Chapter 64: Turning the Tide (1)

Under Raoyang City, in the northeast direction, the horn whined, Mo Qiufeng and Lu Weichen all rushed to the edge of the battlement and looked northeast.

In the smoke and dust, he saw a piece of black pressing, which was coming this way, Mo Qiufeng took out a monocular clairvoyant telescope, and saw that among the smoke and dust, countless people of the Han family in Hebei Province were staggering, stumbling towards Raoyang City.

Among these stumbling crowds, there are Youzhou actually shuttling among them, but some people are exhausted and fall to the ground or walk slower, so they stab a spear into the heart, and some people want to help these fallen people, but they are also stabbed to death by a sharp spear.

These god-killing Youzhou beasts have actually driven thousands of Han people to come, ready to use the flesh and blood of the Han people to fill this Raoyang City!

"The Youzhou dog that can't be killed!"

Mo Qiufeng looked at such a tragic scene with tears in his eyes, and hit the battlement with a punch, only to make the soil and stones at the battlement fall down.

At this time, Lu Weichen had actually guessed what was going on in his heart, but when he snatched the binoculars in Mo Qiufeng's hand and saw the tragic situation of these expelled Han family people, and saw these Youzhou cavalry wantonly slashing and killing in the crowd, he was still so angry and shocked that he couldn't help but tremble.

In the terrible sound of the horn, on the wall of Raoyang City, thousands of righteous soldiers and people were all in place, each sergeant grabbed the crossbow machine in his hand, and watched all this, and the soldiers of the Tiance Army who operated the Eight Bull Crossbow were also under Mo Qiufeng's order, replacing the conventional crossbow guns with gunpowder crossbow guns.

At this time, Rao Yang guarded Lu Quancheng too much, and Rao Yang Pei general Zhang Xing also went up to the city wall, all of them gritted their teeth tightly, and countless eyes looked at Lu Quancheng, Zhang Xing and Mo Qiufeng.

Envoys, generals, captains, what to do? What should I do?

Under the city of Raoyang. Under the big curtain on the small mound, Shi Siming's deep gloomy eyes looked at all this coldly, and he gave orders coldly. Flags waved, horns sounded, and several guards stepped onto their horses to spread Shi Siming's general order everywhere quickly, so that this team did not have to stop. directly drove these Han people, everyone carried the soil, and directly went to fill the moat, sheep and horse walls;

More than 30,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry were also mobilized immediately, just waiting for the arrows on the city, the fire oil was almost consumed, and the morale was also quite hit, and then Raoyang City was captured in one fell swoop, and the soldiers and civilians in the city, men, women and children were not left!

Look at the arrows and fire oil that are abundant in your city. Or these Han people have a lot of lives, I want to see if these Han defenders will be soft and collapse if they kill their own people!

Isn't your Tiance Mansion a profit-seeking country, not seeking wealth and nobility, and swearing to guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty with a spear, and you can't see the people suffering the most. I'd like to see what you do!

In the past few days, a large number of five-stone strong crossbows have appeared in the Raoyang defenders. Pointing at the steel arrows and the fierce fire oil, Shi Siming suddenly thought that there must be a Tiance army in the city, and he also reacted very quickly, and immediately chose the method of driving the people to fight the city.

Throughout the ages, siege battles. Many of them are uncompromising means, and the most tragic and cruel ones are the expulsion of the people and the irrigation of the city with water. The conditions for irrigating the city with water are harsh, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Shi Siming naturally will not choose.

To drive the people to fight the city is to let the people bear the soil, fill the moat, sheep and horse walls. and even filled the mound all the way to the same height as the city wall, and then stepped on this slope to attack the city;

And the defenders can only kill these people in order to survive, and the people who are driven away must have suffered heavy casualties, and it can even be said that there is no reason to live, and after their deaths, the corpses will become the material of the dirt slope.

Under the orders of several personal guards, more than a dozen Youzhou soldiers from Han nationality shouted loudly among thousands of Han people in Hebei Province: "Everyone bears the soil, go to fill the trenches, throw three bags of soil, and spare your lives and let you go home......

"Dog thieves, you are also Han Chinese, what is there in the Tang Dynasty that can't stand you, why do you want to help rebel against Hu!"

"We can't go! In front of us is the city guarded by the people of the Tang Dynasty, it is our brother, we would rather die than help our enemy to kill our brother! ”

"Everyone, don't be taken advantage ofβ€”these Youzhou beast soldiers killed our relatives, and they are our enemies!"

"Datang, what's wrong? In the heart of Hebei, why do you want to put these Hu people and beasts with animal faces and hearts! Your Majesty, the favored Youzhou mongrel, is confused......"

He is 70 years old this year, and he still remembers that 56 years ago, the Later Turks entered the north province of Kouhe, and plundered his father and mother and two sisters.

Over the years, Zhou Qingbo has been living in the pain of losing his relatives, and later finally got married, had a son, a grandson, and not long ago a great-grandson.

Just when he finally gradually forgot the original pain, this group of god-killing Youzhou rebels rebelled again, and his family was killed by these rebels until only he and a little grandson were left, and the grief in the old man's heart can be imagined.

However, before the old man could finish his words with bitter tears, the sharp tip of a spear stabbed into his chest, and the old man opened his bloodshot eyes and watched the blood-red spear tip emerge from his chest.

At this moment, he didn't feel pain, he seemed to hear a terrible cry of "Grandpa", and then he felt that the heavens and the earth began to rotate, and familiar faces flashed quickly in his mind.

Daddy, Auntie, eldest sister, second sister, Ah Xiu, Da Lang, Erlang...... I've come to reunite with you, but unfortunately I can't avenge you......

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Han people who stood up and shouted loudly were slaughtered, blood splashed, and the cries among the people sounded earth-shatteringly, and some of the remaining people began to take off their ragged clothes and desperately wrap the floating soil on the ground; Some people hesitated, and then they were cut down to the ground again, and blood splattered on these people who were carrying the soil, staining the floating soil on the ground red.

Then the people rushed to the moat and the city walls with their cries and stones, and behind them, dozens of catapults had been pushed out, and some of the servants who had been caught by the Youzhou rebels were numbly carrying stone bullets and adding stones to the weighted bamboo baskets;

Behind them were thousands of Youzhou cavalry gathering, ready to deal with possible reinforcements from the direction of Changshan, and on the other hand, waiting for these people to fill the moats to a certain extent, and even to gather on the city walls. Rush to the city wall in one go.

On the Raoyang city wall, thousands of Raoyang soldiers and civilians watched the killing below, and they almost split their eyes and grit their teeth one by one.

Mo Qiufeng walked in front of Lu Quancheng, his eyes were blood-red and said, "Lu Envoy, I'm going to find an opportunity to go out and kill for a while." Directly attacking Shi Siming's Chinese army, the city will all rely on the envoy and General Zhang, if there is a chance, some people will be accepted into the city! ”

Lu Quancheng's eyes were also red, and he grabbed him, his voice trembled: "You are sending you to death, you only have sixty horses!" ”

Mo Qiufeng roared loudly: "We are the soldiers of Tiance Mansion, we can't watch these Youzhou beast soldiers wantonly kill our people in the Tang Dynasty, we can't kill them all under Raoyang City with our own hands!"

We have to let these rebels know about it. They want to rebel and make trouble, there are always people in front of them, and they fight to the end, with our Tiance army, these Youzhou dog thieves can't take Raoyang City!

Rest assured, even if we die, we can drag it twenty times. Thirty Youzhou rebels were buried together, and they could also be killed! ”

Lu Quancheng was stunned. He saw that Mo Qiufeng's red eyes seemed to be dancing with two flames, and behind him, the sixty knights who were going out of the city with him, knowing that they were going to die, each of them was indescribably chic and proud, and the battle was high!

Tiance Army. What an army that looks at death as if it were home! In a trance, the Tiance military captain in front of him, who was only in his thirties, had already broken free, and the two flames in his eyes still stabbed Lu Quancheng's eyes.

Since the day he joined the Tiance Tiance Mansion, Mo Qiufeng had already promised his life to the Tang Dynasty, and he died for the country at this moment. He didn't have a trace of fear, on the contrary, he was so excited that his blood was boiling, and he could even hear the sound of blood flowing on his body, bang, bang, bang, like the stream that flows slowly in Tiance Mansion every day.

I really want to take another look at the sunset of Tiance Mansion, in front of the palace of King Qin, in front of the general's grave, next to the waterfall, watching the sunset with my brothers, playing the flute, and listening to the veterans tell the pride and glory of Tiance Mansion.

At the head of the city, Rao Yangpi's chest rose and fell violently, and his body couldn't help trembling slightly, watching Mo Qiufeng and the other sixty-one people walk down the city in high spirits, and urge the horses in full gear, he only felt that the blood all over his body was burning hotly: "Envoy, the last general asks for orders to take five hundred soldiers out of the city to receive the people into the city!" ”

Under Raoyang City, more than 3,000 people from Hebei Province who had been driven over were already crying hoarsely, forming a black wave of people, coming towards the moat that had been almost filled.

"We are the people of the Tang Dynasty, don't let go of arrows! Spare us our lives! ”

"Throw three bags of soil, and you can go home......"

Behind them and on both sides, the overseers of the Youzhou Army rode on horses, brandished spears and broadswords, slashed the backward and hesitant, rolled up a rain of blood, and screamed one after another, oppressing the people in front of them one by one.

Seeing the blood of these Han people who couldn't resist spurted to the ground, the Han people in front cried and were extremely miserable, but the Youzhou cavalry who supervised the battle behind them laughed excitedly one by one. Those Turkic Hu, Zhaowu Jiuguo Hu, Khitan Hu, Xi Hu, Tongluo Hu, Muwei Hu, and Yan Yahu all shouted at Raoyang City and mocked it all kindly: "You shoot, why don't you shoot?" "Smash the oil down......"

The Han cavalry among them were just red-eyed and didn't speak, but when they started, they were also ruthless.

Behind them, more Han people were driven to the vicinity of the small mound one after another, and joined the team of filling the trenches.

Shi Siming sat on the bed of the small mound, looking at all this coldly, with light in his eyes, and a bloodthirsty smile on the corner of his mouth, he never got tired of watching such a scene!

He loves to see the blood spurting out, and he loves to listen to the screams before he dies! He enjoys the process of playing with mouse and being in control!

I have to see with my own eyes, how many Han people's lives will be used to fill this city! Let's see how the Tiance Army and Raoyang Taishou in the city can break the game!

At this moment, he heard a sound of "boom" breaking through the air, and then he saw a crossbow spear with the thickness of an arm and a length of about a zhang towards him, and it was stuck under the mound, almost four or five zhang away from him, followed by the second one. The third, one of the crossbows, also happened to shoot a light knight under the mound with a man and a horse.

The small mound was more than three miles away from the city wall, but I didn't expect the Eight Bull Crossbow of Tiance Mansion to shoot so far, but at such a distance, it was no longer a direct shot, but a projectile. The hit was basically relied on, the first shot was closer, but the back was getting farther and farther away.

One of the guards said nervously: "Dashuai, do you want to stand back?" ”

Shi Siming stood up on the bed slowly, with a calm attitude, and sneered: "Joke, just eight bull crossbows want to scare Ben Shuai, Ben Shuai is standing here, let them shoot a thousand crossbow guns." They can't shoot Ben Shuai either! ”

At this time, the first batch of Han people were almost about to fill in the moat, and the Raoyang defenders on the city wall did not send an arrow to them, but from time to time there were five-stone crossbows shot at the Youzhou cavalry who were pressing the formation behind.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Shi Siming's mouth, and a thought that seemed to him to be unbelievable flashed through his mind like a thunderbolt, and after a moment, he laughed excitedly.

Well, the total number of defenders in the city is less than three thousand. Relying on the geographical advantages of the city, the advanced weapons such as strong bows and crossbows and fierce fire oil can barely hold the city. Now the other party is still thinking of opening the city gate and receiving the people in!

Shi Siming's eyes lit up and he ordered loudly: "The whole army is mobilized, prepare for the siege, if the other party dares to open the city gate, take advantage of the situation to seize the city and break it in one drum!" ”

Under the city of Raoyang. The first batch of Han people had already thrown the earth and stones they were holding into the moat, and some people began to run back, they only remembered to carry three bags of soil, and they could go home; Some of them ran forward, trying to run under the walls. The rebels of Youzhou never dared to chase here; Others stayed on the spot and didn't know what to do.

At this moment, a rain of arrows rained down on the walls, as if the crossbow strings of wasps flapping their wings and the rattling of crossbow arrows burst through the air, and feathered arrows whistled over their heads.

Most of the Youzhou cavalry who were still riding on their horses before laughing excitedly and mocking loudly suddenly fell off their horses with arrows in their bodies, and beside them, there were also countless Han family people with blood splashed on their bodies, and they fell to the ground with a scream.

All the people were stunned for a moment, and at this time, they saw the heads of the defenders poking out at the battlements of the city wall, and shouted loudly at these Han people who had just finished throwing soil: "Run!" Run under the walls! ”

"Get out of the way! Run! Run under the walls! ”

When thousands of people were still stunned, they heard the sound of "Xiu ......" A sound of eight bull crossbow **** sounded, and more than a dozen crossbow guns with thick arms were shot into the Youzhou army infantry cavalry formation that stood in formation behind these Han people, ready to take advantage of the situation to seize the city.

Hearing the screams of four people and the neighing of three war horses, the corners of Shi Siming's mouth sneered again, and he glanced at the former King Xi beside him, the current general of the Youzhou Army, Li Riyue, ready to say something.

However, in the next moment, the eighteen eight-ox crossbow guns made an earth-shattering loud noise almost simultaneously, and the flames soared into the sky at the same time, black smoke rose everywhere, and a terrible howl followed, and countless war horses neighed in horror and jumped restlessly.

Shi Siming suddenly grabbed the reins, fell down to stabilize the mount, his scalp was numb for a while, and he cursed in his mouth: "I--"

And at this time, the north gate of Raoyang City has been opened inward, and a horse is the first to come out, wearing black armor, with a blood-red helmet on his head, and a hideous iron face, controlling the horse purely with his legs, a spear in his right hand, and a strong crossbow in his left hand, and the war horse with black leather armor under his crotch is flying like a black lightning, and has rushed out of the city gate like a black lightning!

Behind the knight, the sound of thunderous horses' hooves rang out, and as everyone watched, sixty black-armored knights dressed like the one before them rushed out of the city gates, their blood-red helmets bouncing up and down like flaming flames.

The two groups of nearly 5,000 people who were driven to the Han family were stunned at this time, they looked at this small cavalry team of only a few dozen people in a daze, and rushed to the outside of Raoyang City without hesitation, the overwhelming Youzhou cavalry of more than 20,000 people, like a small flame, rushed to the endless sea without hesitation, as if it could be submerged and extinguished at any time!

But they rushed over with such an indomitable preliminary, and there was even a light in everyone's eyes!

In a daze, hundreds of infantry defenders wearing various armors poured out of the Raoyang City Gate, one by one holding a strong crossbow and a big shield, carrying a spear behind his back, and the first one was also riding a horse, shouting at these Han people who were still in a daze: "Run!" What a daze, run! ”

It was not until this time that the nearly 5,000 people of the Han family, who stretched for two or three hundred steps, reacted and rushed to the gate of Raoyang City desperately. (To be continued.) )