Chapter 960: Morale
The tiger prison was closed, the Liang army was in strict formation, and in the distance, the Tang army was in a strict formation.
Is another offensive about to begin?
This time there were no dense trebuchets, no heart-palpitating crossbows, and no dense crossbowmen.
What new tricks is Tang Jun going to play?
In the past month, under the Tiger Prison, classic siege and defense cases have been staged again and again, which can be recorded in military history, the attackers have renovated their tricks, and the defenders have not moved like a mountain.
After each attack, both sides will also tacitly send corpse collectors to recover the remains of their own soldiers who have been killed in battle. In fact, most of the people who died under the city were Tang Jun, and only a few Liang Jun fell under the city. Most of their casualties were on the walls.
But Xu Fu acquiesced to Tang Jun's behavior, after all, the weather was still very hot, and so many corpses were piled up under the city, which was not a good thing for the people in the city.
It's just that every time Tang Jun collects the corpse, it will make Liang Jun feel shocked. They would carefully rummage through the corpses, and when they found one alive, they would burst into cheers, and then a man dressed in white and carrying a medicine box would come forward to treat him, bandage it, and carry it away.
Each corpse is covered with a bag, and the person who is not fully carried, and those who collect the body will go to great lengths to find other parts of his body and put them in the same bag.
And Liang Jun, there is basically only one way to treat the wounded, and that is to make up for another knife.
For them, the wounded, than the dead, are much more troublesome. In the army, there has always been a sword repair team. In Liang Jun's view, this is a normal state, and what Tang Jun did made them extremely unaccustomed to it.
"What does Tang Jun want to do?" An officer looked at the city and exclaimed.
The Tang army's formation cracked, and more than a dozen carriages drove out, and there were rows of large shield soldiers in front of and behind the carriages, and on the carriages, there were actually old and weak women and children.
The officer looked at those people, and a trace of uneasiness crept into his heart.
The carriages were in full range of the city's arrows.
A terrible shout immediately sounded under the city.
"Big pillar, where are you? Your dad can't do it, he only has one breath left, and he just wants to see you again! A thin old woman stretched out her hands in the carriage and roared bitterly: "Go home with your mother, see your father for the last time, don't let him suffer this sin!" ”
The Liang army in the city was in an uproar in an instant.
"Da Lang, Da Lang, your son is three years old, he can run, but he doesn't have a father's pain, he is always bullied in the village, no more fighting, let's go home!"
"Daddy, daddy, I'm the third aunt, my mother has remarried, my grandfather is gone, my mother-in-law is sick, you go home!" I'm scared! ”
Under the city, the screams of the old people are heart-rending, and the cries of children are heartbreaking.
The tiger prison was closed, and there was a deathly silence.
Who doesn't have a grandmother?
Who doesn't have children?
Although these people in the city are not their fathers and mothers, they are not their children, but they are still in their hometown, aren't they the same as the people in the city?
"Mother, mother, I'm Dazhu." In the dead silence, a person who looked like a captain suddenly ran up from under the city like crazy, pushed away the soldiers at the head of the city, grabbed the stacks with both hands, looked at the city, and burst into tears: "Mother, I'm here!" ”
"Dazhu, I'm my mother!" The old woman in the carriage jumped out of the carriage with her disproportionate agility and wanted to run forward, but was suddenly grabbed by the Tang Jun beside her and fell to the ground, but she still stretched out one hand in front of her and raised her head with all her might.
The officers in the city were furious, "Take down Sun Zhu, bastard, shake the morale of the army, and be punished!" ”
The order was given, but the soldiers around me were looking at me, I was looking at you, but no one stepped forward to do it.
With a "choking" sound, the officer drew his knife out of its sheath, "Do you want to disobey military orders?" ”
Only then did several pro-soldiers rush up, press Sun Zhu to the ground, and drag him back.
"Shoot the arrow, release the arrow! Shoot them! The officer slashed his slash on the plate and shouted.
The bow and arrows were raised, but none of them were shot.
"Shoot the arrows!" The officer was furious, snatched the longbow from the hand of one of the soldiers beside him, bent his bow and shot an arrow at the old woman.
Under the city, two Tang soldiers held shields and suddenly closed them, and with a bang, the feather arrows fell on the shield and fell to the ground.
"Shoot arrows, those who disobey military orders will be killed!" Once again, the officer drew his longbow.
With a buzz, countless feathered arrows shot out of the city, most of them shot more than a dozen paces in front of those carriages, and although a few were on target, they could not make any achievements under the obstruction of the big shield.
In the Tang army's formation, the sound of golden gongs sounded, and hundreds of shields suddenly closed, escorting more than ten carriages and slowly retreated.
Under the cover of the shield, the figures of the old and weak women and children were no longer visible, and only the cries and cries still echoed in the city.
The officer's face was pale, and his eyes were like knives at the soldiers in the city, but the soldiers were holding bows and arrows in their hands, looking at the Tang troops who were rapidly retreating, and some of their hands were trembling slightly, as if the people who were escorted away by the Tang army seemed to be their relatives.
The Tang army did not attack, and after doing this, they seemed to have completed today's task, and the front team changed to the rear team, and they actually left like a tide.
Because the head has been buried, it naturally takes time to ferment, and attacking now makes these Liang troops have no room to think about it, and can only resist by instinct.
After all, when the knife is on the neck, there is no time for people to think about anything else.
But if you're idle, it's different.
Fear, worry, cowardice and other negative emotions are basically the product of thinking, under passion, people can do anything, think too much, naturally look ahead, fear of wolves and tigers.
"General, what should I do?" A group of generals gathered in front of Xu Fu, their faces bitter.
"That Sun Zhu, did you kill it?"
"Not yet! Tie it to the head of the city! The mood of the soldiers is not quite right, I am afraid that killing him will provoke the soldiers to mutiny! The officer at the head of the city said in a snort.
"You're right, if you really kill him at that time, things will be out of control." Xu Fu sighed.
"General, but if this continues, our morale will completely collapse! Our core army is all Xuanwu people, but Xuanwu is now ......" Another senior officer had a dejected face. "General, there is no other way now, either retreat or fight to the death with the enemy."
"Where to retreat, retreat again, behind you is Luoyang, the tiger is not defended, Luoyang is difficult to protect!" A veteran shook his head and sighed. "After retreating to Luoyang, then retreat to Tongguan, and then retreat to Chang'an?"
Xu Fu stood up and looked at everyone: "I can't retreat, let's get ready to go out of the city for a decisive battle!" ”
"Morale now?"
"Kill all the livestock in the city, feed the soldiers, scatter all the money in the treasury for the soldiers' bounties, loot all the wine in the city, and distribute the profits to all the soldiers!" Xu Fu said: "After lunch, the whole army gathered up and down the city wall, preparing to go out of the city for a decisive battle. Do what I ask! ”
"Yes!" All the generals glanced at each other, knowing that the general had made up his mind and was going to fight the enemy to the death, although they knew that this road was not the best way, but at the moment, what other way could they go?
When the sun gradually turned westward, the city wall of the Tiger Prison Pass was already full of dense soldiers, and they looked up at the familiar and strange person on the tower, and they were all shocked in their hearts.
The figure was small, but great in their minds.
That's Xu Fu.
A man who went from slave to general is enough to be the idol of all soldiers.
Today, he did not wear the official uniform that symbolized his majestic appearance, nor did he put on the armor that showed his bravery, but he stood on top of the castle tower with his upper body naked and his bare chest.
Above the muscular knotted chest, there were scars all over the place, and there was no complete place on the body. It was a soldier's honor, a man's silent show-off.
A black band was tied around his forehead, restraining the white hair that had fallen loosely.
At this moment, he stood at the highest point of the city tower with his legs crossed, his left hand crossed his waist, and his right hand obliquely supported the huge mace, standing in front of tens of thousands of soldiers.
"Brothers, I'm Xu Fu!" Xu Fu's voice was like a bell, and he shouted loudly.
"The Great General is mighty!" Tens of thousands of soldiers, even though they were in a low mood, but Jiwei, who had been accumulating for a long time, still subconsciously roared.
"Xu Fu has been a soldier all the way from a small soldier to today, and he must take the lead in every battle, charging in front and retreating in the rear!" Xu Fu roared sharply: "Xu Mou is humble and knows the suffering of small soldiers, and from the day he took power, he never dared to eat soldier meat or drink soldier blood. Xu asked himself in this life, although he was ruthless to the enemy, but to his brothers, he was pushing clothes and food. ”
Liang Jun was silent.
Xu Fuzhi is deeply expected, not only because of his more extraordinary force, but also because he is more sympathetic to the suffering of soldiers.
"Today, we are in a desperate situation, and we have no fighting spirit." Xu Fu's voice echoed in the close, "Xu begs you, for the sake of my Xu treating you well in the past, I will fight with Xu again." Xu will still charge ahead. ”
"Whoa!" Closing the shut, there was a tsunami-like response sound.
"Xu didn't dare to ask for anything else, but as long as Xu was not dead and Xu's banner had not fallen, every brother could follow Xu Fu's banner and keep moving forward and forward."
"Whoa!"
"Thank you, brothers!" On the top of the city tower, Xu Fu knelt on one knee and bowed his head.
"I am willing to fight to the death for the general!" Inside the city, the roars rose higher and higher.
Under the city, Xu Yuan, Li Ze held a monocular in his hand in the direction of the Tiger Prison Pass, the short old man holding a mace looked so clear, although he couldn't hear what he was saying, but just looking at the excited expressions of those soldiers in the city, Li Ze couldn't help but shake his head and said: "Sure enough, there is a famous general, there is still a hard battle today!" ”
"Li Xiang, it's just that he is willing to go out of the city to fight, and he will die. Please also ask Li Xiang to go back to the camp to rest, and the matter of capturing and killing Xu Fu will be handed over to us. Behind him, You Yong said with confidence.