Chapter 265 The Battle of Yanmen Pass (7)
Hearing Hu'er's explanation, the generals can be regarded as understanding, but at the same time, they are also aggrieved in their hearts! For so many years since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the southern and northern wars, and the sweeping of the world, even if the three expeditions to Goguryeo failed, they have never ended up in such a wretched end! Blocked by the enemy within the walls, he didn't even dare to fight head-on! Now even in order to avoid the enemy's all-out attack, and be cautious, this kind of thing, when the first emperor was in the past, how could the Great Sui army ever encounter it?
The generals had their own thoughts in their hearts, and after waiting for a while, Dugu Sheng also took a ticket and pulled the three cannons to the city. The so-called artillery will naturally not be the kind of cannon of later generations! It's a kind of trebuchet, but what this trebuchet projects is not ordinary stones, but specially made fire oil bombs!
Once this kind of fire oil bomb is shot out and falls in the enemy formation, it will spill the fire oil inside, and at the same time collide with the outer flames, it will produce a large area of flames and burn the enemy! This kind of weapon, if the two armies are fighting head-on, will definitely not play a great role, but when it is used to defend the city, it is the most suitable! When the Turks had just besieged Yanmen Pass, Yun Dingxing proposed to use artillery to retreat from the enemy, but he was rejected by Lai Hu'er for a reason, but now Lai Hu'er took the initiative to use artillery, I don't know what the other generals think, but Yun Dingxing's face below is very unsightly!
In Yun Dingxing's opinion, the old guy who came to protect his children clearly couldn't see himself being favored in front of the Son of Heaven, and deliberately wanted to deprive himself of the opportunity to make meritorious contributions! Thinking about it like this, Yun Dingxing's hatred for Lai Hu'er deepened a little, and he had secretly made up his mind in his heart that as long as he found an opportunity, he must let this old guy pay back more!
As for Yun Dingxing's thoughts, of course Lai Hu'er doesn't know at the moment, but his current mind is thinking about how to retreat from the enemy today! He previously denied that Yun Dingxing used artillery to retreat from the enemy at the beginning, that was because Lai Hu'er had already seen that Shi Bi was determined to break through Yanmen Pass this time, and although dozens of artillery pieces could increase the strength of the guards, it was absolutely impossible to force back Shi Bi's 300,000 iron cavalry! In the same way, this will only make Shibi even more angry and increase the intensity of the attack on Yanmen Pass! It's better to use it slowly like now, and it can achieve the purpose of delaying time!
Seeing that Dugu Sheng brought the artillery, Laihu'er gave an order, and the soldiers immediately braved the rain of arrows to install the three cannons on the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe attack distance of this cannon is much longer than that of ordinary bows and arrows, so the position of the cannon is also at the back of the castle. When the artillery and oil bombs were loaded, Lai Hu'er did not give the order for a long time, but coldly looked at the battle situation in front of him, pursed his lips, as if he was waiting for something!
However, the situation on the battlefield will not be stagnant because of the waiting of Laihu'er, although the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army fought bravely to kill the enemy, but the Turks outside the pass are inexhaustible! The fire oil on the dozens of ropes before has also slowly dried up, plus some ropes that were added later, the wall of this Yanmen Pass is like a curtain hung on the wall, and countless Turkic soldiers are like beads on the curtain, densely rushing up! At the top of the city, the archers of the Royal Forest Army fired arrows, and the other soldiers didn't care about blocking with their shields anymore, so they simply put away their shields and threw stones down the city!
The stones were mixed with arrows and poured down frantically, but they still couldn't stop the Turks from rushing upwards! There are so many Turks, and every Turk is not afraid of death, even in the face of heavy stones and sharp arrows, they climb up with their heads held high! Finally, after nearly two hours, the first Turk climbed to the top of the city!
Of course, this first person who came out to eat puffer fish must have ended up very miserable, he was directly stabbed in the chest by three or four spears, screamed, and was pushed off the city like this! But with the first, there was a second, a third, and soon many more Turks jumped in from the female wall! Seeing this scene, all the generals in the city were shocked, and hurriedly turned their heads to look at Laihu'er, and a few people couldn't help shouting: "Old general!" Give the order to fire the artillery! ”
"No hurry!" Although everyone urged, Lai Hu'er was not in a hurry, but waved his hand and shouted: "The archer takes ten steps back!" The rest of the soldiers took three steps back and formed a formation to kill the enemy! ”
The Imperial Forest Army is indeed worthy of being the strongest army in the Great Sui! Although the city was already in chaos now, after hearing Laihu'er's order, all the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army still strictly implemented the military order to protect Hu'er, and all the archers immediately put away their bows and arrows, pulled out their short swords at their waists, and took ten steps backwards, just behind those comrades with spears! The other soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army raised their spears and formed a formation, ready to meet the growing number of Turks!
Although I don't know why these Sui soldiers suddenly retreated, but those Turks will not guess more, the retreat of the Sui soldiers just provided space for them to climb to the top of the city, and for a time there were fifty or sixty people climbing the city, these Turks looked at the enemy who had formed a formation in front of them, all of them were staring at red eyes, their faces were hideous, and they might pounce at any time!
"Humph!" Lai Hu'er, who was standing on the high platform, snorted coldly, but finally raised his arm, waved his hand behind him, and shouted: "Fire the artillery!" ”
Dugu Sheng, who had been guarding the artillery, had been waiting for this order for a long time, and when he heard Hu'er's order, Dugu Sheng suddenly showed joy, turned his head and shouted to the soldiers who controlled the artillery behind him: "Quick!" Fast! Hurry up! ”
In fact, there is no need for Dugu Sheng to say hello, those soldiers who control the artillery have already started to do it! With the distinctive creaking sound of the artillery, three large black but blazing fireballs were directly bounced into the air and flew towards the outside of the gate. I saw that the three fireballs crossed an arc in the air, and finally smashed directly into the Turkic military array! At this moment, the outside of the pass is already surrounded by the Turks, and nearly 300,000 Turkic iron horsemen are densely surrounded outside the pass, so even if they see those big fireballs falling, those Turks can't avoid it, but in their opinion, even if they are hit by that fireball, at most they will break their heads and bleed, and no matter how unlucky they are, they will just die one or two, so no one cares!
However, when the three fireballs landed at about the same time, the Turks finally realized that they had been mistaken! After the fireball was smashed open, the fire oil inside was directly smashed open, dyed with the flames outside, and immediately burned at the first time! For a time, the three fires were flourishing, and none of the surrounding Turks could be spared! The flames are like the ghost of the tarsal bones, and once they get on a Turk, they will climb all over his body in the shortest possible time, tormenting him in agony until he loses his life! Seeing his companions in front of him being tormented by this sudden fire, the Turkic people next to him who were not contaminated by the flames couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and fear rose in their hearts! And then, a succession of fire oil bombs continued to be thrown out of the city, expanding the flames outside the gate bigger and bigger!
Among the rear army of the Turks, Shi Bi and Eliver were also taken aback by this change, looking at the flames that suddenly appeared, Shi Bi's face suddenly became ugly, and he snorted: "I didn't expect that there are such sharp weapons in this Yanmen Pass!" "When Shibi was a child, he also followed his father Qimin Khan to stay in the Eastern Capital for a period of time, so he immediately recognized the origin of the artillery, it stands to reason that there are artillery in this Yanmen Pass, but Shibi didn't expect that the Sui army would be so enduring, and it has been delayed until now to take out the artillery and use it!
Elipsheth's astonishment was much higher than that of Shibi, and looking at the growing fire, Eliver couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my God! What is this? Could it be that these Han dogs really have any psychic skills? Can you summon a fire? ”
"Don't panic!" For Eliver's gaffe, Shi Bi didn't laugh at him, after all, the first time he saw these sharp weapons of the Sui army, he was inferior to his own brother! However, Shi Bi's face was not very good, because most of the Turks were the same as Elivershe, and they had never seen all kinds of sharp weapons of the Sui army, so now the morale of the soldiers was also greatly damaged, and if they continued to attack, they were afraid that the losses would be greater! This can be regarded as a generation of heroes, and after weighing the power, he immediately turned his head and shouted behind him: "Order!" Retire! Hearing Shibi's shouting, the Turkic soldier holding the horn was only stunned for a moment, but soon the horn was blown and Shibi's order was conveyed to the Turkic soldiers on the entire battlefield!
And at this moment, at the head of the city, those Turkic soldiers who had just climbed to the top of the city did not notice the changes on the battlefield behind them, they had already gathered hundreds of people, and began to prepare to sharpen their knives and kill the enemy in front of them! At this time, the horn sounded, but it also made them all stunned, and at the same time turned their heads to look back, not understanding the current good situation, why suddenly retreating?
They were stunned, but the old man would not be stunned, seeing this opportunity, Laihu'er immediately shouted: "The whole army is attacking!" Archer shooting! Inform the cavalry team below! Open and close the door! Chase the enemy for a mile! ”
"Drink!" Hearing Hu'er's order, the first people in the city to react were those archers who had been waiting for a long time! They immediately took out their bows and arrows, bent their bows and arrows, and threw them directly into the air in front of them! And the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army in front of them also raised their spears one after another, took neat steps, and rushed towards those Turks at the same time! Before those Turks could take a defensive stance, countless spears directly opened blood holes in their bodies! These Turks, who had managed to climb to the top of the city, were solved in one go!