Late Tang

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Yelu Abaoji held a shield that was higher than his body, his eyes were swollen red, shouting meaningless chapters loudly, he stepped over the corpses of his clansmen lying at the bottom of the city, and rushed to the corner of the city for the third time.

At this time, the sky above the south of Yunzhou city seemed to be raining violent arrows, swirling a deadly storm of metal.The densely packed feather arrows almost caused the sun in the sky to lose its light.At the foot of the city wall, unextinguished war flames were burning everywhere, and the boiling water poured down by the Qin army was still steaming on the ground.

There were corpses of tribal warriors wearing all kinds of leather armor, broken pieces of wood from cloud carts smashed by stones, rush carts, and building carts, as well as bloodstains and broken limbs everywhere.

Screams, roars, drums, and horns mingled together.

The creaking sound of the wooden wheel of the ladder cart rolling over the wooden trestle on the Haogou, the vibration of the bow string, the sound of the feather and arrow piercing through the air, the crunching sound of the stone catapult firing, the stone bullets hitting the city wall, the rumble of the battlements. Sounds... All these sounds are intertwined together, together with the smoke of gunpowder, the flames of war, blood and broken corpses, they form a scene of purgatory on earth.

Yelu Abaoji completely lost the ability to think at this time, but instinctively followed more than [-] brothers from the Tama Division, clustered on the ladder, and launched charges again and again towards Yunzhou City.Behind the first ladder were hundreds of tribal fighters. .

And behind them, beyond the range of the Qin Army, or beyond the normal attack range of the Qin Army's ultra-long-distance super-heavy equipment, two hundred Hu people rushed to build the cable-type The trebuchets were divided into three teams, and they continuously threw stones and mud at Yunzhou City, suppressing the Qin army on the city.

Although this kind of temporary trebuchet is very different from the counterweight trebuchet of the Qin army on the top of the city, the stone bullets of five to eight catties hit the solid and high wall of Yunzhou City. On the surface, they can only leave a mark and turn into powder, and it is difficult for them to cause too much damage to important fortifications. No matter how fine and strong the armor, or half-body breastplate is, how good it is to defend against arrows, but it will undoubtedly die.Moreover, the biggest targets of these trebuchets were the arrow towers and turrets at the top of the city, as well as the heavy crossbow carts of the Qin army, and the counterweight overweight mine-throwing vehicles inside the city walls.

With a tense face, Yelu Shilu reined in his horse and stood a thousand steps away from the city wall to fight.

At the very beginning, Yelu Shilu's Chinese Army Commander's Banner was actually advanced [-] steps below the city, which was a traditional safe distance.The coach's visit to the front line is indeed a great boost to morale.But they underestimated Qin Jun, who could never be deduced from conventional traditions.

When Yelv Shilu stood eye-catching in golden armor standing on a high cloud chariot and personally commanded the siege, the Qin army on the city directly mobilized ten heavy crossbows to block the attack.This kind of blocking heavy anger, which is specially used to block and kill enemy officers, has a range of up to a hundred steps, and uses a thick iron crossbow spear, with an accuracy of within three feet.

A blocking attack by ten crossbows was a sure-fire blow.But at the critical moment, Yelu Shilu's personal guards saved his life with all their might, a group of Khitan guards jumped on him directly, and piled a mountain of meat on him.Ten crossbows blocked the attack and directly blew up the cloud chariot. A group of guards were all dead. Although Yelu Shilu escaped, he also broke an arm, and his leg was grazed by a spear point. A deep blood ditch.

Then, Yelu Shilu stepped back to command [-] paces away.

This time, the Qin army directly transferred the eight Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce General Cannons in the city, and loaded them with giant shells weighing three hundred catties. Bao, and then called the best artillery, and after aiming, he directly and fiercely sent another cluster bombardment to Yelu Shilu.

The range of the [-]-jin counterweight hammer and the [-]-foot-long boom of the super counterweight catapult is extremely terrifying. He can throw a [-]-jin stone bullet a hundred feet away.

This time the killing almost succeeded in killing Yelv Shilu and other Khitan generals. Eight [-]-jin heavy artillery roared and blasted Yelv Shilu into a huge hole within ten feet of the Shuai Banner.More than a dozen tribal officers and hundreds of guards turned into bloody corpses, and the commander-in-chief flag no longer existed.Yelu Shilu was not under the commander's flag because of a leg injury at the time. He let a soldier of similar stature wear his armor to pretend to be him, but escaped again.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army was directly blown away, which still aroused the extreme fear of the Hu people who were attacking the city. The guards in Yunzhou City opened the city gate in good time and released the thousand cavalry who had been waiting for a long time. In chaos, there was a violent rush under the city, repelling the besieging barbarians, and setting fire to a large number of siege equipment such as ladders.

Yelv Shilu took a lot of effort to stabilize the situation, but unfortunately there were too few Qin troops in Yunzhou City, otherwise the Qin army might be able to defeat the Hu people in one fell swoop this time.

After that, Yelu Shilu was already very careful. Not only did he move the new commander-in-chief flag two miles away from the battlefield, but most of the time, he sent a substitute to replace him, and he himself hid five miles away from the city wall, with Tuantuan guards, I am afraid that Qin Jun will have something more frightening.

But today, Yelu Shilu came to the front line again, and moved a thousand steps to the front with the handsome flag.

The defeat of Jincheng and the death of his brother Yeluzaqa made him deeply worried, and he had already begun to worry.Maybe going south this time is not as easy as I imagined.The reinforcements from the Qin army came too fast, and the original Qin army in Daibei was too resistant, just like that Li Siyuan, who has yet to get his head.

He was even a little worried, the [-] tribal soldiers sent to chase after Li Siyuan's defeated army seemed to have lost contact for more than a day, could something happen to them?

Shaking his head, he waved away the worrying thoughts in his mind, and looked at the battlefield again.

In any case, the Qin army's reinforcements had already reached Jincheng, and the Qin army's reaction speed far exceeded his expectations, and the Qin army's reinforcements might arrive here at any time.There is not much time left for him. He must quickly take Yunzhou, and then go south to Jincheng Shuozhou again. At least, he has to join the Shatuo soldiers of Yanmen. With 20 people going south, the supply of food and grass is a big problem. The land in Daibei is too poor to grab anything. In this regard, Shi Yan promised him that Yanmen Town will supply it in spring.

He saw Yelu Abaoji, his nephew under the city, and his eyes were full of admiration. Although he was only ten years old, this nephew was already as strong as a normal man. Step down to fight, they are all very good, one person against more than three tribes fighters.He was really a brave young man of the Yelu family, but it's a pity that his father died so early.Sarah's death was a huge loss to their branch.Especially now that Pu Guzhi, who is Yili Jin and Yili Jin of Khitan Dadie Liefu, is seriously ill. Seeing that Zi Guzhi dies, he, Yelu Shilu, will be offside from now on, and he will really succeed Pu Guzhi and become the headquarter's newcomer. When Yili Jin of the Diela tribe was also in the position of Yili Jin of the Dadielie Mansion of the entire Khitan, the death of his brother, Tamarin Shali, was a complete loss.

Fortunately, the brothers have successors, and there is such an outstanding son. At the age of ten, he has already become a warrior respected by the Khitan warriors, and he will definitely be an incomparable hero in the future.Yelu Shilu has formally appointed Khitan Yuyue as the official position temporarily acting as the state affairs of the Khitan army, and appointed Yelu Abaoji to take over the post of Tama Tamarin Shali, his father who died in the battle, and officially became the guard officer of the new bodyguard army of the Diela tribe.

At the age of ten, he became the commander of the guard army formed by the elite warriors of the Diel tribe, which is unprecedented.But no one objected, and Yelu Abaoji's bravery showed that he won the post.Most of the original bodyguards died in Jincheng during this expedition. Yelu Shilu reselected a group of warriors from his own Khitan soldiers and horses, as well as from other ethnic groups, and finally formed a new Tama Department of [-] cavalry.This nephew is outstanding. Xinyi took over Tamar Tamarin Shali and immediately called for battle to attack the city.Using elite warriors to siege the city seemed like overkill, but in the end Yelu Shilu agreed.

Although he had 10 people gathered under the city of Yunzhou, he was a little helpless in the face of the [-] guards of the Qin army in the city.

The Qin army only had [-] people, but they recruited a large number of people from the city to help defend the city.Not only that, the Qin army's endless, various and powerful defense equipment made them even more headaches.Sturdy steel helmets and plate armor, strong bows and crossbows, as well as Fuyuan double crossbows, Fuyuan heavy crossbows, three bows and eight ox crossbows, couch crossbows, and all kinds of crossbows, large and small, which can play a great role in defending the city The catapults, as well as the flying mine carts, mine throwing carts, and the cannons that will kill dozens of soldiers every time they are fired, and the gas bombs, smoke, etc. Bombs, mines, dynamite packs, magic fire, flying fire, ghost fire...

These strange ordnance that most tribal warriors can't even name, made them suffer a lot when attacking the city.

The powerful and brave tribal warriors are excellent in riding and shooting, fierce and fierce, but facing the high city walls, fierce firearms, and dense arrow rain, they can't even touch the corners of the enemy's clothes, and they are already lying full under the city.

These days, Yelu Shilu is also constantly dismounting the tribal warriors, swinging the murderous battle axes to cut down trees, and then let some border residents who were plundered from Yunzhou rush to build siege equipment.It's a pity that although there are some craftsmen among the border residents, at most they can make rough ladders, rush carts, cloud carts, arrow towers, battering rams and small catapults.

It is simply impossible to create ballistas, ballistas, and cannons that are far away, head-high, and fiercely attacking like the Qin army.

For example, the Qin Army's Longwu Thunderbolt Fiery General Cannon, although there are only eight in the city, and every time it is launched, it requires hundreds of manpower and animal power to pull it, and it has to use leverage. Basically, it can only be fired in an hour. Three or four shots.But these super catapults, every time they bombard, can directly clear the range of several feet, the real people block and kill, and the gods block and kill gods.

With a range of [-] steps and a bomb load of [-] catties, it is a real killer.

Whenever the tribal warriors desperately gain some advantage and are about to rush to the city, these damn super cannons will be launched suddenly, and then eight giant shells weighing [-] catties will roar and fly from behind the city wall. Come out, fall within [-] steps outside the city, clear out the follow-up soldiers, win critical time for the defenders on the top of the city, and make the warriors who attacked the city helpless, and finally were helplessly defeated by the Qin army. Get driven down from the city.

Damn, if only they had this kind of trebuchet, even if there are only one or two of these giant cannons, and one is sent to the battlefield, then any fortification in Yunzhou City will be destroyed as long as it is hit. smashed to pieces.It's a pity that this kind of trebuchet weighs [-] catties with just a counterweight, and a boom is five feet long. Moreover, the tall frame is almost made of fine steel structure and giant wood, not only is it extremely difficult to transport , the key is that the manufacturing technology is extremely high, and it even requires the cooperation of an extremely excellent cannon-throwing team to throw the cannon within a rough range.

It's a pity that he doesn't have any of these, so he can only watch the ear-piercing roaring sound coming from the sky every two or three quarters of an hour, and then lie down obediently, enduring the earth-shattering, earth-shaking, mountain-shaking, and the roaring of his ears, Dizziness.

Damn, I don't know how the Qin people transported these eight giant cannons, how did these super-big guys weighing tens of thousands of catties arrive in Yunzhou in such a short period of time?He couldn't figure it out, really couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, the Qin army only had eight such giant cannons, and this kind of giant cannon consumed too much gunpowder. A cluster bombing cost more than 2000 catties of gunpowder. Therefore, the Qin army would not dispatch until the critical time.Otherwise, he guessed that his tribal army would have been shattered by the Qin army long ago.

The people of Qin defended the city so damn well, Yelu Shilu couldn't help but sigh again.

10 people attacked a city guarded by 1 people. After so many days, the city was still impregnable. If he hadn't been the commander of this battle, he would have thought that the general who commanded the army was an incompetent person with a lifeless life.But now, he can only sigh over and over again, damn it, the people of Qin are really good at defending the city.

Damn, there is a kind of face-to-face battle between you guys, Yelu Shilu was so angry that he couldn't help but want to roar at the city.

As the center of Daibei, Yunzhou City has experienced several wars, and several major tribes have stationed troops here one after another, so the city has been continuously repaired.The fortifications of the entire Yunzhou City are very tightly designed, and there are sheep and horse walls outside the outer city, so that the enemy cannot directly attack the outer city, and even built several small but very dangerous urns outside the gates of the outer city. .

A deep and wide ditch was dug around the outer city wall, in which not only buried a large number of sharp piles, but also filled with water, which was a huge trouble for the barbarians who lacked siege equipment.

Moreover, in the entire Yunzhou City, there are thirteen gates alone, which is too many to imagine. The East and West Capitals in the Central Plains are only twelve gates. Damn, a city on the frontier has ten gates. Three doors.There are many gates in the city, so it seems that the defenders have to spread their troops to guard, but in fact, in the battle of defending the city, the gates are extremely critical.Otherwise, why not just block the city gate with stones when defending the city?This is because if there are city gates, you can defend and counterattack, and the enemy cannot attack the city with peace of mind. There are many gates, and although it is more difficult to defend, it also allows the attacking party to score troops to defend, because Yunzhou has thirteen cities. The gate also means that the defenders in Yunzhou City can rush out from any gate at any time and kill them.

Damn it, Yelu Shilu couldn't help scolding his mother again. Before this, he really didn't expect that Datong was so difficult to attack, and Qin Jun was so difficult to deal with! (To be continued.)