Chapter fifty-fifth
Chapter 55: Leave your fate
Nearly a thousand tribes under Xin Liao'er's command were killed in battle, and most of the rest were injured. Looking at Xin Liao'er's fate, Li Zhengbao subconsciously shivered, not knowing whether he was frozen or scared.
The conscience of heaven and earth, Xin Liao'er just complained to Liang Luoren.
At this time, Xin Liao'er could not see anything in his eyes, and there were sounds of arrows entering his flesh everywhere. He felt extremely frightened. Even if his eyes couldn't see, Xin Liao'er knew that his part was over at this time.
"Swish swish..."
Two thick wolf-toothed arrows penetrated Xin Liaoer's back heart hard, and the sharp arrow penetrated Xin Liaoer's leather armor without delay, tearing his internal organs apart. As the blood flowed rapidly at the wound of the arrow, Xin Liaoer's vitality was also rapidly losing.
Finally, the screams gradually weakened.
Liang Luoren stared at Li Zhengbao's eyes fiercely like nails: "Take your people with me and take down the village..."
If it weren't for the cruel method shown by Liang Luoren, Li Zhengbao wouldn't take Liang Luoren's order seriously, but at this time he really dared not disobey Liang Luoren's orders.
"Abide by the order!" Li Zhengbao had no choice but to sigh and rushed to the fort with more than 2,000 people under his command.
Although there are not many people in the fortress, everyone in the fortress knows that once the fortress is broken, their fate will definitely not be good. After all, so many Liang troops have been killed, once the city is broken and one knife is cut, it is probably the best treatment. They are likely to die than death.
Although the city walls of the town are narrow and cannot stand too many people at once. The men, women, young and old in these town forts are desperate. If they don’t go up the city wall, they will climb to the roof close to the city wall. The city wall is 1,000 feet tall, not as high as the roof. Standing on the roof, you can just stand tall and shoot the enemies outside the city.
Before Li Zhengbao's troops could approach the city wall, dozens of people were shot down instantly.
Li Zhengbao also fought desperately at this time and ordered his troops to attack. There was no way. Although Li Zhengbao's command was far better at siege than the Qiang soldiers under Xin Liao'er, Li Zhengbao's command had no siege equipment at all. He finally cut down a big tree and made the stud into a wood. Dozens of people were carrying it to hit the gate of the fortress.
"Dongdong..." The huge impact sound shocked the soul.
However, Mrs. Song had already sent someone to pour cold water on sand and stones. At this time, the door was as cold as a stone. Seeing the wood hitting the door, only a white dot was left, but dozens of soldiers carrying the wood hitting the wood were killed. In desperation, Li Zhengbao had to give up the move to break through the door.
This small town fort is so difficult to chew, but it is beyond Liang Luoren's imagination. The key is that ordinary villages cannot afford to buy a large number of bows and arrows. Although Chen Ying did not distribute the strong bows and crossbows to the town forts, he distributed the equipment seized by the Turks to these town forts. Chen Ying seized a total of 20,000 or 30,000 pieces of ragged equipment, which are evenly distributed in each town fort. Each town fort has more than a thousand hunting bows. As for weapons such as swords and guns, almost everyone has one.
Looking at Liang Luoren behind him with an impatient look, Li Zhengbao was very anxious. If there was no value in use, his fate would be like Xin Liao'er, and he would die very ugly. Li Zhengbao roared at the clan in a hoarse voice: "The gold, silver and treasures in the village are robbed, and the women are robbed."
After nearly half an hour of fighting, the 17th Town Fort finally showed signs of fatigue. Especially the archers, each of them fired more than a dozen arrows, their arms began to become weak and the density of the arrow rain began to drop. Li Zhengbao was overjoyed and shouted: "They have no strength to go into the city and will not seal the sword for three days!"
"Huhuhehehe..." The Liang army soldiers attacked even more fiercely.
Although Song Wusao's troops fought back desperately, although the sporadic arrows shot some Liang soldiers, they could not solve the fundamental problem. The personal guards beside her were killed by Liang soldiers one by one. Without the protection of the personal guards, the messenger Xiaowu was also dead and Zhuzi was also dead. Now Mu Xiuling is only left behind.
Song Wusao, the general's flag of the town general was shaking, and the city wall defense line collapsed.
Song Wusao looked at the Township Yong who could collapse at any time, and was so anxious that she jumped straight. She had tried her best to command the soldiers to defend, but the effect was not very ideal.
The Liang soldiers looked at the guards' village warriors showing exhausted situation and attacked even more urgently. The soldiers of the 17th Town Fort were very tired and even raising the knife was very difficult, but they did not dare to retreat, for fear of hurting their families. However, the Liang soldiers were as brave as the tigers, and the more they fought, they became more and more brave. Many village warriors had only time to kill one enemy, and they were all cut to death by the enemy's swords...
"Envoy Yang, help me. If you don't come and the army collapses, the thousands of people in the 17th Fort will be dead."
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On the school ground in Lingzhou City, Yang Ze looked at the two black Zhechong Mansions below, with more than 3,000 soldiers. After all, Li Daozong was a general in the court. The four expanded Zhechong Mansion soldiers of Dingyuan Army were all well equipped. Although they were not like Chen Ying, each Mingguang armor was equipped with one, but everyone was wearing armor. However, the two newly-organized Zhechong Mansions of Dingyuan Army were mostly leather armor, and the iron armor equipment rate was less than 10%.
In fact, in addition to the slightly inferior equipment, the biggest gap between these newly-organized Dingyuan soldiers is their lack of morale.
The six Zhechong Prefectures of the Dingyuan Army under Chen Ying fought against the Turks four times, and all won a great victory. The soldiers had already developed enough self-confidence. However, these new Zhechong Prefectures did not use the old generation as Chen Ying, but were all new. For Li Daozong's consideration, the Dingyuan Army had only two Zhechong Prefectures with strong combat power. If the old generation was new, in a short period of time, he would not even have a Zhechong Prefecture to conquer the market.
So, in this case, Li Daozong had to reorganize it.
When he learned that more than 10,000 troops from the Liang army came to attack outside the city, these three thousand new troops would not even stand firmly, not to mention the city to meet the enemy. If Chen Ying were here, he would definitely curse people.
Although Yang Ze did not scold people, he was on the verge of an outbreak.
Yang Ze roared with red eyes: "Waste, all waste!"
The soldiers did not dare to show their anger, nor did they dare to raise their heads.
Yang Ze became even more angry when he watched this scene.
"It's not a good idea to do something!" Yang Ze was so angry that he took several old servants with his knives and wanted to leave the city alone to fight the Liang army outside the city. However, when Yang Ze had just left the barracks, he saw the streets, kneeling on the streets, with all the people. There were old women and young people. The people looked at Yang Ze out and cried, "Envoy Yang, you can't go to war!"
"Yang Envoy, Liang's goal is not the fort outside the city, but our Lingzhou City."
"If Envoy Yang goes out of the city to rescue the town fort, he will hit the enemy's mind."
"Eunuch Yang, please pity this commoner with all his face."
People are selfish. When choosing between life and death, people will first consider themselves, and secondly others. Lingzhou is empty, with only three thousand new recruits. If these three thousand new recruits are allowed to defend the city, they may not be able to defend it. If they are forced to leave the city and fight in the field, they may be afraid before the battle, and they may even mutiny.
Yang Ze felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at these people crying and howling. As a landlord, Wen could not educate the common people, let them be loyal to the king and the country, and Wu could not shelter one side. It was Yang Ze's dereliction of duty. It made the town and fort outside the city fall into the opponent, and also made Yang Ze's conscience feel uneasy.
Chapter completed!