Chapter 650: Snowstorm and Cold Blade (2)

The sky gradually brightened. The soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army on the fortress were shocked by the overwhelming Donghu cavalry coming from afar. There were thousands of cavalry, boundless, tens of thousands of cavalry, connecting the sky and the ground. Now, the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army on the fortress saw the cavalry whistling and cutting through the snow and wind. At a glance, they could not see where their rear team was.

"Fuck his grandma, this scene is a bit amazing!" The bearded man next to Song Hongxin murmured. As a former Central Plains infantryman, he rarely had the opportunity to see so many brave cavalry gathered together in his life. Even under the city of Helin, they fought several bloody battles with the Donghu cavalry, but what they saw was just the tip of the iceberg. They could only see themselves facing those cavalry forever, but now, standing on the height of the fortress, they could clearly see the military appearance of the entire Donghu cavalry.

Song Hongxin clearly heard the sound of the soldiers on the wall swallowing their saliva. When the time came, everyone still felt nervous.

"Brothers, don't hide behind the wall. Show your heads and enjoy the horseman skills of the Donghu barbarians. They are very good at this job, but it is not easy to see." Song Hongxin laughed and waved his hands constantly, "Come on, come on, let's see if the Donghu horses can climb the wall."

With a bang, the soldiers on the wall laughed. Song Hongxin's humorous words effectively relieved the tension of the soldiers. Everyone stood up easily and exposed most of their bodies outside the wall. At this distance, it is difficult for the Donghu cavalry to shoot the wall with the horse bows used.

On the watchtower, Xiao Haizi leaned out half of his body and waved at the Donghu cavalry in the distance, "Hey, Donghu barbarians. Show me a trick."

"Show me a trick, show me a trick!" Under the watchtower and on the wall, all the soldiers of the Zhengdong Army shouted in a booing manner. The tension of the sudden strong enemy disappeared in the bursts of laughter.

In the distance, the vanguard general of the Donghu Hetao Camp, Mo Yanduo, looked at the fort in front of him and frowned deeply. He had seen the appearance of these forts on the drawings, which were the intelligence that the scouts had spied back at the cost of their lives. But now it seems that those drawings are useless, because the real objects in front of them are very different from the drawings. The Central Plains people's understanding of the city is indeed not comparable to those warriors who are used to fighting on horseback. They actually relied on ice and snow to almost rebuild an ice city in the shortest time.

The torches on the wall of the fort are still burning, and the firelight is reflected on the smooth and reflective wall, shining brightly. It looks beautiful, but for the attackers, it is a fatal temptation.

Not only the wall that suddenly became higher, but also dozens of steps away from the wall. But those strange-shaped snow piles that extend to nearly a hundred steps away, I believe that they are used by the enemy to stop the cavalry.

Mo Yanduo shook his head gently.

We took advantage of the freezing of the Liaohe River this winter to cross the natural moat with light cavalry. But the opponent also made full use of the ice and snow here in Hetao to reinforce their city walls, which made it possible for the Donghu warriors to shed more blood to remove these forts one by one.

It is impossible for tens of thousands of cavalry to cross the river and leave these nails on the east bank. This attack in the snow and ice is a huge pressure for the logistics of Donghu. There is absolutely no room for error. Tens of thousands of horses and people eat and horses chew. The daily consumption is an astronomical figure. If the expeditionary army is allowed to retain a force on the east bank, even if the opponent is basically infantry, it is like dancing on a cliff for the Donghu army. If it is not good, it will fall to pieces.

The best way is naturally to completely remove these nails and firmly control the east bank in one's own hands.

Seeing the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army cheering and jumping on the wall, Mo Yanduo was a little surprised and asked his left and right, "What are they doing? They look very happy?"

The left and right shook their heads. None of them understood the language of the Central Plains and could not understand the provocation of the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army in the fort. However, everyone could feel intuitively that it was definitely not a good thing.

"General Mo Yanduo, do you want to try to attack first?" asked Gu Jili from the Tiele tribe.

"It's not easy to fight. The ladders we made before were too short. The soldiers couldn't climb up. Let's settle down first and let the logistics and supplies lengthen the ladders before attacking. There are only more than a hundred people stationed in this village. After we make the ladders, we will besiege them from all sides. One mouthful of spit from each person can drown him."

"Yes!" Gu Jili nodded.

The Donghu military system was reformed. All tribes used to be soldiers. They herded in leisure time and fought in wartime. Sopu established a country and called himself king. He set up a standing army. He selected elites from each tribe to form a standing army. In peacetime, he set up the front, middle and back armies. These troops became professional soldiers and did not engage in production in peacetime. In wartime, the Donghu king would draw troops from the left, middle and right armies or send them out to fight. The generals were temporarily appointed. In peacetime, the military power of the left, middle and right armies was in the hands of the Donghu king.

After the military system reform, the chiefs of the Donghu tribes were deprived of their military power. From then on, they could only be nobles with respected status in the Donghu, but they no longer had the actual power they had before, and their political influence on the Donghu began to gradually decrease. The power to control the entire Donghu was shifting to the bureaucratic group with the Donghu king as the core.

For example, the Hetao Camp this time was led by Yan Qi, but his subordinates were from the left, middle and right armies. King Donghu also had a private army of 5,000 palace guards, and the generals under his command were from Various tribes, such as Moyan Duo, are from the Uighur tribe, while Gu Jili comes from Tiele.

On the wall of the village, seeing the Donghu cavalry begin to retreat, the soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army cheered loudly. I don’t know who beat the war drums. Amidst the sound of the war drums, Beard climbed up the ice wall and stood on the wall with his legs spread. On top of it, he untied his belt, took out the huge thing from his crotch, and started peeing towards the city.

Song Hongxin tilted his head, looked at the thing under the beard's crotch, and said thoughtfully: "It turns out that the shape Xiao Haizi built at the bottom of the city was based on your size."

Huzi laughed proudly, "Xiao Haizi's size is too shy to set off, so naturally he can only follow mine."

On the watchtower, Xiao Haizi was furious and jumped on his feet: "Nonsense, nonsense, I obviously made it according to my own size."

"Really, then take it out and compare!" Huzi raised his head, held the guy provocatively, and shook it at Xiao Haizi.

Xiao Haizi's face turned red from suppressing it, and he touched the waistband of his trousers. Finally, he still didn't untie it, but with a cry, he retracted into the watchtower, and bursts of laughter suddenly erupted from below.

"Huzi, you're a little angry and your urine is so yellow!" Song Hongxin suppressed his laughter and said to Huzi seriously.

"How can the fire be less intense?" Huzi curled his lips disapprovingly, "But once we start fighting with them, the fire will naturally vent."

Before Song Hongxin had time to reply, he heard the rumble of horse hoofs. He turned around and was startled. The Donghu people who were about to retreat just now turned around during their conversation. A group of cavalrymen, numbering several hundred, were rushing toward their fortress.

"Oh no!" Song Hongxin couldn't help being surprised, "We want to launch a sneak attack! Brothers, prepare for battle!"

In fact, the Donghu soldiers did not come for a sneak attack, they were angry. They didn't understand the previous provocations of the soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army on the wall, and they didn't think it was anything. But in the end, Huzi climbed up to the top of the city, took out the thing, shook it, and even peed on it. , accompanied by the roaring laughter of the soldiers on the city, I couldn’t understand what the soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army were saying, but couldn’t I still see clearly what they were doing? Easterners were angry.

Mo Yandu was also angry. As a general and an experienced general, he would naturally not be confused and make some wrong decisions. However, he also knew that in the face of such provocation from the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army, if he did not Fighting back will not only damage one's own morale, but also make the generals and soldiers below him think that he is weak. These are not the soldiers of his own country that he led before. No one will question what he says and what he does. If you can't convince your generals, and you can't make your soldiers use their lives, how will you fight in the future? How will you lead the troops?

Mo Yandu knows very well that even if he is not prepared, even if he has to pay the price of his life, he must make a tough response at this moment. Maybe he will leave a lot of blood under the wall of the ice and snow village today, but these The blood will also become a powerful booster for him to launch another attack.

More than a hundred brave horsemen with excellent riding skills jumped into the obstacles of various strange shapes. Relying on their superb riding skills, their speed did not decrease much, and they rode straight towards the fortress.

Song Hongxin was startled at first, but then he saw just over a hundred cavalry rushing in. He immediately understood what the other coach meant, and a sneer appeared on his lips. If you come to give me a gift, of course I will be disrespectful. I had no intention of getting back alive from here. The purpose of being nailed here is to kill as many opponents as possible.

"Let them go under the city wall before we start. Don't move the crossbow. Use your arm to lift the crossbow. Prepare four hundred crossbows. Every fifty arrows, shoot four rounds in a row. We will keep them all under the city." Song Hongxin He said coldly.

More than a hundred cavalrymen encountered no obstruction amid countless obstacles, but just as the first wave of them rushed out a few steps, and when the second wave rushed out, the first round of crossbow arrows was fired head-on.

The powerful force of the arm-opening crossbow left no room for dodge within a hundred steps. As soon as the sound of arrows whistled, the crossbow arrows were already in front of the Donghu cavalry. (To be continued,!

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