Steel Dynasty - Chapter 173

[Chapter 173 Bloody battle!]

Screams resounded on the battlefield one after another.

Niu Ben’s lips were trembling, but the bow and arrow in his hand were as ruthless as the scythe of death.

Every time he kills a person, he feels more guilty, but he knows that behind him are millions of people of the Chongqing Kingdom, and he cannot be soft-hearted.

This conflicting emotion stirred his heart like thorns.

Xiao Ming also felt bad. From a rational point of view, it was right to kill one person and save ten thousand people. But now that he was doing it with his own hands, a strong sense of guilt kept coming.

These were the unarmed people of Dayu who had been ravaged by barbarians, and the person who shot them was Tongze, whom they missed day and night.

But Xiao Ming understood that they had to bear it. Even if they were reviled by thousands of people in the future history books, they would still have to bear it.

The slaves fell one by one, and the laughter of the barbarian cavalry became even louder. They seemed to be laughing at the futility of the bull rush, because soon another group of slaves was driven over.

“General, let me out, what is this!”

Lu Fei suddenly ran over from the area he was defending, his face flushed with anger.

“General, let us get out of the city, otherwise what use are we cavalry!” shouted the soldiers following Lu Fei.

“Shut up!” Niu Ben said angrily, his voice like a bell, “Except for the fact that you only have a thousand people, who among you can match the skill of the barbarian cavalry with bows and horses, and go out to die?”

“Are you just watching the people come to die? ! They are also the people of Great Chongqing!” Lu Fei’s eyes widened.

Luo Xin also came over at this time. He grabbed Lu Fei and said, “Captain Lu, stop fooling around. Isn’t the life of the soldiers not life?”

“Isn’t the life of the common people life? For those of you who are here Let me tell you, the chief official of Chang’an, are the common people all untouchables?” Lu Fei shook off Luo Xin’s hand.

Niu Ben glared at Lu Fei angrily, “If you continue to act nonsense, don’t blame me for being ruthless and punish you with military law.”

“I’m not afraid, as long as you let me go out of the city to kill the enemy, you can look at my head when I come back.” Lu Fei shouted road.

“Lu Fei, I know you will make trouble. Do you know why you have made outstanding achievements? I just refuse to let you be the governor of Qingzhou? If I let you command the defense of the city, I am afraid that the 20,000 Qingzhou army officers will not be able to do it now. You have fallen under the bows and arrows of the barbarians. What you did seems to be brave, but in fact it is just a foolhardy act. You will not only ruin the thousand cavalry who followed you out of the city, but also millions of people. Can you Be smart!” Xiao Ming scolded.

Lu Fei was also furious, and when he came back to his senses, he gradually figured it out.

“You **** barbarians, give me a hard beating later.” Lu Fei stamped his foot and hit the city wall hard before turning around and going back.

Niu Ben sighed, “This stupid young man will never change his temper unless he suffers some losses.”

At this time, a new batch of slaves had arrived, and they walked back to the trenches.

“Fire arrows!”

Xiao Ming gritted his teeth and ordered. These traps were used to kill the barbarians, not the common people.

His heart was bleeding.

People!

I’m sorry for Cangzhou City! Wait until the Qingming Festival next year, and I will personally pour a bowl of rice wine on your graves.

“Whoosh…”

Sharp arrows poured down from the top of the city, and the people who were driven away by the barbarians continued to fall in a pool of blood.

However, the barbarians continued to drive away waves of slaves. Their purpose was not only to destroy the trap, but also to destroy the stone pillars.

From noon to evening, the defenders at the head of the city were in high spirits. It was not until the sun set that the barbarians stopped driving the people to destroy the defense facilities in front of the city.

There is no moon tonight, and everything is pitch black.

Bonfires gradually rose in the barbarian camp, and the smell of roasted sheep kept coming from there. After tonight, tomorrow would be a bloody battle.

After returning to the camp and resting for the night, Xiao Ming was awakened by deafening shouts of killing the next day.

He climbed up the city wall and saw thousands of slaves carrying ladders and rushing towards the city wall with swords, guns and clubs.

The barbarian cavalry stood far away, staring at the slaves attacking the city like a supervisor.

The 500-meter city wall, the barbarian attack was concentrated at the city gate, where Xiao Ming was standing at this time.

Yesterday, the barbarians explored almost all the traps set outside. Today, they repeated their old tricks and drove the slave soldiers to attack the city.

These slave soldiers were also the people of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but at this time they became slave soldiers of the barbarians.

“Fire the arrow!” Niu Ben roared.

The crossbowmen on the city wall immediately poured arrows down. The slave soldiers in front carrying ladders fell to the ground, while the slave soldiers behind carried ladders and continued to rush forward.

The first batch of charging slave soldiers numbered three thousand, and they were densely packed on the battlefield with a huge momentum.

In Xiao Ming’s eyes, this was more shocking than the whole school doing exercises on the playground.

The city was still dominated by crossbowmen. Since he could only passively defend in the next few years, Xiao Ming increased the number of crossbowmen in the Qingzhou Army. Five thousand of the 20,000 Qingzhou Army were crossbowmen.

At this time, these crossbowmen displayed terrifying long-range killing capabilities, and the crossbow arrows were very powerful within a range of 100 meters.

However, these slave soldiers seemed to have been trained. Soon a row of slave soldiers with shields appeared in front of them, and their speed slowed down.

But this formation allowed them to reduce casualties.

Zhan Xingchang frowned, his mood was complicated at this time, and his sympathy for these slaves suddenly disappeared, because at this time they became fierce enemies again.

“Sixty meters!” Zhan Xingchang suddenly shouted at this time.

As soon as the voice fell, the slave soldiers rushing in front suddenly disappeared, and a large number of slave soldiers rolled into the trap.

One after another, the traps sixty meters away were triggered by the slave soldiers. This time, all the traps dug by Zhan Xingchang were gone.

The other slaves did not stop. For him, they could only survive if they captured Cangzhou City.

Among this choice, they can only choose to live on their own.

“Liu Xuan, are you really sure that King Qi has a very powerful weapon?”

In the barbarian camp, a barbarian with bare arms and a white cloak asked. Next to him was a man from Dayu in a blue crew-neck shirt. Smuggler.

“It’s not wrong. Although I didn’t see it, when King Qi attacked Liu’s Wubao, many people heard the loud noise. When I passed by Wubao, I saw a big hole in the wall.”

Liu Xuan said .

“Well, Khan will arrive soon with his army. Before that, we must test the true identity of this weapon. If it is really there, I will give you a few good words in front of Khan.”

Liu Xuan looked flattering .

He said, “Thank you so much, Chief Gurtai. If the Khan captures Cangzhou City and kills the King of Qi, he will also be avenging my Liu family.”

(End of this chapter)