6. The fall of Nagasawa Prison

At this time, the fog has not dissipated, the infantry of the Yining Army quickly gathered and formed a "battle Chen", more than a dozen feet of crow's neck is like a forest to the outside, and the rest of the infantry bent down to hold boring palladium and long knives, sandwiched in the gap between the formations, and the entire battalion of the Yining Army suddenly became a "barrier" with countless weapons, across the city Zeyuan.

Yuan Hui's cavalry brigade stepped forward, and the clash of archery in turn continued, and the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

Originally, Yuan Hui thought that the cavalry stepped forward, and a few rounds of charges could tear a hole in the infantry defense line, and then let the more elite cavalry pass through, and the other party would be the end of the collapse of the whole line.

This is the experience of centuries of war.

But now after nearly two hours of fighting, Yuan Hui under the battle flag saw that the Tang Army infantry on the opposite side was like an "iron wall cast by ice water", they were divided into dozens of people, drums, gongs and horns sounded, and when the party cavalry rushed over, these Tang soldiers scattered and reunited like an ant colony, forming a spear wall to block the route of the party's charge; When the party cavalry retreated, the Tang soldiers' sword players, crossbowmen, and palladium boring hands jumped out, made a short counterattack, killed the party members who had no time to retreat, threw down their corpses, and then seized their horses.

In the fog, the city of Changze Prison was still out of reach.

The infantry of the four or five thousand Yining Army actually stuck to the tens of thousands of Pingxia Party cavalry.

Seeing that the Tang army did not join the cavalry ranks, Yuan Hui became more and more anxious.

At this time, at the fortress of Nagasawa Prison, a fierce battle was also unfolding.

The one who sticks to Changze is Yuan Hui's own uncle, Tuoba Shou Covenant, which was recently renamed Yuan Yue.

Gao Chongwen, Luo Yuanguang and Kang Rizhi personally stood on the opposite mountain, their feet were full of arrows shot from the city by the party, and they commanded the soldiers of the two armies to desperately climb the city wall and attack.

After all, Gao Qihou gave a death order: the siege equipment cannot be transported for the time being, but Changze must take it, and the goal of the decisive army is this, even if it is lightly armed, I have to gnaw down this stronghold!

The crossbowmen of the Shence Army, in accordance with the teaching crossbow method in the "Divine Mechanism Enemy Taibai Yin Sutra", are: the left wing queue all stand "T-shaped steps", when the central ones all stand "eight-shaped steps", the left and right hands are covered with anti-freeze and waterproof leather, and the mouth constantly exhales a group of white gas, beware of constantly pulling the crossbow teeth, raising the crossbow head high, reincarnation, Zhang and comeback, shooting and re-entering, Zhang Zhan threw a rain of arrows at Changze City, covering it.

After the crossbow shooting stopped, the other foot soldiers with long guns, clubs, and swords, took the ladder and went up, and launched a fierce attack on the four walls of Changze City without stopping.

Fortunately, when the decisive army was attacking, it received the intimate assistance of the soldiers of the Shuofang army, and the two armies fought side by side regardless of you and me.

By the afternoon, three walls of Changze had been occupied by the Tang army, and Yuan Yue led hundreds of Ding Zhuang, backed by a corner of the northwest corner of the castle, and set up a temporary horse barrier with sharpened wooden spears, still fighting hard, and never surrendered.

Gao Chongwen ordered the eastern, western, and southern gates of Changze City to be smashed and opened, and then the armor soldiers of the Shence Army poured in and launched a squeezing attack on the party soldiers in a corner, while the crossbowmen squatted on the city wall, condescending to shoot at the recalcitrant party below.

By evening, the sounds of the battle had fallen silent.

In the northwest corner of Changze City, Yuan Yue opened his eyes angrily, more than 30 arrows were hit in his chest, neck, and limbs, and his right hand was still holding the sword tightly, and the blood was bubbling out along the groove of the crossbow arrows, and the goose feathers of the arrows were bubbling out, and they had already flowed into a depression, and his clansmen and soldiers around him were holding each other, hugging each other, huddled together around Yuan Yue, and the corpses were overlapping with weapons, some were poked to death by spears, some were killed by arrows, and some looked out, within a radius of 100 steps, the pillows were piled up with the corpses of the party members, almost half the height of the city wall, all of them died of struggle, None surrendered.

After the war, Gao Chongwen ordered fifty calf carts to be transferred from the barracks to pull the corpses of the party items, and it took seven or eight trips to pull them before it was finished. The two sections of the northwest section of the city wall of Changze Prison, the original rammed earth was red yellow, soaked in blood, the wind and rain, not only could not take the color, but became deeper and deeper, the Tang army soldiers could only destroy it and re-burn the earth to build.

After the fall of Changze City, on the battlefield of Ichizawahara, Yuan Hui's team still couldn't break through the battle of the Yining Army.

Yuan Hui was more and more uncertain the more he fought, so he could only retreat from Mingjin and retreat to Wuyan City.

The Yining Army sent out three battalions to bite Yuan Hui's cavalry, while the other brigade infantry changed formations, and it seemed that there was still room for them, preparing to join forces with other Tang troops, looking like they were coming to attack Wuyan.

In this battle, Yuan Hui's fighting spirit was shattered.

When he retreated in panic, Yuan Hui began to have a frenzied superstitious conjecture: he even thought that the original name of Pingxia was unlucky, and he took a country name called "Xia", Pingxia, Pingxia, doesn't it mean that Xia was flattened? No wonder, defeated again and again, lost Liuboling and Shiling all the way, and immediately left only the seat of the Ten Thousand Cities.

At dusk of that day, the Pingxia party members, exhausted and suffering heavy casualties, rode back to the city of Wuyan and prepared to set up a fence to rest.

In the fog that still did not dissipate, the three battalions of the Nayining Army who followed Yuan Hui were also separated from the left, center and right wings, monitoring Wuyan City from afar.

More than 1,000 Tang soldiers were so arrogant, more than 1,000 steps away, and they were fearlessly arrayed in front of more than 10,000 party items.

But Yuanhui had no choice but to let everyone dismount, and together with the defenders of Wuyan City, they began to feed the war horses and cook the food - Qingtianzi looked at the desert wasteland in the west melancholy, and Changze City in the fog, and there has been no news from there so far, his uncle and all the city soldiers must have been more than lucky.

The middle road of Baiyu Mountain, the south entrance is Luzi Pass, the north entrance is Wuyan City, the north and south pass through about 90 miles, even if it is the stagecoach of the Tang government, you can walk from south to north in a day and a half.

In addition, Wuyan-Naiwangjing is the gateway to the west of Tongwan City, and Yuan Hui is determined to defend this place, not to let the Tang army easily take it, otherwise the entire Xia people will have no room to maneuver and survive.

When night fell, the entire city of Wuyan was engulfed in white snow and mist, and the visibility was very low. The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom at the head of the city hung the brazier with the ointment with ropes and hung it halfway up the city wall to illuminate the inside and outside of the city.

Wuyan City was very small, and Yuan Hui let most of the cavalry rest in the area between the city wall and the wooden fence, which was nothing for the Xia people who were accustomed to nomadic herding in the desert and grassland.

However, soon in the fog, the sound of horses' hooves was heard.