Chapter 08: Knots

"Back to the city!" Zhao Zi'an shouted and took the lead in rushing towards the city.

The defending soldiers of the Han army arrived at the head of the city almost at the same time as the siege soldiers of the Donghu army, and for a time the sound of the impact of weapons and the screams of being slashed and killed sounded everywhere in the city. After all, the Donghu army is climbing the ladder, and it is impossible to come up many people at once, and the number is not as large as the Han army, but the Han army has suffered a loss in physical strength. This is not that the innate quality of the Han army is not good, but that they rushed to the city to the bottom of the battle, and before the formation was finished, they ran to the city again, most of them ran out of breath, and for a time the two sides were evenly matched at the city wall.

Under the city, at the city gate, the Donghu army violently hit the city gate with a heavily armored war horse, the Han army tried to close the door several times, and was knocked open several times, but fortunately, the door hole was narrow, two Donghu army heavy armored cavalry collided up, and the others were blocked behind, and the attacker had to retreat to attack, otherwise the city gate was only afraid that it had been conquered.

Bai Qi rushed forward with dozens of people, but the city gate was only so big, it was impossible for dozens of people to use it, and Bai Qi was also helpless for a while, and his anxious forehead was sweating.

"Tom!" The city gate was hit hard again, this blow was very fierce, several soldiers who were against the door were knocked to the ground, the door suddenly opened a small half a foot, and there was a thud, a soldier of the Donghu army with heavy armor fell from the crack in the door to the city, fortunately he was wearing heavy armor, and it was difficult to stand up when he fell, and there were already Han soldiers on the side who raised their knives and fell, and hacked the soldiers of the Donghu army to death. But the soldier's body was caught in the crack of the door, pulling him out of the crack in the door and delaying a little time, several Donghu soldiers had rushed to the door, desperately pushing the door in, the Han soldiers inside the door shouted, and also pushed back desperately, the door moved between the two forces, and the gap between the two doors also became bigger and smaller, but they said that they couldn't close it tightly.

"Hold on!" Bai Qi shouted. But he knew that this was talking nonsense, who didn't know that the road had to be kept? The question is, how can you keep it? He saw that the Han soldiers in front of the door were blue one by one, but the Han soldiers behind him couldn't go up, and they didn't dare to let the soldiers in front of him retreat and change shifts.

He was anxious, the figure flashed, and a man with a face covered in blood and dressed in the uniform of the Han army commander rushed straight over, the cold light flashed in his hand, and he slashed at Bai Qi with a knife!

Bai Qi was taken aback, and was about to draw his sword, but saw that this man's knife was not swinging at himself, but at his side, and with a brush, he cut off the military flag on one side from the flagpole with a sword.

"What are you doing?!" Bai Qi was shocked and angry, and he didn't know what it meant that this Wu Chang suddenly went crazy.

The captain ignored Bai Qi, turned around and rushed straight to the door, squeezed into the crowd, and his hands were already wrapped into a rope with the flag of the general, raised his hand to pass the rope through the handles on both sides of the door, tied the two ends of the rope into a slipknot, and shouted: "Everyone listen to the order, one, two, three, push!" ”

The Han army who pushed the door shouted, and together they exerted force, and the door was pushed back a lot, and the captain took the opportunity to pull the slipknot at the end of the rope and tie the rope tightly.

In this way, this door invisibly added a resistance, although it could not be closed tightly, but this rope was equivalent to the strength of more than a dozen people, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Han army.

Clever! Bai Qi secretly praised in his heart, and shouted: "Withdraw from the door, change shifts!" ”

The Han soldiers in front of the door had already been supported to the limit, and as soon as they heard about the shift change, they retreated one after another, and the Han soldiers on standby behind them immediately rushed forward. In this short handover time, the gate was pushed open many more times, and the rope was more than half broken, and it only took a moment for it to be broken, if the Donghu army still had this moment.

The newly arrived Han soldiers exerted their strength together, and the door was pushed back little by little. Although both sides are exerting force inside and outside the door, the Han army has taken advantage of the moment of the rope block to change the new strength, and the Donghu soldiers outside the door have no chance to change shifts, the contrast between the strength of the two sides is obviously widened, and the door is finally irreversibly closed, with a bang, and the bolt falls.

The Han soldiers in front of the door sat down on the spot one after another, one by one with a long breath, almost all of them lost their strength.

"Quick, get some tree trunks or something to put against the door." The Wu Chang was also tired, so he sat there and said breathlessly.

Bai Qi had another secret praise in his heart.

The bolt of the door is horizontal, far less solid than holding the door vertically, if the Donghu army repeatedly hits at any cost, it is not impossible to open, if you find some tree trunks or the like to top the door, the defensive effect is much better.

"Go and find it!" He immediately gave an order to the soldiers on the side, then turned to the captain and asked, "Where are you hurt?" ”

"Yu, all the same, no injuries anywhere!" The captain took a few more breaths, and as he stood up, he replied, "I smeared this blood from the dead man in the doorway. ”

Bai Qi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled.