Chapter 5: Alone

At the dawn of autumn on the borderlands, the frozen night watchman shivered, and the cold autumn wind pierced into your bones like a knife. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIn the anticipation of the night watchmen, the first rays of sunlight finally hit the city walls.

The sound of a desolate trumpet woke the weary guards. The three of the wounded barracks, old and young, had already prepared for a long time, one old, one young and one young, and the three of them went up to the top of the city and began to examine the lightly wounded.

As soon as he climbed the city wall, Li Deyi immediately noticed that the fat fire head had already patrolled the city wall. The big fat man paced back and forth, his eyes the size of a copper bell with a solemn face staring at the Tuliao cavalry under the city, his brows furrowed, and from time to time he groped for the short whiskers on his chin with his big fan-sized hand.

The big fat man suddenly shouted: "Enemy attack!" Put up a big shield! As soon as he finished speaking, the whizzing feather arrows had reached the city. Li Deyi just had time to raise the small wooden shield on his arm, in fact, it was a temporary wooden barrel bottom, the big shield in the army was too heavy, Li Deyi couldn't lift it with a small strength, after being raided yesterday, Li De found the bottom of this wooden barrel as soon as he went back to make up for it.

Thanks to this, this wave of feather arrows was just an ordinary thing, and it landed on the shield and did not explode. There weren't many of them, and after a while, they were gone, and no one was hurt.

After a while, seeing that the Tuliao people no longer released arrows, Han and Qian hurriedly came to the old doctor Sun and said, "Master Sun, the two of us have exhausted the Tuliao people under the city. Thinking about it, the people who are attacking my Dingbei County are a small tribe of the Tuliao people, not most of the royal court, so although there are "explosive arrows", there must not be many, yesterday's siege of the city has long been exhausted, what is the opinion of the unknown military division? As soon as Li De heard this, he turned his head to stare at Old Doctor Sun, and also wanted to know what was going on.

The old doctor Sun was about to answer, but the big fat man Wang had already come over, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the Sprinkle family sees that this group of Tuliao dog thieves has exhausted their strength, and the two of them put together the sons and daughters who always ride horses, and let the Sprinkle family rush out to fight for a while, and they will definitely be able to repel these Tuliao dog thieves with one drum." The two generals shouted in unison: "You don't want to mess around, now the victory or defeat in front of you is unknown, we will wait to defend the city, if you go out of the city to engage in the battle in case of defeat, you and I will not be able to escape the blame." ”

Old Medical Officer Sun walked to the edge of the women's wall, stared at the Tuliao people under the city, and raised his hand to stop the competition between the two sides: "Dingbei County is located in a remote area, and I think the defeated army that came yesterday must be deserters from the nearby North Gate Pass." If the North Gate Pass has been broken, the Tuliao army will inevitably go straight to Beijing, and it will definitely not care about our remote cities like Dingbei County, so the city must be those small grassland tribes who follow the army of the Tuliao royal court to take advantage and take the opportunity to fight the grass valley. The two generals nodded their heads again and again, and Sun Yiguan said: "I supervise the Tuliao people under the city with my divine eyes, last night they sent soldiers to cut down big trees in the mountains, and they must build engineering equipment, although the Tuliao people's equipment is crude and unbearable, but the Dingbei city wall is short and dilapidated, if the Tuliao people attack the city with equipment, I am afraid it will be difficult to defend for a long time." Han General said: "In this case, is Sun Junshi supporting Wang Fatzi to go out of the city to fight?" ”

"Don't rush out, I have few soldiers, and there are less than a hundred mules and horses in the city. Even a hundred cavalry can't get together, if you go out of the city with a foot formation, even if you win a small victory, I am afraid you will not be able to retreat, if you lose, the whole army will be annihilated. Therefore, they can only surprise their troops, attack them unprepared, and leave with one blow, and never fall in love with war. "Old Medical Officer Sun calmly analyzed the tactics." Hey, you can't attack, you can't defend, and it's uncomfortable to sprinkle your family. The big fat man slammed the iron whip in his hand to the ground, and Li Deyi felt that the city wall under his feet trembled. Hugh should be noisy, and come with ears. As soon as the old doctor Sun reached out and grabbed the ears of the big fat man, he pulled the person to him like a chicken, and commanded in a low voice. As soon as Li Deyi saw that the old doctor Sun could easily pull his ears and pull the big fat man to his side, he was surprised in his heart: "Is this body fake?" Or is it Grandpa Sun's divine power? ”

The two generals listened to the words of the old doctor Sun next to them, and couldn't help nodding their heads again and again, and the big fat man Wang was so beautiful that he grinned. After the old doctor Sun gave the order, Han Jiang shouted loudly: "Sons, bring the drums and gongs in the camp to the city, and all of them are sounded." Those who had no drums or gongs in their hands shouted loudly to make them have the strength to feed. Liu Wuchang! Go and strip off the corpses of the Tuliao people who were killed yesterday and hang them at the head of the city! Let's also stir up this gang of Tuliao dog thieves in the city. After a while, all the soldiers in the city began to act according to the order, and even Li Deyi shouted loudly.

Li De kept shouting dizzy, and his eyes were full of stars, and at this time, the Tuliao cavalry under the city gradually gathered. Li Deyi exhaled and was about to shout again, but Doctor Liu grabbed him, "Don't shout anymore, save your strength and prepare to save people." As he spoke, he pulled Li De up the city wall and came to a side gate to wait. As soon as Li Deyi saw that there were 100 cavalry at this side gate, the leader was Wang Da Fatzi. The big fat man did not ride a horse, but stood at the forefront of the team on foot, covered in three layers of armor, holding a large iron whip in one hand and a huge iron shield in the other. Li De saw that the big iron shield was also specially made, five or six inches thick, and it was full of thick iron sheets for weight gain, as tall as an ordinary Cheng Ding strong man, and the shield was full of iron barbs, each thorn was two or three inches long, and the roots were all black and swarthy to look at, which made people chill.

Suddenly, Li Deyi heard the shouting on the city wall: "Enemy attack, rain of arrows, raise shield!" When the big fat man heard this shout, he asked a soldier next to him to open the side door, and the first soldier rushed out, shouting to kill in his mouth, and the hundred and ten horsemen behind him also rushed out, shouting in unison.

Seeing that the cavalry had rushed out of the side door, Li Deyi suddenly found that the last person to rush out was actually a mule, rubbed his eyes, and found that he was not mistakenly a mule, and there was no one on the mule's back, so he rushed out naked. Li Deyi was stunned by this mule for a while, and then he turned his head and ran towards the city wall, shouting loudly: "Little Doctor Liu, let me go up and take a look, and I won't delay the business." ”

The drums on the top of the city suddenly became intense, and there was a thump of knock knock...... The money commander still didn't think the drum sounded, so he stepped forward and lifted the drum to cheer for the cavalry under the city. Li Deyi saw that the Tuliao cavalry under the city was shooting their bows and arrows at the head of the city with the speed of their horses, and at the same time rushing down to cover the improvised siege mallet city, and at this time they had already rushed to within dozens of steps.

The cavalry of the Weibei battalion, which rushed out from the side gate, had already rushed to the main gate at this time, and went straight to the attacking Tuliao cavalry. Wang Da Fat ran at the front of the entire cavalry team, and actually threw off the cavalry behind him five or six paces away. Li De's mouth widened, and he thought to himself: "What my third grandfather said about someone in this world who is as fast as a galloping horse is true. No, no, it's faster than a horse. ”

The distance of dozens of steps was coming in an instant, and the attacking Tuliao cavalry obviously did not expect that after severely damaging the defenders with 'explosive arrows' on the first day, the defenders would dare to go out of the city to fight. At this time, the second wave of arrows of the Tuliao cavalry had just shot to the head of the city, and when they saw the attacking cavalry, they hurriedly drew arrows from the quiver and wanted to shoot again, but unfortunately it was too late, Wang Zhuangbiao was too fast, and he had already rushed to the front of the Tuliao cavalry at this moment.

At this moment, the big fat man Wang carried the huge shield in front of him, and a few Tuliao cavalry rushed over. "Get out!!" The big fat man shouted loudly, and Li Deyi felt that he was shocked by this voice from afar, and even felt that the city wall under his feet was shaking. Wang Da Fat's arm was struggling, and he used the giant shield in his hand to lift the Tuliao cavalry into the air, and after overturning a cavalry, he leaned to the side, and the sharp spikes on the shield pierced directly into the body of another Tuliao cavalry's war horse, relying on the speed of running, several big blood holes were directly opened on the war horse, and the horse's blood sprayed all over the giant shield. The iron whip in the right hand of the big fat man took advantage of the situation, and he picked out another Tuliao cavalryman.

As soon as the two armies engaged, Wang Da Fat killed three horsemen in a row, and the whole person also rushed into the Tuliao cavalry formation for a long time to attack, and the formation of the Tuliao cavalry suddenly stagnated, and the follow-up Weibei battalion cavalry followed. With Wang Zhuangbiao's extremely sharp knife tip on the head, the more than 100 cavalry of the Weibei battalion broke a big hole in the cavalry of the Tuliao people like cutting cold oil with a hot knife. After breaking the formation, the big fat man didn't stay long, carrying a huge shield and continuing to rush forward with the cavalry. "Shoot the arrows, release the arrows! Give cover to the brothers in the city. Han shouted loudly on the city wall.

Wang Da Fat Man took the cavalry of less than 100 people and went straight to the siege equipment being built in the rear of the Tuliao people. At this time, the Tuliao people in the rear were already prepared, and hurriedly organized hundreds of cavalry to try to stop the incoming Weibei battalion cavalry. Li Deyi saw this scene on the city wall and thought to himself: "It's bad, the surprise attack can't be completed, I hope I don't fold in the formation." ”

The rear formation of the Tuliao people was about 300 steps away from the city wall, and when Wang Da Fatzi led the team to kill, the Tuliao people had already surrounded and protected the siege equipment. When Wang Zhuangbiao rushed closer, according to the cavalry of Wang Da Fat Man who rushed over, he was waiting for a rain of arrows, and Wang Da Fat Man suddenly inserted more than a dozen arrows into his body, but he didn't care, the speed was not slow but fast, and went straight to the nearest siege machine.

Running to the front, I saw that the big fat man suddenly jumped forward, and jumped up more than one person high, and at the same time protected the huge shield under him, which even had four or five hundred catties of armor, and then counted the speed faster than the war horse. A loud bang came, and Wang Zhuangbiao was like a boulder, smashing into the Tuliao formation, and even bursting a circle of dust when he landed, and the shock wave alone directly overturned all the nearby Tuliao cavalry. Li De, who was watching this time, was dumbfounded, and said in his heart: "This is solved?" This style of play is too fierce, it's really unreasonable. After smashing one of them, he didn't care about the Tuliao cavalry around him, and turned his head and ran towards the next siege machine. The cavalry rushed up, took off an oil tank from their horses, smashed it on the unfinished siege equipment, sprinkled the oil, and finally the horsemen who arrived took out the fire folds and lit the oil. The raging fire instantly engulfed the wooden instrument and the fainting Tuliao soldiers on the ground nearby.

The gourd was still painted in the back, and in an instant, several half-finished siege equipment were destroyed, and a fire was ignited. The big fat man Wang circled around, found that it was almost over, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the work is done!" Hurry up and withdraw! You go first, and then you will be behind the palace. ”

This group of cavalry turned around and retreated to Dingbei County, while Wang Da Fat slowed down and ran at the end, and retreated. When he was about to reach the city, suddenly someone in the city shouted, "The Tuliao cavalry is coming." The big fat man turned around suddenly, and it turned out to be a single cavalry of Tuliao chasing after him.

Li Deyi saw clearly on the city wall, the chasing Tuliao cavalry, in terms of body size alone, is about the same as Wang Da Fat, the whole person is tall and mighty, riding on a horse, and his feet are almost on the ground. Shirtless, with the thick chest hair on his chest, he was dark, covered with criss-crossing scars, and a large scar on his face was slanted from the tip of his eyebrows to the corners of his mouth. The fierce man carried a big stick in his hand, the head of which was full of spikes, and in the other hand he whipped vigorously and rushed towards the big fat man.

The big fat man put on a posture, nailed his feet back and forth, stood sideways, carried the shield on his chest with one hand, and actually put the iron whip on the ground with the other. Li Deyi stood on the city wall and stuck his head out to look, thinking that the big fat man was out of strength, and couldn't help shouting anxiously: "Run, it's too late." As soon as the shouting arrived, this sudden fierce man had already chased in front of him, screaming in his mouth, raising his mace with both hands, and slashing down at the big fat man. Wang Da Fat raised the shield with one hand and took it, and with a "boom", it shook the dust and sand in the sky. When the dust and sand landed, Li Deyi found that the two of them were not moving, and it turned out that the spikes on the shield of the big fat man of Wang Da were pinned together with the spikes on the big stick of the Tuliao general. The two of them are competing.

Both of them pursed their mouths and competed, but the big fat man loosened the big iron whip he had been holding with his other hand, quickly reached into his arms and took out a big golden brick, and shouted: "Medium." After saying that, the gold brick was smashed straight towards the face door of the Liao man, who had been guarding against the iron whip of the fat man, but he didn't expect him to have this trick, and he was caught off guard. As soon as the big fat man saw his hand, he quickly stepped forward to pick up the gold bricks, scooped up the iron whip, and smashed the brain of this fierce man with an iron whip, and then turned his head and went straight to the city wall.

On the city wall, the Han general was prepared and shouted: "Put the hemp rope!" The thick hemp rope at the mouth of the bowl went down the city wall, and the big fat man under the city grabbed the hemp rope, and at the same time dragged it up with his hands alternately, and actually ran directly onto the city wall. After arriving at the head of the city, he jumped up violently, jumped directly into the city wall, and landed with a "boom" sound, which shook the soldiers who rushed over and were ready to cheer. "There were no casualties, but unfortunately I couldn't cut off the head of the fierce man in the end, so I can't make it a general." The soldier who followed replied in a loud voice, and when he had finished speaking, there was another laughter in the city.

Doctor Xiao Liu had already pulled Li Deyi over and began to remove the armor of the big fat man, and by the way, he saw if there were any arrows on his body. Although the fat man was shot like a hedgehog by an arrow, thanks to the three layers of armor, he was not shot into the flesh by the arrow. Li De glanced at the fat man Wang Da who revealed a layer of fat inside after removing the armor, and thought sullenly: "Just this body of fat, even if you shoot through the three layers of armor outside, you can't shoot deep." After checking the fat man with Xiao Liu, he went down to the city wall to check the injuries of the cavalry. As soon as Dr. Liu turned his head and left, the fat man reached out and took out a small wine jug in his arms, and took a sip while no one was paying attention.

Li De asked as he walked: "Brother Wang is really brave." What is the name of the gold brick he finally hit? Doctor Xiao Liu smiled and said, "You ask this?" It was a stunt handed down by his ancestors, and it is said that it was taught by the Taizu of this dynasty, called 'the meteor that didn't take it'" "Oh! That's a big deal. "When Li De heard this famous hall, his face was full of admiration." Well, it's a long story. Before the Taizu of this dynasty started, he was fighting on the streets, fighting with people to make a green brick, and every shot must be hit. The ancestor of Wang Da Fat is called Wang Dabiao, and he once competed with Taizu, you will know the ancestral body shape of the Wang family when you hear this name. At that time, Wang Dabiao was also a famous scoundrel, and later fought with Taizu, and was wedged on the door of his head by Taizu's green brick and lay directly on the ground. After Wang Dabiao recovered from his injuries, he knelt on the ground and worshiped Taizu as the leader. Later, Wang Dabiao was cheeky and pestered Taizu to learn this stunt, and passed it on from generation to generation as a family heirloom, and this generation was passed on to Wang Zhuangbiao. As he spoke, he began to unload the armor and examine the injuries of the soldiers who had returned from the attack one by one.

Li De was busy with his work, and his mouth didn't stop: "Brother Liu, keep pulling, don't stop." "More than 600 years ago, after the chaos in the world, Taizu raised troops, and Wang Dabiao also followed to support Taizu, relying on this unique skill to make repeated military exploits, but he was irritable and couldn't lead the army, so he could only be a pioneer officer. Later, in order to appease him, Taizu promised to give him a pure gold brick in the future to show his outstanding military achievements. After the establishment of the country, Taizu really gave his ancestor a gold brick, weighing 40 catties, 328 coins, engraved on the front of the "100 shots and 100 hits", and engraved on the back "Founding Merit". However, according to legend, there is also a bite of an apple carved on the front of this gold brick, but no one knows what it means. I wonder if it's just a rumor by later generations, how could my grandfather be wise and martial, how could he engrave a bitten apple for no reason? ”

"It turns out that this is his family's ancestral gold brick stunt, no wonder it is so powerful, one blow can knock the general off the horse, and directly hit the peach blossoms on his face." "He hasn't practiced yet, don't look at his majesty on the battlefield, that's not awesome, although he said that the five passes are all practiced, looking infinitely powerful, but he has not been able to integrate the five links into one, he has not broken the mirror for a few years, and now he has not been able to cultivate his true appearance, and he can't step through the threshold of transcendence. When he encounters something really powerful, he can't do it, he just has the strength to be stupid. When Li De heard this, he was speechless, thinking that Wang Da Fat Man was so majestic on the battlefield, this is not the most powerful, there are more capable strongmen above, and for a moment Li Deyi thought about it.

Li Deyi followed Doctor Liu to Doctor Sun's place. Old Medical Officer Sun, Wang Da Fat Man, the two generals are getting together to discuss things at the moment. "This wave of Tuliao people must be a small tribe on the grassland, they have suffered such a big loss in the siege of the city in the past two days, they will inevitably withdraw, and if they continue to fight, even if the city is broken, this tribe will not be able to survive this winter." Old Medical Officer Sun touched his beard and analyzed. "Old Master Sun, when it gets dark, let the Sprinkle family lead the team to rush him for a while. Let the Sprinkle family get a few more heads to avenge Mr. Li. Wang Da Fat said with a flattering face. Han Jiang has rich experience in the general battle formation, and hurriedly persuaded: "Okay, let's rest, the Tuliao people are not fools, they were caught off guard by you this time, they must have taken precautions, in case there is still that kind of 'explosive arrow', you will definitely suffer a big loss when you go out again." The big fat man smiled and rubbed his hands, and stopped squeaking.

The old medical officer Sun looked at Wang Da Fat and smiled: "If you want to pick up this cheap again, you are greedy, and you are most afraid of taking risks when marching and fighting." But I can't let this tribe withdraw safely in vain, I really saw it at the head of the city, and I couldn't attack the city for two days in a row, and suffered a big loss, and lost the general, tonight this group of Tuliao people will inevitably retreat. After dark, you lay an ambush with a group of men, make more torches, take two or three for each person, bring more gongs and war drums, and wait for the trumpet of the city to sound, just go forward with noise, but you are only allowed to walk slowly. A total of 100 steps forward, but it takes half an hour to make noise. "Why is that? Fight and not fight, retreat and not retreat? Wang Da Fat asked with a little dissatisfaction, "I expect that the Tuliao people will retreat at night and dare not engage in battle, we will attack, he will be flustered, and there must be a lot of baggage pulled down in a hurry, and the next morning to pick up the baggage dropped by the Tuliao people, this winter is not good, we have to make more plans." Let the soldiers clean up the battlefield well, pick up everything that can be used, and not a single broken arrow can fall! We have to think about getting through this winter first. Old Doctor Sun commanded with a solemn face.

Han and Qian hurriedly took over: "Or is your old man thoughtful, but I don't know why you are sad this winter?" "What the border army has been like in the past ten years, you and I know very well that the Tuliao people are menacing in the grass valley this time, and they also brought a new type of 'explosive arrow' to break through the North Gate Pass guarded by Uncle Cao Guo in one fell swoop, and I estimate that the pass on this road will not be able to hold it. It is very likely that the Tuliao people have already arrived at the gate of the Beijing Division, the Remnant Yang Pass. As soon as the remnant sun pass is blocked, all the materials cannot be transported, the Tuliao people do not withdraw, and the reinforcements will not come. This winter, we will not have reinforcements, and we will have no supplies, so I am afraid that we will all have to rely on ourselves for the New Year. Old Doctor Sun said, his face already showing worry.

"Aren't we alone?!" The big fat man said casually.

At this time, Li Deyi followed Medical Officer Xiao Liu into the military tent, and Old Medical Officer Sun saw Li Deyi coming in, beckoned to Li Deyi, and asked him to come over. "This is Li Youshui's grandson, named Li Deyi." Ah, hearing this, Han and Qian were both taken aback.