Chapter 159: Guarding the City Gate
Sikong Rui's face was pale, and beads of sweat were seeping down his forehead, but he still refused to shake his head strongly.
Mu Mo couldn't hold back any longer, took the reins from Sikong Rui's hand, leaped to his horseback, sat behind Sikong Rui and wrapped his body, tightened the reins and galloped all the way to the Luoyang City Gate; The flying feathered arrows and the shouts of battle still chased closely.
Time seems to have never been so long, Mu Yu galloped all the way to the Luoyang City Gate, all the way to look at the looming city gate that seemed to be close at hand, the noon sun shone on the vermilion city gate, warm and bright, but it seemed that it could never arrive.
On horseback, Sikong Rui's body was already shivering violently, and his solid muscles and bones were also lying weak and weak at the moment.
Mu Yu hugged Sikong Rui, who was about to fall in his arms, and called softly: "Lord Wang, hold on!" It's coming soon! ”
Sikong Rui trembled violently, still unable to lie on the horse's back, and did not respond to Mu Yu's words.
Mu Yu was anxious in his heart, knowing that if he didn't treat Sikong Rui's current symptoms in time, he was afraid that his life would be in danger; However, Sikong Cong's 100,000 troops were in hot pursuit, but they couldn't stop to heal Sikong Rui, so they could only keep running to the Luoyang City Gate.
Despair, helplessness, anxiety, and deep guilt and panic filled his chest.
Mu Yu chased the scorching sun all the way, and galloped all the way to the warm and bright vermilion city gate.
Finally, only half a foot away from the vermilion gate, the anxious, frightened, and joyful expressions of the soldiers of the garrison battalion guarding the city tower clearly came into view; Mu Yu heard several soldiers on the city tower shouting happily: "Lord Rui! The prince is back!! ”
Immediately afterward, the city gate was halfway opened, and Mu Yu rode his horse into the city at a gallop.
At the moment when the last wave of soldiers and horses entangled with Sikong Cong's army entered the city, the garrison guards in the city fought hard to close the city gate in time, and used dozens of wooden stakes to resist it to death, closing 100,000 enemy troops out.
"Lord Rui......" Mu Mo turned over and dismounted, and helped Sikong Rui off the horse.
Sikong Rui's face was pale, his lips were bloodless, and he was as weak as a loach and fell into Mu Yu's arms.
Mu Mo stretched out his hand and put it under Sikong Rui's nose, tested his breath like a gossamer, and took his pulse, and his heart tightened: If a thousand tricks are there...... He may be saved; But on your own...... I'm afraid he won't be able to live.
"Enter the palace and bring the best imperial doctor in the city!" Mu Yu urgently pushed a soldier into the palace to deliver a message, and took out a white porcelain bottle from his arms, which contained the elixir made by Sikong Heng Zeng Tuoming Ghost Belt, and poured one into Sikong Rui's mouth.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a loud "rumbling" outside the city gate, accompanied by the sound of a huge trumpet.
Mu Yu was stunned, first simply bandaged Sikong Rui's wounds, ordered people to take care of him, and quickly climbed the city tower to look at what was happening outside the city gate: within a radius of dozens of miles, 100,000 soldiers and horses were flying banners, led by three or four hundred people pushing thirty or forty wooden carts, and the wooden boxes embedded in the hollow iron balls were set on the boards, and the center of the iron balls was filled with charcoal, and thousands of infantry held torches to follow the car.
Seeing this, Mu Wu's heart sank, and he immediately ordered the soldiers of the garrison battalion to organize 300 cavalry to fly into the people's houses in the city to borrow large wooden barrels filled with water and come back, and urgently asked Sikong Jue to order the Ministry of Engineering to collect leather and make seventy thousand-foot-long pipe belts.
The army outside the city approached the gate with great vigour, and had reached the gate before the cavalry of the garrison battalion arrived; Thousands of infantrymen held torches like a river of stars, illuminating the daylight, and the infantry led by them still put the torches on top of the charcoal in the iron ball of the wooden box of the cart.
Flames burst from the city, and a mighty army of soldiers slammed into the gates with wooden carts.
Mu ordered the remaining soldiers of the garrison battalion to line up in turn, put bows and arrows on the city tower, and shot down in rows outside the city to prevent the burning wooden carts from touching the city gate; Outside the city gate, the 100,000-strong army leaned on the center of the thousands of infantry holding shields into the front formation, escorting thousands of other soldiers to carry barrels to each other and splash at the city gate, and the strong smell of oil spread from outside the city gate.
Mu Mo "groaned" in his heart, his palms sweated slightly, he took out five arrows, put on his master's big bow, and bypassed the shield guards and shot at the soldiers carrying oil drums behind them, preventing them from continuing to pour oil to the city gate.
The garrison soldiers followed suit in a tight formation, but the opposing army was so powerful that it stubble stubble like an inexhaustible weed, shield-holding to block the attack, pushing the flaming wooden carts, and constantly crashing into the city gates that were splashed with thick oil.
Finally, the gates burned from the foot of the heavy gates, and the flames climbed up the weeds in the cracks of the masonry walls along the weeds in the cracks of the masonry walls.
Mu Mo's heart sank, and he looked back at the city anxiously, thinking about why the soldiers who went to borrow water still hadn't returned.
Gritting his teeth slightly, he took off his coat and skirt from his body, and threw it down from the city tower to put out the fire, and the city tower garrison also followed suit.
The fire surged like a snake, and was knocked down from the wall by the cloth clothes with the bitter wind, and still climbed upwards with a long tongue of fire; Mu Yu organized the garrison to draw bows and shoot arrows, preventing the enemy from continuing to use the burning wooden carts to rush the city gate with oil, while untying the tongue of fire that was jumping down from the cloth clothes on his body, and finally, everyone was about to be naked, and the feather arrows were about to be exhausted.
Just as they were running out of ammunition, hundreds of soldiers climbed up the tower with wooden barrels.
Hundreds of wooden barrels poured out of the water columns, converging into a huge curtain of water and pouring down the city wall, the rising mist and the fierce flames of the fierce upward, the momentum was violent, and the position in the center of the city wall was deadlocked, and no one would give in.
Mu Yu hurriedly ordered more soldiers to enter the city to borrow water to put out the fire, and ordered dozens of cavalry to fly into the army headquarters to take feather arrows and weapons, and a wave of galloping soldiers rushed to the rear position of the army outside the city, carrying cloud ladders and rushing to the city gate.
Mu Mi felt a pang in his heart, and secretly thought: In the raging flames, they still have to climb up from the raging city wall into the city gate, don't they plan to live?! Sikong Cong...... Sending dead soldiers for the siege of the city is too ruthless!
He pinched his palms fiercely, ordered the soldiers who had taken over the buckets to pour water to pour water on the flames that were climbing upwards, and drew another feather arrow from the quiver, and trembled and shot into the chest of a soldier who had erected a ladder to climb the tower.
One dead man fell, but more were unmoved, still persistently pouring into the raging fire of the wall.
Mu Yu gritted his teeth ruthlessly and ordered the guards to shoot bows and arrows to defeat the dead.
At this time, outside the city gate at the foot of the city wall, dead bodies piled up, blocking most of the city gate; The army of Sikong Cong, who was in disarrays and suffered heavy casualties, stepped on the corpses of their comrades, erected ladders and still rushed to the city gate, and the scene was shocking.
Mu Yu took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and ordered the soldiers of the garrison battalion who took the feather arrows from the military headquarters to continue to shoot the dead soldiers who climbed the city gate strongly; At this moment, the soldier who went to the Ministry of Engineering to make the pipe belt reported: "Auntie, the pipe belt has been made!" ”
"Good!" Mu Mo gritted his teeth, hesitated slightly for a moment, and still ruthlessly ordered dozens of garrison guards to ride into the city, bury several thousand-foot-long pipe belts into the garden lakes of several large households in the city, and transferred people from the Ministry of Industry to carry the windmill to the entrance of the pipe belt lake and constantly shake the wind, and the water gushed out from the pipe belt; Seeing this, the garrison guards, in accordance with Mu Wu's instructions, pulled the pipe belt out of the water into the city gate tower, and violently attacked the dead soldiers outside the city gate who were braving flames, stepping on their companions, and climbing the city wall one after another.
In an instant, the violent water curtain annihilated the dead, and the torrent swept away the defeated army outside the city.
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