The Turkic army on the eastern front was helpless at Hugu Pass, but the fighting on the western front was fierce, and after capturing the Great Wall of Zihe, the Turkic army marched all the way south and reached Shanyang County the next day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Shanyang County is the first important town in the north of the Sui army, and a large number of food, soldiers and other materials are stored in the county, and there are 30,000 troops stationed in the county.

The county seat was built on a high slope, and the city was tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Shanyang County was the second line of defense of the Sui army, and the reason why it was called the defense line was because Shanyang County was located on the road that the north-south passage must pass, and the Turkic cavalry could ignore the city and continue south, but their logistical supply line would be cut off by the defenders of Shanyang County.

As the Turkic army marched south without finding any ordinary residents, Chuluo Khan realized that the Sui army had moved all the people away, which meant that they could not obtain food supplies through raiding.

Then the capture of Shanyang County, the seizure of food and materials in the city and the safety of supply routes have become a hurdle that the Turkic army cannot bypass.

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The sky is gradually brightening, when the sun shines through the heavy clouds, projecting thousands of golden rays on the head of Shanyang City, the warning bell is at the head of Shanyang City! While! When the sound rang, 30,000 soldiers of the Sui army rushed to the city, holding bows and arrows and crossbows, and waited for the battle.

Outside the city, the overwhelming Turkic and Tiele coalition forces have been swept away, they are divided into four large phalanxes, from four directions to Shanyang City, the horn sounds, the drum is like thunder, the infantry, cavalry, camel soldiers, more than 200,000 troops are like waves undulating, gradually stopped, about five miles away from the city.

The Turkic soldiers wore double leather helmets on their heads, leather armor, and sturdy leather boots on their feet, and their weapons were knives and spears, as well as a large number of bows and arrows.

Although the Turks used to be soft slaves and were good at crafting all kinds of weapons, since the Turks seized the steppe, the serious shortage of pig iron made them have to melt down all kinds of obsolete weapons and rebuild them, which in turn affected the quality of weapons and made the Turkic weapons much inferior to before.

Therefore, this time the army went south and seized the pig iron and weapons of the Central Plains Dynasty was also one of the war purposes of Chuluo Khan.

The Turkic armies were clearly not much prepared for siege warfare,

The army of more than 200,000 people only had hundreds of siege ladders, no ladders, no trebuchets, no nest carts, and no battering rams, and they were like barbarians from the steppe, with only the most primitive weapons in their hands.

The Turkic army was also apparently aware of the urgent siege problem, and hundreds of stairs were not enough to take Shanyang City, so Chuluo Khan immediately sent hundreds of people to cut down a large tree that had grown for a thousand years, and they needed this thick trunk to break through the gates of Shanyang City.

Chu Luo Khan looked coldly at the city in the distance, the city head was densely covered with flags, standing densely packed with Sui soldiers, behind them, there were nearly a hundred huge trebuchets, standing high on the city wall, Chu Luo Khan had participated in the battle against Yanmen City, well aware of the power of trebuchets.

At that time, it was a dozen trebuchets that brought heavy losses to the Turkic army, and the siege of the city did not capture the Sui Emperor Yang Guang for a month, until a large number of Yang Guang's reinforcements appeared, and the Turkic army was finally forced to withdraw to the steppe.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that the Sui army would carry out nearly half a year of war preparations, let alone that the Sui army would move all the people of the three northern counties, which disrupted his plan and forced the Turkic army to give up its superior cavalry and carry out its own weak siege warfare.

Moreover, from the steppe to the south, they could not carry a large number of siege weapons, let alone monster-like siege rams, and many unfavorable factors made Chuluo Khan's heart full of worries.

"Khan, the Crash Wood is ready!" A captain rushed to report.

When he looked back, he saw that hundreds of horses had dragged a huge trunk, seven feet long and six feet in diameter, and it would take hundreds of people to hold this giant crashing tree.

Although Chu Luo Khan still had doubts about the Sui army's trebuchet, he also wanted to see how powerful the Sui army's trebuchet was, and he wanted to know how strong the Sui army's defense was.

"Order the Third Army to attack!"

The Third Army, that is, the army of the Sijie tribe, was a leader in the task of Tiele's army, which wanted to see the power of trebuchets, but did not want his Turkic army to suffer heavy losses.

"Boom! Boom! "The drums of the attack sounded, and the Sijie army located outside the northern city launched the first round of offensive, and 10,000 Sijie troops rushed like a tide, carrying hundreds of siege ladders, brandishing war knives and spears, and rushing towards the city gate with a shout, the arrows were like dense rain, and they shot at the head of the city from a few hundred paces away, but they had no effect, but they accidentally injured many of their own people.

Behind the tide-like army, a huge crashing wood was slowly transported to the city gate under the carrying of more than a thousand big men.

For the Sui army, they couldn't tell the difference between the Turks and the Tiele people, in their eyes they were all Turkic troops, and it was true, although the besiegers were the Tiele Sijie people, but they still carried the banner of the Turkic army, and in essence they were still Turkic troops.

At the head of the city, the ten trebuchets of the Sui army began to creak apart, because they were attacking from top to bottom, the craftsmen of the Sui army adjusted their arm distance, and set up a clever lever, so that this kind of giant trebuchet no longer needs 200 people to pull, only 50 people can be launched.

The large stones of the grinding disc were put into the throwing bag, and under the order of the general Wei Chigong, fifty trebuchets were fired at the same time, and fifty boulders were thrown high, tumbling in the air, drawing an arc, and slamming into the dense crowd.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang on the ground, screams arose, several Turkic soldiers avoided it, and were smashed into meat cakes by a boulder, the huge inertia made the stones roll in the crowd, fast and abnormal, rolling out more than 20 steps in a row, the Turkic soldiers desperately dodged on both sides, but still fifty or sixty people died under the collision of the boulder, and hundreds of people were injured, broken bones and tendons, and wailing sounded all over the place.

Immediately after the second, third, and fourth rounds of trebuchets were shot, accompanied by the Sui army's bows and crossbows, the arrows on the city were like dense rain, and the city suffered heavy casualties.

Zhang Xuan divided the three northern counties into three theaters, the Yanmen Theater, the Mayi Theater, and the Loufu Theater, which were led by the generals Wei Chigong, Li Jing, and Pei Xingyan, respectively, and coordinated by himself.

The Shanyang Theater was originally in charge of Li Jing, but considering that Li Jing was better at surprise warfare and Wei Chigong was good at defending the city, Zhang Xuan thought twice about it, and finally swapped the theater of operations for the two of them a month ago, and the Mayi Theater was changed to Wei Chigong.

Due to the full combat preparation, the Sui army installed the world's most advanced trebuchet on the county town of Shanyang, causing huge casualties to the attacking Turkic army.

At this time, the city crashing wood had already gone up the hillside and walked towards the city gate step by step.

Because Han Qianhui and others lit the beacon fire in time, Wei Chigong got the news of the loss of the Zihe Great Wall in advance and grasped the opportunity in defense deployment.

A kind of black stone grease is produced in Mayi County, that is, the oil of later generations, but the stone grease produced in Mayi County has too many impurities and is too viscous to be suitable for military use, but is used as a plaster car, that is, an axle lubricant, and can also be used to make torches.

However, through the comparison of the stone lipids collected from all over the country, Sui Jun found that the stone lipid produced in Fushi County, Yan'an County has fewer impurities, the oil quality is clear, and the combustion is stronger, which is called 'high slave oil' locally.

The Sui army exchanged 500 sets of armor for 5,000 barrels of high slave oil from Song Jingang, which were stored in Shanyang County.

In the early hours of this morning, Wei Chigong sent people to dig 10 shallow ditches on the soil slope, poured 500 barrels of high slave oil, and covered them with a thin layer of soil.

At this time, Wei Chigong saw that the enemy's ramming wood had already gone up the slope, and immediately ordered: "Prepare for a fire attack!" ”

The Sui army immediately transferred five medium-sized trebuchets, installed five firecloth balls, and the five soldiers lit the oil-soaked cloth balls with fires, and with the pitcher's shout, five blazing fireballs were thrown at the crashing wood 200 paces away.

The fire smashed into the crowd, igniting the stone grease on the ground, and suddenly formed a sea of fire, and countless people were ignited by the fire, becoming fire men, they opened their arms, wailed and ran in all directions, and before they could run a few steps, they fell to the ground, and the fire burned them and curled them up.

The Sui army's fire attack dealt a fatal blow to the crashing wood, and as the fire burned and spread, the huge collision wood was also ignited, and a large number of carrying soldiers fled, and the collision wood fell to the ground with a bang and was engulfed in the raging fire.

(To be continued.) )