Chapter VIII: The Flames of War 3

The Dongcheng of Linjin Pass slowly opened up and a thousand guards hurried out, and under the leadership of a young general, they went straight to Shaoliang, which was east of the south of Linjin Pass. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Just after the departure of the thousand guards, Ni Tao, who had already discussed countermeasures with Wu Ming, rode a fast horse and shouted towards Yin Jin in the north.

The gates slammed shut again, leaving the dust raised by the horses as they departed.

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On the city wall, Wu Ming helped up Zhang Meng, who was bowing, and said: "General Zhang doesn't have to be like this, if you and I are ready for everything, how can the Qin people dare to attack the city like this, I just ask, if there is, of course it is good, since there is no then, it doesn't matter, we can also guard this Linjin Pass." ā€

"What the general said is that even if there is no fire attack, we are not afraid of these barbarian Qin and Diao people. Even if I, Zhang Meng, die, I want the Qin people to know how powerful my Great Wei soldiers are. ā€

"Okay, if General Zhang can have this heart, he will be more solid when he comes to Jinguan." While speaking, Wu Ming smiled and patted Zhang Meng's shoulder: "But General Zhang is so brave, it would be too much to die like this." Just now, the general has asked General Ni Tao to guide the reinforcements, it is estimated that it will not be long before the reinforcements arrive, and now we can get the final victory as long as we hold the Linjin Pass. ā€

"Reinforcements? The Han people hold grudges, the Zhao people were just injured by General Pang not long ago, not to mention the Qi people, and the Chu people and Yan people are too far away, doesn't it mean that we have no reinforcements! ā€

The sun shone on the swords, and the bright light made Zhang Meng's eyes narrow into a slit, and his face was even more puzzled.

In fact, Zhang Meng is very right, now that Wei has offended the four friendly neighboring countries to death, I am afraid that it will be difficult to reconcile without decades of time. Moreover, it was the Qin State that attacked the Wei State this time.

Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, Qin's national strength has increased sharply, the treasury is sufficient, and the implementation of the military merit system has made the people of Qin advocate force compared to the other six countries.

Where will Wei's reinforcements be? In fact, Wu Ming himself didn't know that the reason why there were reinforcements was just to stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale, so that the soldiers defending the city could stimulate greater potential.

"Hehe, General Zhang, don't worry, reinforcements are naturally available." Wu Ming looked at him and smiled helplessly, and staggered the topic: "Come, let's divide the division of labor to defend the city, but the boulder rolling wood in the city is very tight, and we must change the usage." ā€

No matter what Zhang Meng was thinking at the moment, Wu Ming directly pulled him to the edge of the city wall where the soldiers of the Qin State had erected a ladder. The three soldiers kept lifting boulders and rolling logs and throwing them off the wall, for fear that if their movements were slow, they would give Qin Jun time to breathe.

On each side of the three of them, there was also a crossbowman shooting arrows again and again, killing the Qin army that was rapidly approaching.

"Stop, stop for a moment."

Pushing away a soldier who was throwing stones, Wu Ming personally grabbed a stone the size of a human head, pinched it secretly in his heart, and waited until there were more soldiers of the Qin army on the ladder and smashed the stone down violently.

The Qin soldiers, who bore the brunt of the attack, were smashed in an instant, their heads were smashed in an instant, and the plasma was splashed everywhere, and they fell directly down.

But at this moment, the stone that was smashed down by Wu Ming was still falling down the ladder, and the two Qin soldiers who followed were also smashed down, and at the same time, their bodies fell to the ground along with a few soldiers who had just climbed halfway.

"Everyone, see it clearly, just throw it later, wait until the people climbing on the ladder are almost a stone, at least half of it will be smashed down, the kind of random smashing method just now has a lot of ten pieces that have no effect, there are not many stones in the city, once it is used up, it is difficult to replenish in a short time, please everyone."

In a short period of time, the three surrounding soldiers nodded their heads, and one of them was a recruit who was rescued by Wu Ming himself, so after listening to Wu Ming's words, he said in a loud voice: "The general is wise, General Xie is correct." ā€

Zhang Meng also felt a sudden opening after seeing the effect achieved by that stone, although he didn't know if these ordinary soldiers guarding the city could be so stable and orderly, but he still said loudly: "The last general must obey the general's orders. ā€

Smiled and patted Zhang Meng's shoulder, Wu Ming praised: "Well, there are two thousand guards here that Ben will bring, you and I will each bring one thousand, notify it, reinforcements will inevitably arrive before sunset, and before the reinforcements arrive, Ben will be the same as all the soldiers defending the city, and will never retreat from defending the city." ā€

"The last will be ordered." Zhang Meng gave up.

"In this way, there will be General Lao Zhang on the right wall."

"Please rest assured, general, I, Zhang Meng, promise that if people are outside the city, the city will be destroyed unless people die."

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The Praetorian Guard of the Great Wei is a more quintessential existence than the Great Wei Warriors, and if the Janissaries are the blades of the Great Wei Army, the Praetorian Guards are the minimum standard of this knife. 30,000 soldiers can top 100,000 troops with swords and guns, while 3,000 Praetorian Guards can top 10,000 soldiers, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Ordered at the critical juncture, although Wu Ming did not have hundreds of thousands of troops, King Wei Hui gave him the sharpest knife, so it is enough to see that King Wei has a fancy for Wu Ming.

Under Wu Ming's frustration, a thousand forbidden troops were quickly distributed in various places on the city wall to guard the city together. With these individual soldiers, the quality and combat ability are too strong, and the soldiers who joined the original defense of the city instantly felt a lot less pressure.

In addition to the training strength, combat experience, these forbidden army combat methods have a strict distribution ability, they are in a group of three, each group will have a soldier is the team leader, and his words are right, or there are some extremes and deviations on the battlefield The other two soldiers will obey, because this kind of tactical group is not in unison is a dead end, and it is absolutely undesirable to have different opinions, if anyone does not obey, then this person will definitely not stay in the Praetorian Guard.

Each man had a sword and bow on his body, and thirty arrows, and a shield.

At the head of the city, some of these guards had two soldiers shooting with bows, one with a bow, and the other with a sword, but in any case, as long as not all three of them used swords, there was always one of them to protect the archers.

A sharp sword stood out from the ranks of the Qin army and shot straight at the archers and guards at the head of the wall, but the guards with shields in their hands directly resisted the flying arrows. The sound of breaking through the air disappeared, but the moment the shield was raised, the Praetorian guard who had been protected just now shot an arrow, and the arrow cut a beautiful arc in the air, straight into the chest of one of the crossbowmen in the Qin army.

Someone climbed the wall and slashed with his sword, and the guard with the shield held the shield high in one hand to catch the falling attack, and the other hand grasped the hilt of the sword, and the backhand was a sword stab.

As long as it is not a large-scale melee battle with the enemy, the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard always use the enemy's living forces from a distance as their first tactic, and this is especially important in the defense and siege of the city.