Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 552
On the six-foot-high watchtower, Guo Daifeng asked Qin Lang a little puzzled.

"Why did the Qiang thief listen to Wei Gong so much and honestly send 87 left ears?"

A group of archers are also puzzled, yes, why.And they knew in their hearts that there were at most twenty or thirty corpses brought back by the Qiang people.Did they really cut off another forty or fifty ears and send them here?

Qin Lang smiled, "You guys change shifts and go to rest, in fact, it's nothing, really."

The six-foot triangular fort is actually similar to a walled house, with three walls forming a triangle, and an attack platform on the top, but there are six floors below, each floor is ten feet high, and the bottom is built of stones. Built of rammed earth.Walking down the stairs, there are many shooting holes along the wall on the bottom floor for shooting arrows and crossbows.

The hollow courtyard surrounded by triangles makes this kind of small castle quite good.

A small castle can accommodate hundreds of people at most, but now there are only fifty archers stationed there.

The new archers on the fort waved the red flag at the Qiang people in front of the fort, indicating that Qin Lang was satisfied with their attitude and asked them to come over to collect the corpse.

These Qiang people approached cautiously holding white flags, for fear of the feathered arrows that appeared and disappeared from the tall watchtowers. Fortunately, Qin Lang kept his word, and Tuoba Chici met his conditions and sent 87 left ears. Let him make up three hundred beheads, so he asked the Qiang people to take away the corpses in front of the embankment.

Although the weather has turned cold, the corpses will rot, and the plague may break out.

This small group of Qiang people was very honest. They carried away the cleanly stripped corpses of their fellow clansmen one by one. More than 200 corpses were emptied, and the Qiang people transported these corpses back to the front of the camp.

The archers of the Zhenxi Army on the watchtower saw these people set up a large firewood frame, and then put the corpses on it.

"What are the Qiang people going to do?"

"Cremation, this is the custom of the Qiang people. After death, they are burned with fire."

Compared with the cremation customs of the Qiang people, the Han people traditionally bury themselves in the soil, but the Di people's customs are more peculiar. Many of the customs handed down by the Di people are actually sky burials.Near the village where they live together, there is usually a celestial burial platform. After death, people are sent to it and placed there to be eaten by vultures and crows. They believe that in this way, they can reach heaven and reincarnate.

In fact, the location of the five-star fortress used to be the celestial burial platform for the Di people in this valley.

this night.

The Qiang people lit many fires and burned hundreds of comrades who died in battle. While burning, they sang and danced around the fires, and then killed cattle and sheep and ate them.

Some fathers, brothers, sons and other relatives of the war dead danced while holding a knife, scratched their faces, let the blood flow all over their faces, and swore to the sky that they would pay the match.

Compensation competition is a revenge tradition of the Qiang people. Blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and finally cut off the head of the enemy to complete the revenge.

In the five-star main city.

Qin Lang also rewarded the dozen or so soldiers who were injured, and also awarded merits and rewards to the dozen or so soldiers who performed the most bravely and killed the most enemies.

A not-so-intense offensive and defensive battle ended with killing 15 enemies and injuring [-] people. No one was seriously injured, let alone killed, and no one was disabled.

This terrible battle loss ratio has now made Xi Junmai, Liang Jianfang and other generals firmly shut up their doubts, and finally believe in the magic of this weird fortress.

They stood on the high watchtower during the day and watched the Qiang people's siege from a condescending height. Almost two thousand Qiang people were stopped by only one embankment.

This kind of battle was so cool.

If it was a city in the past, as long as it was not a particularly fortified city like Diezhou, or an ordinary flat city, how could it be so easy to defend.

"This castle is really not in vain, it is well built."

"The Qiang people are afraid that they will retreat in the face of difficulties, so they are going to run away?"

The generals all laughed.

Qin Lang was looking at the map. In the direction of Diezhou, he was actually not afraid of the Qiang people. This time Li Daoyan's defeat was unexpected, and the Qiang people were not prepared. road.Now Chici must still be summoning people from various ministries to come.

But he believed that the tribes that belonged to the Feiting tribe and the Yeli tribe last time would never dare to send troops this time. Their leaders were still on pilgrimage in Luoyang, and their tribes suffered heavy losses last time and died in battle. Many soldiers have lost many cattle and sheep, and even lost many armors and weapons. How dare they send troops now.

If only the Tuoba tribe waited to send out troops, they wouldn't be able to send out too many troops.

Diezhou can mobilize about [-] soldiers from the prefecture, township, and city border. The five-star fortress here is only a frontier fortress, with no more than a few hundred soldiers.There are still many soldiers in Xijun City and Muma City in the rear town, and they are not afraid of the Qiang people's penetration.

The problem is still on the front line of Taohe, Taozhou and Minzhou states. Because of Li Daoyan's fault, they are now very empty. Last time Li Daoyan brought all the soldiers and horses he could bring, but the result was that the entire army was basically wiped out. There are no soldiers and horses in the states.

Although Qin Lang sent out a warning message early on, and the Qin, Wei, Helan and other prefectures would send troops to reinforce them, it was afraid that the distant water would not be able to dispel the nearby fire.

Originally, Diezhou had a new force, but if Chici was restrained here, Taozhou and Minzhou would not be rescued.

No matter how you look at it, Tang Jun can't laugh this time.

It is not worth being happy to defend Diezhou.

"Everyone, this time our Great Tang suffered an unprecedented defeat and lost more than [-] troops. Why are you still laughing? Now Taomin is empty and is being attacked by Qiang people. Diezhou is the nearest reinforcement. If we can't rescue Taozhou, it will be the failure of our Diezhou Governor's Mansion and the Zhenxi Army!"

As soon as Qin Lang's words came out, the generals who were very happy at first lost their joy.

This meeting was a meeting of officers above the brigade commander level in the army. There were more than [-] officers from the West Army of the Five Hundred Towns, and the newly reorganized more than one thousand soldiers were also chaired by people Qin Lang sent from the West Army. Officers at all levels, therefore, the dozens of military academies here are actually members of the Zhenxi Army.

Everyone really didn't think about Taomin and Minzhou before, they just thought about their own Diezhou.

"Liang Junshi, I am going to hand over the five-star fortress to you to take charge of the defense. I will take [-] light cavalry out of the city at night with Xi Duwei, return to Diezhou first, and then organize troops to go north to Mingzhou to rescue Taozhou. Can you Are you up to the task?"

The five-star fortress originally only had three regiments of 600 troops, one regiment of cavalry and two regiments of infantry. Now Qin Lang wanted to take all these regiments of cavalry away, leaving only four hundred infantry.

The task Qin Lang gave was not light, in addition to guarding the fortress, he also had to restrain the tens of thousands of Qiang people in front of him here, preventing them from going deep into Diezhou, or turning north to Taozhou.

If the Qiang people abandoned the Five-Star Fort and left, Liang Jianfang would have to go after the attack.

"Don't worry, Mr. Liang, I will be able to guard the Five-Star Fortress and control these Qiang people." Not only are there four hundred infantrymen in the castle, but there are more than twelve hundred reorganized defeated soldiers. That's a whole six regiments. All of them are government soldiers and cavalry.

Now under the command of the officers of the Zhenxi Army, this combat force is still very impressive.

Xi Junmai raised objections.

"It's good for the governor and Liang Junshi to stay in the five-star castle. My old Xi will go out of the city by night with my own soldiers. When I arrive in Diezhou, I will take the commander's warrant and take one or two thousand Qingqi to Dangzhou first, and then find Lao Gao." Seconded one or two thousand riders, and then went to Minzhou for reinforcements, and decided to teach the Qiang people to come and go."

Leaving from the Five-Star Fort at this time is still dangerous. Although the Qiang people are not good at attacking the city, they are nomads. They are easy to ride and there are many people. There are still about [-] miles to Diezhou City, so it is difficult to guarantee Safety along the way.

Xi Junmai meant that he didn't take his soldiers away at all, but only took his own soldiers and ran secretly, so that he could run faster.

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In the middle of the night, some Qiang people were still eating wine, drinking meat and dancing, while some Qiang people had already fallen asleep.

In the dark, some Qiang sentry cavalry were patrolling.

Xi Junmai set off at night.

He took his own guard, a total of ten horsemen.

A person's title, a horse's hoof.

It's dark tonight, but it's also suitable for going out of town.

Guo Daizhao, who was promoted by Qin Lang because of his meritorious service, and now the lieutenant of the fourth regiment temporarily after the reorganization of the defeated army, also stepped on the horse's back.

Behind him is a whole light cavalry regiment of 200 horses.

"Wei Gong, all five sects have prepared a group of light cavalry, ready to attack at any time!"

Qin Lang nodded, and he patted Guo Daizhao's horse's neck, "Remember, your mission tonight is just a feigned attack, not a real attack on the camp, remember."

Guo Daizhao still expressed his opinion, "Wei Gong, actually I think the attack is also a good opportunity. The Qiang people probably didn't expect us to dare to go out of the fort to attack at night."

Qin Lang just shook his head, "Follow the military order."

"Yes!" Guo Daizhao immediately responded seriously.

A red light was lit on the Bell and Drum Tower in the center of the main city.

Guo Daizhao patted Qin Lang's chest as a signal, and then urged the horse to move forward, followed by the two hundred defeated soldiers from Minzhou who had long been suffocated.

The Five-Star Fort has five walls, five bastions, and five gates.

The drawbridge was lowered, and the knights filed out. They first entered the triangular fort opposite the city gate. After passing through the triangular fort, they passed the drawbridge to reach the half-moon fort outside the second ditch. After arriving at Fangdunbao, we crossed another suspension bridge before finally stepping on the opposite embankment slope.

Turn left and turn right, several suspension bridges, pass through several forts, cross two ditches and three embankments.

Guo Daizhao led his troops to line up on the slope.

Two hundred Qingqi gathered.

Raising the long lance, Guo Daizhao shouted.

"kill!"

Two hundred Qingqi descended like a tiger.

The Qiang sentry cavalry found Tang cavalry coming out of the city and immediately blew their horns.

In the big camp of the Qiang people, the lights kept going on, and many Qiang riders got out of their tents and mounted their horses, and gathered out of the camp holding torches.

Qin Lang boarded the Bell and Drum Tower and watched from the highest place in the city.

In the dark night, countless torches gathered from the Qiang camp, and then the fire dragon galloped to meet Tang Qi who rushed out in the dark night.

The two armies fought at night.

Guo Daizhao and the others rode their horses forward without holding up the torches, and fired several arrows when they were approaching, but when they were about to collide with each other, they turned their horses and rushed past.

Standing on the watchtower, Qin Lang breathed a sigh of relief, and was really worried that the young Guo Dalang would be impulsive, disobeying the military order, and pretending to attack would become real.

Just by looking at the reaction of the Qiang people, it is clear that Tuoba Chici has been guarding against his night attack, and there will never be any chance if he really fights.

"Let the fifth regiment attack!"

(End of this chapter)