"Your Majesty! The latest information from Yunzhou County! A hundred thousand Xiongnu troops have arrived in Yunzhou County and surrounded Dingyang City!"
In the border area of the Western Region, Zhao Jun, who had just left Ankang City, received the latest information from the secret guards. After more than half a month, the Huns finally arrived at Yunzhou County and surrounded the entire Dingyang City a few days ago. The attack was launched early the next morning.
They captured a lot of prisoners from the grasslands and used them as cannon fodder to attack Dingyang City. This was a consistent practice of the Xiongnu. Unless they had to, they would not let their own people attack the most dangerous city. Most of them They all sent prisoners to consume all kinds of defense materials of the city defenders.
But this time, it was obvious that they had hit the wall and found the wrong opponent.
Different from other cities, the three cities in Yunzhou County already have a basic industrial foundation. Although most of the workshops are in the manual workshop stage due to the energy consumption of steam engines, the assembly line production model makes these cities in Yunzhou County The speed at which the three cities produce supplies is terrifying.
Before the Xiongnu besieged the city, Yunzhou City sent them millions of arrows and tens of thousands of crossbows.
But now they produce it themselves and can produce at least 50,000 arrows every day. At least until the raw materials are consumed, there will be no shortage of arrows and various military supplies in Dingyang City.
So when the Xiongnu began to attack the city, they were dumbfounded when faced with a dense crowd of arrows raining down like they were free of charge.
The overwhelming arrows were like cutting wheat, and the prisoners who were about to be driven forward to attack the city were quickly harvested in patches.
After fighting for a whole day, ten thousand or twenty thousand prisoners died, but the army did not advance even half a step!
As soon as they make a move, Dingyang City will shoot arrows here. Now within a hundred steps of Dingyang City, there is no open space, and everything is filled with arrows.
Even the Xiongnu felt like they had nowhere to go when they saw this situation.
The prisoners who were driven by the Huns to carry out the project had to pay attention to their steps while running. If they were not careful, they could easily be tripped by the dense arrows on the ground.
And being tripped on the battlefield means that your life has come to an end.
The person who was originally attacked from the front was turned into a hedgehog by the arrows falling from the sky in the next moment!
At the end of the day, the Huns had no advantage at all in Dingyang City.
The entire Dingyang City can be said to be impregnable!
Zhao Jun was really relieved when he received the news.
Although he also has confidence in Pontu's defense, confidence and reality are two different things.
Now that the Huns can be blocked so easily, I have time to support them, and I don't have to worry about them disappearing before they reach home.
Soon this information spread throughout the army. This was done deliberately by Zhao Jun to reassure everyone.
Sure enough, when the news spread, the soldiers who had been carrying a sense of urgency on their faces for the past few days instantly relaxed a lot.
Of course, if Dingyang City is defended, they still have to go back quickly. The most indispensable thing in this world is accidents. If they are delayed because of this, they will regret it!
The speed of the Yunzhou coalition forces was much faster, and Zhao Jun took the lead and rushed to the front.
But at this time, Tila was in trouble when he looked at Dingyang City in front of him!
what is happening?
Originally, in his opinion, the Huns, with 100,000 people, surrounded the city of Dingyang with 5,000 defenders, even if they suffered some losses, they should be able to defeat the city of Dingyang quickly. In the past, they were like this in the Song Dynasty.
But since he started attacking the city yesterday, he discovered that Dingyang City is really rich!
Is he really rich, not fake?
Look at the ground in front of you. It's dark and filled with arrows stuck in the ground.
There were so many that the Huns didn't even dare to drive their horses to the side. When the time came to walk around inside, the horse's legs would be completely destroyed!
In the past two days, Tira had not ordered prisoners to attack by force. They even served as supervisors from behind. Once anyone retreated, they would be killed on the spot as a warning to others!
But the effect was not very good, but after using a large number of people to charge thousands, the three artillery at the top of the city fired!
Amidst the roar, explosive bombs were shot out one after another and fell into the crowd below. First, the roar of the explosion made the ears of everyone around them ring.
Immediately afterwards came the shock wave generated by the explosion of the shell, which directly flew away all the people standing within a dozen meters around the shell. Their internal organs were shattered by the shock wave, and finally the fire after the explosion was swallowed up!
One shot killed dozens of people on the spot, and not even a complete body was left.
This terrifying weapon instantly frightened the prisoners and Huns.
Just now they were fifty steps closer, but now they all retreated and retreated again.
This is not over yet, the Huoshaoyun II style has a range of three hundred steps, and now it is installed on the top of the city to attack by projectile, and the range has reached a distance of four hundred steps.
So, after repelling this wave of attacks, the defenders of Dingyang City gave the Huns a big surprise!
The three artillery pieces were calibrated and aimed at the location of Tila's flag, which they thought was safe, 200 steps away.
There was just a roar and three cannonballs were fired. At first, the Huns were a little strange. They had all withdrawn from the battlefield. Why were they still firing such terrifying weapons from the opposite side?
But when they saw the three approaching cannonballs getting closer and closer to them, everyone suddenly realized that a hundred steps together was not the limit of this weapon. He could hit them where they were stationed!
What's even more frightening is that these three cannonballs were actually aimed at the Great Chanyu!
Tila looked up and saw this scene, her pupils shrank suddenly, and then without waiting for anyone else to say anything, she abandoned her horse and ran backwards.
The others were not stupid. They would naturally run away after the big Chanyu ran away. However, this caused crowding and made it impossible for many people to run away.
Tira didn't have much to say here. Due to his fast running speed and decisiveness in doing things, he would kill anyone who stood in front of him with one knife, and he quickly ran out more than thirty steps away.
And at this moment, three shells finally fell!
Boom!
The flames shot into the sky, and the already crowded crowd became even more crowded. They were blown into a pile of broken corpses!
Even before the screams could be heard, the body and limbs were severed.
Looking at this scene, Tila's lips were trembling constantly, and she felt scared for a while. Fortunately, she ran fast!
The flames gradually dissipated, the rising smoke gradually receded, and the scene of the bombardment was revealed in front of everyone.
A burnt smell permeated the charred land, and there was actually a smell of barbecue along with it. That was because the corpse had been cooked by gunpowder!
It can be clearly seen that this large pit with a radius of five to six meters is about a foot shorter than the surrounding ground!
Even the soil underneath was dug out!
"Back off! Back off! Get out of here quickly!"
After seeing clearly the scene at the center of the explosion, Tira no longer dared to take any chances. He immediately loudly ordered the army to the rear. He himself continued to retreat under the protection of his personal guards, and was always vigilant to see if the other side would suddenly attack again. A few shots were fired, but it was obvious that Dingyang City had no such idea.
In this way, the Xiongnu retreated directly to about five hundred steps before he finally stopped in his heart.
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(End of chapter)
