As if to appease Jiang Guoping, or as if to appease herself, Xue Wuxia took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, Huang Zong won't stand by and watch you die."
Jiang Guoping paused and said in a very serious tone: "No soldier in Qinghe would stand by and watch someone die."
Just when Xue Wuxia was about to say something, she found Jiang Guoping suddenly raised his right hand high, swung it down heavily, and shouted: "Release!"
Before he knew it, Lieutenant General Li had entered the range of Qinghe's powerful crossbow.
In fact, Jiang Guoping's prediction was correct.
As Chen Yu had an army of more than 200,000, it was impossible for him to send only more than 500 people to infiltrate behind Zhaoyang City.
However, only Lieutenant General Li was a cavalryman, and the rest were lightly armored infantry.
There was no other way. The Chen Dynasty had few cavalrymen to begin with, and they needed to be concentrated to be used as spearheads for breakthroughs on the front battlefield. It was already a huge expense to send more than 500 people at a time to carry out such a raiding mission.
As soon as Jiang Guoping's messenger left, the Chen Dynasty light infantry, who had traveled all the way, had already appeared on the outskirts of the No. 2 and No. 3 transfer stations. Seeing that they had no intention of going out to reinforce No. 1, they took a short rest and then launched a fierce attack on the two transfer stations with only wooden fences.
In the hilly area farther away, relying on the shadows cast by the setting sun on the rolling hillsides, more than a thousand elite light-armored infantrymen were ambushed on the road from Zhaoyang City to the transfer station. They were patiently waiting for the young defender to rush out of the city in a hurry, and then they would deliver a fatal blow to him.
After fighting for so many years, the gap in strength between the main force of the Chen Dynasty, which had experienced life and death tests on the central battlefield, and the garrison forces in other places has been far widened. They came from afar, hoping to hunt fatter prey here.
The Qinghe crossbowmen standing on the earth wall only had time to shoot three arrows, which were thrown arrows. As for who they could hit, it really depended on the luck of both sides.
The Chen Dynasty cavalry's charge speed was really too fast.
The so-called "no more than three arrows can be fired at the enemy".
However, this was a Qinghe powerful crossbow with an increased firing speed, and it could only fire three arrows in time, which was far beyond Xue Wuxia's expectations.
The reduced hit rate caused by the projectiles and the rapid movement of the enemy meant that the three rounds of projectiles fired by the two hundred strong crossbowmen only caused negligible casualties to the Chen Dynasty cavalry. Many of the Chen Dynasty cavalry who were hit by arrows still bravely charged forward with arrows.
If a large-scale cavalry attack is encountered, the effectiveness of the crossbow must be further improved.
Xue Wuxia secretly took note of this.
"Raise your shield!"
Jiang Guoping didn't have time to think about more problems like Xue Wuxia. He just glanced at the enemy's casualties and didn't even have time to frown before quickly ordering the shields to be raised.
The Chen Dynasty cavalry in the front row increased their speed to the extreme. They seemed to want to use this method to jump onto the city wall in one fell swoop, while the Chen Dynasty archers in the back row had already drawn their bows.
Soon, Jiang Guoping regretted it.
Holding up a shield can indeed protect you from attacks by archers.
However, the large shield, which was ten feet square, actually blocked the view of the defenders, leaving the infantrymen holding spears and sabers in a dilemma.
Soon, the Chen Dynasty cavalry split into two groups.
A group of people headed towards the city gate. From the movements of the front row cavalrymen who began to swing the rotating ropes, it could be seen that they had discovered that the gate of the transfer station was just made of logs as thick as arms. As long as they could loop or hook the city gate, turn their horses' heads and pull hard, the city gate would definitely not be able to withstand it.
Another group of Chen Dynasty cavalry concentrated their attacks on the lowest part of the city wall.
Jiang Guoping knew that location.
When it rained a few days ago, that section of the rammed earth wall collapsed. Although he organized people to repair it in the past two days, everyone was busy transporting the goods, so the repair work could only be done in a makeshift manner. Not only could you tell from the color that it was a newly built wall, but the height was also much shorter, only about a head taller than a normal person.
There is no way, war cannot break out after you are fully prepared.
Jiang Guoping could only hope that the 150 Qinghe regular troops and 200 auxiliary troops behind that section of the city wall could hold on, allowing him to transfer troops from other places to reinforce according to the battle situation.
"Almost."
The deputy who had been observing the enemy situation said to him.
Jiang Guoping nodded and said loudly: "Throw it out."
One by one, earthen jars were thrown out of the city.
Because there were no catapults, the throws weren't very far, and they didn't even hit a few people. When the jars shattered on the ground, the passing Chen Dynasty cavalrymen were shocked to discover that they were actually filled with water, and there was a strange smell inside...
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