Horse on the World

Chapter 226 The Battle of Dingyuan
After a short period of tension in the Shanglinli war zone, it returned to calm. The two sides seemed to have a tacit understanding and looked at each other in silence fifty miles away, and neither of them had any intention of provoking disputes.The camp of the Wolf Running Army is getting stronger and stronger, more and more materials are piled up in the camp, and more and more heavy siege equipment is being built, but Lu Dalin sneers at this, and doesn't care about Hu He's actions at all, let's make it , The more you make, the more money you spend, and these equipment are too crude in the eyes of Shanglinli, and they are of no help to Shanglinli's complete defense system.

"If you want to break through Shanglinli, which has enough troops to defend, you have to use human lives to fill it up. Only when your corpses are piled as high as the city wall, and only when there are few soldiers left in the city, can Shanglinli have a large number of soldiers?" It might be broken!" Lu Dalin proudly said to the general when he was inspecting the defense system in Shanglin.

Although the two armies confronted each other, the villagers in Shanglinli started to get out of the enclosure to tend the barren fields they had reclaimed.He clearly showed his disdain for Langrun, who was only fifty miles away from here, and the cavalry could arrive in less than an hour.

It was quiet in Shanglin, but on the front line of Dingwei, the fighting became more and more intense.

The former Huangbu, the current Zhenghuangqi, and Xianghuangqi two banners, with as many as 4 soldiers, launched an offensive against Dingyuan. This offensive suddenly became violent after Najib was killed.Boyan is Bayar's in-law and the most staunch supporter of Bayar. Among them, Najib is Boyan's son-in-law. Bayar ascended to the throne of God, and Najib is most likely to succeed him in the future Ji, and now Bayar's series of arrangements are indeed paving the way for Najib, but now that Najib has died in battle, all plans have come to naught. Boyan, who may become the head of the country, is infuriated, not only because of his daughter He lost his husband, his grandson lost his father, and lost everything because of his biggest political investment.In his rage, he drove [-] of his soldiers and started a violent attack on Dingyuan City.

Of course, the strikers will not be the main force of Zhenghuang Xianghuang, but those small and medium-sized tribes that were merged into the two banners after Bayar integrated the grassland tribes.

The soldiers who grew up on horseback got off their horses, carried a series of ladders, and braved the rain of arrows to launch waves of attacks towards Dingyuan. Crashing against the solid city wall, the city wall seems to shake every time it hits.

The one-armed Guan Xinglong stood on a tall city tower, holding a drumstick with one arm, hitting the drumbeat rhythmically, ignoring the cold arrows shot from below the city. His personal guard held up a shield to cover him. Arrows rained, the drums kept beating, and the soldiers on the city shouted loudly amidst the drums, fighting desperately with the barbarian soldiers attached to the ants.

Guan Xinglong didn't know how long he would last to defend the city this time, so although the materials and equipment in Dingyuan City were extremely well prepared, he still decided to save them. With the barbarian soldiers pressing down on the border, maybe Dingyuan would become a siege in Wang Yangzhong at some point. An isolated island, when the supply line was cut off, it was the most difficult time for Dingyuan.

Under Guan Xinglong's idea, although Dingyuan City was also equipped with a lot of crossbows, until now, the most deterrent weapon of the Dingzhou Army has not been used once.

"Good steel should be used on the blade!" Guan Xinglong said.

Although the Hundred-Fat Crossbow is extremely powerful, its consumption is also astonishing. Each shot is hundreds of arrows. If it is fired continuously, the reserve crossbow arrows will be exhausted soon, and now the cavalry of the Huang tribe are galloping Immediately shoot arrows at the city to suppress the long-range attack on the city. In this kind of rapid movement, the hit rate of the hundred-shot crossbow is not high.Therefore, Guan Xinglong's strategy is to ignore these cavalry and only deal fatal blows to the attacking infantry.

Guan Xinglong dared to do this because the armor of the Dingzhou Army is excellent now. As long as the arrows shot up from the city do not hit the vital points, they cannot cause fatal damage to the soldiers at all, and Dingzhou's complete medical system can quickly Slightly wounded soldiers can be restored to combat effectiveness.

The trebuchet installed in the city made a crackling sound every time a stick of incense was fired, and rows of polished round stone bullets flew high from the city, slammed down the city, and landed on the hard ground. On the ground, jumping and rolling forward, where they passed, the soldiers who could not avoid it were hit with broken bones and bones, and the unlucky ones were run over by stone bullets. After the stone bullets passed, the whole person was crushed to the ground. The ground has become flat.

If the huge siege equipment hits one on the front, there will only be a pile of tatters left. Even if it is rubbed by these round stone bullets, it will crash to the ground. The battlefield is over.Although the hit rate of the trebuchet was really not high, there were too many soldiers under the city like ants, and as long as the trebuchet hit the pre-set area, it would definitely roll out of blood.As for whether you can hit those heavy equipment, it depends on luck.

"Son of a bitch, although it takes a lot of work to polish these stone bullets, it is really worth it!" Guan Xinglong danced excitedly. Unfortunately, there are only a dozen trebuchets in the city, and they fire at a slow speed, otherwise these barbarians are really not enough Lo and behold.

The ladder was erected, and the barbarians held the shield in one hand and the ladder in the other, with their knives in their mouths, and quickly climbed up. A ladder was erected, and under the ladder, there were piles of corpses.

The soldiers in the city stood up, holding the stones in their hands, roaring and throwing them down, and the wood fell down with a rope, and every time it rose and fell, it took several lives.More soldiers held push rods and crossed the ladder head of the ladder. Everyone joined forces, and with a shout, they pushed the ladder far away. Everyone laughed, watching the barbarians on the ladder either fall into the air, Falling down like a rock, or clinging to the ladder and falling down with the ladder, the ending is the same.

A pot of boiling oil was lifted up, and the soldiers turned their wrists and fell down without looking at the situation below. In an instant, there was a miserable howl that did not sound like a human voice, feces were added to the hot fat, and they were thrown Burned people are generally difficult to heal.

The improved eight-ox crossbow can fire four long crossbows at a time, but their targets are those large siege equipment. When everyone hears the familiar buzzing sound, they know that four long crossbows are about to shoot again. go out.

In Dingyuan City right now, all the people have been evacuated in advance, and there are only [-] soldiers left in the city. According to Li Qing's request, they will stick to it and cannot retreat.Although facing an enemy that was several times his size, Guan Xinglong was unafraid. This fierce general who was appreciated for his fame in the battle of capturing the flag with the Wolf Running Army had a fighting factor in his bones. Stronger, the more excited he is.Although his arm was broken, he could no longer hold the bow or shoot the arrow, but with his tenacious perseverance, he insisted on mastering the ability to control the horse with only his legs and fight with a knife with one arm.God closed a door to him, but opened another window for him. The one-armed Guan Xinglong is extremely strong, holding a knife with one hand, and can chop off a garden tree that is as thick as a foot with one knife.

"The commander-in-chief once said to us in class that if you attack a city, you should attack it ten times and surround it five times. Otherwise, it will be difficult to break through the fortified city. This Boyan did not know what medicine he took wrong, but he thought he could take it with such a strong attack." My Dingyuan, hehe, teach him a lesson and let him settle down."

Guan Xinglong sneered while continuing to beat the cowhide drum in front of him.

Boyan's trebuchet was finally within range. Due to technical reasons, the range of the barbarian's trebuchet was not as far as that of Dingzhou. Sending the trebuchet, a large and heavy siege weapon, to such a short distance, It is very likely that he will be hit hard by the opponent, but Boyan doesn't care. His trebuchets are distributed over a mile-long attack surface, and this time the grassland barbarians are fully prepared for the attack. The craftsmen are all in the camp. In addition, he is not afraid of wasting these things, he only hopes that these things can give a certain amount of damage to the state, even if he only has a chance to shoot a stone bullet, but as long as this stone bullet falls on the city wall and falls on the soldiers on the city , Boyan thought it was worth it.

Sure enough, when Boyan's trebuchets appeared, the eight-ox crossbows on the city adjusted their attack focus to attack these trebuchets, and the trebuchets in the city also adjusted their ranges one after another, and started long-range attacks on those catapults that could pose a threat to Dingyuan. arms.

Boyan's slight move worked immediately. Although the trebuchet posed little threat to Dingyuan City, it effectively contained the counterattack in the city. The pressure on the soldiers who attacked the city was greatly reduced immediately. Cars rushed to the city.The screaming barbarian soldiers quickly jumped onto the city wall along the ladder and the siege vehicle, and the barbarians attacked the city wall for the first time.

Hand in hand.

Guan Xinglong waved the command flag, and his first reserve team appeared on the city wall. These reserve teams were prepared for this moment. The soldiers waved their spears and steel knives and rushed forward. There was a danger there. These reserve teams Then he appeared there, stabbed with a spear and slashed with a knife, and drove the barbarian who had not gained a firm foothold to the city again.Those who can attack the city wall are warriors from various ministries. Their individual combat power is extremely strong, but Dingzhou soldiers have always emphasized the power of collective combat. Rows of spears are poked out collectively, and the division of labor is very clear. The road is all-encompassing. If you have three heads and six arms, you will be pierced with a few holes, and then you will be picked up by a few spears and thrown heavily on the city.

When the last barbarian who attacked the city looked at the densely packed spears in front of him, his eyes showed despair. He turned around and jumped off the high city wall. The corpses under the city wall were piled extremely high. It is still possible to survive, but if you are poked a few times by these guns, you will definitely die.

The day's attack was extremely tragic. There were lying corpses everywhere in the city and the city. Although the Dingzhou soldiers occupied a favorable location and their weapons were much ahead of their opponents, they still paid a lot of effort in the face of such an attack. Casualties, when the sun went down and the barbarians blew the horn to withdraw troops, Guan Xinglong finally breathed a sigh of relief. The first day was finally over.

(End of this chapter)