Chapter 186: Di Dao's Great Victory
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In Didao City, the horse team composed of the Huns was only more than 3,000 people, although it was not as elite as the iron cavalry in the hands of Huyanyu, but it was much stronger than the Han people. All of them are dressed in iron armor, and even the war horses under their seats are wrapped in armor, and the heavy cavalry has always been the main combat force in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and in addition to the high cost, there are almost no defects.
But there are no defects for contemporaries, and in Zhang Jun's case, the weapon of the divine arm crossbow alone is enough to make the heavy cavalry return with a feather. There is no shortage of horses or knights in Liangzhou, but Zhang Jun did not focus all his energy on the development of heavy cavalry, because for the Han people, what they need after conquering the city is defense and construction, which is fundamentally different from the foreign races who only know how to plunder and move around.
Defending the territory still needs to be a pawn, and when you lay down a place, you will gain a firm foothold, step by step, and gradually advance, which is Zhang Jun's main strategy for attacking the Han Kingdom. As for the Dragon Army, it is used as a mobile force and an attacking knife, inserting it into the heart when the enemy is defenseless.
Seeing that the defenders at the head of Didao City withdrew, Zhang Jun estimated that the enemy defenders couldn't help but go out of the city to seek battle, so he ordered: "The divine arm crossbow is deployed on the spot, a horizontal formation!" ”
"The Crane Control Army is on alert, prepare the bow and crossbow!"
Zhang Jun gave the order on horseback, then stood up on the horse's pedals, squinted his eyes and began to observe the enemy's situation.
"Governor, the cart has been set up!"
Suo Sanjie's voice suddenly came, and as soon as Chen Dexing turned his head, he saw that a five-meter-high cart was ready.
"Quan Bin did a good job!" Zhang Jun praised it, jumped off the horse, and then climbed up to the top along the wooden ladder of the cart. The view here is wide, and you can see the entire battlefield outside the city of Didao.
The chariot is a kind of ancient chariot, with a watchtower on it to spy on the enemy's virtual reality. This thing is not a creation and invention of Liang Jun, but an ancient existence. According to "Zuo Chuan: The Fifteenth Year of Xuangong": "(Xie Yang) boarded the building car and told the Song Dynasty. The building car is also known as "the car" and "the nest car". "Saying Wen Chebu": "Soldiers, high soldiers, high cars, and nests to look at the enemy." "The Sixteenth Year of Cheng Gong": "Chu Zi boarded the nest car to look forward to the Jin army. ”
Zhang Jun soon discovered that a gap had opened in the gate of Di Dao City, and the light refracted by the armor was faintly revealed.
"The big stone machine is ready!" As Zhang Jun gave the order, he straightened his arm forward, straightened his thumb, and closed his left eye for a while, and closed his right eye for a while······ This is the use of the jumping eye method for distance measurement, which has now been popularized by every stone shooter.
Although 300 steps was a distance that had been measured a long time ago, Zhang Jun still measured it again in person, not because he didn't believe in his subordinates, but because it was a habit. Only by doing it himself can he be more sure.
"Three hundred steps away, stone bullets, target city gate hole!" Zhang Jun then gave another order, as long as the Huns dared to open the door and come out, the narrow and deep city gate would be their place of death!
After receiving the instructions, the soldiers in charge of operating the stone machine started one after another, and put the large stones into the "iron pot" at the top of the catapult rod of the stone machine.
Just when this side was just about to be completed, the Huns really cooperated to open the city gate and gradually lowered the drawbridge. Then I heard the roar that shook the sky, and I saw countless knights rushing out, rushing towards the stone machine position of the Liang army!
"Fat!" With Zhang Jun's order, the large stone machines used their strength one after another, throwing huge stones into the sky, and then landed at the gate of Di Dao City impartially.
Under the city of Didao, the intimate contact between the stone machine and the Huns began!
The Huns who were going out of the city gathered very densely at the gate of the city, and the boulders fell from the sky, which could hit several people at once, and they kept rolling after landing, which immediately made the fierce Hun cavalry suffer heavy casualties.
Under the handsome banner of the word "Li", Li Lazha stood at the head of the city, looking at the stone machines in the battle array of the Liang army, his teeth were clenched, and he couldn't wait to step forward in person and chop Zhang Jun, who had created such a sharp weapon and was still killing the Hun warriors, into meat filling!
Li Lazha, who has fought almost all his life with the Han people, will not think that the Han people are weak like those children of the Xiongnu nobles who have just entered the battlefield, and they will collapse when they see the banner of the Xiongnu army, and then let the Xiongnu warriors drive away and slaughter. If this were the case, the Great Xiongnu would have dominated the world long ago, mixed with the four seas, and would have turned tens of millions of Han children of the Southern Jin Dynasty into the most inferior slaves!
Li Lazar has never underestimated the Han people, although he has always kept the words of slaughter on his lips - this is not actually based on contempt for the Han people, on the contrary, in his opinion, only by slaughtering the Han people can the Great Xiongnu rule this rich land forever. Otherwise, even if the royal flag of the Great Khan was planted at the head of Chang'an, the Great Xiongnu must be vigilant against the resistance of the Han people at all times.
And in the case of the Zhang clan in Liangzhou, the Han people can resist the Xiongnu in a corner of the land so far, so that the warriors of the Xiongnu have returned again and again, and even achieved their prestige of "Liangzhou horses, rampant in the world", which has fully demonstrated the tenacity, good fighting and determination of the Han people to resist the Xiongnu Empire!
In fact, the army of the Han people was not much weaker than the Chinese army of the Xiongnu Empire! In other places, the invincible Hun army can be destroyed, but it is not less in the hands of the soldiers of the Liang army.
First of all, the cavalry of the Xiongnu Empire did not have an overwhelming advantage in the confrontation with the Liangzhou cavalry. Even if the lives of one Hun cavalry could be exchanged for the lives of two Liangzhou cavalrymen, considering the population of the Han people in Liangzhou, such an advantage was not overwhelming.
Secondly, those Han Er who belonged to them are not credible, they are secretly waiting for the Huns to be unlucky all the time, counting on Han Er to fight to the death for the Huns, what is the difference between that and dreaming?
In the past ten years, the great victory of the Xiongnu in attacking the Jin Dynasty was not so much that the Xiongnu warriors fought hard, but that the Jin Dynasty's traitorous ministers gave it to the Xiongnu themselves. The long-term melee of the Eight Kings made the King of the Jin Dynasty take the initiative to open the border defense in order to win, and attract foreign people to help. This kind of behavior of luring wolves into the house is the main reason why the Great Huns have been driving straight into the house and growing stronger day by day.
However, the Xiongnu Empire could not rely on the Han people's hope of destroying the Southern Dynasty and Liangzhou, because the Xiongnu themselves were now facing a crisis - since the death of Liu Yuan and Liu Cong, the huge Xiongnu Empire was no longer a united whole!
First, Liu Yao eradicated dissidents after succeeding to the throne, which almost triggered a civil war among the Huns. Then there was Shi Le, who broke away from the Han Dynasty, and called himself the general, the great single Yu, the leader of Jizhou Mu, and the king of Zhao, and Yu Xiangguo, that is, the throne of Zhao, called the first year of King Zhao, and established the state of Zhao.
Now although Shi Zhao still nominally accepts the canonization of the Han State, in fact, he does not take the Xiongnu Han State in his eyes at all. In terms of the territory under its jurisdiction alone, Shi Zhao's territory has surpassed that of the Han State, and its military strength is also increasing year by year. On the other hand, in the Han Kingdom, Emperor Liu Yao was old and sick, and he was no longer as brave as he was in the past; The Han State was sandwiched between Shizhao, Liangzhou, Qiuchi, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was surrounded by enemies on all sides.
In such a stark contrast, the Great Xiongnu Empire, which was united under Liu Yuan and Liu Cong Khan in the past, failed to set foot in Liangzhou in one fell swoop, and now a Xiongnu Han State with a declining river wants to conquer Liangzhou, which is rich and prosperous, with a population of one million, and it is even more difficult. What's more, now the Zhang family has a character like Zhang Jun as their successor, and has created a stone transmitter that can fire fireballs at an ultra-long distance. If it can't be eradicated in the bud and allowed to grow, then the great Khans of the Xiongnu dynasties mixed with the sea are afraid that it will take to wait until what year and month it will be realized!
Suddenly, the guards beside Li Lazha raised their hands and pointed and shouted in Xiongnu: "The stone bullet is here again!" ”
Li Laza gasped, woke up from his thoughts suddenly, and looked at the position of the Liang army with his head held high. I saw dozens of black dots jumping up from the position of the Liang army, rolling at a very fast speed!
"Boom, boom······ Ahh Help me······"
More than a dozen Hun cavalry troops were smashed inside the city gates! The screams suddenly sounded -- even the Huns, who had swept through most of China, were hit by a stone weighing about ten pounds that fell from a height of dozens of meters, and they were still broken and broken, lying on the ground like a puddle of mud crying for their father and mother.
But the Hun cavalry crowded in the city gate had no way to retreat, and the corpses all over the ground blocked the back of the cavalry in front, and the cavalry behind was in a hurry to get out of the city and the Liang army desperately. Chaos and chaos are the true portrayal of the Huns at this moment.
Li Laza hesitated a little at this time······ The Hun cavalry under his command is the backbone of those Han'er soldiers behind him! If the Huns died, would Han'er surrender, and would he use his own head to ask for merit from the Liang army? However, if the subordinates are withdrawn, it proves that even the invincible Hun cavalry is afraid of the Liang army, if it spreads, how can the few Huns in the entire Han State continue to drive the Han to sell their lives?
"Boom, boom, boom······"
Li Lazha has committed a taboo in the army, and the main general must not look forward to the enemy, otherwise the people below will be at a loss! He hasn't thought about it yet, a new round of stone bullets is coming again, no, it's not stone bullets, it's fire bullets!
The fire bombs filled with water and fertilizer have exploded one after another, and most of the Hun cavalry has finally broken out of the city gate and scattered some formations, but there are also many people trapped in the sea of fire and smoke!
The clay pot exploded under the power of water and fertilizer explosion, turning into countless tiny fragments, flying in all directions, like a scythe of death, wantonly harvesting life! No matter how big these Hun warriors were, how muscular they were, and how thick and heavy the iron armor they wore on their bodies, in front of the clay pot fragments pushed by the air wave after the explosion of water and fertilizer, they were all a mass of soft meat······
Not all the Huns who fell to the ground were dead, and many of them were not dead, cut into a blur of flesh and blood by the flying fragments, and fell to the ground screaming in despair. Of course, there are also people who are only intact on the outside and seem to have no external injuries, but they have been shaken by the air wave and are bleeding from their ears and noses. Of course, many more people were burned alive by the fire, giving off the smell of barbecue······
Damn fire bombs, if they can't be nipped in the bud, they will be the henchmen of the Great Huns in the future! The last bit of hesitation in Li Laza's heart was gone, and all that was left was the determination to fight to the death to destroy the Liang Army's stone machine!
"The warriors of the Great Huns, rush forward and kill the Liang army!" He stood at the head of the city, drew his sword and shouted.
At this moment, outside Didao City, many Huns have also reacted, and they don't necessarily have to run backwards to avoid stones and fire bombs, but they can also move forward! The stone machine is not a bow and crossbow, and it is impossible to point where to hit it - they have never seen a torsion stone machine, but he is no stranger to the human-drawn thunderbolt car, and there are craftsmen in Chang'an City who can build the thunderbolt car.
So the Huns were well aware of the weakness of the stone machine - poor accuracy! It takes repeated calibration to hit, so it is generally used to deal with the city fortress that cannot be moved, and this thing is not easy to use in the field, as long as the troops keep moving, this stone machine will not be able to hit.
Therefore, under the shouting and shouting, the Hun cavalry formed an impact formation with good discipline and rushed desperately towards the stone machine position of the Liang army. All of them had only one thought in their hearts: as long as they closed the distance, the stone machine would be useless!
After the losses of Fang Cai, there were only more than 2,600 people left in the 3,000 cavalry army, and nearly 400 Hun warriors fell at the starting point of the charge. But with 2,600 people attacking the 10,000 Liang army outside, could it be that the Huns were crazy?
No, the Huns are not crazy. After more than 10 years of fighting, this tactic of fighting more with less is basically the norm. As long as the Hun Iron Cavalry charges, no one can stop it!
But this time the Huns were destined to be disappointed, although the torsion stone machine did have the defect of insufficient rate of fire, but don't forget that the Liang army was equipped with three different models of stone machine, corresponding to the firing range of 300 steps, 200 steps and 100 steps. Even if the enemy rushes to within 300 paces, as long as it is a frontal charge, it must go through two rounds of blows of 200 paces and 100 paces. What's more, the Divine Arm Crossbow hasn't wielded its power yet······
The superb equestrian skills of the Huns were staged again, and they scattered or gathered, running left and right within the charging distance of three hundred paces, and sure enough, the torsion stone machine was fruitless.
"Humph!" Zhang Jun sneered, in his opinion, there was no difference between the Huns doing this and jumping off the beam. As soon as he waved his hand, the crossbowman of the divine arm smashed the trigger with a wooden mallet, and when he heard the sound of "buzz", countless giant arrows with long arms and thick thumbs shot out from the ground, heading straight for the Hun cavalry who were still showing off their skills.
"Puff puff!"
"Boom, boom!"
"Ah······ Ahhhh······h
In an instant, the Hun cavalry turned over on their backs, and the giant arrows shot by the crossbow of the god arm were very powerful, often able to penetrate one person and then shoot through the two or three people behind one after another, even the war horse could easily penetrate the body, and even the people and horses were nailed to the ground together. The one who was hit by the arrow had no way to escape except screaming.
"This ······ What kind of crossbow machine is this? Li Lazar was already dumbfounded.
He watched as his sons and daughters were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and the distance of less than a hundred paces seemed to become an insurmountable chasm······
Half an hour later, the Hun knights could no longer be seen on the wide plains outside the city, except for the wails and the neighing of the horses that had lost their owners.
"Plop ······" Lost and stumbling beside the battlements, he still could not believe that what he had seen was true.
"General! Will the Lord! You're going to cheer up······" The guards and generals hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.
One of the Hun generals cried and said: "General, you have to hold on, otherwise the Han will not be able to suppress it······"
This sentence made the distracted Li Lazha wake up suddenly, he looked at the Han on the side, and only felt that everyone seemed to want to surrender. He wanted to order Han'er to be taken back to the barracks for care, but when he thought that he was now unavailable, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.
At this moment, countless Han'er soldiers surrounded him with weapons······
"What do you want, if you want to rebel, quit me!" A subordinate general found that something was wrong and hurriedly shouted, trying to scare these Han people away.
But where is the matter so simple, I saw one of the Han generals say: "We are all Chinese children, and now there is a Liang army to attack the heavens, how can we use our mantis arms as a car?" ”
"Take these Hulu down for me!"
With the order of the Han general, some soldiers rushed up with spears, and all those who dared to resist were stabbed to death, and the rest were tied up.
Outside the city, the position of the Liang army.
Zhou Tong suddenly shouted: "White flag, Metropolitan Governor, Di Dao defenders have surrendered!" ”
Zhang Jun, who was standing on the cart, looked at it, and sure enough, a white flag was floating at the head of Didao City. He ordered: "The Hujie army stepped forward to investigate, be careful of deceit!" ”
After a cup of tea, it wasn't until the banner of the conquest army was successfully planted at the head of Di Dao City that Zhang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, got off the cart and looked around at the generals on the left and right, and said with a smile: "Good news to the rear, Di Dao is a great victory······
PS: The ancient histories of China and Rome have recorded the saying that the white flag was raised to indicate surrender. China's white as a symbol of surrender originated in the Qin Dynasty, when the Qin people took black as the "national color" to represent victory (reason: the Qin people believed that the five elements belonged to water, and water was black), and at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, approaching Xianyang, and Qin Ziying surrendered, so he took the anti-color of the Qin people's "national color" - white as the suit, and surrendered, which is the origin of China's "surrender color".