Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1061 Broken City and Traps

At this time, a cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom had already rushed towards Harik and the others. Harrick was also a warrior. With a loud roar, he unfurled his long knife, dancing like a windmill, and several people rushed towards him. The cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom actually let him get rid of the entanglement and encirclement of this cavalry.

Zhu Zhenxi immediately noticed this warrior. He pulled his horse's head and walked around from one side. Without making a sound, he slashed at Harik with a special horse-cutting sword in his hand.

Dangdang sounded, and the moment the two sides crossed each other, the swords in the hands of the two collided several times. Harik's tiger's mouth was numb, and the long sword in his hand was about to be let go. He was terrified. Passing by, mustering up his courage, Harik forcefully squeezed out a passage, and was about to run towards the city gate.

After chopping down several Shazhou cavalry, Zhu Zhenxi turned his horse's head and saw Harik fleeing on the horse. He couldn't help being furious. He stood up abruptly and jumped on the horse. The momentum of unity slashed towards Haric.

Hearing the strange sound of breaking through the air behind him, Halic suddenly took the bow, turned around sharply, shot straight at Zhu Zhenxi in the midair with the sound of arrows, and the three arrows met end to end, fast and accurate.

Zhu Zhenxi was startled, and shouted loudly in mid-air, the saber in his hand changed from chopping to horizontal in mid-air, the lightning and flint just blocked the three arrows, but his body, which was originally unstoppable forward, couldn't control it and fell down. At that time, his horse also caught up, and he landed on the horse again, but after this delay, Harrick had gone too far, and he couldn't help being furious, pointing at Harrick's back and yelling.

The general fled the battlefield, and most of the morale of the remaining Xizhou Uighur cavalry immediately dissipated. Relying on the speed of their horses and the sharpness of their crossbows, the men and horses in the guard camp chased them one by one, and beheaded them all under the watchful eyes of Dulamati and other Xizhou Uighur soldiers at the head of the city.

But just like this, Zhu Zhenxi was still very depressed, because not only did he fail to keep his head on Dulaa Lang, but even the opponent's general escaped in a single fight with him. You must know that he is a first-class martial arts master, From this, it can be seen that the famous generals and warriors of the Uighurs in Xizhou should not be underestimated even if they fight immediately.

Zhu Zhenxi returned to the camp dejectedly, and pleaded guilty to Huang Dongqiu!

Huang Dongqiu said with a smile: "The same force fought head-on, and almost wiped out the enemy army. The enemy general fled in embarrassment. Our army was only killed or injured more than a hundred people. What is Zhu Battalion Commander guilty of? As for the escaped enemy general, since he entered Shazhou City , that is, the birds that entered our cages will be killed by us sooner or later. And the Uighurs in Xizhou took the head of the Dulaa wolf, so they took it. Dulamati thought that this would inspire their soldiers Morale, but it also depends on the circumstances, if we can keep them at a disadvantage, seeing the head of the former warrior in their minds will only make them more afraid of us."

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Halic fled back to Shazhou city alone, took the leather bag, and handed it to Dulamati.

Dulamati held his son's head in his arms, and never took it out to look at it, nor did he shed a tear. He only wanted to kill Huang Dongqiu and everyone in the Volunteer Army, avenge his son, and ordered someone to find the artisans in the city. After carving a body for his son and burying him properly, he went to the top of the city again and began to direct the city defense.

When Dulamati went up to the top of the city, the offensive and defensive battle of Shazhou City officially started.

Dulamati, Alimu, and all Xizhou Uyghur soldiers obviously underestimated the combat power of the Volunteer Corps' cavalry, and far underestimated the level of the Volunteer Corps' ability to attack the city.Especially those siege equipment they have never seen before, siege vehicles, nest vehicles, rush vehicles, giant catapults, giant crossbows, guns, etc., dazzled and frightened the Xizhou Uyghurs at the head of Shacheng City Trembling.

Gunpowder packs, crossbows, guns, arrow rain, explosions, flames, blood, and corpses constituted the main theme of Shazhou City for the next two days. Although Dulamati, who was deeply saddened by the loss of his son, was a fierce general in field battles, But this is the first time to organize the defense of the city. They don't even have the means to communicate and command between the city leaders, let alone proficient in the defense of the city. Fortunately, the rolling logs, oil pans, arrows and other things used to defend the city are not bad. well prepared.Dulamati ran on various city walls, trying his best to organize the defense of the city. After two days, his voice became hoarse, but the situation at the top of the city was getting worse and worse, especially when the gunpowder packs of Xiangfu Kingdom were fired at one place. The city wall was already crumbling. He ordered the people in the city to be assembled for repairs, but there was nowhere to find the materials for a while. Later, he listened to Alimu’s advice and demolished the houses in the city to repair the city wall. But this kind of thing is not done by professionals. , the repaired city wall can be imagined.

In fact, during the past two days, the soldiers of Xiangfu Kingdom never came within fifty steps of the city wall, and all relied on long-range attacks to consume the defenders at the top of the city and bombarded the city wall.Obviously Huang Dongqiu didn't want his soldiers to be wasted in the siege battle at all.

What makes Dulamati so angry that he can't wait to vomit blood is that their long-range attacks from the top of the city can't hit the volunteer army outside the city at all, and the various long-range attacks of the volunteer army outside the city continue to cause death and injury to them, but it is impossible for them to retreat from the city wall , Withdrew to the city.Therefore, on Shazhou City, not to mention the scars, many places have been smashed and collapsed, and the blood is solidified around the city wall, and the purple-black patches are shocking.

On the third day, twenty giant trebuchets fired powder packs and continued to bombard the city wall selected two days ago. At noon, the city wall, which was six or seven feet wide, finally collapsed.

"These Xizhou Uighurs really don't know how to defend the city! I thought it would take at least seven days to break through the city, but it took less than three days to break the city. The order was sent, and the long-range attack was fully suppressed, and the two cavalry brigades began to attack the gap. Launch a charge. The infantry will follow." Huang Dongqiu stood on the command platform, retracted the binoculars, and gave the order to attack the city with some emotion.

With the flag waving and the drums beating, the cavalry of the Volunteer Corps was in front and the infantry was behind, charging towards Shazhou City.

"General, the city wall is broken, and our manpower can't stop it at all. While the main force is still there, we will withdraw from the east gate and join up with General Baturmu, and then fight back!"

On the first day, the cavalry with equal numbers on both sides of the city was almost wiped out in the field battle, and then they were beaten from a distance for three consecutive days, especially the deterrent and lethal power of the explosion of the gunpowder bag, which had already almost wiped out the morale and fighting spirit of the Xizhou Uighurs. , Dulamati was not blinded by hatred, and decisively ordered to withdraw.

The east city was quickly lost, and Xiangfu soldiers continued to attack the city. At the same time, the gate of the west city was hurriedly opened, and Dulamati rushed out of the city gate with more than 8000 troops.

The Volunteer Corps has limited strength, and it is impossible to besiege the city on all sides, and the west is not the focus.They just arranged a battalion of infantry to stand guard outside the west city. Seeing that there were more than 8000 enemy troops leaving the city, and all of them were cavalry, the battalion commander immediately ordered to form a formation to guard against death.

The Volunteer Army did not take the initiative to intercept, Dulamati naturally would not be stupid to attack when the opponent did not block all the way, but led the army to bypass this battalion and escape from the other side.

The battalion commander watched Dulamati lead the people away, smiled slightly, and said: "Come here, report to the army commander, and say that the enemy has taken the bait. In addition, light up the wolf smoke and report to the deputy army commander."

A team of messengers who had been preparing for a long time quickly galloped towards Huang Dongqiu's main force in the east.

Since the beginning of winter last year, Huang Dongqiu has led people to study the battle plan. He made a plan throughout the winter. He not only studied the topography and routes of Shazhou and even Xizhou Uighurs clearly, but also formulated a very detailed serial plan. count.

Is the battalion stationed on the west side of Shazhou City really just a guard?Naturally not, their function is to block several other intersections intentionally or unintentionally, and to get out of a certain intersection, forcing Dulamati to lead the army to escape according to the route planned by Huang Dongqiu, and reach the second road that Huang Dongqiu designed for them. A battlefield in Shapogou.

The Volunteer Corps has six brigades, three battalions, three cavalry brigades, three infantry brigades, one engineering battalion, one reconnaissance battalion, and one personal guard battalion, with a total of about 3 people. Usually, two brigades with 1 people are stationed in Suzhou. The other four brigades and three directly affiliated battalions are all stationed in Guazhou, because the prefectures and counties of Xiangfu Kingdom successively established city guard brigades or city guard battalions, and there is no need to take into account the urban defense issues of Guazhou and Shazhou, so this time Huang Dongqiu Under the city of Shazhou are two cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades, plus a reconnaissance battalion, a guard battalion and two trebuchet companies of the engineer battalion.Another infantry brigade, a cavalry brigade, and two other newly formed companies of the engineer battalion, with a total of more than [-] people, have already quietly set up a trap in Shapogou in advance, led by the deputy head of the army, Yelu Hanye.

The trap has been set, just waiting for the fish to take the bait.Now the military strategic thinking of Xiangfu Kingdom is to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent at the lowest cost, so forcing Dulamati out of Shazhou City and avoiding unnecessary casualties in the siege battle of the Volunteer Army is the first in Huang Dongqiu's plan. ring.

Huang Dongqiu is confident that he will use 1 people to lay traps, and he will try to stop or even eliminate the more than 8000 fine cavalry in Dulamati. Apart from his confidence in his own military strength, another reliance is the two new weapons that were newly distributed to each legion Hundred-fat crossbow chariot and steel string bow.

Liannu has appeared in the past, but at most it is like the four-shot fast crossbow of Xiangfu Kingdom, which is already the known limit. Now the terrifying weapon that can shoot hundreds of crossbow arrows at one time has just been equipped, and a hundred-shot crossbow has been formed according to the requirements of the military hub department. Crossbow connection, and then a certain amount of training, and now Huang Dongqiu also plans to test the power of this thing.In addition, the steel string bow can shoot farther than ordinary hard bows, especially the projectile power is extremely powerful, and it is also a big killer when used well.

(End of this chapter)