Chapter 292: Bloody Battle of Ulecht City
The next day's Chaoyang will not stop his rising footsteps because of Qin Kaifeng and Hu Yanzhuo's confusion, after a sleepless night's melancholy, in the end, it is the veteran Hu Yanzhuo said to Qin Kaifeng: "General Qin, according to the old man's opinion, we can only storm Ulecht City, but we still need to cooperate with tactics, we can't really wait here for a month, and after the field heavy artillery comes, let's attack the city again, if so, then what should Your Majesty do, it is April now, the water level of the Amu Darya River is the lowest, and the river is the narrowest, It is very suitable for His Majesty and others to cross the river in order to capture Amu City, but if we drag it out for a month and march westward for another month, then how will we cross the Amu Darya River and turn with Your Majesty, so we can't think about things with thinking that goes against the laws of war, war cannot be without death, and all we can do now is to reduce the number of dead soldiers as much as possible. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Qin Kaifeng drooped his head and thought about Hu Yanzhuo's words for a long time before he said to Hu Yanzhuo: "Okay, what is General Huyan's battle plan, please give me advice." ”
"Soldiers launched a massive arch against the city walls, and increased artillery support, sending soldiers to bring explosive sacs (similar to the east and east of the explosive pack) to the city gate and blow it open."
"Blow up the gates?! General Huyan, how many of our soldiers will have to pay for their lives! The sacrifice is too great. Qin Kaifeng said disagreeably.
"General Qin, the Seljuk Turkic State is not a weak small country like Goryeo, this country is vast and has a large population, if you hold the idea of fighting Goryeo that is almost immortal, I'm afraid it won't work, including your next strategic target, the Ghaznavid Kingdom, they have been fighting against the Seljuk State all the year round, their country's folk customs are fierce, and their combat power is not to be underestimated, when the time comes, you will come with a soldier, as a weak country, they will not stupidly go out of the city to fight with your tens of thousands of iron cavalry and artillery in the field, One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, this is the iron law of war. Well, think about it for yourself, I will order all the soldiers of the army to stop the attack for an hour, rest, eat, and after an hour, my Fifth Route Army will officially attack the city of Urest. After Hu Yanzhuo finished speaking, he waved his cloak and walked out of his military tent.
In fact, Hu Yanzhuo is right, in peacetime, the garrison of a city is only 20,000 at most, and even only five or six thousand people, but Uresht City has 60,000 defenders, so their purpose is very clear, vowing to block the Song army here, to win time for future strategic plans, and Qin Kaifeng According to the experience of previous battles, due to the superb combat ability of the Song soldiers, excellent military execution, sophisticated weapons and armor, and timely treatment of medical guards, As a result, they rarely die in every battle, so when Hu Yanzhuo said to Qin Kaifeng this time that he would storm the city wall and blow up the city gate, Qin Kaifeng naturally had foreseen large-scale battle casualties, so Qin Kaifeng, who was unable to accept this reality for a while, fell into a tangle, but the soldier's military order to obey orders once again defeated the compassion in his heart, I am afraid that this time, he needs to really face the large-scale combat attrition on his side. Thinking of this, Qin Kaifeng strode out of the military tent and began to eat and rest with the soldiers, preparing for the upcoming battle.
"Open fire, target the walls, suppress them, the infantry attack the city!!"
An hour passed quickly, and under the order of the commander-in-chief, a large group of soldiers carried ladders and quickly rushed to these city walls in a completely different style from the previous contact, red eyes, high morale, under the sound of artillery explosions and the rendering of blood, became more vigorous.
"Demolition troops, blast open the gates for me!" Qin Kaifeng waved the Heavenly Painting Halberd in his hand, and hundreds of sword and shield hands hung their swords and held shields, holding explosive sacs, and rushed towards the city gate.
The Seljuk soldiers defending the city also used their extremely brave and tenacious character to resist the attack of the Song Imperial army, the Seljuk soldiers on the city wall withstood the falling cannonballs, and the rolling wood and stones in their hands, like a torrential rain, poured down against the Song soldiers who were besieging the city, and countless push rods constantly pushed the ladders supporting the city wall away from the city wall, causing a large number of casualties of the Song army, and even more, a large number of oil cans were suddenly thrown out of the city wall, followed by the lighting of torches, under the three walls of the city of Ulecht, Suddenly it turned into a purgatory-like scene. When the Seljuk soldiers defending the city saw those Song soldiers who suddenly rushed to the city gate with explosives sacs, a large amount of hot oil was poured down, and with a large amount of hot oil, a torch also came down, and the city gate cave was instantly a sea of fire, although there were constantly medical soldiers using stretchers to rescue the injured and ineffective Song soldiers back to their own positions, but the Seljuks who swore to resist to the death made the Song Empire pay a lot of casualties.
"Gunners, target the walls of the oil tanks, open fire, suppress them!!" Seeing his soldiers falling continuously, Qin Kaifeng's eyes were about to crack, and he kept loudly giving orders to the artillerymen to gather fire.
"Bang-"
With a loud bang, a city gate shattered, and the soldiers of the Song State at the city gate were naturally not spared, at this time, Qin Kaifeng could no longer care about the life and death of those soldiers, and ordered loudly to the gunner: "Artillery fire, target the city gate, and sweep a way for the cavalry!" ”
A large number of cannonballs exploded in the city gate hole in an instant, and the Seljuk soldiers who came to block the gate were also blown into minced meat by these cannonballs at this moment, and at the same time, after two rounds of shelling, with a wave of the halberd in Qin Kaifeng's hand, the cavalry began to charge.
In good conscience, the mortality rate of both sides of the urban street battle is higher than that of the field battle, especially the two sides of this kind of one side to defend to the death, and the other side is to take revenge, that is really the enemy to meet, extraordinarily red-eyed, street fighting, which is conducive to the small group combat form of the Song army, the Song Army's achievements in small team coordination during the usual training, it shows their strong power here, more than a dozen people for an attack team, under the leadership and command of their respective team leaders, sword and shield hands, spearmen, crossbowmen, long knife hands, with a degree of advance and retreat, Attacking and defending, the relatively chaotic Seljuk army paid a huge price in death.
The fierce battle lasted for a whole day and night, and the entire outer city of Ulesh City had been occupied by the Song army, except for a part of the Seljuk soldiers who were still fighting fiercely with the Song army, all the remaining Seljuk troops and civilians were almost all killed by the Song army, and the entire outer city of Ulesh City was reduced to ruins.
"Report - the two marshals, without Muric, together with Imamus and Ould and their remnants, have all fled into the inner city, please give the order of the two marshals whether to continue the siege of the city." A herald Pegasus came to Qin Kaifeng and Hu Yanzhuo's side and clenched his fists and said.
"Go on the offensive and don't give the Seljuks the slightest respite." The old and spicy Hu Yanzhuo preemptively said to the herald.
"Order." After receiving the order, the herald hurried to convey the order of his commander. And look at the Seljuk soldiers who were blocked out of the inner city by their compatriots, these soldiers who already knew that they had no possibility of survival, their eyes were already red, from the moment the inner city gate was closed, they began to become more frantic and began to fight with the Song soldiers in a life-for-life trapped beast battle, and the Song soldiers who were constantly attacking them were forced to retreat by these Seljuk soldiers who were almost crazy and showed extraordinary combat effectiveness.
The one-handed weapons used by all the soldiers of the Seljuk Turkic State, except for a few battle axes and war hammers, most of them are cavalry scimitars, and the elite infantry of the Song army, who hold the Pu knife and wear iron armor, conduct foot combat duels in urban street battles, no matter what, they are at a disadvantage, although they temporarily suppressed the momentum of the Song army's offensive with a momentum, but the chaos of the formation, I never knew how to cooperate with the individual for the battle, only knew the continuous crazy chopping, and the muscles and joints that had been in a tense state, Even the brain, so that these Seljuk soldiers, who had never been able to rest, did not have a long time, and they fell under the swords of the Song soldiers. (To be continued.) )
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