Chapter 626: The city is broken and people flee
"Kill—"
"Kill—"
The shouting of killing suddenly sounded near the north city gate, breaking the extreme silence of the night, under the city wall and near the city gate, the big food army, the servant army and the strong men were awakened by these large numbers of shouting and killing in their sleep, and when they opened their eyes and got up, they saw a large number of Tang soldiers rushing from the direction of the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The servants and the strong men fled in a panic to hinder the enemy of the Great Food Army, and the fleeing servants and strong men running everywhere made it impossible for the Great Food Army to form a military formation to resist the soldiers of the Tang Army who rushed over.
"Death to Lao Tzu!" Zhao Chongyu rushed to the front of a big food soldier and cut off the horizontal knife in his hand, a head rolled to the ground, blood burst out, he kicked down the headless corpse, and stabbed a big food soldier in the abdomen behind, at this time, the Tang army behind also rushed up, fiercely stabbed with the weapon in his hand.
There was a big chaos at the city gate and under the city wall, the scuffle began, the big food army was panicked under the surprise attack, the courage was lost, the morale was lost, and the army formation could not be formed, so they could only fight separately, but they were killed and retreated, one by one they were either killed or stabbed and stabbed, and the Tang army came prepared, and with a heart of revenge and shame, it was fierce and abnormal, and one by one pounced on it and did not want to die, the big food army could not resist at all, and was either killed or scattered.
Ziyad, who was on the city tower, had already woken up, and he immediately rushed down from the city tower with his guards to resist the attack of the Tang army led by Zhao Chongyu.
Zhao Chongyu cut down more than a dozen big food soldiers with a face, and the other Tang army soldiers also killed a lot, and the big food army at the city gate was quickly cleaned up, but he soon saw a large number of big food soldiers rushing down from the city tower, and he immediately wiped the blood beads on his face and shouted to the deputy general behind him: "Open the city gate to Lao Tzu to guard, send a signal to the army outside the city, quickly!" ”
"Good!" The adjutant general agreed, and immediately ordered several soldiers to move away some stones blocked in the city gate, and removed the big wooden bolt on the city gate, more than a dozen Tang soldiers pulled the two gates inward together, with the continuous sound of creaking, the city finally opened, and a Tang soldier stood at the entrance of the city gate and kept waving torches.
Someone in the Tang army, who had already prepared the camp two miles away, saw the fire at the city gate, Li Sheng was the first to react, raised his horse lance and shouted: "The city gate is opened, and the meritorious service is at this time, and all the soldiers will follow me into the city!" Drive-"
"Kill—"
Bai Xiaode, Servant Gu Huaien, Xuan Er, Xuan San and others raised their weapons and shouted: "Rush-"
The galloping sound of 10,000 horses in the camp sounded, the ground shook violently, and the cavalry of the Tang Army rushed out, everyone holding torches in one hand and weapons in the other, and rushed to the open city gate two miles away with only their legs, like a burning fire dragon piercing the dark night.
Inside the city gate, Ziad rushed down with the big food army on the city wall to fight with the Tang army, and he found that a Tang army general was wielding a weapon like chopping a watermelon to kill the big food soldier under his command, and immediately became furious, rushed to the Tang general with a scimitar and shouted: "Kill him for me."
Zhao Chongyu also saw a general of the Great Food Army rushing over with a large number of soldiers, and also shouted: "Soldiers, give it to me!" ”
"Clang-" The scimitar and the horizontal knife collided together with a screeching sound.
Zhao Chongyu looked at it, it turned out to be Ziade, the main general of the Great Food Army who had captured him before, remembering that he had lost face after being killed by this guy, and suddenly his heart was full of hatred and anger, and he pushed Ziad away and raised the horizontal knife again to slash at the top of Ziade's head, Ziyad immediately parried with a scimitar and began to counterattack, the two fought together, and they kept yelling when they made moves, and they were inextricably killed for a while, and no one could help anyone.
At this time, the big food army in the city wall area in other places rushed over when they heard that something was happening here, and a large number of cavalry rushed over from both sides of the city wall, which made Zhao Chongxuan and his lieutenant feel a great increase in pressure.
At this moment, the sound of shouting and killing sounded in the direction of the outside of the city, the Tang army outside the city rushed over, Li Sheng held a torch in one hand, and a horse lance in the other hand took the lead in rushing into the city gate hole, just rushed through the city gate hole, and killed a big food army general head-on, he immediately threw the torch to the other party, the big food army general reflexively leaned back to avoid the torch, and when he straightened up his waist again, he was faced with a huge and sharp horse lance gun.
"Poof", the horse lance pierced through the iron armor and pierced into the chest of the general of the big food army, Ma Sheng used both hands, the body of the general of the big food army was picked up, and then shook hard, the corpse on the head of the lance flew to smash over a large piece of the big food army, and he stood up and rushed into the oncoming big food army cavalry, like a tiger like a flock of sheep slaughtered, the Tang army cavalry behind him also rushed over, the soldiers were divided into three roads, all the way along the middle line of the city gate to the city to kill, the second road to the left along the city wall rushed forward, The third way went to the right and killed under the city wall, and led all the cavalry into the city, and the infantry behind also followed and rushed into the city, and began to kill on the city wall.
After a large number of his men were killed, Ziad felt that the general situation had gone, and he retreated in the direction of the palace in the city under the desperate protection of his personal guards, and in the process of retreating, he snatched a few horses from the cavalry under his command and quickly rushed to the palace.
By the time Ziad arrived at the gate of the palace, he had been awakened by a large number of shouts of killing, and had walked out in full armor at this time, followed by two hundred guards.
Seeing Ziad jumping off his horse in embarrassment, Posilin immediately asked, "Ziade, what is going on?" ”
Ziad gasped and wiped the blood on his face and said: "Lord Governor, the Tang army somehow suddenly appeared in the city and seized the city gate while we were asleep, and now a large number of Tang troops have rushed in, and I am afraid that this city will not be able to hold it!" ”
And Bo Xilin's face turned pale, turned his head to look at the left and right of the palace, and sighed: "I thought that as long as we didn't make any mistakes, with the city defense of this city, we should be able to hold out until the Tang army retreated, but after the Tang army attacked the city for three days, the city wall was destroyed by the Tang army and was almost crumbling, I knew that this city would not be able to stand it for long, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, it doesn't matter how they suddenly appeared in the city!" Since the city can't stand it, then we can only give up! Ziad, take your men and follow me into the palace, and go quickly! ”
Ziad wondered, isn't he going to break through? How can you still enter the palace? With regret on his face, he agreed, "Yes, my lord! ”
And Bo Silin and Ziad with more than 200 personal soldiers quickly attacked the palace and closed the palace door, under the leadership of Bo Silin, everyone came to a side hall, entered one of the rooms, and under the guidance of Bo Silin, several personal soldiers lifted the extremely fast wooden planks on the ground, revealing a huge black hole.
Ziad and the rest of the guards were surprised, "This"
And Bo Xilin said: "This is the entrance to the underground passage outside the outer city, the exit is in a house not far from the south of the river, three months ago after we entered the city, an official of the palace rushed me, I ordered to kill him, he prayed to me for his life, and told me the secret, he said that this was a few generations ago the king of Kangguo sent people to dig secretly, in order to prevent this city from being breached and can be used to escape, I have personally walked through this hole, but I can reach the river, I have sent someone to meet us in the house at the exit disguised as a local in advance, and hid a dozen boats by the river, and prepared three hundred horses by the river, and now the Mi and Shi countries in the south should still be under the control of our army, and there are still three thousand cavalry of our army over there, we quickly rushed over and returned with this group of men and horses to quickly withdraw to Dashi! ”
Ziad and the other guards were overjoyed to hear this, and they went down the tunnel one after another under the guidance of Bo Silin, and when all the people entered the tunnel, the tunnel entrance was covered by them from the inside, and when the Tang army killed the palace and broke through the palace gate to search, they did not find their voices.
And Posilin and Ziad led more than 200 guards through the long tunnels and finally came out of a stone house by the river, where they were received by two large cannibals dressed as locals.
Tang Jun also searched in this area, saw that there were people living here, and did not find any abnormal situation and ignored it, but did not expect that there was an exit from a tunnel here, Tang Jun dug a tunnel to break through the city, and Bo Xilin escaped from another tunnel, which can not but be said to be a coincidence and providence.
The large pile of hay piled up on the river in front of the hut seemed to be for livestock, but when he asked the guards to remove the hay, a dozen small boats were exposed, and Posilin asked more than two hundred guards to drag the boats into the water, and then everyone got on the boats and rowed with small oars to the other side of the river.
Li Sheng led a large number of soldiers and horses to the gate of the palace, saw that the palace gate was closed, and immediately called someone to carry it and hit the wood to hit the palace gate, and soon hit the palace gate, Li Sheng gave an order: "Rush in, search!" If anyone resists, they will be killed! ”
The whole palace was full of the corpses of the attendants, there were blood stains everywhere, and there was not a single living person in sight, and the Tang army searched the side, except for a pile of valuable gold and silver utensils, nothing else was found, and no one was caught.
A small colonel came over and reported to Li Shengyu: "General Qiyu, all the corpses in the palace are there, and the subordinates have not found a single living person, only these gold and silver utensils have been turned out."
"What? Didn't find a living person? Li Sheng felt a little surprised.
"Yes!"
"Impossible!" Li Sheng waved his hand and said angrily, "Are these people all committing suicide?" We broke through the palace gate and rushed in, that is to say, someone closed the palace gate inside, and then killed these attendants, the murderer must be the commander of the Great Food Army, the governor of Khorasan Province and Bo Silin, there must be a secret passage here, go and let the brothers search carefully, you must find the secret passage! ”
"No!"
Under the search of a large number of soldiers, the entrance to the secret passage was finally found, and by the time Li Sheng came out of the exit of the riverside hut with his soldiers and horses, he and Ziad had already crossed the river to the opposite bank with more than 200 personal guards and galloped away on horseback.
Seeing that Bo Xilin had run away, Li Sheng immediately came to the military camp outside the city to see Zhao Ziliang and reported: "General, we have broken the city, and now we are clearing the remnants of the enemy in the city, the commander of the Great Food Army, and Bo Xilin and the general Ziad fled from a dark passage in the palace to the south of the river and ran to the other side of the river by boat, when the last general arrived with people, he heard a large number of horses' hooves on the other side of the river, and the last general has sent someone to inform us of the men and horses stationed on the other side of the river, so that they can immediately send people to chase them!" ”
After listening to Li Sheng's report, Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "It seems that Bo Xilin has already left such a back road for himself, and he is afraid that he will not be able to catch up if he sends someone to chase after him at this time." Now that the remnants of the city have almost been wiped out, (to be continued.) )