Chapter Fifty-Eight: Fierce Battle
Hu Jian and Chen Hongyi have never won a fight, but it's just that Chen Hongyi is too powerful, which doesn't mean that Hu Jian can't fight. After Hu Jian determined that Chen Hongyi was not in Liyang City, he surrounded the southeast and west sides of Liyang City, and requisitioned the people to build a soil mountain, and threw arrows and stones into the city from the earth mountain every day. The north side of Liyang City is low, and it is still more than a person high in water, Hu Jian piled up earth mountains at both ends to build arrow towers, as long as the Liang army dares to escape from the north gate, he will be shot to death in the water.
The Qin army launched the first general attack, and Li Xiaofei saw a dense crowd of people rushing over on horseback on the city, followed by an overwhelming rain of arrows. Due to the Qin army filling the earth day and night, the city wall of Liyang was only less than a zhang from the ground, the Qin army burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, riding a horse to rush to the city and climbed directly from the back of the horse to the city wall, the Liang army on the city wall picked up the big axe and the ring head knife to resist desperately, and the archers behind shot at the Qin army behind with a few arrows.
Seeing that there were more and more Qin troops climbing the city wall, they whistled to Xiao Yu, and the Liang army defending the city quickly ran away, and Murong Ling shot rockets on the firewood and grass pile of the city wall, and a fire suddenly ignited on the city wall. Xiang Xiaoyu and Murong Ling had already piled up the sulfur charcoal dry firewood on the city wall, and only waited for the city wall to light a fire when it could not be defended.
The fire quickly formed a fire dragon on the city wall, and some of the Qin troops who could not escape were burned to death, some were choked to death by the smoke, and the rest jumped off the city wall to escape with their lives. Hu Jian saw that the first attack failed, but he was not in a hurry, the fire on the city wall would always be extinguished, and it was only a matter of time before he rushed to the head of the city again.
Li Xiaofei put down the knife in his hand and took a breath, his body was covered with dust and bloodstains, he began to regret underestimating the enemy, he had always heard Chen Hongyi say that Hu Jian was incompetent in battle, and today he understood that it was for a famous general like Chen Hongyi. Hu Jian, as a leading commander, is completely qualified, and it can be said that without Chen Hongyi, maybe he would have gone south a long time ago. Li Xiaofei looked at the remaining more than 500 people and decided to break through, as many people as he could. Murong Ling stopped him: "Go out, half a mile away, it's gone, look at me!" ”
Murong Ling raised the long knife in his hand, and all thirty heavily armored cavalrymen led their horses to the city wall. Murong Ling looked back at everyone: "I, rush into battle and kill the generals, you guys go together!" ”
There was no room for Li Xiaofei's hypocrisy, Murong Ling was the first to jump off the city wall, the black robe floated up behind him, and when the head fell with a knife, he split the fastest cavalry company of the Qin army into two with his horse. Hu Jian saw clearly in the formation, and he knew that the real strong enemy was coming. Hu Jian said to several lieutenant generals under him: "When that person rushes over, let me resist him, you each stabilize the soldiers and horses of your headquarters, put on an extra layer of armor on your body, if I am killed, you must not panic, avoid the impact of the opposite side and surround them, they can't go!" ”
The military advisor of the Qin army was shocked on the side: "Is it worth it for General Hu to fight hard with an unknown man like this, abandoning tens of thousands of troops?" ”
Hu Jianyi pointed to the thirty-one horsemen who were turning the Qin army on their backs: "It's worth it, if I take the lead in retreating, we will be defeated, the army's spirit will be scattered and the momentum will be lost, even if there is a million troops, it will not help." Even if I die in battle, I will show the soldiers of the Qin State that I, Hu Jian, am not a general who can only escape! ”
After Hu Jian finished speaking, he rushed forward with his guards to face Murong Ling, in order not to be taken down by Murong Ling in a few rounds, Hu Jian wore a layer of cotton armor on the body, and the cotton armor was covered with chain mail, and the chain mail was wrapped in a layer of cowhide armor, Hu Jian, who was wearing three layers of armor, raised a shield in his left hand and ran to Murong Ling with a big axe in his right hand.
Murong Ling saw Hu Jian rushing up, he was secretly happy in his heart, and he also rushed forward with a knife, the horses on both sides were wrong, and after a ping pong crash, Murong Ling found that the knife he swung was obviously slashed at Hu Jian, but Hu Jian was not injured. Thirty heavily armored cavalry slashed straight over, but Hu Jian turned his horse's head and chased after Murong Ling again, and the Qin army saw that the main general was so desperate, and they all opened their bows and arrows to shoot at Murong Ling.
Murong Ling jumped to the side and snatched a Qin army's war horse to avoid the rain of arrows. Hu Jian kept staring at Murong Ling and chased after him, and Murong Ling understood that Hu Jian's purpose was to entangle him, separate him from the thirty heavily armored cavalry, and then break them individually. Fortunately, after Li Xiaofei rushed towards Xiaoyu in Murong Ling, he rushed out with all the people, and entangled Hu Jian's guards behind Hu Jian. Thirty heavily armored cavalry had already rushed out of the three miles at this time, and a big gap appeared in the Qin army's array, and Murong Ling knew that the opportunity had come, so he hid under the horse's belly and rushed towards Hu Jian.
Hu Jian saw clearly from behind, and rushed towards Murong Ling with a big axe, Murong Ling took the opportunity and stabbed Hu Jian in the abdomen, but at the moment of stabbing in, Murong Ling felt something strange, and only pierced the leather armor and put it on the chain mail. Hu Jian seized the opportunity to pick up the big axe and slash at Murong Ling, who had to draw his knife and turn backwards to avoid it.
Seeing Murong Ling dismount, Hu Jian rushed up with his horse, and Murong Ling shot up with a knife and then volleyed down on the top of Hu Jian's head. Hu Jian raised the shield and turned his head, a golden light slashed, the shield was split in half, the knife was cut on Hu Jian's shoulder, the leather armor was cut, and the chain mail was also scratched out of a deep mark.
Hu Jian's lieutenant generals saw that he was fighting with the mysterious enemy army who was rumored to be like a god, and his morale was greatly boosted, and they even came up with a way to deal with the thirty heavily armored cavalry. Soon ten of the thirty heavily armored cavalry fell, and the rest were surrounded by the Qin army's rejection of the sabre cart, and they were all about to be killed.
At this time, there was a lot of smoke and dust behind the Qin army, Chen Hongyi had already arrived with three thousand cavalry in the forward, and Chen Hongyi took the lead in running towards the surrounded heavy armored cavalry, which he had spent his blood to practice, and he couldn't fold it here. Hu Jian saw the banner of Chen Zi from afar, and shivered, Murong Ling swung his knife again, Hu Jian lowered his head and dodged, and the red tassel on the top of the helmet was cut off by Murong Ling. Hu Jian secretly shouted that it was not good, the general trend had gone, he was being attacked from both sides at this time, and he could not get out, and the deputy generals were also afraid when they heard Chen Hongyi's name, but they were afraid that these tens of thousands of people would die under this Liyang City today.
When Li Xiaofei and Xiang Xiaoyu saw Chen Hongyi's banner, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and led people to rush to the place where Chen Hongyi was. Murong Ling saw that the goal of breaking through the siege had been achieved, and he couldn't kill Hu Jian for a while, so he rode forward to open the way for Li Xiaofei and the others.
Hu Jian was about to lead people to flee north, Chen Hongyi's soldiers and horses actually erected the banner of Qin, and Hou Dong actually brought all the remaining men and horses in Yecheng to reinforce Hu Jian. Hu Jian was happy and afraid, happy that he could attack the Liang army in two ways, and afraid that he would not be able to eat Chen Hongyi's men and horses after gathering all the main forces.
Li Xiaofei and the others just had hope, but they fell into a larger encirclement again, and they suddenly felt hopeless. Li Xiaofei knelt in front of Chen Hongyi and cried and pleaded guilty, Chen Hongyi laughed: "I'm late, I killed so many brothers for you, and you kid is really useless." The enemy surrounded us, but they appeared in a different position, and our style of play had to change. Where do you fight from, and what is the difference between how many people you fight?
As he spoke, Chen Hongyi incorporated Li Xiaofei's remnants into his 3,000 men, and Chen Hongyi invited Murong Ling to his side: "Mr. Murong, today the old man needs you and me to open the way in front, our more than 3,500 people, can no longer be dispersed, the enemy army is now two roads, we seize one way and attack fiercely, we will definitely be able to break out of the encirclement!" “
Murong Ling nodded: "I'll just open the way, the general will command"
Chen Hongyi laughed: "I like to take the lead in the charge, overwhelming the enemy in momentum, if I am afraid, the thousands of people behind me will not be able to hold a knife or a gun."
Murong Ling also smiled: "Then let's rush over together."
As he spoke, an old man and a young man opened the way in front and rushed towards Hu Jian's men. Hu Jian originally thought that Chen Hongyi would lead his troops to retreat west after saving Li Xiaofei and others, or flee to the east, but he didn't expect Chen Hongyi to rush to the north like a madman. Fortunately, the Qin army was dozens of times larger than the Liang army, and Hu Jian was no longer afraid of Chen Hongyi in this battle, so he held a big axe to stabilize his position, and ordered the archers to release arrows at the Chen army.