356 Battle of Linzi (6)
Li Su's eyes trembled...... He knew that the only end of falling down the wall was death. Luan Lu was martyred, this man who has been with him for six years...... Gone! He was only twenty-six years old, and he had lost his most precious life at such a young age.
Li Su couldn't help but think of the first time he met Luan Lu, when he and Lu Bu had just visited Luan Yi's tent, and always thought that Luan Yi had sent Luan Lu to them to spy on them. Out of this jealousy, they have been ignoring Luan Lu's love.
Luan Lu was unimpressed by this, and greeted them with that trademark gentle smile every time he saw them.
Li Su will never forget Luan Lu's appearance when he smiled, on his handsome face, the corners of his mouth were so raised, neither high nor low, which made people look comfortable from the bottom of their hearts. As the mouth rises, a slight wrinkle appears on the emaciated face, with a little playfulness, which makes people can't help but want to get close. Especially those eyes, they also laughed, and their eyes narrowed into a line, revealing crescent-like eyes. The half of the eyeballs in his eyes shone with a soft light.
After a long period of contact, Luan Lu melted the hearts of Li Su and Lu Bu with this gentle smile, and became good friends who talked about everything in the following days.
Now, his friend has passed away, and the warm smile has left, which makes Li Su very sentimental, accompanied by monstrous anger.
"Dog thief, I'll fight with you!" He frantically waved his sword in his hand like crazy.
Along with Li Su, there were also church guards and people all over the city. Since the fourth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, Luan Lu was transferred from the Patriarch of the Holy Xiongjun to the local area to serve as the Patriarch of the Qingzhou Branch, and he has worked tirelessly and conscientiously to seek well-being for the people living in difficulty on the front line all the year round. Whoever has difficulties, he will definitely be able to solve them.
In the past two years, the "Holy Light Daily" has published the most news about Qingzhou, and the number of Qingzhou good people in the "Holy Light Daily" is the largest, which also indirectly witnesses Luanlu's work achievements in Qingzhou.
It can be said that every inch of soil on the boundary of Qingzhou has left his footprints, and every church has an image of his sermons.
You know, he's a high-ranking priest of the Church whose position is almost equivalent to that of the state assassin. To be able to go so deep into the grassroots, how can the people not be moved. The people even gave him the name of "angel on earth".
Now, when the angels have been martyred by the wicked and returned to heaven, how can the people not be angry?
"Private child, dare to kill my patriarch! I'm fighting with you. ”
The people copied the simple weapons and frantically killed Yuan Bing, and after a while, they jumped down the city with Yuan Bing in their arms.
Yuan Bing was shocked...... In a panic, I saw a forty-year-old woman rushing in front of a Yuan soldier. Yuan Bing just wanted to raise the gun to fight back, but he felt that the spear was tight, and the head of the gun was grabbed by a middle-aged man, and his hand touched the head of the gun, and the flesh and blood were blurred.
At this time, I heard the woman shouting: "The master, leave it to me here!" "The man and the woman are a couple. Yuan Bing was still stunned at this moment, and he felt a huge force coming from his waist, and it was the woman who grabbed his waist and pushed him out of the wall.
Yuan Bing was horrified, hurriedly threw away the spear, took out the dagger from his arms, and stabbed his mother-in-law in the back frantically. The mother-in-law screamed non-stop, but she still didn't breathe after eating more than ten knives, and forced him to the root of the wall.
At the critical moment of life and death, Yuan Bing was horrified, and at the same time, he burst out with a powerful force, holding the female wall tightly with his hand and refusing to fall off the wall.
At this time, the mother-in-law's man appeared again, "Mother, I'm here!" …… Let's tie the knot again in heaven...... For the glory of the Virgin", the man roared with red eyes and rushed towards Yuan Bing as if crazy, and the husband and wife dragged Yuan Bing to fall down the wall like a rag bag, killing him on the spot.
As soon as he saw this posture, Yuan Bingke was scared. They immediately realized that the Biao man in front of them was not here to fight them at all, but to send them to death, and to send them to death, and to pull them on their backs before they died.
They were terrified, and a strong sense of fear grew from the bottom of their hearts and quickly took over every corner of their hearts. They are here to siege the city, but they are not here to accompany this group of madmen to commit mass suicide.
In the face of the suicide attacks of the people, the Yuan soldiers at the head of the city trembled and did not dare to step forward. As soon as their footsteps stopped, they stopped the people who had ascended the city behind them.
Li Su seized the opportunity and gave the order of thundering the drum. After shouting twice, there was no response, and when I looked up, I saw that the drummers rushed to the front line to fight with Yuan Bing. Li Su had to go into battle in person, strode to the drum, and smashed his fist against the skin drum.
Hearing the sound of thunder drums, led by the only remaining guards in the city, the people shouted and launched a crazy counterattack against Yuan's army.
The Yuan soldiers couldn't stand it, retreated from the city wall like a tide, and ran away with their heads in their hands.
In four days, more than 5,900 guards were killed on the Linzi Church side, and less than 600 remained, and all of them were wounded. Patriarch Luan Lu of the Diocese of Qingzhou was killed in battle, and more than 2,700 ordinary people died in the battle, and countless people were wounded.
On Yan Liang's side, more than 5,200 soldiers were killed, and the wounded were cautious. Combined with the more than 7,000 people who died on the battlefield in the previous two days, the total number of troops dropped from 35,000 to more than 22,000.
In the past four days, although the casualties on the side of the church were significantly higher than those of the Yuan army led by Yan Liang, the spirit of the guards who were fearless of death, and the spirit of defying death and swearing to defend the religion to the death, caused a huge spiritual blow to all the Yuan troops. So much so that now when I see Linzi City, my chest trembles.
After four days of fierce attack, even the distance was moved out, and he was stunned that he failed to capture Linzi City, which was only garrisoned by 6,500 people, which made Yan Liang very angry. Furious, he ordered the overseer team to go out and drive the soldiers to the city again, and vowed not to give up until Linzi City was taken.
This move caused great dissatisfaction among the soldiers. The vast majority of them had not closed their eyes for two days, had been digging the soil for two days and two nights, and had fought for a whole day, and they had long since lost their physical strength and had no strength to go into battle to kill the enemy.
Faced with the Overseer team that came to coerce them, the Yuan soldiers were furious and gathered to confront the Overseer. scolded: "How can anyone fight like this, and still treat us as human beings!" ”
"Even the brutes need to rest for a while!"
The more the soldiers talked, the more angry they became, and finally they fought with the Warlords.
Yan Liang saw that the matter was getting bigger, so he withdrew his order and transferred the overseer team back. Let the soldiers rest for the night, and then go to the siege tomorrow.
It was night, and Li Su didn't sleep all night. He had multiple injuries on his body, and the wounds were painful, and he couldn't sleep after tossing. I finally closed my eyes and wanted to take a nap, and I always thought about the city wall of Linzi in my mind. Right now...... There were less than 600 defenders left in Linzi. 600 people guard the 4 walls of more than 1,000 steps, which is equivalent to every 7 steps to stand on one person! This battle is really unfought......
He had thought about surrendering the city more than once, but every time the word "surrender" rushed out of his mind, Luanlu's figure would emerge from front of him, and with a pure smile, he would drive away the hateful thoughts.
"Luan Lu can sacrifice his life for the Holy Sect, why can't I!" Li Su muttered to himself in his sleep.
A peaceful night. As soon as it was dawn, the church guards in the city were awakened by the rumbling of war drums. The guards, who had been exhausted after several days of fighting, poked their heads out from behind the bamboo plaques and women's walls, looked at the Yuan army village, and saw thousands of Yuan troops pouring out of the gate of the village in waves, forming an array in the empty field in front of the wall.
Today's Yuan Bing's expression swept away yesterday's horror, and was replaced by a thick sense of shame. More than 20,000 people, attacking more than 6,000 troops, and the city garrisoned by the church guards took four days without taking it.
They are ashamed, and more angry. They secretly resolved that they would never give up until they captured Linzi today.
Li Su looked through the binoculars and saw Yuan Bing's murderous expression, and then looked at the appearance of his guards even pumping cold air. He knew that Linzi was afraid that he would not be able to hold it. The moment of his death was the time of the city's destruction.
At this moment, he thought of Luan Lu again, and felt that he also had to die with dignity and like a hero like Luan Lu.
He held up the seven-foot long sword, took the initiative to assume Luan's responsibilities, and shouted: "Brothers and sisters! Our Lady is with us. In the face of the great enemy, let's pray together. ”
I have to say that Li Su's level of leading prayer is far worse than Luan Lu's, and the prayers that are not long are stumbling. But the guards who closed their eyes and prayed behind them, the moment they opened their eyes again, they seemed to see Luanlu's shadow behind Li Su.
The last words of the patriarch at the time of his death came to their minds: "The people of Our Lady are invincible!" Resolutely can't let the Yuan thief capture Linzi! ”
"Never let the Yuan thief capture Linzi." I don't know who shouted first with his throat in his voice. Subsequently, more than 500 guards and more than 1,000 people shouted at the same time.
"Never let the Yuan thief capture Linzi."
A thick murderous aura burst out from people's eyes again, waiting for the last battle in their lives as if they were facing a great enemy.
Soon, the first batch of Yuan soldiers boarded the distance and hid in the cowhide shed and frantically threw arrows at the city, forcing the people at the city head behind the women's wall and bamboo bunkers. Then, the ladders and planks were set up on the city wall, and hundreds of Yuan soldiers screamed and slaughtered at the city.
Unlike yesterday, today's tug-of-war lasted for a short time, and in only half a pillar of incense, a large number of Yuan soldiers were killed at the head of the city, and the number was much more than the number of guards defending the city. The guards who are pressed are retreating one after another, and they will not be able to defend it when they see it.
At this moment when Li Su was almost desperate, he suddenly found that the Yuan soldiers who were besieging the city were bustling and chaotic. Then it receded like a tidal wave from the city.
Li Su was puzzled, and looked under the city wall with all the guards, and saw that the Yuan soldiers retreated to Dazhai like crazy. At this time, their big village was in chaos, dusty, and they couldn't see the situation clearly.
Under the reminder of his own soldiers, Li Su shivered and took out the binoculars from his arms, looking at the center of Yuan Zhai. Through the thick fog, a flag could be seen clearly.
It was a large flag with a white background, and a huge blood-red cross was embroidered on top of the white flag, and above the right side of the cross, there was a brown bear with its fangs exposed.
"That's ......" Li Su's face suddenly bloomed with an excited smile, pointing at Yuan Jun's Dazhai, shouting at the top of his voice: "Lu Tingshi has saved us, and the brothers of the Holy Bear Army have arrived!" ”