Chapter Eighteen
On the battlefield where the Anxi Army, the Dangxiang Army and the Han infantry Army were mixed up, the Cavalry Army led by Xin Gu were ascending tigers as the mountain, but the Dangxiang Army around them was even more like a pack of wolves. Although they could not stop the mercenary conflict in the mercedes, they always had to find an opportunity to come forward and bite it. Relying on the large crowds of people, they bleed the tiger, bit it all over the body and then rushed forward. The Han infantry Army was undoubtedly the weakest. Facing the Dangxiang Army coming from all directions, they could only barely fight back. More wing troops and civilians squeezed together and rushed towards Lingzhou. During this process, people kept falling behind, screaming and falling into the dust soaked in the blood, and never got up again.
The Xiang army and the civilians in Huanzhou were originally determined to die, but now they have the opportunity to survive and fight harder to advance. The surroundings seemed to be in a illusion-like hell. The endless Dangxiang cavalry was like a pack of wolves on the grassland. The cavalry was rushing around, and the front was constantly trying to divide and disperse the Han army gathered together. If the Han army had not been closely connected, they would have become the meat paste under the iron hoof. Several times, the Xiang army, which was resisting the Dangxiang cavalry, would collapse. The Cavalry suddenly appeared on the flank of the Dangxiang army, disturbing the impact of the Dangxiang people. Finally, they fought and advanced forward. It was unknown how many times it had passed and rushed to the front of Lingzhou City.
These mob army, carrying some civilians, were siege and intercepted by the brigade of the Dangxiang cavalry, and rushed to the front of the Lingzhou city floor, which gave Qian Qingzhi a great shock. Although there were many critical moments, the cavalry led by Xin Gu helped him, there was no doubt that the last moment was due to the will of these infantrymen to survive in death. There was no infantry in Lingzhou, and both cavalry Duhan and the two armies developed the habit of despising the infantry. At this moment, Qian Qingzhi understood the reason why infantry such as the Jun army could actually be powerful in the north.
"Person Qian, there are many Dangxiang people under him waiting to grab the city gate. Are you still opening the city gate?"
Qian Qingzhi looked at the chaos under the city tower with more and more Han infantry crowded in front of the city gate, surrounded by a large number of Dangxiang cavalry. Behind them, the cavalry led by the commander Xin Gu was still fighting with the Dangxiang cavalry that was catching up with. Further away, the Dangxiang cavalry camp was experiencing a night of chaotic battles, which had been in chaos. Many tribal and state troops were trying their best to steal more property from the burning camp tents, piled up like mountains of supplies and burning, but not many people actively went to put out the fire.
"Open the city gate!" "Please open the city gate quickly!" The Han army barely rushed to the front of Lingzhou City had already fought to the point of almost exhaustion, but still gritted their teeth and fought fiercely with the Dangxiang Cavalry surrounding him. "Open the city gate quickly!" Wan Jian, the Huanzhou Army, could not believe that on such a chaotic battlefield, the Lingzhou defenders actually slowly opened the city gate. The Han army leaning against the city gate was tied with a small number of Dangxiang Cavalry, and they could hardly stop the momentum and rushed into the city city.
"Roar, rush in and take Lingzhou!" The head of the Dangxiang tribe near the city gate shouted loudly in joy and rushed into the urn city with great joy.
In just a short period of time, more than 3,000 Han troops and more than 1,000 Dangxiang cavalry rushed into the city, pushing and slashing each other and squeezing into a group. In the narrow environment where the city walls are all on all sides, the Han army has a great advantage. From time to time, the Dangxiang cavalry was pulled down and instantly became dead souls under the knife.
The walls on the four sides of the city walls of the city were densely covered with archers selected from the Yinhu in Lingzhou. "You must calm down when shooting arrows. You must not be too stiff. You will shake if you are stiff. You must pull the strings with your right hand quickly. When shooting arrows, you must hold your breath to avoid losing your correct head. Look, it's like this." Manager Sun talked while pulling the bowstring quickly, and a arrow shot down the head of the city like lightning. A bald and braided Dangxiang cavalry in the city lighted by torches covered his throat.
When he got off the horse, Sun Gouzi said to his two apprentices without expression: "Dangxiang Barbarians ride horses, remember to shoot their heads and throats, and it will not easily hurt their own people." At the same time, arrows on all sides were raining, and although many Han people were injured by accident, most of the people who were caught were Dangxiang's army riding on horseback, especially the Dangxiang soldiers who were still pouring in from the city gate were shot on the oncoming crossbows. The front ones were beaten backwards, and the back ones were squeezed into a ball.
"Golden juice boiling oil!" Qian Qingzhi ordered the soldiers to push dozens of large pots, which were already burnt with hot manure and boiling oil. They were tilted down inside and outside the city gate, pouring on the heads of the Dangxiang cavalry that were squeezed into a ball. The sound of ghosts and wolves howling, and the people and horses were immediately burned beyond recognition. Seeing that the corpses of the people and horses at the city gate were piled up like mountains, Qian Qingzhi ordered the soldiers to pour down the tinder and ignite it. It took more than an hour to burn the corpse, and then slowly closed the outer city gate with the winch on the city tower. The corpses burned into coke were crushed by the huge city gate wrapped in pig iron, and only turned into powder and ashes with a squeaking sound.
Seeing that the Han army had retreated into the urn city, Qian Qingzhi was able to deal with the Dangxiang people robbing the city, so he no longer entangled with the Dangxiang cavalry around him. He led the cavalry army around the city and retreated from the northern city gate to Lingzhou City.
Commander Xin Gu used force to lift several arrows out of the gap in his armor, took off his helmet, and felt dizzy. The cavalry soldiers were exhausted, but regardless of their fatigue, jumped off their horses. They first checked carefully whether the horses were injured. The horses were half the life of the cavalry. Compared with the chasing of horse thieves and tribes on the grassland for tens of thousands of cavalry for tens of days, the short and fierce running back and forth among tens of thousands of cavalry just now consumed more physical strength.
After counting the number of people, there were only more than 1,200 cavalry left, and the other brothers were all killed in the enemy's formation. Qian Qingzhi also sent soldiers to report that the Han army that had responded to the city was less than 3,000. Xin Gu felt sad that no one compared the lost robes and the number of Han army rescued. Some things were necessary.
This noisy night ended with the smell of gunpowder and blood. The next day, the Dangxiang Cavalry led the remaining mutiny Han people to Lingzhou City with about 5,000 people, and killed them one by one outside the range of the crossbow arrows of the Lingzhou defenders.
Hearing the Han people below the city tower screaming at the top of their lungs and the cruel laughter of the Dangxiang people, the captain Qian Qingzhi's face turned pale, his fists were clenched, and his teeth were clenched. After all the Han people were executed, he ordered in a deep voice: "Take the Dangxiang people captured in the city tower and chop them up!"
The cavalry army lost many robes yesterday, and more than 1,700 soldiers were killed. Commander Xin Gu was injured in seven places. Four lieutenants were killed in the formation. Twenty-five centurions were killed in battle. The soldiers hated Dangxiang people to the core and immediately escorted more than 300 Dangxiang people who rushed into the city tower yesterday, and cut off their heads and threw them down in front of more than 10,000 Dangxiang troops who had not yet withdrawn.
"Bah!" Qian Qingzhi spat out loud in the direction of the Dangxiang people's retreat with saliva.
After the mutiny of the Han army and the cavalry attacked at night, the camp of Dingnan Army was in a mess. There were the corpses of the fallen Han and Dangxiang people everywhere, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The fierce battle last night suffered heavy losses, which made the Dingnan Army lose the spirit to attack Lingzhou again. Not only were they killed and injured by the mutiny Han army and the sneak attacks of the cavalry, but more Dangxiang troops died of trampling on each other. After dawn, all the troops reported that they had died of 1,000 people. The army was most afraid of plague, and they had no time to tell whether it was Han or Dangxiang people, and kept moving the bodies in the camp outside and piled them into a pile of burns.
"The Han camp was already close to the place where the supplies were piled up. Last night, they set fires everywhere and burned most of the grass and grains. The grass and horses brought by the tribe were nothing. The Qingtang Dashi horses riding on the Iron Harrier were unable to fight without the essence." Po Chao frowned and said to Li Jifengbing, "The Iron Harrier in Suiyinzhou accidentally kicked the Tornado Gunners' camp, and more than 200 gunners were killed to less than fifty."
"What?" Li Jifeng threw the silver cup to the ground, "These old dogs were just intentional!" "Sir, for the sake of the present, I'm afraid that the army will be retreated first." Po Chao said cautiously. If you continue to fight like this, you are afraid that the army and horses in Xiazhou headquarters will become weaker and weaker, and instead let Li Jiqian and others take advantage of the troubled waters.
In the urn city, Huanzhou Xiangjun and civilians who survived by chance sat on the ground. Most of the people who could survive until this moment were strong and only suffered minor injuries.
The Lingzhou military baskets on the city tower hung down the bread, ate water and gold-creation medicine, so everyone wrapped some of them randomly and ate some food with the water. After a while, the captain Qian Qingzhi, on behalf of the Lingzhou garrison, sat down in a bamboo basket and negotiated with the remaining troops in the urn, and told them that before the main force of the Anxi Army arrived, they would be wronged that they would always live in the urn.
"We have many brothers left outside the city." Yu Hou Wan Jian still kept in mind. After thanking him, he found out the details. Qian Qingzhi was silent for a while and whispered: "Now there are only Dangxiang people left outside the city." More than 20,000 lives were mostly people with family and family, all of whom were fellow villagers in Huanqing area. It can be imagined that soon, every family in Huanqing area mourned and everyone was filial.
After the Anxi soldiers on the city tower gestured clearly about the tragic phenomena outside the city, all the soldiers and civilians in the urn city fell into silence. When grief and anger reached a certain level, they were like a silent volcano.
In the city tower, Xin Gu lay on a bench. While enduring the pain of washing multiple wounds with salt water, he reminded the captain Qian Qingzhi. Zhu Huilan frowned, as if he was even more painful than Xin Gu. He carefully bandaged the strips soaked with the medicine for his wounds, and put on him a robe with the smell of medicine. When Lanzhou besieged the city, she was one of the right-hand assistants around her, and also accumulated a lot of experience in bandaging Jinchuang. The cavalry army fought with the horse thieves in the surrounding grassland tribe for years. In terms of experience and carefulness in taking care of the wounds, the soldiers and ladies in Lingzhou City were no less than those in the Central Plains.
"The Dangxiang people have not attacked the city for two or three days, and seem to have the intention to retreat. Whether to pursue them?" Qian Qingzhi hesitated. Xin Gu frowned. The Dangxiang people retreated early, which was inconsistent with Chen De's intention to lure the enemy to fight at the Lingzhou city, but the strength of the Cavalry Army was a little weaker. "Send a few hundred-man teams far behind. Lingzhou cannot be missed. If the lord's army arrives in time, they may still be able to catch up with Li Jifeng."
A singing came faintly from the city. Xin Gu frowned. No noise was prohibited in the city during the war. He asked, "Which family of Yinhu is not following the rules?" Qian Qingzhi said, "It is the military and civilians in Guanzhong in the urn who worship their dead partners." Xin Gu nodded, "Then let them go and ask what else they need, just not put it into the inner city to avoid chaos." Qian Qingzhi obeyed the order. The urn was very close to the city tower. Xin Gu heard the generous and heroic singing, but he couldn't quite understand it, so he turned his head and asked Zhu Huilan, "What are they singing?" Zhu Huilan listened to him carefully for a moment, and vaguely heard, "Why are you saying "Without clothes? You are with your comrades." He said softly: "It's the old Qin people's war song, talking about the friendship between comrades." Xin Gu nodded and listened intently.
"The king of kings is working on the army, and he will make up my sword and spear. He will share the same enemies with me! How can I say I have no clothes? He will share the same enemies with me. The king of kings is working on my sword and spear. He will work with me! How can I say I have no clothes? He will share the same clothes with me. The king of kings is working on my armor and soldiers. He will travel with me!"
Chapter completed!