Chapter 246: The Bloody Battle at Jiayuguan (5)

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The ranged archers desperately attacked the enemy troops who tried to rush up the walls, while the allied infantry shooters under the walls used bows and crossbows to cover their own masters to climb the walls. If the city walls are full of ordinary masters, then those who are good at it will cause considerable lethality when they climb up. However, although Da Zhao is not as numerous as the other party, because Zhao Zhe plays a lot of games, he personally likes elite troops to the extreme. The Huya Army, this extremely strong army, still has terrifying combat effectiveness after getting off the war horse. In fact, if it is faster than the speed of killing, the Tiger Tooth soldiers who are not riding horses also need to kill faster. After all, wielding a war knife on horseback, how can you swing freely on the flat ground. Of course, in foot combat, the mortality rate is much higher than on horseback. Without the load-bearing collision ability of the war horse, the consumption of physical strength and true qi in foot combat is too great, and it is difficult to break through the encirclement.

But on their own city walls, the tiger tooth soldiers who fought on foot were not afraid of being surrounded at all. First, the thickness of the city wall is limited, even if it is really surrounded, the thickness of the human wall cannot stop the tiger tooth soldiers from jumping and escaping. Second, if the walls of his house are really full of enemy troops, there is no need to fight this battle next, and he directly admits defeat.

The main body of the entire Jiayuguan is only hundreds of meters long. It is connected to two cantilevered Great Walls and stretches straight into the mountains on both sides. Guarding this treacherous, yet narrow canyon. The coalition forces were numerous, and they did not only confine their forces to the main body of Jiayuguan in the middle. Rather, it is an attack on all fronts, and in fact, this tactic is very advantageous if there is a numerical advantage. Regardless of which part of the Great Wall, as long as one point is breached, then the entire line of defense will be implicated.

Although it is narrower than other gorges, Jiayu Pass, including the range held by its two cantilever arms, is still more than ten miles wide. Thousands of tiger tooth soldiers could not be assembled to defend, but distributed throughout the entire defense line. The scale of each person's defense, theoretically is seven meters per person. However, when Yang Dingshan assigned defensive tasks, he took into account the gap between the grandmaster and the peak master of the first grade. At this time, the Huya Army, including the grandmasters who had a little bit of spiritual energy after the fierce battles in the past few days, the number of grandmasters had reached two hundred and nine, which was already more than one-fifth. So in terms of arrangement, all the Huya army was divided into two hundred groups. Each group of five must have one or two grandmasters. Each group of people is responsible for defending the city wall of about 20 zhang, so that a hundred groups of tiger tooth soldiers can defend the city wall more than ten miles wide, and specialize in killing those masters who jump on the city wall, or ordinary infantry. The remaining 100 groups are used as backups. Take turns to replace the first 100 groups at any time.

In cooperation with the Huya army stationed on the city wall, each group of Huya soldiers was additionally assigned two teams of ranged infantry, one team of melee infantry, each team of one hundred in number, four exquisite cannons, and the soldiers who controlled them. There are more than 30,000 people stationed on the entire wall, and if one place cannot be resisted, there will be a reserve on top at any time. Of course, the Linglong cannon is not replaced.

In addition, Yang Dingshan also arranged 30,000 logistics troops, who were specifically responsible for logistics for the soldiers stationed on the city wall, transporting guns and ammunition, bows and crossbows, swords, and some food and drinking supplies. Of course, those supplies were not transported on the walls, but were piled up behind the wall, transported upwards by hanging ropes, and occupied a valuable position on the wall. The rest of the reserve team also went up through the ladder behind the Great Wall, and the same was true for a certain team to disarm.

The rest of the soldiers are always ready to replace the front-line soldiers who were killed and wounded in battle. Always ensure that the most important city wall fronts are full of combat power and the team is neatly organized. They were all pre-divided, and as soon as there were casualties on the city walls, they were immediately transported down, and the rear reservists were on top.

As a result, the masters of those coalition forces have just stormed the city wall. It will be besieged by the garrison infantry, and it will be easily killed by the tiger tooth soldiers, unless the opponent climbs the city wall and reaches a certain number, otherwise how many will basically die. In short, the war on the city wall will be impossible to conquer for a while. Although the two sides have suffered casualties on each other, with the advantage of this city wall, the speed of casualties on their own side is more than several times slower than that of the other side. Sometimes, a big war is compared to the speed of casualties on both sides. The slower the rate of depletion, the longer it will take to have an advantage.

However, the city gate, under the desperate attack of a group of masters on the other side, was quickly dug out of a big hole. The archers stationed in the urn city, although they kept shooting out through the holes in the gates. But after all, it couldn't stop the enemy's master from rushing to kill. Soon, the gates were breached. The group of masters roared in their mouths, pushed the city gate open, and at the same time protected the vital points with their shields, and rushed in with a flash of their figures, weapons such as scimitars in their hands danced sensitively to cut through the arrows that were fired.

Their hearts were full of excitement, their group of expert task forces that stormed the city gates. Originally, they were criminals from various countries, and all of them were convicted, in the words of Da Zhao, those were the Jiangyang thieves of the coalition countries. But anyone who can be a Jiangyang thief has some good skills. This time, the coalition countries not only pardoned their crimes, but also as long as they made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, they could be knighted and rewarded when they returned, and they would never have to stay in prison again, and they could live as their masters. Breaking through the other party's city gate is obviously a great achievement. Puff, Rao is group of masters are all good, but in the battle array, anyone has the possibility of dying in battle.

This is an urn city, and the crossbowmen and musketeers around the urn city are vegetarians? The rain of arrows sniped those masters one by one. However, the number of coalition forces is simply too large, so large that the number is suffocating. After the gates were breached, the soldiers who managed to rush under the city walls. Immediately squeezed desperately inside.

Soon, thousands of allied soldiers were crowded into the urn city, which had thousands of square meters. A week of archers on the city walls, arrows constantly shooting. And the living master death squad rushed to the inner gate of the urn city, screaming and slashing at the inner city gate. As long as you break through this city gate, you will be in the inner city of Jiayuguan.

Suddenly, the crossbowmen standing on the walls began to stop attacking. Instead, he hid behind the battlements, ignoring the allied crossbowmen below who were fighting back. Buckets of grease were dumped by the infantrymen. Combined with the burning material that was already in the urn city. Because of the topography of the construction site, the grease flowed very quickly on the ground.

The archers quickly drew rockets, lit them on torches, and shot them in all directions.

Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~

As soon as the rocket touched the ground, a huge flame erupted. Those master death squads didn't know that they had long been abandoned by fate. In fact, the fire attack tactics of Wengcheng are one of the killer features of Da Zhao, and they have been frequently used since the Warring States period. It is impossible for the upper echelons of the coalition army not to have studied Da Zhao's defense tactics.

The grease on the ground was slammed into flames, and the flames that rose into the air immediately destroyed the thousands of people in the urn city. Only some soldiers at the city gate desperately squeezed out and escaped for their lives. The crowd that was set on fire was covered with flames, and the entire interior of the urn city was like a volcanic hell. The heart-rending screams made the soldiers who were glad not to enter the urn city feel happy.

But there is always a moment when the grease is burned. It was only a quarter of an hour later, and all the flames in the entire urn city were extinguished. The general commander of the front line, who commanded the real elite infantry, rushed into the urn city. Stepping on the charred corpses of his companions, he howled and rushed to the inner city gates.

However, to their slight surprise, the city gate in the urn city did not need to be attacked by them, but it opened automatically. Strange soldiers in iron armor, armed with spears and swords at their waists, with black, bronze, or a few silver masks on their faces, rushed out. Their steps are big, and every step they take has to be a foot away. The most important thing is that the evil aura emanating from their bodies suddenly makes people's hearts tremble. The army was eerily quiet, and not half a person made a sound.

A black-masked soldier at the front, spear piercing, forcefully breaking through the shield of an infantryman, spear piercing the whole person. Then I saw him throw him, and the coalition infantry who were not yet dead were smashed into the crowd. Almost at the same time, this extremely strange group of soldiers launched a ferocious attack on the elite infantry of the coalition who dared to rush into the urn city.

The infantry army of the coalition army, which actually attacked the urn city after the cannon fodder filling urn city fire oil tactics, was originally the elite infantry in the coalition army. Although the total number is only 50,000, after the formation is set, the 200,000 people will not fall behind. It is one of the ace armies of the Mughal Dynasty, the Burst Bear Army, which has a very high status in the domestic army. Because of this, this infantry, which totaled 50,000 people, was pinned on high hopes. It is believed that as long as they break through the inner gate of the urn city, they will be able to break through the Great Zhao infantry formation and open a way for the army that is far behind. This army of 50,000 people, in the words of Da Zhao, the number of masters in the ninth rank, or even above the ninth rank, will not be less than 10,000, and even the strong grandmasters have as many as three. It can be seen that this army is fierce. The general siege of the city is almost invincible. Theoretically speaking, the overall combat power of this trump card army has surpassed that of several central ace armies such as the Great Zhao Hussars and the Xiang Cavalry.

Here, however, they meet their nemesis. The ferocity of the strangely dressed soldiers with masked faces far exceeded their imagination. As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Explosive Bear Army was defeated and retreated. The difference between the individual combat strength of the two sides is too great. Those wearing black masks are even more powerful than their centurions. Because they saw their own centurion, who was known for his bravery, fight hard with the other party, and was fiercely shaken back. He was then chased by a copper-masked man and stabbed to death with a single shot.

Obviously, those copper-masked people far surpassed their centurions in combat power, and even, most likely, surpassed their centurions. By inference, those who are even rarer in silver masks ............

(To be continued)