The brutal offensive and defensive battle began, and now that it has happened, Tu Qiong saw that everything he said was nonsense. Cui Wang gave an order, and the servants came up like a tide. Li Siwen felt his scalp numb when he saw so many people, let alone
It's a war, even if you line up for him to kill, he won't be able to kill them all!
"You stand back!"
The speaker was Wang Hu, who was originally a soldier under Li Ji's tent. Later he came to Dingxiang with Li Siwen and served as the captain of Guoyi in Dingxiang Zhechong Prefecture. Three months ago, before the Turks invaded.
, Wang Hu went back to his hometown to get married. He was supposed to come back two months later, but unexpectedly he showed up here.
Li Siwen was startled and said, "Why are you back? Didn't you go home to get married?"
"I rushed back when I heard the news! I met His Royal Highness the King of Wei on the way, and we came together." Wang Hu pushed Li Siwen back and said, "You don't know martial arts, so it's useless to stay here. Go back to the city.
, leave it to me here!”
Wang Hu said, and then asked: "Where is Cheng Chumo?"
Cheng Chumo is the son of Cheng Yaojin, another captain of Guoyi in Zhechong Prefecture in Dingxiang. Li Siwen said: "I went with the general to besiege the Xue Yantuo people, not in the city... Oops, it's a long story!"
"I understand!" Wang Hu had already put on his clothes. He drew out his knife and killed an enemy soldier who was about to climb up. He said: "Sir, the enemy army is strong. If I don't survive this time, take good care of my wife. She
Already pregnant!"
"You've only been back three months and your wife is pregnant?" Li Siwen almost blurted out, could this child be yours?
But when the words came to his mouth, he felt that they were not very appropriate. He nodded and said: "I will go down and prepare the thunderwood cannon stones. You hold on! Where is His Highness the King of Wei?"
"At the prince's side!"
Wang Hu replied that more and more enemy troops were climbing up, and he had no time to talk to Li Siwen.
The enemy's uniforms were of various colors, including red clothes, yellow clothes, and even shirtless ones. Their facial contours and skin color were also obviously very different. Wang Hu's eyes narrowed, and he could naturally see that,
This group of people is a miscellaneous army. The so-called miscellaneous means that there is no unified command and they work independently... Such enemies are actually not difficult to deal with, because they can only "work hard". If they can resist it, their attacks will be quickly weakened.
.So, whether you can persist in the battle at the beginning determines the direction of the entire battle.
The enemy beats drums.
Wang Hu glanced at the crowd and shouted to a captain: "Second Virtue, beat the drum!"
Erde let out a sigh and pulled his left and right hands, revealing the strong tendons all over his body. He strode to a huge drum at the corner, picked up the drumstick and beat it hard. For a moment, the sand on the horse road at the head of the city began to vibrate slightly.
The vibrations and the beating of the drums inspired people and created a momentum, and soon all the enemies who came forward were killed and retreated.
"Come forward with bows and arrows!" Wang Hu shouted sharply.
Two rows of archers quickly stepped out to string their bows. Through the gaps in the arrow stacks at the top of the city, dark sharp arrows pointed coldly at the open space below the city wall.
"Archery!"
Arrows flew out like rain, and the cavalry at the front immediately fell to the ground.
The opponent has no armor, and the lethality of the arrows is reflected. For nomads, it is normal to have no armor on their body, because the armor will affect their flexibility. In siege, this is a very disadvantageous thing, and the cavalry is good at it.
The purpose is to pull and kill the enemy in motion, so using cavalry is a waste of natural resources.
But at this time, they had no choice. Without siege equipment, they could only choose this method of saving their lives. If they hesitated for a moment, they would be beheaded by the Chinese army's black-clad supervisory team.
Cui Wang stood among these people, looking at the battlefield coldly, with no human emotion in his eyes. For him, no matter how many people died in this battle, it was the expected price. As long as Cui could complete
The family has a big business, and any price can be paid.
Today's battle to defend the city was countless times more difficult than the last time Li Siwen and Li Mu defended the old city of Dingxiang.
Thousands of people attacking a city and tens of thousands of people attacking a city are completely different concepts. When tens of thousands of people shout for death in unison, pouring from outside the city to the root of the city wall like a tide, just that kind of picture can make people psychologically
He has completely lost his fighting spirit, let alone relying on his own strength that is ten times weaker than the enemy to repel these tens of thousands of people one by one. Imagine that even if tens of thousands of ants are stepped on, it cannot be crushed to death with one or two feet.
, let alone human beings, living people who know how to resist and fight.
From the moment he attacked the city, Li Su clearly felt that the will of the garrison soldiers at the head of the city was showing signs of collapse. Even he felt a little desperate. In his eyes, there was absolutely nothing in this city.
I hope to keep it. Maybe everyone knows this in their hearts. They are just waiting for the final blow to come in the fight, and it will be over.
The last round of arrows was fired out, but the effect was very weak, because the enemy troops had climbed to the base of the city wall, and siege ladders were set up on the top of the city. Countless people had scimitars in their mouths, looking ferocious.
Climbing up the ground, rolling logs and rocks from the top of the city were thrown down one after another, and there were bursts of screams and wails, but the enemies continued to advance without end.
"Come on, come on! There are dozens of 'gunpowder bags' here. They haven't gotten wet yet and can still be used!" Li Siwen ran up and directed the civilian workers to bring up the remaining gunpowder bags. But Wang Hu didn't understand gunpowder.
Li Siwen made a decision immediately and said: "You guys, each of you are three feet apart, light the fuse and throw it to the crowded place under the city wall!"
Everyone obeyed the order and no one questioned it. In this life-and-death situation, the will of the general is the will of the entire army. Although Li Siwen is not a famous general, he is the general of Dingxiang Zhechongfu in the true sense. However, when Li Xiaogong was there, he could not show it.
Just come out. And everything he has done for Dingxiang over the years has been seen by everyone, and no one will doubt his feelings for Dingxiang.
There were chirping sounds one after another, and a burst of white smoke suddenly rose from the top of the city. Then, black and smoking explosive packets were thrown down the city wall one after another. After a few breaths, a loud noise suddenly came from the city wall, and even the earth was shaken.
Shaking and trembling.
The power of explosives is huge, especially the iron chips mixed with them, which are the most vicious. Even if the area hit by the iron chips does not die, it will fester in the future.
Thermal weapons of later generations played an important role in the cold weapon era. The servant army has already seen its power. With a small baggage, a dozen cavalrymen were fried in an instant, and the outside was tender and fragrant. It was like a personal force.
It has no effect in front of it. You will die however you want.
In the past, when Li Xiaogong was there, because he had enough troops, food and grass, he still used the usual city defense tactics when dealing with it. He used this killer gunpowder very sparingly. But Li Siwen didn't care about this, he saw that there was still something that could be used.
, all of them were thrown down. Dozens of explosive packets exploded under the city wall at the same time. Under the entire row of city walls, the explosion was earth-shattering. Countless people were blown to pieces on the spot, and only pieces of enemy troops fell under the walls.
The ground could not help but howl, and the luck of those who were still far behind was not much better. Although they were outside the diameter of the explosion, while they were stunned by Leng Shen, rounds after rounds of fire were fired from the top of the city.
The arrows hit the enemy troops one by one and fell to the ground. The rest saw that the opportunity was not good and turned around and ran away. After running out of the range of the bow and arrow, they stared in shock at the almost human Shura under the city wall.
The tragedy of the scene.
Unsurprisingly, this siege failed again. The servant army was in disarray after all. Seeing such heavy casualties and the despairing battle loss ratio, they all became cowardly.
Tens of thousands of people were full of morale and rushed towards the city wall, determined to win, just to take Dingxiang in one go. However, their morale was instantly reduced to freezing point due to dozens of explosive packets and the sound of earth-shaking explosions.
People are full of fear of unknown things. This fear can lead to two behaviors: one is to completely destroy the thing that scares them; the other is to run away as far away as possible, the further away the better.
The attitude of the servant army towards firearms was obviously the second one. The loud noises, like punishment from gods, and the tribesmen falling to the ground rolling and screaming made them feel intimidated. They faced the city wall from a distance.
He knelt down and devoutly confessed his crimes. In less than an hour of siege, morale plummeted, coming in like a tide and receding like a tide.
Next, there was another ceasefire.
No matter how hard Cui Wang's supervising team pressed, everyone just stopped charging.
After all, Cui Wang's supervising team only had a few hundred people and he did not dare to act recklessly. He suppressed his anger and invited the leader of the servant army over.
This man's name was Amul, an East Turk, a general under Jieli Khan, and he was called the "King of the Right" in the East Turks. At that time, he advised Jieli not to pursue pleasure in Dingxiang, as the children of Changshengtian should still
He lived on the grassland, but Jieli refused to listen. In the end, he was defeated. Of course, he was not a loyal minister. When he learned that Jieli's tent was forced, he immediately led 10,000 people from his headquarters to the north to join the army.
Xue Yantuo. In order to guard against the suspicion of Xue Yantuo and his son, he even used his confidants to divide his troops into several groups, disguised as defeated soldiers, and successfully joined Xue Yantuo.
Among the servants this time, his 10,000 people are the most effective. Under his unified command, they even surpass the 10,000 people of the Western Turks under the same conditions!
The Cui family spared no effort to support and train him over the years, allowing him to win over almost all of Xue Yantuo's servants and become their recognized leader.
Amul didn't understand why a small baggage had such power and could make such an earth-shattering noise. If it weren't for his strong will, he might not be able to help but think of miracles like ghosts and gods. Then look at
Seeing the depressed and frightened soldiers under his command in the camp, Amul was in an extremely bad mood.
I originally thought that the preparations had been laid to this extent, and that the capture of Dingxiang was just a matter of picking up items. However, as the opponent used explosive bags on a large scale, the battle changed and became more complicated and difficult. This was something Amul had not expected.
.
A general who leads the army, tens of thousands of soldiers with high morale, a vulnerable city, and thousands of defenders with no fighting spirit. Such a disparity in power balance, because of an extra burden, the fragile city unexpectedly attacked
When Cui Wang failed to come down, Amul fell into a state of extreme anxiety and rage. Facing Cui Wang, Amul's temper exploded, and he asked: "Didn't you say that your people have destroyed all the gunpowder?"
What? What is this? How can we fight like this? How many people go up, how many people will die, do you Tang people really think that our lives are not our lives?"
Cui Wang was startled, but he calmed down and said: "Amul, we are allies. We have invested so much, how could we destroy the Great Wall? I assure you, most of the gunpowder is definitely
They are all soaked in water. These may be due to omissions, but they definitely don’t have much! If you ask the soldiers to attack again, I bet they will definitely have no gunpowder!”
Amul stared at Cui Wang, as if he was trying to discern whether his words were sincere. After a while, he calmed down and said, "It's agreed, after the deal is done, you have to let me be the Lord of the grassland!"
"It's already this time, and you're still worrying about this!" Cui Wang jumped to his feet and said, "You have soldiers in hand, why are you worried?"
When Amul thought about it, it seemed that this was the case. His worries seemed unnecessary. If these cowardly businessmen did not fulfill their promises, just attack them directly!
Amul turned around, his expression became ferocious. He was afraid of explosives, but he was not afraid of the soldiers under his command.
"Come here, call for military justice!" Amul shouted outside the tent.
"When we attack the city today, we are determined to win. Whoever dares to be cowardly will be beheaded in the camp as a sign of imitation. Beat the drums and march! Whoever dares to take one more step back will have their chariots torn apart!"
As hundreds of heads fell to the ground, Amul's military law was also spread to the camp of tens of thousands of servants.
…
There were mountains of corpses piled up under the city, as well as on top of the city.
In less than an hour of offensive and defensive battle, more than 200 defenders on the top of the city had fallen. Their bodies were piled side by side on the horse path of the city tower. The bloodstains on the ground and pairs of eyes that were still staring at death told the world about this battle.
The war was so cruel.
Li Siwen leaned behind the arrow stack on the city wall and watched quietly as the soldiers carried the corpses of Pao Ze who died in the battle down the city wall one by one. A huge wooden platform was set up under the city, and the corpses were gathered together on the wooden platform. The living ones were all lying on the wooden platform.
After the soldiers respectfully saluted Paoze's corpse, they threw several torches onto the wooden platform. Soon, the wooden platform burst into flames and turned into ashes along with the corpse on the wooden platform. Thick black smoke columns rose like a black dragon.
Soaring straight into the sky.
When people die, they should be buried in peace, but Dingxiang does not have this condition right now. The city is heavily besieged, and the city is located in a desert with a hot climate. If the corpses are not disposed of as soon as possible, the plague will soon spread in the city, and then the city will
It was a real disaster for the entire city, and the so-called "disposal of corpses" was to burn them directly. War was not only cruel to the living, but also to the dead. Many soldiers' homes were here.
Their relatives were crying bitterly on the roadside, but they all understood that this was their fate, as was the fate of the soldiers in the border towns.
The flames flickered and the smoke billowed, then dimmed, gradually became thinner, and finally turned into ashes.
Li Siwen quietly looked at the black dust, which flew away in all directions when the breeze blew.
"Ashes return to ashes, dust returns to dust, this is good." Wang Hu sighed. He turned to look at Li Siwen and suddenly smiled: "Don't be sad, maybe you and I will be like them before long, it's just a matter of time.