The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 104 The Battle of Tongguan
The clouds floated across the sky, revealing the bright sunshine, and the towering city wall below was surrounded by black smoke, and the arrow rain of locusts streaked across the sky, covering it in black.

Under the pass, the infantry looked at the scene like a black cloud, and raised their shields to cover their comrades. The next moment, the arrows were nailed on it and bounced off, and some of them were directly inserted into the shield. , Someone was hit on the arm and thigh by the feather arrow that passed through the gap, and screamed.

"Fight back, archers get ready!"

A wave of arrows rained past, Zeke let the guards in front of him push away, shouted hissingly, the cavalry who sent the order ran wildly in various formations, and the shield facing the sky turned down with a bang, and the covering archers Get up, draw the bow and hit back at the opposite side.

On the opposite side, there was an array of more than 1 people, dressed in rags, holding sticks, manhole covers and pot covers from the fence, and the moment the arrow rain fell, a large amount of blood sprayed up in the crowd, and the arrow fell in the figure, and the figure stepped forward tremblingly. Before filling the vacancy, the war supervisors would walk back and forth with swords and horses, and when the arrows became scattered, he raised the sword and pointed to the Taining army formation under the pass.

Shouts spread far from his mouth.

"kill--"

Dalixu's line, the front line of the ragged army stepped out, and the people behind gradually started to walk, looking at the line that was approaching in front, their teeth were chattering, some people hesitated to move forward, and there were horsemen behind them. The supervising team rushed over and hacked the man to death with a single knife.

The tense nerves of the ragged soldiers were finally broken, and someone raised a stick hysterically and shouted loudly.

"kill!!"

The formation of more than ten thousand people also let out desperate roars at a moment. Looking at the front line, they felt the heat and pain in their eyes, and they opened their mouths to vent their shouts. They wanted to live and go home.

"what--"

On the route of running wildly, many people were shot down by arrows, and the figures who continued to rush were holding their shields high-pitched, looking at the Taining army in front of them and bumping straight into them.

The spears protruded out of the shield wall like a forest, and the grass army mobs that rushed forward like a sea tide were nailed to death one by one. The spears were pulled out, and then stabbed. Someone pulled a long spear that was too late to retract, took a wooden stick in his hand and slammed the opposite shield hard, and then was stabbed to death by the shield hand, and blood flowed all over the ground.

In a short moment, the third and fourth rows also rushed up, trying to shake the defeated army outside Tongguan. They fought with wooden sticks, fence shields, like flesh and blood hitting a city wall, pushing forward the vanguard battalion of the grass army.Pushing the formation of the Taining army, the number decreased sharply, until the last person was shot and killed by a feathered arrow on the city wall.

The front of the Taining army was no longer empty, it was full of densely packed corpses.

Boom!Boom!
The drums are beating, and the army with the word "yellow" floating, an array of 8000 people seems to be stepping on the drums, stepping out slowly, some exhausted Taining troops, some scalps are numb, and eyelids are shaking desperately , the array shakes up.

After entering Tongguan to rest and recuperate, they did not receive decent supplies. Many people’s armor was torn, their blades were notched, and even their meals were full and hungry. Outside the pass, even though they won the battle just now, everyone knew in their hearts that the rebels on the other side were just forcing them to come and consume their physical strength, and it was not a real battle at all.

Right now, keep the array, and the 'tide' of constant arrow harassing is slowly advancing. The real battle is coming.

And above Tongguan, Zhang Chengfan's armor was bright, and he walked under the flag with the hilt of his sword pressed, and he kept sending orders to release arrows, ordering and ordering Qi Kerang's army below to resist.

"If you lose Ruzhou and Luoyang, if you can't resist, I'll take his head!!"

Outside the pass, the advancing military formation turned into a 'rumbling' sound, and countless footsteps crazily shook the ground, and the entire formation of 8000 people accelerated.

The land of Li Xu arrived in a blink of an eye!
Rushing past like a tide——

The sound of frantic fighting exploded along the pass. The rebel army was in the camp, and Huang Chao and his generals stood on the hillside in the distance to watch, talking about the past with little interest.

"Cross the Tongguan in front and you will find Chang'an. It is a prosperous place. Many people like you have fought for half their lives and have never set foot there."

The fight in the distance was still coming, Huang Chao looked at the criss-crossed front line, tilted his head on the horseback and let out a low laugh: "When I was young, I took the imperial examination here, hehe, it's a pity that I didn't pass the exam. Thinking about it, it's been 40 years. The days go by so quickly, I am almost sixty years old, and my hair is covered with white marks."

In the scorching autumn, the sound of gold and iron, the sound of killing drowned out his words, the picture of gold and iron horses under Tongguan seemed to change in the field of vision, and when he returned to Chang'an, he was also in full bloom.

That year's imperial examination was unfavorable, and it was the autumn of September, and the city was full of golden chrysanthemums, and they were indignant in their hearts with the smell of alcohol.

When autumn comes on September [-]th, when my flowers bloom, a hundred flowers will be killed.

The fragrance of the sky permeates Chang'an, and the whole city is full of golden armor.

He thought that he would never have the chance to step into Chang'an, which disappointed him, but he never expected to come back with such a gesture.

"Back then, I was talented and learned a lot, but I didn't pass the provincial exam after all. I found out later that people who are clumsier than me can be named on the list. Hehe, such an imperial court is rotten to the root. Those dog officials in the court have forced people to have no way out. But what about now? They are all bones in the soil, human feces. Hehehe. Hahaha!!"

The old man was sitting on the horseback, his chuckle suddenly raised, rampant and loud, the glitz of Chang'an had faded in his eyes.

"Tongguan [-] soldiers? Just a bunch of idiots!"

The horse's hooves stomped, Huang Chao stroked the horse's mane, raised his hand to grab the hilt and slowly pulled it out.

"Zhu Wen, lead your headquarters to defeat the Taining army under the pass, and drive them into the Forbidden Valley on the right side of Tongguan."

"Yes."

Looking at the top of the city, the old man called again: "Shang Rang."

"exist."

"You and General Lin lead a team of soldiers and horses to follow the defeated soldiers, let them open the way in front, go around to the rear of Tongguan, and attack front and rear!"

"Yes!"

The general accepted the order to leave.Huang Chao held the hilt of the sword tightly and lifted it up, looking at the battlefield over there, the sword body was bathed in the sky and cut down.

"Beating the drum, sweeping the left and right wings, the Chinese army advances step by step! Break through Tongguan, and rush to Chang'an!"

In the heroic words, the point of the sword pointed in the direction, below the majestic pass, soldiers collided violently, spreading beyond people's vision.

The tide continued to advance, and another rebel army rushed in. Zhu Wen led Wang Yanzhang, Hu Zhen and other generals, leading more than a hundred cavalry and five thousand infantry to enter the battlefield from the side. The momentum of the Taining army was swallowed.

On the city wall, Zhang Chengfan ran back and forth, yelling at the bottom.

"Hold on!"

An arrow was shot from afar, and it was nailed to the parapet beside him, and he shrank back in fright, while the Taining army fighting below couldn't bear this oppression, with no reinforcements outside and no food and fodder inside, someone shouted: "Let's go!" ah!"

When Qi Kerang heard this, his eyelids jumped wildly, and he quickly asked the military law team to go up, cut down a few soldiers who were trying to escape, and was pushed to the ground by the rest of the soldiers, stabbed to death with knives, and picked up the water bags and dry food on the opponent's body He got up and ran towards the Forbidden Valley. Those who were still resisting saw that their comrades were running around, and abandoned the enemy, turned around and ran after them.

"Come back!" Zeke held the handle of the knife tremblingly, watching the scene of collapse like a sea tide, his eyes were bloodshot, and looked at the approaching battle group, he gritted his teeth, pulled the reins, mixed with collapse Also run in the middle of the tide.

Those who had no time to escape were engulfed by the waves attacking from both sides in an instant, forming a one-sided massacre, and the hard ground was dyed red.

The figures who were chasing and killing came and went, and a Taining soldier with a weapon in his hand was crying and crawling on the ground, his lower body was soaked in red, and a long blood blanket was dragged out during the crawling. Broken, Bai Sensen's broken bones pierced through the flesh and exposed to the air, and the sole of the other foot was severed by the knife. A moment later, the chasing thief slashed at the back of his neck, and his head rolled down.

A large number of rout soldiers rushed into the deep valley on the right. In the distance, the grass army's main formation, a cavalry rushed out of the formation, like a giant's arm drawing an arc on the battlefield, and slammed into the back of the rout soldiers.

The already panicked and chaotic crowd panicked, leveled and destroyed all the fortifications that were originally arranged here, and the road to the back of Tongguan became unimpeded.

Zhang Chengfan stared in the direction of Taniguchi dumbfounded, and sat down on the ground, murmuring incessantly.

"It's over. It's over, Tongguan is over."

The Shen Ce army around him were all the children of rich families in Chang'an, or poor people and sick people hired with money, they had never seen such a battle before, they were so frightened that the two groups were fighting, and their weapons could not be held firmly.

Seeing the dense crowd of enemies outside, Zhang Chengfan left the city wall, and soon, he dressed up quietly, put on ordinary clothes, and with a few personal guards left Tongguan soldiers and horses, and fled to Chang'an.

Nearly [-] soldiers in Tongguan learned the news not long ago, and they were already in chaos.

The autumn wind blew the leaves yellow, and they left the treetops and floated to the long street. The passing carriage ran over the leaves on the ground. Geng Qing sat in the carriage and looked at the recent military situation, as well as the information sent back from other surrounding states and counties.

The carriage returned to Yong'an Square, and when it stopped, he packed up the official documents and dragged his tired body into the courtyard. Many people in the courtyard were waiting for him, as if seeing the backbone, they surrounded him one by one and asked about the city. battle outside.

　There should be another chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)