Ever since Ashina Hezhen made a promise to Bujia Khan to capture Datong City in three days, the offensive and defensive battles in Datong City have become extremely brutal and bloody. In order to capture Datong City, he ordered his soldiers to attack day and night. In just two days, the city was covered with the corpses of Turkic soldiers, and a large area in front of the city was stained black with coagulated blood. But the battle flag with the word "Sui" on the flagpole in Datong City was always fluttering in the wind and did not take a step back because of the Turks' desperate fighting style.
The officers and soldiers of the Sui army who fought against the enemy under the flagpole also became more and more morale due to the heavy casualties suffered by the enemy; and the civilians and craftsmen also became strong soldiers like iron in the battle.
The bearded Zhang Xutuo climbed up in front of the female wall to watch the enemy's situation. He took advantage of the enemy's replacement of soldiers, holding a Hu cake in one hand and a water bag in the other. He took a bite of the Hu cake and drank a drink of water. However, a pair of But his eyes were always fixed on the enemy in the distance.
This time, what he saw was that the Turks were mobilizing on a large scale, as if the entire camp had been mobilized. Enemy troops from all directions were gathering in front of the camp, gradually converging into a black phalanx, and attacking the entire camp in an overwhelming manner. The pressure from the same city came, and at the same time, he saw the soldiers behind using horses and camels to transport bulging bags. He knew that they were sandbags prepared to fill the city.
Zhang Xutuo couldn't help but look at the bottom of the city. He saw that corpses, rolled logs and stones had been piled up more than two feet high, and a sloping wall extended outward. If the sandbags of the Turkic soldiers were piled up one by one, they would be as high as the city wall. If the time comes, a brutal hand-to-hand battle will be inevitable.
The Sui army was not as powerful as the enemy, and the soldiers fought for eight or nine days from beginning to end. During this period, no one had a good night's sleep. Everyone was exhausted, exhausted, and lacking energy. Their physical strength is far inferior to that of the Turkic soldiers who take turns to fight. If they fight hand-to-hand combat with the large number of Turkic troops on the city top, our own soldiers will suffer heavy losses.
The Yin Shishi next to him stared at the overwhelming enemy troops for a while, and then said to Zhang Xutuo: "Zhang Canjun, the enemy troops have more than doubled this time compared to the previous two days. It seems that Mr. Bujia is preparing. We are engaged in a desperate battle. The general believes that the outcome will be decided today."
"Indeed." Zhang Xutuo turned around and shouted to the soldiers waiting for orders: "Give me the order to put all the soldiers and civilian craftsmen who can fight into the battle!"
"Here." The soldiers immediately waved the command flag and issued a signal in the direction of the bell tower.
Upon seeing this, the ordering soldiers on standby on the bell tower immediately rang the bell to summon the troops.
In an instant, groups of Sui soldiers poured out of the city and quickly gathered on the city. Civilians and craftsmen also came from the military camp.
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Outside the city, the overwhelming Turkic army has completed its formation. As the previous two days of siege have been declared a failure, Ashina Hezhen's promised "three days to conquer Datong City" only has the last day left. If he still can't win Datong today, Being in the same city is not only detrimental to the entire Turkic situation, but also seriously affects the position of his successor, because Ashina Budu, who is also optimistic about Bujia Khan, has led an army of 40,000 to fight Qimin Khan. If Ashina Budu comes back with a big victory but he makes no progress at all, the result will be quite ugly.
So he made a concerted effort and picked up 70,000 troops at once. He put all the remaining 130 ladder trucks and 60 wells into the battle. In addition, he also cut up the empty tents. Sewn into a simple sandbag, even if he kills all these soldiers today, he will take Datong City.
"Attack!" Ashina Hezhen waved his sword and roared.
The sound of "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong" horns began to get louder, and the 70,000-strong army surrounded 130 ladder trucks and 60 wells and went to Datong City again. Looking from the city, the dense Turkic army formation Just like a black carpet.
The catapults on the city were the first to show off their power, throwing out long arms one after another. Dozens of boulders hit the enemy group as dense as a swarm of ants. Every time a boulder hit the ground, a "carpet" would appear. There was a small gap, but the Turkic soldiers behind him closed the gap instantly, making the "carpet" complete again.
With a loud "bang", a well fence was smashed by a huge boulder, and wood chips suddenly flew everywhere. The Turkic soldiers on the well fence screamed and fell down, and were pierced by the dense forest of spears below and died. Some unlucky soldiers below were killed and injured by falling robes and collapsed well railings, but none of this affected the advance of the soldiers behind them.
These tall wells are made of huge pieces of wood. They are two feet long and five feet high. They are covered with cowhide. There are simple ladders inside that lead directly to the top wooden platform. There are forty or fifty soldiers standing on each platform. , the front end of the platform is a thick wooden block, which can effectively resist the Sui army's arrows.
There are six large wooden wheels at the bottom, which are dragged forward by sixty war horses. There are soldiers pushing it on the left, right and behind. As long as this heavy well is not hit by boulders, it can directly send soldiers to the top of the city. It can also enable the soldiers on the platform to suppress the soldiers on the city top from a high position.
"Bang!" Another well was hit in the lower part, and the axle at the back was broken. The two large wooden wheels fell to the left and right sides. The well suddenly tilted backward, and the mortise and tenon structures of the cross beams were detached from each other, gradually losing their center of gravity. Falling backwards, the soldiers on both sides yelled and ran away, but there were crowds of people in front, back, left, and right, and no one could escape. They could only howl and close their eyes, and were crushed to death by the collapse of the well railing.
The Turkic army attacked like a tide amidst the rapid sound of horns. The huge rocks thrown by the Sui army in turn were like waves splashing in the ocean, and were instantly submerged and filled up by the surging crowd.
Under the desperate attack of the Turkic soldiers, all the previous efforts of the Sui army seemed to have not caused any harm to the opponent. As a result, the enemy fried fish that surged like a violent wave finally approached the big enemy. The same city wall.
Arrows were flying up and down the city like locusts, and people on both sides were constantly struck by arrows and fell down. Ladder trucks of the assault troops were set up on the city wall one after another, and sandbags were thrown onto the mountain of corpses.
The Turkic soldiers who were red-eyed climbed up like crazy. They held a shield in one hand and used spears and swords in the other hand to fight fiercely with the Sui troops on the city. The soldiers cleared them away, but immediately more Turkic soldiers swarmed up.
The Sui soldiers calmly fired arrows at both sides of the ladder truck. The Turkic soldiers on the ladder truck were hit by the arrows and fell down. But soon the Turkic soldiers learned the lesson. They no longer paid attention to the top of their heads, but protected the sides with their shields, so that the soldiers were hit. Arrow probability gradually decreases.
On the top of the city, in front of each ladder truck, dozens of Sui soldiers were fighting with the enemy. In front of a ladder in the east of the city, Captain Quan Xu was already red-blooded. He led the remaining 60 or so soldiers of his headquarters. They fought the fiercest battle with the surging enemy troops. They faced the Turks. These people were all tall, brave and good at fighting. Their fighting will was no worse than that of the most elite Sui soldiers. They held shields and waved spears. , Zhan Dao and the Sui army scouts were killed together.
A Sui soldier who was fighting in front of the ladder was stabbed in the forehead and fell on his back with a gushing blood. Another Sui soldier immediately pierced the enemy's chest with a spear and carried him down the city. The fallen corpse will The soldiers below smashed it all away, and the Sui soldiers blocked the gap again. Two other soldiers held hammers and hammered hard against the grappling hook on the city head.
The two ladder gangs with grappling hooks spread out to both sides under the influence of force. Three pieces of the crossing pedals suddenly fell off. The soldiers on them missed the step and fell down one after another. An agile Turkic soldier He grabbed the battlement and was about to use his strength to jump up. Quan Xu raised his knife and cut off his palm. The Turkic soldiers fell down screaming.
Quan Xu just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a dangerous situation in front of another ladder truck. He saw a dozen fierce Turkic soldiers rushing to the top of the city. They hacked a civilian husband to the ground and tried to close the gap. expand.
Without saying a word, he led ten soldiers to kill him.
However, there were more than one danger. After all, the gap in strength was there. As all 70,000 Turkic soldiers surged up, they quickly gained the upper hand. More and more soldiers came up from the ladder truck and came down from the well. The more soldiers there were, soon there were more than a thousand people fighting fiercely with the Sui army on top of the city, and the situation became very critical.
"Zhang Sima, the west of the city can't hold it anymore." A Sui soldier reported to Zhang Xutuo.
"Follow me!" Zhang Xutuo, who was in command from the center, led five hundred Sui troops and ran towards the west city.
With the addition of this new force, the war was quickly suppressed.
"General Zhang, hurry up and let the civilians and craftsmen retreat." Zhang Dinghe, the guard of the West City, saw Zhang Xutuo leading his army to help. He shouted anxiously: "It's not that the general is incompetent, but that the civilians and craftsmen have influenced us." Fighting. Although these people have had several days of combat experience, they have not been trained in battle formations after all. When they were fighting face to face with the enemy, they were all in chaos, and the soldiers were unable to help even if they wanted to."
There were more than a dozen catapults set up here, and each one was operated by more than a hundred civilians and craftsmen. When these people got into trouble, they blocked the way of the Sui soldiers. Zhang Xutuo also knew that the catapults could not play their role, so he An order was issued: "All civilians and craftsmen must withdraw to the south city wall!"
As the order was issued, civilians and craftsmen retreated towards the southern city wall like a tide, preparing to operate the medium-sized catapults there.
With the withdrawal of thousands of civilians and craftsmen, the head of the North City suddenly became empty. The Sui soldiers reorganized their formation and fought hard with the Turkic soldiers who rushed to the city.
When the Sui army formed a formation to kill the enemy, they quickly regained control of the situation and killed the enemy's corpses everywhere, and they all retreated into the well.
The Sui soldiers took the opportunity to throw the kerosene cans towards the wells and ignited the kerosene with rockets. The rapid burning fire engulfed each well.
"Zhang Sima, why don't you use kerosene to burn the enemy troops?" Zhang Dinghe suggested loudly.
"There are too many enemy troops with sandbags, so fire attacks will not have much effect." Zhang Xutuo saw more and more ladder trucks and wells approaching, and many Turkic soldiers came up to fight with the soldiers. He also saw that civilians and craftsmen had climbed up the bamboo ladder on the south wall and climbed up the city wall. There were not many people waiting below, so he said: "The north city wall must not be able to be defended. If there is a melee with the enemy, our soldiers want to retreat." If you can’t retreat, destroy all the catapults immediately and withdraw the entire army to the south city!”
The order was given.
The Sui army destroyed the catapults and crossbows one by one and began to retreat while fighting. The archers used arrow rain to suppress the pursuing enemy troops. The sword and shield soldiers raised their shields to cover. Other troops rushed down the horse road and ladder to the city, and then in Arrows were placed below to cover the retreat of the soldiers behind, and the team was in order.
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A huge camp has been established on the grassland more than 40 miles away from Datong City. Yang Ji, who successfully joined forces with Shi Wansui, Yang Lun, Xue Shixiong and others, has moved his army here and is patiently waiting for news from the direction of Datong City. .
According to the agreement between Zhang Xutuo, Shi Wansui and others, once the North City wall is lost, they will retreat to the South City wall to defend the north, and continue to rely on this barrier that is no less than the North City to resist the Turkic soldiers. When the Turkic soldiers enter the city in large numbers, the mountains on the left and right sides Ambushes on the ground will also come into play.
However, two days have passed since the endless offensive and defensive battle, and there is still no news from Datong City.
According to their agreement, if Zhang Xutuo needs them to lead a large-scale attack with his army, he will use the beacon as a signal. However, it is already past noon on the third day, but there is still no movement in the beacon in the distance. It can be seen that there is no movement in Datong City. Their army has not been used yet.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, Yang Ji, who was sitting at the top, asked: "General Shi, where did Zhang Sima ask you to attack? Is it to attack the Turkic soldiers outside the city, or to attack Bujia Khan's royal tent directly?"
Shi Wansui replied without thinking: "He asked us to attack the siege army outside the city."
"This is too conservative." Yang Ji said with a smile: "Now you have 30,000 people, General Manager Xue and General Gao have 5,000 people, and I have more than 22,000 people (including the slave army). The total is 50,000 Seven, we have so many troops, we can attack the Turkic camp, let him capture the thieves first, and capture the king first. As long as we capture the Turkic camp and kill Bujia Khan, the other enemy troops will be easy to deal with."
"King Wei's idea is very good." Shi Wansui was heart-pounded when he heard it, and laughed with bright eyes: "Bujia's focus is on Datong City, and Duan Wenzhen and Qimin Khan are in the east, and they only have a few deployments in the west. Ranger, if we attack fiercely, we will definitely catch him off guard."
"Brother Wang, what do you think?" Seeing that Shi Wansui agreed with his plan, Yang Ji asked Yang Lun next to him.
"Your Excellency King Wei!" Yang Lun, with an unhappy expression on his face, said in a sinister tone: "You are not only the governor of Liangzhou, the general manager of Liangzhou, and the general of the right guard, but you are also the commander-in-chief of this campaign. Shi and I General, Duan Wenzhen and Qimin Khan are the partial troops, and General Manager Xue and Zhang Sima are your subordinates. You can fight as you say! You are so powerful, and you can kill the entire Great Lakes area with blood at the slightest disagreement. Who dares to oppose you?"
He said it as if he was not the one who was worried that Yang Ji would not be able to eat well or sleep soundly.
Facing such a cousin, what else could Yang Ji do except smile bitterly?
Yang Ji knew very well Yang Lun's character and conduct. This guy was the most righteous among the "Four Golden Heads", and his father asked him to take care of and help him before he died.
It's strange that he doesn't worry about his own safety.
"Then it's settled, as soon as the beacon smoke comes, we will attack the Turkic camp." Yang Ji glanced at Yang Lun and said, "Originally, I was planning to let Brother Wang be the vanguard to attack the Turkic king's tent, but now it seems Come on, Brother Wang doesn’t seem to be feeling well, and I’m afraid he’s not up to the task. Let’s do this…”
"Who said that? Who said that? I'm so good." Yang Lun suddenly smiled. He didn't care whether the logic was reasonable or not, he just said: "I almost caught Shaboluo last time. , I will definitely catch Mr. Bujia this time."
"Okay! You take 20,000 cavalry as the vanguard and attack the central tent of the Turkic camp directly. I will be the left army, and General Shi and General Manager Xue will form the right army. As soon as the beacon fire comes, we will attack the enemy camp directly in a wild goose formation. .”
"Yes." Everyone stood up and obeyed.
"Your Majesty!" Shi Huaiyi strode in from outside, clasped his fists and saluted, "The beacon smoke in Datong City has been lit!"
"Yeah?"
When Yang Ji and others stepped into the big account, they saw three pillars of beacon smoke burning in the distance. This was a temporary "beacon" arranged by Shi Wansui to connect the beacon smoke in Datong City.
Yang Ji immediately shouted: "Send my order and the whole army is ready to go!"
The horn sound of "woo woo woo" sounded.
About half an hour later, more than 57,000 cavalry appeared in the boundless wilderness. According to the previous arrangement, the army was divided into three teams, and they galloped murderously towards Datong City in a wild goose formation. go.
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