Chapter 46: Bloody Battle Wheel (4)
When Luoyang City was busy choosing a concubine for a wedding, Zuo Sanxiang and others in Luntai City were still blowing the wind and watching the snow.
The snow scene of Luntai is not white, it is different from what Zuo Sanxiang and others expected, the snow of Luntai is staggered with sand, and the yellow sand and white snow are reflected in front of you.
"Why is the snow so different on this wheel, I thought it would be a few feet of snow covering everything, but now it seems that I was wrong!"
The third phase on the left and the generals braved the north wind at the head of the city to look at the snow scene in the distance, and muttered to themselves.
"Maybe this wheel is blessed by God to prevent the heavy snow from trapping us here, so we can go to Gaochang to ask for reinforcements!" Liu Jingchuan felt that the snow was not heavy, so he could try to send someone to Gaochang again
Hu Xiya knocked a few times on the city wall with the hammer in his hand before knocking off a half-inch-thick piece of ice, "No, the snow is not big, but it is much colder, can't the generals feel it?" And there must be a lot of ice on the road outside the city, the war horses can't travel, and people have to tie iron teeth to the soles of their shoes if they want to go! ”
Ma Hua sighed, "Boss Hu, don't say it, a few days ago, a few black bears ran into a hole where our brothers were sleeping, and almost scared a few brothers to death." As soon as the bear entered, it fell asleep, and we were so hurt that we re-enlarged a few more holes! ”
"It's so cold, I don't know if the damp poison people will withdraw their troops! It would be nice if we withdrew," Wang Xiaokuang said, looking at the remnants of the chariots of the wet poisoners on the high ground to the west
Everyone also looked around, "On such a cold day, the wet poison man should also be repaired, let's go back to the house early to bake the fire, I'm afraid we will freeze to death in such a snowy day!" ”
Zuo Sanxiang sneezed, "Don't treat others with yourself, what if the damp poison person is more frost-resistant than us, or has clothes that have a good effect on keeping out the cold?" Do not take it for granted when marching and fighting, and the enemy who thinks you can't do it can't do it! ”
Everyone was accustomed to Zuo Sanxiang's preaching, and immediately responded, nodding yes one after another.
But everyone snickered in their hearts, this Zuo Shuai was too cautious, even the black bear was so cold that he ran to the place where people lived to sleep, how could this wet poisonous man come out to fight.
Rao is like this, and the third minister of the left still sent out thirty scouts to investigate the enemy's situation.
The news brought back by the scout shocked everyone, it turned out that one of the people in this wet poison had come from the north, and they could march shirtless in this cold and snowy land.
This group of people and horses is holding a flag painted with a white bear, about 1,000 people, and they have already settled down fifty miles outside Luntai City, these people can not only be naked and not afraid of freezing, but also eat raw meat and drink snow water.
"Where is this person, this is simply the evil ghost of hell, Ru Mao is not afraid of cold when he drinks blood, and he is blonde and blue-eyed, Zuo Shuai, I don't think he is good!" After Wang Xiaoming listened to the spies' words, his first reaction was that these people were too terrible, Liang Jun couldn't wait to put on a few more layers of fur to keep out the cold, and the hands with knives and guns were already frostbitten, but these people were naked.
Zuo Sanxiang wiped a handful on his face to hide his fear, "Don't be afraid, we still have an advantage by holding on to the city!" ”
"I don't think the damp poisoners will just go to the north to hire tribes to fight, since these people are not afraid of the cold, then walking on the ice is naturally not a problem, so we must strengthen our vigilance! Prepare fires and firewood and hot water on the city walls. I can't figure it out, they'll attack Luntai City at night! "Fu Dingyuan had heard that there were people in the north who could fly up and down the ice and climb steep cliffs, so he was worried that the damp poison people would attack the city overnight.
Zuo Sanxiang looked at everyone, "This time the people who come are not good, and the good ones are not coming, and it is normal for you to be afraid." However, Ben Shuai suddenly thought just now, it is not a way to stay in the city passively! The best defense is to make it impossible for the enemy to attack! ”
"Zuo Shuai wants me to rob the camp at night? The people and horses on the ice can't stand steadily, and I can't get out now! "MCA tried it out of the city gate before, fell a few times, and at this moment understood what Zuo Sanxiang meant, but he was powerless.
"Take all the broken swords collected in the warehouse to the blacksmith's shop, hurry up and make iron teeth, and everyone must make a hundred pairs of shoes with iron teeth today!"
Zuo Sanxiang gave an order, and Hu Xiya responded first, "Zuo Shuai, there are a few shoemakers among the guys Hu brought this time, and I still have some tanned cowhide boots here, but it's just a matter of adding soles!" I'll leave this to me! ”
Fu Dingyuan knew that with these iron-toothed boots, it would not be difficult to walk on the ice, so he preemptively invited himself to fight, "Zuo Shuai, Fu asked to take a hundred brothers to rob the camp tonight!" ”
"You kid is robbing the merit at this time, it must be my business to rob the camp tonight!" MCA is not to be outdone
"You two don't have to fight for merit, robbing the camp, and ask Brigadier General Wang Xiao to bring people forward, the most important thing tonight is to block the wet poison people on the city wall! I expected them to come and attack the city tonight, but we were the only ones who held off the siege here
Only the damp poison people of the city, the brothers who robbed the camp have hope! ”
Wang Xiaozhun raised his head and was a little surprised, "Zuo Shuai handed over the heavy responsibility of robbing the camp to me, I'm just afraid that I will live up to Zuo Shuai's trust,"
"Hugh has to excuse himself! After you take a hundred people out of the city, you go straight to the enemy camp, set fire and shout, don't fight hard! Burn as much as you can! Boss Hu has some white cloth for you to use. If you encounter enemy reinforcements on the way, you must not fight, just go back to the city! ”
Wang Xiaoming and Wang Xiaokuang felt that Zuo Sanxiang was making things difficult for Wang Xiaozhun, so they knelt down together and pleaded, "Zuo Shuai, the junior brother's martial arts are not high, and if you lead someone to rob the camp, I'm afraid you have no chance of winning!" Commander Ma and Commander Fu are strong in martial arts, why not Zuo Shuai"
"Ben Shuai has a point! You don't need to argue just now, just wait after dark, as soon as you get out of the city gate, you will know that Ben Shuai has given this great credit to your Wang family this time! ”
The three brothers of the Wang family saw that they couldn't resist the three phases of the left, so they had to take the order back to their cave.
"Hyo-joon, remember, you must come back alive, and if the situation is not right after you go out, you would rather hide in a cave than go to the enemy's camp!"
"Yes, you can't die in vain, just a hundred people go out, how can you get out of the whole body, it's not like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger! I really don't know what kind of heart this left three phases have! ”
Wang Xiaozhun sighed, "Don't say it, this Zuo Sanxiang is ruthless, if you don't listen to him, you will die in his hands!" I'll take someone to light a few fires and I'll be back! ”
In the winter of Luntai, it was already dark at the end of Shen Shi, and Hu Xiya and a group of blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers had already made more than 200 pairs of boots with iron teeth.
Wang Xiaokuang was not worried that Wang Xiaozhun would go alone, so he took the initiative to apply to Zuo Sanxiang to take 100 people to rob the camp.
The third from the left immediately complied, and allocated 100 people to Wang Xiaokuang, so that the two brothers could go to the camp together.
This day is the eighth day of the lunar month, and the guys of Huxiya boiled a few large pots of porridge on the city wall to reward Liang Jun, and Liang Jun was all happy, sitting around the fire and drinking porridge.
The damp poison people outside Luntai City also really went out, blatantly rushing towards Luntai City in the moonlight.
The 1,000 troops with the banner of white bears came from the ice with logs, branches and grass piles on their backs, and ladders on the ice, as if they were walking on the ground.
Behind these thousand people, there were countless damp poison people with chariots, and the damp poison people removed the wheels of the chariot and replaced them with wooden planks, and pushed them on the ice, and they were able to transport people out.
The third minister on the left pointed to these chariots, "See, this is exactly what we didn't expect, the methods they use today, we can use them tomorrow!" ”
Liu Jingchuan and the others immediately prepared large shields and planks, and the enemy was already not far from the city wall.
Liang Jun stretched out his bow and set up arrows to shoot, but was stopped by Fu Dingyuan, "The things they carried and the special oil-soaked armor couldn't shoot at all, they piled the chariot under the city wall, and it became a dead end, they couldn't shoot, don't waste the arrows!" ”
"It's a pity that there is no oil for kerose! Or burn them! MCA stomped his feet to the side
"Lift it up!" Under the order of the third minister in the city, dozens of soldiers brought several bundles of newly made weapons up.
These weapons are shaped like hammers, except that the head is sharper and the handle longer.
"The enemy army is strong, and they are covered with animal skins, and there are so many wood, firewood and grass as shields, ordinary weapons are broken, and they can only use this big hammer to break the armor!" Liu Jingchuan picked up a big hammer and waved it a few times
Ma Hua and Fu Dingyuan also took a handful in their hands and tried it, seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, Zuo Sanxiang shouted, "Get down!" ”
Everyone lay on the city wall, and the enemy troops below the city threw arrows at the city, but many arrows hit the frozen city wall and the ground, and only a few fell, which were also blocked by the Liang army's shield.
The enemy was not stupid, and continued to shoot arrows at the place where there was a fire, and the besiegers set fire to the branches and grass piles of smoke, and suddenly the smoke around the city wall was so thick that the people in the city could not see the situation under the city clearly, and the people under the city set up ladders and covered their mouths and noses with wet cloths and climbed up.
Ma Hua and Fu Dingyuan resisted the besieging wet poison people at the west gate and north respectively, and the big hammer was really useful, and it was a bloody hole when it was smashed.
The top of the siege ladder of the wet poison man was full of upside-down sharp knives and barbs, leaning on the battlements of the city wall, and the Liang army could not overturn the ladder by all means. The damp poison people climbed up one by one from the ladder, and Liang Jun poured buckets of boiling water down.
The screams came and went in the smoke, and the corpses of the damp poison people were soon piled up under the base of the city wall, but there were many damp poison people, and they went one after another, and one died and two died.
Soon the Liang army ran out of boiling water, so they threw the fire up the ladder, and then the wet poison people began to climb the city wall.
In the battle at the head of the city, the Liang army tried his best to block the wet poison people, looking at the more and more wet poison people accumulating, Liu Jingchuan took fifty people to wear special boots and went out from the south gate
Come to the rescue of Simon.
The damp poison people only cared about attacking the city, and they would attack without the Liang army, and the fifty people led by Liu Jingchuan broke thirteen cloud ladders in a row, and resolved the attack of the damp poison people at the west gate at once.
In the smoke, the damp poison man only knew that his ladder had been cut off from the city, and he didn't know how many Liang troops were dispatched, and he immediately panicked.
The general of the wet poison man who led the team immediately concentrated all his efforts to specialize in the north gate, and Fu Dingyuan of the north gate was already seriously injured at this time, and he couldn't support it, so Zuo Sanxiang personally brought people to rescue.
After Fu Dingyuan was saved, Zuo Sanxiang directly waved his knife and jumped down from the city, and his thirty personal soldiers also jumped down, slashing and killing the wet poison people who were ascending the city and destroying the cloud ladder under the city.
At this time, the fire was blazing in the distance, and the general of the Wet Poison Man immediately shouted, and the Wet Poison Army immediately abandoned Luntai City and fled.
Wang Xiaozhun and Wang Xiaokuang's trip was so smooth that the two brothers suspected that they had a plan to poison people.
The damp poison people never thought that the Liang army would take the initiative to attack the camp of the damp poison people, and the Wang brothers took advantage of the night to lead people to set fire and shout, and the fire was everywhere in the dark night, and the damp poison people didn't know how many Liang troops came to trample on each other.
This battle ended with the victory of the Liang army, and Hari Pari and Wang Olpeyi thought that they could rely on the White Bear Clan from the north to break the city, but their camp was attacked by a sneak attack, losing a lot of food and grass materials, and tens of thousands of horses and horses fled in all directions in the dark night.
As soon as the food and grass were lost, Hari Pari and Wang Olpe also knew that they couldn't stay any longer, but at this time, they would go back like this, and they would not escape death.
Wang Olpe and the remaining white-clothed guards discussed taking Haripari, cutting first and then playing, and blaming all the losses of the battle on Haripari.
Who knew that the officers around Haripari struck first, killed Wang Olpeyan and the white-clothed guards in the middle of the night, and supported Haripari as king.
Haripari didn't want to commit treason, but the lieutenants and officers around him drew their swords and forced Haripari to claim the throne.
The lieutenant general, Jedar, pointed to the corpse of Wangolpe, and said, "If King Haripari refuses to lead us, we will all be hanged when we return!" ”
"Those high-ranking old men won't spare us, this time we cost them a lot of money, but we couldn't win the battle!"
"No, even if we win the battle, we won't actually gain anything, and we will be questioned when we go back!"
"These noble children in white clothes are here to monitor and kill us, we have already killed their people this time, there is no way back!"
Knowing that if he didn't promise everyone, he would soon become a corpse, so he raised his right hand and swore an oath, "I want to protect everyone, I want to be the king of everyone!" Follow me, my children! Let's go to the riverine area and build our own home! ”
After Haripari promised to be king, the remaining 100,000 men and horses marched to the west in turn, and in order to prevent the Liang army from pursuing, the wet poison men dug three deep ditches on the only road before leaving.
When Zuo Sanxiang and his subordinates went down to the wet poison camp to investigate, they only saw a place of ashes and three deep ditches three zhang deep and three feet wide and dozens of zhang long.
"Looks like the damp poison isn't going to come back, but we can't stop at Luntai!"
The left three prime ministers wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the generals looked embarrassed, thinking that they could repair it, but the marshal still had to continue to fight.
The third phase of the left knew that everyone was embarrassed, so he shared his thoughts and thoughts.
"I'm not asking you to hunt down the Wet Poisoners, but we're going northwest to the Ili River Valley to appease the locals!" The enemy retreats and we advance, and in the spring of the next year, only when we control the Ili River valley can we hope to cross the green mountains! ”
"Zuo Shuai, after the spring of next year, can you consider the class teacher?"
"Zuo Shuai, we finally repelled the damp poison people, even if we don't return to the court, we have to go to Gaochang to re-establish the supply line!"
"When the ice melts in the spring, we have little grain and grass left, and if we don't go back to Gaochang at that time, we will only starve to death!"
Everyone still refused to move forward, and the three prime ministers on the left also understood that the anger was difficult to offend, and they were ready to return to Luntai first.
"If Zuo Shuai is willing to send a brave general with hundreds of people, I am willing to go to the Ili River Valley for Zuo Shuai!" Hu Xiya took the initiative to ask Ying at this time to go to the Ili River Valley.
Zuo Sanxiang looked at everyone, "Who is willing to go with Boss Hu?" This handsome is rewarded! ”
Or Ma Hua came out to relieve the siege, "It's better for me to go to Ma Laosan!" But let's talk about it first, we have appeased the men and horses of the Ili River Valley, and we will no longer go west! ”
Zuo Sanxiang stretched out his finger, "Okay, let's pull the hook as a basis, I know that everyone is tired, and it is not easy to survive until now." As long as the people and horses of the Ili River Valley are appeased, we will complete this trip! ”