Chapter 238: Encirclement and Chasing
"They don't have a crossbowman, but we do."
Su Qingqing handed a bow to Rong Que, "Try it!"
As they were talking, the bailiffs had already come up carrying several baskets of arrow feathers.
Su Qingqing stood on the city wall. In the cold and windy night, her eyes were slightly narrowed, shining brightly. At this moment, she seemed to be back on the battlefield belonging to the Su family army.
Under the cover of night, he pulled the bow in his hand.
Because it was a new bow and the range was not yet accurate, Su Qingqing casually put feathers on the arrow and shot at the opposing army.
She didn't look for tricky targets, she just shot randomly.
But because the opponent was completely unprepared and the distance was close, it was enough for Su Qingqing to hit the target with every shot, but there was no guarantee that she could hit the opponent in the throat with one arrow.
After shooting about twenty arrows and finding the feel for it, Su Qingqing aimed her next arrow at the throat.
She originally wanted to lock onto the enemy's commander-in-chief, but unfortunately, the two previous test arrows caused the enemy to panic and become alert, and the commander-in-chief was forced to retreat by the crowd.
During this time of retreating, Su Qingqing and Rong Que each held a bow, and the arrows whizzed through the night sky and hit the other's back.
As the rain of arrows flew out, the poor yamen runners who were exhausted from pushing the ladders were finally able to collapse to the ground with limp limbs and open their mouths to gasp for breath.
The other side was obviously unwilling to give up the attack like this, but during the time they were retreating, Su Qingqing and Rong Que had knocked down more than a hundred people. How could they dare to continue attacking?
The noise of banging on the city gate finally disappeared, and the trembling hearts of the people digging big pits inside finally calmed down a little.
On the city wall, Su Qingqing had a heroic smile that was unique to the battlefield. She turned to Rong Que and said, "I'll take Jixiang down, you watch the position!"
Looking at Su Qingqing's confident and brilliant appearance, Rong Que could n't .
All he could say was, "Don't worry, I'm here."
Su Qingqing took Jixiang downstairs.
The ditch outside had been dug wide and long enough. While waiting for someone to lead the horse, Su Qingqing instructed Zhao Ji, "Bring the spears from the county government, point them upwards, and bury them. Bury each spear halfway into the ground, and bury them firmly."
Zhao Ji knew that Su Qingqing was going to take Jixiang out to fight, and his face turned pale.
"Your Highness, we have been trapped in the county town for a long time. There is no need to rush. Your Highness, please do not take risks. We can still..."
The people who were digging the ditch were also moved.
Among them were students who sat around the county government office yesterday, their eyes reddened, “Heroines, role models for our generation.”
Su Qingqing just smiled at Zhao Ji and said, "Everyone has his own duties."
At this moment, the monk brought the medicine over. Su Qingqing drank a bowl of the medicine like a parting drink with the warrior, jumped on the horse, and galloped away from the other side of the city gate with Jixiang.
In their hands, they carried the only remaining black gunpowder in Datong County.
It's not easy for the bandits to retreat.
Once you come, don’t even think about leaving.
The strong horse galloped wildly in the night. Su Qingqing held the reins and whip in one hand and the prepared black gunpowder mud ball in the other hand. She carried a large bow and quiver on her back.
Directly encircle and block the retreating bandits from behind.
She threw the black powder into the enemy camp. As the gunpowder exploded, she grabbed the longbow behind her and fired arrows at the chaotic crowd.
Although this bow has a limited range, Su Qingqing's strength has not yet fully recovered, so it is just right to use it.
It was so dark that it was hard to see clearly. In addition, Su Qingqing and Jixiang each threw a round of black gunpowder over, and there was smoke and screams everywhere. For a moment, the other party had no idea how many people had come over here.
In addition, after Su Qingqing and Jixiang threw the black gunpowder, they also surrounded these people and set fire along the way.
There was an immediate panic.
They were all inexperienced country men who were captured to serve as soldiers. Su Qingqing and Jixiang were on each side, like sheepdogs driving a flock of sheep back into a circle, and they gathered all those who wanted to escape towards the city gate.
Over there, Rong Que stood on the city wall, shooting arrows in his hand at the people who were rushing over .
In the panicked barracks, someone soon discovered that there seemed to be only one person shooting arrows on the opposite city wall.
Everyone moved towards the city gate almost instinctively. In the crowd, Marshal Zhou and Marshal Tu had both fought on the battlefield and knew that the other side was deliberately driving them towards this side. They shouted at the top of their lungs, urging their frightened recruits not to move towards the city gate. However, the chaos had already made people lose their minds, and their shouting could not stop anything.
In addition, when the attack just started, in order to maintain morale, the veterans were at the front.
They all became living targets, either shot dead or injured. At this moment, they could not play the role of the old leading the new.
Just as a group of people were about to reach the city gate, Marshal Tu and Marshal Zhou suddenly discovered that those who were driving them stopped moving.
They were surrounded in front of the city wall. If they took a step forward, the people on the wall would shoot them with arrows. If they took a step back, the people who were driving them would shoot them with arrows.
It's a death anyway.
Marshal Zhou pulled the reins and said, "Listen to me, if we rush out of the outer perimeter, we may survive by chance, but if we are pushed under the city wall, we will die. The rocks above can kill us. Brothers, now is the only way to fight."
Faced with death, everyone is like a drowning person trying desperately to grab a life-saving straw.
There is only one chance, so give it a try.
It's just a desperate move.
The panic just now dissipated a little, and at this moment all the living people gathered together, trying their best to fight their way out from the outside.
However, just as everyone was preparing to charge towards Su Qingqing, someone suddenly screamed.
"The gates are cracked, brothers. The gates seem to be cracked."
This discovery once again dispersed everyone's preparations for the attack, and everyone turned to look at the city gate.
Sure enough, they had been attacking the city gate for several days in a row. At this moment, as if it could finally not bear the weight, the city gate cracked little by little from the direction of the bearing.
There was a loud bang that shook the earth.
A city gate fell down and hit the ground.
Suddenly, those blood-thirsty bandits rushed towards the city gate.
Marshal Zhou and Marshal Tu's eyelids twitched wildly, and they felt something was wrong.
But it's too late.
These people had never had any combat experience and were already frightened by tonight's battle. They were barely able to gather together and prepare for a fight, relying on a glimmer of hope to stay conscious.
Now, for them, that door means life.
When everyone rushed to the gate, Marshal Zhou and Marshal Tu fell behind the crowd due to hesitation and were exposed to Su Qingqing's shooting range.
Capture the thief and the leader.
whoosh!
After firing three arrows in succession, Su Qingqing narrowed her eyes and pulled the bow towards Marshal Zhou.
