Chapter Forty-Eight: The Death of Pu Dingbo
Rows of iron hooks were vigorously thrown up by the people below, firmly hooking the city wall above, and after pulling a little to find that it was stable, a group of well-trained soldiers began to grasp the ropes in an orderly manner, stepping on the city wall and climbing quickly, even if there were companions around them who were constantly being smashed and fell to the ground by the heavy objects falling from their heads, or simply the corpses of their comrades, they could not stop their determination to continue climbing.
It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, and even if the order of the superiors is to send you to death, they will not frown.
When one after another people stared at the attacks overhead, stepping on the battlements and jumping onto the city wall, they looked around blankly with their swords raised, but they could no longer find their opponents.
However, there are some enemies who are still resisting, but most of them are surrounded by many people, with one enemy and many enemies, trapped beasts, even if they are known as invincible in foot combat and cavalry, ranking among the nine armies of Daliang, and the Xiong Zhen army, which is famous in the south, will not last long.
In fact, there are still a few people who rely on hooks and claws to climb the city wall, because as early as when the remnants of Xiong Zhen's army fought and retreated towards the second line, that is, the last line of defense in the entire Kanmeng'an, there were people under Xie Houyin hanging behind.
These patriotic warriors chased and killed all the way, and completely rushed to the second line of defense with them to continue fighting, in this case, even if someone commanded to forcibly close the door and seal them in the urn city, they did not succeed, and they rushed several times and couldn't rush in at all, so they gave up, so when the gang that came up with their hooks and claws finally arrived at the city wall, there were actually not many enemies left.
Before the incident, no one expected that this first battle would be fought so smoothly, and the famous Cammonan would lose so quickly.
This battle not only completely launched Xie Houyin's name, but also greatly boosted the morale of the guards, after all, the gap between Da Liang and Wei Guo was visible to the naked eye, but when they found out that the other party was actually just a paper tiger, that natural fear quickly dissipated.
The young Jiang of Xiong Zhenjun, who had a pigtail the size of a copper coin on the back of his head, was actually only eighteen years old this year, and he was in the prime of his life, if he hadn't taken the initiative to insist before, in fact, he should not have stayed here this time.
General Wanyan left, and he took the last five people who originally belonged to Wanyan Koni's subordinates, but they were surrounded by the enemy on the walls of their own house.
"Surrender or kill!"
"Surrender or kill!"
"Surrender or kill!"
After surrounding the other side, in order to avoid senseless casualties, the proud voices of the patriotic soldiers began to echo above the castle tower.
In fact, from the very beginning of the fight, the other party was shouting like this, which also caused the morale of Kanmeng'an's side to collapse very quickly from the side.
But he never thought that as the elite trained by General Wanyan himself, they would be defeated so quickly.
The young man was covered in blood, wounded everywhere, and one eye was covered with blood, and he couldn't open it at all, but he still held the scimitar in his hand firmly with both hands, facing an enemy several times his own, his face was full of determination, just like his ancestors, like this grassland that they lived in their time, vast and fearless.
He and the rest of his comrades, who had been with each other day and night, watched the approaching enemies with weapons in their hands around them, and slowly clinged to each other, back to back, giving each other support and strength.
Regret it?
There must be, some people say that no one has died in life since ancient times, but when it really comes to such a time, who will not be afraid of death?
In the face of life and death, everything is a trivial matter.
Lao Tzu hasn't even touched a woman yet.
failed to leave a son and a half daughter to the family earlier, and the incense of his own family will have to be continued by his younger brother in the future.
If you had listened to your father and honestly stayed in your hometown as a sheep herder, you should have been sleeping with your daughter-in-law in her arms at this time.
But where are there so many ifs in life?
He opened his mouth and sang loudly:
"I sacrificed a big bag fluttering in the distance
I beat the war drums of the black yak veil,
I rode on a black fast horse,
I put on the armor of iron,
I picked up a spear made of steel,
I buckle the arrows wrapped in the skin of the peaches,
and Atimil begging,
Get on your horse and go to fight.
I sacrificed the head that fluttered in the distance,
I beat the drums of war with the veil of the cowhide,
I rode on Blackridge's fast horse,
I put on armor made of leather cords,
I took the knife with a handle on it,
I buckle the sharp arrows with the buckles,
and the Udu Yiti Mier beggars,
Fight to the death!"
In the most traditional language of their Yanzhou people, they sang their oldest war songs, expressing their unyielding war intentions.
He sang, his voice high and powerful, and the others around him sang along.
Looking at their faces, they are actually very young, and their faces are full of smiles that look at death at the moment.
Bo Tie'er, who had pigtails, raised the scimitar in his hand, and shouted loudly in a more proud way than the other party: "There are no cowards who surrender in the Xiong Zhen army!"
"There are no cowards who surrender in the Xiong Army!"
Six people, bent down and holding their knives, began to launch a final charge towards an enemy dozens of times their size.
It was a poignant and heroic fight.
With a wave of the knife, they roared, their youth, their dreams, and their future were all scattered with blood, and what they shouted was the pride of their Yanzhou people.
A battle that knew it was impossible to do it quickly came to an end, and they were all veterans, but they were also teenagers, and their lives were like meteors streaked across the night sky, and before anyone could see clearly, they had fallen to the ground.
What their short lives set off is destined to be another, more brilliant stars.
The county guard of Kanmon'an is also not at peace.
Pu Dingbo, who was relieved, was just about to rush out to check the situation with his sword in hand, when two black shadows who didn't know who it was immediately pounced.
As soon as the two sides fought, Pu Dingbo was slightly injured.
He was not an orthodox military attaché after all, he had not practiced martial arts seriously, and in a hurry, how could he compare to the elite assassin specially sent by Mayfly to assassinate him.
Pu Dingbo was injured, while waving the sword in his hand, he stumbled back, these more than ten years of border career, after all, it is still somewhat useful, and he is swinging his sword to resist at the moment, even if he has been adding new wounds, knowing that he is not an opponent, his face is becoming more and more calm, and he does not panic at all.
"Close the door!
The subordinate behind him, who was stunned by this sudden scene, finally reacted when he heard Pu Dingbo's roar, and quickly wanted to rush up and push the door from the side, closing the door for his master first.
"Poof!"
Leng Buding was suddenly directly penetrated by the other party's sword through the door frame, stabbed straight into the stomach of the next person, and then twisted it, cutting all the intestines and stomachs into pieces.
"Ahh
The latter screamed, almost didn't fall down directly, and hurriedly leaned against the door frame, holding the sword that was still in his body with both hands, desperately not letting the other party pull it out, and insisted on wrestling with the other party through the door.
On the other side, Pu Dingbo was quickly forced directly into the corner of the house by the assassins who broke in, and he was already too busy to take care of himself, where did he have the energy to take care of others.
This assassin didn't say much, and he fought fiercely, even for life, and tried to kill the enemy as quickly as possible, even at the cost of his own life.
On the other hand, the martial arts were not as superb as the other party, and he was not as brave as the other party, and Pu Dingbo was soon overstretched.
"Dang!"
A sword picked up the sword in Pu Dingbo's hand, and at the moment when he was about to make up for another sword to take his life, he suddenly heard a strong wind blowing, and the assassin who was about to stab the last sword suddenly fell straight backwards.
Pu Dingbo, who had escaped death, gasped and looked at the opposite side, only to see two men in black standing at the door.
By the faint light of the fire outside the house, he saw that one person was holding a rope-like thing in his hand, which was attached to the neck of the assassin on the ground, and dragged it upside down, while the other person had already stepped forward and plunged his sword into the heart of the man on the ground, and the original servant and another assassin who did not know where it came from also fell to the ground, and was silent.
"You, who are you?"
Pu Dingbo clutched his arm, which had been cut with a bloody wound, leaned against the edge of the bedpost, and asked in a deep voice towards the opposite side.
He knew in his heart that the two people who came to assassinate him just now must be the people who came to attack the city this time, and the two people who rushed to rescue him, even if they were not from the imperial court, at least they were not enemies, so he was almost relieved.
When the people at the door heard this, they quickly knelt down with their fists clenched, and shouted in a low voice: "The earth network is in the net, and by the order of the imperial court, I have come to protect the county guard to move to the rear!"
Pu Dingbo was stunned when he heard this, a panicked look appeared on his face, he suddenly took a few steps forward, and said in a trembling voice: "Go, why do you want to go?"
He actually knows the name of the ground network, and he doesn't suspect that it is false at the moment, but as soon as the other party comes, he will protect him to go, what does this mean?
Why don't you go to support the front line, doesn't it mean that the enemy is attacking the city?
Could it be that Cammonan can't hold it anymore?
When Pu Dingbo lowered his head and was thinking wildly, another person suddenly walked in at the door, dressed in a black night suit, and there was a layer of leather armor that was also black as protection in the key place, and he was wearing a black cloak behind him, holding a water thorn in his hand, and his whole body was full of breath, like the deep water of a secluded pool, which was daunting, and he was obviously not an ordinary person.
"I'm here on the order of the Shadow Heavenly Palace, Lord Commander, Kanmeng'an has already been lost, come with us quickly!
The supreme leader of the earth network is the Great Underworld, and the Great Underworld has Luo Yu under him for six days, commanding one separately, and the Absolute Shadow Heavenly Palace is one of them, and its power in the dark is comparable to a book in the imperial court, and the one who is directly commanded and transferred by him must be the Yin Shuai who controls the land of several counties, and the most important thing is that the other party gets the order from Luo Xu's six days, which has some meaning behind it to ponder.
Pu Dingbo didn't think about this, in fact, he only knew the name of the ground network, and what the specific establishment was, which was a top secret belonging to the imperial court, and it was impossible for him to know.
He only felt that a lightning bolt suddenly hit his head, almost stunned his whole body, he barely lifted his spirits, and rushed towards the door quickly, because his brain was not clear, his body was injured, and he was shaking, and the two ghosts next to him quickly wanted to help him, but he was ruthlessly thrown away.
He rushed all the way from his house to the door of the county guard's mansion, and all he saw along the way was the sound of fighting and screams of horror, which were all the mayfly assassins and the nethers at the bottom, and the screams and exclamations were all the subordinates of the county guard's mansion.
As soon as I ran to the front yard, I saw that the door was wide open, and I could even hear the sound of horses' hooves.
Horses have always been forbidden in the city of Khammonan, and when I heard the sound of broken horses' hooves, I must have entered the city by the enemy, and they were wandering around.
Pu Dingbo gritted his teeth, but he didn't give up, regardless of the danger, he picked up a sword from the corpse on the ground and rushed out.
As soon as he ran to the door, Pu Dingbo was dejected to find that it was indeed as he had just thought, that the enemy cavalry had rushed into the city, and now it had entered the stage of street fighting with the original city guards and the men in the yamen.
Flames were already rising everywhere in Cammongan, and the people were running in all directions in a panic, but the enemy was so disciplined that almost no one would waste time and energy chasing down the people, all of them were besieging the remnants of the resistance in Kanmonan.
Pu Dingbo saw that his eyes were about to split, and he just wanted to break the other party's corpse into thousands of pieces, these are his people!
He Pu Dingbo, but their parents are officials!
How could he not be angry that this city, to him, was a second home, and that it was being so abused?
Pu Dingbo held the long sword in his hand and burst into tears on the spot.
Barefoot and covered in blood in his white pajamas, he raised his sword, ignoring the laceration on his arm.
He shouted.
"Kill!"
"Pu-sama!"
The Yin Shuai behind him came in a hurry, this Pu Dingbo, but the top issued an urgent notice and explicitly asked him to take away, such a talent, he could not die here in vain.
But the road was suddenly blocked by a mayfly that didn't have long eyes, and he was still a step slower, just a dazzling kung fu, and Pu Dingbo people didn't know where to run.
"Find me! Once you want to find Pu Dingbo, after you find it, immediately subdue him and take him away!"
After the ghosts in the back hurriedly eliminated the mayfly's killer, they all obeyed the order and rushed into the battlefield in front of them without hesitation to find Pu Dingbo.
In the spring of the twenty-second year of the establishment of the Great Liang Army, the guards who were originally stationed on the Qilian Mountain suddenly came out of the pass, and the troops were divided into three routes and went straight to Yanzhou.
As a border city, it is also the county town of Hulan County, and the defense should be extremely tight, but one night the troops led by the general Xie Houyin took advantage of the night to raid, and the defenders of Kanmengan only held on for less than two hours, and even the nearby reinforcements did not wait, so they hurriedly broke through.
The new commander-in-chief of Kanmengan was killed on the spot, and the Xiong Zhen army stationed here was completely annihilated, no one surrendered, no one fled, and no one survived.
Pu Dingbo, the commander of Kanmeng'an County, rushed into the enemy formation alone, and was killed by the indiscriminate knife, and was buried in the sea of fire, with no bones left.
The people of Kanmeng Safety City were all driven out by the cavalry led by Xie Houyin, but there were not many casualties.
Xie Houyin used the method of driving cattle and sheep to drive the people of Kanmengan to the south, using their ** to impact the enemy camp, taking advantage of the other party to open the city gate, check in turn, let the people line up to enter the city, and then rush up from the rear, the people were frightened, panicked, all congested at the door, the city gate could not be closed, and soon Xie Houyin led the army to catch up, and after killing all the defenders, he continued to drive the people south.
Within three days, Xie Houyin's troops fought Lianke, did not meet the opponent, and took the thirteen counties of Hulan!
The war song in the text is copied from the war song of the ancient Mongolian folk song Zamuhe, which can be found in the third volume of the Secret History of the Mongols, section 106
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