Chapter 609: Bloody Battle
Unconsciously, Chen Fuliang, who was from the fox fake tiger to the fox fake tiger power of others, also accumulated quite a lot of prestige, casually shouted that he wanted to fill the Shizi River with the enemy's corpse, and after the order was conveyed, the soldiers of the Sui army, who were already high morale, were even more like chicken blood, roaring with red eyes and screaming to kill faster and more fiercely, ignoring the Zheng army soldiers who were fighting in front of the bridge, and rushed straight over, and also expelled the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army as free forwards, and directly hit the Zheng army's infantry phalanx without any discount. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Guo Shizhu, the general of the Zheng army who was ordered to lead the army to cover the retreat of his defeated companions, was also very good at making a decision on the spot, regardless of the large number of defeated soldiers of his own country who rushed on, he did not hesitate to order the arrow to shoot, the feather arrow broke through the air and fell, many Zheng army defeated soldiers screamed and fell on the road less than two miles away from Cangcheng, and many soldiers of the Sui army were also hit by arrows, but except for those who were seriously injured and fell to the ground or were killed directly, none of the Sui soldiers stopped, and many people did not even have time to pull out the feather arrows inserted in their bodies, shouting just charging and killing, "Kill!" Kill! Kill! Kill all these Zheng dogs! ”
It is precisely because of the full impact of these brave soldiers that the feather arrows thrown by Guo Shizhu of the Zheng army failed to block the frontal impact of their own defeated soldiers, and the defeated brigade of the Zheng army, which was chased and killed too hard by the soldiers of the Sui army, was involuntary in fear, and only desperately moved forward, and finally crashed into the front of its own infantry phalanx. Although Guo Shizhu once again made a quick decision, ordering his soldiers to slash and kill their own defeated soldiers with throwing spears and spears to avoid the phalanx being defeated by his own people, but the soldiers under his command were not as hard-hearted as him, and there were some softness in blocking and slashing, but as a result, many Zheng army defeated soldiers who rushed with their heads seized the opportunity and drilled into the Zheng army column from the gap, and then these smart defeated soldiers temporarily saved their lives, and the strict formation of the Zheng army's array was also disturbed by them.
When the soldiers of the Sui army who were like a rainbow of morale were of course dreaming of such a good thing, when they took the opportunity to stride in front of the Zheng army array, the soldiers of the Sui army slashed and stabbed wildly with knives and guns, and the Zheng soldiers who could not rely on the strict formation to cooperate with each other were forced to fight separately, but they immediately exposed the Achilles' heel of the individual soldiers whose combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Sui soldiers and the army's panic. The unstoppable soldiers of the Sui army directly entered the Zheng army's array, and then went straight to Guo Qiuzhu's Chinese army.
The defense of the infantry phalanx is indeed very strong, but if the enemy kills inside, the entire phalanx will be directly scrapped. Seeing the enemy appear behind him, the officers and soldiers of the Zheng army in the three directions on the left and right immediately panicked, but Guo Shizhu refused to give up, and shouted loudly to order the flags to let the armies move closer to their banners, in a vain attempt to shrink the army into a regiment and continue to resist stubbornly. However, the movements of the Sui army soldiers were too fast and too fast, the banner had just been played, and the Sui army's vanguard had already killed in front of Guo Shizhu's Chinese army, and at the same time, the Sui army soldiers who were constantly surging in the tide also quickly launched a fierce battle with the two wings of the Zheng army's phalanx, the Zheng army's contraction speed was extremely slow, Guo Shizhu was so anxious that he shouted, but he was helpless.
More soldiers of the Sui army directly bypassed the Zheng army formation and stepped forward, slaughtering the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army like chopping melons and vegetables, before the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army rushed to the bridge, the eight pontoon bridges were soon crowded with the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army who were crying wolves, pushing each other and trampling on each other, countless Zheng soldiers were pushed off the pontoon bridge, countless Zheng soldiers were trampled into meat sauce by their companions, and countless Zheng soldiers climbed on the edge of the pontoon bridge and struggled to advance, and the two sides of the eight pontoon bridges were soon hung with Zheng soldiers, like crawling with black ants, and the overwhelmed pontoon bridges creaked one after another, which can break at any time.
The gunpowder bottles that the Sui army didn't have to use before were finally able to appear at this moment, and the gunpowder bottles with green smoke were thrown into the dense area of the Zheng army's defeated soldiers one after another, and the sound of explosions and the screams and cries of the Zheng army's soldiers merged into one piece, and the sound spread for several miles. During the period, another team of Sui soldiers successfully rushed to the edge of a pontoon bridge, waving the iron knife that had been full of gaps and slashed the pontoon rope, the rope that had been overwhelmed immediately broke, and the pontoon bridge also fell into the water in the crazy cry of the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army, and the Zheng soldiers on the bridge fell into the water countless times, struggling in the water and calling for help, grasping everything that could be grasped as much as possible, pulling each other and drowning to the bottom, and also involved many soldiers who knew how to fall into the water because they could not fall off the water companion entanglement and innocently drowned.
It was completely a massacre, the wolf-like Sui soldiers used all their strength to slash and stab all the enemies in front of them as much as possible, countless people had been killed covered in blood and still refused to stop, still waving their broken weapons to slash the enemy next to them, and the soldiers of Zheng who completely collapsed were not willing to fight, crying and shouting just to flee for their lives to the other side of the Shizi River. The pontoon jumped into the water and swam across the river, and the corpses quickly piled up on the riverbank, floating all over the water, and the blood quickly stained the entire river.
At this time, Guo Shizhu's army could not withstand the impact of the Sui army's death, Guo Shizhu took the lead in fleeing, and his corporal scrambled to follow, competing with his own companions who had fled before for the pontoon bridge, and did not hesitate to meet each other with swords in order to be able to rush onto the pontoon bridge that had been paved with thick corpses. In the complete chaos, Guo Shizhu was extremely unlucky to be torn off the war horse by his own defeated soldiers, and the even more unlucky half of his body fell to the ground, but before Guo Shizhu roared and roared and his own soldiers came to the rescue, countless pairs of straw sandals had stepped on his head, face and chest, and as a result, Guo Shizhu screamed that when his upper body was trampled into meat sauce by the defeated soldiers, one of his legs was still intact and hung on the stirrup.
The soldiers of the Sui army successfully completed the task assigned by Chen Fuliang, and really filled the Shizi River with the corpses of Zheng soldiers, and the corpses were piled up in the river, and the river was cut off, and the soldiers of the two armies could directly rush to the west bank of the Shizi River with the corpses, but there were still quite a few defeated soldiers of the Zheng army who cried and shouted and fled across the river to the south gate of Luokoucang, and the soldiers of the Sui army chased after them, and many smart soldiers of the Sui army remembered Chen Fuliang's pre-war bounty, and mixed with the crowd of Zheng soldiers as much as possible. Go and fight for the reward of the marquis who entered the Luokou warehouse first.
The critical moment to test Wang Xuanying's ability to make decisions has arrived, at this time the sky is already dark, the vision is not clear in the night, there is no way to distinguish between the enemy and me, and the despicable and cunning Sui soldiers will definitely strive to take this opportunity to enter Luokoucang, so the most important thing Wang Xuanying should do at this moment is to quickly close the city gate and not give the Sui soldiers the opportunity to enter the city! However, Wang Xuanying had to take into account another point - to save the living force as much as possible, so that he could have the strength to defend the equally important Luokou Cangcheng in the next battle!
"His Royal Highness the Prince, the last general begs you, close the door quickly, close the door!" Zheng Jun's general Xi Wei was so anxious that his voice was full of crying, and he begged bitterly: "If we don't close the door again, it's too late, if the Chen thief army follows our defeated soldiers into the city, we will be all finished!" ”
Ge Yanzhang, Shi Derui and other remaining Zheng army generals were also begging Wang Xuanying to close the door as soon as possible, but Wang Xuanying was hesitant, and his voice also cried, "What about the soldiers outside the city?" What about General Guo Shizhu? In Luokoucang City, there are only five or six thousand defenders left, and if we don't bring these soldiers back, how will we fight next? ”
"It's important to keep the city!" Ge Yanzhang was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted, "Keep the city, we still have a chance to collect the defeated soldiers outside the city, if we let the thief army take advantage of the situation to kill into the city, we will be useless to save more soldiers!" ”
Wang Xuanying's body was shocked, and he almost wanted to order the door to be closed immediately, but at this time, a considerable number of Zheng Jun's defeated soldiers had already rushed to the South Gate Suspension Bridge, crying and shouting and rushing into the city gate, hearing the heart-rending cry from the city, Wang Xuanying's heart softened again, swallowed the words that had been said back into his stomach, and turned his head to look at the situation outside the city, looking for the best time to close the door, but it was already dark outside the city, how much could Wang Xuanying see?
The sentence of Ci Bu in charge of the soldiers could not be more correct, and Wang Xuanying, who was far less vicious than his father and brother-in-law, only hesitated a little and broke the big thing, and less than three minutes later, the hysterical and crazy shouts of Sergeant Zheng sounded inside the city gate, "Thief army!" The thieves have entered the city! ”
"Close! Pull the drawbridge! ”
Wang Xuanying finally made a quick break this time, and immediately yelled and ordered to close the door and collect the suspension bridge, but it was too late to do so, the suspension bridge was already crowded with two soldiers, and the soldiers of the Zheng Army in the city couldn't pull the drawbridge even if they used their strength to eat, and the city gate was already crowded with soldiers, and it could not be closed, and at the same time, a large number of Sui soldiers had already killed near the city gate in the dark. Wang Xuanying was forced to be helpless, so he could only order the soldiers to release arrows, indiscriminately covering the soldiers of the two armies under the city, and shouted: "Release the jack gate!" ”
With a loud bang, the jack gate on the inside of the city gate fell to the ground, smashing several Zheng soldiers into meat sauce, and also cutting off the road for the Sui soldiers to enter the city by taking advantage of the chaos, but there are still an unknown number of Sui soldiers who have rushed into the city first, and are frantically slashing Zheng soldiers in the city, waiting for the main force to enter the city to respond. Wang Xuan was shocked when he heard the report, so he could only quickly order Shi Derui to go down to the city to preside over the battle in the city, and kill and extinguish the Sui soldiers who had already entered the city.
At the same time, the soldiers of the Sui army outside the city had also found an opportunity, and they rushed to kill more violently, constantly attacking the drawbridge and the city gate under the rain of arrows, and horses? So he cut the noose of the drawbridge and opened the road to the city. After the news was reported to Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the most generous Luo Shixin and Wang Fubao armies to continue to storm the city gate, and at the same time hurriedly sorted out the rear army and prepared to attack the city overnight.
Luo Shixin personally led the army to storm the city gate, frantically slashed the enemy defeated soldiers in front of the gate, and stepped on the thick corpse to advance into the city gate. Wang Fubao, who is good at fighting assault warfare, saw the weakness of the narrow vision of the defenders in the dark sky, and let the soldiers spread left and right after crossing the river, climbing the city wall with their bare hands biting their weapons, and forming a ladder to attack the city.
The greatest hope for breaking the city is also the main attack of the Luo Shixin army on the battlefield of the city gate, because there have been fifty or sixty Sui warriors who have rushed into the city first, after being besieged by the enemy, these Sui warriors are very clever to retreat to the Qianjin Gate and fight to the death, while covering the companions behind to destroy the Qianjin Gate, while desperately resisting the crazy counterattack of the Zheng army soldiers - things have come to this point, these Sui warriors will not work hard if they don't work hard, if they don't work hard, they will definitely die a hundred times more miserable than desperately!
Luo Shixin was the first to kill a bloody road in the dense crowd and rushed to the side of the jack gate, wielding a knife to slash between the gates, the sparks of the gate wrapped in iron sheets splashed everywhere, and the steel knife in Luo Shixin's hand was full of gaps and was broken into two, Luo Shixin had no choice but to smash an enemy next to him with a broken knife, snatched the weapon in his hand and continued to cut the gate, at the same time, the soldiers of the Sui army also continued to rush forward, while slashing and killing the remaining enemies next to the door, while slashing and smashing the gate, but the weapon was not handy, and the damage to the iron-clad gate was very small. After a few more slashes, the iron knife in Luo Shixin's hand was broken in two again, and the little monster Luo Shixin, who was already covered with blood and brains, yelled anxiously, "Axe!" Axe! Whoever gets an axe for Lao Tzu will reward him with a hundred times! No! Lao Tzu rewarded him with 300 times! ”
"General Luo, give, three hundred times!"
A Sui soldier who came from the rear timidly handed over an axe, although the axe was already notched and stained with blood, broken and dirty, but at this moment, for Luo Shixin, it was equivalent to a treasure that could not be changed. Cheering and snatching the axe, the little monster rose up with divine power, slashed at the gate with an axe, and immediately broke a gate pillar wrapped in iron sheets, the soldiers of the Sui army cheered loudly, but a stray arrow flew in the city, hitting Luo Shixin's right cheek, and Luo Shixin's face was also bleeding like a torrent.
Kicking away the subordinates who came up to care, Luo Shixin pulled out the feather arrows on his face, spit out two broken teeth and a mouthful of blood, and continued to swing the iron axe to slash the gate.
Sensing that the soldiers of the Sui army were constantly destroying the jack gate, and the general of the Zheng army who was ordered to kill the enemy in the city, Derui was so anxious that he almost went crazy, constantly yelling and asking his subordinates to speed up their movements, and personally waved his sword into battle to impact the dying and struggling Sui soldiers gathered by the gate, and the Sui army warriors who rushed into the city were under the continuous impact of the Zheng army soldiers, and there were less than twenty people left at this moment. Every fallen warrior of the Sui Army was dismembered by Sergeant Zheng, and a complete body could not be found.
Finally, when the last only two Sui soldiers were stabbed through the body at the same time by the Zheng soldiers, before the Zheng soldiers cheered, the jack gate blocking the way into the door was also cut out by Luo Shixin and the Sui soldiers joined forces to cut a big gap, the Sui soldiers quickly rushed into the city, and caught the Zheng soldiers who came up to block the gap, and the two Sui soldiers who persevered to the end were bloodstained all over their bodies, their stomachs were broken, and they were leaning on the broken jack gate and dying, and their faces also showed a gratifying smile............
At the same time, Wang Fubao's army also began to have soldiers rushing to the city, although the Zheng soldiers in the city rushed up to fight like crazy, the Sui soldiers were even more crazy and the enemy stabbing and killing, every Sui soldier who ascended the city could cut down several enemies before falling, and every Sui soldier had to hold and bite an enemy before dying, and the enemy died together. In the face of these Sui warriors' fight to the death, Zheng soldiers continued to retreat in fear, and more Sui warriors relied on their cover to successfully climb the city empty-handed.
When the fierce battle was still going on, the two Sui warriors who had persevered to the end had been carried back to Chen Fuliang by their companions who were full of respect for them, maybe it was a miracle, maybe it was the power of faith, the two Sui warriors who even had their intestines flowing out and didn't know how many wounds there were on their bodies, when they saw Chen Fuliang, they hadn't even lost their breath, and they still had the last look in Chen Fuliang's eyes.
Chen Fuliang dismounted and came to them, gave them a fist salute, and said in a deep voice: "Two warriors, this king thanks you for your efforts, this king is true to his word, and now I will give you the title of Yanshi Marquis and Gongxian Marquis, each with a reward of 100 taels of gold, 500 acres of fertile land, and 100 households." The king knows that you can't get the reward, so your reward will be transferred to your family. ”
With a happy smile, the eyes of the two Sui warriors lost their luster one after another, Chen Fuliang closed their eyes with his own hands, and looked at the south gate of Luokoucang where the fire had gradually risen in the distance, Chen Fuliang muttered, "Go with peace of mind, thank you." ”
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At the same time, on the battlefield of the East Gate of the Tiger Prison Pass, the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies above and below the city were all over the ground, and the corpses under the city wall were even more layered, paved up more than half a person high, and the blood stained the stagnant water of the moat into dark red, and the city gate was broken and scattered one after another, and the two ladder cars that once leaned on the city wall were still burning next to the city wall, and there were more Dou army siege weapons that were burning or had been burned to ashes in the distance, and the blazing fire illuminated the bloody battlefield more cruel and bloody. It also fills the air with the smell of burnt human body, which merges with the smell of blood, and makes people want to vomit.
The soldiers of the Sui army covered in blood are seizing the time to rescue the wounded and bandage their wounds, and the last reserve of the new force in the city is also carrying various materials to defend the city to change the defense, and Li Keshi, who is stained with a lot of blood, is sitting on the steps of the city tower stained red with blood, and the love bow Yang Kan in exchange for the Daxing ancestral house in his hand has been broken into two, but before this love bow was cut off by Cao Zhan, the general of the Dou army, Li Keshi has also shot no less than twenty enemies with this bow with his own hands, At the same time, Cao Zhan, who personally led the army to attack the city, also paid the price of his life for cutting off Li Keshi's love bow - Li Keshi personally cut off his neck to avenge his love bow.
Yin Kaishan, who had blood stains on his face, walked in front of Li Keshi, first looked at the Dou Jun torches all over the mountains in the east, and then said to Li Keshi: "Li? The army and the thief army have not yet shown signs of retreating, and it is still possible to continue the siege. General Hao Xiaode brought a message from his side, saying that if necessary, he could come over at any time to help in the battle, and the last general proposed that General Hao's team should be withdrawn as a reserve as a precautionary force, and a tired division should be replaced to guard the West Gate. ”
Li Keshi nodded weakly, and said in a hoarse voice: "That's it, the thief army drum is still beating, and it is possible to launch an attack on the city." ”
Yin Kaishan promised, the rhythm of Dou Jun's war drums accelerated again, and when he heard this drum, Li Keshi immediately jumped up and shouted: "Hurry up and change your guard, the thief army is coming up again!" Fast! Fast! ”
At the same time, in the Dou army array, although many Dou army generals had already run to Dou Jiande to beg, and some Dou army generals had already brought a crying voice, begging Dou Jiande not to fight like this again, and not to risk the lives of his subordinates to launch a doomed and useless attack, but Dou Jiande's voice was still extremely resolute, and he shouted: "Get out!" Keep the siege on, keep the siege! The thief Chen has already brought the main force of the thief army to Luokoucang, at this time, if you don't hurry up to attack the city, and wait for the main force of the thief Chen to withdraw, I don't have any hope of taking the Tiger Prison Pass?! ”
Under the repeated persecution of Dou Jiande, the infantry of the 5,000 Dou Army came out again, carrying a variety of siege weapons and strode forward in the sound of war drums. Li Keshi stood at the top of the wall and shouted at the Dou army team that was striding forward, "Dou thief! Come on! Let the horses go! No matter how many times you come, no matter how many times you come, this bird thief will be with you to the end! ”