Chapter 1036 Reinforcement
It was almost impossible to hold on. There was a dangerous situation on the top of the city several times, and it was almost occupied by the enemy who rushed forward. It was barely taken back at the cost of countless lives.
As an hour passed, the city was becoming more and more dangerous. The enemy had no intention of stopping. They climbed towards the city one by one, one after another, and followed one after another, as crazy and tragic as locusts plundered the ground.
Li Mu's body was already swaying. He was so tired that he had no strength to speak. Sweat flowed down his forehead, blurring his eyes, his eyesight became blurred, and his ears were buzzing. He could hear various swords and screams and howlings, but the sound seemed to be separated by a layer of fog, as if it was coming from another world far away.
He staggered slightly under his feet. When Li Mu almost fell, someone suddenly grabbed his arm. When Li Mu turned around, he found that it was Dugu Jiu!
Before sending troops, Li Mu asked Dugu Jiu to protect his family, but he never expected that he would appear here.
"The Cui family of Boling has rebelled. Hou Junji led the army to guard Luoyang. I took the opportunity to send my sister-in-law and children to Liuqiu (TW). I will come over after I settled down. Don't worry!" Dugu Jiu tried to explain the matter clearly in the simplest words. While saying that, he did not forget to draw his sword and block the cold arrow shot at Li Mu.
"Okay!" Li Mu only said one word. Dugu Jiu ran back and forth thousands of miles to Dingxiang. It was nonsense that he persuaded him to leave.
"Huh? There are reinforcements!"
Suddenly someone shouted.
"Look out outside the city! There is a cavalry!"
Li Mu was stunned for a moment, and quickly ran to the edge of the arrowhead in three steps, squinted his eyes and looked out of the city. It turned out that there were a team of cavalrymen, about seven or eight thousand people.
The leader tied himself to the saddle, it was Usman! Behind him, there were about five thousand people, and the raised banner was written with a big word "Zhang". It was King Gaochang, the former tribe of Zhangjiazhai. The last time he guarded Dingxiang City, it was Bai Qiaoqiao who foresaw Zhang Tianai. Zhang Tianai brought the cavalry of Zhangjiazhai to greet him. Unexpectedly, they were not absent this time!
Li Mu's lips curled up and a faint smile appeared on his face.
Usman...
Li Mu suddenly felt a little regretful. He used the method he used to Usman, but he didn't expect this guy to be so loyal.
Father-in-law, you really can't bear to leave your girl as a widow!
In a critical moment, the cavalry came out of nowhere, like two sharp knives penetrated straight into the enemy's central army formation.
Seeing the cavalry penetrated from the flank towards the enemy's central army, the defenders on the city were stunned for a moment, and then there were earth-shaking cheers.
A rare fighter jet!
After squinting his eyes and looking at the situation on the battlefield outside the city, Li Mu suddenly shouted: "Wang Hu, Su Lie!"
"The last one will be there."
Pointing at the battlefield where the fierce battle outside the city, Li Mu said: "Hurry, lead 3,000 people out of the city, bring all the explosive bags, cooperate with their left and right wings to attack, you can directly penetrate from the enemy's front..."
The two of them immediately chose to execute without any hesitation, although this order was no different from sending death.
Li Mu was afraid that they didn't understand what he meant, so he quickly added: "I didn't ask you to fight, I asked you to throw explosives! Ten feet away from the enemy, then ignite and throw them out, causing chaos to the central army first. Then immediately divide the troops and connect with Usman's flanks. Remember, there is no need to fight directly with the enemy, leave at once, and guerrilla outside the enemy formation. Just throw the explosives bag into the enemy formation, and then go back to the city immediately after throwing it!"
The two understood what Li Mu meant. In simple terms, this is called "taking advantage of the situation and robbing".
"I will understand!"
Li Mu waved his hand: "Start the troops out of the city quickly!"
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The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly.
The city offensive battle was a desperate battle in the previous moment, but the next moment it became a battle between the two armies on the plains. The emergence of reinforcements changed the situation on the battlefield.
Soon a crack was opened in the city gate, and the two generals led 1,500 soldiers out of the city gate. While the enemy was fighting a fierce battle with Usman, they suddenly launched a head-on charge towards the central part of the enemy.
Such a big noise. It was impossible for the enemy to not discover it. Just as the second general led his troops out of the city gate, the middle of the enemy soon divided up a cavalry of thousands of people and rushed towards him.
Su Dingfang and Wang Hu divided the troops into two teams, one team blocking the enemy and protecting the people who threw the explosive bags. The other group focused on ignition and threw the explosive bags. They did not hold weapons in their hands, but held a torch to light them. The lead was tied up with the torch and ignited them. They lit their arms and threw them into the distance. With a loud bang, the enemy troops coming towards them suddenly turned over.
The loud explosion shocked the horse, and the oncoming cavalry fell from place to place, and many of them fell under the horse and were trampled to death.
On the other hand, the horses on the Tang Dynasty were already accustomed to the explosion of explosives, which was relatively much better, at least they could control them.
Gradually, according to Li Mu's plan, the two generals met with Usman on the flanks.
Usman had already led his cavalry to sprint back and forth between the enemy's left and right flanks. The enemy was caught off guard without any precautions and was about to kill. When he turned around and saw Su Lie leading his troops to arrive, he couldn't help laughing, raised his bloody knife and pointed at Su Lie, shouting: "General Su, we can finally compete for a while, see who killed more!"
Su Lie was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Okay, whoever kills the fewer people will ask for a drink!"
"One word is certain, kill!"
After saying that, Usman took the lead and continued to launch a third sprint towards the flank. His warriors followed closely, riding on the horse and slashing left and right, and fighting for a bloody path.
Su Dingfang was not willing to be outdone and guarded Usman's right flank to prevent him from being attacked.
Wang Hu was in another direction and formed a junction with them. He rushed and killed, and the enemy's left and right wings were defeated and fled one after another.
Amur had a gloomy face and stared at Usman and Su Dingfang, who were still rushing left and right in his own military formation, and he wanted to swallow them alive and stared at the two of them. After a long time, when signs of retreat appeared on the left and right flanks, Amur finally burst out with a cold order from his mouth.
"The left and right flanks are shrinking. Go closer to the central army. The central army's rear team allocated 3,000 people, surrounded from the left and right flanks, and surrounded..." As Amur said, he suddenly shouted like crazy: "... Leave these two cavalry teams outside Dingxiang City for me and tear them apart! If one of them is let go, I will chop you up and feed them to the dog!"
The war has reached this point and I have been so angry that I have forgotten the promise of the King of the Grassland... Killing the other party is the purpose!
When the rhythm of the war drum under the enemy's Central Army Commander accelerated in vain. Su Dingfang's heart sank and hurriedly ordered to return to the city. He did not forget Li Mu's order and should not fight with the enemy, and he retreated at once.
After greeting his subordinates, Su Dingfang shouted loudly to Usman not far ahead. Usman looked back at the Zhangjiazhai people who had already contacted the enemy, shook his head, turned around and killed him.
Su Lie is a robe, and the people of Zhangjiazhai are also robes, and he cannot abandon them.
Su Dingfang was very anxious, but the two had been blocked and had just taken advantage of it because they suddenly started to rise. Now, listening to the sound of war drums, you know that the enemy has reacted at this moment. He has made full arrangements. When the enemy mobilized most of the troops to encircle, he would never escape today.
Seeing that Usman had no intention of obeying military orders, and yellow sand was rolling not far away, it was obvious that the enemy's surrounding cavalry had rushed over. Even though Su Dingfang was anxious, he could no longer care about him. After gritting his teeth, Su Dingfang joined forces with Wang Hu before the enemy's encirclement was formed, and led his troops to quickly break out of the battle circle and gallop towards the city gate.
As for Usman...
Su Dingfang, who was riding on the horse, shook his head bitterly.
Although the reinforcements totaled more than 10,000, facing the encirclement of tens of thousands of troops, it is probably a little bit of danger. Even if they escape, the warriors of his clan members would suffer heavy losses and almost be wiped out.
The city gate was opened, and Su Dingfang and Wang Hu led the soldiers under his command to ride into the city. The city gate was open. After a while, they found that Usman had not yet left the battle circle, and the city gate finally closed heavily.
Li Mu stood at the top of the city, and everything that happened on the battlefield outside the city was visible.
He could not sit idly by and watch the destruction of this man. He could not owe this favor, nor could he explain to Zhang Tianai, and he was even more sorry for Usman's loyalty. Li Mu lit a firework, which was a signal of retreat. Usman knew what it meant.
The siege has not been completely completed yet, and there is still a gap that can be withdrawn.
However, the help to Dingxiang ended here.
Li Mu was originally planning to take this cavalry into the city. In the future, when defending the city, he could be a surprise soldier who would go out of the city at night to find opportunities to fight, harass, break camps, and guerrillas... More than 10,000 cavalry were of great use to him, and it would be no problem to persevere until Li Xiaogong returns, but now, this cavalry can no longer count on it.
Usman understood Li Mu's signal, and the Zhangjiazhai's men turned their heads and retreated back. But Usman's men did not leave and were still fighting.
Li Mu clenched his teeth, and the soldiers on the city wall were all in tears. At this moment, he had already understood Usman's choice.
After a while, Li Mu suddenly saw more than a hundred cavalry suddenly breaking out of the chaos army, covered in blood, like a ghost who had just escaped from hell and returned to the world. After finally breaking out of the siege, the enemy behind him came to them again without giving up. Usman was among them. He looked at the top of the city, and a smile appeared on his hideous face. He pulled his neck and shouted: "Marty, don't forget to promise me what I have done. My brothers, give them the identity of a good man and let them live a good life!"
"Mr. Marquis!"
Usman shouted, rushed back with dozens of people, and soon drowned in the enemy army.
Li Mu watched Usman's head fly up and was carried by an enemy soldier to show off. Blood oozed from the corners of his eyes and screamed!
Chapter completed!