The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 420 Fierce Battle in Texas
There are still 8000 soldiers who can fight. They have been fighting since the third watch yesterday until dawn. These people saw Luo Shixin's order to withdraw the troops again, and they all thought that they should eat and sleep again. They would wait until night to attack the city. They were all exhausted. I couldn't even wait to eat and entered Mengxiang.

Unexpectedly, they had just slept for more than an hour, when Luo Shixin sent an order to assemble again. When the drums rang, the eight thousand rebels seemed to jump up on a conditioned reflex, without any sleepiness, and quickly assembled and stood neatly.

Luo Shixin was fully clothed and stood in front with a big iron gun in his hand. He looked at the exhausted faces of the soldiers. He had already made up his mind to pay attention, and he knew that there must be a pre-war mobilization to mobilize morale. Only then is it possible to win, otherwise, rushing up like this is tantamount to death.So he turned around and whispered a few words to an accompanying captain beside him, the accompanying captain agreed and left after saluting.

Then, Luo Shixin cleared his throat and said: "Brothers in the army, I know that you are all sleepy and tired, and I want to sleep just like you. But if we sleep like this, we will never wake up again. Come on, even if some brothers are lucky enough to wake up, they will definitely become captives of the enemy. This bitch Li Xiuning is ruthless! She is not as kind as our lord, she treats the prisoners kindly, even if you are willing to surrender, you still have to be stabbed. Not this general In terms of scaremongering, according to the news that Tan Ma has just reported, Li Xiuning has sent 150 elite soldiers to set off from Linyi. The journey is [-] li. His Majesty."

Luo Shixin paused at this point to see the reaction of the soldiers.

At this moment, the sleepiness and exhaustion on the faces of the eight thousand soldiers were swept away, because their fatigue and discomfort were too insignificant compared with the safety of their lives, so they were all full of energy, and began to whisper and discuss in low voices.

At this moment, Luo Shixin spoke again, and the crowd immediately fell silent.

"Therefore, the only way for us to survive now is to take Texas before dark. This general vows to live and die with all brothers! Even if we are all killed, we must die under the city of Texas, not in our sleep. You say is not it?"

As soon as Luo Shixin's voice fell, the following boiled up: "Yes! The general orders, take Texas! I would rather die in battle than sit and wait for death. I must win! I must win..." 8000 people shouted in unison, and the shouts were loud.

Luo Shixin saw that the morale was almost up, and his whole body was full of enthusiasm.At this time, the Huotou army brought over steaming meals, and distributed them evenly on the spot, regardless of the length of the soldiers and their positions.

The officers and soldiers saw that the food this time was very rich. There was a big bowl of stewed pork with cabbage, tofu and vermicelli, each person had three steamed buns made of white flour, and each person was given a half-small bowl of spirits. Naturally, Luo Shixin also had such a meal.

After the food was distributed, Luo Shixin raised the wine bowl first, and looked at the soldiers: "Brothers, even if you die, you will be full, do it!" After speaking, he raised the wine bowl and drank it down.

"Do it!" Eight thousand soldiers also drank up the wine.

Then, when they started to eat, they were all very hungry.This little thing will soon enter the stomach.

After eating, Luo Shixin took the lead in smashing all the wine bowls and rice bowls, and the 8000 people also followed suit by throwing down all the eating things. It's called breaking the boat.

Then, each person was given a white cloth strip with the words "dead man climbing the city" written on it with a bamboo pen. Luo Shixin took one and wrapped it around his left arm. These people also had one strip and wrapped it around their arms. , Luo Shixin took the lead, and the [-] climbers held swords and contradictory cards, carried ladders, and pushed siege vehicles such as ramming vehicles and siege stone cannons, followed closely behind, surging out.

Luo Shixin's military camp is only a few miles away from Texas, so Luo Shixin's 8000 troops arrived near the moat in the blink of an eye.

Tan Mafei, who had already reported the incident, reported Li Zhongwen, the defender of the city.The situation in the city is even worse now, because Luo Shixin sleeps during the day and sieges the city at night with his own battle mode, which caught Li Zhongwen's [-] troops by surprise. Last night the city fell apart.

Although they gritted their teeth and repelled Luo Shixin's five consecutive attacks, they suffered heavy losses. After Luo Shixin's soldiers retreated at dawn, Li Zhongwen checked the number of people. After half a night of fierce fighting, more than half of the [-] soldiers were killed or killed.Excluding the wounded, there are only four thousand people left who can fight.

Although Luo Shixin retreated, Li Zhongwen did not dare to take it lightly, leaving half of the city to continue to defend the city, clean up the dead bodies at the top of the city, repair the damaged city wall, transport bows and arrows to the top of the city, cut down trees, demolish nearby houses, transport bricks, tiles, rolling logs, etc. to the city to defend the city equipment, strengthen the city defense, and the other half of the troops seized the time to rest and prepare for the next battle.

After making these arrangements, Li Zhongwen also went down to the city and returned to the camp to rest.

Like the soldiers, he was exhausted after fighting for half a night.He wanted to sleep for a while, but he fell on the bed and couldn't fall asleep. His mind was buzzing and he was anxious. It's been more than a day. Did the two reinforcements come?Dezhou is less than 4000 miles away from Linyi, and Hengshui is less than [-] miles away. Hengshui should have received his request for help last night, and the commander should have known about it. Should be able to make it to Texas.But if something goes wrong, it's hard to say.If the rescuers don't come tonight and Luo Shixin wants to attack the city again tonight, Dezhou will be in danger.How can such a large city be defended by [-] people?

He was thinking about all these things in his mind, going back and forth, lingering, lay down for a long time and rolled over a few times without falling asleep. Fell asleep.

But as soon as he fell asleep, a small school outside shouted and ran in, "General, something is wrong, the enemy is attacking the city again!"

Li Zhongwen was still asleep, and when he heard this, he jumped up from the bed like a corpse, and fought fiercely for half the night, why did they come again?It's less than two hours before they retreat?Li Zhongwen was frightened out of his wits. He straightened his armor as quickly as possible, took a big knife and flew outside to mount his horse. He gathered the 2000 men who had just fallen asleep, and led them towards the city.

When they rushed to the top of the city, Luo Shixin had already started to attack.Different from the previous few times, eight thousand warriors all wrapped their arms in white cloth, each armed with knives, guns and equipment, and they came surging forward, their shouts shook the sky, and the ground trembled under the ground of their horses.

"Brothers, hold on! Our reinforcements will be here soon, let's kill!..." Li Zhongwen knew that the comers were not good, and the good ones would not come, so he gave it up. He gave an order and brought the 2000 troops into battle.

This time Luo Shixin took the lead and rushed to the front. The morale of the [-] soldiers behind them was high.

The archers in charge of covering shot arrows desperately towards the top of the city, and the climbers in charge of climbing the city erected the ladder at the fastest speed, and then held the knife contradiction card, braving arrows, stones, rolling logs, Bricks and tiles, etc., quickly climbed up.

But they had just climbed halfway, and some of them had just approached the top of the city, and were either shot by arrows, or were hit by rolling logs and stones, and fell down.Some were even worse, the ladder broke suddenly, and some ladders were pushed down by soldiers on the city, and the dead soldiers climbing on the ladder were like pearls with broken strings, screaming and falling down the city.

One batch died and another batch went up. In the blink of an eye, the ground was full of dead bodies, blood and flesh flying, and screams.

At this time, Luo Shixin rushed to the edge of the city wall, and a bloody head was rolling down in front of Luo Shixin. Luo Shixin was quick-witted, and held the headknot in his waist, and shouted behind him, "Brothers, Come with me!" Holding a big iron gun in his hand, he flew up the ladder and rushed towards the city...

(End of this chapter)