Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The first ray of light in the morning spilled into the house through the wooden windows, and Guo Shao could smell the moist and fresh morning breath from the air. He had just put on two layers of armor with the help of Luo Mencius, the breastplate armor inside and the ring armor outside.

Luo Mengzi babbled beside him: "I know that I don't have much ability, but I know that my brother is capable! Just like this time, if I change it, I won't be able to get ahead... I know that I am just a soldier, and I don't want to be an official. But, I also think that there will be a day when the hot woman at home can eat well and dress well, but the money and food for a soldier are too little. In the future, I will have a little bit of money with my brother, hehe..."

Guo Shao thought to himself, even Luo Er has such thoughts, I am afraid that other people would also want to rush, but only this guy can say it out of his mouth.

He patted Luo Er on the shoulder, and said kindly: "As long as the eldest brother has something, he will definitely not treat the brother badly."

Hearing Luo Mengzi mention the woman at home, he couldn't help but touch the auspicious amulet hanging around his neck. For a while, he thought of Yulian, and for a while, various memories of his previous life flashed through his mind. For a while, I was inexplicably restless.

At this moment, a "bang" was heard suddenly, and an old man in bamboo strips knocked open the door, kicked on the threshold and fell down, gasping for breath and coughing. Guo Shao gently raised his chin as a signal, and Luo Mengzi hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up.

"Qi, the Khitan soldiers are here!"

After hearing this, Guo Shao took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and said quickly: "Third brother, immediately beat the gong to gather all the horses, and inform the second brother that all the ministries will enter their positions according to the scheduled arrangement. Be alert!"

Luo Mengzi's face also suddenly became serious, and he clasped his fists and said, "Deling!"

Guo Shao then turned his head and asked, "How many people are there?"

"I only saw a few cavalrymen, none of them were Chinese in armor and weapons..." the old man stared and said, "I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I ran back quickly by a small path."

Guo Shao took out a half-foot short dagger from the head of the bed and hid it in his arms, then took the barrier knife from the wooden frame and hung it up, finally took the bow and quiver, and strode out of the door. The gongs of "kuang kuang" outside kept ringing, dogs barked and roosted, and chickens croaked and flew around, and it became lively for a while.

He went straight to the city wall, and several soldiers followed him to the city. Looking into the distance, I saw the shadow of a cavalry slowly approaching at the end of my line of sight.

At this time, there was a sound of heavy and orderly footsteps behind him, and Yang Biao led twenty or thirty heavily armed Imperial Army infantry gathering at the gate of the city. On the other road, there were also three groups of sergeants deployed to the center of the city one after another. They were dozens of rural soldiers composed of old and weak. These people are old, but they have all been in the army, and they are all people who have the strength to farm the land. Apart from poor physical strength, they are better to use, much better than pure civilian husbands. In this era, civilian husbands are not easy to use, because they don’t know how to use weapons at all, and they don’t have the awareness of battle formation.

Soon there was a lot of shouting in the city, most of the voices were "deling". The township soldiers were divided into two groups, one group formed in place, and a small group scattered around the city walls, and some old and weak peasants around them also followed the walls from the four sides with bamboo poles.

After a while, Yang Biao, Luo Mengzi and several ten generals of the township soldiers also climbed up to the city one after another, and continued to watch with Guo Shao.

After waiting for a long time, the small group of cavalry outside slowly approached. There were eight people in total, all on horseback. Gradually, it was possible to roughly tell from the armor that it was indeed a Khitan.

After the Khitan Kingdom entered the Hebei region, they learned a lot from the Han people in all aspects, including the armor. At first glance, it looks similar, but it is easy to find the difference. First of all, the hats are different. Han soldiers often wear integrated pockets, while Khitan soldiers wear iron helmets and ear protectors. The ear protectors are like the sides of a dog fur cap. This may be the reason why the Khitan side is colder. In addition, the breastplate and the fluorene headband around the waist are also different.

The seven or eight riders did not move forward after one or two hundred paces, turned their horses around and circled the city wall again, but still did not approach. After walking around like this for a long time, he simply turned around and ran away.

The people on the city wall murmured and sighed for a while when they saw this, Luo Mengzi laughed loudly and said: "I was scared away when I saw our battle!" Yang Biao said: "It may be just a scout team, seeing that the city is surrounded by defenses, few people don't want to rush in rashly, so they went back to report the news." Luo Mengzi said: "Then are they still coming?"

Guo Shao shouted loudly: "Order everyone to rest where they are and not to leave. If there is nothing wrong at noon, send people to the streets and alleys to call everyone to deliver food."

It was a long wait with nothing to do, but everyone seemed to be calm. Anyone who has had the experience of serving in the army also understands that most of the time in battle is either walking, working, or waiting, and there is not much time for real fighting. So it's normal now.

But this time the wait was not long, and it didn't take long before a large group of people appeared in sight. When they got closer, they could see the size of the opponent clearly. There were twenty or thirty cavalry, and a large group of infantry, probably one hundred and twenty, maybe one hundred and fifty. The infantry were holding spears, moving like a dark grove; the cavalry had different weapons, some were spears, some were a kind of mallet, with the top shaped like a large garlic head. Guo Shao had served in the army for four years, and he knew that this thing was called "Guduo", which was a kind of blunt weapon. In addition, it appears that many were armed with bows and arrows and iron swords.

It is a little strange that there is a group of people who seem to be unarmed in front of the enemy soldiers, and they look messy at first glance. When it got closer, it was confirmed that those people were ordinary people. The people were driven to walk in mourning, and whips were thrown on them from time to time, screaming and crying. There are also women inside... Obviously, the wars of this era still completely ignore women, children and civilians; we will not be willing to sit down and set rules until humans have endured more brutal |

This group of Khitan soldiers did not have siege equipment, but it seems that they don't need any equipment to fight against a wall like Wuju Town.

"Bitch!" Luo Mengzi cursed in his voice.

Guo Shao ignored the scolding, he didn't feel very good now: Khitan came not stragglers, but an organized army, more than a hundred people armed to the teeth. Looking back at Wuyun Town, there are only 20 or 30 people as a force, and the rest are old and weak, with incomplete weapons... Guo Shaodun feels that this battle is a bit ominous. But there is no other way, only to bite the bullet and deal with it. Is it possible to wave a white flag and say surrender to be fine?

The Khitan soldiers approached gradually, and still stopped a hundred or two hundred paces away. Some people in front fell on the ground and wept bitterly, as if they saw the coffin prepared for themselves and the pit dug in front of them. Three more riders rode out from the opposite side, they didn't come up to shout, but they just circled the city again.

Guo Shaoxin said: Don't look, I have already selected the best attack route for you.

There are walls and deep ditches on both sides, and there are traps in the deep ditch. Even if there is no guard, it will be very difficult to climb in from the wall; only the city gate in the south is relatively easy, there is no pit, and there is a road, and the city gate is just a wooden door, so broken that there are holes for light to pass through. Why bother if you don't just break open the city gate and let the cavalry rush in first?

As expected, the Khitan soldiers didn't move, they just whipped and drove the group of people towards the city gate.

When the expelled people approached, Guo Shao and others could clearly see the clothes they were wearing. Almost all of them are shabby, patched cotton clothes of different shades of earth, some are even ragged, and they are all poor farmers. Presumably, those rich and powerful people would have run to the town long ago when they heard the news, and of course they would not wait to be caught...Because the Khitan army's siege ability is poor, it is generally difficult to capture a relatively strong city, so it is relatively safe in the town.

"The whole army is in position!" Guo Shao shouted.

After Yang Biaosui, Luo Mengzi and the others responded, they stepped down from the earthen wall, and then shouted at the troops arrayed inside the city gate to retreat to the streets and alleys on both sides.

At this time, the sound of bowstrings sounded outside the city, and the Khitan cavalry fired arrows indiscriminately, shooting and killing the driven people from behind. The group of people were terrified, screaming and screaming and went straight to the city gate, maybe there were Khitan soldiers in disguise among them. Wujun Town was short of bows and arrows, so naturally there was no way to stop the rioters from the wall. Guo Shao looked back for the last time, turned around and hurriedly jumped off the earth wall.