Soak in clean water three times, bathe in blood water three times, boil in alkaline water three times, if this can be regarded as a complete cleansing of the sins of the body, and there will be no suffering in the world, these people in the prison are probably willing to donate their flesh and blood, just in exchange for a moment of peace.

The sky grew brighter, dispelling away the mist that had shrouded the battlefield. Losing the decoration and concealment of the mist is like losing the filter, and what is exposed is always the most real ugliness.

Rows of soldiers ready to attack the city were already lined up, and at the front were the crumbling outcasts, driven by swords and spears, moving forward like walking corpses.

Behind these displaced people was the battle formation assembled by the Han and Qiang people, who were already waiting quietly in the order of the battle agreed yesterday night.

Naturally, it was impossible for the siege city to ride straight to the city wall on war horses, so the war horses of the Qiang people who dismounted and fought on foot were all gathered and led by special people to the rear to graze, and those grazing places were originally patches of fields.

Ma Chao was silent for a while, waved his hand violently, and the war drums on more than a dozen sides behind him suddenly sounded earth-shattering. Dozens of Qiang horn trumpeters also blew the horn with all their strength, and almost at the same time, a huge shout broke out in the military array, and the Yak Qiang people led the pioneers to catch up with the crowd, like a wave rolling, straight to the city wall!

As soon as it opened, it was different, the ragged homeless people, with great difficulty, pushed or pulled, dragging the siege equipment that had been made last night forward.

These siege machines were not available yesterday. Yesterday there were at most some ladders, and there were not a few rushing cars, but today there are not only ladders and rushing cars, but even wooden arrow towers that have been built, and a team of Qiang archers holding bows and following behind, waiting to advance to a suitable distance, killing and suppressing the city.

Yesterday, most of them were the walking dead outcasts attacking the city, but now, the main force has basically been replaced by the Qiang and Han Chinese.

Now under the city wall, it has been trampled by too many people, and it has also absorbed the blood of most people, and it has become a little like the color and mud of bean paste, but the bean paste is made of beans, and here it is human flesh and blood.

The Qiang people of the yak Qiang, lined up behind the displaced people, slowly followed, and at the same time struck the shield with their blades, while shouting loudly, adding a lot of momentum.

On the small dirt slope in the west, Ma Chao is sitting under the banner, and the sun rising in the east is shining on the banner of "Fubo Ma", which adds a little more color, hunting and drifting in the air......

Chong Shao, who is on the city wall, has been gray since yesterday night, and he has been struggling to survive, seeing Ma Chao gathering tens of thousands of people and horses, watching countless homeless people wailing and dying under the city wall, seeing countless torches lingering around the city at night, looking at Ma Chao's posture after dawn, the little bit of fire in his heart became more and more cold after all, almost desperate. Until now, he has stubbornly stuck to the head of the city and has not retreated, not because of how resolute he is, but because he knows that once he retreats, the defenders at the head of the city will probably lose their strength to hold the blade quickly.

Another point is that Chong Shao is also from Guanzhong.

Guanzhong man, even if he dies in the city, it is better than dying on the head of the bed at home!

Overnight, he and his son planted a shoe, but they also had nothing to say, and the two of them sat and lay down, silently. It's all come to this point, whether it's a hero or a hero, or a bear, in addition to dying, where is there so much endless gossip to remember and talk about?

Either way, no matter what!

But just death!

When the sky was shining, Ma Chao beat the drums, and the siege troops assembled by the brigade began to move forward slowly, on the city wall, those exhausted soldiers barely stood up with their support for the wall battlements, and they were all lifeless with little fighting spirit......

Chong Shao and Chong Jie, after all, are not people from the military, and they can command the soldiers until now and they still do not collapse, which is already good, as for what is the rotation rest before the battle, and the reasonable deployment of the soldiers, to be honest, it is basically seven tricks through six tricks. can maintain until now, one relies on being on the front line, and the other is relying on these private soldiers who have been cultivated by the family for many years, and this exhaustion of blood is equivalent to exhausting the family's heritage.

Chong Shaoqiang propped up his body, and didn't care about the rain of arrows that might be thrown up at any time, stretched out his head to look at the flow of people surging like a tide, and suddenly laughed: "It turns out that the end of the hero, it is like this!" ”

Just when Chong Shao thought that the city was about to be broken, suddenly a long horn sound sounded in the distance, although the sound was not loud, but it was like a sharp knife, tearing through Ma Chao's drum and trumpet, and rushed straight here!

This trumpet sounds, in the east!

Chong Shao's whole body was shocked, and he almost couldn't even stand on his feet, and suddenly turned his head to look east.

Chong Jie hurriedly stepped forward to support, and then suddenly pointed his hand to the east, and there was a bit of condensation in his words: "Father...... Father...... Here it comes...... Here it ......."

Chong Shao stared blankly, the corners of his mouth trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word.

I saw that in the east where the sun was rising, in that sunny place, a tricolor flag was raised high, as if exuding dazzling brilliance, stabbing people's eyes!

The battle flag of the Great Han Expedition to the West!

More and more soldiers and horses are presented in the brilliance, and these soldiers and war horses with their backs to the sun seem to be shrouded in a whole circle of brilliance, and their majesty is like a god soldier from heaven, galloping!

"Damn it! Damn scouts! Why didn't anyone find out about ......"

The dirt slope where Ma Chao was located suddenly caused a commotion, and many soldiers who were struggling to beat the drum couldn't help but slow down their movements, and then the drums completely lost their rhythm......

Thousands of pairs of eyes in the city and under the city turned to the east almost at the same time, and then involuntarily took a breath of cool air and let out an exclamation.

One person's voice was small, but the sound of thousands of people almost at the same time sounded in Ma Chao's military array, and it was suddenly like a boulder thrown into the deep pool, inspiring waves in the sky!

In an instant, the look all returned to Chong Shao's face and body.

Chong Shao turned around violently and shouted at the soldiers above the city: "Reinforcements are coming!" Reinforcements are coming! We are all saved! There is salvation! ”

He shouted, and suddenly it was as if with the light of the sun rising in the east, all the colors returned to the city, and suddenly the movements of the surrounding soldiers also came alive, although they were also covered in mud and blood, but they also obviously felt that the spirit and spirit were different.

Before Ma Chao's order arrived, the leader of the yak Qiang standing at the front pulled out his war knife and rushed forward a few steps, slashing a homeless man who was standing and looking eastward!

The human head swirled in the air, and there seemed to be not much blood in the cavity of the wanderer, and at the same time as the headless corpse fell down, the head of the yak Qiang pointed the blood-stained war knife at the head of the city, and shouted: "Siege!" Besiege! Fast! Fast! Take the city! ”

The head of the yak Qiang knows that after days and nights of consumption, there is now the last bit of strength left on the city wall, as long as he works harder, he can be pushed down in one go!

Whether it is reinforcements or not, whose soldiers and horses are coming from the east, at this moment, the head of the yak Qiang doesn't care, what he cares about is that he gave away the lives of his clansmen in vain before, and then can he go back with his belongings!

Taking a step back, if it is really a reinforcement that comes, it will naturally be resisted by Ma Chao!

Isn't it the easiest choice to choose an imposing reinforcement as an opponent or a dying defender as an opponent?

And Ma Chao, who was standing on top of the mound, had to think more, and his face turned blue and white.

Obviously, I saw the Qiang scouts going back and forth, but there was no news, among them, is it ......

Several Qiang heads beside Ma Chao also had blue faces and wrong expressions. It's just that their minds are not on the question of whether the scout is derelict or not, but on the reinforcements in front of them! followed Ma Chao to attack Chang'an, in order to pick up cheap and take advantage, but not to fight hard with the Han soldiers here, and the general in front of him is not a character to mess with!

And in the hearts of these Qiang heads, there was originally a layer of thought, but now that the situation has changed, do they stand on Ma Chao's side at the expense of their lives, or do they just turn around and leave when they see that the situation is wrong? For a while, the eyes of these Qiang heads flickered, and they were secretly testing each other with their eyes, asking ......

These appearances naturally fell into Ma Chao's eyes. Ma Chao's face became more and more pale, and when he looked back at Ma Dai, he got up and roared, and immediately a guard took his war horse and spear.

Ma Chao turned over and got on the horse, carried a gun in his hand, and shouted: "What the hell is the expedition to the west!" I want to see with my own eyes, how many pounds and taels he has! All armies will attack the city in order according to yesterday's arrangement, and if there is no arrangement, follow a certain quickly! Look how so-and-so took Zhengxi's head! After speaking, he sat on the back of his horse, raised his gun, and stared at the few Qiang heads who were not lined up yesterday.

"Ah......" Several Qiang heads looked at each other, and responded helplessly, "Yes...... Comply with the ...... So let the sons go and get their horses and prepare for ......"

Before these Qiang people finished speaking, they heard a sudden bang in the herd of horses behind, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, exploding in the herd of horses!

Then after a dozen breaths, there was another loud bang!

Two huge clouds of smoke burst out from the herd, stretching their bodies like demons with their teeth and claws, and then spreading in all directions.

The Qiang people and horses that were originally gathered in one place in the rear suddenly heard such a loud noise, and they were immediately frightened, and they screamed wildly, and immediately instinctively scattered and ran wildly!

War horses are creatures, don't look big, in fact, they are not much more timid than rabbits, although they are trained, but when they are trimming and grazing on weekdays, if they inadvertently come out of a rabbit under their stomachs, they will be scared to jump around for a while, let alone suddenly hear such a huge sound.

Gong Jun bared his teeth, squatted in the bushes, stretched out half his head, half opened his mouth, raised his eyebrows, and waited for a while, but there was no follow-up movement, and he couldn't help but sigh regretfully: "Damn, dumb for a ......"

With sulfur, how can you forget about black powder?

Fei Qian has long arranged special personnel to develop it, but in the Han Dynasty, the purification of many raw materials, including charcoal powder, was a big problem, and the nitrate was not easy to get, so in terms of the energy efficiency produced by the explosion, it was far from being comparable with the gunpowder of later generations.

However, it seems that it would be good to dig a tunnel and bury it under the roots of the city, but it will also take a long time, and the power is not guaranteed, so until the power can be stabilized, the current black powder is only a half-finished product.

However, this semi-finished product, used to create some smoke and noise, is not bad, although it has no direct lethality, but it is the most suitable to scare these timid guys.

Ma Chao's military discipline was chaotic, and the Qiang people were managed by their own leaders, and there was no so-called inspection or password between each other, so Gong Jun easily mixed in, and when he reached this critical node, he stabbed Ma Chao in the back and waist!

The war horse galloped wildly, although it was frightened and running, but the animal's instinct would make it subconsciously bypass these thorny bushes, Gong Jun found a gap, jumped out of the bushes, jumped on a war horse, hugged the horse's neck tightly, and ran away from the battlefield with the horse, while shouting in the words of the Qiang people: "The Han people are here!" Run, run! ”

War horses are blindly obedient animals, Gong Jun ran away from the battlefield with the war horses, and immediately drove the follow-up horses, and suddenly many war horses subconsciously followed the horse butt in front of them, fluttering and running out......

Seeing this situation in front of him, Ma Chao was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out, and he pointed a spear at Gong Jun and a few people who were running away shouting, and asked, "Who are these people?!" ”

The besieging people are naturally mainly engaged in foot combat, and these remaining war horses need to be guarded by others.

The head man of the Qiang subconsciously turned his head to look at the head man of Tsing Yi Qiang.

And Tsing Yi Qiang is the turn to take care of these idle war horses today......

The Qiangtou man in Tsing Yi hurriedly waved his hand to deny it, and before he could say anything to deny it, he saw that Ma Chao had already come from the horse, and he didn't say a word when he shot it!

Ma Dai took his personal guards, and also rushed up with Ma Chao, separated more than a dozen guards from the head of Tsing Yi Qiang, surrounded them, and killed them all!

Ma Chao's eyes were bloody, and he threw the corpse of the head of Tsing Yi Qiang in front of the Qiang people, and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to give an order!" Assemble your team and get ready for battle! ”

Ma Chao also knew that this sudden loud noise may not have been created by the people of Tsing Yi Qiang, but in today's situation, where is there any time to ask slowly and investigate carefully?

I ran and ran, and now I don't have time to catch up. Since everyone is looking at Tsing Yi Qiang, it is regarded as Tsing Yi Qiang's doing!

Those war horses that were disturbed and scattered, that is, the war horses of the Qiang people who arranged for the siege to continue today, and most of the war horses are still in the range of control, and they can still fight!

There is still hope to win!

Looking at the murderous Ma Chao, the rest of the Qiang heads couldn't help but feel a little chilled, and looked at Ma Dai and other Ma guards who surrounded him, even if they had thousands of ideas, they could only be suppressed for the time being......

"Someone! Blow the trumpet, raise the flag, assemble, line up, and get ready to fight! White Horse Qiang Riwuji's eyes flickered a few times, and then he said in a deep voice. The rest of the Qiang people also ordered their guards in the same way.

As soon as the horn sounded, the men and horses suddenly mobilized, and under the command of Ma Chao and the Qiang headmen, they began to turn to the east, set up a formation, and prepared to meet the ......