Chapter 172 Angry Waves

The soldiers on the west wall hesitated, and gradually gathered around under the orders of their respective officers, and from time to time someone secretly threw a frightened glance out of the city, and then huddled together with each other, standing with their shoulders hunched and their heads bowed.

Seeing that hundreds of people had gradually gathered around, Zhu Gongyu slowly spoke: "What Gu wants to talk about happened in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, the world was in turmoil, what the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Five Chaos China, in short, all kinds of large and small battles were happening in various places, people from all walks of life fought all day long, the people were displaced, and the wilderness was mourning. In Nanyang Wancheng, not far from us, the guard is called Xun Song. One spring, when the city was in full bloom, Wancheng was surrounded by thieves. There are only more than a thousand defenders in the city, what about the thieves," as he spoke, King Zhou glanced out of the city, took a breath and continued, "It's about the same number of thieves outside today." ”

Hearing this, the soldiers' eyes widened in horror, and they all looked out of the city, and then at each other, and they looked at each other, and there was a buzz of small chatter in the crowd.

King Zhou raised his hands and pressed down, signaling everyone to listen: "The thieves are relying on the large number of people and attacking day and night. Xun Song led the defenders to meet the enemy, because they saw that there was already a sea of fire outside the city, well, the scene was the same as today. If you are hit by a thief, you and your family, friends, and everyone will not be spared. Fortunately, the wall was high and deep, Xun Song commanded the soldiers to use their lives, and the thieves fought for a month and did not break through the city wall. Speaking of this, everyone's expressions were relieved, but King Zhou's words made their hearts hang again, "However, at this time, the bows, arrows, masonry and other guards have almost been exhausted. What's worse is that the food in the city is almost gone! ”

Xun Song decided to send someone to Xiangyang for help. However, Wancheng has been surrounded by thieves like iron buckets, and going out of the city to ask for help is the same as sending him to death. Xun Song held a military meeting, and everyone discussed it for a long time, but no one dared to lead the military order. In desperation, Xun Song decided to personally break through and ask for help. ”

"Ahh The Lord will leave the city, how can this be done? The crowd erupted again into a small exclamation.

"yes." Zhu Gongyu continued, "The Lord will leave, how can this city be defended?" At this time, a person broke into the lobby and volunteered to go out to Xiangyang to ask for help at the third watch. Xun Song hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed. Don't worry, why should Xun Song hesitate and talk about it later. Xun Song allocated more than a dozen of his own guards, and that night, everyone first tied up the horses, put on their mouths and slowly lowered the city, and then these people went down the wall one after another. ”

"These men went down the wall, used daggers to break the ropes that bound the horses, and one by one quietly turned on their horses, ready to sneak through the gaps where the thieves' defenses were lax." The crowd listened attentively, and they didn't dare to come out, as if they were in the scene for fear of waking up the thief. Zhu Gongyu continued: "However, I don't know who it is in the dark, maybe I can't see clearly, maybe I am nervous, when I cut the rope, I accidentally cut the chew on the horse's mouth!" You think, the horse was so frightened when he was brought down from such a high wall that he neighed as soon as he let go of his mouth! ”

At this point, the crowd erupted in exclamation. Then there was a soft cry: "Shut up! Listen to the prince! ”

Zhu Gongyu nodded and continued: "As soon as the horses barked, of course the thief sentries outside the city found them, and the police posts sounded one after another. had no choice but to break through, and more than a dozen people simply shouted in unison and rushed to the death! The defenders on the wall also cheered for them under the leadership of Xun Song, and the thieves thought that the defenders went out of the city to steal the camp in the dark night, and it was also a big chaos. These warriors know that there is only one way to rush out in front of them, God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, not to mention the danger. By the time they finally broke through the enemy formation, half of the brothers had already been killed. Speaking of this, King Zhou sighed, "The rest of the people were also injured, but in the end, they finally ran to Xiangyang and found the guard Shi Lan." Seeing everyone's relieved looks in the twilight, Zhu Gongyan said again, "It's a pity that Shi Lan is also very embarrassed, he said, 'I only have five hundred cavalry, even if I give it all to you, so many thieves can't beat it!'" ’”

The audience erupted in sympathetic regret.

"Five hundred against more than one hundred thousand, I can't complain about Shi Lan's embarrassment. But," Speaking of this, Zhu Gongyu paused intentionally and raised his voice, "I saw the young general led by him take off his helmet and asked loudly: 'I can break through the formation of a woman, what are you afraid of five hundred men!'" ’”

With a "boom", the soldiers who were fascinated by it exploded.

"Huh? It's a girl! ”

"Yikes! This girl is in the middle of the road! ”

Zhu Gongyu turned around and boarded a pile of bricks and stones next to him, and said condescendingly: "Yes, this young general who led the crowd to break through is a female baby, she is Xun Guanniang, the daughter of the guard general Xun Song!" You now know why Xun Song hesitated, right? Shi Lan was ashamed when he heard this, and immediately contacted Xunyang Taishou to visit Zhou. There were only 3,000 people who visited there every week, but they were also impressed by Xun Guanniang's fearlessness, and all of them were dispatched. On the way back to Wancheng, Xun Guanniang took the lead and cut two enemy generals who blocked in a row, and the third enemy was so frightened that he turned his head and ran, and was knocked out by Xun Guanniang's war horse a few feet away! Seeing that Xun Guanniang was so heroic, the morale was greatly boosted, and they bravely assaulted, and I was invincible! The men in front fell, and the brothers in the back immediately made up for it, and the thieves besieging the city saw that the men and horses were invincible, and no one of his men dared to fight to stop them, so they dragged the horses who blocked the way, and the horses were full of iron thorns, and tried to block them with fortifications. Unexpectedly, none of the brothers in the lead hesitated, and pounced directly on it, letting the brothers behind step on their bodies and turn over to kill the enemy! Afterwards, the corpses were collected, and all the warriors' injuries were on their heads, faces, and chests! Although the thieves look like a lot, they are all rats who rely on more to win and strengthen each other's courage, where have I seen such a deadly tiger and wolf army, all holding their heads and running away! In this way, they slaughtered the thieves besieging the city to the point of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! Xun Song on the city wall saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and immediately cooperated with the attack, and the two soldiers were in one, and more than 4,000 tiger and wolf soldiers chased and cut down more than 100,000 thieves for 20 miles, and the thieves ambushed countless corpses along the way, and the white river in Nanyang became a red blood river, and the overlapping thieves blocked the white river to 'white water for it'! ”

There was silence on the west wall. The soldiers all opened their mouths wide but could not speak, and everyone fell into deep thought.

"Guess how old is Xun Guanniang?" Zhu Gongyu lowered his voice and asked, without waiting for everyone to answer, Fu raised his voice again and replied: "Fourteen years old!" ”

"Wow"!

The crowd is boiling!

"Li Jinzhu! How old are you? Zhou Gongyu stared at the young soldier in front of him who had unconsciously straightened his waist and asked loudly.

"Your Majesty! Jin Zhu is eighteen this year, which is enough to kill thieves! Li Jinzhu knelt down on one knee with the handle of the knife in his hand, his upper body was straight, his head held high and he looked directly at King Zhou's gaze, almost shouting out.

"Good!" Zhou Wang Zhu Gongyu shouted, "Lone believes in you!" And you, all of you! King Zhou waved a semicircle with his hand and pointed at everyone, everyone felt that Wang Ye Chitose's finger was pointing at him, "Lone believes in you!" Come and spread the decree of the lonely king: behead an enemy, and reward fifty taels of silver alone! Defend the city and shoot an enemy, and reward thirty taels of silver! If you hurt an enemy, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! Open the lonely's royal treasury, the king's grain and the official grain are combined into one warehouse, don't spare the rice and wheat, and if you fight, the brothers will be full! On this city tower, the lone king's banner is played, and Lone and the soldiers stand side by side to defend against the enemy! ”

For a moment, the crowd was silent, and the pins could be heard.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang".

A voice rang out.

Everyone followed the prestige and looked at the armor, it was a small flag officer of Xuanwuwei, his face was purple red, his chest was rising and falling violently, and he was striking his round shield with his saber.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang...... The sound rang out!

All the soldiers beat their shields with their weapons, and the unarmed Ding Zhuang swung their fists and beat their chests, and demonstrated with their roars to the seemingly invincible enemies outside the city!

The roars of "killing thieves", "killing thieves", and "killing thieves" resounded through the head of Kaifeng City, and rhythmic sound waves rushed towards the enemy camp outside the city like angry waves.

The remnant sun is like blood.

On the upper floor of Kaifeng Xicheng, a huge "Zhou" character king flag five feet square is hunting in the wind.

Niu Youtian looked at this flag in a daze, his eyes seemed to be attracted by a magnet of iron, and for a long time, he moved his gaze to the city with difficulty.

The city was littered with corpses.

Of course, Niu Youtian has seen many corpses, but he has never seen so many corpses of "his own people" in one day.

Ushida had commanded many sieges, but he had never seen the defenders fight in such a way today.

Early in the morning, Niu Youtian took his guards to ride horses around the city for most of the circle. Through his observation, the number of defenders on the Kaifeng wall at the moment was only three or four thousand, which was very consistent with his previous judgment. There are also 10,000 Ding Zhuang. However, these people are not worried, at best, they are just relying on the city wall to be brave, hiding behind the battlements and throwing a few stones down. It was nothing more than stoning to death some of the captives, and the people did not have them, not to mention that they were used to fill the trenches.

The defenders of the western wall have the most, and they are only about 1,000 or 5, so Niu Youtian decided to set the direction of the main attack here: as long as this side is defeated, the defenders in other places will flee from the wind, and the Kaifeng Mansion of Nuoda will be broken! Along the way, Baofeng, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou ...... It's all such a broken city, and it's familiar with the road. Therefore, after returning, he asked several war barracks to drive the people who had been captured yesterday to the western wall, and of course, the people from the Xinghua camp were at the front. The first group of people to drive to the city brought only symbolic ladders - their purpose was to consume the bows, arrows, masonry and physical morale of the defenders, although the raw materials for making ladders were everywhere, but even the most rudimentary ladders were much more valuable than human life.

The first wave of people rushed forward in 10,000 people. According to past experience, the defenders suddenly saw so many "thieves" rushing up, they were terrified to death, and the city must be splashed with arrows and cannons and stones - the defenders are so few people, there is no way to rotate and rest, or it will not be long before their mental and physical strength will reach the limit, and then send the new force of the auxiliary battalion and smash a few battalions to take the handle, and someone will be able to climb the wall!

As is customary, the soldiers who oversaw the battle cut down a few slow-running chickens to show the monkeys, and the rest of the frightened people rushed down the wall. Unexpectedly, the soldiers were a little too big, and they were all lazily far away from the battle shouting and watching the excitement. The castle did shoot some arrows and throw some stones at first, but what I didn't expect was that it stopped after a while! Then a guy in a big red official robe poked his head out and shouted a few words below, and those death row prisoners all knelt down!

In the midst of everyone's stunned eyes, the city gate was opened!

A team of brightly armored soldiers drove straight out, passed over those pigs and dogs, and in an instant, formed a long formation, covering the ten thousand death row prisoners! A cavalry galloped out and shouted and commanded, and the cannon fodder who should have died under the city actually entered the city with a thousand thanks!

Before everyone could react, the officers and soldiers covering also entered the city! Niu Youtian killed him, and he couldn't imagine that the dog officials could play such a hand. Well, because the mother was angry that the Xinghua camp blocked her raid, this time she confiscated Ding Zhuang, who was newly captured, and sent all her brains over, sending thousands of fresh troops to the defenders in vain!

The angry Niu Youtian had no choice but to mix his auxiliaries and soldiers into a war of attrition in the second group of civilians on the morning of the first day of the attack.

The defenders, of course, were demoralized. By the afternoon, there were more than twice as many people on the walls! I think the dog officers have completed the identification and put the guys who should have died under the wall on the wall to participate in the defense!

Until the time of Shen was approaching, the rain of bricks, stones and arrows showed no sign of abating, and under the city, there were already more than 2,000 corpses lying down - most of them were Niu Youtian's "own people"!

Niu Youtian waved his hand weakly, and the sound of collecting troops back to the camp sounded, and the exhausted war auxiliaries ran back one after another in despair. When they were far away, in the "corpses" lying on the ground, hundreds of people suddenly appeared, all kneeling down and kowtowing to the western wall! "These pigs and dogs!" The guards beside Niu Youtian cursed viciously. Then, the gates were opened for the second time, and the pigs and dogs entered the city even with their feet crawling!

Niu Youtian was in a dreamlike trance, staring blankly at the royal flag waving in the wind on the west gate tower.

"Kill the thief!" "Kill the thief!" "Kill the thief!" ”

The cheers that came in waves, like a sea of mountains, pulled Ushiarida back to reality. The cheers were like last night, oh no, much louder than last night.