Late Tang

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Wang Xianzhi met the strongest opponent since the beginning of the army. The little Yucheng has been fighting for a whole day and night, from night to day, and from day to night. No matter how they attack, the grass army can't break into Yucheng. .Under the four walls of Yucheng, there are many dead corpses of the Cao army, spreading a thick layer, blood flowing like a river, and more than [-] Cao army soldiers have died here.

The drums of attack were beating again, and this time, Wang Xianzhi had to make some changes.With more than 4 auxiliary troops brought by Cao Shixiong, 1 people were sent to the west, north, and north to attack the city without stopping.On the east side, the grass army with more than [-] people left was attacking.The rest of the auxiliary army, together with the artisans among the refugees, cut down trees, made more ladders, and were making equipment such as catapults, cloud carts, and arrow towers.

However, this kind of large-scale equipment is difficult to complete for a while, Wang Xianzhi puts more hopes of breaking the city on another plan proposed by Shang Junchang.

The auxiliary troops attacking the city from the west, south, and north were clamoring to attack the city while collecting corpses on the battlefield.They didn't show mercy, but used the collected corpses to pile up a mountain of corpses directly under the city wall, and use the corpses to make an attack ramp on the city wall that was only ten feet eight.

After working hard in the middle of the night, thousands of corpses on the battlefield in the past two days were collected, and a ramp formed by corpses was gradually piled up under the surrounding walls, gradually approaching the top of the city.

In the weather of May, after more than a day, the corpses had already started to rot and stink, and the entire Yucheng was filled with a terrifying corpse stench.

The towns [***] in the city took turns defending the city. Last night it was the selection of the front army, today it was the elite of the three armies during the day, and at night, it was replaced by the selection of the front army.Fortunately, the thieves under the city were incapable of attacking the city. According to the defense of the city so far, the casualties were not too great, but the arrows, spears, stones, and rolling logs were almost exhausted.All the houses near the city wall were demolished, and stones and logs were transported to the top of the city.The people in the city, no matter they are old or young, men or women, as long as they have some strength, they all support the battle under the city.

The pile of corpses was getting closer and closer, and the grass thieves were already red-eyed, regardless of the casualties, and kept piling up the mountain of corpses towards the city.Many auxiliary soldiers who had been expelled had just piled a corpse on the corpse mountain, and in a blink of an eye they had been shot and fell into the pile of corpses.

During this day and night of attack and defense, the archers in the town [***] were the most eye-catching. They did not shoot indiscriminately. Nearly half of them were killed by hand.

"Marshal, General Liu Xun is going to pour hot oil into the mountain of corpses under the city, and then set it on fire to destroy the mountain of enemy corpses." Zhao Jiang reported to Li Jing.

The grass thief's idea of ​​a mountain of corpses is good, but it would be better if they could replace it with a mountain of dirt.It's a pity that these people were eager for success and didn't want to dig the soil, so they directly used the corpses to pile up the mountain.Li Jing has been watching the battle, but this battle of defending the city has not directly commanded, but just watched the battle. The command of the battlefield was handed over to Liu Xun and Zhou Dewei.Liu Xun kept letting the grass thieves pile up a mountain of corpses, but he didn't pour oil on the fire at the beginning, he was very calm.

Set fire at the beginning, so that the oil will be consumed in advance.Secondly, it will force the grass thief to give up the idea of ​​the corpse mountain early, and maybe switch to the earth mountain instead.Now Liu Xun has been letting the grass thieves pile up, and it took them so much time. Seeing that they are about to complete their great work, they came to set the fire at this time, and the time was very tight.

"How to fight, he can decide for himself." Li Jing smiled slightly.

Zhao Jiang looked at the sky: "Dawn is coming soon, and it's almost time to harvest!"

At the collapsed city gate of the east city, because of the collapsed city gate, this place has also become an obvious point of attack.For a day and two nights, the grass army has been attacking here.But in the same way, this is still a death trap, and Zhen [***] also deployed heavy troops here, especially a large number of crossbowmen here.But even though they knew that the town [***] was heavily deployed, the grass bandits never stopped attacking here.

After shooting and killing a wave of bandits rushing up again, Liu Xun personally brought many people in the city with the collected oil.

"Pour!" Liu Xun gave an order, and poured all kinds of oil collected from the city. These oils were all fried in a frying pan, and a lot of golden juice was added to it.The so-called golden juice is boiled out of feces. This kind of golden juice is extremely powerful when defending the city. When the boiling golden juice is poured down, it can not only scald the enemy soldiers, but it is also extremely sticky and will adhere to the body, causing even greater damage. harm.And this kind of golden juice also contains a lot of toxicity, this kind of burn also has an additional poisoning effect.

Pots of hot oil and golden juice poured down from the top of the city, and the grass soldiers who were rushing over were immediately hit, and they screamed again and again.

Almost all the oil in the entire city of Yu poured down the four sides of the city, followed by throwing down countless torches, and in an instant, the entire city of Yucheng was on fire.

The fire was extremely intense, and with the help of the night wind, the entire Yu city was immediately surrounded by fire, separating the defenders from the grass thieves attacking the city.

The grass thieves quickly retreated to avoid such a big fire. They stood helplessly in the distance and watched the fire burn for nearly an hour.It took half a day for the grass thief to wait until the raging flames were gradually extinguished, and the slope of corpses piled up at great casualties was also burned to ashes.

Wang Xianzhi, Monk Junchang and the others were all stunned there, gnashing their teeth, their faces livid.

"Brother, let's dig a pile of earth and see how Zhen [***] resists this time." Shang Jun said bitterly.

When the matter came to this point, Wang Xianzhi could only follow Shang Junchang's strategy and order the auxiliary army to dig up the earth and pile up the mountain.However, although there are many grasshoppers, if you want to pile up a mountain of dirt, you need to use a lot of digging tools, not only shovels, shovels and hoes, but also baskets for transporting dirt.Now the grass thieves are not prepared, so they have to dig the soil with wooden sticks, and if they don't have a basket, they just take the clothes to pocket the soil. Fortunately, there are so many people, Shang Junchang thinks this strategy is still feasible.

While digging the earth to pile up the mountain, Shang Junchang did not let the grass army stop attacking the city.Except for those who dug the mountain, the rest of the people continued to attack the four walls of Yucheng. Even if they couldn't attack for a while, they would drag the defenders to exhaustion. in the city.

After a night of fierce fighting, a gleam of light gradually appeared in the sky.

"It's almost dawn!" Li Jing stood on the top of the city gate with his hands behind his back, looking at the piled up dirt slope, but his face was expressionless, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking at this time.

"Yes, it will be dawn soon, but I don't know how long it will take for the soldiers from the third route to arrive." Zhou Dewei just rested for two hours, with a trace of exhaustion on his face. "Marshal, the Grass Thief Mountain is almost finished, how do we deal with it?"

Li Jing counted the time, and the soldiers of the third route should arrive this morning, but things had to be prepared with both hands.If the grass bandit soil slope is done well, the reinforcements have not arrived, and once the city defense advantage is lost, the town [***] will be very passive, very difficult to fight, and even cause great casualties.

"How are the three thousand brothers resting?" Li Jing asked.

Zhou Dewei replied in a deep voice: "Don't worry, commander, after a night's rest, the brothers are alive and well again, ready to attack at any time."

The [-] elites brought by Li Jing also suffered more than [-] casualties in the past two days. Li Jing supplemented part of the soldiers from Songzhou to maintain a complete number of troops.After resting overnight last night, the three thousand elites have resumed fighting.

"Let them prepare for the battle. When the sun rises, if the reinforcements do not arrive, we will go straight out of the city and destroy the earth mountain." Li Jing said, although the earth mountain seems to be indestructible, Li Jing can return it. There is a batch of gunpowder. Before the battle, I just felt that the gunpowder was too little and had little effect, so I never gave it up.It's just right to use it to fry earth mountains now.

The 3000 elites have been assembled and divided into two teams, lined up behind the south gate and the north gate.Once the reinforcements can't arrive on time, Li Jing will send them out, one from the south and one from the north, and go around the city wall to attack the east gate first. The grass thieves here are all elite, as long as they are beaten back, the rest of the auxiliary army will be fine. done.Li Jing never thought that he would defeat the bandit army with only [-] people, but it is possible to blow them up by surprise and blow up the mountain.

The white belly of the east appears, the sky is full of red clouds, and a round of red sun is about to leap out!

At this time, cheers burst from the bandit army, and with the efforts of countless auxiliary troops, a slope with a width of twenty steps has gradually piled up under the city, not far from the city wall, and with a little more effort, it can directly approach the top of the city.

"Blow the horn! Attack, raise the skeleton flag!" Seeing that the slope was finally ready, Wang Xianzhi couldn't help showing excitement, gritted his teeth and ordered.

Hearing the order to raise the skull flag, the rest of the bandit generals showed cruel smiles.According to the habit of grass thieves, raising the skull flag means that after breaking the city, they will wash the city without any scruples.Washing the city is not just looting and burning, but a complete massacre of the city. Everyone in the city, no matter men, women, old or young, will not be left behind.Since the grass bandits started their uprising, although they have also slaughtered the city, there is a time limit for that. Generally, they only burned, killed and looted for three days in the end, and then they have to seal their swords.It was the first time everyone heard the order to raise the skeleton flag and slaughter the entire city like this time.

"woo woo woo woo!"

The grass army's charge horn has already sounded, miserable and long!

"woo woo woo woo!"

There was another long series of horn sounds, but this time it came from behind Cao Jun.

Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and others changed their colors almost at the same time. This is not the horn of Cao Jun.

A red tide line suddenly appeared on the horizon, dazzling under the golden light of the rising sun, like a red wave suddenly emerging from the sky.

There were bursts of muffled thunder in the distance at the same time, and the ground began to tremble inexplicably.

Wang Xianzhi turned her head back in amazement, watching intently, the surrounding grass army also began to turn their heads anxiously to watch the sudden change, and the pace of charging was also slowed down.Wang Xianzhi's complexion changed drastically, and he was suddenly extremely pale and bloodless.First his hands, then his hands began to tremble. (To be continued.)