Chapter 242: The Bloody Battle at Jiayuguan (1)

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Zhao Zhe's army has been assembled near Jiayuguan, with a total of 1.6 million horses. As for the remaining 500,000 people, most of them were led by Liu Pojun, the god of war, to contain Wu Sizang, or it can be said that they were restrained by Wu Sizang. It can be seen that the number of coalition troops at the gate of Jiayu Pass is more than double that of the Dazhao defensive army.

Zhao Zhe's 1.6 million army, stationed behind Jiayuguan, stretched out for dozens of miles. Jiayuguan is a natural danger Xiongguan, although it has been considered in the direction of the big when it was manufactured. But it died, that is, tens of thousands of people were stationed. Those who can stand on the city wall to defend at the same time, even if they are staggered and dense, are only thirty or forty thousand.

Fortunately, Jiayuguan was built in the narrowest and most difficult place. The mountains on both sides are steep and dangerous, making it difficult to climb. The fortified city walls have extended like a pair of wings into the mountains. If you want to bypass Jiayu Pass and go to the rear, under the intensive letting go, I am afraid that even a grandmaster-level powerhouse will not be able to do it. It's a congenital ability to fly over, but one or two congenital wants to fly to the rear, purely looking for death. Zhao Zhe listened to the other party's congenital hot-headedness and flew over Jiayu Pass.

Regardless of which direction you deduce, the big battle will be triggered in a short period of time. Along the way, he was harassed and attacked by several perverted armies of Da Zhao, and even exaggerated to the point of losing two or three hundred thousand troops, as well as the only artillery army. It has long caused the coalition forces to be extremely angry, and they can't wait to immediately attack the territory of Dazhao to wreak havoc in order to find some grounds. That's not all, the most important thing is that the supply line of the coalition army has been cut off, although efforts are being made up for it, but as long as the Golden Eagle Flying Cavalry army that can fly in the sky is still there, the so-called supply line is pure joke.

As a result, under huge logistical pressure, the coalition forces had to capture Jiayuguan in the shortest possible time. Once it has been more than twenty days, the food will be almost consumed, and then it will be a big problem. From this, they had to take it within fifteen days, otherwise, they had to withdraw their troops back.

Fifteen days is a long time to say. But the coalition army of 3 million and hundreds of thousands, as long as they are willing to fight for their lives. Even if you use human life to fill those ravines, you can fill them evenly. Jiayuguan City is more than ten meters high, right? You can build a ladder out of corpses. It can be seen that although the huge number of coalition forces has caused huge logistical pressure, once the whole army is furious, it is an extremely terrifying thing. Not to mention three million soldiers, even millions of ants are a catastrophe.

With countless people working together, in just one day, the coalition army had assembled thousands of shield carts, hundreds of simple catapults, and countless large wooden shields. But this day, Da Zhao's army was not idle, especially the Golden Eagle Flying Horse, hovering in the air at a height of thousands of meters, and then throwing arrows downward. At such a high distance, you can only aim in one direction. Go to the tent and shoot at the crowd. Therefore, they did not bring any black iron arrows, and all of them carried ordinary stainless steel arrows.

With such a cover of surname shooting, the hit rate is rather limited. But under the acceleration of gravity, the arrows are very powerful. Even if a master is hit by an arrow, it is easy to be pierced by the arrow. After throwing nearly 100 arrows at his body every time, he can also cause at least thousands of casualties on the other side. However, when the golden eagle has nothing to do, it will immediately go back and load it with arrows again, and come back to disturb again.

At an altitude of thousands of meters, even if you use the strongest bow and crossbow, you may not be able to shoot it if you are a strong person with a natural power. That's an extremely safe range, and if you want to get close to them, unless they also take out the air force, or go directly to them by the innate powerhouse. But in the face of thousands of golden eagle flying horses, the innate master flying up is also looking for death. The reason why he didn't do this in the past was that the distance between the two sides was relatively long, and shooting arrows in this way of luck was not in line with the maximum lethality of the Golden Eagle Flying Horse. However, tens of thousands of arrows, just to try their luck to kill some unlucky ghosts, are really wasted. At first, the effect was quite good, but after two or three rounds, the coalition forces became more vigilant and came up with a lot of countermeasures to prevent high-altitude projectiles, making that method less and less lethal.

But human wisdom is endless, and soon the Golden Eagle Flyer thought of another way. Anyway, the two sides are relatively close, and they are only a dozen miles. Sister is a big deal, so I'll make a few more trips. Let the infantry, who are idle and have nothing to do, smash out the small stones in the pound. Each golden eagle flies and rides, with a bag, loaded with dozens of catties.

Originally, according to the carrying capacity of the Golden Eagle Flying Horse, after carrying people and equipment, at most it would be more than ten catties to fly, otherwise it would be more difficult to fly. The reason why those sisters dare to do this is because they are superb cultivators, and they can fill their bodies with true qi and make themselves lose weight. Just like Zhao Zhe, he can completely rely on his own cultivation to resist gravity and float in the air. Those Golden Eagle Flying Riders, although most of their cultivation has not yet reached the Grandmaster realm, they can still make themselves as light as a swallow. It's just that it takes more true qi to do this, but fortunately, the two sides are close, and it is only a dozen miles. The golden eagle flying horse flutters its wings a few times and it can be reached.

One person smashed dozens of stones, one by one, only to throw them into the pile, but also had a lot of fun. Zhao Zhe can guarantee that this idea was definitely not his. In fact, he was also dizzy when he heard the Golden Eagle Flying Rider ask for battle like this. Could it be that someone in this group of chicks crossed over? Started playing with bombers?

It's a pity that there isn't so much gunpowder for them, and those things are not rich according to Da Zhao's current output, and most of them have to be used for the sound of exquisite guns. Otherwise, it would be extremely fun to get some explosives bags for them to throw and play with.

But Rao is like this, those stones of about a pound are thrown down from a height of thousands of meters. Under the effect of gravitational acceleration, the lethality is also quite terrifying. smashed on the ground, and smashed a small hole. It's like these little chicks are raining meteor showers for the coalition forces. Of course, even if it is thrown into the camp, the chance of stoning people to death is only very ordinary. There are only a few dozen unlucky eggs, sometimes a dozen. For the coalition as a whole, it's just a drizzle.

But this thing can't stand up to playing so many times. If you smash it once, you may kill a dozen or twenty of them. Each person carries at least thirty or forty stones, and goes around the camp in a circle, how can they harvest hundreds, thousands of lives. And they reloaded, flew back again, and after less than five minutes, they started smashing again. I can smash it at least ten times or eight times a day. It can be seen that if the Golden Eagle Flying Horse is allowed to smash like this, in a few years, they can completely wipe out the coalition army.

On top of that, they come and smash it at night. At this time, the population is relatively dense, and most of them will sleep in the tents. Sleep, God knows if you will be stoned to death by an artificial meteorite in your sleep, if you don't sleep, who will eat and not sleep?

It can be seen that the disgusting energy of the golden eagle flying horse. It was also the day after the coalition forces were stationed, they began to test the attack. Shield carts lead the way, followed by infantry wheelbarrows loaded with earth and stone. If you want to attack, you naturally have to fill in the potholes at the entrance of Jiayu Pass, as well as various obstacles such as rejecting spurs.

However, Da Zhao's potholes and spurs are also extremely ingenious. Many of them are entangled with each other, either they have to fill in the pit and then get the rejection horse, or they have to see off the horse that is buried in the ground first, or dig it out before they can fill the pit. But there is no doubt that the location of these potholes is close to the farthest range of the Great Zhao Linglong cannon.

On the city wall of Da Zhao, there are exquisite cannons lined up one by one. Of course, it is impossible to put all 3,000 cannons on the city wall. In fact, Da Zhao's army has never been idle. During this period of time, timber has been used to make a frame of conjoined well railings behind Jiayuguan, and the height of the well railings is divided into three grades: 20 meters, 23 meters, and 26 meters. It is higher than the city wall of Jiayuguan. The wisdom of human beings is indeed infinite, and those craftsmen, or soldiers, used an extremely simple way to lift a delicate cannon weighing more than hundreds of catties onto the well railing. The well bars are implicated in each other, and there is strong support. This makes this high fort extremely stable. This kind of well-bar turret, densely packed, is lined up in front and back according to the height, and nearly 3,000 exquisite cannons with the surname of destruction are piled up.

Although this simple anti-aircraft battery is extremely vulnerable to destruction if it is attacked by enemy infantry, the dragon artillery army will be destroyed. It's just that there is Jiayu Pass, which is known as the world's Xiongguan in front, and before Jiayu Pass is broken, how can any infantry cross over and destroy the well rail artillery mount.

A large number of shield trucks of the other side covered the bulldozers to continuously pour earth and stones into the holes. Because there are too many people on the other side, those potholes and obstacles are being removed in batches. But under the obstacles left by so many days, Da Zhao did not hinder the work of the coalition forces. It will also take them at least a full day to fill in all the obstacles.

But it's a pity that Da Zhao's Dragon Artillery Army will never be indifferent to watching all obstacles being cleared. The first thing to move was not the exquisite cannons on the city wall. Instead, the dragon spear army rested for two or three days, and the gate of Jiayu Pass was opened, and columns of dragon spear troops came out of the city gate. Accompanied by Da Zhao's 10,000 infantry.

The infantrymen, each of them, carried an exaggerated wooden shield four or five centimeters thick, concave on one side and sharp on the other, almost neck-high. The infantry were the first to set up a springboard and move forward through the pit or ravine. He ran straight to a point where he was only more than 100 meters away from the enemy's pit front before stopping. The infantry, under the gaze of the enemy, generously plunged the wooden shield into the soil a little, and set up a support. Then, they all sat down and resisted the heavy wooden shield.

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(To be continued)