Chapter 326: Blood and Fire (1)
When Feng Qingyun walked into the granary, Qi An knew what he wanted to say from the fear and despair written on his face.
"City ...... It's broken," Feng Qingyun said with trembling lips, "The east gate and the north gate have fallen, and the south gate can't hold out for long, only the west gate has not moved, and it is estimated that the enemy's ambush is waiting there." Ten times or more enemy troops poured in through the gates, and we're done......"
Through the thick walls of the granary, the earth-shaking shouts of war drums and horns could still be heard, and the neighing of people and horses made Qi An unable to think. Although I knew that there would be only a moment when the city would be broken, when I really faced it, it was still terrifying.
"We have to run!" said Ren Wen, who was not very old when he joined the army, and his rudimentary armor was extremely loose on his body. "We're just soldiers guarding the granary, and I don't want to be buried with that stupid old general. β
"The general is dead," Feng Qingyun's gaze was as white as a dead man, "when he first broke through the city, he rode a horse and rushed towards the enemy troops who entered the city with a big sword. One of the enemy men with a hammer greeted him, and in just one turn, the general's head was smashed, his brain as yellow as his beard. β
Finally, he added, "I saw it with my own eyes." β
"Isn't this it," Ren Wen immediately shouted, "The general is dead, and no one can control us at this time!
After that, he asked Feng Qingyun, "Feng Qingyun, did you say that?" and then he asked the other eight brothers, "Did you say that?"
Qi An looked at Feng Qingyun, but Feng Qingyun avoided his gaze: "Master Shi, you are the biggest here, please give an order!"
So Qi An looked at all the brothers again, a total of ten granary defenders. Everyone returned the gaze with more longing.
The granary was originally a serious forest, but in the three days since the defense of the city, too many people have died. Under the continuous transfer, there are only ten people left in front of them who are still guarding the granary.
"Give the order! Ren Wen's eyes were the most intense.
"I think what Ren Wen said is right, give the order, Master Shi. One brother said.
"Whatever you order, I will listen to you. Feng Qingyun said.
Everyone urged in unison: "Master Shi!
Qi An took a deep breath. After a long time, he said:
"Ren Wen and Feng Qingyun go, find me all the horses we can find, and we will break through from the West Gate. All the others immediately set fire to all the grain and grass, and must not leave it to the enemy. β
The crowd cheered, and then they did as they could. Qi An also breathed a sigh of relief.
The horses were quickly found, and the weapons and armor were abundant, and for three days of defending the city, people continued to die, so the equipment was empty.
When Qi An led people to ride out of the granary, a scorching heat wave struck suddenly, not only from the burning granary behind him, but also from the entire ignited city.
The house not far away seemed to be full of flames, and the light of the fire reflected the night red, and everything under the starry dome could be forgotten clearly.
The fighting was close at hand, and the defenders of the city were engaged in street fighting with the enemy.
As soon as Qi An and his party appeared from the granary, someone immediately shouted at them: "Over there, come here and help us!"
Qi An looked over, it was Captain Wang, and he and several brothers were firmly surrounded by dozens of enemy troops.
The young lieutenant did not give in, and he and his brethren fought each other back to back, his long knife slashing left and right, and the enemy's wooden spears were broken.
Qi An found that the captain's brocade cloak seemed to bulge high, and when he looked closely, he found that it was actually lifted by a half-cut spear pierced into the captain's shoulder.
The enemy army also discovered Qi An and them, and immediately dozens of people rushed towards them with red eyes and shouting.
Feng Qingyun was about to go crazy at this time, and he shouted:
"Let's go, Lord Shi, we'll only die if we go to save them. β
Qi An stared closely at the captain who was still dying, his right hand clenched the hilt of the sword, and his knuckles turned white from too much force.
"Let's rush to the west gate, rush with me!" he couldn't believe it was coming out of his mouth.
Qi An rode his horse and galloped, and there seemed to be fighting in every alley, some were sporadic battles with the enemy, and some were simple slaughter.
Qi An saw the enemy soldiers rushing into the houses, the men were killed on the spot, and the women were stripped naked and dragged out of the door by their hair. When some enemy soldiers saw Qi An and his party, they immediately screamed and rushed towards them with long knives.
Qi An pulled out his long sword and shouted: "Death to those who stand in my way!"
An enemy soldier stabbed Qi An on horseback with a spear. Qi An swung his sword and slashed, and the wooden spear was broken in two along with the man's arm.
The other long knife looked at Qi An's thigh fiercely, and the armor blocked the attack of the long knife, but the leg bone under the armor was almost cut off by the violent impact. Qi An screamed miserably, and at the same time sent the sword into the man's throat.
Fortunately, the horse's speed had been raised, and it was quickly out of the fight.
Qi Anqiang endured the sharp pain in his thigh, and looked back, the bright fire went straight to the sky, the tall city tower was burning, half of the eaves had collapsed, and the oppressive city walls around him seemed to be roasted dark red by the fire, like an ancient picture scroll stained with blood.
On the side of the road, a soldier with two arms cut off collapsed on the ground and howled: "Motherββ!"
There was a long trail of blood behind him, and I don't know how he got here, but the man was crying like a baby.
When turning a laneway, the road ahead was suddenly crowded with dozens of enemy soldiers, Qi An never thought that the enemy army had broken through here, if he held on to the reins at this time and slowed down the horse's speed to find his way, he was undoubtedly looking for death.
He yelled, "Let's not stop!"
The enemy was caught off guard by this sudden attack, and the first two were knocked away by Qi An's horse, and the shattering of bones and the collision of armor seemed to ring in their ears.
Qi An swung his sword and slashed off a person's helmet, and the guy was so frightened that he hugged his head and squatted on the ground. With another backhand, the other's head was slashed high and flew high.
A series of slashes slashed out of the distance, and the horse's speed inevitably slowed down, and his eyes were full of oncoming spears and spears.
The desire to survive has never been as strong as it is at this moment, Qi An's head is blank, and he only knows that he is frantically waving his long sword and kicking the horse's belly desperately with his feet.
By the end, the helmet had been lost, and the sword had been swung out of his hand, and he didn't know where it had fallen.
His head was buzzing, he didn't know what to think or what to see, he only knew that he instinctively roared, instinctively waved his hand that had lost his sword, and instinctively rode his horse desperately. Everything, along with the whole world, seems to be unimportant, and all that remains is the instinct to survive.
When Qi An came back to his senses, there was no enemy in front of him, the horse was still galloping, and in front of him was an empty street.
Qi An felt that he was about to cry, he couldn't believe that he had really rushed out.
Yes, the shouts of killing have fallen behind, and the scorching heat wave is gradually leaving.
He looked around, and there were only four horsemen around him, and one of the brothers had died, but his feet did not break away from the stirrups, and he was dragged by the frightened war horse, and his head kept hitting the bluestone floor, and the thud was loud.
"What about the others?" Qi An asked loudly.
One of them was crying, the other was still dazed, and the slightly sober one said with a crying voice: "I don't know, I don't know ......"
Qi An remembered at this time that Feng Qingyun's war horse seemed to be broken or had its legs cut off at that time, and he knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and Feng Qingyun on horseback fell to the ground, and immediately several spears stabbed into his heart.
And Ren Wenlai has always been by his side, when a spear stabbed at him, it was Ren Wen who held the head of the spear and saved his life, but more spears pierced into Ren Wen's ribs at the same time, and his whole person was picked off the horse.
As for the rest, he simply didn't have time to pay attention.
The night wind seemed to grow stronger, and the fire demons that burned the city laughed louder in the wind, whirring and whirring, and the flames were more intense, and the collision of weapons and the screams of people before death also increased their volume. Whirring and whirring, the evil laughter makes the scalp tingle and creepy.
The sharp pain suddenly poured into his body, and Qi An realized that he was injured, two of his fingers were cut off at some point, and his ankles seemed to have been pierced by a spear, and blood was seeping out of the cloth shoes and constantly leaching out.
Once you make up your mind to escape, you can't stop anything, as the saying goes, the defeat is like a mountain, maybe because there are people like yourself.
"Where are you going?" a voice startled Qi An, "Quickly stop Lao Tzu! Return to your position, the city is here! The city is dead!"
A tall figure on horseback blocked the path of several people, and the cold glow emanating from the steel knife he held made people chill from the bottom of their hearts.
It was the Warlord, and the sword in his hand was used to cut deserters.
At this moment, a stray arrow from nowhere was shot into the Overseer's neck, and the Overseer looked less terrible than before, so he was dragged down by the other three granary defenders and cut to pieces.
Qi An watched all this silently, he thought that the blood-stained yellow sand horse leather shroud was his best destination, but he didn't expect that he would still be a deserter.
There were no more enemies and warlords on the rest of the road, the west gate was already close at hand, and a crowd of frightened sheep gathered under the city, what kind of ambush would wait behind this quiet city gate?
Qi An knew that there would definitely be ambush soldiers, besiege the city on three sides, and let one side go.
This is a truth that everyone understands, but no one uses the courage to fight countless enemies, and the enemies in the darkness outside the city may be more deadly, but they can make people not too desperate and lucky.
The pitiful dozens of defenders on the tall city tower looked at Qi An and his party covered in blood in horror, and asked loudly:
"What are you going to do?"
Qi An replied loudly: "Quickly open the city gate and lower the drawbridge, the city is already broken, and it is still too late to escape." β
Someone replied: "The general has an order, not to open the city!"
"The general is dead!" Qi An shouted, "and countless enemy troops are coming, and there will be no chance if it's too late!"
As he was talking, another group of more than a hundred people rushed over, led by a loud shout at the city gate defenders:
"Hurry up and open the door!
Before he could finish speaking, another group of cavalry arrived, also shouting to open the door.
The defenders on the tower finally couldn't hold on, and as the winch creaked, the drawbridge was being lowered and the gates were being opened.
Among the gathered people, a woman holding a crying baby trembled and asked Qi An:
"Master Jun, where are you going?"
Qi An didn't answer, and he didn't know how to answer.
The woman asked again, "Master Jun, you will protect us, right?"
A man next to her cursed at the moment:
"They're running for their lives, these bastards, they're going to leave us on our own!"
Qi Anxin was in pain for a while, he was determined to swing his sword for the people in the city, but when the city was broken, he swung his sword because of fear and himself.
Behind the wide open gates, the drawbridge, which was slowly lowering, suddenly came to a halt, and the soldiers on the walls cried out in horror:
"Stuck! The winch is stuck!"
There was a sudden scream, curse and cry under the city, and no one expected that at this time, the drawbridge would be stuck.
If you can't put down the suspension bridge, no one can get out!
The soldiers on the walls were trying to cut the ropes when a rain of arrows rose from the city and fell towards the gates.
Countless screams came out one after another, and when Qi An came back to his senses, there were already countless people who were screaming from arrows lying around.
But there was no sound on the city walls, and the soldiers on it were all dead in the rain of arrows.
Everyone was in despair, and they were not looking back behind them in horror, as if the enemy army was about to arrive at any moment.
At this time, in the night sky more than ten feet above everyone's heads, there was a strange sound.
The voice was shrill and piercing, as if there was a large, invisible mouth sucking in all the air around it.
Everyone was startled by this anomaly and looked at the night with their heads held high.
Suddenly, something fell out of the night sky and fell to the ground.
It was a young man who was screaming and swearing.
Then something fell next to the young man, a piece of wood in the shape of a human.
After a while, something fell again.
It turned out to be a giant white dog the size of a cow!!