Chapter 114 Section 23

Although the Han soldiers and Hu soldiers were very brave, it was still useless to capture Zhizhi City today. We could only bury the pot and cook outside the city. I ordered to go on: "At night, watch out for the Huns to break out of the siege, and the strong crossbowmen will monitor them in batches." The night was indeed very restless. At midnight, someone reported that there were tens of thousands of Kangju cavalry on the outskirts of the army, and they wanted to attack us. I called Yinudu over and scolded him: "Didn't you say that most people in Kangju hate Zhizhi Shanyu? Why are you helping him at this time?"

Yinu said uneasily, "Maybe there is a leader of the Xiongnu in the army. Kangju people have always been afraid of the Huns, so they dare not refuse to listen." "Damn it, go persuade me to surrender, or I'll kill them all." Although I said that, I was actually very worried in my heart. It's dark now, and it's dark everywhere. If the Huns attacked from inside and outside, it would be really troublesome. Yinudu agreed and went.But it didn't seem to have any effect. The Kangju people still launched dozens of attacks. Fortunately, they were not strong in combat and were easily repelled by us.And in the direction of Zhizhi City, there were indeed hundreds of Huns cavalry trying to break out of the siege in the dark night. Fortunately, I had arranged it properly, and the crossbow arrows were fired. Returned to the city.

I ordered the soldiers to continue to take turns digging the mountain, especially the Hu people, because they were worried that we would retreat if we could not capture the city, and that Zhizhi Shanyu would retaliate against them.The Huns are obviously very worried about our strategy. The best way to deal with the accumulation of soil to attack the city is the strong crossbow and continuous crossbow, which is what the Huns are not good at.If we wait until our soil mountains are successfully accumulated, their doomsday will come, so they send out cavalry to charge outward from time to time, planning to break through.But under our strong defense, we were helpless.

Three quarters into the night, the soldiers who were digging soil under the city were working happily. Suddenly, many Xiongnu soldiers appeared from under the outer wooden city. They shot arrows outside through the gap of the wooden city. After a buzzing sound, A large number of trench-digging soldiers lay in the trenches they dug. When I heard the report, I was furious and ordered: "Light me the wooden city." "But we can't get close to Mucheng." A military commander said. I said angrily, "Don't you know how to use rockets?" He murmured, "The rocket has already been used, but as soon as the arrow hit, they immediately sprayed sand with oranges to extinguish the fire. The flame carried by the arrow shaft is already very weak, and it cannot withstand the cover of quicksand."

I cursed loudly: "Damn it, this damn Zhizhi really has a lot of skills." At this time, a Hu Bing from the Western Regions next to him immediately volunteered and said: "We have a kind of stone grease, which is extremely flammable. The method is absolutely indestructible, I don’t know if I can try it.” I was overjoyed: "Of course you can try." I watched him run out immediately, and ordered his subordinate Hu Bing to bring out buckets of black paste.I ordered the shieldmen of the Han soldiers to escort them close to the wooden city, and then set up a stone cart, and threw the barrels of stone fat on the wooden city with a loud noise. The stone fat was very sticky, and as soon as it touched the wooden city, it immediately looked like black paste. stick on it.The other Han soldiers fired their arrows at random, each with a ball of fire on it. As soon as the arrow hit the wooden building, there was a sound of "huhu", and the place where the stone grease adhered immediately burst into flames, and the wooden city was enveloped in a short while. In a fire.Such a spectacular situation, obviously, even if it is pouring rain, there is nothing to do about it.

The fire burned all night.Under the shining light of the sky, the Kang lay soldiers on the periphery did not dare to attack again.The Huns in Zhizhi City were also chilled and stopped coming out. The two sides were struggling with each other like this, and the sky was gradually getting brighter.The burning embers of the wooden city and the rising sun set off each other, making me suddenly feel that the world in front of me has changed greatly.Yesterday there was peace in front of Zhizhi City, but today there is blood flowing everywhere and piles of corpses. Gan Yanshou stood on the rushing car and looked around. Maybe this situation brought back memories of this veteran general. He is also more excited now, and called me: "My lord, come, play the drums with me, and order the soldiers to destroy this place." Morning food."

I don't seem to know him anymore: "I didn't expect Brother Jun Kuang to speak well!" He smiled embarrassingly: "Don't fucking think that all of us who came from Yubayashi Yingqi are Baiding." He raised his drum spine and struck violently. The strength of this old man is really amazing. In an instant, the sound of drums was loud and overwhelming. The commanders of each trilogy have passed on the order, and the soldiers shouted "destroy this court food, destroy this court food", while the Kangju people in the periphery retreated like a tide, throwing away their armor and armor, and never went back. mean.

I breathed a sigh of relief, now I can turn my head and concentrate on dealing with the Huns in Zhizhi City. After fighting all morning, the Han soldiers finally broke into the wooden city with difficulty, but the inner earth city was still tightly closed, and they couldn't break into it in a hurry.The city tower was full of Huns again, drawing their bows and shooting arrows down, the arrows rained down, stone balls kept rolling down from the stone troughs on the city, and the Han soldiers fell down one after another screaming.Zhizhi Shanyu and dozens of Yan clans around him also shot at random with their bows. I was furious, threw the drum, picked up a crossbow, mounted my horse and galloped to the gate tower, and the guards hurried to follow. Guarding in front of me with a shield, I shouted loudly: "Hutuus." He suddenly heard his name called, and looked at me subconsciously.Zhi Zhi was caught off guard, screamed, and fell on his back.The dozen or so Yan clans in the city also screamed and bowed down and retreated from the tower.

I was overjoyed and shouted: "Zhizhi is dead, hurry up and attack the city." The soldiers regained their excitement and conveyed the news of Zhizhi's death one after another.Perhaps under this excitement, it didn't take long before Tucheng was finally knocked down by a log with a bang, and soldiers rushed in like a tide. I was riding on the horse, watching the soldiers pouring in, the killing sound in the city was loud, and there were endless screams. I don't know how long it took, they caught the dying Zhizhi Shanyu in the city, and carried him to me.Looking at this irreconcilable person, a layer of sadness suddenly surged in my heart.Because from him, I seem to see the sadness of a hero in distress.He is disheveled, with a big wound on his nose, half of the arrowhead is still stuck in it, and blood is flowing from the wound, even if I don't kill him, he won't live long.

He saw me and smiled: "What a prick, I was finally shot to death by you." I looked at his aging face. Although his strong physique made him look relatively young from a distance, I realized that this famous butcher in the Western Regions was actually an old man with spots on his face. This kind of aging has been integrated with years of exhaustion, probably left over from years of panic and running away.It's not easy for him either. "If I knew this earlier, why bother? Wouldn't it be enough to surrender to my big man?" My tone couldn't help showing pity. He suddenly became agitated: "I can't bear to be under that coward Jihouxuan." As soon as he was agitated, the blood on his face spurted twice like a spring that was about to dry up.

I sighed: "But you will always be under him. History will only record that Zhizhi Shanyu, who rebelled against the Han Dynasty, was killed; but Hu Hanxie Shanyu will be famous in history." "That's what you said. If the Xiongnu had descendants, they would have their own criteria for judging." He breathed out with difficulty, and said, "By the way, please call me Zhizhi Shanyu." I said: "Maybe. You are dying. Although I shot you with an arrow, I still want to cut off your head while you are alive. It is not for me, nor for the Han Dynasty, but for... ..." He laughed and said, "It's because of Yisu, she died, but I am as sad as you are." I shouted: "It's different, you are just regretful, but I am sad, it is pain, the pain that cannot be added in my life! He suddenly coughed violently, forced a smile, and said, "Come quickly, otherwise I really can't live to wait for your knife." I pulled out my sword and said, "Okay, Shanyu." As I said that, I grabbed his vertebra-shaped bun with one hand, and with a click, his head fell into my hand, and the blood in his chest was like a fountain , splashed all over me. Holding the head of Zhizhi Shanyu, I stared at his death face for a long time, then slowly walked out of the camp gate, the sun had already risen three poles, and in Dahan, it was the time for the people's house to have breakfast, and there were dense crowds of people in front of me. Standing full of dusty soldiers.Step by step, I walked up the unfinished earth hill, raised Zhizhi Shanyu's head, and shouted loudly: In ancient times there was Tang Yu, but now there are strong men!Anyone who commits a strong man will be punished even if he is far away! All the soldiers raised their weapons in unison, and howled wildly after me.I have never seen so many people shouting the heroic words I created, but at this moment I suddenly felt empty in my heart, and I don't know why.