Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 926

Ma Yongbin is only in his twenties, and his uncle is the left prime minister of the imperial court. As long as he does not make big mistakes and makes some small contributions, he will have a bright future. He also has a beautiful wife who has only been married for a few years. For some reason, he didn't want to die here.

However, the threat of death has really shrouded Ma Yongbin's head.Suddenly some terrifying thoughts popped up in his mind, and then he quickly shook his head vigorously and took a savage mouthful to drive these thoughts out of his mind.Surrender is impossible, whether he wants to or not, it is difficult for him to do it, his martial arts is not as good as Tuoba Fengxiong and Zeng Guoyong, and his prestige in the company is not so high, he will not trust those Tubo people, thinking about the future His whole life will be with these Tubo people. Perhaps this is really only a little better than death. Ma Yongbin's mind is more about trying to escape from the Gaizhucheng battlefield.But another fear haunted him.

Xiangfu Kingdom has long had relevant military service laws and regulations, and the military department has also promulgated battlefield discipline regulations. Ma Yongbin shuddered just thinking about the military service laws and battlefield military discipline regulations.The results of the military academy's training began to appear at this time. Although Ma Yongbin knew that it must be a dead end, the reason why he could not violate military discipline was not just the threat of death. With his intelligence and background, he might be able to find a way to avoid it. Military punishment, but still an unexplainable fear prevented him from doing so.

That is to say, even though the idea that he might be reviled suddenly popped up in his heart, the fact is that he, Ma Yongbin, would always stand on the city wall and fight bloody with a saber until he was likely to die in a certain place that was said to be In the hands of unnamed Tibetan soldiers who are not as good as pigs and dogs.

This made Ma Yongbin feel even more desperate.His right leg twitched more and more.

He felt Tuoba Fengxiong walking over with his waist bent. Although the Tubo army on the archery tower no longer shoots arrows, there are still a few cold arrows from time to time. The wall concealed his body.

"Company Commander Ma, are you alright?" Tuoba Fengxiong saw his right leg convulsing. He thought Ma Yongbin lost his strength during the fight, so he squatted down quickly, pressed his right leg hard, and stretched it out for him. Suddenly, one of Ma Yongbin's personal soldiers also found out about this at this time, so he quickly walked two steps and came over to help Ma Yongbin beat his leg.

"Company Commander Tuoba, I'm laughing at you." Although the ranks of the army are the same, most of them are called brothers, and it is very common for the middle and lower ranks of the military officers of the Xiangfu Kingdom to become sworn brothers, but the relationship between Ma Yongbin and Tuoba Fengxiong But it has always been very ordinary. Seeing Tuoba Fengxiong treat each other like this at this time, he can't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"It's inevitable." Tuoba Fengxiong nodded with a smile, and when he saw that Ma Yongbin was getting better, he let go of his hand and cursed: "These Tubo dogs are evil! When they were studying and training in the military academy, the instructors said that they should work hard, and then Weakness, exhaustion three times, Zhiniang thief again and again, and they are exhausted again and again."

"They are still working hard." Ma Yongbin forced a smile, and replied: "The brigade commander may have guessed right the day before yesterday. Among the Tubo people, Song Guolai's siege master pointed out. He used up the capital in one day, but with this siege method, as long as we can defend today, we will be considered as defended."

But after he finished speaking, looking into Tuoba Fengxiong's eyes, he knew that even Tuoba Fengxiong didn't have much confidence.

Sure enough, Tuoba Fengxiong lowered his voice and said: "I just received another military report..."

"Huh?" Ma Yongbin's heart sank suddenly.

"The Tubo dog attacked from the east, north, and south at the same time, and an elite army went around to the west mountain, trying to climb the mountain into the city from the west city." What Tuoba Fengxiong said confirmed Ma Yongbin's initial feeling.

No wonder the battalion in Xicheng never came to reinforce them.Ma Yongbin said in his heart, suddenly he remembered something, and said strangely: "Although there are many Tubo dogs, they are coming in turns, where can there be so many troops?"

The Tubo people are not magic soldiers and generals. If they want to attack wave after wave without slack and fear, they must

It is necessary to have sufficient troops to carry out precise rotations. Ding Jiagang has already led people to calculate the strength of the Tubo army outside the city. The North City and East City must maintain the same attack intensity as the South City, and the Tubo army will not have enough troops.Could it be that reinforcements are coming?

Tuoba Fengxiong guessed what Ma Yongbin was thinking, shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "In Nancheng, the Tubo dogs drive the people. Those who carry the ladders, fill the earth, and build the mountains are all captive people. They even used People make meat shields."

Ma Yongbin gasped.

It wasn't that he sympathized with these people, he just immediately realized how much this would affect the militia and the people who assisted them in fighting.Without the assistance of militiamen and common people, it would be even more difficult for them to defend Gaizhu City.

"Then why are we here..."

"Some of us are ordinary people." Tuoba Fengxiong lowered his voice. Obviously he had already discovered this matter, but he kept holding back and didn't say anything. This made Ma Yongbin feel a little uncomfortable, "But the number is not many, a total of 200 People, dozens of people at a time, mixed with those Tubo soldiers. I guess this is the result of these Tubo tribes fighting on their own. When we were in the military academy, we also learned the customs of the Tubo people. , except for those handed in, they are all the private property of various ministries, most of them are Tibetan dogs from our side, and there are not many middle-aged men who have been plundered."

Speaking of this, Tuoba Fengxiong said again: "The news just came that the south is Gwang Dorje's general flag, and the north one is led by someone. The flags on our side are messy, and most of them are the big tribes of Tubo."

Ma Yongbin smiled wryly, and said, "You mean those who attack our side are relatively soft persimmons?"

He understood the implication of Tuoba Fengxiong's words, the tension between the south city and the north city was even tighter.They can't count on more support.

Tuoba Fengxiong also gave a wry smile, and said: "I heard that there are still [-] Tubo elite soldiers in the south who have not invested in the siege from the beginning to the end."

"So, the brigade commander will have at least one battalion of troops, and he will never use it to defend the city until the last moment?" Ma Yongbin couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Tuoba Fengxiong nodded, before he could say anything else, he heard the sound of horns crying outside the city, and the urging of war drums, the two hurriedly got up, looked down from behind the parapet, and saw densely packed Tubo soldiers carrying the remaining ladders , and rushed towards the city wall they were guarding.

This time, Ma Yongbin really found out that those people who carried the ladder were indeed Han Chinese.And it seems that there should be more than before. Maybe Gwangdorje assigned some captives to them, maybe this group of Tubo people who attacked the city were not the previous Tubo tribes, and these were just their own captives. get.

But no matter what, this time, everyone on the city wall noticed the obvious difference.It is one thing to fight the enemy, and quite another to harm one's fellow man.All the people stared blankly at the outside of the city, then at Tuoba Fengxiong and Ma Yongbin.

Ma Yongbin glared at his subordinates fiercely, and shouted viciously: "What are you looking at? The Tubo people look similar to us, they all have black hair and black eyes. These are just Tubo people wearing our Han clothes."

After all, he opened his big bow and shot an arrow at a Han man carrying a ladder.Although the soldiers were skeptical, at this moment, Ma Yongbin's explanation was enough for them to deceive themselves and others.As a member of the party, Tuoba Fengxiong didn't show much embarrassment, and kept silently drawing his bow and arrows, shooting out of the city.

But the Tubo army's attack this time was even more fierce and fierce.

The arrows, crossbows, guns, gunpowder packs, light fuel oil, rolling logs and other defensive weapons of the Xiangfu army did not stop the Tubo army from leaning the ladder on the city wall. Thousands of Tubo soldiers holding wooden shields moved swiftly along Ladder, climb up.What made Ma Yongbin even more terrified was that these Tubo people seemed to have learned new tactics this time, and they might have been instructed by the mysterious Song State siege master. Bundles of dry firewood rushed towards the city gate.

"The thieves want to burn the gates of the city!" Ma Yongbin took a hook and sickle gun, stabbed one of them and was about to climb up the city.

The Tubo soldiers shouted loudly: "Zhang Ping, Xu Hu, come with me!" Knowing that this was a matter of life and death, he was already red-eyed, and without fear, he called two capable squad leaders, Quickly ran to the upper floor of the east city, where several soldiers were shooting arrows down the city, but to no avail, those dry firewood were natural shields, Ma Yongbin drank
Stop those soldiers, throw a bundle of hemp rope to those soldiers, tie the other end around his waist, and pick another one

With a shoulder-high shield, a knife in one hand, and a shield in the other, seeing that Zhang Ping and Xu Hu were also prepared in the same way, they commanded sharply: "Down with us!"

But there were three people coming down the city gate on this side, and the Tubo people had already noticed.Arrows rained down immediately, and Ma Yongbin and the other three used shields to protect their bodies, but in an instant, the wooden shield was as thick as thorns, and it was filled with arrows.A group of Tubo cavalry, seeing that the arrows could not hurt the three of them, braved the arrow rain of the Xiangfu army, and galloped towards the city gate.

Although the Xiangfu soldiers at the top of the city fired arrows repeatedly and even tried to stop the Tubo army with giant crossbows, guns and gunpowder packs, at this time the troops at the top of the city were already insufficient. Seeing that the Tubo army was approaching the city gate, The defenders at the top of the city didn't dare to fall the three of them again, so they had to work together to pull them up again.

As a result, the army became helpless with the pile of firewood that was built higher and higher at the city gate.Although Ma Yongbin commanded the soldiers to smash stones and push logs from the top of the city, but this method is useful for crashing the ladder, but it is not a powerful way to deal with the firewood pile.And the most powerful gunpowder and light fuel naturally dare not be used here. In that case, before the Tubo people set fire, the defenders themselves will help the Tubo people burn down the city gate.

(End of this chapter)