Following his order, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time loaded their bows with arrows, aimed at the city gate, and started shooting randomly.
In the dark night, random arrows poured down like rain, and in just a moment, more than ten ghost soldiers were shot down.
The screams suddenly started one after another.
At this time, the other party also reacted, and the ghost army began to shout loudly: "Ah! Enemy! It's the enemy--"
There was a huge chaos at the city gate.
"You lead a team of brothers to seize the city gate! I'll capture the city defense!" Xiao Yuan kept walking, and after giving Peng Shuang instructions, he immediately shouted: "Kill!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people rushed forward, met the ghost army, and slashed with their swords.
As the saying goes, generals have the heart to die and soldiers have no desire to live. As the leader of this operation, Xiao Yuan's leading charge has an inspiring effect that is self-evident.
What's more, the ghost tribe invaded the Central Plains, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil. The hatred of the past came to their hearts, and the soldiers below also burst out with a roar, abandoning life and death, pulled out their swords, and pounced on Xiao Yuan.
As for the Ghost Army, they never expected that the Central Plains Army would suddenly appear from the city. Not to mention that they were caught off guard, and there were not many troops here at all.
Two ghost soldiers heard the shouts below and just ran down the city defense with spears in hand. What came face to face were Xiao Yuan's two fierce and sharp knives.
Blood spattered and the two men were killed on the spot. For a moment, there were shouts of killing.
It is very easy to go up to the city wall from the city. Xiao Yuan took the lead here and a group of soldiers quickly reached the top of the city and fought with the ghost army on the city defense.
In the midst of the chaos, Xiao Yuan also began to shout loudly: "Throw the oil altar!"
Following his order, many soldiers took off the oil jars that had been prepared from their waists and threw them out with all their strength.
The oil altar hit the city wall, and the sound of broken earthen jars was heard one after another. Xiao Yuan immediately pulled out a torch on the city wall and threw it directly to the ground.
The torch fell to the ground and the fire oil caught fire. The fire began to spread rapidly along the oil stains.
In the blink of an eye, a fire broke out where the oil altar was broken. In the raging fire, many ghost soldiers were running away frantically, howling miserably.
At the same time, Peng Shuang also led a team of troops to capture the city gate. With a "squeaking" sound, the tall city gate was slowly opened.
Outside Moon City.
In the dark night, the fire was too obvious. Seeing the city gate on fire, Lu Bolin was immediately shocked and couldn't help but said: "They really succeeded!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately waved his hand and shouted in a loud voice: "Send the order! The entire army attacks Moon City!"
At this moment, the main army had already assembled and was on standby. With his order, the entire army began to charge towards Yuecheng.
In normal times, there would be 30,000 ghost troops in Moon City, and if the city gate could not be opened, Lu Bolin would not dare to launch an attack rashly, but now, with such an opportunity, he could not help but become excited.
You know, this time the Central Plains army fought against the ghost tribe, he was the commander in chief, and Yuecheng was lost in his hands. How could he not be excited if he could regain the lost ground.
In the city, as the city gate was attacked, more and more ghost troops were already coming here.
After setting fire on the city wall, Xiao Yuan has now joined Peng Shuang, and the two are leading five hundred soldiers in a bloody fight with the ghost army.
Before, Xiao Yuan had discovered from some small things that Peng Shuang was extraordinary and powerful. But now, on the real battlefield, the latter's combat power shocked Xiao Yuan even more.
At this moment, Peng Shuang was standing at the front of the crowd, with more than a dozen scimitars cutting him off on his head, but he did not dodge or give in. He raised the sword in his hand, held it up forcefully, then flicked it away, and swept the sword forward. The ghost army in the platoon suddenly howled miserably.
When he was in the crowd of enemy soldiers, he felt like he was in an uninhabited land. When he was slashing left and right, he would occasionally lift up the ghost soldiers with one arm and throw them into the crowd, often smashing a large piece away.
Such a strong general can defeat a thousand armies with one person. If Xiao Yuan were Lu Bolin, he would definitely use Peng Shuang in great importance. Unfortunately, at that time, there was a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority, and more emphasis was placed on family background, and Peng Shuang was a poor man. The family is not a powerful person, so no matter how capable he is, he has never been in the sight of the upper class.
This is also the shortcoming of the feudal dynasty.
The battle continued. As the ghost army gathered more and more, the pressure on Xiao Yuan's side gradually increased. Fortunately, these five hundred soldiers were all elite veterans. Otherwise, it would be difficult to say that they could hold the city gate.
At this time, everyone knew in their hearts that what they were fighting for was time. If they persisted for a while, the main force would have arrived!
Therefore, all the soldiers were fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and almost everyone had blood stains on their bodies and faces.
After the chaotic battle at the city gate continued for a while, the deafening sound of horse hooves finally came from outside the city.
That was the sound that the cavalry made when they all launched a charge.
The sound got closer and closer, and the earth seemed to start to tremble.
Upon noticing this movement, everyone on the Ghost Army side was shocked, while all the soldiers on Xiao Yuan's side had surprises on their faces.
The city gates opened wide, and the cavalry swarmed in without slowing down at all.
At this time, without Xiao Yuan's orders, the rest of the soldiers quickly retreated and stood on both sides, with their backs against the wall.
Before the ghost army could react, a group of cavalry rushed into the city gate and swept past at lightning speed.
The neighing of the war horses and the miserable howls of the ghost army came one after another. The speed of the cavalry did not slow down. After rushing in, they ran directly into the crowd, often flying a large area of the ghost army, and trampled to death and injured countless people.
Then, countless infantrymen rushed in holding halberds.
The war breaks out.
For a time, the clash of weapons began to occur in various places near the city gate, and it became more and more intense. The ghost army was supporting this side from time to time, and the Central Plains army was sending more and more infantry. Rush into the city and join the battlefield.
In the end, it turned into streets and alleys, with melees everywhere.
Among them, there are even more pitiful howls and crazy escapes from countless ghost tribesmen.
In such a night attack, without the ghost army knowing anything, the city gate was opened from the inside, and the main force of the Central Plains army entered the city. The outcome of the war was no longer in doubt.
Seeing that his main force had arrived, after Peng Shuang killed a ghost soldier with one sword, he couldn't help but pull a soldier over and asked loudly: "Where is Xiao Yuan!"
Just now, Xiao Yuan was still with him, but at some point, he disappeared.
The two of them fought side by side and fought bloody battles before. Peng Shuang thought that something happened to Xiao Yuan.
At this time, Xiao Yuan had already quietly slipped into the city.
Because he knew that under such circumstances, the opponent's general would definitely run away.
