"I admit that when the 'strange trio' of Lord Lin, Han Da Shubag, and Japanese monks went out of the city to meet the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Wei, the commander Li Gu, and later the emperor Zhao Kuangyin, I was in the defensive position of the city wall not far from the wooden platform, and the same doubt once surfaced in my mind with the brothers around me: Are you going to negotiate the terms of surrender with the Great Zhou!? What are we going to do?

In that short half an hour, we could see the sharp and changeable expressions and slightly strange movements of the six people on the wooden platform, but we couldn't hear a word of them at all, and emotions such as anxiety and fear deeply grasped us.

However, it is clear that the negotiations did not go well. As soon as Lord Lin returned to the city, he immediately issued a first-level alert order. When I received the order, my brothers and I couldn't help but let out a long breath, but we were looking forward to the future war.

For the next three days, there was no movement in the enemy camp, which made us hesitate to conduct a strong altitude exercise, and the waiting full of unknowns was really torturous!

On the morning of November 24, the enemy army finally came out of the camp after three days of camping, and when the offensive drums sounded, we knew that it was a bitter battle, but no one expected that this time the offensive and defensive battle would be so tragic! If I had to choose one word to describe it, it would only be 'a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood' that can be slightly expressed!

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——The above is excerpted from "The Brilliant Military Brigade of a Little Soldier", which was dictated by Hu Yan Chengrui, the "immortal soldier" of the Tang Army, when he was fifty years old.

Before the start of the second offensive and defensive battle of Shouzhou City, including the emperor Guo Wei, all the Zhou troops from top to bottom, especially the generals who arrived later, thought that Shouzhou City was within reach - there were 170,000 troops under their own city, all of them were elite, good generals and fierce generals were like carp crossing the river, and all the generals could fight for a first-mover opportunity in front of the emperor; Moreover, after the siege of the city for a period of time, the siege equipment transported from the rear and all kinds of equipment made on the spot were piled up; Not to mention, the fact that the emperor was on a personal expedition, all the soldiers were holding back their strength, ready to show their courage, bloodiness and ability in the saint.

Therefore, the three major battalions of the Zhou army, which received the order for the general attack, all dispatched their whole troops to line up under the city of Shouzhou, and came up with a drum to fight down. Naturally, the Western Battalion, where Emperor Guo Wei was personally seated, took the lead in attacking. However, from the moment the drums of the Zhou army's attack sounded, the counterattack from the city of Shouzhou quickly knocked the relaxed smiles of Guo Wei and others off their faces - the trebuchets and crossbows on the entire city wall seemed to have eyes, those round balls and stones drew a large arc, and the crossbows took a straight route, but their final landing range was small and accurate, and they only wrapped the trebuchet and the slinging soldiers in front and behind it, and completely destroyed the trebuchet in the first row in an instant. What is outrageous is that in the rain of stone bullets and arrows in the sky, inconspicuous small stone projectiles flew and smashed accurately on the soldiers who carried the siege ladder behind the trebuchet. In the blink of an eye, three rounds of rapid fire actually ploughed the front row of the Zhou army's battle formation into a pile of flesh and blood with blood and stumps!

"Li Shuai, what's going on? Didn't you say that Tang Bing's stone-throwing range couldn't hit there? Guo Wei didn't expect to be slapped in the face by Lin Feng, and immediately asked angrily.

"Back to the saint, the Shouzhou Army's trebuchet used to be as far as the boundary stone in front of the trebuchet." Li Gu was also dumbfounded, pointing to the row of boundary stones that had been completely covered by the shooting range of Shouzhou's crossbow arrows, and said weakly.

"Sage, when we crossed the river to attack earlier, we had already discovered that Shouzhou's trebuchets could move at any time and could adjust the attack distance at any time, maybe Lin Feng had improved the range of these trebuchets during this time." Zhao Kuangyin stared hatefully at the stone bullets and arrow feathers that had caused great damage, and came forward to defend the commander Li Gu.

Immediately after, Shouzhou's second attack began, and those slightly smaller stone bullets jumped out of the city wall almost at the same time, landed on the ground at the same time, and then bounced at the same time, smashing towards the Zhou soldiers who were already a little flustered. At the same time as the Zhou soldiers were dodging, a new round of stone bullets came, which just missed the landing point of the first round, and smashed many soldiers who were dodging, crying and screaming one after another.

This is not over, the third round that followed was a crossbow, which beat the soldiers who escaped the first two rounds of shooting into a flying body, and the Nantang soldiers at the head of Shouzhou City shouted "kill" in unison, which was integrated with the sound of breaking the sky in the sky, constituting a terrifying melody of life harvesting!

"The whole army immediately retreated a hundred paces!" Guo Wei suddenly changed color, got up and shouted wildly, turned his head to look at the head of Shouzhou City, which had calmed down temporarily, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: After being surrounded for so many days, he can still have such a sharp and precise defense, is this the will and technology that Lin Feng preached? How many secret weapons are hidden in this Shouzhou City?!

The entire Zhou army retreated back as if fleeing, and the originally neat and uniform formation immediately became chaotic, and the six ** blows made the high emotions of all the soldiers feel like six basins of cold water were poured on them, and the atmosphere was suffocated.

Li Gu called the two lieutenants and whispered a few words in his ear.

The two lieutenants bowed to Guo Wei and rushed down from the stage, each leading 500 soldiers to carry huge wooden shields and march out from the north and south directions.

The battlefield fell even quieter, and all the Zhou soldiers looked at the two assault troops that were making a tentative attack.

Both teams proceeded cautiously. Twenty paces from the stone line, there was no movement in the city; Forty paces, still no movement; The procession had just reached the middle line between the catapult line and the city wall, and the terrifying whistling sound was renewed!

The two teams urgently changed formations, and the adjutant general in the north shouted "retreat" loudly, and all the soldiers immediately carried the big shield to their backs and ran back desperately; The adjutant general in the south gave the order to "disperse", and all five hundred soldiers scattered and ran wildly to the sides.

However, the blood proved that their choices, although different, had exactly the same fate: before the soldiers from the north fled to safety, the rain of stone bullets and arrows that covered the attack caught up with them in an instant, knocking them down and flying mercilessly, and at the end less than a hundred lucky people escaped death, but almost all of them were wounded;

The situation was even worse in the south, where the ballistae had no pity for the rudimentary crossbow arrows, and chased the soldiers like targets. Looking at the tragic fate of those soldiers who fled in advance in the north, these poor soldiers didn't know whether to advance or retreat, whether to leave or right, many soldiers ran around like headless flies, two soldiers watched the brothers around them fall one after another in a pool of blood, and then looked at the crossbow arrows flying around them, their spirits suddenly collapsed, threw down their weapons, cried loudly, and shouted "Mom" in their mouths, only to shout twice, and the two were pierced by crossbow arrows at the same time, and they were suddenly silent.

Seeing his brothers being slaughtered, Zhao Kuangyin was so angry that he gritted his steel teeth and gritted his teeth, and as soon as the whistling sound started, he jumped off the command platform by himself, and waved his arms to push a team of soldiers to push a huge siege vehicle over.

When a very small number of soldiers from the north ran to the slinging line for the first time, the overall sharp blade-shaped siege vehicle rushed out from behind the formation, Zhao Kuangyin covered his whole body with a shield with both hands, led the way in front of his head, and quickly rushed towards the soldiers who were still running around with the siege vehicle.

Arrowstone is ruthless! In just a few moments, at least three hundred soldiers had been shot down in the southern assault team!

Seeing the siege vehicles coming out, the trebuchets on the head of the city quickly adjusted their targets, and large and small stone projectiles were concentrated on the siege vehicles.

Zhao Kuangyin's two shields struck each other, making a loud noise, and a wild roar in his mouth, first attracting the attention of the panicked soldiers in the field, and then roaring angrily: "Get to the car quickly!" ”

The soldiers finally came to their senses, shouted and ran towards the siege engine. Zhao Kuangyin exerted force under his feet, grabbed a few steps ahead, and the shield flew, knocking the chasing crossbow arrows into the air, covering several soldiers to return to the siege vehicle.

After picking up the soldiers three times in a row, Zhao Kuangyin was reminded by the shouts of the soldiers under the car, and found that there were a lot of stones piled up around the siege vehicle.

Seeing the siege vehicles retreat quickly, the slings and crossbow arrows were bounced off by the heavy siege vehicle shell, and the attack on the city immediately stopped.

Seeing that the brave Zhao Kuangyin successfully rescued the soldiers and saved a little morale of the army, Guo Wei nodded appreciatively, but his face was still as cold as frost, and the hands on his knees couldn't help but tremble slightly: It is no wonder that Li Gu's previous attack made no progress. Now that so many elites are dispatched, they are being beaten by Shouzhou City, what else is there to talk about breaking the city in one fell swoop?!