Lang Tan welcomed the Liao army into the city with a humble smile. The more Liao soldiers walked in, the more his smile grew, just like watching his own cattle and sheep entering the cattle pen. There were more than three thousand people beside him.
The Song army quietly climbed onto their horses, and the powerful crossbows hidden under their tattered cloaks were already deployed, waiting for the general's order.
Suddenly, a group of people rushed over from the left side of the city. The man leading it shouted loudly: "Be careful, there is a scam!"
Lang Tan was stunned for a moment, and decisively waved the small red flag in his hand. He saw the thousand-jin gate at the head of Pianguan City crashing to the ground, smashing several Liao troops who were about to enter the city into a pulp. At the same time, Song Jun threw them away
He took off his cloak, and the metallic crossbow arrows covered the approaching Liao army like an overwhelming force.
Ge Tianfang's long knife pierced the Liao Zhongjun's ribs fiercely and said with a ferocious smile: "Grandpa will give you the knife right now." The Liao Zhongjun didn't expect that the man who was as humble as a ball of mud just now would be so humble in an instant.
Transformed into a ferocious beast, when he fell off his horse, he saw countless Song troops throwing black iron eggs into the middle of the Liao army...
The Liao people on the top of the city fell like raindrops. Those people were the Liao army who planned to take over the defense of Pianguan City. They were caught off guard and were killed by Lang Tan's deputy general Tan Wei.
After disposing of the Liao army scouts, Tan Wei laughed and threw a torch into the group of Liao soldiers milling around in the urn city. The sand on the ground was mixed with gunpowder and sulfur. The torch exploded quickly after it hit the ground, instantly killing Lang Tan's conscious body.
The firewood placed there was ignited, and then a large number of kerosene jars were thrown down.
Seeing the blazing fire in Weng City, Lang Tan shouted with joy and led his three thousand men to launch a surprise attack on the upsetting Liao army. The sharp sword flew among the enemy and soon turned red.
The eight-oxen crossbows, crossbows, and trebuchets at the top of the city were madly pouring all kinds of murderous weapons at the Liao army. The neat Liao army was completely turned into a pot of porridge, and the flat city gate became a Shura slaughterhouse.
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Wu Gudu suppressed his greed and did not follow the vanguard into the city for the sake of his own face. Now that he saw this miserable scene, he could only yell, and bursts of meaningless yells came out of his mouth.
"Back off, back off!" Yelu Hande, commander of the Xijing Army, reacted immediately after a long experience in battles. He quickly led his men to shoot at the base of the position with bows and arrows, covering the panicked front troops as they retreated from the crossbows at the head of the side gate.
shooting range.
For the army, the most damaging weapon is never the ferocious weapon like the Eight Ox Crossbow, but the powerful crossbow. Its range is not as good as the Eight Ox Crossbow, but it is more powerful than the Eight Ox Crossbow. Once it starts firing, it will form a torrential rain.
blow.
Xiao Huoer was so angry that he jumped out of the carriage and got on his horse to settle accounts with the despicable Song Army. Wu Gu, who had recovered from his nerves, dragged him with poison and begged him not to take risks at this time, no matter what.
We have to wait until the army returns.
Lang Tan stopped at the farthest point of the crossbow range. Seeing the defeated Liao army, they had stabilized their position under the scolding of a Liao general. He knew that this was the only way he could do it today. He looked at the Liao army behind him and laughed loudly at the corpses littering the field.
With a smile, he led his subordinates and headed straight for the west gate.
When the Liao army reorganized their troops and braved the dense rain of arrows to fight to the bottom of the city again, they could hear the desperate roars of the front army from behind the city wall, but they were unable to move forward one step. Gunpowder bombs exploded one after another, blocking them alive.
Ten feet away.
The oar shield cannot stop gunpowder bullets, nor can it stop the Eight Ox Crossbow. Once the gunpowder bullet explodes in front of the oar shield, the oar shield will be blown to pieces, and then the Eight Ox Crossbow's crossbow bolts will take the opportunity to get in.
A bloody road was formed among the Liao people.
The Liao army, which was not prepared to attack the city, had to retreat slowly again. Xiao Huoer held a sharp blade in his hand, and blood was dripping down. He shouted to the sky at Lang Tan, who was laughing wildly at the top of the city, that he must be slaughtered.
Pianguan, no chickens or dogs left!
Lang Tan didn't care about Xiao Huo'er's poisonous oath. He looked at the Liao people who were covered in smoke and struggling desperately in the flames. He just sighed that not as many Liao people entered the city as he expected.
In order to build this urn city, it can be said that Lang Tan has worked hard for half a year. Without stones, he even demolished the dilapidated house of the governor of Pianguan. Without the white ash to bind the masonry, he could only use clay and rice soup.
Instead, now, more than two thousand Liao cavalry have died here, no matter how much suffering they suffer, it is worth it.
The moon climbed up, and Lang Tan watched the fire under the Wengcheng gradually extinguish, and there were no longer Liao people running under the city, so he opened the gate of the Wengcheng and prepared to send people to clean up the mess. As soon as the gate was opened, a large amount of fire burned.
The messy corpses poured in, and Lang Tan himself was surprised how so many people could get through the small Wengcheng gate.
The corpses had been burned and stuck together, and the horrible smell was wafting out. Even Lang Tan himself vomited violently for the first time. From then on, Lang Tan never touched his favorite roasted meat again...
After dawn, the soldiers cleaned up the barbican city by themselves. When the carts dragged the corpses of the Liao people through the streets, there were more eyes hiding behind the wooden boards, but more of them carefully hid themselves.
Got better.
"The general is wise. Today he used a strategic formation to kill more than 3,000 Liao people..."
The soldiers' voices were heard far away, but they did not receive any response from the people. Even the cheers were not heard. All the eyes in the gaps between the wooden boards disappeared, and there was only the sound of the wheels grinding on the stone road. Tan Wei felt a little agitated.
Angry, Ge Tianfang sighed and said: "One battle is not enough to restore the people's hearts. Damn Hua Tianshou has broken the hearts of the people here. After hearing what he did, even if I am a common people, I don't believe it."
anyone."
Lang Tan punched the city wall with his fist and said bitterly: "I can guarantee you that when the Liao people entered the city today, the person who called the Liao people to be careful must be the thief Hua Tianshou. If he hadn't called out my plan,
Wengcheng can hold at least a thousand more Liao people."
Tan Wei shook his head: "No, even if you didn't take action at that time, I would have ordered the Thousand Jin Gate to be lowered. At that time, some people from the Liao Dynasty were already asking why there was an urn city here. It seemed that they were already suspicious."
Lang Frank said: "In the final analysis, our Wengcheng is too small. If I can build a city within a city in Pianguan City, Xiao Huo'er will never come back."
Ge Tianfang said: "Now we are in trouble. There are too many Liao people. When I went to see Xiao Huo'er, I saw trebuchets and siege ladders. They came well prepared. Although we were the first stop
If we win, the days ahead will definitely not be easy. Under the attack of those large trebuchets, the weak walls of the side gates will not be able to stop us for long."
Lang Tan said nonchalantly: "It's not a problem to hold on for ten days, right? If Xiao Huo'er wants to cripple my side, I'm afraid it won't be possible without ten days of hard work, right? Ten days, just hold on for ten days, and then we'll run away."
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Ge Tianfang hesitated and said: "It's easy for us to hold on for ten days and then retreat in front of the commander-in-chief. But what about the people in the city? The commander-in-chief doesn't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. I'm afraid he won't allow us to
The people left it to the Liao army to vent their anger, our Jingxi army has never done such a shameful thing."
Tan Wei said angrily: "These people have a little bit of the self-consciousness of the Song Dynasty people. The soldiers fought hard for almost two hours yesterday and had no time to clean the battlefield. The common people could secretly search for property on the corpses of the Liao people at night. At dawn,
But they didn’t know how to help us clean the battlefield. The brothers saw them stealing things, but they were too poor to stop them. These ungrateful things do not deserve mercy."
Lang Tan glanced at Tan Wei and said: "Old Tan, you were born as a general. In the early years when the general was in charge of Lingnan, you were among the first to exchange money for merit. Later, the bloody battle at Niu'er Mountain in Qingtang was the real success.
You have become a good man of our Jingxi Army. There are some things about the Jingxi Army that you don’t understand. The commander-in-chief allowed us to abandon the city. He never thought that holding on to the city with all the people dead would be a victory. So, it is not a big deal for us to abandon the city.
, but you remember, the prerequisite for abandoning the city is to send the people away first. Otherwise, even if we fight the enemy and win a great victory after abandoning the city, your and my heads will definitely be taken by the general to order the three armies!
This is almost non-negotiable."
Ge Tianfang put his hand on Tan Wei's shoulder, patted it twice and said with a smile: "You were born with a fucking golden key in your mouth. You don't know the sufferings of the people. The reason why these people are like this is because they worship Hua Tianshou."
As a matter of fact, the army has trapped people into such a miserable state, shouldn't they be allowed to be a little more indifferent?"
"What the two elder brothers said is true. Tan Wei Menglang is so angry. If Hua Tianshou falls into our hands, can we leave it to the younger brother? The younger brother will definitely put him in a dilemma of life and death. This bitch still has some connections in Tokyo, you two
If the elder brother takes action, he will definitely cause trouble, but the younger brother doesn't have so many scruples. My sister is also a princess after all, so he can't afford to offend me."
Listening to what Tan Wei said, Lang Tan laughed and said: "Even if Hua Tianshou has hands and eyes, his action of reminding the Liao people yesterday is enough to make him the Yi clan. Not to mention others, even your brother-in-law, the emperor, will not be able to spare him. Now we
It is best to send the people out of the city now before the Liao people cross the river to surround us. Without the people in the city, we can have a hearty battle.
Lao Ge, you take care of this matter, Lao Tan and I can't do this!"
Ge Tianfang nodded with a smile and turned around to make arrangements. The reason why the people in the city did not leave before was because they were reluctant to part with their pots and jars. In addition, it was not unusual for Liao people to come to Pianguan. They only robbed things and did not kill people, so everyone
They all had a lucky mentality. Now that the Song army has killed so many Liao people, what will follow must be very horrific revenge. Now it is not difficult to persuade the people to leave.
Tan Wei looked at the Liao army strongholds lined up outside the city and couldn't help feeling worried, and asked in a low voice: "General, do you think we can win this time?"
Lang Tan laughed and said: "I have never lost a battle!" (To be continued)