Chapter 476: Bazhai
The Tong River is thousands of miles long, and the waves are windy and the sand turns to the heavenly river. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When the Tong River flows out of Qintong Mountain, it is not turbulent, but it runs thousands of miles on the Hanhai grassland, during which the large and small rivers converge in it, and the river roars more and more.
The rushing river was wrapped in huge foam and went mightily towards the Hanhai. If the Detong River continues to flow, then the Hanhai Sea will be completely divided into east and west.
However, thousands of miles away from the mouth of the sea, there is a river channel that is squeezed by the hilly terrain on both sides of the river, and suddenly narrows, so that dozens of fishing boats can be used as the bottom, fixed with iron chains, and a 50-step-wide pontoon bridge can be built to communicate the east and west banks.
On the east side of the riverbank, a strong military fortress with a radius of 1,000 steps was built under the stone ridge on the east bank.
Although the military village is small, there are all kinds of buildings such as Xingyuan, Zhongjun tent, animal stable, material yard, watchtower, sentry tower, etc., and there is almost no difference from the city of Yanzhou people.
Although the barbarians did not know how to refine any defensive arrays, the ten-meter-high walls were all made of huge stones, and a special glue was refined to fill the stone cracks, making the entire military village strong enough to repeatedly resist the disturbance of the Black Stone Khanate from the west cliff of the Tong River.
It was originally built in response to the invasion of the Black Stone Khanate, and there were 10,000 elites stationed on weekdays.
At this time, Heishi Khan was worried about domestic and foreign troubles, and had no time to look eastward, coupled with the tight war in Yaoshan, Tuoba Banner drew a large number of soldiers from Qinhaidu and the surrounding areas, and only Yuanhai led 3,000 elites to garrison here.
From the first moment Yuanhai was stationed here, he was extremely disgusted with this village, and the Tong River, which was constantly flowing day and night, was so loud that he couldn't sleep well day and night.
Rather than enjoying a quiet life in the rear, Yuan Hai hoped to go to the front line of Yaoshan to make meritorious contributions;
When the elite of the Black Yan Army intercepted reinforcements on the periphery of Qinhai Ferry, the generals in the city were furious and asked Yuanhai to fight, wanting to go out of the village to give these despicable human races some powerful tastes.
Although Yuanhai is eager to establish military merits, he can also distinguish priorities.
He knew that the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Chimei Lake were the remnants of the Black Yan Army that had disturbed Yanzhou over the years, and they seemed to be weak, but they could still make up 100,000 armor soldiers, and at this time, it was only their five thousand most elite war horses that entered the vicinity of Qinhaidu in advance.
Now there are also large-scale Terran elite soldiers on the side of Yaoshan, the situation has become extremely strange and dangerous, after Zongzi was frustrated, he was forced to choose to withdraw his troops from Yaoshan, even if Zongzi Tuoba Banner did not write to him again and again, Yuanhai also knew in his heart that defending Qinhai City was the most important thing for him at present.
"A group of rabbit cubs who don't know the height of the sky, do you know how Lao Tzu doesn't have this eye? One or two people of the human race are indeed weak, but once they can accumulate numbers, the power they will explode is beyond your imagination. Let's find a way to survive this battle first!"
Yuan Hai scolded another group of barbarians who asked for war to go down the wall, frowning deeply and muttering to himself, he didn't know what fate would be waiting for him, waiting for the Tuoba Khanate, which might quickly weaken before it rose.
At this time, the Black Yan Army only had 5,000 cavalry, which was close to Qinhai Ducheng, which was not enough to launch a strong attack, but there were still more than 15,000 cavalry, and it was only more than a day's journey from Qinhai Ducheng, and what was even more terrifying was that the Black Yan Army still had more than 60,000 foot armor, and it had been marching north from Gray Crow Ridge for three days, could Zongzi lead 80,000 soldiers to withdraw from Yaoshan in time? Or, could Qinhai Ducheng hold on until Zongzi led his troops to withdraw to the east bank of the Tong River?
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The situation of Qinhaidu City is critical, and the reinforcements sent by Baishui City urgently have been defeated, and more reinforcements are therefore lacking enough war horses, and the advance is slow, and the Yaoshan side can not delay any longer, once Qinhaidu City is captured by the Black Yan Army, Tuoba Banner knows in his heart that they will soon fall into the double dilemma of retreating and running out of grain and grass in Yaoshan.
After two days of rectification, the southern foot battalion of the Tuoba Department finally began to pull up the camp, although the morale of the 60,000 barbarians was a little low, but still maintained a complete formation, under the escort of 20,000 barbarian cavalry, began to slowly withdraw in the direction of Qinhaidu - before that, Tuoba Banner also sent 10,000 cavalry, followed by the left eagle, to Qinhaidu reinforcements.
Tuoba Banner now supports Zuo Hu to rush to Qinhaidu, and join forces with Yuanhai, there are 5,000 elites available, and they can hold Qinhaidu for three days.
The Tuoba tribe pulled out the camp and left, and the Demon Ape City also moved. In addition to Liule Yi leading 20,000 elite men and 10,000 barbarian soldiers to stay in Bailu City, Demon Ape City, Jade Pillar Peak and other key passes, Chen Hai and Tie Kun led 50,000 barbarian armor and 40,000 human race armor soldiers to also start from Demon Ape City, far behind the enemy army.
The 90,000 elites did not try to attack, a hundred miles away, far behind, as if to see off the Tuoba Department, but the pressure on Tuoba Qi's heart was as heavy as a mountain, and he knew in his heart that once he made a slight mistake on his side, the 90,000 elites of the Iron Cliff Department would be like ancient beasts, frantically pounce on them and tear them to pieces.
Despite this, Tuoba Banner can't be entangled with the Iron Cliff Department more, thinking that a smooth withdrawal to Baishui City is the top priority, so as to ensure the fundamental and long-term plan of the Tuoba Department.
The two armies, one in front and one in the rear, are divided into the forward, the left and right flanks, the middle army and the rear army, just like a dozen dragons divided into two groups, slowly wriggling on the prairie.
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At this time, seeing that Qinhaidu was in sight from afar, the surroundings were quiet, and there was no scene of the army pressing the city, Zuo Vulture breathed a sigh of relief, and urged his generals and soldiers to quickly pass the pontoon bridge and enter the Qinhaidu City at the other end of the pontoon bridge.
After entering the city, Zuo Eagle and Wuhai had a brief understanding of the current situation facing the city, and when they climbed the city wall, they saw the forward camp of the Black Yan Army, stationed at the foot of a low mountain thirty miles away from Qinhai City.
Zuo Vulture knew that the 5,000 human races thirty miles away were all iron-blooded elites who had been tempered by blood and fire, and he also knew that the Black Yan Army still had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and they would be able to rush over in a day, but they had 5,000 elites guarding Qinhaidu City, and he was still confident that he would hold out until Tuoba Banner led the main force back east.
Tuoba Qi sat on the chariot dragged by the four green beasts, and when he saw the golden feather demon crane in the sky watching everything on their side, he was extremely irritable, he always felt that something seemed to be wrong, but he couldn't find the problem anyway.
Although there are still hundreds of iron-winged demon vultures in the Tuoba Department, if they really want to disperse in a hurry, they can also tear the old demon crane to pieces, but that old demon crane, the cultivation of the Demon Pill Realm, flew too high against the cold wind.
Beyond 10,000 zhang, Gangfeng is sharper than the Xuandao Spirit Sword, and it also has great damage to Xuan Xiu's divine soul, most of the demon vultures have no way to fly so high, Tuoba Banner, as the boss, can't just take the demon vulture casually to chase and kill the old demon crane, right?
There are still signs of an attack on the Iron Cliffs, could it be that the Iron Cliffs are just trying to drive them back to the east bank of the Tong River, but they are establishing a stronghold on the west bank of Qinhaidu?
It's just that how to explain the changes in the Black Yan Army?
Or, was the Iron Cliff Department confident that the Black Yan Army would be able to take Qinhaidu before he arrived with his army?
Tuoba Qi sent messengers to urge the second batch of reinforcements to rush to Qinhaidu as fast as possible, and asked Hu Wei to go from the Yanzhou Kunu who was wrapped in coercion, to find the old soldiers who had been in the Black Yan Army or had fought with the Black Yan Army, so as to learn more information about the Black Yan Army.
During the march, when more and more information about the Black Yan Army gathered in the hands of Tuoba Banner, the foreboding premonition in Tuoba Banner's heart became heavier and heavier, and he could only hope that the Black Yan Army no longer had that hole card......
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Under the mountain range thirty miles west of Qinhaidu City, the 20,000 war horsemen of the Black Yan Army finally drove to the scheduled battlefield at this time.
Yan Yuan delayed for three days and did not directly attack Qinhaidu City, not the 15,000 warhorses that converged, after all, after Zuo Vulture led his troops to arrive, they could not completely block Qinhaidu City, or let the 2,000 barbarians enter Qinhaidu City.
Yan Yuan was waiting for the twenty-six Heavenly Machine Repeaters that had been transported with the second wave of forward cavalry.
At the peak of the Black Yan Army, it had more than 200 Heavenly Machine Repeater Crossbows, which were all deployed at the western foot of Ganquan Ridge to confront the Xiyuan Army, and then were defeated several times, and the remnants of the Black Yan Army at the same time were divided into several branches, and Yan Yuan had 26 Heavenly Machine Repeaters left in his hand.
The heavenly machine crossbow also has a service life, the crossbow groove and the arrow array box are fired repeatedly, will continue to wear and deform, almost after shooting twenty base crossbow arrows, without thorough repair, it can no longer be put into use.
Yan Yuan still has a lot of refiners under him, who can cultivate and build heavenly machine battle crossbows, but after they were withdrawn north and moved to Chimei Lake, their resources were too limited, and at this time, they only barely built a batch of core equipment waiting to be replaced.
At the same time, only the Quenched Gold Heavy Arrow can fully exert the power of the Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow, and there are no more than 10,000 Quenched Gold Heavy Arrow left in their hands at present, and in addition, even the fine-wrought iron Heavy Arrow can not store 60,000.
A quenched gold heavy arrow was fired through the Heavenly Machine Crossbow, and its power was comparable to that of a golden blade sword talisman.
These twenty-six Heavenly Machine Repeaters and 10,000 Quenched Heavy Blade Arrows can be said to be the last hole cards in Yan Yuan's hand, so all along, after entering the Hanhai Grassland, Yan Yuan has never taken out the Heavenly Machine Repeater.
However, even if it is a hole card, there is always a time to play it, and if you don't play this hole card at this time, when will you wait?
20,000 Black Yan Army war cavalry slowly approached Qinhaidu, Zuo Eagle and Yuan Hai looked at the neat Black Yan Army, although there was a slight chill in their hearts, but the 7,000 demon barbarian elites who defended the city faced 20,000 Terran war horses who did not carry heavy siege weapons, and the pressure was not too great.
It's just that in just two years, the human race and the demon barbarian attack and defense are easy to change, and it really makes them cry but can't cry.
The Black Yan army stopped when it was three or four thousand steps away from the Qinhai Ferry, and the main force was divided into two wings to form a formation, maintaining a strong offensive posture against the city, but it did not start, and a part of the Black Yan army dismounted and fought, wearing armor and holding shields, surrounded by twenty or thirty strange weapons in the shape of small cars, slowly approaching the east gate of Qinhai Ducheng, and recently stopped at a distance of 1,500 steps, uncovering the tarpaulin shrouded in strange weapons, revealing hideous crossbows.
One thousand and five steps is a very awkward distance for the Tuoba Department.
The Walled City did not have heavy stone-throwing crossbows, and ordinary iron-tired bows or thrown iron spears had little strength when shot 1,500 paces away, and could easily be blocked by iron shields.
Zuo Vulture, Yuanhai and other barbarian generals, although the iron spears thrown with all their strength are extremely powerful, and they can even shoot strong enemies four or five thousand steps away, but there are too few brave generals on their side, and the other party only needs to have a small number of defensive talismans to completely block their attack, not to mention the remnants of the Black Yan Army, especially in the forward cavalry camp, the number of strong people in the Spirit Clearing Realm and the Ming Awareness Realm is far more than in Qinhaidu City at this time.
Zuo Eagle and Yuan Hai glanced at each other, thinking that the other party would still go to the city sooner or later, and they were not impatient at the moment.
Yan Yuan squinted at Qin Haidu, who was waiting for Chen Bing, sneered, and with a wave of his hand, he pushed bundles of quenched gold heavy arrows to the edge of the Tianji Repeater, and pressed them into the arrow box in an orderly manner......
When the metal storm formed by the gold-quenching arrows of the day frantically tore the walled gates, cold walls and city towers that were stronger than the golden stone, tearing open the gaps, Zuo Eagle and Yuan Hai realized that they were so wrong!