Final Chapter. 6. The Fall of Taining (3)
The person who came was the "Qinba Day" in the mouth of the two, which means "Zhihu" in the ancient language of Mobei. Of course, he also has another name, called Guo Xing, Zhongping in the word list.
Hu Legen looked at Qin Bari, who was getting closer and closer, and whispered to Nari Su, who was high in battle:
"Qinba Day has arrived, and the enemy army has been nailed to Taining County by us again; Then this small city in the north is already in the palm of my Mobei.
That day Su subconsciously asked:
"This person is just a white-faced young master from Beiyan, although the ability to step down immediately is indeed stronger than me, but even if he is alone, no matter how powerful he is, how much effect can he play in the battlefield fight?"
Pointing to the large clouds of smoke and dust in the distance, Hulegan said to him:
"Do you see, that thing that rolls up the dust in the sky is the treasure that can make our war horses grow wings under our crotch......"
As soon as he had finished speaking, Hulegan turned over and dismounted. He took off the other half of his robe, and in this season when the earth was rejuvenating and the glacier was thawing, his naked and scarred body strode in front of Guo Xingma. It wasn't until he stretched out his hand to restrain the chestnut-colored jade wheel BMW that he knelt sideways on the left side of the war horse, keeping his body on the ground as close as possible without saying a word.
This is the rule that the slaves of the steppe use their bodies as a step for the nobles to step on when they dismount. However, regardless of Hulegan's origin, now that he is the captain of a thousand households in the rangers, he can no longer be treated as a slave. Moreover, no Mobei nobleman dared to trample on the dignity of the grassland warriors. In this way, Hu Legen wanted to express his endless admiration for Guo Xing.
Guo Xing, who was sitting on the back of the jade wheel horse, looked at him sideways, then turned over and dismounted from the right side with a smile, patted the buttocks of the war horse, signaled it to graze, and squatted down himself, supported Hulegen's shoulders with both hands, and set up the steppe warrior:
"You are free from slavery, so don't use this self-deprecating way to show your loyalty in the future."
"Tamba Ri, I'm not showing loyalty, I'm showing reverence."
The pretentiousness between the two made Risu, who was riding on horseback, extremely uncomfortable. He admired Hu Legen, but it was precisely for this reason that he looked down on Qin Bayi who came from Beiyan.
However, not long after, when he also saw the treasures buried in the dust, he really wanted to use his backbone to give this alien son a foothold!
The treasure that brought out the billowing dust and smoke turned out to be dozens of mule-drawn wooden carts, on which some scattered wooden squares and iron pieces were piled up; On the face of it, no one can guess what these things are for; But it wasn't until the pack team unloaded the head cart that Qin Bari beckoned and summoned another group of Northern Yan civilians. With all sorts of tools in their hands, they clanged for less than half an hour, and a tall and mighty cart stood in front of all the rangers!
Guo Xing stepped forward with a smile, patted the stunned Risu and said:
"That day Su, now there is still a sturdy and rammed log missing from this ram to use as a battering hammer, can you help me with this? Could you please take a few of your capable brothers and help these Huashen Sect friends lead the way and help them complete this last step? ”
Nari Su looked at the other woods and parts that had not yet revealed their true faces, swallowed hard, and nodded vigorously. Then, he turned on his horse, blew a low whistle at the ranger brothers behind him, and then led a group of Huashen cultists towards the woods not far away.
The appearance of this storming car not only injected a shot of strength into all the Mobei cavalry, but also poured a basin of cold water on Wan Zhihai, who was originally emotionally stable and full of confidence!
For a long time, the biggest reliance on the three roads of Youbei to compete with the Mobei Iron Cavalry is actually on the opponent himself. Due to the triple shortage of wood, iron, and craftsmen, it led to the embarrassing situation that the Mobei Strange Soldiers were invincible in the field and were powerless in attacking and building cities. But now it seems that there has been no change in the three roads of Youbei, but the Mobei people got siege equipment out of nowhere to make up for the shortcomings of their own strength!
This latest discovery immediately shocked the defenders in Taining County into a sweat! The people of Mobei now have siege equipment to assist, so it is not just a question of whether Taining County can be preserved! How can the entire Youbei Sanlu, and even the Northern Yan Dynasty, compete with these winged tigers and sky-turning dragons?
Feng Si, the captain of the pioneer battalion, looked at the rushing car that lacked a log hammer a hundred steps away, gritted his teeth and asked Wan Zhihai to fight:
"General Wan, the last general and the eight hundred heroes of the vanguard battalion under his command, please go to battle immediately! Regardless of whether our army will be wiped out in this battle, the last general can promise you that this city-rushing car will be burned to ashes, so that it will not dare to look directly at the walls of our army."
After Wan Zhihai listened, he looked down at the eight hundred elite pioneer battalions who were not afraid of death under the North City Gate, and his heart did move for a moment, but he was immediately dispelled by himself:
"No! If you can burn all the siege equipment of the Mobei people, then don't say that you Feng Si and the 800 vanguard army under your command, even if our 2,000 city guards, plus more than 10,000 people in the city are dead, I, Wan Zhihai, am willing to bear the consequences! But don't forget, these enemies outside the city are not the Northern Yan Army, let alone those young master soldiers of Nankang, but the famous Mobei Iron Cavalry! I dare to assert that as soon as you eight hundred men leave the city gates, you will be struck by the rangers of the people, and you will not be able to advance or retreat; And then, how will you burn the siege equipment? ”
"Then we can't just watch them and let them make all the preparations before the siege, right?"
Wan Zhihai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Haven't you seen it yet?" He stretched out his hand and pointed to the half-finished city truck in the distance:
"What people have just unloaded is clearly just a pile of wood; But after only half an hour, it became a storming car; Do you recall, did just two men easily push it to the front line? What does this mean? ”
“…… Eh, those two men are born with divine powers? ”
"Phew! This shows that their storming cars are much lighter than ours! Such a convenient siege machine, they should be assembled in advance, and then hidden; Just wait for the siege campaign to start, and then suddenly push it onto the battlefield and catch us off guard! ”
"General Wan, you're right, how can they be so stupid? Playing around under our noses in a big way......"
"He's playing tricks on us! People choose to prepare for war unhurriedly before the battle, the purpose is to lure us out of the city to fight! Don't look at them with the assistance of siege equipment, but the consumption of siege warfare is enough to drag down Mobei's family! Besides, this is not the usual tactic of the Mobei people, and the tacit understanding of cooperation with each other is still shallow, so it is better to force us out of the city and be forced to choose a way they are more accustomed to fighting......"
After Wan Zhihai finished speaking, everyone also fell into hard meditation; Feng Si took off his helmet, scratched his itchy scalp vigorously, and said to Wan Zhihai angrily:
"This attack can't be attacked, and it can't be defended, what should I do, General Wan, you have to come up with a charter!"
Wan Zhihai shook his head gloomily, looked at the enemy formation in the distance, and said in a gloomy tone:
"If this is Donghu City under Taibai Mountain, of course I, Wan Zhihai, can be the master, and the whole army will immediately abandon the city and flee; But now this is Taining County, but we can't abandon the city and flee all the way south. After all, the enemy bandits near Taebaek Mountain are all Silla people, and even if they start in the wild, our Youbei will not suffer at all; If we abandon the city and flee now, which of you can outrun the war horses under the crotch of the Mobei people? Besides, I, Wan Zhihai, am a new garrison general who has been in charge of the army for less than ten days, if I abandon the city and flee south without seeing him for a while, our more than 2,000 Taining defenders, all of whom must be punished according to the crime of cowardice and abandonment of the city, will not survive! I, Wan Zhihai, am not afraid of losing my head, nor am I afraid of being ridiculed by future generations; But I have a pair of sons and daughters and a good wife in my house, and I must not let them be implicated by me! ”
After Wan Zhihai finished speaking, he sighed deeply: "Fellow comrades, for today's strategy, the only way to repay the king is to fight to the death, that's all." “
"Ten thousand heads! Ten thousand heads! ”
Just when the mood of sadness and frustration reached its peak, Taining Zhixian He New Year suddenly ran up to the North City Tower. He had just shouted a few words of his colleague's name, and he was immediately enveloped in a sad mood:
"Huh? Wasn't it okay just now? Why did people just push out a wooden shelf, and they were all wilted? ”
"Lao He, that's not a wooden shelf, it's a city car......"
"What's wrong with the city car? You're all veterans, who hasn't seen it? Or who hasn't played it? We have saved so much food in the city, and the wells are safe and sound, let's seal the four gates with sand bags, and let them play slowly! Are you still afraid of starvation? ”
"You are a civil official, don't follow the fool! Since people have a city car, there must be no shortage of ladders to climb the city! No matter how tightly you seal the four gates, people will still be able to enter! ”
As soon as He Xinnian heard Wan Zhihai's words, he immediately pouted, patted his chest and said:
"What's wrong with the ladder? If a man can climb a ladder to get in, can a horse learn? The Mobei cavalry is indeed invincible in the world, but after climbing over the wall and entering the city, they will also become infantry! When the time comes, we will be infantry against infantry, and we will fight street battles on our own territory, and you will be afraid of this virtue? ”
Don't look at He Xinnian as an unorthodox county master, but now that he said this, he really woke up the dreamer with a word! Yes, when it comes to the ability to ride horses and shoot arrows, we are indeed not the opponents of the Mobei people! But when it comes to infantry-to-infantry hand-to-hand combat, then who wins and who loses is no longer such an absolute matter! ”