Chapter 605: Early Winter Lightning, War to Destroy the Country (6)
The flickering flames burned on the tattered cloth, a wisp of black smoke drifted through the spears that were slanted into the ground, and the occasional arrow flew in the sky, and the body of the Parthian spearman who was hobbling down stiffly fell, overlapping the body of his companions, and the eyes that gradually faded reflected the red-stained field, and the dense corpses stretched out, and the ownerless war horse hesitated to guard the dead master, gently arching him with the horse's mouth, and let out a wail.
Soon, the war horse was pulled over the reins, and the Huns, who had received the spoils, laughed at their companions, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, patted the heads tied around their waists, and showed off five fingers, "Another bag of grain, back to the tribe, I will have a lot, and I can raise ten strong women to give me children." β
The Hun light rider next to him looked down at the human head on his waist, and hurriedly chopped off the head of a corpse under his feet, wiped off the blood splashed on his face, and showed a sincere smile on his face: "..... mine is enough...... It's still too little. He turned his head, and his vision was full of soldiers harvesting heads, Xianbei people, Wuhuan people, and Ding Ling people.
On the battlefield at the end, a war horse lowered its head and licked a corpse on the ground, the Parthian squinted his eyes, quietly raised his hand for fear of hitting the horse's hooves, and wanted it to leave, hearing the footsteps approaching, he quickly closed his eyes, turned his head away, and a Xianbei light rider came over, and looted the valuable belongings on the corpse, and at the same time the man breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, his eyes opened, and the blade he pulled out fell again, reflecting the bottom of his eyes. The Xianbei man cut off his head and tied it around his waist and walked to the next corpse.
In front of the crossbow army, Anrat, the general of the noble cavalry of Nisa, was dragged out from under his horse and became a prisoner, and at this time he was kneeling in front of Pan Feng, looking down at the ground, his brown hair hanging down, swaying in his sight.
"Your Excellency General Serius, please allow Anrat to ransom himself, I am a nobleman of Nisa, one of the few generals of the Parthian Empire, I am your prisoner, and I am also a ....... of honor to Your Excellency"
The big-shouldered and round-waisted figure nodded on horseback and arched his hand: "I didn't expect that there are such loyal martyrs in your country, and I will treat you as a whole." With a wave of his hand: "Take him to behead him to fulfill his loyalty." β
Seeing his solemn expression, Anrat nodded again, got up excitedly and learned Pan Feng's movements and arched his hand: "Thank you, Your Excellency, for allowing Anlat to redeem his life." β
Two soldiers came over and took him down, and after a while, the panicked words rang out intermittently: "Your Excellency, General, is not right...... Despicable Cylius...... Ah.....h
The sound stopped abruptly.
Pan Feng looked at the head presented by the soldier, plucked his nostrils, turned his head and smiled at the guards beside him: "It's verbose to cut off a head, and the rest of the people are really useless, right?" β
"What if he surrenders?" Wu Anguo looked at the human head with a frightened expression in the soldier's hand and frowned.
".....My old Pan never makes a mistake in seeing people, you see that he still has a smile on his face" Pan Feng hesitated, paused, and said hesitantly: "......Well, it may seem a little painful...... But he walked peacefully, don't tell the lord, just say that he died on the spot. β
Wu Anguo snorted, picked up the hammer and turned to leave.
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The wind was blowing, and the sand and gravel were mixed with dead grass and swirled.
One mile in the rear, Gongsun Zhi was wearing a big coat and led the Chinese army to move forward, and the news that the battle in front had ended, he already knew, and after reading the battle report that he had written, he casually ordered a few orders and made some adjustments: "Let Ahunya and Louban continue to pursue, it is best to catch the enemy's main general, and if you can't catch it, you can wander around Nisa City, clear the caravan and plunder the materials, cut off the supply of the city, and can't give them a chance to breathe." β
His gaze then lifted with indifference.
Sent away the heralds, and walked for a while, and when they were about to arrive at the battlefield over there, the Bingzhou army, which was the vanguard, had already returned from another battlefield a hundred miles away, and two fiery red figures separated from the galloping cavalry came over, Lu Bu threw a human head to the nearby soldiers, and rode side by side with Gongsun Zhi, who untied the wine bag from his waist and threw it over.
"Killing a foreigner, is it enjoyable to kill?"
Lu Bu took a sip, tightened it and threw it back: "Naturally, it is happy, but the governor must also take care of his body, and General Gongsun can also be regarded as a horse leather shroud, this is the fate of our warriors." β
The horse's hooves walked slowly, Gongsun stopped looking into the distance, and faintly there was a bloody breath blowing down the wind, and said softly: "Although he is my uncle, he has kept in mind what he has done for me over the years...... But he always didn't want to stop, and I knew what was going on in his heart...... He is my uncle and the elder in the family, and he wants to take care of me and my grandson's family all the time. β
"..... my uncle knows that he can't compare to Zhao Yun, Yan Rou, Li Ru, and Wang Lie, and he can't bear too much of a burden, so as not to cause trouble for me, so he has been retreating to the back and helping me do some things among the generals in the stability maintenance army..... I know all this...... Now it's so suddenly gone......"
The white fluff stroked slightly between his nails, and there was no expression on his face, but there were some wet red marks at the corners of his eyes: "...... Think about it, in my life, all the way to today, I owe it to the people around me...... It's really a bit much. β
"You shouldn't say anything like that." Lu Bu glanced back slightly and lowered his voice: "The commander of the first army, any emotion will affect the whole army, and when you are old in the future and retire in your old age, say this again." β
Gongsun turned his face sideways and laughed: "Okay, when I'm old, I'll take Wen Hou to sit under the eaves and remember the past of this life, but now while I am young and still have the strength, fill in another paragraph in this memory, Wen Hou!" Can you come with me to see what the cultural capital of the Sabbatarians is like? β
"Then look at you and me, whose horse is fast!" Lu Bu laughed and rode out with a clamp on the horse's belly. Gongsun Zhi waved his horsewhip: "Driving-" followed, and after a while, the girl behind him also rode out on horseback: "And me, and my ......"
Dian Wei looked at Li Ke next to him: "Shall we go?" β
"Cut, your horse can't ride steadily."
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The time has come to the afternoon, the sun is slightly tilted, in the west to the city of Nisa, like a huge battlefield, countless horses' hooves galloping, across a fallen corpse, received an order from the wolf king, the Huns, Wuhuan two cavalry frantically chased the fleeing Parthian rout, far away at each other to shoot arrows, in the west slanting sun, blood and corpses shocked in one direction.
Remidals tried to stabilize the formation with his immediate guards, which had not collapsed, but they were no match for the cavalry in the field, and the army that had just stabilized was once again divided and routed, so he had to fight fiercely and turn in at the same time, and only when it was getting dark, he led the rout to retreat into the city.
Standing on the city wall, looking at the torches lit below like a fire dragon swimming in the night, the whole person was already cold, feeling the crisis, the soldiers and generals who fled back with him looked at the cavalry besieging the city outside, and no one spoke for a while.
The next day, when the sun rose to noon, Remidals was called out of his mansion and hurried up to the city walls, and the nobles and officials of the city also ran up, and their vision spread out at the high head of the city, and at the end of the connection between heaven and earth stretched a long black line, and the dust raised obscured the sky, which was a sign of a great march, and they had not experienced the battle of yesterday in the field, but their faces were a little pale.
Under the huge wolf flag, Gongsun stopped his horse, looked at the outline of the city wall in the distance, and the wandering steppe cavalry below, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "Siege-"
The trumpet of the siege sounded.
In the Xiliang army formation, which had already lined up and waited for orders, Guo Yan stretched out his tongue and licked the blade, and with a fierce wave, he pointed to Nisa City: "The governor has an order, attack the city!" β
The army began to move slowly towards that side to the sound of war drums, and in the rear, catapults also began to be built in the hands of the people and craftsmen, stone bullets were carried and piled up, and the steppe cavalry that swam under the city wall raised their bows and arrows and aimed at the head of the city.
November 30, the day and the earth change color.
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Harax.
The trumpet sounded in the long barracks, Ardaban rode on his horse, and a large number of foot soldiers and cavalry in the barracks poured into the field and were assembling, he watched the rescued old man Cylius get on the chariot, "My brother killed his father and usurped the throne, and you, the Cyrius from the East, will become a witness to how the righteous Ardaban defeated the evil brother and reorganized the Parthian Empire." β
He turned his horse's head and looked at the assembled army, drew the sword at his waist and pointed it to the sky: "I, Ardaban, swear in the name of my father, in the name of the previous Parthian kings, that today we are! A war will be waged against the evil Vologis! And defeat him, and wash away the stain on the throneβ"
"Departure, my parthian warrior of valor and justice!"
The horses neighed and circled, and Ardaban slashed down with his sword: "Victory will be ours, go to war-"
High-pitched voices rushed into the sky, alarming the birds, the clouds swept away the wider world, the sun occasionally shone through the clouds, and many horsemen galloped through the roads, carrying terrifying news and quickly breaking into the quiet and prosperous city of Hekadonbiru.
As the first piece of information rushed into the palace, Vologis sat on the throne with a white robe and a crown and a scepter in his hand, discussing with the nobles below about sending troops after spring, the winter in Central Asia would be too cold to gather a large army to crusade against the Cylius army that had slaughtered Malgiana.
"Your Majesty, all tribes and city-states are agitating their soldiers to join the war, and when the weather is warm, you will see 150,000 troops gathered outside the city, waiting for the Parthian Emperor to review."
When the news from outside was handed in, Vologis unfolded his sheepskin and glanced at it, and the muscles on his handsome and fair face trembled significantly.
"What's wrong with Your Majesty?" A nobleman below stood up, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.
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The huge shouts of fighting boiled on the stretching city wall, under the bright sky, a cloud ladder was erected on the city wall, the Xiliang foot soldiers with blades in their mouths climbed up, and the soldiers who had already stood at the head of the city waved their weapons frantically, and in the way of a team, they cooperated with each other and spread at the head of the city.
One by one, stone bullets in the sky crossed a long trajectory, smashed on the heads of the crowded crowd, and fell on people, and their bodies were directly shattered and scattered on the ground, and some flew directly over the city walls and fell into the city, startling the cries of civilians and the sound of houses collapsing.
"The Parthian civilization records that here, our gods will watch over this city, and all will fight bloody battles here, and if the city is broken, we will die together." Remidal stood on the wall and raised his sword: "...... For the glory of Parthia! β
Countless soldiers shouted in response, but on both sides of the city wall, Wei Yan, Wu Anguo, Zhang Fei, Dian Wei and others personally led the team to kill in the future, advancing left and right like an angry tide, cutting off the Parthian defenders on the city wall, and squeezing the Parthians in the middle to collapse.
Remidhals fought hard, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and then he saw a huge man with a large body standing in front of him with a double halberd.........
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"What happened to Your Majesty?" Voices echoed in the quiet palace.
Vologis's face turned pale and pinched the sheepskin that recorded the message, and the whole person was nested in the throne, trembling slightly, and after a while, his voice was a little hoarse: "...... North Nissa....... is gone." β
"..... my brother, Ardaban rebelled in Harax." His eyes rolled, swept over a nobleman and official who were looking at each other below, slowly stood up, his eyes were red, he spilled the sheepskin in his hand violently, and roared at them: "Parthia is at war everywhere, and where is my army?!" β
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On the walls of Nissa, the astonishing fighting was still expanding, and the commoners and nobles in the city hid in their homes, or secretly watched from the attic as the enemies who had killed the walls of the city killed the inner walls and poured into the city gates, and before long, the cavalry from outside the city flooded in, scimitars, bows and arrows, and the fierce and hideous smiles of this group of people...........
And then there was the horrific killing.