Chapter 127: King Zhibi Tang died in battle
Dengfeng is not a prominent city, but because it is close to Shaolin Mountain, the people are still martial, and there are many strong people. Even if the shop is running in the hall, he knows how to play a few similar Shaolin long fists, which is worthy of the name of the hometown of martial arts.
Shaolin has been rooted in Shaomuro Mountain for hundreds of years, and its operation is deeply rooted. The villagers near the left are either Shaolin disciples or Shaolin tenants, and they are more or less implicated. This time he ascended to the heights, and he really responded to the call, and in a short period of time, he ran a city to the point that it was impenetrable.
According to this city, the confidence of the Shaolin people has increased greatly, especially the lay disciples who have tried their best to help, and they are even more overjoyed. They are in the place, or they are powerful or squires, although they have the experience of hugging each other, but they never know that it is such a wonderful feeling to respond to every call and make sure to do it.
Even if you don't know anything about the military, everyone knows that the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, and the demon lord is going on an expedition, and he will become a tired soldier when he arrives in the city. When the time comes, they look at the city and sigh, their morale plummets, if they want to storm the city, even if they use their flesh and blood, the more than 10,000 defenders in the city can make the city's defense impenetrable! When the Chuzhou iron cavalry is defeated and frustrated, the defenders in the city can go out in one go, and the demon lord and the Chuzhou soldiers will be wiped out under the city in a battle!
With this big victory, it is enough to suppress the current arrogant situation of the Red Turban Army of the Demon Sect!
Some lay disciples who were usually ambitious had already begun to imagine that the Demon Lord of the Labor Expedition was defeated by Dengfeng, and Liu Futong, the great Kou of the Red Turban Army in the North, was besieged by the Yuan army in Bianliang. At this time, it is a God-given opportunity for the righteous martial arts to raise an incident and restore the Han Dynasty, taking advantage of the morale of the Shaolin army, it is possible to lead the army to attack Luoyang, where the Yuan army is weak!
This strategy is not the only idea, but gradually spread in Dengfeng City. And more and more troublesome. Even those who have a heart have begun to calculate at a glance, the monks in the Shaolin Temple are all outsiders who are not stained with vulgar dust, and this army of more than 10,000 people naturally has to be entrusted to the command of a respected lay disciple. If you can make a great achievement because of this opportunity, this is a great achievement in the world, and it is more decent than the gangsters and tyrants in the world!
Don't say it is unpredictable, if it were not for the Shaolin warrior monks who helped the Tang King a few hundred years ago, there would not be a prosperous Tang Dynasty in the future! In the past, Shaolin was not a faction to help the Tang King, but now it is a joint faction, even if it cannot exceed that Li Shimin. It's not hard to compare!
As the story spread. There is no sense of urgency for the coming of the great war in Dengfeng City, and many people even desperately hope that the Demon Lord will come soon, so as to paint a heavy stroke on their strategy for the world! However, the Demon Lord has been stationed in Yuncheng for a long time. is obviously afraid of the more than 10,000 troops in Dengfeng City. The lay disciples couldn't help but complain secretly in their hearts. throughout the city. Contempt for the Demon Lord gradually permeated people's daily conversations, and even the women raised in the boudoir knew that there was a scum in the martial arts.
The Demon Lord does not come, but the agricultural time comes. The time waits for no one. The thoughts of those Zhuang Ding tenants who were gathered by force gradually became anxious, it was too far for them to compete for the world and compete with the Tang King, and a few acres of land at home was all they had. The lay disciples traveled back and forth between the temple and the city every day, preparing to seek support in order to occupy a prominent position in the army in the future, but many of the defenders of the city laid down their weapons and fled back to the countryside every day to take up their hoes.
Not to mention the mutation of people's hearts in Dengfeng City, on the rivers and lakes, the rumors about Shaolin's capture of King Yin Ye's plot to slay the dragon knife have long been rampant, and there is a tense situation where mountains and rains are coming.
To Zhao Yu's surprise, the rest of the major factions that have always maintained a tacit understanding with Shaolin also remained silent this time, as if they had listened to the rumors in the rivers and lakes, and their attitude was quite interesting.
He didn't know that if Zhou Zhiruo mentioned it a little, Ding Minjun's whimsical ideas had already made the major factions suspicious. It is not surprising to have this attitude, the reason why it is not triggered is mostly because of the intention of letting the demon lord fight with Shaolin first.
In any case, it is always a favorable situation. The rest of the factions stayed out of the matter, and Zhao Yu was more sure to fiddle with Shaolin.
Chuzhou Iron Cavalry from static to dynamic, galloping north. Because Liu Futong attracted the Yuan army in Bianliang, he did not encounter any obstacles along the way. In the middle of the day, they rushed to the outside of Dengfeng City.
At this time, due to the long wait for the Demon Lord to arrive, the defense of Dengfeng City was far less tight than the original, and the morale was even looser. Many defenders at the head of the city took advantage of the rare good weather, washed their clothes and picked them up with weapons to dry, and from a distance they looked like flags waving in the wind. There were also many defenders who were ready to sneak home to take care of the fields on the tail of the farm.
When they heard the report from the sentry in front, the scattered defenders rushed to the city, and saw a black line surging between heaven and earth, followed by the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves, even if they stood on the head of the city, they felt a shock under their feet, and suddenly felt their scalp numb.
When I saw the iron horse shooting towards the city wall like a torrent, some people couldn't help but exclaim at the moment, and they couldn't even hold the weapon in their hands and fell down!
Zhao Yu sat in the rear, and Fu Youde led the cavalry to rush directly under the city gate, and near the city wall, the black armor torrent suddenly parted and passed around the city. Immediately, well-trained knights raised their bows and arrows and shot at the head of the city!
The defenders piled up on the top of the city saw the arrows coming, and their instinctive reaction was to retreat sharply, but the not wide city wall was almost full of people, and this push became chaotic, not to mention how many people were hit by the arrows, there were already dozens of people who were squeezed off the city with a wail and fell heavily to the ground!
The Chuzhou Iron Cavalry circled the city for a week, and then rushed into the distance, lined up the formation again, and was ready to go. In less than half an hour, the defenders at the head of the city had already lost hundreds of people! At this time, not to mention ordinary Zhuang Ding, even a lay disciple who was accustomed to seeing blood and was bent on rivaling Li Shimin, was also shocked by the unstoppable momentum of the Chuzhou Iron Cavalry, and he cowered on the arrow battlements at the head of the city and did not dare to poke his head out.
A real war is more unexpected than it was imagined. The Chuzhou Iron Cavalry is not tired of soldiers under the city, and the cavalry shooting is even more deterrent than the close hand-to-hand combat siege, as for the demon lord Zhao Wuxian, he has been guarding the big rope erected high outside the city, and he is not a brave person who is rumored to be a tiger.
Chuzhou Iron Cavalry went back and forth around the city for three weeks, accumulating more than ten rounds, and the entire Dengfeng city wall was buried by arrows!
At dusk, the Chuzhou army collected its troops, and the soldiers shouted: "Attack the city at noon next day!"
After the Chuzhou army withdrew and set up camp a few miles away, the defenders at the head of the city gradually summoned up their courage and removed the stray arrows that had fallen from their heads and bodies, only to find that the entire city was covered with arrows, and there was no place to stand! Looking at the outside of the city, the land close to the city wall had been completely smoothed by iron hooves, and the dozens of people who had been squeezed down the city wall had already become a puddle of rotten meat on the ground, and they could no longer see the appearance of people!
It turns out that this is war!
The defenders who are not only from ordinary households, even if they are the leaders of hundreds of Shaolin lay disciples, are also trembling at this time, and they can't speak!
In the distance, the Chuzhou army camp had already smoked, and some energetic cavalry still rushed out of the camp, roaring and rushing to the city, throwing a few arrows from afar. It was impossible for these arrows to reach the city walls, but the crowd had already become frightened birds, and when they saw the arrows coming, they spontaneously fell to the ground and dodged the arrows. Such a senseless provocation, although it could not pose a real threat to the lives of the people in the city, but just when everyone was dodging, several people fell on the sharp arrow edge by mistake and died.
The morale of the head of the city fell to the bottom, and at this time, someone should stand up to boost morale, and at that moment, an old and serious Shaolin lay disciple came out of the crowd and said loudly: "Don't be frightened by the demon lord's bluff, his round of siege of the city will be in vain after all, and he has lost tens of thousands of arrows! How many arrows can he bring with him when he has worked so far away? By tomorrow, he can only attack the city with his body." Let's follow the strategy discussed early in the morning and defend the city wall steadily, and we will definitely be able to frustrate the Demon Monarch's spirit!"
Next, a few more people stood up and shouted to cheer up their morale, and the soldiers, although their faces were still frightened, were barely calmed, and they obeyed the order to collect the arrows and corpses at the head of the city. According to this count, there were five or six hundred defenders who died under the rain of arrows from the Chuzhou army, and the number of wounded was even more than several times! Originally, there were more than 10,000 defenders in the city, but because the Demon Lord had not arrived for a long time, there were more than 2,000 people who had escaped, and they were shot by the Chuzhou army for nearly an hour, and nearly half of them were wounded and killed!
The faces of several leaders elected by the crowd were extremely gloomy, how could these defenders not be heartbroken if they were all related to them or the tenant farmers at home, and the losses were so heavy. At present, everyone only hopes to be able to defend the city and save their lives safely, and no longer have the ambition to compete for the world.
At nightfall, the chiefs gathered together to discuss things. After a battle that was almost slaughtered during the day, everyone no longer had the temperament to talk about it, and they were at a loss, and after a long time, someone said in a hoarse voice: "The Demon Lord's elite army is powerful, far beyond the strength of our villagers. Pinning hope on them running out of arrows is too negative after all. In my opinion, it is better to return to the mountain gate and let the disciples of the Luohan Hall steal the camp at night!"
Hearing this plan, everyone's spirits were lifted and they once again expressed their opinions.
"Our previous prediction was good, the Demon Lord is far away, and the soldiers are not made of iron after all, and they will be tired. Otherwise, they would have gained the upper hand during the day, so why didn't they take the city in one fell swoop, but retreated easily? It can be seen that they also have to rest for the night so that they can recuperate!"
"Yes, we didn't expect the Demon Lord to bring so many bows and arrows, so we suffered a big loss. It's like two people fighting each other, and they only compare fists and feet to kung fu, but one of them suddenly pulled out a steel knife, and he was caught off guard, and no matter how high his martial arts are, he will be plotted!"
"The villagers are untrained, they behave unexpectedly, and even the most ingenious command strategies are not effective. The disciples of Luohan Hall are different, each of their martial arts is extremely superb and can be a hundred. Taking advantage of the enemy's defenselessness, hundreds of people entered the Chinese army's tent together, and it was not impossible to capture the Demon Lord in a battle!"
The more people talked, the more excited they became, and they saw the hope of victory again, and their courage regained their strength. Seeing that the night was dark, he decided to send someone to Shaolin to report the news, but before the words could be spoken, he heard a large noise and screams from the city.
"The Demon Lord is attacking the city!"
The leaders were shocked, and rushed out into the street, only to see that most of the sky outside the city had been lit red, and the soldiers who were keeping vigil at the head of the city were running back and forth like camp, and countless flaming rockets were thrown into the city!
Why do you want to attack the city now? Didn't you say that it would be noon tomorrow!
"Demon Lord, you don't talk about credit!"
In the chaotic night of Dengfeng City, the sad and indignant exclamations of Shaolin lay disciples sounded. (To be continued......)