Chapter 43: The Hall of Jerod

"Iron three hundred to press the formation!"

"What are you doing?"

"Charge!"

"I remember that my Hami military regulations strictly forbade the coach to rush into battle!"

"Meng Yuanzhi has done it!"

"Oh, don't you compare yourself to a madman, okay?"

"Are you saying that Meng Yuanzhi's martial arts are higher than mine, so he can charge into battle, but my martial arts are not as high as his, and he will die when he rushes into battle?"

Ah Da has changed a lot now, and a few years ago, it would have been better to kill him if he had told such a joke. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the end, Tiehuo still refused Ah Da's request, and in Hami Country, everyone has his duty.

Iron Fire has left his position, and someone needs to fill his position, and he can't find the right one yet.

In the end, Ah Da chose the experienced Tie 300 to take on the task of frontal feint, and the military affairs he assigned to Tie 300 were very simple, and he had to make Yelu Shengtang, who was guarding the exit of the desert, think that the army was all in front of him.

For this reason, Ah Da left the camel and the baggage team, his handsome flag, and all the large and small military flags to Tie 300.

Ah Da believes that the Iron 300 will be able to meet his expectations.

3,000 people have to be dressed up as 20,000 people, this task is very difficult, and without a person who knows the roots to lead, Ah Da is not at ease at all.

Under his command, although many captains are also good, such as the captain named Xia Dongcheng, he did a good job when he was in Loulan.

Even if Xia Dongcheng was eager to take over this military affairs, he was rejected by Ah Da, and it would take time for him to take on the heavy responsibility.

Four hours after General Ah left, Tie 300 ordered the army to advance slowly towards the desert pass, and it would be good if he could take advantage of the short darkness before dawn to get closer to the pass military fortress.

It turned out that the Khitans had long been on guard, and the army carefully groped their way forward in the dark, and even if they were careful, they were still discovered by the vigilant Khitan rangers.

The ranger on his horse had just blown his horn when the sound of the horn was cut off by the dense crossbow arrows of the Hami army.

Although the sound of the horn was short, it still aroused the ideas of the rest of the Khitan rangers.

The Iron 300 Department had just approached the thirty-mile sentinel circle of the Khitans, and the trumpets sounded one after another on the edge of the desert where the sand dunes gradually became gentle.

The hiding was exposed, and the iron three hundred were no longer concealed, and at the sound of an order, the vanguard cavalry in the front stepped on their war horses and attacked the pass blocking the desert like waves.

"Enemy attack!"

The defenders of the pass roared, and threw the torches into the pyre that had been prepared long ago, and a dark pillar of smoke immediately rose into the air, unusually conspicuous in the morning light.

The vanguard of the front had just set foot on the hard yellow earth, and the blow of the Khitans came as promised.

A black cloud rose above the city, and after an arc in mid-air, it shrouded the Hami army that was frantically attacking.

The arrows rained down, and the feathered arrows that had climbed to the extreme fell into the military formation with strong kinetic energy.

The first to suffer were the spare horses that had no protection, and the feathered arrows pierced their heads, necks, and bodies mercilessly, and the horses stumbled with neighing and stumbling under their feet, and then slammed into the ground.

At the same time, the feathered arrow also landed on the Hami soldier, and the feathered arrow slashed a spark across the armor, and then fell weakly to the ground.

The cavalry, dressed in armor and holding a shield in one arm, continued to assault, and they all protected the gunpowder bags hanging from their chests, and if they could throw them under the city walls, the pass would be taken down.

There were more and more soldiers on the city, and the archers who were still shooting just now had begun to shoot flat, and the arrows were like locusts......

Fortunately, the war started too suddenly, and the Hami cavalry almost arrived at the pass together with the Khitan rangers.

At this time, at the head of the city, only some low-ranking officers were resisting spontaneously step by step, and the first pass that Yelu Shengtang had built for a long time had not yet exerted his greatest power.

The archery skills of the Khitans were very good, and the Hami cavalry constantly fell off their horses, and before he could stand up, he was trampled into pulp by the crazy war horses.

"Don't fall off your horse no matter what!" This is the first lesson that every cavalryman takes in the army.

A horn sounded at the head of the city, and this time, the military orders at the head of the city would be unified, and the Khitan feathered arrows would no longer dodge the rangers who were running back, and began to charge impenetrable

The iron three hundred nails standing under the handsome flag were all clutched into the flesh, bloody but unaware, just roaring loudly to cheer for Erlang.

If the city wall can be blown up in this wave of attacks, although there are only 3,000 people, Tie 300 can also take the opportunity to seize the desert pass, so that the Khitans mistakenly think that this is the main direction of attack of the Hami army.

For this reason, he even gave up using long-range weapons to protect the attacking soldiers.

The most important thing in this battle is the suddenness of ......

When it was near, the city pass was in front of them, and the remaining Hami cavalry shouted and threw the gunpowder bag in their arms, seeing the gunpowder bag piled up under the city, and there were sparks shining brightly in the gunpowder bag.

The leader of the team was about to turn their horses' heads and leave this place of death, but in despair, they found that a large splash of water poured down from the city, and the sparks that were still shining just now were extinguished without exception.

The gunpowder bag is waterproof, but unfortunately, the fuse on it is not, just when these knights are about to risk blowing up the explosive bag with gunpowder bombs, a thick crossbow bolt flew from behind, accurately landed in the gunpowder bag pile, and each crossbow bolt exploded into a large area of fire as soon as it landed.

"Haha, let's go." The team roared, seeing that the Khitans at the head of the city were in chaos, he was extremely psychologically satisfied, and he was even in the mood to put a rope around the foot of a comrade who died in battle when retreating, dragging him back from the battlefield.

The familiar sound of thunder exploded behind him, followed by a fierce wind that pushed him and his horse forward.

Fist-sized clods of dirt, stones, fell on the body, and the armor slammed into the armor with a clatter.

The city wall collapsed, but Tie Sanbai did not have a smile on his face, he did not expect that behind the collapsed city wall, there was actually an urn city.

An urn city is nothing to the Hami army, they have enough gunpowder and are completely capable of blowing the urn city into ruins.

What really surprised Tie Sanbai was that no one in the Hami Army knew about the existence of Urn City.

Just a small border village gave such a big surprise to the Hami people, it is difficult to say how many things they don't know about the Dawang Mansion of Zhupu.

Tie 300 tried hard to drive this bad idea out of his head, and continued to order the cavalry to be retracted, the eight bull crossbows stepped forward, the ballistas stepped forward, and the sappers in the army began to dig tunnels beyond the range of the Khitans' bows and arrows.

These practices are the standard operating procedures of the Hami army during the siege of the city, and with the protection of tunnels, the rain of arrows with great lethality will lose their effect.

The tunnel does not need to be deep, it is enough to accommodate one person to bend forward, one person raises a shield to defend itself, and three people go hand in hand to dig the tunnel, although the yellow earth at the edge of the desert is porcelain, but it has turned into tofu under the shovel of Hami sappers.

Seeing the Hami people's tunnels advancing at a speed visible to the naked eye, Yelu Shengtang, who was standing on the urn city, turned pale with a dead face.

He had few means of defense, the most useful being the bow and arrow, which was also the most powerful weapon of the Khitans.

Mu Xin, who was standing beside him, had a look of envy on his face, the Hami people had passed three incense sticks since they suddenly appeared in battle, and in this short period of time, their offensive wave had not stopped for a moment.

The same team is already much stronger than Loulan City, and even gives Mu Xin a sense of order.

From the very beginning of the war, the Hami people have been tough on the side of the attack, and once the attack has begun, they will not give the enemy a moment of respite.

"Elder, how should we deal with it, if the Hami people are allowed to dig the lanes under the city, the urn city will not be protected."

Yelu Shengtang, who had never experienced a heat weapon war, could not hide his fear of gunpowder weapons at all.

At his feet, there were scattered corpses that had been blown up by gunpowder, and if it weren't for the fact that Musin behaved very indifferently, he would have fled long ago.

Mu Xin smiled, pushed away the giant shield guarding him, patted the battlements at the head of the city and said with a smile: "King, it's time to send infantry to clean up those pesky digging bugs." ”

Yelu Shengtang's face turned blue and looked at the crossbow spears flying in the sky and said, "This ......"

Musin laughed: "Do you think that if you don't send people out, these crossbow guns won't kill people?" Look at the samurai you guard at the front, how many are left? ”

Yelu Shengtang gritted his teeth and looked at his subordinates guarding the city, who were shot down by crossbow spears like birds on the branches, shook his head and said, "As long as we delay the time and wait for the arrival of the captain, we can't attack easily." ”

Mu Xin smiled and said, "Do you really see it that way? ”

Yelu Shengtang said: "Since the Hami people want this walled city, I will defend it until there is nothing to defend it."

We still have three such walled cities, which is enough for us to delay for three days, and we can't damage the limited number of people here. ”

Mu Xin put his hand on the pergola and looked at Tie Sanbai from a distance a mile away, shook his head and said: "You think too easily, if Tie Xinyuan is so easy to be blocked by you and let you achieve your goal, he is not Tie Xinyuan."

You only have to take a closer look at the military formation on the opposite side to understand that there are only a few Hami here, and you can tell me, where are the rest of the Hami? ”

Yelu Shengtang's face changed miserably, and he immediately ordered his troops to continue to hold on to the walled city, and once it was no longer feasible, he would retreat to the second walled city, and no matter what, he would drag this army to the edge of the desert, otherwise the whole clan would become a slave to the barbarians.

Musin silently descended the wall, mounted his war horse with the help of Aradan, and left the city in silence after the panicked departure of Yelu Shengtang.

Mu Sing was not surprised by this result, Yelu Shengtang was not a person worthy of help in the first place.

The reason why he would help Yelu Shengtang was that he only wanted to keep the food and supplies he had stored over the years.

As long as these things are still there, Xiao Xiaomu will continue to fight fiercely with Tie Xinyuan, and as for Yelu Shengtang, who is now worried about his family, he really has no interest in even taking a second look.