But this was not over yet. Along with a gust of wind, giant dragons, flying dragons and archangels swooped down from the sky. Among them, the giant dragons and flying dragons breathed dragon breath and burned large areas of the defensive equipment on the city wall.
The archangels waved their swords and killed the defenders on the city walls, especially the crossbowmen.
Just as the dragons and angels threw the defenders on the city wall into chaos, the infantrymen below the city wall took advantage of this opportunity and quickly rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and then set up ladders on the city wall. Go up and start climbing quickly towards the top of the city wall along the ladder.
Li Kui was depressed because he caught a fake Xixia emperor last time and failed to achieve any major military exploits!
At this time, he also joined the first troops to attack the city. At this time, I saw this guy using his hands and feet to climb up the city wall quickly like a black ape.
As soon as Li Kui appeared on the city wall, two Xixia soldiers held long spears and stabbed him fiercely.
"Fuck them all!" Li Kui waved his ax with his right hand and swept it out with a roar. While cutting off the two spears that were thrust at him, he also knocked away the two Xixia soldiers. At the same time, he held the edge of the wall with his left hand and climbed over the wall with all his strength.
After actually climbing onto the wall, Li Kui immediately roared excitedly like a wild animal, scaring the surrounding Xixia soldiers to the point where they did not dare to step forward.
However, these Xixia soldiers did not come forward, but Li Kui took the initiative to rush forward with two axes. Wearing a heavy full-body plate armor, he basically did not need to care about the attacks of ordinary soldiers. He was able to use full firepower and put all his energy into it. When attacking, the two axes in his hands whirred, and wherever he went, the enemy troops would be immediately broken into pieces, including their armor, leaving broken limbs and fragments on the ground.
"Quick! Get on top! Get him off here!"
When Brother Richard saw this scene, he immediately shouted and ordered the surrounding soldiers to come forward and besiege Li Kui. After all, if such an enemy infantry fighting general were allowed to stand firm on the city wall, the harm to his own side would be too great. Even this section of the city wall will be completely captured by the enemy.
Under the order of Brother Richard, hundreds of Xixia elite soldiers armed with various weapons came forward to besiege Li Kui. However, Li Kui's ability to kill small soldiers was really strong. Even if hundreds of people came forward to besiege him, he was still beaten by them. It only took less than two minutes to defeat them all.
At this time, many other soldiers also climbed up the city wall and began to cooperate with Li Kui to continuously expand their territory on the city wall.
On the city walls in the other two directions, Lu Zhishen and Wu Song also took the lead in scaling the city wall. Then, relying on their superb martial arts, they withstood the siege of many enemy troops and bought time for other soldiers of their own to climb the city wall.
Brother Richard sent out more than a thousand of his most elite heavy infantry in iron armor, but they were unable to drive Wu Song, Lu Zhishen and other fierce generals off the city wall.
As more and more people climbed onto the city wall, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Li Kui and others began to lead their soldiers to other places, clearing away the enemy troops on the city wall bit by bit.
Brother Richard wanted to lead his troops to counterattack, but he was hit in the face by a flying knife from the Eight-Armed Nezha Xiang Chong. He was seriously injured and fell unconscious on the spot. He was then carried back by his own soldiers.
Without the general command of Brother Richard, the Xixia soldiers in Xingqing Mansion became a group of stragglers, and they could only fight on their own.
In this case, facing the fierce attack of the Qinglong Empire army whose strength and equipment far exceeded theirs, the Xixia people could barely hold on for about two hours. Then they withdrew the city wall due to heavy losses and retreated to the city in an attempt to continue to hold on. .
However, this Xingqing Mansion is a large city in the Song Dynasty. There are hundreds of thousands of Han people in the city. The Xixia soldiers previously invaded the city and burned, killed and looted everywhere. The people in the city had long hated these bandits. Now they saw their own Han people. The army had defeated the Xixia people and drove them off the city wall. The people in the city immediately saw the opportunity for revenge. They held up simple weapons such as kitchen knives, hoes and wooden sticks found at home and called for friends. They killed those Xixia soldiers who had suffered heavy losses.
Under the siege of this large number of people, there were only less than 20,000 Xixia soldiers left. Each of them fell into the embarrassing situation of having to deal with at least seven or eight people besieging each other. Many Xixia soldiers were besieged by the people. They were beaten to death, and some of them, after successfully breaking out of the siege, ran into the Qinglong Empire army that was already marching towards the city. In desperation, they had no choice but to abandon their weapons and surrender.
And this time, Li Kui, who advanced the fastest, got ahead of everyone and attacked the official office of Xingqing Mansion. After wiping out dozens of Xixia soldiers here, he captured alive the Xixia general who was still in a coma. Brother Richard.
Ye Tianlong, who then entered the city, learned of this and generously promoted Li Kui's military rank from major to colonel, and his title from baron to viscount. He also rewarded Li Kui with a thousand taels of gold and a building located in Tokyo. mansion.
Originally, Ye Tianlong wanted to reward Li Kui with a beautiful woman, but Li Kui said that he didn't like women, so he asked Ye Tianlong to cancel the reward of beautiful women.
And Li Qianshun seemed to have expected how long Brother Richard could not hold back the Qinglong Empire army. When Ye Tianlong captured Xingqing Mansion and was about to lead his troops to recover other cities occupied by the Xixia people, he discovered that there were many people along the way. Bodies of Han people and burned-out villages and towns can be seen everywhere.
After finding a few survivors and asking questions, Ye Tianlong learned that it was Li Qianshun who led tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers to burn, kill and loot all the way. A scorched earth policy was implemented in these places, so now all the food and money in these places have been robbed. , most of the young people were lost, and houses in many villages and towns were burned down. At least millions of people were homeless and had no food left in their hands. They could only survive by digging grass roots and chewing tree bark. .
Seeing the miserable current situation of these people, how could Ye Tianlong still have the heart to hunt down Li Qianshun! He could only lead his soldiers to rescue these people.
This may also be Li Qianshun's purpose. As long as Ye Tianlong does not want to give up these millions of people, he must temporarily give up chasing him. This time is enough for him to escape back to Xixia.
It has to be said that although Li Qianshun's strategy was sinister, it was indeed effective. It immediately delayed the pace of the Qinglong Empire's army.
Ye Tianlong led his soldiers to first build some simple shacks for these refugees who had lost their homes, so that these refugees could at least have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. At the same time, he also took out nearly half of the military rations carried by the troops and distributed them to these refugees. After all, if food was mobilized on a large scale from the rear at this time, it would not be possible for them to survive within a month or two. By then, these refugees would probably He had already starved to death.
That's why Ye Tianlong had to divide half of the military rations in the army to help these refugees. What made Ye Tianlong happy was that most of the soldiers had no complaints about his behavior, even people like Song Jiang who understood the righteousness well. , and even praised Ye Tianlong for his benevolent monarch. After unifying the Central Plains in the future, he will definitely be a wise monarch, and the Han family will also usher in an era of great prosperity.
While Ye Tianlong was busy relieving the victims, the sky that had been gloomy for seven or eight days finally cleared up again. However, when Ye Tianlong looked up, he found that the sun seemed to be dimmer than before. The sunlight also looked pale and weak, and I couldn't feel any temperature.
This seemed to be a bad omen. When Ye Tianlong returned to Tokyo a month later, he really heard a lot of bad news. The first bad news was that there was another man named Zhong in the Xiangyang area. The leader of the Prime Minister's rebel army led more than 100,000 people to revolt.
Ye Tianlong was busy resisting foreign lands such as Xixia and Jin at this time, and had little time to deal with these peasant rebels, so he thought about whether he could recruit them, just like how the Song Dynasty dealt with Liangshan in the original plot.
Unfortunately, after careful questioning, I found out that Zhong Xiang was actually a remnant of the Ming Cult. He had just killed Fang La, the leader of the Ming Cult, and the feud between the two parties was serious. Unless the other party wanted to betray the Ming Cult, otherwise If so, he probably wouldn't accept his offer.
The second bad news is that the Kingdom of Jin sent many troops to frequently harass the border areas, and even encouraged Goryeo and Japan to assemble an army of more than 500,000, preparing to cross the sea to attack the Qinglong Empire.
In the end, even Dali and Vietnam could no longer sit still. Taking advantage of the fact that the Song Dynasty had just been destroyed and the various places were basically in a state of chaos, they each assembled more than 200,000 troops, preparing to launch an attack on the original territory of the Song Dynasty. For example, Vietnam, the most ambitious country, even wants to take over the Central Plains!
With so many enemies attacking him at the same time, Ye Tianlong couldn't help but feel that these guys had formed an anti-player alliance!
In the past, when he was playing horse-and-blade, he often encountered this kind of situation. It was okay when the players were not independent. Once they established their own country, the forces that had been at odds with each other before would stop fighting and then target them. The forces established by the players are attacking fiercely, which makes Ye Tianlong never dare to think about being independent without accumulating hundreds of elite soldiers.
Now it seems that these guys are also planning to form an anti-player alliance and come together to oppose him!
The only good news is that after some searching, Guo Wenruo actually found Yue Fei, who was still a child.
While Ye Tianlong was happy about this, he also wondered whether the other riding and slashing module world of the Twelfth Century Storm had also been secretly integrated with the Luanwu Water Margin world! Otherwise, how could he find Yue Fei so easily?
But no matter what, it is always a good thing to find Yue Fei. Ye Tianlong is going to arrange for him to be trained in the professional military academy he just established. This way, perhaps when Yue Fei is seventeen or eighteen years old, he can put his military talents into full play. After more than half of it, he became a general who can stand alone.
In addition to Yue Fei, Ye Tianlong then went to personally inspect a new military factory established in Tokyo City.
Since the real world has basically fallen, and various high-tech creations are no longer available, craftsmen have to craft all kinds of weapons and armor piece by piece. Therefore, Ye Tianlong is now preparing to make a wave of changes to the weapons and equipment of his army. Although the Mingguang Armor looks majestic and handsome, it has been directly abandoned. After all, it is too labor-intensive to build and is not conducive to large-scale mass production in the future. . As for the steel plate armor, it has been retained. However, in the future, it will only be equipped for elite units such as heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.
Those ordinary soldiers will later be equipped with cloth armor. This kind of armor is not only easier to build than armor such as Mingguang armor and iron armor, but it is also much more convenient to maintain.
Now hundreds of sets of cloth armors have been produced in the military factory. Ye Tianlong randomly selected one and started testing it.
The cloth surface of the Mingguang Sword Armor that Ye Tianlong extracted is red, and the cloth on it is cotton. It is made of at least seven or eight layers of compressed cotton. It can actually be regarded as a piece of cotton armor by itself.
Under this layer of cotton armor, there are pieces of armor. These armor pieces are much larger than the armor pieces on the iron armor, fish scale armor and Mingguang armor. Most of them are about the size of a palm, and their shape There is no need to specifically make it into a shape similar to fish scales like making fish scale armor. It is basically just a piece of armor in one direction and does not require too much processing.
These large pieces of armor were firmly nailed to the outer cotton armor. Ye Tianlong tried it and found that unless the outer cotton layer was completely chopped to pieces, the armor pieces inside would not be there at all. It will fall off, unlike iron armor. Once the rope used to connect the nail pieces is cut, there is a risk that the nail pieces will fall off.
In addition, the armor pieces are hidden inside the cloth layer. It is not as easy as Mingguang armor, fish scale armor and iron armor, where the armor pieces are directly exposed to the outside. Like soldiers, they will experience wind and rain during combat, which is very difficult. It is prone to damage and requires a lot of effort to maintain.
In the past, because Ye Tianlong had a factory dedicated to making these weapons and armors in the real world, he naturally didn't care much about the effort, but hasn't the situation changed now! Everything has to be aligned with practicality.
Next, during the process of testing the armor's defense, Ye Tianlong discovered that even using the most powerful divine arm crossbow in the Song Dynasty, it was difficult to penetrate the armor pieces of the cloth armor from fifty meters away. It could only be penetrated within fifty meters. There is a certain probability of breakdown.
As for other crossbows, they are completely unable to deal with these cloth-faced armors within fifty meters.
As for melee weapons, only stabbing weapons such as spears and heavy weapons such as battle axes and bones can effectively break through its defense. It is difficult for ordinary swords to penetrate its defense.
After confirming that the performance of the cloth armor produced by the military factory met the standards he set, Ye Tianlong began to order his craftsmen to mass-produce it.
In addition to the cloth armor equipped for ordinary soldiers, Ye Tianlong is also planning to build several more military factories in the future, specifically for the production of chest plate armor for militia troops. This type of armor will be simpler and more trouble-free to produce. Suitable for larger quantities of militia equipment.
Due to the large number of militiamen, it is difficult for all militiamen to be equipped with these chest plate armors at this stage. Most of the militiamen are equipped with iron armor and leather armor captured from the Jin people, Xixia people and Fang La army.
Fortunately, most of the militiamen now only need to be stationed in various places to maintain law and order. They don't need to fight much, so it doesn't matter if the equipment is a little bit inferior.
While inspecting the military factory, Ye Tianlong was also thinking about where to lead his troops next.
After thinking about it for a long time, Ye Tianlong decided to go to Taiyuan Mansion first. After all, the Jin people were the biggest threat in his eyes, so although Taiyuan Mansion was guarded by Shi Wengong, Ye Tianlong was still uneasy and prepared to lead the army himself. Let's go and see. If Shi Wengong can't stand it anymore, he can send troops to support us.
