Chapter 19 The Fire in the Urn
Lang Tan welcomed the Liao army into the city with a humble smile. When the Liao army walked in one team, his smile became even more, just like watching his own cattle and sheep walking into the cow pen. Beside him, more than 3,000 Song troops quietly climbed up the war horses, and the powerful crossbow hidden under the ragged cloak had already opened, waiting for the general to give the order.
Suddenly, a group of people rushed over from the left of the city. The man in the lead shouted loudly: "Be careful, there is a fraud!"
Lang Tan was stunned for a moment, and decisively waved the red flag in his hand. He saw the Qianjin Gate at the top of the Panguan City landing on the ground, smashing several Liao troops who were about to enter the city into meat paste. At the same time, the Song army threw away the cloak on its body, and covered the Liao troops who were flashing with metallic crossbows and covered the sky with the Liao troops close at hand.
Ge Tianfang's long sword stabbed into the Liao Zhongjun's ribs and grinned, "Grandpa will give you the knife." The Liao Zhongjun did not expect that the man who was as humble as a ball of mud just now would instantly turn into a beast. When he fell from the war horse, he saw countless Song troops throwing a black iron egg into the middle of the Liao army's troop...
The Liao people on the top of the city fell like raindrops. Those people were planning to take over the Liao army, which was defending the city. They were caught off guard and were killed by Lang Tan's deputy general Tan Wei.
After disposing of the Liao army scouts, Tan Wei laughed and threw a torch into the Liao army group that was spinning in the urn. The sand on the ground was mixed with gunpowder and sulfur. After the torch landed on the ground, it quickly exploded. In an instant, the firewood that Lang Tan was consciously lit there, and then a large amount of tinder oil cans were thrown down.
Lang Tan saw the flames in the urn city. He shouted happily and led the Liao army, who had begun to rush toward the people and horses, to launch a surprise attack. The sharp long sword flew through the enemy group and soon turned red.
The eight-ox crossbow, crossbow cannons and catapults on the top of the city were crazily pouring out all kinds of killing weapons to the Liao army. The neat Liao army completely turned into a pot of porridge, and the flat city gate turned into a Shura slaughterhouse.
Wugu Poison endured his greed and did not follow the vanguard into the city for his own face. Now, seeing this miserable scene, he only knew how to shout and screamed without meaning.
"Retreat. Retreat!" The commander of the Xijing Army, Yelu Hande, reacted immediately after a long battle in the formation, and quickly led his subordinates to shoot the ground with bows and arrows to cover the panicked front army out of the shooting range of the powerful crossbow at the head of the city.
For the army, the most harmful weapon is never the fierce weapon like the Baniu Crossbow. It is a powerful crossbow. Its range is not as good as the Baniu Crossbow. Its victory is that it has a large number. Once it starts to fire, it will cause a heavy rain strike.
Xiao Huoer was extremely angry. He jumped out of the carriage and stepped onto the war horse and went to settle the score with the despicable Song army. The black bones that had recovered from their senses dragged him tightly, begging him not to take risks at this time, and he would wait for the army to retreat anyway before talking.
Lang Tan stopped at the farthest range of the crossbow arrow. Seeing that the Liao army had already stabilized its position under the scolding of a Liao general, he knew that this was the only way to do today. He looked at the Liao army with corpses everywhere behind him and laughed loudly, then led his subordinates to head straight towards the west gate.
When the Liao army rectified its troops and rushed to the city again in the dense rain of arrows, they could hear the desperate roar of the front army behind the city wall, but could not move forward. The explosions of gunpowder bombs broke out one after another, blocking them ten feet away.
The oar shield cannot block the gunpowder bullet or the Baniu Crossbow. Once the gunpowder bullet explodes in front of the oar shield, the oar shield will be broken. Then the crossbow arrow of the Baniu Crossbow took the opportunity to drill in, forming a bloody path among the Liao people.
The Liao army, who had no preparations for siege, had to retreat slowly again. Xiao Huoer held a sharp blade in his hand and blood dripped down. He shouted to the sky at Lang Tan who was laughing wildly on the top of the city, and he must kill the barbarian gate without leaving any chickens and dogs!
Lang Tan didn't care about Xiao Huoer's poisonous oath. He looked at the Liao people struggling desperately in the flames with smoke all over his body, but sighed that the Liao people entering the city were not as many as he had expected.
In order to build this urn city, Lang Tan has worked hard for half a year. Without stone, he even demolished the house of the dilapidated Pianguan Guardian. There was no white ash that was bonded with bricks and stones. He could only replace it with clay and rice soup. Now, more than 2,000 Liao cavalry have died here, no matter how much suffering he suffered.
The moon climbed up, and Lang Tan watched as the fire under the urn city gradually faded and no Liao people ran away under the city. He opened the gate of the urn city and was about to send people to clean up the mess. As soon as the gate opened, a large pile of burning corpses fell in. Lang Tan himself was surprised, how the small urn city gate had so many people crawled into the small urn city gate.
The corpse was burned and bonded together, and a terrifying smell spread. Lang Tan himself also vomited wildly at the first time. Since then, Lang Tan has never touched his favorite roast pork again...
After dawn, the soldiers cleaned the city themselves. When the carts dragged the bodies of the Liao people through the streets, there were more eyes hidden behind the wooden boards, but more were careful to hide themselves better.
"The general is wise, and today he used a plan to kill more than 3,000 Liao people..."
The voice of the soldiers came out from afar, and there was no echo from the people. Even the cheers were not heard. All the eyes in the gaps in the wooden board disappeared, and only the sound of the wheels crushing the stone road. Tan Wei was a little angry, but Ge Tianfang sighed and said, "A battle is not enough to win back the hearts of the people. The damn Hua Tianshou hurt the hearts of the people here. After listening to what he did, I was the people and I didn't believe anyone."
Lang Tan punched the city wall and said hatefully: "I dare to make a promise. When the Liao people enter the city today, the person who calls the Liao people to be careful must be Hua Tianshou, the thief. If it weren't for him calling out my plan, at least one thousand more Liao people would be able to pretend in the urn city."
Tan Wei shook his head: "No, even if you didn't take action, I would order the Thousand-Kim Gate to fall. At that time, some people from Liao were already asking why there was a urn city here, and it seemed that they were already suspicious."
Lang Tan said: "After all, our urn is built too small. If I could build a city in Pianguan City, Xiao Huoer would definitely not return."
Ge Tianfang said: "Now, there are too many people in the Liao people. When I went to see Xiao Huoer, I saw the catapult and the ladder for siege. They came prepared. Although we won the first stop, the days ahead will not be very easy. Under the attack of those large catapults, the fragile city walls of the city will not be blocked for long."
Lang Tan said indifferently: "It's not a problem to hold on to ten days, right? Xiao Huoer wants to destroy my side barrier. I'm afraid it won't be possible without ten days of hard fighting? If you stay for ten days, you'll stick to ten days, and then we run away."
Ge Tianfang hesitated and said, "It's easy for us to hold on for ten days and then retreat before the general. But what should the people in the city do? The general doesn't care about the gains and losses of a city and a place, and I'm afraid we won't allow us to leave the people to the Liao army to vent our anger. Our Beijing West Army has never done such a shameful thing."
Tan Wei said angrily: "These people have a little bit of the awareness of the Song people. The soldiers fought hard for almost two hours yesterday and didn't have time to clean the battlefield. The people could secretly search for property on the corpses of Liao people at night. They didn't know how to clean the battlefield when dawn. The brothers saw them stealing things, but they were so poor that they couldn't stop them. These ungrateful things were not worthy of pity."
Lang Tan glanced at Tan Wei and said, "Old Tan, you were from a general. When the general was in charge of Lingnan in the early years, you were the first group of masters who exchanged money for achievements. Later, a bloody battle in Niuer Mountain in Qingtang was to truly become a good man in my Beijing West Army. You don't understand some of the things about the Beijing West Army. The general allowed us to abandon the city, and never thought that defending the city was victory if we died. Therefore, it is not a big deal for us to abandon the city, but remember that the prerequisite for abandoning the city is to send the people away first. Otherwise, even if we abandon the city and then fight with the enemy, our heads will definitely be taken to the command of the three armies by the commander! This is almost uncontroversial."
Ge Tianfang put his hand on Tan Wei's shoulder and patted him twice and said with a smile: "You are born with a golden key in your mouth. How can you know the suffering of the people? The reason why these people look like this is thanks to Hua Tianshou. The army has cheated them into such a miserable situation. Don't they allow them to be more indifferent?"
"What the two brothers said is very true. Tan Wei and Menglang. If Hua Tianshou falls into our hands, can we hand it over to me? I will definitely put him in a dilemma. This dog-good guy still has some tricks in Tokyo. The two brothers will definitely cause trouble. I don't have so many concerns. My girl is also a royal concubine after all, and he can't afford to offend me."
After hearing what Tan Wei said, Lang Tan smiled and said, "Even if Hua Tianshou is well-in-lawed, he reminded the Liao people yesterday that the actions of the three tribes were enough to make him the Yi tribes. If you don't talk about others, your emperor brother-in-law will not be spared. Now we have to take advantage of the fact that the Liao people have not crossed the river and surrounded us. It is best to send the people out of the city now. Only when the people in the city are gone can we have a happy battle.
Lao Ge, you can do this, Lao Tan and I can’t do this!"
Ge Tianfang smiled and nodded and turned around to arrange that the reason why the people in the city did not leave before was that they were reluctant to leave their jars and jars. In addition, it was no longer surprising that the Liao people came to Pianguan. They just rob things and did not kill people, so everyone was lucky. Now that the Song army has killed so many Liao people, the next thing must be a very terrifying revenge. It is not difficult to persuade the people to leave now.
Tan Wei looked at the Liao army camps lined outside the city and couldn't help but feel worried and asked in a low voice: "General, do you think we can win this time?"
Lang Tan smiled and said, "I have never lost in a war!" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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