Volume 2 The Yellow Turban Rebellion Chapter 35 Brutal City Battle
"We swear to follow the city lord to the death, and the city will be ruined!" Before the people could respond, the soldiers replied loudly. Although most of the soldiers were bandaged and their arms were severed, none of them had any fear.
At this time, most of the people were short of breath and their faces were flushed.
"I want to defend the city! My old mother said that the champion Hou is the benefactor of my family, and if I don't repay the favor at this time, it will be difficult to see my ancestors! ”
"Haha... I have been waiting for the call of the city lord for a long time, although I was Xianbei in the past, but at this time I am already a person from the Northern Regions, and I will definitely contribute some strength to the Northern Regions! ”
"Although the villain is not strong, it is still okay to run errands and send some objects!"
"City Lord!" In the midst of the noisy human voices, a slightly shrill female voice suddenly came out.
"Something wrong with the girl?" When Jiang Zhuo saw the people's feedback, his heart was already settled, and his mood was much better. At this time, I saw a woman shouting, and she said very politely. The people also stopped and looked at the woman curiously.
"City lord, the people also want to join the army to defend the city!"
"Nonsense!" When Jiang Zhuo heard this, he said with a little anger: "War is a man's business, and it is so dangerous to defend the city, how can you let a woman come forward?" Do you want to make people outside the city laugh at the fact that there is no one in the northern region? ”
"The city lord is angry!" This woman prayed: "The folk girl knows a little medicine, but she just wants to heal the warriors of the Northern Regions in the rear!" ”
"The female doll is good, worthy of the people of my northern regions!" An old man shouted in admiration in front of the crowd, and the people around him looked at the old man in amazement, never thinking that the old man who was approaching his twilight years would be so full of energy.
"Hahaha..."Jiang Zhuo laughed when he heard this: "It's hard girl!" ”
After speaking, Jiang Zhuo bowed down and bowed. Seeing this, the woman hurriedly returned the salute with some trepidation.
"Acting as the lord, thank you on behalf of the general's mansion!" Jiang Zhuo turned around and bowed to the people in the audience. The people in the audience also hurriedly followed the salute, and said all kinds of words in their mouths to shirk Jiang Zhuo's gift.
After dark, Mrs. Fan did not stop in the city. Although most of them are willing to accompany Jiang Zhuo to defend the city, there are still many people who are afraid in their hearts and want to leave. After Jiang Zhuo's consent, he ordered someone to try to send a kind of person out of the city. As for what will happen after leaving the city, Jiang Zhuo can't control it for the time being.
It's not that Jiang Zhuang is ruthless, and he doesn't blame the people for leaving at a critical time. People have their own aspirations, whether they will voluntarily or be forced to surrender to Xianbei after leaving the city, Jiang Zhuo is not sure. But fortunately, the number of people is not too large, only a few hundred.
Leaving the people who are willing to assist in defense, Jiang Zhuo still selects warriors according to the same conditions and requirements as usual. Those over the age of 40 are not allowed to enlist in the army, those under the age of 16 are not allowed to enlist, the only child in the family is not allowed to enlist, and those who have not married a family and have children are not allowed to enlist in the army.
After some screening, less than 5,000 of the nearly 20,000 young men in the city remained, and although they had no time to practice, it was more than enough to follow the experienced soldiers to defend the city. After that, he distributed the armor and became a naturalized soldier, and he was busy until the time had passed.
After the time of the child, Mrs. Fan's city seemed extremely quiet, and both the generals and the soldiers understood that there would be a fierce battle tomorrow, and they needed to rest and recharge their energy tonight.
The next day, the Xianbei people seemed to know that Lady Fan's city did not have much defensive power, so they pressed the whole army and did not let go of the city gates in all directions.
"City Lord Jiang dares to come out and reply!" After the siege of Xianbei, he did not immediately start the attack, but even called for battle outside the city.
"Haha..."Jiang Zhuo laughed and came to the top of the city tower and said, "Why don't you dare, is it that Xianbei is a fierce beast?" ”
Seeing Jiang Zhuo standing on the city wall, the Xianbei Tuoba neighbor also slapped his horse out, led several guards to the city gate dozens of zhang away and shouted: "The champion Hou Xiang Ao went against the sky, and even killed countless Xianbei and Huns, Jiang City Lord is a heroic person, why do you follow his embarrassment?" ”
"Oh? Against the sky? Jiang Zhuo sneered in his heart: "Dare to ask the leader of Tuoba, what is against the sky, what is shuntian?" ”
"The Han court is rotten, and the emperor is mediocre." Tuoba Lin made himself look extremely righteous and said: "Treacherous and arrogant, let the people of the world have no livelihood, and they will eat with their children." The Yellow Turban Rebellion was ironclad evidence of this. Now that the Han court forcibly expropriated and expropriated the people, regardless of the life and death of the people, how could the court win the hearts of the people? ”
"My lord is on the order of the Son of Heaven to guard the northern frontier, how can he go against the sky? But it is for the sake of benevolence and virtue that you and other humble and cruel people have risen to the occasion regardless of the life and death of the people? ”
"So what, this king raised an army, but recovered the lost land of Xianbei!" Tuoba Lin's face was fierce and said: "Even so, City Lord Jiang thinks that at this time, there are only more than a thousand guards in the city who can block the peak of tens of thousands of soldiers of this king?" ”
"Huh!" Jiang Zhuo smiled contemptuously: "Tens of thousands of soldiers? In the eyes of the city lord, tens of thousands of ants are! ”
"Hmph, the power of the tongue! That being the case, the king no longer has mercy on the wise. With that, Tuoba Lin reflexively returned to the military formation. After that, there was a melodious sound of trumpets outside the city.
"Kill!"
"Kill! Alone in the order, the city breaker, the cow and horse beauties! ”
"Kill, kill, kill!"
When the Xianbei army heard the sound of the trumpet, they attacked. The dense Xianbei army under the city, carrying seemingly inexhaustible ladders, rushed towards Mrs. Fan's city. Jiang Zhuo also frowned, for several days of attacking the city, the Xianbei Cloud Ladder seemed to have not decreased, and it could surround the city wall every day.
"Raise your bow!" "Put!"
"Bang... Woo..."Just like a few days ago, before the Xianbei army rushed to the city, Jiang Zhuo was two rounds of throwing. After two rounds of throwing, defensive weapons such as rolling logs and gold juice, which had not been used in the past few days, were all carried up the city wall, waiting for the Xianbei army to ascend the city.
It's not that Jiang Zhuo doesn't want to use it, but Mrs. Fan City is located in the northern Xinjiang and doesn't have too many mountains and forests. If it weren't for the transformation of Lady Fan's city in the Northern Regions in recent years according to the habits of the Han people, the feces used to make gold juice would not have been collected. The rolling wood and gold juice that led to the defense of the city were extremely limited, and if it weren't for the excessive defensive pressure, Jiang Zhuo was not prepared to start using it at this time.
"Kill!" The Xianbei army withstood the rain of arrows, and after killing and wounding many Xianbei soldiers and horses, they came to the city of Mrs. Fan again.
"Set up a ladder and ascend to the city!" Several hundred Xianbei generals came to the city and commanded the Xianbei army to enter the city. and there was no peace before the gates.
"Boom...""Boom..."I don't know where Xianbei found the giant tree, about four feet thick, the front part was sharpened, and it was wrapped in iron sheets, and it slammed into the city gate with a loud bang.
"Quick, quick, pour gold juice at the city gate!" Jiang Zhuo was taken aback by such a giant tree, he never thought that there would be such a murderous siege weapon in Xianbei.
Several pots of gold juice poured down from the walls above the city gates.
"Ahh Losing his balance, he fell to the ground when he hit the wood, overpowering several Xianbei soldiers. And the extremely high temperature of the gold juice that fell on the ground did not fade, and there were several screams above the body of the fallen Xianbei soldier.
"Throw the city gate and suppress the Han army!" Seeing this, Tuoba Lin was so angry that the martial arts hall was deformed, and he secretly hated it in his heart, the Han people were too ruthless. is so hot, even if you survive, I'm afraid you will be a non-human and a ghost.
"The commanders and chiefs of each army must nail Xianbei to the city wall when they lead the troops up to the city wall, and they must not enter the city." Jiang Zhuo mixed the soldiers and horses who had just enlisted into the army into the veterans, and prepared to start the white-knuckle battle on the city wall.
"No!" A group of military commanders and even chiefs received orders and climbed the city wall without fear.
What Jiang Zhuo didn't expect was that Tuoba Lin, who was injured yesterday, dared to go to the city in person today, and while worried, he was even a little happy in his heart. If you can cut Tuoba neighbors on the city wall, Xianbei will not be broken.
"All the guards, kill with me!" Although Jiang Zhuo's body had not yet recovered to the extreme, he was also timid, and led dozens of guards to surround Tuoba who rushed to the city wall.
"Tuoba Lin, die!" Jiang Zhuo shouted loudly and stepped up with his knife.
"Humph! Jiang Zhuo, today this king will behead you on the city wall and destroy the city of Mrs. Fan! ”
"Kill!" Jiang Zhuo didn't say much when he heard this, but drank heavily, and rushed to Tuoba Lin to fight with him. The personal guards of the two are also like a tacit understanding, and they are close to each other.
Up and down the city wall, rolling logs, gold juice, arrows, spears, all kinds of weapons, offensive and defensive weapons were like wild beasts, opening their bloody mouths, indistinguishing between enemies and enemies, and biting at the soldiers on both sides.
"Ahh The Han army named Zhang San on the city wall was hit by a stray arrow and accidentally fell off the city wall. When he fell off the city wall, Zhang San remembered his old mother at home and his underage brother. They smiled and shouted that Zhang San would go home for dinner, and even more asked Zhang San to make meritorious contributions in the army and repay the champion Hou. Zhang San was unwilling, and finally enlisted in the army, and he would die if he returned to the future.
Zhang San, who fell, happened to hit the Xianbei soldier on the ladder, and both of them fell to the ground. Zhang San was stunned, and in a trance, he saw the Xianbei soldier raise his knife and slash at him. "Ahh The severe pain made Zhang San sober up for a while, and Zhang Sanyi, who came to his senses, grabbed the scimitar on his shoulder, his facial features were distorted, I don't know if it was pain, or hatred for the Xianbei soldiers. Since I want Zhang San to die, I have to wait for the funeral.
The ruthless Zhang San clenched the shoulder scimitar with his left hand, and hugged the Xianbei man's neck with his right hand and bit it hard. Zhang San pulled hard, and a large piece of flesh disappeared from the neck of the Xianbei people, and the blood was even more gurgling. Zhang San spit out the Xianbei human flesh in one bite, took the scimitar from his shoulder again, and stabbed the Xianbei soldier beside him who had not yet reacted.
"Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!" The sound of three weapons entering the flesh came to mind in Zhang San's ears, not only when he stabbed Xianbei, but also when the two Xianbei soldiers behind him stabbed into Zhang San's waist. Zhang San looked back at Xianbei behind him and grinned. Mother, Si'er, I killed several Xianbei, and I don't lose anything. After the champion Hou repels Xianbei, you must live well! As soon as Zhang San's thought fell, he closed his eyes and fell to the ground.
And so on in all parts of the city wall. Xianbei soldiers don't know why, today's Han army is so desperate, even the Xianbei people who prided themselves as warriors in the past, at this time, many Xianbei people feel a chill down their backs.
The Tuoba neighbors who fought with Jiang Zhuo devoted a lot of attention to observing the entire battlefield, and of course they also saw the differences between the Han army today. The decrease in the number of guards around him made Tuoba Lin a little frightened. hurriedly ordered the herald to retreat, and after he forced Jiang Zhuo and the others to retreat, he led only a dozen or so guards to jump off the wall.
"Woo..." The horn of the Xianbei retreat sounded, and in an instant, the Xianbei soldiers and horses faded like a flood. Jiang Zhuo didn't dare to have the slightest intention of pursuing at this time, not for anything else, but many recruits had already killed their eyes, and even several recruits jumped down in a trance and chased after Xianbei, who had retreated. It's a pity that the soldiers were confused, and they hurt their legs and feet when they landed, and they fell to the ground screaming, and even a few people landed on the ground where there was a lot of gold juice, and they were even burned lightly.