Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The cries and chaotic footsteps outside the city disturbed this desolate but peaceful morning. "Bang!" "Bang!" The sound of the city gate being hit by wood was like an invisible sledgehammer hitting people's hearts, and everyone lifted their spirits.

On the main road facing the gate of the city, multiple obstacles had been built due to tactical preparations, and a total of four human-high earthen walls were built in the middle of the main road. After Guo Shao entered the city, he ran behind the first wall, and then set up a wooden bench to watch the situation on the other side of the city gate.

At this moment, I saw an old woman trembling slowly walking to the empty space in front of her with a dead wood stick. Isn't she the blind old woman next door? How did she get here? Guo Shao suddenly felt very strange.

Because the open space in front is now basically closed on three sides. The front is the widest road in the town, but it is blocked by a wall array; several walls rely on the houses on both sides to form a maze-like folded pattern, with only a gap on the left. The gaps between the houses on both sides were also heavily blocked with earthen walls, wood and stones, and the streets and alleys outside the main road were even more winding and complicated... Wuyun Town was built like this to prevent large groups of people from spreading out and facilitate street fighting.

How could a blind old woman bypass such a complicated road? Could it be that she had guarded the gate of the city a long time ago?

"Ah! Ah..." The old woman suddenly opened her mouth and yelled twice, her voice was hoarse, and her toothless mouth looked very flat. She was filthy and torn in rags, and her gray hair was matted like straw.

"Kill the Khitan, kill the Khitan..." The old woman yelled a few more vague words.

An old soldier following Guo Shao stretched his neck and shouted: "The city gate is about to be broken, Khitan soldiers will rush in immediately, go away!" At this time Guo Shao said: "Death is a kind of relief for her."

"Boom!" The city gate finally collapsed. First, a group of chaotic civilians poured in, and soon they were driven away by the cavalry and fled everywhere. Amid the hurried and chaotic sound of horseshoes, a group of cavalry rushed straight into the city. When the first cavalry passed by the blind old woman with a hunched back, it swung the iron bone and hit it with a hammer.

But the Khitan cavalry quickly reined in their horses and stopped attacking, because what they were facing was not a road that they could sprint as they imagined, but a wall after wall. These earthen walls are not high and can be climbed up with bare hands, but the cavalry cannot go straight.

Guo Shao retracted his head and leaned his back against the earthen wall, silently listening to the movement of the horse's hooves, waiting for the opponent's decision. For a short while, he felt as if he had been waiting for a long time.

How would the Khitan react? It is said that the nomads are very vigilant and run very fast together. When they realize that there may be an ambush, they may turn around and leave the dangerous place immediately... If the Khitan people retreat in spite of difficulties, Wujun Town will be equivalent to singing an empty city plan, so it is not a bad thing. Because Guo Shao is not sure that he can win this Khitan army now, if he can't win a battle, he might as well not fight it.

But the Khitan people may not run away immediately. They are powerful in force, so they may not be easily intimidated; what's more, Wuqi Town doesn't look like a place where elite soldiers are stationed.

The worst possibility is that the Khitan retreated first, and then tried to find a breakthrough from other places. If the battle spreads from other directions, street fighting can also be carried out, but the terrain is not as favorable to Guo Shao as the main entrance.

He leaned against the wall and pondered for a moment, then took a long breath, and suddenly jumped onto the wooden bench. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the cavalryman of Tiguduo who hammered the blind woman looking ahead. Guo Shao immediately pulled the bowstring, "snap"! The sound of strings sounded without hesitation, only twenty or thirty steps away, and an arrow was shot precisely in the face of the servant.

The fellow didn't have time to call out, and fell directly from the horse's back. When the other Khitan soldiers reacted and took the arrow hastily, there was another "pop" sound, and one person was shot to death again.

Without warning, Guo Shao killed two people and then jumped off the wooden bench. He hurriedly picked up the wooden shield and put it on top of his head, and the dozen or so people behind the wall also quickly learned to lift the wooden shield. Sure enough, a moment later there was a burst of crackling strings, and dozens of arrows whizzed past the head, and some were directly nailed into the wall.

"Wah-wah" shouted outside the wall, but Guo Shao didn't show his face and only listened to the sound of horseshoes. It was heard that the Khitan soldiers did not attack, and then came another rain of arrows.

After a while, a few torches were suddenly thrown on the roof, and a house was a thatched house, which immediately caught fire.

Guo Shao moved the round stool to a place, climbed up and poked his head carefully, and saw that the Khitan infantry had followed and had reached the gate of the city. A general on horseback pointed at the painting and yelled loudly. Without further ado, Guo Shao drew an arrow and put it on the bowstring first, then suddenly stood up, drew the bow, and released the arrow without hesitation, "crack"! The guy who was gesturing vigorously fell off his horse. Guo Shao shot | He shrank back immediately after finishing.

Immediately, the pot exploded outside, and there was an uproar with all kinds of incomprehensible yelling, and then a lot of footsteps were heard, and the infantry should come up.

When Guo Shao heard the movement, he waved his hands and shouted in a deep voice, "Let's go." Then he ran away with the people around him.

Without stopping, they deftly followed the wall for a while, and pushed open a door to enter. The others closed the door and guarded the door, while Guo Shao climbed up the wooden stairs. He gently opened a small window in a messy room. This position has a very good view, and a long section of the road in the middle is within a hundred steps. The bow in his hand was not strong enough, but within fifty steps he was confident of hitting the target.

Looking down from the window, it was true that a large group of Khitan infantry poured into the earth wall alleyway, and some of them couldn't wait to climb over the wall. It's best to climb over the wall. Once you climb the wall, your whole body is exposed to the range.

"啪"... "啪"... The sound of the bowstring flicking the air is very rhythmic! The arrows were all shot, and the armor was useless. Guo Shao shot at the face and neck at such a short distance, not to mention that many pawns were not fully armored.

But after a few rounds, the target was exposed, and the Khitan archers immediately fought back. Their arrow skills were relatively accurate, and arrows kept flying in through the small windows. But this can't solve Guo Shao. He peeked out first, then dodged immediately, and then went to the window to shoot arrows, staying for a very short time. Bows and arrows are not firearms. It is difficult to hit a fast-moving target, and there is only one small window.

After a while, rockets wrapped in tarpaulins greeted them, and the roof caught fire.

Guo Shao fired another arrow, and saw several Khitan soldiers rushing towards the door below, hurriedly slipped down the stairs, and shouted to the old soldier with the gong and drum: "Knock the gong, hit it hard!"

"Kang, kuang, kuang..." The ugly gong sounded like noise.

Guo Shao tied his bow to his back, drew out his saber and shouted: "Kill!" He led the crowd to rush out the door.

A thin wall diagonally opposite suddenly collapsed, and the lower half of the wall was intentionally thin, so that it could collapse with a kick. Immediately, Yang Biao took the lead, rushing out with a group of people like a tiger descending a mountain with a long iron knife, and immediately blocked the opening in the wall.

Right next to Guo Shao coming out, a wall also collapsed! The big-headed Luo Mengzi held a wooden shield in one hand and an iron rod in the other, he recklessly used the wooden shield to open a way to squeeze up, and swung the iron rod to hit him. Guo Shao held the knife and killed the general with the people in the house.

For a while, most of the Khitan infantry were blocked by the wall formation on both sides, and the two sides started beating wildly. Such group fights were neither maneuverable nor able to start, just like fighting in the streets and alleys. The Khitan soldiers in the middle tried to climb over the wall, and there was chaos in the wall array.

Luo Mengzi used to be good at using copper hammers, but he seemed to have lost his weapon, so he used a solid iron rod to make do with it, and it was very fierce for a while. That stick is not as sharp as a copper hammer when hitting people in armor, but it still makes people cry when they are beaten with the stick. Guo Shao likes to cooperate with this kind of desperate fierce general, let him rush to the front and work hard, and he will help make up for leaks and make up for the knife... As the saying goes, you go first when you die.

"Fuck!" Luo Mengzi swears and hits the head with a stick, hitting a Khitan soldier's helmet with a bang, making the black-faced and big-mouthed Khitan man look ugly and fainted.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a Khitan soldier from behind stabbing Luo Mengzi's abdomen with a spear, Luo Mengzi didn't notice it, even if he was wearing a layer of armor, if he was stabbed by melee force, he couldn't directly stab into his intestines?

When his companion needed him the most, Guo Shao had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and stepped forward to grab the spear. The spear was powerful due to the inertia of the opponent's body. Guo Shao couldn't hold on, and the spearhead pierced his chest. With a "ding", his chest felt the depression of the plate armor.

The Khitan soldier grasped the spear shaft with both hands, and as soon as he stabbed out a large gap in front of him, Guo Shao stepped forward to slash his face with a knife without saying a word, the sound of the metal impact of the blade and the helmet, the sound of tearing flesh and blood... sprayed blood on Guo Shao's face and chest. The screams seemed to be ringing in the ear, it was almost hissing.

... The two sides rushed forward, unstoppable, and the Khitan army stumbled in this small corner. A bloody road was killed in the dirt alley, people were stepping on the corpses and gradually pushed forward, the walls were stained with blood, the air smelled sick and the wind was miserable.

In the alley with the outermost earthen wall, some Khitan soldiers saw that the situation was not good and escaped by climbing over the wall, but most of the people trapped inside were killed or injured.

The rest of the Khitan army retreated to the gate of the city like frightened birds. There were sporadic screams in the alley, it was the wounded Khitan soldiers inside who were stabbed on the spot. Obviously, there is no such thing as a prisoner in such a war, and seeing it is a knife.

The fierce and frenzied fighting seemed to stop in an instant, and the chattering voices of the Khitan people could be heard from a distance. The alleys here were full of gasps and coughs, and the people were all tired. Guo Shao sat against the wall for a while, only to feel that his arms were sore and his right hand was shaking. He shook it lightly a few times, reaching out to the ground to wipe off the sticky blood on the palm of his hand.

The sound of horseshoes and footsteps came from outside, and the soldiers in the town were obviously incapable of pursuing the victory.

After a long time, the soldiers came out of the wall formation one after another, looked around, and there were no enemy soldiers in the direction of the city gate. The flames of the houses on both sides were soaring into the sky, thick smoke billowed, and the few houses that were set on fire were almost completely burned. There was a lot of chatter in the crowd, some were discussing, some were calling for help, and some were calling for their companions to save others.

At this moment, Guo Shao who was covered in blood all of a sudden came out. All of a sudden, the surrounding area became much quieter, and the people who had been slack and huddled in a mess all made way for Guo Shao to pass through.

People's faces were suddenly full of awe, and their eyes unconsciously focused on him, "General Guo!" "Guo Junshi..."

Guo Shao didn't speak, but nodded wearily in response.