Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 387

Outside Yunzhou City, the ten-foot-wide moat has been filled with soil bags and corpses.The successors did not need to build a Hao bridge, they rushed directly to the bottom of the city and threw their soil bags under the city. Some raised their shields and scimitars and attacked upwards, while others used their heads to dig the city foundation.Behind them were thousands of Khitan cavalry supervising the battle, with arrows raining down from their heads and rocks constantly falling down. The soldiers had no way out, so they had to swing their picks desperately, trying to dig a hiding place under the city wall to avoid the arrows.

"Quick, quick—" Wang Xi, the leader of the team, kept urging, raising his shield to shield Su Meng from the arrows. Su Meng hit the city wall with a shovel, leaving only a shallow white mark, "Go—— "Su Meng spat.After more than a month of continuous siege battles, filling trenches, and attacking the city with ants, none of the signing troops who survived had a good temper.A black shadow above his head carelessly descended, and with a "snap", a signing soldier climbing the ladder was smashed down by the wolf's teeth, and fell beside Su Meng until his brains burst. Su Meng didn't even look at it. With a wave, the shovel hit the city wall continuously, and several signers dug hard for a long time before they dug a small hole into the city wall. "Okay! Dig again, quickly, quickly—" Wang Xi's eyes showed joy, and he urged loudly.There was progress here, and more signers surrounded them, some held up shields to block arrows, and some raised shovels and pickaxes to dig the city foundation together.Su Meng had an ominous premonition in his heart. At this moment, "Be careful—" someone shouted in the distance, and before the soldiers around could react, Su Meng strode forward and pressed his body tightly against the base of the city wall . With a sound of "Wow--", boiling hot gold juice poured down from the top of the city with a choking stench, and poured down through the gaps in the shields. Unrecognizable, more than a dozen signers clutched their heads and rolled all over the ground, howling and screaming, and they were still able to move and crawled desperately to the back.The rolling logs and stones were thrown down from the top of the city, and the signers on the ladder fell like dumplings, "bang bang" and "bang bang" fell to the ground.Su Meng looked at this scene with a pale face, and his body was tightly pressed against the base of the city wall. Beads of sweat dripped down his forehead, panting heavily.

Corpses piled up below the city like a mountain, and there were pillows of dead and wounded everywhere. Xiao Tachi just stood on his horse and watched the progress of the siege coldly.This ruthlessness made even Brother Tiemu feel ashamed. He was secretly glad that he had these signed troops as consumption, otherwise, for this strong and tall city, he would have to shed the blood of many warriors.Since the siege battle, the Khitan army and the Mierbo army have been supervising and supervising the army, and occasionally fought a few battles with the cavalry of the Song army who came out of the city to invite attack, but the real main force for the siege was the signing army and the Jurchen soldiers.

"Master Dutong, let the Jurchens go to the camp?" Deputy Dutong Xiao Ping said in a deep voice, with a look of unbearable expression in his eyes.Xiao Tachi chose Xiao Ping as his lieutenant general, not only because he was a member of Empress Xiao's family, but also because he was always cautious.Under the city wall, the lottery soldiers were killed and wounded. Xiao Ping knew in his heart that these hastily conscripted soldiers might have been farming in the farm or working in the workshop two or three months ago, and they didn't know how to fight at all.The role of signing the army is to exhaust and consume the defenders. If we really want to capture the city, we still need to rely on the brave Jurchen soldiers and the well-trained Xi army.

"Wait a little longer." Xiao Tachi said in a deep voice, "The enemy is not tired yet." He frowned, just then the guards at the top of the city came down with gold juice and rocks, and completely defeated a group of signing troops, there were hundreds of people Without following the military order, he fled backwards.He pointed his horsewhip at the fugitives, Nian Bage, the centurion of the White Eagle Battalion behind him, immediately urged his horses, and dozens of cavalry rushed forward, stopping the group of defeated soldiers in a short while. More than a hundred people were killed in an instant, and the remaining people cried for their parents and had to turn around again. Even though they were unarmed, they still headed to the city to die.

The previous wave of siege soldiers had already suffered heavy casualties, Xiao Ping sighed, and ordered two more soldiers from the thousand-man team to go up. Attack the city from the army." The Dalugu Thousand-man Team was organized by the Liaodong Jurchen Darugu Tribe, and it was one of the ten Jurchen Thousand-man Teams under Xiao Tachi's command.The Liao army did not have uniform uniforms, and soon, three thousand-man teams pushed forward with siege vehicles such as siege carts, ladder carts, and goose carts.Under the tattered clothes of the signing army were flesh and blood, while under the gray robes of the Jurchen soldiers were hidden cowhide armor and chain mail, but in the eyes of the Han army at the head of the city, the appearance was not much different.

Nearly a hundred Liao army artillery roared endlessly, and more than a hundred stone catapults were firing, raining stones of all sizes on Yunzhou City. When it was almost destroyed, the Song army used thick wooden piles to build a simple fence wall to block the arrows and stones, and built chaff bags on the top of the fence wall to buffer the impact of the stones.Although protected by battlements and fence walls, soldiers of the Song army were still hit by stones and arrows shot upward from the city from time to time.The soldiers took turns leaning out from the arrow holes in the fence wall without aiming. Rows of arrow feathers shot towards the foot of the city wall. Throw it down.One wave after another, the Liao army was repelled, and another wave went up.The battle was very fierce, and the fighting was the most intense near Yingchun Gate in the east. The barbs of the Liao army's ladders were everywhere on the battlements. With the shield on his back, he risked his life to attack upwards.

"Marshal, let the last general lead a thousand cavalry out of the city and charge for a while." Cavalry general Wang Lin asked for the battle again.

"The enemy's elite troops have not moved, and their morale has not been exhausted. Wait for a while." Yang Yanqing said in a deep voice. He was wearing armor and holding a sword in his hand. He was personally supervising the battle at the Yingchun Gate. Stones kept flying over his head, and some of them were even bigger. The stone shook the city wall tremblingly.Yang Yanqing's phoenix eyes were silent, and he watched the soldiers of the Song army on the city wall shooting arrows in turn.The soldiers of the Hedong army were extremely strong, and their arrows were far and accurate. In these rounds of ants attacking the city, it was difficult for the Liao army to even ascend the city.There are more than 10,000 Song troops guarding the city. Although there are [-]+ Liao troops in the city, nearly [-] are coerced signing troops, and only [-] can really fight. Going out of the city to fight in the field, the situation will be shaken if you lose, and it will be difficult to expand the results if you win.Yang Yanqing deliberately showed his weakness and defended the city, and when the Liao army was exhausted, horses and food were scarce, he would go out to invite an attack, and he would be able to repel the Liao army in one fell swoop.After this battle, all the fortresses north of Yunzhou will be restored to form a defensive system.When the Liao army invaded, the various villages and forts could respond to each other, and even sent out surprise soldiers to cut off their retreat.

"The patrol team tied up more than 50 Yisheng troops who 'harassed' the people, and they are kneeling under the city gate. Marshal, how should we deal with it?" Yang Yanzhi, the fifth general of Hedong, said with a look of disdain on his face. 'color'.

The Yisheng Army has lax military discipline, is arrogant and domineering, and is short-sighted.Before the Liao army attacked Yunzhou, the Yisheng army relied on the support of the imperial court and received food and pay alone. Here, the food and payment are now in the hands of the east camp.The generals in the camp had been simmering with anger in their hearts. For more than a month, they had been staring at these guys from top to bottom, and would arrest and punish them if they made any mistakes.

Yang Yanqing followed the battle situation at the top of the city, as if she didn't hear it.At this time, a group of Liao soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder, brandishing swords and shields to fight with the Song army.His eyes froze slightly, and he saw that the Liao army entering the city was actually very fierce, and the Song army at the top of the city was caught off guard, and couldn't deal with it for a while.Yang Yanqing said in a deep voice: "Wang Lin led [-] cavalry out of the city to charge." He paused and said coldly, "The soldiers who violated military discipline under the tower will go out of the city with the cavalry to attack the enemy and atone for their sins."

"The last general obeys!" Wang Lin walked down the tower with a "thudden stare". He explained a few words to the military judge below the city, looked coldly at the soldiers kneeling in two rows on the ground, and said loudly: "You wait Violating the military law, Yang Jieshuai is kind enough to allow you to follow this general out of the city to attack the enemy, and set off immediately. Those who fear the enemy and fight will be executed immediately." As soon as the words fell, the faces of the soldiers turned pale with fright, and some wailed Crying loudly, someone shouted: "My lord, please forgive me, I don't dare to come down again." Wang Lin didn't bother to talk to them, so with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen bodyguards rode over, and the big guns shot at these soldiers. He shook his head a few times, as if driving a flock of sheep, and led them to the Chaoyang Gate in the south of the city.The law of war is to encircle it in ten ways. Due to insufficient troops, the Liao army could not encircle Yunzhou City from all sides.Wang Lin planned to go out of the city from Chaoyang Gate, ride horses along the city wall to kill the Liao army who attacked the city, and retreat from Yingchun Gate after the Liao army retreated.

There were already more than a thousand cavalry on standby in Chaoyangmen Urn City, Wang Lin explained to the lieutenant general, and selected 50 cavalry to follow them into battle.Although the Hedong Army did not have as many cavalry as the Liao Army, they were still more elite. The Hexi war horses traded with Xia Guo were good at running with heavy loads. Big guns are famous all over the world. More than [-] infantrymen with thin armor were carrying wild goose feather swords and rattan badges, among the crowded cavalry, each of them lost their souls as if they were dead.Qiu Shiba's face was ashen ashes, his lips were blue: "Are you asking us to die?" His mind was still muddled, but the city gate creaked open, and a ray of sunlight shot in. Qiu Shiba couldn't help squinting his eyes in the gloomy Wengcheng. He was so frightened that his blood vessels were about to burst, and his throat was filled with the smell of blood.

"Rush out—" the general shouted in a deep voice.The cavalrymen at the front, back, left, and right sides urged their horses vigorously, and the infantry squeezed among the cavalrymen, stumbling forward, and after a while, they were out of the city gate. .The city gate closed slowly behind him, and the way of life was cut off. Qiu Shiba's body and mind felt as if he had fallen into an ice valley. At this moment, he only heard "follow—" he couldn't help himself, and ran desperately to follow the clattering armored cavalry.There are 10,000+ Liao troops outside Yunzhou City. Once they are left by the army, they will die without a place to die.