Chapter 103: The East Wind Breaks, and the Flowers Remain (2)
When Zhang Ju arrived at the top of the city, he was furious to find that the Han army had forcibly climbed to the top of the city, and there was already a tendency to stand still. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ju saw the scene of Pang De slashing Zhang Ju's subordinate Tianling Gai with a knife.
Zhang Ju raised his sword, tried to make the last struggle, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, Lone is with you, whoever takes the head of the Han general will be rewarded with a hundred taels." ”
Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. As soon as they heard that they could get a reward of 100 taels of gold for taking Pound's head, some of the rebels who were proud of their bravery began to move, and after splitting the Han army around them, they besieged Pound. Seeing the rebels surrounding him again, Pound was not afraid, but looked up to the sky and shouted: "Come on! Today, I want to see how much blood can be drunk by a certain sword. ”
"Kill-" A group of rebels, led by a rebel general, shouted to kill Pound, and the rebel general led by him commanded his rebels to form a formation while quickly assaulting, trying to use the number of people to wear down Pound's strength, and then capture Pound.
Seeing the rebel's intentions, Pound was certainly not stupid enough to let the rebels form a formation, so Pound took the lead in attacking, rushing towards the weak area of the rebels' encirclement, and slashed at the rebels with a steel knife in his hand with a whistling.
Puff puff snort sounded one after another, and a few wisps of revenant soul were added to Pound's knife. With a single sword, Pound let out a long laugh, and the frequency under his feet quickly changed, and before the rebels could surround him, he killed another rebel weakness.
Seeing that Pound De's body was agile and his knife was extremely fast, the rebel general knew that it was difficult for the rebels under his command to surround Pound, so he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Narrow the encirclement and trap him!" ”
After receiving the orders of the rebel generals, the rebels relied on the advantage of being outnumbered to besiege Pound in the middle layer by layer, no matter how brave Pound was, it was impossible to kill through the encirclement for a while, so they could only wander around the encirclement, and wear down the vitality of the rebels little by little.
After Pang De was surrounded, the Han army at the head of the city lost Pang De's command and was taken advantage of by Zhang Ju, who commanded a large number of rebels to divide the Han army into small teams, so that the Han army lost mutual support and could only fight alone. The rebels on the city wall were already several times larger than the Han army, and now the Han army could not get the command of Pang De, and suddenly fell into a difficult battle. Often a Han army has to face the attacks of three or five rebels at the same time, and from time to time there are Han soldiers screaming and being dismembered by the rebels.
Hearing the screams of his soldiers in his ears, Pound was in a hurry, but no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't kill the encirclement of the rebels.
Gradually, the rebels regained their grip, and the Han army was almost forced to the city walls, and a few steps back would fall back down where they had climbed. The difference is that when the Han army came up, they climbed the ladder, and if they were forced to fall down the city, they would probably end up in pieces.
The Han army resisted the rebels' attack like a storm, and as long as there was still a breath of air, they would not retreat, this is the truth that their commander Ao Lie taught them, and the truth that must be kept in mind to be a big Han elite soldier. However, the speed at which the Han army ascended the city was far less than the speed of the rebels' counterattack, and often at the same time that one Han army climbed the ladder to the top of the city, two Han soldiers would be besieged and killed by the rebels.
The most intense hand-to-hand encounters are also the ones that can best reflect an army's will to fight. After Ao Lie's deliberate training and indirect influence, whether it is the soldiers directly under Ao Lie's command, or the garrisons in Youzhou, they all reflect the tenacious will, and at the critical juncture that may die under the rebels' random knives at every moment, none of the Han soldiers took a step back, resisted the rebels' violent attacks to the death, and stubbornly guarded the distance behind them a few steps away, winning time and space for the comrades who followed the city.
The rebels couldn't drive the Han army off the city for a long time, which made Zhang Ju's eyes reddened a little anxiously, and he shouted hoarsely: "Kill them all, drive them all out of the city, otherwise, we will all be guillotined by the little overlord!" ”
Hearing Zhang Ju's shout, the die-hard loyalists loyal to Zhang Ju let out a burst of angry roars and frantically launched a desperate attack on the Han army. A Han soldier was caught off guard and slashed in the neck by the rebels who came in like a tide, and blood immediately spurted out, staining the rebels' faces red. The Han soldier knew that he would die, so he didn't cover the wound with his hands, letting the blood keep flowing outward, but stretched out his free left hand, firmly grasped the blade that was cut on the neck and didn't have time to retract it, taking advantage of the opportunity of the rebels being blurred by the blood they spewed, he used the most powerful strength in his life, turned the sharp knife in his hand, and inserted a knife into the heart of the rebel who cut him, and then, the two fell silently, ending their young lives at the same time.
Under the onslaught of the rebels, the Han army gradually became a little overwhelmed, and it seemed that they would not be able to hold the defensive line behind them. Even the brave Pound, under the crowd tactics of the rebels, felt very difficult, and if he didn't pay attention, he would be left with a scar by the blade handed out by the rebels, at this moment, Pound's body already had three shocking scars, two on the back, and the other on the left arm.
At the critical moment, a majestic voice sounded in the city: "Ling Mingxiu panicked, and a certain person came!" With this voice, two sharp arrows shot from the direction of the city with a strength that seemed to pierce the space, one straight to the general who commanded the rebels to besiege Pound, and the other sharp arrow pierced through a rebel who tried to sneak up on Pound from behind.
Pound glanced back at the city, and saw a general holding a bow in his right hand, and his left hand kept bending the bow and arrows, and then shot one sharp arrow after another, one arrow after another, and the arrow of the next arrow bit the tail of the previous arrow, forming a series of arrows. With every arrow fired, there was always a rebel screaming and being shot to the point, and then falling to the ground weakly, and even after the arrow pierced the body of a rebel, the remaining momentum did not disappear until it pierced the body of the second rebel, and then stopped moving forward.
Seeing the archer's face, Pang De saw clearly that the person who came was the general Huang Zhong. can have such a miraculous archery skill, in addition to Tai Shici, there is only Huang Zhong. For Huang Zhong, Pang De was not very upset at first, after all, Huang Zhong is over forty years old, and it stands to reason that he has passed the peak age of a military general, but with later contact, Pang De has to admit that he is indeed not as visionary as Ao Lie, Ao Lie used 700,000 yuan in exchange for Huang Zhong, maybe many people will feel incomprehensible, do not understand how with Ao Lie's shrewdness, how can he spend a huge amount of unjust money to buy a veteran who has passed his peak. It wasn't until much later that Huang Zhong made all the brave generals under Ao Lie's command put away their contempt, because in a private contest, no matter who he fought against, Huang Zhong never lost! Pang De also studied with Huang Zhong, and he could only admit that he was not Huang Zhong's opponent.
Although Pang De's evaluation of Huang Zhong was already very high, the energy shown by Huang Zhong today still surprised Pang De. As the saying goes, old people don't take their muscles and bones as their ability, Pang De really didn't expect that Huang Zhong, who was over forty years old, could still climb the seven-zhang high Yuyang City Wall by climbing the ladder like a young man, which not only reflected Huang Zhong's excellent physical fitness, but also revealed Huang Zhong's heart as sharp as a young man.
Seeing Pound's gaze towards him, Huang Zhong reciprocated with a friendly smile, then his face turned cold and he shot an arrow at Poundra's bow. Pang De didn't move, because he knew that Huang Zhong would never harm himself, this is the most important trust between colleagues and brothers, and it is also the argument that Ao Lie usually talks about - on the battlefield, whoever can share the blood with you, he is your brother, and you can rest assured that you can hand over your back to him.
Sure enough, the sharp arrow shot by Huang Zhong grazed Pound's ear with a whistling, but it didn't hurt Pound at all. Pang De looked in the direction of the sharp arrow and saw a bloody hole in the throat of a rebel who had been pierced by Huang Zhong's sharp arrow, and his body was slipping weakly. Judging from the posture of this rebel raising his knife, he should have taken advantage of Pound's turn back and wanted to sneak attack Pound from behind, but Huang Zhong saw it, and then shot an arrow through the rebel's throat.
Pound grinned, stretched out his thumb and shook it at Huang Zhong, then put away his smile and turned to kill the rebels. Pang Dezhi said that with Huang Zhong here, he could no longer care about the threat from the direction of his back, and Huang Zhong would definitely help him solve it. Therefore, Pound put all his energy into the frontal battle, and the single knife in his hand swung like the wind again, each knife would bring up a string of blood flowers and take the life of a rebel.
The fighting on the head of the city continues, and the head of Yuyang City seems to have become a hell on earth, and every moment, there are many lives that disappear in this endless purgatory. War, like a huge double-edged sword, keeps showing its unparalleled sharpness, ruthlessly depriving the soldiers of both the Han army and the rebel army of life and soul.
Huang Zhong led a group of archers to climb the city wall, forming a strong support for his comrades who stood in front to resist the onslaught of the rebels. These archers bent their bows and arrows, and wherever their arrows were needed, they would shoot their arrows wherever they wanted, helping their comrades in front of them to effectively kill and wound the rebels, and secretly breathing a sigh of relief to their comrades who were struggling to resist.
With Huang Zhong's ascension to the city, the momentum of the rebels' onslaught was finally stopped, and the morale of the Han army soared. The fighting between the two sides has once again reached a stalemate.
However, such a stalemate did not last long, and with the arrival of another fierce general on the Han side, the stalemate between the two sides was broken. It turned out that Ao Lie saw that the battle at the head of the city was very fierce, so he sent the tiger general Dian Wei to lead a part of the elite of the tiger battalion to climb the ladder. It is really not a wise move to use the elite of the Tiger Battalion in the battle of fortifications. Every elite of the Tiger Battalion has been carefully selected from thousands of troops after dozens of baptisms of war, and is the elite of the elite, and there is only one reason why Ao Lie reluctantly sent such an elite to the city. In Ao Lie's view, the elite is a human being, and ordinary soldiers are also human beings, and there is no saying that anyone's life is more precious than whom, in order to save the lives of more ordinary soldiers, Ao Lie can only send the Tiger Ben elite, hoping that the Tiger Ben elite will conquer the rebel defense line at the head of Yuyang City in one fell swoop under the leadership of the ancient evil Lai Dian Wei.
Dian Wei did not disappoint Ao Lie, as soon as he landed in the city, he let out a heaven-shattering roar, as if the sleeping ancient giant beast was very angry after being woken up, just with the roar of this life, with Dian Wei's magnificent face, it received a shocking effect. What's more, after Dian Wei's roar, the five hundred tiger elites who followed him shouted the iconic slogan at the same time: "The power of the tiger is dead and alive!" The sonorous and powerful eight words made the hearts of the rebels at the head of the city fall to a low point.
After roaring, Dian Wei held the Splitting Halberd in both hands, led five hundred tiger elites, and pounced on the rebels with all his might.
Dian Wei walked quickly in the front, the heavy earth-splitting halberds kept smashing down to both sides, like two huge fly swatters, as soon as they were swatted, three or five flies were slapped into meat patties, obviously, the rebels who blocked Dian Wei's advance undoubtedly assumed the role of flies.