"Hurry up and get the artillery soldiers to stop! That's one of our own, General Lu is going to be killed by you!"
At the foot of Yanshui Pass, more than a dozen frontier cavalry pointed at the defenders on the city and yelled.
The defenders panicked, and their commander-in-chief led his troops out. At this time, the highest commander in the pass was a commander-in-chief.
Under the light of the torch, President Bai was at a loss for the news. He rubbed his hands and wondered, "Aren't they traitors? How could they be General Lu's people?"
"What kind of thieves! The thieves killed our President Bai in Jingjiagou and robbed the soldiers of their uniforms and armors.
The general was worried that the thieves would deceive Yanshui Pass and rushed to rescue him all night long. How could he know that the brothers would die under your cannons! "
Feng Lun glanced sideways at Liu Chengzong, thinking that the leader was still in the act, as if his brother had really died under gunfire.
But this tone is a bit too strong.
Cheng Guan is also a general, so it's okay to be panicked and afraid for a while. After a while, he can regain his composure after thinking about it for a while.
No matter what, could it be just a little Tangqi who pointed his finger at him and scolded him?
Feng Rui cleared his throat, turned back and pointed to the northwest, and stepped forward to beg: "General Bai, please show your noble hand and tell General Guannei to stop the artillery. If we continue to fire, my general will be gone!"
Liu Chengzong almost laughed out loud when he heard this.
The guard of Yanshui Gate helped him a lot.
He thought that the guerrillas would pursue them, and in the middle of the night he also thought that the official army might be delayed by artillery, but he did not expect that the entire guerrilla force would come.
At least five artillery pieces with a range of one mile were still able to compete with the twelve cannons mounted on the hilltop by the Yanshui Pass guard.
If he was not in a hurry to deceive Guancheng, he really wanted to watch the largest artillery battle in his life as a spectator in Shibanshan.
Artillery battles were not unusual.
The caliber of artillery used by both sides is not large, and it cannot be moved if it is large. At best, it is a three- to five-hundred-pound artillery fire of one or two kilograms.
The number is not too large, only seventeen if you add one. The foot of the mountain is full of Folang rapid-fire cannons, and the top of the mountain is full of forward-loading general cannons.
The precious thing is that you are the audience, not the one who is bombarded.
Maybe it's this once in a lifetime opportunity.
But he left this precious opportunity to Cao Yao and Wei Qian'er.
Feng Yu's words had an effect, and hundreds of people in the city became even more panicked.
He looked to the northwest where the firefight was still taking place. It was far away and could hardly hear any loud sounds, but he could still see the faint light of fire, which made him feel uneasy.
Finally, President Bai made up his mind, raised his hand and hit the battlements, deciding to mediate the battle caused by misunderstanding. He said to the left and right: "The front team will follow me, and the others will guard the city gates and open and close the gates."
The bonfire set up by the defenders outside the pass illuminated the iron-helmeted face of Liu Chengzong's border army.
Hearing the creaking sound of the heavy door slowly opening, he lowered his head slightly, his iron helmet eyebrows suppressing the shadows and covering the raised corners of his mouth.
The sleep-deprived defenders lined up the Erlong Water Formation and slowly walked out of the opened door. President Bai rode his horse in front and said: "Come on, come with me to see the Commander-in-Chief."
"Master General, I won't take you with me, but I can send you off..."
When he got lost, Liu Chengzong turned his horse and walked side by side with Mr. Bai. He whispered, causing Mr. Bai to turn around.
At this moment, his left thumb pushed away the Yan Ling knife grille, and he swung the knife in his right hand. The tip of the reverse-edged knife accurately avoided the iron helmet in an instant and passed between his neck.
"Sending you to see Emperor Taizu!"
With a loud shout, he held the saddle with one hand and jumped down from behind the red flag, turned around and rushed into the deep city gate with his sword: "Seize the gate!"
Behind him, more than a dozen horse soldiers held bows and arrows and shot into the city gate. Feng Yu also dismounted and followed him into the crowd with his sword.
The sudden change, not to mention the armored frontier infantry who didn't react, even the general guard on horseback
As soon as he got close to them, all the spears and boring handles were waved in the city gate, and in the next moment he bullied them and stabbed several people with their knives.
Behind him, there was the sound of thundering hoofs on the ground, and he saw the door open and the mule battalion infantry hiding in the distance coming.
Approaching the city gate, they dismounted from their mounts, some took out homemade hooks and threw them towards the city, while more people rushed towards the city gate with weapons.
Liu Chengzong was now more courageous. The armor around him had been strengthened many times by collected armor pieces, and he was no longer cautious about close combat like before.
The long soldiers of the defenders couldn't stretch out. The infantrymen in front hit them with spear poles, which was like scratching an itch. The people behind them stabbed them with spears. As long as they avoided their necks, they couldn't penetrate the overlapping armor seams. .
On the contrary, against these armored defenders, no one could stand a chance, even if they protected their necks, it would be useless.
As a former Yuhe Fort frontier soldier, good armor pieces were limited, and he knew very well where the soldiers would put the rusty and bad pieces of armor.
It has almost become his instinct to find weak points in the protection under the cloth mask.
It was like having a pair of clairvoyant eyes, and those nails that could be seen through with a single poke were accurately pierced by him.
In the blink of an eye, half of the bloody path was cut through the city gate.
For a while, the defenders blocked in the city gate looked chaotic.
The fearful people in the front wanted to retreat, and they huddled together with the invincible people in the middle, but they were pushed away by the defenders inside the pass who couldn't see clearly the situation and just wanted to rush forward.
"Push them out!"
Liu Chengzong shouted like this.
Feng Lei understood, threw the knife at the enemy, grabbed a spear, held it horizontally and stuck it in the city gate. Liu Chengzong also held the spear shaft, and the two of them pushed inward with all their strength.
On one side, there are two former frontier soldiers who have been eating every meal for several months.
On the other side, there are the frontier troops who are outnumbered but hungry and sleepy.
They were pushed and squeezed together by two people, retreating.
One step, two steps, someone falls.
Liu Chengzong walked forward faster and faster, and more and more thieves and soldiers behind him joined in, pushing the defenders into the pass.
Finally, at a certain moment, seven or eight people were pushed and rolled all over the ground, and they entered the city gate.
Liu Chengzong lost his spear shaft and rushed towards the defenders with his sword again.
They broke up.
Soldiers from the Mule Battalion poured in from the city gate in groups and pursued them in all directions.
Others returned to the city gate, mounted their mules, and galloped into Yanshui Pass to pursue the fleeing defenders.
This guarding the Yellow River ferry, the pass leading to Shanxi, changed its surname this night.
Liu Chengzong stood at the city gate. There were four artillery pieces he had never seen before. They all seemed to weigh six to seven hundred kilograms.
Feng Rui shook his sore and swollen arms and climbed up to the city gate, asking: "Chief, what should we do next?"
Liu Chengzong smiled.
He could feel that since leaving Yan'an Fucheng, there had been robberies at inns, emergency delivery stores, and several battles in succession.
His prestige in the team grew day by day, and he became the undisputed leader of the group.
"What else can we do? Those two groups of officers and soldiers will fight until dawn at the latest. I guess I have figured it out by now. They must be coming here.
I remember that you used to be in the Beijing Army Firearms Battalion. Do you know these four cannons? "
Feng Lun only took one look at it and said happily: "What a good thing! Ye Gong's magic gun is a forged cannon. It can hit far and is durable."
"We will ask among the prisoners if anyone is willing to join us, we will recruit them into the auxiliary army and provide them with two meals a day. The gunners will be brought up directly and the soldiers will watch and fire the cannons.
If you don't want to follow us, don't kill anyone if you surrender. Just strip them naked and tie them up as usual. They must be tied tightly. "
Liu Chengzong didn't mind if the prisoner continued to fight him after being rescued.
The released prisoners were tools to spread fear among the enemy.
When surrender becomes a habit, they will lose their tenacious courage and think of surrender when encountering slight setbacks.
This will make future battles easier.
Feng Lun took the order and told these things, and then asked: "Can we hold this pass?"
"What are you thinking about? If you ask brothers Cao and Gao from Shibanshan to come over and gather more than five hundred people, we can probably hold it. With just a hundred or so of us, we will definitely not be able to hold it."
As he said that, Liu Chengzong smiled, with a fierceness in his smile: "If you can't defend, you have to fight, otherwise if you escape by chance, the number of officers and soldiers will increase.
The artillery fire was accurate, and the leader came to kill one, or two to kill a pair, so that they would be frightened when they saw the mule riders in the future. "
