Chapter 168: Fighting to the Death
Tao Zhutu sealed the throat of the thief Kou Jiashi with an arrow, then turned over and pulled Lan Ziyi up, blocking behind him and shouting:
"Young Master, step back!"
Saying that, Tao Zhutu pulled the horned bow, pointed to the gap, and covered Lan Ziyi to retreat step by step.
Lan Ziyi observed the city wall while retreating,
Although some defenders also learned from Lan Ziyi's side to use fire oil to set the armor on fire, but the thieves will always fight to the end to flatten the wooden fence, and in more places, those armorers will resist the defenders' arrows all the way, split the wooden fence and kill the city wall.
Over there, Gao Yanzong had already thrown away the lance and replaced it with the Guan Wang knife, and a thief Kou Jiashi had already climbed the city wall along the dirt slope, and the giant axe in his hand was held high above his head by him, howling and running towards Gao Yanzong
"Righteous demon! Today I will take your dog's life! ”
The sound of the thief and the armor was like thunder, the axe was lightning, and the white blade was wrapped in murderous aura and went straight to Gao Yanzong's head.
Outsiders seemed to be in danger at this time, but Gao Yanzong was not in a hurry, his eyes burst into light and stared at the thief's face armor.
Not only that, Gao Yanzong also held the Guan Wang knife in front of his chest, lightly lifted it upward, twisted the axe with the back of the knife, and then flicked it to the right side.
The thief Kou thought that his blow was strong and heavy, and it was absolutely impossible for ordinary people to stop it head-on, Gao Yanzong just stretched out the soft knife when the thief Kou was still snickering in his heart, this big knife is just like this, and he actually dared to take the axe like this, and those people who went to the city before still said that this person had the courage of ten thousand people, but now it seems that it is just those wastes who make excuses for their failures,
But the moment the two heavy weapons intersected, the thief realized that something was wrong, this long knife was not so weak as it looked, but was unusually strong, like a wall; The moment that it was pushed outward was overwhelming, even if the big axe had fallen, it was still pushed aside, and it was impossible to threaten Gao Yanzong's vital point if it fell, and the entire front of the thief himself was completely exposed in front of Gao Yanzong's blade.
Gao Yanzong pushed away the thief's giant axe with a knife, and when he saw that his big knife had reached the attack position, he stepped forward with his right foot, and the horse stepped steadily.
The day before yesterday, Gao Yanzong howled on the city wall with a ghost who was killed by King Guan's knife, and there was no corpse within the reach of the blade.
But this time, the knife fell, hitting the left side of the thief's neck, but it only cut through the back armor of the thief and embedded the thief's collarbone.
The thief's attack missed, the blood veins on his neck were broken, and the brilliant blood like cinnabar broke through the barrier of the blade and gushed out.
Separated by heavy armor and the thief's iron face, the thief's cry of pain after being stabbed turned into a dull roar,
Gao Yanzong rushed forward in response, pushed the thief Kou Kou Armor to the edge of the city wall with a knife, and then stepped on the thief on the city wall with one kick, and cut it down to the left with the handle of the knife with both hands, and the blade then cut through the thief's face armor against the thief's throat.
Gao Yanzong saw that the armor was finally broken, and he hurriedly put his right hand back to the end of the hilt, and with a shout, the head of the thief was cut off by the big knife, and flew out of the city with inertia.
Gao Yanzong put away his knife and turned around, looked at the head of the thief and said:
"If you want my life, come and get it."
It's just that the excitement of killing the enemy can't last long, and the thieves behind have already landed along the gap.
Gao Yanzong didn't hesitate, and hurriedly stepped forward to the gap,
This time, it was no longer the heavily armored thieves who rushed up, but the previous ones who died first.
The person who rushed to the front stepped on the head of the city, but was stopped by Gao Yanzong, and raised his knife to slash at Gao Yanzong.
Gao Yanzong did not hesitate, raised the blade of the knife horizontally to block the thief's blade, then rotated his right hand to the left, pulled back with his left hand, and the blade of the big knife was transported to the upper left, and then Gao Yanzong used force with one hand, and the lower end of the knife was clenched with his right hand and slashed down, straight into the thief's right crotch, and the thief's entire right leg was removed in the blood splash.
The thieves screamed and rolled down the dirt slope, and behind him several more thieves jumped over his corpse and rushed to the city.
Seeing this, Gao Yanzong pulled the big knife back and held the handle tightly with both hands, and didn't look at where the thief was in front of him, just closed his eyes and cut out horizontally from right to left.
The top of the dirt slope is narrow, and there is only one attack route for the three thieves who have reached the top, and there is nowhere to dodge and move, and they are blocked by their own people behind them, and the blade can only watch themselves being cut off by the waist.
After beheading three more people, Gao Yanzong then raised his knife to chop a thief who climbed the city, but he didn't expect a hidden arrow to suddenly come from out of nowhere under the city, right in the middle of Gao Yanzong's left shoulder,
Gao Yanzong's arrow was out of force for a while, and the big knife in his hand fell halfway.
Fortunately, the sergeant next to him stepped up in time and replaced Gao Yanzong, so that Gao Yanzong was saved from being killed.
Gao Yanzong was escorted back to the inside of the wall, reached over and broke the arrow, panting and asking Lan Ziyi in a loud voice:
"Wei Hou! What to do? ”
When Gao Yanzong was killing at the head of the city, the horn bow in the hand of Tao Zhutu, who guarded Lan Ziyi, never stopped, and the powerful arrows were fired continuously, and every time the bowstring vibrated would take away a human life.
There was a city thief Kou Jiashi who came straight to Lan Ziyi, Tao Zhutu shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, and finally the two arrows hit the hole in the thief's face armor, and the surrounding defenders pounced, lifted off the armorer's helmet, and stabbed him to death.
Lan Ziyi was already wearing a sword in his hand, and he had been nervously observing the battle situation on the city wall.
The wooden fence of the western city wall has been breached under the impact of the thieves and heavy armor, and the remaining ruins and broken walls have also been ignited, and the thieves have swarmed up the city wall through the dirt slope, and the entire city wall has fallen into a full-scale hand-to-hand combat.
The western wall is like this, and the other three walls will not be much better.
Xiangcheng has sufficient defenders, there are no mistakes in the city wall, but there are more thieves, and now there are "ladders" that cannot be burned to enter the city, so it is only a matter of time before Xiangcheng is breached.
At this time, Gao Yanzong, who had hastily treated the wound over there, asked in a loud voice:
"Wei Hou, what should I do?"
Lan Ziyi's whole head was sweating when he looked at the battle situation, what should I do? What to do? In this way, the city was breached.
On the side, while releasing arrows to shoot the thief, he whispered to Lan Ziyi:
"Weihou, the situation is urgent, you hurry up and get off the city wall, I'll find someone to protect you and break out."
Lan Ziyi was annoyed when he heard it, he hadn't thought about escaping from the moment he was defending the city, how could he run now,
Lan Ziyi was about to open his mouth to scold Tao Zhutu, and suddenly thought of the word "breakthrough" mentioned by Tao Zhutu, yes, there are many cavalry in the city, and now the outside of the city has been filled by thieves, just let the cavalry charge, as long as they are scattered and surrounded into thieves, there will still be a battle.
Lan Ziyi suddenly opened his mouth and hurriedly asked Tao Zhutu:
"How many cavalry are available now?"
Tao Zhutu thought that Lan Ziyi was leaving, and hurriedly said:
"There is a Jihu camp in the government office, and the Marquis of Wei hurried over and took them to break through."
Lan Ziyi scolded:
"I didn't want to escape! Just tell me how many cavalry there are! ”
Peach chased the rabbit "oops", and then said:
"Do you want to lead a team out of the city to fight the thieves?"
Lan Ziyi listened to Tao Zhutu's words, was extremely angry, and said:
"Where is all this nonsense? Just tell me how many people there are. ”
Tao Zhutu couldn't resist Lan Ziyi, and said:
"Most of the people were on the city wall to assist in the defense, but the Jihu battalion stayed, and they were all in the government office, and they gathered 3,000 people."
Saying that, Peach Chase Rabbit shot another arrow at a thief who wanted to pounce.
Lan Ziyi nodded when he listened, grabbed a man who was transporting the house in the city, and said:
"Hurry up and go to the government office, let all the Jihu Battalion come over!"
On the other hand, Gao Yanzong bandaged the wound and killed it all the way with a Guan knife in his hand, walked up to Lan Ziyi and asked:
"There are 3,000 people in the Jihu Battalion, and going to the city is a drop in the bucket, it's useless."
兰子义 says:
"Then I won't go to the city.
There are many cavalry in our army, and it is simply a waste to use it for foot combat. The thieves are now swarming into the city, and the formation is chaotic, and I will be able to defeat the thieves by leading my troops to rush out. “
"And then?" Gao Yanzong asked, "There are so many thieves, if you kill them once, they can come again, and if you kill one of the three thousand tiger camps, there will be one less one, how can you fight?" Moreover, the earth mountain is just outside the city, and the thieves can come up when they step on it, and it is useless to rush back. “
Lan Ziyi gritted his teeth and glared at the thieves who landed at the head of the city, indeed, as long as Tushan was still there, it was useless to repel the thieves, so he had to find a way to make Tushan disappear.
Thinking of this, Lan Ziyi said:
"Then blow the dirt mountain to the ground!"
As soon as these words came out, Tao Zhutu and Gao Yanzong both looked at Lan Ziyi,
Lan Ziyi went on to say:
"Didn't Master Gao save a lot of gunpowder? When I lead the people to rush out and scatter the thieves, you dig a pit in the dirt mountain, bury the gunpowder in it, and blow the mountain flat after igniting it. ”
高延宗 says:
"The idea is good, but how to blow up?
There is enough gunpowder in the city, but it is useless to bury less earth and mountains, and the city wall is finished if it is buried too much, what should I do? “
Lan Ziyi thought about it, and said to the people who were still caught by him:
"Go to the government office and call the Tiger Camp, let Qiu Wenruo also follow, be quick!
Go to the city and call the horses, and ride them over! “
Saying that, Lan Ziyi took out the silk silk and pen from his arms, hurriedly wrote down the order and handed it to the people, urging:
"Go!"
Knowing that the situation was urgent, the man hurriedly took the silk cloth and turned his head to go down to the city, shouting "lead the horse" as he ran
Gao Yanzong asked:
"What did you ask Qiu Wenruo to do? Do you have the ability to blow up dirt mountains? He's just a clerk. ”
Lan Ziyi said:
"Do you have any other candidates? It is precisely because Qiu Wen is a scribe in the capital, he has read many documents and classics in the capital that we can't read, and how much gunpowder to bury can only find him! “
As soon as Gao Yanzong heard the conversation, there was no better way, so he had to pick up the big knife and turn around to cut the thief
After a while, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the city, and the Jihu camp stopped at a distance inside the city gate, and Qiu Wenruo followed the people to climb the city wall and came to Lan Ziyi's side.
Qiu Wenruo, who had just climbed the city wall, was so tired that he was out of breath, and before he could recover his senses, he saw the stumps and broken arms everywhere, smelled the lingering smell of blood in the air, and couldn't hold back anymore, and vomited out all the things he had eaten in the morning.
Lan Ziyi held Qiu Wenruo, thinking to himself that he was also a scholar, why did he not react so much when he saw the corpse when he came out of the Sai.
After Qiu Wenruo finished spitting out, Lan Ziyi asked:
"Mr. Wen Ruo, the military situation is urgent, let's make a long story short.
Outside the city, the thieves are in the city, and we must think of blowing up the dirt mountain, but we can't hurt the city wall. “
Qiu Wenruo took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth, turned his head to see the corpse on the city wall and almost vomited it again, but after holding back, he said:
"Xiaosheng once helped plan the project in the Ministry of Engineering, and also studied the use of gunpowder earthwork, so there should be no problem in calculating the amount of gunpowder.
But I had to see with my own eyes the shape and size of the dirt mountain. “
Lan Ziyi nodded after hearing this and said:
"It's easy to do!"
Gao Yanzong nearby had already heard Qiu Wenruo's request, and a Guan Wang knife flew and rotated in his hand, turning into a flesh mill to cut the thief in front of him into several sections.
Tao Zhutu put on a new quiver and guarded Lan Ziyi tightly, and Lan Ziyi pulled Qiu Wenruo to the edge of the city wall.
Qiu Wenruo went to the city wall under the protection of everyone, carefully observed the mountain of dirt piled up by the thieves, pinched his fingers and calculated silently, and then said to Lan Ziyi:
"Wei Hou, I have calculated the amount of gunpowder, but I can't bury gunpowder when the thieves are so close."
Lan Ziyi smiled:
"Don't worry about this, sir."
Then he turned his head and said:
"Come on, prepare the horses!"
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