Chapter 17: The Battle of Shancheng (3)
"How many people are there at the North Gate?"
"There are about 2,000 people, but we don't have many troops over there, and we are being suppressed by the other side!" The soldier spoke quickly and anxiously. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Qiu Laohu pondered for a while, and then made a categorical arrangement: "Immediately mobilize 500 people on each of the west and south gates to support the north gate quickly, and the craftsmen will immediately transport the four trebuchets to the north gate for emergency purposes!" ”
"In addition, let the deputy general immediately dispatch a thousand elite soldiers to the east gate, and concentrate more than half of the weapons and equipment on the east gate, we are really going to fight with Xiao Xintian and them this time!" Qiu Laohu gritted his teeth, stared at his red eyes, and said fiercely.
The soldier ran down with a solemn face, and according to Qiu Laohu's instructions, he went to the deputy general to mobilize troops from all over the place to prepare for the upcoming battle.
The four rats rubbed their hands, sneered and said, "That, General Qiu, can you arrange an errand for the four of us brothers, just be a small soldier who can cut people!" ”
Qiu Laohu seriously looked at the four soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army in front of him, nodded and said, "I know that each of you Cloud Breaking Army has a special ability, now it's time to take out your ability and slip away!" ”
The four of them looked at each other and laughed, took off the backpack that had been carrying behind them, and then opened it to Qiu Laohu, and when they saw each other looking at themselves with a confused face, they laughed insidiously, leaned into Qiu Laohu's ear, and whispered their plans.
After listening to this, Qiu Laohu put his face into the backpack with curiosity and looked at it, then raised his head and pointed to the contents of the backpack, opened his mouth wide and made a mouth shape of "can it work" and asked the mouse them.
The rat nodded with a smile, meaning to reassure Qiu Laohu, these things are absolutely fine!
Qiu Laohu looked at the four mice full of confidence, then glanced at the strange things in the backpack, thought of some rumors he had heard about the Cloud Breaking Army, and finally chose to believe it. He looked at the four of them solemnly, nodded, and led them quickly towards the east gate.
On the east gate, in addition to the soldiers guarding the north gate, the remaining two-thirds of the defenders of Shancheng, about 6,000 soldiers have been gathered here, although there are a lot of people, but they are methodically walking around the corridor with a width of more than three meters on the city wall, constantly transporting materials to the corresponding position, except for the sound of soldiers walking and arranging tasks, there is no other noise heard on the entire city gate.
Qiu Laohu took the rats to the top of the wall and looked out, only to see a large number of Tuyuhun troops quickly gathering in the direction of Shancheng from a distance, and groups of cavalry ran around the infantry, scouting the surrounding enemy situation. Xiao Xintian rode a black high-headed horse, wearing armor and a sharp sword at his waist, and led his subordinates to march towards Shancheng step by step.
At the front of the Tuyuhun army, eight trebuchets more than ten meters high were pushed by hundreds of Tuyuhun soldiers, slowly advancing.
The last rays of afterglow on the horizon were finally completely extinguished, and the sky was as pure as sapphire, and countless stars began to shine with bright eyes, curiously looking at the magical land below, and a white Milky Way hung in the sky.
The stars are all over the place, the night breeze is light, and the flags are hunting.
An earth-shattering shout came from the north gate of Shancheng, and from time to time a red fire flashed there. 2,000 Tuyuhun cavalry had already begun a fierce attack on the north gate, and Qiu Laohu's lieutenant and his men were guarding the city there, stubbornly resisting the fierce attacks from the enemy.
The autumn tiger stood tall on the wall, his armor shining with starlight, and the surface shimmered like flowing water. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle's eyes, staring directly at Xiao Xintian in the enemy array below.
Xiao Xintian in the distance sat on horseback, raised his head, and looked at the autumn tiger on Shancheng.
The eyes of the two met in mid-air a few miles apart, as if two tigers were fighting, and suddenly a gust of wind stirred up, rolling up a piece of sand and dust outside Shancheng.
A soldier suddenly ran out of the Tuyuhun army, he rode a fast horse all the way to the bottom of Shancheng, raised his head and shouted loudly in the direction where Qiu Laohu was standing: "My general said that tonight's battle will be divided into final winners and losers, and the final victory of this war will be ours. He advises you to surrender quickly, and when we enter the city, we can still open up to you, otherwise it will be a dead end!" ”
Looking at the proud Tuyuhun soldiers below, the defenders of Shancheng standing on the city wall were furious, roared and took a step forward, and their bows and arrows stretched out from the battlements and aimed at the soldier below.
Seeing that thousands of bows and arrows suddenly appeared, they were still aimed at him in unison, and the faces of the Tuyuhun soldiers below immediately turned pale, and he shouted tremblingly: "You Tang people said that the two armies are fighting, and they will not be killed!" Are you breaking your own rules? ”
Qiu Laohu snorted coldly, waved his hand and asked his subordinates to put the bow and arrow back, staring at the soldier.
"My Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, of course I will not go back on my word. On the contrary, you Tuguhun have repeatedly violated the border of my Datang Dynasty, and you have become a border trouble, but you still have the cheekiness to talk to us about etiquette in Datang, and you are really thick-skinned and the only one in the world! Go back to your master, if you want to fight, why talk nonsense! ”
"Drink! If you want to fight, you will fight! All the defenders on the city wall raised their weapons and shouted, all of them with a resolute expression on their faces that they were going to fight to the death.
Qiu Laohu took off a big bow on his back, put on a feather arrow, drew the bow without much effort, and gently glanced at the enemy who was hovering below, and as soon as he put his hand down, with a "boom", the bow and arrow flew out of the bow, just wiping the hair of the Tuyuhun soldiers, and finally landed on the ground in front of the Tuyuhun soldiers.
The Tuyuhun soldiers were so frightened that their faces turned blue, and the whole person was stunned, feeling the cold swishing feeling on their heads, and then looked at the bow and arrow not far away when the entire arrow body was submerged and only the arrow feathers were left, and they were even more frightened that they couldn't say a word, and immediately ran back on their horses in a gray and gray manner, no longer as arrogant as when they first came.
"Shame!" Xiao Xintian whipped the hand that came back from the gray, stared at him and cursed, and then without looking back, he waved his hand to the front, and eight huge catapult machines rolled away, and the troops behind also followed behind the machines, slowly advancing. When they reached a distance of about 1,500 paces from Shancheng, the trebuchet's lieutenant gave the order to halt its advance.
"Bear", the soldier next to the trebuchet put down a cloth ball on a huge bowl-shaped tray under the siege machine, the cloth ball was the size of two adult heads, it had been soaked in fire oil before, and it was immediately ablaze with fire.
"Put!" The bowl-shaped tray was forcefully pulled back by the soldiers, and the captain in charge gave an order, and eight huge fire balls rose into the air and flew from the front of the Tuyuhun army in the direction of the Shancheng city wall.
Qiu Tiger's eyes widened angrily, and he shouted: "All pay attention to dodge!" ”
"Blazing", the burning sturdy cloth fell from the sky, half of it fell on the city gate, and the other half either did not fly, or fell into the city of Shancheng, and set fire to a house inside, and immediately the people took the water prepared in advance to put out the fire to Heli.
The fireball that fell on the city gate was quickly extinguished, and there were basically no casualties except for one unlucky man who burned the skin of his thigh by the fire.
As soon as the rat wanted to get up from the hidden place, the autumn tiger over there immediately shouted: "Go back!" ”
"Whew", the sound of heavy air being crushed in the sky. The mouse looked up and saw several huge stones falling from the sky towards him.
"Mom!" The rat screamed and rolled on the spot, dodging the falling stones.
"Boom", big stones fell from the sky one after another, mixed with burning fireballs, several soldiers were dodging, one was accidentally hit by a stone, and suddenly the bones were shattered, making a tragic cry for help, and one person couldn't even shout at all, and was directly smashed out of the brains by the stone!
Xiao Xintian watched from a distance as the defenders on Shancheng began to disorganize, and immediately shouted: "The cavalry and the infantry will immediately attack the city gate, and the trebuchet will continue to shoot to cover the advance of the troops!" ”
"Ahhh The 5,000 soldiers at the front of the line shouted loudly, rode or ran, brandishing their weapons and slaughtering Shancheng. Behind them, huge trebuchets constantly fired stones or fireballs at Shancheng, covering their own attacks.
Qiu Laohu dodged the stones falling from the sky, arranged for his subordinates to move out the huge crossbow arrows, and aimed them at the Tuyuhun soldiers who were killing below, ready to kill at any time!
Under the city wall, ten huge trebuchets also began to start, dozens of soldiers set fire to the cloth balls in the tray, and with a "whew", ten huge fireballs rose into the sky, drawing ten beautiful arcs, and fell into the Tuyuhun soldiers who were killing.
Dozens of people were killed by the falling fireballs, and many others became burning men, screaming miserably on the battlefield and were quickly burned to death.
Even so, the Tuyuhun soldiers were still not affected much, and with a resolute expression on their faces, they rushed towards Shancheng without hesitation.
After the rat confessed something to a dozen defenders, each gave two grenades, let them take them, nodded to Qiu Laohu, and then quietly descended the city gate with a thousand people, jumped on the fast horse that had been prepared below, and pulled the reins, and the black horse under him "bang", and the person stood up.
"Our mission is to destroy as many Tuyuhun trebuchets as possible. Wait a minute, you have to follow the four of us, and you must not act on your own! The four rats stood upright and shouted loudly at the more than a thousand defenders of Shancheng.
Dozens of soldiers ran over, slowly opened the tall gates, and lowered the drawbridge that was laid over the wide moat.
"Let's go!" After glancing around at the more than 1,000 people and briefly explaining what they had paid attention to, the four rats let out a loud shout, and led more than 1,000 people through the city gate like the wind, killing the Tuyuhun army that was rushing over.
"Boom", the cumbersome suspension bridge behind him was slowly lifted, revealing a trench in front of the city that was more than ten meters wide and more than three meters deep, which was dug out on weekdays. On weekdays, the autumn tiger thinks that since there are not many rivers near Shancheng and can't be used as a moat, he should dig a trench and use it as a moat.
When more than 4,000 Tuyuhun soldiers saw the Tang army running out of Shancheng, they immediately screamed, like a dog seeing a bone, stretched out their sharp claws, and pounced on them.
"Throw it away when you're ready!" The rat shouted, and the man on the horse, took out the prepared grenade from his bosom, pulled the lead, and threw it far away into the densely populated area of the enemy that ran over.
The other three Cloud Breaker scouts also threw their grenades elsewhere at the same time.
"Boom!"
Four huge explosions sounded on the battlefield, and suddenly an explosion erupted in the center of the area where the Tuyuhun soldiers were most concentrated, and the surrounding soldiers were blown upside down, and the soil on the ground was also blown upside down. For a moment, the battlefield was quiet for a short time!
"If you are in a daze, you will kill Lao Tzu!" The rat slapped a young soldier next to him in a daze, and shouted viciously at him.
When the young soldier saw the vicious face of the mouse, he immediately woke up, excitedly raised the grenade in his hand and wanted to throw it, but the mouse snatched it back.
"This thing has to pull the lead, why are you so stupid!" The rat looked at the young soldier with a look of disgust, gently tugged on the grenade's lead, and quickly threw it into the enemy.
"Boom", another grenade exploded, killing and wounding those enemies who couldn't dodge!
The rest of the Shancheng soldiers who came out after saw that such a small thing would actually explode, and their eyes were full of admiration when they looked at the four mice.
"Brother, where did you ask for the heavenly thunder?" An older soldier actually had time to come over and ask the mouse.
Sky Thunder? The mouse looked at the man in surprise, shrugged his shoulders, and decided not to answer his question. It would be nice to let these people have some wonderful fantasies, at least it will boost their morale.
Some of the Tuyuhun soldiers over there shouted in horror: "The other party has a demon law!" Then he threw down his weapon and tried to flee.
"Poof", a spring of blood rose to the sky, and several Tuyuhun soldiers who fled in battle were directly cut off their heads by their captain.
The captain stared at his subordinates viciously: "Whoever disturbs the morale of the army again and escapes from the battle will doom!" ”
Looking at the Shancheng defenders who were killing violently, the captain gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Don't concentrate on one voice, disperse, the lethality of their heavenly thunder will not be so great, pay attention to dodge!" ”
Someone said about the shortcomings of the grenade so quickly? The mouse glanced curiously at the captain who was shouting at the enemy: "But do you think we're fighting with you?"
The rat smiled darkly, made a gesture to the soldiers behind, and suddenly, more than a thousand people immediately turned around, avoided the enemy area where the personnel were most concentrated, and rode their horses to the more loose area of the left flank.
The sound of "boom" sounded again, and more than a thousand Tang troops were like a sharp blade, cutting more than 4,000 Tuyuhun soldiers from the left.
Qiu Laohu looked down from Shancheng and saw that on the battlefield, with the deepening of more than a thousand soldiers, blood lotus flowers were blooming brilliantly on the left flank of the battlefield.
Xiao Xintian looked at that team, his face became very ugly, and he said to the people around him with red eyes: "Send another two thousand people, and you must destroy this army of the enemy!" (To be continued.) )