Volume 4 Stormy Jiangnan Chapter 62 Battle with Xiangyang (10)
The highest military commander in Hannan died. He died at the head of Xiangyang City, which was being attacked by the Wuhuai rebels. He died under the sword of the subordinate officer who relied on him as his arm. He died in the formation of the two armies - countless rebels and defenders. Before his eyes.
Luo Tian¡¯s fall not only cast a shadow on the ongoing battle for Xiangyang, but also dealt a big blow to Zheng Ci, the Hannan envoy who was busy with political logistics in the rear. However, in such a difficult moment, no one will stop for a person who has passed away, and the situation does not allow anyone to have too many thoughts, especially on top of Xiangyang City, where they are still fighting bloody battles to the death. The defenders and civilians resisting the rebel offensive
Facing the oncoming blades and spears, evasion is not a long-term solution. The only way is to pick up the long knife, spear, and anything else that can be used to defeat the enemy, and kill all the invading enemies in front of you. Knock down the city head
Donghai Luo Fang and the rebel commander Meng Tu died tragically one after another, which finally brought back the sluggish morale. However, with the containment and turmoil of the two men just now, despite Zhang Zhong's desperate suppression, the suspense in the middle However, the rebels still broke through at the entrance of the ladder. The Xiangyang City guards guarding this place were already dead and wounded.
Amidst the shouts of killing that resounded throughout the city, hundreds of rebel soldiers rushed up to the entrance of the central hanging ladder in the blink of an eye, while at the rear, the rebel soldiers continued to rush upward to kill.
On the left side of the hanging ladder, dozens of people were running back and forth between the top and bottom of the city. They were in groups of two, carrying iron pots filled with boiling water. When they reached the hanging ladder, a pot of boiling water was poured down. Then the wolf-fang pat was smashed head-on, and the flesh that had just been cooked by the boiling water was slapped with the barbed spike by the wolf-fang, and the flesh and leather were immediately pulled off half-cooked After several reincarnations , on the hanging ladder on the left, the rebels' offensive suddenly slowed down a lot.
On the hanging ladder on the right, Song Cheng, the commander of the capital who had just killed the traitor Meng Tu with one arrow, charged with nearly a hundred people from the corner platform waving a steel knife. A group of common people slowly walked up from under the female wall, working in pairs, carefully carrying some square boxes and cages. Although they were in a dangerous battlefield, looking at their faces, they seemed to be more afraid of what they were carrying. The cage
Song Chengna saw it with his eyes, and immediately felt happy. He quickly shouted, "It's you guys! Lift those guys up!" He looked up at Song Cheng's official uniform. The leader of the group of common people took the lead and quickly lifted those guys up. The box and cage were carried to Song Cheng.
Song Cheng still hesitated. He cut off the rough straw rope on the cage with a knife, opened the lid of the cage, reached out and took out a palm-sized black ball. Without any pause, Song Cheng raised his hand and took it out. This was thrown towards the rebels who were climbing up below.
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The black ball hit the rebels and exploded suddenly, turning into a ball of flames and immediately burning the leather armor and clothes of the surrounding rebels. At the same time, after the ball shattered, sputtering out from the inside There were many thorny and angular spikes. Caught off guard, many crawling rebels were suddenly shot all over their faces and bodies. The spikes were burning and more than a dozen rebels fell down immediately
Seeing that a caltrop fireball was so powerful, the people and guards nearby were overjoyed. They opened their cages one after another and kept throwing the caltrop fireball down the city. This has the same benefit. It does not require battlefield experience, and it requires long-term battle experience. It can be used by veterans, as long as the common people who are new to the city have strength, they can use it. For throwing stones, a little accuracy is enough. Who is not the same? At that moment, more than a dozen people twisted ropes, opened boxes and cages, and threw fireballs. The rebels on the ladder on the right suddenly fell one after another. The rebels below who were about to board the ladder were killed and injured by the sudden rain of people. It was going smoothly. The situation suddenly became chaotic
Seeing that the situation on the right was temporarily under control, the commander notified Song Cheng to quickly bring nearly a hundred men to the center for reinforcements. At this time, the hanging ladder in the middle was broken, and more than 200 rebel soldiers came up. The rebels' morale was like a rainbow, and their momentum was strong.
At this time, Zhang Zhong was on the left and Song Cheng was on the right. Two groups of soldiers, one on the left and one on the right, tightly sandwiched the rebels and horses. Although the hanging ladder in the middle had been occupied by the rebels, the top of Xiangyang City was still under the imperial court. in hand.
Zhang Zhong slashed away a rebel's spear with his sword. Unexpectedly, two rebel warriors greeted him with swords and spears from the left. Zhang Zhong was so busy that he had no time to dodge. He was about to turn sideways to take the blow, but unexpectedly, suddenly behind him A huge war spear was like a snake coming out of its hole. It turned and stabbed out diagonally. It swung left and right, and each sword and spear was knocked half a foot away. Immediately afterwards, the war spear danced up and down, and the rebel soldiers who were hit were either dead or injured. There was no enemy wherever they went. It was simply invincible for the group of enemies to fight.
Zhang Zhong, who had been fighting desperately without any rest and was already exhausted physically and mentally, breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back in his busy schedule and saw that the spear was dancing like a dragon. It was a man who seemed to be less than a weak crown, unusually A young man I met. Despite the faceThe appearance was very young, but what surprised Zhang Zhong was that he was extremely skilled with the war spear in his hand. He looked completely fearless in the face of life and death, and was not aware of the blood splattered all over his body. His offensive was even more ruthless. The momentum, especially, made Zhang Zhong feel surprised and happy. Seeing that the rebel offensive that had just broken out was thwarted under the vigorous charge of this young soldier, Zhang Zhong quickly retreated and raised his hand behind him.
Except for the soldiers in the front row who were still fighting, the guards in the back rows suddenly split apart. Two vehicles were about ten feet long and only three feet wide. There was a completely airtight cabinet underneath, with a thin tube and a gourd on top. The hollow wheel cart was pushed. They had just been fighting Zheng Lie, but unexpectedly, the guards in front of them suddenly moved to the left and right. The rebels who finally got an opening did not think carefully, and suddenly swarmed in. Pushing from behind, rushing from the front, they rushed into this place all at once. In the gap deliberately left in the middle. Before many of the rebels could gain a foothold, they saw a flash of fire next to two fuel tank trucks on the opposite side, and a fire dragon shot out from the thin tube above the tank trucks. It sprayed out more than ten feet away in the blink of an eye. The gap just vacated in the middle was almost completely covered. The rebels in the middle, without exception, were all burned by the fire dragon and covered their heads and faces. They screamed and screamed. How could the guards on both sides dare to neglect them? As soon as the fire dragon disappeared, both sides The spears thrust out one after another, and dozens of soldiers immediately lost their lives.
Seeing the fierceness of the fierce fire, the rebels in front immediately stopped and did not dare to move forward. However, in reality, they had no choice. The rebel soldiers who kept rushing up on the hanging ladder behind them had no place to stay, and they naturally fell in front of them. The soldiers pushed forward involuntarily. The huge push left the soldiers at the front with no choice but to straighten their spears and launch a desperate charge. Unfortunately, what they faced were not the mortal Xiangyang guards, but two vehicles. The fierce fire that was enough to kill the oil tank truck from a distance of two feet. The desperate charge of the rebel soldiers did not cause any casualties. The two fire dragons that grew in size suddenly jumped out again, and immediately burned the rebel soldiers to a huge scorch. The stench rose with the wind, blood spattered, and the rebels who were staggered by the fire had no resistance at all under the spears of the guards. The strong visual impact immediately made the rebel soldiers at the rear hesitate. It was almost impossible to break through on the left side. Almost subconsciously, the rebels' offensive towards Song Chengfang on the right suddenly became fierce.
In just half a cup of tea, Song Cheng's party lost more than thirty people and nearly half of their soldiers.
In front are the rebel soldiers who suddenly became hysterical. At the entrance of the hanging ladder on the right hand side of the rear, the number of fireballs of caltrops thrown downwards by dozens of people has also been greatly reduced. If there are no other substitutes and new troops, not only the one in the middle will The wave rebels could not be suppressed, and the hanging ladder on the right was in danger and was about to be destroyed.
manage? Song Cheng was so anxious that his eyebrows were burning, but he couldn't think about the swords and guns coming towards him, and he only focused on fighting with the long sword in his hand.
At the critical moment, a group of dozens of people suddenly came up from the female wall under the city, carrying two huge and thick bamboos on the left and right, and swayed to the top of the city. The four people at the front of the moso bamboo did not move forward after reaching the top of the city. Instead, they kept moving on the spot and pointed the moso bamboo in their hands at the rebels at the central hanging ladder. At the same time, someone behind them carried two A simple wooden frame with a height of half a person came. After the four people in front of them aimed at it, they immediately put the bamboo on the wooden frame. At the same time, with an order and a bang, a water arrow shot out from the holes of the moso bamboo. The steaming mist instantly rose into the air, and the scalding boiling water sprayed on the rebel soldiers who were surrounded in the middle. The body was poured with water, and the skin was torn open and the flesh was cooked inside and out.
However, it turned out that what everyone carried up to the city was not ordinary bamboo used for wood and defense, but artificially crafted water guns. The middle joints of this thick bamboo had been beaten through long ago, and several of them were broken. The moso bamboos are butted in sections, and the joints are clamped with layers of pig skin. The source is set up high on the tower in the city. Countless people are constantly boiling pots and boiling water in the back, and there is a huge water tank in the middle of the moso bamboo used as an air bag. The lungs were squeezed hard, and the boiling water in countless large pots was immediately sucked into the bamboo water gun
After a meal of scalding water arrows, the rebel soldiers in the center were gone.
Zhang Zhong and Song Cheng were overjoyed when they saw it. They led their soldiers to take advantage of the situation and slaughtered them until the corpses of the rebels in the center were piled up into a hill, so that there was no place to stand at the entrance of the central hanging ladder. As the two caltrop fireballs cleared the way, the guards at the rear pushed forward with all their strength, and the bodies of countless dead rebels fell one after another, hitting the supports of the hanging ladder like wood. In the end, not only did they knock down most of the attacking rebels on the ladder, , even one side of the supporting frame of the hanging ladder was broken in the middle. Because there were too many rebel soldiers on the hanging ladder, the only remaining supporting frame gradually bent. Finally, with a click, the central hanging ladder was finally completely broken. Broken, countless rebels above fell down one after another, and they would no longer be able to stop a decent offensive in the short term.
Volume 4 Stormy Jiangnan Chapter 62 Battle of Xiangyang (10)