Late Tang

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A Baoji clearly felt the weakening of the long-range fire support from behind, and the Qin army's blockade on the top of the city suddenly became violent again.He heard his commander shouting loudly from above: "The Nanmanzi has gone crazy, hold on...Everyone, hurry up...Go!" He quickly shouted: "Stop, go up!" Using both hands and feet, he climbed up.

Then the situation was worse than expected. Overhead, the screaming sound of the huge bombs thrown from the city passing through the air made A Baoji feel his scalp tighten.

"God of the Sun!" He murmured silently in his heart, not daring to turn his head.But with the violent explosion behind him and the sudden stop of the support from the catapult, he knew that the southern barbarians were more cunning than they thought, and their initial artillery formation was not at full strength.They lost again, and the huge number of five hundred catapults were all finished.However, there are at least half of the cannons of the Qin people, at least more than the original number.

He gritted his teeth and climbed up at a faster speed.

The sound of the boulder falling to the ground and the explosion of explosives came from behind him continuously. The great fear made him more determined. If Yunzhou could not be captured, those of them on the ladder would never be able to live to see the sun tomorrow. .

Even if he was told when he was young, he was conceived by his mother swallowing the sun in a dream, and he was the son of the sun.

Among the Khitan people, the sun is the highest god.Khitan originally means the Eastern Sun God, and the Khitan Kingdom is the country of the Eastern Sun God, and the Khitan tribe is the Eastern Sun God Clan.He, born of his mother swallowing the sun, is the son of the sun.

But gods will also fall, let alone on this battlefield where arrows are flying.

They have no way out.

Other fighters may choose to continue fighting in the future, but for him and his Tatma tribe, this is the decisive battle at this time.

Victory or death.

He felt that the bodyguard battalion formed by the bravest warriors among the various tribes began to shake a little. The only difference is the difference between dying on the top of the city wall and dying at the foot of the city wall.

"Whoever gets to the top of the city first will be rewarded with 500 taels of gold!"

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward, and A Baoji is young, but it doesn't mean he doesn't have insight into people's hearts. 500 taels of gold is almost equivalent to the four thousand coins from Nanmanzi, and it is also the most credible Qinman's flying tiger copper coin.This sum of money is enough to buy a hundred horses, or five hundred cows, and even a few strong and strong female slaves, so that they can spend the rest of their lives in peace.

Those brave warriors who were hesitant at first were immediately encouraged when they heard the reward. They shouted loudly, bit the knife in their mouths, and climbed up quickly with both hands and feet.

It's a pity that the effect of money is only a short moment.

Only a scream of "Ah——" was heard, and the commander who rushed to the top was hit by a piece of wood, and fell from the ladder several feet high.Before his brain had time to react, he heard another scream. A tribal warrior was drenched in scalding water. He couldn't hold on to the ladder and fell from it...

The screams came one after another, coming from the surrounding ladders.

Tribal warriors kept falling, and the most terrible thing was that the Goguryeo warriors on a ladder were first poured on their heads by the guarding people on the top of the city with the golden juice boiled with extremely rolling dung. The disgusting and foul-smelling golden juice is scalding extremely hot, stronger than boiling water and boiling oil. Once it is poured on, it will stick to it. Not only will it cause great burns, but the biggest harm is that the golden juice is poisonous.Even if he didn't die at the time, it would be difficult to survive.

The Goguryeo warriors were drenched with golden juice, followed by a bucket of boiling oil, and then shot with rockets, and the whole ladder immediately burst into flames.The fire burned extremely quickly, and the group of warriors were either burned to death or fell to death. One after another, the fierce warriors fell from the ladder with their bodies burning, screaming, and some even fell down and were still running around. , and even ignited the ladder next to it.

"F*ck raised!"

A Baoji's eyes were full of blood red, and it was really time for him to go all out.

The tall cloud chariot of the barbarians was still moving slowly behind.These cloud carts are extremely tall, but they are also extremely cumbersome. Even if there are a group of soldiers hiding behind to push them, they are still as slow as snails.The soldiers pushing the carts under the carts were mostly old and weak, while the soldiers on the top of the carts were elite fighters from various tribes.They held their breath, put on their helmets, held shields, and held bows and arrows, waiting for the chariot to approach the city wall.

Reinhardt was on a cloud car at this time. He was originally a run-down nobleman from the Eastern Roman Empire far away from Thailand, because he heard that the East is the kingdom of gold, the heaven of heaven, etc. After hearing the news of **, he had the idea of ​​going to the East for adventure.However, he couldn't afford the boat fare from Rome to Datang, so he finally chose the overland route to the East along the Silk Road.Along the way, they crossed mountains and ridges, and finally reached the east after untold hardships. But before they entered the border of Tang Dynasty, they were robbed by a grassland tribe's warriors, and even the entire caravan was taken prisoner.

In the end, he was sold to Khitan after several resales and became a Khitan slave.By chance, because his ancestors had also led soldiers, he also had some cavalry and archery fighting skills, and he could also draw some war equipment, which was finally appreciated by his master and made him a craftsman leader.

Most of the equipment of the Khitan people this time was built under his command.It's a pity that not only did he fail to destroy the cannons of the Qin people just now, but was retaliated by the Qin people and destroyed his own artillery array.In a fit of anger, Yelu Shilu let him board the upstairs car and let him go to the battlefield to kill him in order to atone for his crime.

From the building car, you can clearly see every move on the top of Yunzhou City.

The Qin people were carrying big iron cylinders up to the top of the city, and he could see at once that these were the flying thunder cannons that had shown their power at several critical moments in the previous battles.This kind of cannon has a short firing interval and a long duration. The most important thing is that it is light and light. It is equipped with explosives, but it is amazingly powerful, especially against large-scale soldiers and horses attacking the city. The more people there are, the greater the power will be.The only shortcoming is that the accuracy is slightly poor, but when facing tens of thousands of siege troops, the accuracy is not important anymore, because a random shot can always hit the enemy group.

In addition to these flying thunder cannons, he also saw people waving flags on many turrets and arrow towers at the top of the city.

He immediately thought of what he said in the notepad left by his father, in the battle of attacking and defending the city.The defenders of the city generally placed huge catapults in the city. Firstly, they could not be placed on the top of the city, and secondly, placing them in the city could protect the catapults, preventing the enemy from knowing their location.Therefore, it is necessary to arrange people on the head of the city to be responsible for observing and commanding the azimuth and distance of the projectile with semaphore.If there is no one to command, no matter how many and powerful catapults there are, they will become blind.

Reinhardt got excited, and said to the archers behind the gunners who were sent to charge like him: "Look carefully, don't care about anything else for a while, just focus on those who wave the red and blue flags, experts Shoot 'em."

While speaking, Reinhardt held up the double heavy crossbow in his hand, but he opened it alone, aimed at a banner bearer on the city wall, and shot the banner bearer down with a swish of the crossbow.

The gunners on the building car immediately understood, and began to block the banner bearer commanding the attack of ballistas and cannons in the city with ballista bows and arrows.The other Hu people on the cloud car also immediately noticed the movement here, and immediately understood, and followed suit.For a while, as soon as the flag bearers on the city head showed their heads, several arrows would be shot at the same time almost immediately.When Song Jirong received the report, dozens of messengers had already fallen.Song Jirong immediately understood the opponent's plan, and hurriedly let them get down from the conspicuous turret and arrow tower, stick close to the back of the parapet, observe from the crenel, only expose the flag, and continue to command.

This time, even a sharpshooter like Reinhardt on the cloud car was helpless.

"Heavy ballista, catapult, aim at those cloud carts for me, and hit them hard!" Cui Decheng jumped and cursed. As soon as he showed his head, he was immediately blocked by several bows and arrows. The inner armor, the plate armor and the Suozi armor were all right, but he was really frightened, so he quickly squatted down.

Reinhardt on the cloud car outside the city saw that an arrow had shot the opponent, who was obviously a general, and shrank back. He didn't know if he had already shot him. He was laughing like a show off, but suddenly found several Stone bullets roared.Kankan brushed past their cloud car, and they were fine, but a cloud car next to them was smashed upright, and immediately burst into flames. The other party threw not a stone bomb, but a kerosene bomb.Reinhardt recognized it all at once, "It's Greek fire!"

He wiped his forehead. He never thought that the secrets of the imperial family of the Eastern Roman Empire would appear on the eastern battlefield.As a Roman, he knew very well the power of this Greek fire. If he touches it, he will die, and if he touches it, he will die.

The cloud chariot was burning and broke from the middle quickly, and collapsed. Dozens of Hu soldiers on it caught fire one after another, screaming and jumping from the air.And the soldiers who were hiding below pushing the cart also fled in all directions, screaming in horror.

Then, there were several loud rumbling noises, and several of Hu Jun's cloud carts were hit and smashed into a pile of wood.

The few remaining catapults and heavy crossbows of the Hu people also began to fight back, but the advantage of the Qin army as a defender was fully reflected at this time.They live on a high city and are protected by the city wall, especially those catapults and ballistas, which are placed inside the city. The attacks of the barbarians, not many can really hit the target.On the contrary, as soon as they attacked, they immediately attracted the Qin army's stone bullets, crossbow spears, fireballs, and bombs to retaliate.

The climbing troops rushing to the top of the city were weakened by the support of long-range weapons in the rear, and the situation immediately became more difficult.

Rows of crossbow arrows from the Song army on the top of the city shot down, with a few thunderbolts and thunderbolts sandwiched from time to time, and the common people also followed behind pouring boiling water, pouring boiling water, pouring golden juice, and throwing rolling stones , Letting Leimu really exhaust all the advantages of defense. It is obvious that the Hu people attacked the city with ten times the number of people, but they were suppressed by the defenders on the city with difficulty every step of the way.

For most of the day, Abaoji and his climbing troops could only climb up repeatedly, and were knocked down halfway through the climb, or rushed up with great difficulty, and then were knocked down.If you are lucky, you will only hurt your arms and legs when you fall, but if you are unlucky, you will be directly smashed into meat.

A Baoji felt as if he was climbing a ladder, and he was always climbing up, but there was no end to it. (To be continued.)