Although Buddha's Mother had made up her mind not to go to Wang Xian again before dawn, she had been restless and agitated in the camp, unable to enter concentration. She felt that the night was really long, and she couldn't help but check for updates several times, but she couldn't get through it.
It’s only been an hour…
Seeing the third watch, Buddha Mother finally thought about it, smiled to herself, and said to herself: "That guy is obviously lying, but I believed the truth. It seems that he is really too honest." She planned how to punish King Luo early tomorrow morning.
Xian, she sat cross-legged and prepared to enter meditation.
Just when she was about to enter a state of forgetfulness, Buddha Mother seemed to hear the noise of people and horses outside the tent. She thought she was overthinking and had some auditory hallucinations, but the sounds outside became clearer and clearer, and Buddha Mother finally couldn't bear it.
He whispered: "What are you doing outside?"
The little maid lowered her head in sleepiness. After hearing this, she opened her eyes hard and muttered: "Whatever, we can't attack the city in the middle of the night."
After the little maid finished speaking, she saw the Buddha's mother stood up, walked to the door of the tent, opened the thick curtain, and then stood there in a daze...
"Buddha Mother." The little maid hurriedly stood up and walked to Buddha Mother. When she looked outside, she couldn't help but was stunned - she saw tens of thousands of officers and soldiers marching silently in the military camp. They were sleeping soundly during the day.
The guys, with their eyes shining at the moment, are full of energy, fully armed, and lined up neatly!
There were no torches, no orders, only the eye-catching white cloth wrapped around the arms to remind the soldiers of the position of the queue.
Watching this silent giant drive out of the military camp, the little maid couldn't help but murmured: "They are not going to run away overnight..." She herself felt that the statement was ridiculous, and her voice gradually became inaudible.
Mother Buddha ignored the little maid and kept watching the army leave the barracks. Then she looked back at the clock in the tent. Under the weak candlelight, the scale pointed to the third watch day...
At midnight, Linzi City was quiet except for the crackling of countless torches at the top of the city. The firelight illuminated the city. The soldiers who were on duty at night huddled together and hid in a corner sheltered from the wind to warm themselves by the fire. They whispered gossip.
From time to time, he would let out suppressed laughter...
Wang Bin's military discipline was strict, and the soldiers were not allowed to make noise at the top of the city, nor were they allowed to sleep during the night watch. In fact, he ordered the soldiers to keep patrolling at all times, but in this late autumn night with a biting west wind, the soldiers in thin clothes could barely manage the first and second watch.
A more patrol would have been great. At this moment, everyone was cold, sleepy, and tired. They all huddled together to keep warm. The officers turned a blind eye and even warmed themselves by the fire with them.
"The general is really cautious," one of the generals muttered in a low voice: "If you ask me, it would be useless for those guys from the White Lotus Sect to open up Linzi City for them to attack."
"That's right, what the White Lotus Sect is, a bunch of mud-legged people." These words resonated with everyone, and they all agreed: "We are the most elite Han army in the Ming Dynasty!"
"That's right, if you ask me, you should open the city gates and rush out, trample them together, and then fight all the way to Qingzhou to kill Tang Tiande and Nalaoshizi Buddha Mother to avenge the prince!"
"Hey, you can't kill the Buddha Mother. I heard that she is a stunning beauty..." The boss gave a strange laugh, and everyone laughed. "Not bad, not bad, let us brothers enjoy it!"
"Ahem. You're right, be careful. Linzi City is the gateway to our Han Dynasty's army. We must not make mistakes." The hundred households with the highest official positions were indeed the most aware: "Stop complaining and let the general hear it. Another one is inevitable."
Stop it..."
"Okay, don't let me chat. I'll drink...water." Nashou took out a water bag from his arms and sipped it in small sips.
"What does it smell like?!" A soldier sitting downwind suddenly sniffed, and his expression became very exciting and said: "It seems like..."
"Wine!" Baihu also noticed something fishy, grabbed the general's water bag, brought it to his mouth, took a sip, and immediately shouted in a low voice: "You don't want to live anymore!" During the war, drinking was not allowed in the army.
Not to mention patrolling the city, which would be a capital offense for any army.
"Hehe..." Mr. Ba smiled nonchalantly and said, "Que Quhan, we are all our brothers, so why are we so serious?"
"..." Baihu's expression changed several times, and finally he made up his mind and whispered: "Drink it quickly!" After saying that, he took a big gulp and then passed it to the person next to him.
"Leave some for me..." Everyone took a sip and passed the wine bag around, looking really at ease.
Na Zong was a little drunk after drinking, so he stood up holding on to the city wall.
"What are you going to do?" the person next to you asked in a low voice.
"Pee." Mr. Ba chuckled.
"Get away."
"Hey..." The boss didn't listen at all. After taking two steps, he held the arrow stack with one hand and carefully untied his belt with the other hand, and started to urinate.
"******, it smells so strong, you're so angry!" Someone cursed, causing everyone to laugh, but no general rebuttal was heard.
Baihu looked at Mr. General strangely, and saw that he was still in the position of peeing, but he could no longer urinate. He was pointing out of the city, his face was full of panic, his mouth was opening and closing, but he was so anxious that he couldn't make a sound.
.
An ominous premonition arose in the hearts of Baihu. They quickly stood up and took a look. They were shocked out of their minds - in the darkness, they saw a huge army silently marching to the moat, only a few feet away from the river edge!
"The city is under attack! The enemy is under attack!" The shrill shouts of hundreds of households pierced the relatively quiet night sky!
'Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang!' The sound of the police gong resounded through the city, and the garrison soldiers rushed to their respective posts in a swarm, loading the crossbows, heating the vegetable oil, and pushing the rolling stones and wood onto the arrow stacks. The preparations for defending the city were not yet ready.
The crossbowmen of the King of Han's army had already set up their bows and fired the first wave of arrows!
‘Swish, swish, swish!’ The sharp arrows, with a sound of piercing the air, were shot at the overwhelming enemy troops! There were enemies everywhere along the moat. There was no need to aim, and it was impossible to aim, because it was a dark night!
‘Ahhhhh!’ The Qingzhou Army’s screams suddenly echoed!
The archers set up their bows and arrows again and began the second round of shooting! Moreover, this round of shooting was mixed with many rockets. While killing the enemy, the arrows wrapped in cotton and stained with pine oil burned fiercely, which also served as a source of fire for the defenders at the top of the city.
The army illuminated the battlefield below the city.
In the shadows, you can vaguely see Qingzhou Army soldiers falling down after being hit by arrows, and people keep coming up. These soldiers are holding huge bamboo rafts high, rushing towards the moat!
At this time, Wang Bin hurried over after hearing the news, quickly climbed to the top of the city, checked the situation below the city, and then breathed a sigh of relief. He asked the Qianhu in charge of this section of the city wall in a deep voice: "How many people are there in the enemy army?!"
"It's too dark to see clearly, but three city walls were attacked at the same time. Liu Xin must have mobilized in full force!" The thousand households finished reporting and said loudly: "General, don't worry, we discovered the enemy in time and the defense system is functioning.
Good job, no matter how many enemies he has, he can't shake us one bit!"
"Don't be careless! I'm worried that they will have tricks!" Wang Bin held on to the cold city wall and scanned the Qingzhou Army with overwhelming force. Although it seemed that the actions of these mud-legged soldiers were the same as committing suicide, Wang Bin still felt that
Something is not good - the time of the Qingzhou Army's siege is really weird. Why did they choose to attack the city in the middle of the night?! Is the opponent's general so stupid that he doesn't even understand the most common military knowledge? I don't know what the sight of the defenders is in the dark night
It has an impact, but it weakens the siege party in all aspects!
"General, you are worrying too much," said the Qianhu household, pointing to the bamboo rafts held high by the Qingzhou Army below the city: "Looking at how crude their armor is, you know that the Qingzhou Army is not on the same level as us!"
Before Qianhu finished speaking, he saw the officers and soldiers of the Qingzhou Army rushing to the moat, throwing the bamboo rafts into the water, and then jumped into the water one after another, using their shoulders to hold the sides of the bamboo rafts. The bamboo rafts about five feet wide became a series of bamboo rafts.
A bamboo bridge with human bodies as piers!
Immediately there were elite soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding spears and giant axes. They rushed to the other side on the bamboo bridges and used their spears and giant axes to destroy the roadblocks set up by the Han army on the inside of the moat!
Qian Huda's mouth was open and speechless. He was an old man in the Han Dynasty Army. Regardless of his level, he still had good vision. Just from the few actions of the Qingzhou Army, he knew that the other party's training level was definitely not better than his own.
Down!
But when he looked closely, Qianhu smiled again, because he saw that although the elites of the White Lotus Sect were fully armed, they were missing one key piece of equipment...
"It's ridiculous!" Qianhu, who had just been slapped in the face, came back to his senses and once again belittled the Qingzhou Army: "We don't even have a ladder to attack this city! Are we going to fly up?!"
"Let the rolling stones and trees roll!" Wang Bin ordered decisively.
"Ah?" Qianhu said in surprise: "General, this will destroy our own fortifications!" According to the pre-plan, they waited until the enemy troops destroyed the fortifications under the city wall and began to climb the city wall before putting down the rolling stones. If they had been put down in advance.
If the stone rolls, it will destroy the horses and other obstacles set up by the Han army.
"Didn't you hear what I said!" Wang Bin roared: "Hurry up and let me go!"
"Yes!" Qianhu shrank his head in fright, and quickly ordered loudly: "Let the rolling rocks roll!"
Following his order, the soldiers guarding the city pushed down the rolling stones piled on the arrow stacks. Large logs as thick as buckets and boulders as big as millstones rolled down from the city. The heavily armored soldiers below the city saw this.
He hurriedly retreated, but it was already too late! Many soldiers were smashed into pieces on the spot, and many soldiers jumped into the river in a hurry, but they were tired of the iron armor on their bodies and sank to the bottom in an instant!
Most of the pontoon bridge was smashed by rolling stones and wood, and the Qingzhou Army's arrogance was immediately knocked down!
Seeing that the Qingzhou Army was stunned at once, Qianhu quickly apologized and said with a smile: "The general also used all his strength to fight against the rabbit, he is really too cautious!"
"Fight at night, be careful and you won't make a big mistake." Wang Bin saw that the Qingzhou Army's momentum was suppressed, and the uneasiness in his heart finally faded a lot, and he said slowly: "As for the damaged fortifications, we will send people down to repair them tomorrow."
"The general is wise, and my subordinates have learned a lesson!" Qianhu nodded like a peck of rice. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net