Chapter 55 The Capture of the City 5

Although Titim Timur led hundreds of households, his brothers and wives were wealthy merchants in the city, who were engaged in horse farms, weaving and grain trading, and were not only a large household in Linqu County, but also had an industry in Yiduzhi. Since the beggar summoned all the Mongolian and Semu people of the right age in the city to form a hundred households, the beggar put him in charge of this army. In order to strictly detain Mingxiong's subordinates, Qimier also specially transferred a team from it to be imprisoned in the Han army station.

At this time, there was already a commotion in the city, and the Mongolian soldiers, Han soldiers and righteous soldiers who received the order gathered one after another and set off towards the target.

Sun Xing and others sent a signal on the city gate, which naturally alarmed the officers and soldiers patrolling all over the city, and under the command of the officer, the nearby officers and soldiers came to the south gate to kill, and soon found that some thieves had put down the drawbridge, and some of the thieves were fighting with the officers and soldiers at the city gate. The officers and soldiers were shocked and immediately rushed forward in the hope of retaking the city gates. Sun Xing and the others naturally defended with all their might, and it was too late to continue to destroy at this time, so they had to cheer up and guard the chains of the suspension bridge.

The battle under the city gate was even more intense, because there was a command of the Han army in the house, and the Han army in the house rushed out from the door and two windows, attracting the attention of Luo Cheng and others. With the containment from the outside, Luo Cheng and the others could no longer completely block the doors and windows, and it didn't take long for the strength to be greatly reduced, and the more than a dozen Han troops in the house rushed out under the leadership of the hundred households, and surrounded Luo Cheng and the others for a while.

The Han army on this side rushed out, and immediately attracted a few companions in front of the house next to him to come to support, and the pressure on the Han army in the house was greatly reduced, and finally found an opportunity, shouted, and the Han army inside also killed out, and for a while the sword light under the city gate was Huohuo, and from time to time someone splashed blood on the ground and fell to the ground. There were more Han soldiers, nearly twice as much. Luo Cheng, Shopkeeper Lao and others here retreated to the doorway one after another, refusing to retreat again. Fortunately, the width of the door hole is not very large, and with the help of the terrain, Luo Cheng and Lao Shopkeeper still have more than a dozen people, forming a defense line facing the city, barely able to withstand the officers and troops in front of them.

"Hold on, everyone, reinforcements will be coming soon!" Luo Cheng continued to encourage his subordinates, although the situation was not good, Luo Cheng firmly believed that Yu Zhilong would be able to arrive in time! At the beginning, Yu Zhilong in Liujiazhuang was able to keep his promise and surround the lives of the Liu family, which was really beyond Luo Cheng's expectations, because he admired Yu Zhilong's words and had faith, Luo Cheng joined his team, and Yu Zhilong really dared to use him, not only let him do a hundred households, but even most of the original volunteers in Liujiazhuang were retained by him to continue to be under his command.

What surprised Luo Cheng the most was that Yu Zhilong issued a very strict order prohibiting disturbance to the people, and even in order to promote military discipline, he did not hesitate to directly execute the soldiers who violated the order in front of the soldiers and civilians on the second day, this kind of action not only greatly shocked his soldiers, but also greatly touched Luo Cheng's heart. Since ancient times, whether it is a thief entering the village, or a large army occupying the enemy city, indulgent subordinates to loot and indulge in adultery abound, out of the consideration of the superiors, this practice is to satisfy the tyrannical desire in the hearts of the soldiers, vent the physical and psychological pressure, the people can only consider themselves unlucky when they encounter this matter. As a senior worker, Luo Cheng's responsibility is just to do his best, and he has no hope for the fate of the households in the village. Unexpectedly, Yu Zhilong was able to restrain his subordinates so much, and even did not hesitate to behead him in public.

That's what a person does big things with.

Death for a confidant!

"My lord, I smashed the door shaft!" Yan Wei finally ended the destruction and returned to join Luo Cheng's warband. "Well done!" Luo Cheng praised him. "Be careful! Don't just talk! Shopkeeper Lao suddenly waved his hand to block a spear stabbed at Yan Wei, and with a vigorous twist of his right hand, he twisted the opponent's spear aside, and his body suddenly took a big step forward, and a heartwarming kick kicked the man's lower abdomen, relieving Yan Wei's danger. However, the shopkeeper was also stabbed from the diagonal side by a steel knife, injuring his left arm.

"Shopkeeper!" Yan Wei escaped death, seeing that the shopkeeper was injured for himself, he swung a sledgehammer completely regardless of defense, and rushed to the enemy pawn is a smash, which frightened the man to change his face, shrank his body, and hid behind his companions. The two sides fought several times on the front, and the corpses of seven or eight people fell under the city. The Han army was basically killed in the battle just now, and now the number of casualties on both sides is basically equal.

The Han army saw that dozens of people on their side could not be used at all at the city gate, so they ordered more than a dozen people to go up along the road to the city to encircle and suppress Sun Xing and others, so as to pull up the suspension bridge. The subordinates suddenly agreed, and some of them turned around to go to the city, but when they were about to climb the city wall, they slipped on the soles of their feet one by one and rolled off the road with a sigh.

It turned out that one of Sun Xing's subordinates found several large urns of oil behind the city gate, which were reserved by the officials and soldiers here, ready to be used for the siege of the city, burned in advance until it was hot, and the officers and soldiers used it to splash it on the besiegers. Once the oil is heated and poured on the body, it can quickly burn the skin and flesh, and if the wound is contaminated by dirt and other things, according to the current treatment conditions, most people will die due to the complete damage of a large piece of skin and flesh and infection by germs. In fact, the defenders often add all kinds of feces and other pickled substances to these hot oils, which can have a greater killing effect.

After Sun Xing got the message, he immediately gathered several people to work together to carry these large urns to the aisle of the city wall, before the officers and soldiers surrounded, the urn was pushed down, and the oil in the urn all flowed on the crossing surface of the city wall. Part of the cool oil flowed down the steps of the road, and the night was dark, and only some torches and lanterns were illuminating, and if you were not careful, you could not find the cold oil on these roads for the time being.

Fortunately, there is this oil scattered on the road, and the Han soldiers who rushed up below were unable to effectively rush over because of the slippery soles of their feet.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, many officers and soldiers rushed over on both sides of the city wall, saw such a scene, and soon brought a basket of lime, some soldiers used gourds and scoops to sprinkle lime on the oil surface, or moved stones and so on to throw on the road, and gradually the slippery ground was padded out of a passage, and the officers and soldiers behind rushed up under the supervision of the commander. Sun Xing could no longer take advantage of this trick, so he had to stand up and fight face-to-face.

Fortunately, the Han army that arrived lacked bows and crossbows, otherwise Sun Xing and the others would have been shot to death here in a few volleys.

Now there was a sound of killing all over the city gates, and from time to time people who had been struck by knives and spears fell to the ground.

"Brother Luo, how are you doing?" Sun Xing asked loudly while resisting. He could hear clearly that the Han army under the city had completely rushed out of the house and drove Luo Cheng and the others to the entrance of the city gate, and Luo Cheng's shouts and encouragement were heard from time to time.

"No problem, how about it?"

"It's okay, these guys are so hot that they can't pounce and roll onto a kang!"

"You're cool!"

"I'll leave you some!"

"You'd better use it yourself!" The two of them joked loudly in the city and under the city, so angry that the Han army jumped to their feet.

In the chaos, Sun Xing and the official army found a fire dragon meandering outside the city at the head of the city, looking at its speed and distance, it should be about five miles away, saying that it is a fire dragon, obviously composed of countless torches, the officials and Sun Xing both know that there are several cottages five or six miles south of the city on the side of the official road, these torches suddenly appeared from the cottages, straight to the city gate, looking at the direction will never be the official army coming to help outside, the eight achievements are Yu Zhilong's department!

The body of the fire dragon gradually elongated, and the head and tail had been pulled out for about two miles, and the large number of officers and soldiers on the city wall were still shouting loudly, and they were extremely excited to encircle and suppress Sun Xing and others, but when they saw this amazing night scene, they couldn't help but slow down, and they didn't know what to do.

A hundred households of the Han army had already climbed the city wall at this time, and he reacted first, and immediately shouted: "Bastard, what are you still doing in a daze!" Kill all these thieves and pull up the drawbridge! Otherwise, the thieves will enter the city, and the money and money in your pockets will become the spoils of war! You fools, no matter how slow you go, they'll cut off all your heads to make a night pot! ”

These hundred households still understand that at this time, the reinforcements of the thieves are still two or three miles away from the city gate, as long as these thieves in front of them are killed in advance, the suspension bridge is quickly lifted, and the way into the city is cut off, there is still something to be done. Under his strict order, the soldiers also understood, after all, Sun Xing and others were only more than ten people, and their strength was very limited, so they howled again, and the Han army rushed up regardless of casualties.

"Prepare to fire! Get ready to roll the rocks! The hundred households howled, and some soldiers rushed to the front wall to fill a few cannons with gunpowder, and stuffed them with stone shells, and in a hurry, no matter how much gunpowder was stuffed in.

In order to defend the city gate, there are nearly ten bronze cannons, but these soldiers operate in a hurry, and their actions are deformed a lot because of tension. Only a few of these soldiers have ever operated it, and they have some experience, and after reloading, they ignite the lead and fire it regardless of the angle and distance of fire. Fortunately, the accuracy of the artillery was too poor, and the first wave of iron catapults shot out, and Yu Zhilong and others were basically not injured. When the second wave of artillery was fired, it was already nearly half a pillar of incense, Yu Zhilong and others drove their horses wildly, not far from the south gate, this wave of artillery barely shot down a few people, one of which happened to rub Qin Zhanshan's helmet past, and Qin Zhanshan, who was frightened, tightly shrunk his body on the saddle.

"Grandma's bear, almost killed your grandfather!" Qin Zhanshan was shocked into a cold sweat, he escaped with his life, but the two soldiers behind him were broken by the cannonballs, and even the war horses were so shocked that they lost their direction. Looking at Yu Zhilong's unwavering posture in front of him, Qin Zhanshan cheered up and continued to rush forward.

Because Sun Xing and others were firmly guarding the pillars above the city gate, the rolling wood and stones falling from the city could hardly hurt the people who entered the city.

"My lord, reinforcements are coming from the city!" A soldier found that there were also several groups of soldiers holding torches from the city, and they all moved towards this city gate, busy showing the Han army to hundreds of households. Baihu looked at the distance between the reinforcements inside and outside the city, and couldn't help but be anxious, looking at the speed of the two sides' advance, eighty percent of the reinforcements on both sides would arrive at the same time, if these thieves on the city wall could not be solved in advance, it was difficult to say what the consequences would be.

"Hurry up, kill them, and give each of them a heavy reward of fifty taels!" Baihu was anxious and offered a reward. When his subordinates heard this, they immediately accelerated their impact, oppressing Sun Xing and the others within a few zhang, and the wealth was moving, and the fighting spirit that had been lost just now was raised by the high reward. Sun Xing and the others fought so far, and now there are only twelve or thirteen people left, and most of them have hung up their lottery. Everyone gathered in front of the suspension bridge pillars and desperately supported them.

"Hold on, my lord, they're coming! It's all the men who live for me! Sun Xing also loudly encouraged his subordinates, victory or defeat in this move, both sides understand the importance of buying this time, and they can afford to kill.

When a Sun Xing's subordinate was swinging a knife to kill, he was not wary of being stabbed into the lower abdomen by a spear on one side, he simply threw the steel knife into the face of the opponent who was fighting next to him, the steel knife blade hit the opponent, and the other party covered his face and retreated, squatting on the ground. After leaning forward, one hand was inserted into the other party's eyes, the opponent was already stunned, I didn't expect this person to be so brave, without beware, one eye was poked by his fingers, the eyeball burst like a blister, and he screamed in pain, dropped the spear in his hand, also covered his eyes, and retreated. The other companions were so frightened that they slowed down the pace of their attacks when they saw this man so violently.

The Han army was furious, swung his knife to kill the retreating soldiers who covered their faces, and then kicked a few slow subordinates, urging them to move forward, and finally even rushed forward himself, slashing to death the thief who had been hit by a spear in the abdomen, and said loudly: "Those who are cowardly in battle, die!"