Chapter Eighty-Four: Originating from the Battlefield, No One Returns
When the golden cover of the Holy Son of Heaven appeared under the city of Youzhou, the whole army immediately cheered and shook the sky.
At that time, the thousands of tiger warriors who had just been selected received the wine bag in their hands immediately became the imperial gift of Zhuangxing wine that the Son of Heaven personally accompanied the drink, dozens of people took turns to drink a wine bag, and each turn to get the wine bag to the dead man in his hand, poured a sip of spirits, and then roared, "Break Youzhou!" Catch the lazy! ”
Obviously, the Liao queen who defended the city was lazy, in the minds of the Qi army, in addition to holding back the fire, she was also a little admired, just a woman, leading thousands of troops and horses, and being able to resist the onslaught of the heavenly soldiers for a few days, and capturing her alive became a great glory.
Lu Ning drank the wine of the entire wine bag and said loudly: "Today, you will break Youzhou!" ”
Thousands of troops and horses are jubilant in unison, and horses are neighing.
Countless flags were unfurled, and the black pressure soldiers all over the mountains were like dark clouds about to come.
At the head of Youzhou City, there was a tall girl, the snow robe of the Khitan noble, and the white velvet and velvet hat, which made her more pure and beautiful, looking at the tsunami-like cheers and shouts of the black pressure lineup of the Qi army under the city.
She sighed softly, "The emperor of the southerners has arrived!" It turned out that he was like this. ”
Her voice is also extremely soft and beautiful, like a yellow bird singing.
The attendants beside him, seeing the momentum of the Qi army, had already shaken in his heart, and his faces were solemn, and some of his eyes had already shown a look of uneasiness.
Although the Qi army seems to have shot out the huge cannonballs it carried, but its offensive has been fierce day by day, today, the rumored brave and unmatched, shooting the fierce general Yelu Xidi, the 30,000 elite horsemen of Yelu Xidi annihilated most of the Nanren Emperor, finally came.
And several zhang high, more than a zhang wide Youzhou City, the city wall is so strong, but also under the blasting and heavy artillery of the Qi army, collapsed out of the gap, there is a city wall, after the collapse yesterday has been less than two feet high, although the gap between each attack, the city has organized a large number of people to repair, with bricks and stones to plug the gap, but these days, the Qi army dared to die, and even with the rope flying claws can turn over to fight, because the collapse of the place, can no longer stand defenders.
Today, it was originally seen that the Qi army was going to be vigorous and must break the city, but the emperor of the Qi people also appeared under the city wall, and the cheers all over the mountains knew that the excitement of the Qi army had boiled to a certain critical point, and only with a bloody battle that was not afraid of death could it calm the turmoil in his heart.
"Da Ke Dun, Qi people are powerful, please change your outfit, I will fight to the death, and I will protect Da Ke Dun to escape!" One of the guards suddenly knelt down on one knee and kowtowed repeatedly.
The face of the beautiful girl immediately turned cold, "Cut it off for me, and the head will hang on the head of the city!" Those who abandon the city in vain will be killed! Raise my badge! Ordered all the troops, if the secluded capital is lost, the Heavenly Praise Holy Lord who is killing Qi people in the south will retreat! As long as you hold it for three more days, the Qi people will be defeated without a fight! ”
Some generals sighed in their hearts, can the tide of the battle really be reversed if they hold for three more days?
But at the moment, I dare not show it.
The guards who asked Queen Yi to flee from Youzhou kowtowed hard, did not beg for mercy, and said loudly: "The slave is guilty, and the slave is willing to die!" ”
Soon, at the head of Youzhou City, a human head was hung, and the lazy snow-white and pretty figure of Queen Liao knelt down and bowed a few times under it.
The wind is more urgent, and the mountain rain is coming.
The commander shouted early, "Da Kedun ordered the clansmen, fight to the death today!" Those who are afraid of the dead can go down to the city! ”
A clarion call spread throughout the four cities of Youzhou, and immediately, the Khitan language shook the sky everywhere.
It probably means, "Nine tents from afar, not afraid of death!" ”
"The three fathers' room of the horizontal tent are not afraid of death!"
"Uncle Babari, not afraid of death!"
"Room B is gone, not afraid of death!"
"Five Hospitals, not afraid of death!"
Most of these internal and external tribes, Yelu and the warriors of all tribes, each shouted their own names, brandished weapons, and their blood was boiling, all of them were one thought, today, just fighting to the death!
What about Qi people? What about the ghosts of the machines? Northland warriors, how can there be cowards?!
Unconsciously, these Khitan people, compared to when they came to the south, the perception of the aligned people has already changed the world.
Outside the city, the moment Lu Ning threw the wine bag to the ground, immediately, the sound of killing all over the mountains and fields shattered the sky, shattering the dark clouds like lead in the sky, causing the black pressure clouds to scatter, and slowly falling snowflakes.
"Kill!"
At the forefront were the Tiger Warriors, all of whom were chosen to die, and the target of their run was the city wall, half of which had collapsed and was now being repaired by masonry.
Rows of archers and crossbowmen followed, and soon, arrows from both sides rained down and flew all over the sky.
Lu Ning sat on a white horse, under the golden cover, and looked at his sons who were not afraid of death, one by one, they either took a wooden ladder or relied on various ropes and equipment, and bravely climbed the city.
Lu Ning didn't have any strength in his body, he felt his whole body ache when he moved, the corners of his eyes were wet, he could only watch the fierce battle at the head of the city, and watch his heroic sons fall to the ground one by one, or climb over, and be slaughtered in the battle.
It turns out that watching the battle from behind without witnessing the war is such a taste.
However, Lu Ning knew that today he didn't say that he was weak, that is, he had strength, and it was better to watch the battle, and it was good to take the lead to boost morale, and to supervise the battle in front of the battle formation was not another kind of trust and encouragement for his subordinates.
A tall figure suddenly appeared on the gap in the city wall.
It was Fan Yanzhao Fan Daring, the commander of the second battalion of the giant wood of the palace army, a giant man more than two meters tall, known for his bravery.
Lu Ning didn't even pay attention to today's Hujie stroke, and there was still him.
When I drank with him, my heart was stirring and unspeakable, and the faces of these thousands of sons and daughters seemed to be exactly the same, just like my dearest relatives.
The Khitan shooters on the city wall were gradually suppressed.
Even, the more than 100 heavy arquebuses of the small thunderbolt battalion in front of the palace were also erected under the city wall, and the Khitan shooters were fired, although the heavy arquebus barrel was as heavy as the old barrel, and the shooting speed was extremely slow, but the firing range was long, the accuracy was high, and the suppression of the Khitan shooters on the city wall near the gap was almost a natural advantage.
"Kill!"
More and more tigers climbed the city walls and jumped into the city.
The bricks and stones that blocked the gap were gradually cleared, and gradually, the city defense became lower and lower.
Faintly, I saw the city, the gap part, the flag emblem of the Queen of Liao.
Obviously, Yi lazy also personally went to the vicinity of this gap to supervise the battle.
"Kill!" The heavy armor guards waiting in the second row finally broke out into a roar, and the city defense was low enough for their bulky bodies to enter.
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Inside the city walls, hundreds of paces away, Yi Lazy's hand holding the saber gradually turned pale because of the excessive force.
The tragic fighting, in a radius of a few zhang near the gap, the first dead soldiers of the Qi people to rush in were almost the ones who came in to send them to death, they just tried their best to block, so that there was space behind them, so that more companions could jump in.
And with the increase in the corpses of the dead soldiers of the Qi army, there are more and more dead soldiers of the Qi army who desperately climb in, and there are more dead soldiers, who can free up their hands to remove the masonry at the gap, these masonry are reinforced with horizontal wooden blocks and clay caulking on both sides, and it is extremely difficult to remove them from the outer wall.
Even, if a dead man was stabbed by several spears, he would roar and walk a few steps forward, just to push the enemy forward by a few inches, so that there would be more room to climb into the back.
A giant man, turning in with a Mo knife, immediately cut down several opponents, and several giants, relying on each other's backs, struggling forward, in an instant, a large space appeared at the gap.
Subsequently, several giant men were knocked over by spears, but more Qi dead soldiers had already rushed in, and the bricks and stones were crackled and thrown over.
The giant man with the Mo knife stood up even more suddenly, the wounds on his body were bleeding, but he roared angrily, and the Mo knife in his hand once again cut down the enemies around him one by one.
Finally, at the gap, swarthy armor soldiers began to appear, and they climbed in extremely clumsily, but the appearance of each armor soldier, the sound of heavy steps, seemed to strike the death knell of the fate of the Khitan people.
"Whoosh", countless arrows shot from all directions, from the Khitan archers of the second line of defense on the surrounding houses.
They began to target the Qi dead soldiers to attack, and at this time they got the order, and they were all unscrupulous.
The indiscriminate rain of arrows, rushing in the front row of the Qi people light armor dead soldiers, many were shot over, the first batch of dead soldiers, all with shields to guard against arrows, the back climbed in, since it was already a melee with the enemy, most of the two-handed weapons, the Mo knife giant, a few steps, and finally fell, but this indiscriminate attack, so that the Khitan wolf teeth in the melee were also shot down countless times.
Qi people are heavily armoured, some of them were shot over, but more of them are waving Mo knives and moving forward.
At the gap, more and more Qi people and heavy armor soldiers also emerged.
"Kill!"
Outside the city, the sound of killing shook the sky again, and outside the gates of the four cities, the rushing convoy of the Qi army launched a charge at the same time, and the soldiers all over the sky poured up like a tide.
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Surrounded by guards, Yi lazy retreated to the middle street, and military reports from the four cities came from time to time.
Yi's lazy look, but gradually, relaxed.
Qi people, the focus of the attack is in the gap, but it is not in the gap, the defenders in the city, if a large number of troops are not deployed in the gap, the Qi people attack the gap, and now, the four city gates are attacked at the same time, that is, the gap in the city wall, killing the Qi people, where can the four cities withstand the onslaught of the Qi army?
"Da Kedun, in the direction of Xicheng, Qi is weak, and there is no sign of cavalry activity! His subordinates have already ordered someone to pick up the King of Wei who supervised the battle in Beicheng and the two sisters of Da Kedun in the Inner Palace. ”
A general hurried to say goodbye.
Obviously, the fall of Youzhou is a foregone conclusion, but the Qi army is attacking the city from all sides, and it is naturally impossible to cover everything.
In fact, when the Qi army just came to attack the city, the Khitan heavy cavalry came out to annihilate the Qi army in the field, but they didn't want to, not only was the Qi army's heavy armor battle array difficult to shake, but it was also hit by the Qi army's various firearms and frightened war horses suffered a big loss.
The Qi army's heavy cavalry and bow cavalry also had terrifying combat effectiveness.
As a result, the Khitan had to abandon the horse to defend the city, many of them were originally four elite iron cavalry, but they became guards guarding the city wall, and this battle was already more and more awkward.
After all, where did the Iron Cavalry of the Northern Regions fight this kind of city defense battle with a city wall several feet high and more than wide?
A few days ago, tens of thousands of elites came, looking at the Chinese character banner, it was the "Hedong Army" of the Qi people.
Today, he can only abandon the city, escort the evacuation of the Queen Yilazi, and the King of Wei, who guards the northern city, cannot afford to lose.
The king of Wei is Xiao Siwen, the father of the queen Yi lazy, who was named the king of Wei before the Liao lord's southern expedition, stayed behind in Nanjing, and knew the privy affairs of the Southern Yuan.
Originally, the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, the southerner Zhao Wang Gaoxun, was transferred to the shogunate of the inner tent, but in fact, he was beaten into the cold palace, and at the same time, because he was familiar with the affairs of the south, he accompanied the Liao lord to the south.
And the authority of the original Gao Xun was replaced by the national ruler Xiao Siwen.
After all, the Liao lord's personal conquest, Youzhou affairs, has become extremely important, and the Liao lord naturally needs the most trusted courtiers to control.
Yes, the Liao lord personally conquered, not only the queen accompanied the army, but Xiao Siwen's family also came south, but when they came south, I am afraid that they would never have thought that Nanjing Youdu Mansion would have a day when the city would be broken.
Yi lazy bowed his head slightly, and sighed softly, "God praise the Holy Lord, I don't know how!" I'm ashamed of him. ”
The generals were silent immediately, the Youdu Mansion fell, and Emperor Tianzan was no matter how big the advantage was, even if he captured Bianjing, he could only retreat now.
"Da Ke Dun, Qi people are cunning, there must be fraud in Xicheng, please also ask Da Ke Dun to lead us and others to raid the North Road."
The one who spoke was a young general, but no one dared to ignore his opinion, he was the right skin room and the steady Yelu Hugh, not very old, but he had long been known as the "Gongfu Vessel", his grandfather was Yelu Shilu, the king of Sui, and his father was Yelu Si, the former king of the Southern Courtyard.
He himself, who had long shown great military talent, was a genius-like figure.
On the north road and the east road, the Qi army must focus on defense, and the west road is to surprise out, and finally, it will turn to Jizhou, Luanzhou and other places in the northeast to gather military horses, and wait for Emperor Tianzan to retreat.
Yes, the Qi army's defense in the direction of Xicheng is weaker, which seems to be normal.
But Yelu Hugo's words made everyone nod their heads again and again, and the truth is the truth, which is the usual trick of the southerners.
"Cangqiao in the city, let's light the fire?" And Jerod said again.
All the generals were stunned again, but this guy had already planned for the worst, and even the granaries and warehouses were afraid that they had all set up fires.
Yi lazy bowed slightly.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, flying all over the sky like goose feathers, and it is another cold compared to the fine grains blowing on the face.