Chapter 59: The Moment of Life and Death
On this day, dozens of stone throwers were erected under the city of Liujiabao, and what was thrown at the head of the city was not a stone, but the corpse of the besieging Hu soldiers. These corpses did not bring much damage to the soldiers defending the city of Liujiabao.
The bodies were either thrown onto the walls or sent to the inside of the walls. The corpses thrown on the city walls were turned into defensive weapons for the defenders, and were smashed back to the besieging Hu soldiers, and those who crossed the city walls were scattered on the houses or among the trees on the inner side of the walls.
At night, it was Huang Xian and Zhao Wanming's turn to guard the city. Huang Xian wanted Miss Zhao to rest for a while, but he didn't wake her up, and he came to the city wall of the West Gate early to replace Liu Heng.
After Liu Heng left the city, Huang Xian asked the two fortists to carry the enemy's corpse shell and put it on the ground, and he circled around the corpse a few times, carefully examining the corpse: the corpse was curled up on all fours and tightly tied into a ball by a straw rope.
Huang Xian has always wondered in his heart: Why did the enemy use this lethal corpse as a siege weapon? If the stone can still smash the city wall, or kill and wound the defenders, this corpse does not have much hardness, not to mention that it can't damage the city wall, even if it hits people, it may be difficult to cause damage.
Huang Xian looked at the corpse and shook his head, puzzled.
Next to the huge stone-throwing machine under Liujiabao City, Liu Qiang and four other Han people stood left and right. Just waiting for Tuoba Xiong's order, they will follow behind Wang Daoren and send themselves as cannonballs to the city walls of Liujiabao with a catapult.
After a whole day of observation, Wang Daochang finally chose this stone thrower. It is located on the north side of the West Gate Tower, and there are dozens of tall birch trees within the city walls, which can be used to hide tracks. Wang Daochang once assassinated Liu Yan in Liujiabao and was very familiar with the layout of the scenery here.
At this moment, Liu Qiang and the four Han people had already put on the clothes they had taken off from the dead Liujiabao Fortin, and the smell of dead corpses made them want to vomit. Just like the last time he opened the gate of Chilong Fort, Tuoba Xiong asked Liu Qiang and the four Han people to take a pill and ordered them to follow Wang Daoren to Liujiabao, and when Wang Daoren assassinated Huang Xian and Liu Bao's lord, the five of them were responsible for opening the city gate and letting Hu soldiers enter the city.
Liu Qiang stood beside the stone throwing machine shaking his clothes, and kept cursing in his heart for the extremely vicious Tuoba Xiong and Wang Daoren, who had lost their conscience and were extremely vicious, and they actually came up with such a dangerous siege plan; as soon as the stone throwing machine was launched, the corpse was thrown six or seven zhang high, drawing an arc in the air, either falling on the city wall or falling into the city wall; and falling from a height of six or seven zhang without falling into meat sauce? Wang Daoren said that he wanted to enter the city first, and then one by one the people who entered the city later, how is this possible, his own miraculous skills, entering the city is naturally fine, we were sent in, once the Wang Daoren missed, we didn't give our lives in vain!
Liu Qiang secretly decided: If he can survive this war and get the antidote from Tuoba Xiong, who hates death, he will unswervingly leave the pioneer tribe, no matter whether Tuoba Rong is willing to go with him or not, even if he goes to the mountains to hunt for a living, and he will not hesitate to be accompanied by wolves, insects, tigers and leopards for the rest of his life.
"This stone thrower is really powerful, it can throw a corpse weighing one or two hundred pounds onto the city wall, and some of them are also thrown into the city wall, I heard my father-in-law say that the stone thrower was invented by Liu Ye, the great strategist of Cao Gong, and played a pivotal role in the battle of Guandu, but at that time it was a fist-sized stone, and now this power is far from being comparable to before!" Huang Xian thought of the stone thrower from the corpse cannonball, and secretly sighed that the siege weapon was becoming more and more mysterious.
"If you can launch the living soldiers directly onto the city wall, wouldn't it be easy to attack the city!" Thinking of this, Huang Xian shook his head and thought: No, if you launch it into the city, you will definitely not survive if you fall from a high place!
"Ahh Did Hu Bing deliberately cover people's eyes and ears when he threw dead shells during the day, and then launched the royal people into the city at night.
Huang Xian let out a cold sweat urgently, and it was urgent to strengthen precautions immediately. If Wang Daoren was really launched into the city, it would be Lord Liu, himself, and Miss Zhao who would be directly threatened.
At this moment, a trumpet was heard outside the city, and the enemy launched a night offensive.
Huang Xian couldn't take much care of it, he ordered the four fortists to go to the various city gates to spread the message, to prevent the enemy who infiltrated Liujiabao from approaching the city gate, regardless of Hu Han, anyone who approached the city gate without permission would be killed; then he handed over the command of the defense to a leader, and he himself carried a spear, and hurried to the Shuaifu to find Zhao Wanming and Liu Heng.
With the sound of horns, while the Hu soldiers rushed to the city, dozens of stone throwers were launched together, and the corpse shells were thrown high and flew towards the city wall. Wang Daoren was also thrown out by the stone thrower, and he drew an arc in the air, crossed the city wall of Liujiabao, and disappeared into the inner side of the city wall.
This was followed by four other Han Chinese, all of whom drew an arc in the air and disappeared into the inner side of the city wall.
Liu Qiang was nervous to death, only felt that his mouth was dry, he kept swallowing saliva, and he couldn't help but sit on the stone thrower, only to hear a rattle, and several Hu soldiers worked together to start the stone thrower. Liu Qiang was launched with a whoosh. He felt his heart sink down, his brain dizzy, and his heartbeat seemed to stop all at once.
Before being launched, Liu Qiang's heart was full of fear, and he closed his eyes vigorously, and when he was ejected, a strong desire to survive arose, and he instantly overcame fear, and he looked at the surrounding environment with high spirits, wanting to seize every possible opportunity to survive.
After Liu Qiang was launched, he kept flipping and fighting in the air, and in front of him was the beautiful starry sky in the sky for a while, and the bloody sword light and sword shadow underground for a while. Liu Qiang never realized that the night sky was so beautiful, and thought: Why do people want to fight to the death, how good it is to live well!
Liu Qiang flew over the city wall and fell, the beautiful starry sky and the shadow of the sword disappeared at once, and there was only darkness in front of him, and he immediately realized that under him was the canopy of a birch tree.
Liu Qiang was eager to survive, and reached out to grab around, trying to climb the branches and stop the force of the fall. In a panic, he grabbed a few branches, and the momentum of his body flipping stopped at once, but the branches couldn't bear his weight, and only slowed down the force of his fall, and the whole person fell to the ground with the broken branches on his feet.
In the process of falling from the canopy, Liu Qiang turned his face upwards, unable to see the situation on the ground, and thought: It's over, this time his death is done! In the process of desperately waiting for death, Liu Qiang did not think of Tuoba Rong, who had shared his bed with him for several months, but thought of the huge rock in front of Taibai Ridge in Phoenix Mountain, where he betrayed his brother!
What Liu Qiang was waiting for was not the pain of death, but a pair of powerful hands. These big hands suddenly supported Liu Qiang's back, and unloaded the force of the fall, and put him on the ground smoothly.
Liu Qiang seemed to wake up from a dream and looked around at everything around him: Wang Dao and the four Han people were standing around, they were all still alive, and directly in front of them was the city wall of Liujiabao, through the sparse canopy, you could see the soldiers who were busy defending on the city wall.
Liu Qiang suddenly realized that the throwing machine that threw himself was specially chosen, and the force of the throwing was much greater than that of other stone throwing machines, otherwise only he and other six people were thrown over the city wall, and the other dead corpse shells could only hit the city wall!
"The five of you go around to the west gate, open the city gate, and receive the marshal into the city. "The voice of the royal man is low, but it is firm and majestic, and it is intimidating to hear.
After speaking, the figure of Wang Dao disappeared into the night in a flash.
"Follow me!" a Han man commanded his companion in a low voice. Liu Qiang couldn't help but follow them to the gate of Xicheng.