Chapter 278: Success
The smoke is not obvious in the dark night, especially when there is no moonlight, but the fire is different, the fire spreads faster than Wang Yan expected, the grain cellar is on fire, and the grain piled around is lit, and then the wooden house is also on fire, and then the surrounding grain carts are also on fire, and a series of chain reactions down, the grain cellar only takes the effort of tea to become a sea of fire.
When the smoke started, the Western Xia army had already noticed it, and sent people to check, and when the people arrived, the fire had already lit the house, and when the horn was blown, the fire had been completely ignited.
The Western Xia army hurriedly dispersed the team to fight the fire, the scene was suddenly chaotic, Wang Yan took the secret guard to hide in the dark to observe, and found that there were not many Western Xia troops in the city, not even ten thousand people, and it can be seen from the handling of the fire that they are not elite, and the elite who want to come to the Western Xia are sent to the border of Broken Dragon Pass and Liangping Prefecture.
The grain cellar is surrounded by water tanks, and there is water in them, which is supposed to be used to fight fires, but it is really a bit whimsical to use this water to extinguish the fire in front of you, and the fire is really too big!
The Western Xia soldiers scooped water with a gourd to extinguish the fire, poured water on the fire, and pressed the fire down for less than half a moment, and the fire rose again.
After a pillar of incense, the water dried up, and the fire still did not decrease in the slightest.
The Xixia general who defended the city looked at the raging fire with a look on Mu Na, he was not a brave general, so he was left here to guard the granary, although it was an important position, but there was no danger, the men of Xixia should go to the battlefield to slaughter the little lamb of the beam, stay here to provide food, watch others fight and make meritorious contributions, but he has nothing to do here, and he is depressed when he thinks about it.
At present, there is no fire to be extinguished, the grain can only be burned out, there is no granary to supply grain and grass, the general does not dare to imagine what kind of fate he will face, relying on the grain and grass transported from the Western Xia Kingdom alone can not supply more than 300,000 troops to eat, without grain and grass, the Western Xia has to withdraw from Liangzhou in advance, and the income will shrink significantly, and these consequences will finally fall on their heads!
"Someone! Call in two teams of people from outside the city and search the city! Get the one who lit the fire out for me! ”
The general roared as he looked at the fire.
The city gate opened, the herald rode out on a fast horse, and the Western Xia soldiers guarding outside the city had already seen the fire, had already guessed the fire, listened to the herald's order, and hurriedly assembled the team and rushed into the city.
Sou!
A bright light shot into the night sky, causing a sharp sound.
The Western Xia army saw it, but I don't know what it was.
Guan Ping saw it, Yue Pengju also saw it, and the two of them suddenly got up and shouted behind them.
"Brothers! Get on your horse and go to war! ”
The Western Xia soldiers were still slowly entering the city, suddenly heard a sound, felt the earth tremble, looked sideways, and found a group of cavalry in the distance, and the soldiers who had not yet entered the city hurriedly turned around and pulled out their blades and posed as if they were facing the battle.
The defenders at the head of the city were also full of bowstrings and ready to shoot.
As the cavalry team approached, the Western Xia soldiers saw clearly the clothing on this team of cavalry, it was the Western Xia military uniform, and it was their own people!
I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, but the weapon was not put down, and an order was passed down the day before yesterday, saying that there was a Liang army wearing a Western Xia military uniform and pretending to be the Western Xia army to hinder the plunder in Liangzhou, with about 10,000 people, so that the Western Xia army guarding the granary cheered up, if it was deceived to open the city gate and lose the grain and grass, all the military law would deal with it! At this time, it was dark, and with the smoke and dust, the Western Xia soldiers could not identify the number of people, so they did not dare to relax.
The Xixia army on the city wall put down the bow and arrows, and it is a very tiring thing to always keep the state of pulling the strings, if it is really an enemy army, it is not too late to pull it, and it is only 5,000 people to look at the team, it is rumored that the Liang army was severely damaged by several generals, and there are only more than 1,000 people left, this team is definitely not the Liang army!
The general came out of the crowd and shouted at Guan Ping's team.
"Whoever comes, report your name!"
Guan Ping took out a waist card from his waist and shook it vigorously towards the general who was questioning.
"I'm Guan Ping, the captain of General Zhuoer under the deputy commander! When Admiral Drow saw a fire on the side of the granary, he sent me to ask what was going on! What the hell is going on! ”
Listening to Guan Ping's words, seeing that this team slowed down, the general suddenly put his mind at ease, there is no problem at all, Zhuoer is not familiar with himself, but there are indeed people, the way the captain greets is no problem, the Xixia people greet each other with a bright waist card, the higher the official position, the bigger the waist card, the better the material, the heavier the weight, and the more stable he is relatively held, he swings so much, it must be a wooden card, which is very in line with his identity.
Guan Ping explained his identity, and asked questions, the general didn't want to answer Guan Ping's question, everyone who is not blind knows that there is a fire, the general has not yet entered the city and does not know whether the fire is serious or not, but from the outside, it should not be light, the commander has explained to guard the grain and grass when he left, if there is any mistake to see him, now that the granary is really in trouble, he can't answer him casually, after all, he is not familiar with General Zhuoer.
"You guys are waiting outside now, I'll go in and take a look!" The general shouted at Guan Ping.
Guan Ping had already run to the front, and there were still dozens of zhang away from the door.
The city was lit by fire like daylight, and the thick smoke turned the place near the side of the mountain into a dead place, half of the Western Xia soldiers were fighting the fire, using various ways to put out the fire, such as cutting with a scimitar, treating the fire as an enemy, trying to cut down the fire, this is no longer a way, there is no water, and it is already delusional to want to extinguish the fire.
The other half of the Western Xia soldiers are searching the city! With red eyes, he worked very hard in Soucheng.
The city was lit by fire as if it were daylight, and there were only two or three dark places where people could hide, and now they were searched all over, but no one was found.
The general defending the city jumped straight to his feet angrily! If it's not artificial, then it's not caused by my own lax supervision, and my head is lost!
Everyone was so agitated that they didn't notice at all that a group of Tanguts were walking up the castle tower.
Walking up to the city wall, he found that the attention of all the defenders was attracted by Guan Ping's team, and even if there were those who turned back, they were not suspicious of themselves and others, a sneer appeared on the corner of Wang Yan's mouth, and a cruel light flashed in his eyes.
Swish! Swish! With two thuds, two heads fell from their necks, fell to the battlements and rolled twice, then fell off the city wall and smashed on the head of a Western Xia soldier.
The Western Xia soldier lowered his head and picked it up, and his gaze froze after just one glance!
Suddenly raised his head, blood on his face...
The city wall was in chaos, and the dark guards spread out on both sides, raising and falling with their swords, constantly harvesting the lives of the guards, and those who were close were killed by the dark guards when they drew their swords.
The strange movement in the city shocked the people under the city, and the moment the people under the city set their eyes on the city.
Guan Ping's team suddenly accelerated!
The general was the first to react and also drew his blade! It's just that the two plate axes have arrived in front of him, blocking the upper one, but the lower one is slashed firmly through the leather armor.
The pain paralyzed the nerves, and the general's movements paused, and the glaive knife was placed on his neck, and before he could exhale the breath he inhaled, his eyes had already flown into the air.
Guan Ping and Yue Pengju led the team to rush into the crowd under the city, and the sound of fighting shook the sky for a while, and the defenders on the city wall were too busy to take care of themselves, where did they have kung fu to help the city, and the team of the Western Xia army was stuck at the gate of the city, and the position was very embarrassing.
Another general in the cave of the city gate ordered the team in front to withdraw and close the gate first! It's a pity that the team in front of them has no general, and they were caught off guard by Guan Ping's people, and they were a little panicked for a while, and they heard the order but didn't carry it out, and they all wanted to retreat to the city.
The more than 2,000 people piled up at the city gate were taken away by the two charges, and Guan Ping and Yue Pengju were rushing towards the city gate.
The city gate has been blocked by soldiers, Guan Ping's team suddenly threw out a few lit oil gourds, and then the Western Xia soldiers blocking the city gate were ignited! Let out a heart-rending scream.
On the wall, Wang Yan has been killing from left to right and back from right for two rounds, at least 200 people have died at his hands, the Xixia soldiers on the wall have been wiped out, and the secret guards are divided into two teams to block the two bridges, and all the Xixia soldiers who rushed up are repulsed.
In the cave of the city gate, at least one hundred and ten Tanguts were ignited, and the fire was still spreading, and the Xixia army withdrew from the city gate and let the city gate open.
The general who defended the city had already guessed what was happening, and gathered all the Western Xia soldiers in the city in front of him, divided them into two teams, closed the wall, and guarded the city gate with the team that had just entered.
The Western Xia soldiers raised their spears and put their burnt brothers outside, and watched a hundred and ten burning men screaming, struggling, falling to the ground, and turning into charcoal, anger and horror filled their hearts, and the city gate was blocked by thick smoke, and it was impossible to see the inside clearly. Wang Yan cleared the wall here, and began to advance down with the secret guards.
The two short knives dancing in their hands can only see the afterimage, and they can't capture the blade at all, and the Western Xia soldiers on top of it are easily killed, and the knife is slashed on the body, like cutting tofu.
The general guarding the city anxiously glanced at the wall, and saw that Wang Yan was like a killing god, and a chill surged in his heart, and he actually came up with the idea of escaping.
Immediately afterwards, the horse burst out of the black smoke, Guan Ping held the glaive knife in his hand, Yue Pengju followed closely and also jumped out, behind him was the iron cavalry of the big beam, Guan Ping broke the spearhead of the spearman blocking the front with a sweep, and then rushed into the Western Xia soldiers.
The ups and downs of the glaive knife brought countless blood flowers, and the iron cavalry of the Great Liang slaughtered wildly among the Western Xia soldiers, this situation is rare, the Western Xia people will always leave the recruits in the rear to defend, but the Great Liang rarely has a chance to kill them in the rear.
The Western Xia soldiers were scattered by Guan Ping and Yue Pengju, and Wang Yan was also killed from the city wall.
The battle lasted for half an hour, and the Western Xia soldiers were slaughtered, and the fire in the grain cellar was still burning, and it seemed that it could burn until dawn.
After killing people and burning food, all you have to do is run, how far you run, you can see the fire hundreds of miles away, and now you don't know how many people are rushing here!
The corpses of the brothers who died in the war could not be taken away, so they took off the waist card and threw them into the raging fire to be considered a funeral.
Wang Yan left the granary without half a pillar of incense, the reinforcements of the Western Xia came, five thousand iron horsemen, led by a middle-aged man, with a mole on his forehead, his temples dyed white, dressed in silver armor, carrying a big knife, looking very majestic, and the captain's waist card pinned to his waist.
Dahan looked at the four open city gates, and his face was extremely gloomy...