Chapter Fifty-Four: The Rescuers Are Coming
Under the city of Siju, outside the land of three arrows, the burly man was lying comfortably on the lap of a woman with a panicked expression, stretched out his furry arms, and waved forward gently, without impassioned speeches, nor vain heads and wishes, revealing the rebels who were as ferocious as wolves, and they poured into the city like a tide.
The composition of these rebels is very complex, including the wolf soldiers of the Qiang nationality, the bandits and robbers who occupy the mountains in various places, the sand thieves Huma who are proud of the northwest, and the Tubo people who take advantage of the fire to rob. After nearly a month of development, the company has been supported by dozens of large and small rebel armies, and now has more than 50,000 people.
Although these rebels were poorly equipped, and some of them did not even have iron blades, let alone armor, they had already become mad as they went all the way from the temptation of attacking the city and robbing the strong women.
Another wave of rebels of three or four thousand men rushed to the city wall, and their minds were full of only one common thought, to rob money, food, and women......
Shizhou, now Jiange County, Guangyuan City, is located at the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin, guarding the Jianmen Pass, and is the passage connecting Sichuan with Shaanxi and Gansu, and its strategic position is very important. At the same time, Siju is also the northern gateway to Sichuan, once the rebels from the side of the enterprise land invade Sichuan, the entire empty Bashu will quickly erode, and I am afraid that the losses caused will be incalculable.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, in order to increase local rule, only the county was changed to a state, and the local administrative area was also restructured, and Shizhou was under the jurisdiction of the Lizhou Governor's Office (Governor's Office).
"Shoot the arrows!" Pang Yu roared in a hoarse voice: "Why don't you release the arrows? ”
"I didn't ...... No arrows! ”
"Didn't you have 20,000 arrows yesterday?"
"Until dawn today, they have launched thirteen attacks, and now there is not a single arrow!"
Although Shizhou City has a majestic and unforgiving manner, what makes Pang Yu feel powerless the most is that there are as many as tens of thousands of rebels under the city, and they are densely packed to kill, kill one, and immediately rush up three or four, the most helpless thing is that the arrows actually tell Xin at the critical moment.
"If there are no arrows, then use the stone to roll the log!"
"Yes!"
"Bang Bang ......"
The sound of the stone rolling log sounded, and the stone rolling log, which originally had a sharp blade inlaid with a length of nearly a foot, was now completely broken, and it was just a thick stone roll, and the stone rolling log roared, crashing into the rebel soldiers who rushed up the city wall.
The soldiers who rushed up the wall screamed and fell under the wall like dumplings. However, these soldiers, who screamed and fell to the ground, found that they not only did not fall to their deaths, but also did not even hurt themselves......
It turned out that under the city wall there were dense, dense, and incomplete corpses, which had been piled up three feet high, only six feet away from the city wall, and such a height could not be dropped, not to mention that there were countless human flesh pads below. The rebel soldiers, who had knocked down the city walls, found themselves not, but were even more emboldened, and continued to attack with red eyes.
There is no art of war in the side of the enterprise, and there is no decent siege means, but he has people, almost every day there are the whole tribe of the Tubo people on the plateau to defect, although more than 20,000 people were killed under the city of Shizhou, but the rebels around the side of the enterprise land, not only did not decrease, but increased more than 10,000 people.
Regardless of casualties, the side enterprise actually used human lives to pile up a slope against the city wall.
Pang Yu looked at the slope piled up with corpses, his heart was full of helplessness, now Pang Yu's side of the soldiers is less than fifty people, if it weren't for the side enterprise is too brutal, there is not a single grass left, the people of Shizhou are worried that after the side enterprise breaks the city, slaughter Shizhou, so they send their husbands with their wives and their parents to send their sons to the battlefield to support Pang Yu's resistance, I am afraid that Shizhou has already been broken by the rebels.
"What now?"
Pang Yu couldn't help but worry about his future and the future of the people of Shizhou.
However, Pang Yu never thought of surrendering to the Qiang slave of the side of the enterprise, Pang Yu was originally the Sui Dynasty Prison Gate Pavilion, the so-called Prison Gate Pavilion, which was one of the sixteen guards in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and was in charge of palace access control and guards; Zhige refers to the deputy general, and in terms of military rank, it can be regarded as the colonel and the second general in later generations. In the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Pang Yu fought Luokou with Wang Shichong and Li Mi, and saw that Li Shimin captured Luoyang, and led more than 10,000 troops to surrender to Li Tang, and was named General Wuwei and Governor of Lizhou by Li Yuan.
The city wall has turned black and purple, and more than 1,200 soldiers of the four regiments of the Shiju Zhichong Province have lost nearly 1,000 people, counting the light and serious wounded soldiers, and there are less than 50 people left who can maintain their combat effectiveness. More than half of the more than 3,000 untrained people who were hastily organized died in the battle.
Siju City still held on. Pang Yu's only motivation to persist was that he didn't want to be a slave with three surnames, and at the same time, he wanted to repay Li Yuan's kindness. Li Yuan didn't care about his identity as a Sui general, seeing that he was burly, heroic and powerful, and knew military law, because he had been guarding the palace ban for a long time and was familiar with the rules and etiquette of the imperial court, he was the leading general.
From an old minister under the fourth rank of the former dynasty, he actually won the post of the general of the sixteenth guard on the third rank in the new dynasty, and no one has won this honor except him. Therefore, for Li Yuan's kindness, Pang Yu also threw his life. However, the price of this loyalty is a bit too large, and his two sons have already died in the city of Siju.
Now that he is not confused, the grief of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man makes Pang Yu's heart twist.
Loyalty comes at a price. Pang Yu used his practical actions to explain his loyalty to the world.
"Quack"
The iron chains tied to the rolling wood have long been overwhelmed, broken in two, and the loss of the rolling wood and stones on the city wall is equivalent to the loss of the last line of defense in Sizhou City, which is like a little girl who has been torn off the last layer of clothes at this time, and is ravaged by others.
Pang Yu looked at the rebels who poured up the city wall like a tide, and suddenly clenched the horizontal knife in his hand.
"The Ruler of Food. The matter of loyalty to the monarch is only to wait for the city to be broken, and there is only one blood to repay the king's kindness! ”
With the last fifty soldiers, Pang Yu pounced like a moth throwing fire.
Seeing the rebel soldiers with victory in sight, their morale suddenly rose again and again. Although the soldiers and civilians of Sizhou led by Pang Yu resisted desperately, they were still defeated by these insane rebels.
"Bell ......" a golden sound, sparks everywhere, the horizontal knife in Pang Yu's hand was smashed by a thick mace, holding a half-foot-long horizontal knife handle, Pang Yu sighed deeply powerlessly, shook his wrist, and pointed the half-foot broken blade to his throat, about to cut off......
"General, look, we are saved, the reinforcements from the imperial court are coming!"
Pang Yuding stared at it, and an army appeared in the valley in the north of Sizhou, and it was fiercely pounced on the rear of the side field.
Pang Yu yelled: "We are saved, the rescuers are coming!" ”