Horse on the World

Chapter 72
Unsurprisingly, at dusk, the left fort fell first, and the surviving guards withdrew to the main city, and then the right fort was also crumbling. Li Qing simply ordered the soldiers of the right fort to withdraw immediately, and the left and right fortresses were immediately destroyed. The battle leader started to threaten the positions of Wang Qinian's troops from the guard forts on both sides. Li Qing used the guard forts, the positions below the city, and the death trap formed by the main city was broken. Wang Qinian's troops were already under the attack of Wanyan Bulu , as a last resort, the royal department could only shrink back and advance towards the main city.

After suffering more than [-] casualties, Wanyan Bulu finally cleared the outlying positions, only posing a threat to the main city of Fuyuan.

When the night fell, the barbarians stopped attacking and withdrew their troops back to the camp. The attack on the periphery of Fuyuan was so difficult. Unexpectedly, Wanyan Bulu became a little anxious. The small Weibao was already so difficult. That is more than ten times larger than the Fortress, and the defenders lose more than ten times, the difficulty of attacking can be imagined.

In his heart, Wanyan Bulu even thought of giving up this plan, but his rationality told him that he must not do so. He was originally just a leader of a small tribal leader, but after being appreciated by Bayar, he went up to the sky in one step after the clan was wiped out and became a member of the Bai clan. The Zuo Xiaowang, whose leadership is far stronger than his original tribe, and has much more manpower, the last failure has caused a lot of discussion among the Bai people, and they questioned him, but Bayar Da Shanyu withstood it The pressure still gives me enough trust. If I fail again this time and pay such a high price and still get nothing, I am afraid that Da Shanyu will not be able to speak for himself no matter how much he appreciates him. The Bai people still speak for themselves. Even if Bayar Da Shanyu has absolute authority, he can't shut up his subordinates. He has no strength and is alone. If he can't show his ability to be superior to others, how can he gain a foothold in the Bai tribe?
"Order to send 1 troops to the forest to escort hundreds of trebuchets, Mengchong chariots, and siege vehicles to Fuyuan tomorrow to participate in the siege." Wanyan Bulu made up his mind that Fuyuan must be captured .

Nuo Qia sat on the side, his face was not very good-looking. Although he was only a small commander in the Bai nationality, he was Bayar's appointed deputy of Wanyanbulu, and he was one of the younger generation that Bayar focused on training. The pillar of the pillar, coupled with his relationship with Hu He, the number one general of the Bai nationality, made him a low official position in the Bai nationality, but he had a high status.

When Wanyan Bulu issued the order, Nuoqia did not raise any objections. In his opinion, it was enough to leave ten thousand people stationed in Shanglin, and Fuyuan really needed new troops to join in. He couldn't accept that a brave warrior of the Bai nationality failed twice in a row. He had been victorious in many battles with the big order for many years, and he had suffered this kind of comfort there.

The prairie coalition forces rested, and were preparing to launch a more violent attack tomorrow, but under Fuyuan City, Wang Qinian's troops were still hard at work. Within a thousand steps before the main city, all new positions would be preset, rows of refusal horses, and iron soldiers. The huge stones were moved out by the soldiers. Behind these obstacles, new trenches have been dug, and the excavated soil has been built into new parapets. Trench, such as this line of defense a total of three arrangements.

At the front, Wang Qinian sent a small team of soldiers to dig countless small shallow pits on the ground. This is a small method that Wang Qinian learned from many battles with barbarian cavalry, but it is extremely practical. Think about it, galloping war horses The horse's hoof stepped into these small pits, and with a click, the horse's hoof broke, and the knight fell down. In this torrent, he could only end up being trampled into a pulp.

Wang Qinian's troops spent the rest of the night thinking about it before they finally set up the line according to Li Qing's battle plan. Tired as dogs, Wang Qinian's troops withdrew back to the city, and [-] soldiers of Feng Guo stepped forward.

"Sleep, all of you, let's go to the city tomorrow to cheer on the brothers' troops." Wang Qinian shouted as he walked on the city, cheering up the soldiers. After two days, his [-] soldiers were less than [-]. There are still many people with injuries. At this time, it is impossible to go to the front line with minor injuries, so they can only be bandaged casually. Fortunately, there is a doctor Huan Qiu with excellent medical skills in the Changsheng Camp, which makes the survival of the wounded soldiers in the Changsheng Camp The chances are greatly increased.

Li Qing didn't sleep either. He stood on the tall city tower and looked at the brightly lit barbarian camp opposite. Starting tomorrow, there will be a truly cruel battle. I don't know how many of my five thousand soldiers can fight in the battle. Survive after the war?

Today's sacrifice is for the peace of tomorrow.Li Qing reassures himself in his heart. It has been a long time since he came to this generation, but he still can't regard human life as trivial. Whenever he sees the corpses of soldiers being carried down, or the wailing of wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, he feels extremely uncomfortable. .

Standing on the tower, Li Qing stood silently until dawn, Wanyan Bulu will mobilize the garrison in Shanglin, right?This is the most critical part of this battle, otherwise, all the sacrifices I made here would be worthless.

In the early hours of the morning, an intelligence officer from the Investigation and Statistics Department brought Li Qing excited information. Seeing the joy on Qingfeng's face as he hurried over, Li Qing knew that things were moving in his favour.

"General, tonight, the barbarian troops stationed in Shanglinli began to mobilize. About 1 people are escorting trebuchets, Mengchong chariots, and siege chariots to Fuyuan. They are expected to arrive at noon tomorrow."

"The fish has bitten the hook, but the bite is not strong enough. We need to add more fire!" Li Qing smiled.

At this time, countless cooking smokes were rising from above and below the city at the same time, and breakfast was already being prepared, and soon, a new day of fighting would begin.

While the offensive and defensive battles in Fuyuan were in full swing, Shang Haibo, the chief military officer of the Changsheng Battalion and Li Qing's most valued assistant, led a group of people to Yiling Shi Shiran. Yiling was about tens of miles away from the Fuyuan Fortress. It is a mountainous area, where the most important iron mine in Dingzhou is located. The iron ore here is not only rich in reserves, but also of excellent quality. It has always been in the hands of the Fang clan. Fang Wenhai is the backbone of the Fang clan in Dingzhou. , and the current Zhizhou Fang Wenshan is their biggest backer in Dingzhou. Even Xiao Yuanshan, although dissatisfied with the Fang family secretly selling pig iron to the grassland, has nothing to do. He can only imply that Fang Wenshan must strictly control the number, and must not Let it threaten the life and death of Dingzhou.

Regarding this point, Fang Wenshan is also helpless. As the magistrate of Dingzhou, he is very dissatisfied with Fang Wenhai's sale of strategic materials such as pig iron. However, as the Fang family, the trade on the grassland can bring huge economic benefits, which makes some people in the family disdain Fang Wenshan's complaints At first glance, they didn't pay much attention to the prairie people at all. For hundreds of years, they had never seen the barbarians on the prairie invade the Central Plains.

Fang Wenshan had no choice but to tell Fang Wenhai sternly that the quantity must be checked, but as for the actual situation, he had no idea. He was not sure whether the account book he saw was complete or not, but every time Seeing the huge amount of money that Fang Wenhai sent to the Fang clan, he knew that the other party must have broken through his bottom line.

He could only keep silent, and even vowed to Xiao Yuanshan that everything was under control.

Ever since he received the conscription order from the Changsheng Camp, Fang Wenhai became ill at the right time and couldn't get out of bed. Since there was no one in charge, the Fang family couldn't make random decisions and send the miners to the Changsheng Camp, so the matter was delayed. It took a day, but what the Fang family didn't expect was that just after a day, the Changsheng Camp had arrived. What made the Fang family even more annoyed was that the person they sent to inform Fang Wenshan was intercepted, and the other party sent the messenger to The sneer on his face when he came back made Fang Wenhai realize that the situation was not good, so his illness became more serious.He only had one word at the moment, procrastinate, procrastinate, he only said that this war is over, or let Fang Wenshan know.

Shang Haibo brought Huan Qiu here, aren't you sick?Well, here I have a personal disciple of Huan Xi, the great doctor in the world, and Huan Qiu, the nephew of my family, will come to see you in person.

When he arrived at the Fang family compound, he saw the tall walls, guard towers, and soldiers on guard towers that were comparable to Fuwu Fortress. Shang Haibo couldn't help but giggled and said, "The defense is so tight, no wonder the Fang family is not afraid of barbarians coming in." , even if the Fuyuan Fortress is broken, his place can be regarded as impenetrable!"

Huan Qiu smiled and said nothing, he is a doctor, his mind is all on how to improve his medical skills, he is not interested in these things, but not interested does not mean that he does not understand, he is also a member of everyone, seeing Shang Haibo's actions, naturally Knowing that the Fang family was going to be in trouble, since he followed Li Qing, he saw with his own eyes that Li Qing made the impossible possible. The Fang family was doomed this time.

The door of the Fang family was opened, and Fang Wenhai's son, Fang Jiahao, led his family out with a smile on his face.

"Master Shang, it's an honor to come to my humble house. Please, please!" You have a plan, I have a wall ladder, Fang Jiahao sneered in his heart, the little Changsheng camp actually wanted to seek my Fang family, I really feel uncomfortable Measure the car.

Fang Jiahao was very certain in his heart that all the troops of the Changsheng Battalion were at the Fuyuan Fortress, and there was no spare power to deal with them. As long as he dragged on for a while, his uncle would know the news, but he would see how Li Qing would end up.

Shang Haibo was also sneering. He was not well-prepared when he came today. The dozens of subordinates he brought didn't look very impressive, but they were the elite of the Department of Administration specially trained by the Statistics and Investigation Department. Today, he Be strong, if Fang Jiahao doesn't see you behind closed doors, he really has nothing to do, so he just welcomes himself in, that's like attracting wolves into the house, hehe, capture the thief first, capture the king first, and capture the Fang family father and son, but you still have What trick?Fang Wenshan, save yourselves, distant water cannot save near fire, not to mention, when did our general put Fang Wenshan in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)