27. Get down

A rapid sound of bull's horns suddenly sounded, and the annoyed leader of Chile, regardless of the trench that had not been widened much, ordered the Xianbei warriors to charge desperately.

Of course, the result was: before the soldiers who carried the ladder were ready to step forward, the cavalry that had charged before lost more than 200 people on the passage, so they had to return in vain and retreat back to their own formation. It also contributed dozens of strong laborers to the Xinghan Army.

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The offensive and defensive battle, which lasted for two hours, was over, and the Xianbei people had almost nothing to gain except for a little widening and the passage on the ditch.

The Xinghan army, which had no losses, not only repelled the attack of Hu Cai, but also rescued many Han people, and they all cheered, full of a sense of accomplishment, and their morale was even stronger.

As soon as the Han people who survived, they were excited, and they wept bitterly, shouting in their mouths: What gods, Kunlun gods, Wuqu stars...... Anyway, all gods have descended to earth!

Wang Bo was also in a good mood, and after calming down the Han people who fled for their lives, he asked most of them to be sent to the logistics department of Xinghan City to add meat and enough food to recover their physical strength as soon as possible. There were only a dozen or so left, and they were ordinary people who still had relatives among the Xianbei slaves, and they all volunteered to stay, shouting and advising other slaves to take the opportunity to flee to the side of the Xinghan army.

That night, the Xianbei camp on the west bank of the river did not encounter much harassment, but it did not rest well. And the "one-word long snake array" on the west bank has suffered a big disaster!

Wang Bo didn't have a private collection this time, and finally let Xu Chu and Chen Zhi two people, and they were very addicted. The narrow place is a good place to show your personal prowess! The two took turns to fight, turning the Xianbei tent of more than 1,000 people upside down. Drowned, killed, and captured alive are countless.

Anyway, when it was dawn, the vulture bones returned to the Chinese army's tent with more than 200 languishing and bare-handed soldiers. Only the camp tents, weapons, materials and corpses were left, which cheapened the Xinghan army.

In the Xianbei tent, the leader of Chile looked at it with red eyes, and the vultures that had been tossed all night waved his right hand and were about to be cut down with a knife. was stopped left and right by the quick eye, so he had to stomp his feet and scream: "Get down!" Get down! I saw the vulture bones floating in vain and retreating weakly, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out, and he finally held it back, and his legs were weak, and he sat on the ground in a dejected manner.

Hurriedly went up left and right to knead it, and after relieving himself, the thug smashed the small case next to him with a palm, and yelled: "Bury the pot and make rice!" Keep filling in the ditches! ”

In this way, the frenzied leader of Chile, at all costs, under the cover of archers, cowhide shields, and planks, kept driving away the slaves and continued to fill the trenches. After the loss of nearly a thousand archers; On the fourth day when the Han slaves brought in escaped and were killed and wounded, the trench in front of the slave pass was finally widened to about ten zhang.

On the east bank of the river, he did not dare to send anyone over, and tried to pursue it again at night, just as he imagined: in addition to falling into the trap, he was forced back by the rain of arrows that were closed. In vain, the soldiers were lost. Then the west bank of the river was also arranged into a "long snake formation", but it was much thicker than the last time. In addition to increasing the number of soldiers who were on guard at night, he also told his subordinates: I found something to cover my ears, and I couldn't have anything wrong at night.

In the past few days, the Xinghan army has also been rescued one after another, nearly more than 1,000 Han people, but fortunately, in the last two days, there are many smart people, carrying half a bag of soil and stones, running over, picking up a lot of lives.

That night, the Xianbei battalion, harassed and clamoured several times by more than a dozen archers, and the leader of Chile, who was like thunder, finally couldn't hold it back the next day, commanded the army, formed a large array of thousands of people, and officially began the tragic siege battle.

After throwing down the planks and cowhide pads in their hands, the cavalry in front rushed through the trench with an indomitable momentum, and a large number of Xianbei horsemen in the back followed, rushing to dozens of steps away from the wall, separated left and right like a flood diverting, and shot at the top of the wall with a bow while circling in a circle.

This is the legendary mounted archery! The scene was truly spectacular. Due to the short range and powerful bow and arrow, a large number of arrows roared and flew to the top of the pass and drilled into the cave. From time to time, he shot the Xinghan army, causing screams again and again. And the Xianbei cavalry itself was also under the counterattack of the archers of the Xinghan army, as well as the traps and horse pits that appeared under their feet from time to time. However, in the case of a large number of people, it can basically suppress the Xinghan army archers on the top of the pass, but for the hunting team in the middle and lower Tibetan caves, there is nothing to be done.

Seeing this, the leader of Chile roared, and the horn rose again. Urging the infantry, he carried the ladder in one hand, held the shield in the other, and put a saber in his waist, and rushed to the wall of the imperial slave. Seeing that the first thousand-man team, under the blow of the salvo of traps and shooting ports on the wall, suffered more than half of the casualties, with a wave of his hand, another thousand-man team joined the battlefield.

Under the painstaking management of Wang Bo and the Xinghan soldiers, the Imperial Slave Pass finally showed its hideous fangs. What does it mean to be on the offensive? What does it mean to be invincible? All in the face of its formidable defenses.

In mid-air, arrows come and go, the whistling sound is endless, and even many collide, which shows its intensity.

On the trench, the fire oil arrows constantly fired by the Xinghan army ignited the wooden planks and cowhides laid on the ground, and were trampled by the Xianbei infantry cavalry that kept rushing by, braving the choking smell of burning, and was carried around by the soldiers who attacked the fortifications.

Before closing the wall, on both sides were Xianbei archers who kept firing volleys, and in the middle were Xianbei infantry who were carrying ladders and shields and rushing forward. The closer you get to the wall, the more often this happens.

Accustomed to seeing the fall of countless of their own compatriots, all the Xianbei soldiers have become numb, as if life and death have nothing to do with them, just mechanical charges and arrows, until their physical strength is exhausted or they die in battle.

The archers of the Xinghan army rotated every half an hour, but after a few rounds, everyone was weak in their arms, and the power of shooting arrows was greatly reduced.

Wang Bo simply let him go down to rest, and besides, Xianbei's siege soldiers had already reached the pass. The sword and shield battalion began to work, and the spearmen hid behind it, and let the heavy shield battalion enter the hidden soldier hole in the lower layer of the wall, and was only responsible for listening to the bell and shooting arrows, which could slightly disrupt the rhythm of the Xianbei people's attack, and that's it.

And now in front of the wall, after countless Xianbei lives have been filled, the traps and horse pits all over the place finally no longer play any role.

A steady stream of Xianbei soldiers had already built a cloud ladder with big iron hooks on the eight or nine hundred steps long wall, firmly fastened to the wall, and no matter how the soldiers of the Xinghan Army pushed it, they did not move at all. And the sword and shield battalion in the hidden soldier cave, because of the narrow place, could not swing their weapons freely to slash the ladder, which made the speed of destroying the ladder extremely slow.

The Xianbei soldiers, who shouted and set up the ladder, raised their shields in their left hands, shouted various weapons in their mouths, and quickly climbed up with their heads bored.

In the early stage, if there were lucky Xianbei soldiers who were not injured by the arrows shot from the lower hidden soldier holes, it was basically easier. Because the Xinghan army has not yet had time, it has prepared a large number of mountains and rocks on the top of the pass, so it can be regarded as a bargain.

But when he was about to reach the top of the pass, there was more than a foot left, and when he saw that victory was in sight, he was about to climb to the top of the pass with all his might. Xianbei people, who are a little relaxed, really encountered what heaven and hell are only in a blink of an eye.

Countless Xianbei men with teeth and claws have stopped here, and this has become a nightmare for the Xianbei siege infantry, and an insurmountable gap in front of them.

Whenever they climbed here, at least four or five spears would stretch out from the hiding holes on the front and both sides, stabbing them from several directions such as the head, chest, abdomen, and thighs, making it impossible for people to hide. Even if there was a quick-eyed Xianbei soldier who threw away the shield in his hand and cut a few with his saber, but before he could climb a few steps, there was a sharp knife shining with cold light on the upper floor, waiting for his blood to be watered.

It was originally a ladder used to climb to the top of the pass, but now it has become, like an assembly line conveyor belt in later generations, a monster that continues to devour the lives of Xianbei soldiers. They climbed the ladder from the ground continuously, scrambled upwards, in addition to the wear and tear on the way, and at the place where they were about to reach the top, like dumplings, they returned to the ground with all kinds of screams, forming a death cycle that made even the most daring people look at it.

Although there are also spiritual Xianbei soldiers, they throw heavy weapons such as meteor hammers and throwing axes into the hidden soldier cave in advance, causing a small gap to climb up; Or the hidden soldier cave formed a temporary absence because of the arrows shot below, but this was a flash in the pan after all, and the Xianbei soldiers who stole the empty space were quickly drowned in a forest of knives and guns, turning into piles of wailing or silent dead corpses under the gate.

It seems that if you want to pass through this death zone, you can only wait for the Xinghan army to run out, or if you are too tired to hold a weapon! This is the common thought in the hearts of all the Xianbei soldiers who rushed to the imperial slave pass. So they despaired, timid, hesitated, and retreated......

And the consequence of going on like this is that the Xianbei soldiers who kept rushing up in the back crowded together with their own people who were cowering when they arrived at the pass. And the dense Xianbei soldiers under the pass made the arrows thrown down from the wall more efficient, and later it almost became a one-sided massacre.

The leader of Chile, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw that the siege battle had become like this, so he had to close his red eyes, wave his hand weakly, and give the order to retreat.

Finally hearing the sound of the bull's horn to stop the siege, the Xianbei soldiers who escaped the catastrophe were overjoyed, and fled back to their own army without caring for anything. Only in front of the slave pass, leaving a human tragedy with corpses all over the ground and wailing constantly.

The offensive and defensive battle, which lasted for several hours, ended with nearly 2,000 Xianbei people killed and wounded, and retreated in vain.

The Xinghan army finally breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Bo looked at the corpses of nearly 100 Xinghan soldiers who had been killed, as well as hundreds of injured soldiers, who were carried down for treatment one after another, many of them were lifelong disabilities and could no longer move freely Xinghan soldiers, turned around and ordered loudly: The wolf owl army covers, the auxiliary soldiers go out of the pass, and all the Xianbei people under the pass will be beheaded, the corpses will be burned, and the weapons will be recovered.

Seeing that the corners of Yang Feng's mouth moved, as if he had something to say, his eyes widened, revealing a terrifying cold light, and then he yelled with all the strength of his body: "Cut off the head of the dog!" Tsukijo View! Wait for me to say more! ”

Suddenly, the head of the slave was billowing down, and thick smoke was everywhere.

At first, the Xianbei people on the opposite side wanted to rush over with red eyes and snatch back the corpses of some of their compatriots, but under the rain of arrows from the Xinghan army, they died down. Staring, he looked helplessly at the Xinghan army under the gate, busy back and forth, cutting off the dead bodies of the Xianbei people and the wounded soldiers who were still wailing, and gathered them together.

Looking at the place dozens of steps away from the wall, the Xinghan army was constantly piling up a big "Jingguan" pile with its hideous heads tied together. The eyes of the Xianbei people changed from the initial anger to heartbreak, until the last horror and retreat.

Half an hour later, nearly a thousand heads of Hu chiefs with blurred flesh and blood and hideous faces were piled up into a mad "Jingguan" with a radius of eight or nine feet and a height of nearly six or seven feet. When Wang Bo and the other Xinghan soldiers saw it, they couldn't help but gasp, and their backs were chilled for a while.

After a long time, Wang Bo saw that everyone was a little depressed, so he stepped forward and stood on the top of the pass, with all his strength, and shouted to the surroundings with his tongue full of thunder: "I have heard that General Huo, the 'champion Hou' of my great Han sage, went out of the fortress to kill slaves in order to build a 'Jingguan'!" Its momentum is majestic to the four wilds, how heroic is its feelings? Today, there is also the Han Army, which wants to follow the example of the former sages to deter the Hu! Do you not realize that this move is to promote the majesty of our army? ”

After speaking, he paused slightly, and then asked in a hissing voice: "Hu Lu is committed every year, and he is taken captive every year!" Treat the border people of our Han like pigs and dogs, and the old and weak women and children are slaughtered! My Wang Bo asked you and others: At that time, Hu Gou could have pity? If you are a commoner of a border county, what shall you do? ”

Slowly, "Phew! He said, "Accept the kindness of your women!" Our generation should slaughter the dog with a knife and a gun in his hand! ”

A few who reacted followed and yelled: "Tuhu dog!" Slaughter the dogs! ”

Wang Bo waved the spear in his hand vigorously, and the next moment burst out of his mouth, a famous sentence that was widely circulated in his previous life: "Those who commit my strong man, although they are far away, will be punished!" ”

"Those who commit my strong man, although they are far away, will be punished!" The roars of the people were endless, and the sound shook all over the world and resounded in the sky.

"Slaughter the dogs! Xinghan Wansheng! The Xinghan Army, which won today's victory, set off a cheer on the Imperial Slave Pass, and fully vented the emotions of the collapse during the war.

In the Xianbei camp below, all the Xianbei soldiers were frightened when they heard it, and their morale was even lowered.

Shenshi's post-war inventory: the Xinghan army suffered 300 wounds and 80 soldiers killed. Mainly archers, most of them were caused by the Xianbei riding with bows and arrows.

The Hu soldiers of Luo Quanleg were not good at foot combat, especially siege warfare. There are almost no people who rush to the top of the pass today, occasionally jumping on a few, and after a while, they will be chopped into pieces of meat, and the dead can't die anymore, and they can't turn over a few waves at all.

Therefore, the casualties of the Xinghan army, except for those who were directly hit by an arrow in the neck and died of bleeding in a short time, most of the rest were wounds on the shoulders and arms.

However, such a loss has already made Wang Bo's heart ache. These are all elite soldiers from the old village in southwest Hebei, who have gone through a lot of hardships, and they are all the old brothers of the generals, and Wang Bo can even call almost everyone's name. In a single battle, one in twenty was killed and nearly one-third wounded, and the cost was not insignificant.

After Wang Bo listened to Yang Feng and the others' advice, his eyes became like a wolf, and his face was black and about to drip blood. The generals are as quiet as a chilling cicada, and even Chen Dao, who often shows disdain, is also cautious, for fear of angering Wang Bo, and then staring at you for a long time with a pair of red eyes.

The night's harassment continued. Wang Bo was ruthless in his heart, and for the first time, regardless of the dissuasion of everyone, he only organized more than a dozen senior officers such as Yang Feng, Li Damu, Niu Da, and Wu Huan, who had been able to ride and shoot, and under the noses of the Xianbei scouts, one person and two horses in the open, and kept shooting arrows and scolding at the enemy camp all night.