Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Battle of Huya Pass

Inside Huya Pass, a few dozen meters away from the city wall, hundreds of catapults were placed, and hundreds of burning wine jars were thrown.

These wine jars with a long tail of fire, black smoke, and the smell of death fell inside the imperial army, and immediately exploded, forming fireballs one after another!

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The splashing flames fell on the soldier, and immediately burned, and the soldier rolled all over the ground, but the fire was not extinguished immediately, and it took a long time to extinguish the flames, but he was burned, and the flesh and blood on the outside were already ripe, and he could lose the flesh when he grabbed it with his hand, and it was impossible to heal such an injury!

"Goodbye!"

Since he knew that he would die, why did he toss, this badly burned soldier, endured the huge pain in his body, put the broadsword on his chest, and then slammed it into the ground, causing the blade to tear through the crippled body, and the deep eyes were nostalgic for the world.

He seemed to see his family, his wife and children waving in the distance, crying in his mourning hall!

There were also some pieces of wine jars that broke and smashed into the soldiers, scratching scars on knives! Because they were not fatal scars, they ignored the bleeding wounds, watched their surroundings vigilantly, dodged the arrows, and continued to attack the city!

"Charge!"

Although there were many casualties and disrupted the original formation, after all, it was an elite army, and it did not panic at all, adjusted the formation, and continued to attack, the ladders, ladders, and siege vehicles were already approaching the city walls!

"Catapult, keep attacking!"

Jiang Hua saw the army getting closer and closer, his face did not have the slightest wave, his eyes looked at the rear of the imperial army, where is a plain, tens of thousands of tents, covering an area of thousands of acres.

His eyes rolled, and finally he sighed in disappointment, gave up the idea of attacking the tent camp at night, and ordered lightly.

It was another round of stone-throwing attacks, and the imperial army, which had been on guard for a long time, immediately reacted, and several sword and shield soldiers formed a circle to protect the broadsword army, and the casualties were greatly reduced.

The army continued to advance, gradually approaching the city wall, and at this time, Jiang Hua's face finally changed slightly, and he immediately said calmly: "Pour the fire oil!"

The deputy listened, waved the flag in his hand, and when the soldiers who were defending saw it, they immediately took out the hay that had been tied, poured it with oil, lit it and threw it down the city wall.

The hay that had been doused with fire oil immediately burned into a raging fire and rolled down the city, and the soldiers of the court saw this, carrying their shields to defend against arrows and resist hay attacks, and hurriedly fled behind.

As the hay was thrown, the wider the flame burned, and in front of the city wall, a sea of fire of tens of meters was formed, which kept the imperial army out, beautiful and bloody, and in the cold winter, emitting a blazing temperature.

Faintly, many soldiers can be seen struggling in the sea of fire, which makes the viewer's heart chill and dare not look directly!

"Withdraw!"

Seeing this scene, Lu Ding, who was in the rear of the army, knew very well that it was impossible to start another war today! So he walked back to the tent, and he found that this battle had not been spored for any information at all, but because of the defeat, the morale of the army had been affected.

Thinking in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little decadent, in the face of Huya Pass, he couldn't think of a way to outwit it, only a strong attack, but judging from today's battle situation, a strong attack will consume a lot of troops.

Once the consumption of their own army is too great, how should the two counties of Qinghan and Qingquan be fought?

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to attack.

In the middle of the night, when light snow fell and a breeze blew, many soldiers who survived the battlefield couldn't help but look up at the bright moon and miss home.

Today, there are more than 3,000 loyal bones, buried in a foreign land, lost the opportunity to look at the moon and feel homesick, tomorrow the war continues, tonight, may be their last chance to see the moon.

Seeing this, Lu Ding immediately realized that something was not good with years of experience!

Emotions are contagious, and large-scale emotional deterioration will inevitably affect the combat effectiveness of the army, and may even become deserters because of homesickness.

"Beat the drums and sing the war song!"

The sound of drums has the effect of inspiring and invigorating people, and the military songs, which are mostly patriotic and enhance the fighting spirit of soldiers, will certainly eliminate negative emotions when combined.

"Knock! knock!"

The beating of war drums is like the sun after a rainstorm, driving away the cold, and with the sound of the drums, the sad feelings that permeate the barracks disappear without a trace.

Therefore, as a qualified general, in addition to being proficient in the art of war and fighting bravely, he must also be able to grasp the morale of the army, when the morale is low, to boost the morale, and when the morale is high, he can send troops to meet the enemy.

In Huya Pass, Jiang Hua convened all the generals to discuss how to resist foreign enemies, and finally came up with several sets of qualified plans.

Although he was besieged at this time and was on the defensive, as long as he was good at grasping it, he could turn passivity into initiative, decay into legend, and regroup.

On the second day, the war continued, and this time Lü Ding adopted the method of suppressing firepower, placing hundreds of catapults, and smashing them into the Huyaguan city wall in turn, so that the city wall was full of fire and became dilapidated.

Under the fierce attack of the imperial army, the army of Huya Pass also felt the pressure, so they had to hide in Tibet, Jiang Hua stood on the city tower, saw the situation of the city wall, and beat the war drum sideways.

"All the soldiers obey the order and fight back!"

Affected by the sound of drums, the soldiers on the Huya Pass began to counterattack, reducing the attack speed of the imperial court soldiers.

Unfortunately, some of the ladders had already reached the city walls, and the siege vehicles had begun to pound the gates, making loud noises.

"Steady, kill me!"

Seeing some imperial army climbing up the city wall, Jiang Hua pulled out his sword and ordered, took the lead, jumped down, jumped down the city tower to the city wall, drew a sword qi, and killed more than a dozen enemies.

Hand-to-hand combat, officially began, the sound of fighting was shocking for a long time, in general, the army of the imperial court was below, and the number of people who came up was limited, and under the counterattack of the Huya defenders, they were quickly killed.

"Let's go!"

In the middle of the imperial army, suddenly more than a dozen martial spirit powerhouses wearing ordinary armor tapped the cloud ladder with their toes, and the next moment they came to the city wall, and the broadsword in their hands emitted sword qi one after another, killing many tiger tooth defenders and clearing a large space.

Taking this opportunity, the imperial army rushed up one after another, forming a considerable combat effectiveness.

"Defend me against them. ”

After Jiang Huazai killed an enemy, he commanded to the group of martial spirits.

After hearing this, more than a dozen people immediately rushed over, they must kill the imperial court martial spirit as soon as possible, otherwise the defensive gap in the city wall will become bigger and bigger, and more and more enemies will come up, in case of breaking the city gate, Huya Pass will fall.

After the two sides fought, it was only after four hours that the imperial army was repelled and successfully protected the pass, which also gave Jiang Hua a sigh of relief.

Judging from the scale of the war, Lu Ding sent more than 70,000 troops this time to squeeze the Huya Pass tightly, and it was not easy to protect the Huya Pass under such circumstances.

But after scanning the city wall, my heart was not happy, the city wall had begun to crumble, and the flags planted around the city wall were burned to ashes under the attack of the war.

There were corpses everywhere, more than 5,000 people died, and some able-bodied soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, carry away the corpses of their comrades, pick up weapons soaked in blood, repair the city walls, re-plant the flags, and show their military might!

Flying fire and arrows are like showers, and chariots are fighting in the sky;

The soldiers fought bloodily at the Tiger Tooth Pass, and buried 5,000 loyal bones in the city wall;

The old soul has not slept and the new soul has been added, and the sky is cold, frost and snow are wet and melancholy.

(End of chapter)