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Chapter 59 - Three Thousand Cavalry Returning to the Army
Chapter 60－Three Thousand Cavalry Returning Army
Yan Zhen's face was disappointed, "The launcher is really useless, the range is not enough, and it is close to the city. The enemy's feathered arrow greets, and before it is fired, many soldiers will be killed and injured. If they reach a place where the feathered arrow cannot reach, they will not be able to enter." enemy city."

Feng Mingyue said: "I personally supervised the production of the stone launcher that I brought this time. It can fire stone bullets weighing 80 jin, with a range of more than 100 steps."

Yan Zhen still shook his head: "Although it can be used for 100 steps, it can be useful, but it still won't be of much use."

"If a high platform is cast, how about placing the stone machine on the high platform?" Feng Mingyue said unhurriedly.Yan Zhen's heart brightened, but he never thought of this.Wanyan Bojun echoed: "General Yan, but you can ask someone to try it. If you can build a several-meter-high platform, then it will be of great help to attack the city."

Yan Zhen nodded, and immediately led [-] soldiers to the forest to cut wood and build a platform.Here Yan Bojun asked about the progress of the war, Yan Zhen talked about the strategy, and several people went out of the army tent together to watch the soldiers attack the city.

At this time, the sun was setting, and the last brilliance of the earth was slowly fading away. Amidst the din of war, there was grayness everywhere.The soldiers attacked compactly, and the order seemed to be stable.From time to time, someone attacked the top of the city, but was often knocked down again.The defense of the Tubo city was much weaker than the previous few days, but it still resisted tenaciously.At this time, three cavalry teams rushed out of the forest in the northeast of the city, and rushed straight into the siege team of the Hui army.

Wanyan Bojun pointed at the opposing cavalry, "Where did this come from?"

"Could it be that the reinforcements from the other side have arrived!" Yan Zhen was shocked, and hurriedly ordered a team of [-] people to intercept the cavalry.Wanyan Bojun gave an order, and behind him, Hedos Long Xingkong went out to meet the enemy.

However, Xiao Po and others led the cavalry to set off, and when the sun was setting, they finally arrived. They saw that the battle ahead was urgent, so without saying a word, the three of them led a thousand cavalry each, and immediately charged into the siege team.

Xiao Po straightened his spear and led his men towards the army formation. It was the first time in his life that he was facing a war. Although he had already prepared himself, he was still terrified when he saw such a scene on the first day of the lunar new year. He used to hunt and kill wolves. , Slaughter tigers and drive leopards, but haven't killed many people. The Nightmare gun was taken away, but for some reason, he couldn't do it for a long time.

Seeing Xiao Po's stabbing, the returning soldier under the gun thought he was going to die, and didn't want the tip of the opponent's spear to freeze.The returning soldiers immediately dodged and jumped away, not afraid of death, they returned their swords and slashed at Xiao Po's mount.With a flick of his front hoof, Zi Dian kicked the returning soldier over, his brains burst and he died.

Xiao Po was in a trance, several feathered arrows approached his face.Without time to think about it, the left hand was driven by the North Pole magnetic field, and he waved towards the feather arrow, and the feather arrow deflected away.Seeing this situation not far away, Suo Eduo shouted while provoking his spear: "Young Master Xiao, don't show mercy."

Xiao Po straightened his face, knowing that there was a lot of danger just now.The horse moved again, the spear swung, and finally pierced the head of a returning soldier.On the other hand, Li Kong killed fiercely, running around everywhere, splashing blood.Chi Lunzhu used a pair of double maces to fight left and right, even though she was a daughter, she was no weaker than a man.

Sha Tuoben, the general guarding the city along the dry wall, commanded the soldiers to fight against the returning army at the head of the city. When he was in a tight situation, he suddenly saw a cavalry rushing towards the returning army camp, killing the returning army and scattered.When he saw the cavalry flag clearly, Sha Tuo was overjoyed, "Reinforcement, the reinforcement has arrived!"

The defenders of the city heard him yelling, and looked at him one after another. The morale of the army was in full swing for a while, and they worked even harder to kill the enemy.After struggling for more than ten days, reinforcements finally arrived.

Xiao Po charged for a while, his face was splashed with blood earlier, but the sky was getting darker and darker, he suddenly heard shouts, he looked in a blink of an eye, and saw a large group of people rushing towards him halfway up the mountain.The returning army, which was about to collapse, saw the reinforcements coming, and the morale of the army was revived again. The scattered troops gathered together and surrounded the cavalry team together.Xiao Po turned over a person on the left, raised the reins and urged the horse, and shouted at Li Kong: "Senior brother Li Kong, the returning army team is here, quickly retreat into the city."

Li Kong got the words and led his troops into the city gate, while Xiao Po led the troops into the city gate and called Chi Lunzhu back.When Li Kong approached the city gate, he shouted to the top of the city. Sha Tuo recognized Li Kong, the son of General Li Mu, and called for someone to open the city gate. Li Kong took the lead and rushed into the city first.

Over there Chi Lunzhu heard Xiao Po's shout, and when she retreated, she did not forget to charge and kill several people, and then turned her horse back to the city, but she was the last one.

The [-] troops returning to the army were led by He Duosi Long Xingkong to kill down the middle of the mountain. Seeing that the enemy cavalry was about to retreat into the city, the two exchanged glances.

Xiao Po entered the city gate, turned to see that Chi Lunzhu was still a hundred steps away from the city gate, and saw two figures from the returning army flying towards him, and he was about to intercept Chi Lunzhu, he couldn't care less about the surprise of the familiar man With his face, Xiao Po pulled the spring full, and the feather arrows went like torrential rain.

He Duosi also saw Xiao Po, knew that the rain arrows were powerful, so he didn't dare to be careless, so he hurriedly used his knife to separate them.Slowly, Chi Lunzhu retreated into the city gate.The heavy city gates were closed, and all the people retreated. Sha Tuo immediately called the soldiers at the top of the city to cover them with feather arrows, and Long He and the two dared not approach.When I turned back, there were soldiers' corpses all over the ground, with five or six thousand dead or injured.Soon he heard the horn of returning troops, so he had no choice but to turn back on his horse.

Sha Tuo called people to watch over the city wall, and went down to greet him personally.

Soon after entering the main hall of the city lord, Sha Tuo hugged Li Kong Xiaopo fiercely. For more than ten days, they had been passively defending, and today they finally had a happy kill and won a small victory for a while.When Chi Lunzhu was about to be hugged, Chi Lunzhu moved away and shouted, "Uncle Sha, I am thin and can't bear your squeeze."

When Sha Tuo heard that it was a female voice, he was surprised and hurriedly asked: "This is————"

Chi Lunzhu gave the military salute and said, "Uncle Sha doesn't remember me. I am Lunzhu. Didn't you tell me to be your son's wife before?" Li Kong told Chi Lunzhu's origin, and Sha Tuo fell down and sat down on the reclined chair, his whole body seemed to have been emptied of bones suddenly, his bloodshot eyes were filled with tears instantly, and he murmured: "Saudi, Saudi, he died in battle three days ago."

Shatuo is Sha Tuo's third son, who is one year older than Chilunzhu. When Chizan was alive, the two had arranged for their marriage. Later, because of Chizan's death, the matter was let go.When he didn't want to see Satuo again, Saudi Arabia had already died in battle.

Chi Lunzhu stepped forward to comfort, "Uncle Sha is not afraid. Now that we are here, we will definitely kill the enemy and avenge Saudi Arabia." Although she didn't like Saudi Arabia, but when she heard that Saudi Arabia was killed in battle, she couldn't help feeling sad and thought of her father. Suddenly, he felt that the old general in front of him was like his own relatives.

Chi Lunzhu stepped forward and personally brought tea to Saudi to comfort the old general's grief and indignation.

Sha Tuo took a sip of water, after a while, he immediately ordered the soldiers to inform the important generals to come to the hall for discussion.Because there are often wars along the dry border, military control is implemented for the convenience of management, so there is no city lord position, only the generals are in charge.

When the congregation arrived, Xiao Po saw that there were less than ten people, big or small, all of them were injured, and their eyes were bloodshot, as if they hadn't slept for many days.

"Now that the reinforcements have arrived, although there are only [-] vanguard troops who came, they killed a beautiful one just now. The number of casualties of the returning army is probably no less than [-]. The returning army has withdrawn just now, and no one is attacking the city. You can sleep well tonight. Good sleep. In a few days, the reinforcements from the brigade will arrive, and we will surely win, and we will surely avenge the dead soldiers when we enter Wutan City." Sha Tuo was the first to speak encouragingly, and the generals finally had a smile on their faces. some joy.

Next, Sha Tuo rolled the names one by one and asked about the matters that he was personally responsible for.

Everything is still in order, only three things are very troublesome, one is that there are tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, and the medical expenses can no longer be supplied.The second is that the ordnance was consumed too much, the arrows lost were less than [-], and other defensive ordnance such as throwing stones and rolling logs had been exhausted.The third is that the hearts of the people in the city have begun to turmoil, and some people have already secretly migrated outside the city.

After everyone reported the military information, Sha Tuo introduced Xiao Po, Li Kong and others, and then arranged a banquet. Seeing that the generals were full, Sha Tuo ordered everyone to go back to rest. Tonight's defense will be left to Li Kong and others Taking it down, Sha Tuo knew that these generals had not closed their eyes for many nights.

After the generals had dispersed, Sha Tuo called Li Kong and others to come forward and inquired about the situation in detail.When he learned that the capital had only sent [-] soldiers to help, his expression was cold, and he remained silent for a while.

Xiao Po broke the deadlock and said slowly: "General Sha Tuo, the new king just took office. At that time, he didn't know that Yanqian was so dangerous. He thought that Huihui was just harassing the border towns, and he was afraid of exposing the turmoil in the capital and causing rebellion in other cities, so he made such an arrangement."

Li Kong continued: "I believe Master Yelu will arrive tomorrow. He has sent people back to the capital to report, and sent a letter to Lanling City to dispatch troops. We only need to stick to it for six or seven days. When the reinforcements arrive in Lanling, the siege of Tubo can be completed." Let me know, wait for the capital to send troops to help, and then I will be able to drive back to the army."

Sha Tuo frowned and thought, and arrived after a while, "This is the only way to do it now. It's just that in the six or seven days before the Lanling reinforcements arrive, how to guard the edge. Before you arrived, [-] reinforcements came back, plus The previous Huihui army had [-] to [-] Huihui troops along the outside of Gancheng. The defenders lacked ordnance, the soldiers were exhausted, and their combat strength was less than [-], so how should they defend the city?"

Sha Tuo's words were sad, and he said slowly: "When he returned to his country, Yan Zhen was sitting in the army tent. This person has a deep plan. In the past four or five days, he divided the returned army into six or seven groups, and changed two teams of ten thousand every hour. Siege the city without stopping all night, if this continues, even if my defenders along the dry line are not slaughtered, they will be exhausted to death."

Several people listened silently, speechless for a while, and at the end they only heard Xu Song say: "I have a plan, which can solve the problem of lack of ordnance." Sha Tuo's eyes lit up, and he asked: "Hurry up and tell me!"

Xu Song ignored the gazes of everyone looking around, and said slowly: "You can set up dozens of large pots on the city wall, mix human and animal feces and urine with water, boil them and pour them out, and if anyone climbs a ladder to the city, they will die if they stick together. , even if you don’t die, you will be seriously injured and festered, and you can’t heal for a while, and you won’t be able to go to the battlefield again.”

Sha Tuo clapped the table and applauded, but he didn't know why he didn't expect this episode, and he looked at Xu Song again with a lot of admiration.Li Kong and Chi Lunzhu kept calling for clever tricks, only then did Xiao Po see Teacher Yelu's difficulties, it turned out that Xu Song is really capable, no wonder the teacher worked so hard to get him to go out with him.

Chi Lunzhu asked for orders first, "Then I will take the soldiers to collect firewood and iron pots immediately." After all, she is a girl, and she doesn't want to be put on the job of collecting human and animal excrement, so she takes care of other things in advance.

(End of this chapter)