"Kill!"
Sonorous! Sonorous! Poof!
After a few clashes of weapons, it turned out that the armored Japanese soldiers were much stronger than the Huns who were not good at attacking cities!
The Huns were disemboweled with one strike.
However, the Huns' attacks were uninterrupted. This side had just dealt with the Huns who came up, but there were already more Huns climbing up from the ladder on the other side.
Fortunately, the Japanese army was not fighting alone. Just when the Japanese soldier was about to raise his sword and fight again, a musketeer next to him had already aimed at the Hun soldiers who had just rushed up and pulled the trigger. !
The next moment, a pungent smell of petroleum filled the air, and then a handful of fire gushed out from the musket nozzle in the hand of the musketeer, burning the Huns who had just come up into a burning man in the blink of an eye!
The disappearance of the target could not help but let the Japanese soldiers who were originally preparing to continue fighting breathe a sigh of relief, but then they quickly took two steps forward and came to the edge of the city wall. They raised their long swords and aimed at the ladder hooked to the top of the city. Cut it down hard!
As long as the ladder is not destroyed, the Huns will continue to pour people upwards. Sooner or later, they will be unable to resist it.
Since Commander Song Deren received the order to bring out the musketeers and repeating crossbowmen three days ago, the Huns not only were not afraid, they actually continued to launch offensives despite huge casualties, and did not give the Japanese troops any rest at all. time.
The fact is that as some courtiers speculated, the reason why these two weapons were not used directly at the beginning was because the consumption of these two weapons was huge, and the Japanese army could not replenish it on their own.
Especially the musketeers, the reason why they are so powerful is because of the fire oil in the fire cabinet they carry on their backs. This is the most important resource of the musketeers.
However, the fierce fire oil currently reserved by the Japanese army is purchased from Yunzhou County, and the quantity is limited, and this is especially true for Liannu's arrows.
Since the standard assembly line has been used, the specifications of the arrows suitable for the crossbow are different from those in the pass.
The arrows made in Guan Nei are either too big or too small, not only useless, but also easy to damage the repeating crossbow.
Therefore, in order to save these two reserve items, both Song Deren and Zhao Duan defaulted to saving these items for critical moments.
In fact, it was indeed used at a critical moment, but to their surprise, the Huns were not afraid, but instead fought for their lives as if they had been stimulated!
During the past three days, the Japanese soldiers did not know how they were able to hold on. The Huns continued to attack, and they continued to kill the Huns who came up. Over and over again, they were killed until they were numb!
But the Huns still seemed to see no casualties and continued to attack!
"General! This can't go on like this!
It has been three days in a row, and the brothers' spirits are very low. A group of people must be replaced to rest. Otherwise, I am afraid that in one more day at most, the brothers' spirits will collapse! "
The deputy commander of the Japanese army, Jiang Wei, felt heartbroken when he saw the brothers with bloodshot eyes around him, and said to the commander, Song Deren, with a worried look on his face.
Song Deren shook his head with a wry smile: "Do you think I don't know that our brothers are about to reach their limit?
But now I have no one available. According to the current Xiongnu offensive, if we withdraw a group of people to rest at this time, I am afraid that it will not take long for the Xiongnu to successfully attack the city!
It’s not like you can’t see how crazy the Huns are these days. You said yourself, do I dare to let people go back to rest in this situation? "
Jiang Wei turned his head and looked at the endless supply of Huns like cockroaches all over the city. He immediately understood that his general was right, these Huns were crazy!
How can anyone fight like this? Isn't this a waste of the lives of his own people to waste the defenders?
But the brothers really can’t hold on any longer!
Just when Jiang Wei was in trouble, Song Deren suddenly asked: "How many more people do we have?"
Jiang Wen recalled it and immediately replied:
"When we took stock last night, there were only 12 men and horses left in the small army. Even though the Huns' crazy attacks in the past three days caused a lot of casualties, we were forced to replace a lot of them one by one. In addition, we were forced to replace them one by one. Lost. Now only these 12 troops are left.
General, those who died were the elites of the Japanese army whom I admired. They had never fought such a frustrating battle! "
"Twelve small armies, which is about 30,000 people, are these the only ones left?"
Song Deren raised his eyes and looked at the bottom of the city. Under the Xiongnu's offensive in the past few days, he could only roughly calculate that the exchange rate between his side and the Xiongnu's side was one to nine!
In other words, 110,000 people here and 90,000 people could die on the other side of Xiu Road.
But the battle cannot be calculated like this. The Huns' siege team was mixed with a large number of cannon fodder and captured civilians. Among the people killed, most of the people who were killed were those who were used as cannon fodder by the Huns. The real casualties of the Huns would not be More than 30,000, which means that the Huns still have at least 200,000 in their hands.
And they only have these 30,000 troops left in their hands to support the Japanese army!
Two hundred thousand versus thirty thousand, and the opponent also has countless cannon fodder prisoners to attack together. This is extremely detrimental to the Japanese army!
Looking at the soldiers around him, Song Deren sighed and turned around.
Jiang Wei was confused and asked quickly: "General, where are you going?"
"Ask Your Majesty for help! At this point, even if it's just one more young man to help defend the city!
The Japanese army cannot be defeated like this. We are already the only combat-effective force in the imperial city. If we are really exhausted by the Huns like this, then Bianjing City will really become the opponent's racecourse, and no one can Blocked! "
After Song Deren gave a simple answer, he climbed down the city wall and headed towards the palace without looking back.
Jiang Wei became more energetic after hearing Song Deren's thoughts again, and hurriedly shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers, hold on a little longer, the general has gone to the palace to ask for reinforcements, and the reinforcements will be here soon!"
His words were undoubtedly like a stimulant to the current Japanese-supporting troops, which briefly boosted their morale.
On this side, Song Deren had already arrived at the palace on horseback.
When Zhao Duan learned that Song Deren had come in person, he could guess the purpose of his visit. He had also been paying attention to the situation at the top of the city, so he probably knew that the current Japanese army was indeed about to lose its hold.
In the past two days, Ye Wei's fellow had been coming to him for help, and he had just sent him away again.
Now that even Song Deren has come in person, it seems that he really can't hold on any longer.
While asking Cao Shuang to bring Song Deren, Zhao Duan also asked people to sharpen ink and start writing the edict.
When Song Deren was brought to Funing Palace, the edict in Zhao Duan's hand had already been written.
Song Deren finished his salute and was about to speak: "Your Majesty! At the top of the city..."
Zhao Duan raised his hand to stop him, and instead waved for him to come forward.
Song Deren took two steps forward and happened to see an edict just written on Zhao Duan's desk, an edict recruiting all the young men in Bianjing to defend the city!
As soon as he raised his head, Song Deren's eyes met Zhao Duan's, and he heard Zhao Duan's voice:
"Song Aiqing, the food supply in Bianjing City is about to bottom out, it's time to fight to the death!"
"hiss!"
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(End of chapter)
