Chapter 323: Falling Short
Under the rapid offensive, the defense line of the city wall in Shangqi was finally torn open, and on the south city wall, the soldiers of the White Emperor Battalion rushed to the city first.
The defense line of the Wei army has indeed reached the end of the strong crossbow, after a little breakthrough, the entire defense line collapsed in an instant, more Shu soldiers climbed the city wall, and the Wei soldiers who had no fighting spirit were defeated one after another, some retreated to the city, and some surrendered, in short, on the first line of defense on the city wall, there were not many Wei soldiers holding on.
"Lord Duwei, the Shu people are attacking, retreat quickly!" Several of his own soldiers hurriedly persuaded Yang Bao, and the current Shu soldiers were like a flood that burst the embankment, unstoppable.
Yang Bao stood there with a gun, standing still, with a hint of indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth, seeing several Shu soldiers rushing towards him, he shouted violently, and greeted him with a gun, even picking and thorning, and poked over several Shu soldiers.
However, no matter how brave Yang Bao is, there is no soldier around him, even the last few personal soldiers around him are either dead or fleeing, and the Shu soldiers are gathering more and more, trapping Yang Bao in the core.
Yang Bao did not have the slightest fear, relying on his strength, superior bravery, a spear, dancing in the wind, although there were many Shu soldiers around, but they couldn't get close to him for a while.
"Who is so rampant!" A crisp scream came, and the Shu soldiers surrounded on all sides gave way one after another, and the person who came was not someone else, it was Zhuge Shang, the leader of the White Emperor camp. Since the siege began, Zhuge Shang personally braved the arrows and stones, and always fought on the front line, and the soldiers of the White Emperor Battalion had just broken through the city defense of the Wei army, and Zhuge Shang followed closely behind him and climbed the city wall.
After coming up to the city wall, I found that most of the Wei army had been defeated. Only a few Wei soldiers were still resisting. The bravest one is none other than the one on the upper floor of the South Gate. One by one, dozens of Shu soldiers were blocked from his body, and Zhuge Shang immediately stepped forward, wanting to know where this is sacred?
After everyone got out of the way, Zhuge Shang looked at it, and it turned out to be Yang Bao, the captain of Tianshui, and shouted: "Yang Bao, you are already at the end of your rope." When will you wait if you don't bow down? ”
Yang Bao sneered: "There are only generals with severed heads here, there are no bent knees, if you want to surrender somebody, let's go to the next life!" ”
Zhuge Shang snorted coldly and said: "If you don't know the current affairs, you will bring about your own destruction, Yang Bao, even if you are stubborn, you can't escape the fate of destruction, since you are bent on death." And I have made thee perfect. ”
Yang Bao said contemptuously: "The eldest husband stands between heaven and earth, why is he afraid of death." But I'm afraid your wishful thinking is about to come to naught, and you won't get a single grain of grain from Shangtai City! ”
As if in response to Yang Bao's words, a light smoke rose from the direction of the granary in the city, and Yang Bao laughed and said, "Okay, well done!" ”
Zhuge Shang was obviously stunned, he never expected that Yang Bao would be so mad that he would burn hundreds of thousands of grains and grasses and use them to bury him. The purpose of Liu Yin's attack on Shangqi was to take down the grain and grass in these official warehouses to solve the wintering needs of the army, and now Yang Bao wanted to burn these grains and grass before he was defeated, Zhuge Shang couldn't help but secretly scream "Not good".
However, from the south gate to the granary, there is a way to go, and the grain and grass itself is flammable, once the fire starts, it can't be saved, even if Zhuge still has the heart to save, but he also knows that it is difficult to recover.
It was the county lieutenant Li Tuo who set the fire, and when he was ordered to rush to the granary, the Shu army had just broken through the city wall, and for Li Tuo, there was plenty of time.
For Yang Bao's crazy order, Li Tuo was a little hesitant, this fire burned, it is likely that not only the granary, but also the entire Shangtai city may fall into a sea of fire, in addition to a thousand soldiers, there are still nearly 10,000 people, the life and death of these ordinary people, all fall into Li Tuo's hands.
Thinking of this, Li Tuo's hands couldn't help but tremble a little, and he also knew that if these grains and grasses could not be burned in time, it was very likely that they would fall into the hands of the Shu army, and such an act was tantamount to being an enemy. But Shangtai's father and ordinary people are innocent, and even Li Tuo's family and parents are in Shangtai City, emotionally speaking, it is extremely difficult for Li Tuo to act as the executioner of the slaughter of the city.
His soldiers had already set fire to several haystacks on the periphery, and smoke billowed into the air. Li Tuo held a torch and walked towards the main stack of grain and grass, not much, just this fire, you can burn the entire Tianshui granary.
Li Tuo's hand had just fallen, and before he could stretch the torch into the grain hoard, his hands were already tightly gripping the torch pole, and he said eagerly: "County Lieutenant Li, don't do it." ”
Li Tuo regarded it as the lord of the county, Duan Yun, Duan Yun said: "County Lieutenant Li, if this fire is burned, it is likely that it will not only burn down the granary, I am afraid that Shangtai City will be burned to the ground, and how many fathers and villagers in the city will suffer because of this, County Lieutenant Li, you can't be a sinner for the ages!" ”
Li Tuo said embarrassedly: "This is Captain Yang's order, and I can't disobey it." ”
Duan Yun said earnestly: "County Lieutenant Li, this time the Shu army came, obviously the target is these grains and grass, if you burn it, the Shu people will be angry, and they may vent their anger on the people of the whole city." As far as I know, County Lieutenant Li's family is still in the city, and County Lieutenant Li wants to give his and his family's lives to the funeral of Yang Duwei, which is very unwise, and he asks County Lieutenant Li to think twice before acting. ”
Li Tuo suddenly thought of his family, wife and children, but he sighed, threw away the torches in his hands dejectedly, and ordered his soldiers to extinguish the two lit haystacks.
Zhuge Shang, who was on the top of the city tower, watched the smoke in the granary gradually dissipate, and couldn't help laughing: "Yang Bao, it's your wishful thinking that has failed." ”
Yang Leopard's heart was beaten hard, he looked at the direction of the granary a little distractedly, the sky-high fire did not rise with his wishes, on the contrary, the black smoke that was still soaring into the sky before was faint at the moment, Yang Leopard didn't know where Li Tuo was at the moment, but he knew very well that his final plan failed.
Yang Leopard's face turned pale, he took a few steps back, leaning on the edge of the city wall, and the Shu soldiers besieged him.
"Fall short, fall short! People are not as good as heaven, and I Yang Bao is not a person, so I deserve this defeat! ”
Yang Bao knew that today was a mortal situation, and it was irretrievable, and he was unwilling to die under the sword of the Shu soldiers, so he jumped down from the wall more than three zhang high, and committed suicide. (To be continued.) )