Chapter 35: Chuzhou Crisis Solution (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Ling Su! The general just scolded you a few words, and you were so ruthless, seeing that the general was besieged and killed, he couldn't save him! ”
"That's right! I never thought you were so vicious! ”
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"Shut up!" After all, Xu Xuan was born in a famous family, and he still had some bearing, looking at the situation in the city, he also knew that Ling Su was helpless if he didn't save people, knowing that he was at fault, but he couldn't bear to watch Bao Ying being killed, so he had to beg him in a low voice.
"Ling Su, I know the stakes of the loss of the city gate, I just need to take the Son of Heaven forbidden army down to save people, can I open the city gate for me."
"Nope."
Ling Su was so cold-blooded that he didn't turn around, which immediately annoyed the guards on the side.
"You're just a lieutenant, what qualifications do you have to command me and others! If you don't save it, open the city gate and let me Wang Tong save it! ”
"Yes, you will be damned for your ruthlessness and unrighteousness! Open the city gates, let me wait to save the general! ”
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"The general tiger talisman is here, and those who dare to disobey the military order will be killed on the spot!"
"Tiger Talisman? When did the general give you the Tiger Talisman..."
Everyone saw that what Ling Su was holding in his hand was indeed a genuine tiger talisman, it was not fabricated, and they didn't dare to act rashly, after all, according to the national system, seeing the tiger talisman was like seeing the Son of Heaven, and disobeying the person holding the tiger talisman in his hand was disobeying the order of the Son of Heaven, which was a big crime that would harm the whole family!
"Even if you have a tiger talisman, but after all, the one who is besieged under the city is the general personally ordered by the Son of Heaven, if he dies in Chuzhou, how can I explain to the Son of Heaven!"
"The responsibility of the general's death in the city, I Ling Su bears it alone! I said no! Whoever dares to open the gates of the city, I have the right to correct him on the spot! ”
Seeing that these people still didn't listen to persuasion, Ling Su was immediately annoyed, and he no longer cared about the faces of these people, and directly pulled out to the guards who were going to go down to the city.
"Xu Shangshu, when the Son of Heaven comes to help him, he will kill or kill me Ling Su has no complaints, but today,
I will never abandon Chuzhou City for the sake of General Bao, and abandon these soldiers who defend the country to the death..."
Xu Xuan listened to this, and also knew that it was useless to say anything now, and when he calmed down, he realized that if Ling Su really didn't pull these people just now, the city gate would fall, and it would only be a matter of time before Chuzhou City was lost, at least, he could still use the dead soldiers under the city to drag on for some time.
"Bao Lao Si! Retreat to the city gates! ”
Xu Xuan looked around and found that there was still a last ray of life, so he hurriedly shouted at Bao Ying and Li Chongjin to retreat.
Li Chongjin heard Xu Xuan's shout, and also dragged Bao Ying slowly back to the city gate.
"All the troops retreat!"
Li Chongjin shouted angrily at Li Yingjun, and Li Yingjun hurriedly withdrew from the front battlefield, holding a long sword in his hand, and surrounded Li Chongjin and Bao Ying in front of them.
"The catapult must be ready! Let this group of Song dogs taste the power of the catapult that my Tang Tianzi personally modified! ”
Bao Ying doesn't know much about Xu Xuan's character, and it is unlikely that Xu Xuan really dared to joke about the fall of Chuzhou City in order to save his life, and let him retreat, it must be the bow and arrow that has been hurried up, and the catapult has been loaded.
"Catapults? Why didn't they get on the catapult now, why didn't they throw stones 700 feet away from the Song people's siege to stop them from attacking the city? ”
As soon as Li Chongjin heard the catapult, he was immediately a little curious, just because the two armies were fighting, if one side drove to collide, nest car, and cloud ladder to attack the city, then the side defending the city must first release the sling, but he looked up and looked around, and the battlefield was killed and shouted for a long time, but he never saw a single rolling stone, and turned his face to look at Bao Ying in disbelief.
"Ahh You don't care about that! ”
Some dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, and they can't say anything, looking at Bao Ying's dead duck's hard mouth, Li Chongjin is clear in his heart, it must be this greedy cup that has missed a big event, and he is afraid that Chuzhou City will lose and will not have the face to meet the Son of Heaven, so he will take people out of the city to block Song.
"Put!"
Ling Su raised his hand and raised a finger to visually measure the distance of the Song army close to the city gate, raised his saber and shouted, and the catapult behind him instantly carried the stone projection, and a stone was full of a hundred catties, and smashed towards the Song army, directly smashing the Song people into a mess, running around, seeing that the Song people lost the direction of attack, Wang Quanbin hurriedly came out to sort out the army.
"The Che army obeyed the order and all retreated!"
Wang Quanbin thought to himself that this chariot army was a good weapon for Zhao Kuangyin to attack the city, and it must not be easily damaged on the rolling stones thrown by the Tang army.
"Xu Shangshu, after all, the stone-throwing in the city is limited, and when the stone-throwing is exhausted, General Bao may..."
"I don't need you to remind me! It will be a while to be able to drag it out! Don't the crossbowmen still have arrows in stock! ”
Xu Xuan probed wildly around the city, and even thought that if the bow and crossbow were exhausted, he would throw the knives of these soldiers down the city to block the Song people, and he must drag it until the Son of Heaven arrives in person.
"They've done their best! Shoot the arrows! ”
Wang Quanbin gave another order, and a group of heavily armored Song soldiers held shields, blocking in front of thousands of archers, and the archers behind them led arrows in a volley, slowly forcing Li Yingjun who was leaning against the city gate.
"Prepare your arrows! Protect them from the city! ”
"No!"
Seeing that Xu Xuan was going to command the battle situation in his place, Ling Su directly pressed the bow and crossbow commander on his side, and Xu Xuan, who saw it, was very annoyed, and directly wanted to grab the sword and kill Ling Su.
"I can understand the reluctance to open the city to save people before, but now you would rather abandon them in order to save these bows and arrows!"
"Xu Shangshu! Don't you know that my Chuzhou armament is backward, and the bows in this city are all left over from the old soldiers! If you exceed 100 feet, you won't be able to hurt the enemy in the slightest! ”
Ling Su looked at the angry Xu Xuan with a resolute face, while explaining, he began to feel aggrieved, since Bao Ying entered the city, he always reminded him to pass the book to Jinling, Guan Tianzi to improve the ordnance,
But this Bao Ying only brought a catapult, and said that the catapult improved by the Son of Heaven could kill the Song people, and he didn't care about the bows and crossbows, knives, guns and rusty weapons in the city, which caused Chuzhou to be passive everywhere now, and he couldn't even get a decent weapon to save people, which was also Bao Ying's own evil consequences.
When Xu Xuan heard this, he no longer had any more energy, he was lying on the city wall and beating his chest and feet, his hands were bleeding from beating the city wall too hard, looking left and right to find the last straw, but he found that there was nothing to save the lives of the people in the city, and at this moment, deep in his heart, there was only despair.
"Protect the General!"
The Song people shot arrows again, Li Yingbing retreated and protected Li Chongjin in front of him, Li Chongjin who saw it was bleeding in his heart, his 30,000 Li Yingjun, I am afraid that only half of them are left, and let the Song people shoot down like this, sooner or later they will see Li Yingbing die.
"Put it again!"
Zhao Kuangyin watched more and more people fall to the ground in Li Yingjun, but his heart became more and more angry, just because he was on an expedition to the south and the materials were limited, he wanted to leave more bows and crossbows to deal with Li Yu, but now he had to waste more than half of the bows and crossbows in Chuzhou, and he also gritted his teeth with hatred for Li Chongjin in his heart.
"Ling Su, really... There's no other way..."
Xu Xuan watched more and more people lying on the ground under the city, and even desperate to the point of wanting to die in the city, and saw the Song people's bows and arrows flying round after round, his heart was like a knife, and at this moment he only thought that the Son of Heaven could appear quickly to save their lives, and even save the life of Bao Laosi's idiot.
"O Son of Heaven! Why don't you come yet, Chuzhou will be gone! ”
Xu Xuan saw that the other party pushed the giant crash again, and knew that Zhao Kuangyin was annoyed and angry, and he would break Chuzhou City if he said anything today.
"What else do you expect from the Son of Heaven! If he hasn't come yet, it means that the Son of Heaven has already fled south with people! ”
"That's right! The Son of Heaven is coming, and it's coming early! Have pity on me and wait for these people who are working for him..."
Seeing that the generals had lost confidence in the Son of Heaven, although Xu Xuan wanted to scold, it could be seen that the miserable appearance of the city had no strength to refute it, but after listening to the words of these generals, he also had some doubts in his heart, according to the time of the message, the Son of Heaven should have arrived a long time ago, but even now a vanguard can't see it, is the Son of Heaven really the outside and weak on the inside, good at disguise, and led people to flee south...
However, just when everyone was almost desperate, the earth suddenly trembled, and even the hundred-pound stone that sank on the ground shook a little, Xu Xuan heard the sound of a strange movement, and hurriedly stood up and leaned into the distance.
"The voice! It's reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! ”
"Could it be that it is really the reinforcements of the Son of Heaven?"
"Impossible, Wu Yueguo's troops are not far from here, it must be Wu Yueguo!"
After all, Bao Ying sent an envoy to Wu Yueguo at that time, but with the Qian family's bloody documents, Wu Yueguo would definitely not die without help, but everyone saw that the army in the southeast was moving more and more from them, and they didn't dare to conclude in their hearts.
"Wu Yueguo is a black armor and red scarf, but this reinforcement doesn't look like Wu Yueguo's attire..."
At this time, the earth shook more and more violently, as if the ground was shaking, the Song people held the ordnance in their hands, and their hearts were mixed with anxiety, and they didn't dare to rush forward again, Zhao Kuangyin listened to this change and became more and more uneasy, and the generals on his side had never seen such a moving army.
"Alas... This expedition to the south to the Tang Dynasty... There's no hope..."
After all, Zhao Kuangyin has led the troops for several years, and this army is in a battle, even if he takes the elite to fight with them, the fish scale armor army will suffer heavy losses.
Only blamed Wang Quanbin for confidently assuring himself that the military report was correct, and he thought that Chuzhou could be broken with one blow, and if Chuzhou was broken, he could go all the way south to Pinghuaiyin, seize the Yang, and then capture the important town of Yangzhou in one fell swoop.
Even if Jinling was not taken, but it could occupy Yangzhou and look south of Jinling, and the Tang State would be defeated sooner or later, but unfortunately, this battle was fought, although tens of thousands of soldiers in Chuzhou were destroyed, but no substantial results were obtained.
"The banner of the army..."
Xu Xuan got up and stood on the high place of the city wall, his heart was beating more and more intensely, and he was even trembling all over, muttering in his heart that it was not Wu Yueguo's reinforcements, Wu Yueguo only had 10,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou, and he only scared and scared the Song people when he came, Zhao Kuangyin reacted, Chuzhou will still be destroyed sooner or later.
"It's the Son of Heaven! The Son of Heaven has come to our rescue! ”
The guards with good eyes climbed to a high place to look at the army's uniforms all the way, but when they saw the word "Li" floating on the army's flag, they were immediately overjoyed and shouted to the adults watching below.
"The Son of Heaven has not abandoned Chuzhou! Didn't leave me behind! Chuzhou is saved! We are saved! ”
Hearing the shouts of the people in the city, Li Chongjin couldn't suppress his emotions, and straightened up again and looked at Zhao Kuangyin defiantly.
"Zhao thief! Aren't you going to kill me! I, Li Chongjin, will stand here and kill you! ”
Zhao Kuangyin saw that this person looked like a dog fighting people, and he was extremely annoyed in his heart, and remembered that when he congratulated his biological mother on her birthday, this Li Chongjin actually cursed his biological mother Yang Shou was exhausted, so he wanted the army to move forward again, wanting to shoot Li Chongjin first, but at this moment, there was another movement on the left side of the army, and another army outflanked him.
"It's... Could it be..."
Wang Quanbin once led troops to attack the land of Wu Yue, so he naturally understood the military attire of Wu Yueguo, and looked at the army from afar, and saw the general with a long beard and a black face lifting the red iron halberd and shouting at the Song army.
"Wu Yueguo and Chuzhou advance and retreat together!"