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Fan Yunchao almost ran up the city wall, and then directly pounced on the nearest battlements, probing down the city to check the siege of the Mongolian army.

The vanguard of the Mengyuan army had arrived under the city wall and began to organize the siege of the city, the long ladder was just enough to reach the battlement of the city wall, and the Mengyuan soldiers used their knives to force the Tang prisoners to climb the long ladder, and every five or six captives were followed by a Mongolian soldier.

At this time, the archers who were shooting arrows under the city saw a head with a red tasseled silver helmet poking out of the battlements, and seeing that the helmet style should be a senior general of the Tang Kingdom, five or six marksmen immediately released arrows at Fan Yunchao's side at the same time.

The two shield soldiers hurriedly sealed the leather shields in their hands from both sides to the battlement, and at the same time, Huang Qian's eyes were quick, and he dragged back General Fan, only to hear the sound of banging seven or eight times, one shield soldier screamed and fell to the ground, and the other shield soldier saw that the general was out of danger, and hurriedly retracted sideways behind the battlement wall.

The arrows of this sneak attack were all carved arrows shot by the marksman in the Mengyuan army, which was powerful and heavy, and extremely accurate, one of the arrows actually shot through the one-inch thick cowhide shield, and directly pierced the left shoulder of the shield soldier, and immediately a soldier cat stepped forward and dragged away the shield soldier who was hit by the arrow in his left arm, and dragged him to the back of the corner tower to wrap his wounds.

And all the border generals on the city wall were afraid for a while, if General Fan was killed by an arrow just now, most of Dunhuang City would not be able to hold it.

Huang Qianhu shouted: "Pro-soldiers, pro-soldiers, where are they all dead? It's too dangerous on the city wall, send the garrison down the city wall quickly." ”

On the other side, the defenders at the head of the city did not want to shoot the Tang captives who were climbing the ladder, and without clear instructions from the superior officers, they not only did not stop the Tang captives from climbing up, but also loudly encouraged them to climb up quickly.

The ideas of the border army are very simple, they have already climbed to the top of the city, and if they can save one people, they can save one, as long as they kill the elite soldiers of the Mongolian army who follow them.

At this time, a Tang captive who was climbing fast had reached the battlement of the city wall, and a tall border soldier in the city carried him up, and at the same time, his border army comrades around him paid twelve points of attention, guarding against Meng Yuan's elite soldiers hiding behind the Tang captive.

As soon as the fourth Tang man stretched out his hand, he heard a wolf's howl, and a Mongolian soldier actually came first, stepped on the waist and shoulders of the fourth Tang man, jumped up directly from the ladder, and rushed straight to the battlements.

The two pikemen of the border army who were on guard at the battlement mouth stabbed the Mongolian soldier with lightning guns, and the Mongolian soldier actually moved a foot away in the air, avoided one of the shots, and was stabbed into the left lower abdomen by another spear.

As if he was not afraid of pain, the Mongolian soldier grabbed the gun of the border army, stepped on the battlements, waved the long knife in his hand and slashed at the hands of the border army holding the gun, the pikeman hurriedly retracted his front hand, and the back hand grabbed the gun and twisted it hard, sent it forward, and then let go.

The Mongolian soldier originally stood on the battlements with only one foot, and he could only stand on the battlements with the strength of the gun, but he didn't expect the opponent to abandon the gun so easily, and immediately lost his balance and was pushed off the battlements.

The elite soldier of the Mongolian army waved the long knife in his hand unwillingly, and took advantage of the situation to cut off the long ladder of the Tang prisoner he borrowed, and the two fell under the cold city wall with a scream, the elite soldier of the Mongolian army was below, and the Tang prisoner was on it, and they fell into a blur of flesh and blood, and it was difficult to distinguish each other.

The other Tang captives who climbed the city saw that someone had been rescued, and climbed even harder to the city, and the Meng Yuan elite soldiers hidden behind them also saw the intention of the border army to save people, and became even more crazy.

In the blink of an eye, there were Tang prisoners on more than 20 ladders who touched the battlements underneath, and the border army on the city had just rescued more than 30 people, and there were already Meng Yuan elite soldiers looking for an opportunity to jump on the city wall and fight with the border army.

The rescued Tang captives seemed to be greatly stimulated, some were pulled up to the city wall and lay motionless on the ground, while others ran around as if they were insane, which made the situation on the city wall even more chaotic.

The Mongolian soldiers who attacked the city wall were almost twenty people, and the border troops on the city fought with them with swords and guns, because these Mongolian soldiers were extremely powerful, and the border army could not drive them out of the city for a while.

Suddenly, the first Tang captive who was rescued let out a terrible scream, scratched his neck with both hands, and fell to the ground and began to convulse.

He gulped out blood, and there were a lot of soybean-sized, spindle-shaped insects in the blood, and those insects were extremely tenacious, and when they fell on the cold ground, the blood quickly coagulated, and they could even jump around, as long as they stuck to the military boots or clothes of the border soldiers, they began to drill into the clothes.

Fan Yunchao was already about to be carried down to the city by his own entourage, but he saw the blood worms beating on the ground at a glance, and roared: "It's ice leeches! These beasts, let me go!"

Before Mr. Huang Qian, who was carrying him, and the four followers made a fuss, Fan Yuchao's body suddenly burst out with huge strength, he kicked Mr. Huang Qian out, waved his arms hard, and hit the chins of his two followers, and the two followers flew out with a bone-cracking sound on their chins, which frightened the other two followers who hugged their legs and heads and immediately let go.

Fan Yunchao pulled out his saber with a loud sigh, rushed towards the second Tang captive who began to have a seizure, pierced his heart with a sword, and then pulled out his sword and rushed towards the remaining Tang captives who were rescued, slashing hard.

Fan Yunchao shouted while chopping: "Everyone obeys the order, go all out to counterattack, kill me regardless of whether they are enemies or enemies, and resolutely cannot let anyone go to the city! The Tang people who have been rescued must be killed, and those who disobey the order are regarded as treason." ”

All the officers and men of the border army were stunned by Fan Yunchao's words, could it be that General Fan was under too much pressure and went crazy? Is this still the same General Fan who is loyal to the monarch and loves the people and is tenacious?

Fan Yunchao stabbed another Tang prisoner to death with another sword and shouted: "It's too late to explain!

Huang Qian and his four followers carried out the general's order most resolutely, and immediately pulled out the Tang knife at their waist and cut it at the Tang prisoners, while more border soldiers rushed to the battlement, and immediately knocked down more than a dozen Mongolian soldiers who had already climbed to the top of the city.

The more than thirty rescued Tang captives saw that the general was suddenly about to kill them, and even those who had fallen to the ground struggled to get up and ran towards the stairs behind the city wall, as long as they rushed to the urn city, they still had a chance to escape.

Huang Qian had already slashed and killed two Tang prisoners, and seeing that except for the general, himself and the four relatives, the other border troops were unwilling to attack the Tang people who had been rescued, and seeing that the remaining twenty or so Tang prisoners were about to escape from the stairs behind the city wall, he roared angrily:

"Ding Yong, you take your people to block the stairs, don't let anyone live down the city, and if you can't hold it, everyone will be beheaded. ”

Ding Yong, the chief of the Shi, stiffened obviously, grabbed the dogskin hat on his head and threw it on the ground, and roared: "Brothers, you have all heard, the official has an order, behead the rescued people in the city!"

Ding Yong's face turned pale, and Lao Li Tou and Wang Xiaoer belonged to this side.

Old Li Tou asked loudly: "What chief, why did you kill them? They are all poor people! We just rescued them!"

Ding Yong had already swung his knife at a Tang captive, and shouted: "Old Li Tou, why don't you ask me less! Lao Tzu doesn't know! If you are told to kill you, you will be killed, what so much nonsense!"

This Shibian army saw that the commander had already made a move, as long as he went up and slashed the rescued prisoners.

These Tang captives were too weak, they had no food or clothing to survive for so many days, and soon they had no physical strength to escape, and they were killed before they could make a cup of tea.

When Wang Xiaoer cried and stabbed the hook into the chest of a teenager about his age, the boy grabbed the barrel of the gun and said "thank you" to him with tears in his eyes, and then collapsed.

Wang Xiaoer sat on the ground and cried loudly, he has always dreamed of being a border soldier, he can go into battle to kill the enemy and defend the country, so he trained very hard, this time the city defense army made up for the shortage of the border army, and he became the youngest border army in the battalion with excellent military quality.

But he didn't expect that the first time he killed someone was a fellow Tang person, how could he bear it, at this moment he wished to die was himself, not the young man.

Fan Yunchao stumbled back, his body was covered with blood, it was the blood of the Tang people, he threw the sword in his hand in a pool of blood, and said to Huang Qian and his relatives exhausted:

"Lao Huang, choose a brother who has no blood on his body, go to the city and mobilize all the doctors in the city to Wengcheng for me, and be on call at any time;"

"Fan Da, you don't have any blood on your body, go to the military city, transfer a sentry from the equipment battalion to send a sentry to the firefighters, and bring a large amount of fire oil and lime here to standby;"

"Ding Yong, you lead people to guard the stairs, without my order, no one can go down the city wall, violators will be killed!"

At this time, the border army on the city had repelled the first wave of the Mongol army's attack, and this time the Mongol army did not continue to attack, seeing that it could not attack the city wall, and immediately sounded the horn to let the soldiers retreat.

More than 1,000 corpses of Tang prisoners and more than 200 corpses of Mengyuan soldiers were thrown under the north wall of Dunhuang City.

The Mengyuan soldiers retreated very simply, directly outside the range of the bows and arrows of Dunhuang City, and they did not retreat with the Tang prisoners, but threw them into the ice field under Dunhuang City.

More than 5,000 Tang captives stood on the ice field blankly, not knowing how to advance or retreat, and some of them had to continue to climb the city, but they were forced by the border troops in the city with swords and guns, and could not climb the city;

In this way, the border army on Dunhuang City, the Tang prisoners in the ice field, and the Mengyuan army with bows and arrows at range, the three sides were deadlocked.

At this time, a man in white clothes and a white horse slowly walked out of the Meng Yuan army's formation, and he held a white flag high in both hands and drove the horse slowly towards the ice field, indicating that he had no malicious intent.

When the border soldiers in the city saw that he was coming alone, they did not fire their arrows, and the man in white drove his horse to a stop by the snow cliff on the edge of the ice field.

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