"Shangyang people suffer the most; How about the young and the old, the young and the old?"

As the source of the allusion to Bai Juyi's "Shangyang White-haired Man", the famous claustrophobic place of the cold palace in the previous dynasties has changed its appearance at this time.

Uncle Zhang stood expressionlessly on the Qibao Pavilion at the highest point of Shangyang Palace, using a large magnification of the close mirror, looking at the wilderness outside the city full of smoke and fireworks, and there were scenes of chasing and killing and fighting everywhere.

It is the so-called hellish cruel scenery of "wind and snow and swords, guns and arrows flying together, and the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood are the same color". It's just that his mood is not as calm as his expression.

As a veteran general who has been in the border affairs for a long time, he will not recognize the origin of Hu Ma'er in these felt hats and leather robes.

He even pursued and captured some of them as appendages to the swagger, and with a single message, he called their chiefs to and from them, kneeling in awe on the dirt floor of their tents, and making all sorts of gestures of humility and submission. On behalf of the national dynasty, he personally told and appeased some of them.

But now, he can only be trapped in a corner of this Luodu city, watching the land of Dugi turn into a hunting ground for these Huma to gallop and chase deer, and do nothing, among which there are so many banners and banners that it is dizzying and impossible to argue.

Although under their hunting, the first to bear the brunt of the attack was undoubtedly those Southern Liang armies that continued to plunder, and these Southern armies obviously lacked the experience and means to deal with the Saiwai Hu cavalry.

Even the tens of thousands of horses and horses who were urgently dispatched from the city to meet the battle, trying to recapture the heavy equipment in the camp outside the Upper East Gate, did not go far, and were exhausted by the means of galloping and shooting everywhere, and even the backup of the connection was too late to be dispatched.

Although the hostile camp has been hit hard, which is undoubtedly a happy fact, Zhang Shuye is not happy at all.

But the existence of so much of Huma itself also means another terrible fact, from Yunzhong, Hedong Province to Hebei Province, the vast Yanbian and inland hinterland, how the situation and fate have become uncontrollable.

At least in these hungry Hu Ma'er, who were trapped and tormented in the snow of Hu Tianfei, the areas they passed through along the way would be poisoned and ravaged, one can imagine what kind of poison and rage they would suffer.

This may be a worse and more tragic consequence than being captured by the Southern Dynasty, at least the Southern Dynasty wants the name and righteousness of the unification of the world, and will not slaughter and plunder these occupied territories too much.

Although he had already been mentally prepared for the results of all-out deployment of border troops for internal defense. But the cruelty and reality and the worst result still made him resolute, and he couldn't help but be pessimistic and disappointed.

Even if those Southern Dynasty military horses are defeated in the future, this great river and mountain in the north still doesn't know where to pick up, and this will only be the end of no winners.

Then he thought of the soldiers in the city whose families were in Hebei, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to escape, and they had already accounted for more than half of the defenders in the city. Once something is leaked, it is likely to be the result of a chain collapse of morale and fighting spirit, and I have already secretly decided in my heart that at least for a short time, we must press down on similar news and speculation.

And in the north of Luodu, the temporary camp at the upper east gate,.

"Panic what. It's just a few minor setbacks."

Wang Song, who had just woken up from his stupor, was pale and energetic, and said to the only remaining generals under the tent,

"Even if we lose the battle outside the city, we still have at least more than 50,000 armored ...... in the city."

"We also have the middle road military horses in the south of the city, which can be used as a close backup ......"

"There are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Wugao Pass, and they can be sent to respond"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but pause, but he remembered the army that was known as "the first to defend in the field" and "invincible". If they are in such a situation, how can they control themselves? I thought so in my heart, but I didn't know how it tasted, but I continued to cheer up.

"The handsome company of Xuzhou will not let such a situation go ......"

"As long as we work together, we can cope with the difficult situation after this moment......"

"From this moment on, we will make every effort to gather the troops and put them into five military orders......

"A unified arrangement and management of materials and armor, and the soldiers and soldiers should search for the necessary uses on the spot"

"I don't care what your reasons are, if you can't do it, you will replace ......"

"Only in this current situation, there is no need for people who are afraid of things in the position of corpse meal......"

"The dynasty has been a soldier for many years, and now it's time for you to repay your efforts......

After he said so many words in one breath, he couldn't help but choke violently, and he almost turned his back on his breath because of these words, which made the generals who were so easy to be a little excited because of these words inevitably re-colored a shadow.

Then, some people suddenly remembered that the king's encouragement and analysis from beginning to end did not mention a word, in case he could not take care of things, who should take over the follow-up overall command order.

There are not even basic hints and statements, you must know that under normal circumstances, several figures who are qualified to take over the command of the whole army are now outside the city, and it is very likely that they will fall into the enemy and their life and death are unknown, and these generals who remain in the city are generally shorter in terms of seniority and rank.

This discovery can't help but give birth to other different thoughts and thoughts in their hearts.

And the attack on the White Horse Temple has also entered a certain hot climax and critical juncture.

As the high-ranking captives who were shot in front of the battle seemed to have turned on the switch of some kind of crazy killing, those frenzied and furious Humar, driven by some inexplicable will and strength, finally used the absolute numerical superiority to pile up the suppressive order of the gun, and directly pushed the battle into the tragic hand-to-hand combat on the outer wall.

As a result, the casualties of the defenders skyrocketed. But as the leader of the army, Zhang Xian was not so nervous, and even a little relieved, for him, the enemy who did not provoke the momentum and stood by was a certain morale and psychological threat.

After going all out in this way, those superfluous means and calculations have no room to exert themselves, and they only need to use all their resources to deal with the enemy in front of them.

Like him, who is usually low-key, calm and cautious, flexible, and has enough qualifications, and is willing to work hard to learn new things, the more he is compelled by the situation, the more he can squeeze out a relatively considerable potential and exert himself in the face of adversity.

In contrast, Zhao Liangsi, who is also an old senior in the army, can only be used as a deputy to cooperate with the role.

Fortunately, they still had thousands of friendly troops in their shelter, and after a slight reorganization of the cavalry hunting battalion, it was easy to select a group of brave men who "voluntarily" strengthened to the front and block the enemy's situation with the soldiers, so that the relatively valuable gunners and artillery could retreat slightly to the second line for a little replenishment and rearmament, and then continue to use guns to cover the killing and wounding of the enemy.

In addition, in cooperation with the small-scale counter-attack organized by the hunting cavalry battalion, in the midst of the surging enemy tide, a multiple front with point-to-surface support and elastic defense was reconstructed, and those who lacked the equipment and means to attack the fortified positions became more and more difficult the further they advanced.

It is quite reluctant to let these athletes who are accustomed to galloping horses dismount and do the act of climbing and attacking the fortifications. Therefore, when these bloody Hu cavalry tribesmen once again left a lot of corpses from the White Horse Temple and returned in vain.

In some cheers and encouragement, he struggled to launch several huge and incomparable equipment, but it was a small crossbow with standard configuration, which was actually small compared to those large siege equipment that could easily be several feet, and it itself was at least the size of a large car. Looking at the familiar shape, it is obviously the spoils of war captured from the camp of the Shangqing Palace,

"One-two-three-four-five"

Zhang Xian counted silently, and gave the order to snipe at the hunters again, and the deliberate retention of the range before this was for the key use of this moment.

With several faint crisp sounds, the effect of this time's out-of-bounds shooting was unexpectedly good, among which the enemy soldier who was operating the crossbow on the side suddenly burst out of a ball of blood on his body, and the wrong hand deflected the direction, and shot directly on the other crossbow on the side, and suddenly the debris between the two crossbows splashed, knocking down the people around him a lot, and hitting the third crossbow in parallel with the unabated trend

Tumbling to the ground with a huge inertia, it is impossible to come in handy again in a short period of time. But the remaining two crossbows were fired anyway, and a group of three heavy arrows fired high and flew over the heads of the defenders, hitting the remains of a tower.

The other group unfortunately hit the upper end of the reinforced wall, and in the splash of dirt, a set of artillery was overturned on the spot, and several soldiers operating the cannon were nailed to the ground diagonally.

Zhang Xian sighed, the most difficult moment had come, and began to greet Zhao Liangsi, ready to pay a certain price and launch a counterattack to destroy these equipment.

Suddenly, they pricked up their ears sideways, as if they heard something.

But it was the camp of the White Horse Temple, something that had been awaited for a long time, a green flame arrow whistling in the air, and several horn cannons rang out.

At this moment, it seemed that even the wind and snow were shocked to a halt, and then both the attackers and defenders could feel some kind of trembling of the snowy ground, as well as the glittering armor of a large number of people and horses running and marching in the vague horizon.

After discovering this change, the besieging brigade Humaer also urgently sounded the horn of mobilization, and the cavalry of the detachment came out to face the incoming situation chaotically, trying to quickly assemble an array to meet the battle.

But the first to strike was a dozen or so scorching iron balls, which fell first into the surrounded people and horses, and immediately bounced and ran to plow out a number of fleshy and tortuous ravines.

Half an hour later, Zhang Xian, who personally led his subordinates to launch a full-scale counterattack, looked at it with some surprise that the flour dumpling paw print banner that was waving in the wind was actually the general who personally led the troops to support.