Chapter 5 Do you dare to deceive me into old age?
"Woo woo woo~"
A whimpering horn pierced the sky, and Han Gu slowly raised his head, holding the battlements in his hands, and looked out of the city with a solemn expression.
In the vast wasteland, the military tents of the Qiang people stretched for several miles, and countless Qiang people shouted loudly, and the sound was like rolling thunder, and the earth trembled.
Suddenly, with the sound of the horn, a shocking shout suddenly sounded in a military camp directly east of the city, and Han Gu clasped the hilt of his sword and looked at it intently.
His mouth closed: "Dongqiang ......"
The front army soon approached the city, as if layers of turbid clouds shrouded the towering Jicheng, while the rear army was still shuttling forward in the barracks, like an ant colony of soldiers, seemingly endless.
Knock knock!
Another thunderous war drum came out from outside the city, Han Gu's body trembled slightly, looked up, hundreds of meters away, a huge tooth flag was rising, and a huge wolf head was embroidered on it.
Han Gu clasped the hilt of his sword, his eyes passed through the layers of da, and finally stopped at the Qiang King who was showing off his might under the wolf.
The king of Qiang raised his hand slightly, and the command flag of the Chinese army department waved, and under the wolf flag, thousands of troops and horses began to move frequently.
"Kill~"
Lined up in formation, the silent Qiang people shouted in unison, the sound shook the sky, holding their shields high one by one, forming countless large and small phalanxes, protecting the ladders and siege vehicles in the middle, and slowly approaching Jiuyuan.
The fierce drum sound is like a torrential rain destroying the forest, a drum sounds, the siege soldiers step forward against the ladder, and then a drum sounds, the ladder has been on the city wall, the dense soldiers are attached to the ladder like leeches, and the bloodthirsty shouts shock the four fields, as if the raging flood overflowed the tall city wall.
"Siege!" The Qiang people's central military department, the commander of the colonel waved the wolf in his hand vigorously, and he would shout loudly every time he swung it.
The drummer standing beside the conductor's flag raised his strong arms, and two one-foot drum hammers slammed heavily on the huge cowhide drum, and the sound of dong dong was deafening.
"Shoot the arrows!" As soon as the flags were unfurled on the city tower, countless hard and heavy logs flew down, crashing into the bodies of the besieging Qiang soldiers, and a crisp sound of bones shattering erupted.
Countless Qiang soldiers were hit by the rolling logs, and fell into the city along with the rolling logs, or were pierced in the chest by the antlers, or smashed by the sassal wood, and their brains were shattered, and the death was horrible to see.
"Fuel!" There was another hysterical shout in the battlements, and the soldiers who climbed the city only felt a darkness above their heads, and the uproar was like a thunderstorm, and the boiling hot oil was poured on their heads, and their faces were completely ruined, and they screamed and fell out of the ladder.
Gradually, the corpses under the city piled up more and more, and the towers dropped their torches, and the flames lit the hot oil, and the city immediately became a sea of fire, and the corpses sizzled black smoke, emitting a foul smell, and the drums urging the attack continued.
All the Qiang soldiers did not dare to flinch back, with rolling stones and hot oil on their heads, and their bodies were emitting flames and smoke, and one by one they marched forward with arrows and stones, and the generals of each department held scimitars in their backs, and beheaded individual Qiang soldiers who were cowardly in battle.
On the top of the city tower, a strong man wearing a tiger fur took a bow and arrows, aiming at the flag-waving colonel of the Qiang army.
"Going~" The strong man's right hand moved slightly, and the arrow came out of the string,
With a sharp sound of breaking the air, the flag waver of the Qiang army suddenly froze, the wolf in his hand fell like a fallen leaf, and a sharp arrow pierced his throat, his body stagnated slightly, and then fell to the ground and died.
As soon as the command flag of the Chinese army fell, the drummers were at a loss, the drumming was weaker than a moment, the generals of the various departments did not know the military orders, and the sound of orders rose up indiscriminately, and the siege soldiers suddenly became chaotic.
Some went to carry ladders to attack the city, some were ready to withdraw their troops, some were running around with weapons, and a group of people were noisy and chaotic.
The defenders of Jiuyuan took the opportunity to launch a fierce counterattack, and in an instant, the arrows were like flying locusts, and the logs were constantly rolling.
Dongqiang King Yadan immediately turned over and dismounted, personally picked up the wolf, Prime Minister Cheriji saw this, also dismounted with him, and personally beat the war drums.
The Qiang soldiers who were besieging the city saw that their king himself was beating drums and waving flags, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed forward without their lives, vowing to break through the city.
Han Gu looked at the swarming Qiang soldiers, and couldn't help but ask himself, "How long can you hold on?" ”
There were only 1,000 soldiers and hundreds of righteous soldiers who rushed to reinforce in Jiuyuan, and in the face of an enemy army several times their size, they stubbornly resisted for three days and three nights.
The hammering wood and rolling stones were also smashed, and at this moment, except for some full-time crossbowmen who still had feathered arrows in their quivers, the quivers of ordinary soldiers were already empty.
Han Gu couldn't think too much, many Qiang people had already climbed the city tower and began to engage with the defenders in close combat, Han Gu drew his sword and shouted hoarsely: "The enemy army has landed in the city, the enemy army has landed in the city......"
Not only the soldiers, but also the people who carried the supplies poured into the tower, struggling to besiege and kill the Qiang soldiers who had ascended the city, and they had already put their lives aside at this time of danger.
However, although the army and the people were united, under the continuous onslaught of the Qiang people, the whole city finally fell into a desperate situation of lack of materials, not only not only was there not enough arrows, but also almost all the stones larger than eggs were smashed.
Everyone looked at the waves of Qiang people in the city, and the eyes of the people were blank and afraid.
Seeing that the crossbow arrows on the city wall were becoming more and more sparse, the main general of the Qiang army, Moth Shasai, led a hundred and ten followers to gallop under the city, specifically killing the soldiers who were cowering.
"The whole army is trying its best to attack the city, who dares to cower and move forward, and there is no forgiveness!"
Under the strong supervision of the moth, the 20,000 Qiang people shouted again, blew the horn, shook their spirits, and launched another wave of fierce offensives, striving to break the city in one fell swoop.
"My Han territory, how can we allow foreign races to trample on it? Sons, for the sake of relatives, for the sake of siblings, fight to kill the enemy, kill the enemy! ”
An old man in his old age carried a wine jar in his hand and stood at the head of the city to cheer for the young man loudly.
"Old thief, are you looking for death?"
A ladder was set up on the female wall, and a agile Qiang man climbed up all the way with a shield on his head, and raised his head sharply, but in front of him was an old man with a bright head, who couldn't help but show a hideous smile.
With a "poof", the steel knife in his hand pierced the old man's chest at once, and blood gushed out.
"Phew, even if you die, I will pull you!" The wine jar in the old man's hand was raised high and smashed on the head of the thug, and with the sound of broken porcelain, the thug's eyes suddenly burst into stars.
The old man let out a wild laugh, wrapped his arms around the soldier's neck with all his strength, and fell down under the city wall together.
The thug stretched out his arms and tried to grab the nearby ladder, but the old man held his body tightly and looked at the sharp antlers on the ground, and let out a cry of despair.
In this way, the bodies of the two fell from the city, and their chests were pierced by antlers, and the old man looked at the Qiang soldiers who vomited blood, and grinned: "Hahaha, are you still bullying me for being old?" ”