045 Defending the City (4)
The entire Chencang is currently full of people, the rebels are constantly shouting, and these Qianghu people who have dismounted from the war horse are constantly rushing up from behind, until the entire mountain road is blocked.
The pressure on the tower of Chen Cangcheng is undoubtedly huge, under the city wall are the rebels who constantly want to climb up, a little farther away are those rebels who are good at shooting, they are natural shooters on the horse, and they are still powerful on the ground, fortunately, the battle that lasted for half an hour still had more casualties among the rebels, and under the strict defense of Gao Fei and others on the city tower, no ladder was successfully erected up.
The rebels under the city wall raised their scimitars and smashed the walls into potholes, and the stones collected from the mountains seemed to be slightly inferior to the rebels' scimitars.
"Why is it so slow? Not yet launched? Gao Fei saw that more than 400 of the original 1,300 defenders on the tower had been killed by the rebels' arrows, and more than 300 were wounded and retreated, and the alternate soldiers also climbed the tower one by one, and the arrows on the city walls were everywhere, and the orders that could be conveyed have not yet been implemented.
Gao Fei casually pointed to a soldier who was just about to go up to the city tower, and shouted loudly: "Go quickly, let Fu Xie and Gai Xun transport the fierce fire oil, Lao Tzu is going to set fire to this group of traitors of the dog day!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, as soon as Goofy looked up, he saw a huge stone flying from behind the tower, with a howling wind, smashing towards the rebels in the mountain road outside the city. With a "boom", the huge stone immediately shattered the skulls of several rebels in the mountain road, and the blood was blurred.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The boulder falling from the sky made a loud roar every time it fell to the ground, followed by a cry of grief.
The crossbowmen commanded by Lu Heng and Xiahoulan took the opportunity to shoot at the city, although they were not as good as before because of their small numbers, they were still able to shoot down many unsuspecting rebel infantry.
The rolling wood stones on the city tower had long been used up, and Gao Fei, Zhao Yun and others were carrying knives in their hands to either knock down the ladder or cut down the rebel soldiers who were about to climb up, and they had to carefully dodge the arrows shot by the rebels.
The archers led by Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Guan Hai still kept firing arrows, and the boulders fired by Pei Yuanshao, Bian Xi, and Pang De commanded the soldiers with catapults, creating a death zone for those rebels, and many people were crushed into meat patties and meat sauce, which gave those rebels a trace of fear.
When Han Sui saw this scene, he drew his scimitar and shouted at the rebel soldiers beside him: "Rush to me, rush up, the Han army is just these tricks, there are countless gold in Chencang City, whoever grabs it after attacking the city gate will be counted!" Death to those who retreat without permission! ”
In order to establish military prestige, Han Sui even killed a nearby Qiang with his own hands, and kept preaching the gold and silver treasures in Chen Cang City there. In this way, the low morale of the rebels rose again, and those behind rushed into the death zone without hesitation, stepping on the corpses and the rocks under their feet, and launched another fierce attack.
Hearing the shouts of the rebels again, Goofy showed his head and saw another group of rebels rushing in, and this time the rebels' faces looked extremely hideous, looking much more fierce than the rebels under the city wall that were almost about to be defeated.
"Master Hou, the fierce fire oil is here!" Taking advantage of the weakening of the rebels' arrows on the city tower, Li Wenhou brought dozens of soldiers to bring more than 300 jars of fierce fire oil in wine jars.
As soon as Gao Fei saw that the fierce fire oil was delivered, he was overjoyed at the moment, and quickly distributed it to the soldiers defending the city, and then said to Li Wenhou: "These are enough, you go and tell Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, and Liao Hua, let them stop shooting for the time being, tie the cloth with the fire oil with arrows, and when I send someone to order them to shoot in a while, I will light the fire and shoot rockets." Prepare some fierce fire oil and let Pei Yuanshao, Pang De, and Bian Xi launch it with catapults. ”
Li Wenhou got the order and quickly walked down the tower to convey Gao Fei's order.
Gao Fei said to the soldiers on the city tower: "Throw all the fierce fire oil under the city wall, and throw it as far as you can, as far as you can." ”
So, the guards quickly threw the fire oil out of the city wall with all their might, and only the crisp sound of the wine jar breaking could be heard, and after a while, a terrible smell was smelled under the city wall, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of oil.
At this moment, the catapult threw out no longer stones, but an altar of fierce oil. Gao Fei saw the opportunity and said to Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, and Xiahou Lan: "Lu Heng and Xiahou Lan are guarding the city tower, Zilong, you follow me to the city gate, and I will go out of the city to fight for a while!" ”
Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, and Xia Houlan all agreed together: "No! ”
When it was too late, it was too fast, Gao Fei quickly got down the city tower and came to the edge of the urn city, and saw that the three thousand archers of Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Guan Hai had all lit arrows with fire, so he shouted to them: "Let go of the arrows!" ”
After the order was given, 3,000 rockets flew into the sky, crossed the tower on the gate of Chencang, and landed in the mountain road. The mountain road was already full of fire oil, and as soon as the rocket landed, it quickly burst into flames, and the fire began to spread in all directions, and the traces of fire oil flowing along the mountain road burned, enveloping the dense rebels who had just rushed into the death zone.
The flames were soaring, and there were endless screams outside the city gates.
Gao Fei had already asked Zhao Yun to summon Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Guan Hai, Pang De, Bian Xi, Pei Yuanshao, Li Wenhou and others, and led two hundred infantry to the bottom of the gate of the city, so that the soldiers guarding the gate opened the city gate, and when they saw the flames rushing to the sky, many rebels trapped in the flames were dying, and there was a smell of burnt paste everywhere.
There were still two or three hundred remnants of the rebel soldiers at the city gate, who looked at the fire behind them with frightened eyes, their backs against the city wall, not realizing that Goofy had led people out of the city gate.
"For the sake of the Han, for the sake of Liangzhou, for our homeland, kill!" All of Goofy's picks were his recruits from Xiangwu, and shouting rousing slogans, he was the first to rush in, cutting down a rebel soldier who was still panicking.
More than 200 people, including Zhao Yun and Pang De, shouted in unison: "For the sake of Master Hou, kill!" ”
The rebels were already frightened, and they couldn't stop this small Han army that suddenly rushed out, and they were completely slaughtered in less than a moment.
The big guys gathered together, looking at the fire a few meters away from them, and their hearts were very excited. At this time, Lu Heng's shout came from the city tower: "Master Hou, the rebels have retreated, and the rebels have retreated again!" ”
The people who heard this shout were extremely excited, and the cohesion of Gao Fei in their hearts was strengthened again.
Lu Heng stood on the city tower, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly shouted loudly: "Long live Lord Hou!" Long live Hou Ye! ”
Immediately afterwards, the sound of "Long live Hou Ye" quickly spread throughout Chen Cang as if he had an infectious disease, and the soldiers in the entire Chen Cang City cheered and shouted the slogan "Long live Hou Ye".
The fire burned for half an hour before it was gradually extinguished, and after it was extinguished, the fire revealed a miserable scene, many of the charred corpses were in strange shapes, and those hideous faces showed their struggle before death, and the pain they suffered in the fire.
Corpses are everywhere, stretching out from the side of the Chencang city wall, and within a distance of four hundred meters, there are nearly five or six thousand people who can be seen, not to mention those who were originally killed in the battle and trampled by the latecomers, and a rough estimate shows that this battle almost wiped out 10,000 rebels. But Gao Fei also paid a certain price, more than 300 people were killed, more than 600 people were injured, and the number of troops suddenly decreased by almost a thousand, and this number alone was only shot down by arrows.
"Killing a thousand enemies and injuring yourself eight hundred, probably the Peugeot of this era. I underestimated this group of Qiang rebels too much, if I didn't go to Liangzhou at that time, but only recruited 2,000 villagers, it is estimated that after today's battle, Chen Cang will not be able to hold it. Goofy muttered to himself later when he cleaned up the battlefield.
In this battle, Hua Xiong and Ma Jiu's gang did not participate, but as a logistics reserve to help deal with the wounded, in the newly built simple camp in the city, Hua Xiong, Ma Jiu and others were very busy, they helped the military doctor to heal many wounded, and Hua Xiong recruited two hundred Xiangyong also put into use at this time.
Gao Fei had his own ideas about doing this, and Hua Xiong, Ma Jiu and the 200 Xiang Yong were temporarily used as logistics troops, because although Hua Xiong was brave, after all, he could not compare with the real officers and soldiers, and he was afraid that he would not be able to coordinate operations. In addition, Fu Xie and Gai Xun also have a certain credit, they led 500 people back and forth in the city, and constantly sent arrows and stones for catapults, as well as fierce fire oil used later, these things would be like ammunition for guns and cannons if they were left now.
In short, all the people who participated in the defense of the city were very tired today, and the arrows shot by the three thousand archers alone were as tall as 90,000 arrows, and each person shot an average of thirty times, which required a lot of physical strength for the archers. Crossbowmen shoot fewer arrows than each other, on average, 10 times per person.
After counting the situation after the battle, Goofy collected the arrows scattered around the city, after all, the rebels did not retreat, and there may be more fierce attacks later, and arrows are an important weapon to defend the city. Gao Fei ordered someone to repair the damaged city wall and relatively strengthen the city defense, and after such and such things were done, it was already late at night.
After returning to the county office, Gao Fei simply ate some dinner and went back to his room, all he had to do now was sleep. As soon as he lay down on the bed, he didn't have time to close his eyes when he heard someone knock on the door, which made Goofy, who had been tired from a day, a little impatient.
"Who, it's so late, and you can't let people sleep?"