June 6th, sunny, slightly windy.
Li Jing, who was wearing armor, got on his horse, looked back at Daizhou Sima Zhu Yichen and Wei Zheng who were staying behind, and silently followed the horse out of Yanmen Pass.
Outside Yanmen Pass, convoys and cavalry exited the pass in an orderly manner. From a distance, it could be seen that dozens of cavalry were dispersing to the north and west to kill the Turkic scouts.
In Li Jing's view, the Turks sent out troops this time, seemingly with more than 100,000 Turks. However, they first stormed Yanmen Pass and were unable to defeat them. The partial troops entered Hedong and were almost completely wiped out. Then they attacked Mayi and Guji Town but failed. Morale declined and food and grass were insufficient. The expulsion It's not difficult, but it's no longer possible to achieve a great victory.
Li Jing led his bodyguards to gallop forward. From the corner of his eye, he saw the cavalry brigade on the north side and nodded slightly to a young general.
That was Zhang Baoxiang who had just arrived at Yanmen Pass yesterday and was ordered to lead a thousand and five cavalry to come to the rescue. Now that the Turks had retreated and there was no danger to the east of the river, Li Daozong, the general manager of Bingzhou, had the courage to send a partial army to the north.
As a result, plus the personal guards of each general, the number of cavalry alone is 5,000, plus 5,000 infantry, a large number of chariot formations and civilians, the number of troops entering the fortress has exceeded 10,000.
The army did not go straight north, but headed northwest, approaching Mayi and Guji Town. The march route Li Jing chose was very particular. After all, he had served in Shuozhou for many years.
Almost at the same time that troops were sent out at Yanmen Pass, deafening shouts erupted outside Guji Town Walled Fort. The barbarians shouted in unison. Li Shan and Zhang Shigui, who were condescending, could not understand, but they all knew what they were shouting... The city is broken, the city is broken. .
The wooden cart pushed by dozens of people rushed violently against the city gate. The huge wood on the front of the cart successfully knocked down the city gate. More than a hundred Turkic soldiers gathered and rushed into the city with their swords raised.
Just yesterday, Jieli Khan offered a reward in public. Anyone who cuts off Li Shan's head would be granted special service status and be rewarded with tribes and land.
On the grasslands, the independence between tribes is still very strong today, but the establishment of the Turkic state has gradually transformed into a semi-tribal and semi-feudal political form. The most typical ones are the emergence of the official system and the privatization of land.
During the reign of Shibi Khan, the Turkic official system had been changed to twenty-eight grades. Below the Khan, there were junior khans, followed by Yehu, She and so on.
For example, the real name of Yu Sheshe who was tricked by Li Shan was Ashina Mo Mo. The so-called Yu Sheshe was actually another name for his official position.
The special Qin ranks fifth after Yehu and She. It can be said that he has reached the sky in one step, not to mention giving rewards to tribes and land.
As soon as the city gate was broken, more than a hundred Turkic soldiers entered the city, and other barbarians also climbed up the city wall from the ladder.
A large number of soldiers who had gathered not far from the city gate began to accelerate and entered the city. The cavalry could not exert much advantage, but there were still more than a hundred cavalry at the front.
The leader was Ashina She'er, whose left shoulder had just been slashed by Li Shan yesterday, followed by the association leader who regretted that the city was finally defeated, and thousands of infantry.
The sound of horse hooves, as heavy as thunder, drowned out everything. The city gate was approaching. Ashina Sheer did not slow down. He raised the long knife diagonally with his right hand, with hatred in his eyes.
But the moment he passed through the city gate, Ashina Sheer suddenly realized that something was wrong. Riding on his horse, he saw the city gate a hundred steps away. From the corner of his eye, he noticed that the soldiers who had entered the city were a little confused. , broke through the city gate and climbed up the city wall, but what they faced was actually a city gate and a city wall?
The horse's speed was difficult to slow down, and Ashina Sheer did not dare to stop. He suddenly looked up in the flash of lightning, and was met with a cold gaze.
Suddenly there were the sounds of several bowstrings in his ears. Ashina She'er's expression changed drastically, and he desperately moved his horse to the side. Three black lines flashed in the air.
Ashina Sheer looked back in his busy schedule and saw a special crossbow arrow as big as a spear whizzing into the dense crowd.
In this era, the bed crossbow was a formidable weapon with an arm length of three meters. Its destructive power against dense military formations was second to none, and its damage to morale was even more immeasurable.
Ashina She'er was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he could only keep fighting, watching helplessly as the second batch of crossbow arrows almost completely scattered the charging array.
What followed was a wave of arrows. Li Shan's trebuchet, which he reluctantly produced, threw a large number of bricks and stones onto the enemy's heads. Rocks and rolling logs poured down from the city wall, smashing the barbarians near the city wall until they cried for their fathers and mothers.
On the high city wall, Li Shan stared coldly at the hell-like battlefield below. When he first built the stronghold, he suddenly realized that there was no concept of urn city in this era... He had never expected that it could be so lethal.
Even if the city is defeated, even if his head is cut off in the end, he will fight to the end and take a bite of the opponent's flesh... This was Li Shan's habit in his previous life.
The situation inside the Wengcheng was already miserable, but the Turks outside the city were still squeezing in, cutting off Li Shan's head, and granting special services. Such a reward made the Turks crazy... The people inside wanted to get out, and the people outside wanted to get out. But when he tried to come in, the scene was chaotic.
The ordinary arrows had been used up, but the bricks and stones were still covered again and again, smashing the heads of the Turkic soldiers and bleeding. Huge crossbow arrows as long as spears were shot towards the city gate again and again, each time creating a huge Noisy, huge chaos.
"That's almost it." Zhang Shigui muttered lowly, turned around, raised the flag and waved it vigorously.
The next moment, a portal suddenly opened on the left side of the inner city gate. Ashina Jisheli, who had just escaped with his life, stared at the portal in shock, even though all kinds of screams and shouts filled his ears. , he also clearly heard the increasingly rapid sound of horse hooves.
A long spear was taken out first, and Xue Wanche excitedly raised the Turk in front of him high, followed by the armored and fully armed elite cavalry behind him.
Throwing the body away, Xue Wanche roared loudly and accelerated his horse, stabbing the horse in his hand. All the Turks around him retreated. Ashina Jishe led without hesitation jumped off the horse and climbed up the wall from the outer wall passage to prepare. Escape from the ladder.
Although there were only more than a hundred cavalry, everything went smoothly next. Xue Wanche used himself as the tip of the spear and led the cavalry to easily tear apart every place where troops were trying to gather strength and extinguish every fire that might resist.
On the top of the city, there were no arrows or stones, and even the long crossbow arrows had been used up. Zhang Shigui and Li Shan clenched their hands into fists, staring at Tang Qi who was sweeping across the city.
Gradually, the sound of gold and stone rang out at the top of the city. The tired soldiers excitedly struck their shields with their swords, making a majestic and rhythmic sound to cheer up their comrades below the city.
The outer city gate has been completely blocked by war horses and the corpses of barbarians. In order to escape, a considerable number of people died in the hands of their own people.
The Turks in the Wengcheng were driven everywhere by Xue Wanche. Wang Junhao led more than a hundred infantrymen into the Wengcheng from the side gate... They knew clearly that they could break the city as long as they entered, but the Turks who had lost their courage saw the door open and fled in all directions.
The gray-faced Ashina She'er was forcefully dragged up the outer city wall by the guards. He looked back and saw that the young man on the inner city wall seemed to be giving him a sarcastic look.
Not far outside the city, the livid-faced Jieli Khan seemed to have forgotten the pain caused by his broken calf, and galloped towards him with his legs firmly clamped on the horse's belly.
He couldn't believe what he saw with his own eyes. The city had clearly been breached, but the city gate was filled with corpses. The warriors who had charged into the city not long ago brandishing scimitars rolled down the ladder in embarrassment like rabbits.
