Volume 1 The Quiet River Section 28 Upper City
The thousands of catties of broken dragon stones hidden in the city gate cave have fallen heavily, stirring up dust in the sky. It turned out that the defenders at the head of the city saw that the cavalry of the Xianbei people was approaching, and at this time they were only a few hundred meters away from the city gate. So many people were blocked in the city gates, and they couldn't close the city gates at all. So the defenders, under the order of the city gate officer, cut the rope of the jack gate, thus putting down this ancient version of the jack gate. This flat boulder weighing thousands of catties fell from the sky, like a huge stone gate, and immediately blocked the city gate.
Many men, women, and children who were blocking the city gate were suddenly crushed into pulp and blood by the Broken Dragon Stone, like the fruit in the fruit juicer of the later generations. It's just that this broken dragon stone is not squeezed by fruits, but living people.
The Broken Dragon Stone plunged deep into the flesh mud mixed with blood, which began to flow in all directions, giving people the feeling of shaved ice watermelon juice in later generations. And there are many stretched broken arms and thighs next to the Broken Dragon Stone, and their owner's body has been crushed into flesh under the Broken Dragon Stone, but these arms and thighs are still shaking involuntarily under the action of bioelectricity. There was a hand with a forearm that had five fingers on the palm that were still extended. This scene made Zhao Hong's stomach extremely uncomfortable, but he finally endured it. The situation of Cao Peng, Liu Song and others is not as good as Zhao Hong, their optic nerve triggers, the release of neurotransmitters such as choline acetate and other neurotransmitters from the synaptic of the plant sympathetic nerve. As a result, their stomachs began to vomit violently, causing them to vomit out the dry food they had eaten in the morning.
The people who were stunned by this tragic scene finally came to their senses. Duber had already ridden over.
"Hurry up, give me all the walls." He scolded the crowd with his horsewhip.
Immediately, Du Bo quickly climbed the steps to the city gate tower with his county soldiers, and Zhao Hong and his subordinates, as assistants, also followed the steps of the county soldiers to the city wall.
After climbing the city wall, Zhao Hong's vision suddenly opened up. I saw that under the city wall, dozens of Xianbei cavalry had already rushed up the drawbridge that had not yet arrived by inertia. Their horses crashed into the crowd in front of the door, and immediately trampled on the Han people. Immediately, these Xianbei people on horseback wielded axes, maces and other weapons and wantonly slashed and killed the Han people around them. Seeing this, the Han people, who had not been cut down around, hurriedly fled like birds and beasts. The Xianbei knights looked at the entire stone gate composed of the Broken Dragon Gate in front of them, and they knew that this time the door had failed. Immediately, the Xianbei cavalry began to turn their horses' heads and raise their whips, and they prepared to retreat beyond the range of their bows and arrows.
Seeing the scene of the Xianbei cavalry, nearly 100 county soldiers who had been preparing for a long time opened their bows and arrows. With the order of the city gate officer, a rain of white arrows rushed towards the Xianbei cavalry under the city wall. These Xianbei cavalrymen were hit by a dozen arrows at once, and four or five fell from their horses. Three or four other horses fell to their stomachs with arrows, and the knights above were immediately thrown off.
The remaining Xianbei cavalry relied on the protection of leather armor, and insisted on retreating as long as the arrow wounds were not too serious. I saw that their horses first took a few steps backwards under the control of the rider, and then gradually accelerated, and the maximum speed that could be achieved in a short sprint leaped from the suspension bridge that had been retracted by a slope of 30 degrees, drawing a graceful arc in the air one by one, and then falling heavily on the ground to stir up a puff of dust, quite like Zhao Hong when he was a child watching the moat flying over the Yellow River. Zhao Hong remembered that he seemed to be an uncle who was over the age of six, riding his beloved bicycle, and the bicycle that he didn't know if it was a phoenix or a permanent brand was ridden fast by him, and it also flew along the parabola from the Yellow River.
Under this indiscriminate covering fire, many people who did not have time to enter the city fell to the ground with arrows and fell in pools of blood. Zhao Hong felt that there were far more Han people who were shot dead than Xianbei people, and Xianbei people at least had leather clothes made of nitrate to block arrows, and many Xianbei people also had round small arm shields to cover.
What about the Han people? There is no piece of armor in the body, and all those who are in it are all servants. The people who couldn't die for a while all wailed, the voice was miserable and fierce, and Zhao Hong felt that his heart was about to break. Zhao Hong lowered his head slightly sadly, so that his vision was blocked by the wall battlement, and his left hand folded to cover his eyes, so that he would not see this miserable scene.
I don't know how long it was, but the sound of a trumpet resounded across the earth in the distance. "Hum~~~Buzz~~~" The horn sound is distant and desolate, revealing a strong grassland atmosphere, which shocks people's hearts. Hearing this voice, Zhao Hong poked his head out and looked into the distance.
The Xianbei cavalry, which had a much larger brigade than before, stopped at this time outside the range of the bow and arrow. They occupy a large area, estimated to be at least a thousand or more. These Xianbei cavalrymen sat on horseback, holding the reins of their horses with both hands, and just kept quietly looking at Shiyi City. And in the center of the Xianbei cavalry, Zhao Hong saw the woolen weaving with the grassland style gradually rising. It is estimated that it should be a team of more than 1,000 people, Zhao Hong made an estimate in his heart.
"Brother Hong, will these Saiwaihu people you said attack the city?" Zhao Hong turned his head when he heard the sound, only to see Li Yong holding a wooden spear in his right hand, and his left hand carrying the standard door panel. Li Yong's face looked very frightened, obviously he was stunned by such a large cavalry team, and his tone revealed extreme uneasiness. Since the area of a horse is more than four or five times that of a person, plus the knights on the surface, the size of such a thousand-person team is a piece of black pressure, about the same size as the size of a five-thousand-person infantry phalanx, no wonder Li Yong was taken aback.
"I don't know." Zhao Hong didn't know about the garrison in Shiyi County. He looked left and right at the soldiers on the city wall, and then tried to stand on tiptoe and look at the city wall in the distance. Zhao Hong estimated that there were currently more than 150 county soldiers in Dongcheng, and it seemed that there should be more than 300 regular soldiers in the entire Shiyi, and the total number of mobilized people and strong men should be more than 2,000.
"I don't think it's going to be a strong attack." Zhao Hong replied to Li Yong in a tone of not quite sure. Seeing that Shi Chang spoke again, Liu Song, Cao Peng and several other subordinates also rushed over. They gathered in a circle and quietly listened to Zhao Hong's speech.
"I estimated just now that there should be more than four hundred soldiers from our county in the city, and it stands to reason that it should be a Qu garrison. If this song is full, there will be about 500 regular soldiers. Zhao Hong told his subordinates what he had judged in his heart, and at the same time, Zhao Hong swept their faces, and the frightened faces of Li Yong and the others had eased slightly.
"The city can also urgently mobilize the strong men of the whole city to participate in the defense of the city, so that Shiyi should be able to mobilize 3,000 strong men." Zhao Hong said that the data he told them was not the same as his own estimate. Zhao Hong appropriately exaggerated the number of his own side, and he asked Li Yong and the others to enjoy the psychological massage from two thousand years later.
"When I say that, I'm much more relieved." Li Yong patted his chest and said in a very relaxed tone. After speaking, he let out a long sigh at the sky.
"yes, I was so nervous just now!" Liu Song also said with a smile, "I'm afraid that they will enter the city." ”
"The Xianbei people went deep into the hinterland of our Han Dynasty to rob and rob, and they didn't come to die." After Zhao Hong finished analyzing, Cao Peng began to make a concluding speech, and he said in a slightly reproachful tone: "In such a short time, they can only attack Shiyi with ants. Cao Peng, who was in hindsight, looked a little proud, forgetting that he was also extremely uneasy just now.
Zhao Hong, who was observing the expressions of his subordinates, glanced at the Nanyang Wolong after the fact, and then Zhao Hong, who had been robbed of the limelight by Wolong, shook his head, and his face looked very helpless......
Seeing that the Xianbei people had no signs of attacking the city for a long time, Zhao Hong and other people unloaded the grain into the granary in the city under the guidance of the county soldiers.
In this way, the first day of the siege of Xianbei passed. At night, Zhao Hong and others, who had been tired from the journey, were placed in temporary barracks. The people around him gradually fell asleep, but Zhao Hong couldn't sleep alive or dead, and the scenes that happened during the day appeared in his mind like a movie。。。。。。
Countless arrows rained down on the city, and the city walls were full of dead corpses, some of them were Xianbei people in leather clothes and hats, and some were Han soldiers wearing two-crotch armor. The bodies were either leaning against the battlements or lying on the road above the walls, while others hung their lower bodies on the head of the city and their upper bodies hung outside the walls.
There was blood everywhere on the city wall, and Zhao Hong accidentally fell. Zhao Hong walked to the top of the wall and looked hard at the city, and the Xianbei people who were all over the field were carrying and pushing all kinds of siege weapons to the city wall.
Zhao Hong looked around, and there was no longer a single Han soldier who stood up, not even a civilian man, only corpses all over the ground.
Tens of thousands of Xianbei people leaned hundreds of ladders against the city walls at the same time, and at the same time began to climb like ants. And Zhao Hong was the only one left on the position at the head of the city. Zhao Hong's left hand tightly blocked the door panel in front of his chest, and his right hand held the sharp fruit steel knife of his previous life. The breath was reversed by the door panel that was pressed against his lips, which gave him a sense of security. Hundreds of Xianbei people jumped onto the city at the same time, carrying various weapons, still the usual maces and axes. The Xianbei people who jumped up to the city saw that only one man was still holding his position at the head of the city. Hundreds of pairs of cold eyes looked at Zhao Hong, like looking at a dead person.
Zhao Hong felt that his heart was almost spasmodic, he took a few steps back, and gently soothed his heart with his right hand holding the fruit knife, which made the spasmodic heart feel a little better. More Xianbei people went up to the city wall. They stepped over the corpses on top of each other on the city wall and surrounded Zhao Hong in the center.
Zhao Hong's legs were slightly bent, and he carried the fruit knife on his back, and his body was also lowered, like a cheetah ready to pounce forward. And the Xianbei man with the pointed fur on his head seemed to be a controlled robot, and raised his bow and arrow at the same time with a blank face.
Zhao Hong jumped up suddenly, rushing towards the hundreds of black-pressed Xianbei people like an agile cheetah. At the same time, hundreds of bows released feather arrows at the same time, and hundreds of sharp arrows pounced on Zhao Hong's body with lightning speed......