Chapter 194: Zhanyang Pass One
Hearing the shout, Yang Shuang hurriedly turned around.
saw Qi Guoyuan's whole person buried in the mountain of meat, only showing his red face, red ears, and almost purple head, wailing desperately.
Although the strength of this thing was far beyond ordinary people, due to the rain of arrows on both sides of the battle shield, he did not dare to struggle greatly, so he could not escape.
It's miserable!
Yang Shuang shuddered.
Ma Dan, worthy of being a princess, this thousand catties of pendant is so natural, even the giant hammer with a diameter of one meter has been flattened!
"Phew! Wicked woman, don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't dare to beat a woman because he is a man! ”
"Men? Are you a man? Hugh's wild words, if you are a man, you will kill the old lady in a way! For the first time, Princess Qianjin felt the benefits of being fat and strong, and even her bald and fierce subordinates were abused to death.
Cool!
Looking at the writhing figure, Yang Shuang couldn't help but close his eyes.
This scene is so hot!
"Big brother!"
At this moment, in the passage formed by the shield, Shi Da bent down and ran.
"What's wrong?"
"After our main force moved to Shanshan City, all the weapons built by Ma Mitu were transported. Although the sentry cavalry was sent to inform Dong Da Hammer to prepare for the northern Turks, but if it continues to be consumed like this, the arrows prepared by our 2,000 people cannot compare to the Turks at all. With the addition of Tuyuhun, their strength is as high as 70,000 or 80,000, even if each person is equipped with ten feather arrows, that is 780,000, and we only have less than 100,000! ”
"Where's the bed crossbow?"
"Two hundred, ten rounds can be fired!"
"Trebuchet?"
"Ninety units, capable of firing twenty rounds!"
Yang Shuang pondered.
At the beginning, it was conceived that the Turks would go north, and the idea of fighting was to feed the war with war, and to capture the enemy's baggage to replenish their own consumption.
But now it is different, the battle to defend the city is about logistics, and on the premise that the pass is not breached, which side will run out of ammunition and food first, and which side will passively fail.
"It's not good to be brutal, you have to think of a good way to break the enemy quickly!"
"Yes, big brother, why don't you go out of the city tonight to kill their sharpness?"
Yang Shuang thought about it and rejected the proposal.
Now it is not as good as before in Bison Gully, the sand sea outside Yangguan is vast, and the night attack is impossible to hide.
Moreover, once it fails, it will be impossible to return to the pass, otherwise the seventy or eighty thousand troops will rush up, and there will be no time for the city gate to close.
Unless you win, this is the best choice!
"What about us?"
"Let's talk about the past and today, they may be in a hurry now than us!"
Apo was indeed in a hurry, and even burned his eyebrows.
After breaking through the defense of the Western Liang Sui army, the Turkic soldiers and horses lost their baggage supplies, he thought about it at the beginning, but if Yang Shuang was captured alive, the legendary King Wei, everything would not be a problem!
But now that Yang Shuang has escaped, he is still hiding in the pass and not coming out, seeing that the plan is about to be ruined and the forage is about to run out, can he not be in a hurry?
But he still suppressed his anxiety in the depths of his heart, and with a face full of grief, he summoned the Murong brothers and prepared to set up.
"Two virtuous nephews, the eldest nephew's revenge can't be avenged, let's catch up eagerly, there is not much grain and grass to carry, we must fight quickly! Since this matter was caused by me, the first battle of the attack was naturally carried out by the warriors on the prairie first! After Apo finished speaking, his face was full of grief and indignation, "Pity my eldest nephew, who died miserably with several arrows in his body!" Revenge, this revenge is not revenge, not a man! There are only 2,000 people in Yang Shuang in the Guan, and I want to conquer Yangguan in one fell swoop and cut this thief with a thousand knives!! ”
"Apo Khan's intentions, my two brothers have understood it, since Yang Shuang can't come out of retreat, let my elite try how he conquers the Western Regions!" Murong Yong ignored the third brother who was pulling his armor behind him, picked up the big gun and went straight out of the tent.
Soon, 5,000 Tuyuhun cavalry went straight to the Dang River, ready to cut down trees and consign them to make siege equipment.
Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning, the Turks were still firing.
Maybe yesterday was too much consumption, but today they didn't take turns pouring feather arrows.
Yang Shuang's golden knife sat in the gate tower of the pass city, waiting for the other party to attack the city.
According to the law since ancient times, the best time to attack a city is not in the morning or afternoon, but in the middle of the day and in the evening.
First, the soldiers defending on the city wall were already a little tired after half a day of exhaustion, and their extremely tense minds and bodies were already a little tired.
Second, Yangguan is located in the north, and the scorching sun is in the sky at noon, and the dazzling light will bring some convenience to the besieging side.
The most important thing is not to let the enemy army be prepared and guess your intentions and the time of the siege.
The serious lack of physical strength before and after eating is not only known to future people.
Therefore, the Turks buried their meals at five o'clock (10:15), rested for three quarters of an hour, and attacked the city at noon (11 o'clock).
According to Apo and Murong Yong's understanding, at this time, the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions who did not know the plan were estimated to be close to lunchtime.
When the siege begins, how will they have time to eat?
Siege trilogy: feints consume city defense materials, round attacks consume enemy soldiers' physical strength, and finally the whole army storms!
Yangguan is built on sand hills, and the rolling sand dunes set off its imposing atmosphere.
In terms of appearance alone, the majesty is not as good as the eleventh or twelfth of Yumen Pass.
But this is for outsiders!
In the eyes of the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions, Yangguan is the first Xiongguan in the Western Regions and Dunhuang.
It is higher than the Yumen Pass, wider than the North Pass, more dangerous than the North Tianshan Pass, and the defense power is the nameless pass that crushes Shule and blocks the Silk Road.
Because behind it, there is the Yangguan Ancient Road that cannot be seen at a glance!
There is a river that has just been dug by the Western Turkic captives, connecting the Styx River with the Danghe, forming an agricultural and animal husbandry 'development zone' around Dunhuang.
There are also thousands of private houses here, and this is a village for the families of the rebels in the Central Plains!
There are also four horse farms, two near the River Dang and two near the River Styx.
To put it bluntly, the triangle formed by the three points of Yangguan, Yumen Pass and Dunhuang will become the revival point of the Xiliang Silk Road, and rely on each other with another agricultural and animal husbandry base in the Turpan Basin.
It's not that Yang Shuang is greedy, but some vegetation needs to be divided into areas for planting!
Ah Bo didn't know all this, and the Murong brothers wouldn't know about it.
Therefore, as soon as noon came, Murong Yong took the lead in preparing to attack the city with 5,000 vanguards.
Twenty freshly erected ladders were each surrounded by hundreds of people, ready to be built to the 300-meter-long wall at the first time.
This time, there is no pre-battle fighter, and there is no dialogue between the main generals.
Tuyuhun waved the flag, and the thousands of brave men at the front of the siege team moved.
At the same time, the Turkic iron cavalry roared, cheering around the sides.
"Shoot!"
Airplanes!
The rain of arrows was not the same as before, but covered it like a swarm of bees.
The sword and shield soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, once again spliced the shields into a "greenhouse", while the archers took out the feathered arrows that had been simply repaired by the enemy yesterday and began to return fire.
Bang!
The heavy ladder leaned against the middle of the battlements with a loud and dull sound.
The nearby sword and shield soldiers picked up the push rod and shouted to overturn the ladder, and now it was just the beginning, and when the enemy soldiers gathered under the city wall, it was time for the wood and stone to exert their might.
After a stalemate for half a day, three ladders were finally fixed to the city wall.
Below, the Tuyuhun soldiers wearing leather helmets and huge shields in their hands scrambled to climb up.
"Wolf tooth slap!"
With a shout, several large square planks pulled by ropes and staggered to the head of the city were lowered to the wall.
The upward-facing side of these strange things is extremely flat, while the downward-facing side is nailed with more than a dozen rows of long-sized fanged iron cones!
Placed horizontally at the top of the ladder, the soldier who raised his shield and wanted to climb up immediately numbly clawed.