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Text Chapter 579: Contributions of Personal Guards

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    During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, one foot was equal to 258 centimeters. The actual height of a three-foot-high city wall was 774 centimeters, and the standard height of an adult was 1.8 meters. In other words, the height of the city wall was slightly higher than four adults stacking human ladders.  A little bit.  With the help of one more person, the four guards stepped on the people to build a ladder. The person at the top carefully climbed onto the edge of the city wall, only exposing his eyes and looking inward. There were five people at the top of the city, four of them.  While warming themselves around the fire, there was another person walking and jumping along the city wall, tightly wrapped in a leather jacket, and occasionally looking down.  But this look is just a symbolic glance. Given the danger of the stone fort, what will happen even if there is an enemy attack?  Moreover, although there is some moonlight in the dark night, it is still pitch black twenty or thirty feet away. Seeing too much of the withered grass dancing in the wind will make people feel frightened, especially the strange sound made by the strong wind passing through the mountains, which can easily make people feel scared.  People think of things they shouldn¡¯t!  Having a high level of education does not mean that one cannot have faith, but the more stupid and backward one is, the more one believes in gods and ghosts!  But no one could have expected that there would be no gods or ghosts tonight, but the messenger of death would come!  The two stone forts were built against the mountain, separated by a mountain road that was only a few feet wide. After initially grasping the movement patterns of the patrol posts, while the patrol posts had their backs to themselves, the two guards on top made gestures to each other, and both  Nodding, they each sent a signal downwards, and then moved to one side, using only their hands to climb the wall and their feet to step on the cracks in the rocks to maintain their balance.  There were five people on each side, and four people stacked the ladders. The extra person climbed up the ladder to the top. In this way, the number of guards clinging to the outer wall of each stone castle became two.  , which also means that four people can launch a sneak attack on the guard, with a higher success rate.  After each silently counting three breaths, the four guards held up their hands and leaped onto their respective stone castles!  "Who is it?" "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" The flash of the figure and the sound of landing immediately attracted the attention of the guards.  They all picked up weapons and came straight towards them.  The language of the Rouran people belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altay language family. Perhaps the upper class, such as Yujiulu Shelun and Chiluohou, can speak Luoyang Mandarin, but ordinary soldiers speak Rouran dialect, and their language is not understood by the bodyguards.  , I didn¡¯t want to understand, my feet touched the ground.  Each person threw out a dagger, and four cold lights flashed out, ahhhhh!  After four screams in succession, someone was shot in the throat, someone was shot in the center, and they fell dead immediately!  The huge movement alarmed the stone castle.  There were incomprehensible shouts and messy footsteps inside the castle. It was obvious that reinforcements would come up to inspect within a few breaths. If you want to control the stone castle, you must get there before this happens!  There were originally five defenders on each side of the fort, but now there were only three left. After being startled, these three were shocked and angry.  He immediately raised his spear and stabbed directly at the two guards opposite each other. The guards immediately drew out their daggers and faced them, making a few muffled sounds!  Fighting with short knives and spears relies on the skill of breaking with bare hands, but the prairie herdsmen eat beef and mutton as their staple food. They are all big and strong, and they fight and kill all the year round.  Although their martial arts are not as sophisticated as those of the personal guards, they are the most practical killing skills, and they are well versed in the three keys of stability, accuracy and speed!  The guard's sword skills were strange, vicious, and cunning. The howling north wind covered up the brushing wind of the sword, but in the end he suffered the disadvantage of the short sword. Three or two strikes could not kill the enemy.  Moreover, it was impossible for our companions who were still thirty feet away to come to our aid within a few breaths, so the situation seemed quite unfavorable.  Seemingly anticipating the deadlock above, the guard at the bottom of the ladder sent a signal to the top.  The guard in the middle immediately knelt down and squatted down, and then pushed hard. The guard at the top used the momentum to leap up, climbed to the top of the city, rolled over, threw another dagger, and each of them gasped.  With two soft sounds, another enemy fell on the stone castle!  The situation was immediately reversed, from two against three to three against two. The power of the short sword was exerted in the blink of an eye. Two people entangled their opponents respectively, and the other person went around behind to be careful of a knife, ah!  After two screams from the stone castles on both sides, the last four enemies were killed one after another!  And every two remaining guards below the castle hurriedly sent a signal to their companions thirty feet away, threw hooks respectively, and climbed up!  At this point, there were still ten people in the two stone castles, but they had been replaced by personal guards. They did not dare to delay at all. They took off their hand crossbows and ran towards the exit. They fired arrows into the stone castle without looking.  The stairs were not built on one side like a city wall. It was surrounded by enemies and could only be built inside. Suddenly, screams and the sound of heavy objects rolling down the stairs came from the exit.  The hand crossbow is convenient to use, but it still cannot be separated from the category of crossbow. Loading and stringing the arrow still need to be done step by step. In such an urgent situation, it is obvious that the second arrow cannot be shot, so the guards hung the crossbow back to their sides one after another.  He took off a leather bag from his back, pulled the rope away, and immediately dumped it down.It was all kerosene, and one of the guards took out a flaming stick and waved it in the wind. After the fire became bright, he threw it away.  With a sound of "Boom!", blazing flames ignited in the corridor, and shouts and curses were heard immediately. However, the guards carried a limited amount of kerosene, so it was a bit difficult to kill the enemy, but it was still possible to stop the enemy for a while.  During this moment, the second bag was taken off and untied. This bag contained pieces of wolf dung!  Burning wolf dung will produce a lot of wolf smoke. "Youyang Zazu" says: The wolf dung smoke goes straight up, and it is used for beacon fire!  As the wolf dung poured in, in an instant, the black smoke seemed to explode. Except for a small part that escaped from the exit, most of the rest was poured back due to the low and sloping shape of the building.  "Cough cough cough~~" Suddenly, the inside of the fort was filled with thick smoke, and coughs were heard one after another. This was much worse than the smoke from their own barbecue. Everyone's face was filled with snot and tears, and they couldn't care about anything.  Can open the door and run out quickly!  Taking advantage of this time, the ninety guards also rushed to the bottom of the stone castle. Some took out their hand crossbows and shot the defenders, some climbed up, and some blew the horns.  ¡°Woooooo~~¡± The desolate horn sound spread outside the mountain.  "Okay! It is indeed a personal guard, and he succeeded so quickly!" Tan Daoji shouted loudly, and made a move with his big hand: "Brothers, come on!" The sound of hooves rumbled, and the defenders originally bullied the young guard to chase after them and fight.  , but at this time, his face turned green with fear. Without the cover of the stone castle, ten lives were not enough under the rolling iron hooves of the cavalry. Out of survival instinct, they hurriedly dispersed, but in the end, nine out of ten people were killed.  The galloping horses knocked them down and trampled them to death, while a few people were stabbed in the vest by spears from behind!  Among the 20,000 cavalry, about 3,000 were from the original Beifu Army. They had never seen the power of the personal guards. They thought that seizing the fort would require a bloody battle, but they did not expect that they could seize it so easily.  With it in their hands, when they looked at the stone castle in front of them, they still couldn't believe it!  However, Tan Daoji understood that seizing the stone fort was only the first step, and he would inevitably face a crazy counterattack by the Rouran people, because theoretically, the Dongmugan Mountain Pass was not the only passage connecting the north and south of Yinshan Mountain, but Yinshan Mountain was about 2,000 meters long.  Yuli starts from Juyan County, Xihai County, Liangzhou (now Alxa League, Inner Mongolia) in the west, and ends in the upper reaches of the Luan River Valley (now Duolun County, Inner Mongolia) in the east. Pingcheng faces the middle part of Yinshan Mountain, which makes Rou  However, if you want to retreat, no matter whether you go east or west, you have to take a detour of more than a thousand miles and bypass the Yinshan Mountains!  The Yinshan Mountains stretch from east to west, with an average width of about a hundred miles. They are steep in the south and gentle in the north. The terrain is complex and the mountain roads are rugged. They form like a huge natural barrier, blocking the cold current from the south and the moisture from the north. This makes the climate difference between the north and the south of Yinshan significant. Rainfall is abundant in the south of the mountain.  , the wind is light and less, the precipitation in the north of the mountain is sparse, and the wind is strong and violent. It is the dividing line between grassland and semi-Gobi and semi-desert grassland.  This also means that even if the Rouran people are determined to bypass the Yinshan Mountains, they will have to pass through a large barren land before returning to the Orkhon and Tula river basins. How many of them can survive?  It is no exaggeration to say that the Dongmugan Mountain Pass is the throat of any grassland nomads. As long as the Central Plains Dynasty can firmly hold this throat, no one can make waves. This is why Mengtian of the Qin Dynasty set up two stone towers here.  The root cause of Fort!  Within tens of miles behind the stone fort, there are mountain valleys of different sizes, with tens of thousands of Rouran defenders stationed there. The stone fort is only the most outpost to control the mountain pass. It is obvious that it won't be long before a large army comes to attack.  .  Tan Daoji immediately issued a series of orders, and groups of soldiers built defensive positions based on the terrain with the stone castle as the center.  ¡°Here we come, get ready!¡± Xu Daofu suddenly exclaimed.  The soldiers immediately raised their crossbows.  There was an obvious roar from the north, and a hazy black shadow quickly approached. Xu Daofu shouted again: "Let go!" Densely packed short arrows poured out, and screams continued, but the grassland  The nomads were really not afraid of death. They rushed forward one after another. After leaving enough corpses behind, the newcomers simply picked up the corpses to block the arrows!  The flesh and blood tissue is soft and tough, and there are bones inside. It is more effective than any shield. Even a steel arrow cannot completely penetrate a corpse. The Rouran cavalry picked up the corpses of their companions as a shield, and they gradually twisted.  Unfavorable situation!  There was no way. Tan Daoji was traveling a long distance and could not carry too much equipment. Moreover, he was in a hurry and had no time to build a wall with rocks. He could only use the crossbowmen as the forward position. But with the crossbow blocked, the only way out was  It's hand-to-hand combat!  Xu Daofu, who was in charge of the forward command, made a prompt decision and shouted again: "The crossbowmen retreat, the cavalry comes forward!" The crossbowmen retreated along both sides of the mountain road like a tide, while the cavalry pushed forward, engaging in the most brutal fight with the enemy!  This is completely exchanging lives for lives, and all battle formations will be lost.This is exactly what it means. Although the mountain road is only a few feet wide, the total number of cavalrymen who can participate in the battle will not exceed dozens of cavalrymen. However, the warriors behind the cavalrymen who are engaged in the battle, on the one hand,  While he was preparing to fill his position at any time, on the other hand, he took out his bow and arrows and kept throwing them into the sky!  PS: Thank you to my favorite Hatsune girl and lmxy for your monthly votes, and thank you Feng Xiaai for the reward~~~~~~
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