Chapter 2310 The meaning of fighting, dark moments
Longyou, Zhangye.
Beigong, with a serious look on his face, sat in the middle.
"The reinforcements of the Han people have arrived, so they dared to attack Duyeze... I have sent people to Duyeze to stop the Han people from advancing. The most important thing now is to capture Zhangye first and end the battle in Zhangye as soon as possible before I can free up my hands.
Come and eliminate the Han reinforcements and completely confirm your advantage here!"
Beigong faced the Qiang leaders around him and said solemnly.
After a failure, Beigong's originally excited nerves finally sobered up a bit. He found that he had deviated from the original battle plan and was confused by the previous insignificant victories. Then he ran out of the ambush circle.
Almost became prey...
But now, Beigong needs to rearrange the ambush circle and become a hunter instead of a prey.
But some people have begun to doubt Beigong's plan.
Xizhi, a Qiang man, was a well-known warrior far and wide. Hearing Beigong's words, he sneered, "Beigong, do you mean to prepare to fight all night?" Xizhi, Qiang
The aristocratic surnames passed down from people in the Spring and Autumn Period, but like the aristocratic surnames of the Han people in the Spring and Autumn Period, now people just say "oh" but not "respect".
The news of Beigong's failure in pursuing Gao Wutong cannot be concealed. Although it is common for military strategists to win or lose, it still has some influence. At least Beigong's words are not as useful as they were at the beginning.
"Today we have severely damaged the Han people on the west wall of Zhangye. If we don't give them a chance to breathe and continue to attack, they won't be able to sustain it for one night. As long as we open a gap, we can expand our advantage and occupy the city gate."
, seize the city in one fell swoop!" Beigong looked around, "As long as Zhangye is in our hands, we will take the initiative, and not only can the previous losses be made up, but we can also be sure that everyone will gain a lot of extra gains!"
For ordinary Qiang people, perhaps the war with the Han people is to compete for publicity, but for these Qiang leaders, it is for benefits. Beigong also knew this very well, so he said directly: "As long as we capture
Once we reach Zhangye and get something, our men will be more energetic! Our morale will be even higher!"
Qiang Xizhi waved his hand and said, "That's true, but in the past two days of continuous attacks, our men have lost more than two thousand people in total, and they are all exhausted. If we can really take the city,
Of course it's best, but the Han people are also very determined to hold on to Zhangye, and...and if we can't defeat it, our sons will become more and more exhausted. When the Han reinforcements arrive, we are afraid that we will be in chaos immediately!"
"But our reinforcements are coming soon! And we have already captured Xiedan City and Rile City! Naturally, we can also capture Zhangye City!" Beigong glared at Xizhi and said, "This was our original plan.
Okay! Lure the Han people to Zhangye and then wipe them out in one fell swoop!"
"Humph, did we capture Xiedan and Rile? The Han people gave up on their own! As far as I can see now, I really don't know whether it was the Han people who fell into the trap or we fell into the trap..." Although the Qiang Xizhi family said
He may look rough on the outside, but judging people by their appearance is often wrong.
"There are not many Han people! The previous defeat was just because we were accidentally ambushed!" Beigong emphasized, "This time we ambushed the Han people! But only by defeating Zhangye first can we rest assured and safely ambush! This point,
Doesn’t everyone have any opinions?』
Everyone fell silent.
"Tomorrow morning, we can stand on the city wall of Zhangye and enjoy the sunrise!" Beigong said to everyone confidently, as if he had a winning ticket.
Is it a winning ticket...?
Well, everyone who buys a lottery ticket will feel that they are holding the only winning ticket.
In several days of fighting, the Qiang troops only attacked the city gate twice. Since the attack surface of the city gate is very narrow, the soldiers are easily crowded together, and once they are hit, they are often very heavy, so generally speaking, they will not
Instead of deliberately attacking the city gate alone, ladders will be erected on adjacent city walls to disperse the defensive forces. Once the defenders' negligence is caught, the possibility of a surprise attack and breach of the city will increase.
Beigong looked back at the siege vehicles hidden in the dim night and the Qiang soldiers in front of the formation, then he drew his sword and shouted: "Aries God protects! For the glory of the Qiang people! Kill!"
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Thousands of warriors raised their weapons at the same time, "hooting...hooting..."
Beigong turned around and said to the bugler: "Blow the trumpet! Start attacking!"
The sound of a huge horn horn, one louder than the other, resounded throughout the battlefield.
The Qiang people are not good at siege, but they do not understand siege at all. After all, they have been fighting with the Han people in Longyou and Hexi for many years. If they say they don’t understand it at all, then the cities that the Qiang people have conquered over the years will be much worse.
How to say?
The Qiang leaders each stood under the battle flags representing their own tribes, and they also raised their swords and shouted:
"Blessed by the Aries God!"
"The Qiang people will win!"
The Qiang soldiers waved their weapons one by one, and then, as if they wanted to vent the fear and fatigue hidden in their hearts, they shouted with all their strength: "Hail... we will win..."
"Come forward! Fire arrows!" Following the order, the Qiang people's archery troops first shot the long arrows in their hands, kicking off the bloody battle. The Hu people, including the Qiang people's archers, were almost all members, and anyone
They are all archers, and they can also be warriors, so there is no difficulty in converting between them.
Long arrows all over the sky rushed into the sky at the same time, making a complicated whistling sound.
The screams of long arrows tearing through the air almost drowned out the screams of the Qiang people rushing from the city. The long arrows fell like raindrops, hitting all the surfaces in contact, making countless sounds. Screams, and shock.
The shouts, along with the falling figures one after another, resounded throughout the battlefield.
Under the cover of archers, the Qiang soldiers quickly arrived at the city wall. They immediately set up hundreds of ladders along the city wall, and hundreds of assault teams immediately began to attack.
"The king has an order! Why don't you attack?!"
A Qiang soldier rushed to the Xizhi tribe and shouted.
"Get out!" Xizhi yelled dissatisfied, "Going up now is going to die! When the opportunity comes, I will go up myself, don't talk nonsense to me! Get out!"
The Qiang messengers had no choice but to go back to report to Beigong. Beigong was so angry that he couldn't kill Xizhi on the spot. He could only secretly move some Qiang people away from Xizhi. As a result,
Instead, it gave Xizhi an excellent opportunity...
For fear of accidental injury, the Qiang bow and arrow troops stopped shooting continuously. The Han people on the city wall immediately launched a counterattack. Countless large and small stones flew out from the city wall, and occasionally huge logs fell from the sky along the ladder. The Qiang people
The human soldiers suffered a violent counterattack for a while, causing heavy casualties.
The fire flickered, and there was chaos all around. The roars and screams resounded throughout the world, making the ears buzz. From time to time, someone shouted "the city is broken" and "attacked in", but it was soon proven that it was only part of it.
The Qiang people were bluffing, or they had temporarily climbed onto the city wall.
There were many Qiang siege points. The Han defenders on the city wall were gradually reduced in number due to repeated attrition. They were also stretched for a while and were unable to take care of them. After entering the middle of the night, the third wave of Qiang soldiers
Having successfully climbed over the city wall from many places, they attacked the Han defenders at the top of the city with great momentum, and fierce hand-to-hand combat began again.
Mr. Xizhi kept holding it in until he discovered a flaw on the city wall...
"This is the time!"
The Qiang Xizhi shouted in a low voice, urging the soldiers to push the car. Under the cover of the shield soldiers, they braved arrows shot from nowhere and struggled forward. The wooden wheels were telling it in a crooked way.
The heavy burden on his body then rolled over the loess, blood, gravel, and corpses, and he became faster and faster under the cover of night, heading straight towards the city gate!
It has to be said that this overnight attack on the city did not surprise the Han defenders on the one hand, and on the other hand it created more favorable conditions for these crashes. In the dim sight at night, the crashes were almost approaching the city gate.
, was discovered by the Han soldiers on the top of the city, which immediately caused a panic.
Because the Qiang people only attacked the city gate twice before and suffered losses, so the Qiang people later did not focus on attacking the city gate. In addition, the previous two waves of Qiang attacks also focused on more
The vast city wall made the Han soldiers guarding the city think that the Qiang people had given up attacking the city gate, so they repeatedly mobilized soldiers from the city gate to support other places. When they found out that the Qiang people suddenly chose the city gate as a breakthrough, they
I want to rush back, but it's too late...
The collision was getting faster and faster, and the soldiers pushing the cart were almost running away.
Looking at the city gate getting closer and closer, the Qiang soldiers roared wildly. Although some soldiers pushing carts were shot, they were even rolled under the wooden wheels of the carts they pushed, making the sound of broken bones and tendons.
, but the other Qiang soldiers didn't care at all, and used all their strength to push the huge city ramming car and rush towards the closed city gate!
"boom!"
An earth-shaking loud noise came from the city gate cave.
The soldiers on top of the city gate felt that the soles of their feet were trembling, as if the entire city was shaking and wailing amid the noise.
"Captain Meng! The city gate is under attack! There is no kerosene!" On the city wall, the Han soldiers roared loudly.
Meng Shu's heart skipped a beat, and his expression became somewhat dazed.
As early as last year, Jia Xu predicted today's war, but at that time, Jia Xu did not say it in detail, and Meng Shu did not ask for some details...
But now, all of a sudden, this detail that had almost disappeared from memory seemed to pop up again due to the vibration at the city gate. The time, location, tactics, and characters seemed to be in many aspects what Jia Xu had predicted.
It's almost the same. Meng Shu even remembers that Jia Xu said at that time that if this war is victorious, Longyou and Hexi can be almost pacified for at least thirty to forty years. Using this time, the Western Regions and Chang'an can be made more inseparable.
Let Longyou truly become a hot land and make people's lives better.
"What if we lose?" Meng Shu remembered asking at that time.
Jia Xu seemed to have said that it was unlikely to lose, but he was not sure how many people would die...
Now Meng Shu suddenly remembered that when Jia Xu said this, the way he looked at him seemed to be exactly the same as the way Jia Xu had appointed him as the fake governor of Zhangye not long ago...
"Jia Wenhe!"
Meng Shu gritted his teeth and called his deputy, asking him to watch over the Qiang attack on the city wall. He asked people to go from above the city gate to stop them as much as possible, while he summoned the soldiers from the reserve team to prepare to block the upcoming attack at the city gate.
Gap!
The low horn sound sounded outside the city again, and the enemy launched a new wave of offensive.
Meng Shu rushed to the city gate with fifty reserve soldiers. The gap must not be opened. Once it is breached, it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire defensive position. By then, not only the soldiers guarding the city will die, but also those in the city.
the people!
Even if we use our lives and flesh and blood to plug it, we still have to plug the gap.
The burning kerosene dumped at the city gate before had certainly burned down the Qiang's city-rushing vehicles several times before, but it also actually baked the city gate, causing some parts of the city gate to become somewhat carbonized...
Now that the kerosene is exhausted, the new ram is slamming into the city gate again. With the sand and gravel dust falling continuously from around the city gate hole, the area that was originally burned by the flames is gradually supported by the violent impact.
Can't stand it any longer.
Amidst a huge roar, the city gate was overwhelmed and was knocked out of a hole. Immediately, the crazy shouts of the Qiang people came from the hole. Several Han soldiers subconsciously wanted to plug the hole.
, but the next moment the huge impact vertebra directly expanded the hole, and even knocked those Han soldiers away.
A small part of a city gate collapsed, and under the shining light of the fire, the figures of both sides were looming.
The huge impact vertebra retracted, and a Qiang man's face was exposed from the entrance of the hole, and was immediately slashed by Meng Shu!
The next moment, more than a dozen spears came in, almost hitting Meng Shu!
Meng Shu couldn't help but step back. As a result, a Qiang man took the opportunity to get in, and then another one followed. More and more Qiang men rushed out of the hole, as if the wooden floor of an old house was lifted.
It's like a hole, with cockroaches pouring out from the hole!
Mengshu led the prepared soldiers and blocked the entrance to the city gate with swords waving.
A Qiang centurion with his face covered in blood screamed and rushed towards Meng Shu. Meng Shu followed the knife and rushed into the opponent's flank. He hacked the enemy to death with one knife, but he also fell into the opponent's three other Qiang men.
Under a fierce siege by soldiers!
He fired a shot and dodged a knife, but when he turned around, he stepped on the arm of an unknown corpse. Suddenly his soles slipped and he staggered a little. He saw a Qiang sword and took the opportunity to attack Meng Shu.
Cut it off at the neck!
Fortunately, a shield soldier who followed up held his shield, hit it forward, and knocked the Qiang man away, and the danger of being forgiven was finally resolved...
Soldiers from both sides kept fighting each other, screaming, and from time to time someone fell down, but no one retreated. In this narrow doorway, like the passage of the Colosseum, both sides fought desperately, and blood flowed all over the ground.
, were all furious. The Han people could not give up this advantageous place easily, while the Qiang people finally opened a gap and were equally unwilling to give up.
Before dying, a Han soldier slashed out a knife and cut off a leg of the Qiang man on the opposite side.
The Qiang man with a broken leg howled, and was immediately stabbed by another soldier's spear. Before he died, he cut off three of the spear soldier's fingers...
The spearman screamed heartbreakingly in severe pain, and was immediately shot in the chest and abdomen by the newly rushed Qiang man. Although he was covered by armor, the huge impact made him look like a
It fell down like a bent shrimp...
The Han and Qiang collided together, blood and limbs flying everywhere, and they inserted swords and spears into each other's bodies, dyeing each other hot and bright red.
Although the battle losses of both sides were similar at the beginning, differences gradually emerged. The weapons and armor of the Han people gave more protection. In such a small space, every damage that was exempted,
It may be the difference between life and death.
More and more Qiang people fell, and the leader of the Xizhi clan finally couldn't bear it. He rushed in with a sword and shield, chopped down three Han soldiers in a row, and immediately fought head-on with Meng Shu.
"clang!"
The loud sound of the weapons clashing shook Meng Shu's whole body, and the strong wind that collided with each other seemed to disperse the strong and almost substantial smell of blood in the city gate!
Meng Shu staggered back two steps, and then saw the Qiang Xizhi clan.
The Qiang Xizhi clan stared at Meng Shu. An opponent who could parry in time under his sneak attacks was definitely not a good opponent.
Meng Shu stared at his opponent with all his concentration, raised his sword diagonally in front of him, and sealed the door extremely tightly.
Suddenly, the Qiang man Xizhi shouted loudly, as if a thunder exploded on the ground. With the momentum of the loud shout, he rushed forward suddenly and crossed the gap between the two people in an instant.
The distance is so small that the knife cuts straight down!
An ordinary soldier would have been frightened by such a loud shout, but Meng Shu was more or less a veteran on the battlefield, and he did not lose his mind because of this. Almost at the same time that the Qiang Xizhi rushed forward, he also roared and slashed forward, and the soldiers slashed forward.
A red light shines from the interlacing of blades, and the figure separates as soon as it comes together.
The shawl on the left shoulder of the Qiang man Xizhi was cut off at some point, and blood continued to flow from his shoulder. His face was solemn without saying a word, and he held his shield in front of his face. Although he was injured, he still looked murderous.
Meng Shu's wound was on the front of his left thigh. There was a medium-deep red wound, and blood gradually surged out, staining his shirt red.
This is the darkest moment. Even if some torches are shining, the darkness is still like semi-solidified sauce, clinging to all objects and human bodies.
Just when the two people were confronting each other again, a huge noise suddenly broke out on the city wall!
Meng Shu’s heart skipped a beat!
No, I'm afraid the city wall has changed!
Then the next moment he realized that he was distracted...
The Qiang Xizhi, who was staring at Meng Shu, seized this opportunity, shrank his body and hid behind the shield, and then directly pushed up, while the tip of the knife shone on the edge of the shield.
It glows coldly, like a poisonous snake showing its fangs!
Meng Shu had not been frightened by the roar of the Qiang Xizhi family before, but he was distracted by the movement on the city wall. It must be said that it was fate. Seeing the Qiang Xizhi family rushing towards him, in such a small environment, he
He has lost the chance to dodge and block, so he can only fight with his life and attack with attack!
In this world, whether it is the battlefield, officialdom, or any other local place, you will not get anything good if you just wait and ask for it. If you want good things, you need to fight for them with your life!
