Xu Zizhen was angry and anxious: "A hundred thousand Xixia army, do you think it's a joke?"
Wen Xian suddenly smiled brightly, like a hundred flowers blooming: "If I give you 30,000 troops, can you guard Jincheng for one night?"
Thirty thousand? With the steep terrain of Jincheng Pass, we can definitely defend it! Xu Zizhen subconsciously said: "Of course we can!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately reacted and said in surprise: "The 30,000 defenders of Lanzhou City are also here?"
Wen Xian smiled and said nothing, and moved her body to the side. Xu Zizhen looked behind her and saw a large number of soldiers lined up under the pass, all of them in neat military appearance with swords and guns.
"This..." Xu Zizhen was surprised. The defenders of Lanzhou City came out in full force. Are they planning to fight to the death?
Wen Chengyan walked forward with a slight smile: "Zizhen, I have thought very clearly that if Jincheng Pass is lost, Lanzhou City will definitely fall into a hard battle, and the people in the city will also be implicated. Rather than doing this, it is better to stay in Jincheng
Guan Guan and Xia Jun have a life-or-death showdown."
Xu Zizhen was silent for a moment, then Huo De raised his head with bright eyes and clenched his fists: "Don't worry, sir, I will never let Xixia occupy an inch of our Song Dynasty's land, let alone this Jincheng Pass!"
It was getting dark. Today's weather was not good. The clouds in the sky were thick, completely blocking the moonlight. When the torches were turned off, it was bright, but it was pitch black outside the pass, and the Xixia army on the opposite side could not be seen at all.
Meng Du had already made arrangements. He had prepared countless rolling stones and hammers, strong bows and crossbows. Dozens of artillery were neatly lined up on the pass, with their dark muzzles facing the outside of the pass.
Xu Zizhen had already put on clean clothes, and Li Meng had eaten and drank enough. He was surrounded by a group of soldiers, talking and laughing, and he seemed to be the center of the circle. He was probably the youngest person in the gate.
One of them, even the dark green little girl, looks older than him.
Today when Xu Zizhen rushed into the formation with thousands of people, he followed closely without any fear. He even used a long spear to make him look majestic and showed no fear of the formation. The men who serve in the army are all rough and straightforward people. Seeing such a little man
Naturally, I like it from the bottom of my heart.
Li Meng's injuries were not healed, and today's rush has added a lot of new injuries. Now there are no clean clothes for him to change, and his body is covered with blood. Xu Zizhen feels distressed and relieved. This kid looks like a
If you master the materials of a strong general, you may not be able to become a general in the future.
The three women didn't seem to care at all about the existence of a hundred thousand troops outside the pass. They sat aside and whispered without knowing what to say. Xu Zizhen had a headache and didn't know how to explain to Wen Xian the relationship between him and Shui Liuli.
However, he found that he didn't seem to have to worry about this matter at all. The two women were talking and joking close to each other like sisters. Kou Qiaoyi was well-behaved, smart, well-educated, and won the favor of the two of them.
Xu Zizhen slowly felt relieved. He looked at the girls, one was charming, one was cool, and the other was well-behaved. Even the dark green little girl had bright eyes and good eyesight, which was very cute. Although she was still young, she was already a complete beauty. They all had their own merits. He could bear it.
I couldn't help but feel itchy in my heart and wanted to squeeze in and join in the fun, but at this moment, a trumpet blast suddenly sounded in the distance outside the pass, and it could be heard clearly in the dark and quiet wilderness.
"Not good!" Xu Zizhen suddenly changed his color. As soon as he stood up, he heard a sound of breaking through the air, followed by a dense rain of arrows shot towards Guan Guan. The arrow was a bit longer than the ordinary arrow, and the arrow was
It was thick and sharp. As soon as Xu Zizhen raised his head, he saw that several Guan soldiers had their armor pierced by the arrow.
Meng Du hurriedly shouted: "The enemy is attacking, fall down quickly!" But the incident happened suddenly. The experienced veterans fell down immediately, while the new soldiers and those with slower reactions died tragically in the middle of the long arrow.
Down.
Turning off the torch and brightening it became an excellent target at night. The Xixia army's long-range attacks all came here with almost no mistakes. This rapid and fast arrow rain caught the generals off guard.
, before they could take a breath, another rain of rocks came over them.
The attack this time was a round stone ball, about the size of two interlocking sea bowls. The stone was hard. It was thrown from a distance and hit the wall tiles at the key. It immediately shook the whole door and shook slightly. After a while,
The solid and thick wall tiles had cracks in many places.
The rain of arrows and stone balls beat the soldiers of the pass to the point where they could not stand up at all. At this moment, huge stones dozens of times larger than the stone balls were thrown from a distance and landed accurately in the pass.
What he came across was either death or serious injury. In an instant, dozens of people were killed under the rocks.
Listening to the screams, Xu Zizhen felt a surge of anger rising from the bottom of his heart. Unable to hold it back any longer, he lowered his body and jumped to Xin Chou's side, grabbed his big ax, and quickly ran to a bronze cannon.
, turned around and shouted: "Are there any artillery?"
Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers gathered around, and Xu Zizhen said: "Put gunpowder into the shells and blow them back!"
An artilleryman hesitated and said: "But it's too dark outside the pass to determine the direction, and the Xixia soldiers' divine arm bows..."
Without saying a word, Xu Zizhen jumped onto the city wall at the critical moment. Before he could stand still, dozens of sharp arrows whizzed towards him. He waved his ax to deflect them one by one, and shouted sternly: "If you don't want me to die, just do it."
Hurry up and fire the cannon, blow it up!"
Those artillerymen felt their blood surge up fiercely. Xu Zizhen was like an eternal god, guarding them majesticly. He didn't care about those arrows and boulders. He rushed over with a shout and quickly loaded the gunpowder.
Moving the cannonball, the soldier in charge of calibration gritted his teeth and adjusted the angle at random——
Bang!
A cluster of fire appeared, and the huge iron ball in the artillery flew quickly into the night with a harsh sound of breaking wind. Suddenly, there was a burst of screams and exclamations from the distance. Obviously, this blind bomb was a blind cat caught dead.
It's a rat.
Xu Zizhen heard this clearly, and immediately became energetic and laughed: "Just use this angle and continue to explode!"
While he was talking, his hands never stopped for a moment. Arrows and stones were coming towards him one after another, but the giant ax in his hand was danced like a wheel, and whatever came close to him was swept away by him one by one.
, even the huge stone was split open by him with an understatement.
Xu Zizhen's behavior undoubtedly stimulated the fighting spirit of every soldier in the gate. At that moment, many people stood up straight and threw themselves at the artillery. The row of artillery on the city wall was quickly filled with people, even if arrow stones hit them.
Someone in the room was immediately replaced.
"boom!"
"Boom boom boom!..."
The sound of cannons shook the heaven and the earth, and the flames from the muzzles illuminated the whole door as bright as day. Exclamations and screams continued to be heard from the Xixia army in the distance, and the rain of arrows and stones suddenly slowed down.