Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Li Chongjin and Guo Shao summoned more than 20 generals in the former army camp. Because Guo Shao is now taking over the Shouzhou envoy, he needs to work here, so he should pay extra attention when introducing generals. There are too many people and only say it again. Most of Guo Shao can't remember his name or appearance, but he only pays attention to their positions in his heart, so as to understand what kind of army is outside Shouzhou City.

These people are completely different from the familiar military titles of the Forbidden Army. The names of the military names are varied. Guo Shao listened silently for a while, and heard the "self-provided weapons and food", only to know that they are Song, Hao, Chen, Ying, Xu The township soldiers from the prefectures, Su, Xu, Cai, etc., and some of them were the tooth soldiers of the local towns and festivals, many of whom were defensive envoys and princes. The township soldiers are not bad, at least they have a bugle; some of them are real people, "seven households send a soldier", and the directly recruited people will be brought to the battlefield after a little preparation.

The soldiers directly under the Forbidden Army were not the first-line army of the Zhou Dynasty, but the "soldiers" who were in the area near Kaifeng Mansion. Most of the people eliminated during the rectification of the Forbidden Army from last year to this year belonged to the front-line army. Now they usually don't have half the money for military expenses in farming, and they assemble and send to the front line after a beating of Huainan.

Guo Shao originally thought that although the military affairs he was assigned were a hard bone, his forces would soar. After all, there are so many soldiers and horses outside Shouzhou City... As a result, the only elite soldier he can use has not changed at all. : The First Army and Second Army of the Left Wing of Tiger Jiefang. This is the man he himself led from Tokyo.

There is also a regular army of nearly 20,000 outside Shouzhou City: the right arm of the Tiger Jie Army.

But the general who commanded this army was Li Jixun. The person Guo Shao met when Xiang Xunjia Xiaoerlang was one year old, the elder brother-level figure of the "Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society", is now the commander of the pro-military guards and infantry divisions.

Guo Shao didn't think he could command him. Li Jixun’s troops did not move, and seemed to indicate that they would not attack the city, but were just stationed here waiting for an opportunity to move, or preparing to fight the reinforcements of Nantang.

The situation is very bad, Guo Shao is worried. He didn't sleep well that night, and got up in the middle of the night to walk around to inspect the fortifications outside the city, but he didn't know very clearly, so he could only check the teams on duty at night.

It has entered mid-July and it is still a bit cold at night. From time to time, there is a bonfire, and the brothers on duty gather around the bonfire to warm the fire. There was a soldier who didn't know where he got the lotus root, sprinkled it with salt and put it on the fire to roast, as if he was eating a barbecue. The camp stopped at night, but there were occasional injuries in the air|The soldiers groaning|groaning affected the tranquil atmosphere.

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Early the next morning, Guo Shao had just put on the ring armor and walked out of the small village house. There were already many people outside the trenches and fences in the distance. Many people around the trebuchet and other large equipment were dingling repairs, some people and horses. Just in the lineup, the ladder was also pushed out, as if to attack the city.

Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan and others walked over first, and then more than 20 generals walked over here. Seeing Guo Shao outside the door, everyone didn't enter the hall and gathered around to follow him.

"You want to attack the city wall again?" Guo Shao asked.

A military commander said: "A few more places have been filled in the moat. It was arranged above. This time we will continue to fill the river and attack the city. General Guo, shall we still follow the previous orders?"

"Who gave the order?" Guo Shao asked again.

The general said, "Huainan will deploy General Li."

Guo Shaosui stopped talking. When he arrived in Shouzhou, most of these people did not know him. Since it was Li Zhongjin's previous military order, he asked the generals to follow the previous deployment. As long as it doesn't rain, the city seems to be siege every day, and it has been regularized, and it is not considered the eve of the battle, so Guo Shao didn't talk nonsense, and immediately ordered the disband and perform his duties.

At this moment, when a group of people gathered outside the fence of the village, Guo Shao ordered Luo Mengzi to let them in. The leader was an old man with a gully face and gray hair. Guo Shao looked familiar, and quickly remembered that it was the group of "soldiers" who interceded for them yesterday. This old man had said something, so he was impressed.

There was a thin man beside the old man. Both of them had relatively narrow faces. They might be relatives. When they walked to Guo Shao, the old man knelt down and said, "My eldest son is Dutou. My father and son have discussed it. Anyway, I will die. If I die on the battlefield, I won't be looked down upon by other brothers in the army! Please fight today. General Guo asked me to go ahead and attack the city, please be happy!"

Guo Shao turned around and saw that all the generals who had just left were watching curiously not far away. He pondered for a moment and said: "You go find your generals, go to the front to attack the city... Those who survived, the crime of fleeing yesterday It will be avoided."

The father and son said: "We take the lead!"

After speaking, Guo Shao took the reins from the guards, turned on his horse, and took Yang Biao and other generals of the Tiger Jie army to the front. The group ran back and forth around the city twice to see the terrain. This is a big city, riding around the city twice, and the sun has been three poles above the horizon.

The catapults on all sides were already in motion. The huge stones were whizzing and flying towards the city wall two or three hundred steps away. Sergeant Zhou under the city wall rushed forward, throwing arrows up and down. The ladder was like a huge wooden "tank". The crowd pushed close to the city wall. No matter how magnificent the scene in the wilderness, how big the equipment, but the power is still limited. The stone of the trebuchet can smash the city wall in all kinds of holes, but it has been hit for more than a month and still cannot break the thick brick-clad earthen wall.

Bows, arrows, arrows and fireballs are just a prelude, and in the end they returned to the siege method that Guo Shao often sees: climbing walls without thinking. Of course, there is a more vivid term called "Yi Fu".

I saw a ladder being pushed to the wall, underneath were the carriages and two rows of wooden wheels, the folded ladder on the top was unfolded and then laid down on the top of the city, there was a "slap" as soon as the ladder was put on, and immediately I heard a crazy cry , Sergeant Zhou rushed forward.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a wooden barrel on the top of the city suddenly poured a piece of black oil down, and then a few torches were thrown out, and the black oil hit the fire with a "boom", and a raging fire started up and down the ladder. The screams of Sergeant Zhou could hardly bear to hear. People fell off the ladder, some did not die on the ground and rolled in pain. Some people splashed with water, but it was not easy to splash them out. Many people couldn't stand it and jumped directly into the moat.

Black smoke billowed in the air, and the smell of burnt pitch mixed with the smell of burnt hair.

Guo Shaoguang was watching from a few hundred steps away, and his scalp was numb. What is the difference between this and death? ! Where the oil dug up in the Southern Tang Dynasty can be used in this way.

This situation filled Guo Shao's heart with a shadow. He felt that fighting in battle would not be considered a horror. Siege was a nightmare.

There were also catapults in the city, which seemed to be behind the city wall, and Guo Shao couldn't see it, but some people could be seen standing on the city head while looking back and shouting, as if observing the direction. Not long after, I saw a burning earthen jar flying out of the city. The earthen jar fell into a crowd like a ball of fire accurately. It shattered with a bang, and oil and flames splashed all around. , The crowd dispersed in a rush, and people on fire rolled around on the ground.

The ladder in front was getting more and more fierce, and the fire could not be extinguished. The people in and around the carriage turned around and ran away, but as soon as they ran across the moat, they saw a general on horseback rushing with a team of cavalry and slashed head-on. , Screaming out loud. Then the rebels merged into the crowd behind a ladder.

Thick smoke billowed under the city wall, and Shouzhou City was soon enveloped in black smoke and fire.

Zhou Jun followed one another and fired with crossbows and crossbows. The ladder once again set up the city wall, and some simpler ladders went up from all sides, and people climbed up like ants desperately. A military commander yelled from behind: "The first person to climb the city wall has a great reward! Enjoy the glory and wealth forever!"

I haven't seen the shadow of the glory and wealth, first I see a barrel of oil poured down! Several people caught fire and fell directly, and a big fire ignited on the wooden ladder...This oil was really easy for the Southern Tang Army to ignite, otherwise it would not be easy to burn the ladder.

However, this wave of Zhou's soldiers was exceptionally brave, and some people rushed up from the burning ladder in spite of death! It is a dry method that does not want to die. Guo Shao could see clearly that the hands and feet of the first soldier who rushed up burned, and the screams were so loud that they could be heard outside the footsteps. When he went up, he hugged a Tang soldier and jumped straight down from the city. ...What's the use of the first person to rush up, anyway, death.

Some people paid great casualties, and a few people climbed up the city wall from simple ladders, but seeing the flurry of swords and guns, they might be chopped into mud.

Such a brave soldier who ignored the death, died so meaninglessly? Guo Shao finally couldn't help it anymore, UU reading www.uukanshu.com ignored Li Chongjin's order and shouted: "Send people to order the ministries ahead to stop the siege immediately!"

After a while, a group of generals rushed to Guo Shao to confirm the order to retreat. Then amidst the shouts of people, the countless crowds under the city wall slowly receded like a tide. From a distance, it seemed that the sea was ebbing.

"Let's not attack Shouzhou? A few days ago, General Li ordered us to attack at any cost..." A general looked at Guo Shao in disbelief.

Guo Shao ignored it. He paid attention to the bravest group of people just now, pointed at the place with his horse whip, and sent soldiers to call them to meet. Not long after, a group of people came carrying some half-dead people.

The one who walked ahead was the old man who had been invited to fight in the morning, and Guo Shao suddenly turned out to be that group of people! These deserters who wanted to escape from Shouzhou yesterday have become violent and fearless of death today. It is really difficult to determine the capabilities of human beings.

The wounded soldiers who brought them back couldn't bear to look directly, their skin was burned extensively, and the whole body was pitch black, and the skinless red flesh was exposed on the black body. They called out in pain on the shelf. It's like someone who has been bombed, not a scar from a cold weapon war.

The old man who had spoken to Guo Shao was wiping his tears, and he kept talking to the wounded lying next to him. The man was covered in pitch black and his clothes were torn and he was no longer a man. Perhaps the son of the old pawn?

Guo Shao asked: "What's your name?"

The old soldier choked up and said, "Tin Shishi."

Guo Shao said: "All the people who survived are not guilty. Now you change the designation, the left side of the attached tiger and the Jiefang army, the designation is off the camp, Tan Dashi, you are the head."

Guo Shao felt uncomfortable and looked back at the generals and said: "It was all raised by my mother's father. The battle was so fought. When I returned to Tokyo, the folks asked me if I wanted a husband or a son. What do I say?"