Chapter 496: Cannons block the way

"That's right!" Mu Erqin gritted his teeth and said, "Since you want to die, then drag Tang Jun to die together, and drag more people to be backs!" ”

"And that Li Hao!" Gesa also shouted angrily, "This Li Hao is simply the Great Wall of the Tang Dynasty, he must be killed, Li Hao will not die, and the Tang Dynasty will not die!" ”

Ramulun on the side took a breath and sighed: "Since you all have to fight to the death with the Tang army, then I will accompany Ramulun to the end." ”

"Good!" Gai Suwen slammed the table and got up, glared at him and said loudly, "Since that's the case, then tomorrow we will fight to the death with the Tang Army!" Never die! ”

Early the next morning, a large number of soldiers in the barbarian barracks, tens of thousands of troops gathered in the school field, Gai Suwen and other high platforms made a strong military speech: "Brothers, I think everyone knows that we are all suffering from the plague, time is running out, the land of the Tang Dynasty will be the place where we are buried, but you don't forget, you are soldiers, you are soldiers, you deserve to die on the battlefield, the horse leather shroud, not the hospital bed, today, this commander will give you a chance to fight to the death with the Tang army, never die!" ”

"Fight to the death! Never die! Fight to the death! Never die! When all the troops heard this, they shouted in unison, and the voices of tens of thousands of people were really earth-shaking and unmatched.

Barbarian medical skills are low, in their impression, the plague is like the existence of death, but the northern peoples rarely appear smallpox, which may be related to the climate, so they don't know that the lethality rate of smallpox is not so high, all of them have the heart of death, if the soldiers are not afraid of death, then it will be an extremely terrible thing.

Gai Suwen has already ignited the fighting spirit of the whole army, and then set up a formation to attack, and went straight to the city of Youzhou, just like last time, they only attacked the north gate, gathered all their forces in one place, with the help of catapults, the probability of breaking the city is much greater.

Seeing the barbarian army out of the camp, Li Hao also ordered the horn to be sounded, the whole city began to prepare for war, Li Hao ordered people to spread the news, the barbarian army camp infected smallpox, is already dying, as long as the battle is held, it is a victory, the Tang army is also high-spirited, vowing to fight to the death with the barbarian army.

The war here is about to break out, Li Tai is still rampant and domineering in Lu's territory, Lu's attitude makes him very cold, he is now homeless, and Lu is turning him away, which makes him go, so he began to make trouble everywhere on Lu's territory, anyway, this town is full of Lu people, he sent guards to these people's homes to smash and plunder, and saw beautiful women to tease or play with them, making the entire Lu family a miasma.

Lu Gongwang is sending someone to pack his luggage at home, preparing to run away, and flee to the outside of the Saiwai, he has no hope for Gai Suwen, if he doesn't run away, will he wait for the court to arrest them, but his family business is too much, there are too many things, he has packed up for so many days, loaded hundreds of carriages, and still feels that it is not enough, and Li Tai is still doing nonsense everywhere outside the mansion, which can make Lu Gongwang very angry.

Lu Gongwang first began to be afraid that Li Tai would carry smallpox, so he didn't dare to touch him, but now that so many days have passed, and he has not seen any abnormal changes in Li Tai, he is relieved, and sends his own dead soldiers to kill Li Tai and his personal guards, and then orders everyone in the clan to start packing their bags and preparing to relocate.

Poor Li Tai was pierced through the abdomen by a sword of the dead man, looking at the blood gushing out of his abdomen, he held on to a jujube tree beside him, trying not to let himself fall, but his weight was too heavy, he couldn't hold it, slowly collapsed to the ground, sat on the ground with his back against the jujube tree, he wanted to cover the wound with his hands, but it had no effect, he only felt that the heat in his body was gradually passing, he raised his eyes to look in the direction of Chang'an in the distance, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

"Father, the child is wrong, the child is really wrong." Li Tai finally repented at the last moment of his life, what imperial power and wealth are not as important as living well, but unfortunately it was too late.

Li Tai was already extremely weak, he drooped his eyelids, and whispered there: "Li Hao once told me to give up the throne and study academically, saying that I can become an academic master, in fact, I also think I can become an academic master, but unfortunately I didn't listen to him, he was right, I was wrong......"

His voice became lower and lower, almost inaudible, and finally stopped completely, and Li Tai, the king of Wei, fell.

In the direction of Youzhou, the big battle has begun, and the offensive of the barbarian army is very fierce, although Li Hao ordered to give priority to shooting the enemy archers, but the archers of the barbarian army all rushed to the range of arrows in the rain of arrows, and then opened the bow to counterattack, which is a completely fatal way of playing, hurting each other.

Although the Tang archers had the city walls as cover, the enemy archers were more than twice as many as the Tang archers, so the losses on both sides were quite heavy.

Those soldiers who were besieging the city rushed forward even more desperately, not afraid of death, because they had already reported their mortality, and the morale of the two armies at this moment was really extremely high, which could be called the pinnacle duel.

"Lord Wang, there are barbarians on the city wall in the east!"

"Lord Wang, there are also barbarians on the city wall in the west!"

The east and west sections of the city wall were in an emergency at the same time, and Li Hao immediately ordered: "Pour fire oil, all fire oil, use it all!" ”

"Yes!" The Tang army began to pour fire oil, a torch was dropped, and a raging fire immediately ignited under the city, although the barbarian army was not afraid of death, but it was still afraid of fire, this was the instinctive reaction of people, and it had nothing to do with being afraid of death.

The offensive of the barbarian army was temporarily hindered, and Gai Suwen saw that the fire was too big, so he chose to withdraw his troops strategically, and the two sides began to count the battle damage.

Gai Suwen counted the losses in the battle, lost 12,000 men, and now his army was only a little more than 30,000.

Li Hao counted the battle losses and lost nearly 5,000 people, and when he saw the heavy losses of the army at the head of the city, he shouted loudly: "Pass my military order and order all the 500 people who are guarding the Wei Wangfu to come to defend against the enemy!" ”

"Yes!"

The king of Wei rebelled, and Li Hao sent five hundred soldiers to garrison the Wei palace to guard all Li Tai's families, but at this time, defending the city was the most important thing, and Li Hao had to summon the five hundred people as well, which showed that he had been forced into a desperate situation.

In the afternoon, the fire gradually extinguished, and Gai Suwen launched another fierce attack on Youzhou City, this time the offensive was even more fierce than in the morning, because they already felt that the Tang army was difficult to parry, and victory was in sight.

At the same time, a team of more than 5,000 people drilled out of the mountains and forests seventy miles south of Youzhou and headed straight for Youzhou, and the leaders were Feiying and Ye Mengqiu.

This is the 5,000 army is Li Hao's private army, all the way from Luoyang, in order not to let the government find out, they ambush day and night, and scattered into dozens of small teams, and finally gathered in this mountain forest, put on armor and blades, ready to go to the aid of Youzhou, now only seventy miles away from Youzhou, they are light cavalry, only one or two hours, can arrive.

However, they had just traveled twenty miles, on the official road between the two mountains, and suddenly saw a large number of people and horses parked in front of them, there were more than 2,000 people, those people on horseback were wearing black clothes and black robes, the queue was extremely neat, at the front of the queue, there were two tall horses, the person on the left was dressed in a green robe, wearing a big hat, the hat hung down a black veil, covering his face, it was Li Hao's old enemy, another mysterious traverser, next to him was naturally his apprentice Liang Ding.

Seeing such a group of people blocking the way, Feiying and Ye Mengqiu immediately frowned, but they did not stop and continued to move forward, when there was only one mile left between the two sides, Feiying raised his hand, and the whole team stopped.

Ye Mengqiu looked ahead with his eyebrows tightly locked, and said with a solemn face: "Be careful, that hat man seems to be a master of the Grandmaster, and these horses are also strong in martial arts." ”

Feiying nodded, he knew who that hat man was, after all, he had followed Li Hao for so long, and he had also seen the methods of this mysterious hat man, he kicked the horse's belly lightly, walked forward twenty zhang, and said in a high voice towards the opposite side: "Your Excellency is blocking the way here, what do you want?" ”

The hat man did not speak, and his apprentice Liang Ding spoke on his behalf: "This road is not passable, please go back." ”

Feiying frowned, and said coldly: "This is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not your turn to wait for the small robbery." ”

The hat man spoke, only to hear him say coldly: "I'm waiting for Xiaoxiao, so what about you, are you soldiers and horses of the imperial court?" ”

Feiying was speechless when he heard this, yes, they are the same as those people opposite, they are all unorganized soldiers and horses, if such an armed force lets the court know, they will all be classified as anti-thieves, in a nutshell, both of them are rats hiding in the shadows, and they can't see the light.

Feiying was silent for a moment, and arched his hand: "Please make it convenient, we have urgent matters." ”

The hat man said indifferently: "The old man knows what you are going to do, the old man is waiting here on purpose, any team rushing to help Youzhou can't go over, the old man wants Li Hao to die!" ”

Feiying's eyes narrowed sharply when he heard this, since the other party had already made his words clear, he didn't bother to be polite anymore, and said coldly: "I'll give you one last chance, or get out of the way!" Die or die! ”

The hatsman sneered: "I'll also give you one last chance, either retreat or die!" ”

"In that case!" Feiying suddenly pulled out the Tang knife and shouted in a deep voice, "Kill!" ”

"Roar!" Hearing this, everyone in the rear roared, all of them rushed towards the opposite side with weapons, even when they charged, their formation was not chaotic at all, which showed that Li Hao's private army was extremely well-trained.

The hat-taker snorted coldly, and suddenly raised his hand and waved, only to see that their army suddenly dispersed, and then a big steel guy appeared, black, and the flying eagle that was charging was shocked when he saw this, it turned out to be a cannon! And the swarthy muzzles of the guns were aimed at them.

There was a loud "boom", and the cannon was fired on the opposite side, and almost instantly, the middle of the cavalry team that was charging suddenly blossomed, and the power of the cannon shook the earth, and it was so close that the explosion range was twenty meters, and the people turned on their backs.

Although the lethality of the cannon is great, but after all, it is limited, the most terrible thing is its deterrent power, the explosion of the cannonball made their war horses all frightened, all the war horses rushed around, how can not be controlled, like the military array is chaotic at the moment.

Although the cavalry impact is terrible, the cavalry is most afraid of the formation chaos, once the cavalry formation is disordered, it is easy to trample on each other, just like a car accident on the highway, a car accident in front, it is easy to cause dozens of vehicles in the rear to rear-end one after another, the fundamental reason is that the speed is too fast.

As long as two horses in the cavalry team collide and fall to the ground, it is likely to affect hundreds of them, and at this moment, the five thousand cavalry teams led by the flying eagle were disrupted by such a simple cannon.