Chapter 19: The Fire of the Urn City
readx; Lang Tan greeted the Liao army into the city with a humble smile, and the more the Liao army walked in, the more his smile would be, just like watching his own cattle and sheep enter the cattle pen. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 More than 3,000 Song troops beside him quietly climbed onto the war horse, and the strong crossbow machine hidden under the tattered cloak had been opened, just waiting for the general to give an order.
Suddenly, a group of men and horses rushed from the left side of the city, and the man at the head shouted: "Be careful, there is fraud!" ”
Lang Tan was stunned for a moment, and decisively waved the small red flag in his hand, only to see that the jack gate at the head of the city fell to the ground, smashing several Liao troops who were preparing to enter the city into meat paste.
Ge Tianfang's long knife stabbed into the ribs of the Liao Zhongjun fiercely, and said with a cruel smile: "Grandpa, I'll give you the knife." When he fell off his horse, he saw countless Song troops throwing a kind of black iron eggs into the middle of the Liao army......
The Liao people on the head of the city fell like raindrops, and those people were going to take over the Liao army that was going to take over the defense of the city, and they were caught off guard and killed by Lang Tan's deputy general Tan Wei.
After disposing of the Liao army scouts, Tan Wei laughed and threw a torch into the Liao army group circling in the urn city, the sand on the ground was mixed with gunpowder and sulfur, and the torch quickly burst into flames after it landed, and in an instant, Lang Tan consciously set the firewood and grass there, and then, a large number of fire oil cans were thrown down.
Lang Tan saw the fire in the urn city. With a shout of joy, he led 3,000 of his subordinates to launch a surprise attack on the Liao army, which was turning on their backs, and the long knife flew in the enemy group, and soon turned red.
The eight bull crossbows, ballistas, and trebuchets at the head of the city frantically poured all kinds of killing weapons into the Liao army, and the neat Liao army completely turned into a pot of porridge, and the flat city gate became a Shura slaughterhouse.
The black bone poison was forced to endure greed for the sake of his own face and did not enter the city with the vanguard troops, and now when he sees this miserable scene, he only knows how to shout. There was a burst of screams that didn't make any sense.
"Back off. Back off! The commander of the Xijing army made Yelu Hande react at the first time after a long battle, and quickly led his subordinates to shoot with bows and arrows to cover the panicked front army to withdraw from the shooting range of the crossbow at the head of the city.
For the army, the most harmful weapon has never been the eight-ox crossbow. It's a strong crossbow. Its range is not as good as that of the Eight Bull Crossbow. The victory is that there are many of them, and once they start firing, they will form a rainstorm of blows.
Xiao Huo'er was furious to the extreme. Jumping out of the carriage and stepping on the war horse, he was about to settle accounts with the despicable Song army, and the relieved black bones dragged him to death, begging him not to take risks at this time, and to wait for the army to return anyway.
Lang Tan stopped at the farthest range of the crossbow arrows, seeing that the Liao army had stabilized his position under the reprimand of a Liao general, he knew that this was the only way to do it today, and when he saw the Liao army with corpses all over the field, he laughed, and took his subordinates and threw himself straight to the west gate.
When the Liao army reorganized its ranks and braved the dense rain of arrows to kill the city again, the desperate roar of the front army could be heard from behind the city wall, but they could not take a step forward, and one after another gunpowder shells exploded, blocking them alive and ten zhang away.
Once the gunpowder bullet explodes in front of the shield, the shield will be shattered, and then the crossbow of the eight ox crossbow will take the opportunity to drill in, forming a bloody road in the Liao crowd.
The Liao army, which was not prepared to attack the city, had to retreat slowly again, Xiao Huo'er held a sharp blade in his hand, blood flowed down, he yelled at Lang Tan, who was laughing wildly at the head of the city, and shouted to the sky, he must slaughter the partial pass, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!
Lang Tan didn't care about Xiao Huo'er's poisonous oath, looking at the Liao people who were struggling desperately in the flames with smoke all over their bodies, but he just sighed that there were not as many Liao people who entered the city as he expected.
In order to build this urn city, Lang Tan can be said to have exhausted his efforts for half a year, without stone, he even demolished the dilapidated house of the town guard, there is no white ash that binds the masonry, he can only use clay and rice soup instead, now, more than 2,000 Liao cavalry died here, no matter how much suffering they suffered, it was worth it.
The moon climbed up, Lang Tan watched the fire under the urn city gradually extinguish, and there were no more Liao people running under the city, he opened the gate of the urn city and prepared to send someone to clean up the mess, as soon as the city gate was opened, a large pile of burned and messy corpses poured in, Lang Tan himself was surprised, how did so many people get into the small urn city gate.
The corpses had been burned and glued together, and the terrifying smell rippled, including Lang Tan himself, who vomited wildly for the first time, and since then, Lang Tan has never touched his favorite roast meat again......
After dawn, the soldiers cleaned up the urn city by themselves, and when the cart dragged the corpses of the Liao people through the street, there were more eyes hidden behind the wooden planks, but more carefully hid themselves better.
"The general is wise, and today he has killed more than 3,000 Liao people......"
The voice of the soldier came out from afar, and he didn't hear back from any of the people, not even a word of cheers, all the eyes in the cracks of the wooden planks disappeared, only the sound of the car rolling on the stone road, Tan Wei was a little angry, but Ge Tianfang sighed and said: "A battle is not enough to save the hearts of the people, damn Hua Tianshou has broken the hearts of the people here, after listening to what he did, Lao Tzu is the words of the people, and Lao Tzu doesn't trust anyone." ”
Lang Tan smashed his fist on the city wall and said hatefully: "Lao Tzu dares to pack tickets, when the Liao people enter the city today, the person who calls the Liao people to be careful must be Hua Tianshou, the thief, there is no doubt, if it is not for him to shout through Lao Tzu's plan, there will be at least a thousand more Liao people in the urn city." ”
Tan Wei shook his head: "No, even if you don't make a move at that time, I will order the jack gate to fall, at that time, there were already Liao people who asked why there was an urn city here, and it seemed that they were already suspicious." ”
Lang said frankly: "In the final analysis, our urn city is too small, if Lao Tzu can build a city within a city in the partial city, it will definitely make Xiao Huo'er have no return." ”
Ge Tianfang said: "It's troublesome now, the number of Liao people is too much, when I went to see Xiao Huo'er, I saw trebuchets and ladders for siege, they came prepared, although we won the first station, the days behind will not be too good, under the attack of those large trebuchets, the fragile city wall will not be able to stop for long." ”
Lang Tan said indifferently: "It's not a problem to hold on for ten days, right?" Xiao Huo'er wants to cripple Lao Tzu's partiality, I'm afraid it won't be possible without ten days of hard fighting, right? Ten days, ten days, ten days, and then we ran away. ”
Ge Tianfang hesitated for a moment and said: "We can do it, hold on for ten days and then retreat in front of the marshal, but what about the people in the city, the marshal doesn't care about the gains and losses of a city and a place, I'm afraid we won't be allowed to leave the people to the Liao army to vent their anger, our Jingxi army has not done such a shameful thing." ”
Tan Wei said angrily: "These people have a little bit of the consciousness of the Great Song people, the soldiers fought for almost two hours yesterday, and they didn't have time to clean the battlefield, those people can secretly go to the corpses of the Liao people at night to find property, but they don't know how to help us clean the battlefield at dawn, the brothers see that they are stealing, but they are too poor to stop it, these ungrateful things are not worthy of pity." ”
Lang Tan glanced at Tan Wei and said: "Old Tan, you were born in Jiangmen, in the early years, when the marshal passed through Lingnan, you were the first batch of lords to exchange silver for merit, and later in the bloody battle of Niuer Mountain in Qingtang, he really became a good man of my Jingxi Army, there are some things in the Jingxi Army that you don't understand, the marshal allowed us to abandon the city, and never thought that it was a victory to defend the city when people died, so ah, it is not a big deal for us to abandon the city, but you remember that the prerequisite for abandoning the city is to send the people away first, otherwise, even if we abandon the city, If we fight the enemy and win a great victory, you and I will definitely be taken by the commander to command the three armies! This is almost non-negotiable. ”
Ge Tianfang put his hand on Tan Wei's shoulder and patted it twice and said with a smile: "You fucking were born with a golden key, how do you know the suffering of the people, the reason why these people are like this is because of Hua Tianshou, the army has pitted people into such a miserable situation, don't you allow them to be indifferent?" ”
"What the two elder brothers said is very true, Tan Wei Meng Lang, if Hua Tianshou falls into our hands, can it be handed over to the younger brother to dispose of? The younger brother will definitely make him a dilemma of life and death. There are still some ways to do this dog day in Tokyo, and the two elder brothers will definitely cause trouble, and the younger brother doesn't have so many scruples, my sister is also a princess, and he can't afford to mess with me. ”
Hearing Tan Wei say this, Lang Tan smiled and said: "Even if Hua Tianshou has his hands and eyes to the sky, his action of reminding the Liao people yesterday is enough for him to raze the three clans, not to mention others, even if your emperor's brother-in-law can't spare him, now we have to take advantage of the fact that the Liao people have not crossed the river to besiege us, it is best to send the people out of the city now, and we can have a happy war without the people in the city."
Lao Ge, you can do this matter, Lao Tan and I can't do this! ”
Ge Tianfang nodded with a smile and turned around to arrange, the reason why the people in the city didn't leave before was because they were reluctant to leave their own altars and jars, plus it was not uncommon for the Liao people to come to the pass, just robbing things and not killing people, so everyone had a fluke mentality, now that the Great Song army has killed so many Liao people, the next thing must be a very terrifying revenge, and it is not difficult to persuade the people to leave now.
Tan Wei couldn't help but feel worried when he looked at the Liao army villages outside the city, and asked in a low voice: "General, do you think we can win this time?" ”
Lang Tan smiled: "Lao Tzu has never lost a war!" (To be continued.)
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