Chapter 28: Breakout
At about half past eight in the evening, there were only two and a half hours before the mission was completely over.
The Tubo army, which had eaten and drunk enough, and even digested it a little, finally crossed those cannon fodder and officially launched an attack on Qiuzi City.
Coincidentally, there is a full moon in the sky tonight.
The bright moonlight illuminates everything on the earth, and it is a good weather suitable for both offense and defense to fight and die.
Almost at the same time, the sound of trumpets outside the city and the sound of war drums inside the city were resounding at the same time.
In the midst of such sounds, tens of thousands of Tibetans finally officially dispatched and launched their first attack; The people on the city wall stood up from the ground in unison, ready for battle again.
And whether it is the offensive or defensive side, it is extremely clear that under this attack, it is estimated that it will be the time to completely break the city.
While clenching a horizontal knife in his hand, Zhang Tiezhu shouted at Hu Biao, who had just finished writing his own family letter:
"Don't write the doll surnamed Hu.
Now go find a better place and bury these letters.
After the city is broken, you really can't do it, so let's come down! You are still young and strong, and those Tibetans will not necessarily kill you, and you will have a chance to survive as slaves. ”
If Hu Biao and the others had heard such a statement a day ago, they would have not hesitated.
will decisively choose to surrender to win this unlikely chance to survive.
After all, as long as they get through until the mission time comes, they can go back.
But now, after hearing the phrase 'surrender registration', these dicks of the modern plane, when they glanced at each other, could see some of the guilt that had somewhat fooled the Anxi army veterans just now.
More of them are some resoluteness, those who intend to go out and fight to the death.
Surrender to these Tibetans, or to their lackeys? How big of a face do they have to be to be qualified to accept their own surrender?
In the following time, after Hu Biao signaled to Lao Yang, Xu Feng and a few others beside him, he turned around and trotted.
Intending to find a place in the city, he buried a bag full of family letters and relics, and immediately returned to fight with the Tibetans.
Ironically, just after these people who were originally greedy for life and afraid of death, their psychology has undergone some earth-shaking changes, and they have finally changed from being greedy for life and afraid of death to being generous to death.
Things have actually undergone some new changes.
As they turned around and were about to trot, ready to bury the letters quickly, and then hurry back to die in battle, a voice came from afar:
"Stop, stop at a fast speed~"
When I looked back, I saw that it was three Guo Shuai's own soldiers dressed as old soldiers, and they were running all the way in a hurry under the impact of armor.
In their hands, one of them was carrying a package.
After running there, without waiting for his breath to even, the mouth of one of the guards led by him said:
"Guo Shuai has an order, ordering the second cavalry team of the Xuange battalion to immediately retreat from the city wall and prepare, and when the war drums at the head of the city sound, count the hundreds, and immediately break through the city."
Under Guo Shuai's prestige for many years, Zhang Tiezhu and other veterans of the second cavalry team of the Xuange Battalion immediately received the order:
'喏~'
But after receiving the order, there was a very puzzled expression on his face; Mainly in the current situation, such an order from Guo Shuai seems too strange.
But it didn't take long for them to figure it out.
After the guards led by him finished speaking, the three of them handed over a big burden in their hands to Hu Biao and the others.
Waiting for Hu Biao, who was at a loss, they subconsciously caught each of these, and there were more than a dozen pounds of packages.
The guard, who was the leader, said in more detail: "After Guo Shuai heard your plan, he felt that the idea of bringing some thoughts to his family to go back was quite good.
In order to defend the land for the Han family, the Anxi army can die here today.
But the brothers are all raised by their parents, and it is also a just thing to bring a family letter and a little hair to the family before they die.
Therefore, Guo Shuai also revised their plans according to the situation, thinking that they could not put their hopes on the luck of these Tubo people to stay under the knife.
You have to take the initiative to kill in order to have a chance to survive.
Pay attention to listen, a section of the city wall in the south of the city is afraid that it will not last long, Guo Shuai has sent people to gather a group of camels and war horses, once the city wall falls, he will personally lead the cavalry out of the main gate to attract the attention of some Tubo people.
Then you will light the oil on the tails of the camels and horses, and drive them through the enemy in front of you, and kill them together.
Then you must find a way to survive and escape back to Datang with these burdens.
In the baggage here, there are some family letters, relics, etc. of our Anxi Army, as well as a handwritten letter from Guo Shuai to His Majesty, so no matter how difficult it is, please please. ”
After saying that, several guards solemnly clasped their fists and saluted at Zhang Tiezhu, Hu Biao and other survivors of the Second Cavalry Team.
Seeing this, Hu Biao and others hurriedly returned the salute......
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"Nurse, tie me up a little tighter." Facing Feng Rui, Hu Biao said so.
Taking advantage of the fact that those Tubo people had not yet reached the city, the second cavalry team retreated to the foot of the inner wall in the south of the city with those burdens, and prepared here.
All things considered, yesterday there were more than 50 people in the second cavalry team, and now there are 27 people in total.
Among them, there are a total of 14 veterans such as Zhang Tiezhu, Liang Daya, and One-eyed Dragon, and after counting Hu Biao, there are a total of 13 netizens.
Relying on these people, they need to fight their way through the Tibetan army.
It has to be said that it is an almost impossible task to escape the pursuit of the opponent.
But when it comes to the sake of the present, not to mention the old soldiers, even Hu Biao and they are surprised by their inner peace, and they have a little bit of 'planning in the people, and the success is in the sky'.
And their preparation is now as perfect as possible.
Everyone found a war horse, including Hu Biao and other 13 rookies, looking for some relatively docile mares, which are easier to control.
On the saddle, hang some necessary water bags and millet dry cakes so as not to starve to death and die of thirst in the vast Gobi.
In addition, the personnel who did not have armor took off a piece of armor from their comrades who died in battle and put it on their bodies.
And the old men armed themselves to the teeth, except for bows and arrows, long-handled horses, and one-handed shields; Zhang Tiezhu was behind him with a short horizontal knife, and he carried a total of three.
The most important thing is that after they got together, they seized the time to develop a tactic.
Specifically, in addition to relying on fire horses and camels to impact the enemy formation, Zhang Tiezhu and other old soldiers discussed it for a while, and then put out an arrow array.
With the team Zheng Zhang Tiezhu as the arrow, 14 veterans are in the outermost periphery, wrapping 13 netizens in it.
On the one hand, they are more combative, and on the other hand, they are kind-hearted, holding a simple idea that if they can live, let these young people live.
And a group of netizens, instinctively, put Hu Biao in the center and surrounded him.
After all, according to the system, if Hu Biao, a trainee commander, died, they would also be wiped out.
In addition, there are a total of four big packages, and now they are all on Hu Biao's body, these things can be said to be very important and cannot be lost.
As for why there is such a thing as 'bundling' above, it is because Hu Biao and other rookies are still a little pressing, and they have ridden war horses for a day, and the level is very limited.
If the horse runs a little faster, it will definitely fall off the horse.
And once in the process of breaking through, he was thrown off his horse, and there was no need to think much about the result.
So in desperation, he could only adopt such a stupid method: tie his lower body to the war horse with a rope, so as not to be thrown off the horse in the bumps.
After hearing Hu Biao's request, Feng Rui pulled the rope in his hand hard, and then tied the rope into a dead knot, which was a complete stop.
And just like that, after everyone was ready.
I just waited with my excited mind, waiting for the time to pass a little bit.
During this period, looking at the city wall in front of me, which was already a little crumbling, some wounded soldiers removed all the supporting logs.
Silently listening to the shouts and killing in my ears getting louder and louder, I saw more and more Tubo people rushing onto the city wall.
Then, with the Tang army who tried to drive them down, the two sides fought desperately.
Finally, with a muffled sound that resounded through the battlefield, a section of the city wall not far in front of them suddenly fell, burying dozens of people who were still fighting in the loess at once.
Huge amounts of dust flew up, making it impossible to see the surroundings at all.
It was also at this time that the war drums at the head of the city began to sound; Instinctively, Hu Biao and others began to count the numbers.
It was only when the count reached 30 that there were shouts of slaughter and the sound of horses' hooves in the direction of the city gate.
Suddenly, the sound of trumpets and the sound of horses' hooves sounded in many places outside the city, and they began to converge in the direction of the city gates.
Presumably, Guo Shuai has already taken the lead in killing them according to the plan to attract the attention of the Tubo people.