Chapter Twenty-Six: In the Blood and Snow of Yongdu
readx;? The Qin army guards in the temple area of the Qin State Sect in Yongdu had almost suffered casualties, but what Zhang Jiashi saw was a scene that shocked him extremely much:
More than 30 Qiang infantry did not pay attention to the battle situation behind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info They kept approaching the few remaining officers and soldiers of the Qin army who were blocking the gate of the temple with their bodies.
Zhang Jiashi was about to shout something, when he saw these Qin officers and soldiers glance at him with a relieved look, and then rushed towards the Qiang people with their weak bodies that had been attacked many times and waved the weapons that had already been in their hands.
Zhang Jiashi slowly stretched out his hand, but he could only watch a few people turn into a pile of meat paste in the Qiang people's weapons.
And he silently lowered his head and saw the corpses of the Qin army and the Qiang people in the Zongmiao District, and then, raised his head and looked at these Qiang people.
He didn't know if he had done the right thing or wrong by ordering the troops to rest......
But after he felt that he was tapped on the shoulder, he knew who it was, because now in the Zongmiao area, in addition to these dozens of Qiang people, the other Qin troops who were originally stuck here, as well as the Qiang people who attacked the Zongmiao area, had fallen on the snow-covered ground, and the blood that flowed out soaked those white snowflakes that had not melted......
Zhang Jiashi slowly raised the hand holding the reins, and then waved it down fiercely:
"Kill them all!"
After Ruan Weng Shao next to him heard this order, he quickly said loudly: "Kill, !!"
Dozens of knights and officers of the Qin army quickly rushed towards the Qiang troops who turned back in confusion at this time, and then showed a shocked expression......
Since the current cavalry is only equipped with a single stirrup, it is simply difficult to achieve a frontal impact like that of later generations, because the strong inertia will make the knights who are riding on the horses and the knights who are less powerful will pounce directly forward.
Therefore, there are three main ways to kill the enemy by the current knights of the Qin army.
One is to harass with a bow and crossbow from a distance, or to form a formation to form a rain of arrows to attack.
The second is through the mount's dashing ability, wielding a weapon, brushing the enemy, slashing or stabbing the enemy.
The third is to slow down and engage in close combat with the enemy after approaching the enemy.
These three ways formed the main reason why the current cavalry tactics are not much lethal in fact.
Ruan Weng Shao, who was in the lead, waved a long beryllium in his hand, quickly slowed down at the distance before approaching the Qiang team, and then stabbed at a Qiang person with the long beryllium.
The other Qin knights also adopted a similar method of killing enemies as Ruan Weng Shao.
After a while, the Qiang people who were just holding short weapons in their hands and were on the outermost periphery were quickly put down by more than ten knights of the Qin army.
And Ruan Weng Shao and other knights did not fall in love with the battle, but after the first attack, they quickly detoured from both sides, and the remaining remnants of the Qiang people did not react, and they saw hundreds of Qin military officers, constantly waving their weapons, rushing towards them.
A hand-to-hand battle began.
However, the sparsely numbered Qiang people could not stop the increasing number of Qin military officers and all kinds of weapons that greeted them.
More and more Qiang people, who didn't even block the weapons of the Qin military officers, were directly inserted into their bodies by at least five or more Changge or Chang Beryllium.
"Rush, !!" A Qin army commander did not pull out Changge, who had stabbed into the body of a Qiang person, but ordered several nearby subordinates to work together to push forward the Qiang man who had been stabbed with a large amount of blood because of the blood groove on Ge's blade, and crashed into the opponent's teammates.
After a few Qiang people who couldn't react were knocked to the ground, the commander of the Qin army said: "Close! Cut !!."
Subsequently, the Qin army, including this Shi Chang, quickly pulled Changge or Chang Beryllium back, and then they either stabbed the Qiang people who had fallen to the ground obliquely, or directly poked them downward with the horizontal blade on Changge.
In less than a while, these Qiang people who fell to the ground were constantly wounded by Chang Beryllium's sword blade and Chang Ge's horizontal blade, and soon, even the screams gradually stopped.
Of course, these officers of the Qin army were not without casualties, and there was a brute force warrior of the Qiang people, wielding a large stone hammer more than two meters long in his hand, and smashed more than a dozen Qin officers and soldiers besieging him directly into the air. After falling to the ground, many of the Qin officers and soldiers were seriously injured, and the commanders of the Qin army who were equipped with two swords and shields were even more smashed, and after they fell, they directly bled through seven holes, and after falling to the ground and convulsing a few times, there was no sound again.
However, seeing this scene, the dozens of crossbowmen who arranged for the external defense of the wall of the Zongmiao District in the back, under the command of officers at all levels, quickly turned around and aimed the bows and crossbows in their hands directly at him.
"Put the !!" (Qin Jun's archery password, it is said to be wind, but, I don't think it's possible, because this has been studied, it should be a difference in accent. )
Dozens of bronze-forged bows and crossbows and arrows quickly shot towards the Qiang professional.
This professional didn't react at all, and there were more than a dozen bows and crossbows and arrows stuck in his body.
He looked incredulously at the Qin army crossbowmen who were about sixty or seventy meters away, quickly loading crossbow arrows, or bending bows and arrows, and then wanted to walk towards them step by step.
However, at this time, he felt that more than a dozen violent pains also came from his thick back, and he slowly turned his head, only to see dozens of Qin army officers, constantly greeting him with weapons......
He felt his body, as if he couldn't move.
And at this time, a Qin soldier shouted loudly: "Get up !!"
This mid-level brute force warrior of Bai Ma Qiang felt that his body, which was getting weaker and weaker, seemed to be slowly picked up from the ground......
More and more long weapons were aimed at this brute force warrior, and they were slowly picked up into the air and stabbed at the body.
Finally, the brute force warrior who was picked into the air let go of the big stone hammer in his hand, and his lifeless body, accompanied by Shi Chang's shout again: "Close!", lost the support of dozens of weapons, and slowly fell to the ground.
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Zhang Jiashi didn't look at the situation where this Qiang warrior, whose strength didn't seem to be too far behind him, died in the attack of the military array. He was now slowly riding his horse to the body of a five hundred lords who had been dead for a long time, slowly descending the red cloud, and then facing the other party, the armor of the abdomen could even see the intestines that were exposed, and the blood stains had already frozen into blood-colored thin ice in this weather, and gently clenched his fists.
Then, without saying a word, Zhang Jiashi silently rode on the red cloud, and then came to the front of the gate of the temple......
Zhang Jiashi looked at the closed gate of the Zongmiao Palace and said slowly, "Knock the door open!"
"Whoa!"
More than a dozen Qin military officers carrying a trunk that had only been cut by Ruan Weng Shao and simply processed into impact wood quickly slammed towards the palace gate under the command of a Qin army commander.
"Puff ......", "Puff ......", "Puff ......" ......
Under the orderly impact of more than a dozen material officials, the locked temple door was finally knocked open.
And after more than a dozen material officials returned to their original positions, Zhang Jiashi followed behind more than a dozen sword and shield men who rushed into the temple one after another, and entered the temple.
When he entered the palace gate, he looked at dozens of palace maids of different ages and pale faces in the hall, as well as a bronze box full of tung oil that was stacked together with a fire fold in his hand......
He said a word: "Send these people and that box to Mr. Chen Ping's place outside the city!"
A hundred generals of the Qin army nodded: "Huh!"
After these people were sent away, Zhang Jiashi slowly glanced behind a pillar and slowly left the temple......
He knew what was buried beneath that pillar. But he didn't take it out, because ...... This thing, he didn't want to see again. Moreover, since Yingzheng put it here, he also doesn't want such a thing to be known by too many people.
He slowly left the palace, because what he had to do seemed to be over.
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In the Zongmiao area northwest of Yongdu City and most of the northern part of the city, the Qin army under Zhang Jiashi was constantly burning and killing the plundering Qiang troops, as well as the reinforcements later, and fierce battles broke out again and again.
In a street, a small number of chariots formed a shock formation, and the light charioteers on it kept waving the Changge in their hands, assassinating the Qiang people who kept coming out of the dwellings, most of them in disheveled clothes.
And behind these chariots, there are also a large number of officers and crossbowmen, following the battle.
However, on this street, in addition to the corpses of the Qiang people, several chariots that overturned because of the killing and wounding of war horses are also quite conspicuous. It's just that these light charioteers who lost their chariots did not die directly, and even the more seriously injured drivers were able to pick up a long sword hanging next to the chariot and continue to kill the enemy on the way.
The Qin army, armed with a long sword, or a sword and shield, every five people as a unit, under the leadership of the commander or the chief, constantly rushed into some private houses and engaged the Qiang people in the private houses.
It's just that after the battle, they looked at their dumb expressions helplessly, looking at the corpses of their relatives, disheveled women or girls, and they didn't know what to do. Zhang Jiashi did not order them to take these civilians with them and fight together......
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Of course, Zhang Jiashi would not be so ruthless. And Chen Ping will not do this. But Bai Qi thought of this situation very rationally, and he said to Zhang Jiashi: "Those people, no matter what you should do next, you will only be affected by them." ”
Bai Qi's words pointed out very vaguely that no matter what, once these people are carried, they will only make it easier for Zhang Jiashi to be wiped out.
Yes, because whether it is entrenched in the city of Yongdu, fighting with the Qiang people, or breaking out of the Qiang people's pursuit circle, it is impossible for these people to bring it with them. Unless, Zhang Jiashi wants to annihilate his troops.
Zhang Jiashi's troops were originally mainly infantry, and with these people, it didn't matter if they could still go, if they were pursued by a large number of cavalry sent by the Qiang people, I am afraid that the infantry would not even be able to defend at all.
So, although such a thing is not what Zhang Jiashi wants. However, when Zhang Jiashi vaguely said Bai Qi's advice, Chen Ping, Ruan Weng Shao and others rarely said a word. Because they know very well that what Zhang Jiashi said is very reasonable.
"If we take all the survivors away, will we be able to fight?"
This sentence shows Zhang Jiashi's helplessness, but he is still very rational, Chen Ping and others all know what Zhang Jiashi said, which is not unreasonable.
Therefore, they acquiesced to Zhang Jiashi's words......
Moreover, Chen Ping also said a very serious problem, that is, if they were in the pursuit of the Qiang people, it would be unrealistic to ask most of them to escape.
Therefore, there will be troops under Zhang Jiashi, and almost all of them rushed to Yongdu City.
Because after Zhang Jiashi synthesized the opinions of everyone and Bai Qi, he decided to fight with the Qiang people in Yongdu City.
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However, these Qin army commanders or even chiefs who were about to lead their subordinates to leave did not expect that a considerable number of glazed women would pick up the weapons next to the Qiang corpses and stab them at their bodies after they left......
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The situation in Yongdu City, after Zhang Jiashi led the troops, entered Yongdu, and entered the street battle with the Qiang people and the battle for the east and west city walls, is now mainly divided into five areas.
They were officers headed by Zhang Jiashi and the five two or five hundred lords under his command, commanding the troops.
The Qin army near Zongmiao District, the people who commanded it were naturally Zhang Jiashi and Ruan Weng Shao, and in the south of Zongmiao District, it was a thousand Qin troops led by Meng Guang, the two or five hundred lords, who were fighting for the city wall with the Qiang people. After this period of fierce fighting, the troops under Meng Guang's command were less than seven hundred.
To the east of Zongmiao District, that is, to guard the north gate of Yongdu and prevent the Qiang people from attacking from the north front and back, is the new two or five hundred lord Deng Xi, because a certain unlucky guy rushed forward too rashly in the previous battle, and was besieged and killed by several Qiang professionals, Deng Xi, who should have been the five hundred lords, was quickly ordered by Zhang Jiashi to be two or five hundred masters, and the officers under his command were promoted one level or not transferred in turn.
It was Wei Yao's 1,000 men who engaged in a fierce tug-of-war with the Qiang people near the central axis from Beicheng to Yongdu City. I have to say that Wei Yao's troops suffered the greatest battle losses among the five thousand troops under Zhang Jiashi's command. Because although his troops gradually occupied a favorable position, the Qiang troops who reacted caused Wei Yao's troops to suffer heavy casualties. If it weren't for the direct attack in Dazheng Palace, which was carried out by the troops under Zhang Jiashi, I'm afraid that Wei Yao would have directly become a single commander.
The last thousand-man team was the army led by Huan Suo, who was fighting with the Qiang people for the eastern city wall and the nearby construction area, and the casualties were also very heavy.
According to Zhang Jiashi's comprehensive opinion, if the situation is not right, or the Qiang people's offensive is too fierce and the troops suffer too many casualties, Zhang Jiashi's troops will gather in the Dazheng Palace and the city wall in the north to fight to the death with the Qiang people.
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The battle in Yongdu City continued, and in a mountain forest about four kilometers north-northwest of Yongdu City, Chen Ping and the people looked at a hundred generals of the Qin army who were clenching their fists towards them, those palace maids who were standing on dozens of military vehicles, trembling, and behind the bronze box on the front chariot, they looked at each other helplessly.
"Brother Xiao, what should we do?"
"Mr. Chen, your lord's order is very reasonable. If he really ......" Xiao He shook his head, looked at Yongdu, who was constantly rising smoke, and continued: "Then, if we send these to Xianyang, it can prove that the efforts of his lord and you have not been given up in vain. ”
Although Xiao He said it quite tactfully, Chen Ping, Cao Shen and others were very clear that Xiao He's words clearly showed how Zhang Jiashi arranged it.
To put it bluntly, that is, Zhang Jiashi did this, and he said something in a vague way, that is, we are very likely to live and die with Yongdu. But if you gentlemen don't want to see Zhang and the others sacrifice in vain, then please pass these things on to Your Majesty.
More than 2,000 Yongdu defenders, under the offensive of 40,000 Qiang people, have hit stones with eggs and the whole army has been annihilated. And Zhang Jiashi's troops, although there are more than 5,000 people, but compared with the still huge number of Baimaqiang, it plays a more important role, and it delays time.
If Bai Ma Qiang really attacked the 5,000 officers and soldiers brought into Yongdu by Zhang Jiashi at any cost, I am afraid that it may not be until tomorrow, and Zhang Jiashi's troops may all fall under the Bai Ma Qiang butcher knife in Yongdu City.
Chen Ping glanced in the direction of Yongdu, looked up at the sky, and after he was silent for a while, he said a sentence: "We...... Go back to Xianyang!"
Xiao He and the others didn't feel strange at all when they heard Chen Ping's words. But after seeing Chen Ping and straightening his crown, they also followed Chen Ping and slowly bowed to Yongdu in the southwest.
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The sky was already dark, and there seemed to be more and more places on the snowy ground in Yongdu City, soaked in blood.
And a Qiang girl, under the protection of several Qiang warriors, was downstairs at the south gate of Yongdu, silently listening to the north wind that seemed to carry the soldiers, and screaming and wailing......
And at this time, she felt that her face seemed to be a little cold, and she slowly raised her head, and saw that goose feathers and white snow were falling in the sky again......
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And Chen Pingren, who took a long detour, walked back to Hexi Road, and ran directly to Xianyang, the knight in front felt a violent vibration from the ground.
As the sun set, a large army was on the Hexi Road, heading west.
And the Xuanyao with white lines on a black background is on a chariot leading the way in front, fluttering in the wind......
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