffered a big loss did not dare to fight hard, and instead galloped back and forth around them, and from time to time They gave full play to their housekeeping salvo skills. But how can the less powerful cavalry bow win the elite shield soldiers of the Pingzhou Army?

The arrows shot on the shield wall and made a ping-pong-pong sound, and occasionally there were sparks shining, but they couldn't pose a real threat to the soldiers and ballistas behind the shield wall.

"My lord, reinforcements from the enemy army are coming!"

Just when the Xianbei army was at a loss, Mo Buer's lieutenant suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted.

After hearing the words, he immediately raised his head, and saw Xu Huang rushing over with a big ax in his hand.

"Damn it, it came so fast!"

Mo Buer cursed angrily, and the lieutenant asked anxiously: "My lord, what should we do?"

A little unwillingly, he glanced at Xu Huang and the split ax cavalry led by him, and finally growled in a low voice: "Let's go, we can't do anything, let's go back to the city!"

After fighting the Pingzhou Army for so long, the Xianbei people, the main force of the Pingzhou Army, also got a general idea. Although the split ax cavalry were not the strongest troops in the Pingzhou army, they were not something Mo Buer could deal with.

In a fair duel, the Xianbei side must at least mobilize the Xiongnu Wanqi or elite wolf cavalry to hope to win. Although the army led by Mobuer can barely be called an elite, it still has a clear gap compared with the split axe cavalry. difference.

"My lord, look quickly, there is also a Han army approaching us quickly!"

Mo Bu followed the reputation, but saw Qin Ping leading 10,000 Yan's Tiger Cavalry to kill them aggressively from behind.

Naturally, Shang Ji had already prepared the siege equipment for the Xianbei army to go out of the city to raid the city. Several high-level special units of cavalry were ready to fight, just waiting for the Xianbei people to come to the door.

I didn't meet the enemy immediately before, in order to let the Xianbei army sink deeper and kill as many enemy troops as possible.

"Not good, I fell into the trick of the Han dog, retreat quickly!"

Mo Buer let out a belated exclamation, dropped the heavy ballista that was close at hand, turned around and wanted to go back to the city.

How could Xu Huang and Qin Ping watch them slip away? Speeding up the horse and whipping the whip, the front and back attack together and rushed towards Mobuer's place.

About two quarters of an hour later, Mobuler finally returned to the protection range of Touman City under Kera's support. Looking at Xu Huang and Qin Ping who were showing off their might outside the range of the archers defending the city, they felt like crying.

The raiding army did not lose money by stealing chickens. Of the entire 20,000 troops, only a little over 10,000 were able to return safely. Nearly half of the soldiers were killed. Even the deputy general who was close to him came to cover his return to the city. Death in battle is a heavy loss!