Chapter 63: The Siege (Part II)
At this time, the sky is close to dusk, the two armies temporarily ceased fighting and rested, after nightfall, the lights outside the west city are bright, the sound of people shouting horses and neighing is endless, it seems that there will be some big moves, Lou Chuan also asked Hu Shide: "The tiger camp has suffered several losses during the day, will it make a move at night, Yu Chongchong's ability should not be like this." ”
Hu Shide nodded in approval and replied: "Not only the West City, but also the North City should be kept an eye on, among the battalions in Fengzhou, the Tiger Battalion and the Jingqi Battalion are known for being good at attacking the city, and the Tiger Battalion did not do their best to attack during the day, they should be testing the truth and reality, and it is likely to be a two-pronged attack tonight." Hu Shide looked at the night sky and sighed, "It's another difficult night." ”
"Then, do you want to transfer the Green Flag Battalion in Dongcheng to strengthen the defense of the northwest city." Lou Chuan also suggested in a whisper,
"Well, I think it works." Hu Shide nodded in approval, Lou Chuan also felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, it is definitely not an easy task to get Hu Shide's approval, the general of the tooth army is proud of this, he doesn't want him to start and is about to leave, but he was stopped by Hu Shide: "Don't rush first, let them get ready, wait for my order." ”
The series of defeats during the day did dampen the morale of the tiger battalion, but they also took the opportunity to find out the strength of the opponent.
After nightfall, the tiger battalion was the first to attack, and Yu Chongchong reviewed a thirty-man death squad, all of whom were the old team of the Hedong Army.
Yu Chongchong asked the two sergeants to bring a basket of cooked beef, the beef was cut into four squares, each piece weighed eight taels, he sent the meat to the soldiers one by one, and watched them eat the meat, after eating the meat, each of them picked up a bowl of Zhuangxing wine, Yu Chongchong held the wine bowl high, and said loudly: "I won't say a word of nonsense, only victory can wash away the shame on us." ”
Zhao Ban, the second outpost of the third outpost of the Golden Wind Battalion, is the leader of this death squad, the Golden Wind Battalion did not go south with the army this time, but sent three hundred elites to help the army, Zhao Ban and his three hundred partners were incorporated into the Tiger Battalion, called the Golden Wind Sentry, when Yu Chong selected the death squad, he did not intend to be selected from the Golden Wind Sentry and other soldiers who came to help the war, after all, this is a drudgery of nine deaths,
But the soldiers didn't think so, in order to be the daredevils, the tiger battalion and the friendly army quarreled endlessly, almost didn't fight, Yu Chongchong had to change his original intention, selected from the whole battalion, Zhao Ban was defeated by the other six candidates, only to win the title of "leader", the leader is not only the leader of the death squad, but also the supreme honor in the army, you have been a team leader, a sentry commander, or even a pawn army, you may not be able to get the respect of the veterans, but if you have served as the leader of the death squad in a siege, That's definitely going to be praised by someone to give it a thumbs up,
Zhao Ban drank all the wine in the bowl in one gulp, smashed the wine bowl, and drank with a knife: "Brothers, follow me." ”
Zhao Ban and his daredevils were like leopards hunting at night, silently, and quickly and quickly crossed the sheep and horse wall and suddenly appeared under the city wall, and the sheep and horse wall defenders did not notice it at all.
At this time, the banner battalion in the north of the city launched the largest offensive action since the battle, the drums were like thunder, the arrows were like rain, thousands of soldiers quickly crossed the sheep and horse wall and approached the city wall, the defenders of the north city had a green flag battalion of the Flying Fish Army and three regiments of the front army, the green flag battalion of the Flying Fish Army each battalion was about 800 people, the infantry and cavalry were mixed, well-trained, and the Shuofang front army was also a strong force outside the Saiwai, and the surrounding towns and the Tubo people had brilliant results in the previous encounters,
Wuhai's Beicheng is like setting up a meat grinder, the young lives and their good years are all ground into meat sauce, the fierce blade impact and the roar of the soldiers are earth-shattering, both armies regard honor as more precious than life, no one will retreat and admit defeat when they meet on a narrow road, the fierce battle in Beicheng covers Zhao Ban and his death squad well, they quietly touched the secret door of Xicheng B, three Saimen knife cars blocked the passage in the secret door, and a team of soldiers stationed inside and outside,
"Someone." When the gatekeeper saw someone coming, he broke off and shouted,
"My own people." Zhao Ban replied in imitation of the Lingzhou accent,
When the guards saw that it was indeed a soldier wearing Shuofang's soldiers' uniforms coming over, they were a little lax,
"Password." The guards continued to interrogate,
"Password, hahaha." Zhao Ban laughed and said with a grin, "What else do you want?" ”
As he spoke, Zhao Ban had already walked three feet away from the door, as long as he took a few steps forward, he was sure to break the guard's neck, and "whoosh" a feather arrow shot a foot away in front of him, and someone inside the door warned: "If you don't have a password, you will die." Zhao Ban grinned: "Don't, just kidding, password, I know, it's ......"
Speaking of this, Zhao Ban's figure suddenly skyrocketed, and he went forward in front of the guard, strangled his head with both arms, and broke up with a mistake, with a crisp "gala" sound, breaking the guard's neck,
"Arrows, arrows."
The defenders in the secret door were flustered and opened their bows and shot, Zhao Ban's figure was as agile as an ape, dodging left and right, and the arrows could not hurt him at all, the guards were terrified, and they abandoned their bows and took knives to fight, which was the opponent of Zhao Ban and others, and in the blink of an eye, they were killed, everyone moved away from the Saimen knife car, and Zhao Ban shot a rocket into the night sky,
This shows that the secret gate has been breached, and the follow-up troops can use this as a breakthrough to attack the city, and the soldiers of the tiger battalion, who have long been ready to stop, shouted in unison and pounced on the sheep and horse wall like thunder.
The capture of the secret gate of No. B not only opened the door for the attack, but also cut off a back road for the guards of the sheep and horse wall, Zhao Ban took the opportunity to shout: "The west gate has been lost, run for your life." After Min Lan was injured, the lord of Xicheng was replaced by the former army veteran Chongjiu, who has been in the army for 40 years, and is one of the top ten veteran generals of Shuofang, known as the Nine Masters, he is not good at archery and horse archery, he only likes to wield a big knife face to face to kill the general and capture the flag,
Seeing the retreat of the army, Chong Jiu said angrily: "Pass my general order, and anyone who dares to approach the city wall twenty zhang will be shot to death." ”
At the same time, he personally led two hundred soldiers to recapture the secret door of the number B, Zhao Ban's death squad was under tremendous pressure at the moment, only thirty people, there was no danger to defend, and the enemy was attacked inside and outside, Zhao Ban put the military flag on his back and tied it with a belt, and he himself brandished a war knife and slashed all over his body covered in blood, and his voice was already hoarse,
Chong Jiu approached, seeing that Zhao Ban was fierce, he shook the chain of big knives in his hand and shouted: "Who is coming, the ninth master will not kill the nameless junior under the knife." Zhao Ban had already killed his eyes, and when he saw a veteran wearing heavy armor and white hair coming to challenge, he would cut without a word, and when he saw that he despised himself, he was furious, and waved a big knife to meet him, "Bang." "There was a crunch, and the sparks burst wildly,
The big knife of the nine is made of mixed iron, weighing more than fifty catties, thick and powerful, the person who died in his hands was not so much injured by the blade, but rather by the big knife and died, Zhao Ban's knife was just an ordinary horizontal knife with a long-handled wooden handle, and the mixed iron knife of the nine touched, it was "clicked" and folded into two sections, and the tiger's mouth was also numb,
Zhao Banlian retreated several steps to gain a firm foothold, his face was red and white, although he was young, he had experienced more than a dozen battles, and he had beheaded more than 100 enemies, so he had accumulated merit to achieve the second post, and after such a long battle, he didn't dare to say that he had never lost, but he had never lost so embarrassed like today,
So he shouted with a black face: "Old horseman, you can only win if you have good weapons, what kind of skill is this, dare to wrestle with me." Shuo Fang's soldiers laughed when they heard this, you are dead and alive in front of the two armies, who has the time to gamble with you, but what everyone never expected was that Chong Jiu actually thrust the knife into the ground: "I fell with you." ”
The attendants hurriedly stopped him, but he was pushed to the ground one by one by Chongjiu, and the deputy general Zhang Suo couldn't stop him, Chongjiu took off his helmet and took off his heavy armor, looking at his convex and powerful, hard as iron muscles, which looked like a veteran in his sixties, Zhao Ban was not to be outdone, and he also stripped off his armor with two brushes, Zhao Ban also had muscles, but compared to Chongjiu, he was too petty.
The soldiers on both sides of the city at the same time hung down their swords and guns to besiege the city, each cheering for their own general, the atmosphere was very warm, the two of them saluted each other like wrestlers in the arena, Zhao Ban suddenly a foxtrot to the left side of the seed, grabbed his right arm, a beautiful back fall, the veteran "goo" fell to the ground, the daredevils cheered, but unfortunately the cheers did not stop, the nine used a sweeping leg to knock Zhao Ban to the ground, turned over horizontally, and smashed an elbow over, if he was hit by him and did not die, he would break a few ribs, It's a pity that people can't be as flexible as young people when they are old.
Zhao Ban dodged this fatal blow by rolling on the spot and eighteen rolls, after this temptation, each other has an understanding of each other's strength, the nine chassis is calm, the strength is infinite, Zhao Ban's tactics are flexible, the attack and defense speed is fast, and then fight down, each other is more cautious, often as soon as they fight, they will immediately separate, so as not to give the opponent an opportunity to take advantage of,
The two armies were killed in front of the battle, but the main general was busy wrestling with others, the deputy general Zhang Suo realized that something was wrong, and took a horse and galloped to see Hu Shide, Hu Shide was supervising the battle at the north gate at the moment, the fierce battle at the north gate has entered the white heat, the banner battalion has gone all out, the three regiments of the Shuofang front army have been defeated, although the green flag battalion of the Flying Fish Army has lost more than half, but still insists on not retreating, Lou Chuan also persuaded Hu Shide several times to transfer the green flag battalion in Dongcheng to reinforce, but Hu Shide denied,
Seeing that the soldiers of the banner battalion had climbed to the top of the city, Lou Chuan also asked again: "The general quickly orders the transfer of reinforcements." Hu Shide still shook his head, and he said to the guards around him: "It's your turn." The pro-military captain was stunned when he heard this, and Lou Chuan was also busy dissuading: "Don't be a general, the guards are your guards, how can you go into battle to kill the enemy." ”
Hu Shide sneered and said: "If you lose the city, you and I will die without a place to be buried." The tiger was stunned, and asked the pro-military captain: "What are you still doing in a daze." The captain drew his sword and shouted into the battle formation, and the addition of the guards greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of the defenders.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, under the cover of the archers, the thirteenth charge of the banner battalion began again, the defenders have been forced to a dead end, the banner battalion is progressing rapidly, their battle flag was once planted in the city, Lou Chuan also looked at Hu Shide's cold face, knowing that it was in vain to persuade him to transfer troops, so he drew his sword in his hand and led several generals, staff officers, and close attendants to shout and kill,
The thirteenth charge of the banner battalion ended in failure again, the main force was lost, the morale was extremely low, the fourteenth charge became far away, and the offensive and defensive battle of the northern city was actually over,
Hu Shide's tightly locked brows finally bloomed, and the building boat also retreated back with blood, his physical strength was exhausted, and his steps couldn't help but stumble, when he was still four or five zhang away from Hu Shide, he suddenly stepped on the air and fell to the ground, he lost the horizontal knife, his head rested on the loess and looked at the sky and lay down, the stars were brilliant, the night wind was intoxicating, but it was a pity that the smell of blood around was too strong, and the murderous spirit was too heavy.
From that lock, he learned that Chong Jiu was wrestling with Zhao Ban, and he ignored the siege of the tiger camp, and Xicheng was in danger, Hu Shide stomped his feet when he heard the words, and said with remorse: "I only remember that he is a fierce general, but I forget that he is also a donkey." ”
"Please ask the general to immediately transfer reinforcements from the Xicheng Green Flag Battalion." Lou Chuan didn't care about enjoying the night, jumped up and said,
This time, Hu Shide did not refuse, the battle of Beicheng has ended, the time is ripe to reinforce Xicheng, and more importantly, Xicheng is in danger, and he cannot be allowed to reinforce again.
When Zhao Ban and Chong Jiu had not yet divided the winner, the tiger camp had already entered the city from the B gate, and the veteran Chong Jiu and his retinue were taken prisoner, Chong Jiu had a hot temper and scolded, and someone drew a bow to shoot him, but was saved by Zhao Ban,
After the withdrawal of the Green Flag Battalion in Dongcheng, the position of the Fengya Battalion, which had been calm, suddenly became busy, and the stone cannons for the siege of the city suddenly became eighteen from the previous four, and the additional fourteen stone cannons were the pride of the Xining army, in fact, they had already been transported to the position, but they were cleverly camouflaged, and the defenders were at a loss, and the eighteen stone cannons were aimed at one direction at the same time, which was the place where Hu Shide's staff officers said that they bombarded with fist-sized stones, and the stones for attacking the city during the day were indeed not big, because the main purpose at that time was not to break the city. Rather, it is to test the virtual reality and correct the firing angle of the stone cannon,
Now the stones used in the eighteen stone cannons have been replaced with the largest ones, although the sight is not good at night, but with the angle that has been corrected during the day, the soldiers can still easily and accurately smash the stones to a fixed place, the soldiers defending the city feel that the entire city wall is trembling, and the most elite Green Banner battalion has been withdrawn, and rumors are spreading in panic, some people say: "Shangfeng has abandoned the city and ran away from the south gate, leaving us here as a substitute for the dead ghosts." ”
When the army was in turmoil, Wang Chongchun, the deputy general of the city, took the lead in escaping, Wang Chongchun was Wang Chongwen's brother, and Wang Chongan had a deep friendship, Wang Chongchun was originally just a captain, after Wang Chongan took over the military and political power of Shuofang, he was promoted to deputy general, as his own cronies sent to Wuhai City to supervise the army, Hu Shide looked down on this kind of nepotism people, has not been reused,
The lord of the east city was originally the commander of the green flag battalion Zhan Tian wolf, Wang Chongchun was the deputy general of the overseer, and after the Zhan Tian wolf led the green flag battalion to reinforce the west city, Wang Chongchun took his position and was promoted to the main general of the east city.
Wang Chongchun fled, the morale of the defenders collapsed suddenly, and at this time the city wall was smashed open a gap about two zhang wide, the army was even more panicked, as a result, the reconnaissance team of the Fengya battalion climbed the city wall with a grappling hook rope, and took the east gate with a lot of energy, as soon as the east gate was opened, the soldiers of the Fengya battalion swarmed in, they did not stop at all, and launched an attack directly from the back of the defenders of Xicheng,
The fierce battle in Xicheng is in full swing, the powerful attack power of the tiger battalion was effectively contained by Hu Shide, the two green flag battalions of the Flying Fish Army are like two ropes, one is tied to the tiger's head, and the other is tied to the tiger's tail, so that the tiger can not advance or retreat, and he is in a dilemma, in order to deal with this tiger, Hu Shide has used the treasures at the bottom of the box, the pro-soldier team, the garrison team, the regimental coalition army, and even the two regiments that have just ended the fierce battle in the north of the city have been pulled out and put into the tiger operation, the strength of the defenders has been three times that of the attacker, this is almost a battle without any suspense,
But the tiger is the tiger, even if it is put in a cage, it also opens its teeth and claws, do not approach the living, and forcibly wants to subdue it, then it must be at the cost of blood and flesh, after the repeated attacks are ineffective, the defenders of the senior generals have sweat on their foreheads, and then consume it like this, although the victory is still defeated, what do people use to defend the city,
Although the number of people in the tiger camp is only half of that of the Weiyuan battalion, it is the hand of the Xining army battalions, and it is the trump card of the trump card.
The tiger that was surrounded by clumps was already scarred, and it was finally tired......
"Command, launch a general attack."
The corners of Hu Shide's mouth showed a hint of elusive sneer, this veteran with an iron face, Taishan collapsed in front and his face remained unchanged, this day is the second time to show a smile, Lou Chuan, who has been paying attention to Hu Shide's expression, also felt a trace of ease that he has never felt before, if this tiger can be taken down, the battle of Wuhai City will be famous for eternity, which general does not want to engrave his name on a big victory,
The last two regiments of the front army also joined the battle, and the end of the tiger seemed to be coming,
The knife in Zhao Ban's hand was broken again, he just bent down to pick up a scimitar, a crossbow arrow hit his thigh, Zhao Ban wailed in pain, just at this time another arrow hit his cheek, and immediately the blood flowed, a guard wanted to bandage him, he pushed it away, Zhao Ban pulled out the arrow on his cheek in pain, and the barb brought out a large piece of bloody flesh,
Zhao Ban gritted his teeth and tore his robe to cover his face, and then swung his knife to cut off the arrow shaft on his leg, and said to the dozen or so blood-covered daredevils behind him: "The tiger is not invincible, kill." Because a mouth full of blood poured into his throat, this sentence was hoarse, but the shock it brought to everyone was incomparable,
"The tiger is not invincible."
"The tiger is not invincible, kill, kill."
The bloodied, scarred tiger let out its last roar, and the red-eyed tiger battalion launched a final attack on the city with all its strength.
Hu Shide and his soldiers are ready to fight,
A thousand drums are moving, all are singing in unison,
In the face of the dying tiger, Shuo Fang soldiers bravely pounced, either you die, or I die, no one wants to be a coward here,
At the moment when the two people collided passionately, Hu Shide suddenly sighed and said to himself: "They are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, why bother." ”
Before he could say this, there was a sudden chaos behind him, and dozens of soldiers beat gongs and shouted: "The Fengzhou army has entered the city, the Fengzhou army has entered the city." All the generals were shocked when they heard this, and Lou Chuan also brandished his saber and shouted: "Those who dare to shake the hearts of the army will be killed." The soldier who struck the gong smiled and said, "You are still dreaming, Wuhai City has been lost, you should run for your life." "It turns out that these dozen soldiers are all pretending to be from the Xining Army.
Hu Shide screamed when he heard this, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body fell heavily.