Yang Peng asked the soldiers to go to bed early at night and prepare to face the enemy the next day. Early the next morning, the horns in the Khitan stronghold were blaring, and more than 10,000 Khitan soldiers ran out of the camp one by one to summon the enemy and lined up in front. Khitan soldiers in gray armor and uniforms formed a square formation. Each team of 100 people formed a small formation, and each team of 1,000 people formed a large formation. The military appearance was neat and looked very spectacular.
After the Khitan soldiers stood in formation, the Zhijin Longhuan slowly moved from the Chinese army's stronghold to the middle of the formation. Yang Peng raised his telescope and observed, and saw Ye Qi Hongguang riding a horse silently. The Khitan generals on the left and right were also silent. Obviously, the strong crossbows in Dagou City yesterday made them very depressed. This time the Khitans entered the pass and won consecutive battles. They had not yet tasted defeat. Dagou was the first city that caused the Khitans to suffer heavy losses.
Behind the array, more than a hundred aerial ladders were carried out. Those ladders are five or six meters long and more than five meters high. They are not heavy. They are carried by twenty followers and auxiliary soldiers, so they can go very fast. These ladders were built by the Khitan soldiers yesterday. They were originally intended to be used after the shield trucks filled the holes outside the city wall. The Khitan people did not expect that the shield chariot could not block the long arrows of the powerful crossbows on the city wall, so they simply launched the ladder directly to attack the city.
If the ladder is set up on the city wall of Dagou, the Khitan soldiers can jump directly to the city wall from the ladder. Ye Qi Hongguang saw the power of the crossbow on the city wall yesterday, and knew that the shield chariot standing still in front of the hole was a living target. But he believed that the fast-moving ladder would not be hit by the crossbow. As long as the Khitan warriors climbed onto the city wall, the city would also fall down!
Carrying the ladder, the Khitan array reached four miles north of the north city wall and stopped. To be cautious, Yeli Hongguang did not let the army launch an attack immediately. Instead, he asked 300 infantry and vests to cover 200 auxiliary soldiers and carried ten ladders to test the siege. Although Ye Qi Hongguang is known for his bravery, he also knows that he cannot be reckless in fighting. There are so many powerful crossbows in this ditch. Who knows if there are any other methods? It would be better to try them out.
Seeing the Khitan sent light soldiers out to test, Yang Peng smiled. It seems that the strong crossbows yesterday frightened the Khitan dogs and they did not dare to attack the city directly. Instead, they sent light soldiers out to test the details of Dagou. If Yang Peng asked the musketeers to shoot with all their strength from two hundred meters away and easily repel the five hundred Khitan troops, Ye Qi Hongguang would definitely turn around and run away, never to attack Dagou again.
Yang Peng was not prepared to let Ye Qi Hongguang go so easily. He wanted to earn a fortune from these ten thousand Khitan soldiers. He wanted to trick Ye Yi Hongguang into raising all the chips, and then eat a big one in one bite. Five hundred Khitan soldiers who were probing the attack walked quickly towards the north wall of Dagou carrying ten ladders. One hundred and fifty meters into the city wall, they encountered large and small potholes and had to walk around. There were also large and small horses and deer antlers placed between the potholes. The Tatars struggled to remove these obstacles before slowly approaching the 75 meters below the city wall.
The straight-line distance of seventy-five meters, they circled at least one hundred and fifty meters before approaching the city wall. The crossbows on the city did not fire. The Khitan soldiers and horses detoured between traps and pits, and were pulled into a long snake formation, with the horse and foot armor in front and the ladder behind. After the first thirty people in the Long Snake Formation attacked within fifty steps of the city wall, they immediately set up their long bows and started shooting arrows at the city wall. Khitan arrows are famous for their heavy weight. They are poisonous because they are soaked in human and animal excrement. If they are hit by an arrow, they will basically lose their combat effectiveness.
However, fifty steps was still far away. More than thirty forwards of the Khitan soldiers fired a round and only hit four soldiers of the Tiger Regiment behind the city wall. Seeing four soldiers being shot and wounded, Yang Peng felt very painful. These are all soldiers trained by himself. Even if one of them is shot, Yang Peng will feel uncomfortable.
"Hang Xuan Hu!" Xuan Hu is a device used to defend bows and arrows in ancient cities. A wooden frame was made on each crenel, with two feet inside the city, and the frame was suspended outside the city close to the edge of the crenellation. It was covered with a cup blanket and moistened with water. Such a device blocks the outside of the crenel, and bows and arrows cannot penetrate.
Five hundred were hung up, and the Khitan soldiers' arrows could not penetrate. The Khitan soldiers stopped shooting arrows when they saw the hanging household hanging on Dagou City. Five hundred Khitan soldiers walked in slowly with ten ladders, walked around for a long time, and finally reached the foot of the city wall. Ten ladders were set up, across the moat, and directly onto the city wall. As long as the Khitan soldiers' horse and infantry climb up the ladder, they can rush to the top of Dagou.
Fifty vests took the lead and climbed up the city. "Throw rolling stones!" "Pour gold juice!"
The fighting ability of the Huben regiment was far inferior to that of the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers' landing on the city would cause chaos. Of course, Yang Peng could not let these Khitan soldiers climb up the city. He immediately ordered his troops to use city defense equipment to serve these five hundred Khitan soldiers. A large number of rolling stones and wood were smashed down from the city, killing more than 20 Khitan soldiers who tried to climb the city under the city wall. Golden juice was boiled excrement, which was poured on the bodies of the Dengxian Tatars, burning the skin and flesh of these Khitan soldiers to pieces. These feces are poisonous, and become even more toxic when heated. The scalded wounds will rot due to the toxins in the feces and cannot heal at all. They can only have their limbs amputated or even wait for death.
Before the fifty vests who took the lead could reach the top of the city, more than twenty of them were beaten to death by city defense equipment and burned to death beside the city wall. The remaining four hundred Khitan soldiers were not determined to die under the city wall. They all knew that Ye Qian Hongguang was using them to test the enemy's situation, and they were unwilling to risk their lives. They looked at the four thousand Song Dynasty soldiers standing on the city wall and did not dare to charge again.
More than twenty vests who were still alive on the ladder jumped off the ladder and fled back through the road. When the other Khitan soldiers saw that the vests had escaped, they dispersed and fled collectively.
Yang Peng looked at the fleeing Khitan soldiers and smiled, secretly thinking that he had deceived the Khitan soldiers now. Sure enough, Ye Qian Hongguang observed it from a distance and felt that Dagou's city defense measures were ordinary and they were just relatively well prepared. Apart from strong crossbows, there are no other powerful means in the city, nothing more than rolling stones and wood. Although there are many traps outside the city, just go around them. Even if you are shot by a powerful crossbow on the way around, not many people will die. Rolling Stones and Wood are limited, so it is still possible to capture such a city with 12,000 troops.
The Liao Kingdom fought all year round, and its soldiers were killed in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Their combat effectiveness was far beyond what the Song soldiers, who were hungry, could match. As long as the warriors scale the city wall and open a gap, the Song army will collapse. Yesterday, more than 600 warriors were abandoned under this city. If we do not capture this city, we would be sorry for the heroic spirits of those warriors. If this city is abandoned, the Khitan army's invincible prestige will be damaged this time.
Ye Qi Hongguang was a brave and brave general. Since he started the uprising with Empress Dowager Xiao, he would be the first to get into battle and attack, so he got the most glorious dukedom among ministers with a foreign surname. On weekdays, Empress Dowager Xiao paid more attention to him than to ordinary generals. He didn't believe that such an ordinary small county town in front of him could stop him. Ye Qi Hongguang and several of the recruiters looked at each other. Although the expressions of the several recruiters were serious, they were still confident of taking over the city, and their eyes were very optimistic. Ye Qi Hongguang no longer hesitated and shouted loudly:
"All troops attack!" The trumpets blared and the drums thundered. Twelve thousand Khitan soldiers shouted loudly, running forward with ladders and rushing towards the north wall of Dagou. Looking from the city wall of Dagou, I could see smoke and dust billowing, and the Khitan army was rushing towards this side like a gray sea. When the team of 12,000 Khitan soldiers advanced 200 meters outside the city wall, the hanging doors on the city wall were removed, and 166 powerful crossbows began to fire.
One hundred and sixty-six rounds of powerful crossbows were like death's scythes, crashing into the group of Khitan soldiers. Some of the long arrows hit the body of the Khitan soldier before they hit the ground. The long arrows immediately pierced the evil-doing body, spewing out countless blood, mud and plasma, then bounced rapidly on the ground, and bounced again until they hit the body of the next Khitan soldier. . The Khitan soldier who was punched through the stomach died immediately. Even if his hands or feet are touched by a long arrow, they will be severed immediately. Screams immediately sounded among the Khitan soldiers. More than a hundred Khitan soldiers were hit by long arrows and fell in a pool of blood.
The Khitan soldiers had long known that they would be shot by long arrows, so they were relatively calm. Under the shouts of several envoys who rushed to the front line to command, the Khitan soldiers withstood the first round of attacks from the Huben Regiment and rushed 150 meters outside the city wall. When we got here, the ground was already covered with potholes, and the Khitan soldiers began to go around the potholes and move forward from pothole to pothole.
Yang Peng did not ask the riflemen to shoot immediately. Yang Peng wanted to catch a big one this time. There are 500 crenels on the north wall of Dagou, plus the shooting holes on the female wall, there are 1,000 shooting positions on the north wall. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to stand in groups of four behind the shooting position and prepare for four rounds of shooting. At this time, the first row of soldiers on the shooting hole had already held their breath and aimed at the Khitan army that was getting closer. They only waited for the order to be given before pressing the trigger.
When the Khitan soldiers rushing in front rushed a hundred meters below the city wall, Yang Peng shouted loudly: "Shoot!" The horn on the city gate sounded immediately, conveying Yang Peng's order to the entire army. The first row of soldiers at the shooting position aimed at the target a hundred meters away and fired their flintlock rifles. A thousand conical bullets shot out from the city wall like dense raindrops, attacking the first thousand Khitan soldiers, horse armor and infantry.
Yang Peng's soldiers have been trained for a long time, and their accuracy is astonishing at a distance of one hundred meters. In one salvo, more than 800 bullets hit the target. The 800 Khitan soldiers were stunned, and blood burst out from their bodies. More than 300 vests were hit. At a distance of one hundred meters, the bullet's potential energy is still considerable after breaking through two layers of armor, and it can already damage the body of the vest. Although such injuries are often not fatal, they can cause severe pain and bleeding in the vests. The vests did not dare to move violently to tear their wounds after being shot. Except for a few who were extremely tough, most of the vests that had been shot had lost the ability to charge into battle.
They either held their bodies unable to move, or fell to the ground, screaming in agony. In addition, more than 400 infantrymen rushing in front were also shot. These infantry armor only wear dark armor inlaid with iron plates. How can they withstand bullets fired at close range? The bullet easily broke through the cotton armor and shot into the flesh beneath the cotton armor. The bullet received uneven force during the armor-piercing process, and after piercing the body, it rotated irregularly at high speed, like a juicer tearing the body, turning all the human organs encountered by the juicer's movement into blood.
The four hundred armors fell to the ground like four hundred sandbags. Screams rang out one after another, mixed with the blood spurting from the injured and dead, leaking intestines and fallen limbs, creating a horrifying scene that made people turn pale. Walking a little behind, the vests and infantrymen who were lucky enough not to be shot were full of disbelief - there is such a ferocious weapon in this world that can kill a person at a distance of seventy steps.
Khitan general Ye Qi Hongguang, who was riding a horse and standing two miles away, was shocked when he saw the scene on the front line. Why didn't the Song Dynasty have any firecrackers when I tested the Song army just now? Have you been deceived? Why did Da Song lie to himself? Could it be that the Song Dynasty was confident of victory and wanted to deceive itself into investing more troops in order to accumulate more military exploits? Why is the Song Army so confident? Could this fire gun be able to fire continuously?
Ye Qi Hongguang thought about it, secretly thinking that something was wrong, and his face was already pale. More than 800 Khitan soldiers at the front were beaten to the ground. The several hundred soldiers at the back ran a few steps forward in fear and walked to the dead man bleeding on the ground. They secretly said that such a terrifying shooting could only happen once. Bar?
They guessed wrong, however, and the second volley from the wall began five seconds later. There was a crackle of gunfire, and white smoke appeared from the city wall. Another thousand rounds of bullets came quickly. The cavalry and infantry in the front row were like weeds hitting the lawn mower. Fallen in pieces. The bullet hit his stomach, which was a bloody mess. If a bullet hits the chest or enters the heart, one will lose his life immediately. A bullet hits the face, and half of the head will be knocked off, leaving him lifeless. The bullets hit the hands and feet, and the bones were immediately broken, and the hands were even broken on the spot.
More than 800 Khitan soldiers were either dead or injured, lying in a pool of blood. The area a hundred meters outside the city wall seemed to have become a death zone, and anyone who entered was either dead or injured. The half-dead wounded men fell to the ground and shouted, and the screams that made those who heard it trembled severely, severely damaging the morale of the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers at the back no longer dared to rush forward. They turned to look at the recruiting envoy guarding the formation to see if the recruiting envoy was staring at them. If they fled back, could they save their lives?
Within a few seconds of their hesitation, another burst of gunfire rang out from the city wall, and the third volley began. This is no longer war, this is massacre. There was a crackling sound of gunfire, and another 800 people fell more than a hundred meters away from the city wall. More than three hundred Khitan vests were hit by bullets. Fortunately, the two layers of armor saved their lives. The wounds could heal as long as the bullets were removed, so they were not considered serious injuries. However, although there was no serious injury, the bullet penetrated the armor and entered the flesh. It was obviously impossible to charge on foot with such a wound. They stopped moving forward and stood there holding their wounds, or simply fell to the ground.
The more than 400 infantrymen who were shot were not so lucky. The body pierced by the bullet spurted out blood, flowing out like a fountain. The power disappeared quickly along with the gushing blood. Except for dozens of people who were hit in the hands and feet and were not killed, more than 300 other rifles who were shot quickly died on the road in the middle of the tunnel.
The Khitan soldiers were defeated. What kind of weapon is this? It can actually kill people at a distance of seventy or eighty steps, and the rate of fire is so fast, and the number is so high. Rushing forward is no longer a fight, it is a death wish. If we rush to the city wall on this winding road, I'm afraid all the Khitan soldiers will be dead by the time we get there.
The Khitan soldiers screamed and fled in all directions. They had lost their will to fight, and now they feared the rifles on the walls far more than they feared the messengers. The messengers were shot in formation, while the firecrackers on the city wall were shot in a queue. The degree of terror was not at the same level.
The Khitan soldiers, who had been so aggressive just now, were like a piece of sea water at ebbing tide. They turned around and fled towards the camp in panic. The messengers shot arrows to prevent the deserters from retreating, but to no avail. Ye Qi Hongguang stood not far away from the battlefield and looked at the soldiers who collapsed on the battlefield. His face was pale and his heart was ashen, and he could no longer say a word. This battle was miserably lost and so many warriors were lost. The entire army was defeated under the enemy city, and the soldiers no longer dared to attack the city again. This is probably the most costly battle for the Liao Kingdom in the past ten years. With such a huge loss, the emperor would not let him go easily. It seemed that his title was going to be completely deprived of him.
Which Song Dynasty army are you facing? How come you have such terrifying fighting power? Ye Qian Hongguang defeated too many Song armies: During the Battle of Yingzhou during the Taizong period, Ye Qian Hongguang defeated the West Route Army and the North Route Army of the Song Army. Every time he encountered the Song army, Ye Qi Hongguang was able to defeat them, and there was never any surprise. Song Jun was synonymous with sick man in Ye Qi's red eyes! Ye Qian Hongguang never thought that he would encounter such Song troops on the Dagou City Wall. These Song troops were so powerful that they killed more than a thousand elite warriors of the Xi Army in one go! How come the army on this city wall is completely different from the Song army I have seen?
Where did Song Jun come from? Yeqi Hongguang was there lamenting the casualties of the Khitan army, while the riflemen on the city wall were still shooting. They moved their positions and started the fourth round of volley. Yang Peng let the Khitan soldiers reach a hundred meters before giving the order to shoot, just to make it impossible for them to escape.
The Khitan soldiers could not run fast on the winding road between potholes and were still within the shooting range of the musketeers. The fourth volley began. One hundred and twenty meters away from the rear of the Khitan soldiers, seven hundred flintlock rifles spit out tongues of flame, spraying deadly bullets at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. The conical bullets penetrated their armor and helmets, knocking down another five hundred Khitan soldiers. Two hundred vests who staggered for their lives were shot. Many of them had been shot several times and bled too much. They fell to the ground and died. More than two hundred infantrymen were also shot. The bullets made a bloody splash on the armor, penetrated into their bodies, and killed them on the land in the ditch.
A "Fundebashiku" was shot in the thigh bone, and the left leg bone was immediately broken. He screamed and fell to the ground. Fendebo Shiku was an officer second only to the recruiting envoy among the recruiting envoys, and he was usually considered to be a senior official with more than a hundred people. However, at this time, countless Khitan soldiers ran past him, but no one paid attention to him, and no one came up to carry him.
This decision made Bashiku grit his teeth and get up, screaming and jumping on one leg towards the camp to escape. The Khitan soldiers were still on the run, and the massacre continued. When the last part of the Khitan soldiers fled to a distance of 140 meters from the city wall, the second round of shooting began, and another thousand shots were fired. The fleeing Khitan soldiers were like reeds blown down by the strong wind, falling to the ground one by one.
A fleeing vest was hit in the back of the head, and his skull was broken with a bang. His brains and blood burst out together, and he fell down in the hole in front of him. An escaping infantryman was hit in the left shoulder. The bullet pierced his body and then violently spun and stabbed, shattering the bones of his left shoulder and completely crippled his left hand. He screamed and fell to the ground.
A vest who had been shot in the abdomen was covering his stomach and running away. He had just been shot in the stomach. His face was pale due to excessive blood loss. One foot was deep and the other was shallow, but he was suddenly hit by another flying bullet. back. The bullet broke through two layers of armor and pierced his left back, causing a flower of blood to spurt out from his back. After all, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground, clutching his back.
The cavalry and infantry who rushed in front were originally the most proud warriors of the Khitan, but now they were like refugees being driven away. Only wolves and pigs were seen running through the potholes, and hundreds of them died in this big ditch. on the land. At this time, the Khitan's infantry had already killed two thousand people, and almost all of the two thousand powerful infantry of the forty thousand-man team died at the foot of Dagou City.
No matter you are weak or brave, you are all equal in front of the flintlock rifle, and you can solve the problem with one shot.
If one shot doesn't solve the problem, shoot twice. Finally, the vanguard of the Khitan soldiers escaped from the pothole and fled a hundred steps outside the city wall. The fleeing Khitan soldiers glanced back and thought they were safe.
But the rifles on the city wall actually started shooting again a hundred steps away. There was another scream, and more than 600 Khitan soldiers were shot. The mood of the Khitan soldiers could no longer be described as panic, but outright fear. The person standing on the city wall seems not to be an enemy, but the God of Death, who can actually kill people a hundred steps away! The Khitan soldiers fled frantically back and forth as if they had seen a ghost.
The ground was littered with the weapons and flags of dead Khitan soldiers. The corpses of Khitan soldiers were piled up on the road at the edge of the pothole. The blood flowing from the corpses gathered together and trickled like a stream. Many Khitan soldiers tripped over these corpses on their way to escape and fell to the ground with a clatter.
The vanguard of the Khitan soldiers fled two hundred meters outside the city wall. The Song troops on the wall were still shooting, like divine soldiers and generals! The last round of shooting was aimed at the Khitan deserters one hundred and ninety meters away. Bullets flew over like raindrops and hit another six hundred Khitan soldiers. Two hundred men wearing heavy armor were shot, but they had already escaped to a safe distance at this time. The bullet had basically no penetration after penetrating the two layers of armor, so their injuries this time were relatively minor. But the more than 300 followers without armor were unlucky. They were shot by bullets all at once, their organs were shattered, and they all died of vomiting blood.
How could the Song Army kill people at this distance? Is this still the army of the Song Dynasty? The Khitan soldiers no longer had any courage. They dropped their flags and ran back just to save their lives. The eight thousand Khitan soldiers who were still alive were like eight thousand crabs retreating into the sea, without any plan. They carried the envoys who were unable to stop the retreat and ran to the camp a few miles away.
Ye Qian Hongguang and several generals stood on horseback among the defeated troops receding like the tide. Their faces were pale and speechless. They could only sigh. How do these defeated soldiers who escaped look like the warriors of the Liao Kingdom who fought in hundreds of battles, and how do they look like the victorious army that swept across Liaodong Mobei and the Song Dynasty? Now, each of these defeated soldiers looked like a rabble whose souls had been taken away, as if the guns on the city wall were invincible devils.
Why are the Song troops on the city wall so strong? Is this the Song Dynasty’s army? Even if the nine-sided army of the Song Dynasty, which is known as a powerful army, is here, Ye Qi Hongguang is confident enough to attack them with a drum. But when he met the Song soldiers on the city wall, he only had to be beaten. In this battle, Beizhao suffered staggering losses. Especially the two thousand infantrymen rushing in front! These infantry armor only had a layer of cotton armor inlaid with iron plates, and suffered the most heavy losses. Almost all of them were killed under the city. Two thousand infantrymen, all the warriors of the Liao Kingdom, were all gone!
The elite vests are in slightly better shape. They had two layers of heavy armor and suffered slightly less losses. Six hundred people were killed, and more than a hundred were too injured to fight anymore. Many of the followers following the infantry also died, and a full 1,200 fell under the city. In this siege, the Liao Kingdom lost nearly 4,000 warriors.
These were warriors who had been killed in a mountain of corpses and had experienced hundreds of battles, but they all fell under the Song Army's city. After this battle, the Northern Recruitment Envoy was almost disabled. Ye Qi's old eyes became redder and redder as he thought about it, and finally shed two tears. I don’t know what will happen with the news that the emperor has succeeded? Are you so shocked that you can't speak, are you going to beat yourself with a whip angrily, or are you just like yourself and shedding tears for the warriors of Daliao Kingdom? As a Khitan noble, he could not attack the city for the Liao Kingdom, but he lost four thousand warriors of the Liao Kingdom under an isolated city because of the enemy's inadequacy.
It's shameful that he was listed among the Khitan nobles and ended up like this. Ye Qi's red tears rolled down her cheeks and she couldn't stop for a long time. The messenger on the side sighed and said slowly: "Master, the defeated soldiers have all fled into the camp, let's retreat too!" Ye Qi Hongguang closed his eyes and stopped crying, and then opened them after a long time. Eyes, turned the horse's head.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.
