It was another safe and sound morning. The soldiers on night watch on the city were yawning and rubbing their sleepy eyes, and secretly feeling grateful.
As guards in the Eastern Dynasties’ border guards, their tasks were not easy either. Especially since Hou Jing’s rebellion, they were on guard against sneak attacks from the west, while they had to be vigilant about the retreat, and each of them was under great pressure.
Some of the guards here were elite Jinyang soldiers stationed by Jinyang, while others were local people in Heluo. But no matter what their background is, in order to prevent them from escaping from escaping the enemy, there were military orders that had been transferred to the rear city by their wife and children, and at the same time, they could also allow them to defend the city without distraction.
It took a long time until the sky was bright, and the smoke from the cooking stove in the city had dissipated, and the armored soldiers who had changed their defenses came to the top of the city late. The soldiers who had already been hungry on the city were able to disarm and go down to the city to eat.
However, this calm was soon broken. With the anxious and noisy drum and horn warning sounds at the posts outside the city, a team of armored soldiers were running from the east along the river valley, running, and there were constant irritable shouts of killing.
Some soldiers on the guard post distributed along the valley were chopped to the ground by these sudden enemy soldiers before they could withdraw to the city. The bloody scene suddenly made people’s heart beat faster and their spirits tense.
“What’s going on? How did these enemy soldiers come from the east? Could it be that the city of Guancheng has already…”
The guards who had just climbed to the top of the city were also shocked at this moment. Although there were only a few hundred enemy soldiers, the enemy attack was too sudden and the enemy’s stalkers appeared in their unexpected direction, so they couldn’t help but feel a little panicked for a moment.
At this time, a city guard general quickly climbed to the top of the city, looked down and then shouted loudly, “Hurry, hurry up and give a warning!”
There are many peaks in the mountains of the Wushan Mountains, and the effect of warning is not very good, but it is also one of the few ways to quickly convey urgent military reports to friendly forces in the distance.
Just as the enemy continued to rush towards the city, many soldiers guarding the city quickly climbed to the top of the city under the guidance and urging of the commanders, but it would take some time to establish an effective defensive and counterattack line.
Because in the past period, they were mainly guarding against enemies from the water of the West Valley, so the bow and blades lost their capital and other equipment were mostly stored in the west of the city to prepare for the enemy to attack, but they did not expect that the enemy would come from the east. Although the number was not large, the small-scale gate of the East seemed to be exposed in front of the enemy.
“You must prevent the thief army from doubting the military strategy. Just use the equipment and materials in full, and don’t transport them out indiscriminately!”
A short and strong general with a sword in his hand quickly came to the warehouse in the west of the city and shouted loudly to the soldiers who led the armored soldiers to come here to get the weapons. This person was the governor of the town town and his name was Xu Wei.He is an experienced veteran of Beizhen. He did not lose his composure because of this sudden enemy attack. He still had a certain plan in his mind and soon thought of a possibility.
Before this person finished speaking, as if in response to him, he immediately shouted a warning outside Ximian City. Xu Wei’s face changed after hearing the sound. While ordering the commander to supervise the use of military ordnance, he ordered people to continue to summon the soldiers in the city to stand by, and he quickly climbed to the top of the Xicheng city.
The west is the key position for the defenders to guard and deploy. Even a garrison fort was set up at the entrance of the growing valley, with 300 soldiers stationed there to resist the enemy.
So although the warning sound has been issued for a while, there is still no sign of the enemy in the field of vision. It is just that Xu Wei heard that the number of enemies was violated by the increasingly urgent and dense warning sounds.
Taking advantage of the invading enemy being blocked by the Xigu Fortress, Xu Wei quickly ordered a group of soldiers to go out and deal with the fortifications such as the ditch, fences and walls in front of the city gate.
As a slightly sharp crack sounded, the sound of the police drum stopped abruptly. Xu Wei, who was still busy commanding the soldiers to defend both inside and outside, was shocked: “So quickly…”
Although the sound of the police drum was gone, the valley did not calm down. Instead, the sound of the shouts of killing echoed in the valley. The soldiers in the west of the city stared at the west, and the first thing that caught his eye were hundreds of light cavalry holding bows.
This riding formation is limited by the valley terrain and is not dense and vast, but it is coming very fast. It takes only a few dozen breaths to cross several miles of distance.