Chapter 653: Snowstorm and Cold Blade (5)

Hundreds of crossbow arrows flew towards the watchtower standing in the sky, and the buzzing sound covered up all the sounds above and below the city. , with you all the way!

"Jump down!" Song Hongxin shouted loudly.

Xiao Haizi was stunned with fright. Song Hongxin's voice came to his ears. Without thinking, he turned over and jumped out of the watchtower, falling directly towards the city wall. Below him, dozens of soldiers opened their hands and ran forward, trying to catch him. Catch his falling figure.

"No!" Huzi screamed miserably. The moment Xiao Haizi fell down, a crossbow arrow flew over, and the huge spear blade passed over one of Xiao Haizi's legs. In the air, blood mist exploded, followed by Xiao Haizi. Haizi screamed, and his body was like a rolling stone. He was knocked to the side by this blow for more than ten meters. Huzi roared and ran, holding the bloody gourd in the air with both hands. Rolling on the city wall.

"Xiao Haizi!" When the two of them finally stopped, their beards were dyed into a bloody man. He held Xiao Haizi in his arms and hurriedly tried to hold down Xiao Haizi's wound, but the wound was too big. Xiao Haizi's leg was almost cut off at the base. Huzi picked it up several times, but finally couldn't put it down and couldn't help but howl.

"Company Commander, Company Commander, come quickly!"

Song Hongxin rushed to the two of them in a few steps. When he saw Xiao Haizi's injury, his face suddenly turned pale. He knelt on one knee in front of Xiao Haizi, holding Xiao Haizi's head that was hanging weakly on one side with both hands. Seeing the face that was as pale as paper due to massive blood loss, Song Hongxin's eyes turned red.

"Xiao Haizi, do you have anything else to say?"

Hearing Song Hongxin's words, the surrounding soldiers turned away sadly. None of them were new recruits. Seeing Xiao Haizi's injuries, they all knew there was nothing they could do to save him.

Xiao Haizi raised his palms with difficulty, "Five, company commander, five. I killed five Donghu people in total. I'm good enough."

Song Hongxin nodded repeatedly, "I know, Xiao Haizi is a good man. You killed five Donghu barbarians by yourself."

A smile broke out on Xiao Haizi's pale face. He turned his head hard and looked at Huzi, who was holding him. "Huzi, you are right, that guy of yours is really bigger than me!"

Huzi burst into tears, "Xiao Haizi, yours is big, yours is big, mine is just a small earthworm. Don't die, come back to life. Let's stand on the wall to see who can pee farther. Don't you want to beat me?" ?”

Xiao Haizi raised his hand with difficulty and covered his buttocks, "I won't compete with you. You are so big, how can I compare..." Before the last word was uttered, Xiao Haizi's head was already hanging down. He stopped, but there was still a slight smile on his face.

"Xiao Haizi, Xiao Haizi!" Huzi shouted crazily,

Shaking Xiao Haizi's body, "Wake up quickly, wake up, let's compete again, you are a man, how can you admit defeat before fighting?"

Song Hongxin stood up silently, "Brothers, Xiao Haizi goes first. We will follow him on the road soon. He will not be lonely. Now, everyone should leave their last words. Wang Laoer, just You know a few words and write down everyone’s words.”

Wang Laoer, a middle-aged man over forty years old, squeezed out when he heard the words, "Company Commander, we are afraid that no one will get out alive. I kept these last words but did not take them out!"

"If you are asked to write, just go and write." Song Hongxin glared, "I will hide him here. When our army counterattacks and regains this place, they will naturally come to look for our remains, and then they may discover us. These last requests, with Governor Gao’s benevolence, will naturally fulfill our final wishes.”

"Yes, I will write it right away. Brothers, if you have anything to say, come to me. Each person should say a few words at least, and pick the most important thing to say!" Wang Laoer said loudly.

Song Hongxin turned his head and looked at Huzi, who was holding Xiao Haizi with his mouth open as if he was howling, but no sound came out. He strode forward and kicked Huzi to the ground, "Huzi, hold Xiao Haizi to the ground. Go down and howl. It won’t take long before we go down to accompany him.”

The calmness of the day contained the violent wind and rain that followed. In the evening, several red smoke pillars were pulled up from a distance and went straight into the night sky. The red smoke pillars represented that a fortress had been breached. Song Hongxin counted five in total. In other words, on this day, more than half of the forts had been breached by Donghu soldiers.

I don’t know how many Donghu barbarians they have killed, but I have to live up to my expectations. I can’t kill less. I will be laughed at by them when they go down to meet at Huangquan. Song Hongxin thought in his heart, carefully piled the firewood at his feet, and then A small box was placed aside. The powder in the box was sprinkled on the firewood, and the smoke column was red.

"Tonight, when the dishes are ready, don't be reluctant to hide them. Also, bring out the wine. How much can one person share?" Song Hongxin asked, looking at the cooks in the company.

The cook was silent for a moment, and he heard the underlying meaning in Song Hongxin's words, "Take them all out, each person can have a pound!"

"Every person will get half a catty in the evening, and tomorrow morning, each person will receive another half a catty. After drinking, we can work and have nothing to worry about."

The whole night, the fort was brightly lit. Everyone lined up in front of Wang Laoer, said a few words that they thought were the most important, and then went to gnaw bones, eat meat, drink wine, and fall asleep. The company commander Song Hongxing held a wine pot and sat on the top of the city, staring into the distance. He drank a sip of wine, cursed, gnawed a piece of meat, and cursed again. He drove all the soldiers on duty to sleep. Today, he was on duty alone.

The second attack of the Donghu soldiers, both in terms of offensive techniques and offensive capabilities, suddenly improved greatly. These familiar techniques, without a doubt, came from the hands of the Central Plains people. He was unwilling to mention this issue in front of the soldiers, and even unwilling to think about this issue, because the person opposite who was planning to attack the village might be his former boss, the general of the Former Yan Army.

"You bastard!" He smashed the bone in his hand hard outside the village and spat, "When you die, how can you face your dead brothers?"

Although the day is long and the night is short, dawn still comes unexpectedly in Song Hongxin's gaze. He stood up, rubbed his numb thighs vigorously, and tidied his military uniform meticulously. He cleaned the ice chips on his armor, straightened his helmet, and walked towards his brothers.

The cook was holding the jar and pouring the wine into the big bowls in front of him, fearing that a drop would spill. Song Hongxin was behind him. Every time he filled a bowl, he held it up with both hands and presented it to the soldiers with great care.

Pick up the last bowl and raise the wine bowl high, "Brothers, drink this bowl, do your best to kill the bandits, and I will be your brothers and comrades in the next life."

"Cheers!" he roared.

"Come on!" More than a hundred men roared in unison, tilted their necks, drank the wine in the bowl, and then threw the bowl to the ground. Amidst the bangs, Song Hongxin shouted: "Brothers, kill the enemy!"

"Kill the enemy!"

More than a hundred people rushed to the city wall and began to make the final preparations in silence. At this time, the sound of war drums like thunder sounded in the opposite camp. This time, the Donghu cavalry did not hesitate at all. Hundreds of cavalrymen in the front row rushed around the city wall. Behind them, thousands of Donghu people got off their horses, holding large wooden shields, pushing crossbow carts, and moving forward slowly. The most surprising thing was that hundreds of them actually carried bamboo sticks as thick as bowls.

"Free shooting." Song Hongxin shouted angrily.

The arm-drawn crossbow made a chirping sound. Although it was not effective against those high-speed cavalry, after each round of shooting, several to dozens of unlucky people would always be swept down.

As soon as the wooden shields were erected, the crossbows on the city wall began to fire. Every time a wooden shield was shot apart, a round of crossbow arrows would immediately follow, shooting down the enemy behind the wooden shield.

The Donghu people built wooden shields in the southwest corner with perseverance, and behind them, rows of bamboos as thick as bowls were deeply buried in the ground. Seeing those bamboos pulled into a reverse bow shape, Song Hongxin knew what the other party wanted to do.

"Withdraw all the brothers in the southwest corner." He said to Hu Zi.

There were more than 20 brothers guarding the southwest corner, and nearly ten crossbows were deployed. It was the place with the strongest firepower, but at the same time, it was the most vulnerable place in the entire village, because the main stake of the village was in that direction. Once that place was broken, the entire village would be broken, and then it would have to be fought hand to hand.

In the previous battle, Song Hongxin had been trying his best to cover up this weakness. The powerful firepower arranged in the southwest corner was to show the enemy that this place was inviolable, and at the same time deliberately exposed the weakness in the opposite direction. But obviously, these tricks did not play any role in the eyes of the enemy on the opposite side. He directly focused the attack on the southwest corner. He was an expert who was extremely familiar with the civil engineering work of the Yan army. Otherwise, he would not have been able to accurately find the weakness of the village in just a few attempts.

The bamboos were pulled almost close to the ground, and then bounced back violently. The stones in the net bag at the top fell on the southwest corner with a strong force. The whole village wall was shaking. The dozens of crossbows that were not withdrawn in time were smashed to pieces, and the ice and snow armor outside was peeled off.

Almost without stopping, round after round of stone bullets whizzed down on the southwest corner. Inside the fort, all the soldiers knew that the final moment was coming. They silently shot the crossbows in their hands one by one, and silently calculated in their hearts how many people they had killed, but was it enough? How much did they earn?

With a loud rumbling sound, the southwest corner collapsed amid the cheers of the Donghu people. Song Hongxin picked up the steel knife beside him and rushed to the southwest corner, "Hu Zi, leave this to me, I'll go to the gap!"P