Chapter 1126: Fight to the Death
"Bang ~~~"
Several huge gongs were hammered by the commander's soldiers.
In the deafening sound, the Qin troops who participated in the attack retreated like a tide, and a large number of wounded companions were also dragged out of the battlefield, while there were many companions and corpses of the dead who had not had time to be rescued, and at least hundreds of people fell within a hundred zhang in front of the city pass.
"Hahahaha~"
Watching the Qin army's embarrassed retreat, there was a burst of hearty laughter on the city gate, and thousands of mobs began to raise their bows and arrows in their hands to celebrate this easy victory.
Although the mob lost some people, 80 percent of the corpses lying under the walls were the corpses of the Qin army, which was a negligible loss for them who had long regarded death as their home.
Almost all of the retreating Qin troops were wounded, and at this time they were all sitting and lying in the snow for simple treatment and bandaging with each other, and there were many seriously injured who died of exhaustion without waiting for treatment, in the chaotic shouting and wailing, looking at the corpses in front of the pass and the Ze robe lying on the ground in pain and rolling in pain, all the Qin troops were red-eyed and their faces were blue.
"General, the enemy's arrows are fierce, we only have light armor and light shields to resist, and our bows and crossbows are not as strong as the bows and crossbows used to defend the city, and they can't hit far, so we need to recruit people and craftsmen to build siege equipment......" A captain arched his hand with an ugly face.
"General, what Captain Qi said is right, the city pass is strong and tall, if there is no strong shield and crossbow, the city cannot be broken, and the sons and daughters really can't fight with their lives!" The commander of the army also hurriedly persuaded him.
"Young General, it is true that you can't storm it, the city is well prepared, the Yanmen Pass Ordnance Warehouse is at least 100,000 arrows, if you attack strongly, the current six thousand men and horses can't hold out for an hour, and the geese-shaped city walls on both sides have not participated in the attack and suppression, otherwise I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for half an hour......" Wang San, Wang Si and others also spoke next to them to persuade.
"Then how can you quickly take the pass?" Wang Li asked hatefully.
"General, it is not easy to break the Yanmen Gate in the front, even if it is 100,000 soldiers and horses, the best way is to start from the inside out, at the moment, you only need to mobilize a soldier and horse, and enter the pass by detouring through the building, and at most 3,000 people and horses will be able to take the Yanmen Pass!" Jiang Chutian, who had been following Wang Li's side, hugged his fists and said.
"Yes, yesterday we were forced to abandon the pass because the pass could not be defended, otherwise there would have been today's situation, the Yanmen Pass was built to prevent Hun Hu outside the pass, not to prevent civil strife!" Zhao Bao, the governor of Yanmen Pass, also nodded again and again.
"Lou Fu Guan ......" Wang Li pinched his chin and looked ugly, he was familiar with the art of war, and naturally knew that frontal siege warfare was not the strength of horse pawns, especially at the moment, there were no tools and craftsmen to make wooden shields and siege equipment, and if he attacked hard, he would definitely suffer heavy casualties.
"Brother Jiang, you quickly take the general's warrant to go to the Lou Fu Pass, and recruit the soldiers guarding the pass to take the pass after detouring to Yanmen Pass, can you do it in one day!" After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Li decided to adopt this strategy.
Jiang Chutian twitched a few times and hugged his fists fiercely and said: "General, the heavy snow is blocking the road right now, the mountain road is rugged and difficult to travel, the detour is annoying to close the Yanmen, the distance is more than three hundred miles, I am afraid that it will be too difficult in one day, I hope the general will have more hours!" ”
"That will give you two days, be sure to take Yanmen Pass, if you succeed, Ben will ensure that you will be added to the third level, go!"
"General Xie!" Jiang Chutian took the talisman and token handed over by Wang Li, turned around and rode away with dozens of his own guards.
"The army retreated two miles and camped!" Although Wang Li was young and vigorous, this battle was like a basin of cold water pouring him through, and after calming down, he also knew that he could not win at the moment, so he did not hesitate to order the army to retreat.
The movements of Wang Li's army were clearly seen by Li Xiong and others on the city wall.
"Brother, why did Wang Li suddenly withdraw his troops?"
"Hmph, sure enough, it's a wine bag and rice bag that grew up in the shade of my ancestors, if I didn't attack like this at all, I would have made a detour to the building...... It's not good, the person who just left must be going to the building to annoy the pass, wanting to attack me from behind! Li Xiong suddenly came to his senses halfway through speaking, and his face turned a little pale in an instant.
"Brother, let me lead a group of sons and daughters to set up an ambush halfway, and I will definitely kill this support army!" The young leader's face quickly clenched his fists and said.
"It's okay, there are still 3,000 men and horses under the city pass, you take them all with you, set up an ambush near the Black Wind Gorge, remember to be careful, if you can't fight the enemy, let the sons and daughters scatter and return home, don't fight hard, since the king retreats, then I will go out of the pass and fight to the death, and I will kill this fang to avenge the dead compatriots!" Li Xiong nodded.
"We have sworn to live and die together, how can we retreat, brother be careful, brother will go!" The young man turned and kicked downstairs after giving up his hand, and soon there was a loud shouting and shouting after the pass, and soon a messy procession of thousands of men and horses walked southeast in the morning sun through the remnants of snow, and soon disappeared between the vast mountains.
"Tell me to go down, make a fire and make food, and you will have a full meal to nourish your spirits, and then fight with a certain person out of the city and fight to the death with Wang Li!" Li Xiong stuck his spear heavily on the city wall and shouted.
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Jiang Chutian asked for an order to attack Yanmen behind the annoying pass of the building, Wang Li also withdrew his troops and did not move, and the tension on the floor was quickly relaxed, most of these mobs who were usually peasants went to the city to carry out the grain in the granary bags and bags, and began to make a fire with the cauldron of the barracks, and soon the smoke rose in the Yanmen Pass, and the rich aroma of food filled the wind.
Smelling the smell of hot food blowing in the wind, Qin Jun could only look around, and when he was hungry, he could only nibble on a few mouthfuls of hard and cold dry food on the ice and snow.
"These mountain dogs, when Benhou breaks through the city pass, they will be broken into thousands of pieces!" Wang Li sat on the cold stone, blowing the cold wind and gnawing on the hard dry food, and was furious.
Last night, the Yanmen Pass guard, the commander and the Guangwu County Commander took less than a thousand remnants of the defeated soldiers and fled to the barracks for help, Wang Li knew that the people near Guangwu County had rebelled, not only burned the Guangwu County Ya, but also took away the Yanmen Pass, so before dawn he ordered the six thousand elite horses in the camp to gallop Yanmen Pass, I thought it would be easy to take the pass, but I didn't expect that not only Yanmen Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention, the mob was not a rabble, but after getting a lot of equipment, there were masters in command, Hundreds of people were lost in a single photo, and they had to retreat in shame.
Because of the hurry, the soldiers did not say that they were carrying tents and stoves, and even the dry food was only brought for three days, and Jiang Chutian detoured to attack Yanmen from behind, and it would take at least two days for everything to go well, and God blessed these mobs in the city did not know, if he knew that there was an ambush on the road to intercept him, I am afraid that his face would be swollen this time.
An hour later, when the Yanmen Gate was closed, thousands of mobs had eaten and drunk enough, and even lay down in the sheltered city towers and military camps to warm themselves and recuperate, and Li Xiong and several leaders were also neatly dressed.
Their purpose this time is not to rebel, let alone restore the country, their purpose is to kill Wang Li.
A soldier may be killed, but not humiliated.
Wang Li's bad Li Mu Temple has touched the most painful nerve of the people of Zhaodi, this humiliation has made many people lose their minds, coupled with the hatred of the country's ruin, this anger can no longer be suppressed.
"Get out of the pass, kill Wang Li~~" Li Xiong stood on the city tower and roared loudly.
"Kill~Kill~Kill~" Thousands of mobs brandished bows, arrows, knives and guns stood up and shouted, and then as the thick gate of the Yanmen Gate was closed and creaked and the winch was slowly opened by more than a dozen mobs, Li Xiong rode out on a pitch-black horse, and thousands of mobs behind him rode horses or walked, shouting like a tide to rush out of the city and kill the Qin army camp.
"What? Are they out of the customs and killed? ”
Wang Li, who had gnawed on a stomach full of cold dry food and ice and snow, was hiding in a mountain col with a group of generals to warm himself by a fire at this time, when he suddenly heard the shouts of killing and the soldiers who hurriedly came to report, he was stunned for a moment and then jumped up happily in an instant.
"Hahahaha, God help me, these stupid dicks actually came out of the customs to kill me, everyone, go with Benhou to kill the enemy and take the ......"
Wang Ben didn't have time to put on his armor, so he turned over on his horse with a big sword, laughed and galloped away as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly.
"Quick, keep up with the young general!" Wang San and a group of guards and a group of generals who accompanied him all hurriedly got up and got on their horses and chased away.
"Woo~~~"
With the low sound of the horn, the soldiers of the Qin army, who were shivering in the ice and snow, instantly picked up their weapons and mounted their horses and began to assemble.
The distance of two miles was approaching in an instant, and when Li Xiong and the others rushed to the front of Wang Li's army, the six thousand elite horsemen who were well-trained on weekdays had all been unsheathed and wound up at this time, and they were lined up on horseback to meet the enemy.
"Wang Li suffers death~~" Looking at Wang Li, who was standing in front of the battle, and Wang Li, who was not wearing armor and helmets, Li Xiong shouted and danced, and the iron spear in his hand rushed up to kill.
"No one is allowed to rob, the leader of the bandits is Benhou's, drive~~" Wang Li choked and pulled out a steel sword with a wide mouth and wide blade, raised it high, and slammed his legs into the belly of the horse and went straight to Li Xiong.
"Kill~~" Behind Li Xiong, hundreds of mobs riding war horses also rushed up wielding various Daqin-style blades, and more mobs ran behind, although it looked like scattered sand, but the murderous aura was very strong.
"Kill~" Behind Wang Li, several captains raised their swords and guns at the same time, and while waving forward, the military flag whistled and swayed, and the six thousand horsemen also drew their sabers and began to accelerate.
This distance has lost much of the effectiveness of the bow and crossbow, and the two sides do not seem to plan to come to a round of shooting, the distance between each other is only a hundred meters, under the dash of the war horse will be a few seconds of short contact, using the bow and crossbow will only waste time.
In the shout, the two tidal waves crashed together.
In the shadow of the sword and sword, in an instant, the flesh and blood flew on their backs, and the screams and wails were mixed together, whether it was a mob or a horse pawn, they all suffered a large number of casualties at the moment of contact.