The Mystery of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 24 Xiaoding's Adventure under the Undercurrent, Fighting to the Death in the Stone City

Ever since he got the news of the Tianxiong Army's invasion, Li Hui basically never left the city wall, eating and lodging with the soldiers.Just after receiving the information, General Yang Sheng personally led the reinforcements to go hundreds of miles away, and they will reach Hongshi City in less than three days.

Looking at the Tianxiong army below the city that was preparing to attack the city, Li Hui knew that his test had begun.

A general of the Tianxiong Army came a hundred paces away from the city on horseback, and shouted loudly in his half-baked Xia dialect: "The great king, the great eagle, the great Zhuo Rilang, I ask you, whether to surrender or to fight?"

No one spoke on the city wall, and everyone looked at Li Hui who was slowly picking up the longbow.

Li Hui didn't talk nonsense, he raised his bow and set up an arrow, and with one arrow, he shot General Tianxiong to death, and then shouted: "Fight to the death."

Xia Jun was instantly ignited, "Fight to the death, fight to the death." The shouts resounded through the sky, and morale was greatly boosted.

Zhuo Rilang didn't talk nonsense, he nodded to his subordinate general, who got on his horse and led the soldiers towards the city wall.

The Tianxiong Army invested 2 people in the first attack on the city. The soldiers held huge leather shields, wore chain mail, and their eyes were like beasts.Tianxiong Kingdom is no stranger to Red Stone City. It has attacked this city more than a dozen times in the past few decades.

The Tianxiong army stopped when they reached eighty steps from the city, and then began to dig trenches.These soldiers who grew up on the snow field were extremely strong, and soon dug a trench about one foot wide and five feet deep, and then the Houtianxiong archers entered the trench and began to shoot at the city wall.The dense rain of arrows struck, immediately causing a lot of casualties on the city wall.With the cover of archers, a large number of Tianxiong infantry pushed several ramming carts towards the city gate and city wall.

Li Hui leaned over behind the city wall, screaming inwardly.Tianxiong's army is much smarter, it is no longer like before, climbing up with a simple ladder, but updated its tactics, the power is more than doubled than before.

"Let the arrows, let the arrows go."

Under Li Hui's command, under the cover of iron shields, Xia Guo's crossbowmen stretched out their bodies and started to shoot at the city wall without fear of death.

Xia Jun's bows and arrows are very domineering, they are all armor-piercing arrows, Xia Jun's own armor can't resist, let alone Tianxiong soldiers who are only wearing simple chain mail.Soon the Tianxiong army under the city was shot to death, but Tianxiong's military tactics were extremely cruel. One person escaped and the entire battalion beheaded. Therefore, although the casualties were heavy, the formation was not chaotic. The infantry pushed the ramming cart and approached step by step The city walls and gates began to be struck with the hammer from above.

The crash vehicle was covered with cowhide, surrounded by soldiers holding large shields to protect it, and the crossbowmen could do nothing about it.

Seeing that the car that hit the city was about to stick to the city wall, Li Hui shouted: "Put fire oil on."

Xia Jun soldiers picked up a few pots and threw them down the city, and then threw down a few torches.

With a bang, flames ignited on several of the crash vehicles. Dozens of Tianxiong soldiers were on fire, screaming and crawling out from under the crash vehicles.

"Don't shoot arrows!" A Xia army camp officer shouted viciously, preventing the crossbowmen from shooting them.

The screams became weaker and weaker until they disappeared, and a scorching smell filled the entire battlefield.

Another burst of horns sounded from the Tianxiong army formation, and another group of infantrymen pushed the ramming cart to attack the city wall.

The horns burst out, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

On a watchtower in the Tianxiong barracks, Tian Qi was watching the battle with Zhuo Rilang.

Although Tian Qi's martial strength reached the second level of the Profound Realm, he had never fought on the battlefield. In less than an hour, thousands of people were killed or injured. This shocked him greatly. Obviously, fighting on the battlefield is completely different from ordinary fighting.

Zhuo Rilang wanted this effect. These Xia people are all very powerful, and they are all masters in people's mouths, but they must understand the fact that the two armies are fighting against each other, not individual martial arts, but national strength. Therefore, they should Sober up.

"I have sent my guards to receive your weapons and will be back in two days."

Zhuo Rilang's words brought Tianqi back to reality, and then said: "Isn't the lord just for weapons and ordnance this time? Why did he really raise his troops to attack Hongshi City?"

Zhuo Rilang shook his head and did not speak. What is a mere 10,000+ pieces of ordnance? He is the Lord of the Snowfield. His mission is to lead the Xueyuan people into the Central Plains, occupy the most fertile land, enslave the most noble slaves, and let the people of the Snowfield Eagle flags are planted all over the world.

"Young man, what is your plan? Even if I help you attract the attention of Xia's army, how are you going to win in Xia's country?"

Tian Qi also shook his head. Master's specific plan has never been mentioned to him. Assisting King Rong, forming an alliance with Tianxiong, and even some arrangements on the Yunyan Grassland are only part of Master's plan. He didn't know where it was, and he didn't dare to ask.

Zhuo Rilang smiled and said to Tianqi: "Young man, you are very good, better than most of the people I met. But," Zhuo Rilang changed the subject, "You have too much confusion in your heart, which will affect you Your determination will eventually make you pay the price."

Now it's Tian Qi's turn to smile wryly, secretly thinking that the Lord Tianxiong is so powerful that he can see through the deepest part of his heart at a glance.

Tian Qi does have a lot of confusion, who are his parents?Why did Master adopt him?Is what Master did right or wrong?There are no answers to these apocalypses, and they dare not even speak out about these questions.

Zhuo Rilang didn't say anything, but raised his head to observe the situation on the battlefield. Seeing that most of the crash vehicle had been burned by Xia Jun's kerosene, Zhuo Rilang waved his hand, and a general rushed to him.

"The building car attack."

Zhuo Rilang said coldly.

Li Hui stood on the city wall, the Tianxiong army's bows and arrows were much sparser than before, and the ramming vehicles just now were destroyed by the fearless Xia army with kerosene, and the Tianxiong army's offensive suddenly weakened.

Li Hui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the civilian husbands recruited by Xia Jun took advantage of this time to go up the city wall and began to carry the wounded and supplies.The bow and arrow just now caused hundreds of casualties to Xia Jun. Excluding the first battalion sent outside the city, Li Hui had less than [-] soldiers available.

"I just hope that General Yang Sheng's reinforcements will arrive soon."

"General!"

Following the soldier's yell, Li Hui looked into the distance, his expression changed drastically.

The four huge building cars took off their camouflage and moved slowly towards Hongshi City.

When will Tianxiong people be able to manufacture building cars?

Li Hui is no stranger to the tower car. The Xia army often used this weapon when attacking the city. The tower car is about three feet high, which is higher than the city wall of Hongshi City. There is a tower on top, and the soldiers can look down on the city wall from the tower. Shooting, the infantry will go directly to the city through the drawbridge after approaching the city wall, which is a siege weapon.

Li Hui didn't expect Tianxiong people to have mastered the method of making the building car, he secretly complained, and waved his big hand: "Carry the bed crossbow."

The soldiers frantically moved out three huge bed crossbows from the city gate tower, and began to turn the mechanism to load the crossbow bolts thicker than an arm.

The tower carts are powerful and extremely heavy. Each tower cart weighs tens of thousands of catties. There are hundreds of soldiers shouting and pushing hard under the tower carts, gradually approaching the distance from the city wall.

"hurry up."

Under Li Hui's urging, the soldiers of the Xia army assembled the bed crossbow, and slowly moved the crossbow body to aim at the moving building cart.

"put."

Three thick crossbow arrows flew towards one of the columbine wagons with a thunderous momentum, and with a "click", one of the crossbow arrows accurately penetrated the lower part of the building wagon, piercing through the middle of a log supporting the building wagon.Although the remaining two crossbow arrows did not hit the building cart, they also shot through the infantry pushing the cart below, piercing through the bodies of dozens of infantrymen one after another. Looking from the city wall, there were two neat gaps in the infantry formation below the city.

Li Hui was not satisfied with the shooting effect. First of all, the hit rate was extremely low, and the building car was very strong. The crossbow arrow hit just now could not destroy it, so he had to urge the soldiers to reload and start the second round of shooting.Under the command of the battalion officer, the crossbowmen of the Xia army also shot desperately at the Tianxiong army. The sound of killing was loud and blood flowed.

Finally, under Xia Jun's rounds of bed crossbow shots, the two battered buildings couldn't hold up and fell to the ground, killing a large number of Tianxiong infantry pushing the carts below, but the other two were intact. The undamaged building car has already been pasted on the city wall of Hongshi City.

"Array, meet the enemy!"

Accompanied by Li Hui's yelling, the Xia Army infantry quickly formed a tight formation opposite the building car, and the suspension bridge of the building car creaked down, and the soldiers of the Xia Army could already see the menacing eyes inside the opposite building car Tianxiong infantry.

"kill!"

On the side of Hongshi Mountain, Zhang Xiaoding is stationed here with the first battalion of Hongshi City.

The battalion officer of the first battalion was Li Mao, Li Hui's nephew and a veteran of the Xia army.Li Hui sent him out of the city to create trouble for the Tianxiong army behind them, so that they could not attack the city with peace of mind, but at this moment, Li Mao looked at the Tianxiong army camp in the distance, but felt a little hard to say.

Without him, the opponent's defense is too tight.

A hundred thousand troops besieging the city is not just for fun.The Tianxiong Army has an absolute advantage in strength, so they can easily divide their troops to guard four places. If Li Mao and his hundreds of people really want to rush out so recklessly, it's not enough for them to bite their teeth. It's been almost a day since they came out, and they are just hunting Killing some innocuous scouts would hardly have any major impact on the battle situation.

It might be a joke to cut off the other party's food supply. Up to now, they have not seen their supply team.

Li Mao was frowning, and several scouts rushed over on flying horses. Judging from their expressions, they should have discovered something new. Zhang Xiaoding wanted to listen, but due to the strict military law, he patiently waited for Li Mao's order. .

"A group of Tianxiong troops are going to Hongshi Dongshan?" Li Mao was puzzled. Hongshi Dongshan is very far away from Hongshi City. It belongs to Jiannan Prefecture and is desolate and uninhabited. Could this be to stop Jiannan Prefecture's reinforcements ?But what role can more than 1000 people play?

"Zhang Xiaoding." Hearing Li Mao's voice, Zhang Xiaoding was refreshed and ran to Li Mao in a few steps.

Li Mao looked at the young man in front of him. Although Zhang Xiaoding had not joined the Redstone City garrison for many days, he was extremely clever. Most of the Tianxiong scouts hunted and killed in today's battle were also killed by his arrows. Li Mao knew that this was a Uncut jade, carefully crafted, will definitely become a famous general of the Xia army. At this moment, Li Mao intends to give him a trial.

"What is the order of the battalion officer?"

"The scouts just now found a group of Tianxiong cavalry heading towards the Red Stone East Mountain. Take 100 of them and follow them to see what they want to do."

"Me?" Zhang Xiaoding was stunned. Counting from the time he met General Yang Sheng, he had joined the Xia Army for less than a month. Li Mao actually let him lead the army?
"What? Don't you dare?"

Zhang Xiaoding became anxious when he heard it, and the youthful bloodiness made him blurt out: "Why don't you dare?"

Li Mao laughed loudly and said: "Okay, then you take people to set off now, turn around immediately after the investigation is clear, and I will bring people here to meet you."

Zhang Xiaoding stopped talking nonsense, gathered 100 people immediately, and rode away.

Li Mao looked at Zhang Xiaoding's leaving figure, and turned his gaze back to the direction of Redstone City, with a serious expression on his face.

On the walls of Hongshi City, Li Hui has encountered many dangers.

After the Louche Suspension Bridge was lowered, hundreds of Tianxiong infantry rushed up the wall of Hongshi City screaming strangely, and fought with Xia Jun.

The Tianxiong infantrymen are extremely capable in single-soldier combat. These men who grew up in the snowy field are natural fighters. Cooperating with each other is also Xia Jun's magic weapon for victory.

The Tianxiong soldiers in the first wave of ascending the city belonged to the Death Squadron. They were extremely fierce. They directly ignored Xia Jun's spears and horizontal knives, and charged into the middle of Xia Jun with their short bodies.Li Hui was furious, picked up his saber and took hundreds of people to join the battle. With one knife, he cut off the neck of the leader Tianxiong soldiers, and his head flew directly out of the city wall. The space of heroes.Seeing that the gap could not be opened, the leader of the Tianxiong soldiers waved his hands behind him and screamed a few times.I saw a passage flashing through the formation of Tianxiong soldiers, and there was a tooth-piercing sound of metal friction, and I saw a Tianxiong soldier with a figure like an iron tower rushing out holding two huge iron chains. Swing, several soldiers of the Xia army were hit, and fell to the city screaming.

Li Hui was furious, he swung his knife and rushed forward, only to hear the sound of breaking wind, Li Hui lowered his head, and a piece of iron chain brushed his scalp, causing a sharp pain in his head.Li Hui swung his saber and saber across the ground, cutting through Tianxiong's soldier's calf. Tianxiong's soldier was furious in pain, and with a flick of the two iron chains, they smashed towards Li Hui like a Mount Tai. Li Hui turned sideways, and the iron chain hit Li Hui. On the ground, the blue bricks under his feet were smashed into pieces.Li Hui smacked his tongue secretly, it was really divine power, he couldn't help but think about it, the iron chain swept across, and several soldiers of the Xia army were swept down the city.Li Hui slapped the green brick under his body with his left hand, dodged the sweep of the iron chain, and swung the knife again, cutting off the leg of the Tianxiong soldier at the knee.

"Ah," the Tianxiong soldiers finally couldn't hold on anymore, and fell on the city wall with a bang. The morale of the Xia army was boosted. The spearmen were in front, the swordmen were behind, and the crossbowmen kept firing cold arrows from behind. , the Tianxiong soldiers who ascended the city were finally wiped out.

The sound of the horn came from the Tianxiong formation. The soldiers who were ascending the city heard the horn and immediately turned and retreated towards their own army formation. When all the infantry had retreated, the archers in the trench also began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Li Hui saw everything under the city in his eyes. The tactics of the Tianxiong Army have obviously changed a lot compared to the previous few years. The advance and retreat are orderly, and the military orders are clear. Where is the mob on the snowfield? It seems that this situation needs to be reported as soon as possible. General Yang Sheng, let him report to the Armed Forces Institute, so that the court can make plans early.

The Tianxiong army has retreated, and it seems that today's battle is over.Li Hui tidied up the battlefield. In this day's battle alone, the defenders of Hongshi City suffered thousands of casualties. Li Hui hurriedly sent someone to send a message to General Yang Sheng with flying pigeons, reporting the situation of today's battle, and at the same time urging reinforcements to come quickly. .

Xia’s civilian husbands went up to the city wall and began to clean the battlefield to treat the wounded. Xia Guo’s civilian husbands were similar to volunteers. In case of war, they were recruited by the government. After the war, they were rewarded with money and other rewards.

The corpses of the Tianxiong soldiers were scattered all over the place outside the city. The Tianxiong Army did not have the habit of collecting the corpses of the fallen soldiers. Li Hui had no choice but to send people out of the city to move the corpses of the Tianxiong soldiers away from the city wall, and then set fire to them. burn it.

The raging flames, accompanied by the scorching smell of the corpses, marked a cruel end to today's battle.

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