Great Han Empire

Chapter 45 Yanzhao Fengyun
Tian Jing tried her best to suppress the anger in her heart, and asked loudly: "Chen Xianwei, why did Xu Wucheng's reinforcements arrive today?"

"Returning to my lord, when the people in the city heard that the barbarians were coming, they fled one after another, and Xu Wucheng was in chaos. In order to maintain the law and order of Xu Wucheng, the county magistrate had no choice but to delay the support. The officials came here overnight, There was no delay on the way. The soldiers walked for more than 300 miles and were very tired. I hope the Lord can give them a rest."

Tian Jing looked at the soldiers on the square, shook her head, and asked, "How many of you are here?"

"Return to your lord, two people from 230." Seeing Tian Jing's disappointed face, Chen Jie hurriedly added, "My lord, our county magistrate has already done our best. Everyone in the county office who can hold a knife has come, even for your lord. The cook, the old man Tian who guards the west gate, are all here. There is really no one to be found. Now in the entire Xuwu City, only the county magistrate is watching the gate with a few people who don’t leave. "

Tian Jing didn't speak, but was very moved.He pulled up Chen Jie who was kneeling on the ground, and said softly, "Go and rest."

Li Hong couldn't believe his eyes, there were still such old soldiers in the Han Kingdom.

Tian Zhong raised his head and stood up straight.He was thin, of medium height, with gray hair and a curly goatee, and his armor was very old.

Li Hong hesitated for a while, then asked, "How old are you?"

"Go back to my lord, I'm 62."

Li Hong could hardly believe his ears this time.He suddenly lost his temper.Could it be that all the middle-aged men in the Han Kingdom are dead?
He looked around, and suddenly shouted at Chen Jie's back: "Master Chen, what do you mean?"

Chen Jie hurried over.When he saw Tian Zhong, he immediately understood.He laughed: "Lord Li probably doesn't understand the situation. This Tian..."

Li Hong interrupted him, and said angrily: "Have all the middle-aged men in my Han Kingdom died? At his age, he should be at home with his grandson instead of coming to fight."

"My lord..." Chen Jie wanted to explain something, but was stopped by Tian Jing who hurried over.

When Tian Zhong saw Tian Jing, he suddenly laughed: "My lord, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

Tian Jing looked at him and sighed, "Are you all right?"

"I'm strong. I can't die, so I came here."

Tian Jing walked over, pulled him out of the ranks of soldiers, pointed to Li Hong and asked him: "This young man is not bad."

Tian Zhong nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, at first glance, he is not someone to be trifled with."

Tian Jing laughed, put her mouth close to his ear, and whispered a few words.Tian Zhong's eyes suddenly lit up after he finished speaking, "Oh, it's him. Awesome, amazing."

Li Hong was wondering about the relationship between the captain and the veteran in front of him, Tian Jing had already called him: "Come on, let me introduce you. This is my big brother, Tian Zhongtian Changjing, a veteran of more than 40 years. He was the groom of four generals and five Zhonglang generals of the Han Dynasty. The last one was Tian Yan, a Zhonglang general of Po Xianbei. After the Sunset War, Master Tian returned from defeat and specially reserved his military status for him. He Soldiers and horses are lonely and helpless all their lives, and when they are old, they get a soldier's salary and barely make ends meet, and the Han Dynasty treats him well."

"At that time, my lord is still a military officer." Tian Zhong said with a smile.

Tian Jing nodded, "This is Li Hong and Li Zimin, the head of the village. He will be the one who will be promising in the future."

Li Hong quickly saluted Tian Zhong.Tian Zhong turned pale in shock, and hurriedly wanted to return the gift, but was stopped by Tian Jing, "It's polite for me to give you a gift. Don't go up to the tower, go to the Crescent Tower."

Tian Zhong quit, "Why?"

"What can you do?" Tian Jing said angrily.

"I can help deliver arrows, carry the wounded, and carry the dead soldiers down."

Tian Jing was silent.He sighed and said, "Okay. If I die, remember to carry me down."

Li Hong and Ji Ming led 100 people each to the city walls on the left and right.Chen Jie and the rest were incorporated into a reserve team of 50 people.

A round of red sun slowly rose from the eastern horizon, and the golden sun shone on the war-torn Lulongsai, casting a layer of dazzling light on the entire fortress.Bathed in the warm sun, the soldiers felt comfortable and comfortable.

Tian Jing stood on the tower, looking at the siege troops approaching densely, feeling heavy in her heart.Uyan's reinforcements finally arrived on the tenth day of their attack on Luronse, and there were at least 3000 of them.

The soldiers stood on the tower, and their hearts were also up and down.When they withdrew yesterday, there were not so many people, but today suddenly many people came out.How many backups do these Hu people have?
Seeing the Han army abandoning Yunlou, Xiong Ba's heart finally fell to the ground.This shows that the reinforcements of the Han people have not yet arrived.With the sharp increase in casualties and unable to replenish personnel, Tian Jing finally voluntarily gave up the Yunlou, and simply stuck to the main city wall.

"Shall we take the opportunity to occupy Yunlou?" Que Ji asked Xiong Badao.

"No need. In the past, in order to avoid being attacked by the two wings of Lulong Sai, we had to find a way to occupy the Meilou and Yunlou. Now the Meilou was burned by the Han people, and the Yunlou was abandoned by the Han people. Its two wings have been broken. Let's attack, and take it down in one go before their reinforcements arrive."

After the arrival of the reinforcements, the morale of the Hu allied forces soared, and the attack was even more violent than yesterday.Wu Yan still adopts the tactics of main attack on the left side and auxiliary attack on the right side. The soldiers take turns to attack without rest.

All the soldiers up and down the fortress were shouting, and the roar was loud.The city walls were crowded with people fighting each other, and there were lying corpses everywhere above and below the city. The deafening sound of war drums and ox horns resounded throughout Luronse.

The Xianbei soldiers who came to aid this time from Baitan City were all elites recruited from different tribes. A man with strong physical strength and high morale could kill people like slaughtering pigs and sheep. That said, it was a disaster.Wu Yan arranged them all on the main battlefield, striving to win the first battle.

Although Li Hong was extremely brave, he was at the end of his battle now.Wielding a bloody saber, he led the soldiers to the city wall to block and kill again and again, and then organized everyone to charge, block, and kill.It wasn't until there was no one following him that Li Hong felt that the situation was very bad.But the enemy in front of him didn't seem to know fatigue or death, he still stubbornly and tenaciously climbed over the city wall, jumped down, and slashed with his knife.For the first time, Li Hong felt a sense of fear. He felt that what he was facing was no longer Xianbei people or Karasuma people, but lifeless and unconscious zombies.

He looked up to the sky and roared: "Support, who will support me..." Then he heard the sound of running footsteps and Chen Jie's roar.Chen Jie brandished a ten-foot-long broadsword, and angrily led a dozen people to kill him.Li Hong felt relieved, almost kneeling on the ground.He really couldn't kill him.

Chen Jie's broadsword was powerful and heavy, and those who hit it would die, and those who hit it would be injured.More than a dozen soldiers guarded him, like a fierce tiger with teeth and claws, bravely killing the enemy.His knife is long and leaves a lot of room when swinging it.He soon fell into the trap set by the Xianbei people.

Li Hong's whole body trembled violently, even the hand holding the knife was beating unconsciously.Li Hong saw the trick of the Xianbei people, and he shouted with all his strength: "Back back..."

Chen Jie didn't hear it, the voice on the battlefield was too loud.Even if he heard it, he would not retreat. He saw a Xianbei soldier rushing towards him. He swung his long knife and slashed down. He hugged the big knife.Chen Jie sneered in his heart, shook his hand and swung the knife, intending to drag him to death.Unexpectedly, the man was very strong, and Chen Jie did not pull out the sword after three strokes.It was the time when the three twitches did not twitch, and the three Xianbei people jumped up from the ground, the side, and the front respectively, and inserted the three sabers into Chen Jie's body at the same time.Chen Jie let out a huge roar, and finally drew his knife and killed his opponent.Then he fell straight to the ground.The soldiers behind roared and swarmed up, immediately chopping up the three Xianbei people into minced meat.

Wang Jin was injured in many places, and one arm was cut off, hanging on his body and shaking.He didn't feel the pain at all, and he just wanted to kill the enemy and go down the tower.All his entourage had been killed, and the surrounding soldiers, under his leadership, struggled to deal with the enemy.Inspired by the murderous spirit of Master Sima, they all went forward bravely without fear.

Wang Jin finally pierced the last enemy's chest with his sword.The long sword pierced through the enemy's body and hit the hard stones of the city wall.Wang Jin turned his head and yelled at the soldiers: "Kill..." Immediately he felt that a sharp object had been stabbed into his vest, and the severe pain caused him to let out a wild roar unconsciously.He turned around abruptly, drew out the long sword in his right hand, and inserted it into the throat of the enemy who was about to pounce on the city wall.Before the man was about to die, the saber remained undiminished, and he chopped fiercely on the long sword.The enemy soldiers fell down the tower silently.Wang Jin's tiger's mouth shook violently, the long sword couldn't hold it, and it bounced into the air along with the saber.Once again, a face, a bow, and three long arrows appeared on the city wall.One bow and three arrows, all three arrows fired together, this is a master archer.Wang Jin heard a sound, and then saw three arrows piercing his body.

Wang Jin suddenly felt that death was so simple. There was no pain, no fear, and his whole body was light, as light as a feather.Wang Jin fell into the arms of the soldier.

Li Hong rushed in and out on the top of the city wall like a madman, and finally was kicked by the enemy and fell to the ground. The three Xianbei men stared at their blood-red eyes, raised their sabers and slashed.Li Hong roared loudly, and the saber struck an enemy's thigh.The man screamed and fell to the ground.Li Hong's small ax roared and chopped into the chest of one of them.There was also a knife that was unstoppable and came straight to the neck.

Li Hong suddenly felt that he was completely liberated. Lu Longsai, killing people, setting fires, everything had nothing to do with him anymore.He smiled at the man, eyes widening.He seemed to see Fengxue, the face of Fengxue Yichen Yixi, and the figure in white clothes like blood.Then he saw a long arrow, a long arrow stuck in the enemy's chest.The man roared unwillingly, was dragged back by the remaining power of the long arrow, and fell on his back.

Li Hongda laughed.Is it so difficult to even die?Another knife, a bloody knife.The enemy lying next to Li Hong endured the severe pain of being chopped on his thigh, got up tenaciously, and raised his knife to slash at his neck.This man has killed countless comrades in arms, and he must be killed no matter what.

Tian Zhong's figure appeared next to Li Hong, he breathed heavily, and shot a deadly arrow at the enemy holding the knife at close range.

Li Hong looked at Tian Zhong's gray hair, and his laughter stopped abruptly.He felt that he was too selfish.Compared with this old man, what did he do, what did he do for the great Han country, he died, and now he wants to die, isn't it too selfish.He suddenly regained his energy and got up straight away.

"Aren't you carrying the wounded?" Li Hong asked.

Tian Zhong smiled at him, threw the bow and arrow in his hand to the ground, "I'm too old, I'm out of breath after running such a short distance." After speaking, he hurriedly ran towards the opposite side of the city wall.Tian Zhong helped up a blood-stained soldier, put it on his thin back, and disappeared into the crowd at a trot.

Li Hong looked at his back, and suddenly burst into tears.He picked up the battle knife on the ground, pulled out the small ax from the enemy's body, and went to the place where there were many people.

Tian Jing sat next to Wang Jin's corpse. He sat in a daze, looking at his subordinates who had followed him for more than ten years, and let the tears flow down his cheeks.He seems to have forgotten the bloody battlefield in front of him, and he seems to have returned to the past, to the years when we gathered and laughed together.

Wu Yan looked at Lu Longsai, who was screaming loudly, and at the setting sun that was gradually sinking to the west.He turned his head and looked at Meishan, which had been burnt black, and thought of Fatty Suli.This fat white man never gave him a good face.Now that he is dead, he misses him a little bit after being burned to ashes in a big fire.

"Decree, today the army attacked the city overnight, vowing to take Lulongsai to the death."

Xiong Ba nodded appreciatively.This Wu Yan is indeed courageous and resourceful, with extraordinary courage.That king wasn't called for nothing.Now the Han army is so exhausted that they can only parry and have no power to fight back.Soldiers have no rest, no replenishment of supplies, and no food to eat.On the other hand, the morale of the soldiers is high, the physical strength is still supportable, and the personnel preparations are sufficient.If you don't take the opportunity to take down the main city wall today, it would be a waste of opportunity.

"Order to light thirty bonfires below the city, kill cattle and roast meat."

"Order all the soldiers in the army to take turns to eat meat and rest, and take turns to attack the city. If we don't take Lulongsai today, we will all die here."

Suddenly, the earth-shattering sound of war drums sounded over Lulongsai.The sound of the drum was like a stormy sea, pounding heavily on the attacker's heart.

Wu Yan and Xiong Ba suddenly became tense, and they both saw fear and shock in each other's eyes.

(End of this chapter)