The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 372 Death of the Soldier
The battle at the Suzaku Gate of Daxing Palace came very suddenly, at least the common people thought so, but at this time, no one was thinking about the common people.Fortunately, the tense atmosphere during the day made the people avoid their homes early, so no innocent people were affected.

The sound of the horn resounded through the sky, and the smell of blood permeated outside the Suzaku Gate, but the dead soldiers of the Guanlong family did not stop, and launched an overwhelming attack, Pei Renji showed a cruel smile on his mouth.

"Bowmen, get ready!" Pei Renji gave the first order.

The crossbowmen and archers line up, the crossbowmen are in front and the archers are behind.

The crossbowmen lined up in three rows, with the first row of strong crossbows pointing down obliquely, the second row at eye level, and the third row pointing obliquely at the sky, with spear-like crossbow arrows pointing coldly into the night sky.

The dead men are getting closer and closer, and the murderous aura seems to destroy everything in this world. Li Gaoqian, the general of Li Tang Hussars, raised his knife and shouted, "Break the Daxing Palace, and the women and treasures in the palace belong to you. Kill them!" !"

"Kill it."

The dead soldiers carried a simple ladder, and under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, they rushed to the range of the Sui army's crossbow in an instant.

Pei Renji waved his saber fiercely, and said loudly, "Third row, shoot."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" With the sound of the giant drum, three hundred powerful crossbows were suddenly fired, and three thousand giant arrows formed a black cloud of arrows, roaring towards the night sky. Army of soldiers.

In an instant, the dead soldiers turned their backs, and nearly a thousand people were shot down. Then the second row of crossbow arrows from the Sui army came, and the dead soldiers kept screaming and fell to the ground in the charge. The first row of arrows roared again, dense and huge. The array of crossbow arrows is like a storm, shooting through the shields and leather armor of the dead soldiers. After each big arrow pierces one person, it is powerful enough to pierce the second and third people before it is exhausted. Rolled to the ground, trampled into a pulp by the dense crowd.

The three rows of crossbowmen of the Sui army were skillful in operation, methodically launching, advancing and firing the crossbows, and fired in turn. In just three rounds, the dead soldiers lost nearly ten thousand soldiers. The heavy losses caused the murderous spirit of the dead soldiers to quickly subside a lot. It was already a bit messy, but the striker had rushed a hundred paces away.

The archers who had been waiting for a long time began to shoot vigorously. The first row of archers used longbows. The arrows were two feet five feet long and the steel clusters were very sharp. Even horses can be shot through. In this wave of arrow rain, the dead soldiers who rushed past the front were shot down one after another, and the dead bodies piled up. The soldiers cooperated with the launch, and the dead soldiers could not rush within a hundred steps, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

However, the reason why the dead are called dead is that they dare to die. Some of them may not even want to die for the sake of prosperity and wealth or to repay a favor; more people were cultivated by the Guanlong family when they were young. After a series of brutal training, they completely forgot about betrayal, and only had loyalty in their hearts. In actual combat with real knives and guns, they have long been numb to the threat of weapons, and they have developed the spirit of not being afraid of death, which has reached The purpose of each family training "dead soldiers".

The 'house slaves' of the Guanlong family who attacked Suzakumen in front of them are undoubtedly this kind of people.As for the 'soldiers' in Fufeng County and Beidi County, they didn't even have the qualifications to be dead soldiers.

The nobles supported the dead with extreme extravagance and satisfied all their wishes, in order to make them sacrifice their lives on such occasions.Therefore, the dead soldiers knew that there was a dead end ahead, and they rushed forward one after another regardless of life and death!

A pair of eyes, full of indifference!

full of indifference—

To disregard the lives of others is to disregard one's own life.

"These people are really not afraid of death." Fan Ze who was beside Pei Renji exclaimed.

"This is the terrible thing about a dead man!" Pei Renji's voice was full of cruelty, and he said: "This battle is not so much a fight with Li Tang, it is better to say it is a fight with Guan Longshu Fight against hundreds of families, because these dead men are also one of the most terrifying backgrounds of the great family. Therefore, these dead men must be killed. Otherwise, there will be endless troubles for Tai Sui, Your Highness, you, me, and our children and grandchildren!"

"Here!" Fan Ze respectfully obeyed.

"Send an order to Shen Guang and Cheng Yaojin, tell them the horror of the dead, and tell them to do their best to kill them, and if they dare to show a little kindness, they will kill without mercy." Pei Renji instructed the soldiers on the side.

"General, isn't this against the rules?" The commander of the soldiers hesitated.

"It's not your turn to teach me."

"Here!" Facing Pei Renji's angry gaze, the commander of the personal guard acted cleverly, and quickly arranged for the soldiers to go to Hanguang Gate and install the door to deliver the order.

Pei Renji's personal guards passed through the city wall, and soon arrived at Anshangmen. This place also became a place of killing. Only the wailing and screaming outside the city gate could not be heard.
Under the light of the fire, the dust is flying, the yellow dust fills the sky, covering the sky, making the bright moon colorless, the sound of drums and shouts is earth-shattering, corpses are scattered all over the field, blood flows into rivers, and the tragedy of the war makes every soldier struggle like before the gate of hell
"General Cheng..." The guard finally found Cheng Yaojin, and told Cheng Yaojin about Pei Renji's worries and orders.

Cheng Yaojin, who still had a trace of compassion, broke out in a cold sweat. Thinking of himself and his family being caught by a group of poisonous snakes in the dark, ready to assassinate, he felt horrified and shuddered.

Lao Cheng no longer dared to have the slightest sympathy, and immediately ordered: "Throw oil on me."

A trebuchet was pushed up, threw a jar of kerosene into the air, and then covered hundreds of steps and poured down like a shower. The scene was shocking.

The east-west streets of Chang’an City are wider than the north-south ones. Among them, the cross street south of the Daxing Palace Imperial City is the most. It starts from Chang’an Chunming Gate (the middle gate of the east wall), passes through Daxing Palace’s Anshang Gate, Zhuque Gate, Han The Guangmen leads directly to the Jinguangmen of Chang'an (the middle gate of the west wall), with a width of [-] steps.Therefore, the range of the trebuchets used now is calculated. If it is farther away, it will hit Wubenfang, Xingdaofang, Shanhefang, and Taipingfang on the opposite side of the horizontal street.

However, the enemy mainly came from Anshangmen Street, which runs north-south, so Cheng Yaojin was less concerned.

After a few jars filled with kerosene, rockets poured down the sky, and the flames lit up instantly, and the raging fire ignited, and many dead men were immediately swallowed up.

At the same time, when Pei Renji and Shen Guang saw that the dead had arrived on the street, they immediately took the same method as Cheng Yaojin and threw a lot of fire oil.

In an instant.

Under the feet of the dead warriors, the fire grew bigger and bigger and spread rapidly. On the palace wall, there was an altar of kerosene thrown down continuously to intensify the fire. In an instant, it was nearly six miles long and five hundred steps wide. The side street in front of the imperial city turned into a sea of ​​flames, people on fire were running everywhere, and those who fell were struggling in the fire. The shrill screams resounded throughout Chang'an City, and the side street south of the imperial city turned into a sea of ​​flames. Purgatory on earth, many soldiers of the Sui army couldn't bear to look at it any more, and turned their heads away.

Such a tragic scene, even Li Gaoqian, Li Tang Hussar General Li Gaoqian, who was in charge of the battle here, couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't hold on anymore. The casualties were too heavy. Before they got close to the palace wall, these dead men had already died How can this battle continue?

He boarded the ten-foot-high command tower that was temporarily built, and looked at the still dead Longshouyuan area in the north. He became more and more anxious. He could hardly hold on here. Why didn't the damned Dou Cong launch an attack? ?With such a big commotion, isn't it afraid that Yang Tong will run away?

"Damn bastard!" Li Gaoqian punched each other heavily, and shouted to the people below: "Send an order, let all the dead men in Shanhefang carry sandbags to put out the fire."

"Here!" The orders came down layer by layer, and soon they arrived in Shanhefang.

The dead soldiers carried sandbags and rushed out of the pierced square wall, braving the sky full of arrows, one after another to extinguish the fire with sand.

"Om~"

A rain of arrows fell, and a large number of dead men were like mowing grass, and their lives were taken away by the arrow clusters that fell from the palace wall.

"Get on the ladder, archers, suppress!" Li Gaoqian, who was behind, saw the raging fires extinguished one by one, and immediately gave an order.

Commanding the dead soldiers to attack, the bow and crossbow began to rain arrows on the palace wall, so that the defenders could not kill the dead soldiers recklessly.

what happened?

On the city wall, Fan dialed the clusters of arrows and looked at the archers who appeared behind the opponent. These people were more than one level stronger than the assault troops, and the army formation was strict. What's more, these people didn't care about the front line at all. Soldiers live and die, just pour arrow rain on the palace wall, and let the army of dead soldiers in front fall down in pieces under the wanton blows of their own archers. One soldier shoots one arrow, and before he can shoot another arrow, another The crossbow bolt that pierced through the air directly shot through his chest.

"Quick, push down their ladders!" Pei Renji angrily ordered the soldiers to stab the dead soldiers who had just emerged.

"Old General Pei, what should we do now?" Fan Ze has experienced head-to-head hand-to-hand combat. This is the first time he has participated in this kind of battle for defending the city. Seeing these desperate dead soldiers rushing forward, he was a little panicked. up.

These people have become so numb that they don't care about their own life or death. The death of Pao Ze can't affect them at all. They only have one thought, which is to rush forward, even if they know it is death.

At this moment, he finally realized the feeling of the Tang army guarding Xiangwu City, Longxi County in the past. How tragic is the "human ladder" composed of 8 corpses?And these people in front of them are probably no worse than those Turkic slaves.

"What should we do?" Pei Renji said coldly: "Since they want to kill all the dead, why should we be polite! Just annihilate them in one fell swoop, and get rid of this big trouble for our Tai Sui. Pour the fire oil along the ladder , set it on fire, I want to see how they put it out this time."

After the order was passed down, countless kerosene was poured on the city, and torches were thrown from the top of the city one by one.

With a sound of 'boom', a flame appeared on the ground, which spread rapidly to the surroundings, and soon spread, and the fire became bigger and bigger, and then spread again.

The siege soldiers began to panic, their bodies were also on fire, and the screams and screams reappeared.

"Pause!" Pei Renji ordered: "Don't be too cruel. You have to give them hope, so that you can lure out the dead soldiers in the city and kill them one by one."

Fan Ze's mouth twitched.

You are old, really ruthless and black.I really don't know where your word '仁' came from.

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(End of this chapter)