Chapter 4 Killing Chickens and Monkeys
"His second aunt, is the water boiling? The housekeeper is urging again! ”
"Bundle the hay tightly and don't spill the contents out!"
"it, hurry up and find the lid of our pot, and it will be used to block the arrows in a while!"
The Panjiabao was full of people, all the people were mobilized by Pan Xiaogu, the more than 100 middle-aged men were organized in groups of five, each group was commanded by a Pan family's disciples, most of them were equipped with hoes and rakes and other agricultural tools as weapons, some of them also found pot lids and door panels as shields, and they would stop the Turks from climbing up on the wall during the battle; The woman and the child were not idle, according to Pan Xiaogu's instructions, the woman gathered a few cauldrons and boiled water and oil under the city wall, while the children helped carry the equipment that could be used to defend the city, such as stones, slabs and bricks, and threw them outside the wall during the battle.
In addition, the hay and firewood of each house were also gathered, a small part was used to boil water, and the rest were tied into bundles by the old people in the fort, and each bundle of hay was stuffed with something that could smoke such as onions, garlic and ashes, and the outside was also sprinkled with tung oil. After the fight, these old men will follow Pan Xiaogu's instructions, light these hay and throw it outside the wall, and use flames and smoke to stop the enemy from attacking, these hay can be regarded as the most lethal weapons in Panjiabao, the only thing that makes Pan Xiaogu a little regretful that there seems to be no chili peppers in this era, otherwise the effect of smoke is better and the lethality is greater.
Those few who knew martial arts were deployed to the watchtower by Pan Xiaogu, and the only few pairs of bows and arrows in the fort were also equipped to these people, and their responsibility was to be responsible for containing the Turkic archers as much as possible.
The Turks outside Panjiabao are not idle, they are scattered into several groups around the entire Panjiabao to reconnoiter and harass, looking for the defense loopholes of the dock fort, I have to say that the location of Panjiabao is excellent, not only built on the only high ground in this area, but also dug up all the surrounding soil slopes, forming a small cliff four or five meters high, plus the wall of the dock fort itself about three meters, the height is close to three zhang, higher than the wall of the general small city, the Turks can not find the loophole, so they have to return to the south of Panjiabao to assemble, Because only this side of the slope has not been completely excavated, a gentle slope of about 50 meters has been preserved near the gate.
However, this side is not easy to attack, not only the wall is higher and thicker than other directions, the number of watchtowers is also more, and the construction is more solid and tall, there is a watchtower of three or four zhang every ten meters behind the wall facing the soil slope, a total of four high-rise buildings condescendingly looking down on the only offensive channel.
The Turks should also find it tricky, so they got together and discussed for a while, which gave Pan Xiaogu time to organize the defense forces. When Panjiabao's side was almost ready, and the Turks also discussed, the first battle after Pan Xiaogu's crossing was fought so inexplicably.
"The Turks have attacked the city, the Turks have attacked the city!" The watchtower was the first to discover the movements of the Turks and issued an alarm, and his alarm caused a commotion in Panjiabao, but fortunately, the children of the Pan family were more powerful than the housekeeper, and the commotion was quickly suppressed.
After Pan Xiaogu heard the alarm, he came to the gatehouse, followed by two sturdy men in addition to a few housekeepers, who were Pan Xiaogu's guards.
The Turks outside the fort formed a simple phalanx, with the infantry in front and the cavalry behind, leaving no reserves, and the whole army slowly pressed up in waves.
"Damn, are the Turks all tigers? Come up and play a wave? Look for death! Pan Xiaogu saw that the Turks directly pressed up the whole army regardless of it, and scolded helplessly in his heart, if he had a regular army in his hands, he didn't even need a regular army, and a trained militia would do, and the behavior of these Turks could be regarded as looking for death, but unfortunately Pan Xiaogu only had a group of untrained farmers in his hands, and he was suddenly shocked by the turbulent momentum of the Turks.
Pan Xiaogu used his afterglow to find that many people were already trembling with their legs and ready to run away at any time, although the children of the Pan family kept shouting and suppressing, but it seemed that they would soon be unable to suppress it, as long as one person escaped, then the consequences-
Before Pan Xiaogu could figure out whether to use a heavy reward or a speech to boost morale, a farmer threw down his 'weapon' and turned around and fled, and the children of the Pan family in charge of this team reached out to pull him, but he pushed him aside.
"Pan Hu! Take someone's head! Pan Xiaogu shouted and pointed at the man.
A man who was originally standing behind Pan Xiaogu responded loudly, jumped off the wall directly, pulled out the firewood knife on his waist and rushed to chase after the man, raised the firewood knife and slashed it on the man's back from top to bottom, and cut the fleeing person to the ground at once, but unfortunately the firewood knife is used to chop wood after all, and it is not easy to cut people, this time it was not hacked to death, after falling to the ground, the man was still struggling to crawl forward, but unfortunately he was stepped on by a big foot and could not move, Pan Hu cruelly raised the firewood knife again and slashed at the man's neck- The master's order was to take the head of the other, but unfortunately the first knife was crooked.
Pan Hu slashed several times before cutting off the man's head, and then grabbed the man's hair and raised his head, during which he screamed and wailed and the flesh was splashed, the scene was bloody and terrifying, but Pan Xiaogu didn't look at it, when Pan Hu cut down the man, he turned his eyes to observe the expressions of the others, and saw that the others were shocked and did not run away again, so he was relieved.
"Did you see it all? Those who dare to escape from the battle will be killed! "It's not enough to kill people to establish power, you have to move them with affection, understand them with reason, and lure them to benefit," Your wives and children are all in the fort, who do you run to protect them, the Turks come in, no one can live, don't forget that the Turks are all on horseback!" I swear in the name of the patriarch of the Pan family, as long as the Turks are repulsed, all the rents will be exempted this year, and whoever can kill a Turk will be divided into five acres of land by my Pan family! The sons and daughters of Panjiabao, kill Hu and divide the land! ”
"Kill the Hu!" Most of the people in Panjiabao are tenants of the Pan family, and when they heard that there was land to be divided, they all turned red with excitement, and they all responded to the noise, and the originally low morale suddenly rose, of course, there was also the result of the children of the Pan family mixed in the crowd.
Whew——Seeing that the morale on his side was finally boosted, Pan Xiaogu finally breathed a sigh of relief, although he did not use the milder method he had prepared at the beginning, but turned into a more bloody killing chicken-killing monkey, but the effect seemed to be better
Fortunately, my brother reacted quickly, and it was a blessing in disguise, the chicken that died, thank you for your efforts.
"Turks, let me see what you are capable of." Pan Xiaogu's eyes were coldly fixed on the Turkic people who were getting closer and closer!