"General!" The soldiers in the North City Gate defense area, with sweat dripping from their chins, strode to the guard: "General," something big happened. The Xicheng was broken by the Xiliang army, and now the Xiliang army is coming towards us from the city wall.
Come and kill!"
"We can't hold it anymore, when will the reinforcements come!" The soldiers on another section of the city wall were fighting against the Xiliang heavy infantry. They didn't know how these Xiliang soldiers in heavy armor rushed to the city wall.
The air-forbidden circle in their city is still there!
But the Xiliang soldiers seemed not to be attracted by the attraction, and rushed to the city wall wearing heavy armor. Few of the weapons in their hands were specially designed to deal with heavy infantry.
Facing the heavy infantry, they could only use their lives to fill the gap. The militiamen had been crippled, and now they were followed by regular army soldiers.
The losses were heavy. Without reinforcements to support them, these soldiers might not be able to hold on for long!
The city wall was full of corpses, and blood and sweat were mixed together. The civilians in the city looked at the fire on the city wall, and there were people in their homes on the city wall.
The guard general was also very helpless. He took a look at the last thousand men left. This was his last force. After sending them out, he would no longer have a fighting force in his hands.
"You take 700 people to the front to resist the Xiliang army, and the remaining 300 people follow me to the west!" The guard didn't believe that Xicheng was like this, and was easily captured by the Xiliang army.
The troops on the west side are not weak, and judging from the time, the war on the west side happened about an hour later than in the north city.
In Beicheng, where the battle was very fierce, the Beicheng defenders had been holding back for three hours.
How could the Xicheng defenders not be able to stop them for even an hour? The Xiliang army should have rushed up from a certain section of the city wall. We must seize the time to drive these Xiliang army soldiers off the city wall.
After they have established a foothold like they did on the North City Gate Tower, it will be impossible for them to drive the Xiliang Army back!
Beicheng has no more strength to fight against the new group of Xiliang Army soldiers, and it is not known when the reinforcements will arrive.
The guard trotted along with three hundred people. The night was very cold, but now the soldiers felt extremely hot.
Total, total, total!
When he ran to the corner, the Beicheng garrison heard the sound of footsteps in the distance. Around the corner, there were a large number of soldiers smelling of blood.
"What's going on?" the guard asked a soldier who seemed to be slightly injured.
"General, we are defeated. The city wall is occupied by the Xiliang army!" The soldier stood up slightly tremblingly, his voice a little aggrieved: "Tonight, the militiamen didn't know how, they gathered together and captured the general and the general.
Our colleagues waiting on the city wall surrounded us.
At this time, the Xiliang army began to attack. We banged the gong vigorously, hoping for reinforcements to come to support us, but the militiamen actually attacked the general and the others, and chaos began below.
I waited at the city wall for a period of time, but to no avail, the city wall was still occupied by the Xiliang army!
Now the opponent is coming to kill them. They are a group of heavy infantry covered in thick armor. Without special armor-breaking weapons, it will be difficult to kill those monsters."
"Heavy infantry again!" The guard looked at the trapped soldiers who were gradually coming out of the darkness. In the firelight, they could be seen, their whole bodies covered in black armor.
“Chu Xiliang is really fucking rich!”
The cost of a heavy infantryman is very high, and a heavy armor is not cheap. In addition, the weapons and training costs of these soldiers, the Ma family cannot afford to raise many heavy infantrymen, but Xiliang can throw these heavy infantrymen against the city wall.
Coming up to attack the city, what else can I say, except that the boss is awesome!
"Prepare for battle!"
The guard shouted loudly, and the soldiers behind picked up their spears and set up a spear array on the city wall. This is the formation they can use now. There are no other armor-breaking weapons, so they can only use spears to stand in a row, so that these people are covered in heavy armor.
The soldiers stopped.
Gao Shun was walking at the front of the army. When he saw the opponent using a spear formation, a smile appeared on his face in the mask. They were not in a single unit.
"Crossbow ready!"
The soldiers trapped in the camp immediately picked up the crossbows on their waists. This was one of their standard preparations.
Gao Shun squatted down: "Attack!"
After the soldiers behind received the order, the first row fired their crossbows and immediately squatted down, then the second row fired, and then the third row fired.
Whoosh whoosh!
The sound of breaking through the air came, and the Beicheng guard immediately protected himself with Zhen Yuandi, and squatted on the ground at the same time. His reaction speed was very fast, but the soldiers behind him did not have the reaction speed as he did, and they fell down one row after another.
"Kill!" Gao Shun took out the horizontal sword, and at the same time, a round shield fell to his side. With his left hand, he held the shield in one hand and the weapon in the other, turning into a sword and shield soldier.
Xiliang soldiers like the horizontal sword very much. This weapon is sharp and has high armor-breaking ability, making it the best choice for close combat.
After the Beicheng garrison and others waited for the long arrow to fly past, when they got up, they saw the soldiers who had been trapped in the camp and killed them.
The Beicheng garrison turned around and ran away without hesitation. The guy who was charging at the front was far more powerful than him at first glance.
He is not stupid, he knows when to continue fighting the enemy and when to run away.
Where there is life, there is hope!
If he dies, the entire North City defense system will be paralyzed. He is not escaping, he is just making a strategic retreat.
The guard general ran away, and the remaining soldiers suffered misfortune. They were surrounded and killed by soldiers trapped in the camp, and there were a lot of corpses on the way forward.
Other sections of the city wall in the North City also began to experience large-scale military defeats. Without reinforcements and suffering heavy losses, the soldiers on the city wall were no longer able to guard this wall.
Many soldiers were forced by the Xiliang army to the other side of the stairs. Further down was the city. They were killed by the Xiliang army. Once the gate was opened and the troops from outside came in, the entire city would fall into the hands of the Xiliang army.
This city with a population of millions will become a city in Xiliang, and the governor of Xiliang will enter his mansion.
south city gate
After Li Xiang killed the last dozen or so soldiers who surrounded him, the troops that could stop him on the city wall were gone. The rest of the city was occupied by Xiliang Army soldiers. At this time, the battle spread to the corridor below.
Seeing those corridors, Li Xiang remembered the previous alley battles. The Xiliang army had suffered losses in the alley battles. When he saw the defenders running into those houses, there was a cold look in his eyes.
He doesn't know how many troops Xiliang has lost now, but he doesn't want to lose more because of the battle in the city, so he can only let the people in the city and the defenders kill each other!
Ma Teng never expected that he was not repelled by Prime Minister Li, but was killed by the two guards on the left and right of Prime Minister Li through the city road. The army had no choice but to retreat! Not long after returning to the city, he encountered an army of 8,000 people who came to support him.
"City Lord!" The commander in charge of leading the reserve army ran to Ma Teng in a small step and said softly to Ma Teng: "City Lord, the West City Gate has been knocked down by the Xiliang Army. The North City Gate sent people to ask for help before, and now it may be too late.
It’s been broken!”
The commander did not dare to say it loudly. If this news were heard by ordinary soldiers, it would easily cause the morale of the army, which was not very high, to collapse. In the end, these soldiers would take off their military uniforms and hide in the homes of ordinary people in the city!
When Ma Teng heard the news, his face didn't change much, but he secretly thought in his heart that he still couldn't avenge Ma Jin.
If Li Xiang was so easy to fight and the Xiliang army was so easy to block, would Ma Jin have died miserably on the battlefield?
Now that I've woken up from my dream, it's time to think about my subordinates!
"You take the remaining troops and fight out from the east city gate, run to the other side of the river, and then cross the river to the other side. You will be safe when you get there!"
When the reserve army commander and deputy general heard Ma Teng's words, they looked very shocked.
The deputy general immediately said: "City Lord, I will leave only after you leave. If you don't leave, I will accompany you in this humble position!"
The deputy general said as he took off the helmet on his head, revealing a somewhat aged face. The commander of the reserve army did not speak.
He could hear the desperate intention in the words in the city. The city lord has decided to live and die with Zhangye County. They have no such idea. They are still young and have a lot of colorful world to take them with them.
Ma Teng seemed to know what the commander of the reserve army was thinking, and said: "If he wants to stay, let him stay with me. You can lead the army and leave quickly! If it's any later, you may not be able to get out!"
The commander of the reserve army saluted Ma Teng: "I also ask the city lord to hand over the command of the army to me!"
Ma Teng nodded, and then said to the soldiers behind him and the soldiers of the reserve army who were coming: "All the officers and men listen to the order. You and Qian Zhi, the commander of the reserve army, will rush out from the east city gate and retreat directly to Wang Hentian County!"
"Go!" Ma Teng said to Qian Zhi, Qian Zhi saluted again, and then said to the soldiers: "Follow me!"
When these soldiers heard that they were following Qian Zhi to break out of the siege, their originally low morale became high. As long as they ran out of Zhangye County, they still had a chance to survive.
Ma Teng and the deputy general watched the soldiers go away. Ma Teng said to the deputy general: "We will meet at the city lord's palace!"
"Yes!" The deputy general was accompanied by more than thirty personal guards. These personal guards can be called dead soldiers.
The line is in sharp contrast to the soldiers who are about to retreat.
At this time, the sky lit up slightly, and Ma Teng carefully watched everything in Zhangye County. This city had just been captured by his father's generation. He was still a child at that time. His grandfather was the head of the Ma family, and he led the Ma family's army from
Another family took possession of Zhangye County and surrounding cities.
From then on, Zhangye County became the territory of the Ma family. When his father became the head of the family, the Han family and the Qiang people joined forces to seize the two county towns north of Zhangye County and the cities below the county seat.
Father is even more important when he is
He died in battle at the age of twenty-five. He became the head of the Ma family at the age of thirty. In the same year, his wife gave birth to Ma Jin.
From then on, the Ma family entered his reign, and at the same time the entire Daqian began to decline. Ma Jin gradually grew up to become the most distant star of the Ma family.
He seemed to see that the Ma family would move towards a more glorious era under the leadership of Ma Jin.
It's a pity that I met Li Xiang, the governor of Xiliang, maybe this is my fate!
Returning to the city lord's palace, Ma Teng was sitting in his study as usual, and the deputy general put the materials from various places in Zhangye County into the fire and burned them.
These things cannot fall into the hands of the Xiliang army!
on the city wall
"Lord, the Ma family's army broke out from the east city gate and is now running towards the river, trying to cross the river!" A messenger trotted to the side of Prime Minister Li.
Li Xiang took a sip of the beast blood wine: "Order the cavalry to kill as many as they can. If the opponent enters the river, then see if they can break the surface of the river. By the way, let the light cavalry behind bring a group of blacks."
Once the water has passed, the black water is still useful against ice!"
"yes!"
The messenger immediately ran to the city. Cheng Jushu, covered in blood, ran to the side of Prime Minister Li: "My lord, this battle was so exciting. I fought all the way from the city wall to the bottom of the city wall. Those Ma Jiajun soldiers saw me as if they were seeing you.
, that’s just running away!”
Among the Xiliang army, who can scare the Ma family army the most is Prime Minister Li. In the eyes of Ma family soldiers, Prime Minister Li is a god of murder.
"Performed well this time!" Li Xiang recognized Cheng Jushu's contribution this time. He was blocked by the opponent's elite troops and could not participate in the battle of the army. The reason for opening the city gate this time was Cheng Jushu's continuous charge.
"How is the situation in the city?" Li Xiang asked: "Are those soldiers running into the houses in the city?"
The troops that retreated were the main force of the Ma family, and some of the remaining soldiers ran into those houses.
Cheng Jushu came back to report this matter: "My lord, your strategy is so easy to use. Just say that there are defenders hiding in that house. Once discovered, ten households in the surrounding area will be imprisoned. After that, those deserters will be arrested."
The civilians in the house were kidnapped.
By the way, the lord of Zhangye County City seems to be still in the lord’s mansion, and he is still guarding the city gate, and you can still smell the aroma of barbecue inside!”
"Ma Teng is waiting for me!" Li Xiang stood up from the ground: "Follow me to meet the former lord and prefect of Zhangye County City!"
Rumble!
Hearing the sound of a large number of horse hooves coming from outside, Ma Teng put on a prefect uniform, followed by the remaining dead soldiers and deputy generals. They walked out of the gate of the city lord's palace and saw a large group of black cavalry.
middle
Ma Teng set his sights on Li Xiang, who was at the front and had the most hair.
"Your Majesty, Ma Teng, the Governor of Zhangye County, pays homage to the Governor of Liangzhou!"
Ma Teng gave an official salute to Li Xiang, Xing Liao took two steps forward, and Li Xiang condescended: "Master Ma, if you could have done this earlier, there wouldn't be so many fights between us, and so many people wouldn't have to die!"
Ma Teng raised his head and smiled miserably: "Master Governor, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. This is the seal of Zhangye County's governor!"
Buzz!
A jade seal suddenly rushed towards Li Xiang, whoosh!
A long arrow passed through Ma Teng's forehead and hit the ground behind him.
Ma Teng slowly fell to the ground, and the deputy general knelt on the ground: "Master Governor, please wait with me for a while to arrange the funeral arrangements for the city lord!"
"allow!"
The deputy general and others moved Ma Teng's body to the pile of firewood that had been prepared, lit the fire, took out the sword in his hand, and committed suicide...
