The entire Chencang was abuzz with people, the rebels kept shouting, and the Qiang and Hu people who had dismounted their war horses rushed up from behind, until the entire mountain road was blocked.
The pressure on Chencang City Tower is undoubtedly huge. Below the city wall are the rebels who are constantly trying to climb up. A little further away are those rebels who are good at shooting. They are natural shooters on horses, and their power is still undiminished on the ground.
, Fortunately, the battle that lasted for half an hour still resulted in more casualties among the rebels, and under the tight defense of Gao Fei and others on the tower, not a single ladder was successfully raised.
Even so, the situation is not optimistic. The rebels below the city wall held up their scimitars and smashed the city wall into craters. The stones collected from the mountains seemed to be slightly inferior to the rebels' scimitars.
"Why are you reacting so slowly? You haven't fired yet?" Gao Fei saw that of the original 1,300 guards on the city tower, more than 400 had been shot to death by rebel arrows, and more than 300 had been injured and retreated.
After coming down, the waiting soldiers also climbed onto the city tower one by one. Arrows were everywhere on the city wall, but the orders passed down have not been implemented yet.
Gao Fei casually pointed at a soldier who was about to go up to the city tower and shouted loudly: "Go quickly, let Fu Xie and Gai Xun bring up the fire oil, I am going to set fire to these stupid traitors!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Fei looked up and saw a huge stone flying over from behind the city tower, carrying the howling wind, and smashing towards the rebels in the mountain road outside the city. With a "boom", the huge stone immediately hit the mountain road.
Several rebels smashed their skulls into pieces, and their brains and blood were all blurred on the ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The huge rocks falling from the sky made a loud noise, and every time they hit the ground, they would make a huge roar, followed by a burst of grief-stricken screams.
The crossbowmen commanded by Lu Heng and Xia Houlan took the opportunity to shoot down the city. Although the number was not as good as before due to the small number, they were still able to shoot down many unsuspecting rebel infantry.
The wooden rolling stones on the city tower have long been used up. Gao Fei, Zhao Yun and others all held the knives in their hands and either pushed down the ladders or chopped down the rebel soldiers who were about to climb up. They also had to carefully avoid the rebels' fire.
Arrows coming out.
The archers led by Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Guan Hai continued to fire arrows. In addition, Pei Yuanshao, Bian Xi, and Pang De commanded soldiers to launch boulders with catapults, creating a death zone for the rebels. Many people were therefore
Being pressed into meat patties and meat sauce gave those rebels a hint of fear.
When Han Sui saw this scene, he drew out his scimitar and shouted to the rebel soldiers beside him: "Come on, charge forward. With these tricks, the Han army found countless gold in Chencang City and broke into the city gate."
Whoever grabs it later will be the one to get it! Anyone who retreats without authorization will die!"
In order to establish his military prestige, Han Sui even killed a nearby Qiang with his own hands, and kept boasting about the gold and silver treasures in Chencang City. In this way, the low morale of the rebels rose again.
The people rushed into the death zone without hesitation, stepped on the corpses and rocks under their feet, and launched another fierce attack.
Hearing the shouts coming from the rebels again, Gao Fei showed his head and saw another group of rebels rushing towards him, and this time the faces of the rebels looked extremely ferocious.
The rebels below the repulsed city wall were much more ferocious.
"Master Marquis, here comes the fierce fire oil!" Marquis Li Wen took advantage of the weakened arrows of the rebels on the tower and led dozens of soldiers to deliver more than 300 jars of fierce fire oil filled with wine jars.
When Gao Fei saw the fierce fire oil being brought up, he was overjoyed and quickly distributed it to the soldiers guarding the city. Then he said to Li Wenhou: "This is enough. Go and tell Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, and Liao Hua to let them temporarily
Stop shooting, tie a cloth with kerosene on it with an arrow, and when I send someone to tell them to shoot, I will light the fire and shoot out the rocket. Then prepare some strong kerosene for Pei Yuanshao, Pang De, and Bian Xi to launch it with catapults.
"
Li Wenhou received the order and quickly walked down the tower to convey Gao Fei's order.
Gao Fei said to the soldiers on the tower: "Throw all the fire oil under the city wall, as far as possible, as far as you can."
As a result, the defender quickly threw the burning oil in his hand out of the city wall. He only heard the crisp sound of the wine jar breaking. After a while, a very unpleasant smell was smelled under the city wall, the smell of blood mixed with the smell of oil.
At this moment, what was thrown out by the catapult was no longer stones, but a jar of fierce fire oil. Gao Fei saw the opportunity and said to Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, and Xia Houlan: "Lu Heng, Xia Houlan, hold tight."
City Tower, Zilong, follow me to the city gate, and we can get out of the city to fight in a while!"
Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, and Xia Houlan all agreed: "No!"
It was too late to say that, but soon, Gao Fei quickly descended from the tower and came to the edge of Wengcheng. He saw Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Guan Hai's three thousand archers all lighting up their flaming arrows, and shouted to them: "
Shoot the arrow!"
After giving the order, three thousand rockets flew into the sky, passed over the tower on the Chencang City Gate, and landed in the mountain road. The mountain road was already filled with kerosene, and once the rockets landed, they burned quickly.
As soon as they got up, the fire began to spread in all directions, and the traces of fire oil flowing along the mountain road burned, surrounding the densely packed rebels who had just rushed into the death zone in the fire.
Flames shot into the sky, and screams could be heard outside the city gate.
Gao Fei had already asked Zhao Yun to summon Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Guan Hai, Pang De, Bian Xi, Pei Yuanshao, Li Wenhou and others, and led 200 infantrymen to the door of the city gate, and asked the soldiers guarding the gate to open the city gate.
When he opened the door, he immediately saw flames reaching into the sky. Many rebels trapped in the flames were struggling to their death, and there was a burning smell everywhere.
There were still two to three hundred remaining rebel soldiers at the city gate. They looked at the fire behind them with horrified eyes, leaning against the city wall, unaware that Gao Fei and his men had come out of the city gate.
"For the Han, for Liangzhou, for our homeland, kill!" Gao Fei chose all the soldiers he recruited from Xiangwu. He shouted inspiring slogans and was the first to rush out.
, first chopped down a rebel soldier who was still panicking.
Zhao Yun, Pang De and more than 200 people all shouted in unison: "Kill for the sake of Lord Marquis!"
The rebels were already frightened out of their wits and could not stop the small group of Han troops who suddenly rushed out. They were all killed in less than a moment.
Everyone gathered together, looking at the fire a few meters away from them, and they were very excited. At this time, Lu Heng's cry came from the tower: "Master Marquis, the rebels have retreated, and the rebels are back again."
Retreating!"
Everyone who heard this shout was extremely excited, and their inner cohesion towards Gao Fei was once again strengthened.
Lu Heng stood on the tower, rolled his eyes, and suddenly shouted: "Long live the Marquis! Long live the Marquis!"
Immediately afterwards, the voice of "Long live the Marquis" spread quickly throughout Chencang, as if he had an infectious disease, and the soldiers in the entire Chencang City cheered and shouted the slogan "Long live the Marquis".
The fire burned for half an hour before it gradually extinguished. After the fire was extinguished, a miserable scene was revealed. Many charred corpses were in grotesque postures. The ferocious faces showed their struggles before death and the scenes in the fire.
Zhongsuo suffered.
Corpses were everywhere, stretching out from the Chencang city wall. Within a distance of 400 meters, nearly five to six thousand people could be seen, not to mention those who had died in the battle and were trampled to pieces by those who came after them.
A rough estimate shows that almost 10,000 rebels were wiped out in this battle. But Gao Fei also paid a certain price. More than 300 people were killed and more than 600 people were injured. The number of troops was suddenly reduced by almost 1,000 people.
, and this number alone was only shot down by arrows.
"Killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred yourself is probably the hallmark of this era. I had underestimated this group of Qiang rebels before. If I had not made the trip to Liangzhou at that time, but had only recruited two thousand warriors from the countryside,
If so, it is estimated that after today's battle, Chencang will not be able to defend it." Gao Fei said to himself when he was cleaning the battlefield later.
In this battle, Hua Xiong and Ma Jiu's gang of government officials did not participate. Instead, they served as a logistics reserve team to help deal with the injured. In the newly built simple camp in the city, Hua Xiong, Ma Jiu and others were very busy. They helped the military doctors
Many injuries were treated, and the two hundred Xiangyong recruited by Hua Xiong were also put into use at this time.
Gao Fei had his own idea of doing this. Hua Xiong, Ma Jiu and the two hundred Xiangyong were temporarily used as logistics troops, because although Hua Xiong was personally brave, after all, he could not compare with the real officers and soldiers, and he was afraid that they would not be able to carry out coordinated operations. Except for
In addition, Fu Xie and Gai Xun also had certain contributions. They led 500 people back and forth in the city, continuously delivering arrows and stones for catapults, and later the fierce kerosene. If these things were
Now it's like ammunition for a gun.
In short, all the people who participated in the defense of the city were very tired today. The three thousand archers shot 90,000 arrows alone. On average, each person shot thirty times. This consumed the archers' physical strength.
The crossbowmen fired relatively few crossbow arrows, about ten times per person on average.
After counting the situation after the war, Gao Fei collected the arrows scattered around the city. After all, the rebels had not retreated, and there might be more violent attacks later, and arrows were important weapons for defending the city. Gao Fei
They also ordered people to repair the damaged city walls and relatively strengthen the city defenses. After finishing these and other things, it was already late at night.
After returning to the county government office, Gao Fei simply ate some dinner and then went back to his room. What he wanted to do now was to sleep. As soon as he lay down on the bed, before he could close his eyes, he heard someone knocking on the door, which made Gao Fei, who was tired after a day,
Fei was a little impatient.
"Who is it, it's so late and you don't want to let anyone sleep?"