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Volume One: Entrance Chapter 122: Mountain of Corpses and Sea of ??Blood (1)

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    "I admit that when the 'strange trio' of Master Lin, Han Da Shubao, and the Japanese monk went out of the city to meet with Emperor Guo Wei of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Commander Li Gu, and later Emperor Zhao Kuangyin, the defensive position of the city wall I was in was just far away from the wooden plank.  The stage was not far away, and the same doubts came to my mind like those of the brothers around me: Are you going to negotiate surrender terms with Da Zhou? What should we do? In that short half hour, we could see the wood.  The six people on the stage had rapidly changing expressions and slightly strange movements, but we could not hear a word they said. Emotions such as anxiety and fear deeply captured us. However, the negotiation obviously did not go smoothly, Lin.  As soon as the master returned to the city, he immediately issued a first-level alert order. When we received the order, the brothers and I couldn't help but let out a long breath, but we were looking forward to the future war.  There was no movement from the camp, which made us, who had been conducting high-altitude exercises, hesitate. The wait full of unknowns was too torturous. On the morning of November 24, the enemy troops who had been closed for three days finally came out of the camp and attacked.  When the drums sounded, we knew it would be a hard battle, but no one thought that this offensive and defensive battle would be so brutal. If I were to choose one word to describe it, then only 'mountain of corpses and sea of ??blood' could be described.  "", the above is excerpted from "A Little Soldier's Brilliant Army", dictated by Hu Yanchengrui, the "Immortal Soldier" of the Tang Army, when he was fifty years old.  Before the second offensive and defensive battle of Shouzhou City began, all the Zhou troops, including Emperor Guo Wei, from top to bottom, especially the generals who arrived later, believed that Shouzhou City was within easy reach.  There are a total of 170,000 troops under our own city, all of them are elite. Good generals and fierce generals are like crucian carp crossing the river. All the generals are blushing for a chance to attack before the emperor. Furthermore, after the siege of the previous period, from the rear  The siege equipment that had been transported and the equipment made on site were piled up like mountains; not to mention the fact that the emperor was personally conducting the expedition, all the soldiers were holding back their energy, preparing to show their courage, bloodiness and ability to the Holy Emperor.  Therefore, after receiving the order for the general attack, the three major battalions of the Zhou Army's west, north and east battalions were all dispatched and lined up under Shouzhou City in an all-out manner. Naturally, the west battalion, where Emperor Guo Wei was personally in charge, took the lead in launching the attack.  , However, the moment the Zhou army's attack drum sounded, the counterattack from Shouzhou City quickly knocked the relaxed smiles of Guo Wei and others from their faces.  The trebuchets and crossbows on the entire city wall seemed to have eyes. The balls and stones drew large arcs, and the crossbows followed a straight path, but their final impact range was small and accurate.  It wrapped the trebuchet and the trebuchets on its front, rear, and left, and completely destroyed the first row of trebuchets in an instant. What was outrageous was that among the rain of stone bullets and arrows in the sky, there were small and inconspicuous stone bullets.  It flew forward and accurately hit the advancing soldiers carrying the siege ladder behind the trebuchet. Three rounds of rapid fire in the blink of an eye plowed the front row of the Zhou army's battle formation into a pile of blood and mutilated limbs.  "Li Shuai, what's going on? Didn't it mean that Tang Bing's stone throwing range couldn't reach there?" Guo Wei didn't expect to be slapped loudly by Lin Feng, and he immediately asked angrily.  "Back to Your Majesty, the Shouzhou Army's trebuchets could only hit the boundary stone in front of the trebuchet at the farthest before." Li Gu was also dumbfounded, pointing at the row of boundary stones that had been completely covered by the Shouzhou crossbow arrows, powerlessly.  Ground argued.  "Your Majesty, when we attacked across the river earlier, we have discovered that Shouzhou's trebuchets can move at any time and adjust the attack distance at any time. Perhaps Lin Feng has improved the range of these trebuchets during this time." Zhao Kuangyin said bitterly  Staring at the stone bullets and arrow feathers that caused great damage, he came forward to defend Commander Li Gu.  Immediately afterwards, Shouzhou's second wave of attacks began. Those smaller stone bullets jumped out of the city wall almost at the same time, landed on the ground at the same time, and then bounced up at the same time, hitting the already panicked Zhou soldiers.  In the past, just as the Zhou soldiers were dodging, a new round of stone bullets came again, just missing the landing point of the first round, hitting many soldiers who were dodging, and they cried and screamed one after another.  This is not over yet. The third round of crossbow fire followed, hitting the soldiers who had escaped the first two rounds of shooting into the air. The soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty at the head of Shouzhou City uniformly shouted "kill"  The sound is integrated with the sound of breaking through the sky, forming a frightening melody of life harvesting.  "The whole army immediately retreats a hundred steps." Guo Wei suddenly changed his color, stood up and shouted wildly, turning his head to look at the temporarily calm Shouzhou City, and a chill filled his heart: after being surrounded for so many days, how could he still survive?  Such a fierce and precise defense, could this be the will and technology that Lin Feng preached? How many secret weapons are hidden in Shouzhou City?  The entire Zhou army retreated backwards as if fleeing from danger. The originally uniform formationIt immediately became chaotic, and six rounds of attacks made all the soldiers' high spirits feel like six basins of cold water had been poured on them, and the atmosphere was suffocated.  Li Gu called over the two lieutenants and whispered a few words.  The two lieutenants bowed to Guo Wei and ran off the stage. Each led 500 soldiers to carry giant wooden shields and marched out from the north and south.  The battlefield became even quieter, and all the Zhou soldiers looked at the two advance troops who were conducting exploratory attacks.  Both teams moved forward cautiously. They were twenty steps away from the slinging line, but there was no movement on the city. They were forty steps away, and there was still no movement. The teams had just reached the middle line between the slinging line and the city wall, when they heard a frightening roar.  Get up again.  The two teams changed their formations urgently. The northern deputy general shouted "Retreat", and all the soldiers immediately put their large shields on their backs and ran backwards desperately; the southern deputy general issued an order to "disperse", and five hundred soldiers  They all spread out and ran wildly to both sides.  However, bloody facts prove that although their choices were different, their endings were exactly the same: before the soldiers from the north fled to a safe area, the rain of stone bullets and arrows that covered the attack caught up with them in an instant, ruthlessly killing them.  Knocked down and sent flying, in the end, less than a hundred lucky people escaped death, but almost everyone was injured; The situation in the south was even worse. Those ballistas firing side by side showed no pity for the simple crossbow arrows, like  Chasing and attacking the soldiers as if they were shooting targets, looking at the tragic fate of those soldiers who fled early in the north. These poor soldiers didn't know whether to advance or retreat, whether to go left or right. There were so many soldiers running around like headless flies.  There were two soldiers who looked at the brothers around them falling into a pool of blood one after another, and then looked at the crossbows flying around them. Their spirits suddenly collapsed. They dropped their weapons and cried loudly, shouting "  "Mom", he shouted twice, but both of them were pierced by crossbow arrows at the same time, and they were immediately silenced.  Seeing his brothers being slaughtered, Zhao Kuangyin was so angry that his steel teeth clenched. As soon as the roar started, he jumped off the command platform and waved his arms to push a group of soldiers to push a huge attack vehicle.  The town car is coming.  When a very small number of northern soldiers ran to the sling line for the first time, a siege vehicle with a sharp blade shape rushed out from behind the formation. Zhao Kuangyin protected his whole body with his hands and shields, leading the way, and led the siege vehicle quickly  He rushed toward the soldiers who were still running around.  The arrows and stones were ruthless. In just a short time, at least 300 soldiers from the southern advance team had been shot down.  Seeing the siege vehicles coming out, the trebuchet on the city head quickly adjusted its target, and large and small stone bombs concentrated on the siege vehicles.  Zhao Kuangyin's two shields struck each other, making a loud noise and roaring from his mouth. He first attracted the attention of the panicked soldiers in the field, and then roared: "Get out of the car quickly." Those soldiers finally woke up and mouthed  Zhao Kuangyin shouted wildly and ran towards the siege vehicle. Zhao Kuangyin exerted force on his feet and took a few steps forward. His shield flew and knocked away the crossbow arrows that were chasing him. He covered several soldiers and returned to the siege vehicle.  After picking up the soldiers three times in a row, Zhao Kuangyin was reminded by the wild shouts of the soldiers under the car and found that a lot of stones had been piled around the siege vehicle. Knowing that if he did not retreat, even the siege vehicle would not be able to move, he immediately circled his hands and pulled the two  The absent-minded soldiers hid themselves under their shields and led them to retreat quickly.  Watching the siege vehicles retreat quickly, sling stones and crossbow arrows were bounced away by the heavy siege vehicle shells, and the attack on the city head immediately stopped.  Seeing that the brave Zhao Kuangyin successfully rescued the soldiers and restored some morale of the army, Guo Wei nodded appreciatively, but his face was still as cold as ice, and his hands on his knees could not help but tremble slightly: No wonder Li Gu had previously  The attack has made no progress. Now that they have dispatched so many elites, they are overwhelmed by Shouzhou City. How can we talk about defeating the city in one fell swoop?
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