The fierce offensive and defensive battle began. Things have come to this point. Everything is gone. Nothing is said. Cui Wang gave the order. The servants rushed up like a tide. Li Siwen's scalp was numb when he saw so many people, let alone fighting, even if he was queuing up, he couldn't kill them!

"You retreat!"

The person who spoke was Wang Hu, who was originally a personal soldier of Li Ji's tent. Later, he came to Dingxiang with Li Siwen and served as the commander of Guoyi in Zhechong Prefecture in Dingxiang. Three months ago, before the Turks came, Wang Hu returned to his hometown to get married. He originally had to come back two months later, but he didn't expect to appear here.

Li Siwen was shocked and said, "Why are you back? Didn't you go home and get married?"

"When you hear the news, you rush back! I met His Highness the King of Wei halfway and came here together." Wang Hu pushed Li Siwen back and said, "You don't know martial arts, so it's useless to stay here. Go back to the city and leave it to me!"

Wang Hu said, and asked again: "Where is Cheng Chumoren?"

Cheng Chumo is Cheng Yaojin's son, another Guoyi commander in Zhechong Mansion in Dingxiang. Li Siwen said: "I went with the general to surround Xueyantuo people, not in the city... Oh, it's a long story!"

"I understand!" Wang Hu had already put on his clothes, and drew his knife and slashed an enemy who was about to climb up, saying, "Young Master, the enemy is powerful. If I can't survive this time, take good care of my wife, she will be pregnant!"

"Your wife is pregnant just three months old?" Li Siwen almost blurted out, could this child be yours?

But when the words came to my mouth, I felt that it was not very appropriate, so I nodded in all kinds of ways and said, "I'll go down and prepare the thunderwood cannon stones now, you can hold on! Where is His Highness the King of Wei?"

"At the prince's side!"

Wang Hu replied, "More and more enemy troops climbed up, and there was no time to pay attention to Li Siwen."

The enemy's clothes were very mixed, including red clothes, yellow clothes, and even shirtless spirits and upper body. The appearance and outline were obviously very different from skin color. Wang Hu's eyes were all over, so he could naturally see that this group of people was a team of miscellaneous soldiers. The so-called miscellaneous soldiers mean that they had no unified command and were in charge of their own... Such enemies are actually not difficult to deal with, because they only had a "single-up" and if they could resist, their attacks would be weakened quickly. Therefore, whether they could persist in the battle at the beginning determines the direction of the entire battle situation.

The enemy beat the drum.

After Wang Hu glanced at the crowd, he shouted to a captain: "Erde, beat the drum!"

Erde let out a sound, and pulled his left and right hands to reveal his strong tendon flesh. He strode to the giant drum at the corner, swung the drumstick and knocked it hard. For a moment, the sand on the horse road on the city was shaking slightly, the drumming sound was inspiring, and a momentum came. The enemies who attacked were soon killed and retreated.

"Bow and arrow come forward!" Wang Huli shouted.

Two rows of archers quickly stepped out of the row and pulled the strings. Through the empty space of the battlements at the top of the city, dark arrows coldly pointed to the open space under the city wall.

"Arrow!"

The arrows flew out like rain, and immediately the cavalry in front fell down.

The opponent has no armor, and the lethality of the arrow is reflected. For nomadic people, it is normal to have no armor on their bodies, because armor will affect their flexibility. In siege, this is a very disadvantageous thing. Cavalry is good at pulling and killing enemies in movement. Using cavalry in this way is a waste of resources.

But at this time they had no choice but to have no siege equipment, so they could only choose this way of filling their lives. If they hesitate, they would be beheaded by the black-clothed supervising team of the central army.

Cui Wang stood among these people, looking coldly at the battlefield, without any human feelings in his eyes. For him, no matter how many people died in this battle, it was the expected price. As long as he could complete the Cui family's great cause, any price could be paid.

Today's battle to defend the city is countless times more difficult than when Li Siwen and Li Mu guarded Dingxiang Old City last time.

Thousands of people siege the city are completely different concepts. When tens of thousands of people shout and kill each other, rushing from outside the city to the base of the city wall like a tide, just that kind of picture can make people completely lose their fighting spirit psychologically, let alone relying on their own ten times weaker than the enemy to repel these tens of thousands of people one by one. Imagine that even if tens of thousands of ants are stepped on, they cannot be killed by one or two feet, let alone people, who know how to resist and fight.

From the moment of siege, Li Su clearly felt that the will of the defenders on the city had collapsed, and even he had some hopeless thoughts. In his eyes, the city had no hope of defending. Perhaps everyone knew this cognition, but they were just waiting for the final sword to arrive in the battle, and they were all over.

The last round of arrows shot out, and the effect was very weak, because the enemy had climbed to the base of the city wall, and siege ladders were placed on the top of the city. Countless people were biting scimitars in their mouths, climbing up with a ferocious expression. The rolling wooden stones at the top of the city were thrown down, and there were waves of screams and wailing, but the enemy continued to go on one after another, endlessly.

"Here you come! There are dozens of 'gunpowder bags' here. They are not yet damp, and they can still be used!" Li Siwen ran up and directed the civilians to transport the remaining gunpowder bags. But Wang Hu didn't understand gunpowder, so Li Siwen made a quick decision and said, "You guys, each three meters away, ignite the lead line and throw it to places with a lot of people under the city wall!"

Everyone obeyed orders and no one questioned them. In such a life-and-death time, the will of the chief general was the will of the entire army. Although Li Siwen was not a famous general, he was the true general of Dingxiang Zhechongfu, but Li Xiaogong could not show it. Moreover, everyone saw everything he had done for Dingxiang over the years, and no one would doubt his feelings for Dingxiang.

There were loud noises one after another, and a burst of white smoke suddenly emerged from the top of the city wall. Then, black smoke-producing explosive packs were thrown down the city wall. After a few breaths, a loud noise suddenly came from under the city wall, and even the earth was shaking and trembling.

The power of explosives is huge, especially the iron-sharpened inside, which is the most vicious. Even if it is hit by the iron-sharpened position, it will decay in the future even if it does not die.

The hot weapons of later generations played an important role in the era of cold weapons. The servants had already seen their power. A small burden, more than a dozen cavalrymen were instantly blown to the outside and the inside were so tender that they were so fragrant that they were sophisticated. It seemed that their personal force had no effect in front of it. How to die?

When Li Xiaogong was there, because of his sufficient troops and food, he was still the usual tactics of defending the city. He used this kind of killer gunpowder very efficiently. But Li Siwen didn't care about this, and when he saw that there were still something that could be used, he threw it down. Dozens of explosives exploded under the city wall at the same time. Under the entire row of city walls, the explosion was earth-shaking. Countless people were blown to pieces on the spot, and only pieces were seen under the wall.

The enemy fell to the ground and couldn't bear to cry, and the luck from the far away from behind was not much better. Although they were outside the diameter of the explosion, they took advantage of their shock, and then shot round after round of arrows on the city. Then, the enemy was shot one after another and fell to the ground. Seeing that the opportunity was not good, the rest turned around and ran away. They kept running outside the range of the bow and arrows, and then stared at the tragic situation under the city wall that had almost become the human Shura Field.

Without surprise, the siege failed again. The siege was a mess. Seeing such a large casualty and desperate battle losses, they were all cowardly.

Tens of thousands of people were so angry that they rushed towards the city walls with a determined as a success, just to take Dingxiang in one go, but because of dozens of explosive packs and the explosion of the earth shaking mountains, their morale was instantly dropped to freezing point.

People are full of fear of unknown things. This fear can cause two behaviors, one is to completely destroy things they fear. The other is to escape far away, the farther the better.

The attitude of the servants toward the firearms was obviously the second type. The loud noises like the punishments of gods, and the tribesmen who fell to the ground and rolled and screamed, made them feel timid. They knelt down from afar to the city wall, piously repenting of their crimes. In less than an hour of siege, their morale plummeted, and they rushed in like a tide. They retreated like a tide.

Next, another truce.

No matter how Cui Wang's supervisory team forced him, everyone just stopped charging.

After all, Cui Wang's supervision team had only a few hundred people, so he did not dare to act recklessly anymore. He suppressed his anger and invited the leader of the servant army to come over.

This man's name is Amur, a native of the Eastern Turkic tent. He was called the "right king" in the Eastern Turkic tent. He advised Jie Li not to be greedy for pleasure in Dingxiang, and the children of Changshengtian should still live in the grassland. However, Jie Li refused to listen. In the end, he ended up defeating. Of course, he was not a loyal minister. When he learned that Jie Li's tent was forced, he immediately took 10,000 people from his headquarters to join Xueyantuo. In order to prevent the suspicion of Xueyantuo's father and son, he even used his confidant to divide the troops in the headquarters into several groups, dressed up as a defeated general, and successfully joined Xueyantuo.

This time, his ten thousand people were the most combat-capable of the minion army. Under his unified command, he even exceeded the ten thousand people of the Western Turks under the same conditions!

Over the years, the Cui family spared no effort to support and cultivate him, which allowed him to win over almost all Xue Yantuo's servants and become their recognized leader.

Amur didn't understand why a small bag was so powerful and could make such a earth-shaking loud noise. If it weren't for his firm will, he wouldn't be able to associate it with miracles such as ghosts and gods. Looking at the soldiers under his command in the camp, Amur was in a very bad mood.

I thought it had laid to this level, and the capture of Dingxiang was just a bag of things, but as the opponent used explosive packs on a large scale, the war changed and became more complicated and more difficult, which Amur had not expected.

A general who commanded the army, tens of thousands of soldiers with a rainbow of morale, a vulnerable city, and thousands of defenders without fighting spirit. Such a huge power comparison, because of the extra burden, the fragile city could not be captured, and Amur fell into great anxiety and rage. Facing Cui Wang who was found, Amur's temper exploded, and he asked: "Didn't you say that your people have destroyed all the gunpowder? What is this? How can you fight like this? How many people will you die? How many people will you die? Do you Tang people really think that our lives are not life?"

Cui Wang was startled, but calmed down and said, "Amur, we are allies. We have invested so much, how could we do the Great Wall to destroy ourselves? I promise you that most of the gunpowder is definitely soaked in water. These may be omissions, but they definitely don't have much! If you ask the soldiers to attack for a while, I bet that they will definitely have no gunpowder!"

Amur stared at Cui Wang, as if he was telling whether his words were sincere. After a while, he calmed down and said, "I agreed that after the matter is done, you must let me be the lord of the grassland!"

"It's this time, I'm still thinking about these things!" Cui Wang jumped and said, "You have soldiers in your hands, why are you worried about!"

When Amur thought, it seemed that the same thing happened. His worries seemed to be redundant. If these cowardly businessmen fail to fulfill their promises, they will just attack them!

Amur turned around and his expression became ferocious. He was afraid of the explosive pack, but he was not afraid of the soldiers under his command.

"Come, please ask for military law!" Amur shouted outside the tent.

"When siege today, I am determined to win. No matter who dares to be timid, I will be beheaded and shown to the camp, thinking that I will be able to beat the drums and advance! Whoever dares to take another step back, the car will break up!"

With hundreds of heads falling to the ground, Amur's military law was also revealed to the camp of tens of thousands of servants.

...

Mountainous corpses piled up under the city, and so were on the top of the city.

In less than an hour of offensive and defensive battle, more than 200 defenders on the top of the city had fallen, and their bodies were piled side by side on the horse road of the city tower. The bloodstains on the ground and the eyes of the pair of eyes dying with their eyes were telling the world how tragic this war was.

Li Siwen leaned against the battlements of the city wall and watched quietly as the soldiers lifted the bodies of the robes that had been killed down the city wall one by one. A huge wooden platform was set up under the city, and the bodies were lying on the wooden platform. After the living soldiers respectfully saluted the bodies of the robes, several torches were thrown on the wooden platform. Soon, the wooden platform burned and turned into ashes together with the corpses on the wooden platform. The thick black smoke column rolled up like a black dragon rushing straight into the sky.

People are dependent on the utmost peace of mind when they die, but Dingxiang does not have this condition at present. They are surrounded outside the city, and the city is located in the desert and the climate is hot. If the body is not disposed of as soon as possible, the plague will soon spread in the city. Then it will be a real disaster for the entire city. The so-called "handling the body" is burned directly like this. War is not only cruel to the living, but also to the dead. Many soldiers' homes are here, and their relatives are crying on the side of the road, but they all understand that this is their life, and the soldiers in the border town are all like this.

The flames swayed and the smoke rolled, and then became smaller, gradually becoming a scattered, and finally turned into ashes.

Li Siwen quietly looked at the black and gray area, and when the breeze blew, it flew away everywhere.

"Dust returns to dust, soil returns to soil, this is great." Wang Hu sighed. He turned his head to look at Li Siwen, and suddenly laughed: "Don't be sad, maybe you and I will be the same as them in a short time, sooner or later."
Chapter completed!