Chapter 50: Fighting the Bishui Pass Again (Part II)
"Fuck it!" Li Dao scolded: "Do these dog thieves want to use the people as shields? ”
Chen Gong nodded, "That's right, the thief army is the Qin army's method of breaking the Six Kingdoms and expelling the people to attack the city, if our army is soft and refuses to kill the people, the thief army can take advantage of the situation to attack the city and engage with our army in short combat; If our army ruthlessly slaughters the people, and falls into the thief army's plan to kill people with a knife, it will lose the support of the people and disintegrate the morale of our army. Chen Gong gritted his teeth again and said: "Master, this time our army has met an opponent." ”
Li Dao laughed and said: "It's a pity that their opponent is us, and our Xiliang Army will not fall for this!" "This is true, the military discipline of the Xiliang Army is recognized as the first in the world, although now Dong Zhuo has reformed and strengthened the restraint on the Xiliang Army, but the main thing is to let the Xiliang Army restrain a little in peacetime, and when it really comes to the battlefield, no one can restrain this group of battle-hardened oil soldiers.
A large group of ragged people walked in front of the turbans, and the Yellow Turban Army with yellow turbans on their heads carried the ladder and followed behind, and the people kept crying and screaming, but whenever a citizen stopped or walked back, the Yellow Turban Army would not hesitate to cut them to the ground, or pierce them through transparent holes in the chest. The people had no choice but to help the old and the young to continue to move forward, but they kept shouting, "Close it and don't release arrows, we are all good people." ”
But Li Dao Guo Yan took care of them, and seeing that the people were gradually entering the firing range, Li Dao pushed the sluggish Xu Rong, "Old Xu, you go down to the pass first, I want them to release arrows, I know you can't get used to it." ”
Xu Rong woke up from his first dream, nodded weakly, turned around slowly, and slowly walked towards the pass. Chen Gong also covered his eyes and said to Li Dao Guo Yan: "General Li, General Guo, I'll leave it to you here." He also slowly followed Xu Rong down the pass. Of course, Chen Gong understood what Li Dao was going to do next, but he also knew that Li Dao was forced to do helplessly, Chen Gong just said silently: "I'm sorry, your next life, don't be reborn in the troubled times......
When the people came into range, Li Dao immediately ordered, "Release the arrow!" Tens of thousands of Dong Zhuojun archers fired thousands of arrows, and in the screams, the people who were hit by the arrows fell one after another, and the others turned their heads and ran, but what greeted them was the Yellow Turban Army's bright butcher's knife.
Thousands of innocent people were driven by the Yellow Turban Army, braving the rain of arrows to advance, at any time someone was shot like a hedgehog and wailed down, but the people who retreated, and were hidden behind the Yellow Turban Saber and chopping guns, also screamed to death, under the joint slaughter of Dong Zhuojun and the Yellow Turban Army, before the people walked to the Bishui Pass 100 steps, there was no one standing, it was really corpses all over the field, blood flowed like a river, like a Shura slaughterhouse.
Li Wei drew his bow and arrows and personally shot down the last standing civilian, ending the massacre. Only then did Li Dao tear open his throat and scolded: "Yellow turban dog thief, you have lost all your conscience, you have used the people to attack the city, and you have killed innocents indiscriminately, you will definitely be punished by God in the future!" ”
The nose of the Yellow Turban Army under the gate was almost crooked, compared to who killed the most people, the people killed by the Yellow Turban Army just now are probably not one-fifth of the people killed by Dong Zhuojun, most of the people were killed by Dong Zhuojun's bow and arrow, but Dong Zhuojun also beat a loat and put the responsibility on himself. The leader of the Yellow Turban Army who led the team was so angry that he scolded, "Dong thief lackey, he is still stubborn when he dies!" Dong thief perversely, brutally killed scholars, slaughtered the people, the heavens were angry and the people were resentful, I will kill Dong thief in accordance with the will of the people, you can be arrested. The leader waved his spear, "Brothers, go on, the flower world in Luoyang is waiting for you, and you will have as many grains as you want to defeat this water pass!" The Yellow Turbans shouted in unison, "Kill! "The leader took the lead, and all the yellow turbans came together to kill the water pass.
Li Dao pursed his lips disdainfully, although the equipment of these Yellow Turban Army was obviously much better than those Yellow Turban Army last time, and there were also siege objects such as ladders, but compared with themselves, they were far from a level. After the Yellow Turban Army entered the firing range, Li Dao shouted again, "Release the arrow!" "Ten thousand arrows were fired again, and the dense bows and arrows covered the sky on the heads of the Yellow Turban Army, and immediately shot down a group of Yellow Turban Army.
Because of the support of the people near Bishui Pass for this defensive preparation, the people cut all the bamboos they planted and gave them to Dong Zhuojun, and as much as possible to catch birds, slaughter poultry and provide feathers, and assist Dong Zhuojun in sharpening arrows, so that Dong Zhuojun didn't have to worry about not enough arrows at all, just desperately dumped the arrows on the head of the Yellow Turban Army, so that the few archers in the Yellow Turban Army were out of breath.
When this team of Yellow Turban troops finally rushed to the city wall of Bishui Pass, and climbed through the wide and deep moat with difficulty, they had already broken eight stops in ten stops, but they were still not afraid of death to put the ladder on the wall and began to climb up the pass. Li Dao Guo Yan laughed, picked up a hook gun, each set up a ladder, and shouted like thunder, "Go die!" With a push of the effort, the two ladders fell down with the sound, breaking the tendons and fractures of the Yellow Turban Army on the ladder.
Dong Zhuojun everyone had a smile on their faces, ten people were in a group, two groups dealt with a cloud ladder, one group pulled a hook gun, hooked the cloud ladder and shook it around, so frightened that the Yellow Turban Army who climbed on the cloud ladder screamed, for fear that one of them would fall down and fall half to death; The other group smashed the Yellow Turban Army in the face with a porcelain bottle filled with quicklime, and once it was hit, it would inevitably break the head and bleed, and then the gray smoke filled the air, choking the Yellow Turban Army half to death and then falling down to death. There are also some Dong Zhuojun who simply use the Yellow Turban Army on these ladders as live targets to practice bows and arrows, in short, those poor ladders are played by Dong Zhuojun miserably.
The Yellow Turban Army was furious, several Yellow Turban Army led by several leaders came from behind the formation to participate in the siege, the first thing to greet them was naturally overwhelming arrows, and when they rushed to the pass, the Yellow Turban Army had been completely wiped out at the beginning, and the leader was also shot to death by Guo Yan, and at the same time closed the wood, boulders, and ash bottles like raindrops and smashed down, and then when they paid the lives of countless soldiers to put the ladder on the wall, the fire oil torch fell from the sky, burning them to cry dad and mother, hugging their heads and running away.
In this way, Dong Zhuojun, with the strong and towering wall and strong material support, easily repelled the Yellow Turban Army's siege from morning to afternoon without losing much combat power, while the Yellow Turban Army had millions of people, but it suffered from not having enough siege equipment, so it could only sigh at Dong Zhuojun's view of the wall. It was nearly evening, the corpses of the Yellow Turban Army had been piled up in the moat, but there was still not a single Yellow Turban Army soldier who climbed the wall of Bishui Pass, and dozens of leaders of the Yellow Turban Army gathered together to discuss, and finally ordered to stop the siege and stationed in front of the pass for the night.
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Although the attack of the Yellow Turban Army did not cause many casualties to Dong Zhuojun today, it also made Dong Zhuojun tired, especially the hardest archers and Flying Bear Army had already been ordered to rest and recover their strength to prepare for tomorrow's battle.
"There are enemies!" A patrolling soldier spotted a large group of figures in the distance and hurriedly issued a warning.
Dong Zhuojun immediately rang the bronze bell for the alarm, and the sleeping Dong Zhuojun archers immediately rushed to the wall, drew their bows and arrows, and aimed at the people who were locked down. Xu Rong, who was on duty at night, also hurried to the gate to observe the situation under the gate.
"Don't let go of the arrows, we are the people of the big man." There was such a cry from the swarthy wilderness, "Lord, we escaped from the Yellow Turban Thieves, and we are all good citizens. ”
Xu Rong waved his hand, signaling the soldiers not to let go of the arrows for the time being, and when those people walked to the front of the pass, Dong Zhuojun saw clearly that the people who came down were all ragged people, about a thousand people, old and young, women and children, trembling and trembling on the land ravaged by the war, and slowly walked slowly, and shouted unevenly: "Official, save us, we escaped from the Yellow Turban Thief." ”
A middle-aged man came out of the people, shouting in a Chen Liu's accent: "Official, we are all good people in Yanzhou, and we have been held hostage by the Yellow Turban Thieves here, and we have been angry with the Yellow Turban Thieves on the road, and we all hate the Yellow Turban Thieves." Today, the official defeated the Yellow Turban Thief, and overheard that the Yellow Turban Thief was going to use us to attack the official tomorrow, so we took advantage of the chaos to escape, please do a good job and save our lives. As soon as he finished speaking, the people behind him wept bitterly and pleaded in unison.
Xu Rong looked at those people carefully, and saw that they were old and young, their clothes were tattered, almost skinny, and they were shivering in the night wind, so he took pity on them, and immediately ordered the door to be closed, so that the group of people could take refuge in the pass, fortunately, this group of people were honest, and they all obediently obeyed Dong Zhuojun's orders after entering the pass, Xu Rong asked people to bring them some food and arrange accommodation, and then let them take refuge in Luoyang after dawn.
After that, there was no other words, and in the blink of an eye, in the second half of the night, Dong Zhuojun, who had been fighting all day, fell asleep, and the soldiers on patrol gradually relaxed their vigilance. Dozens of black shadows suddenly stood up in the group of people who came in just now, quietly put down the Dong Zhuojun soldiers who were watching them, and took out the short knives that were close to them and touched them in front of the closing door, and quietly put down the Dong Zhuojun soldiers guarding the closing door, and then opened the closing door......
The Yellow Turban Army ambushed outside the pass saw that the signal should be sent inside, and immediately shouted to kill from the ambush, all the way into the pass, the cavalry in front of the first was obviously through strict military training, well-equipped and not under the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, after entering the pass, seeing people killing, setting fire everywhere, all of them were invincible, and then countless Yellow Turban infantry also killed into the pass, and the Dong Zhuojun who was still asleep was caught off guard.
Poor Dong Zhuojun and everyone worked hard for a day, and finally rested sweetly when they were attacked by the enemy, for a time Dong Zhuojun was in chaos, the officers could not find soldiers, the soldiers could not find officers, only a few small troops organized to resist, but they were facing an enemy dozens of times their own, no matter how sophisticated the equipment was, no matter how strict the training results were now, they did not resist for long before they were overwhelmed by the overwhelming enemy and cut into meat sauce.
Li Dao, Chen Gong and others were woken up by the noise, and hurriedly got up to organize the troops, but the time was too late, the Yellow Turban Army, which was ten times larger than Dong Zhuojun's, had already entered the pass, Dong Zhuojun lost its geographical advantage, the terrain in the pass was narrow and could not give full play to the impact power of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others led the army to rush and kill several times but were blocked by the enemy, Chen Gong saw that there was a danger of being surrounded by the enemy and the whole army was annihilated if it was delayed any longer, so he decisively ordered to withdraw from Bishui Pass and organize defense outside the pass.
After Dong Zhuo's army withdrew from Bishui Pass, Xiliang Tie rode on the vast plain and immediately exerted his power, although there were not many of them, but Xiliang Tie rode back and forth on the plain to run back and forth to kill the enemy, still so that the pursuing Yellow Turban Army was helpless, and was forced to give up the pursuit, so that Dong Zhuo Army calmly withdrew to Luoshui to organize defense. However, at the same time, Bishui Pass, which had gone through countless battles and remained unmoving, finally fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, and Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's troops in the Tiger Prison Pass were also surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army and became a lone army. What's worse is that after the Yellow Turban Army occupied Bishui Pass, Dong Zhuo's army only had a defensive line left in Luoshui to defend, and once Luoshui was broken through by the Yellow Turban Army, then the vast Luoyang Plain would be exposed to the Yellow Turban Army......
Dong Zhuojun didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reported to Luoyang, but Chen Gong Xu Rong and others didn't know that in the current Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo had fallen into an embattled situation......