Tugoda Mi, who returned to the Jie tribe's camp, knelt in front of Shi Le and told the whole story one by one. After hearing this, Shi Le was furious, scolded him as a waste, and ordered everyone around him to behead Tu Gedami. Fortunately, other tribal leaders interceded for him and allowed him to be the first to attack, so that he could make meritorious deeds.
Shi Le looked at the crowd and said, "It seems that the general guarding Xiguan is not a fool. Do you know who is guarding Xiguan now?"
Ousa Chaha said: "I would like to inform the Great Khan that the original guard general of Xiguan was named Zhang Da. When the leader of Sharzhu attacked Xiguan, Zhang Da led his army to flee to Yancheng. I heard that he was killed by the King of Yan. Now the new commander is Zhang Da. It is said that the general of Xiguan was newly appointed by the Emperor of Great Xia, but the specific origin is unknown."
"Hmph, you loser. You don't even know who you are fighting with in a war. They are all just losers."
One of the people who looked like a tribal leader said in a slightly speculative tone: "Is it that King Yan who is stationed in Xiguan?"
Shi Le said disdainfully: "Humph, you are a yellow-haired boy. When I take Xiguan, I will cut this bullshit Yan King into thousands of pieces and crush his bones into ashes."
"How is the construction of the equipment in the industrial city going?"
"Back to the Great Khan, some of the equipment has been built, including ten catapults and five taels of building carts. We can build another batch tomorrow and can start siege at any time."
"Okay, tomorrow some of the siege equipment will be sent to the front village, and the siege will begin early the next morning. Tuge Dami, your tribal warriors will be the first batch of warriors to carry out the first attack. If we fail again, I will kill you without mercy." .”
Tugetami knelt on the ground and said, "Don't worry, Great Khan. I, Tugetami, will personally lead the warriors to attack the city. I will personally climb the city wall and wash away the shame of slaughtering all the tribes."
In the early morning, when the sky was just getting dark, Fan Zhi and Jing De led their respective people to climb down from the city wall extending from the pass, and marched hard along the mountain wall towards the entrance of the valley. Everyone was cautious along the way. , not daring to be careless in the slightest, despite this, some people unfortunately fell off the cliff and died.
Looking at the soldiers falling down the mountain, Fan Zhi couldn't help but curse in his heart. Before the fighting really started, he started to lose men. This was not a good sign.
Lu Biao stood on the city wall and looked at the soldiers retreating. He prayed that the southeast wind tonight would be stronger than usual.
"Is there a message from General Hou Tai?" Lu Biao asked the person behind him.
"Return to the general, not yet. The entrance to the valley is blocked by the Jie tribe. The messenger can only go over the mountains to find a path into the territory, but the time is uncertain." Dong Yu, the military counselor, returned.
"Well, I hope they don't have any problems over there."
Time passed little by little. In the Jie tribe's camp, several catapults and two building carts were transported to the camp ahead. Along with them, there were also carts of huge stones. These stones were all found in the nearby mountains. , if such a stone hits a person, the bones and tendons will definitely be broken, and the destructive power to the city wall will be huge.
Under the leadership of the scout, Fan Zhi and others finally arrived near the mouth of the valley. Fan Zhi checked the surrounding terrain. It was difficult to establish a foothold in the original location used by the scout for reconnaissance. The scout found a relatively gentle location along the mountain.
Fan Zhi couldn't help but be speechless as he looked at the continuous tents at the bottom of the mountain. They were almost covered by the continuous tents, and the camps of different sizes were scattered around each other. After observing for a while, Fan Zhi ordered a captain next to him.
"You lead five hundred people and continue westward along the mountain. Since you want to set fires, set them in more places and farther away."
The captain nodded in agreement, and then led the five hundred people to walk hard along the mountain. When the people led by Jingde on the other side arrived near the mouth of the valley, they found that the hillside was relatively gentle, but the distance from the enemy's camp was also relatively increased.
As night fell, in order to ensure that the arrows could be effectively shot into the enemy's camp, Jingde ordered the soldiers to put down more than a dozen ropes and slide down the hillside along the ropes.
The stars are bright in the sky, and a long Milky Way stretches across the night sky, looking particularly clear. Fan Zhi lay on his back on the side of the mountain, staring at the night sky in a daze. He has been a soldier for twenty years, and he also participated in Zhao Wuji's Northern Expedition. He had seen the miserable scene in Hebei Road, with thousands of miles of bare ground, bones everywhere, and countless heads piled up like hills.
It was a purgatory on earth, where the people of Daxia became slaves, prey, and fertilizer for pastures, and everyone lost hope of living. The ambitious Zhao Wuji did not hesitate to cede royal power and used the power of the whole country to regain Hebei Road, but so what, there were ruins everywhere and thousands of miles of uninhabited areas.
The Xiguan City Gate was quietly opened, and three thousand soldiers quietly left the city gate under the cover of night. Wang Dayong was also among them. He took twenty brothers from Yancheng and followed the large army. In order to prevent anyone from talking secretly, all the soldiers held a wooden stick in their mouths before setting off. If the wooden stick fell, military law was seriously lost.
Scouts dressed in black were moving forward quickly. They were going to check the situation ahead. If there was any unexpected situation, the troops would retreat immediately. The scouts searched forward along the edge of the mountain, but fortunately there was nothing unusual along the way.
The Xu Shijie people would not believe that Daxia people dared to go out of Xiguan. In their eyes, all Daxia people were as timid as cattle and sheep, and they would only huddle in the city.
Tian Ying took out his telescope and looked at the Jie Clan camp in the distance. This was issued by Lu Biao. As the commander, they were each issued one. Only then did Hou Tai understand that this thing was in Prince Yan's Mansion. Each person can have one, and most of the previous excitement has subsided in an instant.
Under the light of the torch, Tian Ying saw Jie soldiers walking back and forth carelessly on the camp wall. There were a dozen braziers placed in front of the camp, illuminating the front of the camp. Once they approached the camp, they would be immediately Discover.
Everyone lay motionless on the grass, waiting for the time to come. Time passed little by little, the moon was at its peak, and the time was almost up. Tian Ying and his men approached the camp. After reaching the shooting range, Wang Dayong ordered the twenty soldiers he brought to shoot with their bows. The crossbow first carried out a precise round of kills against the defenders on the wall.
Then I heard Tian Ying’s order: “Light the fire and release the arrow!”
Countless fire pots were ignited, and three people formed a group. The fire was bright in the originally dark open space. The arrows tied with fire oil cloth were on fire at a click, and three thousand arrows flew towards the Jie tribe's camp.
At the same time, the Jie tribe’s camp heard shouts in the Jie tribe’s language: “The enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking!”
The ignited arrows continued to shoot towards the Jie tribe's camp, taking advantage of the wind to fly farther. Soon, fire was seen rising in the Jie tribe's tent.
On the other side, a few soldiers lit two newly filled heartless cannons, and then stepped aside. With a "dong" sound, a black object with sparks flew towards the Jie tribe's camp.
Everyone was startled by the sudden sound. Tian Ying, who was standing next to Wang Dayong, was also startled by the bang. He hurriedly asked Wang Dayong: "Brother Dayong, what is this?"
Before Wang Dayong could explain anything, a "boom" of explosions suddenly came from the camp in the distance, accompanied by flames soaring into the sky. This time the sound was louder, and there were echoes in the valley due to the sound effect.
Some soldiers were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground. Wang Dayong hurriedly shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone, it's okay, keep shooting arrows."
Everyone was frightened by the sight before them, and Dayong had no choice but to shout again, "shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow."
The sound of the explosion not only echoed in the valley, but Fan Zhi, who was far away on the top of the mountain near the valley entrance, looked stunned: "It's broken, it's thundering, is it going to rain?"
He looked up at the sky, there was no cloud, the Milky Way was still bright, and the crescent moon hung in the sky.
"General, this doesn't sound like thunder," the soldier beside him said.
"It doesn't sound like thunder? No matter what time it is?"
"It's almost time."
Fan Zhi looked at the moon and then said: "Light the fire and shoot the arrows!"
Jingde on the other side also issued an order at the same time, and all the soldiers lit their arrows and shot towards the Jie tribe's camp.
At this time, in the front camp of the Jie tribe, many people woke up from their sleep with two violent explosions, and the camp was already ablaze. The sheepskin tents were very oily and easy to burn. The wind blew from the lower valley. With the help of the wind, the fire burned all the way.
The Jie tribe's former army camp turned into a mess. Many Jie tribe soldiers shouted: "No, it's a thunder. The sky thunder is attacking the camp!" There will be thunder and lightning on the grassland, and thunder and lightning will hit the grassland. , it is easy to cause fires, and the people on the grassland believe that this is the anger of the gods and punishment on them.
Wang Dayong asked the soldiers to adjust the angle and fired two more shots. Because the accuracy of the heartless cannon was really poor, one of the shots did not shoot far and hit the wall of the village heavily. A moment later, there was a loud noise that shook the entire valley. With a buzzing sound, the wall of the village was blown to pieces, and a large gap suddenly appeared there.
Wang Dayong stared blankly at the large gap in the Jie tribe's camp. After looking at it for a long time, he couldn't help but chuckle. He kicked a soldier next to him and said, "Go, tell the man named Cuttlefish to follow me quickly." Captain, charge in together."
"Yes!" Xiaobing responded and ran towards Xiguan. The soldiers in the distance were also frightened by the shocking loud noise, and they looked into the distance of the canyon without knowing why.
The fire burned all the way out along the valley, and many tents were set alight. Many soldiers in the camp who did not have time to rush out had their clothes set alight by the fire, and they struggled and tore them desperately. Some of the Jie tribesmen who came out earlier ran towards the gate behind the camp.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the trees on the mountains on both sides were also set on fire. Inside the Khan's tent, Shi Le hurried out of the tent and looked at the fire in the distance.
He asked angrily: "What's going on?"
"Report to the Great Khan that the enemy set fire to attack the camp?" a soldier replied hurriedly.
"Asshole! Send an order to tear down the adjacent tents immediately." Shi Le cursed angrily.
"Yes, Khan!" The soldier hurriedly ran to deliver the order.
However, it was difficult to control the fire at this time, and the fire was not in one place. The camps in the north and south had also caught fire, especially the northern camp area. Since the mountain was surrounded by mountains on three sides, the wind entered it and was affected by the mountain. The air flow The wind changed direction again and formed a whirlpool. After Jingde set the fire, due to the gyration of the wind and the rising heat of the air, a vortex gradually formed, and the fire spread everywhere.
Jingde looked at the burning Jie tribe's camp at the foot of the hillside with a smile on his face: "Burn you to death."
"General, let's withdraw." A soldier behind reminded him.
"Don't worry, just watch for a while, they won't be able to come up anyway."
The civil strife in the Jie tribe camp turned into a pot of porridge. Many Jie tribe soldiers fled in all directions. The fire burned all the way and was already difficult to put out. Jingde took out his binoculars and saw that some Jie soldiers in the distance had begun to dismantle their tents in order to prevent the fire from spreading. In the face of natural fire, the Jie people on the grassland also learned the principle of building fire breaks.
Tian Ying, Mo Yu, and Wang Dayong pursued and killed all the way along the path burned by the fire. They slaughtered everyone they saw and left no one alive. They continued to pursue them until dawn. Only a few people stopped and connected the area. The tents have been burned to the ground, but the tents in the distance are still there. Through the telescope, it can be seen that the Jie soldiers in the distance have formed a formation and are waiting. If they pursue them rashly, they may be entangled by the enemy and unable to escape. The three of them looked at each other and then turned back the way they came.
There were drizzles in the sky. Shi Le was riding on horseback, looking at the camp that was burned to ashes in the distance. A full third of the camp area was burned, and the dead and injured soldiers had not yet been counted. He stared into the distance. This was the most humiliating battle in his life. First, the Tugodami tribe in the canyon was ambushed, and then the camp was attacked by fire.
"Pfft!" A mouthful of hot blood spurted out from his mouth.
