Chapter Ninety-Five: The Heart Is Too Soft
The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the 500 Tang Army is too good at fighting and has played the role of a mainstay, they are armed with horned crossbows and single-bow crossbows, and there are people who help to wind them, and they fire calmly and unhurriedly, and their accuracy is extremely good. The efficiency of killing the enemy is much stronger than that of those at the head of the city, panicking and randomly shooting the Liuzhou Hu guards downward.
There are also sharpshooters such as Amir Jiang and Li Fei Shouyu who rushed back from Xiao Quai's illness and rushed back, and anyone who looks like an officer at the head of the city will be killed with one arrow.
The more important reason is that under the overall arrangement of Xiao Quzhi and Li Sheng, and under the excellent command of Li Sheng, the group of Liuzhou Hu under the city has divided labor and cooperated, and the level of organization and scheduling is far more than ten times higher than that of the city.
In addition, not long after the siege began, almost half of the commanders, centurions, and ten-commanders on the city were shot dead by Xiao Quzhi and others, and the command system on the city was almost paralyzed.
If it weren't for Kang Shennu constantly sending people to shout and emphasize, if the Tang army wants to kill us, if we can't hold it, everyone will die, and these Liuzhou Hu on the city wall will collapse almost immediately.
On the other hand, Liuzhou Hu under the city, although he beat his own people and killed each other, he temporarily entered a state of selflessness, and his morale was getting higher and higher, which was like a miracle.
Their idea is very simple, the Tang army is very strong, and to fight it is to die, do what the Tang army said, there is still a way to live, as long as you kill one person, you can hide in the back of the prison formation, kill two people, and you can go home.
Because of the incentive mechanism, in order to get rid of the threat of death as soon as possible, many Liuzhou Hu are becoming more and more courageous, and from time to time someone shoots a Liuzhou Hu at the head of the city, and then screams loudly.
"I shot, I shot!"
Then a few Tang army captains and Xiao Quai's personal guards in the back would shout at him enthusiastically: "Okay, you can come to the back to supervise the battle, and you can also use crossbow arrows!" ”
Then on the two battlefield positions in the north and south of the county, there were all kinds of loud shouts like this one after another: "Okay, you killed one, we all saw it!" Come, tell us, what's your name...... Haha, his name is Shi Panchen,"
"This warrior has also been killed, come and tell everyone what your name is...... He Xiaofen, his name is He Xiaofen! He Xiaofen: Do you want to supervise the formation in the rear or use crossbow arrows to continue to kill the enemy? ”
“…… Well, Shi Poyan killed two! You can go home, hand over your weapons, lead a horse over there, and go home! ”
When he saw that Tang Jun was true to his word, someone really killed the two people in the city, and then rode home. After killing the two of them, two people also begged Tang Jun to bring back their wives who had been driven together, and they were also allowed.
Then the courage of Hu Qingzhuang, all the six states under the city, was stimulated at once, they temporarily forgot that this was to help the Tang army beat themselves, in order to survive, they desperately climbed the ladder to the city wall, and splashed feather arrows at the city head without fear.
More than an hour later, the Liuzhou Hu on the city wall was consumed in large quantities, and the corpse of the Liuzhou Hu under the city wall was about to cover the ground, spilling blood, but it was soon frozen again.
In the face of the increasingly fierce offensive below, the Liuzhou Hu soldiers on the city wall were like beasts cornered at this time, bursting out with huge energy. Even though the command system was paralyzed, they fought instinctively and actually contained the offensive of Liuhu Prefecture under the city at once.
But even so, under the blows of the Tang Army and Liuzhou Hu under the city, they couldn't hold out for long.
As time passed, more and more Liuzhou Hu were driven from the escort and joined the siege team, basically making up for the consumption of dead and wounded. But there is no support on the city walls, and if one dies, one will be less.
What's more, at noon, two rushing cars have begun to hit the city gate, because of the Tang army's firepower focused on suppression, the Liuzhou Hu of the city gate tower has no way to throw stones and fire crossbow arrows below, I believe that it will not be long before the city gate will be breached.
Xiao Qubing looked indifferently at the battlefield in the south of the city, and said to several guards: "As soon as the city gate is broken, I will send people to the city to shout, saying that it is only the head of the thief, as long as they capture Kang Shennu and snake teeth alive and sacrifice them to me, the rest can live!" ”
Li Qice stood beside him and looked at Xiao Quai, his eyes were wide open, his face was incredible, he really couldn't figure out why Hu Qingzhuang, who was like a waste, seemed to have changed into a group of people in the hands of his master?
At this time, when he heard Xiao Quai's order, he laughed, Master, it's really ...... Well, it's treacherous!
"Ye Hu, we are about to lose our hold, those who are killed by heaven below, the Tang army will collapse at the touch of a button, and it will fall in an instant; Murderous to his own people, more than half of the soldiers have been killed by now, and the city gate is about to be breached! ”
A bloodstained Kang Shennu Tuojie, who was also a member of the Snake Tooth, said with a resentful face.
Kang Shennu looked at the corpses on the head of the city that had been killed and the corpses of Liuzhou Hu who had been rushed up, and he couldn't figure out why this was happening.
It is said that everyone is Liuzhou Hu, and they are forced to do so below, after climbing up the ladder, can't they attack the Tang army below in turn? Why do you continue to help the Tang army kill their own people?
Listening to the shouting and killing sound below, and the sound of the car crashing into the city gate, it was more like hitting his heart directly, Kang Shennu's heart was vomiting blood!
Zhang Xiancheng said that he could only hold out for three days, no more than five days at most, and he was still very unconvinced, who knew that now he could only hold out for a little more than half a day, and it was also because the Tang Army cherished his own lives and did not personally launch an attack.
"Let's go! Gather all the snake fangs, and we will break through the secret passage! Kang Shennu gritted his teeth and whispered.
Kang Shennu was influenced by his father since he was a child, and he had long been rebellious, and after becoming the assassin of Youzhou, Hu Yehu (self-proclaimed Ye Hu) in Liuzhou, he actively accumulated strength and plotted to rebel.
Later, An Lushan set up Snake Tooth, Kang Shennu was simply overjoyed, and he could be regarded as the most active one among Snake Tooth in the past two years. But this is a conspiracy to rebel after all, and Kang Shennu is also worried that one day, the matter will be revealed.
Therefore, Kang Shennu began to prepare for the back road very early, and a year and a half ago, he dug a tunnel under the Youzhou Thorn Mansion, leading to a small dirt slope three miles west of the city.
The reason why he decided to escape by tunnel now is also very simple, one is that he subjectively hates Datang and wants to hold on until Zhang Xiancheng arrives with reinforcements from the party's Baqiang; The second reason, and the main reason, is that this secret passage can only pass people, not horses, this winter, and it is broad daylight, no horse can not go far, will soon be discovered, catch up.
But now the city will be broken, and Kang Shennu can't manage so much. If you don't go, you will die after the city is broken, and you may be able to escape by taking the secret road!
Soon, Kang Shennu went to Beicheng to supervise the war under the pretext of secretly coming to the Thorn Mansion with more than a dozen snake tooth henchmen.
At this time, the Assassin Mansion was already in a mess, Yan'en City was not too big, and the shouts of killing at the head of the city could also be heard clearly by the family members of the Assassin Mansion Kang Shennu.
Seeing the panicked, frightened and frightened looks of the people around him, how did Kang Shennu's wives and concubines, young sons and young daughters not understand the unfavorable war ahead, coupled with Kang Shennu's propaganda, all morning, a room of women and children hugged each other and trembled, crying I don't know how many times.
At this time, when they saw Kang Shennu bringing people back, these women and children suddenly surrounded them as if they had seen the backbone of the Lord, crying and crying, asking questions and questions.
Kang Shennu was irritated and kicked away a few concubines who rushed towards him, and entered the main hall of the Thorn Mansion with a dozen snake teeth. As soon as he wanted to enter the secret room, he suddenly thought of one thing, he took these snake teeth and folded them back, and before his dozens of wives and concubines and children could react, he drew his knife and slashed it.
The screams that are characteristic of the woman's panic rang out, mixed with the child's cries, which made the entire Thorn Mansion even more chaotic. It didn't take long for the screams to cease and the helpless cries of the children grew louder and louder.
Kang Shennu took a dozen snake teeth to the kitchen to find some food to take on his body, and then walked into the secret room, pressed the mechanism, and the door of the secret room closed again, and there was no trace of abnormality outside......
At about the same time, the gate of the southern city was finally knocked open by a rushing car, and in the loud cheers of the Liuzhou Hu and Tang Jun under the city, the Liuzhou Hu on the city wall also jumped off the city wall like crazy, wanting to block the door hole with his flesh and blood.
Xiao Qubing shouted loudly to more than a dozen guards: "Go and convey my orders." Capture Kang Shennu and Snake Fang alive, and the rest of the six states Hu, lay down their weapons, surrender and don't kill! ”
After waiting for the guards to take the order loudly, Xiao Quzhi sighed softly and said, "Cough, it's still too soft-hearted, you should let them fight for a while." ”
At this time, the two thousand Tang troops also completed their tasks and came to Yan'en County to converge, and more than half of the generals and colonels gathered around Xiao Qubing to report the military situation and listen to orders.
Li Tianxi, who was on the side, couldn't help laughing: "Well, General Xiao is the most soft-hearted, never cheats, never kills people......"