Chapter 30: Chang'an Storm [3]
What is Golden Juice?
Gold juice is boiled feces and urine, and it has been a necessary weapon for defending cities since ancient times.
"Your grandfather, can this be more disgusting?" Looking at the steaming feces and urine flowing on the ground, thinking that he had to spread his feet and run inside, Liu Xiu felt uncomfortable in his heart.
"Fight!" Liu Xiu kept cheering himself up in his heart, but it was useless, one sprint, two footprints deep in front and shallow in the back, Liu Xiu had already collapsed and vomited.
"This sky is full of arrows, don't hold on if you can't do it, it's easy to die." Zhao Ming stood in front of Liu Xiu with a shield, and at this time, Liu Xiu had already vomited until his face turned blue, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to these gossips, and chose to withdraw from the battlefield obediently, as for the dirty shoes, he had already thrown them far away.
The city gate was slammed, and many soldiers climbed up the city wall desperately, in order to break through a gap and suppress the defenders on the wall.
There were so many corpses on the ground that they couldn't get their feet, and Wang Mang's army behind them was getting closer and closer, and the anti-Mang coalition army would either all die at Hangu Pass, or they would take it down in one go.
"Report! There is probably a stick of incense left, and the enemy's reinforcements will arrive in the rear of our army. After receiving the scout's report, Liu Xin and Zhai Yi's faces turned pale.
"Order the army, regardless of the cost, must capture Hangu Pass within a stick of incense."
With the military order, the siege of the city increased again, but did all this work?
The attack of the officers and troops has not abated from beginning to end!
The battlefield that Liu Xiu has been watching all along, the momentum of his own side chasing and fighting is really terrifying, but the casualties are getting bigger and bigger, but even if it can capture Hangu Pass if it goes on like this, how many people will still be alive.
Maybe it was fate, maybe it was ability, a picture flashed in Liu Xiu's mind that caused him to rush into the battlefield again.
The flag soldiers made a gesture, and the Xihai County Pioneer Battalion immediately broke away from the city, and quickly came to Liu Xiu's side, and then led the military order, and hurriedly ran to collect the corpses and pile them up in a seat.
Time was passing rapidly, and a hill made of corpses was getting higher and higher, and when it felt like it was about the same, Liu Xiu ordered the vanguard battalion to step on the corpse mountain and attack the city.
Compared to the wooden ladder, the corpse mountain was obviously more playful, and several soldiers with better skills held their shields and struggled to climb, and when the captain in charge of guarding this section of the city wall opened his mouth for help, the gap had already been opened.
"Kill!" Liu Xiu held the long knife and shouted loudly, he rushed up the corpse mountain, but his luck was as bad as just now, some clever ghosts in the official army threw out fire oil and torches, and the combination of these two attacks almost didn't turn Liu Xiu into a roast pig.
"Brothers in the city, don't give up, we'll come up right away to help." Liu Xiu ordered the vanguard battalion to carry the corpses again, and the fierce fire was crushed by more and more corpses, and Liu Xiu once again took the lead, holding a shield and rushing to the city wall.
The official guards saw that the gap in the city wall was getting bigger and bigger, and they all picked up their weapons and killed this side, not to mention the pioneer camp for a while, and even Liu Xiu was stabbed twice.
"Protect the lord!" Pang Meng immediately shouted loudly after landing in the city, and several soldiers from the pioneer battalion immediately came to guard them with the shouting, but Liu Xiu felt that they were in the way, and loudly called on them to stay away from him.
Occupying a small section of the city wall, the anti-reckless coalition forces only tried to use their seats to the fullest, and dense wooden ladders fluttered on them, and the soldiers rushed forward with a roar.
"Resist, whoever dares to take a step back will not be forgiven!" Wu Rang drew his sword and cut down several retreating soldiers, but more and more enemy troops landed in the city, and even he himself pounced on it to kill the enemy, but it was useless, and he was still killed and retreated.
The two armies fought frantically around the city wall and the stone ladder, and Liu Xiu, who was just brave and invincible, was hugged by Pang Meng, begging him to bandage his wounds first, Liu Xiu was stubborn, but Pang Meng could only pay attention to the battle trend while bandaging, but the more he looked at him, the more annoyed he became, and finally scolded directly: "Are you all pigs, the stone ladder can't go down." There are still so many corpses in the city that can be used, won't they be used to make ropes! ”
Sometimes the situation of battle can change again with just a few hints, and the more conspicuous soldiers immediately use the clothes of the corpses as ropes, while the enemy guards, who have been keeping their eyes on the stone staircase, the main battlefield, realize that it is too late for the enemy to attack.
After the city gate was captured, Hangu Pass was completely lost.
Liu Xin and Zhai Yi passed through Hangu Pass with soldiers and horses, and slipped away without stopping.
"Your grandfather's, I really can't work with such a selfish and timid guy." Others can slip, Liu Xiu can't, he has to prepare himself a little more time, he ordered the soldiers to carry the corpses to block the city gate, and even piled all the wood and planks that could be removed nearby on the city wall and set a fire.
"Wang Sunqing, you take the pioneer battalion to Hedong County to take away all the valuable things, and then come to my hometown Baishui Village to find me."
Liu Xiu's soldiers survived a lot, but the anti-reckless coalition army left more wounded soldiers, Liu Xiu wanted to learn from Liu Xin and Zhai Yi and left, but looking at those pleading eyes, his heart softened, and he ordered to bring all the wounded soldiers he could bring and burrow into the mountains and forests.
Liu Xin and Zhai Yi ran fast, and it was not without benefits to Liu Xiu, at least there was such a big target, which could attract a large amount of firepower.
Although there are many herbs in the mountains and forests, there are also many mosquitoes, insects, rats and ants, and many soldiers who were not too seriously injured have deteriorated and died in the mountains and forests due to some special circumstances.
"Pang Meng, go down the mountain and take a look, where are we now?"
"Command!" Pang Meng got Liu Xiu's order and left quickly with a few soldiers, and did not come back until a few hours later to report that under the mountain was Dingling County, Yingchuan County.
Looking at the numb and empty eyes of the soldiers, Liu Xiu knew that everything would be over if he continued like this, and at that time Liu Xiu was wearing a lot of antiques and jade pendants in Hedong County, he took out all the valuable things on his body, called the trustworthy generals and said: "If I remember correctly, Dingling County is next door to Yun County, you take these things down the mountain and sell them, and then send the money out to find a place to live for Paoze." ”
"Lord!"
"Don't be verbose, hurry down the mountain, the robe and my life are in your hands."
Although the hearts of the people were separated from each other, this group of generals did not disappoint Liu Xiu, and they came back one after another and left with people.
There are fewer and fewer people on the mountain, and whenever a group of people leaves to pay homage to Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu advises: "Take good care of yourself, and don't forget to go back and take your parents, wife and children to your side if you can." ”
"Lord!" Whether it was a general or a soldier, he couldn't cry, but Liu Xiu didn't have a good face for them, and scolded angrily: "What kind of system is it for a big man to cry and cry, my Liu Xiu's soldiers will only bleed and will not shed tears." Get out of here, the farther you go, the better. ”