General Deng and his men quickly climbed onto the city wall, including Zhao Wuya and his disciples. Upon learning that the enemy had launched a sneak attack at night, they were not nervous but excited.
Their chance to realize their ambitions has finally come, but they don’t know if Mr. Lu is among them.
Looking at the twinkling stars not far away and the cavalrymen holding torches, General Deng rubbed his eyes and realized that he was not mistaken.
"It's really cavalry. What's the point of sending cavalry to attack? He can't let the cavalry fly up!"
"General Deng, we still can't be careless!" Zhao Wuya is a very smart leader. He knows that the enemy's attack this time is definitely not simple, and they will definitely catch them off guard by attacking at night.
"Assemble immediately. The troops have reached the city walls. We will not go out to fight them. Our primary goal now is to hold on and prevent them from taking the city."
"The order given to us by the court is to weaken their military strength!"
The general knew very well that the imperial court did not care whether they won or lost, it only cared whether they could weaken their military strength.
If we don't weaken their military strength, the imperial court will have more opportunities to prepare, and then we can deal a fatal blow to Lu Yun and his men!
However, the imperial court did not seem to consider one thing, that is, the number of Qing soldiers seemed to be increasing with each battle, and it was really hard to predict whether the imperial court could defeat them at that time.
At this time, Ye Jiajia led the cavalry and came to the top of the city wall with several thousand people. They were in uniform and moved very quickly. After they came into the range of the bows and arrows, they directly chose to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
These cavalrymen are all men from the grassland. They are very good at odd numbers, and more importantly, they are very fast at drawing bows and arrows.
After loading the bows with arrows in an instant, they shot out the arrows in unison, aiming at the city wall.
Because there definitely needed to be light on the city walls, they installed torches one by one.
Thousands of arrows were shot at the city wall at the same time. At this moment, General Deng immediately ordered his men to resist!
But they were still a step too late. The enemy was too fast and some of them were shot directly. Fortunately, they were only cavalry.
However, this is not the end. Ye Jiajia once again asked them to light the arrows. As the arrows were shot out, one could see the flames carried by these arrows densely burning the towers on the city walls.
The burning of the city wall had no impact.
But this made them panic, but fortunately soldiers were sent over quickly.
For General Deng, their purpose on the city wall was to defend, so as long as one person fell, the others would be able to take over, so there would naturally not be any big problems.
"Master Zhao, I think your disciples can leave now!"
"No rush."
General Deng didn't understand what Zhao Wuya was pretending to be, but he didn't rush to withdraw. Instead, he waited.
The cavalry stopped after shooting a few arrows. After all, they didn't have many swords, and it would be inconvenient to shoot them all at once.
After all, they are cavalry, and if the enemy does not come out, they can only stand outside and shoot arrows at them.
Seeing this situation, Ye Jiajia was very disdainful and mocked Laman directly, shouting loudly at the soldiers on their city wall.
"Hey, you guys are too cowardly. You don't even dare to do this?"
"You don't even dare to come out? We only have a few thousand of us. Is there no one in your city who dares to fight us?"
"So what if I don't dare?" General Deng said with confidence!
"Come up if you can. Aren't your cavalry very powerful? No. Are you talking about the cavalry on the grassland? Then fly up. If you can fly up to the city wall, then I will be convinced."
These words also made Ye Jiajia speechless. She once again instructed her soldiers to shoot arrows quickly!
There was no need to worry about that. As long as all the arrows in the quiver were shot, Lu Yun and his infantry should be here.
As expected, when they were dealing with the enemy, Lu Yun led a large army to the city and could see flames surrounding the outside of Linqiu City.
There are still three or four hours before dark. If they can't hold on within these few hours, then their Linqiu City will be finished.
Seeing the army coming, Ye Jiajia also told his cavalry to return! This is a siege battle!
Now on the city wall, the enemy seemed to have become smarter and they did not choose how many soldiers to send for support.
Because they knew very well that these cavalry could only charge into battle or shoot one or two arrows, but it was impossible for them to blast open their city gates.
If they stood obediently on the city wall, wouldn't they be sitting ducks waiting to die? So they didn't send more troops, but instead made them wait at the foot of the city wall.
With the arrival of the army, General Deng was also a little panicked. This time they were in a real siege. Seeing that they brought siege ladders and vehicles that could bombard open the city gates, this was definitely very dangerous!
"General, they have come with so many people, it seems that they are going to launch a war against us directly at night!"
"There's nothing we can do now. We can only choose to fight. If we just stand there passively on the city wall, then death will be waiting for us."
After hearing this, General Deng hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed with what he said.
"When the time comes, we'll enter the battlefield and deal a huge blow to the enemy, while we fight them!"
“I just hope I can hold on.”
"Come here, send 20,000 troops directly outside the city gate to meet their arrival, and at the same time send 10,000 troops on the city wall to provide continuous support."
"yes!"
So, General Deng sent out 20,000 soldiers to Linqiu City, including 5,000 cavalry and the rest were infantry. As for the archers, they were basically on the city walls.
At this moment, the two sides were in opposition! In the darkness, they all held torches, looking like a sea of fire. Although fighting at night was uncommon, it was not particularly strange.
All I can say is that Lu Yun is very smart and took advantage of the fact that they didn't react.
"Come on, attack the city!"
Lu Yun shouted loudly, and the cavalry charged in front, and both sides immediately launched an attack!
In addition, the soldiers under their command also covered their mouths and noses with cloth strips smeared with some herbs.
Because next they are going to use a new type of warfare that has just been developed! It will greatly weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness.
As a general, Lu Yun was not idle either. He did not hide behind, but took the initiative to charge forward! Because he knew that as a general, he must set an example for his soldiers.
"Follow this general and charge forward. Tonight, we will surely inflict heavy losses on them."
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