Chapter 258: Driving the people to attack the city
A spring rain made the air moist all of a sudden, and also made the water of the moat outside the county rise a lot, and the originally clear moat water became muddy, which was a good sign in the eyes of the people in the county. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info Standing at the head of the city, they could see the situation outside the city, in those dense shacks like beehives, men, women and children came in and out, most of them were ragged and described as withered, which made the people of Shayang, who have always been very wealthy, shudder, if these guys who have nothing rush into the city, everything they have, I am afraid that they will be lost in the blink of an eye.
The people who fled from other parts of Shayang County brought the situation of these places where the Shuntian army passed, and made the people in the city stick to their determination to resist. There is a sentence that does not grow an inch of grass or is a bit exaggerated, but as long as it is the place where the Shuntian army passes, there will not be a single grain left, and there will not be half a strand of cloth left, and in order to force the people to follow the Shuntian army, they will even burn down the people's houses.
In the eyes of the people of Shayang County, this is extremely vicious.
It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but today, it looks a bit bleak and bitter. Tian Laohan leaned on a pillar of the city gate building with a spear, his eyes squinted, and his face was full of droplets of water that were slowly flowing down from the spring rain as thin as a cow's hair, but he didn't care.
Tian Laohan is fifty years old this year, and he was not suitable for Shangcheng, but because he was a soldier when he was young and had some experience, he was also drafted into the army and became a sentry commander, with dozens of raw melons and eggs under his hands.
Sentry, vigilance, the main task of the clams, once the real war starts, they have to retreat to the back.
"I defeated these bandits earlier, and when I returned home, I still had time to replant the first phase of green seedlings!" Tian Laohan wiped the rain from his face, and turned his head to look at a young man in his twenties beside him, "Otherwise, it will be miserable in the autumn this year." ”
"Uncle Tian, what are you still thinking about replanting seedlings, it's not certain whether you can survive or not, look outside, there are so many people!" The boy said a little timidly.
"What a raw melon egg, I don't understand anything!" Tian Laobo glanced at him with disdain, "What's the use of having too many people?" Are there fewer people in our city than they are? The point is, are there many people who can fight? We are defending the city, we are born to take advantage, what is this when the Shuntian army attacked Changyang County, Changyang County was completely unprepared, and they also fought for several months, we are different here, in order to prevent them from coming, but I have been preparing for a long time, did I see those things? Tian Laohan pointed to the rows of stacks of rolling stones, wood, and nail boards stacked against the wall.
"But I'm still a little scared!" The boy shrank back.
"What a useless thing!" Tian Laobo snorted: "These Shuntian troops have not been beaten at all, haven't you heard about it during the day today?" This Shuntian Army, a force of 50,000 or 60,000 people, ran to fight Feng County, but was wiped out by 2,000 Taiping troops, 2,000 people against 50,000 people, can actually play such a result, do you say they are scum? ”
"What kind of army is the Taiping Army?" The young man nodded: "There are big red good news everywhere in the city, I have heard people read it." ”
"Taiping Army, I heard that it is our ally, a rebel army formed by a good friend of Old Lady Liu." Tian Laohan said with great interest: "The old lady said that this army will come to our rescue." When the time comes, the inside and the outside should work together to defeat these bandits. ”
"Two thousand against fifty thousand, you can still win, it's really amazing. If I were one of them, I would be angry. The boy was a little envious again.
Tian Laohan laughed: "Just with your courage, you still want to be one of them, I think it's better to forget it, when we get rid of these bandits, you, honestly go home and farm." Although it is a little bitter, it can also be fed and clothed, and when the time comes, it is better than anything to save some money to marry a daughter-in-law and have a few babies. ”
The boy laughed. "My father and mother have already ordered a family for me, it is a little girl from the neighboring village, Uncle Tian, you also know it. I'm in the city now. ”
"You kid is so blessed, the little girl is a beautiful girl, and she is capable."
"That's it!" The young man's eyes narrowed with laughter.
In the distance, there was a sudden sound of heavy war drums, not one side, but dozens or hundreds of war drums beating at the same time, almost the same as the war drums, thousands of torches lit up at once, in the spring rain, like the stars in the sky, blinking their eyes, from time to time there were torches extinguished, but immediately more were ignited.
"Uncle Tian!" The boy cried out in horror.
"Let's fight!" Tian Laohan straightened up all of a sudden, rushed into the gatehouse, picked up the wooden pillar, and slammed the bell hard. The faint sound of bells echoed in the night sky.
In fact, there was no need for Tian Laohan to ring the bell, and the sound of the earth-shattering war drums outside the city had already announced the beginning of the attack of the Shuntian army.
Groups of county soldiers rushed up the city wall, and in a very short time, the city wall, where there were not many figures, was already full of soldiers, and one by one the officers looked at it with a stern face, like a galaxy, and slowly moved towards the county town.
After the first war drum sounded, the old lady Liu was already standing on the top of the North City Gate, the spring rain, the breeze, blowing his robe, but a little fluttering like a fairy, beside him, always standing shadow-like Liu Bao.
As soon as the generals and soldiers at the north gate looked up, they could see the figure of Old Lady Liu standing, and their hearts suddenly felt a little more courageous.
The galaxy of torches was moving towards the county town, getting closer and closer, and when the people in the city could finally see each other clearly, basically everyone was stunned.
"Shameless!" Liu Xingwen, who was standing on the city wall, turned a little pale, and the people who walked in the forefront were not the soldiers of the Shuntian Army, but the hundreds of people who lived in the shacks, holding torches in one hand and bags on their shoulders, and rushing towards the city wall in groups. Among these people are the elderly, women, and even minor children. They sang loudly, as if unaware that the shadow of death was looming over them.
Getting closer and closer, the first group of people finally walked to the moat, and with the sound of porphyry tom, one by one the bags were thrown into the moat, stirring up countless waves, the crowd cheered, the people who threw the bags went back, and the people behind followed closely and ran up, repeating the above actions.
The feather arrow was placed on the bowstring, and all the soldiers looked at Liu Xingwen, his face was pale, and his hand was held several times, but he put it down several times. Even the Qi people, who were extremely ferocious in the Vietnamese population, had never done such a thing as driving the old and weak women and children to act as pawns on the offensive horses.
There must be a lot of people here who are from Shayang County, and their relatives may be in the city right now, slaughtering these unarmed people? Liu Xingwen swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but the military order was never issued.
"Shoot the arrows!" In the distance, there was a cold voice, it was Old Lady Liu, the voice was not loud, but it seemed to penetrate the eardrums of every soldier in the city, as Old Lady Liu's words fell, the feather arrows passed through the drizzle like cow hair, and pounced on the dense people by the moat.
Screaming, falling, rows of people fell to the muddy ground, but the followers were still running forward fearlessly, and to the horror of everyone in the city, it seemed that those who had fallen to the ground were lying on the ground blocking the way, and some people even lifted these people, whether they were dead or not, and threw them straight into the moat, stirring up even bigger waves.
This tragic scene made everyone in the city lose color.
"Shoot the arrows, if you don't want your family to be like this!" Old lady Liu said coldly.
More arrows were fired, more corpses fell to the ground, and then turned into a piece of filling in the moat, a moat of hundreds of meters, and it was slowly filled up when I saw it.
Another tom war drum sounded, and the people in charge of filling the river flashed to both sides like a tide, and the main force of the Suncheon army finally appeared.
In the distance, under the banner, Wu Xin looked coldly at the slaughter field in front of him, and his expression did not even change. He has more than 200,000 people, and he doesn't care about such casualties at all, these old and weak women and children have opened a passage for the army with their deaths, reducing the casualties of the elite and young people, and their deaths can also save a lot of food.
He never expected that the old lady Liu in the city would open up the net because he drove the people to attack the city, and he was also a hard-hearted person. However, not all the soldiers in the city will be like Old Lady Liu.
Now that the passage is open, the next thing is the hand-to-hand battle of the attached city, looking at Li Han who was rushing to the front with a chain hammer, Wu Xin looked sideways at the tall and burly figure who was wearing armor and riding on a horse, and suddenly laughed.
The King of Shuntian beside him is a Xibei goods, here he is just pretending, the real King of Shuntian Mo Luo should already be in the city at this moment, and his goal is to kill Old Lady Liu.
All the attacks today, the deaths, were just to cover this one operation of Morro. The assassination of a ninth-level peak master will be unstoppable.
Li Han roared, ran, swept across the moat, kicked hard under his feet, flew up, and when the upward momentum was about to end, the chain hammer in his hand suddenly swung out, hammering heavily on the city wall, and the stones that covered the wall were dented into it, and with this force, he rose to the sky again. The soldiers in the city naturally saw him fiercely, and countless feather arrows were aimed at him.
The other end of the chain hammer spun like a windmill, knocking down the feather arrows one after another, and in Li Han's roar, his third flight was already beyond the high city wall.
A large knife slashed at him head-on, silently, but faster than the sound, and looking at the dress, he was nothing more than an ordinary soldier. This is Chen Jialuo, the eighth-level peak master of the Chen family, who sits at the north gate. (To be continued.) )