Soak three times in clean water, bathe three times in blood water, and boil three times in alkaline water. If this can be regarded as a complete cleansing of sins, and you will not suffer in the world, these people in Guanzhong are probably willing to
Donate all your flesh and blood in exchange for a moment of peace.
The sky gradually brightened, driving away the mist that originally shrouded the battlefield. Losing the modification and concealment of the mist was like losing a filter, and what was exposed was always the truest ugliness.
Rows of soldiers preparing to attack the city have been lined up, and at the front are the crumbling refugees, driven by swords and guns, moving forward like zombies.
Behind these refugees, the Han and Qiang people gathered in a battle formation, waiting quietly in accordance with the order of battle agreed upon last night.
Naturally, it is impossible to mount a war horse and go straight to the city wall when attacking a city. Therefore, the Qiang war horses who dismounted and fought on foot were gathered together, led by special personnel, and grazed in the rear. However, the grazing places were originally in pieces.
's fields.
Ma Chao was silent for a moment, then waved his hand violently, and the dozens of war drums behind him suddenly began to beat with earth-shattering sounds. Dozens of Qiang horn trumpeters also blew their horns with all their strength, and almost at the same time, an explosion broke out in the military formation.
With a loud shout, the Yak Qiang men took the lead and drove the crowd towards the city wall like a rolling wave!
It was different at the beginning. The refugees in ragged clothes were pushing or pulling with difficulty, dragging forward the siege equipment they had made last night.
These siege equipment were not available yesterday. Yesterday, they were just a few ladders and a few rams. Today, there are not only ladders and rams, but also wooden archery towers and a team of Qiang people holding bows and arrows.
Follow behind with your bow, wait until you advance to a suitable distance, and then kill and suppress the city head.
Yesterday, most of them were these zombie-like refugees attacking the city, but now, the main force has basically been replaced by Qiang and Han people.
Now, under the city wall, it has been trampled by too many people, and has been filled with the blood of many people. It has become a bit like the color and muddy doubanjiang, but the doubanjiang is made with beans, and here it is made with beans.
It's human flesh and blood.
The Yak Qiang people lined up behind the refugees and moved forward slowly. At the same time, they struck their shields with their swords and shouted loudly, adding a lot of momentum.
On the small slope to the west, Ma Chao is sitting under the flag, and the rising sun in the east shines just on the "Fubo Ma family" flag, adding a bit more color, hunting in the sky.
drift……
Zhong Shao, who was on the city wall, had been depressed since last night and was suffering. He saw Ma Chao gathering tens of thousands of troops, watched countless refugees wailing and dying under the city wall, and saw countless torches at night.
Lingering around the city, looking at Ma Chao's formation after dawn, the little fire in his heart eventually became colder and colder, almost desperate. Even now, he still clings to the top of the city and refuses to retreat.
It was not because of his decisive courage, but because Zhong Shao knew that once he retreated, the defenders on top of the city would probably lose their strength to even hold a weapon.
Another point is that Zhong Shao is also from Guanzhong.
A man from Guanzhong, even if he dies on the city walls, it is better than dying on his bedside at home!
Throughout the night, Zhong Shao and his son Zhong Jie were speechless. The two of them sat and lay down, talking to each other in silence. Now that they have reached this point, no matter they are heroes, heroes, or bears, there is no other choice but to die.
So many endless gossips to recall and talk about?
Whatever, whatever!
Just one death!
When it got brighter, Ma Chao sounded the drums and trumpets, and the assembled siege troops began to move forward slowly. On the city wall, the exhausted soldiers barely stood up holding on to the wall stacks, and they were also talking to each other.
It's lifeless and doesn't have much fighting spirit...
Zhong Shao and Zhong Jie, after all, are not people with military backgrounds. They are able to command the soldiers and the soldiers are still not in disarray. As for taking turns to rest before the formation and the reasonable deployment of soldiers, to be honest, they basically have seven orifices and six orifices.
To be able to maintain it until now, one relies on personal visits to the front line, and the other relies on the private soldiers that the Zhong family has cultivated for many years, and depleting this point of blood is equivalent to depleting the family's heritage.
Zhong Shaoqiang propped up his body, not caring about the rain of arrows that might be thrown at any time. He stretched out his head and looked at the flow of people coming like a tide, and suddenly laughed: "So this is the end of the hero!"
Just when Zhong Shao thought the city was about to be destroyed, suddenly a long horn sound sounded in the distance. Although the sound was not loud, it was like a sharp knife, tearing through the sound of Ma Chao's drums and trumpets, and he rushed towards here!
This horn sound is in the east!
Zhong Shao was shaken all over and almost couldn't stand still. He suddenly turned his head and looked east.
Zhong Jie hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and then suddenly pointed his hand eastward, and there was a hint of choking in his words: "Father...Father...here...here..."
Zhong Shao stared blankly, the corners of his mouth trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word.
In the east where the sun rises, where the sun shines, a three-color flag is raised high, as if it is emitting dazzling light, which makes people's eyes hurt!
The battle flag of the general of the Han Dynasty conquering the west!
More and more soldiers and horses appeared in the brilliance. With their backs to the sun, these soldiers and horses seemed to be enveloped in a full circle of brilliance, and their majesty was like divine soldiers descending from heaven, galloping towards them!
"Damn! Damn scout! Why didn't anyone find out..."
The slope where Ma Chao was was immediately caused a commotion. Many soldiers who were beating the drums couldn't help but slow down their movements, and then the drumbeats became sparse and completely lost their rhythm...
Thousands of eyes above and below the city turned to the east almost at the same time, and then they involuntarily took a breath of cold air and let out an exclamation.
One person's voice was small, but the sound of thousands of people almost at the same time rang out in Ma Chao's military formation. It was like a huge stone being thrown into a deep pool, causing waves all over the sky!
In an instant, all the energy returned to Zhong Shao's face and body.
Zhong Shao turned around fiercely and shouted at the soldiers above the city: "The reinforcements are coming! The reinforcements are coming! We are all saved! We are saved!"
He shouted, and suddenly all the colors returned to the top of the city as if accompanied by the rays of the sun rising in the east. Suddenly, the movements of the surrounding soldiers also became alive, although they were also covered in mud and blood.
But I obviously feel that my energy and spirit are different.
Before Ma Chao's order came, the leader of the Yak Qiang standing at the front suddenly pulled out his sword, rushed forward a few steps, and slashed the head of a refugee who was standing blankly looking eastward!
The head was flying in the air, and there seemed to be not much blood left in the refugee's body. While the headless body was tilted, the headman of the Yak Qiang pointed his blood-stained sword towards the top of the city and shouted loudly: "
Siege the city! Siege the city! Quick! Quick! Capture the city!"
The leader of the Yak Qiang knew that after days and nights of exhaustion, the city wall now had its last bit of strength left. As long as it worked harder, it could be knocked down in one breath!
Regardless of whether they are reinforcements from the east or whose soldiers and horses they are, at this moment, the leader of the Yak Qiang does not care. What he cares about is whether he can return with his belongings after losing the lives of his people in vain!
To take a step back, if reinforcements really came, Ma Chao would naturally resist them!
Isn't it the simplest multiple-choice question to choose a menacing reinforcements as your opponent or a dying defender as your opponent?
But Ma Chao, who was standing on the mound, had to think more, and his face turned green and white.
We clearly saw Qiang scouts coming and going, but there was no news. Could this be...
The several Qiang-headed men beside Ma Chao also had livid faces and looked wrong. However, their thoughts were not on whose scout was derelict in his duty, but on the reinforcement in front of him! Follow Ma Chao to attack
The purpose of Chang'an is to pick up the bargains and get benefits, not to compete head-on with the Han soldiers here, and the general who conquers the west in front of him is not a character that is easy to mess with!
Moreover, these Qiang-headed people originally had more thoughts in their hearts. Now that the situation has suddenly changed, should they risk their lives and stand on Ma Chao's side, or should they break up and leave when they see the situation is wrong?
The eyes of these Qiang-headed people flickered, and they were secretly testing each other with their eyes, asking...
These looks naturally fell into Ma Chao's eyes. Ma Chao's face became more and more livid. He looked back at Ma Dai, then stood up and roared. Immediately, his guards took his war horse and spear.
Ma Chao got on his horse, held his gun in his hand, and shouted loudly: "What the hell are you marching to the west! I want to see with my own eyes how much he weighs! Each army will attack the city in order according to yesterday's arrangement. If there is no arrangement, hurry up.
Come with me! Let's see how I take Zheng Xi's head!" After saying that, he sat on the horse, raised his gun horizontally, and stared at the Qiang-headed men who were not lined up yesterday.
"Ah..." Several Qiang heads looked at each other and responded helplessly, "Yes... I obey the order... I will let the men go get the horses and prepare..."
Before these Qiang people could finish speaking, they heard a sudden bang among the horses at the rear, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, exploding among the horses!
Then more than ten breaths later, there was another loud noise!
Two huge plumes of smoke burst out among the horses, stretching their bodies wantonly like evil ghosts with teeth and claws, and then spread in all directions.
The Qiang horses that were originally gathered together in the rear suddenly heard such a loud noise, and were immediately frightened out of their wits. They howled wildly and instinctively ran away in all directions!
Despite their size, war horses are actually timid creatures not much bigger than rabbits. Although they have been trained, if a rabbit inadvertently pops out of their belly while they are grooming and eating grass, they will be frightened.
They jumped around for a while, not to mention hearing such a huge noise suddenly.
Gong Junjun bared his teeth and squatted in the bushes. He stretched out half of his head, half opened his mouth, and raised an eyebrow. He waited for a while, but there was no follow-up movement. He couldn't help but sigh with regret: "
Damn, I’m so mute..."
With sulfur, how could we forget black powder?
Fei Qian has already arranged special personnel to develop it a long time ago. However, in the Han Dynasty, the purification of many raw materials, including carbon powder, was a big problem, and the nitrate thing was not easy to get, so in terms of the energy efficiency generated by the explosion
, it is far incomparable to gunpowder in later generations. It can blow up city walls and open mountains. Forget it. If the quantity is small, it will be useless. If the quantity is large, haha, the defenders will smile and wait for people to slowly move it in buckets.
Under the city?
However, it seems good to dig a tunnel and bury it under the city roots, but this will also take a long time, and the power cannot be guaranteed, so until the power is stabilized, the current black powder is only a semi-finished product
That's all.
However, this semi-finished product is not bad at making some smoke and noise. Although it has no direct lethality, it is perfect for scaring these timid guys.
Ma Chao's military discipline was chaotic, and the Qiang people were each under the management of their own leaders. There was no so-called inspection or password between each other, so he let Gong Jun sneak in easily. Waiting until this critical moment
At this point, he stabbed Ma Chao hard on the lower back!
The war horse came running wildly. Although it was running around in fright, the animal's instinct would make it subconsciously avoid these thorny bushes. Gong Jun found a gap, jumped out from the bushes, and jumped on
A war horse hugged the horse's neck tightly, and while leading the horse to run away from the battlefield, he shouted in Qiang language: "The Han people are coming! Run, run!"
War horses are blindly obedient animals. Gong Jun took the war horse and ran away from the battlefield, immediately driving the following horses. Immediately, many war horses subconsciously followed the horses in front and ran away...
Seeing the situation in front of him, Ma Chao was so furious that his eyes almost popped out of his head. He pointed his spear at Gong Jun and several people who were running away shouting, and asked: "Whose are these?"
people?!"
Those who attack the city will naturally fight on foot, and the remaining horses will need to be guarded by others.
All the Qiang leaders subconsciously turned to look at the Qingyi Qiang leader.
As for Qingyi Qiang, it is his turn to take care of these idle war horses today...
The green-robed Qiang-headed man hurriedly waved his hands to deny it. Before he could say anything to deny it, he saw Ma Chao coming on horseback and shot him in the chest without saying a word!
Ma Dai and his bodyguards also swarmed up with Ma Chao, separated the dozen or so guards of the Qing Yi Qiang leader, surrounded them, and killed them all!
Ma Chao's eyes were filled with blood. He threw the body of the Qingyi Qiang leader in front of the Qiang people and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to pass the order! Assemble the troops and prepare to fight!"
Ma Chao also knew that this sudden loud noise may not have been caused by the people from Qingyi Qiang, but in the current situation, where was the time to inquire slowly and investigate in detail?
He ran away, and there was no time to catch up now. Since everyone was looking at Qingyi Qiang, they assumed that Qingyi Qiang had done the right thing!
The war horses that were disturbed and ran away were just the Qiang war horses that had arranged to continue the siege today. Most of the war horses were still within the control range and could still fight!
There is still hope of winning!
Looking at the murderous Ma Chao, the remaining Qiang-headed people couldn't help but feel a little chilled. Then they looked at Ma Dai and other Ma family guards who were surrounding them. Even though they had thousands of thoughts, they could only suppress them for the time being...
"Come here! Blow the horn, raise the flag, assemble, line up, and prepare to fight!" White Horse Qiang Riwoji's eyes flickered for a few times, and then he said in a deep voice. The other Qiang people also basically ordered the bodyguards in the same way.
As soon as the horn sounded, the troops and horses immediately mobilized. Under the command of Ma Chao and the Qiang heads, they began to turn to the east, set up their formation, and prepared to fight...
