The Frontier Years Chapter 55 Siege

"Captain, our momentum is so good, why don't we grab more military merits and let them out?"

In a battle gap, Lei Shaoxuan asked Shi Yan puzzled.

"Lei Shaoxuan, you and Li Hui are different from us, we rely on the team to have so much credit, if our team is too famous, we will inevitably be drawn to the front. According to our force, we will not be far from death if we are in front. ”

Shi Yan said patiently: "We just want to make meritorious service to earn some money, and if the credit is almost the same, we will stop it a little, so as not to be in the limelight and make people angry." You and Li Hui are outstanding in martial arts, when do you want to make more contributions, you need to leave the eleventh team, tell me privately, and I will arrange it. ”

"I don't want to leave," Lei Shaoxuan said indispensably, "It's not what I want to make meritorious contributions, I just want to live when I come out of the death camp." ”

Thinking of the master's entrustment, Lei Shaoxuan was actually very anxious, but he knew that the time to leave had not yet arrived, he had just entered the forward battalion, and many situations were unknown, so he was in a hurry to leave the eleventh squad and join other teams, which might not have a good result, so it was better to wait patiently.

Lei Shaoxuan's mentality has changed a lot, he has become patient and has learned to wait.

Death row prisoners in the death row camp go to the battlefield, either dead or alive, thinking about self-preservation all the time, everyone is extremely selfish, no matter what the flood of others, just care that they can survive.

This is not the case at all with the army, which will die if it fails to complete its mission. Therefore, everyone is not thinking about how to protect themselves, but about how to complete the mission, and it is often seen that the soldiers are fearless, even if they die, they must let their companions live, just to be able to complete the mission.

Lei Shaoxuan learned the righteousness of his comrades, learned to forbear, learned to be satisfied with the eleventh squad, learned to encounter interests, only took the interests within his ability, and did not take risks beyond his ability.

Lei Shaoxuan's mentality gradually calmed down, although he was very anxious about Master's affairs, but this is not something that can be solved in a short time, since this is the case, why worry - there is calm in every major event, this is what the sage said.

Lei Shaoxuan quietly honed his sword and spear skills. The forward battalion has frequent battles, and the opponents are all well-trained soldiers, and all kinds of tricks are endless, which is the best place to hone knife skills and spear skills.

Now, Lei Shaoxuan's knife and spear skills are perfect, and he can hardly find an opponent, but under the deliberate concealment of the eleventh squad, Lei Shaoxuan's reputation is not obvious.

This is also what Lei Shaoxuan needs, the so-called wood show in the forest, the wind will destroy it, it is better to make a fortune in a muffled voice.

Lei Shaoxuan's cultivation of easy muscles and marrow gradually made his body stronger, although he could not resist swords, guns and arrows, but his strength became more and more tenacious and durable.

As he grew older, Lei Shaoxuan gradually got rid of his childishness, his eyes were resolute and sharp, and he acted calmly, without the arrogance and escape in the death camp.

Lei Shaoxuan's martial arts are outstanding, extremely smart, when Lei Shaoxuan is completely familiar with the life in the military camp, Lei Shaoxuan's treachery and ferocity have become a nightmare for others, and anyone who wants to deal with the eleventh squad will regret it in the end.

Shi Yan has something to do and likes to discuss with Lei Shaoxuan, and Lei Shaoxuan gradually became the military advisor of the team.

The situation at the border is becoming more and more tense, even if he ignores foreign affairs and concentrates on cultivating martial arts and waiting, Lei Shaoxuan can deeply feel this tense and almost suffocating atmosphere.

The fighting of the forward battalion has increased markedly, the intensity of the drill has increased correspondingly, and the tone of the commander's lecture has noticeably become more severe.

It is said that the Northwest Frontier Army has suffered a lot of defeats, and the grain and grass have been burned by the Hu people for three whole battalions, which should be true, because the food level of the forward battalion has dropped a lot.

These inevitably demoralized the border troops, and the forward battalion was no exception.

In the last few battles, the Hu people sent cavalry to deal with the forward battalion, and the forward battalion suffered heavy casualties, and although the soldiers were quickly replenished, it still could not sweep away the gloom and gloom of the forward battalion.

The eleventh squad Lao Dong was shot, which made everyone in the squad also sullen.

......

Soon a word spread in the forward battalion.

The people of Team 11 were talking.

"Slaughtering the city?"

"This is a massacre. Shi Yan said excitedly, "Da Shuai said, after the forward battalion enters the city, you can enjoy three days of free harvest, three days!"

Lei Shaoxuan found that the soldiers who heard the news were full of excitement and morale.

Shile City, a big city near the border between the Hu people and the Northern Wei Dynasty, the city is two zhang high, the bluestone is made up, it is extremely strong, it is the place where the Pingxi Capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty is located.

Shile City, formerly known as Pingxi City, was the west gate of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a dangerous point in choking Xichuan and controlling the North Plains, and was later occupied and controlled by Xihu, renamed Shile City, because the Northern Wei Dynasty gradually gave up the bitter sea wasteland, so it became a big city in Xihu.

Sihudo was a cavalryman and was usually reluctant to defend the city, and although Shile Chengcheng was occupied, the Hu people did not operate it as a military fortress. The Hu people were not good at defending, and liked to use cavalry to capture the city, plunder it, and then run to the next city.

Shile City is almost the only place where the Hu people live and operate, and it is said to be very prosperous, and there are many Hu tribe nobles living there. Because the Hu people were not good at defending the city, after occupying Shile City, they used a general of the Northern Wei Dynasty to defend the city and trained a garrison force of 5,000 people to strengthen the defense of Shile City.

In order to boost morale, Xu Tian, the commander of the border army of the Northwest Army, mobilized his troops, deployed troops in the southwest, and contained the Hu people, but secretly organized a force to sneak attack and bloody Shile City.

The name of this battle was Massacre.

The Hu cavalry is strong, and Shile City must complete the attack and retreat within seven days, otherwise it will be surrounded by the Hu people, and the consequences are unimaginable, so this attack is in the nature of a sneak attack.

......

Lei Shaoxuan finally had a chance to see a large-scale siege battle.

At dawn, before the sun had fully risen, the vanguard had already surrounded the city of Schle, and the forward battalion was taken to a hillside not far away.

Xu Tianming ordered the vanguard to attack the city first, one to test the weakness of the defending city, and the other to consume the morale of the defending city, waiting for the opportunity to let the forward battalion attack the city in one go.

The forward battalion raised its troops on the hillside and waited quietly for the time to come.

From a distance, Shile City was like a black monster, lying on the grassland shrouded in the night, devouring everything that dared to approach.

The besieging troops built ladders on the walls, and the ant-like soldiers climbed desperately up, one by one as if hanging on ladders, and the walls were like crawling with gecko houses.

From a distance, the people on the city wall kept stabbing down with guns, and from time to time I saw soldiers being stabbed down the ladder, and black shadows fell down, and screams kept coming from near the city wall, screaming fiercely, desperately, and painfully, but all this could not stop the soldiers from climbing up one after another.

The defenders on the city walls, from time to time, poured buckets of black oil down, and then threw down torches to light them, the fire was lit, countless soldiers were ignited, and the stumbling fireballs accompanied by screams of pain were terrifying, and thick smoke rose everywhere, blurring the siege situation.

Smoke billowed and flames pierced the night sky.

Siege engines erected high towers and threw a fast boulder into the city, and with a deafening loud bang, there was a dull sound of boulders falling to the ground, followed by clouds of dust and smoke.

At night, the moon was bright and the stars were thin, and it was a completely hellish scene to see outside the city. Everywhere there was firelight, smoke, screams, the sound of fighting, the neighing of war horses, and the shadows of people......

In the second half of the night, the pace of siege outside the city slowed down, and the city seemed to be tired.

The time was almost up, and the forward battalion had quietly come to the city.

The troops in front continued to attack the city. The forward troops wore the same clothes as the rest of the troops to prevent the enemy from detecting, and for the sake of distinction, only red cloth covers were tied around each person's neck and strips of red cloth were wrapped around their arms.

Lei Shaoxuan looked up, and the city wall was still full of sergeants.

The sergeant with a spear and an iron hook in his hand kept stabbing down, or four or five people pushed the ladder with their forks, and the ladder fell, and the sergeant on the ladder flew down from the air and fell to the ground with a scream.

The city was littered with dead bodies, scattered weapons, and black smoke burning everywhere, emitting the smell of burnt corpses.

Even under the city, from time to time, black oil was poured from the air, or directly poured on the ladder, and then the torch was thrown, and the fire began to burn from the people at the bottom, and the smoke was billowing out, and the black smoke smoked the people above so much that they were forced to jump down, screaming and screaming.

It was the turn of the eleventh squad to attack the city, and Shi Yan was the first to rush to the front, leading the team to climb up, followed by iron eggs and bald heads.

At this moment, I saw a black cloud falling from the sky.

"Black oil, be careful!" Lei Shaoxuan yelled.

The people on the ladder couldn't dodge at all, the bald head at the bottom was poured squarely, the iron egg and the stone swallow were splashed with black oil, and a torch fell down and ignited with a "suddenly" sound.

The bald head instantly turned into a ball of fire, and then staggered and screamed......

"Ahh......h

The iron egg and Shi Yan were also lit, and the flames on their bodies were ignited, screaming miserably, turning around indistinctly, and the iron egg screamed even more terrible.

"Help me, save me...... Yes. ”