Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 925

Speaking of this, Gwan Dorje paused, his eyes swept over the crowd, and his eyes became sharp and cold. All the Tubo generals were shocked when they saw his eyes. He waited for everyone to listen attentively before telling these Tian Caowei said aloud to him the words he had repeatedly emphasized and explained: "During the siege, there are three chapters of the law. If you hear the drums and horns, you will advance, and if you hear the gold, you will retreat. Those who disobey the order will be beheaded! Those who climb the city first will be rewarded with thousands of money. Promote to three ranks! Cowardly and cowardly, behead! In addition..." He paused for a while, then continued: "The first to climb the city, and can open the gap, so that the follow-up army will be the first to cover Zhucheng's treasury. All the wealth and goods should be returned to this department, and half of the weapons and armors of the Xiangfu Kingdom's army will be rewarded to this department! After breaking the city, they will be plundered for three days."

After speaking, Gwang Dorje did not wait for others to say anything, and began to deploy troops to attack the city.

Cao Wei observed silently at the side, and found that there was indeed a sense of greed and self-confidence in the tent. With every order issued by Gwang Dorje, some people were happy, some were disappointed, and even some weak tribes The generals felt resentful, an isolated city that they seemed to have at their fingertips.All the treasures of the treasury, as well as half of the armor of the defenders, no matter which tribe it is, will be jealous.In comparison, the three-day plunder can only be regarded as some leftovers.

At the same time, Gaizhu was in the city.

Ma Yongbin was dressed in military uniform, holding a helmet in his hand, and walked out of the wounded barracks with a somewhat ugly face.

Ma Yongbin's company has suffered heavy casualties since the Battle of the South Gate. There were only more than 60 people in total, more than [-] people were killed in battle, more than [-] people were injured, and the deputy company commander, two platoon leaders, and three squad leaders were also lost. And more than [-] war horses.After consulting the battalion commander and brigade commander, he had to promote a platoon leader to deputy company commander, and let three outstanding squad leaders act as platoon leaders.

Now the real fierce battle has not yet started, but Ma Yongbin has lost half of his troops. He will soon have the opportunity to merge with an unknown company, and then he will probably temporarily become the deputy company commander.Of course, the premise is that he can still live to that time.

Not everyone can be as brave, strong, and always optimistic as Zeng Guoyong.

Ma Yongbin was thinking wildly, when suddenly, there was a deafening roar of drums and horns outside, and a soldier ran over and shouted at Ma Yongbin: "Commander Ma, Tubo dogs attack the city!"

"Ah?" Ma Yongbin was startled, quickly put on his helmet, strode out of the wounded barracks, and yelled loudly: "Hurry up! Line up! Go to the East City!"

Ma Yongbin's company was assigned to guard the right third of the east city because the casualties were the most serious.

Because the south city is the main direction for the Tubo army to attack the city, and the east city and the north city are the secondary directions, so Ma Yongbin's east city is a relatively easy job.The Tuoba Fengxiong's troops were more courageous, but they also suffered losses in the past few days. Like Ma Yongbin, they were also sent to Dongcheng.The two departments took turns to be on duty, and there were hundreds of militiamen and civilian husbands to cooperate, so although the sound of killing and cutting was loud and loud, Ma Yongbin didn't take it seriously at first.Tuoba Fengxiong's company still has more than [-] brave men on the city wall, and the east cannot be the main direction of the Tubo army's attack, Ma Yongbin felt somewhat fortunate in his heart.

The moment Ma Yongbin boarded the city wall, there were Tubo soldiers everywhere in his sight!
In just a short section of the east wall, the Tubo army rushed forward carrying ten ladders. The Tubo soldiers attacking the city were densely packed, like ants. 3000 people!"

On the city wall, Tuoba Fengxiong commanded his subordinates to continuously attack with fast crossbows, strong bows, giant crossbows and guns. There was no need to aim at all. Arrows, crossbows and guns flew down like locust rain, and they could always hit a few. Tubo soldiers.At several important openings, two captains and platoon leaders, braving the arrow rain of the Tubo people, led the people to push down the rolling stone and the wood. oil pan.Burning a pot, immediately pouring it down the city, there was a sound of mourning.Every time when the offensive of the Tubo army cannot be stopped, a few gunpowder packets will be thrown, or a piece of fuel oil will be sprinkled, killing or burning a large area, and the process of being blown to death or burned to death is shocking, and every time it can make the Tubo soldiers Subconsciously slow down the offensive and weaken some of their morale.

But there are too many Tubo soldiers, and they seem to be desperate for their lives. Even the terrifying defensive weapons such as gunpowder packs and light fuel oil are still difficult to completely stop the Tubo army's offensive. Ma Yongbin has already seen several Tubo soldiers follow A ladder climbed up, and the leader of a Tubo soldier was very brave. He swung a knife and chopped down several Xiangfu soldiers around him. Seeing that Dongcheng was about to be opened by the Tubo army, it might fall.Ma Yongbin was drenched in cold sweat, he didn't have time to think about it, he drew his saber and rushed over to fight with that Tubo soldier.Several of his personal soldiers also held their spears, and followed up, fighting with the Tubo soldiers who ascended the city.

The addition of this new force immediately reversed the situation at the gap.Although the Tubo soldiers who fought against Ma Yongbin were brave, every time the two knives collided, Ma Yongbin's mouth was numb, but after all, they were outnumbered. They saw their companions being killed one by one in front of them, and the gap in the city was blocked by a group of reinforcements. When the Chinese soldiers blocked him, he felt a little fear in his heart. Ma Yongbin saw a flaw and slashed on his right leg. A big hole was pierced, and he died immediately.

Ma Yongbin breathed a sigh of relief, jumped over and cut off the Tubo man's head, and was about to hang him up to boost morale.Unexpectedly, another Tubo soldier came up to the city at another place.

But at this time, the sound of drums and horns outside the city became more rapid and violent.Ma Yongbin's heart was also beating a drum, watching Tuoba Fengxiong led several subordinates to rush over to beat those Tubo soldiers to the city, the tension in his heart was slightly loosened, but soon it was his turn to go to another gap hard fight.

The Tubo army's sudden onslaught on Gaizhu City was like a storm from the very beginning. After more than an hour of onslaught, there was still no sign of weakening.Based on his feeling, Ma Yongbin judged that the Tubo army should attack from the south, east and north at the same time, but it was really difficult for him to understand how the opposing commander, Gwang Dorje, made the Tubo soldiers under his command so desperately.Perhaps this is the reason why the brigade commander guessed at the meeting yesterday that there were Song siege masters among the Tubo people.

Under the eastern city wall, after wave after wave of attacks, there were at least five or six hundred corpses left behind, but these Tubo soldiers rushed towards the city wall of Gaizhu City again and again as if possessed by evil spirits. , as if without fear.But Ma Yongbin has already felt timid from the bottom of his heart.

The Tubo army adjusted their deployment half an hour ago. They concentrated all the archery towers in the east to a blind spot in the south of the east city where the giant crossbows and guns were difficult to aim.And quietly moved forward about ten steps. Ma Yongbin and Tuoba Fengxiong, who had been fighting hard on the city wall, didn't notice this change. As a result, several civilian men who were burning oil there were shot with arrows one after another, with a width of about twenty steps. For a short period of time, it was almost completely controlled by the arrow towers of the Tubo army.Tuoba Fengxiong personally led a few soldiers, carried the cloth slowly into the arrow rain, set up the cloth slow to cover the arrow rain, but the Tubo soldiers who climbed up along the ladder, whenever they had the opportunity, would cut as much as possible. In the bloody battle of the bamboo poles that were broken slowly, twenty or thirty Xiangfu soldiers fell down on the twenty-foot-wide city wall.

However, Ma Yongbin could hardly spare a single person to reinforce Tuoba Fengxiong.Xiangfu Kingdom has been established for more than a year, and its defensive enemies are mainly Song and Liao, and because of financial constraints, the cities and military villages in Song and Liao have been built very strong and high.Although Gaizhu City is considered an important pass, it is not at the border after all, and the direction of Lanzhou was not the main direction of defense before, so it was not built as strong and tall as the military fortifications in the Song and Liao directions.

Therefore, Gaizhu City is too short compared to the border fortresses to the east and north, which is extremely unfavorable for the defenders.Not only are they directly under the shooting of the enemy's archery towers, but the low city walls are also not conducive to defending the ladders. No matter whether it is rolling stones, boiling wood, hot oil and water, gunpowder bags, or light fuel, it is impossible to dump endlessly down the city. As a result, Tubo soldiers continued to climb to the top of the city and fought hand-to-hand with Xiangfu soldiers.And this encouraged the Tubo soldiers behind, making them always see hope, thinking that as long as they attacked a little harder, they could break through the city.

However, the troops of Ma Yongbin and Tuoba Fengxiong are constantly being consumed, and they are getting smaller and smaller.Even Ma Yongbin is starting to feel tired
Tired, the physical strength of the soldiers is also gradually exhausted.But every time the soldiers who asked for help, the order they brought back was to stick to it.

Ma Yongbin knew that there was still a battalion resting in Xicheng where there was no fighting.But that battalion commander is a stubborn and rigid person. Without the order of the brigade commander Ding Jiagang, he would never mobilize his men, let alone let the soldiers on rotation participate in the battle.

The army of the Xiangfu Kingdom always obeyed orders very much, Ding Jiagang was even more so. He never broke his promise to the soldiers when he issued military orders.When it is their turn to rest, they can rest.Even if the sky falls, Ding Jiagang will never break his promise to his subordinates.

Ma Yongbin didn't expect that Ding Jiagang would break this rule, but if there were no more reinforcements......

After barely resisting a wave of attacks from the Tubo army, Ma Yongbin sat leaning against the 'female wall' to breathe on the city wall. Suddenly, he felt surrounded by an unprecedented sense of fear, and his calf was terrified. Stop twitching.

(End of this chapter)