Chapter 541 The Last Madness (continued)

Qiu Yu and Hou Dabiao stood at the head of the city gasping and breathed a sigh of relief at the back of the retreating rebels. Qiu Yu sighed, "Sure enough, the Jinyiwei fire camp lives up to its reputation. Waiting for the appeasement, if it hadn't been for you, the city would have been broken."

Hou Dabiao wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "It's really a fluke. The fire ammunition has run out. If they insist on eating again, the fire will become waste."

Qiu Yu said with astonishment, "Is there no ammunition?"

Hou Dabiao nodded and said, "This time, the ammunition in the northwest is very well equipped. Everyone is equipped with more than 100 shot bombs, but I didn't expect it to be used up so quickly. One tael of silver can only be made into five rounds. Originally, everyone saved it, but I had to make a wild beating just now, and hundreds of taels of silver were thrown away. "

Qiu Yu blinked and said, "Silver is a small matter. You don't have ammunition. It's difficult for He Jin to attack again."

Hou Dabiao spread out his hands and said, "There is no way. Lord Song still has some ammunition around him, but because they know that we are going to defend the city, they only have ten ammunitions each. Even if they get all of them, it will be useless, and they are all gone."

Qiu Yu scratched his head and looked at the rebels under the city's rectify the formation and seemed to charge again. Looking at the few 6,000 or 700 soldiers in the city and a large number of wounded soldiers who squirmed in the city and lost their combat effectiveness, he was very anxious.

There was a rapid sound of horses' hoofs in the city gate, and everyone followed the sound. More than 30 people were riding to the small square in the city gate. It was Song Nan who came. Hearing that the fierce battle at the head of the city, Song Nan led people to roughly clean up dozens of fleeing royal palace guards in the city and hurriedly came. After getting off the horse, they strode to climb up the city tower. Qiu Yu and Hou Dabiao I have already come to the top of the stairs to greet each other.

Song Nan frowned and asked, "Is the attack very fierce?"

Qiu Yu said hurriedly, "There are 5,000 rebels, and the strength is three times as strong as ours, and the head of the city is almost lost. If it hadn't been for Hou Zhenfu and his own guards, the city would have been broken."

Hou Dabiao said, "But my lord, the ammunition is out."

Song Nan's mouth was ** and scolded in his heart. From fire to ammunition, all the money was his own. He spent tens of thousands of taels of silver before and after. This guy was generous. He hit out as much ammunition as he gave him, and he was not stingy at all.

"Hey, you have to use your brain to fight a war. More than 1,500 people can't defend the attack of 5,000 homeless dogs and have run out of ammunition. What kind of battle are you fighting?" Song Nan sighed.

Qiu Yu was stunned. He thought he could be praised by Song Nan, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed. Hearing the words of Marquis Song, it was reasonable to easily defend the city.

Qiu Yu said angrily, "It's not easy to defend the rebel's desperate attack."

Song Nan snorted, walked dozens of steps along the city wall, and turned around and said, "General Qiu, you can let them attack the wall. No wonder it's so tragic. In fact, they can't attack at all. Just refuse the enemy to drag them outside the city. They will be defeated."

Qiu Yue said, "How to resist the enemy outside the city? Can't you lock them with an iron lock?

Song Nan heard Qiu Yu's unconvincedness and said warmly, "You have to use the terrain and resources to fight. Isn't it that you don't know that there are many resources in the royal palace? Why don't you send people to carry it up the city? However, you have to fight hard. I asked you to be ready to defend the city. In fact, you didn't do anything.

Qiu Yu said, "I brought the bow and arrow up, otherwise how can I keep it?"

Song Nan said, "The bow and arrow are needed. Why don't you use the fire oil in the Wangfu warehouse? And the rolling stone on the inner wall, why don't you bring it here?"

"...I don't think it's useful, plus there is not enough manpower and time is tight..."

"Come on, don't say it; you are blindly confident and unconsiderate in advance, so you kept it so hard. You gave me a treasure knife and you used it to cut watermelon. Lord, you have to learn a lesson. After this matter, you will definitely be promoted to the governor. If you are alone guard the border town, you have to learn how to fight."

Qiu Yue was speechless. As a general of the border town for half his life, he was also famous in Ningxia Town. He didn't expect it to be so unbearable in Song Nan's mouth, and the requirements of Marquis Song were so high? Qiu Yu was a little disapproving.

Song Nan looked along the city wall with his hands behind his back. Qiu Yu followed silently and was depressed. Hou Dabiao came up and whispered, "General Qiu, don't be discouraged. Your excell is also for your own good."

Qiu Yu said, "Your excellency's requirements are too high."

Hou Dabiao smiled and said, "Don't be unconvinced. Think about the battle of Lord Song's Xinping Fort, and dozens of people retreated under the siege of tens of thousands of Tatari cavalry. You think it is very natural to be scolding today. It is also guarding the city. On that day, Lord Song of Xin'an County led more than 1,000 people to retreat nearly 7,000 rebels without injury. The wall of Xin'an County is still a dilapided city wall. Can you do it?

Qiu Yu opened his mouth for a long time and was speechless.

"I was ordered to organize the people to carry fire, oil, stone, civil and other things on the wall immediately. He Jin still wanted to come hard, and this time he couldn't even touch the head of the city." Song Nan turned around in front and gave the order.

The people in the city were ready to help defend the city. As soon as they launched, they immediately took action. Men, women and children carried it. In less than an hour, the city was full of materials transported from the royal palace.

He Jin originally wanted to launch a second attack immediately, but when he saw that the soldiers had just suffered misery and exhausted their physical strength, he knew that this was also one of the causes of defeat, so he gave them extra kindness, fed them, and took more than an hour to sleep.

After noon, drums sounded in the rebel camp, and the rebel soldiers were driven out of their sleep. He Jin had already been fully armed on the horse and loudly ordered the whole army to attack. He Jin made up his mind to attack with all his strength this time and never give up until he reached his goal. In order to cope with the death-like fire at the head of the city, his only more than 700 pairs of iron armor were put on the troops preparing to land in the city, trying to firmly nail the city with these 700 people after landing in the city and buy time for the subsequent soldiers and horses.

With shouting, more than 3,000 rebel soldiers stepped on the cold and hard land and rushed to the wall. The rain of arrows at the head of the city fell ruthlessly, and the soldiers fell on the cold land one by one, but this could not stop the advance of the formation. After the meal, the first group of thousands of people had arrived at the city, and the ladders hit the wall one after another. The soldiers stepped on the layers of corpses under the city and climbed up the ladder. Like the first attack, the previous charge and the current climb were smooth, and the resistance at the head of the city was obviously insufficient.

Song Nan stood on the tower and looked real. When the flag waved, the soldiers lurking under the wall stood up, rolling wood and stone rolled down, mixed with a bucket of buckets poured down with a spicy smell**.

Then, dozens of torches fell from above, and a big fire suddenly ignited under the city. The flames continued to wrap up the rebels on the ladder and the bodies under the city together and burned them. In the flames, countless rebel soldiers twisted their bodies and made a heartbreaking tragedy. He fell down and formed countless fireballs on the ground, rolling and crying.

The whole south wall wall has become a hellish sea of fire. The living soldiers and dead bodies are burning. The pungent smell makes people vomit. The scorched smoke soared in the air and can't get close to half a step.

Many angry soldiers rushed into the moat dozens of steps away. Their bodies were entangled in the cold river. After the smoke came out, their bodies were fragmented and shone with blood-red strange colors. After a moment of calm, these people died quickly, and the shapeless bodies were in the river. It's ups and downs that people can't look at it again.

This scene shocked and trembled everyone in the city. The soldiers defending the city did not expect that the fire oil would be so powerful. The rebels who attacked the city were shocked to see the first thousand troops swallowed up in the sea of fire.

He Jin, who rode a horse and drove the soldiers to attack, looked at all this in a daze and watched the soldiers and horses crying and fled back. He had no intention of stopping them at all, and he could not stop them.

"General, withdraw our troops. We can't attack Ningxia Town. We only have 2,000 people left." A general whispered low in He Jin's ear.

"Withdraw...Withdraw..." He Jin said, staring at the fire under the wall and the figure struggling in the fire.

"Shall we go back to the West Cliff or Pingluo City? There are still hundreds of soldiers there. There is still a foothold."

"When I returned to the West Cliff, I haven't lost yet. There are still 5,000 people on the West Cliff, and I still have 7,000 soldiers and horses on hand. After returning to Pingluo City, I will turn on the pavement to ask for support. I will remember all this today, and I will ask for it to come back." He Jin gritted his teeth and was about to burst into flames.

He Jin quickly gathered 2,000 remnants and retreated. In order to escape from this hell quickly, he even abandoned many heavy equipment and only wanted to leave this place quickly. A group of defeated soldiers ran south for more than an hour and finally recovered and found a safe place to rest on the roadside. The soldiers were stunned. Sitting on the ground, the whole army was in a dead silence.

He Jin came to the middle of the soldiers and opened his mouth to say something. Suddenly, he found that he had nothing to say. He listened to the cavalry in front of him rushing quickly and shouted, "General, general, there is a large army on the road ahead."

He Jin was stunned and said happily, "Ding Guang led the army to help?"

The cavalry swung his head and said, "It's not very similar."

He Jin quickly took several generals to the hill near on the left and took a pergola to look south. At this, the soul was scattered. An army was coming from the south, and the flag was holding was golden and dazzling. That was the flag of the Beijing camp. It was the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. It was not Ding Guang's soldiers and horses left on the west cliff at all.

"The west cliff was broken, and the officers and soldiers crossed the river. We... it's over." He Jin said these words in a hurry, and there was a sharp pain in his chest. He spewed out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.