Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Situation Is Critical
The rebels who took the lead in ascending the city were all those who were brave and brave, and before An Lushan's rebellion, they were the most elite sergeants in the warlike border army of the Tang Empire, very brave and very experienced.
For these sergeants, they only need to carry out the orders of the superior and obtain military merits with their brave performance. When fighting with their "companions" in the same array, they also fought bravely in order to win military merits. And they are now famous, they are now the army of "Great Yan". Military merit is judged by the number of opponent sergeants killed, and after they rushed to the city by luck, they immediately showed their courage that had always existed, brandished the war sabers in their hands, and killed the Tang army, which was far inferior to theirs in combat effectiveness.
Several unlucky Tang Army sergeants first fell victim to their swords, and were beheaded or seriously injured, and several nearby Tang Army sergeants threw their weapons in fear and fled. The bravery of these rebel sergeants created an opportunity for their follow-up companions to ascend the city, and soon more than a dozen sergeants rushed to the city and opened fire on the nearby Tang sergeants.
This was the defensive area of Wang Sili's department, and Wang Sili, who was commanding the battle on the other side, soon discovered the strange situation in this place, and after he yelled, he immediately rushed over with his own soldiers.
Under Wang Sili's order, he rushed ahead first, waved the horizontal knife in his hand, and picked out the war knife in the hand of the rebel captain in the lead, and then quickly waved the knife with his backhand, and cut off the head of the rebel captain without any suspense.
A great head flew directly out of the city and fell into the pile of rebel soldiers below the city, and a column of blood shot out from the headless corpse, sprinkling Wang Sili, the leader of the guard, and splashing on the bodies of the other soldiers. And Wang Cunmiao did not stop there, continued to swing his knife and slash, and then cut off the head of a rebel sergeant, and stretched out his foot, kicking the headless corpse directly into the city.
However, the horizontal knife in Wang Cunqiao's hand was also abolished, and he smashed the horizontal knife in his hand that could no longer be used on another rebel sergeant with a swift speed, and immediately picked up the Mo knife that he didn't know who threw on the ground, and continued to rush over.
The Mo knife showed a very great power in Wang Cunqiao's hand, and the rebels couldn't stop it at all!
Wang Cunmiao killed a number of rebels in an instant, and continued to rush over, such a heroic feat frightened several rebels at the head of the city, no one dared to compete with them, and several rebel sergeants turned around and fled when Wang Cunmiao rushed over. But how can there be a place to escape from the city? The frightened rebel sergeants panicked and fell directly from the city, and happened to fall diagonally on several of their companions who had just been about to climb the ladder.
Wang Cunmiao's bravery not only frightened the rebels, but also boosted the morale of his comrades, and the timid sergeants no longer retreated, but rushed forward with loud shouts. It was impossible for a large number of rebels to rush to the city soon after the rebels who had ascended the city through the ladder, and the dozens of sergeants who were fortunate enough to rush up were soon killed at the head of the city under the fierce slashing of Wang Cunmiao and other Tang army sergeants, and their bodies were all thrown down.
Seeing this, Wang Sili breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately came over and punched, kicked, and scolded several timid sergeants for a while, so that the sergeants could no longer let a large number of rebel sergeants rush to the city no matter what, and if anyone was afraid to fight again, he would be killed.
Wang Sili's anger and Wang Cunmiao's heroic feat frightened the timid sergeants and boosted their morale, and the Tang sergeants in this direction shouted and rushed to the top of the city, breaking up their offensive before the rebels could reach the top of the city.
The situation of the Tianliangqiu Department was also similar to that of Wang Sili's Department, there were a large number of rebels who took advantage of the timidity of the defending soldiers to rush to the city, and finally a few brave generals rose up and killed a few people before the danger was eliminated in the bud.
However, this situation made Wang Sili, Tian Liangqiu and others very aggrieved, and they had a feeling that they had nowhere to use their strength.
They are all high-level generals who can command tens of thousands of horses to fight, and it can be said that they are capable of standing alone, but now they are nesting in a corner of the city wall, and their respective leaders are only a few thousand, and these sergeants have fled back from the battlefield, and the army is unstable, and when there is a critical situation, many people want to flee for their lives, and even to the point that they want to go into battle to slash and kill in person, which simply makes them feel like a tiger falling into Pingyang.
It's so helpless!
The rain was a little lighter, and the sky was clearer, but the wind was stronger again, and the fog that was entwined between the peaks of Huashan was flowing rapidly, and the fog near the city wall was quickly blown away.
The fog blew away, and the situation in the forbidden ditch area was clearly seen. After seeing the situation in the forbidden ditch, Wang Sili gasped.
The Forbidden Ditch is almost non-existent, and the bridges made of several corpses have made the Forbidden Ditch Danger a thoroughfare, and more and more rebel sergeants have rushed through these bridges, and more and more sergeants are preparing to enter the city under the city walls. The bridge of corpses was densely packed with rebel sergeants, because the space under the city wall was too small to squeeze too many sergeants, otherwise more sergeants would stand on the western edge of the forbidden ditch.
"Archers, shoot at the rebels in the Forbidden Ditch!" Wang Sili ordered angrily.
He knew that if he allowed such a situation to go, the city would be captured by the rebels sooner or later.
The corpses of the rebels can be stacked into a platform for siege, which can be used by subsequent rebels to increase the intensity of the attack on the city head and concentrate more forces on the city. The dense arrows could effectively kill it, and Wang Sili immediately ordered to concentrate on shooting again.
The sergeants on several passes in the Twelve Cities continued to shoot arrows, and the archers on the city were also shooting desperately, but the shooting effect was not satisfactory under the influence of strong winds and rain.
Such a dense assault of the rebels also caused psychological pressure on the defenders on the city team, because the bravery of Wang Cunqiao and the other sergeants temporarily boosted their morale, and after the fog cleared, revealing the dense siege army, they were hit again, and some of the sergeants who were almost burned to death in Lingbao trembled in their stomachs.
At this moment, a burst of arrows shot from the dense rebel array in the forbidden ditch, and with the help of the strong wind, they fell on the city team, knocking more than a dozen sergeants to the ground. Seeing this, the sergeants at the head of the city, who were afraid of being hit by the rebels' arrows again, actually threw down their weapons and turned to flee.
Neighboring sergeants were also affected, and many stood there in a daze, bewildered. When the head of the city landed, a large defensive blank area was exposed, and the rebel city on several cloud ladders took the opportunity to quickly rush to the head of the city, desperately slashing and killing the panicked Tang army sergeants.
Many things were contagious, and more sergeants flinched.
"Kill me!" Wang Sili roared angrily and personally led his own soldiers to kill him. However, just when Wang Sili personally led his own soldiers to the front of the city, dozens of sergeants in the defensive place of Tian Liangqiu next door also threw down their weapons and fled, and more rebel sergeants jumped on the city to chase and kill the Tang army who fled in the desert. Tian Liangqiu, who was helpless, had no choice but to personally lead his own soldiers to rush up to block the rebels' arrival in the city.
Just when the situation was critical, Wang Sili and Wang Liangqiu took their own soldiers to personally go to the city to slash and kill more and more rebel sergeants who rushed up, there was a shout of killing from the left side, but it was Yang Xi who came over with a large group of men and horses to reinforce!
Immediately, there was a shout of killing from the right hand to the horse, and Ge Shuhan sent the last five hundred reserves into the field!