Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Army's Mood Floats
When Pang Zhong and other generals took turns to defend the Hantong Pass, he led his army to resist the attacks of the rebels countless times, and there were many large-scale rebels who climbed the city through the ladder, but in the end they were still killed by the soldiers under his command and firmly defended the city. In the face of the crisis, he has nothing to fear, especially after experiencing the Lingbao fiasco, he has a feeling of letting go in his heart, and he doesn't even "spare his life".
In the battle of Lingbao, the 100,000 horses and horses led by him fled back only a few thousand, so that he who had always been conceited wanted to die to apologize, in order to comfort the heroic souls of those soldiers who died tragically in the narrow mountain pass between Huashan and the Yellow River. In the past, he was not afraid of death, and he was at the forefront of commanding operations, but now he is even more afraid of death, life and death don't matter, his "requirements" for death only need to be strong, not those nests.
He held this belief when he commanded the operation in the Hantong Pass City, and now he is commanding the operation at the head of the Sui Tong Pass City, which is also this mentality.
It can be said that he fought bravely to kill the enemy more than anyone else, and countless rebels died under his bow and arrows and combat knives, many of them rebel sergeants at the rank of chief officer. If someone observes in mid-air who is more brave than the generals who command the battle at the head of the city, then Pang Zhong's first place is beyond reproach. Of course, he also felt that the battle situation was much more critical than before the rain, but he also knew that the situation was not very difficult, the rebels only had a chance to climb the city, and a few sergeants had a chance to jump on the city, and if they wanted to really attack the city, they would have to pay a huge price.
Of course, in this case, there can be no cowardice and retreat, and there can be no carelessness, otherwise a place will be broken by the rebels, and the subsequent rebel sergeants can rush up from here one after another, and it will take a lot of effort to kill it.
The best case scenario is to prevent the rebels from taking the city on a large scale. Concentrate all your forces and inflict heavy losses on the rebels in every way when they arrive in the city, eliminating the danger below the city's head.
The defenders on the head of the city now are not the sergeants of the Tang army, whose morale was very high a few days ago, but a group of remnants of the defeated generals who have experienced the defeat of Lingbao.
The rebels have just emerged from the city, and there are no sergeants who want to flee in fear?
If this happens frequently, it is possible that the defense line at the head of the city will collapse in an instant.
Pang Zhong must not allow any of his deserters to appear, and if anyone dares to flee for their lives, the sword in his hand will not forgive them.
His sergeant, the morale is a little better than the other departments, but they have found a little self-confidence in Hantong Pass, and they are much more ferocious than the other departments.
The ladders under the city were still being erected, and the rebel sergeants who attacked the city under the command of the commander-in-chief, who were led by the idea of attacking the city no matter how many casualties, went forward and climbed to the top of the city using the ladders one after another, hoping to destroy the Tang army's defense in this desperate way.
Several freshly erected ladders were pushed out by the sergeants at the head of the city with direct force on the beams, and the ladders fell into the forbidden ditch along with several sergeants climbing on the ladders.
"Ahh A rebel sergeant who had just climbed halfway up the ladder was hit on the head by a large stone thrown from the city, and after screaming, he let go of his hand climbing the ladder, covered his head full of blood, and planted it directly, and knocked several of his companions down the ladder together, and fell into the forbidden ditch with all his brains, either killed or injured.
"Kill!" One of Pang Zhong's generals, waved his knife, and after shouting angrily, he vigorously slashed at a rebel sergeant who was quickly heading towards the city, and in a terrible scream, the rebel sergeant's head was half entered, and the blood gushing out of it splashed with the crack, and many nearby sergeants were splashed with blood, but it was quickly washed away by the rain and fell on the city.
The rebel sergeant, whose neck had been cut in half, immediately let go of his grip on the ladder, and the horizontal knife in his other hand also fell to the city, and his body also fell, and he happened to fall on a rock, and then his body separated, and the frightened and wide-eyed head was immediately trampled by several companions in turn, but no one noticed this.
When the rebel sergeants attacked the city, they felt no different from stepping on the corpses of their comrades as if they were stepping on rocks, and in some cases, the besieging sergeants would even pull the corpses of their dead comrades as stepping stones.
When there is a fierce battle on the battlefield, no one cares about many ethical scruples, and the rebels who are desperately attacking the city do not even have time to take care of their wounded comrades, and the soldiers who are wounded and not killed have no one to come forward to ask for help, and even some people who do not fall to the ground will be trampled to death by their unscrupulous companions. That's how brutal the battle is!
The blood of the dead and wounded sergeants under the wall was mixed with the rainwater and flowed into the ditch, but the rapid flow of water from the high ground soon diluted the strong blood and spread through the east of the ditch to the mountains, or continued to flow down the "corpse dam".
At the beginning of the war, there were enough rebel sergeants killed and wounded in the forbidden ditch, mixed with the Tang army sergeants who were not burned, at that time the forbidden ditch could be said to be full of blood, the smell of blood and the stench of decomposing corpses made people want to vomit, but this heavy rain almost eliminated these smells, and there was no unpleasant smell in the nose.
But the Tang soldiers at the head of the city would rather continue to smell these unpleasant smells than rain heavily and keep raining.
The rain didn't stop, so I had to fight for my life.
Pang Zhong's command is very decisive, and the battle is also very brave, and the other generals are similar, even more so Li Fude, who went to the city with several victories, and the sergeants under his command who have not experienced the fiasco of Lingbao are almost not timid, and the city head defended by these two generals is basically no rebel can jump on the city, and the rebel sergeants who can climb the ladder are also eliminated halfway, or pushed into the forbidden ditch together with the ladder.
But in several other places, such as the area commanded by Wang Sili and Tian Liangqiu, the battle situation is relatively not optimistic, and those sergeants who still have a shadow in their hearts have timid thoughts after seeing more and more rebel sergeants using cloud ladders to ascend the city, even though Wang Sili and Tian Liangqiu killed several sergeants who threw down their weapons and fled, but the military spirit still fluctuated as more and more rebels began to ascend the city.
"Yike...... Kill!" A rebel sergeant who first went up to the top of the ladder, quickly leaned over through the ladder and jumped onto the city wall, in the midst of a few shouts and shouts of "yaya", waved the war knife in his hand, and slashed at the Tang army sergeant who was temporarily startled by his brave movements......