In the early morning of the third day, a rapid blast of horns sounded in Jiangling City.
"This is the call for the troops to assemble!"
Song Xin immediately opened her eyes, opened the door and ran out.
After a while, Song Xin followed Cao Ren, Niu Jin, Xu Huang, and other military generals and stood at the top of Jiangling City.
At this time, ten arrows away from the city, the black soldiers of the Wu army were already lined up in order.
"How many people have Zhou Yu gathered..." Song Xin couldn't help but feel trembling with fear.
For Song Xin, this was an experience he had never had before. Looking at the dark soldiers in the distance, he remembered the movie The Lord of the Rings and The Two Towers. When the orc army besieged Helm's Deep, their number was similar to this time.
The formation divided the soldiers into dozens of square formations, hundreds of meters deep.
At this time, the enemy's war drums beat, which made people feel numb.
The soldiers of Soochow were riding a winning streak and their morale was high. The soldiers shouted rhythmically to the war drums.
The shouts of the army, pushed by the heavy sound of war drums, turned into strong murderous intent, attacking the strong city of Jiangling and the soldiers on the city in waves.
Their swords and spears were reflected by the morning light, like the sparkling light of the lake. This seemingly calm lake will soon turn into a raging wave that swallows everything.
General Cao Jun on the top of the city felt like he was like a lone rock protruding from the water, constantly being hit by huge waves. These battle-hardened veterans also had cold sweat on their foreheads.
There is a general in front of the Wu army formation, with a leaping horse and a horizontal sword. This general wears an iron helmet and black armor. The sunlight reflected dazzlingly on his armor.
Behind him were dozens of heavily armored cavalry, each holding a heavy sword four feet long and three fingers wide. There is also an eight-foot spear hanging on the saddle. Song Xin was too far away to see his appearance clearly, but he felt that this man exuded a murderous aura from the inside out.
"This general must be Ling Gongji. This man is a brave general from Jiangdong and should not be underestimated." Cao Ren pointed at Ling Tong and said to the generals.
"It turns out he is Ling Tong!" Song Xin couldn't contain his excitement again.
A few dozen days ago, when Cao Ren sent a large army to capture Yiling, he also sent Xu Huang to lead his troops to attack Zhou Yu's base camp. Xu Huang's army was blocked outside the camp by Ling Tong. Until Zhou Yu rescued Yiling and returned to the army, Xu Huang was attacked from two sides outside the Wu camp.
Cao Ren was attacked twice by the Wu army outside Yiling and Zhou Yu's camp. He suffered heavy losses and the morale of the army was shaken. At this time, he no longer dared to underestimate General Soochow.
Ling Tong smiled coldly at the generals of Cao's army on the city. He raised his hand and pointed his sword at Cao Ren in the middle. A Wu army rider rode his horse to the bottom of the city and shouted to the people on the top of the city: "The governor of Zhou, the soldiers in the city." Dedicate the city quickly, otherwise you will all turn into withered bones when the city is destroyed."
Cao Ren showed off to Niu Jin, who immediately glared and cursed below: "Zhou Yu is a common man, a rat from the east of the Yangtze River, and wants to occupy my imperial state and county. You can come and die, don't talk nonsense!"
Cao Jun's officers and soldiers also started shouting.
The Wu Jun knight knew that this was just a formality before the battle, so he turned his horse's head and returned to the main formation without answering.
At the same time, dozens of cavalrymen behind Ling Tong immediately raised their hands to greet him. The ten thousand troops under the city seemed to have received the order and shouted in unison:
"Cao Ren is a common man. If you don't agree, come out of the city and offer your rat head."
Thousands of people insulted Cao Ren together, and the momentum was naturally terrifying. The officers and soldiers of Cao's army were all pale-faced and clutching their weapons, eager to rush out and tear Wu's army's mouth out.
Ling Tong sat on his horse, put his sword on his shoulder, pretending to be relaxed, and looked at General Cao's army on the top of the city with squinting eyes and an angry look.
He also rode a horse with dozens of cavalry to jog left and right in front of the Wu army's formation, waving his arms as he walked, encouraging the Wu army to insult Cao Ren, and was extremely arrogant. When the soldiers saw the general's encouragement, they were afraid of falling behind and scolded him even more vigorously.
The soldiers who beat the drums also deliberately slowed down the drums so that the army could follow the rhythm of the drums and insult Cao Ren. The sound shook the ears and bones of the people on the top of the city. Song Xin had never seen such a shocking scene, and he couldn't help but feel a little timid. If he fell into this formation, he might never come back.
"Cao Ren is a common man. If you don't agree, come out of the city and offer your rat head."
"Cao Ren is a common man. If you don't agree, come out of the city and offer your rat head."
Listening to the bursts of scolding, Cao Ren didn't seem very angry. He was just calmly observing the expressions of the generals around him.
Seeing the generals' faces gradually turning pale with anger, he felt that this time he had a chance to kill the Confederate army's vigor.
Cao Ren turned around and said to Niu Jin, the general next to him: "Zhou Yu is a very hateful man. Niu Jin, I gave you three hundred tigers to ride on, but do you dare to go out of the city to pick off his head?"
Niu Jin had already gritted his teeth with hatred when he heard the scolding. "Niu Jin is willing to fight." Before Cao Ren could give the order, he had already strode down to the city to gather his troops.
"When General Niu is ready, open the city and attack the enemy!" Cao Ren ordered.
After a while, the heavy wooden door at the bottom of the city opened and the suspension bridge was lowered. The soldiers of Cao's army also beat the war drums angrily, and the soldiers began to roar and drink rhythmically. How could you not be angry when someone came to your door and insulted you to your face like this?
Niu Jin and three hundred Xiong Jian knights filed out, crossed the suspension bridge and walked a stone's throw away. Several hundred cavalry formed a conical formation, Niu Jin was protected by other knights in the center of the formation. Song Xin saw from a distance that his cousin Song Ya was wearing iron armor, hanging a long spear, a short spear, and two long swords with ring heads on his waist, guarding Niu Jin's right side.
Amidst the sound of war drums on the top of Cao Jun's city, the entire formation began to advance slowly, forcing Wu Jun.
Another five thousand soldiers in the city, led by Xu Huang, began to form out of the city as Niu Jin's backup. The army advanced to a place five arrows away from the Wu army and completed its formation.
At this time, the Wu Junzhong and war drums on top of Jiangling City and outside the city suddenly stopped, and the battlefield suddenly fell into deathly silence. There was only the sound of the wind blowing across the ground, rolling in the dust, sand and dry grass.
The knights in front of Niu Jin dispersed, and he rushed out of the formation at the lead, shouting to Ling Tong: "Thieves are known by their names!"
"You are a rat, and you don't deserve to know my general's name." Ling Tong mocked Niu Jin with contempt. The Wu army behind immediately cheered, laughed and cursed, and Cao Jun became even more angry when he heard this.
"A thief, today I will meet you, a rude person." Niu Jin's face turned green with anger, and his hand holding Chang Yang was sweating. After that, Cao Jun's tiger cavalry from behind surrounded him and protected Niu Jin in the formation again.
The war drums sounded again, and hundreds of cavalry advanced slowly. When Ling Tong saw the enemy approaching, he was not in a hurry to retreat. He just raised his sword and the crossbowmen in Wu's formation advanced ten steps and stood still. Draw the bow and clasp the arrow, ready to fire at any time.
The Wu army made way for the formation, and Ling Tong calmly rode back to the formation.
"General Niu, here is a talisman. If you are in danger, just slap it on your chest and you will be safe for a quarter of an hour."
Niu Jin looked at the talisman handed over by Song Ya and was doubtful about it, but he didn't say anything at this time and held it in his hand.
Waiting for the formation to be within a stone's throw of the Wu army, the Wu army's crossbowmen were already preparing to draw their bows and release their arrows.
Cao Jun's knights put down the leather masks on their helmets to protect their faces. Their men and horses were covered in heavy armor, which could resist flying arrows to the greatest extent. They urged the horses to speed up slowly, and Niu Jin shouted, "Disperse!"
The knights immediately dispersed, urging their horses to charge every three or four steps. Hundreds of people roared angrily, with their long legs straight, ready to assassinate the soldiers in the front row.
Wu's archers were a little surprised when they saw Cao's army suddenly disperse. Some of the archers who were aiming at Cao's army suddenly lost their targets. However, at this time, Cao's cavalry was already rushing towards him, and the archers hurriedly released a wave of sword rain.
The knights of Cao's army were protected by heavy armor. Most of the arrows they shot were bounced away by the armor. Only two of them were shot through the gaps in the armor and fell off their horses.
Cao's knights were as fast as the wind and suddenly spread out in front of Wu's formation.
"Vote!" Niu Jin shouted.
At the command, the cavalry in the rear row suddenly threw short spears from behind. Suddenly hundreds of short spears rushed into the Wu army's crossbowmen formation with the sound of wind, piercing dozens of archers. The Wu army immediately fell into chaos. .
The knights in the front row took advantage of the situation and stabbed with their spears. One knight's spear penetrated the long chest of a crossbowman, and the huge force caused the wooden pole of the spear to snap. The knight conveniently discarded his long sword and drew out his sword from his waist.
The Cao Army knights behind continued to attack and pierced another row of Wu Army soldiers. They broke through three rows of archers in an instant.
When Wu Jun's general commanding the spearmen saw this, he immediately ordered to set up shields to form a spear formation and use spears to block the cavalry. The soldiers inserted the back ends of their spears into the ground, held the poles tightly with both hands, and instantly formed a wall of thorns.
Niu Jin yelled: "Kill!" He straightened up his arms and pounced on him.
At the same time, Cao Ren waved the flag at the top of the city. Xu Huang saw from the city that Chang Shuo raised his hand, and the five thousand troops on the left and right began to advance slowly to the rhythm of war drums.
