Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Smoke of Gunpowder - War
Around Hai County. As night fell, it slowly darkened. Torches were lit in the enemy camp, and the entire city gate was lit red.
"Li Gongzi!" Li Mu looked back and looked down, it was Chu Mu Daoren and others. He flew and landed directly beside the people of Chu Mu Dao. Xiao Gongzi hugged his fists and said, "Li Gongzi, what's the situation outside now?"
Li Mu's face was a little not good-looking, and he fixed his mind and said: "There are masters in the An family army who know how to arrange troops, this battle is not easy to fight!"
Xiao Gongzi's face was nervous, and he said, "As long as General Xue can hold on for a day, the family master and the heroes of the White Jade Gate will be able to come before noon tomorrow...... By the way, let's go up to the city wall first. So saying, he led the group up the stairs. The soldiers here seemed to know him, and no one stood in his way.
On the way, Li Mu didn't see the herringbone sword and Aoki, so he asked how their injuries were. Chu Mu Daoren's face was full of sorrow, and he said, "The toxin has been eliminated from the body, they are healing, and they will be safe soon." ”
Li Mu knew what was going on when he looked at his face: his martial arts were all lost after he was seriously injured, and the herringbone sword and Aoki were about to recover so quickly after being seriously injured, which made him feel that he was suffering from gains and losses, which was normal.
Ascending the city wall, Xiao Gongzi first greeted General Xue: "General Xue, I'll introduce you to a few friends......
General Xue looked to be in his forties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a sideways face, and a big fat man. No matter from which angle, it is impossible to see that he is a commander of the Chinese army. When Li Mu looked at him, he was also looking at Li Mu, and after looking at it for a long time, he suddenly patted his head, walked a few steps quickly to bow down, and said, "Xue Jingshan, the commander of the local garrison army of Hai'an Mansion, has seen Lord Duke!"
Chu Mu Dao and Chu An'an knew Li Mu's identity for a long time, and they didn't feel strange, but Xiao Gongzi was taken aback. He heard some time ago that there was a young archduke in the empire, but he never expected that this archduke was now in front of his eyes.
Li Mu lifted his forehead, hurriedly helped General Xue up, and said, "The empire is dead, what kind of duke am I? General Xue must not be like this." Now that the soldiers are in the city, I don't know what the general's strategy is to retreat from the enemy?"
General Xue looked melancholy, looked at the An Jiajun who had already lined up in formation under the city, and lowered his voice and said, "Raohai County is in danger!"
The crowd was silent.
After a while, many martial arts people came to the city wall one after another, and these people came to help in the battle. The herringbone sword and Aoki who healed the wounds in the inn also came, and Aoki also brought more than two dozen men with rough shapes.
Suddenly, a mournful roar spread, and everyone looked at the source of the sound, and turned to the city from the source of the sound, and the general who had just gone out of the city to meet the enemy had already been in a different place. The enemy general pointed obliquely at the tower with a halberd in his hand, and laughed loudly: "Who else dares to fight with me......!"
"General, please allow the last general to go out of the city to take the head of the enemy general!" On the city wall, a general stepped forward to ask for his life. General Xue's face was pale, the General Zhang who had just died in battle and the General Fu in front of him were both old subordinates who had been with him for decades. His big hand pressed heavily on the general's shoulder: "I'll beat the drum for you myself!"
"General Xie!" General Fu got up and strode down the city wall, and after a while, the city gate opened, and General Fu walked straight towards the enemy general with a spear in hand.
"Knock! knock!"
On the city tower, General Xue personally raised his arms, and the drums shook loudly, each of which seemed to hit the deepest part of people's hearts, making people's blood boil.
Li Mu clenched his fists and stared intently at the confrontation under the city. At this moment, there seemed to be some changes in his heart......
What is war?
War is the eternal that makes history, and death symbolizes the beginning of rebirth.
The history of the Great Xia Empire has come to an end, and it is time for a new regime to rescue the Li people and give the people a beginning of rebirth.
"General Fu!"
I don't know whose mournful roar pulled Li Mu back to reality from his thoughts, and the enemy general under the city wall laughed loudly, and the laughter was transmitted far away to the city wall. In less than two quarters of an hour, two generals of the Xue family army had died under the enemy general's halberd, and everyone in the city was in a bad mood.
And just now, there was a case of knife killing of refugees in the city. It was caused by a refugee's disturbing remarks and the execution of him in public by the general in charge of control. The situation subsided, but the panic of the refugees intensified.
Everything is developing viciously.
Finally, in the middle of the night, An Jiajun launched the first round of charge. More than a dozen ladders were erected on the city wall at the same time, and enemy soldiers swarmed like ants. At first, the archers were effective at killing enemies, but as the enemy continued to rush to the bottom of the walls, the archers lost their effectiveness. Coupled with the fact that enemy trebuchets constantly inflicted damage on the soldiers on the walls, the first waves of enemies soon rushed to the walls.
Li Mu persuaded Chu An'an to escort the old man Chu Mu back to the inn to rest, keep him as a new force, and wait for dawn to replace him, Chu An'an nodded and agreed. Just where their backs disappeared, Xiao Gongzi seemed to have just climbed up from purgatory, and his whole body was stained red with blood. He didn't know where to pick up two long knives, and with a wave of his hands, he kept reaping the lives of the enemy soldiers who climbed the walls.
Li Mu sighed and drew his Tang knife, he almost closed his eyes to kill an enemy soldier who climbed the city wall. Then, as time went on, he no longer knew how many people he had killed, his heart was cold, and he felt that he was now a machine, running cold. He knew that everyone he killed had parents, wives and children, but if he didn't kill them, these people would follow An Jia's orders to kill everyone in the city after the city was breached!
Settle down!
The cause of this war is to settle down!
Since there is going to be a war, let's fight!
After a night of fighting, there was a river of blood under the city walls. Slowly the day dawned, and the east was gradually shrouded in the red sun, as if echoing the tragedy of Raohai County, and the sky and the earth were blood-red.
Li Mu dragged his tired body back to the inn, threw himself on the bed, and sat up to meditate and pranayama with fatigue......
The war went on, and it was just after noon, and I don't know who shouted, but everyone looked in the direction that the man had pointed out...... A small blurry black dot came from far and near, and it was gradually discernible that it was a cavalry of hundreds of people, rushing towards this side at an extremely fast speed.
Reinforcements!
An excited punch from a general slammed into the city walls.
"It's reinforcements!"
"Reinforcements are coming! Brothers, pick up your blades and kill them back!"
"Kill!!!Kill!!"
The drums shook loudly, and all the soldiers waved their long knives as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the fatigue of the night was swept away, and for a time the enemy army was defeated and retreated. Even, General Xue was ready to order the city gate to be opened and go out of the city to meet the attack.