Chapter 509: Luoyang City Broken II
"Vice Marshal Wen's plan is brilliant, this mansion will go and ask His Royal Highness King Fu to pay money, and Vice Marshal Wen will choose people who dare to die and rob the camp tonight."
Yang Qianjun went to the blessed king Zhu Changxun to get money, Wen Houyou screened the brave from the army, and there were also felons in the prison, telling them that those who killed thieves could get money, those who made meritorious contributions could have their sentences commuted, and those who made great contributions could even become officials in the army.
King Fu was also happy, promising those who dared to die with a hundred taels of silver each.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and Yang Qianjun raised 300 dead soldiers, all of whom were outlaws and very fierce.
If you want to achieve the best effect of a night attack, it is natural to choose a time of three or four o'clock in the morning, when people are most sleepy and unable to concentrate.
It was day and night, around four o'clock in the morning, the moonlight was bright, shining on the field, and those with good eyesight could even see without the help of torches, but most of the dead soldiers who were death squads were blind in the middle of the night, and they could not take advantage of this condition, but fortunately, Li Zicheng's camp was brightly lit, and it was not difficult to find the target.
300 dead soldiers, with their mouths and titles, wore night clothes, and their blades were wrapped in black cloth, and the northern city wall was selected to go down the city, and scattered into a fan shape.
Follow the lights of the enemy camp and grope away.
Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, getting closer and closer, the heart of the daredevils beat violently, but the breathing had to be adjusted evenly.
200 steps.........
"Password."
Suddenly there was a loud shout in the wilderness.
"Oops!? Don't you want to run into a thief sentry!? They can all be vigilant at this time, donkey day! ”
The hearts of the daredevils sank, and their whereabouts were exposed.
"Kill your mother!"
It's exposed, just kill the fuck!
With the faint light in the enemy camp, the daredevils could vaguely see the outline of the enemy sentry, and they immediately drew their Yanling knives, shouted killing, and rushed straight to the sentry.
The members of the death squad thought that the enemy was sleeping at this time, and it was inconvenient to get up and fight, so they planned to quickly kill the sentinels, rush into the enemy camp, slash and kill, and set fire by the way, not to mention scaring away the enemy troops, at least they had to raise fire, so that the people in Luoyang City could see their ability.
"Send a signal quickly, and the enemy will touch the camp." The captain of the sentry squad had many enemy troops, and for fear that the camp would be attacked, he hurriedly gave orders.
The sentry of the beggar army quickly took out an artifact similar to a second kick from his waist, pulled the lead, and "chirped"! A small flame burning orange rose into the air and exploded a brilliant firework in the sky.
In the quiet night, such a loud noise suddenly broke out, and Li Guo, an officer on duty in the beggar army, immediately reacted.
The horns sounded one after another, and the shouts and cheers in the beggar army camp came and went, and after a short time, a large number of beggar troops galloped towards the battlefield.
Although only the Beida battalion was attacked, each battalion took action, and groups of beggars armed with torches spread out, searching around to see if there were any Luoyang defenders who had sneak attack.
The beggar army on the north gate first surrounded the death squads, and then looked around, and found that the officers and soldiers had no back, so they sent heavy troops to besiege the 300 daredevils.
Methodical and not chaotic in the slightest.
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"I didn't think that the thief army was so tightly organized, and we didn't relax in the encirclement, and we reacted so quickly, I am afraid that we can take over the battle so quickly without removing our armor and sleeping in our clothes."
Wen Houyou, who was watching the battle on the city tower, was surprised to see that the beggar army reacted so quickly, and his confidence in the Luoyang city defense couldn't help but weaken a little.
Yang Qianjun, who was not very confident in the first place, was hit hard by incomparability.
"Going out of the city to attack the enemy camp at night, I didn't expect to have many big results, the purpose was to frustrate the spirit of the thief army and let them know that our Luoyang defenders are not easy to mess with. The siege battle has not yet begun, and it is still unknown who will kill the deer, and Vice Marshal Wen must not grow the morale of others and destroy his own prestige. ”
Yang Qianjun said with some displeasure.
In fact, Yang Qianjun has no confidence in his heart, but he is the supreme commander of Luoyang's city defense, and he has to pretend to be confident if he has no confidence.
"What Fuzun said, what Fuzun said." Wen Houyou knew that he was speechless, so he had to echo twice and no longer speak.
"You arrange, our brave warriors are surrounded by thieves, although they are more auspicious, but we must not forget to answer them, if there are strong men who retreat, the city will fight the thieves, and let the strong men enter the city." Yang Qianjun said.
"Yes, Fuzun."
After Yang Qianjun finished speaking, he turned around and left, as if he couldn't bear to see his own death squad wiped out.
"Come, light the torches, and be ready to meet the returning dead!"
Wen Houyou gave an order, and the garrison of the city lit the torches, shining on the ground in front of the north city, and the crossbowmen and gunners were also ready, and when the dead soldiers of their own side retreated, they fired bows and shells to bombard the pursuing thief army.
The place where the death squad and the beggar army fought was far away from the north gate of Luoyang, although there was a moon at night, after all, the sight was not very good, Wen Houyou could only hear the shouting and killing in front of the enemy camp, and the enemy army gathered into a fire dragon to surround a circle without fire.
There was darkness in the circle, and I was afraid that my own daredevils would be in this circle.
"The thieves besieged them for a few turns, but I am afraid that they are all finished, hey, ask for more blessings!" Wen Houyou sighed secretly in his heart.
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The besieged Luoyang defenders, except for those who were killed at the beginning of the battle, the remaining 278 people were all surrounded by the begging legion.
They were forced to form a circle, with their bodies bent, clutching the Yanling knife in their hands tightly, and looking at the enemy on the opposite side vigilantly, as if they wanted to find a flaw and come out of the formation.
The beggars opposite them had already brought in the sword and shield men, and surrounded them, with the crossbowmen behind them and the pikemen behind the crossbowmen, and if nothing else, if they did not surrender, they would surely die.
What they know in their hearts, Li Zicheng also knows very well.
"A few hundred people dare to attack tens of thousands of us at night, we respect you as a man, you are cornered, surrender now, reward a hundred taels of silver, and follow our beggar army in the future, divide your land, and let you and your families live a good life."
Li Zicheng stood on a wooden platform like a horse, and the shield man in front of him protected him, and he loudly threw out generous conditions, intending to surrender.
These dead soldiers, a few hundred people dare to attack tens of thousands of people, not to mention anything else, the courage is very admirable, and it is consistent with the temperament of the beggar army, after all, it takes a lot of courage to rebel.
For this reason, Li Zicheng, who cherished his talents, planned to recruit this team, and he also used it as a dead soldier, and he had a wonderful start!
Li Zicheng felt that the other party had no reason to refuse!
"Hey! We received the money from His Royal Highness King Fu and promised to go out of the city to cut you, but now we haven't even cut it, how can we surrender. We don't do things that don't speak of trust. ”
"That's right, if we don't do it, it's kind of fighting with us for 300 rounds."
"Why are you so eggless! Tens of thousands of people surrounded us, and they didn't dare to fight us, and they persuaded us to surrender, your mother. ”
Li Zicheng failed to surrender, but instead aroused the fighting spirit of the daredevils.
"Hahahaha, interesting, interesting, our Lao Tzu is more and more happy with you, in this case, we Lao Tzu will let you know the current affairs first. Come, kill the enemy! ”
"Yes."
The beggar army was like one person, and he let out a shocking shout.
"Come on."
The daredevils tightened their grips on their steel knives, and they only said that the enemy was about to kill them from their shields and fight them in close combat.
The beggars, on their part, were not as they wished.
Behind the shield, only the soldiers of the beggar army were lying on the ground, in an inverted concave shape, and the crossbowmen stepped on the back of the robe, condescending, shooting the daredevils without any defenses on all sides.
Dense crossbow arrows shot out, burrowing into the bodies of the daredevils in all directions without dead ends.
The daredevils suffered heavy casualties!
"Donkey day, don't wait here to die, hurry, lean in, melee fighting."
One of the daredevils shouted, and everyone hurriedly exerted all their strength, intending to break through the shield and cut into the beggar army.
The shield array is not something that can be smashed away by a single blood bravery, and the daredevils hit the shield, only to feel as if they had hit the wall, and their whole body was cold, and they were temporarily unconscious.
"Open, kill!"
Two cornets!
The shield opened, the spear was handed out, and the daredevils in front of him were immediately strung into sugar gourds.
"Forced!"
Stop the soldiers and move inch!
The daredevils retreat!
The space of the daredevils is getting smaller and smaller, and the daredevils who fell to the ground before and did not die, as long as they enter the shield array, they are all killed by the mending knife! I didn't even have time to hum.
"Ask them again if they will descend? The condition remains the same! If they don't descend now, we will break them into pieces! Li became a self-enlightened man.
"King Chuang asked you whether to descend or not, whether to descend or not? If you don't fall, you will be broken into thousands of pieces! ”
The roar of 10,000 people in unison was like a steel needle, piercing the hearts of the remaining fifty-eight daredevils.
Beads of sweat the size of beans fell down his forehead as if it were raining.
They looked at each other again and again, and finally stopped insisting, and threw down their swords one after another, but they did not kneel, but just stood still, and said in a loud voice: "There are many of you, and you still release arrows, we can't beat them, so I will make peace with you." ”
"Hah, interesting. These people are interesting! It is very suitable to be our Lao Tzu's personal soldier! ”
Li Zicheng accepted these brave men and became his own soldiers.