"Woo-"

In about half an hour, a low horn suddenly sounded in the enemy's position, the army began to move, hunting with flags, neighing horses, and the boundless army gave people a strong sense of oppression, Qin Huaidao heard the sound of the horn and hurriedly went up to the city wall to check, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

The enemy army did not retreat, but moved to both sides, this is to besiege the city, the soldiers who came with Qin Huaidao also frowned slightly, their expressions were a little more solemn, An Guogong reminded: "General, look at this army is at least 100,000, this is to prepare for the siege, make plans as soon as possible." ”

The so-called plan is to leave, as long as the troops are free and come and go like the wind, there is a chance, and An Guogong, who was born on the grassland, does not like to defend the city the most.

Holding on means being trapped, but if it's waiting for help, it's different, the question is is if there are reinforcements?

Qin Huaidao looked in the direction of the Tang Dynasty, if there were no reinforcements, Goguryeo would not need to attack at all, and if there was no food to eat, he would definitely die, but if reinforcements came, holding on would mean attracting most of Goguryeo's energy and troops, covering for the reinforcements, and locking the battle situation.

Go, or stay?

Qin Huaidao only hesitated, and then made a decision in his heart, betting on Li Er's great talent and strategy, and also betting on Li Er's ability to grasp the opportunity to save food for two months, two months is enough for Li Er to make a deployment, seeing everyone looking over, he said in a deep voice: "Guard!" ”

"Obey!" The crowd roared into orders.

Once the order is issued, it will not be changed, and everyone will discourage the idea of leaving.

An Guogong did not object, looked at the enemy army and reminded: "General, there is a way to drive all the people in the city away, and taking their food may be able to hold on for a month or two, anyway, the people of Goguryeo, it is impossible to drive out the army outside regardless of life or death, but it will consume the enemy's food." ”

The word "grain" reminded Qin Huaidao, and after signaling Cheng Chu to step aside, he said: "Brother Cheng, you can go out of the city, find the 10,000 troops that are coming, take you as the general, and go around to the rear of the enemy army, your task is only one, to destroy the enemy's food route." ”

As soon as Cheng Chumo heard that he was out of the city as a general, and he led 10,000 soldiers, this was a great opportunity, his eyes lit up, and he clenched his fists gratefully: "Obey the order!" ”

"Remember one thing, you must not go head-to-head, you must use guerrilla warfare, and send you a sixteen-character tactic: the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and I chase. As long as this method of warfare is applied, one person, two horses, and three horses ensure mobility, and there is no big problem. Qin Huaidao solemnly admonished.

"When the enemy advances, I retreat, and when the enemy retreats, I chase. The enemy is stationed in me to disturb, and the enemy is tired and I fight, remember. Cheng Chumo chewed the sixteen-character tactics carefully, feeling very novel, he had never heard of it, and it was engraved in his mind.

"Find Li Yixie to write a warrant, stamp it with the general's seal, and add your identity, they should not doubt your identity and obey the command, from now on, 10,000 lives will be on you, no impulsive, no need to report, how to fight you decide for yourself, while the enemy army has not yet surrounded, go to the west gate, go quickly." Qin Huaidao admonished.

"General Xie's trust - take care!" Cheng Chumo gratefully clenched his fists again and hurried away.

Qin Huaidao motioned for everyone to come over, and Zhengse said: "Everyone, the enemy army adjusts its deployment, and our army must also adjust with it, the mercenaries are responsible for guarding the city wall, divided into three shifts, and rotated every four hours to ensure that there are people on the city wall, the Khitan and Xi tribes are separated, and each guards two city walls, so be sure to arrange it." As he spoke, he looked at Luo Zhang.

"Obey!" Luo Zhang hurriedly agreed.

"Draw out a team of Yulin guards to inspect the city wall, and once you find slack, quickly report it." Qin Huaidao said and looked at Li Yixie, not very relieved about the mercenaries.

Li Yi quickly agreed.

Qin Huaidao looked at An Guogong and continued: "An Guogong, leave 1,000 people to assist in logistics matters, and the other 2,000 to Cheng Chuliang and Cheng Chubi, you two lead the troops to organize the people to dig soil and stones to block the city gate hole for me, leaving only the West Gate, but the West Gate comes out a little bit to dig a big trap, the bigger the better, the two sides are next to the city wall to leave a road, so that it is convenient for them to pass, if the enemy suddenly kills in, it can also be blocked, and it must be completed before dawn." ”

"Obey!" An Guogong, Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chubi hurriedly hugged their fists to receive their lives.

"What about our forbidden army?" Yu Chi Baolin hurriedly asked.

"Patrol the city, strictly enforce military discipline, prevent civil strife, and second, as a mobile tool, support at any time." Qin Huaidao solemnly told that the forbidden army is his own people, and the most reassuring troops are naturally used in key parts.

"Obey!" Yu Chi Baolin understood.

"Hurry up and act!"

At the sound of an order, everyone took action.

Qin Huaidao stayed on the city wall and continued to observe the enemy's situation, while thinking, the enemy does not move, I do not move, the enemy moves, I move first, predict all the actions that the enemy may take, and make countermeasures, there are 15,000 people in hand, plus the tall city, it is not without the power of a battle, the biggest problem is materials, such as feather arrows.

Although An Guogong led a thousand people to be in charge of logistics and materials, but it may not be able to supply, you have to think of a way, Qin Huaidao beckoned a Yu Linwei to come over, and advised: "You go and inform Luo Zhang, let him take people all over the city to collect manure, mix people and animals, add arsenic, and set up a cauldron above the four city gates to boil, and the person who boils does not wrap his mouth and nose to prevent inhalation, and put the arrow of the feather arrow into it to boil a cup of tea." ”

"Obey!" The other party hurriedly went.

The feces are mixed with arsenic, and the arrows are stained, and the shooting into the body will increase the wound infection, which is basically unsolvable in this era, and can expand the lethality and deter the enemy.

When the two armies are at war, they naturally do everything they can, and mercy is a joke.

"What else is there to defend the city?" Qin Huaidao thought quickly, but unfortunately he couldn't get explosives for a while, otherwise he wouldn't be enough to see how much he came, this kind of cold weapon era to defend the city Qin Huaidao didn't know much, he could only see the moves.

Outside the city, the enemy army gradually formed a situation of encirclement on all sides.

But he is not in a hurry to attack, but to set up camp and build siege equipment, Qin Huaidao also needs time to adjust the deployment, I wish the enemy army would not attack, especially to block the city gate hole It takes time, there are thousands of catties of boulders at the west gate, as long as the problem is not big, the other door holes are blocked with soil, and the enemy army only has one way to climb the city wall, so it has to be filled with life.

At this time, an enemy soldier came with a flag, and when he got closer, he shouted: "Listen, men on the wall, let your lord come and answer." ”

"If you have something to say, say it." Qin Huaidao shouted, recognizing that it was the person before.

The other party also recognized Qin Huaidao, stopped talking nonsense, and said bluntly: "My king has the virtue of a good life, as long as you open the city and surrender, and seal the position of the general of Pingxi, Zhengsanpin, the marquis of Pingxi, and eat ten thousand households, this honor is not small, and I hope the general will consider it." ”

"Don't you want the remains of your warriors?" Qin Huaidao asked disdainfully, a Zheng Sanpin was embarrassed to take out his hand, it seemed that the enemy did not know his identity.

The other party was silent.

Qin Huaidao continued to ask, "Don't you want the people in the city?" ”

The other remained silent, both questions very sensitive and difficult to answer.

What Qin Huaidao wanted was not to agree, but to let the other party bring back the message to disturb the hearts of the enemy army, and continued: "Go back and tell your king that there are still tens of thousands of people in the city, if you dare to attack the city, Lao Tzu will take the people to the city wall, everyone will die together, and the corpses that were killed in the city before, don't just throw them out to feed the wolves." ”

The other party turned around with a cold face and was about to leave, Qin Huaidao shouted: "Wait a minute, go back and tell the families of the captured people that the king of Goguryeo is not willing to take grain and silver to ransom, and let their families bring the same, I only give five days, and after five days, I can't see the food and silver, kill and feed the wolf, Lao Tzu is finished, get out!" ”

The status of a prisoner of war is by no means simple, and it is impossible for the messenger to pass it back without speaking.

Once the word spread, the king of Goguryeo did not dare not agree, and there was a way to calm the hearts of the soldiers who were cold, the soldiers were simple, they did not ask much, and they could not afford to mess up, but the hearts of the generals were different, and the generals would empathize and think that if they were captured, would no one care?

Watching the messenger leave, Qin Huaidao smiled - playing psychological warfare, I'm really not afraid!

It didn't take long for the messenger to go and return, and agreed to the conditions for changing generals, but did not mention the soldiers, Qin Huaidao saw that it was the same as he expected, of course he would not agree, that bit of silver grain was nothing compared to the enemy's military heart, and directly scolded: "Go back and tell your king, either change it together, or don't change it, you can't see the food before dark, Lao Tzu doesn't care that the corpse outside was eaten by wolves." ”

The messenger had no choice but to go back again, dejected.

Qin Huaidao glanced at the corpses outside the city, they were all within a stone's throw away, come and grab the best, shoot them together, he was in an inexplicable good mood, and told the Yulin guards who were left to protect their safety: "Arrange some brothers to count the number of people, but you can't let the enemy give less food." ”

"Obey the order, and promise that there will be no one less." The other party smiled and arranged to go.

After a while, no one came, Qin Huaidao didn't bother to wait any longer, returned to the city lord's mansion, sat down in a pavilion to rest, spread out the map to study, and a Yu Linwei brought an urn of stewed horse meat: "General, eat some first." ”

"The brothers have all eaten, right?" Qin Huaidao cared.

"General Xie cares, everyone takes turns to eat, and they stew a lot, all of them are the enemy war horses killed before, enough to eat." The other party said gratefully.

"Tell An Guogong that if you can't finish eating, find a way to smoke it to ensure that it is not bad, and there will be a long time."

"Obey!" The other party said yes and hurried away.

Qin Huaidao tasted it, the taste was very ordinary, but in order to survive, he forced himself to eat it all, and saw Li Yixie hurriedly come over, and shouted excitedly: "General, good news, good news." ”

"What's the good news, have you eaten it?" Qin Huaidao asked rhetorically.

"For a while, don't worry, you look first." Li Yixie brought up a small note.

Qin Huaidao opened it and saw that there was a line of small characters written on it - the imperial court is sending troops to Dengzhou.

Seven words, but revealing earth-shattering news, Qin Huaidao's pupils shrank, and he asked, "Reliable?" ”

"It should be reliable, it is the pigeon of the governor of Yingzhou." Li Yixie hurriedly said.

In order to facilitate contact, Xue Wanshu, the governor of Yingzhou, sent a person who was good at raising carrier pigeons to follow, and brought a few carrier pigeons for backup, Qin Huaidao realized that the news was true, and Li Er was worthy of being a majestic emperor, and he really had a tacit understanding, and quickly found Dengzhou on the map.

As long as Dengzhou successfully crosses the sea, the Tang Dynasty soldiers can go all the way north, and form a flanking attack with themselves, this battle will be interesting, and he was immediately overjoyed, and said: "Send a message to the governor, be careful that the enemy counterattacks Huaiyuan, destroy all materials if necessary, and withdraw from Huaiyuan, in addition, let the governor find a way to contact the soldiers and horses from Yunzhou, and let them go to the north to assist Li Dejian to take the five cities in the north as soon as possible to prevent Muwei, I always feel that Murowei is going to make trouble." ”

"Obey!" Li Yixie hurriedly went.

Qin Huaidao was in a good mood, the imperial court really sent troops, and it was faster than expected, with Li Er's military talent, since he decided to send troops, the action was definitely not small, and it would be very fast, the news transmission was already slow, maybe the army was already halfway, and it would be possible to reach Dengzhou in three or five days, and at most ten days would be able to cross the sea and kill it.

"Ten days, just hold for ten ......days" Qin Huaidao's mind is running quickly, ten days is not short, but it is not too long, the plan is not a big problem, once the enemy learns that the Tang Dynasty has sent troops, he will definitely attack frantically, and strive to take the city before the imperial army arrives.

"Knock knock!"

Suddenly, a dense sound of war drums came, earth-shattering, Qin Huaidao was shocked, quickly rushed out of the city lord's mansion with weapons, rushed to a city wall, and saw that the enemy was arrayed, and the infantry in the front were infantry, carrying cloud ladders, putting on a strong offensive posture, did the enemy know that the imperial court had sent troops?

"General, the other three sides are also preparing, attacking on all sides, the enemy is relying on a large number of people, and he is going to play with his life?" Luo Zhang hurriedly ran over and said.

"Remember, there are about 10,000 mercenaries, four city walls, one thousand people are arranged on each city wall, that is, four thousand people, and another four thousand people are arranged to rotate at any time, and the remaining two thousand are used as mobility, where there is danger, go where to support, tell everyone, this time the reward for defending the city will be doubled, and it will be distributed every night, has the feces boiled up?"

"It's boiling." Luo Zhang hurriedly said.

"Go ahead!"

"You...... Be careful. Luo Zhang said with concern.

Qin Huaidao patted Luo Zhang's shoulder, and pretended to smile lightly: "Don't worry, you don't know my ability, be careful yourself, in addition, the imperial court has already sent troops to Dengzhou, intending to cross the sea, and the enemy outside is attacking so urgently, he should know the news, so the attack will be crazy, you must be mentally prepared." ”

"The imperial court has sent troops?" Luo Zhang was overjoyed.

"Hmm...... You can let everyone know the news and boost morale, this battle must be withheld, go ahead. Qin Huaidao nodded, his mood was a little heavy, once the enemy went crazy, he would definitely do whatever it takes, the mercenaries are estimated to be gone, but there is no way, it is impossible to fight without dying, and when the mercenaries are finished, it will be their turn.

Luo Zhang understood and hurried away.

There will be brave men under the great reward.

The order to double the silver bounty was given, and the mercenaries immediately cheered, and the previous bounty was a lot, and it was also distributed in time, everyone was convinced of Qin Huaidao, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they looked at the enemy outside the city one by one, and their eyes suddenly lit up, as if the heads were silver bumps.

Qin Huaidao looked at this scene and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, the City Lord's Mansion seized a batch of silver, and some of the top ten wealthy families in Liaodong City were silver, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to pay it.

"Kill—"

At this time, the enemy in front launched an attack, countless people with shields, swords rushed in front, many people carried ladders mixed in the ranks, shouting, terrifying, it looked like at least two thousand, followed by a group of archers, also rushed over, ready to press the formation.

At this time, An Guogong came over, his face was solemn, Qin Huaidao had an idea, and shouted: "An Guogong, immediately organize the people in the city to carry water over, and splash the enemy who climbs the ladder for me, the people will resist, in extraordinary times, I don't care what you do, as long as the result is achieved." ”

"Like a camp state? Will it work? ”

"Yes, like Shouying Prefecture, although the ice and snow are melting now, the temperature is still very low, and there is wind, people can't stand it, so they must be fast." Qin Huaidao urged.

"Understood, whoever dares not to come, Lao Tzu will cut his whole family." An Guogong went murderously.

This kind of thing is detrimental to benevolence and righteousness, and it may not be possible to hand it over to others, but Qin Huaidao believed that the stubborn thinking ability from the grassland could do a good job, so he breathed a sigh of relief and shouted: "Order, first deal with the enemy archers." ”

"Obey." Li Yixie hurriedly agreed, and arranged for four Yulin guards to run to the four city gates to give orders.

Qin Huaidao felt the temperature, it should be about one or two degrees, plus three or four levels of cold wind, no one can stand a bucket of water, I can't give myself a slap, how can I forget this trick, fortunately, it is still too late, seeing that the enemy is getting closer and closer, I can't help but clench the horse lance in my hand.

Seeing that Qin Huaidao had no intention of going down, the mercenaries stayed and fought side by side with him, and their morale became higher and higher, and they drew their bows and aimed ahead.

The mercenaries are composed of Khitan and Xi people, all of whom are good at opening bows, and they don't need to be reminded at all, they all draw their bows to the fullest, and aim them at the sky at forty-five degrees, this angle can shoot the feather arrows to the farthest, no matter how big or small the angle is, the distance is not far enough.

An officer couldn't help but look at Qin Huaidao when he saw the enemy entering the firing range.

Qin Huaidao was not familiar with bows and arrows, and shouted coldly: "How to fight and decide for yourself, General Ben only gives advice." ”

The other party nodded gratefully and shouted in Khitan language: "Three rounds of rapid throwing, kill!" ”

"Peng!"

Everyone shot feather arrows, quickly picked up one and pulled the bow again to shoot, and so on, shooting three arrows in one breath, each with extremely skillful movements.

Qin Huaidao watched the three arrays of feather arrows rush towards the enemy one after another, like three long dark clouds, and when the first array of feather arrows fell, many archers also fell, but there were too many enemy archers, and the fall was insignificant, so they stopped one after another, opened their bows, and aimed at the head of the city.

The second round of feather arrows fell, still causing a lot of damage, but the enemy was unmoved, decisively shot arrows, a large piece of feather arrows roared, such as transit locusts, black pressure pressed a piece, Qin Huaidao roughly estimated, at least five thousand, seeing that the third round of feather arrows fell when the enemy still did not move, but continued to open the bow and arrows, obviously an elite.

Soon, the enemy's feather arrows flew over, Qin Huaidao waved his horse lance, rolled up a black shadow, and knocked the feather arrows away, and when he looked at it, the enemy's second round of attacks was launched, and the black pressure feather arrows flew again, and the screaming sound was like countless ghosts grinding their teeth, terrifying, and terrifying.

Soon, the third round, the fourth round...... The dense rain of arrows made it difficult for everyone on the city wall to raise their heads, and they hid under the city wall, making it difficult to counterattack, and the enemy's feather arrow attacks were too dense to do anything at any cost.

Five thousand people attacked at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, there were tens of thousands of feather arrows, who could stand it? Covering the enemy army rushing to the city wall, one by one the ladders were erected, and many brave people were biting knives in their mouths, using their hands and feet together, and climbing up frantically.

Enemy archers, fearing accidental injury, stopped firing.

The Khitan general commanding shouted: "Change the crossbow, kill—"

When the mercenary heard the order, he quickly gave up the big bow, took out the crossbow that had been prepared long ago, and poked out of the wall, and there was a crazy output below, the repeater was not like a bow and arrow, it was a continuous shot, and it was a continuous shot of ten arrows, the interval was almost negligible, and it fell like a rain of arrows in an instant.

"Ahh

Countless enemies who climbed up screamed and fell, and before the enemies behind could react, more arrows roared down, continuously, killing the enemies under the city wall and falling to the ground in pieces, killing countless casualties in an instant.

Each city wall is guarded by a thousand people, and the enemies who attack are only two thousand, and they are all killed without waiting for the arrow box to be empty, and no one escapes, the mercenaries are startled when they see this scene, and they thought it was a bitter battle, but they didn't expect it to be solved so quickly?

"This repeater, it's terrible!"

The thought crossed everyone's minds, but their faith grew.

Qin Huaidao looked at this scene and smiled, this mercenary army was well trained, and shouted: "Well fought, kill two thousand enemies in one go, no one will kill two, and the four pieces of silver are in hand." ”

As soon as everyone heard the silver, they were even more excited, and they all shouted and shouted, using Khitan language, Qin Huaidao looked at the general with a smile, didn't know what the other party's name was, and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Back to the general, everyone is praising the general's wisdom, thank the general for rewarding."

"Hahaha, tell them, everyone deserves it, how many enemies, receive more rewards, save enough money to follow the general to live in Chang'an, and change the fate of your family from now on, the grassland is hard, is it possible that you are willing to let your children suffer in the future? Chang'an is the world of flowers. "Qin Huaidao draws a big cake for everyone.

The other party's eyes lit up, and his breathing became short: "General, you can really take us to Chang'an." ”

"Of course you can, as long as you want, but it's not easy to live in Chang'an, you can't do it without silver, at least save enough for a hundred taels." Qin Huaidao promised with a mouthful of promises, when will you not buy people's hearts at this time?

Sure enough, as soon as the officer said Qin Huaidao's words in Khitan language, everyone nearby became excited, screaming at the enemy outside the city, hooking his fingers as if shouting-You come here! Come here!

The enemy army is really coming.

There were about 3,000 people attacking this time, and the other three sides were not clear, but Qin Huaidao saw that the enemy did not attack, and estimated that it was not a big problem, staring ahead, and seeing that the archers played again, and advanced forward, Qin Huaidao knew that he had to be fast, and shouted: "Quick, continue to shoot three rounds of enemy archers." ”

Although the effect is not great, but killing one is one less threat, isn't it?

Under the order of the general, the mercenaries changed their big bows one after another, fired three rounds in rapid succession as before, and then squatted under the wall to hide, erected a large shield, and the enemy's counterattack arrived, and the feathered arrows clanged on the shield, and some of the unlucky ones were shot in the legs, arms and other parts that were not covered, and screamed.

Qin Huaidao also shrank under the city wall, several Yulin guards used shields to protect the sky, and the sound of dense feather arrows hitting sounded, which made people's scalps tingle, and the shouting of killing outside the city was even more panicked.

The rain of arrows continued, full of deterrence, and it was difficult for everyone to raise their heads, Qin Huaidao looked carefully from the battlements, and saw that the enemy archers continued to advance forward, lined up in a neat line, and did not stop the intention, the enemy who rushed in front had already arrived under the city wall and was climbing with a cloud ladder.

Rain of arrows suppressed, infantry climbed, typical coordinated operations.

If you don't fight back, the enemy infantry will climb the walls and become passive, and more enemies will climb up the ladder, but counterattacking means facing a dense rain of arrows.

The situation has become passive.