Chapter 158: Purgatory

There are no two days and no two masters. Now there are two Yan armies on the plateau, and if they want to cooperate with each other and cooperate with the tacit understanding and complete the arduous task of annihilating the strong Uighur enemy in a short period of time, naturally there can be no two marshals at the same time.

Jingtai may be crazy, but he is not confused when it comes to employing people. On the march and fighting, the general Zhou Jing's skills are undoubted, and he ranks firmly in the forefront among many famous generals in the Yan Kingdom. Strictly speaking, the responsibility for this lies with the imperial court, which misjudged the timing and was pitted by the Uighurs. The fact that the Yan army of the Western Expedition was able to hold out for several months under the heavy pressure of the Uighurs and the lack of support from the Uighurs, and that it was able to hold on to the main force and wait until the reinforcements came to converge, was the proof that Zhou Jing commanded properly and used his troops excellently

The hardest time finally passed, a large number of reinforcements arrived, swept away the previous decline, and immediately turned from passive to active, but before the Yan people could launch an offensive against the holy city, the Uighurs actually launched a large army, abandoned the high walls and thick city of Rinka, and counterattacked towards the advance of the Yan army!

Then came a fierce battle......

The desert warriors are known as the most powerful cavalry in the world, along with the steppe wolves, but in reality, when the number is close, the wolf pawns will always choose to retreat when they encounter the Uighur knights. Single-handed, equestrian and combat skills, the Uighurs are a step ahead, and the two are equally famous only because the total number of wolf pawns is higher.

When the Uighurs assembled into an army, and countless cavalry scattered and rushed towards the Yan army, the cry of their mouths swept in all directions, and the light of the scimitars in their hands reflected the sky almost transparent, except for the irrepressible tremor of the earth. Ordinary people who have not been trained are afraid that they will not be able to stand steadily!

But the Yan Army's forward is not muddy. The two armies of Yan successfully converged, and a joint operation was immediately launched. In the face of the Uighurs' attack that almost annihilated yin and yang and trampled the world, their defense was steady and solid, and their counterattacks were sharp and terrifying, and they did not fall behind at all, dragging this war down little by little.

The Yanren Pioneer General understands very well that the longer it drags on, the better it will be for him, and the boss has received the news that he will definitely send the elite lightly and quickly to attack Rinka, who is guarding the empty Rinka at the moment. As long as I can drag the Uighurs here for two days... No, in a day and a half, the Holy City will fall into the hands of the Yan army. At that time, even if the Uighurs won the battle, it would be useless. If they lose their strong city, they will only be wiped out!

The general's calculation was very good, and the battle was exactly as he wished, and after a few hours, the Yan army was in a stable position and resisted the turbulent waves set off by the strong enemy. It wasn't until dusk that the shrill trumpets of the Uighurs were heard......

Unlike the bleak and heavy Uighur trumpets, the sound of the new horn is very sharp, even somewhat like the sound of the suona, a Middle-earth instrument, but it is far louder and noisier than the suona. Immediately, the Uighur cavalry, which was charging into battle, rolled out like a tide on both sides......

The Uighurs came from the west to the east, and the Yan vanguard army fought against the west. It was because of the direction he was in that a terrible illusion appeared in the eyes of the Yan pawn who was struggling to defend the position: it was as if a sharp horn pierced the sky, making the blood-red sunset in the sky 'flow' and 'spread' to the ground:

The center of the Uighur cavalry array, and the front of the main Yan army. A fiery red army!

The most important reason why the Uighurs were the most powerful cavalry in the world was that they produced strong horses. The Uighur horses were fatter and stronger, a head taller than the swallow horses, and were far superior in sprint, endurance, weight, and temperament, and it is said that the Uighur warlike horses had hidden evil intentions if they were properly trained. In combat, they can even kick and stamp, head down, and actively damage enemies without being ordered by their masters.

The horses in the Red Army were more than half larger than the ordinary Uighur horses, and they were covered with red scaly chain mail. The knights on their bodies are more like gold and iron floating slaughter, their whole bodies are shrouded in thick iron armor, and there is not a single gap except for their eyes.

Even the knights in armor and the spears in the hands of the knights had to carry at least 350 pounds of weight, but when they charged again, they were not only not bulky, but they were faster than the previous Uighurs.

From the banner to the armor to the spear in the hand, all dyed red, not for the blood-colored taste of the Nanli Red Bowei, this Uighur heavy horse was bright and bright, the blinding bright red, and when the army and horses gathered together, it was different from the earth cracking, and the vast flames that swarmed from the netherworld.

When the cavalry roared closer, Yan Pawn was shocked to find that the horse's eyes and the sweat dripping on the ground through the scale armor were also red, like blood and even more like fire!

The name of this cavalry is called: Purgatory.

The killer weapon of the Uighurs, the elite of the elite, the purgatory heavy rider that has been painstakingly cultivated by pouring the power of the desert and accumulating a hundred years of time!

On the desert, only one of the three horses can have a war horse, and only ten of the ten war horses can a good horse be selected for the commander and the general to sit on, but among the foals of a hundred good horses, there may not be a fierce horse with red eyes.

Red-eyed and bloody, this famous horse was called 'Burning Cloud' by the Uighurs.

Originally, it was an unavoidable alien breed, but after the founding of the Uighur state, the Great Khan took a fancy to the horse's ability, indicating that this capable man deliberately bred through crossbreeding, and finally achieved great success. However, due to human intervention, although this kind of horse can be bred, the survival rate is very low, and even if they survive, with the best feed and special care, their lifespan is only half that of ordinary horses, and their strength and speed are inferior to the real fire clouds, but they are much stronger than ordinary war horses.

Because of these reasons, Huoyun can't equip the whole army, and now Sunrise East has only 40,000 purgatory soldiers in his hands, and he directly transferred half of it to Xie Musheer in this southern expedition, as the capital of the expeditionary force to press the bottom of the box. Since Semusher led the troops on the expedition, this team has never been used, and the generalissimo has covered them to death, and the Tubo people do not know, let alone the Yan people.

20,000 purgatory, not worth mentioning in terms of quantity. It's just a drop in the ocean in this huge battle, but in terms of combat power... Enough is enough.

Heavy armor, spears, knights, and horses are self-weighted. Coupled with the speed of the wind, the strength of each 'Purgatory' when it rushed into the enemy line was so ferocious, and the heavy iron armor that wore it from the top of the cavalry's heads to the four hooves of the horses made the 'Purgatory' completely ignore the conventional sniper methods of bows and arrows, knives and guns; The most terrifying thing is not their strength and speed, but the fact that the horses are still able to maintain good agility in such a load and galloping.

'Purgatory' was no clumsier than the average Uighur cavalry, leaping on all fours as it ran, easily stepping over obstacles on the ground......

The fierce power and the torrent of gold and steel gathered by the galloping iron towers, what did the Yan people use to resist.

In the hedge battle array, the best way to deal with the heavy weapons of Purgatory is only to make a fuss on the ground, digging traps and setting blockades. But the war started abruptly, and it had been fought for most of the day. Even if the Yan army hastily arranged some ground work before, it had already been leveled by the previous large-scale light cavalry charge. It is not for nothing that Shemsher waited until this time to send a killer weapon into battle.

As a result, the charge of 20,000 purgatory heavy horsemen became completely suspenseful, and the sound of iron hooves roared. The Yan people's formation was ruthlessly opened, and it didn't take long for the flame-like iron cavalry to penetrate the Yan formation, but purgatory did not stop, and with the commander's order, they turned their horses' heads and rushed back again.

Rushing into battle like a tug-of-war, after a few back and forth, the Great Yan army formation was shattered by them. Then, the trumpets of the main Uighur array sounded at the same time as the drums of war. The light cavalry warriors from the desert roared in unison, overwhelming the mountains and seas, and slaughtered the enemy formation!

In the middle of the moon, the Yan army was completely defeated, leaving countless corpses and fleeing in a hurry. Shamsheher again ordered the Uighurs not to pursue or even clean up the battlefield for loot, and the army immediately turned around and hurried back to Rinkha. When they returned to the Holy City. The robbery sent by Zhou Jing was only thirty miles away from the city......

The Uighurs won heartily, but they also won dangerously. The main force abandons the city and goes out to attack the strong enemy, which will inevitably lead to the city's air defense, and the Yan people will send troops to attack while they are weak. In the end, it was time for the two armies to fight, and if the war did not go well and the Uighur army was held back by the Yan Advance for a little longer, the Holy City would probably be lost, and the fate of the Uighurs would be unimaginable.

It was not that Shemsher was reckless and greedy, and he knew that he was taking a risk and still led his troops out of the city to fight, and he had no choice but to do it: since they conquered Rinkha, the Uighurs had taken the initiative on the plateau battlefield, but they had never been able to find an opportunity to exterminate the Yan, and now the situation had changed abruptly, and the Uighurs were forced to switch from offensive to defensive, and this abrupt change would have a major impact on the morale and morale of the army.

In addition, Xie Musheer has a clear understanding of the catastrophe that the Yan Kingdom is currently experiencing, and naturally he can also understand that the two Yan armies in front of him will launch a fierce attack at any cost, in order to end the war here as soon as possible and rush back to save the country and savior.

It is not difficult to imagine how tragic the siege battle would have been soon after.

In order to fight hard and hold the holy city for a longer time, Shemsheil had to boost the morale of his army first. Before they could officially go on the defensive, the Uighurs needed a big victory, even if it was a force or a risk.

But then again, if it weren't for the fact that he still had 20,000 purgatory hidden in his hands and had a better chance of winning in his heart, Shemsheil might not have fought this battle.

Shemsher succeeded in destroying the Yan army's advance, but after just three days, the Yan army made a comeback, and without any pre-battle negotiations, the Yan army directly launched a siege.

Since the beginning of this battle, there has been no pause.

Day and night, the various units of the Yan army outside the city took turns to recklessly attack the city like crazy.

The siege passage left by Hong Taizu was blocked not long ago, and this road could have been used by the defenders, but after Song Yang came down from the snowfield, he asked the lackeys of Xie Men to send a message to the Uighurs, and Yanding had already learned about the arrangement left by Hong Taizu, although he did not know what information he had learned, but no one could guarantee whether there was a secret passage under the holy city recorded on the stone wall, and the Uighurs still completely sealed it in order to be safe.

In the city, in front of the Sacred Mountain Chaitso Pagoda, the huge open space that was originally used for worshippers has become a crematorium, and the layers of flames have rolled up, turning the corpses of the dead soldiers into ashes, and there are corpses sent from the four cities all the time, and the black smoke has never dispersed since it rose, and the thick billowing wind cannot move. The Uighurs worshiped fire, and after death, the body was cremated, and the soul returned to the embrace of the god of fire.

Outside the city, under the four walls, in some places, the corpses of the Yan people have even piled up to the same height as the city wall, Zhou Jing has no time, he doesn't dare to delay for a moment, and even doesn't care about the traditional respect for the dead, and orders the army to only attack the city and not collect the corpses! The weather on the plateau was getting colder, the corpses were decomposing slowly, and there was no fear of a plague outbreak in a short time, so the Yan soldiers stepped on the corpses of their colleagues in front of them, and fought hard towards the city, and soon they also became stepping stones for their comrades to attack the city.

Every day, every moment, the Yan people are attacking, the Uighurs are struggling to defend, human life is turned into a cloud of smoke, and a gust of wind blows and a group of corpses falls; Soldiers have also become machines, and they only do two things: fight and rest.

Inside and outside the city, everyone became numb.

The morale brought by the victory of the Yan striker a while ago has dissipated.

The Uighur warriors saw the Yan offensive and understood the enemy's determination to conquer the city, and thus their fate: the city was destroyed. Although the commander has announced that reinforcements are coming, everyone knows in their hearts that this is just a rhetoric to boost morale, how can there be any more reinforcements...... In fact, there is no need to make up such lame excuses, now there is no need to mobilize or motivate anymore, when death becomes the wind around you, and it will flow through the body at any time and there is no defense, the death battle will become the only obsession of the living.

Dying to protect the sacred flame is the most direct way for the soul to ascend to heaven and bask in the holy light for eternal joy and peace.

A month has passed in a blink of an eye, the defenders in the city have suffered heavy casualties, Shemuchel has just come down from the city, his body is stained with blood, exuding a pungent and bloody smell, several important generals in the army are lined up on both sides, one by one to report the defense he is responsible for, and the left column leader who had advocated retreat before finally spoke: "If you want to defend it again, give me people, I want the sand crab flag!" ”

The Sand Crab Banner is one of the Uighur troops, with a total of 60,000 people, and if there is no 'purgatory', they are the core combat force under the command of Shemsher, but these 60,000 elites are all cavalry.

The best cavalry can only exert their full power on horseback, and it is undoubtedly a great waste to let them dismount and be ordinary guards now. But what can be done? The casualties of the defenders were too great, and the ordinary cavalry had already dismounted and been transferred to the city, and now that they were once again understaffed, they had to be called upon if they wanted to continue to hold on to the holy city. Not to mention the sand crab flag, according to the current state, it won't be long before the 20,000 purgatory, I am afraid that the 20,000 purgatory, will also abandon the horses and take off the heavy armor to enter the city garrison.

After the left column leader finished speaking, he couldn't help but blur his eyes, and looked at the right leader on the opposite side, the two of them have been under the command of Sheermuer for more than ten years, almost quarreling when they meet, and they have never been harmonious...... It's a pity that this time when he looked at the other party, he suddenly woke up: dead, replaced.

The old enemy, the right head general with Han blood in his family, had died in battle in the city a few days ago.

The left head will look dark. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )