Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1066 Despair
Chapter 1076 Despair

At this time, the morale of the troops has been lost, and the question of whether they can win another battle is not whether they can win, but whether they can go back alive.Ma Guangbi wanted to retreat, how could the cavalry of the Anxi army, who had already killed their eyes, let them go?
"Pfft!" With a sound, a Jieqi who had just turned around was chopped off in the head by an Anxi Army cavalryman.Dou Da's head rolled to the ground like a rubber ball, while the headless corpse fell to the ground after a long time and was trampled into a pulp by the horse's hooves.

Following Ma Guangbi's order to retreat, the Jie cavalry, regardless of elite cavalry or light cavalry, had no intention of fighting.However, the cavalry of the Anxi Army became more and more courageous as they fought, their spears were like poisonous snakes, and their guns saw blood.The horizontal knife waved like the wind, and the knife bit the flesh.The Jie cavalrymen screamed again and again after being killed.However, for the Jie people who have lost their will to fight, no one dares to fight back.

"Forgive me, forgive me, don't kill me, I surrender!" Many Jie people who can speak Chinese shouted in half-baked Chinese.

At this time, the generals and soldiers of the Anxi army who were jealous of the killing didn't pay any attention to it at all, and only galloped to kill.Finally, the desperate thing happened for the Jie cavalrymen.With Ye Xian's permission, the generals of the servant army have already received Ye Xian's promise, and the rewards will remain the same.The merit is counted by the first level.Numerous servant cavalry and Baghdad, the shepherd of the Western Regions, also rushed up screaming.

At this time, the Capricorn people who occasionally turned their heads looked at the scene behind and suddenly turned pale with shock.Densely packed cavalry filled the sightlines.It didn't take long for the nearly [-] Jie cavalry to be killed, and only Ma Guangbi led less than [-] cavalry to return to the city.

Liu Yan saw that the cavalry outside the city were defeated, especially that Ma Guangbi only led back to the city with less than [-] cavalry, especially the elite cavalry with less than [-] cavalry left.Immediately he vomited blood.

But Ye Xian was not polite, and directly sent troops to surround the city of Taluosi.

When Wei's army was besieging the city of Taluosi, Ye Xian also ordered the generals of the servants and the shepherds of the Western Regions to hold a meeting in his tent.

If you want to say why you are a hero because you know the practice, in fact, all the countries in the Western Regions and the Central Asian countries are all very clear about their own value, and they are just a group of cannon fodder being used.They also know very well that no matter who is powerful, Central Asia is definitely not a place where natives like them can be their home.Originally, Central Asia was the sphere of influence of the Parthian Empire. After the fall of the Parthian Empire, the Sasanian Empire and the Heda Empire were two powers competing for supremacy.In the end, the Persian Sasanian Empire united with the Western Turks to destroy the Heda Empire, and in the end Central Asia became the sphere of influence of the Turkic Empire.

Of course, when the Han Dynasty was strong, they also gave their allegiance to the Han Dynasty.Now that the state of Wei is strong, they have defeated the Heda Empire, and all the countries in Central Asia are slave states of the state of Wei.These generals of the servant army are very conscious and aware that the value of their existence is to be cannon fodder, but they also know that as long as they can survive, then he will no longer be cannon fodder, but will suddenly become a member of the Wei State .Wei Guo, as a kingdom of heaven, must have a broad mind. As long as he has worked hard and shed blood for the Great Wei Empire, the Great Wei Empire will not treat them badly.

Ye Xian said: "I have wiped out the elite of Taluosi City. Now that the Jie tribe refuses to surrender, I will not tolerate it. Before attacking Taluosi City, I decided to cut off the foreign aid of Taluosi City. To the east of Taluosi City are Shuijian City and Julan City, which are now under the rule of our Great Wei, so naturally there is no need to think about it. To the south is Kuba City, to the north is Baishui City, and to the west is Buha Pull. Now the general has sent troops to capture these three cities, so the commander is short of troops. I need to rely on you!"

All the servants and generals said: "I would like to be the leader of the commander-in-chief!"

Ye Xiandao: "This Commander has already said that if you dare to resist the Great Master of Wei, you will not be left behind after breaking the city. Naturally, this Commander cannot let others say that this Commander has no faith in his words, so after breaking the city, no one will dare to kill without mercy. Of course, this commander will not treat the generals badly, but if it is captured, you can keep [-]% and hand over [-]%!"

Hearing this, the generals of the servant army were very excited. You must know that Talas City and Samarkand City are important commercial cities in Central Asia, and there are a lot of property in them.Even if [-]% is handed over, the rest is enough to make them rich.

Although it was to drive the descending army to attack the city, Wei Guo Ye Xian did not deliberately consume these servant army cannon fodder.He ordered Anxi's three ballista battalions and three eight-ox crossbow battalions to carry out long-range fire suppression for the servant army.

Following Ye Xian's order, one hundred and eight ballistas were lined up under the city, and after the adjustment of the shooting elements, a ballista shell hit the city of Taluosi.Due to the huge consumption of gunpowder of the Anxi Army and the poor transportation of backup, Ye Xian did not order the ballista to fire gunpowder, but directly fired stone bullets.The stone bullet, which also weighed 25 kilograms, was smashed on the city wall of Taluosi City after simple handling by the craftsman.

Ballista shooting accuracy is not as good as artillery, either hitting the towers, the battlements, or directly hitting the city wall.As soon as the huge stone bomb landed, it set off a piece of rubble. Some unlucky soldiers of the stone army were killed on the spot, or were hit by the gravel. Fragments of fallen masonry covered the bloodstains.

After Liu Yan woke up, he sat in the gate tower very depressed, and he was very worried about the situation in front of him.The defenders in the city were better, more or less calm, but the young and strong in the city were very chaotic. Because they were inexperienced, they were so frightened that they ran around screaming and screaming, and many people became unlucky ghosts because of this.

Just when the crossbows and eight-ox crossbows of the Anxi Army of Wei State suppressed the defenders on the city wall and couldn't raise their heads, three or four thousand servants rushed towards the city wall carrying ladders.The equipment of these servants is simply horrible, and some of them just picked up a set of broken armor on the battlefield and put it on their bodies, with mottled blood stains on it.There is no way, the Anxi Army of Wei Guo likes the fish-scale armor made of Uzi steel by the Persians very much, but all the fish-scale armor captured by the Anxi Army are collected by the Anxi Army.As for the miscellaneous brand-name equipment of the Jie people's Qingqi, the generals of the Anxi army didn't like it, so they rewarded these equipment to the generals and soldiers of the servant army who performed better in chasing cavalry battles.

The soldiers of the servant army did not have the slightest method to attack, and rushed forward like a swarm of bees.If you are facing a city guarded by the Han people, such an attack method is definitely courting death.However, at this time, the defenders of Taluosi City were not Han Chinese, and they were not good at defending troops, so they did not have the endless defensive weapons of the Han people.Especially long-range attack weapons, basically there are no, the only powerful ones are a dozen ballistas made by the Greeks.As soon as these old ballistas spoke, the Anxi army used more firepower to suppress the shooting, and as a result, in just a quarter of an hour, all the ballistas on the walls of Taluosi City failed to fire.

At this time, Ye Xian ordered two thousand servants of Julan City to serve as the supervisor team in order to prevent the servant army from attacking and fleeing.Each of the two thousand cavalrymen had a riding bow. Once they found that the servant army soldiers turned around and fled, or stopped moving forward, they would go forward and shoot the servant army soldiers who were besieging the city.

In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the puppet army did no less evil than the Japanese devils.Massacring cities and villages, murder, arson, robbery and rape, these evil things, they also did not do less, and they raised their butcher knives in front of their comrades, and they would not be soft at all.Of course, when these Julan servants found that the siege servants had turned around or were stagnant, they would immediately go forward and kill them.The servants had no choice but to spread their legs and run forward, hoping not to be hit by the bows and arrows on the city.

The first wave of attack was very unsatisfactory. More than half of the three or four thousand servants died in the battle in just half an hour, and most of the rest were injured.Ye Xian ordered this wave of servants to retreat, and another wave of servants stepped forward to attack the city.However, Ye Xian was also good at buying people's hearts. Whenever the soldiers of the servant army were injured in the siege, they sent people to treat them.Death is also handled according to their customs.Those with the custom of burial will be buried on the spot, and those with the custom of cremation will be treated with cremation.

Especially the food for the wounded soldiers is still very good.Especially for those wounded soldiers, everyone rewarded them with a can of canned food that Anxi soldiers had long been tired of eating. This made these servant soldiers very grateful.

Facing the tide-like offensive of Wei State's servants regardless of casualties, Taluosi City immediately felt great pressure.Taluosi City was originally an important commercial city. Because of commercial needs, the city wall was very wide, and the circumference of the city wall was a full twenty miles. Such a city was already considered a big city in the Central Plains.Every big city has a fatal weakness, that is, the pressure of defense is high. If the attacker has a large number of troops, he can give full play to the advantage of having a large number of people.

What's more, the defenders of Taluosi City not only have to bear the pressure from the siege servants, but also have to be on guard against the ballistas of the Anxi Army at all times.Especially the eight-ox crossbow was arranged to be three hundred steps away. At this distance, the eight-ox crossbow was very accurate.Can often accurately hit the defenders.

The defenders of Taluosi City were all indignant. No matter how much they killed and attacked the enemy, they did not harm Wei's army at all, but the servant army attacked with red eyes. If they were not careful, they would kill them.In particular, Ye Xian ordered his servants to concentrate more than [-] good shooters, equipped with strong bows and arrows, and enter the city for a hundred steps to suppress firepower.

The three-stone strong bow has a range of 150 steps, and there are many talents among the many servants. These good shooters set up a dedicated shooting battalion alone. As a result, the defenders on the city wall were initially defenseless, and they were shot down all over the place.

Shi Guo's defenders were all aggrieved. Anxi's army didn't attack the city, but used dense ballistas, eight-ox crossbows and hard bows to suppress the city from far, middle and near, so that they didn't dare to lift their heads.

General Shi Bu of the Shi Army had never experienced this kind of fighting style before. He panicked for a while, but when he reacted and wanted to probe into Anxi Army's movements, a strong bow hit him on the top of his helmet, shaking his helmet and shaking him. It shrank back again.

The defenders of the city wall were so suppressed that they did not dare to raise their heads, and the second wave of siege servants finally put the ladder on the city wall without any danger.Seeing the ladder appearing on the city wall, these defenders also knew that they might not be able to do it, so they could only do their best.They raised the rock and rolled the log one after another and threw them down.But there was an unlucky guy who had just lifted a stone over his head, and before he had time to smash it down, suddenly a strong arrow hit his chest, and he screamed in pain. As a result, the stone in his hand fell from his head and killed himself up.

Hurrah! Hundreds of defenders stood up to fight back, but just as they showed their heads, they were shot more than half of them.Frightened, the faces of those defenders turned ashen, and their bodies shook like chaff.

These [-] sharpshooters are almost the best in Central Asia, so it may be an exaggeration for them to shoot at a hundred steps, but if they shoot someone in the head from a hundred steps away, it is absolutely indistinguishable.These three thousand sharpshooters were equipped with Qing Yishui's three-stone hard bow. Ye Xian rewarded each of them with a set of Wei Guo's bright light armor, and raised their food level to the same standard as that of Wei Guo'an Western Army soldiers. With this kind of treatment, These three thousand sharpshooters are also eager to express themselves.

These [-] sharpshooters were separately established as the Anxi Army Accumulated Shooting Battalion.A team of [-] people is responsible for an area of ​​the city wall. As long as the enemies on the city wall dare to show their heads, they will shoot arrows and rain.With a very high hit rate and a very high rate of fire, although the stone army on the city was covered by the city wall, many people were killed and injured, and there was even a feeling of being overwhelmed and unable to lift their heads.That kind of feeling is like being unable to breathe in the water, it is so depressing that one's heart beats, and one is so depressed that one wants to go crazy.

Ye Xian's attack on Taluosi City was three-dimensional. Not far away, one hundred and eight ballistas, one hundred and eight eight-ox crossbows were carrying out uninterrupted long-range suppression, and more than three thousand marksmen shot nearby, and there were countless more below. The soldiers of the servant army attacked the city with ants.However, Ye Xian did not intend to consume all the soldiers of the servant army under the city of Taluosi.His real killer move was the tunnel attack of the engineering battalion directly under the Anxi Army.

Ran Ming plagiarized the tunnel blasting method used by the Taiping Army to break through Nanjing City more than 600 years ago, so naturally he would not abandon this huge technological advantage.Tunnel blasting is actually not an advanced technology, but since the invention of gunpowder, there has been a misunderstanding, there are many impurities in it, insufficient purification, and unreasonable formula, so the power of ancient gunpowder is very limited.However, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, gunpowder technology had been achieved, and this kind of tunnel blasting tactics naturally came into being.

While the servant army continued to attack, more than 300 engineers from the engineering battalion directly under the Anxi Army also used engineering shovels to carry out tunnel operations.Liu Yan originally thought that the Anxi Army's attack would stop at sunset, but he didn't expect that Wei Guo's Anxi Army would set up a lot of fires and fight at night as soon as it got dark.

The offensive and defensive battle of the city on this day was very fierce, although the Shi Guo defenders caused a lot of casualties to the Wei Guo servant army.But the price paid by the stone country defenders was not small.At least 4000 Shiguo defenders were killed and tens of thousands were injured.The dead are dead, anyway, Jie people are used to death, they have seen too much life and death, and their heart has long been tempered to be as hard as a stone.

But the screams of the wounded all over the city deepened the fear of the living.The living Shi Guobing generals all looked terrified. They were forced to fight fiercely with the Anxi army outside the city for a day. What was the result?They also suffered thousands of casualties, plus those civilians who died on the top of the city, the casualties were not necessarily less than those of the enemy troops outside the city.Some people have long since lost their will to fight. They curled up under the parapet and silently looked at the brothers who died beside them. Their hearts were filled with resentment. What can they ask for?

The casualties of Shi Guo's defenders were so high that Liu Yan could not bear it. This is the first day, the first day.No matter how many young and strong people die, Liu Yan doesn't care, because these can be added at any time.As long as there are still people in the city of Taluosi, there is no fear that they will not be able to recruit people.However, the losses of those loyal members of the Masonry Association cannot be replenished, especially the elite riders of the Eight Thousand Jie Race. These are their survival capital, and if they are gone, they will be gone.

Liu Yan's heart twitched violently. At the beginning, he expected to use the young and strong in the city to consume Anxi's army, deplete the strength of Anxi's army, and then use the backbone members of the Stonemason Association to severely injure them, but Anxi's army did not participate in the siege at all. , but took the servant army of various countries.No matter how many cannon fodders die, the Anxi army will not feel bad.Especially the sharp crossbows and eight-ox crossbows of Wei Guo'an's western army. This long-range weapon suppresses the city, but the fighting method of not attacking the city makes him unable to use it forcefully.

The piercing sound of ballistas, eight-ox crossbows, strong bows and hard crossbows, as well as the dying screams of those who were hit and wounded, seemed to never stop.Liu Yan had a feeling of going crazy, as if he wanted to torture someone, but he refused to finish the torture all at once, so he just scraped off one knife at a time, until his body was bruised all over his body, and his blood flowed like pillars. He was scraped until his flesh was removed to the bone, and he was scraped until his death.

There were young and strong men in the city who couldn't bear the pressure of being beaten, and began to flee in the city.The Stone Army immediately suppressed it, and the members of the Stonemasons Association raised their knives and fell, and dozens of heads fell to the ground. The young and strong panicked for a while, and did not dare to flee to the city anymore, and squatted there against the city wall.

Ma Guangbi had already come to his senses at this time, and his legs were broken at this time. Although his life was not in danger, he might not have the chance to go to the battlefield again in a short time.But Ma Guangbi was also stubborn, and he asked his own soldiers to carry him to face Liu Yan.

Regardless of the torment of the pain, Ma Guangbi almost gritted his teeth, endured the piercing pain, and said: "Your Majesty, our army has lost the field battle. The soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the soldiers are exhausted. Under the attack of the ballista, the casualties are not small today. If the decline cannot be reversed, I am afraid that the city will not be able to hold on. In the end, it is better for the king to pick out some young and strong people in the city to act as traps and counterattack the Wei army. , Destroy the crossbows of the Wei army outside the city, and our army has suffered huge casualties right now. If the crossbows of the Wei state are not destroyed, the whole army may collapse in the next battle."

Liu Yan knew that Ma Guangbi's defeat was not a crime of war, and he had done his best.For the failure of the field battle outside the city, he did not blame Ma Guangbi.Thinking about it, what Ma Guangbi said is also reasonable. In today's battle, regardless of whether it is a field battle or a city defense battle, Shi Guobing will suffer a lot of casualties. More than half of these casualties are caused by his long-range ballista and eight-ox crossbow.If the people who are trapped in the battle go out of the city to attack at night, the chances of winning are actually very high.It doesn't need too many people, only hundreds or thousands of people may be able to make meritorious deeds.

(End of this chapter)