Seventy-sixth: Siege
All the bad news came for a few days, Xie Wuling, who thought he was Di Feng's friend, died, this news made Di Feng have a faint sentimentality, even if Xie Wuling rebelled, Di Feng didn't think he should die, if the people of the world had clothes and food to eat ghosts, they would rebel, loyalty and patriotism were nonsense for Di Feng, and Di Feng did not have such a strong sense of belonging to the Tang Dynasty; However, the second news is to listen to Di Feng's blood boiling at the same time as sentimental, Xiangyong County Order, County Cheng, and County Lieutenant all died in battle, the main book Zhao Ming led Xiangyong's remaining women and children to stick to Xiangyong for a day, and finally because he was outnumbered, Xiangyong was broken, the main Bo Zhao Ming was seriously injured and committed suicide in the city tower, Zhao Ming was the master of Xinning, the scholar who didn't like to laugh and be polite Di Feng still remembered clearly, I didn't think that the seemingly weak and unscrupulous person was so strong!
Thinking that Zhao Mingshang could sacrifice his life for righteousness, but he was afraid to watch the fleeing people at the entrance of the city, how could this be embarrassing, Di Feng made a sudden decision, "Come on, open the city gate and let these homeless people enter the city!" ”
"Wait~~~" "No~~"
Chou'er and Tian Yangming spoke at the same time to stop Di Feng.
Chou'er preemptively persuaded: "Lang Jun, the situation outside the city is unknown, if you open the city gate, if there is an ambush around the city and take advantage of the chaos to attack the city, how should we deal with our army of less than a thousand people?" ”
Tian Yangming also echoed: "What Chou'er said is good, there are hundreds of these homeless people, many of them are young and strong, how can you know that they are not spies of the rebels, if they come to cooperate with each other, Xinning will not be guaranteed!" For the safety of these hundreds of people, the lives of 5,000 people in Xinning were lost, and I hope that Brother Di will consider which is more important! ”
Di Feng was hesitating, when he suddenly heard a burst of people shouting and neighing from the woods outside the city, followed by a crowd of black pressurs, and from a distance, the endless rebels rushed out of the woods and swarmed in.
"Help, sir! ~~~" The homeless people under the city cried and wailed, and suddenly became a mess.
Seeing that Maitreya rebels became excited, he opened his bow like a full moon, and shot an arrow at the black and oppressive rebel army without aiming, and at the same time shouted in his mouth, "Grandma, you dogs eat my grandfather Shi with an arrow."
The arrow of the stone was powerful, and with a buzz, the arrow shot through three people in a row, and the Maitreya rebels were suppressed by this arrow, and they raised their shields and did not dare to rush forward again.
"Good! Well done, the stone will come to him with an arrow", Di Feng saw that the stone arrow shocked the rebel army, and immediately praised it and encouraged the stone to shoot again.
The stone was greatly encouraged, laughed and opened the bow again, but as soon as the bow was opened, only a good Tang bow was broken by the stone. Shi couldn't help but shout angrily: "What kind of broken bow is this, someone will bring a nine-stone bow to grandpa."
"Nine-stone bow, obediently, don't say that even if Xinning is in Qianzhou Mansion, he can't find a nine-stone bow! Lord County Lieutenant! The official replied with a bitter face.
One stone is about 100 catties, and nine stones are nearly 1,000 catties, not to mention whether such a bow can be pulled apart, it is a question of whether it can be made.
The official turned to look for a bow, and the rebel army under the city regrouped in formation, holding a shield and began to advance slowly.
The four-stone bow is the strongest bow that Xinning can find, the stone and Di Feng have one hand, each with an arrow on the wind, there are too many chaotic troops and there is no need to aim at all, the four-stone bow is full and shot, swishing twice, the stone's arrow is in the middle of a shieldman, the shield hand is shocked by the huge force and retreats a few steps, the arrow breaks through the shield and hits the shield player's forehead, and the head is cracked, red and white, splashing everywhere. Frightened, the other shieldmen at the front of the group retreated.
And Di Feng is not as skilled as a stone from a young age to hunt bows and arrows, he is completely blind when he first comes into contact with bows and arrows, but this blind arrow, flying over the head of the shield hand, is shooting a Maitreya leader on a horse, the leader was going to open the flying arrows, but Di Feng has entered the congenital, this arrow is attached to the internal strength of the disease like a meteor, the leader's action has just done half of the arrow has passed through the body, the leader of the Maitreya rebels as soon as the head is dead, the vanguard of the Maitreya rebels is suddenly in chaos, and the timid has turned around and ran back.
As a result, the stone with the bow and arrow was not heeded, but Di Feng's blind arrow attracted the roar of "Great Old Man Mighty", and the chaotic army that attacked the city gate also retreated with the roar.
Now the scene under the city is very weird, on the side of the east gate of Xinning, the displaced people are in a panic under the city gate to huddle a group of cries and shouts, and the Maitreya rebels on the opposite side are running back in a panic, and the rebels on both sides of the city gate are neatly holding shields and moving forward slowly, standing in the city tower and looking down, it is like a huge "concave" word is buckled towards Xinning City.
The chaotic army organized by the Maitreya Sect, after all, is not a battle-hardened border guard, although they are in a neat formation, but they lack siege experience, no one has considered that Xinning will have a natural moat, which is also thanks to Xie Wuling, he did not arrange people to attack Xinning from the beginning, and these tens of thousands of Maitreya rebels are the "elite" specially prepared by the Maitreya Sect to attack Sizhou, but it is a pity that now it has become a straggler from Sizhou.
Sizhou is the ancient city wall of the high city, located on the east bank of the Wujiang River and Xinning Township adjacent to Baili, although there is no Xinning such a scale of the wharf, but the water transport business is earlier than Xinning, it is also a rare rich place in Qianzhou, and Sizhou is a fetter state, the assassin Shi Tian Weikang is not only in charge of Sizhou but also hangs the false title of the governor of the Qianzhou Governor's Office, in Qianzhou belongs to the Lord who listens to the tune and does not listen to the Xuan, his subordinates can be said to be elite soldiers and strong generals, by no means comparable to the unity soldiers, in the face of the invading Maitreya rebellion, Tian Weikang directly led the troops out of the city, The rabble of the Maitreya Sect and Tian Weikang's soldiers and horses were crushed at the touch of a button, and Tian Weikang was killed for a hundred miles in one go, but fortunately, Tian Weikang was worried about the emptiness of Sizhou, so he collected his troops and returned to the city.
The Maitreya cultists who were killed and scattered, fortunately not been wiped out, they were led by the leader Ji Cheng, all the way to converge the rout of the army all the way north, and came to Xinning City by mistake, the siege equipment prepared for the attack on Sizhou was also lost in the escape, and the situation in Xinning was not familiar with it, and now when I arrived at the edge of the city, I found that Xinning City actually had a natural moat, the river was five meters wide, although the river water level dropped due to the drought for several days, but the bottom of the river was full of knee-deep silt, which could not be passed at all, and one by one could only look at the city and sigh, Fortunately, there are still bushes by the moat to hide, otherwise they will become a live target for the soldiers of Xinning City.
In this way, the Xinning defenders and the tens of thousands of rebellious troops of the Maitreya Sect were stalemate, and no one dared to enter the range of the four stone bows at the city gate, facing the two perverts of Shi and Di Feng, and the rebel army outside the city wall on both sides could only shoot sporadically with the defenders at the head of the city, which did not pose any threat to Xinning City.
Ji Cheng saw that such a stalemate was not a solution, so he had to leave some of the men and horses to keep an eye on the displaced people under the city, and the rest of the men and horses retreated half a mile to cut down wood and make siege equipment.
And Di Feng in the city also came up with a way to let the displaced people enter the city during this time, and for today's plan, he could only take advantage of the lack of shields of the Maitreya rebel army and the lack of siege equipment, and use hanging blue to hang the displaced people one by one on the city.
The hanging basket put down more than a dozen, and the homeless people immediately rushed to the hanging basket, but there were too many people to tear and crowd for a while, and no one could sit on the hanging basket, no matter how the city soldiers scolded, these homeless people still crowded together in their own way.
Di Feng and Tian Yangming looked anxious and were about to go down to the outside of the city to maintain order among the displaced people, but they were stopped by everyone, how could the two daughters be in danger.
"Master, let's let the stone go!" The stone scrambled to speak.
"You can't, as a county lieutenant, there are more important things for you to handle" Di Feng refused the stone.
"It's a pity that Cao Shangfei and Yan Qing are not in the city, the Lingnan Five Tigers and Wu Dayou are staying in the development zone, Ah Duo and other Barbarian God Sect masters have gone to Mingzhou, and the ugly child can't go down, and now I really can't pick out a suitable person who is proficient in martial arts."
Di Feng was worried, and he heard someone say: "Di County Order, let the villain go, the villain is an orphan and has no worries, even if he dies in the city, it is not in vain."
Di Feng saw that this person was in his twenties, handsome, but with a cynical expression on his face, "It looks familiar", Di Feng thought about it carefully, and then thought that this was Zhang Xiaoguang among the two heroes of Yiyan that he met in the development zone.
"Good man, you go, do this, and then you will go to Ling'er's fleet to be a famous team," Di Feng patted Zhang Xiaoguang on the shoulder and said; He has already thought that this Zhang Xiaoguang is a usable talent, if he performs well this time, he can help Ling'er to manage the water transport fleet in the future, and now the water transport business is booming, maybe someone will take the risk to do the business of robbing houses on the water one day, and it is not possible without an armed escort fleet.
"Whoa!" Zhang Xiaoguang responded, and slid the rope down the city.
As soon as Zhang Xiao's feet occupied the area, he held the horizontal knife handle in his hand and yelled: "All retreat, violators will be killed!" ”
The homeless people were frightened by the menacing Zhang Xiaoguang's roar, and they involuntarily retreated and left the hanging basket, but there were also a few strong men, who did not retreat but approached, and took out short knives from their arms while approaching Zhang Xiaoguang one by one.
"Sure enough, there are spies mixed with the homeless!" Di Feng was also afraid for a while, if these people sneaked into the city, he and others would stick to the city, they would suddenly attack in the city gate, and it would be too late to rescue them at that time, and no matter how high their martial arts were, they would not be able to resist the impact of tens of thousands of people.
Zhang Xiaoguang was really extraordinary, facing the seven people who pounced at the same time, I saw him backhanding out the knife, the knife speed was extremely fast, and it was only slightly inferior to Tian Yangming, and the next big man was divided into two by the flash of the knife, and then Zhang Xiaoguang fell with the knife, squatted and swept, and after a scream, another person was cut off his feet.
Zhang Xiaoguang was fighting fiercely here, and more than a hundred or so people rushed out of the Maitreya camp on the opposite side and rushed towards the city gate with Tang bows in their hands, wanting to rescue.
It's a pity that they use a stone bow, far outside their range, the stone is an arrow to a Maitreya who ran in the front, Di Feng also has the opportunity to practice archery, arrow after arrow shooting, although ten are not one, but after shooting more than a dozen arrows, he also gradually touched the law of this bow and arrow, occasionally an arrow headshot also attracted a lot of applause, Tian Yangming's archery is also good, he uses a three-stone bow, as long as he can get it, almost one arrow is also a harvest of human life.
When the Maitreya cultists who rushed out retreated again, Zhang Xiaoguang also solved all the spies around him, and the homeless people were also frightened by Zhang Xiaoguang's ruthlessness, obediently obeyed Zhang Xiaoguang's command, and began to step into the hanging basket in an orderly manner.