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Chapter 640: A Hammer Smashes

This small border city is called Huxiang City, which is a very common one among the many border cities of the Great Sui Empire. Compared with the border cities that are famous for certain events, such as Baishui City, which is only about 100 miles away, Fenghuangtai in the east, and Fangu City in Xijiang, the name of the moat city may not be known by most people.

However, there is a group of hot-blooded men here who are the same as those border soldiers in Baishui City, Phoenix Terrace, and Fangu City. In the days after losing supplies and backup, they went out hunting on their own, relied on frugality, and relied on a heart to defend the people behind them, and never left.

Even if, they are surrounded by tens of thousands of enemies.

When later generations talk about this war, they are often very excited to discuss those blood-boiling battles, but few people remember how many unknown men fought to the last moment in such a border city. And the names of these border soldiers are also destined not to become the protagonists of history.

But each and every one of them deserves to be remembered.

The border soldiers in the city were not able to protect their hometown, but each of them was still doing what they thought was right and worth doing. Perhaps people can't think about what these people rely on to support a border city when the supplies are so poor that they can't even light torches. Perhaps one could not believe that when the living men of a border city placed the corpses of their fallen comrades on the walls of the city to confuse the enemy, none of them thought of opening the gates and surrendering.

This is a very magnificent and contradictory history, in the prosperous land of the Central Plains, almost everyone who has the ability and courage to raise the flag to rebel has already done so, and no longer respects this empire called the Great Sui. In the most difficult place to live in the border city, these soldiers still held their weapons tightly to guard the red battle flag on the city wall.

The Southern Yan army outside the city was cut through the middle by the cavalry of the Black Flag Army, and then the Black Flag Army began to rush and kill in regiments, advancing the chaos of the Southern Yan army to the depths of the Southern Yan camp. The cavalry of the Black Flag Army used a kind of boiling soup and snow offensive, completely destroying the resistance of the Southern Yan people who had barely assembled in a hurry.

Those Southern Yan soldiers began to rout, fleeing aimlessly.

In the darkness of the night, they couldn't tell where the safe direction was, but they kept telling themselves to run and not stop if they wanted to live. The night made them lose their vigilance and many lives, but it was precisely because of the existence of the night that many of them survived.

Because the number of the Southern Yan army already posed a threat, Fang Xie ordered the cavalry not to stop the attack after crushing the enemy. Because ending the battle too soon will give the defeated troops more time to regroup. The cavalry controlled the speed of the war horses and always maintained pressure on the Southern Yan army. In this way, where is the opportunity for the Southern Yan army to stop and regroup?

They just kept running.

So much so that after dawn, when the Black Flag Army had already collected its team and went back, those frightened Nanyan soldiers were still running forward desperately, not even daring to turn back.

Even though Fang Xie shouted his identity under the city last night, the border troops in the city still did not open the city gate immediately. When the east was white, the border soldiers could clearly see the red battle flag of the Black Flag Army, and saw the familiar armor they were wearing, and the border army opened the gate of the city to protect the countryside.

A man dressed in a team looked haggard but could not hide his excitement rushed out of the city gate, panting and running to Fang Xie to perform the most standard military salute.

"See the general!"

The team's face was swarthy, and he didn't know how long he had been smoked and how long he hadn't washed his face. There were many holes in his clothes, and blood stains were still visible in several places.

"Humble Zhou Ping, the army on the edge of the city is right!"

His lips were chapped like a long dry and rainless land, and there were cuts all over them. His hands were trembling slightly, and he didn't know if he was too tired from running out or because he hadn't eaten for too long. And his excitement was so cautious, because he didn't have enough physical strength to support enough excitement, so Fang Xie was a little sad.

"You're the highest-ranking person in the city right now?"

Fang asked.

"Yes!"

Zhou Ping nodded: "On the third day of the siege of the Southern Yan army, don't kill Li Ershui in battle, he was shot in the eye socket by a cold arrow, and he fell off the city wall at that time, and was cut into pulp by the Southern Yan people. On the thirteenth day of the siege, Cui Leng, the captain we elected, was hacked to death by the enemy who attacked the city wall, and was stabbed at least a dozen times. The two of them died and didn't even keep a corpse, and now they can't find it. ”

"On the fourteenth day of the siege, Captain Dong Mi was cut off by the enemy who attacked him with a left arm and two legs, and when we rushed over to support, those Nanyan soldiers were cutting his stomach and his intestines were pulled out, and he shouted in pain but refused to beg for mercy. We looked at him after we had killed the attacking enemy, who was stuffing his intestines into his stomach with his right hand, which had only two fingers left, and was crying in fright...... He died before he could finish stuffing it, and I helped stuff the rest back. ”

"On the night of the fourteenth day of the siege, Captain Zhang Jun had him lowered from the city wall with a rope to retrieve some feather arrows and weapons, and by that time we had run out of feather arrows. As a result, he was seen by the scouts left by the Nanyan people, he and the other three brothers who went down fought to kill more than a dozen scouts on the other side, and then we wanted to pull him up, but he refused, untied the rope and continued to collect feather arrows, and when the other party's reinforcements came, he picked up a total of seven hundred and twenty-three feather arrows, I counted them carefully later, and none of them would be bad, because these feather arrows came...... Not easy."

"At the last moment the enemy rushed forward, and we shouted at him to tie the ropes! He looked at the bundles of feathered arrows he had just tied, hesitated for a moment, tied the rope to the feathered arrows and let us pull them up, and when he rushed to the other rope, he was shot like a hedgehog by the enemy's arrows, and his body was full of arrows...... He went to pick up feathered arrows, and ended up with them all over his body. ”

"Don't checkmate, captain up, captain is dead, team is up...... I'm the last captain in the city. ”

Zhou Ping grinned, but there was a flash of sadness in his eyes: "General, if only you came a day earlier...... The last team died yesterday morning, with more than 30 wounds of all sizes...... That's a guy who is very afraid of death, when I joined the army, he was in the team, and when I was in the team, he was still in the team, I didn't expect him to die in front of me...... That guy kept muttering that he had saved enough money to go to Yongzhou to visit the Qinglou once...... Hehe......"

He was laughing, looking a little silly. Obviously talking about his comrades who died in battle, he can still laugh.

But is he really stupid?

Fang Xie patted him on the shoulder, and then handed over a jug of water: "Clean it up and come with me." ”

"General!"

Zhou Ping was stunned: "Why don't you ask me how many brothers are still alive in the city?" ”

Fang Xie paused for a moment: "Even if it's just you, I'll come." ”

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The Southern Yan army battalion

Murong Yongduo's face was pale as he read a military report that had just been delivered, and then threw the teapot on the table on the ground with a snap, and the water in the teapot splashed everywhere, and the fragments flew far away.

"Rubbish!"

He kicked the table over: "A bunch of garbage! ”

"Why is the general so angry?"

A staff member hurriedly asked.

"Four days!"

Murong Yongduo said angrily: "In just four days, two large camps were leveled by others, adding up to more than 50,000 people, and they were defeated without even seeing clearly what the other party was coming from!" Even if the men and horses behind are all recruits, doesn't the general who leads the troops know to set up a ranger outpost? Don't know how to guard against night raids? Don't know how to deal with the situation? And also! The convoy carrying supplies to the capital was looted and everything was burned...... Your Majesty asked, how should I explain! ”

"The general is angry!"

When the staff heard this, their faces changed: "This matter...... In fact, the general who led the troops behind him could not be blamed for this, and no one could have imagined how a cavalry could suddenly come out, as if it had come out of hell, without warning. They followed behind, and they didn't expect that someone would attack at night, after all, the Sui army in Pingshang Road was basically annihilated. ”

"It's not an excuse!"

Murong Yongduo said: "Even if you can't think of it, could it be that this has already happened once, and others don't think of preventing it?" Two large camps were broken one after another, and they were burned with heavy baggage......"

After a long while, he sighed and said, "Where the hell did this cavalry come from!" ”

At this moment, another soldier from outside quickly ran in: "General...... There is a military report! ”

Murong Yongduo snatched the military report, and after looking at it, his face immediately turned blue again: "Four days...... That cavalry has already rescued the trapped Sui army in the three border cities, although the number of people rescued together is less than a thousand, but this is not a matter of number at all! Once the news spreads, the morale of the Sui people will be boosted immediately! ”

The staff said: "The cavalry of the Sui army came and went without a trace, which is really unguardable, but speaking of which, I don't know what kind of person would do such an incomprehensible thing." Went deep with a lone cavalry army, just to rescue those border troops who were already starving to death? ”

"Unless the Sui general who leads the troops is a madman, right?"

He glanced at Murong Yongduo.

Murong Yongduo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "If he is really a madman, he is also a feared madman...... Pass my military order to all the people behind me to abandon the cities that have not yet been taken, and all of them will come and join me. Our forces are too scattered and easy to be attacked...... I don't believe it, all the troops are concentrated together, and with that man's cavalry of less than 10,000 people, he dares to fight directly! ”

"The general is wise!"

The staff member praised: "As long as we gather up the scattered troops, counting the slaves and Su people captured, it will exceed 100,000 people, even if the Sui general who leads the troops is crazy, he will not dare to fight easily." He only had the ten thousand men in his hand, so he had to retreat. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone from outside ran in: "General, King Su sent someone to ask, do you know what the source of that cavalry is, in the past few days, two batches of booty sent back to the tribe by King Su have been burned, King Su is furious, but he can't find where the cavalry is." ”

"Send a personal ......"

Murong Yongduo said: "Go and tell the people sent by Tuhun Duobei, let him go back and tell Tuhun Duobei to also gather his forces and not scatter them too much." The Sui general who led the troops only saw that our troops were so dispersed that he dared to go on such a rampage. Let the people not send the captured baggage back for the time being, they are all hoarded in the camp, and now we lack cavalry, so we can only guard first! ”

"Yes!"

The soldier hurriedly ran out.

"This man...... This cavalry ...... What the hell is the way to go! ”

Murong Yongduo bit his lip hatefully, his face solemn.

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Chen Xiaoru wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the fire that rose into the air, and said with some distress: "This is the third batch of materials sent back by the burned people, and I feel a little reluctant to look at this fire." ”

Fang Jie's face was red from the fire, and he smiled: "It's a pity that this will be burned, in order to get more back in the future...... With these three fires, whether it is the Su people or the Nanyan people, they don't dare to send the materials back easily. Especially the Su people, who live in the deep forest, can't take it back if they want to send it back, the best way is to make them dare not send it back, as long as we stay, we will have a chance to snatch it back. ”

"Another ......"

Fang Xie stroked the head of the white lion and said, "There have been these night attacks, Murong Yongduo and Tuhun Duobei have not dared to disperse their forces, and the brothers of the border army can go back with confidence, as long as they avoid the enemy's camp." Besides, it's time for us to go back. has forced the Nanyan and Su people to shrink their forces and shrink into a ball...... Then smash it with a hammer. ”