Chapter 175: Dingxi City
After breaking through the wall of fire of the thieves, the soldiers of the Jihu battalion burst out of a strong desire to survive in a desperate situation, they have been delayed by the thieves, and have suffered a lot of losses, and now the rear troops of the thieves are gathered on all sides, and if they do not rush out of the way, they will inevitably be killed.
The knights of these Jihu battalions had just come out of the death siege of the bandit Kou Du clan, and their eyes were also stained with the ruthlessness of the thieves' death, they waved the sabre in their hands vigorously, the knife saw blood, and the knife fought for their lives.
This desperate charge rushed the thieves who were ascending the city at the foot of the city wall, and the pressure on the defenders on the city wall plummeted.
Gao Yanzong saw that the thieves who had ascended the city from the dirt slope had become sparse, so he slashed off the feet of the thieves in front of him with a knife, and then retracted the knife over the top and cut off the thief's brain.
Then Gao Yanzong rushed to the side of the female wall, stretched his neck and looked at the city,
Seeing that the Jihu Battalion led by Lan Ziyi had dispersed the thieves under the dirt slope, Gao Yanzong shouted behind him:
"Brothers, Wei Hou has opened the way for us, hurry down and bury gunpowder."
The soldiers who fought on the city wall heard that their courage increased greatly, and there was a forbidden army hundred households holding a waist knife to block the slashing of the thief in front of him, and then dragged the back of the knife with his left hand, and pushed the thief in front of him to the city wall with a loud roar, and then the left hand pulled back with his right hand, and the thief confiscated the force, and slid down along the blade of the forbidden army, and finally stuck at the knife jaw, and at this time, the left hand of the forbidden army hundred households had been cut to the neck of the thief by pressing the blade, and the result was obvious.
The thief was cut with a knife from the root of his right ear to his throat, and blood splattered along the blade, pouring like rain on the hundred households.
This hundred households did not relax because of the killing of the enemy, but pounced on the thieves who climbed the city along the dirt slope, and swung a knife against the eaves of the city wall, cutting off the thief's right ankle and wrist, and the defender brothers who were fighting on the side took advantage of the situation to retreat the thief down the dirt slope.
Then Baihu shouted, jumped on the city wall in one step, and rushed into his arms before the thief fell in front of him, pressed the knife with his left hand, exerted force with his right hand, and stabbed the waist knife along the lower edge of the thief's armor into the left abdomen of the thief Kou.
The thief was poked in the abdomen by a hundred households, and screamed loudly in pain, but the screams would not make the forbidden army who had been fighting for a long time soft, and the hundred households pushed the thief out with his left hand, and stood up straight to the thief is to kick the person down the dirt slope, and then raised the knife above his head to the left to cut off the chin of a thief, and cut off the wrist of a thief with a right split,
After killing three people in a row, the forbidden army waved his arms at the city wall behind him and shouted:
"Brothers, rush with me!"
After that, he rushed all the way down the dirt slope with his waist knife, and the blood splashed everywhere he passed, and the severed limbs flew sideways, and the soldiers at the head of the city followed the warrior to take advantage of the situation to rush and kill, and the thieves on the dirt slope were beheaded one by one.
After only a while, Baihu had rushed to the city, and behind him other soldiers defending the city were coming.
As far as the eye could see, some of the other dirt slopes next to them had been taken by the defenders like here, and the dirt slopes that had not been taken were filled with powder kegs rolling down from the city walls.
The barrel leads are of different lengths and shorts, depending on the density of the thieves on each slope, but the same thing is that these barrels all rolled to the most dense places of thieves and exploded.
The sound of the explosion of the powder keg shook the earth, and the hundred households stood under the dirt slope and were dizzy, and the huge sound from the ground shook the hundred households to the flesh and bones, fortunately, if they were far away, if they were a little closer, the hundred households would definitely be killed.
Those thieves who were hit by the explosion were not as lucky as this forbidden army, after the gunpowder explosion flashed a red light, the thieves next to them were swept into pieces by the rolling waves of air gushing out from the explosion point, and the stumps and broken arms of the thieves were carried into the air by the thick smoke, and then fell one after another, this scene has been seen in the northern section of the western city wall, but now it still seems to make people feel cold.
Baihu stood at the foot of the dirt slope, his eyes were full of gunpowder smoke after the explosion of gunpowder, and there was the sound of cavalry galloping away in the distance, it must be the soldiers of the Jihu battalion.
The forbidden army shook his head to dispel the dizziness in his eyes, and looked back, the soldiers were holding large shields in a semicircle, and behind them were the people who were digging pits and preparing to bury gunpowder.
The soldiers shouted from afar to let Baihu quickly retreat into the formation, and some people stepped forward to answer, but at this moment, the forbidden army Baihu suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and when he looked back, he saw that a spear was sticking out of the gunsmoke, and the head of the spear had pierced through the armor and submerged into the belly of Baihu.
"It's a boat capsized in the gutter." This last thought crossed the mind of the hundred households, and then the spear was drawn, and the blood trickled, and the hundred households fell forward with their wounds covered, and died in front of the dirt slope.
At this time, when the Jihu battalion first started to charge, the thieves didn't expect that Lan Ziyi would lead his troops out of the city, and the thieves under the dirt slope were all thieves who had climbed the city, and they could neither defend against the cavalry charge of the Jihu battalion, nor have they the energy to refill the city wall after being rushed away.
The current thieves are all rushing up to encircle and annihilate the thieves and pikemen of the Jihu camp, and they have all rushed to the spear, and the gunpowder has just cleaned up the thieves on the dirt slope, and the thieves under the city will leave Lan Ziyi and make up for it, after all, as long as you keep the dirt slope of the city, you can take Xiangcheng, and after taking Xiangcheng, the cavalry of the Jihu battalion is the turtle in the urn, and the thieves can kill how they want, but if the dirt slope is blown up again, it will be troublesome to attack the city.
It's just that these thieves who have landed in the city are all pikemen sent by the thieves to chase and suppress the cavalry of the Jihu battalion, and in order to maneuver to keep up with the cavalry, they have already removed a lot of armor from their bodies, and now they are afraid that it will be difficult for the strong to let them rush to the dirt slope guarded by the infantry.
The defenders had cleared the city wall, and now they were coming to the dirt slope with a big shield to cover the people behind them to bury gunpowder, Gao Yanzong rushed to the front line with the shield, and shouted loudly when he saw the thief and spearman in front of him:
"Find the crossbowmen!"
After the defenders on the city wall cleared the thieves, the archers were no longer disturbed, and when they saw the thieves and pikemen rushing towards them, they all pulled their bows and arrows, and the few crossbowmen on the city wall also organized themselves and rushed behind the big shield.
The thieves and pikemen shouted and rushed up the dirt slope, and before they hit the shield wall, they suffered a round of arrow rain, because the armor only protected the front and back chests, and the dense arrow rain caused the pikemen to suffer heavy losses.
The rain of arrows that followed was followed by the crossbowmen, who had just come behind the shield wall, and before they could take a breath, they leveled the crossbow and released their arrows, and after a volley, the thieves fell again.
By the time the thieves rushed to the front and rear defenders, the shields were already tightly encircled, and no loopholes could be found even if the thieves' spears poked indiscriminately, but the crossbowmen took turns firing volleys and caused huge casualties to the thieves.
Of course, the thieves were not fools, and they also asked the archers and heavy infantry to come forward to support them, but the heavy infantry walked too slowly, and the archers did not have heavy armor, and the defenders' arrows still demanded their lives.
In this way, the people planted the gunpowder under the cover of the defenders, and then the shieldmen held on to the people and withdrew to the city, the crossbowmen followed, and then the gunpowder fuse was lit on the city wall, and the shieldmen watched the Mars approach and slowly retreated back to the city wall, and the archers at the head of the city cooperated with a more dense rain of arrows to cover,
As soon as the shield-bearers retreated behind the female wall, there was an earth-shaking vibration from under the wall.
Although the thieves rushed desperately, they did not have time to extinguish the fuse, the gunpowder was ignited, and the huge explosion sounded like a muffled thunder in the ears of the soldiers.
The slopes of the western city wall were all blown up, and all the thieves who had just climbed the slope to block the officers and soldiers were shattered by the violent explosion, and the thieves who had not been able to escape from the city were buried alive by the earthwork lifted by gunpowder, and the thieves could no longer rely on these slopes to reach the city from the west.
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion under the command of Lan Ziyi broke through the formation and killed the enemy all the way before the explosion, and rushed straight to the west gate of Xiangcheng.
The mud from the explosion flew all over the sky, half of the people in the Jihu battalion were wrapped in dust, and even Lan Ziyi's body was hit by clods of dirt and gravel, but fortunately, when the gunpowder was ignited, the tail of the soldiers of the Jihu battalion could escape the impact of the explosion, but the strong shock still made the soldiers feel that the organs in their stomachs were shaken and hurt.
Lan Ziyi waved his hand to disperse the dust that covered the sky in front of him, and coughed violently to remove the dust from his trachea.
Lan Ziyi said to himself: "Did you succeed? Then he turned around and looked,
The dust in the sky slowly fell, everything was wrapped in a thick layer of sand, the light shone in from the outside, Lan Ziyi and the soldiers all squinted their eyes to see if there was still a shadow of the dirt slope in the dust,
As the dust cleared little by little, the scene of the city wall became clearer and clearer, and like the northern section of the city wall, the dirt slope on this side had been blown flat, leaving only a little trace under the corner of the wall.
When the soldiers saw the scene, they immediately raised their swords and shouted, and Tao Zhutu also said excitedly to Lan Ziyi:
"Young master, we're done!"
Lan Ziyi is also extreme, but as the commander-in-chief, he still has to be a little reserved, so he said:
"It's just the western wall, and there are three walls, don't let go."
The soldiers charged all the way from the southwest corner of the city, all the way to the bloody battle, after the dirt slope was blasted off, they have come to the west city gate under the urn city, and now the west city gate has been swept clean, and they can enter the city.
Lan Ziyi took off his helmet and shouted at the city gate:
"Open the gates! Let's get inside! ”
The defenders of the city were already cheering, and after hearing Lan Ziyi's shouts under the city, they happily ordered the city sergeants to open the city gates.
With the opening of the gate of the urn city in the west, Lan Ziyi and the soldiers who went out with him were relieved, it was really good to be able to enter the city alive after a bloody battle, although they would have to be killed in a while, but let them enjoy the relaxation after this tension now.
However, before Lan Ziyi could breathe the breath back into his stomach, bad news pulled him back to reality, and a sergeant pointed outside the city and shouted:
"The thieves are coming!"
Lan Ziyi was shocked by this sentence, and when he looked back, sure enough, the thief Kou Dengcheng was bombed, and he was so angry that all the troops gathered together and went straight to the Jihu camp that was still parked outside the city.
At this time, Lan Ziyi's situation was extremely embarrassing, although the city gate was open, and there was also dense defensive firepower from the defenders in the city, but it would take a while to let everyone in, and the thieves would definitely catch up after such a delay, that is to say, there must be soldiers who died outside the city.
The soldier of the Jihu Battalion next to Lan Ziyi said:
"Master Wei, you and Third Master Tao will enter the city together, and we will lead the team to the queen of the palace."
Lan Ziyi scolded:
"Nonsense, if you want to go into the city and enter together, who will I let kill the thief after you die here?"
When Lan Ziyi was arguing with the soldiers, Tao Zhutu calmly asked the sergeant next to him for arrows, and after filling his quiver, he urged the horses to slowly advance towards the end of the team, and said with a disdainful smile on his mouth:
"Young master, if you have nothing to do, you have to live or die, what are you like? It's not a little girl, why are you so impulsive?
Let me come, everyone can go into town today! “
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