Chapter 237: The Bloody Battle of Donghengzhou (5) (3rd Watch)

At the same time that the battle at the city wall was raging, Li Feng keenly noticed that there seemed to be a wave in the shield wall of the barbarian soldiers slowly moving towards the direction of the city gate, and he ran to the city gate in three steps and two steps, only to see that the wave had opened, and a battering ram half as high as the city gate was completely revealed, and his nephew Li Bao was tied to the wooden cover plate above the battering ram on all sides.

Li Feng had already raised a torch in his hand, and half of the soldiers and people at the head of the city also held this tung oil torch high, and when Li Feng took the lead in throwing it, he fired all the fires and burned the barbarians under the city into turkeys.

But Li Feng saw his nephew tied to this battering ram with his own eyes, and he was at a loss for a while, and in the tears in his eyes, he seemed to see Li Bao constantly calling his name.

Taking advantage of this distraction at the head of the city, more than 20 barbarians have begun to pull the piso, and the giant tree that is more than two people hugging each other and weighing thousands of catties is pulled up high, and then with huge inertia, it slammed into the city gate of Donghengzhou, shaking the city wall violently.

Li Feng immediately realized that this battering ram was too powerful, if it was allowed to hit it like this for more than a dozen times, even if hundreds of sand bags were blocked at the door, I was afraid that this city wall would collapse for it, and then the rebels could rush in through the gap, he gritted his teeth and roared sadly: "Bao'er, see you in the next life!" As he spoke, he threw the torch down, and the defenders at the head of the city did the same, and hundreds of tung oil torches were thrown under the city at once.

In the evenings of the past few days, taking advantage of the night, the defenders at the head of the city have secretly poured dozens of pots of tung oil in the city. Due to the large number of corpses under the city began to decompose. There was black corpse water everywhere. The barbarians besieging the city began to distinguish the black tung oil at all, and when the torch was thrown down, the oil immediately caught fire, and the city suddenly turned into a burning hell.

The giant battering ram at the city gate was soon drowned in a sea of fire, Li Bao's screams were suddenly swallowed up by the whirring fire, Li Feng's face was full of tears, his eyes were red, and he shouted: "Pour all the boiling oil and boiling water!" The arrows are not allowed to stop. Burn, shoot these traitors!"

The battlements at the head of the city were coated with thick silt, and the flames rising from under the city did not set the buildings at the head of the city on fire, but the rebels under the city fell into hell, and more than a thousand people were all surrounded by a beating sea of fire, and the thick cloth wrapped around their bodies became the best fire material, and hundreds of burning people who were on fire all over their bodies rolled on the ground screaming and rolling on the ground.

More than a dozen barbarians who climbed up to the top of the city only felt the heat wave behind them, and when they turned their heads to look, they were stunned by the defenders on the opposite side. Divide the corpses with knives and throw them into the fire beneath the city. Immediately, there was a stench of barbecued human flesh.

In the smoke and fire, Liu Zicai vaguely saw a barbarian leader wearing leather armor and a few pheasant feathers on his head was holding a war knife, commanding his crossbowmen to release arrows towards the city, because the east wind was blowing at this time, with the wind, the bamboo arrows with a range of only a dozen steps could be shot at the city head outside the fire circle thirty steps away, and dozens of elated soldiers defending the city were hit by arrows and fell to the city.

Liu Zi knew that the barbarian soldier wearing leather armor must be a general, and he yelled left and right: "All crossbowmen, follow me to shoot the dog in leather armor all the time!" As he spoke, he picked up the crossbow arrow in his hand, pulled the crossbow machine, wound the arrow, and through the black smoke that floated from time to time, he stared at the colorful face from the Wangshan (aiming tool) on the crossbow body, and with a fierce finger, the crossbow flew out with the bronze trigger!

That barbarian general is Zhou Shiju's younger brother Zhou Shidao, and he is also the commander-in-chief of the 4,000 barbarians transferred from Shixing this time, this time the attack is all the strength of Zhou Shiju's brothers' headquarters, but he didn't expect to be reimbursed by this fire attack plan Half of the people at once, his eyes are about to stare blood, how can he not be willing to retreat like this, so he commanded hundreds of crossbowmen to take turns to release arrows to the city, thinking that he had to shoot some people on the other side to support his back!

A crossbow arrow burst through the air with a rolling heat wave, and Zhou Shidao was on the side of his face, and the crossbow arrow flew past his cheek, leaving a long blood mark on his face.

Zhou Shidao was stunned at first, and then laughed: "See, we have the protection of the mountain god, and the crossbow arrows of the Sui people can't hurt me, hahahaha!"

His laughter stopped abruptly, the sound of breaking the air in the black smoke was endless, and soon, the people around him saw that there were dozens of arrows on Zhou Shidao's body, and the feathers of the tail were on fire, just like a small torch burning, an arrow happened to shoot into Zhou Shidao's mouth, and the three-edged arrow pierced directly through the back of the head, and the red and white liquid flowed down the tip of the arrow.

It turned out that the first arrow was sent by Liu Zicai, because the force was too strong when it was fired, the trigger was broken, which affected the accuracy, so it was just a face-to-face pass, but Liu Zicai also ordered the surrounding crossbowmen to shoot at Zhou Shidao, so he shot him into a big hedgehog on fire at once.

The barbarians were already frightened, and when they saw that the main general was also hanging, they could no longer care about the will of God, and they fled backwards without any orders, and the arrows of the defenders at the head of the city poured mercilessly, and one or two hundred barbarians were hit by a few crossbow arrows in their backs, and they fell to the ground, and died of anger at once.

Zhou Shiju in the distance saw it so clearly, almost a mouthful of blood was about to spurt out, and he exclaimed sadly: "Brother!" When you lift the knife, you have to continue to charge upwards with people.

Ren Gui's face sank like water, grabbed Zhou Shiju, and shouted: "Zhou Shuai, calm down, calm down!"

Zhou Shiju roared: "Calm down! Didn't you see my brother all dead? This Li Feng doesn't even want his nephew's life, if he doesn't take revenge, I swear not to be a man!"

Ren Gui pointed to the city gate in the fire and smoke: "Zhou Shuai, our sacrifice is not worthless, you see that city gate, it is already on fire, and as soon as this city gate is burned, we will kill it!" When the time comes, there will be no chickens and dogs left in the city, and you will avenge your brother and the dead people!"

Zhou Shi raised his eyes and saw that the city gate of Donghengzhou was already burning, and the flames were soaring to the sky, seeing that it would not take long to burn down, he laughed wildly while crying: "Okay, good, good, Donghengzhou, Li Feng, I see how long you can last!" Pass my order, exchange 5,000 men and prepare to storm, and as soon as the gates are burned, they will all rush into the city for me! Whoever kills Li Feng will take over the position of deputy commander of Shi Dao!"

The defenders of the city are all cheering, this battle has paid more than 200 casualties, killing more than 3,000 thieves who have been burned to death, it is a great victory that has never been seen since the defense of the city in Donghengzhou, the people at the head of the city are hugging each other, jumping, celebrating the hard-won victory, thanking God for his survival.

Liu Zicai found Li Feng who looked at the city with a gloomy face, the battering ram had become a huge fire, and in the firelight, Li Bao's body could be vaguely seen on the top layer had become a shrunken human-shaped black charcoal, Liu Zicai sighed and said: "Li Tingshi, please mourn, if you don't make a decision today, it will be difficult for the thieves to go to the city after a while." The elders of the city will be grateful for your great kindness!"

Li Feng seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden, his long beard fluttered in the east wind of hunting at the head of the city, he came back to his senses for a long time, and said slowly: "Bao'er sacrificed his life for the country, and he also died well, and the hundreds of women and children in the city are the same, this debt can only be repaid with the blood of these barbarians." ”

After Li Feng gritted his teeth and said this, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly grabbed Liu Zicai's hand: "It's not good, there is no way to smear the mud at the city gate, Zicai, look at how the city gate is now!"

Liu Zicai woke up like a dream, and immediately leaned out half of his body to the outside of the city, and when his head blackened by the smoke and fire stretched back again, only the eyes were still a little white, and after coughing violently a few times, Liu Zi said urgently: "Li Tingshi, the city gate has been on fire, what to do now!"

Li Feng gritted his teeth and roared: "Order, all Ding Zhuang in Dongcheng and Nancheng are here, and the golden soup and hot oil are all piled up here at the city gate, if the thieves carry sandbags, they will pour oil down, throw torches, and burn them to death!" (To be continued......)

PS: Next shift, 19 o'clock.