The fire in Kucha City has not been extinguished since the first day when the Turkic coalition forces arrived.!
Guo Ping shot the last crossbow arrow in his hand, then rushed to the crenelation, and used a fork to overturn the enemy's ladder. Without a chance to breathe, he picked up his shield and stood in the gap.
On the top, there was a constant clanking sound immediately. I squatted with my back against the shield, took out a rice dumpling from my arms and stuffed it into my mouth. From morning to afternoon, I didn't eat a bite, and the rice dumpling was already sour.
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The sky is full of big rocks. This is the catapult of the Turks. Since the eight oxen crossbows on the city have used up their crossbow arrows, this thing can get closer to the city wall. The catapult of the Turks is not big, and the stones thrown are not big either.
They were only about the size of a human head, but there were so many of them that there was no way to hide. The city wall in Qiuci was not like the city wall in the pass with caves for hiding soldiers. The city wall here was just a two-foot-high earth wall.
Whether you can be hit by a stone depends on your luck. The luck of the stone is not good. After being hit by two stones in a row, the sternum was exposed and half of the head disappeared. Only the hands and feet could still twitch a few times unconsciously.
It’s not good to call it something, it must be called a stone!
Guo Ping was very lucky. The nearest stone was a foot away. The rain of stones stopped, and a horn sounded outside the city. Three short and one long. This was the horn of the Turks retreating. Guo Ping would curl up.
With his legs straightened, he turned his head and watched the Turks retreat like a tide from the gap in the shield.
He looked at the barbarians who fell at the top of the city and found that they were wearing white robes. These were not Turks, but people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu. At first, he had thought of cutting off heads or ears to report military merit, but then he
As time goes by, no one is interested in doing this anymore. At this time, being able to drink a sip of water and finish eating noodles is the greatest enjoyment.
The captain's shout rang out from the top of the city: "The first team is forming a team, the second team is forming a team, the third team is forming a team. The ones next to me whose mouths were broken and can't speak are counting."
Guo Ping pricked up his ears and listened. The three centurions stopped making any movement when they counted to sixty-one. Yesterday there were still one hundred and seventy-three people, but today they lost a total of one hundred and twelve people.
Life and death are ordinary things! Guo Ping really wanted to say this. This is what the veteran said when he first entered the army. At that time, the veteran did not say it impassionedly, he just said it very plainly, as if he was saying I have already eaten.
Just as bland.
Shitou's body was dragged down by the auxiliary soldiers, and his armor was taken off. One of the auxiliary soldiers put Shitou's armor on himself, took Shitou's sword and spear and sat next to Guo Ping.
The auxiliary soldier took out a raw watermelon the size of a fist from his leather bag and handed it to Guo Ping and said with a smile: "When I was requisitioning the houses of the barbarians in the city, I found watermelons in the garden, but they didn't have enough time to grow.
, eat whatever you want."
Guo Ping knew that this was a way for the recruits to show their goodwill. Yesterday, Shitou promised that after returning to Sanyuan, he would go to the Wei River to watch women bathing. The white bodies of those women were so beautiful.
The flesh of watermelon is bland and tasteless, like cotton wool. Fortunately, the rind is very moist, which is good for moisturizing your throat.
The auxiliary soldiers secretly gave Guo Ping a whole base of crossbow arrows. When he touched the crossbow arrows, he found that the grease on them had not been cleaned off. There were twenty-four one-foot-six-cent short crossbows, not even one."
Where did you get it? Isn't this thing already in limited supply? ""I am working as a logistics errand. It was my brother-in-law who found me a job. Now my brother-in-law has been transferred to the north of the city by the general. I don't know what happened to them. These crossbow arrows are all
I can’t use the crossbow arrows he left for me, so it’s better to give them to you.”
Guo Ping nodded, lowered his head, tore off a piece of linen cloth and began to wipe the grease on the crossbow arrows. He had just sworn that he would never ask the names of the new soldiers again. If he asked one of them, one of them would die, which was unlucky.
The stars came out, but the Turks in the distance did not leave. Looking at the bonfires dotted outside the city, they seemed to reach the horizon. I don’t know how many enemies there were. The first people to attack were the Tuyuhun people. These people are very good.
To deal with it, as long as you kill the leading general, they will collapse.
The Xueyantuo people came up next. They were all very strong. They rushed up with their upper bodies naked, and their chests were all covered with black hair. The necks of these guys were so thick that even a sharp horizontal knife could not remove their heads with one blow.
If he came down, he might get the blade stuck. This is how his team died. He was a very powerful veteran. He just paused and his head was smashed by the flail of Xue Yantuo's soldier. Guo Ping thought that killing these guys
The best weapon is the throwing spear. They are stout and have a big target. The tip of the throwing spear, which is more than a foot long, can easily pierce their bodies, even if they are wearing leather armor.
The scimitars of the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu are very powerful. Most of the people today died under the scimitars. The wounds were all on the joints and throats that could not be covered by the armor. It is best to use short crossbows like this to deal with them. If the poison is quenched
His short arrows are the best, but the commander does not allow his men to use poison. Unlike the Xings in Beiting, they can use poison arrows. Even if the arrows of this short crossbow are lost, they will not be able to kill the Xuhu people.
For such a thing, the crossbow arrows are a full foot shorter than the arrows they use for riding bows. So what if you get them? Can you just throw them over?
Today's food supply is still only rice soup. Guo Ping understands the general's difficulties. It will take at least a month, or even longer, for the reinforcements from Beiting to arrive. Everyone needs to save food to survive this more than a month.
I heard that Yun Shuai and Guo Shuai in Beiting were at odds with each other. One of them disliked the other. Guo Shuai thought that Yun Shuai was a timid young man. Yun Shuai said that Guo Shuai was an old barbarian who only knew how to rush forward.
Niu. Guo Shuai handed the petition to His Majesty in a rage. As a result, Guo Shuai was separated from Yun Shuai's command. The Anxi Army has always existed independently. It is not known who will be commanded. This is the school captain
As a new member of the team, Guo Ping had heard the little things said during the meeting.
Following Guo Shuai, there is no reason to speak to Yun Shuai. Even if Yun Shuai's title is higher than Guo Shuai's, no one has complained even if Guo Shuai leads everyone and is surrounded by enemy troops. The commander-in-chief has also been here these days.
They began to patrol the city, and encouraged everyone to hold on for a while, and the Beiting Army would come over. At that time, everyone would work together to kill all these barbarians.
Strangely enough, everyone knew that Guo Shuai had fallen out with Yun Shuai, but no one suspected that Yun Shuai would deliberately not come to the rescue. Even the cooks in the army would not think so. Everyone would just pinch him.
He counted on his fingers how far Yunshuai had gone. After all, it was a full 1,600 miles from Gaochang to Qiuci, and there was a desert in the middle.
"After thirty-six more days, Yun Shuai's army will come, and we will go out of the city and kill him!" Guo Ping suddenly turned his head and said happily to the dozing recruits next to him.
In the morning, there was another meal of gruel, but each person would have two more rice balls. Otherwise, even a hero would be hungry after having two gruels a day. Guo Ping quickly drank the gruel, ate one rice ball, and added the other rice balls.
He wrapped a rice ball and put it in his arms. This was his lunch. As long as the Turks started to attack the city, they would have no lunch to eat. He had been fighting on the city for seven days. If he persisted for three more days, he would be rotated.
, so I must persevere through these three days no matter what.
The auxiliary soldiers have been busy all night, and the damaged gap has been blocked with barbed wire. There are countless sharpened beams piled behind the barbed wire. You can tell at a glance that they were pulled out from other people's houses.
Guo Ping received a new order, that is, he needs to lead his hundred-man team to focus on defending the corner of the city wall. This place is very bad because of the corner. The entire team is supported at the front, which is also the most dangerous place.
This is to use one of his teams as two teams.
Guo Ping was about to open his mouth and say that he only had seventy-one people left and could not bear such a heavy responsibility, but when he saw the captain's red eyes, he couldn't say a word.
The captain took out five crossbow arrows from his quiver and put them in Guo Ping's hand and said: "I'll hold on to you while you're alive!" After saying that, he left. The captain was from an aristocratic family, and he seemed to be a viscount or a baron.
? Guo Ping couldn't tell which of the two titles was higher. He only knew that one time the captain got drunk and boasted that when the marshal saw his father, he would give his hand and call him "Sir Tingdu". He didn't know if it was true.
The damn Western Region became hotter the moment the sun came out. The corpses under the city wall had become stinky after a night of fermentation. In order not to be infected by the corpse poison, Guo Ping needed to wear a pig's snout.
Wearing the pig's snout would reduce the pungent stench. The bellies of some Hu corpses were so swollen that the leather armor was stretched open. Guo Ping turned his head and didn't want to see that scene.
Because the belly was about to burst, and sure enough, after a loud bang, colorful internal organs flew everywhere. At this time, swarms of flies would fly up with a loud bang, almost covering the area.
Guo Ping's probing gaze.
Yesterday, the commander shot an arrow with a document telling the other side that they could collect the corpses of their own people. At this time, no arrows were fired on the city. This is a common method for fighting between two armies. Once a plague breaks out, it will not be beneficial to both armies, but the Turks seem to
There was no response, they had no intention of restraining themselves.
"Mom, when the battle is over, I'm afraid I'll have to soak in perfume to get rid of the stink!"
The Turks pushed their catapults slowly over from a distance, followed by a large group of soldiers on foot. Guo Ping counted tens of thousands of people, twice as many as yesterday's five thousand. It looked like
I'm having a hard time today.
"Be prepared to find cover. Don't expose your body. The battlements are unreliable. Once the trebuchet starts to strike, stick your body tightly to the wall and cannot run. Once the trebuchet ends, you must quickly stand up and fight! Do you hear me?