Chapter 116 recaptures the mouth of the Yanchuan River

To a limited extent, to help Da Song is a decision made by Tie Xinyuan after careful consideration. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew that for Hami, Da Song was like the sun, if he couldn't make his own voice, do what he had to do, and follow the path he needed to take, the final result would only be to be a planet orbiting the sun.

Ouyang Xiu and all the officials of the Great Song Dynasty did this job, otherwise, why would they put all their efforts into the barren Hami?

For that bit of silver?

This may have an effect on those officials, and using something like silver to measure people like Ouyang Xiu is an insult to the real scholars of the Great Song Dynasty.

Who is the most familiar outsider in this world with Qingtang?

There is no doubt that it is Li Qiao.

In this land, he grew from a relative who was humiliated everywhere to a truly respected Qingtang general.

The process in the middle is arduous and very bloody.

As a Qingtang general, he knows the place of Yanchuankou better than anyone else.

Time advanced forward three hundred and sixty years, and in the powerful Tang Dynasty, Su Dingfang, the super fierce general of the empire, was defeated here......

Sixteen years later, Li Yuanhao's 160,000 army also had to return to the Western Xia mainland after leaving nearly 30,000 corpses in this place.

These two wars are just two waves in the ancient memory of Yeonkawaguchi, where the cliffs are barren with no grass, rocks and canine teeth, and it is not a suitable place for large armies to fight.

Although Fu Bi is a civil official, his vision is extremely vicious, and he has been preparing for the battle for Yanchuankou as early as when he was in Lintao.

It's a pity that the more west the Qing Tang people are, the greater their support for blind felt, and the tricks used by the literati such as rebellion have limited effect.

In particular, the big ghost who guarded Yanchuankou not only killed the envoys of the Song State who came to lobby with his own hands, but also wore all the Song merchants who passed through Yanchuankou alive on wooden stakes.

Yang Huaiyu's three attacks on Yanchuankou ended in failure, even if more than 6,000 catties of fierce fire oil burned in Yanchuankou for three days, the fire once hit the city wall, and the big ghost still fought to the death.

"The ...... that should be thrown into the city pass should be thrown into the city"

Yang Huaiyu shook his head and said: "The big ghost has prepared a lot of yellow sand, and the fierce fire oil thrown into the city will be extinguished soon, and the effect is not obvious." ”

Tie Dan sighed secretly in his heart, there was still a big difference between the fierce fire oil used by the Great Song Dynasty and the fierce fire oil used by Hami.

Hami's fierce fire oil is still powerful even in the desert...... The most important thing is that if the fierce fire oil of Hami is placed in a closed jar, it will explode after ignition, and it will render a sea of fire in a moment...... With such a fire, even if those people wanted to extinguish it with yellow sand, they would not have time.

After seeing the Song army full of wounded soldiers, even though Tie Dan felt very uncomfortable in his heart, he still took 6,000 copper coins and delivered 5,000 catties of gunpowder at the same time.

With this gunpowder, Yang Huaiyu was enough to blow up the pass of Yanchuankou.

The gunpowder was delivered, but the gunpowder was not allowed to be touched by Yang Huaiyu, and he only needed to provide the trebuchet needed for the siege, and then naturally someone inserted a suitable lead for the gunpowder bag according to the distance, and then threw it out.

For this, both Yang Huaiyu and the deputy general were extremely dissatisfied, Tie Dan ignored their opinions, and told Yang Huaiyu that gunpowder is an extremely dangerous thing, and once it is not well controlled, the first to blow up is the Great Song Dynasty soldiers.

The gunpowder craftsmen experimented with adjusting the trebuchet for a night, and at dawn, Yang Huaiyu put on his military uniform and said to Tie Dan with a serious face: "If there is no effect, your fate is unpredictable." ”

Tie Dan is no longer the fat boy who can be bullied by anyone, he just smiled slightly after listening to Yang Huaiyu's words, and as for the deputy general's eyes that wanted to kill, he directly ignored it.

Yanchuankou, which had been silent for almost ten days, once again sounded the dull sound of war drums, and Fu Bi, who was thirty miles away and confronted Wu Zang, knew Yang Huaiyu's actions today last night, and a Jiyi text beside him came to Yanchuankou overnight.

Under the gloomy sky, the war drums rumbled, and the heavily armored Great Song infantry soldiers advanced towards the Yanchuan Pass step by step, and they were about to enter the land of one arrow, and the dense arrow rain of the Qingtang people fell from three directions.

"Shield!"

Yu Hou's shouts came and went, and countless bright and flickering shields were erected, and soon a fast military formation turned into iron turtles.

The iron turtle is still slowly marching towards the mouth of Yanchuan, at the same time, the eight bull crossbows were dragged into the mouth of Yanchuan by mules and horses, stopping at a stone's throw away, eight soldiers are in charge of an eight-ox crossbow, desperately using a winch to wind the eight-ox crossbow, a crossbow gun with thick arms is put on the chute, the thickest soldier holds the handle of the eight-ox crossbow, and aims at the tall city wall of Yanchuankou.

Yang Huaiyu drew his war knife and urged the war horse to move forward slowly, according to the experience of the past, the Qingtang cavalry would rush over from both wings at this time, and he had to take the cavalry to deal with it.

Jiyi Wen Huo Xian stared at the iron egg with a relaxed face and said, "When will your sharp weapon be powerful?" ”

Tie Dan smiled: "When the trebuchet can reach the other party, it also needs to be full of Qingtang people on the opposite city wall, so that the power of gunpowder can be maximized." ”

Just last night, Huo Xian personally watched the explosion of gunpowder, and he still had some confidence in the power of gunpowder.

Then he nodded and said, "Okay, your military formation is in front of the crossbow array." ”

Tie Dan nodded and walked forward with the trebuchet that Yang Huaiyu had allocated to him.

Huo Xian obviously had bad intentions, if the gunpowder could not play the necessary role, the rear team under his command would first kill Tie Dan and the Hami people who were responsible for handling the gunpowder on the way forward.

The trebuchet of the Tangut people was powerful, and the stones the size of a human head fell from the sky, and the foot soldier Yu Hou could no longer care about the feather arrows above his head, and shouted an order, and the shield soldiers in the front row erected the tower shield, and after the three crane-beak hoes were deeply rooted in the ground, they quickly retreated a step back, so as not to hit the giant shield and then shock the shield soldiers.

The boulder smashed on the giant shield with a bang, and the giant shield suddenly sank down a large piece, and some boulders crossed the giant shield and fell into the scattered group of foot soldiers, smashed on the dry and hard ground and then shattered, and the flying stones clanged on the thick armor of the foot soldiers, as for the foot soldiers who were directly hit by the boulders, there was only a pool of blood on the ground, and as for the corpses, the boulders with strong passive energy were smashed alive and fell all over the ground.

Fortunately, the first wave of heavy armor was a veteran who was accustomed to this situation, and although they were frightened, no one retreated a step back.

The crossbow gun formation of the Song army reacted immediately, and the strong man holding the mallet hit the hammer heavily on the machine, buzzing, and three times in succession, the three crossbow guns left the Eight Bull Crossbow and flew towards the city.

The rest of the soldiers immediately methodically rewound the Eight Ox crossbows, equipped their families with crossbow guns, and then shouted to reactivate the machine and maintain an uninterrupted suppression of the city with a continuous rain of arrows.

However, the effect was not good, the stones thrown by the trebuchet were still dense, and the foot soldiers scattered again under the arrangement of Yu Hou, and continued to advance towards the city under the urging of the dense marching drums behind them.

The foot soldiers were like a magnet, firmly attracting the trebuchet, and as they strode forward, a clearing finally appeared between the crossbow and the foot soldiers.

With the assistance of Yu Hou, Tie Dan entered the field with a trebuchet, and behind him were hundreds of carts pulled by mules and horses, loaded with stones.

The trebuchet quickly reached the throwing position, and in less than a cup of tea it was already throwing denser stones at the head of the city.

Dense boulders collide in mid-air, and the flying debris is like a torrential downpour.

When the Song army's foot soldiers were less than a hundred steps away from the city, the city gate suddenly opened, and a group of cavalry poured out of the city gate, and the dense sound of horses' hooves even covered the loud sound of war drums.

"Spear forward!"

The Marquis of Song Jun Yu roared hoarsely, and the shield soldiers tried their best to pierce the deformed tower shield into the ground, and the spearmen's spears soon poked out of the muzzle of the tower shield, and the entire army array was like a huge hedgehog.

The Eight Bull Crossbow also changed its strategy, no longer firing strong crossbows at the city wall, and shooting at the city gate under the order of Marquis Yu.

Huge ballistas whizzed past Iron Egg's head like a frantic swarm of hornets, making his scalp tingle.

The first time he threw himself into the battlefield, Tie Dan felt that his crotch was wet, and he bit his tongue desperately, barely sobering himself up.

Only when he came to his senses, he saw the most terrifying scene in the world, countless Qingtang cavalry were flying in the air, their bodies were pierced and brought up by crossbow guns, and then they were nailed to the city wall by shaking indiscriminately.

No matter how many people were taken away by the ballistas, the huge city gate was like an exit from hell, and a steady stream of cavalry was still spit out of the exit, and soon joined the war.

"Can you project a powder pack?" Tie Dan visibly felt that his voice had been distorted.

"Wait, the Song people haven't started to climb the city yet, there are not many people on the city wall, and the urn city behind the wall is not yet full of cavalry attacking, and the attack effect is not obvious at this time."

Iron Egg's deputy was clearly unaffected by the tragic battlefield.

He threw a piece of dried fruit from Hami into his mouth, and looked at the flesh slaughterhouse in front of him with a smile, but his men kept planting a cut fuse in the gunpowder bag.

The cavalry roared left and right on the battlefield, they were very familiar with dividing the foot soldiers of the Song people into countless small squares, as long as they saw that the foot soldiers were defective, they immediately threw short spears and battle axes into it, as long as a gap was opened, the foot soldiers without unified command could only accept the slaughter of the cavalry.

More cavalry crossed the infantry formation, brandishing their weapons and howling towards the trebuchet position.

The trebuchets at the head of the city had stopped throwing stones, and Tie Dan believed that as long as the group of Qingtang cavalry was defeated, more stones would cover the place again.

There was another rumbling of footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that another group of foot soldiers had crossed the eight-bull crossbow army formation, and were passing through the trebuchet and pounced on the surging cavalry with spears and battle axes.

"Step Man Jia!"

Tie Dan's deputy exclaimed, the most powerful warrior of the Song people was still sent by Huo Xian.

Under the cover of the crossbow gun, the heavily armored infantry soldiers first responded to the enemy with the strong crossbows in their hands, and their hands were very accurate, as long as they raised their hands, there would be a Qingtang cavalry planted under the horse. (To be continued.) )