Chapter 139: Fierce Battle
At the south gate of Baonyeong Mansion, Li Song kept dealing with the enthusiastic city gate official. He listened for the sound of arrows. Wang Biao's whistle was very clear, but it was a bit far away from Xiguan. He was afraid of missing Wu Dazhuang's response, which was the signal to launch. The most important thing in combat is coordination and cooperation. The timing of launching an uprising is critical - if it is early, the officers and soldiers on the city will rush down, if it is too late, they may be seen through. Li Song only has ten men. Sooner or later, no matter what the situation is, it will be a disaster. Li Song's men also took aim at their targets near the city gate and were secretly on guard.
Due to the distance and the blocking of sound waves by the Nanjin Pass Wall, Li Song still didn't hear Wu Dazhuang's signal. Unexpectedly, not long after Wang Biao's resounding arrow was fired, it was the nagging city gate officer beside him who was the first to notice anomalies dozens of feet away. He stuttered and pointed at the shining sword light and the running figure on the wall: "Li, Li, Brother Li, look..."
Li Song drew his knife and stabbed it into the guy's abdomen, shouting: "We've broken through! We've been defeated, run away!" His men, who were already on full alert, immediately started to cut down five or six city gates on the spot. Pawn, and then while rushing towards the other ignorant guys, he shouted loudly in a southern and northern accent:
"Come down early! Come down early!"
"You're defeated, run away!"
"The city is broken, run for your life!"
Although the focus of Baoning Prefecture's defense is the north gate and east gate, it is still a prefectural city. Duan Yuanji has brought most of the soldiers he can mobilize into the city, and there are a lot of them. There are half a team of more than fifty soldiers guarding the south gate alone. Half of them are leaning or sitting on the ground near the gate to do their errands. The other half who are on night duty are mostly catching up on their sleep in the watch room near the gate in the city. The south wall There were also four to five hundred soldiers and thousands of people standing on it. Because it may be necessary to support Nanjinguan at any time, there are thousands of reserves near Nancheng. A long row of tents and sheds have been set up against the wall. Some are resting inside, and some are sitting on the ground outside in groups gambling and bragging. . However, these soldiers are too mixed, and many of them are not subordinate to each other. Despite this, the lives of Li Song's dozen or so people are always hanging by a thread: the difference in strength is too great. Once the soldiers rush forward before Cheng Xi, Wang Biao and others arrive, no one will survive - and what's more terrible, if When the city gate is closed, it’s not just me who will die, there may be tens of thousands of people. Li Song is a sword and shield soldier. Without the spearmen to maintain a safe distance with the cooperation of the large shield soldiers, it is difficult to form an effective defensive formation with only the small round shields of the sword and shield soldiers: as long as the spears on the opposite side keep firing If they are stabbed over, no one will be able to fight back. If there are a few more archers behind the spearmen, they can aim more calmly and shoot in front of them. The consequences will be disastrous!
Robbing the door is not stealing the door. It is impossible for a dozen people to seize the city gate from dozens of people quietly. In this case, create as much chaos as possible from the beginning, completely muddy the water, and win every moment you can. !
The city gate guards were immediately stunned by the sudden attack around them. In desperation, they dropped their weapons and ran away. Fortunately, a few five-foot-long spears were left behind. Li Song and his three brothers quickly sheathed their knives and picked them up, feeling somewhat reassured. The two brothers ran to the door of the watch room with knives and bluffed to scare the sleepy soldiers inside not to come out. Li Song and the remaining few people hurriedly pulled up a line of defense to protect the open city gate, feeling nervous from time to time. He turned around and looked in the direction of Nanjinguan. It seemed like several hours had passed before I finally saw a small black dot heading towards here in the distance.
The field of view of the defenders on the south wall was much wider than that at the city gate. At the same time as Li Song rose up, someone discovered the anomaly in Nanjing Pass. After a moment of shock, the guerrilla on duty loudly ordered the door to be closed. The messenger who was about to shout down just saw the city gate guards running away, and a group of blood-covered devil-like guys shouting behind them. Chase. The guerrillas knew that if the city gate was lost, it would mean losing most of their lives, so they ordered the personal guards to take the lead and led the soldiers to rush down from the horse path to grab the door.
Generally speaking, the generals' personal soldiers are very capable of fighting, but this is about the real field army, especially the frontier army. Most of the people here in Boryeongfu are guard soldiers. The guerrillas themselves are usually landlords. The soldiers are also foremans who whip the serf auxiliary soldiers. No one has ever been in battle. When they first saw this scene, they were so frightened that they stopped moving forward. If Li Song had more people, even one more fruit, and could chase the defeated soldiers for a short distance, the situation would be completely different - unfortunately, because they had to protect the door, everyone shouted a few bluffs, Retract and form a formation near the inner door. Seeing this situation, the defenders became a little more courageous. Under the pressure of the guerrillas' shouts and curses, they began to push down step by step from the horse paths on both sides. They also shouted loudly to encourage themselves. Several He also tried to separate the two people blocking the watch room.
Li Song knew that if they were separated, the lives of the two men would definitely be at stake. Anyway, the dog officers and soldiers on the wall and at the base of the wall would rush down one after another, not caring about the number of people in the room. Since I had more strength, I might as well pull back and maybe hold on for a while longer, so I opened my throat and yelled at the two of them back. The guys in the watch room were so frightened at first that they lay on the pit and trembled. When they heard there was no sound outside the door, the bolder ones stood up and looked around. Someone saw reinforcements coming down the road from the window and shouted, but they didn't have time to put on their armor. , all took their weapons and rushed out of the house, also approaching the doorway with a roar. More and more people came out of the long tent at the root of the inner wall. After understanding the situation, they crowded together and pushed towards each other in small steps.
At this time, the guerrillas on the south wall also discovered Cheng Xi's group who had come to kill them at Nanjing Pass, so they shouted desperately to organize a defense. The archers began to shoot arrows at the crowd approaching quickly dozens of feet away.
Li Song didn't care to look back at the reinforcements anymore. He had just separated the point of the spear from the opposite side when another spear came towards him. It was too late to block. He gritted his teeth, lowered his head, swung his head, and simply used the iron helmet on his head to hit him. He took the shot firmly. The tip of the gun slammed into the iron helmet, and was immediately carried away by the force of the head shake. It rubbed against the helmet and made a tooth-piercing scratching sound. The powerful impact made Li Song's head buzz, and a burst of stars appeared in front of his eyes. He was stunned for a moment. However, due to the muscle memory formed during his years as a frontier soldier, he still retracted his arms like a conditioned reflex. , the withdrawn spear thrust out blindly, piercing the neck of the guy on the other side...
This subconscious stabbing was weak, but the gun edge tore open the carotid artery, and blood spurted out. As the person who was shot dropped the spear, he turned around in horror and tried to escape, spraying several people around him all over their heads and bodies. It was dripping... The guy collapsed to the ground after running a few steps, struggling and rolling. The blood arrows spurting from his neck became weaker and weaker, and after a while, he gradually stopped moving.
Li Song weakly took the gun out of his hand, his knees weakened, and he fell down. Fortunately, the guys on the opposite side who were sprayed with blood were hiding in fear, and no one took the opportunity to make up for him. The two men on the left and right hurriedly took the officer's arms and dragged him back. The thin line had to shrink again. Except for the two men whose legs were shot by guns and could not move, they all retreated to the city gate hole and struggled to hold on. ——The two people were immediately pinned to the ground by several guns, and then were stabbed to pieces by the knives that came forward.
The officers and soldiers came again, and the remaining three guns had no room to swing in the doorway. They could only stab at them blindly, and two of them were soon cut off. Li Song leaned against the cave wall and looked blankly at his comrades in front of him. He gradually regained consciousness. Just as he was struggling to get up, his stomach was filled with nausea. He vomited a few mouthfuls of acidic water, but he still held the knife on his waist. Staggering to his feet, he roared and cursed and squeezed into the defense line again.
There is only a few dozen feet between Nanjin Pass and the south gate of Baoning. Unfortunately, Cheng Xi and his group are all common people. When they saw the arrows shot from the city pinning their companions to their sides, most of them stared in horror. At the top of the city, his legs were shaking with fear and he could not move forward. Not only did he block the people behind him, but he also provided an excellent shooting target for the archers at the top of the city.
Wang Biao initially led his brothers to chase and kill the officers and soldiers guarding the pass along both sides of the wall, fearing that they would slow down and strike back. He knew very well that regardless of how the people were shouting now, as long as the first few people were cut down, those behind would definitely flee in all directions. Therefore, the defenders must not be allowed a chance to breathe and regroup - because of this, this The team's elite soldiers with rich battlefield experience fell behind the common people.
When a large number of people poured into Nanjin Gate and the army could no longer reverse the situation, Wang Biao noticed that they were standing still in front of Baoning South Gate and allowed the defenders at the top of the city to attack the people who were escaping hastily. At the same time, he also saw a few small figures shaking violently in the dark doorway - this meant that Li Songna's situation was in danger!
Wang Biao blew the whistle with all his strength. After hearing the news, the scattered soldiers immediately gave up their pursuit and gathered at the whistle. Seeing the common people squatting or lying down and not charging, they all shouted: "You guys, run forward! It's safe under the wall!" He strode towards the doorway with great strides - in order to maintain his physical strength, the limit of sprinting in armor was only twenty or thirty steps, and if you went further, you could only walk, not run.
A brother next to him was stabbed in the shoulder by a gun. Fortunately, the spearman on the opposite side was a novice and lacked courage. The spear tip could only penetrate the flesh by about half an inch, otherwise this arm would be useless. Even so, the small defense line took a few steps back and was about to be forced out.
Zhang Hu and Fang Ge, who were standing side by side on the earthen fort, first noticed a commotion on the north wall, and then saw a faint wisp of smoke in the sky in the distance, so they knew that Wu Dazhuang of Hexiguan had succeeded - according to the prior plan. , after Baoning was captured, Nanjin Pass, as a barrier to defend the south, should be preserved as intact as possible. Hexiguan, located to the east of the Jialing River, was less important. It was too far away and the sound could not convey the message. The fire was the signal for the general attack.
Fang Ge turned to Zhang Hu and saw the latter nodded, so he gave the order to attack.
The common people who took the lead in filling the trenches were forced by the soldiers to carry sacks filled with sand and ran towards the moat. Zhang Hu's hundreds of soldiers carried swords and guns and pulled out a line of skirmishers outside the range of arrows on the wall to supervise the battle. There were more than a dozen armored cavalry who shuttled back and forth quickly. The civilians who threw away their sacks and tried to escape were killed. They were chopped and killed mercilessly on the spot. Many armored cavalry were galloping back and forth with their lances holding their bloody heads high, threatening the common people and throwing sacks into the trenches. The defenders at the top of the city also woke up from the initial panic, took aim with their bows, and rained arrows on the crowd.
Those who were hit by arrows wailed and crawled back to their "own" lines. They were said to be "our side" and no one paid any attention to them. Even their relatives could only watch them suffer on the sidelines while he had to carry the sack and plunge into the arrow rain again.
These common people are just cannon fodder used to consume and block the government troops. Zhang Hu will not bother to build any carriages for them, let alone provide them with the cover of shield soldiers. On the contrary, in order to quickly approach the city wall, Fang Ge designated five or six passages three to four feet wide each, and each group of people had to throw sacks into the designated places - people who threw sacks in the wrong place would still be hacked to death. The defenders on the wall soon discovered the clues, so the archers who had been scattered were gathered together and focused their firepower on these places. The casualty rate immediately increased. Less than 60% of the people were able to run back unscathed. Many people were shot down at the edge of the trench and struggled to fall. As sacks were smashed down behind them, these people soon became Part of the gradually increasing passage...
There was nothing going on among the people at the moment. The Ning'alongs were holding on to the wall and looking fearfully at the Shura field at their feet. Many people were trying to identify their relatives. But it was too difficult to recognize. The unkempt common people all looked the same. Sometimes they looked vaguely like their own relatives, but when they got closer, they suddenly turned into another stranger.
"Abba! Abba!"
Xiao Maomao, who was standing on the west side, suddenly leaned half of his body out of the wall. His heart-rending shouting made Ning Along's eardrums buzz. Looking along his line of sight, a man who had just dropped The rickety old man wrapped in sackcloth turned around and looked up at the city. When he saw Xiao Maomao waving desperately, the old man opened his mouth with a few missing teeth and smiled, and also gestured to raise his hand... At this time, a sudden An arrow flew down quickly and entered from the newly opened mouth. The old man was immediately nailed to the ground, his hands and feet struggled in vain, and his body twisted violently.
"Abba!" Xiao Maomao howled like a ghost, beating the wall as hard as he could, exchanging tears with tears on his face, "Aba! Aba!" The voice sounded as scary as bloodshot.
Suddenly, Xiao Maomao's shouting stopped abruptly, and a two-inch-long knife tip emerged from his chest. Blood slowly oozed out from around the wound, soaked the tattered clothes, and spread on the chest. Xiao Maomao opened his mouth wide, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat. The air held in his lungs finally broke through the blood in his throat, and splashed out with the airflow, and the walls in front of him were stained red.
"Anyone who confuses the morale of the army will be killed without mercy!" Duo Commander shouted harshly, raised his leg and kicked on Xiao Maomao's lower back, pulled out the knife from his body, wiped the blood on the limp body, and then ordered the person next to him Soldier: "Cut off the head and put the body aside. Wait for the thief to rush over and smash it down!"
Xiao Maomao became the first deceased on the north wall today.
Ning Aaron knew that Xiao Maomao would never be the only one.
Many people will die today.
Ning Aaron wanted to live. Ning A'long wanted to see his younger brother even more, and it was best to let A'hu live - even if he died.
As long as Ahu can survive.
Don't forget that Ahu is only twelve years old and is already very sensible.
Ahu has two dimples on his face, which makes him look pretty when he smiles.
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