Chapter 2853 Fierce Battle
Immediately afterwards, more fireballs fell.
The whooshing sound and countless flames flashed before his eyes, like fire falling from the sky. People could still dodge, but horses were most afraid of such flames.
Suddenly, all the war horses were frightened and began to neigh, raising their front hooves and struggling and roaring.
One after another, people were thrown off their horses and rolled in the flames on the ground, screaming incessantly.
At this time, Monk, who was riding a horse and standing in the distance, saw this scene. His slender eyes reflected the flames rising into the sky, but they were also cold.
Several generals around him said angrily: "These Yan people are so cunning!"
Monk curled the corners of his lips slightly.
"I underestimated them."
This can't stop them.
The battle-hardened cavalry of the Neng State immediately came up with a countermeasure. There were cloth bags hanging on the horses' ears, and the cavalry immediately pulled the cloth bags off and put them directly over the horses' eyes. Now, no fire could scare them.
At the same time, these men took out their cowhide shields from their horses, held them above their heads with one hand, and held the reins with the other, charging forward with all their might: "Charge!"
Since the horses couldn't see, they wouldn't be frightened anymore. These Neng people who had grown up on horseback could gallop their horses with one hand holding the reins. Soon, a large group of people rushed towards the city wall of Peking again.
Knowing that the rockets could only be used once, Luo Qitong did not hesitate. He waved his hand to let the soldiers holding torches retreat and immediately said, "Archers, shoot again!"
"yes!"
Another neat reply. Hundreds of archers stood on the city wall, drawing their bows and strings. Then they heard a dense and sharp sound that seemed to pierce the ears. Countless arrows cut through the sky and flew like lightning towards the Dian cavalry who were approaching the city gate.
Many people were also shot and fell.
But more arrows hit the cowhide shields directly and could not hurt them at all.
After a while, hundreds of soldiers from the Dian Kingdom were about to rush to the bottom of the city wall.
"Ha ha!"
Several generals around Monk laughed and said, "I didn't expect them to be so vulnerable."
"That's what we have to do. Once we break through their city gates, the city of Peking will be right under our feet!"
"They thought they could really outflank us by gathering a few troops from behind. With this little skill, we wouldn't be afraid of being attacked from three sides!"
"Ha ha ha ha."
However, there was no smile on Monk's face.
He still looked ahead coldly and said, "It's not that easy."
"Um?"
The people around him were stunned and turned to look at him hurriedly: "Your Majesty, what did you say?"
Monk did not answer them, but looked ahead coldly. After the expansion of Peking City, the city wall was widened several times than before. Standing closer and looking at Peking City, one could hardly see the ends on both sides, as if the endless Great Wall stretched across before one's eyes.
Especially at this moment, the night was dark and only the corner tower on the city wall had torches lit, so they could only see that area.
The city walls on both sides extend into the night, as if they have merged into the night and nothing can be seen.
But at this time, Munch had an animal-like sharpness.
He suddenly said: "On both sides of the tower!"
"Huh?" The generals around him were stunned again, looked back at him, thought about this sentence, and immediately turned to look forward. They saw that the soldiers who rushed to the bottom of the city wall were about to prepare to attack the city. Suddenly, they seemed to hear some sound and stopped moving.
On both sides of the city wall, heavy footsteps could be heard faintly in the inky night.
Footsteps that make the earth tremble.
The Dan cavalrymen immediately realized something and hurriedly stopped their horses and looked to both sides. In the night, they saw two huge silhouettes slowly appearing on their left and right sides, walking towards them in an orderly manner.
It was like two huge wings slowly closing together.
When those people came closer, a closer look revealed that they were actually cavalrymen from the Yan country!
These cavalrymen were wearing armor, and the horses they rode were also covered with armor. They held spears and halberds in their hands, which reflected a little cold light under the reflection of the fire on the corner tower.
It turns out that Luo Qitong didn't intend to just defend himself!
This time, Monk mobilized a large army to march south, and was bound to fight a desperate battle. If he just planned to close the city gates and defend the city, he would only be beaten. In addition, the palace had already made arrangements to send a team of troops to take a detour through the Yanshan Ancient Road and move to their rear. In this way, Luo Qitong had to completely tie down Monk's troops attacking the city here.
Well, just getting beaten is not enough.
We must fight back in order to completely restrain him.
Therefore, he made preparations early. When he predicted that the people of Dian would definitely place the main force of their attack in the northeast corner, he reinforced the city gate on this side and mobilized a large number of troops and horses to be stationed at the city gates on both sides near the northeast corner.
As soon as the war breaks out here and it is confirmed that neither side has been attacked, the cavalry on both sides will immediately leave the city and gather towards the center!
This is also an encirclement tactic!
When the cavalry of the Dian State saw these cavalry appear on both sides, they were also startled. However, these battle-hardened soldiers immediately calmed down.
Behind Youqi, there was a sound of drums.
It was Monk who ordered the drummer to change his beating method. When the soldiers heard the drum sound, they immediately understood that this was an order for them to change their formation!
So, under the command of the drum, a group of cavalrymen from the Dian Kingdom immediately gathered under the city tower and divided into two rows with the city gate as the central axis. Moreover, their number was much larger. After being divided into two rows, they were like two thick and strong shields, and even formed an arc, wrapping up the battle formations rushing from both sides.
As the drum beats became more rapid, they also raised the long swords in their hands and roared at their respective battle formations.
“Charge!”
For a moment, the two groups of people fought in formations everywhere, like swords facing each other, charging towards each other with roars.
The night was already noisy and chaotic, and at this moment it was like a thunderclap, crashing down from the sky and hitting the land stained with countless blood.
The four groups of people collided with each other.
People roared and horses neighed.
The first wave of people who rushed together were immediately knocked away. No matter whether they were from the Neng or Yan country, they fell off their horses and were trampled to pieces by the horses' hooves behind them before they could even scream.
However, the soldiers behind remained fearless.
At this time, only by fighting can they have hope of survival.
Blood and dust flew up in the dark night, and everyone was blood-thirsty in the melee.
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