The tragic offensive and defensive battle has begun, and the matter has come to this point, Tu Poor Dagger, everything is nonsense, Cui Wang gave an order, and the servant army poured up like a tide, Li Siwen saw that his scalp was numb, so many people, let alone fighting, even if he queued up to kill, he couldn't finish killing!

"You step back!"

The person who spoke was Wang Hu, who was originally Li Ji's personal soldier, and later came to Dingxiang with Li Siwen, and served as the Guoyi Lieutenant of Dingxiang Zhichong Mansion, three months ago, when the Turks had not yet invaded, Wang Hu returned to his hometown to marry, and he originally came back after two months, but he didn't expect to appear here.

Li Siwen was taken aback and said, "Why are you back?" Didn't you go home and get married? ”

"When you hear the news, rush back! I met His Royal Highness King Wei halfway and came over together. Wang Hu pushed Li Siwen back and said, "You don't know martial arts, it's useless to stay here, go back to the city, leave it to me here!" ”

Wang Hu said, and asked again: "What about the silent people in Cheng Chu?" ”

Cheng Chumo is the son of Cheng Yanjin, another Guoyi lieutenant of Dingxiang Zhichong Mansion, Li Siwen said: "I went with the general to besiege Xue Yantuo's people, not in the city...... Oops, that's a long story!"

"Got it!" Wang Hu was already clothed, pulled out his knife and slashed an enemy soldier who was about to climb up, and said: "Childe, the enemy army is strong, if I can't survive this time, take care of my wife, she is already pregnant!" ”

"You've only been back for three months, and your mother is pregnant?" Li Siwen almost blurted out, can this child be yours?

But when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was not very appropriate, so he nodded and said, "I'll go down to prepare the thunderwood cannon stone, you hold on!" Where is His Royal Highness King Wei? ”

"By the Prince's side!"

Wang Hu replied, the enemy army climbed up more and more, and there was no time to deal with Li Siwen.

The enemy's uniforms are very mixed, there are red, yellow, and even shirtless, and there is obviously a big difference in appearance and skin color...... Such enemies are not difficult to deal with, as they only have a 'single blow', and if they can resist it, their attacks will be weakened quickly. Therefore, whether the battle can be held on at the beginning determines the direction of the entire battle.

Enemy drums.

After glancing at the crowd, Wang Hu shouted to a school captain: "Erde, beat the drum!" ”

Erde sighed, and pulled his left and right hands, revealing strong tendon flesh all over his body. Strode to the corner of a huge drum, picked up the drumstick and struck it vigorously, for a while the sand on the road at the head of the city were shaking slightly, the drum sound was inspiring, there was a momentum, and soon the enemies who attacked were all killed.

"Bow and arrow forward!" Wang Hu drank vigorously.

Two rows of archers quickly lined up to draw their bows, and through the gap in the arrow battlements at the head of the city, one after another dark arrows coldly pointed at the open space below the city wall.

"Archery!"

Arrows flew out like a rain, and immediately the cavalry at the front fell one by one.

The opponent has no armor, and the lethality of the arrow is reflected. It is normal for nomads to have no armor on their bodies, as armor affects their flexibility. In terms of siege, this is a very disadvantaged thing, and the cavalry is good at pulling, killing and wounding the enemy in motion, so the use of cavalry is a violent thing.

But at this time, they had no choice, they had no siege equipment, they could only choose this way of filling their lives, and if they hesitated, they would be beheaded by the black-clothed warlord team of the Chinese army.

Cui Wang stood in the middle of these people, looking at the battlefield coldly, and there was no half of human emotion in his eyes. For him, no matter how many people died in this battle, it was the expected price, as long as the Cui family's great cause could be completed, any price could be paid.

Today's battle to defend the city is countless times more difficult than the last time when Li Siwen and Li Mu defended the old city of Dingxiang.

Thousands of people attacking the city and tens of thousands of people attacking the city is a completely different concept, when tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, like a tide from outside the city to the root of the city wall, just that kind of picture can make people completely lose their fighting spirit psychologically, not to mention relying on their own ten times weaker than the enemy's strength to repel these tens of thousands of people one by one, imagine that even if tens of thousands of ants are stepped on, it is not one foot or two can be trampled to death, let alone people, living people who know how to resist and fight.

From the moment of the siege of the city, Li Su obviously felt that the will of the defenders at the head of the city showed signs of collapse, and even he had a little desperate thoughts, in his eyes, this city has no hope of defending, maybe everyone knows this cognition in their hearts, just waiting for the last coming knife in the battle, a hundred.

The last round of arrows was shot out, and the effect received was very weak, because the enemy army had climbed to the base of the city wall, and the siege ladders were erected at the head of the city, and countless people were biting scimitars in their mouths, and they were climbing up with hideous expressions, and the rolling logs and stones at the head of the city were thrown down one after another, and there were bursts of screams and wails, but the enemy still went forward and continued endlessly.

"It's coming, it's coming! There are dozens of 'powder packets' here, which are still usable before they get wet! Li Siwen ran up and instructed the people to bring up the remaining gunpowder bags. But Wang Hu didn't understand gunpowder, Li Siwen immediately made a decision, and said: "A few of you, each three feet apart, light the fuse, and throw it to a crowded place under the city wall!" ”

Everyone obeys orders, no one questions them, and in this kind of life-and-death situation, the will of the commander is the will of the whole army. Although Li Siwen is not a famous general, he is a general of Dingxiang Zhichongfu in the real sense, but Li Xiaogong can't show it when he is there. And everything he has done for Dingxiang over the years, everyone has seen it, and no one will doubt his feelings for Dingxiang.

One after another, a burst of white smoke suddenly rose from the city, and then, one by one, black smoking explosive bags were thrown down the city wall, and after a few breaths, there was a sudden earth-shattering noise under the city wall, and even the earth was shaking and trembling.

The power of explosives is enormous, especially the doped iron chips, which are the most vicious. The position that was hit by the iron chip, even if it did not die, would festered later.

The thermal weapons of later generations played an important role in the era of cold weapons, and the servant army had already seen its power, a small burden, more than a dozen cavalrymen were instantly blown up to the outside and tender on the inside, and it seemed that personal force had no effect in front of it. How to die and how to die.

In the past, when Li Xiaogong was there, because the troops, food and grass were sufficient, so when he dealt with it, it was still the usual method of defending the city, and he used this killer gunpowder very economically. But Li Siwen didn't care about this, he saw that there was still something to use, so he threw it down. Dozens of explosive packs exploded under the city walls at the same time, and under the entire row of city walls, the explosion was earth-shattering. Countless people were blown to pieces on the spot, and under the wall, they saw one by one enemy soldiers falling to the ground and wailing, and the luck of those who were far away from the back was not much better, although it was outside the diameter of the explosion, but while they were stunned, they immediately shot round after round of arrows on the city, and one by one the enemy soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the rest saw that the opportunity was not good, and they turned around and ran. ran out of the range of the bow and arrow, and only then did he gaze in horror at the tragic situation of the almost adult Shura field under the city wall.

Not surprisingly, the siege failed again. The servant army was a mess in the end, and they were all cowardly to see such a large number of casualties and desperate battle losses.

Tens of thousands of people rushed to the city wall with the ambition to win, just to take down Dingxiang in one go, but because of dozens of explosive packs, the sound of explosions shaking the ground and shaking the mountains hit their morale to the freezing point in an instant.

People are full of fear of the unknown. This fear can lead to two behaviors, one is to completely destroy the things they fear. The second is to flee farther, the farther the better.

The attitude of the servant army towards firearms was obviously the second, and the loud sound like the punishment of the gods, as well as the clansmen who fell to the ground and rolled and screamed, made them frightened. Kneeling in front of the walls and reverently confessing his crimes, the morale of the siege fell like a tidal wave in less than an hour. and it receded like a tide.

Next, there was another truce.

No matter how Cui Wang's team persecuted, everyone just wouldn't charge.

After all, Cui Wang's team of supervisors only had a few hundred people, and he didn't dare to act recklessly. Fighting back his anger, he summoned the leader of the servant army.

This man's name was Amur, a native of the Eastern Turks, a general under the account of Jieli Khan, and was called the 'Right King' in the Eastern Turks. At that time, he advised Jieli not to be greedy for pleasure in Dingxiang, and that the children of Changshengtian should still live in the grassland, but Jieli did not listen. In the end, he ended up defeated, of course, he was not a loyal minister, and when he learned that the Jieli Great Tent was forced, he immediately took 10,000 people from his headquarters to the north and joined Xue Yantuo. In order to prevent Xue Yantuo's father and son from being suspicious, he even used his henchmen to divide the men and horses of his headquarters into several groups, pretending to be a defeated soldier and successfully joining Xue Yantuo.

In this servant army, his 10,000 people are the most combat-effective. Under his unified command, it is even more than 10,000 people of the Western Turks under the same conditions!

Over the years, the Cui family has spared no effort to support and cultivate him, allowing him to gather almost all of Xue Yantuo's servant army and become their recognized leader.

Amur didn't understand why a small burden was so powerful, and it could make such an earth-shattering loud noise, if it weren't for his strong will, I'm afraid even he couldn't help but associate it with miracles such as ghosts and gods, and then look at the sluggish and frightened soldiers in the camp, Amur's mood was also extremely bad.

It was thought that the groundwork had been paved to this extent, and the capture of Dingxiang was nothing more than a matter of probing for things, but with the opponent's large-scale use of explosive packs, the battle became more complicated and difficult, which Amr did not expect.

A general who commanded the army, tens of thousands of soldiers with high morale, a vulnerable city, thousands of defenders without fighting spirit, such a huge disparity in power, because of one more burden, the fragile city could not be attacked, and Amr fell into incomparable anxiety and rage. Facing Cui Wang, Amur's temper exploded, and he asked, "Didn't you say that your people have destroyed all the gunpowder?" What is it? How can you fight like this? How many people go up, how many people have to die, you Tang people, are we really not our lives? ”

Cui Wang was taken aback, but he still calmed down and said, "Amur, we are allies, we have invested so much, how can we do something that destroys the Great Wall?" I assure you, most of the gunpowder is definitely soaked in water, and these may be omissions, but they definitely don't have much! If you let the soldiers attack again, I bet they will have absolutely no gunpowder! ”

Amur stared at Cui Wang, as if to tell whether his words were sincere or not. After a while, he also calmed down, and said; "Okay, after the deed is done, you have to make me the master of the grassland!"

"It's all this time, and I'm still thinking about this!" Cui Wang jumped to his feet and said: "You have soldiers in hand, what are you worried about!" ”

Amur thought about it, it seemed that this was the case, his worries seemed to be superfluous, these cowardly businessmen, if they didn't fulfill their promises, they would just attack them directly!

Amr turned, his expression grim, he was afraid of explosives packs, but he was not afraid of his men.

"Come on, please court-martial!" Amr yelled outside the tent.

"When attacking the city today, the ambition is bound to win, no matter who dares to be cowardly, they will be beheaded and shown in the camp, thinking that they will follow suit, beat the drums, and march! Who dares to take a step back, the car is cracked! ”

With hundreds of heads falling to the ground, Amur's military law was also revealed to tens of thousands of servant army camps.

……

Mountains of corpses were piled up under the city, and on the top of the city.

In less than an hour of offensive and defensive battles, more than 200 defenders at the head of the city have fallen, and the corpses are piled up side by side on the road of the city tower, and the bloodstains on the ground and a pair of dead eyes are telling the world how tragic this war is.

Li Siwen leaned on the arrow stacks of the city wall, quietly watched the soldiers carry the corpses of the dead robes off the city wall one by one, a huge wooden platform was set up under the city, and the corpses were concentrated on the wooden platform, and the living soldiers respectfully saluted the corpse of the robe, and several torches were thrown on the wooden platform, and soon, the wooden platform burned fiercely, and the corpses on the wooden platform turned into ashes together, and the thick black smoke column rolled up, like a black dragon soaring into the sky.

The outside of the city is besieged, and the city is located in the desert, the climate is hot, if the corpse is not disposed of as soon as possible, the city will soon spread the plague, and then it will be the real catastrophe of the whole city, and the so-called "disposal of the corpse" is to burn it directly, war, not only cruel to the living, but also to the dead. The homes of many soldiers are here, and their relatives are crying bitterly on the side of the road, but they also understand that this is their life, and the soldiers in the border cities are all such fates.

The flames flickered, the smoke billowed out, then diminuted, gradually curled up, and finally turned into ashes.

Li Siwen quietly looked at the black ash, and when the breeze blew, it flew away in all directions.

"Dust to dust, dust to dust, that's good." Wang Hu sighed and said, he turned his head to look at Li Siwen, and suddenly smiled: "Don't be sad, maybe you and I will be like them in a short time, sooner or later." ”