Chapter 202: Mountains of Corpses and Sea of Blood
The time passed, and it was past noon.
40,000 against 20,000, Apo's surprise attack on Tuyuhun came quickly and ended quickly.
Except for the thousands of soldiers and horses that the Murong brothers gathered and took away at an urgent moment, the rest were all captured.
What worries Yang Shuang is that Tuyuhun's baggage seems to have been fully accepted by Apo.
In this way, the battle of Yangguan still has to continue!
Really.
After the victory, the Turkic army did not rest much and came to Yangguan again.
At the forefront of the siege army, there were more than 10,000 Tuyuhun soldiers who had just been captured.
These people were still wearing their original armor and holding their original weapons, but they had changed their generals and factions.
Deterred by the Turkic iron cavalry with bows and arrows, they raised the ladders one after another, and slowly leaned towards the city wall.
Yang Shuang's face was a little ugly.
Apo's battle can be called killing two birds with one stone, which can not only alleviate the Turkic baggage crisis, but also use prisoners as cannon fodder to consume the materials that are also in short supply on their own side.
Bang bang bang!
There were several muffled sounds, and a large number of ladders were erected next to the wall battlements.
No matter how much the Tuyuhun captives grinded, they still came to the city wall after all.
In their hearts, they had to work hard and climb up quickly under the persecution of the defenders' bows and arrows, wolf fangs, and rolling stones.
Because this is war, no matter how you want to do it, since you are here, there are only two ways to go, either die or live.
"Kill !!"
The battle shields are dense, and the feathers and arrows are flying.
When the two sides were bloody, the Tuyuhun captives seemed to have forgotten their current identity, and changed from the previous passivity to the fierce fearlessness of death.
Life passes so much that it seems that human life is no longer human life, but just a consumable.
Therefore, when the 10,000 captives of Tuyuhun completed their role, the Turkic soldiers and horses also joined the siege sequence.
Yangguan turned into a meat grinder at this moment.
The two armies fought fiercely from the scorching sun to the setting sun.
"Report! General, run out of arrows! ”
"Report! There is a lot of loss of the horizontal knife of the curling blade, even if it is sharpened, it cannot be supplied! ”
"Report! Nearly half of the battle shield is broken! ”
"Report! There are 1,100 sabers and shield soldiers left, and 500 casualties in the far reaches of the Qi country! ”
After drinking a few sips of Liangbai Kai transported from the Yangguan Ancient Road, Yang Shuang stood beside the wall with a pestle knife, listening to one urgent report after another.
Under the city, the corpses have been stacked to a height of two meters, which is the inevitable result of the absence of a moat.
"How long will it take for the horse to arrive? Doggy's Dong sledgehammer! "The feather arrows and crossbow arrows that were supposed to be sent in the early morning did not arrive, which made Yang Shuang a little irritable.
Could it be that the Yongfeng camp and the Styx camp have been lost? Your own baggage team was taken away by the old man of Sha Boluo?
"Report! General, the sentry cavalry came to report, the horse is lost and the reinforcements are still fifty miles away from Yangguan! ”
"Reinforcements? Where did Zhou Lao Wu and Dong Da Hammer find reinforcements? "Yiwu is six hundred meters away from Ma Lost, even if a simple road is built, it will take three days to arrive at the earliest, and there are not many Yiwu war horses, it is impossible to ride a number of people, gallop day and night, so Liu Lingbu also needs five days to arrive at Ma Lost at the earliest, and when they come here through Yumen Pass, it is estimated that it will be seven days later.
"General Huiyu, it is Ma Lao Er and Wang Lao Er who follow the dart bureau to sell salt, and the rangers plus the dart master and salt worker, a total of 3,000 people!"
Yang Shuang was stunned for a moment, and then woke up.
Autumn is high and cool, and in a few months, the Tianshan Mountains, the Pamir Plateau, and the large and small Kunlun will be covered by heavy snow, and these two smugglers are coming back to replenish the goods!
"Show all the flags, and let the sons and daughters shout together that reinforcements are coming!"
It's important to boost your morale, but it's more about hitting the enemy.
Soon, brand new flags hung on both sides of the city gate building, and the tired sword and shield soldiers and bandits were again in good spirits.
The noisy battlefield, which was originally only the sound of knives and guns, was soon drowned out by cheers.
It's like two people who are wrestling their wrists are in a stalemate, exerting each other's physical strength, and one of them suddenly convulses and exerts his strength to feed, and immediately catches the other party off guard.
Ah Po, who was standing in the military formation like a sculpture, hurriedly looked up at the pass, listening to the cheers, and a trace of disappointment flashed in the corners of his eyes.
"Collect the troops and fight again tomorrow!"
Woooooo
Everyone needs to rest, especially the drudgery of siege, which no one wants to face.
Returning to the camp, Apo couldn't help but touch the scar on his face, thinking of the clansmen who died tragically at the hands of Sha Boluo, and the exhaustion of his whole body instantly turned into nothing, replaced by hatred and persistence.
"How many walls are there in Yangguan?"
"Hui Khan, almost three feet! However, the corpses are piled up, and now they are as high as a few feet, and it only takes two feet to make a ladder at present! ”
"Azha, gallop on horseback, can you jump up?"
After cutting off his little finger, the man who cut off half of his ear lowered his head and thought about it, "If there is no enemy to stop you, insert the weapon into the city wall, and then rely on the ladder to borrow the strength to jump, it should be possible!" ”
"What about you?" Awa looked at the fierce generals sitting around him.
"Back to the Khan, according to General Aza's method, you can!"
"Excellent, early tomorrow morning, you will attack with me and conquer Yangguan in one fell swoop!"
"No! Khan, it's enough for me to wait for this, so why bother you to risk it again! Aza hurriedly stopped Awa's crazy thoughts.
What are you kidding, you don't seem to charge except for a bit of brute force.
Carried away by hatred, Apo sneered, "Then there are brothers Lao!" ”
"But, Khan, there's a suggestion from my subordinates that I don't know if I should talk about?"
"Say!"
"Yang Shuang's reinforcements have arrived, but there can't be too many, at most it is the defenders of Yumen Pass, and the damn brute of Sha Boluo moved west, Dunhuang, Yongfeng Camp, Styx Camp, the defenders of these three places will definitely not dare to come!"
"What do you mean?"
"The morale of the Yangguan guards has been greatly boosted, it is better to ask Yang Shuang to come out and fight, let's wait"
Apo shook his head, his face a little ugly, "Have you forgotten what happened before?" ”
The generals bowed their heads and remained silent.
At the beginning of the battle of the Styx, Apo was captured, but there were two fierce generals in the Sui army who rushed to kill in the military formation, and later killed several evil gods, dozens of famous generals were not only unstoppable, but also killed nearly half.
Aza shook his head and said: "Khan, have you forgotten that fighting with the Sui army is not to challenge the opponent's generals, but to fight against soldiers!" ”
Apo froze, "What do you mean?" ”
"Enemies and friends each send out a hundred, or a thousand, the winner will be according to Yangguan, and the loser will retreat!"
Apo Moran didn't want to say yes in his heart.
"If you really make a rule, when you are defeated, you will have no chance to conquer Yangguan, how can you return to the prairie? Moreover, if Yang Shuang is defeated, will he really let out Yangguan? ”
"Hey, hey!" Aza smiled coldly, "Khan, don't you know who Yang Shuang returned to the Western Regions with?" ”
"With whom?" Apo asked curiously.
"From the letters left by Murong Yong, his subordinates inadvertently saw that in the early part of this year, Liang Shiyan and Liu rebelled in the Central Plains, and the Sui Emperor was unwilling to kill tens of thousands of rebels, so he exiled them thousands of miles to the Western Regions!"
Aza paused and continued: "The Hexi Corridor was closed because of the slight southward movement of the sand bowl, and it is impossible for these rebels and their families to pass through there again, so they will go to Longmen Canyon like Yang Shuang!" ”
Po stood up suddenly, "Is this true?!" ”
"Send a sentry to investigate, and you'll find out if it's true or not!"
"Haha!" Apo looked up to the sky and laughed, "The wolf god is above, if you catch these people, you can threaten Yang Shuang!" ”