Chapter 297 The Battle of Xuzhou (Part 2)
. At the top of Xuzhou city, countless dead and injured people were silently lifted the bodies of those who died in battle down the city wall and placed them in the schoolyard not far from the west gate. The elderly woman wiped the blood with wet wipes in her tears and covered her body with black cloth. More than 2,700 corpses were packed densely with half of the schoolyard, which was shocking.
Some of the bodies fell into the city and had been burned by fire. The person's face was beyond recognition and could not restrain himself at this time. He had to wait for the war. If he could maintain the peace of Xuzhou, he could still recognize the restraining situation. If Xuzhou city was broken, he could only let the sun and rain blow, and birds and beasts peck at him.
Xu You's face was covered with mud and blood, his gray hair was flying in the wind, he held the wooden stick tightly in his hand, and his eyes were firm. The Qin army from the north and south gates gathered to the west gate, and with the sound of the horn, he swarmed towards the west gate and attacked again; Xu You shouted loudly: "The injured person went down to the city and replaced the rapid city wall. This may be the last struggle of the Qin army. If we win, we will win."
The military and civilians were greatly motivated and were ready to fight. This time Murong was cruel. Everyone didn't even hold their shields and rushed towards the city. At the same time, nearly 3,500 archers gathered to shoot arrows at the top of the city through the moat. At the same time, more than a hundred people carried six thick logs to the city and began to hit the city gate. Another 4,000 soldiers climbed along the remaining two hundred ladders.
The dense rain of arrows brought a lot of damage, and the people on the city fell one by one. The Qin people ignited tinder oil on the arrow, and when they shot it, they ignited a fire. When they shot it into wood, the houses were filled with fire. For a moment, a Shura field was formed under the city.
Sun Feihu loudly ordered the people under the city to put out the fire. He then ordered everyone to throw the piles of firewood down the city in the rain of arrows and transported them to boil the cold water poured down, which also became fire-fighting water. The city was wailing everywhere and sewage flowed.
The climbing Qin soldiers' flying claws were like deadly ghosts, and they grabbed the people on the city and pulled them off from the high walls and threw them into meat pie. In just one stick of incense, thousands of soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou were killed and injured under the fierce attack.
What is slightly reassuring is that the more than a hundred Qin soldiers carrying six chariots at the city gate were shot and killed by the Jin soldiers on the city tower, and they lay on the ground in a row. Although the city gate had minor injuries, they were still safe.
After repeated shooting, the Qin people's arrows were finally exhausted, but at the same time, the city wall was in a hurry, and dozens of Qin soldiers had already attacked the city. Three thousand and five hundred archers dropped their bows and arrows and joined the siege. Under large-scale suppression, the soldiers and civilians at the city were unable to save themselves, allowing Qin soldiers and civilians to take advantage of the loopholes.
The city was suddenly in a bitter battle. The Qin soldiers were fully armed, black helmets and black armor. The people only had wooden sticks, stones, iron rulers, and small hammers. Compared with the snow-clear scimitar, they looked like toys. The scimitar shone with cold light and brought out a rain of blood. In an instant, dozens of corpses crossed the city wall.
Sun Feihu roared and shouted: "The army follows me to welcome the enemy. The people continue to smash down. We cannot let more people come. Today we swear to live and die with Xuzhou."
Hundreds of soldiers rushed out with Sun Feihu and collided with dozens of Qin soldiers climbing the city. Both sides shouted and killed the Qin soldiers after paying more than a dozen lives. But at the same time, more Qin soldiers emerged from all over the city, and the people could not stop the fierce Qin soldiers from slashing and killing, and the city suddenly became a sea of blood. Sun Feihu led the remaining hundreds of soldiers back and forth to rush back and forth, which was just a drop in the bucket. Seeing that there were only more than a hundred soldiers left by their side, he couldn't help but sigh to the sky.
Xuzhou City, can you escape this disaster today?
Xu You waved his big stick and smashed a Qin soldier in the head, knocked him unconscious, and kicked him down the city. He looked up and saw a wail and one-sided massacre. The old Tongzhi was in a complicated mood. It was indeed a joke for the civilians to stop the elite soldiers. Today, Xuzhou City may not be able to escape this disaster. As the Tongzhi of Xuzhou, he was entrusted by the Grand Sima to lead the political affairs of the whole province. He lost Xuzhou in his own hands. It is hard to blame.
Conviction and dismissal are secondary. The key is that tens of thousands of people in the city are about to suffer a disaster, and Xuzhou City will turn into ruins like Ningyuan. If this is not the case, it will definitely not work. Xu You was sweating in a cold sweat, and the trance of the crowd and the noisy voices in front of him gradually became clearer, and a belief gradually became clearer in his mind.
Xu You stroked his white beard, walked out of the city tower, and came to the city wall. More than ten personal guards behind him shouted, "Sir, come back, there is danger there."
Xu You refused to answer, rushed over to a Qin soldier who was pulling out a scimitar from the belly of a commoner, and smashed the big wooden stick in his hand with his head covered. At first glance, the Qin soldier saw an old man with a gray beard rushed towards him fiercely. The wooden stick in his hand swept with the sound of wind, and was startled.
Did this old guy kill me? Egg hits a stone? Qin Bing quickly flashed and dodged, handed the scimitar forward and penetrated into Xu You's belly. The soldiers and civilians around Xuzhou screamed in surprise, but saw Xu You smiling on his face and shouted with all their strength: "Everyone, let's see how I kill the enemy today, you should follow your example."
After saying that, he raised his strength and rushed forward. The scimitar came out with gurgling blood plasma. Xu You, like an eagle, held the Qin soldier's neck like a claw, and flipped his body desperately outside the city wall. He immediately took the Qin soldier down the high city wall with him, and both of them died at the same time.
The soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou cried out in one voice, endless anger and courage arose in their hearts. The old Tongzhi taught them how to kill the enemy with his life, and there was no need to wait any time. The people flocked in, facing the scimitar swords and swords, letting them cut into their chests and bones, but they opened their eyes wide, grabbed the Qin soldiers, and dragged them to the city desperately. For a moment, the pairs of tightly entangled figures at the top of the city fell into the city like falling rocks. In a short while, corpses several feet high were piled up under the city. More than a thousand Qin soldiers attacking the city were killed by this life-threatening suicide method. In the end, a strange phenomenon appeared on the city. A group of unarmed people chased hundreds of fully armed Qin soldiers and ran wildly on the city wall. With the help of archers, these fleeing Qin soldiers were wiped out one by one; at this point there was no Qin soldiers on the city.
Murong Chui saw the city wall falling like rain from afar, opened his mouth wide in surprise, and hurriedly brought the personal soldiers to learn about the situation. The personal soldiers rolled back with pale faces and stuttered even when they spoke.
"What are you panic! Tell me quickly." Murong Chui scolded.
"General... General, the Jin people are crazy, they are crazy." The personal soldier was still in panic; he had only told Murong Chui about the incident after he had sacked the boss's kung fu.
Murong Chui took a breath, he was really crazy. These Jin people were simply desperate. Such a suicide trip to death just hit Murong Chui's weakness. How could he exchange the lives of precious soldiers and the lives of the people who were as cheap as pigs and dogs? Today, the battle in Xuzhou seems to be defeated.
Murong Chui sighed and ordered loudly: "Stop siege and evacuate the entire army from Xuzhou."
In fact, without waiting for his order, no one of the Qin soldiers dared to climb the city. They had already retreated a hundred steps and hid outside the range where arrows were too short to reach. After hearing the order, they turned their butts and fled from this area that made them frightened, and they were no longer willing to look back.
Murong Chui hurriedly led his army to retreat. It was getting darker. This siege took a long time and he had no time to delay. Now the only way is to quickly north and avoid Li Changxiong's army returning to the rescue. He could not disturb the county towns along the way. Even if there are thousands of county guards, they are definitely not opponents.
In a panic, Murong Chui didn't even notice that he had one of the two generals of Hum and Ha. Only Xiao Yewang rode his horse with his hair loose and ran by his side, while the brave General Tuoba Zhu disappeared.
Under the city of Xuzhou, beside the moat, Tuoba Zhu, whose body was covered in blood, was in a twisted and struggling posture, lying on the ground with wide eyes open and a horrified expression. On his left was a boy. The boy tilted his hands into Tuoba Zhu's neck and bit his mouth half of Tuoba Zhu's black ear; on the right was a strong man in his forties, the strong man hugged Tuoba Zhu's waist tightly, and Tuoba Zhu's scimitar stabbed in the belly of the strong man.
On the 24th day of the first lunar month of the second year of Xian'an in the Great Jin Dynasty, the Qin general Murong Chui led 9,000 Xianbei elite troops to raid the city of Xuzhou. At that time, Xuzhou was empty, with only 2,000 defenders remaining, and nearly 10,000 people participated in the control. After two and a half hours, the Xianbei army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and then retreated. The soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou were killed and injured and injured, and the co-magistrate Xu You and the city died and died.
Chapter completed!