Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 187 Fiery Hell 3
  "Catapult, throw firewood!" Jia Cong gave the order, and the catapult specially placed under the city began to throw bundles of dry firewood near the outside of the city.

Dai Qin laughed loudly, thinking that there were no stones left in the city, so what was the use of throwing dry firewood on top? Shouting loudly, waves of people kept coming. Today, 8 thousand-man teams were dispatched. Even with a crowd, they could flatten this small town.

Seeing that the front had begun to attack the city, the five thousand-man troops behind the Tatars rushed over together with a roar and attacked three walls. The pressure on the defenders suddenly increased.

Jia Cong fought too much yesterday, and today his whole body is still sore and weak. He ran to the arrow tower to watch and direct the battle.

But seeing that the pressure on each city wall was several times greater than yesterday, the Tatars, in addition to ladder trucks, also brought hundreds of siege ladders, which were densely erected on the three city walls and a defense line more than 600 feet long.

Countless Tatars rushed up the ladder like ants to fight with the defenders on the city wall. Their shouts of killing shook the sky and drowned the entire battlefield.

Jia Cong observed the battlefield coldly, with an unwavering expression on his face, feeling that some ancient generals regarded human life as nothing.

On the north wall, Su Can, Wei Wuji, and Kongxing were guarding, as stable as Mount Tai.

Yu Hong, Lei Tai and Deng Lei were guarding the east wall, which was a little difficult.

Zhao Lingkong and Zhang Yi guarded the west wall, which was even more difficult.

On the south wall, it was easiest to guard the upper reaches of Jiaxi, because the enemy did not attack the south wall at all, and deliberately left this place for the defenders to escape, in order to undermine the morale of the troops.

How could Jia Cong fall into the trap? Yesterday, he had blocked all the city gates and was fighting with his last resort.

"Sign up and order one hundred people to stay on the south wall, and the rest to support the west wall!"

"I ordered all the arrow towers not to shoot indiscriminately. I only saw gaps in the city for support."

"Catapult, hurry up and throw the firewood!"

"Jie Hui! Keep an eye on the brave people among the Tatars and kill them all when you see them." Jia Cong said to Jie Hui beside him.

"I humbly obey my command." Jie Hui promised, and without stopping, arrows shot out and turned into the death notices of the King of Hell, piercing the heads of each Tatar!
  The arrows hit the head, and the shots are not in vain! He knew that today was going to be a fierce battle, so he specially changed to a two-stone bow just to continue fighting. Anyway, at such a close distance, the three-stone and two-stone bows were the same.

Jia Cong issued orders one after another, subtly affecting the battlefield situation.

More than an hour has passed since the Tatars attacked the city, and the Shifang Temple Fort is still impregnable.

The opponent obviously didn't expect that a small castle would have so many well-equipped troops and brave and skilled generals. Seven to eight thousand people fought for a long time, but they failed to defeat them and instead suffered a lot of casualties.

Su Can and Kongxing were seen charging side by side, with guns like poisonous dragons and staffs like mountains. They killed seven or eight Tatars with three strokes, five by two, and finally cleared a ladder truck temporarily.

"Quickly, burn the car!" Su Can yelled.

The two border soldiers immediately grabbed the gunpowder and tinder jars, smashed them on them, and lit them.

boom! The ladder truck became a pillar of fire.

Here, Lei Tai's two swords were flying, dancing into two balls of rotten silver, and he rushed directly onto a ladder truck. His body was turning, and the swords were flickering. The space on the truck was limited, and the Tatars didn't know any exquisite kung fu. Where could they hide? As soon as he got out of the way, residual limbs flew around, heads rolled down, and blood spurted out!

Lei Tai stood in the rain of blood with two swords in hand, looked down, and shouted: "Come again and die!"

The Tatar who was climbing up the ladder under the car saw that he was covered in blood and looked like a demon from hell. He was so frightened that he rolled down.

Lei Tai laughed, jumped out of the car, and shouted: "Burn this thing."

The two criminals were so frightened by him that they swallowed their saliva and hurriedly went to burn the car.

Jia Cong smiled slightly and secretly praised in his heart, Lei Tai is such a fierce general!
  Zhang Yuanba looked at the excitement of the killings in the city, but he didn't dare to leave his post without permission. He could only jump to his feet and rub his hands anxiously.

Jia Cong saw this and smiled and said: "If Yuanba is interested, you might as well go up and charge for a while!"

"Thank you Third Master! I'll go up and play." After Zhang Yuanba finished speaking, he picked up a pair of copper hammers and ran towards the city wall. Suddenly he turned back and said: "Shuang Ying, you are not allowed to leave. It is important to protect Third Master."

"I don't know yet, so I want you to be nagging." Yan Shuangying said angrily, guarding around the arrow tower with all his soldiers. Zhang Yuanba smiled and rushed up to the east wall in a few steps, wanting to compete with Lei Tai.

Everyone on the east wall had already been locked in a hard fight. Although Yu Hong was the Qian Commander, he usually worked as a miscellaneous person in the General Military Mansion, and his martial arts skills were mediocre. After such a battle, after fighting fiercely for a while, his back was sore and his legs were weak. If he hadn't been wearing iron armor, he would have been weak. I don’t know how many times I have died.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, four more Tatars surrounded him, chopped down the last two soldiers, and all headed towards Yu Hong.

Yu Hong secretly thought, my life is at stake. He picked up his gun and stabbed one of them hard, preparing to catch another one before he died.

Suddenly, he heard the wind blowing fiercely, and a person rushed up from behind. Two yellow shadows fell down, and with two clicks, the heads of the first two Tatars disappeared and fell limply to the ground.

The other two Tatars shouted angrily and slashed at them with their swords.

The man ignored him and raised his hammers again.

Bala! The scimitar pulled out a string of sparks on his armor, but it couldn't hurt him at all.

The copper hammer hit again, and the two Tatars hurriedly raised their swords to block.

A few clicks! The two scimitars were broken in response, and the broken blades were embedded in the heads of two rotten watermelons.

Zhang Yuanba turned around and smiled, saying, "Are you okay?"

Yu Hong was disgusted by the sight in front of him. He was resisting the urge to churn in his stomach. When he asked with a grin, he immediately vomited out all the noodles, beef and radish he had eaten in the morning.

"If you have a bad stomach, go down and rest. It's really disgusting." Zhang Yuanba glared at him with disgust and ran towards Lei Tai.

"Lei Tai, let's guard half of it alone and see who can kill more!" Zhang Yuanba shouted in a loud voice.

The two swords made of snowflakes, iron and wild goose feathers in Lei Tai's hands were flying up and down, like wheels and disks, killing people like hemp. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "Okay!"

Deng Lei was on the other side of the city wall. Hearing this, he hurriedly opened the cooked copper stick, swept away the few Tatars in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Do you two treat me as if I am nothing?"

Zhang Yuanba laughed and said: "Then let the three of us compete!" After saying that, he stood in the middle of the city wall, running around, hitting the Tatars wherever they were, and hitting them one by one. Bullying, soon there were piles of grotesque corpses at his feet.

When Yu Hong saw that the three of them were guarding the area and that the Tatars had come up to die, he felt relieved. Unable to hold on any longer, he slipped down to the city to rest.

With Zhang Yuanba replacing Yu Hong, Dongqiang suddenly turned the corner.

The three fierce generals each led two sentries to guard the city wall of more than 60 feet. No matter how brave the Tatars were, they were all quickly killed.

Zhang Yuanba shouted loudly, and with two bronze hammers dancing wildly, he charged left and right on the city wall alone, invincible to anyone who stood in his way, like a god.

Inspired by the general's courage, the soldiers and prisoners became bold and brave, shouting and killing them fiercely.

Once again, the Tatars who rushed down from the two ladder trucks were cleared, and some soldiers were going to burn the trucks.

Zhang Yuanba shouted: "Wait a minute. Leave two of them behind and let them come up and die!"

"Yes!"

At that moment, Zhang Yuanba guarded the two ladder trucks alone, with soldiers blocking both sides. When he saw Tatars rushing down, he rushed to the middle. He stood in the middle, like a meat grinder, dancing with his hammers, no matter whether you could block him or not, you would die if you touched him or rubbed him.

Not long after, there were dozens of Tatar corpses on the wall.

"General, you are brave!" the frontier troops shouted in unison, their morale was like a rainbow and they became more and more brave.

Lei Tai and Deng Lei were slightly shocked when they saw Zhang Yuanba brushing data like this. They secretly regretted burning the car too early and cursed this stupid big man for being so cunning.

(End of this chapter)