Chapter 52: The gates of Toyosu are opened
A few minutes later, a series of iron pieces flew out of Toyosu and smashed straight into the siege ladder and siege tower. ,
The moment the iron came into contact with the wooden siege machine, it burst out with terrifying force, and the wooden siege machine could not resist the impact of the iron at all.
The key structure of the siege equipment was damaged, and it collapsed with a bang.
This time, Li Yan destroyed half of the siege ladders and siege towers, and when this large equipment collapsed, many Turks were directly injured or even stoned to death.
"What's that?"
"How is that possible? How could a siege tower be so vulnerable? ”
"Oh no, should we withdraw first?"
Such a terrifying movement suddenly alarmed the many Turkic leaders in the temporary camp, and they couldn't believe what was happening in front of them, and they were all about to be stupid.
"There is no need to withdraw, there is no such thing as continuing to be thrown out in Fengzhou City, there should be only so much."
The Turks were obviously unwilling to retreat, and after seeing that Li Yan no longer seemed to destroy the siege equipment, they suddenly had a fluke heart, and subconsciously thought that the Tang army did not have enough reserves to destroy the siege equipment.
The siege continued for a few more minutes, and the Turks were relieved to see that nothing seemed to be flying out of the city anymore.
If all their siege equipment is destroyed, I am afraid that this Fengzhou City will be difficult to capture, and they can only retreat hastily.
In the absence of new supplies, large tribes are more likely to survive the winter than smaller tribes due to the attrition of the larger size.
No one in the tribes present today can afford such consequences.
In this way, with luck, greed, and the still extreme survival mentality, the Turks once again increased their military investment.
After an hour of continuous killing, almost two-thirds of the troops are now rapidly gathering towards the siege towers and siege ladders.
"Kill!"
"Knives, shields! Take a step back! ”
"Take two steps forward, Camp A throws corpses!"
The bloody slaughter on the walls of Toyosu continued, and the Turks could not understand the horror of the defenders of Toyosu without actually stepping on the walls.
The blood of the Turks flowed everywhere, staining almost the entire city wall, as well as the shields, swords, armor, and even the eyes of the soldiers of the defenders of Toyoshu......
"Why haven't the walls been taken yet? Also, why haven't the gates been slammed open yet? ”
"We have lost nearly 5,000 more troops! If it goes on like this, even if it captures Fengzhou, what's the point? ”
"Damn the Don!"
The Turks were becoming more and more frenzied, and they only felt that their forces were being depleted, and that Toyosu showed no sign of being captured.
The Turks didn't know that on the Fengzhou city wall at this time, the elite battalion responsible for forming the sword and shield wall was still so tired that it was about to lose its strength.
Under the continuous impact of the Turks' fearless death, the wall of swords and shields has been torn open many times in a row, if it weren't for Li Yan's timely response, then maybe the city wall would really be breached.
"Boss, the brothers of the elite battalion can't hold it anymore, and the Turks still don't stop."
Zhang Dazhu has been leading people to constantly replenish and repair the defense line torn by the Turks, and his face is full of blood at the moment, and he is very suitable to report to Li Yan.
"Got it."
Li Yan also frowned, although he still wanted to continue to consume the Turkic troops, but his own soldiers were already tired, and now there were even a lot of casualties.
According to Li Yan's estimates, the 2,000 elite battalions that formed the wall of swords and shields had lost about 300 people, and the reason why they were able to stabilize this wall of defense and slaughter was actually completely relying on the replenishment of follow-up manpower, as well as Li Yan's own several charges.
If the Turks continue to attack the city walls, there will be more gains than they gain.
So, Li Yan immediately made a decision, and in a moment, a lot of iron was shot out from the city wall.
With several loud noises in a row, the Turks' siege ladders and siege towers collapsed instantly, and the subsequent Turks could no longer climb the walls of Fengzhou.
"Kill!"
Seeing that the Turks were powerless to follow, and only one or two hundred Turks were left on the city wall in a dilemma, a new order was issued decisively to clear the city wall and clean up the corpses of the Turks!
A few minutes later, the defenders of Toyosu on the city wall were covered in blood, and there was not a single living Turkic on the entire Toyosu city wall!
In this battle, 6,000 Turks were annihilated again, and there were 14,000 remaining Turks under the city!
Subtracting the 5,000 people who took the initiative to evacuate, the strength of the Monan Grassland was reduced by more than 11,000 by Li Yan.
"Damn it!"
In the temporary tents of the Turks, several leaders roared angrily.
Now that the siege equipment has been destroyed, it is impossible for them to capture the city wall, which means that if they want to take Toyosu City, they can only storm the city gate.
But this gate is so easy to attack?
Apparently not!
This siege battle has been fought until now, but the city gate of Fengzhou is still standing still, they can't understand at all, how can this city gate of Fengzhou be so strong, and it has not moved until now.
No one among the Turks knew that as early as when the caravan set off from Fengzhou, Li Yan sent people to strengthen the city gates, and all the key points were made of metal structures.
There are even metal beams installed behind the city gates, and more than a dozen long sticks can be used to fix the city gate to the ground when defending the city, forming a stable triangular structure.
Finally, coupled with the effect of manpower maintenance, the solidity of the Fengzhou City Gate is definitely not weaker than that of heavy cities of Luoyang and Chang'an.
"Let's withdraw, Fengzhou City can't be captured."
Suddenly, the leader of the Chuyue tribe spoke.
"It's still too late to go to other cities in the Tang Realm, and Fengzhou really can't be attacked."
The leader of the Hulujan tribe spoke out in the same way.
"Yes."
The Treasure Point Secret Tribe followed suit and agreed with the two families' ideas.
At this moment, although the entire Monan grassland suffered heavy losses, their three major tribes did not hurt the roots.
The combined strength of the three of them was about 10,000, and they only lost less than 1,000, and now the real losses were all those small and medium-sized tribes.
"You ......"
"Damn, when the winter passes, we will tell the Khan!"
Outside of these three families, almost all the leaders of the tribes were furious, and their losses had reached a terrible level.
Almost all of them lost more than half of their troops, and even more than eighty percent of their dry rations.
The three tribes may still have the possibility of plundering elsewhere, but they don't have the ability to do so, and it will be a little difficult for them to even return to their respective tribes smoothly.
Chu Mu Kun Luolu's face was also ugly, and the two thousand men and horses he brought had also lost more than eight hundred, which had reached the point of breaking his muscles and bones.
It's a pity that the three major tribes didn't think about the anger of others and directly started withdrawing.
But at the very moment when the Turks as a whole were in retreat, a situation occurred that stunned everyone.
The gate of Toyosu was opened!