Chapter 48: A Fire in the Backyard (4)
In this way, the displaced army spent all day to build more than 20 wooden bridges over the trench, and Han Shilong was waiting for tomorrow daylight to send a large army to attack from the wooden bridge.
Without beware of the defenders in the north fort of Zhenbei, they went down the city overnight, and with the help of the bright moonlight, Shi Shiran tore off all the wooden bridges on the trench, and then calmly withdrew to the city.
Because of long-term malnutrition and general night blindness, the displaced people did not dare to fight at night, so they could only let the defenders of Zhenbei Fort tear down the wooden bridge, but there was nothing they could do.
Early in the morning of the second day, Han Shilong looked at the scene in front of him, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and he had no choice but to send someone to rebuild the wooden bridge.
So the attackers and defenders followed the established procedure, you shoot arrows, I die, busy for a while, before sunset, finally built the wooden bridge again.
This time, in order to prevent the defenders in the city from coming to sabotage again at night, Han Shilong specially ordered himself to use his own shields made of wood to guard the wooden bridge.
This time, the defenders in the north fort of Zhenbei saw that the wandering army was already prepared, so they no longer paid attention to the wooden bridge.
So Han Shilong could finally send someone to enter the next level, a horse-resisting stake made of sharpened wood.
However, repairing this horse-rejecting stake could not surround the entire north fort of the town, so it was in the place directly opposite the city gate, leaving a large opening two feet square and not penetrating the horse.
Now, in order to guard against foreign enemies, it is only blocked there with a few triangular simple Trojan horses.
How could such a flaw not be used well, Han Shilong ordered his men to focus on attacking this gap.
So the brigade of displaced people, driven by their respective prison guards, resisted the rain of arrows in the sky, and finally moved away from the activity, and then when they were about to rush to the moat, in addition to the archers, the firecrackers at the head of the city spoke.
Seeing that the army of displaced people had already attacked to a distance of 30 paces, and that there were almost no displaced people in other places, he simply concentrated all his troops at the gap, and after shooting his bow and arrows, he fired firearms.
This time, the exile army who only fought complained bitterly, and then after several rounds of platoon shooting, the exile army collapsed on all fronts, even if Han Shimei tried to suppress it, he could only barely suppress the scene.
Han Shilong's morale had fallen to the bottom, and he knew that the army's spirit was no longer useful, so he called for the gong to sound the gong and told the exiled army to retreat first.
"Shigong, tell the husband to make a fire and make food, first let them eat enough, and then drive them to fight." Han Shilong said.
When Han Shigong heard this, he frowned, and was a little embarrassed: "Big brother, the food and herbs in the army are already insufficient, even if they save some food, they can only last for 5 days, and now that they are open to eat, I am afraid that they can only last for 2 days." But I don't know where my brother can find food and grass? ”
When Han Shilong heard it, he was silent for a long time before staring at Han Shigong and said quietly: "Naturally, there is grain and grass, collect the bodies of those homeless people who died in battle, wash and peel them clean, and ask the husband to cook them, so we won't have meat to eat." ”
"This ......," although Han Shigong is murderous and can be regarded as a cold-blooded butcher, he suddenly heard that he was going to eat people, and he was still inevitably surprised.
"What is this, if not, how can we support the capture of Zhenbei Fort." Han Shilong said lightly.
"Well, that's it, let's go and ask the man to make a fire and make food." Han Shigong was also silent for a long time, and finally stomped his foot and went straight to find the firefighters.
After fighting for a long time, both the offensive and defensive sides were a little tired, so the displaced army made a fire to make food and rest, and the defenders of Zhenbei Fort also took this opportunity to store energy and prepare for the next big battle.
The displaced people were already frightened because of the heavy casualties, and when their morale was low, they did not beware of a large bowl full of wheat rice in front of them, and what was even more rare was that there was meat on the wheat rice (not human flesh for the time being).
Thousands of miles away, what is the purpose of attacking the city, but it is just a bowl of full rice, the homeless people hold the rice in their hands, naturally do not speak, eat and chew one bite at a time, and after eating, they do not forget to lick the bottom of the bowl, until the licked tongue hurts, and then stop.
"Do you want to eat like this, do you want to eat with your belly open? If you want to, just fuck your life and work hard to attack the city, and when we enter the city, the boss of Ehan doesn't dare to say, the rice tube tells you to eat enough. Han Shilong said loudly.
After listening to Boss Han's words, the homeless people reacted differently, some were excited, some were indifferent, some were eager to try, and some couldn't help but cry when they thought of the uncertainty of life and death.
In this way, after the displaced people rested for a while, Han Shilong ordered the siege of the city again, and this time, in order to disperse the fire of the defenders, he specially ordered the displaced people to divide into several waves, one of which was still from the gap and only attacked the city wall.
The other waves, carrying firewood, ran to other places where the horses were being rejected under the cover of the largest group of men, piled up firewood, and lit a fire to burn the horses.
At the head of the city, He Ergou saw several fires burning at the place where the horses were refused, although he was in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do, he could only watch as those horses turned into charcoal, and finally turned into ashes and scattered without a trace.
The Wandering Army succeeded in opening several gaps in the stretch of rejection of horses, and then Han Shilong ordered his men to wait for the soldiers to divide into several routes, and only attack the moat.
When they reached the left side of the moat, it was naturally impossible to build a few more wooden bridges to attack, so the wandering army began to carry earth and rocks, intending to fill in the moat.
How could the defenders let the exile army get their wish, only to see the bows and arrows on the head of the city, and the firecrackers all rolled on the ground with arrows and firebolts from the city.
The rest of the displaced people were so accustomed to this kind of tragedy that they did not care at all, and after dumping the earth and rocks into the moat, they pulled back the wounded or dying homeless with several people.
The wounded homeless people thought that they would be grateful to these temporary companions for their little feelings of sharing hardships and hardships in the past few days, and that they would be sent back for treatment, but when they were carried by a few other people to a secluded wood, they saw a butcher slaughtering their wounded soldiers, and they were terrified and shouted, but no one paid any attention to them.
In the evening of the same day, the night was falling, and the rare smell of meat in the homeless army overflowed.
Many homeless people were overjoyed when they saw that there was meat in the bowl, and there was a lot of portion, and they all shouted loudly: "General Xie and the military adviser are kind to you." ”
The King of the Mixed World also held a bowl of meat (he didn't eat human flesh), and said with a smile: "Everyone is good to eat raw, continue to work hard tomorrow after eating." ”
"Yes." Everyone happily responded, and then they grunted, and the sound of eating became loud.
One of the homeless people was happily eating, when he suddenly saw a companion next to him staring at the meat in the bowl with a complicated expression, and he didn't eat a bite.
I don't eat any meat, there's something wrong with it.
"He Sanshui, why don't you eat it, this is meat, we couldn't eat it during the Chinese New Year before, you can eat so much this time, why don't you eat it quickly." The homeless man asked He Sanshuidao.
When He Sanshui heard this question, he shook his head, as if he was holding back some emotion, and said expressionlessly: "I don't want to eat." ”
"If you don't eat, don't waste it, give it a quota." The homeless man drooled.
"Here you go." He Sanshui generously gave up the meat in the bowl.
"Thank you, thank you." The outcast's mouth was slurred, and he began to chew on it.
He Sanshui just looked at the people around him and ate for a while, and then he suddenly remembered something, covered his mouth with his hand and ran to the side to vomit, only to vomit and cough, so hard.
"Is it disgusting to eat? This guy is really sick, and he has a problem with his brain. Seeing He Sanshui's behavior like this, the homeless people were a little confused.
The next day, when the sky was bright, Han Shilong drove the displaced people to take turns to carry stones and loess, and advanced towards the moat, came to the bottom of the moat, and poured the earth and stones into the river.
Naturally, the defenders of the city were waiting with bows and arrows, and firearms were waiting.
Under the repeated blows of the defenders, the outcasts lost thousands of men and soldiers, but the part of the moat near the city gate was gradually being filled.
Another night, He Sanshui was holding a bowl of human flesh again, and next to him sat the homeless man who asked him to beg for meat.
He Sanshui hadn't eaten for two days in a row, he was now dizzy with hunger, if Han Shilong hadn't asked him to help transport the wounded in the woods where people were killing people and taking meat, and didn't let him go to attack the city, I was afraid that he would have died a long time ago.
"You don't eat it, you don't eat it." The outcast held out his hand.
This time He Sanshui refused to give it again, if he didn't eat again, he would inevitably fall to the ground, if that was the case, he would be dragged into the woods and stabbed, and then his own flesh might be eaten by the homeless people around him.
In order to survive, He Sanshui had to eat human flesh, when he ate, due to psychological resistance, after eating for a while, he vomited for a while, then ate again, vomited again, and finally stopped vomiting, after all, life is important.
The homeless man who had been looking for him to ask for meat saw his situation and said coldly: "It's hard to get used to eating human flesh, just vomit a few more times." ”
"You know!?"
"I know."
"How so!?"
"There is no impermeable wall in the world, who doesn't know, and as soon as you smell this and ask, you know that this is human flesh."
"And how can you eat it?"
"Why can't you eat it?"
"It's human."
"What about people! If you don't eat people, what do you eat, do you eat Guanyin soil? ”
"It's a hurtful thing."
"What is Heavenly Principle, living is Heavenly Principle, and besides, if you say Heavenly Principle, don't you also eat it?"
He Sanshui was stunned when he heard this, yes, didn't he eat it too, what heavenly reason, it turned out that in his heart, no matter what, he could not compare to the matter of living.
He was silent for a long time, and finally smiled bitterly: "It's not as good as you, it's the first time to eat human flesh, and you vomit a lot, you ........." ”
Before he finished speaking, the homeless man suddenly cut off his words and said lightly: "How do you know that this is the first time you have eaten human flesh?" ”
"You!? Don't! He Sanshui was dumbfounded, looked at his fellow homeless people steadily, and then suddenly subconsciously took a few steps back.
"This ghost world does not make people live nirvana." The homeless person ignored He Sanshui, who had changed color, and looked up at the sky by himself, muttering in a whisper.
The sky above him was dark and deep, and there was no hope in the darkness.
The next day, the wandering army plucked up courage again, relying on the advantage of a large number of people, wave after wave, and continued to throw stones into the moat.
At the cost of 2,000 casualties, the Wanderers finally rushed to the bottom of the walls.
Previously, the defenders of Zhenbei Fort had been attacking the displaced army from a distance, and the displaced people had no means of countermeasures, so there were no casualties on the side of Zhenbei Fort, but some bows and ammunition were consumed, and now the displaced army attacked the city, and the real test has just begun.