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In the early morning, Li Zhong went up to the city tower angrily.

30,000 reinforcements were ambushed by Simon's wolf cavalry at the Wuliang River and suffered heavy losses. Even Li Yuan, the main general, was in a dilemma of life and death. Adjutant General Zhao Mohuai was also seriously injured and is still unconscious. Liao Yong and Qu Wutong no longer had the courage to rush to the aid of Fengtai, and were gathering the remnants of the army and retreating in the direction of Huoguan.

Fortunately, although these two people are brave husbands, they did not forget to release carrier pigeons and report to Fengtai when they retreated.

Li Yuan suffered such a big defeat, if it was placed in normal times, Li Zhong would definitely be very happy, and he didn't even mind falling into the well, but at this time, he was not afraid in his heart. The reinforcements are gone, how can this Fengtai City be defended?

On the question of whether the troops would stay or not, Chen Yaomin and Li Zhong had a heated dispute. Li Zhong thought that the reinforcements were indefinite, and with the current situation, he would definitely not be able to hold Fengtai, so it was better to take advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, burn the entire Fengtai with a fire, and then lead the army to break through the siege, so as to have a glimmer of life. Chen Yaomin has always been obedient to him, but he is resolute and resolutely opposed. Chen Yaomin believed that the grain in Fengtai was related to the lives of the 200,000 soldiers of the Western Expedition, and when the spring begins, it will be even more green and yellow, and the northwest is barren, and it is impossible to collect enough military rations. If Fengtai is lost, all the achievements of this western expedition are over.

The two sides fought for red faces and thick necks, but they didn't draw their swords to face each other. In the end, Chen Yaomin was afraid that Li Zhong would be sad and crazy, so he really made a move to burn grain, so he had to personally lead the team to defend the granary. Although Li Zhong's personal soldiers were elite, most of the remaining more than 5,000 people listened to Chen Yaomin, and seeing that Chen Yaomin refused to cooperate, he was helpless.

Without Chen Yaomin's support, it would undoubtedly be self-defeating for him to break through with hundreds of personal soldiers. So now, Li Zhong is very annoyed now.

After turning around the city, Li Zhong was still a little evil. Just thinking about how to think of a way, Chen Yaomin listened to him and fled for his life, when a soldier on the arrow tower suddenly said, "Look, what is that?" His voice was alarmed, as if he had seen some ghost.

Li Zhongzheng spun his mind around, and said angrily when he heard the words: "What is this? Whoever deceives the public with gossips should be beheaded. ”

The soldier on the arrow tower still said: "General, it's the enemy, they're coming, and there are two huge monsters, mom." ”

Monster?

Li Zhong turned his head and looked in the direction the soldier was pointing, and couldn't help but gasp. Hundreds of thousands of refugees surrounded Fengtai from all directions. The morning light was slightly dewed, and a hint of fish belly white could be faintly seen in the eastern sky, but it was precisely because of this hazy light that the dense refugees below felt even more terrifying, looking down from the city tower, it seemed like a gray ocean surging.

In the midst of the refugees, two huge wooden monsters were slowly driving towards the castle tower. When I got closer, I saw that this thing was a square cylinder with a width at the bottom and a narrow one at the top, and a high platform was built on it, and on both high platforms stood four big men in the shape of a biao. Li Zhong was stunned, let him want to break his head, and he didn't know what this thing could do. He shouted, "What a funeral, isn't it just those toys made of mud legs?" What can it do? ”

His words had a slight effect, and the soldiers, though still terrified, were much better than they had just been. Xiao Fei said: "Childe, go and inform General Chen." ”

Li Zhong said angrily: "Isn't that old thing going to protect the granary, he doesn't like to come, Lao Tzu is not rare." Can't I beat these mud legs without him? Joke. ”

Xiao Fei knew Li Zhong's character, he sighed in his heart and said no more. I just hope that when the shouting of killing starts, Chen Yaomin can arrive in time.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, although Li Zhong's mouth was fierce, he was also a little panicked in his heart, and said sharply: "The whole army is on the arrow, let it go." ”

The refugee was less than a hundred meters away from the city at this time, and with his order, a sudden rain of arrows was shot from the city. This distance is the best distance for the bow and arrow. The soldiers were not specialized longbowmen, but there were so many refugees that there was no need to aim. This rain of arrows came suddenly, and some refugees in the front row were shot down, but when the arrows rained, the other party did not retreat but advanced, and suddenly let out a shocking shout of killing, and the refugees in the front row showed a simple wooden shield. These wooden shields are not large, and each side is about half a meter high. But there were so many of them that they put their shields on top of their heads, as if they had put up a blanket out of thin air. The condescending shooting from the castle tower sounded like a "crackling" sound, but the number of arrows was much less, and although people fell from time to time, the whole refugee flow was still moving forward.

It seems that these refugees are not just cutting down trees to make ladders.

Xiao Fei's heart was shocked, compared with the first random collision, the refugees at this time were quite orderly and well-founded, and there was already a slight shadow of the army. Is this still a refugee? At this time, the soldier on the arrow tower exclaimed again: "Oh, what are the people on the wooden frame going to do?" ”

Behind a refugee next to the tower, two wells were slowly opening. Everyone didn't know what this thing was for, but it was because they didn't know it that it made people even more uneasy. Li Zhong was also a little anxious, and hissed: "Archer, give me a rocket shot." ”

At this time, the refugees had rushed to a distance of more than ten meters below the city, and this distance was the best place for rolling wood and rocks to flourish. Listening to Li Zhong's command, many soldiers who had already picked up the falling rocks and rolling logs were put back in the city, and they all opened their bows and arrows and shot towards the two wells, but those woods were all newly harvested new trees, which had not been dehydrated, and most of the rockets were shot on them, and most of them fell into the dust. Although the arrows at the head of the city rained down, but the other party didn't seem to care, still rushing up, in some places there have been refugees climbing to the city wall, for a time the sound of killing shook the sky, but the city gate here because of Li Zhong's personal soldiers guarded, the refugees suffered heavy losses, and did not break through.

"Do it."

Wu Ming stood on the well and shouted violently. As soon as he shouted, he grabbed the jar he had prepared from the platform and slammed it towards the city gate. The eight warriors on the two wells were all martial artists with more than four ranks, and their arm strength was amazing. I only heard the sound of "whirring", and eight people exerted force at the same time, and threw two rounds in a few clicks. More than a dozen jars flew straight up and smashed into the city gate in an arc. It were jars full of oil, sealed with mud and hung on the wells, and the guards of the city expected the enemy to attack like this, and when they reacted, most of the dozen or so oil jars fell on the city gates, and the oil trickled down from the wooden gates, and the ground was covered with black oil.

As soon as the oil jar fell, another row of rockets was fired from the ranks of refugees. The Guards Battalion had already prepared, and as soon as this round of rockets came out, almost all of them landed on the city gates, and as soon as the arrows arrived, the oil was ignited, and the flames rose, and the entire city gate suddenly burst into flames and burned violently.

Burn the door and break the city!

This kind of siege method has existed since ancient times.

History is a long river, but what has been precipitated in the long river is a variety of lessons and lessons, and human beings have these lessons and lessons to make this long river more splendid and gorgeous. And war is the flower in this bright river. Offense and defense are eternal topics in warfare, and the experience of both offensive and defensive sides has gradually matured along with previous wars. Human beings are a group society, and if they want to live, it is impossible for them to confine themselves. But people are selfish, and everyone wants to be protected to the fullest extent. Thus, in the history of human development, various doors were born. The small ones are like the gate of the house, the gate of the courtyard, and the big one is the gate of the city and the gate of the country. The city gate is the easiest place to break through, and defense is the top priority. With the increase in the number of human wars, the experience of both the offensive and defensive sides increased, and the city gates also increased and strengthened.

The wooden city gate is not only simple, but also very easy to catch fire, once ignited, with the danger of the battlefield, the attacker can not let you calmly extinguish the fire, so today's city gates, have this factor in mind. For example, in large cities such as Kyoto and Nanning, the city gates are covered with iron sheets, which not only strengthens the city gates, but also fundamentally eliminates this possibility. And other small and medium-sized cities, although there is no iron sheet, but there are also preventive measures, in the place where the water source is abundant, some near the city gate, there is also a pool, set up an organ, once the city gate is on fire, only need to control the mechanism, the water in the pool is poured down against the head of the city, and the fire is extinguished. Where there is a shortage of water, there is either sand or a reduction in the size of the city gates, and so on.

And Fengtai is just a granary after all, and there are no these protective measures, so Wu Ming took advantage of it.

The oil burns, much more powerful than tung oil, and the smoke rises into the air, and even from the castle tower, you can feel the scorching temperature. Li Zhong was frightened and hissed: "Quick, quick, fast." Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire! ”

How can this fire be extinguished when there is chaos on the city tower and there are refugees under the city? Seeing this, the refugees shouted, beat like chicken blood, set up a simple ladder, and launched a tidal attack on Fengtai City. Now everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, and it is too late to deal with the enemy in front of them, although they can still take care of extinguishing the fire?

Li Zhong went crazy and cut down a refugee who climbed up to the top of the city, and shouted: "Quickly organize people to extinguish the fire." He knew that once the city gate was breached, hundreds of thousands of refugees would come in waves, and with their little manpower, it would not be enough to be stuffed by the other side. Just as he was scorching himself, suddenly the soldiers on the tower of the city made a sound like the sky was cracking, and someone shouted: "The city is broken!" The enemy is in! It's in! ”

Although the wooden gate was strong, it was burned by the fire for a while, and it was completely crispy, Wu Ming picked up a boulder that had been prepared, condescendingly, and threw it violently, only to hear the sound of "boom", sparks shot in all directions, and the entire city gate fell in half, completely scrapped.

"Kill!"

Li Yu shouted wildly, took the lead, ignored the raging fire, and led the guard battalion to rush in from the collapsed city gate. Gao Yuanhong and Zhou Ji followed closely and rushed into Fengtai. When he rushed into the city gate, Gao Yuanhong did not forget to kick towards the crumbling other city gate, and in his triumphant laughter, the city gate also collapsed. Before he could laugh, there was a tingling pain in his feet, and when he looked down, the soles of his feet were stained with oil stars, and they were also burning. He was so frightened that the wolf howled, and hurriedly jumped up to try to extinguish the fire, but as soon as his body hit the ground, he felt a strong surge, and the people behind him shouted and swarmed in from the city gate. He shouted, his body involuntarily, and he was pushed by the crowd towards the city.

Seeing this scene, Wu Ming's heart fell to the ground, he jumped off the well, turned around and rushed towards the small hill a few miles away. During this period of time, He Yizhen has been exhausted, worried about refugees, and worried about his parents, so that he has lost a lot of weight. The city of Fengtai was broken, and the situation in the northwest changed hosts and guests, and these problems were easily solved. He wants to tell He Yi as soon as possible and share this joy with his wife.

"Xiaoyi, we have become, we have succeeded."

Wu Ming rode Nanwang up the high slope, and before he reached the camp tent, he couldn't help but shout.

In the distance, hundreds of thousands of refugees shouted and rushed towards the Fengtai granary like a tide. With a white cloth wrapped around their heads, the refugees shouted: "You should not be insulted in life." There is no joy in life, and there is no pain in death, for the good and the evil are eliminated, but my Virgin, the sorrows of life and death are all to dust...... "They rushed towards the Fengtai granary like ants, and above the wall, arrows rained down, and after each volley, a large number of people rolled and fell, and the refugees who escaped rushed up, completely ignoring the rolling logs and stones thrown from the wall. One after the other, it seems that they don't know that the further they rush, the more dangerous they become.

Although the Fengtai granary is the largest granary in the northwest, it cannot be built as a military fortress. The wall around the granary, which was no more than six meters high, was no more than six meters high, and it was not long before a layer of corpses piled up outside the wall, and the refugees continued to rush towards the wall one after another, shouting slogans. After a while, hand-to-hand combat with the defenders began.

"Hold, hold."

Li Zhong struggled to smash over the two refugees who rushed in front of him, and shouted with all his might. Looking at it, I couldn't help but close my eyes in despair, there were too many people. The refugees used the city gate as a breakthrough, and the four walls were in an emergency. But in the distance, the enemy still rushed like a tide, seemingly endlessly. These refugees are almost crazy, fighting for their lives, and their thousands of defenders are like a light boat in a tsunami, and it will not be long before they are swallowed up.

He couldn't help but close his eyes in despair.

He Yi was still sitting cross-legged on the mountain bag, quietly looking at the distant qiqi, the wind blew her shiny black hair fluttering in the wind, revealing the black forehead, making her already snow-like skin glow with a holy color. Although Wu Ming shouted loudly, she was unconscious.

"Phew!"

Wu Ming pulled Nanwang. The latter hissed, and the man stood up. He rolled over and dismounted, ready to repeat what he had just said. saw that there were two deep tear stains rolling on He Yiruyu's face, she stroked her chest with her left hand, and pinched her slender right hand into a lotus shape. He muttered, "I am willing to wash away this evil land with my heart's blood." Report the grace of heaven and earth, and help the common people to suffer. I wish to do my best to save all sentient beings. With bodhicitta and bodhicitta to the fullest, we will be born together in the Land of Bliss. ”

Although she read softly, every word was very clear. Wu Ming's heart ached, staring at He Yi's fair face in a daze, and the joy just now was gone.

In the distance, the sound of shouting and killing, and the sound of wishing are still heard from afar, forming a huge sound Lang, rushing towards this high ground over and over again.

The wind was blowing, and the whole world seemed to tremble and whimper.