Chapter 51: A Fire in the Backyard (7)

"Take this fort, and the wealth of the children in the fort is at your disposal." Han Shilong looked around and shouted loudly, showing the bright future to the homeless young people.

When the homeless young people heard these conditions, some of them cheered a few times and were quite excited, while many more were silent.

This is going to attack the city, the auspicious and unpredictable, who knows if there is a life to enjoy this world of flowers.

"Siege." Han Shilong ordered.

Carrying hoes, sickles, hammers, axes, wooden sticks, shovels and other weapons, the homeless young and strong, under the urging of the Han family behind them, slowly advanced towards the city wall of Zhenbei Fort.

When the homeless army came to the city wall, the defenders of the city fired a small number of arrows (collected from the city at night), killing and wounding more than a dozen of the homeless people.

"Set up the ladder." A homeless man shouted, and a dozen ladders stood up and set up under the battlements of the city wall.

"Up, up, on, on." The homeless people urged each other.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen ladders were full of homeless people, and at this time, the defenders of the city had not made any other movements after shooting their bows and arrows.

The besieging homeless climbers were climbing on the ladders, and they were almost at the top, and before they could see the defenders counterattack, they were wondering when they suddenly heard a shout from the top of the city: "Now, throw stones." ”

"Kill." There were sounds of killing on the top of the city, and I saw the defenders in groups of two, carrying a large rock, looking at the homeless people who were climbing the ladder and smashing their heads down.

Pity these homeless people climbing on the ladder, unable to go up or down, watching the dozens of pounds of boulders flying towards their heads.

In this way, the stones thrown by the defenders of Zhenbei Fort fell all the way down the ladder, and they could hit several of them with one smash, and some homeless people did not want to be smashed in vain, so they jumped down before the stones arrived.

These people who jumped away halfway, the short ones who stood were just fine, and those who stood tall naturally fell half to death.

"Ahh

"Oops"

Screams rang out one after another, and those who were besieging the city, whether they were stoned or jumped down by themselves, returned the dead, and those who did not die, but had broken hands and feet, were lying down, or sitting, and weeping and wailing bitterly.

The defenders of the city took advantage of the repulsion of the outcasts and pushed down the ladder that had been erected at the head of the city to the ground.

Han Shilong, who was following behind, saw this scene, so he ordered his subordinates: "When the defenders on the city are about to smash stones, shoot them." ”

When the archers heard this, they nodded in response, and then drew their bows and arrows, aiming at the head of the city, ready to attack at any moment.

In a short time the wanderers set up the ladder again, and then climbed up again, and the defenders at the head of the city waited for them to climb near, and tried to throw stones.

This time, as soon as some of the defenders flashed, they were locked by the former official archers in the Wandering Army, "Huh, hey." "A few arrows in succession hit the defenders of Zhenbei Fort who were about to move stones and smash the homeless.

The defenders of the north fort of these towns were hit by arrows, and someone made up for them later, only to be shot by arrows again, and if there were several times, there were several ladders that were no longer defended.

The wanderers who had climbed the ladders cheered for joy when they saw that they were not attacked, and when they climbed to the battlements of the city with great joy, they looked at it with flat eyes, and saw the defenders with spears who had been waiting for a long time.

"It's dead." This was the last thought that crossed the minds of the outcasts who sent them to the city.

"Kill." The defenders of Zhenbei Fort shouted in unison, and the spears in their hands stabbed out hard.

Made of fine iron, the spear with a three-edged blood thorn as the head pierced into the body, and then pulled out again, and the stabbed homeless people fell from the city like a kite with a broken string, bringing a handful of blood rain.

Even a few of the first to climb the city were stabbed to death with spears, but this did not stop the arrival of the following refugees.

In a short time, dozens of homeless people had climbed to the top of the city and fought with the defenders of Zhenbei Fort.

"Zhou Yanwu, Sun Limin, Wang Xuewu, Liu Xingzhou, you quickly lead the archers and firecrackers of your department, replace them with melee blades, and drive these homeless people out of the city." He Ergou saw that there were more and more displaced people who climbed up to the city, so he ordered Zhou Yanwu, Sun Limin, Wang Xuewu, and Liu Xingzhou, the commanders of the two banners of the archers, and Liu Xingzhou to lead the soldiers and horses to fight in close combat.

"Yes," the four of them responded, and then took their headquarters and horses, all of them changed into melee blades, and went to help the pikemen, as well as those young and strong people.

"Sun Keqiu, you stay here and act as a reserve with me, and if that place can't support it, I'll go and save somewhere." He Ergou said to Sun Keqiu, who was standing beside him.

"Yes." Sun Ke answered.

However, it is said that those displaced people who climbed up to the city were farmers who farmed the land before, and it was not until this attack on Zhenbei Fort that they temporarily changed their careers, and they became soldiers to fight, and the natural kung fu of fighting was very meaningless.

As for the defenders on the side of Zhenbei Fort, the regular flags are naturally trained for a long time, and their combat skills are needless to say that they are excellent, but they have almost no experience in facing the enemy, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

As for the young and strong people in Zhenbei Fort, in addition to ordinary farming, they are required to perform from time to time, because they are not pure farmers, in fact, they still have a little shadow of the guards in the early Ming Dynasty, so their combat effectiveness is at least stronger than that of the homeless.

The untrained homeless people were naturally no match for the trained defenders of Zhenbei Fort at all, so even if some homeless people climbed to the top of the city, they were quickly beaten down again.

Han Shilong frowned when he saw this situation, he thought that the elite in Zhenbei Fort was exhausted, and there were at most some second-line troops left in the fort, and the soldiers of these second-line troops could only defend the city to the death, throwing stones, shooting bows and arrows, and fighting with firearms, and they might not be good at melee combat.

So he thought that as long as the people on their side rushed to the head of the city, Zhenbei Fort would be breached, but he never expected that the defenders who stayed in Zhenbei Fort still had some combat strength, and they were quite strong, and their side attacked several times, and there was no way to gain a firm foothold on the city wall.

"I didn't expect that the defenders guarding the fort were still a little powerful, it's really strange, I think that Liu Renyu must have taken all the family members away, and it didn't help to leave behind, but it was quite powerful, so I withdrew the young and strong, and then sent the old and weak women and children to attack, even if they were tired, they would be tired to death." Han Shilong ordered.

The Han brothers immediately shouted, calling back all the homeless young people who were attacking the city. Then they drove nearly 4,000 displaced people, old, weak, women and children towards Zhenbei Fort to kill them.

Most of these homeless people, old and weak, women and children, had no blades, and at most they grabbed sticks or picked up a stone in their hands, and then climbed up and down ladders up and down and up again.

When they saw the defenders of Zhenbei Fort, they threw small stones, punched and kicked, or opened their mouths to bite, and some women even went to pull the defenders' hair.

At the beginning of the Zhenbei Fort defenders, they saw this wave of enemy troops, and they couldn't laugh or cry, so they were a little shrunken when they fought, the old people and children were usually treasures, and now they saw it on the battlefield, and they couldn't turn around for a while, so they couldn't get down.

When He Ergou saw it, he couldn't help but be very angry, and he shouted angrily: "You mountain goods, they are all enemy soldiers, if you ask them to enter Zhenbei Fort, your parents, wives and children will be the same as them, and they will all fucking kill the enemy for me." ”

When the defenders in the fort heard He Ergou's heavy drinking, they all woke up in shock, thinking that this was a battlefield, how to respect the old and love the young, so they immediately made up their minds, that is, they saw the old man, and the children were just slashed and killed, and they would not be merciful.

In this way, the homeless people continued to pour into the city, and the defenders were able to kill them every time, but the homeless people relied on the advantage of being outnumbered and attacked the defense line of the defenders of Zhenbei Fort at a high price.

It has been two hours since the defenders of the fort appeared at the beginning of the day, and they have been killing until now, and the enemy army is naturally full of corpses, but they also have small casualties, and they have experienced continuous fighting, and they are a little tired.

By the time the enemy had fought back for an unknown number of rounds, the displaced people had retreated, and some of the defenders had knocked down the ladders that had been erected on the walls, while others sat on the ground, gasping for air.

He Ergou had not moved at this time, he looked at the situation on the field at this time, but saw that his side, whether it was young or strong, was tired enough.

The city was already covered with the corpses of the homeless, and the blood that flowed from these corpses was accumulated on the ground, bringing a heavy bloody aura.

"The soldiers, as well as the young men, are tired, and we have also lost more than 100 people, if the homeless people continue to attack, how long can we stop it?" He Ergou looked at these own defenders who were sitting on the ground, covered in blood, panting heavily, and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Master Bai doesn't have to be afraid, we have already sent someone to report the situation to Lord Liu, and he will quickly raise troops to save him." Sun Keqiu heard He Ergou's sigh and said with relief.

"That's what I said, but why hasn't I heard back yet?" He Ergou said.

"Xu is delayed by something, because he came back late." Sun Ke begged.

"Maybe, let's not care when the adults come back, it's the right way to repel the homeless people first." He Ergou shook his head vigorously, put aside all the distractions, and focused on the defense in front of him.

At this time, Han Shilong, who was standing not far from the city, counted the number of people who participated in the attack on the homeless, and nearly 4,000 people participated in the attack, fighting for a long time, and losing half of the people.

Han Shilong pondered for a moment and felt that the time was almost up, so he sent those homeless young people to attack again.

This time, these young people have been accumulating strength for a long time, and they are naturally fierce and fierce, and although the defenders on Zhenbei Fort are stronger, they are too tired, and after they hit the city with the young and strong people who are homeless, they can actually rely on the numerical advantage to fight with the defenders of Zhenbei Fort to be tied, that is to say, the two sides kill each other.

After fighting for a while, He Ergou's face was even stronger, and his own defenders in the city were about to be unable to support it, so he was bound to take action, but he found that since the start of this war, there was always a group of people in the exile army who had never moved.

To say that He Ergou is a soldier for many years after all, he can see at a glance that Han Shilong's group of people and horses is much stronger than the homeless, this team has not moved, thinking that it is going to give a thunderous blow at the last moment, in order to guard against Han Shilong and other people, he didn't want to make a move now, but seeing that he was gradually unable to support it, he had no choice but to take action.

I saw He Ergou draw a knife in his hand, and shouted: "Sons, go and kill the enemy with your forehead." With that, he took the lead in rushing into the crowd and slashing the enemy.

Sun Ke begged to see He Ergou take action in person, and hurriedly led his subordinates to follow in a hurry, and also entered the formation.

The homeless young and strong people were originally handy in fighting in the town, and they did not guard against the sudden rise in the morale of the enemy army, and there was even one of the enemy generals who were as powerful as tigers, raiding back and forth, and they were brave.

Under the leadership of He Ergou, the Zhenbei Fort Army regained its strength, worked together, and expelled the exile army from the city wall.

Han Shilong, who was under the city, saw the situation on the battlefield, grinned, and said to his brothers on the left and right: "The enemy generals have all shot, and the defenders are no longer available. You wait for the students to get ready, it's time for us to go up and fight. ”