Chapter 614: Near-Death and Survival

Helian Bo felt that today was his limit.

The Tubo people outside the city launched wave after wave of attacks towards Changze County like crazy.

At the beginning, it was the people of Changze County who were captured by them. Under the persecution of the Tubo people's swords and guns, these people cried and carried ladders and carried dirt bags to Changze County.

Helian Bo would not hesitate at all for such an act, and under the rain of arrows and arrows, most of these people fell on the way forward, and those who barely reached the bottom of the city wall would only be stoned to death by the rolling stones and wood on the top of the city.

These people are just cannon fodder used by the Tibetan army to consume arrows and equipment to defend the city.

The siege methods were clumsy, low-level, but effective.

When the people are dead, they are the Han army and the slave army.

When the Han army and the slave army also suffered heavy losses, the elite of Tubo finally came out. At this time, Changze County was already scarred and overwhelmed.

After defending the city for many days, the few arrows have been used up, and now, there is not much left of even the rolling stones and earth, and in the city, everything that can be demolished has been demolished, and everything that can be eaten has been eaten, except for the people who are still fighting above the city, the city is full of people who have no half of their strength.

They're basically hungry.

After all, what can be eaten is given priority to soldiers and young people who can go to the city to fight.

Something big must have happened outside, which led to an uncharacteristically violent attack by the Tibetans, but Helian Bo didn't know anything about what it was. Changze County, which he guarded, although it is one of the four counties in Xiazhou, is not a big city like Xiazhou City after all, and it is really surrounded by the Tubo people. Not to mention whether someone can sneak out, even if it is a dog, I am afraid that it will not be able to sneak out.

But as an experienced veteran, Helian Bo still guessed that the development of things must be unfavorable to the Tubo people, otherwise, they would not be so crazy.

When the commander withdrew all the troops to Xiazhou, he had the idea of procrastination. At first, the Tubo people only surrounded but did not fight, and when they really started attacking, it was only a matter of nearly a month, and the desperate attack was a matter of the last ten days.

It's a pity that I can't wait for the good news to come.

Helian Bo saw that in the northwest corner of the city wall, a group of Tibetans finally climbed the city wall, where they set up a small bridgehead and fought fiercely with the soldiers above the city head.

After many days of fierce battles and hungry city defenders, their physical strength has been seriously overdrawn, where is the opponent of these recuperated Tubo soldiers, seeing that his subordinates were killed by the Tubo people and retreated again and again, and the place where the city head was lost was getting bigger and bigger, Helian Bo knew that the last moment was finally coming.

It's like a domino standing together, if one falls, it will cause a chain of reversals, and eventually a total collapse.

"Ring the bell!" Helian Bo sighed, gave an order to a soldier beside him, clutched his two scimitars, and with a loud scream, jumped down from the top of the city gate tower and rushed towards the Tibetan soldiers not far away.

When the desolate bell rang, Helian Bo had already killed the first enemy in front of him, the sharp scimitar cut the man's neck, the blood splattered his face, and the bloody breath came to his nose, stimulating his most primitive beastly nature, at this moment, he forgot everything, and only the enemy was left in his eyes.

Forward, ramming into the arms of the enemy, the scimitar attached to the elbow was gently brushed, and another Tibetan soldier fell under his sword.

Don't think about anything, kill! If you can kill one more, you will kill one more. It is no longer necessary to coordinate the overall situation and command the whole army.

The rest is to fight on their own, desperately killing the enemy until everyone is dead.

The bell rang one after another, and on the streets of the city, the people who had been lying there as if they were dead staggered to their feet, some holding a stone in their hands, some holding half a brick, and some just picking up a branch and a stick at random, and slowly approaching the city like a walking corpse.

The long-lasting ringing of the bell tells all the people in the city that the final hour has come.

Helian Bo roared wildly and pushed a Tibetan man to the edge of the city wall, the arms of the two were twisted together, the scimitar in his hand was lattice on the periphery, Helian Bo lowered his head, his head hit each other hard, when there was a sound, his helmet hit the other party's fur hat hard, the Tubo soldier was bleeding profusely, it was obvious that he was a little dizzy, his arms were slightly loose, the scimitar in Helian Bo's hand had been dragged back, the tip of the knife swept over the throat of the one, listening to the hissing sound coming, feeling the twisted arms gradually become weak, Helienbo threw the man off the wall with all his might.

The path of Helenbo's advance was littered with the corpses of the Tibetans, or perhaps his ferocity frightened the Tibetans, who deliberately avoided Helenbo, but swept away in both directions.

Helian Bo was panting and leaning against the city wall, in fact, he didn't have much strength at this time, his face was covered with blood, and everything was red.

Those beating fur hats made Helian Bo's heart tingle for a while, and there were more and more Tubo people attacking the city. But his own soldiers are getting fewer and fewer.

You can kill a few more! He said in his heart.

Three, five? It should be about the same.

He gasped a few times, ready to strike again.

At this moment, he heard the sound of thunderous horses' hooves outside the city, the earth-shattering shouts, and the sound of a trumpet that he was somewhat unfamiliar with.

Brigade of cavalry!

The Tibetans have come to reinforcements again? Attacking a small Changze County, they actually sent reinforcements? Helian Bo suddenly felt honored.

It's worth it.

He wiped a handful of blood beads from his face and looked up into the distance.

If you stand tall, you will naturally see far.

The bright red Datang flag is so dazzling and shining under the sun.

It's the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty! Helenbo was a little stunned.

Under the red banner, there was a wild stream of black cavalry, how many cavalry there were, all over the mountains, countless, even with Helianbo's rich experience in the army, it was impossible to estimate how many cavalry came out for a while.

Anyway, it's a lot, a lot!

The red banner fluttered, and the black torrent cut like a sharp blade to the Tubo brigade that was hastily responding to the battle not far away, but soon, the Tubo cavalry was drowned by the black torrent, and then the Tubo infantry was hit by the iron cavalry.

Reinforcements, really reinforcements! It's not An Suijun!

But no matter where they come from, they are reinforcements.

Helian Bo felt that his whole person was a little weak, and he tried hard to lean against the city wall to keep himself from falling, and it was only at this time that he felt so much pain in his body! When I looked down, I didn't know how many openings there were all over my body, and blood beads were bubbling out of the ground!

The guards, who were still trying very hard to ring the bell on the gate tower, also changed from the previous slow and long rhythm of percussion to a bright rhythm.

Above the city tower, all the surviving Ansui soldiers were shouting: "Reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived." ”

In the deepest moment of despair, a beam of light pierced the darkness and gave everyone hope of survival, which made the exhausted body burst out of nowhere, and the defenders of the city roared and launched a counterattack. The people in the city, who were so hungry that they couldn't even walk, were also walking like flying at this time. They picked up swords, shields, and spears from the pool of blood on the ground, and they all threw themselves at the Tibetans with a shout, whether they were old men, women, or children who were not as tall as wheels.

The Tubo soldiers besieging Changze County, there were about 5,000 elite people in the headquarters, basically all of them were cavalry, and the rest were slave troops, Han army and tribal army, with a total of more than 20,000 people, but under the impact of nearly 20,000 cavalry, they were beaten without much resistance.

The cavalry of the Tang Army came too suddenly, and they suddenly joined the battlefield without the slightest defense, which was extremely fatal to the Tubo people.

When Li De stepped into Changze County, the Tang cavalry was frantically chasing and killing the Tubo people.

Seeing the bloody Helianbo, looking at the old and weak women and children in the city who were lying on the ground and still holding their weapons tightly in their hands, Li De not only gave a thumbs up to the other party.

If it weren't for the desperate resistance of the defenders and the people of Changze County, his victory would not have come so easily.

The battlefield was spreading outward, and Li De's order was to chase and kill fifty miles.

Instead, Nagasawa County calmed down.

Without cleaning the battlefield, Li Ze ordered the grain seized from the camp of the Tubo people to be moved to the city, and a large cauldron was set up, and the fragrance of gruel spread in the city, and people who poured it all over the city like corpses gathered along the fragrance.

The porridge is not thick, but it is enough to keep one alive.

Above the city, Li De handed Helian Bo a piece of beef jerky.

Helian Bo, who was tearing the beef jerky hard, looked at Li De and said, "So, did Li Xiang mobilize more than 100,000 troops to save An Sui this time?" ”

"It's not to save An Sui!" Li De shook his head and said, "It's to annihilate the Tubo people." General Helian, can you infiltrate Xiazhou? ”

"Of course you can!" Helian Bo said: "Xiazhou is not a small city like Changze, and Tochar is twice as many people, and it is impossible to surround Xiazhou tightly." ”

"Great!" Li De took out a secret letter from his arms: "This is a letter from Li Xiang to Du Shuai, someone needs to give it to Du Shuai." ”

"Aren't you going to save Xiazhou?" Helianbo was a little surprised.

"Du Shuai needs to send troops, now is not the time to preserve his strength." Li De did not answer Helianbo's words, but smiled: "He needs to contain Tocharo's men, and we will send Raza to the Western Heavens." The Tubo army that attacked Yinzhou is the real elite of Tocharo, and destroying this group of men and horses is equivalent to cutting off one of Tocharo's arms and legs, and he will become half-paralyzed! ”