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Chapter 776: This Is My Grave

At noon, the sun's rays shine down on the earth, and the snow reflects the sunlight back to the sky before melting, making the world brighter and brighter. After the snow, the sky is clear and the scenery is always the object of poets' sighs.

The sky is clear and blue, and the earth is white.

Blue sky, white snow, cold wind...... And that big red flag.

The air is so cold that people feel happy to breathe, and every time they circulate in the body, they feel a sense of unprecedented transparency. It was a flat field, and when you stood on the fortress and looked around, you could not see a single undulation as far as the eye could see, no rocks, no high slopes, not even a single tree.

Standing on the ruined earthen wall, you can see far, far away at a glance.

Therefore, when a black line appeared on the horizon, the eyes of each of the Yanyun soldiers in the fortress couldn't help but narrow, and they clenched the weapons in their hands, either horizontal knives, spears, or hard bows. Someone couldn't help but breathe deeply, and a cloud of white heat poured out of their nostrils.

It is not life, but death.

This fortress may have been built by a wealthy family, or it may have been built by the imperial court at the beginning of the chaos in the last years of the Great Sui Dynasty. At the beginning, in the face of endless rebellions in the world, those nobles in the court of the Great Sui came up with a way to be extremely, but they themselves thought that they were extremely smart and called it beautiful...... Fortified Clear.

At that time, the rebellion in the world was intensifying, and the nobles in the court did not think about how to appease the people and put down the rebellion, but thought of a method that seemed very reasonable to them. They believe that the chaos in the world is chaotic for the people. Those traitors burned, killed, and looted, and they burned and killed and robbed the things of the people, so it was the people who provided the traitors with food and grass, and the people were also the soldiers that the traitors needed. Therefore, if you want to stop the chaos in the world, you must first restrain the people and not the traitors.

Therefore, the court ordered that wherever there was a rebellion, all the people should move into the big cities or forts. So that those traitors and bandits can't find the people, and they can't grab the food. Without the people, it will naturally be difficult for those thieves to develop, and perhaps there is no need for the imperial court to send troops to exterminate them, and the traitors will eventually starve to death.

What a great way to do this, and it succeeded in leading to a further escalation of the rebellion of the Great Sui.

Those nobles in the court thought of this trick called the bottom of the kettle. But they forgot that the people had entered the city and the fortress, and who would feed them? The emperor did not decree it, the court did not issue an order, and the local officials preferred to let the grain in the granary rot, and would rather let the rebels rob it than distribute the grain to the people.

As a result, the people in the city and the fortress also joined the rebellion.

There may have been tragic stories in this fortress, but none of that mattered anymore. Today, this dilapidated place will have a story to tell, perhaps even more tragic.

When the black line on the horizon gradually turned into a wave, the soldiers of the Yanyun Army in the fortress turned their eyes to the robes beside them.

Will it die?

Maybe a lot of people think about this question, but no one asks it.

"Brother, I don't know where you're from after walking all the way."

"A native of Dongping County."

"Me too, from which county?"

"Razor, what about you?"

"I'm from Yuncheng."

"I didn't expect that the person standing next to me at this time could be a fellow...... It seems that I am a few years older than you, and in a moment you will stand behind me, and I will have sixteen feathered arrows, and I will have a horizontal knife when I have shot the quiver, and you will come up again when I am dead. If you have time to spare, remember to drag my body back so that the horse's hooves don't step on it...... Keep a good corpse, the Huangquan Road in the province is not fast. ”

The younger soldier shook his head: "Brother, you have a mother-in-law and a child, right?" ”

"Well, I have a son, who is seven years old this year."

The older soldier replied.

"I didn't."

The younger soldier smiled and took a step forward to stand in front of Paoze: "When Zhang Jin claimed to occupy Juyeze, he fought Yuncheng, and my father and mother died. I don't have a mother-in-law, I don't have children, I don't have anything...... So, stand behind me, and give me your hard bow and quiver. ”

The young soldier handed his spear to the robe: "Hide behind the earthen wall, the enemy's cavalry will not be able to rush up for a while." ”

"Don't argue."

He smiled and said in a flat tone: "If you stand behind me, you may not be immortal." Nearly 20,000 cavalry fought our 4,000 infantry, and this battle was actually a battle of ambition. We are the soldiers of His Royal Highness King Yan, and we can't die with a nest, right? I'm waiting for you in front, waiting for you to be reincarnated together. If I can't wait for you on the Huangquan Road, then remember to burn a handful of paper money for me every year. ”

He took his stiff bow and drew his first feathered arrow.

"It's coming!"

……

……

When nearly 20,000 horses stepped on the ground, it was as if the ruined fortress shook with it. The dust on the earthen wall shook and fell, and the wild birds that inhabited the fortress flew into the air with a bang.

"Don't worry!"

The captain who was standing on the outermost earthen wall and running back and forth to deploy the defense said loudly: "Wait until we get into the range and then release the arrows, we don't have many feathered arrows in our hands." Don't waste it! Aim as far as you can, if you can kill one with a single arrow...... His mother's son thinks you are all fathers. ”

The soldiers laughed, and it was discovered that it was not particularly painful to welcome death.

Two hundred steps

One hundred and fifty steps

One hundred and twenty steps

"Shoot the arrows!"

Cui Qian stood at the top and waved the red flag of the Yanyun Army in his hand violently. The banner danced at the top of the fortress like an angry flame.

With a buzz, hundreds of feathered arrows shot out almost simultaneously. The feather arrows were not very dense, because the soldiers of the Yanyun Army at this time did not have many hard bows. But even so, he still put down hundreds of the Xia cavalry who rushed to the front, although these hundred and ten people were nothing compared to the number of enemies. But the first round of arrow rain still made the soldiers of Yan Yunjun feel excited, and at this time, they had only one thought in their hearts.

Killing one more is one.

Although the earthen walls of this fort are not high, they are located on a high slope that protrudes. The high slope was very steep, and even if there was no blockage, it would not be easy for the cavalry to rush to the fortress with the speed of their horses. In the land of Hebei, this kind of fortress built according to the topography is not uncommon.

"Aim at the enemy general who is holding the flag in front of you and shoot!"

The captain in the front row shouted loudly, and then hundreds of feathered arrows shot at the enemy general with a dense fist. At this time, the cavalry was already within eighty paces of the fortress, and the strength of the feathered arrows was enough to penetrate the iron armor. In just a few moments, the enemy general was shot into a hedgehog, fell from his horse and fell heavily to the ground.

When the enemy's battle flag fell to the ground, the soldiers of the Yanyun Army erupted in cheers.

The cavalry behind the Xia army didn't have time to dodge at all, and soon, the corpse that fell to the ground was trampled into pulp by the war horse. The battle flag of the Xia army was also trampled beyond recognition.

Because of the advantage of the terrain, the archers of the Yanyun Army unscrupulously vented their desire to kill. Within thirty steps, the cavalry of the Xia army tried to rush up the high slope at the speed of the war horse, but most of the war horses were only halfway through before it was difficult to move forward, and the war horse with excellent foot strength barely rushed up, and was immediately poked over with a spear by the Yanyun army soldiers standing on the earthen wall.

In the short period of time when the fight began, the defending side had an absolute advantage.

"Dismount!"

Wang Yan looked at the small fortress in front of him with a gloomy face, and ordered loudly: "All the people in front of you will dismount and attack up, Wang Ge, you take two thousand cavalry to suppress it with feather arrows in the back, if you can't break through this fortress within half an hour, all officers above the rank of captain who lead the troops will be killed!" ”

"Kill!"

Thousands of Xia cavalry in front jumped down from their horses, and climbed up the fortress with cavalry shields and horizontal swords. The corpse of the arrow rolled down the slope, knocking the soldiers behind it into a lot. The archers of the Yan Yun Army behind the earthen wall of the fortress climbed up the earthen wall one after another, condescending to send arrows.

When the cavalry of the Xia army began to counterattack with cavalry bows, the defense of the Yanyun army was gradually suppressed. After all, the enemy has a huge advantage in numbers, and the Yan Yun Army does not have many bows and arrows now.

"No more arrows!"

One of the soldiers couldn't help but shout, and then smashed the hard bow in his hand down.

"Find a stone to smash!"

The captain, who had already shouted hoarsely, picked up a stone, rushed up the earthen wall and smashed it downward. It was only when he let go of his hand, and several feathered arrows shot at him one after another. With a muffled pop, the lieutenant's body slowly fell backwards. With a thud, the corpse fell to the ground and stirred up a layer of dust.

In just half an hour, most of the archers of the Yan Yun Army shot the quiver.

Xia Jun's feather arrows became more and more dense, gradually pressing Yan Yunjun on the earthen wall unable to straighten up. Taking advantage of the archers' suppression, the dismounted Xia soldiers screamed like crazy and climbed onto the earthen wall. Finally, a soldier's hand clinging to the earthen wall, he looked up and saw a smiling face.

With a pop, the spear in the hand of the soldier of the Yan Yun Army poked into the eye socket of the soldier of the Xia Army. The tip of the spear shattered his eyeball and emerged from the back of his head. As the body fell backwards, it hit its companion behind it.

More and more corpses rolled down the slope, gradually piling up under the fortress.

"Don't lose by killing one!"

A Yanyun soldier was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but gritted his teeth and cut off half of the head of the Xia Army soldier: "Kill two and you'll fucking earn it!" ”

With a pop, he was hit by another arrow in the thigh.

He looked at his comrades behind him: "Remember to burn paper for Lao Tzu every year!" ”

After shouting these words, he jumped down from the earthen wall violently, knocking down the Xia army soldiers who had just climbed up, and before he could stand up, this Yanyun army soldier was cut into pieces by the angry Xia army. Fingers, broken arms, and scraps of flesh flew everywhere, and one of the slimy eyeballs stuck to a Xia Jun's face, looking as if an eyeball had come out from under his face.

When the corpses under the slope of the earthen wall were already half a person high, the Xia army finally broke through the defense and killed the earthen wall.

"Kill all the Yanyun thieves!"

The king shouted loudly, jumped off his horse and was about to rush up, but was stopped by several of his own soldiers, lest he really run to the front on impulse.

"Kill!"

The fight unfolded on the earthen wall, many people scuffled and fell from the earthen wall at the same time, and the two people who hugged each other did not have time to separate, and they were chopped to death by the Xia soldiers below. The soldiers of the Xia Army, who were hugging the soldiers of the Yanyun Army, walked on the Huangquan Road with the enemy. And what killed him was the robe that had eaten the same pot of food and slept in the same tent.

"General, you retreat from behind!"

A lieutenant rushed to Cui Qian, pointed to the back and said, "The cavalry of the Xia army has not gone around the back yet, general, you take people to go first!" ”

"If I'm gone."

Cui Qian waved the battle flag and said loudly: "I will lose the glory of fighting side by side with you today...... I'm a man of letters, I can't pull a hard bow, I can't dance a lance, but I can still hold up this battle flag! ”

He stood on the top, waving the red flag, which was broken but still bright as blood.

"The flag is in my hands, and I am by your side. When you die in battle, I fall with the banner. ”

The captain who persuaded him gritted his teeth and turned around and killed him. At this time, the Xia army finally completely rushed to the top of the earthen wall after paying the price of at least 1,500 people, and the battle became more direct and bloody, the Xia army made the steep slope a little smoother with flesh and blood, and the soldiers of the Yan Yun army desperately protected the inch of land under their feet.

"This is my grave!"

A soldier of the Yanyun Army frantically brandished a horizontal knife and removed half of the enemy in front of him: "No one is allowed to stand on my grave!" ”