Chapter 209 Scene 28: Red Armor Sets the Prairie Fire III
It was May 30th, the second year of Zhaoxi. The sun was rising, and the stars were alone after dawn. The heavy rain that had just stopped completely washed away the smell of blood that filled the air. And the bloody battle that took place in Suoyang Pass late last night also
It was like a chaotic nightmare, as if it had never happened.
Nowadays, everything in Yujing is peaceful and calm. The faint sounds of shouts and clashes of swords in the middle of the night were regarded as rumbling thunder and failed to attract the slightest attention from the people in the city.
However, there was still a horse riding through the Chiwu Gate in the south of the city, and rushed into the Yongyang Palace along the mountain and river road that ran from north to south. The person sitting on the horse was none other than Zhu Rong, the guard of Suoyang Pass, and
Gao Li, who had received the news in advance, was currently accompanying the young emperor and his close aides, waiting for him angrily in the Wannian Palace.
The urgent report of the fall of Suoyang Pass was brought to the palace by Mo Ya overnight. Although Bai Jiangxing was ignorant of worldly affairs and did not understand what this matter meant to himself and the entire Yujing, he was still vaguely aware of the threat to the front line.
It was a great event to lose the battle. Seeing Gao Li's anger at this time, he reached out and pulled the opponent's sleeves and asked softly:
"Gao Aiqing, please don't get angry first. I - I saw that your face was not good, and I was really scared."
Gao Li was so upset that he had no intention of appeasing the idiot emperor in front of him. He just said bitterly in a low voice:
"Your Majesty should be afraid, and all of us should be afraid - without Suoyang Pass, there will no longer be any obstacle between Yujing and Wei Liang's army. Now Luqiu Borong, who personally led Guan Ning's soldiers to rebel, is probably about to lead the rebellion.
The army attacked the city, but we don’t even know the strength of the opponent’s troops!”
Gao Li's unkind tone immediately frightened Bai Jiangxing so much that he didn't dare to ask any more questions, but there were tears flashing in his eyes. He seemed to be even more frightened, and kept muttering in a low voice:
"Some bad guys are coming, some bad guys are coming! Gao Aiqing must protect me!"
By the time Zhu Rong arrived at the Wannian Palace, it was already bright. Before he could finish his obeisance to the emperor, Gao Li, who couldn't wait any longer, rushed forward, grabbed him by the collar and scolded him fiercely.
road:
"Don't waste time! Tell me quickly, how many people have come from Wei Liang? Where have they attacked now?"
At this time, Zhu Run's expression completely lost the slackness and laziness he had before the battle. Even if it rained heavily all night, it still could not wash away the blood and mud stained all over his body. Although the red and black blood stains covered him
His face, which had long since turned pale, could not hide the trembling and despair in his eyes.
Seeing that the kneeling guard's eyes were unfocused, as if he was recalling the fierce battle last night, Gao Li suddenly let go of his right hand and slapped the opponent hard on the face:
"You should say something to me!"
Zhu Yan was in pain and finally came to his senses, then hesitantly reported:
"The Wei Liang Army has tens of thousands of people. When I rode towards the city, its vanguard was already less than fifty miles away from Longshou Ferry. The brothers who survived in the city went to the Tuenmen guards guarding the ferry for help. I am afraid that the situation is now in danger.
Eighty-nine of them have all been killed!"
"They are really a bunch of trash! During the Shuodi Rebellion more than a hundred years ago, the barbarians surrounded the pass with a hundred thousand cavalry and attacked it for several months, but they failed to capture it. Now there are only tens of thousands of infantry, how can they do it in one night?
Suddenly broke through the barrier and headed north, heading straight for Huanglong? Are the firearms I distributed to you a few days ago just for show?!"
Gao Li pushed the opponent to the ground and kicked him in the stomach several times. Zhu Run, however, believed that the defeat was not his fault. Full of anger, he covered his stomach with both hands and shouted at the opponent regardless of the situation.
The voice roared:
"My lord was not in the pass last night, how do you know that we can definitely hold it? Yesterday, there were only more than 2,800 people guarding Suoyang Pass. Although the firearms distributed had a long range and great power, they were laborious to load, and with the heavy rain, even in close combat, even
If we can't even exert 30% of its power, how can we defend it?"
"I didn't order you to stay on the tower, so how can I talk about close combat?"
Gao Li immediately heard something was wrong in the other party's words and continued to ask. Zhu Run finally had to slowly explain everything that happened last night, but the expressions of everyone in the palace suddenly changed...
The night before, the defenders of Suoyang Pass attacked the city first with firebolts and muskets distributed in their hands, catching Wei Liang off guard. The mood of the people on the spot was high, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. However, Lu Qiu Borong, who was almost killed under the city, was unwilling to accept it and sent thousands more troops twice in succession.
The vanguard of the people rushed to the city, but they were all shot and killed. As a last resort, they ordered to retreat five miles and no longer go out easily.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Er immediately ordered to be more vigilant and pay attention to the other party's movements at all times, but he did not dare to sleep with his clothes on for fear that the other party would be deceitful.
The first half of the night passed quickly. However, the Weiliang Army did not take any more actions except for sending out a team of fifty people from time to time outside the range of the firebolt muskets to investigate the situation. After a brief encounter, they quickly turned back. Even the soldiers in the formation did not move.
Dozens of stone crossbows, wells, rams and flying bridges specially used for siege were also put aside and never touched again.
It seems that Luqiu Borong does not intend to sacrifice the lives of his sergeants in exchange for immediate victory, and there is no better way to defend against the iron bullets of the firebolt gun in a short period of time. However, both sides of the opponent are very clear that the time has come
At this stage, there is absolutely no way that this powerful female ruler would withdraw her troops. But I don’t know what exactly she has in mind.
Participating in many battles, tired of men and horses, Zhu Yan's nerves, which had been tense for several hours, finally relaxed. He thought that he had won the first battle tonight, which greatly affected the opponent's arrogance and made him dare not be complacent.
Looking at the garrison in the capital, it was unlikely that he would try to attack again. So in order to recharge his batteries, he ordered the soldiers guarding the city to withdraw 60%, and the remaining men changed their defenses every three hours.
However, before the first round of duty was over, the situation in the pass had changed. Just after midnight, Zhu Rong, who was about to fall asleep, suddenly heard a commotion in a hazy state. When he opened his eyes, he saw the light of fire reflecting in the sky outside the window.
, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, lost all sleep, and stretched out his hand to open the window to take a look.
However, before he could open the window, he heard a "Hu" sound, and a long-feathered armor-piercing arrow shot into the room, almost grazing the tip of Zhu Run's nose. The iron arrow was nailed to the pillar behind him.
It shook violently for a long time before it stopped. The arrow was obviously a three-edged armor-piercing arrow unique to Wei Liang, but it was quite powerful, as if it was shot from a hundred steps away!
"Damn it, Wei Liang is attacking again at night? Maybe the hundreds of soldiers on guard are all asleep!"
Zhu Ru couldn't help cursing, but he didn't dare to approach the window easily. He just raised his right foot and kicked open the window with a big hole. However, even though he had a premonition that something was not good, the people inside the pass
The sight still shocked him so much that he froze in place, not knowing what to do——
Under Suoyang Pass, in addition to the 18 urn cities outside the nine city gates on the north and south sides, there is also a rectangular main city that is more than six miles long and two and a half miles wide, which is used for camping, garrisoning troops and adjusting deployment. By then,
Most of the baggage and grain stored in the pass were stacked in a wooden warehouse in the northwest corner. The fire that Zhu Run had seen through the window was ignited in that warehouse!
At present, there is already a mess under the city wall. The fire has also spread from the warehouse to the three nearby urn cities, and has burned down nearly half of the tents in the main city. There are screams under the city wall, and there are sergeants and generals from time to time in the light of the fire.
The nearby comrades were dragged out of the fire. The luckier ones among them were able to successfully extinguish the fire burning on their bodies, but they were still seriously injured. The more unfortunate sergeants were completely swallowed by the fire and turned into a corpse.
The existence of the charred black mass was such that even the corpse could no longer be distinguished.
In the blink of an eye, more than half of the defenders in the pass were dead or wounded, with only a few hundred sergeants left. More than a hundred of them were working together to carry buckets of water on their shoulders from the reservoir a hundred steps away from the warehouse, hoping to
Put out the fire. However, all parts of the warehouse had already been doused with kerosene used for city defense. A few buckets of water were poured on it. The fire only weakened slightly for a moment, and then it suddenly rushed up again, and it was impossible to put it out.
The rest of the soldiers who were still able to fight fought with a group of Guan Ning warriors who appeared from nowhere. Although the Wei and Liang Army only numbered a hundred people, they were all top-notch warriors, and the more they fought, the braver they became.
On the other hand, among the defenders who hurriedly responded to the battle, many people had just woken up from their sleep, and they were not even wearing their armor and helmets neatly. The opponent only charged once, and they were killed with their stomachs torn apart and blood flowing.
As noted.
At the same time, there were still black shadows in the sky, gliding silently into the city like bats in the dark night, and landed lightly on the ground. Zhu Rong took a closer look in fear, but saw that those figures were actually wearing two pieces of clothing.
The huge-winged warriors of Guan Ning. And they actually glided into the city from the Qingying Mountain on the east side of Suoyang Pass!
Soon, the Wei-Liang army that had invaded the pass had captured several city gates. And the main force of soldiers in silver armor, which had already been assembled outside the pass, was like silver soldiers running across the fields, fighting with countless torches.
Under the reflection of the city, people are coming in through the open city gate.
"...Therefore, the general realized that Suoyang Pass could no longer be defended, so he had no choice but to send the message to Mo Crow and lead his brothers to fight and retreat. It was not until he found a mount on the way that he hurried back to the city.
, report the war situation."
Zhu Ruan cupped her hands, but did not dare to raise her head to look into the other person's eyes.
Gao Li's expression became more and more solemn, and in the end he even raised his voice and cursed:
"I think you asked your brothers to die under the gauntlet of Guan Ning's military soldier, so as to give yourself a chance to escape! In this case, even if you fight to the last man, you should defend Suoyang Pass and wait for reinforcements to arrive!"
"Isn't it the same for adults? Let me wait and defend to the death in exchange for your safety for a moment? But this time, I am afraid that no one in Yujing City will be spared. All the strategies and countermeasures will be nothing more in the end.
Just linger on and let everyone die later..."
Zhu Yan no longer had any worries, he just knelt on the ground like crazy, talking to himself, and his words were incoherent.
Gao Li had no intention of entangled with him anymore, and instead ordered to his confidants:
"Quickly mobilize the 12th Military Guard Army to Longshoudu to encircle it with all your strength. We must not let Guan Ning's soldiers continue to approach the city!"
"Then do we need to evacuate the people in the city?"
A staff member next to him looked pale, hesitated for a moment and then raised his hand and asked.
Unexpectedly, this question made Gao Li even more angry:
"This is absolutely not allowed! We are only a few days away from the Zen Ceremony, so we cannot let any accidents hinder my plans! Give me another order to close the city gates in the name of security for the ceremony from now on. No living creatures are allowed to go out, and no one is allowed to go out.
No living thing can come in, not even a mouse!"
At the same time, Wei Liang's tens of thousands of troops had all passed through Suoyang Pass. Without stopping for a moment, they continued to form a neat square formation and headed straight towards Yujing.
The night before, Fu Zaiyin, who led five hundred elite soldiers into the pass and sealed the victory, also returned to Luqiu Borong after sunrise. Seeing the strange costume on his body, the female princess was surprised and curious, but
Don't know where to start asking.
"The lord of the country is worried. I made a good plan last night. I didn't have the opportunity to report it clearly to you beforehand. I never expected that I hit the target with one blow and broke through the Suoyang Pass. I can't live up to my trust!"
Before Lu Qiu Borong could ask questions, Fu Zaiyin had already taken the lead and bowed his hands. The female princess immediately realized that the other party had something to hide from her, and looked him up and down:
"What are you wearing?"
However, the general with a short beard did not answer her directly, but asked:
"Does your Majesty still remember that when we led the army to encircle and suppress Kunjie, we found many unburned letters and files in his villa?"
Lu Qiu Borong nodded, but he didn't know why the other party suddenly mentioned this matter.
"I spent half a year in private to piece together those fragments of words, but I finally learned about a powerful weapon called a firebolt. Until last night, I saw the garrison firing a volley, almost injuring the king.
, my subordinates realized that what they used was probably the firebolt blunderbuss. However, due to the urgency of the war, they were unable to report it in time, and I asked the Lord to punish them."
Fu Zaiyin paused for a moment. Seeing that Lu Qiu Borong didn't say much, he continued to explain, "The two wings on my back are called bat kites. They are also from the unburned files left by Kun Jie.
It was obtained. However, time was short, and until the dispatch of troops this time, only more than a hundred sets were produced. If the number was smaller, it is still unknown whether there were enough troops to fight against the defenders in the pass last night."
"You mean, Kun Jie is also secretly helping Gao Li?" After the other party finished speaking, the female monarch couldn't help but become speechless.
"I'm afraid we can only get some clues from him after we attack Yujing and capture Gaoli."
Fu Zaiyin took another step forward as he spoke, "If I get the approval of the lord of the country, I am willing to lead five thousand elites to go there with light equipment and capture the Longshou Crossing in front of me in one fell swoop, clearing the final obstacle for the attack on Yujing City tomorrow!"
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