The ladder was set up on the top of the wall, and the Khitan warriors climbed up bravely with scimitars in their teeth; rolling stones and wood fell down like raindrops on the city wall, hitting the Khitan soldiers like raindrops. All the Khitan soldiers under the city wall raised their shields above their heads and used To protect himself, however, under the bombardment of the rolling rocks and trees, the shield could not play any protective role at all. With a loud and dull sound of bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, boom, loud, dull sound, the shield shattered, and flesh and blood flew everywhere!
At the same time, huge roars resounded throughout the battlefield from time to time. It turned out that the Khitan army's artillery was concentrating fire to bombard the city wall that had been bombarded the previous day. The Khitan people's purpose was obvious, which was to focus their fire to destroy the city wall in the shortest possible time. …
Such an offensive and defensive battle lasted for five days. The Khitan army almost filled up all the moats in the south. In the past few days, various troops took turns to attack fiercely. On two of them, they continued to attack at night. However, after five days, Although the Khitan army occasionally rushed up to the city wall, they were quickly driven back by the life-saving counterattacks of Yan Yun soldiers. After five days and countless attacks, there were still mountains of corpses under the city wall, but almost no gains were made. any progress. However, Yanyun was not happy at all, because the city wall where the Khitan army's artillery bombarded it for five or six days was already scarred and crumbling, and would collapse at any time!
Boom boom boom boom...! The roar of the cannons continued. Every time the Khitan army's cannons fired a salvo, the city wall shook violently, peeling off countless pieces of the wall. More than a hundred cannons of the Khitan army fired another salvo. Finally, the wall could not withstand it and the whole wall collapsed! The Khitan army officers and soldiers cheered in unison!
When the smoke and dust dissipated, they saw that the wall had collapsed into a triangle, with two slopes one mile and one outside. The outer slope was filled with a moat and connected to the flat ground. The soldiers and horses outside the city could rush directly along the slope. Enter the city.
Yeqi Hucheng, who was injured and sitting in the car, immediately said to Long Ba: "Long Ba, attack the gap!" Long Ba agreed loudly and shouted to his soldiers. All the soldiers shouted in unison, and then Long Ba personally commanded thirty thousand men under his command. The elites rushed towards the gap. Yeqianhu City turned to the messenger and said: "Send the order to the other armies to continue attacking the city wall!" The messenger agreed and immediately ordered the flag bearer to raise the signal flag. So tens of thousands of other soldiers and horses rushed towards the city wall with shouts, stepping on the corpses and muddy blood all over the field, passing through various wreckage, and continued to storm the city.
At the same time, 30,000 elites led by Long Ba rushed down the slope, and arrows rained down from the walls on both sides. It was the Yanyun Crossbow that showed its power. The dense rain of arrows immediately shot down the Jin Army soldiers who rushed up. In a large area, the Khitan army's attack momentum was stopped. Immediately, the shield hand of the Khitan army came up and raised the shield high to block the shots of the crossbows on the city wall. There was only a loud "ding-ding-dong-dong" sound, and almost all the arrows fired by the crossbows were blocked by the shields!
The Khitan army relied on the shield to climb up the slope, slowly advanced, crossed the highest point of the slope, shouted, poured into the city, and crashed into the Yanyun army's defense line. The Yanyun Army's defense line was dominated by the Mo Dao Army. Facing the enemy's fierce charge, they resisted with all their strength. Suddenly, there was a sudden sound of killing, and under the flying sword light, only flesh and blood were seen flying everywhere. The elite Khitan army rushed forward like crazy, fearing no fear of life and death; Yanyun army faced the sea and tide of enemy troops, resisted bravely, and fought to the death. The Yanyun army is extremely powerful and often kills two or three enemies before one of them is killed. However, there are too many enemy troops, and they are rushing down from the ruins. The impact is far greater than usual, so the Yanyun defense line It began to be gradually pushed and deformed by the enemy! The situation is very critical, and the Yanyun Army's defense line will collapse at any time!
At this moment, the repeating crossbowmen on both sides of the gap retreated, and many sergeants carrying iron balls and stone balls ran up. I saw the soldiers taking down the iron balls and stone balls one by one, lighting the fuses on them, and then throwing the iron balls and stone balls into the Khitan army below. Then there was a violent explosion accompanied by balls of fire rising into the sky. Countless Khitan soldiers felt as if they were flying up, and their human remains were flying all over the sky!
The Khitan army was surprised when they were suddenly attacked like this, but they continued to rush towards the gap, while the Yanyun soldiers on the city wall kept throwing these bombs to let the Khitan army below fly into the ground. The Khitan army felt fear and retreated one after another, no longer rushing towards the gap.
The Yanyun army on the city wall stopped throwing bombs, and the Yanyun army in the city launched a counterattack. The Modao army acted as the vanguard and charged forward. The sword walls rolled over and killed them. The corpses of the Khitan army soldiers were covered with blood and flew away. The Khitan army could not resist. , and retreated continuously. The Yan Yun army stepped on the corpses and kept pushing the enemy troops back outside the city. The Khitan army screamed one after another, and everyone was panicked. However, although these Khitan army elites were frightened, they still tried their best to resist Yan Yun. The army's counterattack was just that the Mo Dao army was too sharp and they could not hold their ground at all. Often when the Mo Dao army attacked and killed many people, many people would fall in a pool of blood, while others would subconsciously take a step back! Finally, the Khitan army was forced out of the gap. The remaining Khitan soldiers were cut in two by the Mo Dao army, and their bodies rolled down the slope!
At this moment, the roar of the cannon resounded through the battlefield again. Before the Modao Army standing in the gap could react, they felt a huge storm coming towards them, with dust flying and flesh and blood flying! The Yanyun Army behind them quickly retreated. After this round of shelling, they suddenly discovered that nearly a hundred soldiers of the Modao Army standing at the top of the gap had all died. They couldn't help but feel shocked!
At the same time, the Khitan army that attacked the city wall was also strongly blocked and temporarily retreated. The fierce battlefield suddenly became quiet.
The horns of the Khitan Army sounded rapidly, and the Khitan Army's troops were making adjustments and preparing to launch a new offensive. Yanyun's troops temporarily withdrew the city wall to avoid being bombarded by the opponent's long-range weapons.
A moment later, the horns of the Khitan army's attack came from outside the city, and the lookouts everywhere shouted: "The enemy is coming! The enemy is coming!..." Yanyun's troops immediately ran towards the city wall, getting ready for battle. . However, to Yan Yunjun's expectation, the Khitan army was about to rush to the city wall, but suddenly stopped and turned around and ran back.
Yang Peng's heart trembled, and he shouted urgently: "Take down the city wall! Everyone, take down the city wall!" After hearing the order, General Yan Yun immediately took action. After a while, only the rumble of cannons outside the city was heard, and then the entire city wall shook. Gunpowder cans fell from the sky like raindrops, and burst into flames on top and bottom of the city wall with a deafening explosion. The city wall was like a flaming hell. Before the soldiers had time to remove the city wall, many people were knocked off the city wall by the shock wave.
Yang Peng leaned against the wall and glanced at the soldiers who had just withdrawn. When he heard the endless explosions on the top of the city, he couldn't help but cursed: "What a damn Tiger City, you actually tricked me!" He turned to Li Xu and asked, "How much did we lose?" Li Xu said, "Fortunately, my eldest brother discovered the enemy's conspiracy in time. Although we lost some money, it was not big."
At this moment, bursts of cries for help came from many houses near the city wall in the city. It turned out that their houses had been damaged and even set on fire in the bombardment by the Khitan army just now. Many fires broke out, and they were Spread everywhere. However, Yang Peng had already expected this. At this moment, many militiamen and government officials led by Yanjing Mansion staff were rushing to various places for disaster relief!
The Khitan army's attack stopped, and nearly 100,000 Khitan troops rushed towards the city wall with shouts. The officers and soldiers of the Yanyun Army climbed onto the city wall one after another and looked outside the city. They saw nearly 100,000 Khitan troops arranged in three large square formations and slowly approaching the city wall. Not to mention the other phalanxes, the phalanx approaching the gap is particularly eye-catching. The 30,000 Khitan troops who formed that phalanx were all wearing heavy helmets and armor, and were holding strong shields. It was the Khitan Army's infantry iron pagoda. Thirty thousand iron pagodas were invested at one time. It seemed that Yeqi Hucheng was going all out and planned to capture Yanjing in one fell swoop!
Yang Peng frowned, and immediately mobilized all the most elite forces to the gap, preparing to meet the terrifying impact of the Khitan army's iron pagoda.
Ye Qi Guanyin said: "Brother, Hucheng's mobilization of 30,000 iron pagodas is not necessarily to attack the gap with all his strength. It may also be just to divert our main energy and main force to the gap, and then he can concentrate Elites attack another place!"
Yang Peng turned his head and glanced at the King's Banner of Yelihu City in the distance, and said calmly: "Of course I have seen this, but since his Iron Buddha has been mobilized, I have to make arrangements for it." Yeli Guanyin He frowned and nodded, and said: "Brother is right. If we don't deploy based on this point, I'm afraid this suspicious force will turn into a real assault force at any time, and then we will be in trouble! This is you Han people This is what is called 'conspiracy' in the art of war!"
Yang Peng smiled, turned to Wang Kai next to him and said, "Go and ask Ma Jin if all the residential buildings in that area have been evacuated and how are the various arrangements going?" Wang Kai agreed and ran down.
The three formations composed of one hundred thousand forbidden troops stopped about 150 steps away from the city wall. Then the phalanx in the middle slowly approached the city gate and stopped a hundred steps away from the city gate. This phalanx, with shields The spears serve as the outer perimeter, and the bows and crossbows serve as the main force. It is a defensive formation, obviously to prevent Yan Yun's warriors from coming out of the city for an assault.
The Khitan people's horns suddenly sounded loudly, and the Khitan army formation on the left suddenly shouted and rushed toward the city wall on the left. Yan Yunjun's three-bow crossbows fired gunpowder arrows one after another. In an instant, the fields outside the city were filled with flames and explosions. The Khitan army rushed to nearly a thousand troops. Many Khitan soldiers raised their portable crossbows and aimed them at the city wall. Then the Khitan gunpowder guns and arrows flew up the city wall like locusts. Guns and arrows flew up the city wall, and in an instant, there was a violent explosion. Yanyun's soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The Khitan troops below the city took the opportunity to rush to the city wall, set up ladders, and rushed towards the city wall.
While the Khitan attacking troops boarded the city, the Khitan's portable crossbows continued to fire gunpowder arrows at the city wall to suppress the Yanyun army's counterattack. This strategy was extremely effective, and soon the Khitan army soldiers swarmed onto the city. At this time, the Khitan people's portable crossbows stopped shooting. The Yanyun army on the city wall fought back hard, either killing the Khitan soldiers who rushed to the city wall, or knocking the Khitan soldiers off the city wall. Suddenly, there was a sudden sound of killing on the city wall, and the soldiers of both sides Fight with your life, blood and flesh flying everywhere. Many soldiers fought in a ball, and some rolled down the city wall. The soldiers on both sides were so red-eyed that they no longer cared about life or death or mercy. As long as they still had breath left, they would use all their strength to attack and kill their opponents, even if there was only one breath left. I also want to die with the enemy, so you stab me, I chop you, you remove my left arm, I chop off your head, such tragic scenes happen one after another! This is the most primitive and bloody killing. Everyone has only one thought in their mind, and that is to kill their opponent!
After a bloody fight, the Khitan people were finally defeated. Most of the Khitan troops who rushed to the city wall were killed, and a small number of them escaped down the city wall. Some even panicked and escaped from the city wall under the pursuit of Yan Yun soldiers. Jumped down.
A group of Yanyun soldiers desperately threw gunpowder bombs at the city wall. Flames rolled under the city wall and the explosions were thunderous. The Khitan army soldiers who had no time to retreat were blown to pieces and suffered heavy casualties. The Khitan army officers and soldiers retreated in a hurry, with a look of fear on their faces. At this time, the portable crossbows of the Khitan army fired a wave of gunpowder arrows at the city wall. Yanyun's soldiers who had no time to hide were immediately killed and injured many. Immediately afterwards, the Khitan army that had just retreated came back again under the supervision of the general.
In this way, the soldiers of both sides fought repeatedly around the city. More and more corpses were piled up and down the city. Far more Khitan troops were killed and injured than Yanyun's army. However, the Khitan troops continued to attack the city seemingly endlessly. Although Yan Yunjun was extremely brave, he gradually felt that he could no longer support himself.
Seeing this, Li Xu led his soldiers to the bloody battle and repelled the attacks of the Khitan army one after another. He had killed countless enemies and all the arrows in his quiver had been shot cleanly. .
The enemy troops surged up again, and Li Xu and the remaining Yan Yun soldiers fell into an endless bloody battle. One by one, they died in bloody battles. The Yan Yun soldiers who were still breathing hugged the enemy soldiers and jumped off the city wall! Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the top of the city. It turned out that a seriously injured Yanyun officer ignited the gunpowder bomb in his arms, and died together with a dozen Khitan soldiers! Yan Yunjun has reached the last moment!
At this moment, countless flags came towards the city. The figures under the flags were looking longingly. It seemed that the main force of the Second Army was coming for reinforcements. In fact, it was Yang Peng who led a large number of civilian troops to come for reinforcements. Someone just saw the critical situation at the top of the city and suggested to Yang Peng that he deploy the main force of the Second Army in the gap to suppress the enemy. However, Yang Peng did not adopt this suggestion and ordered the main force of the Second Army to remain still. Xiao Feng dropped the civilian army that had been serving as the general reserve force to attack the enemy. This is actually very risky, because the civilian army is not a regular army, not even as good as the city defense army. Although these people have received a little training, their equipment is poor, they have no combat experience, and their fighting will is just a legend. Such an army 'Only God knows what effect it will have on the battlefield.
The civilian army couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the bloody and fierce battle on the city wall. Many people on the spot were so frightened that their legs trembled, and many people wanted to turn around and run for their lives.
At this moment, Yang Peng's majestic voice came: "If you're a man, I'll do it. If you're a coward, get out!" How many people in the world would consider themselves cowards? The civilian army heard After hearing Yang Peng's words, I couldn't help but feel a rush of blood! Immediately, King Yang Peng of Yan and Princess Yelu were the first to rush into the enemy and fight bravely. The militiamen were greatly encouraged. Several brave militiamen shouted loudly: "Brothers, King Yan and Princess Yan are not afraid of death. Are we still afraid of death? Come on, fight with the Khitan dogs!" Shouting, they rushed Entering the enemy thicket, the civilian soldiers felt an impulse rushing straight to their foreheads. Regardless of everything else, they raised their weapons and rushed forward, shouting, and rushed into the middle of the Khitan army. They waved their weapons randomly, and some even waved them with their eyes closed. Weapons, these guys completely gave back to the instructors everything they learned in the past few days!
The militiamen and soldiers were so numerous that they rushed over in one fell swoop. They immediately smashed the Khitan army on the city into pieces. Yang Peng, Ye Qi Guanyin, and Li Xu, as well as the remaining Yan Yun soldiers, took the opportunity to counterattack. After killing countless enemy troops, the Khitan army had already established a foothold on the city wall, but now it was wavering and showed signs of being suppressed. However, although the situation was reversed in an instant, the civilian army could only fight and kill randomly, and their combat effectiveness was too low. They suffered heavy casualties under the counterattack of the Khitan army, and the morale of the army gradually began to waver.
At the same time, Ye Qianhu City saw the situation on the top of the city, smiled slightly, and said: "The main force of the Yanyun Army has been attracted! Very good!" Then he rushed to the messenger and said: "Send the order to Iron Buddha Tu, attack immediately Gap! In addition, the army was ordered to prepare. Once the Tiefu Tu enters the city, the army will then enter the city!" The herald promised, and then ordered the flag bearer and trumpeter to pass the order. The flag bearer immediately flew a red flag and at the same time the horn sounded loudly.
Barun, who was leading 30,000 Tiefutu, heard the horn sound and saw the red flag rising. He couldn't help but feel excited. He immediately raised his machete and shouted loudly: "The whole army listens to the order and follow me to attack. The Tiefutu army has made an advance." No retreat!" The thirty thousand iron pagodas shouted in unison, the sound shook the sky, and then they rushed towards the gap. The thirty thousand iron pagodas were really magnificent when they ran, like a rolling tide, as if they were unstoppable!
Tiefu Tu rushed to the vicinity of the gap, and arrows rained down from the city wall immediately. However, the rain of arrows hit Tiefu Tu with a tinkling sound and could hardly damage them at all.
Iron Buddha poured into the gap, and various bows and crossbows on the wall continued to fire, but it was of no use at all. The torrent of steel formed by the gathering of 30,000 iron pagodas hit the Yanyun defense line at one go. The Yanyun defense line was unable to withstand it and was torn apart. Seeing that the enemy army was unstoppable, Mu Chun, the leading general, hurriedly ordered a retreat. The entire army hurriedly withdrew towards the city and dispersed into the streets and alleys.
Seeing this scene, Barron burst into laughter and mocked: "I thought Yan Yun's army was so powerful, but it turned out to be so vulnerable!" Then he shouted loudly: "Come on, charge on! Capture Yang Peng alive." Those who win will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold and be granted the title of marquis of ten thousand households!" The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and they rushed toward the city at a faster pace. At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will see a scene as if a flood has broken down the embankment. The iron torrent composed of the Iron Buddha Temple of the Khitan Army has broken down the Yanyun City Wall and is overflowing into the city. Yanyun City can be said to be on the verge of collapse at this time!
Barron shouted to an officer beside him: "Send a signal rocket immediately to inform the king that our army has successfully broken through the city!" The officer responded, retracted his scimitar, took off the strong bow on his back, and pulled out a bow. A signal rocket lit the fuse and then shot into the sky. I saw the signal rocket flying high into the sky, bursting into a ball of red sparks. The sparks were fleeting, but they were enough for those who were paying attention to see clearly!
Yeqianhu City was very excited when they saw the signal rocket and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order and follows me in the capital!" The army shouted in unison and ran towards the gap like a tide. Barron led a group of Iron Buddhas charging forward down a street. Suddenly, a man and a horse in front blocked the way. Barron couldn't help but stopped. Barron took a closer look and saw that it was Ma Jin, the fierce general of the Yanyun Army's second legion. He couldn't help but smile coldly, raised his scimitar, and shouted loudly: "Kill him!" Tiefutu shouted in unison, and rushed towards Ma Jin after crossing Barun.
Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of piercing the air from all directions. Almost at the same time, the iron pagodas that rushed towards Ma Jin were knocked to the ground by extremely powerful crossbow arrows. Their heavy armor could not withstand the power of such crossbow arrows. power! The Khitan soldiers were shocked and quickly looked to both sides, and saw many Yanyun soldiers holding divine arm bows standing on the houses on both sides.
Barron smiled coldly and said disdainfully: "Do you want to stop the iron pagoda of Dajin with these divine arm bows?" Ma Jin smiled and said: "Of course not!" Then he raised his right hand. When Barron and others saw this, they couldn't help but become nervous. Suddenly I saw countless fire heads coming out from remote corners at an extremely fast speed, and then ignited countless pots and jars on both sides of the street. Then there was a loud explosion, and the jars and jars stacked on both sides of the street exploded one after another, and the flames rose. In the blink of an eye, In an instant, the streets and alleys in the gap were filled with flames! Barron exclaimed: "No! We've been ambushed!" In fact, he didn't need to give the order. The Khitan soldiers were already retreating. However, the people retreated in the fire. They couldn't take a few steps before they were burned and screamed. Fell into the sea of fire! In the streets and alleys, the iron pagodas of Khitan soldiers jumped around, or rolled and struggled desperately in the fire, and the screams were heard!
Barron shouted: "Get on the roof, get on the roof!" At this time, only the streets and alleys were burning, and the roof was indeed a safe place. When the Khitan soldiers heard Barron's cry, they were like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, and they all tried their best to climb to the roof. However, wearing a suit of iron armor, it was not easy to climb to the roof! At this time, Yan Yunjun stood on the roof and kept firing arrows. Many Khitan soldiers who had managed to climb halfway up were shot in the body and fell into the flames. They were burned by the flames and screamed until there was no sound. ! There were also Khitan soldiers who were in a desperate situation, furious and desperate, and rushed towards the Yan Yun army at the street entrance with strange screams. However, not far after rushing out, they only felt that the ground was empty under their feet, and a large piece of the ground on the street collapsed. The Khitan soldiers fell into the trap and were stabbed to the core with a steel drill placed at the bottom of the trap!
Yeqianhu City saw the flames soaring into the sky from a distance. Anticipating that the situation was not good, they urgently ordered the army to speed up and rush into the gap.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
