Chapter 1976: The Sound of a Trumpet in the Depths of the Night
The barbarians went one after another, although there were countless soldiers who died under the falling rocks, but they still bravely climbed to the top of the city, hundreds of ladders were built on the ruined and dilapidated city walls, compared to the previous attack, this attack was more ferocious, and the difficulty of climbing the city seemed to be much smaller.
Countless barbarians were knocked down from the top of the ladder, and the methods of the defenders were still the same, the fuel was burned, and many soldiers were instantly buried in the flames.
Tushi Khan's face was pale, although the barbarian army was going forward one after another, and the same was true of the defenders, both sides were like two exhausted beasts, but they were not willing to give up.
If he wants to take the city quickly, Tushi Khan is now counting on the thousands of strange soldiers in his tunnels.
He eagerly hoped that the strange army would be able to kill the Qin army defending the city from behind, and then open the city gates.
According to the time calculation, the soldiers who entered through the tunnel should have entered the city a long time ago, but there was no accident in the city, which made him a little restless, and he had already dismounted at this time, and kept walking back and forth.
At this moment, he saw several barbarian generals running to his side panting, with a disgraced and embarrassed face, suddenly Shi Shi glanced at it, was shocked, and said sharply: "Shamo, you should be in the city!" ”
Na Shamo cried with a sad face, "Tu Shi Khan, the big thing is not good, the people of the Qin State are too cunning, we have already entered the city, but before we can get out of the cave, they and they pierced the spear from above, the corpse blocked the entrance of the cave, and they and they have stones to seal the exit!" ”
Tursh Khan was really angry about this, "How did they know that we were going to attack through the tunnels? How could they possibly find the tunnels? ”
"We saw that the enemy had found out and was about to retreat, but the tunnel began to collapse downward, and then they poured water from the hole, we hey, the tunnel was very crowded, we couldn't stretch our hands and feet at all, the water filled the tunnel, and many people were suffocated alive in the tunnel!" Sha Mo was shocked, "Tushi Khan, several other tunnels were also discovered by them, all the tunnels were blocked and flooded by them, and the people in my tunnel, except for a few of us who escaped, were almost all suffocated inside. ”
The horsewhip in Tushi Khan's hand fell to the ground, and he hung his hand weakly, and said in a distracted manner: "How can this be! He looked up feebly at the fiery city in front of him, screaming as if to mock his incompetence and self-righteousness.
Tushi Khan's eyes gradually became cold, he suddenly pulled out his saber, turned over his horse, and said sharply: "Rush up to Ben Khan, Ben Khan will personally attack the city." ”
The continuous bad news came, and Tushi Khan was already in chaos.
He knew very well that even if he captured Wuping Mansion City this time, the barbarian tribes might not have a good opinion of him, and the continuous mistakes had lost too many men and horses.
It was his own idea to divide the troops into Panlong Mountain, and it was also his own decision to dig tunnels and steal into the city, but the soldiers and horses of these two roads were almost completely wiped out, and the number of dead and wounded was too amazing.
The most important thing is that these two groups of people, most of them are soldiers of other tribes, looking back and waiting for these people to calm down, I am afraid that they will feel that this is a means to deliberately weaken the strength of other tribes, and it is likely to offend the anger of the public and become the target of the public, although the strength of the tribe of Tushi is one of the best among the tribes of the grassland, it is more than enough to deal with any tribe, but if it is hated by all the tribes, and the tribes unite to deal with their own tribe, the consequences are really unimaginable.
Although the Qin army saw through the tricks of the barbarians and flooded the tunnels, suffocating thousands of barbarian troops, under the ferocious offensive of the barbarian army, the Qin army also suffered heavy casualties.
In addition to a large number of barbarians climbing the ladder to the head of the city, there are many barbarian archers, just under the city, looking for the opportunity to shoot the defenders of the city, often the defenders leaned out with a spear just stabbed a barbarian to death, then the barbarian archers found out, an arrow to kill, in the fire under the city, although there are countless barbarians in it screaming fiercely, but there are also many Qin soldiers who were shot down by arrows from the head of the city were engulfed in flames.
Although the defenders desperately blocked, the defense line of the entire city wall was too long, and the barbarians climbed to the top of the city, as long as they could hold on for a little time, they would immediately be followed by companions.
The soldiers on both sides are blood-stained battle clothes, but if they face each other, it will be life and death.
Tushi Khan took a bow and arrows, rushed to the city, shot several arrows in a row, several Qin soldiers were shot by him, seeing that many barbarians had already climbed the city, and the siege vehicles had already rammed the city gate to the crumbling, and it was about to collapse at any time, Tushi Khan was very excited.
Dingwu's original shining armor was already bloodstained at this time, this is of course the blood of the barbarians, the barbarian army climbed the city, where the sword of the Son of Heaven passed in his hand, the corpses were piled up, and the battle-hardened city was full of corpses lying on the ground, and the barbarians were more and more, like ants.
Most of the strong men defending the city can do it easily, but when they are in close contact with the barbarians, the defenders are already completely at a disadvantage.
In order to prevent the barbarians from attacking separately, there are still hundreds of guards distributed in other gates, and the barbarian army has attacked several times, but the guards have also killed and injured hundreds of people, and now at the head of this northern city, the guards are less than 2,000 people, and tens of thousands of barbarians are mainly attacking the northern city.
Barbarians live on the grassland, the conditions are harsh, they can ride and shoot well since childhood, and they are brave and ruthless, compared to the people of the Central Plains who mainly engage in agriculture, the barbarians have been in contact with bows and arrows since childhood, whether it is physical fitness or the fighting experience of individual soldiers, they are more than the strong men who defend the city, although the guards are slightly higher in combat ability, but most of the strong men who defend the city are not the opponents of the barbarians at all, and a large number of people are falling in a pool of blood.
Xuanyuan Shao slashed and killed, while paying attention to the location of Dingwu, and did not dare to be too far away from Dingwu, the big knife in his hand had already cut the blade, and snatched the saber from the hands of the barbarians, around him, the corpses were like mountains, but from outside the city wall, one after another barbarians came out, and climbed the city, the defenders at the head of the city have been entangled by the barbarians, and they are no longer able to prevent the barbarians from landing the city, Xuanyuan Shao knows very well in his heart that there are tens of thousands of barbarians attacking the city, they stormed the northern city, and the strength of the defenders is far below the barbarians, the longer the time, It can only be more beneficial to the brutes.
He fought hard to kill Dingwu's side, and saw that Dingwu's whole body was already red with blood, Xuanyuan Shao slashed a barbarian to death with a knife, approached Dingwu's side, and said: "Shengshang, the barbarians have boarded, we can't stop it, please ask the Shengshang to withdraw immediately and prepare to break through!" ”
"Breakout?" Dingwu's long sword stabbed out, piercing the throat of a brute soldier, and said in a deep voice, "When did I say that I would break through?" ”
"Holy Lord, the minister has prepared two hundred elite horsemen to wait in the city." Xuanyuan Shao said: "Holy Lord, the barbarians will soon rush into the city, we really can't resist it, it doesn't matter if the city is lost, but once the Holy Lord loses, Daqin will be finished!" A barbarian soldier had taken the opportunity to slash at Xuanyuan Shao from behind, but Xuanyuan Shao seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, the big knife stabbed out from under the ribs and stabbed into the brute's abdomen, leaning back, hitting the brute, the brute soldier immediately flew out, but Xuanyuan Shao still continued: "The minister begs the saint to consider the Jiangshan Sheji of Great Qin, and immediately prepare to break through!" ”
The roar of the barbarians under the city was overwhelming, and they obviously sensed that the situation was becoming more and more favorable to them, and in the sound of bull horns, the ant-like barbarians swarmed up.
Under the north city gate, several siege vehicles have been damaged, but new siege vehicles continue to rush up from behind, and the north city gate has cracked a gap large enough to accommodate one person to enter, inside the city gate, a black crowd is trying their best to block, the two sides even from the narrow door cracks, each other shooting bows and arrows, the ground inside and outside the city gate, but also lying all over the corpses.
Dingwu beheaded several people in a row, approached the edge of the battlements, looked down, and saw that the city was densely packed with barbarian soldiers, and the city wall was full of ladders.
His expression was cold, at this moment, he knew very well in his heart that it was difficult to stop the barbarian army from breaking through the city, and the defenders had done their best, but the disparity in strength was so great that they were powerless to return to the sky.
Suddenly, a trace of desolation crossed Ding Wu's eyes.
He was bent on reviving Great Qin, but he never thought that the Qin State would be destroyed by the barbarians.
Although the barbarians were introduced into the Central Plains by Feng Yuanpo and served the Qin State as a servant army, after Dingwu ascended the throne, not only did he not expel the barbarians, but instead used the barbarian army to quell the chaos for the Qin State.
Back then, the Qin State was rich all over the world, and the Great Qin Iron Cavalry was invincible, and Feng Yuan broke a feudal official of the Qin State, so that the barbarians could submit to him, and he was terrified, but now, the emperor of the Great Qin wanted to personally ascend to the city to fight with the barbarians that the Great Qin once disdained, and he was already doomed to defeat.
The night wind blew, but Dingwu felt a little cold on his body, and at this time, with the cold wind, there was a faint hint of the sound of the horn, the sound of the horn was unusually low, but it was quite different from the sound of the bull's horn.
Soon, Dingwu's keen hearing has been clearly heard, the horn is getting louder and louder, and it is coming from the west, Ding Wu has even faintly felt that the earth in the west is beginning to shake, he can't help but look to the west, in the dark night, he can't see the clues clearly for a while, but his hearing is amazing, in the feeling that the land is shaking, but he seems to hear thousands of troops and horses are killing from the west.