Chapter 0111: Braised "Iron King Eight"
The shout of "King Qin's rescue" resounded like thunder in the royal city, the tiger and wolf army on the city wall heard it, the people in the royal city heard it, and the king Xuanyuan Hengyi in the palace also heard it. Xuanyuan Hengyi, who was sitting alone in the small flower hall of the Imperial Garden, fiddling with Go, crossed the corner of his mouth with an intriguing smile, and muttered abruptly, "King Qin, hehe..."
Xuanyuan Hengyi held the chess pieces, suspended in the air above the chessboard, and opened his hand, "Bang la la•••" The jade chess pieces fell on the chessboard, as crisp and rapid as rain hitting bluestone. Xuanyuan Heng looked at the chess pieces jumping around, couldn't help but let out a sigh, stood up and said, "I should go too!"
Under the city wall, Old Man Wei and the recruits stood close to the wall with weapons in hand.
When the recruits heard the shouting, their brows couldn't help frowning, and they asked Old Man Wei with some confusion, "Old Man Wei, didn't the king just take power the day before yesterday?"
"You doll, you know a fart!" Old man Wei reprimanded the recruit angrily, "I heard from the brother above just now that it was the Xinyang Army who came! The Xinyang Army has always been a loyal supporter of Xuanyuan Xuanhe, the Prince of Dun!"
"In that case, Prince Tun, wouldn't it be enough for the king to stand on the wall again as he did the day before, and let them know that the king is in power?" said the recruit.
Old man Wei was so angry that he directly kicked the recruit, kicking the recruit for a moment, "You know what a fart! You came to King Qin to escort Prince Dun?"
The recruit pointed to the earth-shattering shouts outside the city, and said reluctantly, "Listen, aren't they here to rescue King Qin?"
"Or say that you kid is too tender!" Old man Wei looked at the innocent and innocent face of the recruit, and sighed, "Anyway, if you are idle and bored, Lao Tzu will tell you!"
Old man Wei took out the cigarette pouch and pot on his waist, filled a pot full of tobacco, and the recruit handed over the flint with great eyesight, and slashed hard, stabbing sound, and the rising sparks ignited the tobacco.
Old man Wei hurriedly took two puffs to let the tobacco in the cigarette pouch pot fully burn, and then he spit out a satisfactory smoke ring with satisfaction, and then said, "King Qin's rescue is just a reason." The king has been elevated like a puppet all these years, and no one has been rescued by the king. Is it a coincidence that now that the king has just taken power, someone has come to the king's rescue?"
"This..." The recruit didn't think about these questions, and couldn't help but be asked.
Old man Wei took a comfortable puff of cigarette and sighed, "Prince Dun is obviously here to seize power!"
"That's also simple! Now that the Xinyang army is attacking the royal city, the soldiers of the Xinyang army must not know the inside story, as long as the king stands on the city wall to expose the conspiracy of the Xinyang monarch, the officers and soldiers of the Xinyang army will definitely surrender like the tiger and wolf army that day!" The recruit's face was full of excitement, as if he had seen what he had imagined.
Old man Wei looked at the excited appearance of the recruits, and was so angry that he took a few puffs of cigarette pouches to relieve the depression in his heart, "Do you think the Xinyang Army is the Tiger Wolf Army? Stupid! Can the Xinyang Army be compared to the Tiger Wolf Army? Many generals and even soldiers of the Tiger Wolf Army have seen the king, but there are a few soldiers of the Xinyang Army who know the king. Even if the king were standing on the city wall now, they probably wouldn't recognize him. As long as Prince Dun and the Marquis of Xinyang say that the king standing on the city wall is fake, then he is fake! So, it's useless!
"This..." The recruit was full of surprise and couldn't speak, he wanted Old Man Wei's words, but he felt that Old Man Wei was very reasonable, and for a while, he fell into a contradiction.
The shouts of the Xinyang army continued, and the powerful momentum came to the face, making the entire royal city seem to tremble, the dripping water on the eaves became slow, the birds in the sky disappeared, and even the summer wind forgot to blow...
In front of the Chinese army's tent, the flag waved a few times in the air, and the drums and shouts stopped.
"All the way!"
"Take the royal city!" Xuanyuan Xuanhe's excited eyes shone brightly.
"General Tan!" Xinyang Hou stood in front of the Chinese army tent and pointed general!
A burly general in his forties, with a full face and a burly body, stood up, "The last general!"
"You personally lead ten infantry phalanxes to take the lead!" Xinyang Hou handed a general order to General Tan.
"The last general commands!"
General Tan respectfully took the general's order and turned around to order troops!
The infantry phalanx was specially formed by Zhang Qingfang for the siege of the city, each phalanx was lined up with 20 people, and 20 people were vertically arranged, a total of 400 people, front and back, left and right, including the top all blocked with shields, forming a sealed cube space. This will greatly reduce the damage of the bow and arrow to the infantry!
General Tan has always been the general responsible for training the phalanx, so he is also very familiar with the phalanx, and after a while, he organized ten phalanxes, which were displayed in front of the formation, and a battering ram was displayed in the middle.
General Tan rode a war horse, standing majestically in front of the formation, holding a saber, pointing straight into the sky, accompanied by an order, the saber swung down, "Attack!"
"Knock Knock"
The drums of war are back in the sky.
"Tom Tom•••"
The footsteps are neat and shocking.
Ten phalanxes wrapped tightly in swarthy shields began to attack the city gate! Each phalanx was like a giant iron turtle without a head and tail, slowly approaching the city wall.
Han Hongchuan threw the drum stick to the drummer and asked, "I will give Lao Tzu the strength to eat milk in a while, understand?"
The drummer was infected by Han Hongchuan, and he couldn't bear it anymore, with two fires burning in his eyes, and nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, general, it is guaranteed to be louder than the drum below!"
"Good!"
Han Hongchuan stood at the battlement, looking at the infantry phalanx of the Xinyang Army, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and shouted at the archers on the city wall, "What does the enemy below look like?"
"Turtle!"
"Wang Ba!"
“•••”
There are all kinds of things to say, but in general, the most are said "turtle and king eight"!
Han Hongchuan continued to ask, "Like what?"
"Wang Ba!" this time, the voice of the crowd was both neat and loud.
Han Hongchuan's face bloomed with joy, and he continued to ask, "What Wang Ba?"
"Iron King Eight!"
"Haha•••" The archers on the city wall looked at the ten phalanxes below, and the more they looked at them, the more they looked like them, and they almost stretched out their heads and claws.
Han Hongchuan continued to shout. "Do you know what General Ben likes to eat the most?"
"Eight kings!" said the archers on the ramparts, half-jokingly.
"Well, it's not right!" Han Hongchuan pretended to be angry and corrected everyone's mistakes, "General Ben likes to eat braised iron king eight the most!"
"Understood!" everyone said in unison.
Han Hongchuan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Do it again!"
Han Hongchuan cleared his throat and shouted, "What does General Ben like to eat?"
"Braised Iron King Eight!" The voice was loud, and the tiger and wolf army under the city listened to the conversation on the city wall, and they were also amused, and the tension in their hearts faded away.
The soldiers of the Xinyang Army who were hiding under the shield listened to the words of Han Hongchuan and the soldiers on the city wall, but they were very angry, and they were also holding back the fire in their hearts, and they had no way to vent!
Han Hongchuan interacted with the archers on the city wall, complaining about the "iron turtles" below, while paying attention to the movements of those "iron turtles", and mentally calculating their distance from the city wall.
The underground infantry phalanx approached the city wall all the way, and apart from the vicious verbal taunts of the other party, it was not hindered in any way, which made General Tan, who had been pressing the formation in the rear, feel some inexplicable tension in his heart, like a thorn in his back, this tension made him uneasy.
Han Hongchuan looked at the infantry phalanx below, as if an old hunter was waiting for his prey to slowly step into his trap, with a little expectation mixed in his cunning!
"Archer!"
Han Hongchuan's long knife came out of the sheath and roared!
"Yes!" the archers were already gearing up!
"Bring me a braised Iron King Eight!" Han Hongchuan pointed the tip of his knife at the infantry phalanx below.
"Good!"
The archers on the city wall ignited the arrows wrapped in strips of kerosene cloth, and drew their bows with arrows, and the rockets flew away like daytime meteors, streaking through the sky and sticking straight around the infantry phalanx!
"Poof!"
"Whew!"
The fire around the infantry phalanx suddenly burst into the sky, and the fire enveloped the infantry phalanx in it. Tongues of fire and flirting wantonly, setting fire to the clothing of some of the soldiers, and the pain was so severe that they had to abandon their shields.
Some phalanxes were directly chaotic for a hundred years because the soldiers were on fire, and the formation could not be maintained at all, so they could only desperately flee in the fire, but the infantry without shields could outrun the arrows of the archers!
In a few moments, all the soldiers who discarded their shields and ran away with their heads became the souls of the archers of the Tiger and Wolf Army!
But there were also four infantry phalanxes that did not mess up, but instead passed through the area covered by the fire and approached the city walls.
Although the four infantry phalanxes passed through the fire, the infantry under the shields were already sweating and panting, as if they were being steamed.
The shields are all made of iron, and now they have been picked up by the fire, and the shields have long been burned hot, and the hands holding the shield can't hold it, so they can only tear off a strip of cloth from their bodies and wrap it in their hands, barely holding the shield and maintaining the formation.
Now it is a scorching summer, the soldiers hiding under the shield are already stuffy, now the fire is burning, the temperature of the shield is high, the shield is even more stuffy and unbearable, I can't breathe, after a while, some soldiers can't hold on, lose the shield, run out of the phalanx, tilt their heads and desperately breathe fresh air.
"Whew!"
An arrow came straight into one of the soldiers' mouths and out of the back of his head, leaving him with a whimper.
In this way, the soldiers in the phalanx were even more frightened, the stuffiness of the phalanx and the hot shields made them suffer, but in the current situation, discarding the shield is a death, and if you don't lose the shield, you can't hold out for long!
General Tan, who was pressing the formation in the rear, was so anxious that his eyes were red and his green tendons burst out! He couldn't help but roar angrily, "Archers, suppress the city wall!"
A detachment rushed out from the rear, in an orderly manner, lined up in formation, and at the command of the general, began to shoot at the city walls!
A rain of arrows is heading towards the city!
Han Hongchuan had already noticed the movement of the Xinyang army and arranged for the archers on the city wall to fight back!
One by low shots high, one by high shot low, one with the defense of the walls, one without complete bunkers.
In several rounds of confrontation, the Xinyang army was killed and wounded, and the tiger and wolf army on the city wall also suffered casualties, but compared with the casualties of the Xinyang army, it was really nothing.
General Tan saw that this was not an option, so he asked the archers to retreat.
"Bang!"
A soldier in the phalanx fainted and fell to the ground, making the already precarious phalanx suddenly a little flustered!
"Bang!"
The soldiers in the phalanx fainted one after another, which severely damaged their morale and made the soldiers in the phalanx panic!
The fire behind was still raging, the majesty of the city walls on the way, and the attack of the archers on the walls of the city made the soldiers in the infantry phalanx extremely panic. Now the only thing they can hope for is support from their rear!
Because the fire came too fast and too fierce, the battering ram was not pushed out, and now it is burning in the fire behind, which also makes the infantry phalanx out of the fire have no weapons to break the door, and some don't know what to do...