Soon, many soldiers from the Jin army came out. They were unarmed and only had a white cloth wrapped around their arms. They drove carts towards Luojing City. Liang Jun knew that these Jin troops were here to collect the corpses. The soldiers fought for the country. Even if the corpses could not be transported back for burial after death, they had to turn the corpses into corpses and take the ashes back to their hometown. This is what the military should do, so Liang Jun did not stop him, and threw all the corpses on the wall and took them away to the Jin army. However, the long ladders used by the Jin army to attack the city were all drawn up to the city by Liang Jun, and they could not be used by the Jin army even if they were used for fire. Come and attack the city.
Li Jian stood next to Li Mao, watching the Jin army under the city carry the mutilated corpses to the car in the pungent smell of smoke and blood, and said to his grandfather: "Judging from today's attack on the city, That Qiu Feng is nothing more than that!"
"Shut up! Stop talking nonsense!" Li Mao scolded unhappily, "When you fight with others in the future, you must not underestimate your opponent at any time. Even if a lion fights a rabbit, you must use all your strength and prepare for the worst before the battle. Make the most detailed arrangements and go all out before the battle. This is the way to win. In today's battle, if Qiu Feng and I were to change places, we would not be half as good as him. We occupied this Luojing city. High walls and thick walls are cheap, don’t be arrogant and underestimate others, remember this!”
Seeing that Li Jian couldn't help but nod his head, Li Mao added: "In today's battle, Qiu Feng will do most of the testing. You see, he will definitely attack the city more fiercely every time."
Sure enough, the Jin army's offensive became more fierce in the next two days.
Stone bullets and arrows kept shooting at Luo Jing City. The Jin soldiers carried long ladders and rushed towards Luo Jing City desperately. More and more Jin soldiers climbed up the city wall, and Liang Jun's casualties also increased. It became bigger and bigger, and most of the Liang Jun in the city were thrown into the city wall.
However, this was all a cover-up. In the past two days, Qiu Feng sent several teams to lurk at other city gates. Taking advantage of the defenders being attracted by the fighting at the main city gate, he climbed up the city wall using long ladders at weak points of the guard. By the time the defenders noticed the warning, the Jin army had often boarded many people, and the sound of fighting could be heard on the city walls.
Fortunately, Li Mao was prepared. He sent Li Tianxuan and his troops to patrol the city walls. The walls of Luojing City were wide enough for horses to mount. Whenever there was a dangerous trumpet sound, Li Tianxuan and his men would ride on horseback and rush to the approaching enemy. The Jin army retreated. Later, Li Jian and Li Mao joined in the quarrel. The uncle and nephew went back and forth on the city wall to fight with the advancing Jin army. Because Li Tianxuan was protecting him, Li Jian was safe and sound. Li Tianxuan himself suffered several injuries. They were all minor injuries, nothing serious.
At night, the Jin army became even more rampant. They used trebuchets to attract the attention of Liang Jun on the city, and then sent soldiers to take advantage of the dark night to quietly put ladders on the city and then secretly climbed up the city to attack. The first few times were really They succeeded, and the Liang Army who was slacking off in several places was killed by the Jin Army who attacked by surprise. Then the Jin Army attempted to invade the city at night. Fortunately, the reinforcements from behind Liang Army fought to the death and defeated the Jin Army who attacked by surprise. In addition to sneak attacks on the Jin army, they also sent archers with superb shooting skills to lurk under the city in the dark, waiting for opportunities to shoot the defenders on the city. This move made Liang Jun unable to guard against it. Several Liang Jun generals were injured by arrows in the two nights.
Even General Li Mao was attacked in this way.
That night, Li Jian followed Li Mao to inspect the city defenses, and talked with a general on duty at night on the top of the main gate of Luojing City. Li Jian stood on the battlements and observed the Jin army camp outside the city.
Suddenly, Li Jian felt panicked for no reason, and a sudden uneasy feeling filled his whole body. His throat felt dry, and he looked around. There were only soldiers guarding the city wall at night standing on the battlements, listening carefully. Occasionally, someone on the city guard talked to someone, but it was still quiet in the night, and there was no noise above the city. He couldn't hear it. There was no abnormal sound, but the panic in Li Jian's heart was getting deeper and deeper!
There were not many people on the city. The captain who was keeping watch at night was patrolling around the city wall with his soldiers, and the armor leaves on his body were clanging with their steps. Li Mao was still talking to the general, and they There was a brazier burning beside him, and the flames were swaying in the wind. Everything was normal. Even the Jin army camp was very quiet. If there was any abnormal movement of the Jin army, the sentry hidden in the night would have been there long ago. Warning, but he did feel that uneasiness getting stronger and stronger, just like standing in the ice and snow and taking off his cold clothes one by one, making him more and more frightened.
There seemed to be a sound that Li Jian heard. It was very slight. Maybe he heard it, or maybe it was just an illusion. But the heat that followed made Li Jian only hear his own heartbeat as fast as a drum between heaven and earth, and his face flushed. With his eyes completely red, he stepped forward and held his right hand in the air at the black shadow shooting towards him. Then the severe pain in his right hand suddenly stopped the hot feeling and the rapid drumming sound. There was only silence, and then I heard screams from around me.
Li Jian grabbed a sharp arrow that was shot. To be precise, he didn't actually hold it firmly. The arrow was as thick as a thumb, the arrow shaft was black and oily, and the three-sided armor-piercing arrowhead shone with cold light. He didn't know what the reason was. A strong bow was shot at him. Although Li Jian held it, the arrow flew with too much force. It actually squirmed forward like a living thing in Li Jian's fleshy palm, knocking the arrow out of Li Jian's palm. A layer of skin and flesh was worn away, and Li Jian was knocked forward with Li Jian, and the arrowhead was pointed in the direction of General Li Mao. When the arrow almost slipped from Li Jian's hand to the tail, Li Maoyi stretched out his hand Then he held tightly the sharp arrow that was shot at him.
With a flick of his wrist, Li Mao said, "Don't let go yet."
Li Jian quickly let go of his hand, but ignored the wound. He watched his grandfather quickly take his hard bow from a servant, put the three-edged sharp arrow on the bow string, and looked towards the boundless city. In the dark night, I tilted my head slightly and listened. I held the bow with both hands and then pulled it casually and then released it. The sharp arrow flew straight to somewhere under the city. As soon as the string hit the sound, a scream came from far away.
Li Mao snorted lightly and casually returned the bow to his subordinate. When he turned to look at his grandson, he was very surprised. He thought that this boy was so smart and could detect the opponent's shot before he did. Arrow, this was beyond the old man’s expectation.
Most of the martial arts passed down by the Li family are the fighting techniques used in the army, combined with the body-forging techniques used in the army to break the muscles and bones. Like the arrow just now, it is not difficult to find it, and it is not difficult to avoid it, but to do this is at least It takes more than a dozen rolls on the battlefield, something that can only be done by a person who survives in the blink of an eye. Not only did this child find that he could actually catch the arrow with his hand, this was beyond Li Mao's expectation. .
When they were going down to the city, Li Mao asked Li Jian: "How do you know where an arrow will be shot?"
Li Jian answered honestly: "I don't know, I just felt very nervous for no reason at that time."
"Well," Li Mao didn't know whether he was satisfied with this answer, but he was very satisfied with the performance of his grandson in front of the battle. It seemed that he should no longer be regarded simply as a child and should be trained in advance. He was practicing, so he said, "You have been asking me to give you something to do. Let's do this. Starting tomorrow, you will patrol the whole city in place of General Zhang. During the defense period, there must be no chaos in the city. I will send someone to inform General Zhang." , you can go and hand over to him tomorrow."
"Here!" Li Jian was delighted after hearing this and solemnly saluted his grandfather.
On the fourth day, the Jin army attacked the city with the strongest momentum. Wave after wave of Jin army hit Luojing City like a furious wave, but Luojing City was like a rock protruding from the sea, despite the huge waves, it still remained calm. Do not move. The Jin army fought from morning to noon. Li Jian remembered that in the morning only stone bullets from the Jin army fell into the city, damaging many houses and causing some casualties among the people in the city. He led his soldiers to patrol around. Many Jin army arrows flew over the city wall and flew into the city. Listening to the boiling sounds of killing outside the city wall, Li Jian really wanted to go up to the top of the city and fight, but he still had his errand to patrol the city. He suddenly felt that this was probably his grandfather's intention to prevent him from going up to the city to fight. And for. Watching the Liang army being transferred to the city wall one by one, he began to worry about his grandfather and uncle. He could hear that the Jin army seemed to be rushing towards the city wall like crazy today.
In the afternoon, a messenger finally hurriedly found the city patrol team led by Li Jian and shouted: "Major General, the general ordered you to lead people to guard the south gate!"
Could it be that the South Gate was attacked by the Jin army? The Jin army has always been doing this recently, fighting fiercely in one place and then making a sneak attack in another place. Without thinking too much, Li Jian immediately led his soldiers through the streets of the city to the south gate. After boarding the south gate, he discovered that the south gate Nothing happened at the gate. It turned out that Li Mao and others were blocking the Jin army at the north gate, but the Jin army attacked fiercely and had to transfer the troops stationed at other gates. They were afraid of trouble at other gates, so they sent reinforcements from all over the city. The soldiers at the south gate had almost exhausted their time and rushed to fight at the north gate. After Li Jian arrived, he actually became the chief general here. While Li Jian ordered his soldiers to closely monitor the activities under the city, he turned his attention to the far north gate, where he could see the stone bullets fired by the Jin army's trebuchets falling from the sky, and black smoke rising there, as well as the sound of fighting. It could also be heard that Li Jian's heart couldn't help but hang up. He suddenly realized that if Luojing City was breached and Liang Jun was defeated, he would definitely have to retreat to the hinterland of Liang Kingdom through the south gate. His grandfather arranged for him to be there. Is this a precautionary measure? Thinking of this, Li Jian felt even more worried.
After Li Jian had been guarding the south gate for nearly an hour, he heard a burst of cheers suddenly coming from the north gate. He looked over and felt relieved when he saw that the flag of Liang Jun was still flying on the top of the city at the north gate. Looking at the sky, it was still dark. It seemed that the Jin army was attacking fiercely today. Under Liang Jun's counterattack, the casualties must have been very heavy and unbearable, so they withdrew their troops.
After a while, the guard stationed at the south gate came back with people from the city wall. After the two met, Li Jian saluted and asked about the situation at the north gate. The general sighed and said, "What a tragedy! The Jin army went crazy today. Since human life is as worthless as grass, the young general might as well go and see for himself, and leave this place to the junior general."
After Li Jian heard this, he called a school captain and asked him to take his original patrolling soldiers back to the city. He asked the guard for a horse and went to the north gate.
The pungent smell of blood became stronger the closer he got to the north gate. When he saw the battlefield outside the north gate, Li Jian, who thought he had experienced the first day of siege battle, was still surprised.
I saw that the space between the Jin army camp and Luo Jing City was almost filled with corpses. Two rams one after the other were burned into two large fires before they reached the city gate. The rest were scattered on the battlefield and dozens of ladders were also in flames. Li Jian also saw that nearly half of the dozens of trebuchets outside the Jin military camp were on fire. This is strange. Could it be that my uncle rushed out with the cavalry? There were corpses lying on the pillows on the city wall, including those of the Jin Army and those of the Liang Army. Various weapons were scattered on the ground and soaked in a pool of blood. After the blood gathered, it flowed out one by one along the holes where rainwater came from on the city wall, and a line was hung on the city wall. Scarlet curtain.
Teams of civilian husbands and soldiers carried the injured or killed Liang Jun down to the city according to the style of their clothes and armor, and placed them properly. However, the severed heads had to be carefully identified. It is natural for the people to treat them well. If the Jin Dynasty The soldiers casually threw them under the city and threw the corpses together. Anyway, the Jin army would come to collect the corpses for their own people.
When Li Jian arrived at the north gate tower, he saw Li Mao sitting on a high chair. There was blood on his armor. This shocked Li Jian. When Li Mao saw his expression change, he smiled and said, "Don't panic." , it’s not my blood. I had itchy hands today, so I cut a few of them off, but unexpectedly my hands were a little raw, which made it uncomfortable.”
Having said that, the general who led the army actually used his knife to kill people, which shows how dangerous today's battle is.
Then Li Jian saw his uncle Li Tianxuan hanging one of his arms with a piece of bleeding white cloth, and there were also bandages in several places on his body. He quickly went over to ask, but Li Tianxuan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's a minor injury," and even raised his hand. Lifting the injured arm, he said, "No muscles or bones are injured. It will be fine in a few days." He raised his chin in the direction of the Jin army and said, "I was entangled by their cavalry not long after I left. Otherwise, I would have wanted to find him." Chance to kill that Qiu Feng."
After hearing this, Li Mao said: "It's not that easy! But Qiu Feng spent a lot of money today, but almost lost it all, which makes me very happy!"
Just as he was talking, he heard someone say, "General, look!"
Li Mao looked in the direction that the man pointed, and saw a mass of corpses and flames below the city. However, Liang Jun did not come to collect the corpses. Only two horses slowly approached one after another. On the city, Liang's soldiers had already drawn their bows and nocked arrows. But was stopped by Li Mao.
"It's Qiu Feng," Li Mao said, "It seems that he wants to see me." After saying that, he looked at Li Tianxuan's hanging arm and then at Li Jian standing beside him, and said to Li Jian, "Follow me." Let’s go.” After that, he loudly ordered, “Open the city gate!”
