Chapter six hundred and fourteen: near death
Helianbo felt that today was his final date.
The Tubo people outside the city launched wave after wave of attacks towards Changze County as if they were crazy.
At first, they were the villagers of Changze County who were captured by them. Under the pressure of the Tubo people, these people cried and carried the ladder and rushed towards Changze County with earth bags.
Helianbo would not hesitate at all about such behavior. Under the rain of arrows, most of these people fell on the way forward. Those who could barely reach the bottom of the city wall would only be killed by the rolling stones and wood above the city.
These people were just cannon fodder used by the Tubo army to consume arrows and equipment to defend the city.
The method of siege is very clumsy and low-level, but it is very effective.
If all the civilians die, they will be Han and slaves.
After the Han army and the slave army suffered heavy losses, the elite Tubo army finally took action. At this time, Changze County was already covered in scars and overwhelmed.
After guarding the city for many days, the arrows that were not many had been used up. Now, there was not much left in the rolling stones and earth. All the things that could be demolished in the city have been demolished, and all the food has been eaten. Except for those who are still fighting on the top of the city, there are people lying everywhere in the city who are no longer strong.
They are basically hungry.
After all, all food is given priority to soldiers and young men who can fight in the city.
Something must have happened outside, which led to an abnormal attack by the Tubo people, but Helianbo knew nothing about what happened. Although the Changze County where he guarded was one of the four counties of Xiazhou, it was not a big city like Xiazhou City. It was really surrounded by Tubo people. Not to mention whether someone could sneak out, even a dog would not be able to escape.
But as an experienced veteran, Helianbo still speculated that the development of things would definitely be unfavorable to the Tubo people, otherwise, they would not be so crazy.
When the commander of Jie retreated all his troops to Xiazhou, he had the idea of delaying words. At first, the Tubo people just surrounded him and did not fight. It was only a matter of nearly a month since they actually started attacking, but it was only a matter of no life to attack. However, it was the last ten days.
It’s a pity that I can’t wait for the good news to come.
When Helianbo saw that the northwest corner of the city wall, a team of Tubo people finally climbed up the city wall, where he built a small bridgehead and fought fiercely with the soldiers above the city.
The soldiers guarding the city who fought for many days and were hungry had already been seriously overdrawn. They were not the opponents of these Tubo soldiers who were raising their strength. Seeing that their subordinates were killed by the Tubo people and retreated repeatedly, the place where the city was lost was getting bigger and bigger, Helianbo knew that the last moment was finally coming.
This is like a domino standing up together. One falls down and will cause a chain of counterattacks and eventually collapse completely.
"Ring the bell!" Helianbo sighed, ordered a soldier beside him, held his two scimitars tightly, and shouted loudly, jumped down from the city gate tower, and rushed towards the Tubo soldiers not far away.
When the desolate bell rang, Helianbo had already killed the first enemy in front of him. The sharp scimitar cut the man's neck, and the splattered blood filled his face. The smell of blood came to his nose, which stimulated his most primitive beastly nature. At this moment, he forgot everything, and only the enemy was left in his eyes.
He moved forward, crashed into the enemy's arms, gently wiped the scimitar on his elbow, and another Tubo soldier fell under his knife.
There is no need to think about anything, kill! If you can kill one more, kill one more. There is no need to coordinate the overall situation or command the entire army.
The rest is to fight each other and kill the enemy desperately until everyone dies.
The big bells sounded one after another, and on the streets of the city, the people who were originally lying dead, staggered up. Some were holding a stone in their hands, some held half a brick, and some just picked up a branch and stick, and slowly came towards the city like a walking corpse.
The bells that have been heard for a long time tell everyone in the city that the last moment has come.
Helianbo roared wildly and pushed a Tubo man to the edge of the city wall. The two of them twisted their arms together, and the scimitar in their hands was placed on the periphery. Helianbo lowered his head and hit the other party hard. With a sound, his helmet hit the other party's leather hat heavily. The Tubo soldier was bleeding and obviously a little dizzy. His arms were a little loose. The scimitar in Helianbo's hand had dragged back. The tip of the knife passed through the throat. He listened to the hissing sound, and felt the twisted arms gradually becoming weak. Helianbo lifted the man off the city wall with force.
The road to Helianbo was lying on the road to advance was full of Tubo people, or his ferocity shocked these Tubo people. They deliberately avoided Helianbo, but swept across the sides.
Helianbo leaned against the city wall panting. In fact, he didn't have much strength at this time, his face was covered with blood, and everything was red.
Those beating leather hats made Helianbo's heart tingling, and more and more Tubo people attacked the city. However, his own soldiers were getting fewer and fewer.
He could kill a few more! He said in his heart.
Three, five? It should be about the same.
He took a few breaths and was about to launch another attack.
At this moment, he heard the sound of horse hooves like thunder outside the city, the sound of a deafening cry, and the sound of his somewhat strange horn.
The cavalry of the brigade!
The Tubo people came to reinforcements again. When they attacked a small Changze County, they actually sent reinforcements. Helianbo suddenly felt honored.
It's worth it.
He wiped the blood beads from his face and looked up into the distance.
If you stand high, you will naturally see far.
The bright red Tang Dynasty flag is so dazzling and shining under the sun.
He was a cavalry of the Tang Dynasty! Helianbo was a little stunned.
Under the red flag, there was a black cavalry flowing wildly. How many cavalry were there? It was all over the mountains and fields. Even with Helianbo's rich military experience, it was impossible to estimate how many cavalry had arrived for a while.
Anyway, there are many, many!
The red flag fluttered, and the black torrent tangled towards the Tubo team that had rushed to fight not far away like a sharp blade. But soon, the Tubo cavalry was flooded by the black torrent, and then the Tubo infantry were hit by the iron cavalry.
Reinforcements are really reinforcements! Not Ansui Army!
But no matter where they came from, they were reinforcements.
Helianbo felt a little weak and tried hard to lean against the city wall to make him unable to hold on. Until this time, he felt that his body hurt so much! When he looked down, there were countless holes all over his body, and blood beads were emitting out of the storm!
The pro-guards who were also working very hard to beat the bell on the city gate building also changed the slow and long tapping rhythm before and turned into a bright-tempo tapping.
On the city tower, all the surviving Ansui soldiers were shouting: "Reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived."
At the deepest despair, a beam of light pierced the darkness, allowing everyone to see the hope of survival. This made the exhausted body burst out from somewhere, and the defenders in the city roared and launched a counterattack. The people in the city who were so hungry that they could not even walk steadily were also walking steadily. They picked up knives, shields, and spears from the pool of blood on the ground. Whether it was an old man, a woman, or a child who was not as tall as a car, they all shouted and rushed towards the Tubo people.
The Tubo soldiers besieged Changze County had about 5,000 elite troops, basically all cavalrymen, and the others were slave soldiers, Han soldiers and tribal troops. The total number exceeded 20,000. However, under the impact of nearly 20,000 cavalry, they were beaten to pieces without much resistance.
The Tang army's cavalry came too suddenly and suddenly joined the battlefield without any warning. This was extremely fatal to the Tubo people.
When Li De stepped into Changze County, the Tang cavalry were chasing the Tubo people frantically.
Seeing Helianbo in the bloody state and looking at the old, weak, women and children in the city who were lying on the ground and still holding weapons tightly in their hands, Li De not only gave him a thumbs up at the other party.
If it weren't for the defenders of Nagasawa Prefecture and the people who fought to the death, his victory wouldn't have been so easy.
The battlefield was spreading outward, and Li De's order was to chase and kill fifty miles.
Changze Prefecture calmed down instead.
Without cleaning the battlefield, Li Ze ordered the food seized from the Tubo people's camp to be moved to the city, and the big pot was raised one by one. The fragrance of porridge spreads in the city with the wind, and people sank like corpses gathered around the city, following the fragrance.
The porridge is not thick, but it is enough to make people live.
On the top of the city wall, Li De handed Helianbo a piece of beef jerky.
Helianbo, who was tearing the beef jerky hard, looked at Li De, "So, did Li Xiang mobilize more than 100,000 troops to rescue An Sui this time?"
"It's not to save An Sui!" Li De shook his head and pointed: "It's to annihilate the Tubo people. General Helian, can you sneak into Xiazhou?"
"Of course!" Helianbo said: "Xiazhou is not a small town like Nagasawa. Tocharo has twice as many people, and it is impossible for Xiazhou to surround it to be airtight."
"That's great!" Li De took out a secret letter from his arms: "This is a letter from Li Xiang to Du Shuai, and someone needs to give it to Du Shuai."
"Don't you go to save Xiazhou?" Helianbo was a little surprised.
Chapter completed!