Northern Dynasties

Chapter 161
King Hao Ren's castle is really well built, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and surrounded by dangerous terrain. The outermost layer of the castle is a picket pile, and behind the horse is a moat with a width of two feet. The city wall is more than ten feet high. Facing the west wall, there are two protruding horse-faced arrow towers.

Although the degree of Sinicization of Jihu is not high, it is not without merit.In the old days, Helian Huxia was stationed in Tongwan City, which was famous for its solidity, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Heishuihu was originally the coolie tribe of the Southern Huns, and he must have participated in the construction of this great city.Although Helian Huxia has been destroyed for many years, the skill of building the city seems to have been passed down among his tribe.

Li Tai has also traveled to many places and seen many folk dock walls for defense, but there are not many such formal castles as the one in front of him.

To build such a castle, technology alone is not enough, and the investment in manpower and material resources is by no means a small number.It can be seen from this that King Hao Ren is indeed a well-deserved chief of the Hu tribe.

It is indeed not easy to break through such a castle, at least not what Li Tai's troops can do right now.No wonder the pursuers in the rear were thrown away by them. It turned out that the opponent was completely fearless.

Li Tai didn't know that his divisive and aggressive words had had miraculous effects, causing King Hao Ren to be busy fighting with the Hu tribes, but he also knew that the time was short and there was no delay.If you can't cheat to open the city gate, you have to run away quickly. You are inferior to others, and there is nothing to be ashamed of if you run again.

Their group of troops was still far away from the castle, and some of the Jihu soldiers who stayed behind yelled out their voices. Li Dao, who was at the eighth level of Jihu language and knew Hu Qing quite well, acted as the mouthpiece again, shouting out Li Tai's meaning to the other party. declared.

The guards in the city were dubious about this, and ordered them not to approach, as if they were asking some important person for instructions.

"This Liu Zhenqiang is just mediocre too. What kind of shit is Shanyu, calling out his name, and these thieves worship him without accepting their heads?"

Since Li Tai didn't have so much time to delay, he turned his head and looked at the way he came. Although the scouts who were looking at the enemy's situation in the back hadn't reported the enemy's traces in the future, he didn't dare to relax, so he ordered: "Tell them, our group can stop for a while." Stay outside the city to sleep, but these horses are exhausted from running and need to go to the city to feed and rest as soon as possible. If Liu Danyu's plan is delayed due to the loss of horsepower, Prime Minister Gao of the Eastern Dynasty will not spare them!"

In the territory that belonged to the Western Wei Dynasty, he wanted to use the name of traitor and enemy to intimidate others. When Li Tai said this, he felt quite bitter.If it wasn't for getting along well with the boss recently, he really didn't want to burn this cold stove, it's too damn imposing!

When everyone around heard this, their expressions became a little strange, but right now, it was expedient, so Li Daobian could only follow this order and continue to speak out.

This time, the reaction from the top of the city was quick. After a moment of thought, a soldier commander in charge of guarding the city signaled for the city to put down the suspension bridge, and told them to stay where they were and not to stir up trouble. The city sent people to lead the horses.

It's really hard to judge whether they are friends or foes, but Hu is greedy, and he is always unwilling to refuse what is delivered to his door.Aside from their respective mounts, they have collected hundreds of idle horses in the past few days, which can be called a valuable asset.

While restraining the horse herd, Li Tai asked people to smear the ointment on the bellies of more than a dozen horses. Although he was a bit reluctant, he could only reluctantly give up for the bigger piece of fat in front of him.

Not long after, the gate of the city was opened, and more than a dozen Hu soldiers straddled their swords and walked out, yelling for Li Tai to wait before retreating, and then drove the horses through the suspension bridge to the gate.

Seeing more than a dozen horses approaching the city gate, Li Tai immediately gave Zhu Meng and others who had already prepared a wink. They quickly lit the rockets, drew their bows and shot at the greased horses in front.

The ointment on the horses ignited instantly, and under the fear and pain, the horses immediately went berserk and ran straight through the city gate, even the horses around them were greatly disturbed, and the horses ran away in a commotion.

"kill!"

Seeing the chaos at the city gate, Li Tai roared with both hands in his hands, and rushed towards the pontoon bridge first, followed by all his followers, and quickly rushed towards the suspension bridge, killing the dozen or so pawns who were out to watch. .

"Close the door, close..."

When the sudden change happened, the guards in the city panicked, shouted for warning, and tried to close the city gate again, but at this time the startled horses jumped inside and outside the city gate, and there was no way to get close.

Li Tai and others shouted and drove the horses away, and rushed into the castle without any hindrance.

Near the top of the city, there were more than [-] Hu Zu rushing to fight. Li Tai's horse was like a long snake shaking its thorns, and it pierced the forehead bone of the nearest Hu Zu. Yes, it flows all over the face in an instant.

The castle looked orderly from the outside, but it was chaotic inside. Many city residents were disturbed, and men and women kept pouring out from the alleyways of the felt tents.

Li Tai took the lead and charged towards the crowd.Li Yantou, Zhu Meng, etc. in the rear, each led their own troops, and fought and killed the hurried Hu pawns on both sides of the city gate.

The horses that were frightened before were also running in panic in the city, not knowing the way forward. When many Hu people rushed out of the country road, they saw the frightened horses rushing towards them. Fly several feet.

Li Tai and the others kept rushing through the lanes, killing all obstacles they encountered, and occasionally there were a few strong men who could fight for a while, but most of them were civilians with simple equipment and weak skills. They were all easily killed and scattered.

They rushed a short distance before turning into a wide alley, and the field of vision widened steeply, and a building with high roofs and cornices appeared in front of it, which should be the core area of ​​the castle.

At this time, nearly a hundred armored pawns had gathered on the open ground in front of the building, and their armed level was far better than other miscellaneous pawns.One of the burly Hu Zu soldiers was standing in the line, pointing at Li Tai and others, staring and screaming.

Li Tai naturally didn't understand what the pawn was yelling, so he clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the good horse under his crotch jumped up half a person's height, swiping his lance condescendingly and sweeping across, immediately there were several armored men with knives slashing Hu Zu was swept away for more than ten feet.

When the horse landed on the ground, the shadow of the knife flickered to the left, and Li Tai swung the long lance head to tail, and the left and right sides of the horse were immediately cleared of more than ten feet of space, but the soldier commander was still screaming and jumping straight to the horse's head. .

"The dog thief will die!"

When Li Tai talked about Ma Qian, Qian Feng smashed his head at the pocket on the head of the Hu Zu.

With a plop, the jumping Hu Zu fell down abruptly, the iron plate in the pocket collapsed in all directions, Hu Zu's chin poked his chest, and then jumped up again, swinging back and forth several times, his neck bone was directly smashed !

The troops in the rear followed this gap and tore apart the enemy's formation, hacked with spears and knives, and after throwing down more than [-] corpses, this group of pawns was completely defeated.

There was no more effective enemy resistance in the vicinity, so Li Tailema stood at the door of the building, and then he turned around and asked Li Dao, who had returned from chasing and killing the rout, "What the hell is this thief Hu just now?"

"He seems to be saying, saying that Liu Danyu is still here, we can't attack and retaliate..."

The scene was chaotic and the voices were noisy just now, and Li Dao couldn't hear clearly, so it took him a long time to recall before replying.

"I don't know why, I care about Liu Dan, so An is... No, this thief Hu mistakenly thinks that we are avenging Liu Zhenqiang? Could it be that Liu Zhenqiang is here?"

Although Li Tai was puzzled, he didn't have time to think about it, so he asked Li Dao to quickly interrogate where the castle's storage was, and after learning the location, he led the crowd to kill him.

At this time, the battle at the city gate was temporarily over, but the city was still noisy. After all, it was a castle that accommodated tens of thousands of people. Those ordinary barbarians might not have enough fighting power, but at this time they were all frightened, and the few who entered the city Compared with a hundred people, it is still a small number.

"Yantou went to find the Lord, I will guard here!"

Zhu Meng asked people to quickly clean up the corpses of the people and horses at the city gate, and said to Li Yantou again.

Li Yantou didn't talk nonsense, he bluntly said that dozens of soldiers followed the direction of Li Tai's attack, and another bloody path flowed out.

When he chased to the previous building, he saw hundreds of Hu men and women gathered here, each carrying a lot of soft supplies, and swung their long spears to kill the crowd.

The group of barbarians were also screaming, and after being killed on the outside, there was still a well-dressed but panic-stricken young barbarian inside.

"Could it be the heir of Prince Hao Ren?"

Li Yantou was overjoyed when he saw this, he gave up chasing the other barbarians, and only led the crowd to stare at this team of barbarians.

These Hu people were also quite brave. Facing the poor attack of Li Yantou and others, Li Yantou fought back bravely. Dang Kai blocked two knives, and stood firm with the timely rescue of his comrades.

"I don't die, but you are the ones who die!"

Dangerous and approaching death, the viciousness in Li Yan's head was suddenly aroused. He clenched the long lance in his hand, swung it to block two strikes, and then directly stabbed forward. The lance directly pierced the bodies of the two people in front of him, and The young barbarian who was protected behind pierced his abdomen.

Zuo Jin was still fighting fiercely. Seeing this scene, Hu Zu's eyes were shattered, and he let out a howl of grief and indignation that was beyond human voice.

"I killed your ancestors..."

Li Yantou was also startled when he saw this, he hastily withdrew his hand and let go of the horse lance, and slammed into a Hu pawn on the left side of him, hugged his waist and rolled on the spot, his body shook several times, and he couldn't tell whether the enemy's knife had slashed at him. The body is still close to Hu Zu's body.

Seeing this situation, the comrades around also desperately came to rescue him, and the battle was brutal.

Fortunately, Li Dao led the crowd to rescue them, and after a round of siege, they finally killed all those mad soldiers.After looking through the chopped-up Hu Zu corpse, Li Dao saw that Li Yantou was covered in blood, and asked in surprise, "Yantou, are you still alive?"

"What kind of monster did I mess with?"

After a while, Li Yan turned over abruptly and spit out a lot of blood and minced meat with his mouth closed, before pointing at the corpse strewn with candied haws and hating.

Li went to look at it for a while, but he didn't know it. After cleaning the battlefield, he picked out a deerskin package in the blood, and shook out a sapphire box from it, and quickly handed it in.

Li Dao opened the jade box, looked through the things inside, and patted Li Yantou, who still had lingering fears, and laughed loudly: "Yantou, you have done a great job!"

(End of this chapter)