Chapter 2311 Blood and Exchange, Planning and Strategy
Qiang Xizhi smiled ferociously, using his shield to parry Meng Shu's sword, while stabbing Meng Shu's waist and ribs with his own sword. Although Qiang Xizhi didn't understand what anatomy was, I have killed many sheep, cattle, and humans, but I also know which parts are the most critical...
good! Hit!
The Qiang man Xizhi smiled, but he felt that the hand felt a little weird!
The tip of the sword did not provide the feeling of piercing through cowhide, but seemed to be blocked by a stone and then slid to the side...
Protruding!
Damn Han armor!
But Meng Shu's sword did not hit the Qiang Xizhi's shield, but slid down against the shield, and cut straight into the Qiang Xizhi's thigh, and a deep-bone injury suddenly bloomed. !
The Qiang man Jizhi was in great pain. He slapped Meng Shu away with his shield and staggered back.
Seeing an opportunity, the two soldiers around Meng Shu chased after them with their guns drawn...
"Don't..." Meng Shu quickly wanted to stop him. However, although his armor was not broken by the Qiang Xizhi just now, he was hit hard by the Qiang Xizhi. His breath was so strong that he couldn't even speak. Not to mention stopping the soldiers.
The Qiang man Xizhi howled like a wounded beast. He threw his shield directly and hit one of the Han soldiers who was chasing him. Then he used his free hand to catch the other one. The spearman reached into his arms, put his sword on his neck, and then pushed the soldier's body to the ground, roaring around...
For a while, no one dared to move forward.
Meng Shu gritted his teeth, stood up straight, and pointed his knife at the Qiang Xizhi clan, as if inviting a fight.
The Qiang man Xizhi stared at Meng Shu fiercely, shook his shoulders twice, and looked like he was about to pounce forward. However, after seeing Meng Shu's motionless posture, he slowly shrank back the next moment. He went back, led his men, and exited the door...
Xizhi's thigh was seriously injured, and he didn't know Meng Shu's condition. Continuing to fight with the injured leg would inevitably greatly reduce his combat power, so he chose to retreat, and he also found out that he and his men were fighting at the city gate. After a long time, there was no follow-up assistance from the Qiang soldiers!
Damn Beigong!
Xizhi gritted his teeth, with blood on his shoulders, legs, and body, and then rushed to Beigong, "Beigong!" I have breached the city gate, why are there no backups to follow? ? 』
Beigong's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately became furious, "What?" Breached the city gate? ! I do not know how? ! etc! Now that the city gate has been breached, why did you withdraw? ! Just send someone to come and tell you! You should block the Han people inside! Wouldn't it be a waste of all your efforts if you quit? ! 』
"Haha, it's best to die directly in the city gate. That would be fulfilling your wish, Beigong!" Yes or no? ! ” Mr. Xizhi sneered, pointing to the wounds on his body, “I opened the city gate for you! Can you blame me for not having backup? ! I still don’t understand what you’re thinking? Do you want us to all die and all the benefits go to you alone? ! 』
"..." Beigong's face immediately sank.
"OK OK! Just say a few words, look at the blood all over your body, go back and bandage it... go, go, go..." Someone quickly came up to smooth things over, "Dear King, the most important thing now is not to argue with this fool, and organize the organization as soon as possible. We need to launch an offensive to capture the city as soon as possible..."
"snort! ” Beigong took a breath, nodded, and began to arrange it.
In the city, Meng Shu clutched his chest and abdomen. He felt that his ribs might be broken and it hurt, but he couldn't stop. Although the outer armor is immune to cuts and stab wounds, it is not immune to force collisions.
Although they scared away a small number of Qiang people and then repelled the Qiang troops on the city wall, the danger still existed and the city was still not safe.
Mengshu still couldn't sit down to take a breath and take a rest.
Qiang people, this is crazy.
If we had realized earlier how ferocious the Qiang people were, we should have prepared more defensive supplies...
Fighting all night is like a double-edged sword. Even if you cut your opponent, you may cut yourself. Unless there are any special changes, generally speaking, most people will not choose this method.
"Our reinforcements are coming soon!" Meng Shu endured the pain in his chest and abdomen and said to the military lord beside him, "The Qiang people must have received some news, so they attacked the city overnight!" 』
"real? ” There seemed to be a little more hope in the Junhou’s eyes, “Reinforcements are coming? 』
Meng Shu nodded, then patted the military lord on the shoulder, "That's right, otherwise that guy would go crazy and attack the city overnight?" Bring this word to more brothers! Reinforcements are coming! The Qiang people will be defeated! We can get through this! We will win! 』
"only! ” The military prince cupped his hands in excitement, and then went down to deliver a message to the soldiers.
On the city wall, the voices of military princes and other soldiers cheering each other gradually sounded, and "reinforcements" and "must win" gradually sounded one after another...
Meng Shu covered his chest and abdomen and seemed to relax a little.
The people in the city organized themselves spontaneously and helped transport some equipment and treated the wounded soldiers.
A village elder walked up to Meng Shu, raised his hands and said, "General Meng, I heard that reinforcements are coming?" 』
Meng Shu nodded and said, "Yes, reinforcements are coming." Otherwise, these Qiang people wouldn’t be so impatient..."
The old man smiled, nodded and said, "That's good, that's good!" 』
Meng Shu said: "Please ask the village elders to urge the people to tear down more masonry and wood, and prepare some fire starters... I'm worried that the next wave of Qiang attacks will definitely be against the city gate... We can delay it." The longer it takes, the more advantageous it is! 』
The village elder nodded repeatedly, then turned around and walked down the city wall.
Although the city of Zhangye has city gates and turrets, due to the turmoil of the Western Qiang for many years, the Longyou area has not received much attention. Some defensive equipment is just as good as it can be. It was only when it was needed that it was discovered that there were problems here. Those The reserves are not enough...
Meng Shu couldn't help but have a thought in his mind. Why didn't Jia Xu remind him more clearly?
Could it be...
Meng Shu raised his eyes and looked at the Mengshi battle flag flying on the top of the city. He was silent for a while, then coughed a few times. He felt unbearable pain in his chest and abdomen. The sweat on his forehead rolled down, and he quickly held on to the wall. , and finally stood firm.
Fortunately, the light was not clear at night, otherwise Meng Shu's pale face might not be convincing even if he said reinforcements.
"How many more arrows are there?" Do you still have the crossbow arrows? Meng Shu propped up his body again, "Everyone...ahem...bring them all over and prepare them all here!" 』
At the city gate, the Han soldiers took advantage of the Qiang team's time to stack sandbags in the city gate and moved some stones and bricks to block the road, but Meng Shu knew that this was of little use.
The reason why the Qiang people did not rush to the city gate in a swarm before was because at night, no one, including the Qiang leaders, might be able to clearly see the change in the situation. Therefore, only the Qiang people who broke the city gate rushed in crazily, while the other Qiang people rushed in crazily. People also focused on climbing the city wall. During the Mengshu fight, the Qiang people briefly suppressed the guards on the city wall and occupied a section of the city wall, causing huge noise and shock, which can be proved.
But this next wave...
The Qiang people will inevitably put their main attack direction here, and at the same time, if they put their main defense force below the city, the top of the city wall will be equally easy to be breached.
Just when Meng Shu endured the pain and arranged the city defense as much as possible, Beigong outside the city laughed heartily. He excitedly shouted to the messenger next to him: "Pass the order!" Before dawn! Take Zhangye! 』
Many Qiang people in the rear line were also mobilized. Many people heard that they had breached the city gate last time, but they missed the opportunity to attack because they failed to connect with the follow-up troops. While feeling regretful, they also felt Excited, now a great achievement is in front of me, gold, silver, treasures, goods, women and children, almost everything can be eaten by the barbarians except the bluestone and discarded wood at the city gate, which the barbarians cannot eat.
Under the guidance of the charging horn, the morale of these Qiang people suddenly increased, and the momentum of the attack increased again. Many Qiang soldiers had heard the news that the city gate had been breached by the Xizhi clan, and they were all excited. They kept roaring and waving the weapons in their hands anxiously. Then when the order was given, they were like locusts rushing towards the young leaves one by one, buzzing and swarming towards Zhangye City.
Beigong stood closer to the front this time. He held up the sword inlaid with gems and kept shouting: "Up!" Everyone rush forward! For the Aries God, for us Qiang people, for our glory! Kill! Come on! 』
Then he stood firm on his own feet and just kept waving and shouting.
In the past, Beigong was not far away from the battlefield, but it was different at night and during the day. Beigong was not a top-notch warrior. He habitually stood at the position during the day. Of course, there was no way to find out that the Xizhi clan had broken through. With the new changes in the city gate, an excellent opportunity was missed, so of course now we have to make up for it and move forward.
More and more Qiang soldiers gathered around the city gate. Some archers shot randomly at the city wall and near the city gate tower to suppress the Han soldiers. Some Qiang people struggled to remove the debris crowded near the city gate. , corpses, bricks, stones, etc. were moved away to make more space to accommodate more Qiang people to attack the city gate.
Although Zhangye City has not received any better maintenance since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the city gate, which is more than two feet high, has fallen from the top. There are three huge door bolts inside to close the door. Generally, a ladder is needed to open the door. Only by removing the high door latch could the Qiang people have no way to push open the broken city gate. They could only remove the sandbags and stones blocking the door, and then rush in.
The area where the city gate was hit by the collision was probably faintly damaged due to repeated impacts before. As a result, it was burned by kerosene and the wreckage of the previous car crash, and finally became a little fragile. It was hit by the final blow from the car. And break...
"Step aside! Step aside! 』
The Qiang soldiers roared and pushed the crash cart forward again.
The huge impact cone of the car crashed into the hole in the city gate. The piles of sandbags and rocks blocking the city gate barely held up for two rounds, and then were knocked apart, revealing the original hole...
"kill! kill……"
A small Qiang leader had just raised his sword and issued an order when he was pierced in the chest by an arrow shot from the entrance of the cave, and he immediately fell to death.
However, the Qiang people who were so stimulated that they were crazy did not pay any attention to the casualties and surged towards the city gate crazily, like a group of red-bellied sawfish carp smelling the smell of blood...
The extremely vicious Qiang people put tremendous psychological pressure on the people near Chengmen Street. Many people couldn't help but become soft and weak, and then screamed as if they had seen evil spirits, and subconsciously ran away.
In the haunted houses of later generations, most ordinary people were coaxed by bullshit before entering. Once they actually entered the haunted house, under the backdrop of darkness, lights and ghost screams, and then there was a herd effect or something, they They were in chaos and fled.
Meng Shu looked back and said nothing, nor did he ask anyone to stop the people from fleeing. He just endured the increasingly painful wounds in his chest and abdomen, raised his sword, and faced death.
"We are Han soldiers!" Behind us are the Han people! 』
"Today we have to fight to the death, how can we protect our family with our lives!" 』
"Dear lords! Let’s die together today! Under the underworld, if you drink wine again, you and I will be drunk! 』
"I would like to follow the captain!" With the total death! 』
And on the street, the gray-haired country man also roared, awakening the remaining sanity of the people around him...
"What are you running for?" ! There are barbarians all around! Where can I run? ! ” The old voice of the villager sounded on the street, “You ran away. Can your mother, your wife, and your children run away? Where can I run to? ! 』
"If you touch your crotch and there are still eggs, then you are following me!" 』
In the Han Dynasty, village elders were generally held by those with higher reputations in urban and rural areas, and most of the village elders were relatively concerned about reputation rather than purely for money and power. Therefore, when facing foreign enemies, These village elders will basically stand on the side of the Han people, not on the side of money.
After being yelled at by the village elder and stopped by several young people around him, the fleeing people at the city gate gradually calmed down...
"Follow me and kill the enemy!" ” The village elder raised the long sword in his hand and shouted. This long sword was not originally used to kill people, but as a symbol of status. But now, the village elder raised the long sword that had not been stained with blood, roared, and took the lead to kill towards the city gate.
The people looked left and right, and after a while, some people began to collect various weapons, even just wooden sticks, on the ground or around them, and followed the villagers with hatred for the intruders.
A Qiang-headed man had just hacked to death a Han guard. He laughed and raised his head. Just when he felt that victory was just around the corner, he saw another group of people approaching in the darkness at the intersection. His heart suddenly jumped. Then I took a closer look and couldn't help but curse secretly. I thought it was reinforcements, but it turned out to be ordinary people...
Meng Shu led the guards to intercept them. At this time, there was no need to worry about life and death issues. If you die in battle, you will die. If a city is captured, you will die. Everyone let go of their hands and feet, staring with a pair of blood-red eyes, completely ignoring the weapons that hit them. What they wanted to do was to kill people. Kill as many of the Qiang people in front of them as they could.
A Han soldier had just killed a Qiang man when he encountered the next opponent. He was about to parry, but due to exhaustion from the continuous fighting, he could not keep up. Instead of opening all his spears, he was shot It was pierced into the abdomen, and the armor on his body had been damaged in many places during the battle, and the iron pieces had also collapsed a lot...
And these collapsed parts also show that these locations are particularly vulnerable to attack...
The spear penetrated the body, and the Han soldier roared angrily and slashed the Qiang man's neck with his knife...
Then another Qiang man rushed up. The Han soldier held a see-through spear in one hand, stared with bloodshot eyes, gritted his teeth and staggered forward, but he could no longer stand still...
The Qiang man smiled ferociously and chopped off the Han soldier's head with one knife...
The Han soldiers did not resist at all and allowed the Qiang people's swords to fall. At the same time, their own swords pierced into the enemy's waist amidst the roar...
"made money……"
"Brother!" "Another soldier gritted his teeth and rushed forward, rounded his sword and cut off the Qiang man's head. Then he glanced at his brother lying on the ground, howled, and rushed forward.
The common people also rushed forward and grabbed the weapons dropped by the Han soldiers. These untrained ordinary people often have to pay the price of several people to kill an enemy. But no one backed down. The relatives and neighbors in front fell into a pool of blood. The people behind them roared crazily and rushed forward one after another. They don't know how to use weapons, so they hold them with their hands, bite them with their teeth, and use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's steel weapons.
On the bloody battlefield, there is only the murderous intent that shakes the sky, and there are only soldiers who risk their lives. There is no fear, no crying, and no flinching.
At this time, the Han people, even in a small border town like Zhangye, still have a heroic spirit!
Meng Shu was pushed aside by the crowd, coughing up blood.
Probably the broken ribs were pierced into his lungs, making it difficult for him to breathe. Every breath he took was extremely painful. He didn't know how Meng Shu could still stand. Before, he was desperately protecting the people in the city, but now it is the people who are taking his place in front of him.
A fierce Qiang leader slashed his sword into an old man's chest, and then his sword was firmly held in the hand of the thin, dark old man with a pair of dry wood-like hands.
The Qiang leader roared and drew the knife with all his strength. The old man's two hands were caught on the blade, which was dripping with blood. He yanked hard and all of his fingers were severed! The old man didn't say a word, but he suddenly charged forward, allowing the Qiang leader's knife to penetrate his entire body!
The Qiang leader tried to push away the old man's body with his hands, but saw another Han man rushing up, howling, and hitting him on the shoulder with a wooden stick, and then the wooden stick broke and flew away. And the Han man still didn't retreat, but howled and clamped his neck like it was a street fight...
The Qiang leader pulled out the short blade from his boots and stabbed it into the Han man's waist. At the same time, he raised his other hand and struck a young man in the face who rushed forward. The young man howled miserably, his nose crooked and his face covered He fell to the ground with blood...
The Qiang leader had just breathed a sigh of relief when he found that his legs were being held by the young Han man who had just fallen. An old man's body was hanging on his waist, a middle-aged man's arm was around his neck, and one leg was held in the arms of a young Han man on the ground, who was biting it down...
"Ouch..."
The Qiang leader was in great pain. He was about to punch the young Han man who bit his leg to death when he saw a long spear coming from the side. Then he had no weapon in his hand to parry. He wanted to hide. There were three people hanging on him. Unable to hide, he could only watch helplessly as the spear penetrated his chest and abdomen from the side with a pop!
Blood flowed out like water along the spear shaft, taking away all the strength of the fierce Qiang leader. He stared, grinned and tilted his head, as if with an expression of disbelief, and fell down...
The Qiang people's attack near the city gate was suppressed for a while.
Meng Shu looked at these people, watching people rushing forward one after another, watching pairs of brothers, father and son died under the sword of the Qiang people, and ordinary kind-hearted people fell to the ground one after another. On the ground, his tears flowed down uncontrollably...
These people in Zhangye, these respectable and lovely ordinary people, they bear the most taxes and contribute the most strength. When the Han Dynasty needs them most, these people come forward without hesitation and without complaint. Regretfully, I paid my blood and my life...
Jia Wenhe!
All this blood and sacrifice, is this what you want?
Are the deaths of these people all part of your plan and strategy?