Final Chapter. 84. Money can make ghosts grind
Since Tian Dashan is greedy for small profits, then for Guo Xing, he can also solve the matter of Huashen Sect's dissatisfaction with excessive casualties in the simplest way.
"Good! Since Brother Tian has drawn the Tao, Guo should follow it and have no words! Our army took out 30% of the salary agreed in advance and used it to "compensate" the fallen soldiers of friendly troops. Just wait for the capture of Fuyu City, Guo will send his confidants to transfer the silver taels to Brother Tian......"
"Don't, don't! Now, when the city is broken, send a stern-mouthed brother over, and I will tell him to whom he should deposit the money in the name of the Huinan bank. ”
"Good! Then the matter is a word! Let's talk about launching a general offensive......"
"We're all here, what else are we talking about? Put your heart in your belly, and the war is all on your brother! Hey, as long as you have this thing... No matter how many people you want, my brother can find them for you! And they're all outlaws who don't have heads! It's much more affordable than the "redemption" you asked someone to go through the door! Brother Guo, it's not my brother, I'm selling myself and boasting, such a big bargain, where can you find it if you leave your brother! Let's steal the fun! ”
After finishing speaking, this Tian Dashan handed Guo Xing an ambiguous look of "tacit understanding", and then changed back to the face of a fanatical believer, while shouting, "Huayu Tianshen can look at us!" It's time to serve the Sect Venerable! Something like that, bouncing towards the team......
Guo Xing saw the other party walking away, gritted his teeth and spitted, and also returned to the team......
A quarter of an hour later, outside the west and south gates, an endless stream of Huashen cultists gathered. Although this Tian Dashan is despicable and shameless, it has broken through Guo Xing's imagination; Fortunately, he also understands the importance of the word "reputation" to "businessmen"!
Tian Dashan, who had just gone into battle shirtless, suffered some wind and cold; This time, he was fully responsible for attacking the south gate of Buyeo City, and he finally learned to be smarter. He and his more than 20,000 followers of the Huashen Sect wore their signature khaki coarse cloth short coats, and repeatedly chanted the incomprehensible Hua nerves. ,
After Tian Dashan personally pasted the crumpled yellow rune paper all over every siege machine, he secretly called his henchmen and sent a message to Guo Dashuai outside the West City Gate.
The quaint and heavy sound of trumpets echoed on the battlefield, and tens of thousands of followers of the Huashen Sect, shouting invulnerable slogans and brandishing inferior war knives, stepped forward on the bloody battlefield in front of them.
On the city of Fuyu, the deputy general Chai Rang also came to Lin Fengshou's side and asked in a low voice about the strategy of defending against the enemy:
"Sir, looking at the scale of the enemy's second siege, this group of Mobei wolves has already launched a fierce attack. You see, the enemy army is all over the mountains, and there is no edge in sight, and even the legendary siege equipment has revealed its true colors! They are obviously planning to take Buyeo City in one go, shouldn't we also show off our family foundations? ”
Lin Fengshou, a military advisor with one ear, held the city wall with his hand in his hand and stared at the Huashen Sect believers all over the mountains and fields with his eyes unfocused, and sighed softly:
"Hey, once this battle starts, it's inevitable that lives will be ruined...... The two countries are at war, and each is the master of the enemy; But even if it is a soldier of the enemy army, it is also a life! If the mountain people want to break the enemy's army, it is easy to probe and take things, and look at the patterns; But they also have a high old mother, and there are good wives and young children in the family, how can I bear it? Hey, sure enough, only the danger of "conscience" is the most difficult to break through! ”
"Mr. Lin, this is the territory of the two armies, or the weak side that is at a disadvantage, can you first take away your kind heart that only belongs to the winner? Could it be that the brothers in our army and the people in the city were not raised by their parents? Let's take care of our own family first! ”
"Hmph, insensitive, stupid!"
Lin Fengshou, who couldn't think of a good way at all, pretended to be a ghost and told the compassion in his heart, so he threw off his wide robe and big sleeves, made a look of "not discussing the short and long with the laity", and walked along the spacious city wall and all the way to the east.
Xie Tao, the general with neat armor and a sharp blade at his waist, had just been awakened by the horn blown by the enemy, and he was still stunned at this time; And Chai Rang, who had just "vulgarly" left Lin Fengshou, thought that he was going to the east city wall to watch the enemy plunder, but he did not stop him......
Of course, in fact, Lin Fengshou just wanted to find a clean place with fewer people and see how to get out of Fuyu City.
Chai Rang saw that Mr. Lin, the military advisor, was leaving in a bad mood, so he hurriedly ran to Xie Tao's side and asked loudly:
"Commander Xie, now that the enemy army is attacking on a large scale, how should our army respond?"
"Offensive ......"
"Yes, the enemy's vanguard has already launched a second charge."
"Offense...... What does that mean? ”
“…… Back to the commander, offense is ...... The Mobei people are here to beat us. ”
Xie Tao eats too much, and since he was a child, he has relied on helping people fight and brawl to eat; Now as soon as I heard that "we" had been beaten, I immediately made clear the next operational instructions:
"Everyone has come to beat us, what are you asking? Let's fight back! ”
Chai Rang listened to Xie Tao's order, pondered carefully for a while, and then instructed the herald with little confidence:
"Tell the crossbowmen to calm their breath and put the enemy within fifty paces! Let all the archers replace them with oil arrows, and burn all the four ladders and the storming carts to charcoal...... Let's do it first. ”
A rain of arrows fell in the dense crowd, but it didn't make much of a splash. This was a good thing, but in the eyes of Guo Xing, the main general outside the West Gate, it made him feel very uneasy. Although the military order he issued was to launch a fierce attack on the four city gates at the same time, regardless of the main and secondary echelons, the whole army; However, due to the east and south directions of Buyeo City, the terrain is extremely narrow and closed, and it is impossible to launch a large-scale attack. So in fact, there are only two gates in the west and south, which can accommodate a large number of soldiers and siege equipment. Therefore, he could only send Hulegan and his 8,000 rangers to the east gate of Buyeo City, intending to ambush the Youbei army that might break through; And he stayed in the main formation outside the West Gate, responsible for watching the enemy and supervising the battle.
Take people's money and eliminate disasters for others. Tian Dali, who just clicked on the juniors, is really ruthless this time! He actually sent 50,000 believers at one time on the main battlefield in the southeast and southeast! With so many people spread on the battlefield at one time, even if the arrow rain of the Youbei Army was five times denser, it would be difficult to stop the trend of the Huashen Army rushing to the city.
Guo Xing saw that the Huashen Sect fought bravely, and finally took a little time to deduce the trend of the battle in his mind; However, at this moment, one of Qilinjun's subordinates came to report:
"Guo Shuai, the five trebuchets have been assembled, how should they be distributed?"
"Is this still to be asked? Two ...... were placed at the west gate Wait a minute! ”
A spark suddenly flashed in Guo Xing's mind, and he felt as if he had grasped the real reason that made her uneasy!
This time, he led the army to counterattack Youbei, and he had no intention of concealing his identity at all for the sake of the hatred of the Snow Country; Even if the enemy general is not Shen Gui, he has long been clear about this matter. And recall that under the city of Taining, it is a thunder stone rolling wood and a gold juice oil tank, and the fight is extremely fierce; But today, except for the crossbow arrows, there is no city defense preparation exposed!
It has not been a day or two since he arrived at the foot of Buyeo City; And he had seen the enemy army busy on the city wall more than once, but why did he stop now? This is clearly Shen Gui's common method! Show the enemy to be weak, and lure the enemy layer by layer!
If he exposed the trebuchet "developed" by the Di Tingtian Workshop in advance, it was very likely that he would lose the opportunity in front of Shen Gui! Don't look at them at this time, the rocket offensive is raging; But as early as under the city of Taining, they had already suffered a loss! The siege equipment before the battle this time was fire-proofed in advance; Although there is no guarantee that it will be foolproof, if you want to ignite it with rockets, you can only hope for God's mercy!
Considering that he is the attacking side, he has an absolute advantage; At the moment, the opponent has no action, and this trebuchet's hole card is not in a hurry to play out; Wouldn't it be better to wait for the stalemate of the battle and then push it into battle, and then lay the foundation for victory and defeat in one fell swoop?
"There's no need, all of them will be pushed to the southern formation and handed over to Senior Brother Tian of the Shenfeng Army. You tell him that this is a new weapon from the Heaven's Workshop; Don't be exposed lightly until you win or lose. ”
The five rounds of arrows of the Youbei Army rained down, but they killed and injured more than 1,000 people; For the Huashen cultists who were densely packed in front of the formation, it was simply a drop in the ocean. Fortunately, I don't know which archer had great luck and accidentally ignited the rushing car that had been pushed to the city, so that the city gate could be kept safe for the time being; But the four steel-clawed ladders had been rapidly unfolded under the impetus of the auxiliaries and slashed at the western city wall......
Chai Rang, who was directing the archers to change their guards, heard the news that the enemy's ladder had been erected on the top of the city, and his heart immediately cooled in half! He had repeatedly studied the defeat report of Taining County for a long time, and it was not that he had never thought that the Shenshi Army, which had the momentum of a great victory, would become more fierce and brutal in the future; But now it seems that his imagination is still too conservative......
"Hurry, hurry! Speed up the change of guards! ”
Only half an hour passed from the trumpet blowing of the charge to the white-knuckle battle on the city wall; And if it weren't for the big winch of the ladder, it would take a long time to drive; Perhaps a quarter of an hour ago, those Huashen cultists covered in yellow soil had already climbed the Buyeo city wall.
Guo Xing saw that the four ladders had been laid, and immediately ordered the heralds around him:
"Let the auxiliaries rush forward, pull the burned storming car away, and replace it with a new one to continue the siege! Their Longbow team has changed their guards, and this time they must knock the West Gate open for me! ”
Such an aggressive command rhythm is the first time Guo Xing has ever experienced it since he joined the army. His father, Guo Xiao, the old marquis, was cautious in his life, and he was especially good at guarding the city. Guo Xing has been in the army with his father since he was a child, and both his temperament and character and the way of using soldiers have been inherited from the deceased old marquis.
Such a general may not have the ability to save the situation in the midst of fire and water; But there are also no obvious weaknesses to attack. In the previous war between the two norths, Shen Gui also happened to grasp the old marquis's heart of licking calves, and Guo Xing's weakness that had not yet faded his youthful spirit, so he got that big victory!
However, today's Guo Xing is no longer the same person as the little marquis who was alone in the belly of the enemy!
At least, he didn't take a detour of overkill!