The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 619 Air Strike
It was the first time that Cui Mingbo saw Cui Youbo look so angry, slightly startled, he followed his gaze and looked down.

After a while, his face also became extremely ugly.

At this moment, the guards at the city gate raised their voices to warn, calling out: "The Turks are coming again, prepare for battle urgently!"

All of a sudden, people's voices and drums sounded above the city gate, and all kinds of sounds merged together.

In the past few days, the Helu tribe stood still, and the soldiers in Huangshui City all practiced urgently under the leadership of Cheng Hong.

Hearing movement above the city gate, Cheng Hong, dressed in armor and holding a pair of big axes in each hand, rushed forward with a third of his soldiers and horses.

"Uncle, what's wrong? The Turks attacked the city?"

Cheng Hong strode forward, seeing Cui Youbo and Cui Mingbo stretching their necks looking down, he couldn't help walking a few steps quickly, rushed to the front, and asked loudly.

Cui Youbo didn't speak, just pointed to the city with his finger, indicating 'you see for yourself'.

Cheng Hong hurriedly followed Cui Youbo's hand to look down. When he saw the scene below the city, he couldn't help changing his face, and swearing: "Mother, this Helu dog thief is too despicable!"

It turned out that on the ice surface of the moat outside the city gate, more than 100 Tang people gathered, including men, women and children.

Of course, they did not stand here willingly, but were forced out of their homes by the Turkic people with iron whips and machetes.

Their clothes were disheveled, and they stood shivering in the cold wind, looking at the Tang soldiers on the top of the city gate with eyes full of prayer.

And on the periphery of them is a group of well-equipped sturdy Turkic soldiers, all of them holding sharp knives, they kept shouting at the people, as if they were forcing them to say something.

After a while, intermittent shouts sounded from downstairs of the city gate:
"Cui Jieshi, Cui Jieshi, please be merciful, let us in!"

"Help, gentlemen, help!"

"Woo, we are so cold and hungry, please forgive me, let us go into the city!"

During the period, there were also the cries of a dozen children, "Mother, I'm cold, I'm afraid~~"

"Su Chun, what should we do?"

Cui Mingbo clasped his hands tightly, pounded hard on the bluestone of the crenel, and asked in a hateful voice.

Cui Youbo's face was livid, he stared at the city for a long time, then closed his eyes forcefully, and said: "Open the city gate, let them in!"

He is the parent official of Shanzhou, and he cannot just sit back and watch more than a hundred innocent people die in vain.

Although he didn't recognize these people, he could guess that they should be people from several mountain villages near Huangshui.Because their accents and expressions on their faces cannot be imitated by foreigners.

"Yes, I'm going right now!"

At first Cheng Hong wanted to persuade Cui Youbo to think twice, but he couldn't bear the pleadings from the city.

After all, as a general who leads troops in battle, it is definitely the greatest shame for him to be unable to protect his own people and to watch them being bullied or even tortured and killed by the enemy.

Not long after, the heavy city gate slowly opened a crack, and a gatekeeper poked his head out and shouted to the people outside the city: "Come in!"

Seeing this, the common people pulled up their relatives one after another, and were about to run in.

However, the Turkic soldiers surrounding them moved more swiftly to stop them, and drove the more than 100 people back.

Cui Mingbo and Cheng Hong looked at each other, muttering, "What are they going to do?"

Cui Youbo bit his cheek hard, twisting his handsome face into a ball, he said word by word: "He, is, test, test!"

That's right, He Lu was really testing, he wanted to see how important the people outside the city were in Cui Youbo's eyes.

Now it seems that Cui Youbo is a good official who loves the people like his son, and he will never bear to see his people die for no reason.

Well, that's good!
He Lu rode a horse and stood on a high slope, watching the scene below the city condescendingly.

"Khan is wise, things are going as you expected. What should we do next?"

Lieutenant A first flattered him respectfully, and then asked the key points.

He Lu smiled slightly, the haze that had accumulated in his heart for half a month finally dissipated, he pretended to be profound and said: "Of course it is a siege!"

Last time, Cui Youbo took advantage of the chaos to release a kite, but luckily the kite was hit by several arrows, even if it managed to escape, it would definitely not reach the capital.

And the message from Jingli told him that Uncle Cui hadn't reported his affairs with the Chai family to the emperor, or he hadn't found those secret letters yet.

For the past ten days, He Lu has been thinking over and over again, and finally decided that as long as he kills Cui Youbo as soon as possible, nothing will happen.

After Huangshui City is broken, they can go back to the grassland to recuperate for a while if they make a big fortune.

Chai Fuma's letter made it clear that the imperial court had dispatched a Pingxi army, with the old bandit leader Cheng Zhijie as the chief, and the deputy chief was Su Dingfang who had performed very well in recent years.

He Lu is very clear about the situation of these two people. Both Cheng and Su are strong fighters who have been in battle for a long time. They also lead well-trained and strong soldiers under their command. When confronting them, he must be cautious.

But this is all for later, the most important thing at the moment is to break through Huangshui first.

They have been besieging the city for nearly a month. Even if the city has abundant food and grass reserves, after this month's consumption, it is estimated that it will be almost the same.

He just needs to find a way to deal with the 'gunpowder bamboo tube' of the Tang people. With the strength of their Turkic soldiers, they will be able to break through the city quickly.

As for how to crack it, He Lu also has a solution, and that is the people under the city.

A quarter of an hour later, the Helu tribe sounded the sound of war drums, and groups of soldiers in armor and holding swords came out of the barracks. In front of them was a neat row of shield-wielding vanguards, and in the middle of them was a group of soldiers. More than a dozen Tang people.

Seeing this situation, Cui Mingbo and others on the top of the city gate instantly understood, and their hearts became more and more resentful: He Lu actually used such a despicable method to use ordinary people as their shields.

Cui Mingbo and Cheng Hong looked at Cui Youbo one after another, Cui Youbo thought of what they could all figure out.

With these people around, Cui Youbo couldn't order the shooting of gunpowder bamboo tubes, and without using gunpowder bamboo tubes, their city would not be able to defend at all.

Gritting his teeth, Cheng Hong persuaded in a low voice: "Uncle, there are nearly [-] people in the city—" and there are only more than a hundred people in the city.

What he meant was very clear, and we should not lose the big because of small things.

And based on his understanding of the Turkic people, once they break through the city, more than a hundred people outside the city will not be spared.

To put it bluntly, those people died on the left and right, so why not simply sacrifice for the people in the city, this is worse than everyone dying together, right? !

Cui Youbo opened his mouth with difficulty, and murmured: "But they are also my people!"

It was extremely unbearable for Cui Youbo to watch the common people being killed, or accidentally kill his own people with his own weapons.

The last time he used the gunpowder bamboo tube, he never used it lightly until the critical moment. Besides the power of the weapon was too great, which exceeded his psychological limit, he was also worried that once this thing became popular, Wasn't it a sin to be snatched by the enemy and then turn around and use it against your own people? !

Now, although the weapons have not been taken away, Cui Youbo really can't make up his mind about this disguised massacre of his own people.

But he had to admit that Cheng Hong's words were very reasonable. Compared with the hundreds of people in the city, the 2 people in the city were more important.

Moreover, Huangshui is the governing place of Shanzhou, and Shanzhou is the governing place of Longyou Dao. If Huangshui is broken, it will definitely be a big blow to the morale of Datang.

"Uncle, they have already reached the moat, and it will be too late if they don't make a decision!"

Cheng Hong stared at the movement under the city, reminding him from time to time.

Cui Youbo's heart was beating violently, his eyes swept over the common people who were surrounded by the Turkic soldiers who were besieging the city, and there was water in his eyes.

Raising his hand slightly, he commanded with a choked voice: "Archer, prepare, prepare!"

"Yes!"

Hundreds of people responded in unison, and in a blink of an eye, they stood in front of the crenel, drew their big bows, and put feather arrows tied with gunpowder bamboo tubes on the strings.

Just waiting for Cui Youbo's order, these rockets will be fired at the place where the crowd is densest.

Cui Youbo's white and slender hands clasped the cracks of the bricks tightly, he once again apologized to the people in the city, then closed his eyes forcefully, and was about to shout 'ignite' and 'shoot'.Unexpectedly, there was a huge roar in my ears, the sound was like thunder or explosion, but it was a little far away from the city.

Could it be that the archers launched ahead of time?

No, the sound is wrong!
This sound was louder than the sound of the gunpowder bamboo tube.

Cui Youbo hurriedly opened his eyes, and a burst of flames soaring into the sky came into view.

This, this is the big tent of the Chinese army of the He Lu Department?
Cheng Hong quickly gave him the answer: "Uncle, look, someone blew up He Lu's camp!"

After speaking, Cheng Hong immediately handed the clairvoyance to Cui Youbo.

Cui Youbo took it, put it directly on his right eye, and took a closer look. Sure enough, He Luan's tent on the hillside was blown to pieces, and the pieces of the tent ignited and scattered in the air.

Then, there were several loud bangs, and the camp where He Lu stored grain, horses, and equipment were also blown up.

The flames filled the air, the howls continued, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and the smell of roasted flesh.

This time, none of the civil servants above the city gate vomited or panicked, but clapped and applauded unusually.

Although they don't know where the surprise attack came from, they are definitely very happy to throw He Lu's rear into chaos.

The calmest one was still Uncle Cui. He even took the time to yell at the people trapped in the city: "Run, run to the north gate. This governor will open the gate for you. Hurry up!"

Cui Mingbo understood, and immediately shouted along with Cui Youbo.

Those people were knocked upside down by the Turkic soldiers, and some of them were already injured, and then they heard the horrible loud noise, and their legs were already paralyzed from fright.

They thought that their family's fate might be explained here, and they didn't want the governor in the city to remember them.

Hearing the cries of Cui Youbo and others, they mustered up their courage and tried their best to break out from the panicked Turkic soldiers.

Some people even climbed out of the battlefield with hands and feet.

Seeing that most of the people escaped smoothly, Cui Youbo heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered people to help them.

Then, he picked up his clairvoyance and continued to observe the movements of the He Lu tribe.

Xu Shi let go of the big rock in his heart, and he observed very carefully this time. He found that there was a huge sphere floating above each explosion point, and a weird basket was hanging under the sphere, and there were two people sitting in the basket. Individuals, one of them is holding a handle, and the other is constantly throwing gunpowder and bamboo tubes down...

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