Since Luo Yang received the help of the Mohist disciples, he has set up some mechanisms on the city walls of various important cities and counties under his rule. These mechanisms can ensure that the city walls remain strong in normal times, but when the cities and counties are in danger
, and can completely destroy the city wall from within the city in a short period of time!
The largest building in a city is not the palace in the city, but the city wall! When the city wall completely collapses, a new defense line will undoubtedly be formed, which will buy considerable time for the defenders in the city to retreat. Longxi
Although the city is located in the hinterland of Western Qin, it is the capital of a county after all, so it is also in Luoyang.
Someone ordered someone to set up such an agency in Longxi City. However, only the core personnel within Luoyang and the city guards would know about this matter. Jiang Jiong also learned about it from Deng Dang two days ago.
Yes, but Jiang Ji gave the order to destroy the city wall not to escape, but to prepare for the next battle.
And everything was just as Jiang Ji had expected. Yadan and others who originally thought that after conquering the city, they only needed to open the city gate and the cavalry could march straight in, but they did not expect that the defenders would have such a trick to kill them all! This
When the city wall collapsed, it not only blocked the road to the city, but also killed and injured more than half of the three to four thousand Qiang soldiers who climbed up the city! No matter how calm Yadan was, he was still full at this moment.
His face was gloomy, so dark that he could drip with ink! Looking at the ruins of the city wall in front of him, which were as high as three or four people, it was obviously impossible to clear a passage in a short time. It seemed that we still had to rely on the Qiang people.
The army climbed into the city! It's ridiculous that they have such a powerful army of Huns cavalry in their hands, but they have not played any role from the beginning to the end. Anyone who encounters this kind of thing will feel aggrieved.
Fortunately, the defenders could no longer rely on these ruins to let go. Yadan directly ordered the entire Qiang army to rush towards Longxi City. This included not only the army commanded by Yue Ji previously, but also this time.
More than 30,000 soldiers and horses brought by Yadan swarmed towards the city wall. Although the ruins of the city wall were still high, they could no longer stop these Qiang warriors who grew up in the mountains!
At the same time, at the gate of the Prefect's Mansion in the city, dozens of soldiers were quickly walking into the Prefect's Mansion. Among them, two soldiers were holding a man covered in blood on their left and right, moving very carefully for fear of touching him.
The wounds on that man's body. These soldiers are naturally the defenders who have just been trapped from the west of the city, and the bloody man is Jiang Jiong who was rescued by the soldiers at the critical moment!
Although he did not die on the other side of the city wall, Jiang Ji's situation is definitely not optimistic now. He has more than ten stab wounds of various sizes on his body. It is a miracle that Jiang Ji can still hold on! So as soon as he entered the door, the soldiers
He shouted loudly: "Medical officer! Medical officer! Call the medical officer quickly! Go quickly!"
Now the city was in chaos. After learning that the city had been destroyed, the people all started running to the east gate. They couldn't even hope to find a doctor. Only in the prefect's mansion were there medical officers appointed by the government, so the soldiers
I will carry Jiang Ji here in a hurry. Fortunately,
, the medical officer arrived quickly, and at the urging of the soldiers, he hurriedly treated Jiang Jiong. After checking, the medical officer looked extremely nervous and said hurriedly: "Quick! Send him to the hospital.
Go to the front hall, it’s not convenient for treatment here! Be careful! Don’t touch his wounds!”
With the help of the medical officer, the soldiers felt a little more at ease. Although the situation seemed a little bad according to the medical officer's tone, it was better than being at a loss just now. They immediately followed the medical officer's words and carried them carefully.
Jiang Ji then walked inside. At this moment, the prefect who had lived in the house before
Jiang Jiong's wife, Su Shi, also came after hearing the news. When she saw Jiang Jiong being held up by the soldiers, she recognized her husband at a glance, and was so frightened that she almost fainted! After all, those soldiers were also relatively strong.
Cleverly, he separated two people to stand in front of Su, so as not to frighten her too much.
"Damn! Come here! Come here!" At this time, another shout came from behind everyone, but this voice was very familiar to everyone. It was the voice of Longxi Prefect Deng Dang. Except for a few soldiers
Supporting Jiang Ji, he and the medical officer continued to rush to the front hall. Everyone else also turned and walked towards the door, only to see Deng Dang standing in front of the prefect with blood stains on his body.
At the gate of the mansion, there were nearly thirty soldiers behind him, and Yi Ji, who had rushed to the North City Gate before, was also among them! But now Yi Ji was leaning on a soldier, and seemed to have fainted.
In the past, Deng Dang rushed inside with his soldiers in a hurry, while still shouting: "Where is the medical officer? Medical officer? Damn it! Call the medical officer out quickly!"
"General Deng!" The soldiers escorting Jiang Jiu quickly stepped forward to salute Deng Dang and said, "The medical officer is treating General Jiang's injuries now! It's in the hall in front!"
Deng Dang often took his soldiers and horses out for training, so he was very familiar with the defenders. He recognized him at a glance as an officer who had stayed with Jiang Jiong before. After hearing what the other party said, Deng Dang couldn't help but exclaimed: "What?
?What happened to Wenjie? What happened to him?"
At this time, Su, who had been stopped by the soldiers before, also ran over and asked eagerly: "What's wrong with my husband? Tell me quickly!"
If it were just the Su family, those soldiers might have to consider whether to speak out in order not to scare her, but now there was Deng Dang in front of them, so the soldiers naturally did not dare to disobey Deng Dang's orders.
Neng answered honestly: "General Jiang suffered a lot of injuries when he was defending the city. When he finally activated the mechanism, he was hit in the back by a huge rock. He is still unconscious! The medical officer is inside for treatment.
Where is General Jiang!"
Although the soldier had already briefly talked about Jiang Ji's situation, after listening to Jiang Ji's words, Su immediately rolled her eyes and fainted. When Deng Dang saw it, he quickly instructed the people around him to
Su Shi sent him down, took a deep breath, and looked back at Yi Ji, who was still unconscious behind him. He and Yi Ji were in front.
We met at the entrance of an alley not far away. Yi Ji was already unconscious at that time, but listening to the explanations from the soldiers around him, the situation was similar to Jiang Ji's, except that Yi Ji's injuries were much worse than Jiang Ji's.
Ji was better. Deng Dang quickly asked his subordinates behind him to carry Yi Ji to the hall in front and let the medical officer treat him at the same time.
After doing this, Deng Dang frowned and looked outside the prefect's mansion. He also came after activating the mechanism of the city wall. Now it seems that all three walls have been lost. Even those walls
The ruins will definitely not be able to stop it for long. It seems that the fall of Longxi City has become a foregone conclusion! Deng Dang gritted his teeth.
, listening to the bursts of killing sounds coming from the direction of the city gates on three sides, he turned around and shouted to a group of soldiers: "Listen! I have decided to stay here and coexist with Longxi City! You are willing to stay.
Just stay! If you are willing to escape, I will never stop you! I only ask you one thing! Send General Jiang’s wife and children away safely!"
As soon as Deng Dang finished speaking, no one came out to run for his life. All the soldiers puffed up their chests and held the sword tightly in their hands. One of the soldiers shouted to Deng Dang: "General Deng! We won't leave! We won't leave."
We must live and die with Longxi City!" The other soldiers also loudly agreed, and no one wanted to back down!
After hearing what the soldiers said, Deng Dang felt his eye circles getting hot. He nodded vigorously and shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers! It's okay for us men to die here. We are soldiers, and this is our responsibility! But!
General Jiang’s wife and children cannot die! We must send them out of the city!”
When Deng Dang said this, the soldiers no longer shouted, but looked at each other and stopped talking. Jiang Ji was usually very good to the soldiers, but now he didn't know whether he was alive or dead inside, and they didn't want to look at Jiang Ji.
My wife and children also died here. I fell silent.
After a moment, one of the soldiers suddenly shouted: "Why don't we let Xiaowu and Xiaoliu go! They are not from Longxi, and they have an old mother to support at home! They can't die here!" This suggestion was made immediately.
This was approved by all the soldiers.
"No!" Immediately, two voices sounded, but it was the two brothers Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu whom everyone said. Xiao Wu was the elder brother. They yelled at the top of their lungs: "Why should we brothers be treated as shrinking heads?"
Turtle? We won't do it! We died in the battle! The Lord will give our mother a pension, and someone will take care of our mother! Our brothers will stay and fight the enemy!"
My younger brother Xiaoliu also shouted: "Yes! We are not leaving! Since we are soldiers here, we must stay here! General Deng, didn't you say it before? This is the duty of our soldiers! If you want to leave, you choose someone else.
Let’s go! We brothers won’t leave anyway! Just run away like this
Go, even if we brothers are alive, we will never be able to raise our heads to see others! Otherwise, let’s let Brother Aaron go! Brother Aaron, you are the only seedling in your family! If you die here, your family will
But this is no match!" Xiaoliu's eyes lit up and he spotted another soldier.
But the soldier named Aaron also shook his head and rejected Xiaoliu's proposal. For a while, among the soldiers, you tried to persuade him, and he tried to persuade you, but no result came out. At this moment, there was another burst of shouting.
The sound of killing came from outside the prefect's mansion.
Hearing the cry of killing, all the soldiers who were arguing just now fell silent, even Deng Dang was no exception. Everyone's faces were full of shock and disbelief, because this time
The cry of killing came from the east of the city!
Now that three walls of the city have been breached, the enemy troops outside the city have no need to go around to the east gate to attack the city. Therefore, the shouts of killing coming from the east of the city are definitely not the enemy's army! Since they are not the enemy's