Chapter 49: Defending the City (3)

Since ancient times, people in the world have thought that it is difficult to attack the city and easy to defend the city, regardless of the number of soldiers.

Even the soldiers of a hundred battles who have experienced the smoke of the beacon fire can't tell which one is more difficult, and most of it is attributed to the strength of the two sides or the courage of the soldiers.

Only some experienced generals understand that it is not difficult to attack the city and it is not easy to defend the city, and the fundamental reason lies in the morale of the soldiers, or whether the soldiers dare to fight to the death.

I have only heard of a fortified city that cannot be attacked for a long time, but I have not heard of a city that cannot be attacked.

The first wave of the offensive has not been successful, and the morale of both sides has been eliminated, so it is natural for the defender to have the advantage, and the follow-up mourning is just to add more lives.

But the strength of the pawn, the morale of both sides is inexhaustible for a long time, the besieging side will be able to stand firm at the head of the city sooner or later, the two sides are fighting just who can continue to breathe, attacking and defending the city and the two armies facing each other in the field are the same way, as long as the attacking side stabilizes its foothold in the enemy position, as long as the morale has not retreated, it is only a matter of time before the battle is won.

In today's world, except for Xiliang, there is wolf smoke everywhere every year, and the two Huaijiang rivers, Nanjing, Jilongzhong are not all peaceful, and the people's attacks and defenses come from the uprising of the previous dynasty in the storyteller's mouth, so they naturally can't see the doorway. Let's ask which overthrown dynasty has not lost the hearts of the people and lost its morale, and there is nothing to rely on under the general trend, and which soldier can mention swords, guns, swords and halberds to his father and fellow villagers, and a sentence of "death war" is at the head?

Even the people of Xiliang who have been in the land of wolf smoke for many years have not been exempt from vulgarity, and now the people in Yinzhou City are worried about the war, so they don't have a compassionate heart that their lives are at stake? Maybe the neighbor's sons and daughters are in the battle, they are all hard-working people, and they can't see white-haired people sending black-haired people.

But when it comes to one or two, no one is really worried about defeat or the destruction of the city.

The grassland and Qiang land have been fighting Xiliang for 200 years, and the dead can fill up thousands of miles of lakes, but not an inch of land has not been lost? It is not so much that ordinary people do not understand state affairs and war, but that they have confidence in their own soldiers.

In a simple thatched hut on Hui'an Street, an old man with white hair threw a few sticks of firewood into the stove, only to find that the stove had long since run out of open flames, leaving only a few broken sparks and a thin layer of ashes.

Just as I was looking for an open fire, I remembered that I used the last fire hyacinth in the house yesterday.

Leaning over, the old man went out of the house, and then came to the door of the neighbor's house next door, and knocked lightly twice.

Fang Fang tightened his clothes, the door opened, and when he looked inside, several old people in the surrounding neighborhood were there, and he walked in with a smile.

"Yo, why are we still together. The old man found an empty seat and sat down.

An old man sitting by the window held a broken bowl in his hand, took a sip of hot water, and whispered: "How can you still sleep here, the shouting and killing, hey, the shock makes the ears numb, but you still sleep sweetly." ”

Several old men laughed a few times, but they were not young, and there were a few coughs interspersed between the laughter.

"How can you still sleep, isn't it still a little hot in the bed, but I don't want to get up, it's too cold, hey, your home is really warm." Lao Zhangtou rubbed his hands and said.

"Everyone is here, can I still be stingy with a few firewoods?" took another sip of hot water, and his flat tone made people's hearts warm from the inside out.

An old man sitting on the kang suppressed his voice, his voice was a little low, and he suddenly interjected: "Why don't you think something is right, just now my doll had the courage to go to the city gate to look at it for half an hour, and after a while, it was said that there were no hundreds of people." ”

Lao Zhangtou stared at the beads in his eyes, and he didn't know where to mention the spirit, and said: "What's the matter, you still can't trust the Qingfu Army? A doll, who knows a fart, just looks at the city for a while, maybe it is the rotation of the defenders, only to see the up, not to see the down." ”

The old man with the bowl pursed his lips and persuaded, "Knowing that your Lao Zhang is a veteran of the Qingfu Army, let's just say a few words of homely things, blowing your beard and staring at whom, what does the little baby know?

The old man who was sitting on the kang before also said: "It is true that among the few of us, you have retired from the army, but it is not your turn to play prestige here." ”

When a few people around saw that this anger was coming up, they hurriedly made a round speech, and an old man with a kind face said: "Old Zhangtou, it's not that you don't know what Lao Liu means, it's just that you have nothing to say a few words, and you don't slander anyone, no, no." ”

The old man sitting on the kang said: "That's it, I'm really worried that this city is broken? Hey, if you don't believe anything else, I just believe that the Xiliang army can't afford to lose the battle!"

This time it was the turn of the old man to be silent.

Lao Zhangtou rubbed his hands a little stiffly, and said in a heavy tone: "It's all decades of old neighborhoods, let's not tell lies, we are a little too much, but ......"

Lao Zhangtou looked at the incomplacent expressions of several people, sighed, and then said: "The old man is really unconfident, you may just say a few words of worry, there must be no worry in your heart, I am different, I am really worried." ”

The old man glared at him and asked, "Old Zhangtou, are you really worried that you won't be able to beat it?"

Lao Zhangtou didn't answer, leaning against the wall without saying a word.

Several people were anxious, and they hurriedly asked, "What do you mean by that?" Several people also chimed in: "That's it, that's it." ”

Lao Zhang looked at everyone and said in a low voice: "You haven't fought, I don't know. The two armies are fighting, this shouting and killing is only available when they are rushing into battle, as soon as the two armies are fighting, who still has the strength to scream, and all the strength is used on the knife, but listen, how long has it been, how long has it been since there has been a shouting of killing?"

Everyone was still a little dazed.

Lao Zhangtou paused, and then said: "The shouting and killing sound is gone, which means that the two armies are in full swing, and the fight is inextricable, and no one has the time to shout and kill, but this is not a match, it is an attack and defense of the city." ”

"It shows that our Qingfu Army has not pressed the other party down from the city until now, not once. ”

Taking two steps back, Xu Liangsheng ventilated again and regathered his internal breath.

This was the fourth time he had regathered to breathe.

Xu Liangsheng didn't know how many robes had not yet arrived behind him, but he knew that the enemy army in front of him had entered the locust crossing, and he was panicked like a tide, and he couldn't kill it endlessly

The fierce battle has been for more than an hour, and the opponent's momentum has not diminished at all, and there is a faint sense of becoming more and more courageous, which makes Xu Liangsheng frightened.

More than an hour has passed, and the reinforcements still haven't felt it, and Xu Liangsheng also knows the reason, the defenders on all sides should no longer be able to draw soldiers, but the five thousand new barracks are almost exhausted!

At this moment, there was a noise behind him, and a bloodstained figure ran up to the city, colliding with Xu Liangsheng.

"Are you?" asked Xu Liangsheng.

"Nancheng, Nancheng......" The soldier was just about to speak, Xu Liangsheng saw that there was something wrong with his demeanor, so he quickly covered his mouth, lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

The soldier was also aware of his previous Meng Lang, and whispered to Xu Liangsheng: "Nancheng is broken......

Xu Liangsheng's pupils shrank suddenly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Nancheng is broken, what about Li Duwei?"

The soldier didn't care who was in front of him, and hurriedly said: "All the soldiers in Nancheng were killed, and only me and the two robes reported to the Quartet. ”

In this way, Li Duwei is naturally a mortal enemy.

Xu Liangsheng suddenly felt that one head and two were big, the southern city was broken, and the eastern city on his side couldn't resist it for long, could it be that Yinzhou was gone?

"Where are the enemy troops going?" asked Xu Liangsheng.

"I didn't have time to see it, eighty percent would go to Xicheng. ”

nodded, at this time, Xicheng is the top priority, and the enemy army should attack Xicheng together as soon as they enter the city.

But how many soldiers can there be at the head of Xicheng? Now it is less than 10,000 at most, and once it is faced with a trap, it will not take an hour, and the whole army of Xicheng will be completely lost.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from behind him: "Victory, victory!" Xu Liangsheng turned around sharply and found that the enemy troops had all withdrawn from the city, and all the surviving soldiers at this time were happy.

In an instant, countless soldiers fell to their knees, not caring about the flesh and blood under them, and they all shouted: "Victory!

Many soldiers are crying with their heads in their arms, they have not yet reached the age of the crown, they have just joined the army and experienced such a tragic bloody battle, their hearts are inevitably a little trance, they are not afraid of death during the war, it does not mean that they are not afraid of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

Xu Liangsheng carefully counted the soldiers at the head of the city and the city at this time, and there were less than a thousand people left, as long as the other party fought for half an hour, the city would inevitably be broken.

Without thinking about it, Xu Liangsheng's face was slightly stunned, and he said in a low voice: "It's not good." Xu Liangsheng hurriedly ran to the head of the city, and as expected, the enemy army turned around and retreated sharply to the right.

It's in the direction of Nancheng!

The southern city has been broken, and the northern city is still the same, but strangely there is no news yet.

At the gate of the northern city, the remaining more than 300 remnants of the army were surrounded and impassable, and the leading lieutenant stood in front of the formation, and the lancet in his hand was still dripping with blood.

"The Xiliang Army is nothing more than that, and it was killed in one go. A young general pursed his lips, very disdainful of the wind of Xiliang Suyong, although it took more than an hour, but in the end it was a wave of offensive to take down the city, although it lost a lot of people, but in the end it didn't lose too much.

The leader of the lieutenant is surnamed Xun, different from other lieutenants, he is Xundang's general, he almost starved to death on the street when he was a child, and was picked up by the old lady of the Xun family, and has always been raised as a righteous son, and he is also the most like Xundang of all the captains.

The same as Xundang, he is invincible to the death.

Unlike Xun Dang, he is a madman.

Everyone in the entire Qingfu Army is afraid of this madman, and there are many people who don't want to die, but not only does he not want his own life, except for the Xun family, he doesn't care about anyone's life.

In the Liangqiang War a few years ago, only one of the soldiers he led was killed, and even his subordinates were a little frightened of this cautious general.

A few years ago, he was a general, but Mo Tongshan really didn't dare to lead an army and a battalion for him, but fortunately, this kid wanted to help Xun Dang.

At this time, the 3,000 soldiers under him, except for himself and the 300 remnants of the army, all died at the head of the city.

And what about the other 7,000 centaurs?

grinning, Xun Liu, who had entered the place of death, laughed grandiosely, as if he had lost his mind.