Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

After the gunpowder exploded, a large cloud of thick smoke seemed to fall from the sky. The billowing smoke and dust enveloped the city wall, and the clouds slowly spread upward and around in the wind. Hundreds of steps away, the horses in front of the Zhou army's camp panicked, and the camp was in turmoil.

The world is shrouded in the reverberation and shock of "rumbling". After a while, drums were beating loudly on the Zhou army camp, and a somewhat messy cavalry rushed out of the front line and rushed forward... As for the situation after the explosion of the gunpowder buried in the ground, no one knows, the smoke is too thick.

Zhou Jun didn't get close to the explosion point beforehand, either because it might expose the location, or because he was afraid of accidentally injuring his own people. The huge explosion panicked the horses, and they rushed out first. The forward team was chaotic, and seemed a little hasty and impatient, because every flick of the finger at this time was too important! A slight delay would have given the defenders more time to prepare.

And a large group of people in the camp are reorganizing the queue, and there is a lot of shouting and shouting. It is useless to have too many people rushing over. Before the battle, the Chinese army judged that the gap would not be too large, and no matter how many people approached in the early stage, it would not be necessary.

Guo Shao stood on the horse with his sword in his hand, watching the situation with the people around him. There was turmoil in the camp, drums and shouts were heard endlessly, and flags were floating in the sea of ​​people; the two groups of people who were far apart had already rushed to their respective goals!

The scene was tense and chaotic, but the chaos was orderly, and each conductor was doing his own thing. The shouts of the soldiers and the shouts of the generals made the atmosphere in the vast land outside the city tense.

The moment before the sharp conflict, the atmosphere is the most tense. Guo Shao didn't do anything at the moment, and didn't say a word, silently paying attention to every subtle atmosphere around him.

The grand scene is beyond the control of a single person at the moment of the explosion, it is like a wild horse that has run wild and will run wildly in its proper direction! But at the beginning, Guo Shao held the initiative, controlling everything from premeditation to timing | the center, as if the point and rules before the explosion of the universe originated from the Creator.

Guo Shao knew that many people would die and many families would change their fate because of his decision. He stared at the crowd who had rushed close to the city wall with wide eyes, and said silently in his heart: As long as there is a war, people will die, and all this is worth it!

...Deep in the thick smoke of the explosion, the light was dimmed, as if rushing into the dark cloud-covered dusk. But the sunlight in the sky pierced through the thick smoke like an arrow, proving the truth of the sunny day.

Visibility is relatively low, and the horse's running speed gradually slows down. The person in front covered his mouth and nose with his hands, breathing carefully, but he still coughed endlessly.

A dark shadow came into people's sight, and in the middle of the regular and orderly shadow of the city wall, a gap about six or seven steps wide appeared in front of them. In fact, it is not a gap, but a pile of ruins, and it is very high! But that section of the city wall has indeed collapsed. The more than ten steps thick city wall, thick stone foundation and rammed earth failed to be blasted into the air, but collapsed downwards, and most of the earth and rocks were piled up in place.

The first few horses had rushed to the ruins, and the horses stopped. The whole horse team seemed to be flooded on the barrier, and they were all blocked. Sharp's progress came to an abrupt end!

The subsequent command envoy also saw the situation clearly, and he immediately shouted: "Command, as soon as the horses stop, all dismount, and get your weapons!"

There was no way to go on horseback, so of course he had to dismount; so the commander immediately issued a military order without thinking, which was not superfluous. At such a juncture, people's hearts are tense, and their performance is completely inferior to their usual calmness and cleverness. Most of them react instinctively at the moment, and their minds are dumb... The commander has been like this for a long time when he was a pawn and a low-level general, and he has experienced a lot. At this time, as soon as the familiar generals give orders, coupled with thousands of trainings to obey the military orders, everyone will obey the orders of Shangfeng without thinking; everyone knows what to do, and there will be no chaos!

Sure enough, everyone got off their horses and prepared their weapons one after another, and none of them ran around.

Only then was the commander thinking nervously and anxiously. In fact, he is also a little confused... It's just that he can't get dizzy!

He remembered the military order that the Chinese Army asked him to repeat: first, try to send troops into the city, and second, stabilize your position and open the gap. For other actions, the commander has the right to make decisions on the fly!

The commander did not dare to hesitate, even if it is not the best military order, it is better than saying nothing. At this moment, his words are the military order that everyone must obey, and one person has the final say, and only the deputy commander can speak unless he is dead!

"Rush forward! Anyone who retreats can be killed!" The commander shouted tearfully.

"Kill! Kill..." The people in front yelled and climbed up the mound desperately. But it was soon discovered that people's heads were shaking in the smoke, and the Northern Han army had already rushed up... Obviously, the Northern Han army was prepared to bomb the city. Zhou Jun rode for hundreds of steps, and the Northern Han army had time to reinforce as long as they were prepared.

On the mound first, many spears stabbed downwards. The soldiers' lower bodies were forced backwards, and their upper bodies were stabbed forward. A large number of people swooped down from above, and some even rolled down.

Zhou Jun was holding shields and one-handed weapons in front, such as single knives, hooks, hammers, etc., which could not stop the pikemen from diving. For a while, the iron spear attacked the soldiers of the Zhou army first, and there was a "jingling" sound where the soldiers met. But the Northern Han army did not please the enemy as soon as they approached the enemy. After they swooped down, their formation was chaotic, and their feet stumbled again. At the point of contact, the Zhou army fought more and less, and many people surrounded a Northern Han soldier and smashed and hacked.

"Ah! Ah..." The screams suddenly sounded on the mound. The splattered blood was covered by thick smoke.

People rushed up the slope as if they were struggling in the mud, and the people behind shouted, "Kill! Those who retreat will be killed..."

The generals of the Zhou army shouted loudly and rushed towards the crowd of the Northern Han army. Their swords and shields were relatively short, and they could not attack the Northern Han army if they did not take the initiative to charge. The people in front held up their shields and swung their knives to chop at random. They didn't know what they cut, but they could only hear the screams of crying parents and mothers. Soldiers of the Zhou army were also screaming, the ground was difficult to move, and there were people all around, so it was impossible to dodge. The only way to stab with a long spear was to use the torso hard, and a shield could not stop many attacks.

The tip of the iron spear pierced the plate armor fiercely, most of them didn't pierce through, but it would dent the armor deeply, causing Zhou soldiers to scream in pain. In addition, everyone was actually full of fear in their hearts, and the shouting at this time was even more ghostly wailing! If the weapon is stabbed in the wrong position, with a lot of force, it will slide against the iron armor. In the dark and turbid air, sparks will indeed shine; the sound of metal clinging to friction|rubbing is so sour that one's teeth are limp!

An injured Zhou soldier fell to the ground with weak hands and feet, and was immediately trampled on by all kinds of feet. He screamed desperately in pain, but he couldn't get up. The human armor on his body weighed two hundred kilograms, and it was difficult to stand up again.

"Fight to the last drop of blood! To fall is to die!" a ten general shouted at the top of his voice.

The gap was only six or seven steps wide, and there were 500 Zhou soldiers and horses who rushed forward first. In addition, the climbing road was extremely difficult, and was blocked by the Northern Han army on the top, and the advance was blocked, which soon caused congestion; the gap was getting denser and denser.

At this moment, there was only a sound of "swish...", the arrows in the air were thrown down like raindrops, and then "jingled" like hailstones, and there was a cry of pain from time to time.

Zhou Jun's team was a little confused, and the commander raised his head and shouted: "Bows and arrows..." Before he finished speaking, a branch flew out of the smoke, and shot a layer of chain mail around his neck with a "dang", piercing through the thin iron ring, and the arrow cluster penetrated into his neck!

The commander didn't even yell, his eyes widened and he fell back, blood from his mouth came out together with spittle.

"General Li! General Li..." The generals and soldiers around him hurried up to help him up.

The commander kicked his feet on the ground a few times, and the face of the deputy commander Zheng Bin appeared above him, and his hands covered the commander's neck. The commander held the scabbard tightly and raised his hand. Zheng Bin, the deputy commander, hurriedly grabbed his scabbard and asked anxiously, "General Li wants to hand over the military power to me?"

The commander closed his eyes, nodded slightly, and let go of the hand holding the sword.

Zheng Bin took the sword, gritted his teeth, glanced at the person whose upper body was being supported, stood up abruptly, and shouted loudly: "Commander, General Li, order the officers and soldiers of this command to be restrained by me, deputy commander, Zheng Bin!"

Zheng Bin clenched his fists and frowned, completely ignoring the flying arrows above his head. After a while, he shouted again: "Order! Don't retreat before the front line; those who are five steps behind the front line should immediately repair the attack ramp!"

He continued to order: "Below the hillside, all the generals will drive the soldiers to the two sides to get out of the formation! The archers gather in the center!"

Where the soldiers meet in front, people may not be able to control the order of the upper peak. The sergeants at the front and back are huddled together, and the two sides are desperately fighting to the death. It was like a Shura field there, and the people's shouts were very tragic.

However, those who were not fighting behind regrouped one after another, and gradually restored order. The battle began to stalemate, and it was no longer possible to make a breakthrough with a single morale; at this time, organization and tactics were particularly important.

In the distance, another cavalry troop of the Zhou army came jogging for reinforcements. The reinforcements were no longer a chaotic group of people and horses. The big man guarded by a group of heavily armored personal soldiers is not just a commander, but the commander of the Sixth Army on the right wing. The general goes into battle in person, and he needs to go to the front to supervise the battle and maintain order in front of the battle.

The Northern Han army also gradually came to their senses. On both sides of the collapsed gap, a large number of troops were also reinforced on the city wall. They reached the top of the gap, shooting from above with bows, arrows, wood and stones, and throwing dense Zhou soldiers and horses. Zhou Jun's forward was attacked from three sides, but he still did not collapse and continued to restore his organization. The ability of the elite troops to withstand pressure gradually became more prominent than that of the general army.

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