The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 284
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Kang Huaizhen spit on the female wall, stained with traces of blood, a few days ago when the Jin army attacked the city, a soldier beat him coldly during the attack and defense, but fortunately it was only the handle of the knife that hit the jaw, even so the gums were swollen two days.

As a surrendered general, he went from Zhu Jin to work under the command of King Liang, and was transferred to Zezhou to guard the northern border. Among many colleagues, he was well settled.

The Jin army suddenly attacked, and the dead ghost Fan Jushi did not defend the city, but ran to fight with the cavalry. In the end, Zezhou was besieged for half a month, and the food and soldiers were gradually unable to support them. Crossed the Yellow River.

They should know about Zezhou.
He thought about it, and helped a peasant man put the wood in front of the wall, and said a few words of encouragement, but the young man who was drawn up to help the city guard just lowered his head, turned around, and went with his companions to move the other city guards. s things.

"Inspector Kang! Inspector Kang! The Jin army is here, and they are attacking the city—"

Kang Huaizhen, who was thinking about defending the city, heard the running soldiers pointing out of the wall in a panic. He pushed the soldier away and walked quickly to the back of the female wall. In front of his vision, on the vast field, a black line was like a tide spread like.

Soon, he heard the horns of the Shatuo people and the beating of war drums in the distance.

woo-

The Shatuo horn was sounded, and the figures marched forward in the posture of an army formation, and their footsteps moved forward in unison. On the chariots in the middle, the shirtless Shatuofan Han soldiers waved their arms and beat the drums. On the front, in the middle of the Chinese army, on the huge banners on both sides, the characters 'Jin' and 'Li' are twisting in the wind. Below it, there are square formations extending to the left and right in the midst of the splashing smoke and dust. .

Further back, Kang Huaizhen saw siege machinery on the city wall. The arrow tower-like wagons had been quickly assembled in the hands of craftsmen. There were several holes in the hutches hanging in the air. Archers were on guard, and the observing soldiers quickly recorded the city walls The arrangement above, and then handed over to the people below to convey to their own generals, and then reported to Li Keyong.

Under the banner of the word "Jin", Li Ke used his horse to pedal on the spot, and handed over the defense of the city to Ling Qi to pass on to the generals. He glanced at the approaching city wall and raised his hand: "Kang Huaizhen As a surrendered general, under Zhu Wen's command, he has become more powerful."

"Send the order, throw stones for a moment, fill the trenches as soon as possible, and then attack the city!" The hand fell, and the cavalry in the army galloped immediately. Soon, the horn sounded again, and the advancing army stopped, nearly a mile away. , The throwing cart was slowly pushed up in the hands of the soldiers, and the winch was turned, and nearly three hundred catties of heavy stones were transported to the set, and the throwing rod sank under the pressure and groaned.

The general who was waiting for the trumpet held his breath, and when he heard the sound of the horn from a distance, he raised his arm, and then swung it down violently: "Smash——"

Dozens of carts were thrown, and the winches were turned upside down. The next moment, the huge boulders filled with patterns flew out, and were thrown high towards the distant city wall. , The soldiers who filled the gully crossed the Juma under the city gate. After a while, there was a loud bang, and they smashed on the tower with the word "Zezhou" written on it. It sank into the tower, and a large number of defenders below fled desperately with their heads in their hands, shouting loudly.

"Hide away—" "Hide under the female wall!"

"Ballista, fight back, shoot the ballista, don't let Shatuo barbarians fill the hole!"

On the tower, figures were running back and forth, those who had reacted and those who hadn’t, were in chaos at the moment. Dozens of three-hundred-jin stone bombs smashed into the walls, and the flying fragments instantly smashed people’s heads, leaving behind One after another red and white.

There are also fixed crossbows smashed together with the shooters next to them.Almost at the same time, Kang Huaizhen's order was also conveyed, and the strings of the crossbows were twisted one by one.

As soon as his teeth are fired, all the arrows fly together.

Twenty chariot crossbows and sixty crossbow arrows the size of a baby's arm shot out from the crenel in an instant, and the land of Li Xu arrived in a blink of an eye. The Shatuo soldiers who filled the pits had no time to dodge, and were instantly penetrated and nailed to the rear The soil-carrying car directly penetrates into it, and a section emerges from the other side.

More than a dozen Shatuo soldiers fell down in an instant, most of them were nailed to the ground or on the cart, and some of their arms and thighs were directly cut in two by crossbow arrows, and they rolled on the ground holding their stumps and screaming.

The person fell, and the additional Fanhan soldiers followed closely, and kept shoveling the soil in the car into the ravine. When they arrived, it was flat. They had already been waiting for Li Sizhao, Shi Jingsi and others who were [-] steps away, and the two generals drew their swords and pointed at the city wall. : "Siege!"

Sha Tuo soldiers and Fan Han soldiers shouted together, raised their big shields to escort the comrades who were pushing the six-wheeled flying ladder slowly approached the city wall, mixed with the archers under the shields, leaned forward from time to time and threw them upwards, and the Liang Jun archers on the wall also shot at the same time. Retaliation was not very effective, most of the nails bounced off the shield covered with copper and iron, and even the speed of the flying ladder never slowed down.

In an instant, the folded ladder was opened by the soldiers of the Jin army, and the moment the hook was close to the wall, Kang Huaizhen pulled out his saber on the city wall, gritted his teeth and screamed.

"Prepare--"

The moment the hook was snapped onto the edge of the wall, Shatuo soldiers swarmed up the ladder under the spread shields below. Arrows flew in, and some people fell from the arrows. Most of them swarmed up to the last step. He clenched the steel knife in his hand and rushed into the city wall.

"Ah-"

The hysterical roar resounded, and the soldiers who flew to the top of the city crashed into the crowd and gun forest, and the fighting broke out fiercely on the city wall in an instant.

Five miles west of Zezhou City, a troop was stationed on the hillside. Geng Qing sat on a chair he found somewhere, looking at the dense military formations in the far field and the city walls burning with black smoke. His figure walked across the ground like a colony of ants, and climbed up the city wall.

"Do you think Li Keyong can capture Zezhou?" Geng Qing threw a fried bean into his mouth, biting it with relish, not much interested in the fierce attack and defense of the city wall over there, the only thing he wanted was to watch a show, He turned his face away and said with a smile: "I don't know if Cunxiao will participate, but I don't want to. He is a cavalry general, and he is not needed to attack the city."

Compared with Geng Qing's leisurely attitude, Wang Yanzhang, who was following him with injuries, hurried back and forth, watching the fierce fighting in the distance, and turning his head from time to time to yell at the figure eating fried beans on the chair.

"Supervisor, you and I came here to reinforce Zezhou and repel the Shatuo barbarians, not here to watch the show! Li Ke uses all his strength to attack the city now. If he leads the army to attack his back, he will definitely cause chaos and relieve Zezhou's difficulties!"

Geng Qing looked at him and said with a smile: "Li Keyong is not a persimmon, how could he be unprepared?"

"That's better than watching a show here."

"Don't worry, general. How do you know that I have no countermeasures against the enemy? What's more, we only have more than 1 people. We might as well wait for Yang's envoys to come over and merge them into one place before fighting. Otherwise, we will disrespect the general and act without authorization. We will return at that time." Luoyang, how do you communicate with the King of Liang?"

"You are the general, I am the supervisor!"

Wang Yanzhang had no choice but to go back with a word. With his temperament, he wanted to seize power, but the white-faced and beardless man beside Geng Qing was highly skilled and couldn't get close at all, let alone Yang Huaixiong, the Longxiang army.

At this time, someone rode up from the foot of the mountain, dismounted ten steps away, bypassed the angry Wang Yanzhang, ran quickly to the chair by the edge of the forest, and said something softly to Geng Qing, who was watching the play, and the latter nodded , sprinkled the fried beans in his hand to the grass, patted his sleeves and got up.

When Wang Yanzhang looked puzzled, Geng Qing smiled and made a gesture of please.

"General, please, don't you want to attack Li Keyong's rear formation? Now the opportunity has come, and Yang Zhao's soldiers and horses have also arrived here, and there are still about fifty miles away."

"That's it, I'll go prepare." Wang Yanzhang laughed, and finally had something to do, almost choked up.

As soon as the person left, the smile on Geng Qing's face cooled down, and Jiuyu walked to the side, looking at the figure calling the staff to go to the back mountain.

"We want to fight too?"

"Just for show, it's best to beat out the brains on both sides. Anyway, I don't worry about saving filial piety." Geng Qing walked across the fallen leaves with his hands behind his back. As for the battle a few miles away from the mountain, he didn't take it seriously.

He looked at a yellowish leaf falling from the branch, and reached out to catch it in the palm of his hand.

".I still have to preserve my strength, and the Longxiang Army has to bring it back to Longzhou. Otherwise, something will happen there. If there is no threat from the soldiers, I'm afraid I won't be able to deter you."

"I'm afraid the Longxiang army is the opponent of the Longyou cavalry."

"It's better than nothing."

The understatement made Yang Huaixiong, who was following behind, squint his eyes, stroked his beard in admiration, and snorted: "That's Li Shunjie's Longxiang Army, not Yang's, it might not be as good now!"

Zezhou.

The stone bomb smashed the wall, and the flying stone chips brought several soldiers to roll on the ground. The soldiers of the Liang army who ran past joined forces with their comrades to pour down a pot of boiling golden juice. The stench and hot juice poured on the ladder. Shatuo Bing, who was shrieking horribly, smashed his companion with his face in his arms and rolled down.

"Burning you to death—" Liang Bing, who was carrying the cauldron, shouted excitedly, and then his voice stopped abruptly. A feather arrow was nailed into his neck, and his body swayed and fell down.

While the arrows were flying, the flaming arrows ignited the wood of the tower, the wind blew, and the fire surged, and the hand-to-hand combat in the area illuminated by the fire was almost elevated to the extreme. The place is already greasy, full of human blood.

The surrounding guards and soldiers defending the city were working together to kill the Shatuo soldiers who rushed to the wall, and then more enemy figures swarmed up. This time, General Jin led a group of people to stand on another ladder come up.

With the smell of blood and the smell of burning, Kang Huaizhen took a few breaths, searched for a new weapon and replaced it, kicked away someone's corpse at his feet and stood up, and the Jin general who was standing on the top of the wall over there also looked over.

Probably recognizing each other's identity, the two roared and rushed towards each other almost at the same time, the sword lights collided fiercely, and the surrounding soldiers also fought against the opponent's subordinates, the figures were scattered, blood and broken flesh splashed wildly with the blade.

"I am Jin general Shi Jingsi—"

The white robe brushed against the splattered blood, and the tall figure slashed furiously with the saber, directly slashing the weapon of Liang Jiang on the opposite side, kicking the opponent's abdomen with his foot, and kicking him out.

hiss~~
Kang Huaizhen leaned on the saber and half knelt, took a breath and stood up, gritted her teeth and said with a smile: "Okay, let's do it again—"

The two figures rushed towards each other again amidst the chaos.

Looking down from the air, on the stretching city wall, the Shatuo soldiers' offensive is like a swarm of ants swarming up, and the soldiers on the city wall smashed wildly, giving people a reef washed by a huge wave, which will be overturned by the waves at any time.

　The plot is about to be cleared up
　　
　
(End of this chapter)