Chapter Ninety-Five: Fiction and Reality 2
After being promoted to the team because of military merits, Xue Shouyi's nickname "Thin Monkey" was called less and less, except for Ma Lu, who lived and died together, others were mostly called "Xue Team", which made him very unaccustomed to it, and it took more than a year to adapt. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Please search! The fastest updated novel
In the past three years, Lu Langjun and Fei Langjun have successively served in Beijing, and many tooth soldiers have been transferred to Chang'an. Ma Lan once persuaded him to take the opportunity to return to Chang'an, but was rejected by the thin monkey. For him, although Chang'an is extravagant and prosperous, after staying for a long time, it is like a bird in a cage, far from being as comfortable and happy as Tingzhou. Seeing that his mind was firm, Ma Lu said no more.
"The snow is falling so hard, will the young people still come?" At this moment, the thin monkey is full of thoughts about how to kill the enemy.
More than ten days ago, Du Changshi speculated that someone would attack the military village in the western suburbs, and decided to cast a long line to catch big fish, turning the military village surrounded by trees into a trap with many traps.
The day after tomorrow is the winter solstice, and today should have been the day when the garrison changed its guard. Du Changshi used the carriage to transport troops to play a trick, and the guards transferred from the city left more than 300 people in ambush in the military village, and the remaining 100 people pretended to be replaced by the defenders to return to the barracks by car.
Because the doors and windows of the carriage were covered by curtains, how many soldiers and outsiders were carrying in the carriage did not come at all. Du Changshi, who was as meticulous as a hair, even took into account the difference in the depth of the ruts and ordered someone to prepare a batch of iron ingots and put them in the return carriage.
The defenders who were supposed to return to the city to recuperate continued to stick to their posts, and Du Changshi, in order to boost morale, specially allocated 10,000 silver coins from Suyeju as an additional reward. In this way, there were more than 800 bears on standby in the walled city, which was originally only garrisoned by 500 elite soldiers, and the defending ordnance such as bows, arrows, rolling wood, and stones was piled up in countless quantities.
Wind and snow and people are longing.
In the woods south of the walled city, a little white shadow suddenly flashed. They crawled slowly on the snow, and the white daze made them one with the flying snow, and they could not detect the abnormality without paying attention.
"A bold fanatic, he dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head, he is really impatient!" Although the white warriors were extremely cautious, their whereabouts were clear to the thin monkeys who were waiting for them when they were still more than ten zhang away from the military village. He shook his hand slightly, and the Beiting Tooth soldiers who were ambushed on the city wall put the feather arrows on the string as ordered.
"Shoot closer!" The thin monkey pointed to the grass man and told his subordinates in a low voice not to startle the snake.
The cold wind is like a knife and the snow is as big as a seat.
On the city wall, the tooth soldiers of the North Court sharpened their knives, and in the city wall, dozens of tooth soldiers under the command of Zhao Dahui manipulated thirty divine arm bows and were ready to attack.
"Finally a chance to test the power of the Divine Arm Bow!" Zhao Dahui stroked the round ratchet on the bow of the divine arm, excited.
When the Beiting Army went west to conquer the Shi Kingdom, they captured nearly 100 ballistae made by the Khorasan army. Zhao Dahui couldn't put it down, although he despised the strange way of using the torsion generated by the horsehair leather rope and tendons to drive the stone projectile, but he was full of praise for the gear structure and steering mechanism on the ballista. This structure, which is completely different from the Huaxia bow and crossbow, made him suddenly enlightened, as if he had stepped into a world that he had never seen before.
With the assistance of Wang Fei and Ashina Jiang, Zhao Dahui led the craftsmen to ponder for a long time, combining the advantages of the eight-bow crossbow and the ballista to try out two new bed crossbows. A fire-bolt with wheels on the base, compared with the eight-bow crossbow, it has the characteristics of fast movement and high rate of fire, and is mainly used to shoot a single enemy from a long distance, and is named the Divine Arm Bow by Wang Fei; The other one is much larger, with stone bullets as the main weapon, although the rate of fire is lower than that of the Divine Arm Bow, it is still much faster than the counterweight stone cannon, and it is used with fierce oil fire, which is a sharp weapon to hit the array, and is named the Tingzhou cannon. Both the Divine Arm Bow and the Tingzhou Cannon have a universal adjustment device, which can freely choose the direction and angle of fire, which is far more flexible than the bulky eight-bow crossbow, and of course the construction is correspondingly more complicated.
After the Divine Arm Bow was made, it naturally went through countless tests, but weapons that have not been fought in actual combat always make people a little apprehensive. Knowing that someone might attack the walled city before the winter solstice, Zhao Dahui, who was overjoyed, asked Du Huan to grind and soak for a long time, forcing Du Huan to agree to use the divine arm bow to meet the enemy.
"This Zhao Dahui only has new weapons in his eyes, and he doesn't think about whether he will leak secrets at all. Luckily, he still had the sense of proportion, and knew that he couldn't reveal the most secret things. Du Huan, who was sitting in the middle of the military village, saw Zhao Dahui eager to try, and smiled helplessly.
"Du Changshi, idealism has no distractions, and only then can he succeed, Zhao Dahui is probably a natural craftsman." Ma has been immersed in bows and arrows for many years and knows the importance of concentration.
"What Thirteen Lang said is very true." Du Huan stroked his beard and smiled: "What news is there from the head of the dart with Mr. Luo?" ”
"The inner city is stable, and there is no change." Ma Xuan said. Because of the sudden attack of Cheng Qianli, he and Luo Puli concentrated most of the dart masters in the inner city.
"Before the Western Expedition, the black-clothed spies infiltrated the city and made trouble in Nanshi, not only injuring innocents, but also almost robbing Fei Langjun and Yiyue Little Lady. There are more enemies this time, and we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. "The reason why Du Huan allowed all kinds of ill-intentioned forces to attack the city was that he didn't want to implicate the people in the city.
Ma Lan was about to talk, only to see several tooth soldiers coming from different directions.
"Report to Du Chang Shi Ma Bei, there is an enemy approaching the trench in the west!"
"There are also people in the north who sneak up on the middle."
"A large group of men and horses suddenly came out of the east."
"The ghosts and ghosts have all come out, just in one go!" Ma Lu snorted coldly: "Act according to the plan, and don't let any enemy escape." ”
The tooth soldiers were just about to retreat, but they heard Du Huan shouting: "Wait, is your enemy one or more share?" ”
After a moment's thought, the tooth soldier in charge of liaising with the eastern city wall replied: "The enemy's march is quite orderly, and it is by no means a rabble. ”
"It's the same with the West."
"The enemy of the north is not to be underestimated."
"Stand down." After the tooth soldiers left, Du Huan frowned and said: "There are enemies in the south, east and west, but they do not cooperate with each other, they should be four forces." But after thinking about it, the city ** has recently infiltrated the five roads, where is the rest of the way? ”
"Could it be that Cheng Qianli is in the city?"
"Possibly. Ma Beijiang, fast flying pigeon newspaper with Luo Zong's darthead, pay attention to the search for suspicious people in the city, and keep an eye on Cheng Qianli. If necessary, use a fish charm and token to mobilize the Inner City Tooth Soldiers. Du Huan was worried that there would be a loss in the city, so he had already handed over the fish talisman and token to Tong Luo Puli. Although she could not dispatch 12,000 Han navy, she was enough to command the tooth soldiers.
The short spear breaks through the air and the straw man falls.
When Du Huan and Ma Lan explored the enemy that could not be hidden, the battle outside the southern city wall had already begun.
"Pretty smart!" The thin monkey glanced at the wooden spear that flew to the city wall and pierced the straw man, the tip of the spear blackened by the fire emitted a foul stench, apparently stained with filth.
The tip of an over-the-fire spear is hard enough to stab a human body. And once the toxins at the tip of the spear enter the body, they can cause disease. Under the strict search of various checkpoints in the North Garden, the enemy had to make this strategy and make throwing spears with their own hands using local materials.
The western suburbs of the walled city were rebuilt from the suburban manor that originally belonged to Wenxitang, and the height of the wall was far from comparable to the Tingzhou city wall. Wang Fei had considered raising the city wall, but was stopped by Du Huan.
"The outside is weak and the inside is strong, so the flaws are exposed, and only then can you fish and take the bait." Du Huan smiled evilly: "Why does Xiao Langjun put on a posture of deep ditches and high barriers, forcing people with hearts to rack their brains to figure out loopholes that we don't expect?" Could it be that Xiao Langjun has no confidence in the sharp weapons in the military village? ”
Wang Fei listened to Du Huan's advice and deliberately built the military village a little low, so that the enemy could throw short spears on the city wall.
"Shoot!" At the sound of the thin monkey's order, fifty feathered arrows came out of the string, drawing a little blood-red plum blossom on the snow.
The white warriors couldn't help but let out a few low cheers as the straw men fell to the city wall, but before the fluttering straw men landed, the dense rain of arrows made them realize that the defenders had already prepared.
"Warriors, for the sake of the special service, kill!" One of the white warriors took advantage of the opportunity for the tooth soldiers to shout, ran with all their strength, and threw the cowhide bag at his waist towards the city wall.
"Kill! Kill! Seeing this, the rest of the warriors also fearlessly stepped forward and threw dozens of cowhide bags. A small half of the cowhide bag fell into the trench under the wall, but more than twenty flew up the wall. When the cowhide bag falls, a viscous liquid slowly flows out, staining the snow as black as ink.
"Fierce oil fire!?" The thin monkey who was drawing his bow like a moon turned pale with fright. Using a cowhide bag to carry out a fire attack with a fierce oil fire was the usual trick he and Ma Lan used on the way to Tuozhi City to ask for help during the Western Expedition: "Retreat quickly!" ”
Several Beiting Tooth soldiers, who had not experienced the Battle of Talas, were confused as to why the team had ordered the retreat, when they saw a light of fire flying from outside the city. As soon as the burning spear touched the slime, tongues of fire rose from the southern wall.
The hungry tongue of fire greedily licked and devoured the straw man, burning more and more, quickly connecting into a wall of fire, baking the snowflakes floating in the air into a little rain. When the rain falls, instead of pouring out the fire wall, it makes the fire more ferocious.
Black smoke billowed and flames blaze. People from all walks of life inside and outside the military fortress were startled by the flames that rose into the sky.
"Fierce oil fire?! The damned Yang Guozhong privately sold fierce oil and fire for profit, and even made the militaristic weapons flow into the hands of gangsters. Du Huan immediately sorted out the ins and outs of the fierce oil fire, and shouted: "Sand! Swift sand extinguishing fires. ”
The skinny monkey dodged very quickly, avoiding the scorching flames, and rolled down the slope of the wall. But two of his men were half a step slower, and half of their hair was bitten off by the flames. Fortunately, there was sand all over the fortress, and the two tooth soldiers were able to save their lives.
When the skinny monkey saw that the two brothers were fine, he grabbed a bag of sand and walked up the slope, then threw it into the fire with a flick of his arm. Seeing this, the tooth soldiers in the back followed suit.
The fire was weak, and more than a dozen white warriors also climbed to the city wall with flying claws. The thin monkey drew his horizontal knife and was about to step forward to fight, but he heard Zhao Dahui shouting below: "Team Xue, get out of the way." ”
The thin monkey didn't have time to think about it, so he shook a knife and turned around and retreated. As soon as he stepped onto the slope, he heard a thunderclap of thunderbolts burst through the air, and thirty crossbow bolts as thick as fingers tore through the dense snow curtain like black lightning and pierced into the body of the white warrior. Due to the strength of the crossbow arrows, many samurai were shot by arrows and were unsteady on their feet, falling off the city wall, falling into the trench and dying of breath.
"One more round!" Zhao Dahui nodded contentedly: "Yes, the elevation angle is strong enough, and the enemies who attack the city wall are like chopping melons and vegetables." ”
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