Chapter 21
After leaving the city, the torrent-like Xiliang Iron Cavalry quickly gathered into a huge riding formation, swept towards the sky-bombing car two hundred steps away with a momentum that seemed to crush the heavens and the earth.
"Put!" The general commanding the crossbowmen in the Xiliang iron cavalry formation at the moment, will be under the command of the command of the Lingqi, the three-stone crossbow did not shoot, this time the attack is responsible for the two rows of soldiers holding two stone crossbows, at the moment of the flag wave, the front row of crossbowmen will quickly shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands and retreat to give way, the second row of crossbowmen after waiting for a moment to fire the second round of crossbow arrows towards the other party, and then the first row of soldiers have been loaded with crossbow arrows, and shot again.
In this way, before the huge cavalry formation could exert its might, it fell to the ground in pieces, and there were 3,000 elite Xiliang iron horses, and Li Wei didn't even have time to command more, so he watched these Xiliang iron horses fall in pieces on the wilderness outside the city gate.
With three thousand iron horsemen, it was an elite soldier in Li Wei's hands, and the plate armor on his body did not bring them the expected protection, and the extremely penetrating rhubarb crossbow could easily pierce through the plate armor and pierce their bodies.
Li Ru's hands were pressed against the female wall, looking at this shocking scene, the knuckles of his hands became a little white because of excessive force.
He never thought that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was famous all over the world and had experienced a hundred battles, would become so vulnerable in front of the Shu army, and the opponent's bow and crossbow were loaded too quickly, so the arrows were released in such a cycle, forming an endless rain of arrows, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was shot out when they couldn't get close, and only more than 100 Xiliang Iron Cavalry who were left behind rode back to the city when they saw the bad situation, but after this battle, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry of Yixian County was abolished.
Worse still, such a shocking scene, the blow to morale, can be said to be devastating.
And during this period of time, the stone bullets of the sky-bombing car have been reloaded, and with a new round of roaring, the stone bullets have not yet exploded, and the city wall has become a mess, and there are soldiers pushing each other everywhere, and even people have begun to run under the city wall.
"Step on the rooftop, climb the ladder! Sortie! Xu Rong gave another order, and ten giant wells began to move towards the city wall, and at the same time, the siege ladders also began to move towards the city wall under the impetus of the soldiers, and the army began to advance.
The two rounds of stone bullets, coupled with the damage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that was almost completely annihilated, have collapsed the morale of the Xiliang generals at the head of the city, and at this moment, with the attack of the army, the defenders at the head of the city have no intention of fighting again.
"Lord, let's withdraw first!" A general pulled Li Dao and said bitterly: "I'm afraid this city can't be defended." ”
"Withdraw? Where to remove? Li Wei roared with red eyes: "As soon as Yixian is broken, Chang'an will have nowhere to defend, and if you withdraw at this time, do you want to give Chang'an to others!?" ”
"Lord!" The general said astringently: "The advantage of the siege equipment of the Shu army, if it is to defend the city, our army will undoubtedly lose, it is better to withdraw from the city first, and fight with the Shu army in the field, so as to have a few chances of winning!" ”
Li Dao suffocated his chest when he heard this, indeed, the giant catapult, the three-stone crossbow, and the two-stone crossbow with extremely fast loading speed, these alone have made the morale of the defenders at the head of the city completely demoralized, and in general siege warfare, it is beneficial to the defending side of the city, but with the emergence of Ye Zhao's new weapons, I am afraid that the mode of war will be rewritten.
The well has been slowly pushed to a distance of about one hundred and fifty steps, that is like a small dock fort on the well, began to pour arrow rain towards the city, the condescending advantage plus the Shu army's strong bow range is far enough, and can even shoot the arrow cluster into the city, the defenders at the head of the city hurriedly counterattacked with bows and arrows, still can't reach, even with the forward push of the well, the range of the bow and arrow can reach the well, but with the baffle, armor to protect each other, the arrow cluster of the Xiliang army can rarely hurt the crossbowmen hidden in the well.
"Stone Machine, blow up these wells for me!" Li Dao gritted his teeth and said.
The stone machine on the city tower began to shoot stones forward, but compared to the accuracy of the sky-bombing car, the biggest problem of these stone machines is that the accuracy of these stone machines is too poor, more than a dozen stone projectiles fell, only one hit the well, and the effect caused was not enough to make the well useless.
And just after a while, the ladder was built on the city wall of Yixian County across the moat, and the bottom end of these ladders was fixed on a triangular cart, which not only pushed up quickly, but also provided cover for the soldiers in the rear.
At the head of the city, someone tried to hook these ladders down with a long hook, but the ladders did not move at all, and the soldiers who poked out their heads were killed by the Shu army who climbed up the ladder with arrows.
"Don't be afraid of them!" Li Wei looked around, although he had escaped a lot, there were still a lot of soldiers and horses around, and they recognized the equipment, but when fighting on this city wall, the other party couldn't even attack his own people, right?
It's just that when the soldiers in rattan armor climbed up the ladder, Li Dao was a little dumbfounded, the swords and guns of the Xiliang army could not break through the layer of rattan armor on the other party's body at all, and those Shu troops in rattan armor rushed into the crowd unscrupulously, slashing left and right, just for such a while, hundreds of people rushed up and fought with the Xiliang army defending the city, their attacks were ineffective, and the opponent's weapons could easily tear their fragile cloth armor.
"Lord, retreat, I can't hold it!" A Li Dao's henchman general was surrounded by three Shu soldiers at the same time, roaring bitterly, the sword in his hand was slashed on these people again and again, but he could only smash the layer of leather outside the rattan armor, and the three Shu soldiers cooperated tacitly, one blocked the knife, and the two attacked, but the moment the general spoke, the three of them saw the flaw and shot at the same time, and the three knives were submerged into the other party's body at the same time, stirring fiercely, the burly body of the military general, trembled violently a few times, and as the three retreated, there was no sound.
More and more Shu troops climbed up the ladder to the sky, not all of them were wearing rattan armor, but these leading vine armor troops did bring a devastating blow to the Xiliang army, more and more people began to flee, and fewer and fewer people were able to stick to their positions.
In the face of this almost invincible army, the Xiliang army can only feel despair now, including Li Dao, even if there are still a large number of soldiers in the city now, but it is almost impossible to hold the city wall at this moment.
Retreat!
Seeing that several generals were killed by some small soldiers, Li Wei bitterly gave the order to withdraw the army, and if he continued to fight, it would only increase the attrition.
"Listen to the Xiliang soldiers in the city, Li Dao held the Son of Heaven hostage, defiled the palace, insulted hundreds of officials, and the crime is unforgivable, my lord Ye Zhao is the captain of the court, this time he raised troops, it is for the country to get rid of thieves, and he does not want to do more killing, as long as he kills Li Dao, my lord will not blame the past!" On the city tower, Xu Rong had already taken his guards to the city, personally presided over the battle, and shouted loudly at the fleeing Xiliang army.
Li Dao had just left the city, and when he heard this, he felt a chill all over his body, and the eyes cast around him seemed to have changed their taste.
"Don't ignore him, get out of the city!" Li Wei didn't dare to stay here longer, so he hurriedly took his guards and walked out of the city.
On the other side, Hu Feng, who rushed over with Duan Xuan, was about to make a move, but was stopped by Duan Xuan.
"This is the best time to kill him, why stop me?" Hu Feng looked at Duan Xuan in confusion.
"At this moment, Li Dao has been defeated, and it is useless to kill him, it is better to go with him to join Guo Yan, if you can provoke the relationship between the two, let Li Dao kill Guo Yan, and the general will kill Li Dao again, and then marry the Tai Lieutenant, then the land in this pass will be owned by the general alone." Duan Xuan said with a smile.
"Will it be that easy?" Hu Feng said with some uncertainty.
"Naturally, and now even if the general kills Li Dao, in the chaos of the war, the defeat of the Xiliang army has been achieved at this moment, and it is difficult for the general to restrain his subordinates!" Duan Xuan said with a smile: "On the contrary, it is easy to cause misunderstanding among the Shu army, so it is better to go out of the city with Li Dao first!" ”
"Okay, it's up to you!" Hu Feng nodded, feeling reasonable, and immediately took his cronies and Duan Xuan to the outside of the city, gathering many Xiliang soldiers along the way.
After the Shu army captured the city, they did not do much entanglement in the city, but just drove all the Xiliang troops in the city out of the city, and then stopped the pursuit.
"Next, it's up to Wen Wei's ability." Ye Zhao took the generals to the city tower, looked at the Xiliang army fleeing in embarrassment, and smiled to everyone.
"Lord, although Chang'an has now been taken by General Guan, there are only 3,000 people under General Guan's command, even if our Shu army is brave and good at fighting, but the Hedong Wei clan has 30,000 troops this time, and the last general is afraid that General Guan will lose!" Xu Rong came to Ye Zhao's side, bowed down and said: "Now that Yixian has been lowered, although there is a Xiliang army in the direction of martial arts, it is difficult to completely block the road, why don't you send a team of soldiers and horses to support General Guan first, stabilize the situation in Chang'an, and wait for our army to break Li Guo's thieves, and then rectify it?" ”
"It's good!" Ye Zhao nodded and said, "Ji Ling, you lead eight thousand soldiers and horses to support Yun Chang, and tell him that you only need to hold Chang'an, and don't send troops without authorization!" ”
Ye Zhao was really afraid that Guan Yu would have any wonderful ideas, although he successfully attacked Chang'an this time, but there was a bit of luck in this, if it wasn't for the fact that Wei Qi led his troops to attack, so that Guan Yu would have taken advantage of the loophole, it was not easy to defeat Chang'an with 8,000 Xiliang troops stationed with 3,000 people.
"Whoa!" Ji Ling bowed down to receive the order, took the arrow and turned to leave.
Ye Zhao ordered people to quickly clean up the corpses on the battlefield, Zhang Bang Anmin, and the accompanying officials were sent to preside over the political affairs of Yixian County.
On the other hand, after Li Wei found that Ye Zhao was not pursuing, he was also slightly relieved, and began to send people to clean up the rout, and at the same time informed Guo Yan that he wanted to join forces with Guo Yan, this time, he was not ready to defend the city again, he was ready to unite all walks of life and have a decisive battle with Ye Zhao.