Chapter 127
Early the next morning, the battle horn sounded in Nexian
Dou Kai has been plotting to join the party for a long time, and the people sent over secretly hide in the mountains and forests to make things such as rushing cars and ladders according to his intentions, and now they are distributed to more than 1,000 people, and they are also decent and very capable of handling them. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 But in Dou Kai's eyes, every part he brought was extremely precious and could not be consumed at will. It was to push the carts, ladders, etc., and the first wave of the city wall was the villagers and displaced people he sent to sweep the northwest of Nie County these days.
The people who were swept by the elite troops of the Taiyuan Dou clan at night and driven to the front of the army were crying and shouting, and they were forced to advance with whips. These thinly dressed, most of them ragged, unarmed people, pushing a lot of siege equipment hidden in soldiers, trembling towards the city gate, the partial life was a little closer to the city wall, and the merciless rolling stones and sassal wood smashed many unlucky ghosts into human shapes.
The captured people cried under the city, and the guards at the head of the city also shivered, and some even turned pale and almost vomited.
Most of them are young people in their twenties and thirties, and they are conscripted into the army just to get a bite to eat, and their biggest action is just to suppress and suppress the displaced people who take the opportunity to stir up trouble, and even the bandits don't provoke much, how can they ever see such a tragic scene? Not to mention that some people's homes are in villages outside Nie County, and I don't know if there are any of their own fathers and villagers among these people who have been arrested, and they hesitate unconsciously for a few points.
Guan Song stood on the third earthen wall, looking at all this expressionlessly, without any intention of retreating, and Zhao Tao even braved the boulder passed through by the other party, standing on the city wall to command. Seeing that the county commander personally supervised the battle, the county lieutenant commanded hoarsely, and many soldiers swallowed their saliva, and their hearts were full of courage and pride, and their actions were even harder.
Cheng Liu Ge of Niexian County hurriedly climbed the third earthen wall, walked to Guan Song's side, couldn't hide his gloom on his face, and cautiously suggested: "The people guarding the east gate on the other side are only two hundred, and most of the attackers are unarmed, or they are temporarily surrounded by homeless people with bamboo sticks and sticks, why don't we choose a team of people......
"At such a time, how can you disperse your forces?" Guan Song did not hesitate to reject Liu Ge's seemingly tempting proposal, and said, "Over at the East Gate, as long as we drag on for a few days, the soldiers brought by the girl will be able to eat them all." At this time, let the soldiers who have never been off the battlefield go, they don't even want to raise the weapons in their hands, only the share of annihilation! ”
Although it has been expanded several times and has become more and more prosperous, in the final analysis, Niexian County is still a relatively ordinary county seat, and only city gates have been set up in the east and west of the county. The west side is more heavily defended because it faces the outside world, and there are fewer people outside the city, while the east gate is the opposite.
Guan Song previously thought that the other party would choose to take a detour, mainly attacking the east gate and the second attacking the west gate, so as to contain the troops in Nie County, so he first sent someone to send a letter to Xu Hui, hoping that Xu Hui would lead people to outflank the enemy. But Dou Cheng is not good, but he is not incompetent, he knows that his troops are insufficient, and his follow-up is weak, so he made up his mind to fight quickly, so he didn't care about the so-called "weak defensive force" at the east gate, but concentrated most of the troops, stormed the west gate, and divided a small part of the troops, coerced the people to make a detour, and attacked the east gate.
No, it's not so much an attack as an interception.
Speaking of this, Guan Song's gaze returned to the fierce battle tower, although his expression was as calm as before, but those who were familiar with him could catch a faint trace of worry in his eyes, because just now, Zhao Tao ordered someone to send a bad news - the first few rushing cars and ladders were not soldiers, but people who were driven to the shelves.
Obviously, Dou Cheng relied on hundreds of people to be in the party for half a year, and built a lot of equipment, so he dared to use some of them as bait to consume rolling stones, sassal wood, boiling oil and a lot of firewood in Nie County.
Although he cursed Dou Cheng a thousand times and ten thousand times in his heart, cursing him for taking human life inappropriately like this, there will definitely be retribution in the future, but both Guan Song and Zhao Tao understand that due to their ignorance of the war, they really did what Dou Cheng wanted, and smashed the biggest rolling stone down the first time they saw the rushing car ladder almost under the city, and what was the result? All the people who died were the people of the Shangdang, and the Dou clan didn't know how many casualties there were. The eastern gate of the partial city was also attacked, and it was impossible to even go out of the city to quarry and cut wood.
If you can choose a force to break through the blockade of the eastern city...... Liu Ge's proposal lingered in Guan Song's heart, making him shake for a moment, but soon, Guan Song vetoed this point again.
Whether in terms of weapons or mentality, the well-equipped, bloody and ferocious Dou clan is not something that has never been warped, and the soldiers only have weapons and no armor can resist. As he said, even if there were no cavalry, if he organized people to rush out, he would only be cut and divided by others, and then pay attention to the fate of devouring - even if the opponent was only a few hundred outcasts and two hundred parts.
The family tribe, only the same family tribe can deal with it, this is the consensus of all the people in Daqi, of course, the palace guards and guards are not among them, the imperial court, there is always a little advantage.
In fact, as soon as he received the letter of persuasion, Guan Song sent more than a dozen people to leave Niexian County with hanging baskets, and ordered them to rush to Xiangyuan to meet Xu Hui and tell them what was happening here. But he was not sure at all whether these people would survive the interception of the other party and whether they would be able to deliver the letter. The only thing to be thankful for is that Xu Hui will definitely bring troops over.
Therefore, before these days when Xu Hui arrived, he had to guard this place.
Thinking of this, Guan Song took a deep breath.
At the same time, in the camp of the army commander who was deeply troubled by Guan Song and brought disaster to the party, listening to the report of his subordinates, Dou Cheng couldn't help but gasp: "What did you say? In addition to the women's wall, there are two other walls in Nirvana County? ”
Several staff members slandered the female wall in their hearts, how could it be counted as another wall, but they knew that Dou Cheng was in a bad mood, all of them lowered their heads, and they didn't dare to breathe, so they heard the gray-haired, blood-stained Tun Chang swear to Dou Cheng: "What the humble post said, every sentence is true, although at a glance, it is impossible to distinguish the material of the two inner walls, but the humble dare to assert that these two walls must have been recently cast." ”
This Tun Changman thought that he had risked his life to investigate the enemy's situation and brought such important news, and he would definitely be praised by Dou Cheng. Unexpectedly, Dou Cheng grabbed a teacup casually, threw it at the side of the chief, and said angrily: "It's not that our people haven't entered the city, how can they not know that these two inner walls are newly built recently?" Guan Song, an old man, is so cautious that he doesn't say a word...... Damn, damn it! ”
His remarks are so strange that they can make people laugh when they hear them - knowing that their rule will soon be attacked by the enemy, even if they cannot sharpen their guns in battle, they must build stronger fortifications and stock up more food and equipment to make themselves last longer...... Guan Song's actions are no different from normal people, why did he provoke Dou Cheng to scold? Isn't it smart to know that the enemy is coming, but not to make any preparations?
Laughing in the heart is laughing in the heart, but no one present dares to reveal half of this emotion. Who made Dou Cheng this self-respecting style, never knowing what "courtesy" and "humility" look like? annoyed him, the pity will only be himself, not this San Langjun. Even if they made suggestions, these people didn't dare, or they said in a roundabout way, so that Dou Cheng himself "thought of it", otherwise he would be excluded and even die.
It was precisely because of Dou Cheng's domineering style that everyone present did not say a word, and Dou Cheng walked around the tent like a wild beast in a mad manner, and when he saw everyone's nest, he lost his temper again. It wasn't until he saw the two servant girls who had been following him, softly speaking and flattering in every possible way, that Dou Cheng's face eased and asked, "What about Yang San?" ”
The dark-skinned, lean middle-aged man in the last seat stood up neatly and saluted Dou Cheng: "Humble duty!" ”
"If I want to dig a tunnel from here to Nexian, how long will it take?" Dou Cheng barely suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked calmly, but he cursed in his heart a thousand times - he had been lurking here for so long, and he had never thought of digging a tunnel!
He didn't want to think about it, and when he came to Nie County, he would store food for the vanguard troops and make equipment. What's more, Guan Song is not a fool, if he had dug the tunnel early, he would really not show up? This is also because they surrounded Niexian, so they are relatively close, if they want to dig a tunnel from Jiuyun Mountain to Niexian, it is possible in twenty or thirty years.
Yang San heard Dou Cheng call out his name, and secretly complained in his heart, but he was the only senior miner in the army, if it weren't for that, he wouldn't be able to be a tun chief. Now that Dou Cheng pointed to him, he also told the truth: "If there are enough people, two or three days are enough, but if there is a ravine in the city......"
When Dou Cheng heard this, he immediately looked at Zhang Tunchang, who was reporting the news, and when Zhang Tunchang heard this, his face suddenly turned blue.
He mixed in the ranks of the people, risked death to climb the ladder, and was poked down at a cursory glance, if it weren't for the fact that the other party was a family member outside, he didn't dare to kill the stunned Qing, he carried some tools, and he was lucky, it was really difficult to survive. But at a glance, it's good to remember the inner wall, who knows if Guan Song organized someone to dig a trench!
Looking at Dou Cheng's cold eyes, Zhang Tunchang, who knew his character, really didn't dare to say what he didn't see clearly, so Zhang Tunchang hesitated for a moment, Fang Jiang's heart was horizontal, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Although I can't see it very clearly, I can be sure that there is a trench in Nixian County!" (To be continued.) )