Chapter 159: The Second Day of Defending the City
In Shanzhou City, Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei soldiers looked at the dense crowd of people and the forest of knives and guns that could not be seen at a glance, and their hearts were cold.
The Tibetan warriors rushed over the mountains and fields, and Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei looked at the vast wave-like crowd, and from the bottom of their hearts they felt powerless.
The opponents were all well-trained regular troops, who were more disciplined, more commanding, better equipped, and more powerful.
With a one-to-10 ratio of forces, no one has ever been able to turn defeat into victory in such a situation.
Even holding on is a luxury.
Li Xingzhou licked his tongue and scolded:
"I really look up to us, the labor division mobilized so many troops, **! This is the lineup that *** will deal with the entire Pingxi Army. β
Xue Chuyu sneered:
"After all, this is their homeland, and it is much easier to mobilize troops, and it is also convenient to transport logistics and baggage. Our Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei are also famous in Datang, and the opponent does not underestimate us. Dying in the hands of such a huge lineup, we are not unjustly dead. β
"But then again, after all, we are just the remnants of the army that finished the battle with Yu Zebu, and if they really want to fight with the Pingxi Army, they will definitely only be completely wiped out by the Pingxi Army."
The hearts of all the generals rose with a sense of despair.
At this moment, they no longer even have any illusions about reinforcements.
Shanzhou, it is a miracle to be able to keep a day.
Today is the second day!
The style of the Tibetan people is also vigorous and resolute, and they will never drag mud and water.
Ximen's 30,000 troops were divided into three waves, each with 10,000 people, and attacked Shanzhou in turn.
The order given is that each wave must maintain a strong attack posture for two hours, and those who cannot be attacked will be replaced by the next wave, and the attack will continue for six hours a day, from sunrise to sunset, without stopping.
It is necessary to be tired of the soldiers who cross the left guard and the left guard.
Relying on the abundant troops, Ngawang Tu used all his chips in his hands, vowing to use this furious tide to crush the enemy.
Facing the enemy's fierce momentum, Xue Chuyu shouted loudly:
"Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei's brothers! Today is the time for us to kill the enemy with blood! Let's use the weapons in our hands to teach the Tibetan people a good lesson! Let them know we're awesome! β
"Brothers! For the sake of Datang, prepare to fight!! β
The generals shouted in unison.
"Roar!!
All the soldiers shouted at the same time.
In this way, a rare battle to defend the city broke out in full force at this moment.
On the head of Shanzhou City, the smoke of gunpowder is everywhere,
Arrows, stones, and torches flew in all directions from top to bottom, bottom to top, up and down, left and right, scattered.
Every time you meet a lottery winner, you will turn up a small blood-red wave, leading to a terrible cry......
The boiling oil and the stone are all subject to the action of gravity, plus the initial momentum exerted by the sprinkler, and do a fast free fall motion.
When they encounter a climber in the opposite movement, they often take each other with them and throw themselves into the arms of Mother Earth.
Some of the soldiers who were hit by the 'red color' of the city head also drew the same trajectory from time to time and planted the city wall......
The rushing car stubbornly faced the city gate, especially at the crack of the door, smashing, retracting, colliding, and retracting the ground to carry out forward and backward translational movements, making an unpleasant and piercing sound of metal collision.
The ram was more powerful than the city wall, and the iron head rushed against the stone wall like a donkey.
In the flying stone chips, the city wall and its own iron head turned into a potholed and ugly appearance.
The defenders at the head of the city luneeded them with boiling oil.
Dress them in red with flaming torches. The soldiers in the city used mud buckets, buckets, and sandbags to extinguish the flames, allowing them to continue to release their destructive energy......
The ladder was pushed up, and then it was erected, and it was pushed again, and it was stubbornly erected again......
Over and over again, back and forth, oscillating between zero and right angles.
Despite this, the soldiers of the Tibetan army still rushed to this dangerous tool one after another, playing aerial acrobatics on it......
Fire, smoke, dust, stone chips, blood......
Shouting, shouting, yelling, scolding......
burnt, mushy, fishy, barbecued aroma......
All these things that you can't usually hit with eight poles.
At this moment, the city walls are intersecting and swirling, impacting the vision, agitating the eardrums, and stimulating the nasopharynx......
Painfully, tiredly, ferociously, frantically, numbly mechanically.
The fighters were slashing, stabbing, smashing, smashing, smashing, smashing and sprinkling in various physical conditions......
The red eyes are red, I don't know if they are red by lime powder, red by smoke, red by blood, or angry at the death of their companions, and red-eyed......
Such a fierce battlefield and such a tragic battle situation are the most common scenes when storming a city.
This kind of scene is also difficult to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages, the two sides fight for perseverance, compare patience, and fight for consumption!
See who has more people and who has more supplies!
What is amazing is that in front of such a turbulent attack posture, Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei are like a stubborn windbreak, although they are swayed by the wind and waves, they never fall.
They fully waved the brave, tenacious, resolute and endurance fighting spirit of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and built a great wall of steel with their lives, flesh and blood, and will, and did not let the enemy pass through the thunder pool.
After six hours of high-intensity fighting, the soldiers were numb and mechanical, but they still slashed, slashed, and slashed tirelessly.
"There is an enemy coming up from the west, and a few brothers from the left guard will come and fight them back with me!"
Shi Dingwu shouted hoarsely.
"General, we don't have anyone anymore!"
"What did you say!"
Shi Dingwu roared with wide eyes.
One soldier cried out:
"There are only eighty brothers left in the third province, all of whom are fighting the enemy in the city, and we have no one!"
Eighty brothers?
After the first war, there were only eighty brothers left?
In today's battle, almost all of them were wiped out in one battle.
Shi Dingwu's heart was aching and dripping blood.
War, no ifs.
At this carving, the stone top Wu stared blankly at the blood-stained city wall.
The Tibetan army was still rushing in a steady stream, they followed one after another, exchanging their lives for their lives, and the left guard, who was responsible for the task of blocking the enemy on the front line, suffered heavy losses, but vowed not to take a step back.
Although they lost their armor and shields, they did not lose their sense of responsibility and mission. They are the best and bravest warriors, but they are doomed to die on the battlefield.
Behind them, the warriors of the longbow battalion also shot all the arrows in their quivers early and began to fight the enemy hand-to-hand with their knives.
Enemies were everywhere, leaping, shouting, and slashing in the firelightγγγγγγ
"Fight to the death and never retreat !!"
He roared in the sky!
"Die on the battlefield!!"
It was Yan Shun responding, and at this moment, courage was their only backup.
"Die on the battlefield, fight to the death and never retreat!!"
All the Left Guards and Left Guards roared in unison, as if they had been stimulated, and they had resisted the last blow of the enemy before sunset.
The big bear roared wildly, raised the stone mill high, and threw it out with a bang.
The rushing car under the city gate smashed into pieces.
In this battle, he alone destroyed seven rushing vehicles and eight battering rams.
Destroy the enemy's already small siege equipment.
The enemy's tidal offensive finally retreated, but after the battle on this day, Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei suffered heavy casualties.
Although they eliminated nearly seven or eight thousand enemies, Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei themselves suffered nearly half of the casualties.
Now there are not many soldiers who are not injured, Shi Dingwu has eaten four knives before and after, Li Xingzhou was shot once, and his left arm is temporarily unusable.
The big bear even ate six arrows, but this big brute bear, relying on its thick skin and thick meat, could only be divided into skin trauma.
On the contrary, Wuyang relied on his light body and did not hurt any fur.
And at the same time, it is also the one with the most enemies killed. He alone shot and killed more than forty of his enemies.
But the most seriously injured was Yan Shun.
A stray arrow pierced his left eye socket and shot him straight from the top of the city, after he shouted the sound of death on the battlefield.
......
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Shi Dingwu's sword-wielding hand was tired, his spirit began to be numb, and the whole person was a little dizzy.
The low sound of trumpets echoed in the morning haze, and the earth-shattering drums sounded from sparse to dense at the head and bottom of the city.
Arrows, crossbows, stones, and torches flew down the city.
The left guards and the soldiers of the left guards in the city shot with small cavalry bows with short ranges.
The warriors of the city braved the arrows and stones that passed by them, and swarmed towards the city walls.
The West City Gate became the focal point of the battle between the two armies, and the Left Guard soldiers and the Tibetan army gathered here for a bloody battle.
With the thunder of drums and shouts, the quiet autumn night turns into a manic slaughterhouse.
Looking around the city, the city walls on the east and west sides are full of people, dense like ant colonies, and reinforcements from all walks of life inside and outside the city are still rushing towards this infinitely attractive battlefield.
And there are also a few soldiers in the north and south who try to break through the obstacles of the terrain and give the enemy a surprise attack.
...
Lying on the ground, Yan Shun looked at the sky in a daze, blood flowed all over his face, and the scenery in front of him was blood-red, as if the sunset was reflecting the sky.
"The enemy... Returned? β
He asked softly.
Wuyang untied the clothes on his body and put them under his head:
"Yes, it's back."
A smile appeared on Yan Shun's hideous face:
"Damn, just retreat. Lao Tzu seems to be blind in one eye, isn't he? β
Wuyang said softly.
"It's good that I didn't shoot deep and didn't go into my head, don't worry, you can survive."
Yan Shun coughed up a few sounds of blood.
"Will you live until tomorrow?"
The crowd was speechless.
Shi Ding Wugan replied in a hoarse voice.
"Almost 2,000 people died, and most of them were wounded. The third house was the hardest hit, and it was almost gone. β
"Before the war, the Third Mansion was already dissatisfied, and the heaviest losses in the previous battles were the Third Mansion, and now there is not even a team song."
"That means tomorrow, we won't be able to survive no matter what?"
Li Xingzhou chuckled:
"An army of 100,000 fights 10,000 people, if we are allowed to defend it for three days, they will lose face."
Xue Chuyu also laughed.
"Yes, I said, we've been guarding for two days, and you say that you will work harder tomorrow, can you keep it?"
Everyone was laughing, laughing with tears in their eyes.
"That's a bit difficult, try it, it's a big deal that everyone dies, it's not a big deal. Didn't we have this prepared when we came? β
Guo Shiheng, who has always been unrestrained and smiling, said.
"Mom, I promised you that I would come back alive with my brothers."
Li Xingzhou sighed.
"It's a pity that the promise can't be kept."
......
Shi Dingwu walked blankly on the streets of Shanzhou.
A soldier beside him asked him: "General Zuo, will reinforcements come tomorrow?" β
Shi Dingwu thought for a moment, and then said, "I think it should come." β
The soldier let out a long breath: "That's good. Today... The fight was too bad. If you continue to fight like this tomorrow, reinforcements won't come... Our Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei will die. β
Shi Dingwu's heart was dripping blood.
He knew that in any case, reinforcements would not be able to arrive in the last three days.
This war was destined to be the victory of the Tang people, but it was the fall of Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Wei.
But he couldn't say that he couldn't destroy the hope in the hearts of the soldiers, and it was this hope that sustained everyone through these difficult days.
"Perhaps, we are paying for the lives of those we killed." When he thought like this, his heart felt much more solid.
Before I knew it, I was in the hut again.
The only hut with a gate still remains.
The front of the house was littered with rotten persimmons, broken eggs, and rotten leaves, and it was clear that someone had attacked the owner of the house.
Shi Dingwu was a little curious, and knocked on the door of the hut gently, and Lin Zhi walked out of it, his eyes obviously swollen from crying.
"Who bullied you? Isn't it my soldier? Shi Dingwu asked angrily: "You tell me, I will help you teach them a lesson." β
Lin Zhi shook his head in fright: "No... They don't ... β
Yes, the battle lasted for a day, and the soldiers of the left guard still had the energy to bully the local people. They want to lie down like this, and they won't wake up again.
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Lin Zhi said aggrievedly: "It's the neighbors... You have removed the gate from this street, and only my house still has this door. They say I ... Say I ... β
She couldn't go on, but Shi Dingwu already understood: "They said that you colluded with the Tang Dynasty soldiers, right?" β
Lin Zhi nodded and added softly: "They scolded me... Say I'll sleep with you. When our men come in, they want to dip me in the pig cage... β
Shi Dingwu was a little sluggish, he looked at Lin Zhi's frightened face, as if he saw his childhood sweetheart playmate, and he was a little stunned for a while. Half-ringing, he shook Lin Zhi's hand and said.
"We won't let the Tibetans come in, don't worry."
Lin Zhi's hand instinctively pulled back.
Shi Dingwu sighed, and could only silently help Lin Zhi pick up those rotten vegetable leaves on the ground and help her clean up the front of the house.
Lin Zhi said urgently:
Still don't help me. They said...... They said that if they saw any more soldiers of the Tang Dynasty wandering around in front of my door, they would splash me with dung. β
"Hmph, a bunch of guys who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard. If you have the ability to come to us to fight, what is it that you can only bully girls!? β
Shi Dingwu is really angry.
Unfortunately, there are some things that he is destined to be unable to change.
Lin Zhi trembled and said:
"General, you'd better go. Otherwise, they're going to throw a lot of on me tomorrow. It's dirty and smelly......"
Shi Dingwu stomped his feet and could only leave angrily.
A few steps after walking out, Shi Dingwu's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he shouted with joy:
"Big? I've got a solution!! β
He hurried to the barracks.
No one expected that the Shanzhou War would later be because of this flash of inspiration in Shi Dingwu's mind.
It became one of the most notorious battles in the history of warfare......
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