Chapter 749: Despair
Dust, fire, crossbows, arrows, a small city of Dandang was covered with death, blood, sorrow, screams...... and so on, the inside and outside of the city wall were already covered with corpses, and the corpses of the soldiers of Song Shicheng who died under the city were completely buried by the dirt bags thrown out later before they could see clearly.
A road made of earth and stone leads to the city wall, which is only about two feet away from the city's head, and the city wall is no longer a barrier if you jump into it.
Zhang Heng observed the situation in the field on the side, and when he saw that it had reached this level, he gave another order, and the soldiers besieging the city rushed towards the dirt road with shouts. However, Zhang Heng, who was full of confidence, was disappointed again, because the tenacity of the defenders at the head of the city was beyond his imagination, just when the soldiers were about to rush to the city, they saw a bundle of dry firewood suddenly flew down from the sky, such dry firewood siege soldiers are not strangers, as early as the second defeat and retreat, it was thanks to these things, this time they learned to be obedient, saw the dry firewood flying towards them, and hurriedly threw the torch in their hands.
Although this action avoided self-immolation and death, the defenders at the head of the city were obviously very unkind, and when they saw that there was no dry firewood, they fired a round of rockets, and as the rockets fell into the dry wood, the fire was ignited again, and the dirt road that had been built with great difficulty was once again surrounded.
Zhang Heng watched as his soldiers rushed down the dirt road screaming with fire all over their bodies, their eyes blood-red, and the roots of their teeth almost fell off.
He ordered the soldiers to gather all the drinking water they carried, organized a group of daredevils, poured their whole bodies wet, and then let them rush towards the road with dirt bags, and the daredevils took advantage of the cover of the soldiers below with bows and arrows, braved the fire and rushed up again, ran all the way, threw the dirt bags in their hands on the road one by one, and extinguished the fire.
The soldiers of Song Shicheng are all experienced in a hundred battles, their combat ability is very strong, and they cooperate with each other very tacitly, and the soil bags are passed one by one, the speed is very fast, and it didn't take long to not only extinguish the fire, but also increase the dirt road a lot. The speed at which the defenders of the city threw firewood could no longer keep up with the speed at which the besieging soldiers threw dirt bags, and after a moment of stalemate, the daredevils finally rushed into the city, hand-to-hand combat, and the prelude began.
The road has been opened, the soldiers rushed towards the city along the dirt road, Zhang Heng saw clearly on the horse, his heart was overjoyed, the suffocation of the stomach also disappeared at this moment, he took the lead, and shouted, "Brothers, rush with me-" Then, Zhang Heng's army all rushed into the city.
As soon as Zhang Heng entered the city, the defenders were all defeated and retreated, and the defenders who had just sworn to resist to the death had all become vulnerable to defeat at this moment.
Zhang Heng's heart was completely occupied by excitement at the moment, and he didn't think about the changes before and after at all, there was a strategist under him who looked wrong and came to remind him, but this strategist was also afraid that he would say the wrong thing, if he caught Duan Yiming, it would have an impact on his future, so he hinted at it, and Zhang Heng didn't hear it at all, just kept urging him, and hurriedly sent someone to search for Duan Yiming.
In this way, Zhang Heng led a large army into the alleys of the city like a tide, and Dandang City, which was not very large, was soon searched by him for half of the city, but the conclusion was that there was no one in every house.
At first, Zhang Heng didn't think carefully about the problems behind this sentence, but he didn't find Duan Yiming at that time, so he searched inside again, and it wasn't until he searched half of the city that he suddenly woke up and felt that something was wrong.
In the past, the city was breached, although because Yue Shaoan ordered not to harass the people, but when the city was broken, it was full of people who fled, and a few times, the Dali army dressed up as a common people and let the army of Song Shicheng suffer a few dark losses, Yue Shaoan then let the commanders of all roads order, when the city was broken, the people could not go to the street, and the people who saw the chaos on the street were killed or injured, so it went on, and then after the siege of the city, the people of Dali gradually rarely escaped in the Dali army.
However, even this cannot be eliminated, and Dandang City is far away from the battlefield of Song Shicheng and Dali's main army, and has not been affected by the war, and here, there is not a single person on the street, and later, there is not even a single enemy army. In the whole city, except for the shouting of Zhang Heng's people, there was no other sound.
Zhang Heng gradually calmed down, his face slowly turned blue, and in the end, he was unusually white, without a trace of blood, because he had already felt that there was a huge conspiracy in this, although he still didn't understand what the specific conspiracy was, but he already knew that this city must not stay for a long time, thinking about this, he hurriedly ordered the army to withdraw from the city.
At the sound of an order, the rear team changed to the front team, and the army rushed towards the outside of the city, however, it was already too late, just when Zhang Heng led the army to feel the edge of the city wall, the entire outside of the city was surrounded by fire, and the black shadow illuminated into the color of day, at the same time, there were fires everywhere in the city, and the fire was almost all over the entire Dandang City.
In fact, when the Dali army chose to lure Zhang Heng into Dandang City, it was because the size of the city was just right, and almost all the houses in the city were wooden, and there was no need to arrange materials in advance to set fire under such conditions, which was the most suitable place.
At this time, Zhang Heng finally understood that all this was a trap, and he ran hundreds of miles to jump into the grave dug by others, and for a while, Zhang Heng stayed there, looking at the soldiers who were screaming and accidentally ignited by the fire and those soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time, but they could not escape the threat of death and panicked, and two lines of sad tears could not help but fall in a pair of tiger eyes. These soldiers who were born and died with him, but he brought them to the place of death step by step, Zhang Heng was already desperate, he waved the long stick in his hand and wanted to smash it down on his heavenly spirit cover. And at this moment, an adjutant general ran over and shouted: "General, general, what should we do......"
Listening to the voice that seemed frightened because of the mournful sound, Zhang Heng slowly loosened the long stick in his hand, turned his head, calmed down a little, and asked: "Let the soldiers not panic, the whole army go to the place in the center of the city where there is little fire, tear down the house, and tear out a vacant lot, just wait until the fire is extinguished, and everything will be fine." After saying that, he thought for a while, then turned his head and asked, "Xiao Mi is there, bring him here to see him!" ”
The lieutenant general agreed, ran out quickly, and after giving Zhang Heng's order, the army retreated towards the center of the city. When it was a matter of life, the soldiers demolished the house faster than the people in the demolition office, and it didn't take long for a large piece of open space to be demolished, but because there was no place to store all the wood that had been demolished, it was thrown into the fire, which caused the fire to become more intense.
It was only at this time that someone came to Zhang Heng's place to report to him that Xiao Mi had already taken advantage of the chaos when he was attacking the city.
Zhang Heng also expected this result at this moment, waved his hand, and got off the horse, when he just jumped off the horse, he was almost unsteady on his feet, and fell to the ground, but fortunately, the soldiers next to him supported him, so as to avoid the result of his head breaking and bleeding.
After Zhang Heng reluctantly stood up, he looked at the soldiers who were sitting on the ground, and his heart was really not good, however, the real difficulties had just begun, when he organized the death squad, the soldiers used up all their drinking water, at this moment, in the face of such a situation, surrounded by fire, the soldiers were hungry and thirsty, sleepy and tired, and they had completely reached a desperate situation......