Chapter 918: The Tang Dynasty King is here
The war still continued, early the next morning, the entire Xingqing Mansion was woken up in the loud sound of the return cannon, after a night of accumulation, countless boulders seemed to be pouring heavy rain, falling from the sky, smashed on the city wall, or smashed on the soldiers, or even flew in the houses, for a while, the smashed Western Xia soldiers could not raise their heads.
Countless Western Xia people risked their lives to strengthen the city wall, or carry bricks and stones, to resist Li Jing's attack, outside the city, the earth and mountains slowly increased, and the captured Western Xia people, under the deterrence of the Tang army, had to work.
The army of high favors gathered, surrounded by cavalry, Hu cavalry eyed the tiger, under the big curtain, Li Qiao's face was gloomy, not far away Li Daniu held a sharp axe, Shi Jin iron rod in hand, Hua Rong's face was gloomy, the generals gathered, and hundreds of thousands of infantry were ready.
The huge sound of the return cannon finally fell, as if it was an order, countless soldiers either carried the ladder, or commanded the rushing car, or pushed the arrow tower, and killed them towards Xingqing Mansion, which was the oldest war and the most shameful war. On the one hand, he wants to exterminate the enemy and make contributions, but on the other hand, he wants to defend his family and the country.
Li Jing's ferocity and brutality have long spread throughout the entire Western Xia, and now he is leading a large army to kill, if he does not resist, the people of the city may be slaughtered by Li Jing, and the high-level of the Western Xia are also consciously preaching this.
"The nobles of Western Xia are really not the same thing, they actually let the people below go up to fight, what is the difference between this and the Tang Emperor." Guo Qing hid in the shadows, watching the surrounding Western Xia people walk out of their homes one after another, or demolish their houses, or follow the Western Xia soldiers to resist Li Jing's attack, and sighed slightly.
"It's just the house at the east gate that was demolished, isn't it still the same on the west side?" A beggar beside Guo Qing said disdainfully. Xingqing Mansion is cheap in the east and expensive in the west, and the people who live in the west are basically the nobles of Western Xia, and if they want to demolish the house, they naturally start from the east, not to mention that most of Li Jing's forces are in the east.
"There is not much time left for us, some people have already found us together, some people are ready to let us carry the rolling wood and stones, and if this continues, we ourselves will not die in the hands of the enemy, but in the hands of our own people, I will go to see the master, and I will start acting tonight, and burn down Xicheng, anyway, those noble lords are not a good thing." Guo Qing looked at the buildings stretching in the distance, gorgeous and luxurious, this is where the Western Xia nobles lived, and the houses in the east were in stark contrast.
He couldn't forget that when he was young, he was beaten by some aristocratic children because of a dough cake, and if it wasn't for the old beggar, he would have been beaten to death by these people. Such a situation can be seen everywhere in Xingqing Mansion, the Han people have a low status here, and if they don't pay attention to it, they will be bullied by the Tangut people. Now is also time for revenge.
In the dark, the city of Xingqing Mansion was calm, only some soldiers and horses patrolled the streets, and from time to time there could be a sound of barking dogs, and the rare army outside the city did not attack, as if the two sides were too tired from fighting, and they temporarily rested.
It's just that no one thought that under the calm, the dark tide surged, and on the streets west of the city, black figures were hidden in the darkness, or they simply lay on the ground.
I don't know when, a little firelight appeared in the dark, dispelled the surrounding cold, the weather was dry, the most likely to cause a fire, soon, a little firelight turned into a raging fire, instantly ignited the entire west of the city, countless houses were burned by the fire, faintly exclamations, screams sounded, the entire Xingqing Mansion was alarmed.
Helian Tieshu, who had already laid his bed on the city wall, saw the flames on the west side of the city, and suddenly the sun was cloudy, and his eyes were full of horror, and he stood there not knowing what to do.
"General, there is a fire in the city, do you want to send someone to put out the fire quickly?" The lieutenant general next to him said with some concern.
"To put out the fire? How to save it, the enemy is setting fire everywhere, where can I put out the fire?" Helian Tieshu smiled bitterly. He found that those flames were clearly ignited from various places, when did this Xingqing Mansion become a sieve, the wind leaked everywhere, so many enemies mixed in, and the dignified Great Xia actually didn't know anything, which suddenly made Helian Tieshu disheartened, even if he had elite soldiers in hand, he didn't know what to do.
"So, what now? Checkmate! The adjutant couldn't help but say.
"Let Your Majesty order the Imperial Forest Army to take action, or the officials of Xingqing Mansion, those nobles will fight the fire, Li Jing and his surroundings will definitely take the opportunity to attack if they know that there is a fire in the city. We can't make a move at this time. The other party just set fires, instead of attacking the city gate, indicating that there are not many people in Neiying, and these servants can solve Neiying. "Although Helian Tieshu's command talent is not as good as that of Brother Wei Mingcha, it will not be much worse, and when he encounters this situation, he must know that Li Jing will definitely make a move, and he will attack Xingqing Mansion with the outside world.
However, what he didn't expect was that there should not be dozens or hundreds, but thousands of people, and if he knew, I am afraid he would not have given such an order.
"Yes." The adjutant general did not dare to slack off, and hurried down to let the Imperial Forest Army and the officials kill the enemy who set the fire.
Outside the city, Li Jing also found the fire in the city, although he didn't know who helped, but he knew that his opportunity had come, and he no longer waited for the completion of the mound, so he ordered the soldiers to go out and forcibly attack Xingqing Mansion, which was a rare opportunity, and lost such an opportunity, Li Jing didn't know when he could attack Xingqing Mansion more easily.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" Helian Tieshu found that the fire in Li Jing's camp was soaring, and countless soldiers let out bursts of roars from their mouths, killing towards Xingqing Mansion, with a sadness in his heart, but his face was very calm, he drew his sword and roared loudly: "Xingqing Mansion is just a group of Xiaoxiao who are setting fire, His Majesty the Emperor has sent the Imperial Forest Army, and the officials of Xingqing Mansion have also taken action, these Xiaoxiao will soon be ambushed, the slaves of the major mansions are already extinguishing the fire, and the fire will soon be extinguished, our task is to resist Li Jing's attack, don't worry about the back road." ”
After hearing this, the originally chaotic soldier was still in a little anxious, but he still forced himself to calm down and prepare to deal with the enemy who rushed up.
On the street of Xicheng, the old beggars have flying hair, holding iron rods, Guo Qing and other beggars are also holding iron rods or wooden sticks in their hands, looking at the soldiers who killed in the distance, these soldiers are either government servants, or people from major mansions, under the light of the fire, these people are holding long knives, their faces are hideous, and they look very fierce and fierce.
"The Tang Dynasty King is here! Disciples, follow me to kill the enemy. The old beggar looked at the Western Xia soldiers who had been killed, his eyes lit up, and he roared loudly and rushed forward first.