Chapter 80 Distress
Li Tong laughed loudly when he heard this and shouted to Yang Ding: "Just with your robber-like army, it's like forcing us to surrender without fighting? You are dreaming! Let me tell you, don't say it's you, even if the four thieves of Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou and Zhang Ji arrived together, I, Li Tong, will not surrender, you will die! "
"Okay! Since that's the case, don't blame me for being rude. I'll pass on our military orders and the army will attack the city with all its might. When the city is broken, all soldiers will be allowed to massacre the city for three days. The old, young, women and children in the city will be dealt with at will! Li Tong thief, you must remember that all the disasters suffered by the people in the city are caused by your refusal to surrender."
Yang Ding pointed at the city head with a horse whip, his eyes were cold and his face was cold, and he also shirked all the blame to Li Tong.
However, Li Tong was unmoved and said coldly: "I want to see how you break through my city?"
Then he ordered the army to go all out to defend four goals.
After that, the Xiliang Army began to roar loudly and attacked the four city gates.
However, due to the hasty arrival of the Xiliang army, they did not bring much siege equipment at all. They just rely on soldiers to carry soil to fill the river, and then climb the simplest wooden ladder, and launched an attack like this. As a result, it can be imagined that such an attack did not achieve much obvious effect. Two hours later, Yang Ding left hundreds of bodies of the Xiliang army, and then led his army to leave in disappointment.
In the next few days, the Xiliang Army had no movement, but this made Li Tong more cautious, because he believed that the other party would not give up and that the other party had no movement, which would mean that they would make big moves in the past few days and prepare for a new round of offensive.
Therefore, Li Tong did not dare to underestimate the situation in the past few days, and ordered the whole city's military and civilians to take action and build cities to defend the city, so as to ensure that the opponent's next attack was blocked.
A few days later, the short peace of the past few days was finally broken. With the sound of a shrill horn, the soldiers of the Xiliang army got off the horse and launched a fierce attack with thousands of Baibo soldiers on the county town.
This time they prepared a large number of siege equipment, including siege hammers used to install city gates, which are as high as a hundred feet high, are used to shoot down the wells of the defenders in the city, have a lookout tower, nest chariots used to observe the enemy's situation, and crossbow chariots used to attack the city, etc.
In just a few days, the enemy mobilized so many siege equipment, which shows how firm the Xiliang Army's determination to siege the city is!
However, Li Tong did not waver at all and ordered the army to fight back firmly.
Although the soldiers were no longer receiving Li Tong's skill bonus at this time, they all had the determination and courage to fight to the death with the enemy, and launched a crazy blocking attack against the attack of their superior forces.
After the archers on the top of the city shot the bows and arrows, they threw the stones around them down. In order to cause terrifying lethality, several soldiers often lifted two or three hundred kilograms of huge rocks and smashed them down. Such huge rocks fell from the city tower and smashed the siege hammers as if they were torn down. More than ten enemy soldiers who could not dodge were killed on the spot.
As for the Liangzhou army climbing up the ladder, they tried every means to kill them. At the beginning, they were conventional defensive equipment such as rolling wood and stone. When they were close, they stabbed them with long spears and spears. Some Liangzhou soldiers were lucky enough to climb to the top of the city, so the defenders waved their swords and fought with them. The soldiers who were seriously injured and lost their combat capabilities were not idle. They often hugged the enemy soldiers who had just climbed to the top of the city and fell down the top of the city with them...
"Kill!" Seeing the soldiers holding the city with such fearless courage, even Li Tong's eyes were red in anger, waving his spear, and slaughtered wildly at the enemy soldiers rushing up.
At this moment, a feather arrow flew over from somewhere and shot directly to Li Tong's shoulder. However, Li Tong did not stop at all, snorted faintly, waved his hand to pull out the feather arrow, and continued to shoot the enemy.
What's even more dangerous is that some of the Liangzhou soldiers who had announced their surrender had become a little ready at this time, and some even considered cooperating with the Liangzhou army outside to cooperate with the inside and outside to seize Shangxian Town.
Of course, the defender of the city was not unprepared. Just when the surrendered soldiers began to connect with each other in the army, Cui Jun discovered this and decisively sent people to kill the leading ones. In this way, the riot situation was easily calmed down.
Of course, after this, Cui Jun naturally had to do some comforting work. He summoned the surrendered soldiers and said loudly: "Sirs, don't think we will be defeated in this battle. Our army will have 100,000 reinforcements in the future, and they will arrive within a few days. After the reinforcements arrive, the bandits will have no chance of life at all. In addition, you should also know how cruel it is to govern the army by Li Jue and Guo Si. Even if you can help them obtain Shangxian Town this time, they will definitely defect in the future because of the defection.
He was punished for his crime because Yang Ding, the commander of the enemy army, would not give the credit to you. But our army is different. My lord is the current Grand Marshal and the governor of Youzhou. As a relative of the Han Dynasty and the general appointed by the emperor to fight against rebellion, he is a benevolent lord. As long as you are willing to submit sincerely, you will definitely be inseparable from your benefits. In the past few days, you should know what kind of treatment the soldiers of our army will be. As long as you sincerely submit to our army, you will definitely receive the same treatment as them."
Cui Jun's words caused an uproar, because these Xiliang soldiers also inquired that all the soldiers under Liu He's family farming were exempt from taxation. If they were injured and were not suitable for continuing to fight, they would be arranged to be minor officials in the rear. In addition to their leisurely work, they also had salary. If they were seriously injured or died on the battlefield, they would also have very generous pensions, and their family's land still enjoyed the right to be exempt from taxation.
"Is Liu Jun really willing to treat us as our own people?" A sergeant of the Xiliang Army couldn't help but ask.
"This is naturally. My master is the lord of righteousness. You can go to Yingchuan and Nanyang to inquire. If Cui said half of the false words, I hope that thousands of arrows will pass through my body and will not die well!"
The most taboo thing for fighting is death. Now Cui Jun swore thousands of arrows into his body, showing endless sincerity and immediately gained the trust of the surrendered soldiers. The surrendered soldiers clenched their fists and solemnly expressed their determination. One of the military marquis took a few steps forward and said loudly: "Please rest assured that as long as the military envoy Liu can treat each other with sincerity, we will never betray again in our lives. In order to show sincerity, we will go to the city and help the envoy Liu guard Shang County. Brothers, let the brothers of the Nanyang Army take a look. Although we are surrendered soldiers, we are not a good meal!"
After saying that, the military marquis turned around first and walked towards the city.
Seeing this, the other soldiers of Liangzhou looked resolute and followed the military marquis to the top of the city to fight against the enemy.
At this time, Cui Jun's personal captain Cui Zheng looked worried and said to Cui Jun: "Military advisor, are they just heading to the city? If there is another rebellion, wouldn't we really be done?"
Cui Jun said seriously, "Don't worry, I think they will definitely not defect. Haha, with such a new force joining in the crisis, we can easily survive this crisis. I believe that the lord's army will arrive soon, and the moment of our victory will not be far away."
Chapter completed!