Chapter 298: Struggle
The soldier touched the quiver with only two arrows left, and the afterglow swept over the Xu Shizi beside him, and the Xu Shizi's eyes also swept over his quiver, but there was no sound, the soldier pulled up his longbow, and the arrow shot at the enemy like a bamboo.
Then, in a tenacious position, he stretched out the last arrow, his gaze calm, and if he only looked at the soldier's face, one would think that his quiver must be full of arrows.
"Knock knock." Just as the soldier had finished shooting his last arrow, a dozen or so soldiers ran up to the tower with a bundle of long bamboo sticks. The soldiers turned to look, and saw that a soldier had put bamboo sticks in the bucket with the potion, and handed them to the soldiers one by one. The soldiers measured the size and length of the bamboo sticks with their eyes, and looked at the calm face of Xu Shizi.
The quiver was quickly reloaded.
The weapon is renewed, and it is finally able to fight the enemy with the same ability.
The sun moved west, the moon rose and set, and a day and a night passed. Both sides were exhausted, and the hands of the archers were shaking, although they rotated with their companions a few times. However, in the past two days, their food has been sloppy and gnawing a few steamed buns on the city wall.
Except for those soldiers who had been born and died on the battlefield with King Ning who were still crumbling to support, the other soldiers had already fallen. After all, they have been guarding the capital for so many years, and the capital has always been peaceful and quiet, and there has never been such a fierce war. In normal times, the most intense task they have ever undertaken is to protect the royal children from hunting. After so many years of pampering, it was difficult for them to adapt to this kind of high-intensity combat.
There was one a few days ago, and now there is one, and I still have it in my heart, and the two wars are closely connected, and this kind of tiredness is really indescribable. However, after the previous war, the soldiers who originally guarded the capital suffered heavy injuries, and now most of the remaining soldiers are soldiers who have been in and out of the battlefield.
However, Xu Shizi knew very well that the soldiers who could still withstand it were not only because they had followed King Ning into the battlefield and their physical functions were stronger than ordinary soldiers, but also because they had witnessed their upper peak being knocked down by the other party, and their will to fight was supported by the mentality of avenging their upper peak. Therefore, they are stronger than ordinary soldiers, and their willpower is a little stronger.
"Shizi, you can go to the beacon tower and rest for a while." Xu Shizi also followed the soldiers to defend the city for many days at this moment, his eyes were dyed dark blue, his beard was covered with stubble, and his face was very haggard, Cheng Fang and Cheng Lin couldn't bear to look at it, and wanted him to go down and rest for a while.
Xu Shizi raised his heavy eyelids, his bloodshot eyes looked at the concern in the eyes of his cronies, and the resistance of the enemies below weakened a lot, Xu Shizi slowly followed Cheng Fang to the beacon tower, sat directly on the ground, leaned against the city wall, and closed his eyes.
All of a sudden, the roots of the ears were silent. The sound of battle seemed to be isolated far away.
Xu Shizi was tired, and the little general of the Yang family came from the direction of the base camp with his men and horses. went up the city wall, looked around, looked for the figure of Xu Shizi, pulled a soldier, and asked, "Where is Xu Shizi?" ”
The most taboo on the battlefield is that the general leaves his soldiers and escapes, although General Yang Xiao doesn't like Xu Shizi's style of acting on weekdays, but at this time he doesn't want Xu Shizi to do something irrational.
The soldier raised his hand tremblingly and pointed in the direction of the beacon.
General Yang turned around and saw a tall figure sitting on the ground in the beacon tower, leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. Luckily... General Yang Xiao looked down and walked over quickly.
"Shh General Yang approached, and was about to touch Xu Shizi's shoulder with his hand, Cheng Fang silently stopped him, put his index finger to his lips, and made a silent movement.
"How are you all right?" General Yang Xiao followed Cheng Fang to the edge of the city wall, and then asked softly.
"Well, it's just that he hasn't slept for several days, and now we see that the enemy's resistance has weakened, and we are also comfortable fighting, so we persuade the prince to rest for a while." Cheng Fang turned his head and glanced into the beacon tower, and continued, "No, I just sat down and fell asleep." ”
General Yang also saw the tiredness on Xu Shizi's face, and nodded silently, having no objection to this in his heart.
The enemy gradually lost their resistance, and the soldiers on the walls sat down on the ground, closed their eyes, and fell asleep, but they still held their weapons tightly in their hands.
General Yang Xiao led the soldiers to guard every post, he stood on the city wall, below the city wall, wet, the enemy also staggered to the ground, I don't know whether to die or live, if only at this time I could give the other party another heavy blow. General Yang Xiao's eyes were sharp, but there was only one soldier on the city wall when he was defending the city, and there were sporadic ones, how to deal a heavy blow to the enemy, General Yang Xiao did not dare to act rashly, and his eyes were staring at the enemy's every move below.
"General Yang." I don't know when Xu Shizi woke up and walked to General Yang Xiao.
General Yang raised his eyes and saw that Xu Shizi's face was still very haggard, but his eyes were bright and shining, and he couldn't see any tiredness, and it seemed that he was resting.
"Son." General Yang bowed slightly towards Xu Shizi, which could be regarded as a salute and greeting.
"Have you called someone to come and help?" Xu Shizi also looked at the bottom of the city wall, a rare opportunity...
"Someone has already been arranged." General Yang Xiao thought for a while and added, "People may not arrive so quickly." ”
The original manpower was all arranged in advance, and the guardians had their respective posts, but now that General Yang Xiao was sent here, he had already guarded one post less, and he wanted to send someone over again, but King Ning fell again, and the arrangement of things was not accurate, I am afraid that it will drag on for some time.
Xu Shizi understood the meaning of General Yang's words, he nodded slightly, and turned to the enemy under the city wall. Suddenly, he noticed that several of the people below were slowly moving, first reaching out their hands, left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot, and finally slowly raising their head. When he touched the enemy's gaze, he was shocked, and then swept towards the other enemies, as if they were slowly waking up.
"They're going to wake up, throw torches down, and burn them." Xu Shizi grabbed General Yang's hand and shouted urgently.
The soldiers who can still stand upright on the city wall are all General Yang Xiao's subordinates, so if Xu Shizi wants to give orders, he can only pass through General Yang Xiao. When General Yang heard this, he looked down, good guy, what kind of monsters are these.
"Throw the torch!" General Yang Xiao gave an order, and he also ran towards the wood containing the fire oil. Xu Shizi and Cheng Fang had already thrown all the fabrics on the ground into it, and even took off their coats and dipped them in oil. The soldiers sitting on the ground heard General Yang's deafening roar, and instantly opened their eyes, and when they saw Xu Shizi's movements, they also took off their coats and dipped them in fire oil.
Ignition of fire, some with arrows, some with a wave of the arm as far as thrown.
The flames burned again, and many figures struggled in the flames. The soldiers on the walls were still throwing torches and shooting lighted arrows. Soon the flames spread to the city walls, and the fire rushed up the walls, driving away the coolness of early spring.
Inadvertently, torches were thrown up from below, but they were all blocked by Xu Shizi and others one by one and rebounded back. Of course, there were also missed bullets on the ground, but they were immediately covered by the soldiers with sand.
The walls were warmed by the raging fire, and the people standing on the walls felt as if the soles of their feet were burning, and they leaned back. The city gate was also burned red, like a hot iron just taken out of the charcoal fire by a blacksmith shop, forcing the soldiers guarding the gate back to ten paces.
But at such a time, the soldiers seemed to hear the sound of the city gate being slammed, and when they looked down and looked up, it was the enemy who pushed the iron cart against the city gate in the midst of the fire. The fire oil on the ground and on their bodies turned into flames, which made them move more freely, and their strength could be used without reservation. "Bang dang! Bang dang~" ground, different from the sound of the previous impact, it is very crisp, it should be the fire that burned the iron door thin.
Xu Shizi immediately led the people to run under the city gate, clenched the scabbard, and stared at the city gate tightly, even his breathing fluctuated with the rhythm of the city gate, and his face was very solemn.
There was a bang, and the iron door fell to the ground
The black shadows with fire on their bodies rushed in one by one, and the soldiers surrounded the black shadows, but they did not dare to approach, and when the enemy took a step forward, they took a step back.
But these black shadows rampage unscrupulously, the enemy took in, the soldiers raised their swords to resist, confront, but the enemy is a monster that cannot be killed, and it cannot be injured, but our soldiers, some are stained by fire, and some are waved by the hands and feet of the enemy.
Xu Shizi's thick eyebrows were raised, and he flew up on tiptoe, and his figure flashed, the sharp blade shining under the same light, and with a few quick shakes, several fireball-like things rolled down from the black shadow.
The enemy's movements slowed down a little, and Xu Shizi took the opportunity to raise his sword and swung it down, and the enemy's body split in two and fell. Seeing this, the soldiers learned from the younger son.
More and more enemies poured in from outside the walls, and the soldiers on the walls still threw torches at the walls, and after using up the last bit of oil, they joined the battle.
Some of the enemies were burned to a black shelf, and some were burned to black shadows, all of which brought a great advantage to the Xushizi and their battles. So, they solved quite a few enemies.
However, the enemy who rushed up from behind was intact. These enemies are much more difficult to deal with, but there are no more potions or potions on them that can be used against them.