Chapter 255: Repetition
"Brothers, your sacrifice has not been in vain! Lao Tzu will take the cavalry to level the land of Dayi to comfort your souls in the sky! The tartar leader picked up a jar of wine and poured it on the ground. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Half a month later, the leader of the Tartars gathered his troops and led 50,000 cavalry to the Shanlai Pass.
Not only was the figure of King Yong'an missing in the Northern Xinjiang Army, but even the always brave pioneer Major General Lan Zhou was nowhere to be seen.
The gate of Shanlai Pass was even tighter, and on the city wall stood a row of guards with arrows and a masked general, presumably the one who commanded the battle.
Looking at the figure, that person is much stronger than King Yong'an and Lan Zhou, and it is impossible for them to be fake.
It seems that Dayi's generals are so timid that they don't even dare to show their faces?
Seeing this, the leader of the Tartars couldn't help but rejoice in his heart.
He has secretly sent another team of cavalry of about 20,000 horses from the belly of Qishan into the Shanlai Pass, and when the time comes, it is a sure thing to attack from both sides and defeat the Dayi army!
"Attack!" The Tartar leader's eyes shone with excitement and bloodthirstiness, and his voice was loud with the call to attack.
The majestic cavalry, armed with heavy and hard logs, came from a distance like lightning and attacked the gate of Shanlai Pass in unison.
"Boom!" The log crashed against the heavy iron plate, making a dull crashing sound, as if the entire city wall was trembling.
"Hard!" The leader of the Tartars sat in the center of the procession on horseback, shouting loudly, as if in the next moment, they would be able to poke two holes in the iron gate.
"Boom!" The cavalry picked up the logs again and slammed them into the city gates.
At this moment, powerful arrows and crossbows, as dense as rain, roared towards them, and the number was several times stronger than the previous one!
What's even more frightening is that these arrows and crossbows are so powerful that they shoot directly through the iron armor of the Tartars!
The Tartar leader hurriedly ordered his cavalry to raise their heavy shields to defend against arrows and crossbows, and once again attacked the city gates.
Traditionally, there was a pause period for each launch of a crossbow to install a new one.
The Tartar leader saw this gap and ordered the besieging cavalry to exert force again, and finally smashed the heavy iron gate open.
At this time, there was no need for him to command, the cavalry had already picked up their sharp scimitars, and rode their horses towards the Shanlai Pass!
Everyone is holding back a lot of energy in their hearts, and they want to be the person who has cut off the heads of the most Dayi soldiers today.
Before today's expedition, the leader said that the one who pays the most heads today will directly serve as the leader of the Shanyin City tribe in the future!
The heavy gate of Shanlai Pass was easily breached, and the archers on the gate did not even have time to shoot the arrows in their hands.
A scarlet smile appeared in the eyes of the leader of the Tartars, the muscles in his arms were tense, and his eyes widened like copper bells, and he rushed towards the Shanlai Pass.
To the surprise of the Tartar soldiers, the Dayi cavalry was not about thirty zhang away from the city wall, holding a large sword, looking at them calmly and solemnly.
The mighty Tartar cavalry, looking at the Dayi cavalry of no more than a thousand people, once again had a contemptuous thought in his heart, and without waiting for the leader to speak, he rushed towards the Dayi soldiers.
However, they could not walk more than a dozen paces, and suddenly the ground under their feet collapsed without warning, and the horses, which could not contain their momentum, fell straight down with their masters on their seats.
The cavalry behind sensed that something was wrong and immediately tightened the reins of their horses, but it was too late, and the ground under their feet collapsed.
Everything happened in an instant, and the open space in Shanlai Pass seemed to disappear out of thin air, turning into a huge pit three feet deep and two feet wide.
Sharp steel knives stuck in the pit were deep into the bellies of the fallen horses and the Tartars who had accidentally fallen from their horses.
And those Tartar soldiers who had narrowly escaped and were struggling to sit up straight from their horses suddenly discovered in horror that countless sharp arrows were being sent out from the walls in the east, west, north and south directions, piercing their bodies from all angles!
The soldiers on the city wall were not idle.
Those arrows and crossbows that had not been resting for long were shot with great power again!
This time, not only did they face the Dayi soldiers who had not yet had time to enter the city wall outside Shanlai Pass, but also aimed at the Tartar soldiers who stepped into Shanlai Pass first and did not fall into the pit.
They were blocked by the Tartars behind them, and there was no way to retreat in front of them, and because they were the vanguard, they just rushed forward, with almost no shields, and there was no room for counterattack in the face of the arrows and crossbows shot from the towers.
A quarter of an hour later, more than 2,000 Tartar cavalry who had entered the Shanlai Pass first were killed.
And outside the Shanlai Pass, there are more dead and wounded Tartar soldiers!
The soldiers of Dayi did not lose a single soldier!
The leader of the Tartars pulled out the crossbow that pierced the armor and sank into his left shoulder, and glanced hatefully in the direction of the castle tower.
Although nearly 5,000 men and horses were lost, the huge pit in the city gate also meant that the Dayi soldiers could not pass, so why not take this opportunity to destroy the city tower!
There are only a limited number of soldiers on the tower, and the number of arrows and crossbows should also be limited, even if he fights a head-to-head battle, he will definitely win!
Once the walls are breached, they will be able to enter the pass from the other direction, and the Great Yi soldiers will never be able to hollow out all the land!
After quickly adjusting his strategy, the Tartar leader once again signaled the attack.
This time the Tartar soldiers parted on both sides, and a pair of cavalrymen stepped out from the rear of the ranks, and in groups of two carried the ladders used for climbing, and carried the arrows and crossbows above their heads, and approached the city gate steadfastly.
"They're going to storm the walls!" Inside the city tower, Xue Yongyi was lying on the hole in the wall, staring at the battle situation outside and asked.
"Attack the city wall, attack the city wall! Don't be nervous! He Bo stroked his beard and smiled.
Xue Yongyi glanced at him dissatisfiedly, when is it, this dead old man is not the same thing!
"Cricket, are you ready?" Lan Zhou was lying on a soft couch, covered with a heavy leather blanket, and asked the crickets on the side.
Cricket nodded, "Brother Lan Zhou, don't worry, they don't want to climb the city tower!" After the cricket finished speaking, he ordered the soldiers who controlled the castle tower to press a mechanism button.
Xue Yongyi curiously leaned on the hole in the wall and looked outside.
I saw that the ground half a zhang away from the city wall was concave again, and this time the depression was not as wide as behind the city wall, about half a zhang wide.
The Tartar, who was carrying the ladder to attack the city, was unsuspected, fell into the trap, and was instantly shot into a sieve by an arrow.
The leader of the Tartars looked angrily at the pit that suddenly appeared, although it was only half a zhang away, they could step on horseback, but the location on the opposite side of the city wall was limited, and the number of people who could be accommodated at one time was also limited, even if they stepped over and set up the ladder, they could be easily driven down by the great soldiers on the city wall.
It seems that if they wanted to break into the city wall today, they would have to fill the pit in front of the wall first!
The Tatar leader looked at the city wall in front of him and spat hatefully!