Chapter Thirty-Eight
The night is dark, and the day is lonely.
On the hill outside the northern city, Dong Zhuo was independent of the top of the mountain and dissolved into the lonely night.
Herod!
The black unicorn on the side let out a low hiss, but the sound was not loud, and it disappeared in the cold wind in an instant.
Dong Zhuo's eyes as heavy as autumn water seemed to penetrate everything, staring at the head of Tongguo City with a lonely lamp and wildfire shining at his feet.
Tong passed under the north city gate, Li Shi quietly approached the city gate with three thousand men and horses, and lay quietly under the city, without the slightest sound.
Looking at the city gate in front of him, Li Shi Lengjun's gaze, flashed a touch of forest, a section of siege wood was carried up by several soldiers in the dark, the north gate of the siege vehicle crashed for a long time during the day, even the gate was rotten, to break through again, it is easier than other city gates.
"Knock knock~"
A loud crash resounded in the night sky, and one or two dozen sturdy soldiers carried siege beams and slammed them against the tattered gates.
Next, Dong Zhuo's most fearful scene happened.
Li Shi and the others just started to break open the city gate, and several jars in the air were suddenly thrown down, and in the broken clay pots, the pungent smell of fire oil spread, and one of the fire oil cans happened to fall on top of Li Shi's head, and was cut by Li Shi with a knife, but the fire oil was drenched on him.
Before Dong Zhuojun could react, several torches had already fallen from the sky.
"No~"
Li roared angrily, anxiously wanting to run out, but it was too late, a tongue of fire rushed into the sky, and it was particularly dazzling in the dark night, and more than a dozen figures were wrapped in tongues of fire with screams outside the city gate.
"Shoot the arrows!"
An area at the head of the city of Beicheng was illuminated by the sudden firelight, and Dong Zhuo around him suddenly became a live target, even if the Huns in the city did not know much about the art of war, they also decisively gave the order to attack at this time.
"Woo Woo Woo ~ "
With a terrible sound of breaking the air, the archers who had already been quietly mobilized poured out the feather arrows in their hands wantonly.
Li Shi's whole person was wrapped in flames at this moment, rolling and struggling in the sea of fire in pain, there was no way to command the battle, and the surrounding Dong Zhuo army was in a mess, and the sporadic counterattacks could not pose any threat to the soldiers at the head of the city.
"Whew!"
An unusual cracking sound sounded.
In the darkness, a feathered arrow that shone with a bewitching light in the firelight passed through the chaotic crowd of five chapters, and hit the throat of Li Shi, who was rolling and struggling in the sea of fire in pain, ending his pain.
"General Marksman! Unparalleled in the world! ”
The soldiers around Huyan Xiutu at the head of the city hurriedly took the strong bow handed by Huyan Xiutu, and still did not forget to make a few sycophants.
The surrounding Hun soldiers also echoed, looking at Huyan Xiutu with eyes like the wolf god descending to earth.
It is no wonder that during the day, Huyan Xiutu led the Hun men to repel the attack of the Han army twice, and predicted that there would be an enemy attack at night.
At this time, all the Xiongnu soldiers no longer had any doubts about Huyan Xiutu's order.
"Blow the horn and order the sons to attack!"
A wave of excitement rose in Huyan Xiutu's heart, and with a wave of his hand, he decisively ordered the Huns under his command to attack.
God-given opportunity, now the leader of the enemy will die, the Han army below is leaderless, chaotic, unable to advance or retreat, not out at this time, more when?
"Huh?"
Hearing this, the pro-soldiers on the side were stunned for a moment, with strange expressions, but they couldn't say anything for a long time.
"What's wrong?"
Huyan Xiutu was in a good mood at this time, knocked on the head of his own soldier with a smile, and asked with a smile.
The soldier said with an ugly face, "General, the city gate is blocked, and you can't get out!" ”
"Made? I forgot about it! ”
Hu Yanxiu Tu, scolded, felt a little disappointed, and actually forgot about it.
Before Dong Zhuojun arrived, when Huyan Xiutu arranged the city defense, he felt that the northern city was close to the hill and lower than the city wall, and it was conducive to the enemy commander-in-chief to observe the battle situation and command the issuance of orders.
Therefore, Huyan Xiu Tu expected that the Han army would definitely attack from the north city, and for the sake of insurance, Hu Yan Xiu Tu directly ordered the soldiers to carry stones and completely block the gate of the north city.
The effect of Huyan Xiutu's move is obvious, allowing Dong Zhuojun's siege vehicles to rampage during the day, but they can't hit the city gate in the slightest.
It's a pity that in this way, it also blocked their way to attack.
Huyan Xiutu can't let the soldiers jump down from the city wall to pursue Dong Zhuojun!
Although the Hun Erlang has always been brave and good at fighting, but in the end, it is still the father and mother who raise the flesh and blood, if they really jump, they will still be smashed into meat sauce.
"Shoot the arrows, shoot me hard, transfer the soldiers of the other city gates, and don't let any of the Han troops under the city escape!"
Annoyed and angry, Hu Yanxiu Tu viciously ordered, as if killing all the Han troops who sneaked up, but he couldn't relieve the evil anger in his heart.
There is no way, the idea of blocking the city gate is that he came up with it himself, he can't sprinkle it on his head, he can only "wrong" the Han army under the city.
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"Li Shi, they can't come back!"
Not far from the top of the mountain, Xu Jiang, who was beside Dong Zhuo, looked at the raging sea of fire in the north city below the mountain, and sighed faintly.
"They won't die in vain!"
Dong Zhuo snorted coldly, still standing with his hands in his hands.
"It's a pity Li Shi, I hope he can come back alive!"
Dong Zhuo stared at the different figure at the head of the city, this was an unusual Huns.
In just one day, a small Tong crossed the city, but it lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses of Dong Zhuo, which was the most battle Dong Zhuo fought when he came to this world!
This Huyan Xiu Tu is not simple!
From the soldiers who retreated from the front line of the battlefield in the evening, Dong Zhuo learned the name of the Xiongnu guard.
Huyan, a surname of many famous generals.
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"General, most of the defenders at the head of the city have withdrawn!"
In the darkness a mile outside the southern city, a nimble scout quietly ran from the direction of the city gate, whispering in the ear of the leading guard.
"Hmm!"
A gleam flashed in the general's eyes, and success or failure was in this move.
None of the Huns defending the city in the south city have been attracted to the north gate by Li Shi and them, and the defenders of the south gate are less than half of the previous ones, and he Wang Qiao has no reason to fail.
"Pass the order, let the brothers get ready, and after a stick of incense, let the brothers attack the city!"
"Understood!"
A few heralds beside him quietly left, and issued an order to the black-armored army hidden in the darkness behind him.
The time of a stick of incense was not long, but it arrived late in the slow waiting of Wang Qiao and tens of thousands of soldiers.
"Let's go!"
Wang Qiao stood up and pointed straight at the head of the city.