Seeing Zhu Hang's embarrassed figure asking someone to hang him down from the city wall, Xu Wuqi said with emotion.
"If greed and arrogance don't block your eyes, there is always something different," Xu Huai looked at the Silver Arrow Order in his hand and said, "It's a pity that there are too few ministers like him and Wang Zhen in Dai Viet, they are too different...
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Xu Wuqi, Tang Pan and others were all silent when they heard Xu Huai's words.
Especially Tang Pan and the others, who had limited experience in the past, always felt that the threat of the Red Husbands was very far away, and always felt that the princes in the court could not be fools to sit in that position, but in just a few days, Tianxiong
The appearance of the army covered with malignant sores was laid out in front of them, which made them feel more deeply about Xu Huai's words at this time.
At this time, they also realized more deeply that without the invasion of powerful enemies, or if the surrounding neighboring countries were in decline, Dai Viet might still be able to maintain its superficial prosperity, singing and dancing in peace for a period of time, but once the Khitan people were unable to resist
The red cavalry are flowing southward like a torrent, and the country is in danger!
This is by no means an unfounded worry by Xu Huai!
"Wow..."
Thousands of torches were thrown, many of which were flammable materials soaked in grease. After the fire engulfed the Deshengmen tower, it didn't take long for the fire to penetrate through.
There were still a large amount of kerosene, curtains, hammers and other flammable materials in the key tower to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. At this time, they were all ignited, and you could hear the tiles on the roof of the city gate falling down - the fire was already strong.
By this time, the soldiers in the city could no longer climb the city wall via the inner climbing road, let alone put out such a huge fire.
At this time, thousands of enemy cavalry at Shengdemen also started to move.
Except for the seven or eight hundred men who continued to stay by the woods to the west to keep an eye on the movement on the Shengde Gate side, the other two thousand or so men circled southward in the dark night.
Xu Huai's view was blocked by the burning Shengde Gate Tower and the southern city wall. He couldn't see clearly where the troops were going. He looked at Xu Wuqi and asked: "Fifth Uncle, do you think Xiao Linshi directly led the reinforcements?"
Will Ma enter the city to join the battle, or will he continue to lurk somewhere outside the city, looking for opportunities to annihilate the small group of Tianxiong troops who came out of the city, and continue to severely damage the morale here?"
Xu Wuqi frowned and stared at the blazing fire of Shengde Gate, and said: "Shengde Gate has been blocked, the morale of the mob in the city will only become stronger, and their combat effectiveness is already higher than that of Tianxiong Army. And Xiao Linshi is now
Liu Shizhong should not be confirmed yet, so Cai Qing will definitely not send reinforcements. He doesn’t have many elites at his disposal, and most likely they will still deploy them between Datong and Huihe, waiting for opportunities..."
Xu Huai frowned, this was actually the situation he was most worried about.
If Xiao Linshi leads all the main reinforcements into the city and they escape over the city, their chances of escaping will be much greater.
At this time, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing, Yin Peng, Zheng Tu, Xu Wukun and others also rushed here directly from the northwest corner tower along the city wall. When they saw Xu Huai holding soldiers and horses with silver arrows, they all asked in confusion:
"What are we going to do next?"
Tang Pan is fully prepared, he and Tang Qing are only 21 years old this year, Yin Peng is slightly older, but only 23 years old, and Xu Xinan is younger, both are under 20 years old this year.
Not to mention Zheng Tu, Xu Wukun was only a low-level military officer at the level of deputy general in the army in his early years. After returning to Tongbai Mountain, he mainly worked for Xu Wufu doing miscellaneous tasks.
Although everyone was tempered in the banditry in Tongbai Mountain, their time is limited after all.
In addition to their previous illusions and not thinking that the worst case scenario would definitely happen, they also did not expect that Zhu Hang would be so easy to talk to. He actually handed over the military and horse supervision order directly to them, allowing them full authority to use the supervision of the military envoy.
Acting in name only, I don’t know what they are going to do next for a while.
"Gather manpower and build a road to the city!"
There are brick and stone climbing roads on the left and right of the four city gates of Datong, making it easier for soldiers to climb the city wall from the city tower, and then quickly deploy defenses along the city wall.
The Shengdemen Gate Tower collapsed immediately. Considering the size of the four-story tower, even if the gate could not be crushed directly, the remaining bricks and beams that collapsed would cover the gate and the left and right climbing roads.
This means that the defenders in the city are likely to lose their way to quickly climb the city wall.
Even if Ge Huaicong could send people to clear the city climbing road near Shengde Gate, the area around Shengde Gate should still be the focus of enemy cavalry surveillance, which would inevitably prevent the Tianxiong Army from overrunning the city and breaking through.
And when Ge Huaicong orders an invasion of the city to break out of the siege, or if people like Ge Huaicong are greedy for life and fear death and flee first, the collapse of the 40,000-strong Tianxiong Army will happen in the blink of an eye and no one can stop it.
At that time, there was no need for the enemy troops to come through. The thirty or forty thousand Tianxiong troops fell into desperate chaos. Everyone was vying to get out of the city, crowding and fighting for their lives. With a few ropes and a few ladders, how many people could be transported?
Personally climb the city wall?
Limited rope ladders and cloud ladders may be torn apart due to countless people fighting for them.
Thinking of this, it is not difficult to understand why in the established historical trajectory, only Cao Shili and hundreds of others fled back.
Xu Huai did not expect to be able to reverse the overall situation, but being able to help more people escape from Datong City was what they had to work hard to do at this time.
After Ge Huaicong ordered a breakout, or Ge Huaicong and his grandsons escaped from the city with ropes first, they wanted to allow more soldiers to climb the city wall. The best way was to build a climbing road on the inside of the city wall now.
As long as more people can stand on the city wall first, on the one hand, they can prevent the enemy from attacking directly in a short time. On the other hand, sliding along the rope from the top of the city to the outside of the city is much easier than climbing the rope up the city wall.
And building the road to the city is much simpler than imagined.
Find a nearby alley next to the city wall. All it takes is three to four hundred people to demolish the houses and fill the alley with construction waste, eventually forming a long diagonal earth slope with the same height as the city wall.
Huaiyuan Town initially had no city walls. In order to resist the raids of the bandits, they also demolished the houses and built an earthen wall on the outside. It can be said that they were very familiar with this aspect.
However, Xu Huai didn't have authorization before. If there was any big movement, someone would come to question and stop him. He didn't have enough manpower, so what he could do was very limited. But now he holds the military surveillance order and can do
There are so many things.
They also had an excuse to directly organize the captured and imprisoned soldiers of Tongbai Mountain to do this...
Xu Huai, Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun and others walked directly along the city wall to the northwest corner tower.
Tang Qing, Xu Xin'an and others left temporarily without anyone's orders, and nearly two hundred soldiers were blocked on the north wall west of the turret; even Xu Xin himself had no way to pass through without the direct permission of Xu Huai and others.
, come to the corner tower.
They could see the Shengde Gate being engulfed in raging fire, but they could not see the enemy cavalry approaching from outside the west city wall. Several people stood in front of the horse, clamoring to come to the corner tower to see what happened.
"Uncle Seven! Xu Huai!" Xu Xin saw Xu Huai and Xu Wukun walked back to the turret from the west city wall and raised his hand to greet them.
Xu Huaixian ignored Xu Xin and stood on the corner tower looking into the city.
Under the west city wall and the north city wall, there are alleys suitable for building climbing roads.
However, no matter how stupid Ge Huaicong is next, he will do everything possible to put out the fire at Shengde Gate and send people to strengthen the defense of the West City Wall. If they build a climbing road in the alley of the West City Wall, others can stand at the top of the West City Wall and see
Even if he saw it, it would be impossible to hide it from Ge Huaicong.
Xu Huaicong knew that Ge Huaicong might not stop them at this time, but when Ge Huaicong wanted to escape first, he would definitely send someone to seize control of the newly built road to the city from them.
"We immediately controlled the two hundred people on the North City Wall, and then sealed the alley tightly to build a city climbing road to ensure that the secret would not be leaked!" Xu Wuqi also advocated building a city climbing road under the North City Wall, and emphasized that it should be kept secret.
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After climbing over the north city wall, four or five miles to the north is the mountain range at the western foot of Wuzhou Mountain.
The soldiers and horses rushing out of the city in a hurry will not have much fighting power when resisting the cavalry attack. If necessary, they still have to flee into the Wuzhou Mountains to the north as quickly as possible to avoid being wantonly massacred by the enemy cavalry in the Pingkuang area.
Only then did I have time to sort things out.
In addition to using the excuse of going out of the city to graze and hide their war horses in the Wuzhou Mountains to the north, they also hid the first batch of supplies brought by Su Laochang and others in the Wuzhou Mountains to the north.
Therefore, this road to the city must be kept absolutely secret, not only to be wary of Ge Huaicong's possibility of occupying the magpie's nest, but also to prevent Xiao Linshi from sending troops outside the north city to intercept them in advance.
War cannot tolerate too much love between children. Only after they show enough strength can Chen Zixiao and Xiao Yanhan truly become bargaining chips in their hands.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be childish to think of pushing Chen Zixiao and Xiao Yanhan out and asking Xiao Linshi to let them lead thousands of defeated troops to flee back to Lanzhou?
"Then pull away the horse and let Tian Zhichang go. Xu Xin and the others come over!" Xu Huai looked at the military officials around Xu Xin calmly. The leader of the group had a beard covering half of his face, and he looked uncertain.
He looked towards him and signaled the generals blocking the horse to get out of the way.
Tian Zhichang was angry that Xu Huai had shot and killed three of his men without saying a word, especially since he was standing in front of the horse and cursing. If he hadn't been beaten out of the way, the spear might have penetrated his chest directly.
past.
However, when Tian Zhichang saw that he was from the same clan as Xu Xin, and besides blocking the road afterwards, he did not speak harshly to him, and even sent people to bring food and drinks, Tian Zhichang decided in his heart that Xu Huai did not dare to do anything to him.
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At this time, seeing the sudden fire at Shengde Gate, Tian Zhichang was also eager to know what happened, so he immediately took three other festival officials and walked to the corner tower with Xu Xin.
"Are you Tian Zhichang?" Xu Huai stared at Tian Zhichang, took out the military and horse supervision order from his sleeve, and asked, "Do you recognize this order arrow?"
"...What do you want to do?" Tian Zhichang asked angrily as he saw several people surrounding him from the left and right, holding the saber at his waist.
"You escaped from the battle, and the Military Supervisory Council specially ordered me to arrest you and investigate. Tian Zhichang, do you dare to resist?" Xu Huai stared at Tian Zhichang and asked in a deep voice.
"..." Tian Zhichang stared at Xu Huai with a ferocious expression for a while, and finally let go of the hand holding the knife and shouted, "I have made meritorious service to the imperial court and shed blood. The military supervisory committee cannot slander me for nothing.
I want to see the capital commander!"
"I will give you a chance to defend yourself. Tie them all up!" Seeing that Tian Zhichang and others did not dare to resist, Xu Huai secretly felt that with soldiers and horses monitoring the orders, he could still deter these low-level military attachés and save them a lot of trouble.
"..." Seeing that Tian Zhichang and others were tied up with large cloths, stuffed with cloth, and imprisoned directly in the arrow room on the upper floor of the turret, Xu Xin stood there in shock and was at a loss.
"Xu Xin!" Xu Wuqi took off his braces in the turret and restored his true appearance...
