Chapter 427: Extraordinarily Eye-catching
Han Xu's face flashed a sneer, and he only heard him say: "Youguo is a holy Youguo, I, Han Xu, the Han family is the important minister of Youguo, unlike you, since you don't want to live and die with Youguo, Shengshang, and I, Han Xu, what's the use of keeping you?!"
The moment the words fell, countless sword-wielding soldiers came in from the outside, surrounded the officials who advocated surrender, and cut their heads.
The lavishly decorated main hall of the county guard house was instantly transformed into a Shura field. Red blood, stumps and severed arms, fluttering messily in the line of sight.
"Hahahaha!"
Amidst the screams, Han Xuan laughed wildly. Then he stood up with both hands on the armrests of his chair and shouted hysterically: "Since the Holy Lord ascended the throne, Captain Ben has done his best and done his best, for the Holy Lord, for the Youguo, the southern and northern wars, the east and the west, what is it?
The Holy Lord has moved the capital to Liaodong! Prime Minister Li Arc, this villain! Those rubbish on the temples! They have abandoned us! Captain Ben swallowed his anger in the court and made compromises, what can he get in exchange? In exchange for the betrayal of his Li Arc child, they are going to destroy me and my ambition!"
The screaming stopped, and the temple was filled with blood and corpses.
Han Xuan looked at those corpses and said indifferently, "If you don't let Captain Ben live, then die together!" Frustration will become the grave of the Tang Army!" br>
As he spoke, he pointed to the corpses of the officials on the ground and said, "The property of these people has been confiscated, and the wives and daughters of the families have been sent to the city wall to be given to the soldiers and civilians who defend the city!" Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man, and then open the treasury and tell the soldiers and civilians in the city to kill a Tang army, and reward a piece of cloth and five taels of silver!"
In the midst of the frantic shouts, Han Xuan put the ring-headed knife on his waist and said loudly, "This Taiwei is Youguo! If the Tang Kingdom wants to destroy this Taiwei, it is to destroy the Youguo! If the war is defeated, there will be no more ghost kingdom in the world! Ladies and gentlemen, fight to the death with Captain Ben!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Under the stone bullets of the Tang army, the bricks and stones of the city wall of Fuyang were shattered, and the mountain shook.
The Tang army was extremely good at using catapults, and this kind of construction of catapult positions on the high ground and fire strikes at fixed targets was their specialty.
The Tang Dynasty established the country by force, and the emperor himself said that the catapult is the weapon of the country. In Chang'an City, there are as many as 10,000 craftsmen who use them to make bed crossbows, catapults and other equipment.
At this time, the catapults that bombarded the city wall of Fuyang were no longer those torsional catapults with short shapes, but counterweight trebuchets transported by large carts. The firing range has increased from the original 200 steps to the current 1 mile, which is invincible.
When these heavy catapults were launched, the sound was terrifying, as if the earth was trembling. Each counterweight trebuchet is large and bulky and has eight wheels.
The Tang army besieged on all sides, except for the western city wall, which collapsed under the bombardment of many catapults, and the other city walls made the best progress was the northern city wall.
The soldiers of the Sixth Army went to the head of the city, and once reached the vicinity of the city gate tower, seeing that no matter how hard they worked, they could open the city gate, but unfortunately they all fell short, and they were driven down the city wall by the Youjun army.
Shao Hongxuan threw his helmet on the table angrily and said angrily, "Damn, why aren't these domestic servants soft?"
Sima Congchao of the Sixth Army said helplessly: "Marshal, these domestic servants must have changed officers, and there is a group of overseers behind them. With knives behind them, do they dare not fight hard?"
Shao Hongxuan took the water bowl handed over by his own soldiers, poured the water into his mouth as soon as he tilted his neck, and drank it directly. Then he said, "Look at this, the western wall is in danger? Most of the servants on this side of the northern city wall are domestic servants, and the regular army of Youguo has not seen much of it."
Cong Chao nodded and said, "This Meng army commander is really favored, the acting prince left most of the catapults to their Eighth Army, and they have been bombarded for several days, and the catapults have fallen apart several times, and the western city wall has collapsed."
Shao Hongxuan snorted and said, "Don't be envious, Lao Tzu respects Meng Song, when this guy first followed the saint, he could kill and dare to go up, and this time he was in Zhuolu to resist the attack of the 400,000 army of Youguo for a few hours, and you are his boss, and you are also favored."
It was dawn, and there was a slight fog between heaven and earth.
In the early morning sun, the weeds all over the mountains struggled to emerge from the snow, showing in the white sky and the earth
of their own existence. There are also some tenacious plum blossoms that compete to bloom in the cold wind, bringing some intoxicating floral fragrance in the diffuse morning smoke.
On the side of the western city wall, the bombardment of the Tang army's trebuchets finally stopped, and the long-lost comfort rippled between the heavens and the earth.
Several secluded soldiers held their weapons and curled up numbly in the corner of the city wall, looking at the clear blue sky with empty eyes, like walking corpses.
The city wall of Fuyang has long been dilapidated, under the blow of the Tang army's catapults and crashes, the originally magnificent city wall, the bunkers and arrow towers have become piles of rubble, and the city head is full of stumps and broken arms, and the corpses are stacked in a staggered manner.
Although the Tang army has not yet attacked the city on a large scale, the long-lasting long-range attacks have tormented these Youzhou soldiers to the point of physical and mental exhaustion.
"I really want to eat a bowl of wild vegetable soup made by my mother!"
A secluded sergeant moved his throat, his eyes glowed, and he muttered, "Soak corn and add pickles from home!"
Gollum, his throat moved again, "Mother's cooking is always the best!"
At this moment, a lieutenant leaned over, patted him on the shoulder, and encouraged, "If you want to eat your mother's cooking, just defend our Fuyang City!" The notice of the Tai Lieutenant said that after the Tang army captured Fuyang, they would slaughter the city and kill all of us!"
The sergeant who missed his mother's taste still looked at the sky and said with some disbelief, "However, I saw that the notice issued by Tang Jun said that they don't kill ordinary people!"
"Snap", before he finished speaking, he was beaten hard by the captain, only to hear him say viciously: "Do you believe Tang Jun's nonsense?!" Didn't they come to Youzhou just to rob and kill? When they enter the city, they will take everything we have!"
The Sergeant lowered his head and muttered, "We don't have anything!"
"What about your family! Your brothers and sisters, both parents are in the city, do you want them to be killed by the Tang Army?!"
Suddenly, the roaring Captain pricked up his ears, and then poked out half of his body from the city wall in horror.
As soon as he saw something, his body immediately petrified, and his face was full of horror.
"Tang ...... Tang Dynasty...... The Tang army is going to attack the city!"
The shouts of the lieutenants of the Youjun army resounded at the head of Fuyang City, and the ruined city walls were instantly filled with warnings.
Outside the city of Fuyang, in the Tang army camp, countless soldiers of the Eighth Army gathered under the orders of the officers.
Crossbowmen lined up at the front, followed by elite infantry in heavy armor, and as far as the eye could see, there seemed to be tens of thousands. Such a 10,000-strong formation, three of which were discharged in front of the Tang army's formation. In the 10,000-strong formation, each regiment has a small flag, each regiment has a middle flag, and each division has a large flag. In the queue, the flag is displayed. Among the many flags, the flag of the Eighth Army is particularly eye-catching.