Chapter 24 The World of Buddhism

First he heard a loud noise, and then Xiao Huo'er's ears couldn't hear anything, a warm gust of wind almost suffocated him, and the four legs of the war horse under his crotch were weak, and he fell to the ground, pressing his legs tightly.

After his soldiers rescued him from under his horse, he ignored the pain in his body and immediately watched the battlefield.

He was horrified by the sight before him, three rushing carts as high as the city wall disappeared, some broken wood fell scattered on the ground, and a huge wheel suddenly appeared in his military formation, creating a bloody clearing in the cavalry.

Hua Tianshou, who had already come down from the war horse, stood obediently to the side, it was very unwise to provoke people who thought they were ashamed and angry at this time, but the bloody fact in front of him made him secretly happy, in front of such a fact, Xiao Huo'er could not afford not to bow his head.

Xiao Huo'er gave an order, and the Liao troops on the battlefield who were lucky not to get close to the city slowly retreated, and today's siege seemed to end here.

Xiao Huo'er didn't know that Ge Tianfang, who was standing at the head of the city at this time, was even more nervous than him, he could even hear the last wail of the city wall under his feet, seeing that the Liao people were retreating, he roared hoarsely: "Retreat, all retreat, retreat to the urn city, hurry up and go down from the city wall, it's about to collapse!" β€œ

After roaring, the first one ran down from the city wall, and kept urging Tan Wei to come down from above, Tan Wei ignored this, and just ordered his subordinates to quickly transfer the ballista, without the ballista, it would be impossible to hold the pass. Once the trebuchet of the Liao people has no scruples. I'll bury the whole side with a stone.

The explosion just now completely destroyed the city wall, and the first thing that fell was the stone shell outside, when the stone shell fell. The walls of the city fell silently like a pile of loose sand.

This kind of scene was different from what Ge Tianfang thought, he never dreamed that a tall city wall would be full of loose sand.

Tan Wei's legs were buried in the loess, and he was still carrying a ballista rack on his shoulder, standing there stupidly, his soul seemed to be gone, and when he saw a hand poking out from the loess next to him, he hit a spirit and threw away the ballista rack. Crazy as he used his hands to dig the soil, when he dug out a head full of loess. Seeing that the head could still gasp, three or two picked the dirt from his mouth and nose, one was panting loudly, and the other was laughing madly.

"Grandpa. Don't laugh, the Liao people rushed up again. Ge Tianfang helped Tan Wei drag another subordinate out of the soil, and before he had time to search to see if anyone else was buried alive, he dragged the ballista rack and ran into the urn city.

Lang Tan looked at the two wolf bèi's unbearable subordinates, and the dark clouds on his face seemed to be able to hold out water, but it was only one day, and the outer city had already been lost. Although the collapsed city wall is only a part of the front, there is a gap tens of zhang wide. There is not much difference from the fall of the whole city, and he found the shortcomings of the city defense at the beginning, so he built the urn city. But time waits for no one, and the Liao people have already come before the inner city is built.

The Guanghua Army has always been a trusted army by the people elsewhere, as long as the Guanghua Army wants to build a city defense, the local people will often go all out to help, in the remote pass, no matter what he says. Even when food and money were brought out, the people were indifferent. It seems that the one qiΔ“ here has nothing to do with them.

Mourning is greater than heart death, the people here are just weeds in the wilderness, they are cut down stumps, just some humanoid creatures, and they have nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty, and they have nothing to do with the army.

The scattered hearts and walls are generally not enough.

When Ge Tianfang forced the people to evacuate the day before yesterday, the aggressiveness and hostility of these people made Lang Tan's heart chill, they actually thought that the Liao people would not do anything to them after they came, as long as they were obedient enough, until Ge Tianfang brought these people to the city of Wengcheng and saw countless charred Liao corpses, they were completely dead, and some elderly people pointed at Lang Tan and complained, saying that he had brought disaster to the people in the remote pass.

This made the soldiers of the Guanghua Army unable to find a reason to fight, which was the biggest trouble.

Seeing the Liao ants pouring in from the big gap like a hole, Lang Tan could only order eight bull crossbows and ballistas to cover the place, and after repelling the attack of the Liao, Lang Tan was ready to repair the scattered city wall, and after walking there to see, he knew that no matter what he did, it was in vain, and there was no possibility of repairing it here.

After burying countless gunpowder, Lang Tan retreated to the urn city, sat down on the table and began to write documents, the bad situation here must be told to sΓΉ Yun Zheng, the task of holding on for ten days is difficult to complete, he focused on the people's hearts and minds, and the morale changes in the army, the army can not fight on the one hand, while taking into account the city defense and logistics, the Guanghua army is only 10,000 people, but the defense area is very large, which has always relied on the people to do logistics for the Guanghua army, manpower has been strictly insufficient.

There was no longer a smile on Bo Bo's little face, and he also knew that the shape that the Guanghua Army was facing now was very bad, and once the Guanghua Army lacked war horses without the protection of the city, it would not be much better than his own people. In any case, it is impossible to outrun the cavalry on two legs, especially in the Hetao area, which is the most suitable for cavalry to attack and exert power.

In the early morning, the eagle took Lang Tan's letterhead, and Lang Tan stood on the urn city and watched the eagle fly away, but soon, a smile appeared on his face, because the eagle had just flown up and fell.

"Dashuai is only fifteen miles away from us, in that mountain col!" Bo Bo was very happy, fifteen miles happened to be the best distance for the cavalry to sneak attack, and the war horse galloped at full speed from the warm-up to the end, this distance was the best.

In fact, Yun Zheng watched yesterday's battle coldly, except for the sudden collapse of the city wall, nothing else was beyond his expectations, the city wall collapsed, he had to modify his battle plan, until now, Xiao Huo'er is still very cautious to gather his army in a circle within a radius of five miles, it is difficult to sneak attack.

So there were only two simple words in his reply to Lang Tan: "Hold on!" ”

Xiao Lin walked up to Yun Zheng with a gloomy face and said, "Hua Tianshou is not a simple person, he is a remnant of the Maitreya Sect. ”

"Maitreya? Gao Tansheng was killed by me, Fang Xiandong was booby-trapped by Han Qi in Hejian Mansion, Bai Tieyu heard that he had fled overseas, and the Maitreya Sect of the Great Song Dynasty had been gradually exterminated over the years, how did he come out of the Maitreya Sect again? ”

Xiaolin said: "Yesterday I found a clue to raid the abandoned military village of the Volcano Army, Henggu Village, where I found the Maitreya altar and the sacrificial text, captured six people, after the interrogation, they admitted that it was Hua Tianshou's old department, they first believed in the Yanchuan Buddha Prince Hou Ziguang, and the partial Guan generation was the "public small Qin State" founded by Hou Ziguang.

Yun Zheng let out a sigh of relief and said: "No wonder Lang Tan said in the letter that the people here are not there, he hit a wall everywhere in the partial pass, even if he took out the gold and silver, he couldn't find the people who helped him, and finally had no choice but to move the people out of the city, he found that these people are likely to help the Liao State to deal with him, it turns out that the crux is here."

As long as it involves Maitreya, this matter should not be underestimated, when a Gao Tansheng made me almost in a nightmare, it was not easy to kill him with the help of the power of the Tangut people, and now Hua Tianshou jumped out again, and thought that this person was only involved in greed, but I didn't expect that he turned out to be a person from Maitreya, Maitreya is really my good friend, no matter where I go, I can meet them.

Since Hua Tianshou is in the camp of the Liao army, I am afraid that we will not be able to hide the hidden forces in Huangjiazhai for much time, now is the time for us to fight for time with the Liao State, and see who God gives time. ”

Xiaolin smiled bitterly and said: "Time is probably not optimistic for us, Guo Hengchuan is fighting with Li Dongchu in Yanmen Pass, this person is extremely tenacious, and he refuses to take half a step back in the eighteenth pan with countless soldiers, according to the scout report, Guo Hengchuan has killed the red eyes this time, no matter how Xiao Shi uses the two puppets, it will not have the slightest impact on Guo Hengchuan, and now Li Dongchu is ready to abandon the eighteen pans, retreat to the Iron Wrapped Mountain and rely on the more dangerous terrain to continue to deal with Guo Hengchuan, and it is not worth it to fight with the Liao people in the eighteen pans.

Yelu Dagu's attack on Ningwu Pass is also as fast as fire, fortunately, Jiang Zhe's city defense is extremely perverted, and the power of the fortress has made the Liao people suffer enough, I heard that the Liao people can't even pick up the corpses under the city, if the city defense of Ningwu Pass is the same as the partial pass, we might as well retreat to Yanmen Pass with the whole army, and what kind of battle will we fight.

Overall, time seems to be in favor of the Liao. ”

"I really should let the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty come to Yanmen Pass to see, to see how rotten he is relying on the Yanmen Pass like the Great Wall, our internal integration has not been completed, what kind of war is busy, after a battle, everything is exposed, the fatigue of the border pass, the poverty of the people, the government's *, and now coupled with the rampant cults, God knows what big troubles are waiting for us.

Pass the order down, the whole army rests and recuperates, as long as there are fighters, we will pounce on them, there is really no time to pay attention to the results of the battle, you are right, the battle of Yanmen Pass, we want to win in the end, it is impossible to do without bloodshed. ”

Yun Zheng returned to a small tent to recuperate after giving the order, and there would be no such opportunity in the coming days.

Xiao Lin clenched his fists and turned to leave, caught six spies, and had to squeeze out all the news they knew, and there was such a terrifying thing as the city wall scattering, he wanted to know how they were tested by the Ministry of Industry when the city wall was built, and how a Maitreya bandit served as a partial guard for more than ten years without being known. (To be continued)