Chapter 44 Street Fighting
Isn’t she the blind old woman next door? How did she come here?
Liu He suddenly felt very strange. Because the open space in front is now basically closed on three sides. The front is the most spacious road in the town, but it is blocked by the wall array; several walls rely on the houses on both sides to form a maze-like folding pattern, but there is a gap on the left. The gaps between the houses on both sides are also blocked by earth, walls, wood, and stones. The streets and alleys outside the road are even more winding and complicated... Baitan Town has made this happen in order to prevent large players from spreading out and facilitate street fighting.
How could a blind old woman bypass such a complicated road? Could it be that she had been guarding the city gate very early?
"Ah! Ah..." The old woman suddenly opened her mouth and screamed twice, her voice hoarse, and her toothless mouth looked very flat. She was dressed in rags and dirty, and her gray hair was as messy as straw.
"Kill Xianbei, kill Xianbei..." the old woman shouted a few more vaguely.
Guan Yu, who followed Liu He, stretched his neck and shouted, "The city gate is about to be broken, Xianbei soldiers will rush in immediately, and walk away quickly!"
At this time, Liu He said, "Diet is also a kind of relief for her."
"Boom!" The city gate finally collapsed. First, a group of chaotic civilians rushed in, and soon they were driven away by the cavalry and fled everywhere. Amid the rapid and chaotic sound of horse hooves, a team of cavalry rushed straight into the city. When the first cavalry passed by the blind old woman with a bow, they waved their spear and stabbed.
But the enemy cavalry quickly stopped their horses and stopped attacking, because they were not facing the road they could sprint as they imagined, but walls. These earthen walls were not high and could climb up with bare hands, but the cavalry could not rush straight.
Liu He retracted his head, leaned against the earthen wall, silently listening to the movement of the horse's hooves, waiting for the other party's decision. After a short while, he felt as if he had been waiting for a long time.
How would the Xianbei people react? It is said that the nomadic people are very alert and run quickly together. When they realize that there may be an ambush, they may immediately turn around and leave the dangerous place... If they retreated, Baitan Town would be like singing an empty city plan, which would be a good thing. Because Liu He is not sure that he can win this Xianbei army and cannot win a battle, it would be better not to fight.
But the Xianbei people may not necessarily run away when they see things. They have strong military power and may not be easily scared; not to mention that the appearance of Baitan Town does not look like a place where elite soldiers are stationed.
At the worst possible, the Xianbei people retreated first and then tried to find a breakthrough from other places. If the battle began to spread from other directions, street fighting could also be carried out, but the terrain was not as good as the main gate for Liu He.
He leaned against the wall for a moment of thought, took a long breath, and suddenly jumped onto the wooden bench. As soon as he opened his sight, he saw the cavalry holding a spear that assassinated the blind old woman and looked in front. Liu He immediately pulled the bowstring and "bang"! The string sounded without hesitation, only a distance of twenty or thirty steps, and a arrow shot accurately on the guy's face.
The guy didn't have time to scream and fell directly from the horse's back. When other enemy soldiers reacted and rushed to get the arrow, there was another "bang" sound, and another person was shot and killed.
Without any warning, Liu He killed two people in a row and jumped straight from the wooden bench. He hurriedly picked up the wooden shield and pushed it over his head. A dozen people behind the wall also learned to lift the wooden board. As expected, after a moment, there was a crackling sound of strings, and dozens of arrows flew over the top of his head, and some were nailed directly into the wall.
The sound of "wow" outside the wall was screaming, and Liu He did not show his head, but only heard the sound of horse hooves. He heard the movement and the Xianbei soldiers did not attack, and then there was another rain of arrows.
A moment later, I suddenly saw several torches thrown on the roof, and a house was a thatched house, and a fire immediately ignited.
Liu He moved the round stool a little and climbed up to show his head. He saw that the Xianbei infantry had followed and had arrived at the gate of the city. A general riding a horse pointed at the drawing and shouted loudly. Liu He pulled an arrow and put it on the bowstring without saying a word. Suddenly he stood up, pulled the bow, and shot the arrow, and did it without stopping. "Bang"! The guy who was playing with great force was dismissed. Liu He immediately retreated after shooting.
"Hansheng, Yunchang! Shoot their leader for me!" Liu He shouted.
Now the outside immediately exploded, and all kinds of screams and screams were filled with anger. Then many footsteps were heard, and the infantry should have come up.
When Liu He heard the movement, he waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Let's go." Then he ran away with the people around him.
They did not stop, skillfully followed the wall for a while, pushing open a door and entering. The others closed the door and guarded the door. Liu He climbed straight up the wooden stairs. He gently pushed open a small window in a messy room. The sight of this position was very good, and the road in the middle was very long and within a hundred steps. The bow in his hand was not strong enough, but within fifty steps he was very confident to hit the target.
Looking down from the window, a large group of Xianbei infantry rushed into the earthen wall alley, and some were impatient to climb over the wall. The best one was to climb over the wall, and the whole body was exposed to the range as soon as they climbed up the wall.
"Pa"... "Pa"... The sound of the bowstrings flexing the air is very rhythmic! The arrows are shot without any effort, and the armor is useless. Liu He is so close that he shoots his face and neck, not to mention that many infantrymen are not fully armed.
But after a few shots, the target was exposed. Xianbei archers immediately fought back. Their archery skills were relatively accurate. Arrows kept flying in from the small window. But this could not solve Liu He. He showed his head and took a look, immediately dodged, and then shot arrows at the window, which was very short. The bow and arrow were not firearms, and it was difficult to hit the fast-moving target, and it was difficult to have only one small window.
After a while, the rocket wrapped in an oil cloth greeted him and the roof caught fire.
Liu He fired another arrow and saw several Xianbei soldiers running towards the door below. He hurriedly ran down the stairs and shouted to the old man holding the gongs and drums: "Beat the gong, beat hard!"
"Bang bang bang bang..." The urging gong sounds like noise.
Liu He tied the bow to his back, pulled out his sword and shouted, "Kill!"
Lead the crowd to rush out of the door.
A thin wall diagonally opposite suddenly collapsed. The lower half of the wall was deliberately repaired very thin, and it could be lifted with one kick. Guan Yu was immediately in the first place, holding an iron halberd and rushing out like a tiger going down the mountain, immediately blocking the opening of the wall.
Just next to Liu He came out, a wall collapsed! Huang Zhong held a wooden shield in one hand and a ring-headed knife in the other hand. He used the wooden shield to open the way and squeezed it up, waved his sword and chopped it. Liu He held the sword and rushed forward with the people in the house.
For a time, most of the Xianbei infantry were blocked by both sides in the wall formation and were beaten wildly at both ends. Such a group of fights was neither mobile nor unfolded, and they were fighting with the streets and alleys. The Khitan soldiers in the middle tried to climb over the wall, and the wall formation was in chaos.
Huang Zhong blocked the shield, and his sword was raising his hands to kill people. Liu He liked to cooperate with such a desperate general, letting him fight to the front and help him make up for the leaks and make up for the break...
"Beast!" Huang Zhong cursed and slashed at the same time, and slashed at a Xianbei soldier's helmet with a bang, which made the man faint.
At this moment, a Xianbei soldier behind him suddenly stabbed Huang Zhong's abdomen with a spear. Huang Zhong didn't notice it. Even if he was wearing a layer of armor, he would be stabbed by melee force, and he would not be able to penetrate directly into his intestines?
When his companions needed him the most, Liu He quickly looked and grabbed the spear step by step. The spear took advantage of the inertia of the other party's body and Liu He couldn't help but thrust the spear head into his chest. With a "ding", he felt the sag of the fish scale armor in his chest.
The Xianbei soldiers grabbed the spear with both hands and stabbed a lot of gap in front of them. Without saying a word, Liu He stepped forward and waved his knife to slash his face. The sound of the metal collision between the blade and the helmet, the sound of flesh and blood tearing... sprayed Liu He's blood on his face and chest. The scream seemed to be sounding in his ears, and it was like hissing.
The fierce generals on both sides rushed forward, unstoppable, and the Xianbei army fell into a big fall in this small corner. A bloody road was killed in the dirt alley, and people were gradually pushing forward by stepping on the corpses. The walls were covered with blood, the smell of fishy air was disgusting, and the wind was miserable.
In the outermost alley, some Xianbei soldiers saw that the situation was not good and climbed over the wall to escape, but most of the people blocked inside were killed and injured.
The remaining Xianbei army retreated to the city gate, and it was like a frightened bird. Screams came from the alley, and the Xianbei wounded soldiers inside were knives on the spot. There was obviously no such thing as captives in such a war, and it was just a knife.
The violent and crazy fight seemed to calm down in an instant. The Xianbei people were heard from afar. The panting and coughing sounds in the alley here kept coming, and people were tired. Liu He sat against the wall for a while, feeling his arms sore and his right hand was trembling. He shook it a few lightly, stretched out his hand to wipe off the sticky blood in his palms back and forth on the ground.
The sound of horse hooves and footsteps coming from afar came from outside, and the soldiers in the town were obviously unable to pursue the victory.
After a long time, the soldiers walked out of the wall and looked around. There was no enemy soldiers in the direction of the city gate. The fires in the houses on both sides were rolling into the sky, and almost all the lit houses were burned out. The crowd was talking, some were talking, some were asking for help, and some were calling for companions to save people.
At this moment, Liu He, who was covered in blood, suddenly came out. The surroundings suddenly became much quieter. The people who had already relaxed and crowded together made way for Liu He to walk through the middle.
People's faces suddenly filled with awe, and their eyes unconsciously gathered on him.
"General Liu!"
"Liu Jun envoy..."
Chapter completed!