Chapter 90: Escape from Death
Under the joint strangulation of Peng Tuguan, Yu Ma Yue and others, the enemy on the city was quickly wiped out after paying a small number of casualties.
"Dou Junhou, how many city defense materials are there in the pass?"
"Sheep's head stones, grinding discs, oil, sand, knives, sickles, hoes, all have not been used, and there are tens of thousands of arrows."
Ma Yue nodded, the sheep's head stone is a stone the size of a sheep's head, each one or twenty catties, and the grinding disc is generally used to smash the siege troops under the city, but the sheep's head stone smashes people, and the grinding disc smashes the car.
"Come on, take out the grinding disc from the Guanzhong arsenal and pile it up behind the city gate."
The autumn wind is blowing from the west.
The soldier next to him ran to give the order, and Ma Yue turned around and entered the gatehouse.
Ma Yu still didn't wake up, and although he was breathing steadily, Ma Yue still couldn't rest assured.
Dou Liang stood beside Ma Yue and said: "The county lieutenant doesn't have to worry, Ma Junhou is fine, the rest of the moon can be restored to the same as before, the top priority is to guard Xiao Pass, Xianbei people will not give us much time." ”
Ma Yue nodded and asked, "How many people are there in Xianbei?" ”
Dou Liang thought for a while and said: "If they don't have reinforcements at night, more than 10,000 and less than 30,000, first 1,000 and then 35,000, there should still be more than 10,000 enemies." ”
The autumn wind, blowing from the west, was very strong and made people feel cold in their bones.
Ma Yue frowned and just wanted to scold his mother, even if he didn't have siege equipment, different siege methods only knew the Xianbei people who used human lives to attack the city, and there were more than 10,000 enemy troops, he only had more than 1,000 soldiers, including 300 wounded soldiers.
How to keep?
"A thousand against more than 10,000 enemy troops, it is impossible to hold it, Dou Junhou, you have been on the border for more than ten years, have you ever encountered such an ordinary battle? How did it hold? ”
Dou Liang smiled: "It's hard to defend, unless they stand under the city as a target for us to shoot." ”
Ma Yue was surprised: "Then what, do you want to abandon the city and flee?" ”
"Of course, they will abandon the city and flee, just like the county lieutenant said, the city will be lost and snatched back. At present, even the people have not yet arrived, and we rely on more than 1,000 soldiers to defend it just to take the way to death. After a pause, Dou Liang continued: "But before abandoning the city, we must do our best to reduce the number of enemy troops, these people are every disaster for the people of the Northland. ”
Ma Yue glanced at Meng Qian, Meng Kun and Wang Wei, they had no objections, so he nodded and said: "Wang Junhou, lead the people of the headquarters to escort Ma Cheng and the wounded soldiers to retreat first, join the Su County Order, and transport the axle back to Lingzhou. ”
"Peng Tuo, lead your subordinates to wait for me in the pass, take the hoe." Looking at the remaining Guan Yu and Meng family brothers, Ma Yue said: "Three, please lead your subordinates to carry the city defense materials such as sheep's head stone grinding plate to the city, Xianbei will attack the city next time, and I will fight with the Xianbei people here again!" ”
The three of them replied, "No! ”
Entering the pass along the stairs of the city, Peng Tuo was waiting for Ma Yue, Ma Yue said: "After the Xianbei people enter the city, there is a horse Pingchuan, except for the fortress and the county seat, there is no danger to defend, we have to slow down the speed of their attack, and when the soldiers and horses in the county arrive, they will not be afraid of their brigade." ”
"Therefore, I want you to wait for this, so, so, so, ......"
Before leaving, he led his subordinates to grease all the buildings in the city, and when the grease was gone, they were piled up in and out of the house with hay, and even animal skins and straw were all used by him.
As he left, his 300 men took all the ropes and hoes with them.
There are more than 700 people and more than 700 horses in the pass, and they are facing tens of thousands of horses.
"County lieutenant, the Xianbei people are going to attack the city!"
The horn sounded again, and the roaring footsteps outside the city brought Ma Yue's sense of oppression very strongly.
Ma Yue clenched his crossbow arm tightly, trying to restrain the trembling of his body, he was very afraid.
Guan Yu patted Ma Yue's shoulder and did not speak.
The autumn wind blew from the west, making people's hearts hot.
Looking around, Ma Yue saw many familiar faces, Guan Yu, Yang Feng, Gu Ta'er, and many soldiers who followed him from Longxian all the way to the farthest Great Wall in the northern part of the empire.
Under the city, countless Xianbei people carried countless ladders under the cover of the night, and when they arrived at the city, they ran quickly to the pass, and the ten thousand people charged so that the rammed city wall under everyone's feet was shocked.
Enemies, too many.
"Shoot!"
Ma Yue doesn't know what three arrows are, the distance between two arrows, and he can't see clearly at night anyway, he only knows that the enemy's current density can shoot people with one arrow.
At the same time as the rain of arrows poured downward, there were also rain of arrows shot up under the city, with little force but a terrible number.
"Hidden!"
"Hide!"
Although the defenders quickly hidden, some were unable to dodge and were hit by arrows, some were more fortunate and killed in a single blow, and some were less fortunate and leaned against the walls and wailed.
Taking advantage of the time when the defenders were hiding from the rain of arrows, the ladders were set up on the city in turn.
"Throw the sheep's head stone, sickle axe!"
The Xianbei soldiers climbed up the ladder, and countless stones the size of sheep's heads were thrown on the city, and the Xianbei people were seriously injured when they touched it, and they died if they hit it.
Scythes and axes, at such times, were sharp weapons for defending the city, and they flew down from the city in a spinning way, and the throwing down of hundreds of such things at once also caused a lot of trouble to the besieging troops.
Seeing that the Xianbei people were about to climb the city wall, Ma Gao shouted: "Everyone, retreat!" Horses at the gates! ”
"All the old soldiers of Longxian County, bring bows and arrows to break off with me!"
The defenders of the Great Wall were uneven, and the retreat was not orderly, and what was rare in the chaos was that those Longxian elite horsemen who followed Ma Yue all the way ran out of their respective ranks and converged towards Ma Yue.
There was no time to see if anyone was left behind, Ma Yue took a cursory glance around and ran towards the city gate, followed by Guan Yu, Yang Feng, Gu Ta'er and dozens of veterans of Long County.
The Xianbei slave army finally stood on the top of the city, and these slaves became the most ferocious evil at this time, roaring one by one, carrying arc knives, bows and arrows, and rushing down the stairs at a faster speed to chase and kill the Han army.
Everything is racing against time, behind Ma Yue and the others is the rain of arrows of Xianbei slaves, and the ten-mile road in the pass has become a track of life and death.
Long-distance running is their forte!
From the time they followed Ma Yue, they would run around Longxian for thirty miles almost every day, and their training saved their lives at this time.
Only they can complete this combat mission!
"There was a brazier at the gate of the city...... Set fire to the city with arrows! ”
Ma Yue had already made plans, and at this time there were seven or eight thousand Xianbei people who rushed into the city, and the pass was full of Xianbei people, and all the Xianbei people who rushed into the pass chased Ma Yue to the city gate.
"Put the hanging door, rush over and put down the hanging door to block the Xianbei people in the city!"
The hanging gate, which is different from the other gate of the city gate, weighs nearly a thousand catties, usually hangs above the city gate, and is put down with a noose, which is very difficult to open, but it is very easy to close.
Someone had to go up to the city and put the hanging gate, but the person who put the hanging gate would not be able to escape.
Running to the bottom of the city, everyone untied their bows and arrows and scattered them at will towards the pass, and dozens of rockets flew towards the wooden buildings.
The houses were greased, and the slightest moment of the rocket ignited flames, and the houses were piled up with hay and debris, which burned more and more.
Everyone just shot two arrows, the flames just burned, but the distance of the Xianbei people was getting closer and closer, and it was too late to retreat, Ma Yue shouted: "Everyone retreat!" ”
Ma Yue and Guan Yu continued to stretch their bows and arrows, and Ma Yue only put down the strong crossbow and replaced it with a bow and arrow, and he didn't need to be accurate at this time.
The Xianbei people have rushed to three hundred steps!
What should I do, if I don't let go of the hanging door and be chased out of the city by Xianbei, it will all be finished.
What to do, what to do!
Everyone ran about the same, and Ma Yue finally made up his mind. He ran to the city gate and shouted to the city, "Second brother, go away!" Ah Ruo, put the hanging door! ”
Yang Aruo at the head of the city couldn't see his expression with a ghost mask, and he didn't hesitate to cut the noose with a knife, even if he knew that he couldn't escape after this knife!
The jack hanging door slammed down!
"Bang!"
The hanging door slammed into Ma Yue's upward holding hand, and the tremendous force almost pressed the soles of his feet into the earth, and the bones all over his body rattled.
"Poof!"
The hanging door that fell was more than a thousand catties, and Ma Yue's blood surged upward, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Arro...... Come down...... I...... I'll carry it for you. ”
Halfway through speaking, Ma Yue's hand was light, and Guan Yu and Gutaer held up the hanging door with him.
Xianbei people rushed to 200 steps!
Yang Aruo ran down from the city, pulled out a feather arrow from the arrow behind him, and took a strong bow towards the Xianbei people who rushed towards him, and without aiming at it, he fell down with an arrow.
Rushing to the front, Yang Aruo grabbed the two long knives of Ma Yue and Guan Yu, put them under the door, and rushed out of the city gate.
Almost the moment Yang Aruo rushed out of the city gate, Guan Yu and Ma Yue Guta'er glanced at each other, and quickly rolled out of the city wall.
The two long knives made of fine iron were crushed by the jack hanging door without being beaten for a moment, and the gate fell violently, stirring up a large cloud of dust.
"Boom!"
Ma Yue sat on the ground with a big mouth, Yang Feng ripped off the ghost mask with one hand and threw it aside, and sat on the ground in the same way, Guan Yu Gutar and the two fiddled with their arms and moved their shins, and several of them were all disgraced.
After staring at each other for a moment, the four burst into laughter.
"Ahem...... Cough! ”
Ma Yue spewed out a mouthful of blood, but even so, he was still laughing, laughing wildly.
The autumn wind blew from the west, the wind blew Ma Yue's hair, and the wind blew Xiao Guan into a sea of fire!