Chapter 59: The Lonely City

Ma Wensheng at the head of the city trembled and held the battlement with both hands, and secretly poked out half of his head outside the city to glance quickly, worried that the thieves under the city would suddenly give him a thousand arrows, and immediately retracted back. He hid behind the battlement and waited for a while, but he did not hear the sound of the rain of arrows breaking through the air, and there was neither the sound of flying locusts like rain overhead, nor the sound of feathered arrows nailing to the wall.

At this glance, I couldn't help but fly out of the sky: the thief's infantry team (Gu Baihua's Gangfeng battalion) also crossed the river, and as soon as they stepped on the riverbank, the two-way column took the infantry team as a unit, and converged into one solid solid phalanx after another in the gap behind the four horse teams. An enemy general (Gu Baihua) rode forward, standing side by side with the enemy general in front of the horse formation, and the two thieves talked softly, looking up at the city from time to time, and pointing with a saber and spear; Fifty or sixty small boats stood guard on both sides of the pontoon bridge, and the thieves on the boats were hideous-looking, brandishing their weapons and shouting at the city; On the other side of the Qinglong Stream, there is a gathering place for thieves to cross the river, and a team of thieves is chaotically forming in the shouts of their respective leaders; In the distance, there was a constant stream of thieves, constantly turning out one after another from the bottom of the mountain bend and valley, joining the assembly field, preparing to cross the river.

Ma Wensheng watched all this in horror, and the knuckles that were clasping the battlements were already white, so he could barely restrain his body from trembling too obviously, and his heart was completely confused, not knowing what countermeasures to take or what orders to give, but just watched in amazement as the thieves drove over in an orderly manner.

Ma Wensheng once again retracted his gaze to the city, only to see that after the thieves' infantry formed six solid phalanxes, the thief with the gun said something to the one who raised the knife, the latter pointed the saber into the air, and with a roar in his mouth, he took the lead and trotted to the south, one after another, and the four cavalry followed behind, and the horse's hooves raised a large cloud of smoke and dust, rolling forward.

"Kill!"

There was a burst of drinking, which scared Ma Wensheng all over. I saw that the thief with the gun waved the riding spear, and the thieves and soldiers let out a loud shout in unison, and then stepped forward, and the armor was sonorously forced over, and advanced to the position of the cavalry just now.

"Master Ma! Master Ma! Let's think about a countermeasure! I don't know when Pan Ding has walked to his side, and his anxious voice woke Ma Wensheng from his trance.

"Are the gates closed?" Ma Wensheng ignored Pan Ding, and asked the soldiers with a white face.

"Back to my lord, the four doors have fallen into latches." The panting soldiers who came back to recover their lives replied in a big way, and from time to time they stood on tiptoe and peeked out of the city, their faces as pale as paper.

"Dogwood! Plug it, block it with big stones, block it for me! Hurry, hurry, hurry! ”

"Call all the dead hills to this mansion, and everyone who can breathe is here! Give me the walls to defend it! If you can't grind, you will be a thief, and you will be killed! ”

"Send someone to Xin'an for help! Go to Fucheng for help, what are you rubbing against dog killing materials, go quickly! ”

Ma Wensheng shouted one by one, and the people on the wall were in a mess. After a while, someone woke up: "My lord, the city gates have just been bolted!" Why don't you give an order, open it, and close the message when it goes out? ”

"Bastard! Don't open the door! Block me up! You, you, you, and you, you go out from the south of the city to deliver the letter! ”

"My lord, you have to ride a horse to deliver a message! Running on two legs for hundreds of miles, not hitting miles. ”

"Fool, then ride a horse!"

"My lord, people can go down from the wall, but horses can't! I still have to open the door......"

"Shut up, bitch! Don't open the door! What should I do if I am rushed in by thieves? So many cavalrymen, are your two dog eyes blind! No matter what method you use, this official collects from the people and robs from the thieves, ah, yes, don't the thieves have horses? Isn't it your job to kill the enemy and serve the country! Go and go, and kill your dog's head again! When the matter comes back, the house is rewarded! ”

Several unlucky ghosts who were fingered by Ma Wensheng cowered and walked towards the south wall one step at a time.

"Master Ma." After Li & Bin was killed, the position of the commander of Hongnongwei has been vacant, and when he heard the news, he hurried to the commander Wang Jian, "All the brothers have been gathered, please ask Lord Ma for orders." ”

"Wait for a order, come up the! The thieves rushed up and hit head-on! Ma Wensheng said hurriedly, and then remembered something, threw down Wang Jian, and shouted at the backs of those unlucky ghosts, "Wait! This house wants to see you go down with your own eyes! No one wants to escape! As soon as he mentioned the hem of his official robe, he hurriedly chased after him.

The civil and military officers of Pan, Jing, and Wang on the wall glanced at each other, sighed, and shook their heads. Everyone has vaguely felt that with such a boss in the stall, Shaanzhou is afraid that there is no hope.

Gu Baisong divided a hundred horsemen and rushed straight to the east gate, according to the orders of Luo Junshi, to occupy the ferry that they did not know if there would be, to block the Yellow River traffic, and at the same time temporarily blocked the east gate before the infantry drove over, and he led the rest of the horse team to drive south along the river of Qinglong Stream, and then turned back to the north after passing the village far away.

Just now in the city, Gu Baihua instructed Gu Baisong a few words, until the last resort, try not to kill. Gu Baihua is by no means a great benevolent person who spreads love indiscriminately, his worldview is very simple: if you are good to me, I will be better to you. But he didn't have even the slightest great feeling of rescuing the toiling masses or anything, since he embarked on the road of no return to being a thief, it was a matter of time before he died in the wilderness, so he had no scruples about killing people and setting fires, but there was a red line in his heart: be a man and do things like a man - what kind of man is it who bullies old and young women!

However, these have nothing to do with the fact that he instructed Gu Baisong to kill people in vain. When he arrived at the city, looking at the towering city wall of Shaanzhou, he suddenly thought that when launching an attack, lifting ladders, pushing crash cars, and planing holes in the wall were all the work of the auxiliary soldiers, and the unarmored auxiliary soldiers were bound to pay huge casualties under the attack of the defensive firepower at the head of the city. Guo Qinglin's auxiliary team, although it was originally a cannon fodder regiment in nature, but after being together for so long, it can almost be regarded as half of his own people - why don't you do it with strangers outside the city who have nothing to do it? Therefore, he asked Gu Baisong to keep as many people as possible and go back to fill in the trenches.

The horse team stood still in the south of the village, loosely spreading out in a horizontal formation. After waiting for about a stick of incense, he saw the stars reflected in the northwest sun from a distance, and Gu Baisong knew that it was the reflection of the knives and guns of his brother's Gangfeng battalion - presumably the large army had already crossed the river, Gu Baihua began to change his guard, and was heading south to set up an ambush at the Zhuangshi Pass. At the sound of an order, the horizontal formation trotted up, and the armored horsemen, brandishing their spears, shouted and threatened, and went north and began to drive the people down the city.

Gu Baisong led twenty skilled guards to march a distance, standing on a small dirt slope, after riding the line, he responded to the leaks, condescendingly and coldly watched the people who woke up like a dream crying, helping the old and the young to run towards the south gate of Shaanzhou. The cavalry behind the people pulled a half-moon arc that protruded slightly forward on the east and west sides, bluffing loudly and driving away, and the trotting had changed to a slow walk, unhurriedly pushing the people north. The cavalry line opened by more than 100 horsemen was inevitably loose, and the armored horsemen behind the temple on the dirt slope found that there were people who had missed the past, and one or two horsemen would ride over to intercept them and drive them back to the crowd......

Gu Baisong's attention was attracted by a large puff of black smoke coming from the northeast: the military advisor is really clever, it seems that there is really a ferry port to the east, and it has been ignited at this moment. Now, Shaanzhou City was besieged like an iron bucket. couldn't help but look at the city wall, and suddenly, Gu Baisong found a few small black spots on the wall - someone was coming down from the city!

The armored cavalry was already overstretched, and the reason why so many people were left to respond was that Gu Baisong was worried that the city would send cavalry to break through the siege and break through the thin layer of loose cavalry and run out to deliver the letter! The responsibility on the shoulders of these dozen or twenty people is not easy.

How could you go out of the city with a wall, could it be that the city gate has been locked at this time? Even if the door is closed, the messenger must be let out of the city first! The cavalry that crossed first was more than 200 people, how could such a small number of people go to rob the city gate, what are the dog officials afraid of? The cavalry rushed at high speed on the plains, and rushed to the city full of obstacles, was it to use the pikemen and foot archers as targets? Are all the dog officials in the city blind and foolish?

In the blink of an eye, the long knife in his hand pointed at several black shadows on the wall, and with a long roar in his mouth, no longer caring about the people who had leaked sporadically, Gu Baisong led the guards to pounce on the messengers.

On the city wall, Pan Ding, Jing Xiangshan, Wang Jian and others no longer paid attention to Ma Wensheng, and they were busy. Pan Jing and the others separately organized the people to transport masonry, doors, water basins and other materials to the city, while Wang Jian gave a loud order to send the soldiers to each wall. Due to the long period of peace, coupled with the fact that Ma Wensheng had tossed the battalion to the point of great injury, the original chain of command had been broken and completely broken, and Wang Jian could only temporarily rebuild the command system: there should be at least three soldiers behind each battlement, a battlement commander should be set up at five battlements, a general manager should be designated above the three battlements, and a temporary thousand general should be designated for each wall...... From top to bottom, all the guys he knows have been sent to posts, but the manpower is still far from enough, Wang Jian can only catch and send guys who still look like a little bit on the spot to serve as temporary grass-roots non-commissioned officers such as the battlement commander - although he has not fought much, after all, he has been mixed in the army for decades, Wang Jian also detained a reserve team of several hundred people in his hands, he knows that this hard battle is not a matter of one or two days, and he must leave some backhands to go up at a critical time.

Ma Wensheng was on the south wall, staring at the soldiers who tied long ropes around the waists of the four unlucky ghosts, and slowly lowered them. Of course, he also saw the people who were rushing towards him in the distance, but at this moment, Master Ma's mind was not thinking about it at all, he just hoped that these guys would run out immediately, and then bring the rescuers back quickly, and he kept cursing and urging in his mouth.

When a few guys fell to the ground, Marven Sheng held the battlement and stared at their running backs, and he was about to approach the crowd running over, and suddenly, more than a dozen thieves rode past the people and rushed towards the messengers. Ma Wensheng was so anxious that he waved his hand on the wall and shouted for them to turn away, but there were noisy shouts everywhere, and the messengers could neither hear the shouts of Master Ma nor the panoramic view of Lord Ma high above, and continued to run against the thieves' cavalry.

The guy who was running the fastest suddenly looked up and saw the thief riding more than a dozen feet away, and turned around and ran to the east. However, how could a two-legged man run past a four-legged warhorse? It was just a few breaths away from being overtaken. The enemy rider slowed down, trotted down beside the guy, and poked his spear forward, as if he was going to catch him alive. Seeing the tip of a spear popping up next to him, the guy turned around and ran north again, and the thief chased after him again, stretching out his rifle again to threaten. Despite being out of breath, the guy jerked to the west again...... Evidently the thief was enraged, and took the murderous action to his side, and put the bluffing riding gun in his hand under his side, and once again rode his horse—this time without slowing down, and swept straight past him, and in the blink of an eye he nailed the riding gun to the back of the man, and passed through his chest. The man fell to the ground, clutching the dirt in vain with both hands, glaring desperately at his legs, kicking off one shoe, and then the kick turned into a convulsion, and gradually, stopped moving.

The knight turned the horse back, got off the horse, pulled out the waist knife and cut off the head with a knife (Guan Shengyun did not form a first-level gong system here, and the beheading skill is the main general's mood reward, and there is no need to report for approval and inquest of the Adam's apple layer by layer, so there is no need to use the head knife to cut it carefully like the regular Ming army), pedaled the headless corpse and pulled out the riding spear, put the head on the tip of the gun, turned over the horse, galloped to the city with a show of martial arts and waved it for a while, and galloped back.

Ma Wensheng looked at him with horror in his mouth, and then he was even more horrified to find that the other three guys had stopped running, holding their heads in their hands and kneeling on the ground. The thief with the knife strangled his horse and said a few words, and the three fellows who were lying on the ground straightened up, and you and I scrambled to speak, and from time to time pointed at themselves on the wall......

Bastard bastard! Why don't you know how to kill and serve the country! Be sure to find out their relatives and cut off their heads to set an example! Marven thought angrily, and then saw the thief's gaze towards him.

The thief's gaze is complicated. Is it contempt? Is it a mockery? Or is it unruly?

Neither!

It's killing intent!

It's a strong killing intent.

When his eyes met, Ma Wensheng couldn't help but shiver, and a chill came out of his heart.

The thieves' horse team had completely blocked the south side, and the billowing smoke from the east ferry port indicated that the Shaanzhou Mansion had become an isolated city at this time.