Chapter 297: Wuwei Pass Crisis
"Brothers, give it to me, the general said, as long as you take Wuwei Pass, you can take as many things as you can."
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Outside Wuwei Pass, more than 200,000 troops of the Dayue Empire gathered here, and countless soldiers of the Dayue Empire rushed towards Wuwei Pass under the cover of shield soldiers or siege vehicles.
"Archery! Archery! "On the city wall of Wuwei Pass, a general who is about half a hundred years old, wearing bright silver armor and holding a sword shouted loudly to command the battle, he is the commander of the 50,000 defenders of Wuwei Pass - Duan Gang, an innate sixth-order martial arts master.
Duan Gang is the current head of the Duan family, the Duan family has guarded Wuwei Pass for the Dali Empire for generations, in order to defend Wuwei Pass against foreign enemies, in the past two hundred years, I don't know how many Duan children died here, but Duan still firmly abided by his mission, sworn to guard Wuwei Pass, the 50,000 defenders of Wuwei Pass, also known as the Duan Family Army.
Wuwei Pass has always maintained the scale of 50,000 defenders, these 50,000 soldiers are all from Xinzhou, brave and fierce, 50,000 Duan family troops are the real elite, guarding the Wuwei Pass this day, enough to resist 200,000 enemy troops.
However, this time, there were 10,000 fewer defenders in Wuwei Pass, and only 40,000 defenders remained, but the 10,000 defenders followed the Xinzhou family coalition to attack the Guangming Army in the north of Xinzhou.
This was the first time in several decades that the defenders of Wuwei Pass were less than 50,000 people, but hundreds of thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared outside the pass.
Looking at the dense enemy outside the pass, Duan Gang's face was serious, the enemy was obviously prepared, Wuwei Pass was dangerous, in the past, the Dayue Empire attacked in a big way, and the 50,000 defenders of Wuwei Pass alone could hold it for at least three months, and within half a month, reinforcements from all over Xinzhou would continue to arrive at Wuwei Pass, and within a month, the reinforcements from the surrounding states of Xinzhou could also arrive at Wuwei Pass, no matter how many troops the Dayue Empire sent, it would be difficult to break through Wuwei Pass.
But now it's different, the Bright Sect uprising has made the situation in the Great Li Empire extremely complicated, and the only area that the imperial court can control is Linzhou... Part of the area, Xinzhou except for Wuwei Pass is occupied by the Guangming Sect, now the Guangming Army and the Yuanzhou Army, the Xinzhou family coalition army is fighting, but the Dayue Empire is attacking, only 40,000 defenders may not have any support in a short period of time Wuwei Pass does not know how long it can be held.
"People are locked up, and people are dead." This is the ancestral precept of the Duan clan, and the children of the Duan clan need to strictly abide by it.
Thinking of this ancestral training, Duan Gang's state of mind became extremely calm, and he calmly and calmly commanded the defenders to guard Wuwei Pass against the enemy army.
The Dayue Empire is a neighbor to the north of the Dali Empire, and the Tang Empire is a neighbor to the east of the Dali Empire, and all three countries are at the level of empires.
The Dali Empire is the strongest, the most extensive and richest land, and the largest population, in comparison, the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire are much worse, especially the Dayue Empire, one-third of the territory is covered by desert, and there is more barren land, once the disaster year comes, many people will starve to death.
The special environment has long been belligerent in the Dayue Empire, and the richness of the Dali Empire has been seen by the neighbor of the Dayue Empire.
"Lone must occupy this rich land!" This sentence became the dream of successive emperors of the Da Yue Empire.
In the past two hundred years, the Great Yue Empire has repeatedly sent large armies to march into the Dali Empire, but they have been blocked by one of the Wuwei Passes, and finally the Great Yue Empire will have to withdraw its troops.
Here I have to mention the geographical structure of the Dali Empire, there are Kuocang Mountains in the north of the Dali Empire to separate the Dali Empire from the Dayue Empire, and there are Jiuling Mountains in the east to separate the Dali Empire from the Tang Empire.
In order to prevent the invasion of enemy countries, the founding emperor of the Dali Empire aimed to build Wuwei Pass in the Kucang Mountain Range and build Zhangde Pass in the Jiuling Mountain Range, and each of the two Tianguan had 50,000 garrisons stationed to block all foreign enemies for the Dali Empire.
It coincided with the Guangming Sect uprising in the Dali Empire, and the situation in the Dali Empire changed greatly, and the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire stared at the Dali Empire, as long as they looked for an opportunity to break through the two heavenly barriers, the rich land of the Dali Empire would be completely open to the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire.
In the previous time, both the Dayue Empire and the Datang Empire frequently mobilized their armies and assembled in the direction of the Dali Empire, always ready to attack the Dali Empire.
Finally, the Dayue Empire found an opportunity, according to the news transmitted by the Dayue Empire's spies in the Dali Empire, Xinzhou of the Dali Empire has become a battlefield, and there are only 40,000 people left in the Wuwei Pass garrison, and there will be no reinforcements for a long time.
Subsequently, more than 200,000 troops gathered in the south of the Dayue Empire quickly came towards Wuwei Pass, and a large number of ladders, catapults, bed crossbows, siege vehicles, crash cars and other siege equipment prepared for the defeat of Wuwei Pass were followed by the army.
The walls of Wuwei Pass are taller and stronger than the state cities of the Dali Empire, and the enemy can only attack Wuwei Pass from the front, and the two sides of Wuwei Pass are connected to the Kucang Mountain Range, not to mention the rear.
Although there are only 40,000 defenders in Wuwei Pass now, and the Dayue Empire has more than 200,000 troops, which is more than five times the number of the defenders of Wuwei Pass, but in front of Wuwei Pass, the more than 200,000 troops of the Dayue Empire cannot be fully arranged, and 50,000 people can be placed is considered a lot.
Similarly, on the city wall in front of Wuwei Pass, it is impossible to put down 40,000 defenders, 10,000 is a normal number, and the defenders of Wuwei Pass take 10,000 as a team and take turns to replace the defensive city wall.
Before the army of the Great Viet Empire came to the Wuwei Pass, the war between the two countries had begun, the army of the Great Yue Empire charged at the Wuwei Pass under the cover of shield soldiers and siege vehicles, the defenders on the Wuwei Pass stood on the city wall and shot arrows at the enemy, arrows rained down, most of the arrows were blocked by shields and siege vehicles, and a small number hit the enemy.
It is worth noting that most of the defenders of Wuwei Pass can draw bows and shoot arrows, and their sword or spear skills are also good, under normal circumstances, the defenders have two different weapons, most of them have bows and arrows, and the other weapon is to choose a simple knife, a spear, a shield, etc.
Seeing the tall siege vehicles almost as high as the city walls constantly moving forward, which was a huge threat to Wuwei Pass, Duan Gang shouted loudly: "Prepare rockets and light the enemy's siege vehicles to the general!" ”
Not long after, a series of flaming arrows flew towards Gundam's siege vehicle.
Note 1: The siege vehicle is a standing siege equipment in the siege war, it can also be called a building car, a tower car, very tall, about the same height as the city wall or even higher than the city wall, the soldiers on the top of the siege vehicle can shoot arrows at the enemy with a bow, the tall siege vehicle can block the arrows for the soldiers behind, when the siege vehicle is close to the city wall, the soldiers can also jump directly to the city wall through the siege vehicle, Wang Shuo's Yuan Zhou army used a large number of siege vehicles when attacking the city defended by Yuan Chang's Guangming army, so the battle losses of the Yuan Zhou army and the Guangming army are almost equal.