The daily life of a farm girl raising a family

Dingyuan City is hundreds of miles away.

Lu Yuan, the guard of Dingyuan City, was furious at the headquarters at this time: "Qin Donglai, the guard of the West City Gate, do you know your guilt?"

"The general will finally be convicted." Qin Donglai knelt down on one knee.

"The war is about to begin, but you let Xizuo almost open the gate of the West City. What city did you say you were guarding? It would be a joke if the gate was opened. I can't afford to lose this person, and the head on your neck should be at this time. Beheaded.”

"The general will be convicted and will definitely not let this happen again." Qin Donglai replied with a dark face.

Why did he have a dark face? Because he was also incomprehensible. He was fine at first, but it was because a soldier guarding the west gate suddenly fell to the ground, attracting the attention of most of the soldiers at the city gate, and then several other civilians secretly went to prepare to open the gate. city ​​gate.

Fortunately, a sharp-eyed sergeant noticed in time and stopped several people from opening the door. Afterwards, it was found that the soldiers who fell to the ground and the few people who opened the city gate were all the work of Rong Di.

It was not his fault that the soldier under Qin Donglai had an affair with Xizuo. It was because the soldier was transferred by Rong Di Xizuo in the city while off duty.

The soldier who was transferred was a new recruit and was not familiar with the other soldiers. In addition, the detailed work was used to cover up the makeup, so no one cared at all.

Presumably, this was also a careful arrangement made by Rong Di Xizuo after careful investigation.

"Qin Donglai, there is a war now. Let me remember this time for you. If there is another time, I don't care what the reason is. Even I will have to go back to the capital to plead guilty, not to mention you.

And you all, go down and straighten out the military discipline, check and sort out your subordinates, go down. "Guardian Lu Yuan looked at the generals present and ordered.

"Yes, General." The guards replied.

Just as Lu Yuan was about to get up for his routine inspection, suddenly there was a rapid drumbeat from the direction of Xicheng.

Lu Yuan heard that the secret passage was not good because it was a signal for the enemy's attack.

Lu Yuan put on his helmet, put on his sword and hurriedly rode towards the west city gate tower.

Because the Rongdi army that besieged Dingyuan City had heavy trebuchets, they would attack the city as long as they felt the time was right, regardless of whether it was day or night.

It seems that the detailed construction of the west city gate and the enemy troops outside the city have already colluded and planned the time. The craftsmen in the city opened the city gate, and the enemy troops outside the city launched an attack.

When Lu Yuan arrived at the West Tower and looked into the distance, there were endless torches, and according to visual inspection, the number of people was at least tens of thousands.

"Prepare archers, prepare rolling logs, and prepare kerosene." Lu Yuan could give the order.

As the order was issued, the defenders on the tower became busy.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen were galloping around with torches at night. This was a magnificent scene.

The enemy stopped about a mile away from the city and did not rush to attack. They were probably waiting for something, or maybe they were just the vanguard to test the strength of the city.

At this time, the general of Rongdi's vanguard force asked the priest around him in Rongdi language: "The city gate has not been opened for a long time. It seems that the plan has failed."

"I didn't have much hope in the first place. The hope of success with just a dozen of them was too small. Besides, we were just sent by the great elder to test the reality. Just pretend to attack." The priest said.

"Since this is a test, let's start." After finishing speaking, the general leading the army ordered a soldier to step forward and call for surrender.

The soldiers did not light torches, otherwise they would be easily seen by the archers on the tower.

The soldiers came to a distance of about a hundred meters from the city tower and began to shout. They shouted in the relatively fluent Dali language: "Dingyuan City Guards, listen, my general orders you to open the city and surrender, and do not make unnecessary resistance. Otherwise, Dingyuan City will be turned into powder under the siege of my 200,000-strong army."

Lu Yuan on the city tower nodded to his soldiers. The soldiers understood and shouted towards the outside of the city: "Fight if you want, stop talking nonsense, we will kill as many as you come." "Then you wait until the city is broken. Massacre the city." After saying this, Rong Di's soldiers rode back on horseback.

Then the enemy camp remembered the sound of the trumpet. After the sound of the trumpet, there was the mechanical sound of dozens of trebuchets, which made the defenders of Dingyuan City feel terrified.

In the age of cold weapons, the trebuchet was comparable to the artillery in the era of hot weapons. No one could hear this sound and still feel calm.

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Following a concealed order, the sergeants who had been drawing their bows and unloading arrows and carrying logs and kerosene immediately evacuated and hid under the city wall.

As soon as I hid, I heard the "dong-dong-dong" sound of the stone colliding with the city wall. Suddenly, the bricks and stones were splashed, and it was full of shock.

Several unlucky soldiers were injured by flying masonry in the first round of trebuchet attacks, but fortunately no one died.

When the trebuchets attacked the city wall, the Rong Di army one mile away also began to charge towards the city wall.

In the siege battle, the horses were useless, so they all abandoned their horses and charged on foot. When the Rong Di army rushed near the city wall, the trebuchets had already fired five rounds.

At this time, there were dozens of large holes on the city wall, and many of the buildings on the city tower were dilapidated. Only half of the gatehouse remained, and the other half had been destroyed by trebuchets.

Lu Yuan estimated the time it would take for the Rongdi infantry to charge to the city wall, so he stepped forward and ordered: "The soldiers of the West City garrison, step forward to defend."

Although the trebuchets are still throwing stone bombs, they can no longer dodge, otherwise Rong Di will start to climb the city wall. So generally speaking, you can only avoid the first few rounds of stone bullets.

The defenders of the city began to defend according to the order, and the trebuchets also began to cause casualties to the defenders.

If a stone is flicked down, the body will be shattered immediately upon impact, and the flying debris of masonry will also cause damage to the human body.

The Rongdi soldiers below the city pushed the ladder cart and began to move up the city wall, while the defenders above the city desperately greeted the people below the city with bows, arrows, rolling wood, rocks, and kerosene.

The main function of kerosene is to burn siege vehicles and ladders. This kerosene is only the most primitive kerosene. It does not burn fast and the fire is not strong enough, so its lethality to humans is limited.

Soldiers from both sides defended and attacked, and combatants on both sides continued to suffer casualties.

The fighting lasted from night to morning, and the combatants on both sides were exhausted.

After leaving the corpses on the ground, Rong Dimingjin retreated his troops.

"These bastards." Lu Yuan spat out the blood foam in his mouth and said bitterly.

"Please immediately count the number of casualties, re-reinforce the city walls and gates, notify the army doctors to treat the injured as soon as possible, organize the remaining doctors in the city to join the treatment team, and replenish the defense equipment."

After Lu Yuan issued a series of orders, he stood up and returned to the headquarters with the supervisor. After cleaning up, he sat on the main seat and waited for the battle report with the supervisor.

Half an hour later, deputy general Sun Wei came in to report: "General Qi, our army suffered 863 casualties in this battle, including 520 killed, 103 seriously injured, and 260 lightly injured. ten people.

The enemy left behind 2,526 corpses with unknown serious injuries. When the enemy retreated, they took away those who were not killed in the battle. "

"Well, the number of enemy casualties is roughly similar to what I expected. Judging from the proportion of previous battle losses, the number of lightly and seriously injured personnel is at least close to the number of casualties. That means that the enemy's casualties in this battle are around 5,000."

"But..." Deputy General Sun Wei looked like he was hesitant to speak. His face didn't look good.