The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 27 Bloody Battle Rattan Armor

Wu Bo withdrew his army to the bank of the Gui River and rested for three days.During these three days, Shun was not idle either. He led the people of Guirui to fortify the city walls, repair weapons, and make more arrows.Little Xingxing thought that Uncle Wu was afraid of being beaten and would not launch a major attack for the time being, but it might harass the soldiers guarding the city wall. He reminded the soldiers to pay attention, prepare for defense, and report the enemy's situation in time.

On the third night, as the little star had expected, when the sky was approaching midnight, the archers on the archery tower in the south saw hundreds of enemies outside the city gate, carrying a few ladders, quietly. Jump over the city gate.

After the soldier discovered the enemy's movements, he quickly reported to the deputy general Pang Meng, who immediately came to the east gate to check the enemy's situation.He looked around and did not see any ambush behind him. He confirmed that the enemy army had about three to four hundred people.

The soldiers wanted to report to Hou Yi, but Pang Meng stopped him.It turns out that Pang Meng was also a warrior who was as famous as Hou Yi in ancient China. As Hou Yi's deputy, he has been depressed.He is also a member of Emperor Yao's Imperial Guard. When Ehuang came to Youxin, he was the chief guard captain of Ehuang, protecting Ehuang, and secretly fell in love with Ehuang.It's a pity that Ehuang only has Shun in his heart, and Pang Meng sees it, so he naturally holds a grudge against Shun, and has been trying to find ways to make himself a success, so as to win Ehuang's heart.

He looked at these three Miao soldiers, there were only three to four hundred of them, and they were not wearing iron armor, but wrapped in rattan that he had never seen before, and he suddenly underestimated the enemy.

"I've never seen a soldier wrapped in rattan can still fight. Is there no one to use this Uncle Wu?"

When Pang Meng saw the rattan armored soldiers, he secretly climbed the city wall and signaled the guards not to disturb them.

"Let them in, and then we will close the door and beat the dogs to wipe them out."

Most of the soldiers agreed with Pang Meng's decision, but a centurion felt something wrong and quickly gave Pang Meng advice.

"General, if you don't report to the general, the subordinates are worried, and there will be changes in vain. It is not a bad thing for the general to prepare."

"Report to the general? It takes half an hour to go back and forth, and the enemy has already fled. With just a few hundred people, we can kill them all in a short time."

Pang Meng drew out his sword, and under the moonlight, it emitted a cold light.

"Brothers, today is the day to make contributions, and those who dare to take a step back will be killed."

Pang Meng took a hundred archers to guard the city wall, waiting for the rattan armored soldiers to climb the city wall.Seeing that more than 300 rattan armored soldiers all climbed up the city wall and were about to enter the city, Pang Meng ordered an attack.

I saw that under the moonlight, hundreds of arrows were shot at the three hundred rattan armored soldiers. In less than a cup of tea, these rattan armored soldiers all fell to the ground. It was so wonderful, they all ran to Pang Meng to congratulate.

Seeing that the enemy had been killed, those archers walked down the city wall to count their heads.Unexpectedly, those rattan armored soldiers were just pretending to be dead, and the bows and arrows could not penetrate the rattan armor.On the contrary, because they were wearing rattan armor instead of iron armor, their bodies were more flexible, and they had a great advantage in fighting the guards on the city wall.

Na Pang Meng originally underestimated the enemy, and was not as flexible as the rattan armored soldiers, and was attacked by surprise. After a while, the hundred archers were all wiped out by the sneak attacking rattan armored soldiers.Pang Meng also died in battle because of his great success.

After the rattan armored soldiers wiped out the guards on the arrow tower of the South City Gate, they captured the Weng City of the South City and opened the city gate. Not long after, the Sanmiao soldiers loomed from the darkness.They lit torches and entered Guirui through the south gate, killed anyone they saw, and set fire to thatched huts, intending to burn Guirui to ashes.I saw flames rising from the south gate, and thousands of Sanmiao soldiers poured in like a flood through the opened gap in the south gate.

Shun, who was still sleeping, was awakened by the roaring roar, and he realized that the enemy had already breached the city gate. At this moment, his first thought was the safety of Emperor Yao and Gaotao.If the top leaders of these two alliances were captured, it would basically mean the alliance's failure, and some Miao clans would even pursue the victory and occupy the Central Plains.

Shun mobilized the people in the city, a total of more than 4000 people.Most of them are farmers and handicraftsmen. Even so, they are quite a force when they are armed.Shun divided the 4000 men into two teams, 2000 guarding Emperor Yao and Gao Tao, and the other 2000 under Shun's command.

In the middle of the night, almost half of Guirui was caught in the flames.People cried and others took up arms and fought the Sanmiao soldiers.Seeing the massacre of the people, Shun couldn't bear it. He wanted to retreat, but was rejected by Xiao Xingxing. Xiao Xingxing was more careful than Shun, and he knew that this was street fighting.The result of street fighting is that whoever retreats loses, and the result of one's own retreat is that the people are massacred.

What is commendable is that at this time, Cao Muzi sent people to the Youxin family, gathered more than 2000 people, and they had already entered Guirui City.Including the 4000 people who can be transferred in the city, there are a total of 6000 people.In the case of street fighting, it is still possible to fight.

Under the command of Xiao Xingxing, the 6000 people were divided into [-] small teams, guarded in [-] streets, and fought hand-to-hand with Miao's rattan armored soldiers.

What surprised Little Xingxing was that after entering Guirui City, these rattan armored soldiers did not compete for every street, they just burned the houses when they saw them, and then ran towards a fixed direction.

Little Xingxing saw these rattan armored soldiers running to the northeast, and couldn't help crying secretly. It turned out that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao were hiding in the arrow tower in the northeast, protected by Houyi's three hundred archers and two thousand people. .Obviously, Uncle Wu already knew where Emperor Yao and Gao Yao were hiding.

Little Xingxing quickly mobilized the scattered teams, gathered together, and rushed to the northeast arrow tower to rescue Emperor Yao.Sure enough, the rattan armored soldiers rushed towards the arrow tower in the northeast continuously. Three hundred archers led by Hou Yi shot arrows at the rattan armored soldiers on the arrow tower. Yi's imperial guards shot thousands of arrows, but they didn't kill a rattan armored soldier.

The archery tower has been surrounded by rattan armored soldiers, and the imperial guards led by Hou Yi have already shot all the arrows they brought.Some rattan armored soldiers had built adult ladders and climbed up the archery tower. Seeing that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao were about to be captured alive by the enemy, Hou Yi saw Shun and Ehuang leading a group of men, carrying hoes, sticks, and spears, running towards the archery tower. I am overjoyed.

"Chonghua, it's just in time, save the emperor!"

Of course Shun knew that he wanted to save Emperor Yao and Gaotao, and he also knew the consequences of their arrest, but the 2000 people he brought and the 2000 people who protected Emperor Yao and Gaotao were all urban civilians and had no special combat training. , barely holding a hoe, lighting a torch, and yelling a few times in the arrow tower.Sanmiao's rattan armor soldiers can disperse the team as long as they launch a charge of about 100 people.

These [-] civilians had no fighting power, and were surrounded by rattan armored soldiers, and their corpses were scattered all over the field.Seeing that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao were about to be captured alive, Shun's palms broke out in cold sweat for the first time.Rao is that he has learned the swordsmanship and breathing technique of the two immortals Xuansu, so he can come and go freely in the chaotic army, but he can't protect Emperor Yao and Gaotao, let alone lead the people of Guirui to win a battle.Shun could only look out of the city, waiting for reinforcements, but it was pitch black outside the city, but the city was full of flames, and half of the concubine was set on fire.

At this time when he was at a loss, Xiao Xingxing saw the fire and suddenly had an inspiration in his heart.He remembered the story of Zhuge Liang burning the rattan armored soldiers in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and thought to himself, why can't fire be used this time because fire can be used to defend the city wall before.

He summoned the dispersed crowd again to find out all the flammable objects.After a while, the base of the arrow tower was covered with pine oil, sackcloth, hay and oil.Little Xingxing asked everyone to soak their clothes in water, then spread pine oil and animal oil on hay and sackcloth, threw them at the rattan soldiers, and then ran away immediately.

At this time, more than 20 rattan armored soldiers climbed up the archery tower and fought hand-to-hand with Houyi's imperial guards.Hou Yi was brave and extraordinary. He picked up his sword, wounded two rattan armored soldiers, and kicked them off the watchtower. The imperial guards behind him also stopped the first wave of attacks, but the second wave of attacks began immediately.More than 50 rattan armored soldiers climbed to the watchtower.

Hou Yi has been injured in many places, but he still sticks to his post, protecting Emperor Yao and Gao Tao, watching more rattan armored soldiers rushing up the archery tower, Hou Yi sees Shun at the foot of the archery tower still whispering to some soldiers, Hou Yi endures Can't help yelling.

Little Xingxing doesn't know what he's scolding, and it's useless to scold him now, but Little Xingxing knows how to defeat the enemy.

Those civilians who were assigned flammable materials rushed to the rattan armored soldiers according to Little Xingxing's instructions, poured all the pine oil and hay on the rattan armored soldiers, and then turned around and ran away. Those rattan armored soldiers didn't care, anyway, their target It was Emperor Yao and Gao Tao, and it didn't matter what they splashed on them.

Hou Yi cut and wounded two rattan armored soldiers again, but thirty rattan armored soldiers had already climbed up the archery tower. Seeing that Shun was so slow, Hou Yi cursed again.Seeing Little Xing Xing ordered, the archer wrapped the arrowhead with pine oil and shot at the rattan armored soldiers rushing towards the archery tower.

"嗖", "嗖", "嗖", I saw the flaming arrow, after shooting at the rattan armor soldier, a big fire ignited.The rattan armored soldier who was on fire fell from the watchtower to the ground and ignited other rattan armored soldiers.Those rattan armored soldiers finally knew that Shun was going to use fire to attack, and the commander who took the lead hurriedly ordered them to disperse, but at this time there were no less than a few thousand people gathered under the arrow tower, and among them, the people of Guirui who were soaked in water blocked the main way out. After a while, the rattan armored soldiers could not leave the arrow tower.

Little Xingxing ordered to continue shooting arrows, only to see rows of flaming arrows falling from the sky and shooting at the rattan armored soldiers.After a while, thousands of rattan armored soldiers were set ablaze, making the sound of howling ghosts and wolves.Under the watchtower, there was a sudden chaos, and the four thousand Guirui people, because their bodies were soaked in water, just blocked the way out to watch the fun, admiring Shun's brilliant commanding ability.

The battle lasted until morning Mao, when the sky was gray, the last rattan armored soldier who attacked the city fell to the ground.Shun sent people to count, and a total of 400 Tengjia soldiers were burned to death, while his own side also lost more than [-] people.Seeing the corpses strewn all over the field, more than half of Guirui City was burned, Little Xingxing couldn't bear it, thinking that ancient wars were so cruel, he really didn't want to participate in the battle anymore.

Facing the city of Guirui that had been burned by the fire and the corpses all over the ground, many people decided to bury the corpses.But Xiao Xingxing felt that doing so was a waste of manpower and material resources, and he strongly opposed it.

At this time, even Emperor Yao didn't understand it very much, because the Chinese people believed that it was safe to bury him in the soil, even if he was an enemy, he would not become a lonely ghost if he was buried in the soil.But Xiao Xingxing, as a modern person, thinks that burial would not only waste manpower and material resources, but also increase the cost of time. Now the Sanmiao army is still stationed on the bank of the Guishui River, staring at the Guirui City, and there will be people at any time. The possibility of attacking Guirui City.Moreover, if buried, there may be plagues.In the end, Xiao Xingxing persuaded everyone with his eloquence and cremated more than 1 corpses in the city.Seeing more than 1 corpses burnt to ashes, Little Xingxing burst into tears. He suddenly felt the fragility and humbleness of life, and understood God's painstaking intentions in teaching mankind to realize Taoism and cultivate immortality.

(End of this chapter)