It seems that overnight, the residents of Big Rock City found themselves abandoned by this world, the vast grassland has nothing to do with them, except for the area within the huge wall, they can not go anywhere, the hateful Khitan people have imprisoned them like cattle and sheep, they hate, but in addition to hate, they are helpless, after being surrounded, they have not done no resistance, their cavalry and infantry have fought many times, either the whole army is wiped out or returned, their courage to resist is disappearing little by little, and finally there is nothing,

The lies concocted by the nobles that "the enemy will soon retreat" are self-defeating,

In the summer they did not retreat, in the autumn they did not retreat, and in the winter they showed no sign of retreating.

The Khitan people besieging the city must have been instructed by the masters, their siege techniques are very sophisticated, since the summer they have been digging a trench in a mile away from the city wall, ten zhang wide, one zhang deep, the bottom of the ditch is densely covered with pile sticks, people and horses will die if they fall, those pile sticks have wooden, there are also iron, more are bamboo sticks, there are no bamboo sticks within hundreds of miles around the big stone city, I don't know where these Khitan people got the bamboo sticks,

The Khitan people used the soil of the trench to build an earthen wall along the outside of the trench, which was one zhang high, and set up an earthen fort every hundred zhang, and the shape of the earthen fort looked like a miniature bowl tower.

It seems that the Khitans are ready to besiege the city for a long time, and their arrogant and ignorant commander actually tried to swallow the big stone city in one bite, which is simply a joke, you must know that the big stone city has never been broken by foreign enemies since it was built, and the morale of the defenders is very high, they decided to give the Khitan people a bloody lesson, let them see what is the city that does not fall for thousands of years,

But the wise man also has to consider a question: Big Rock City has not experienced a major war for nearly a hundred years, can the glory of the past repel the fierce enemy in front of them alone, the answer is obviously impossible, these Khitans dare to besiege the city under the nose of the son of the wolf, what kind of courage and courage is it, the son of the wolf turns a blind eye to them, it can be seen that they must have reached some kind of private deal, just this hand, it is enough to see their wrists,

"The thousand-year-old city will not be breached by anyone."

At the beginning of the battle, everyone firmly believed this, but after several victories over Dashicheng, the besieging Khitans first wavered this belief, if the cavalry of Dashicheng was as weak and easy to bully as the girls, would their seemingly tall city walls also be like cheese without swords and axes,

"Big Rock has met a fierce enemy, a fierce enemy that has not been encountered in a hundred years."

After a month of siege, the defenders of Big Rock City realized this, and for another month, this panic spread in the city, and this realization originated from the legendary cavalry that was killed and did not return, there was a cavalry of the famous grassland in Big Rock City, the knights were dressed in dazzling bright silver armor, and they were dressed in silver-white cloaks with gold threads, and they were also white dragon horses on their horses, this gorgeous cavalry team known as the "Pegasus Knights" was the pride of Big Rock City, but they had never participated in any decent battles, At best, they were a guard of honor, but the inhabitants of Big Rock City were superstitious about them, believing them to be invincible, and during the siege of the city for a month, under strong public pressure, the lord of the city, Clarge, sent the "Pegasus Knights" against his will.

In order not to completely shake the morale of the army because of the rout of the "Pegasus Knights", Krare made a foreshadowing in advance, and he let out the rumors, saying that the stars in the night sky showed that the "Pegasus Knights" were now in the weakest period in a thousand years, and it was not suitable to fight, and if they were reluctant to go on the expedition, the outcome would be unpredictable, and no one believed in this "prophecy", and the fanatical residents believed that even if the "Pegasus Knights" were in the weakest period in a thousand years, they would definitely be able to live up to expectations and beat the butts of the Khitans.

When the "Pegasus Knight" officially went into battle, he played a lot of tricks, such as letting a gust of wind blow the military flag, and the leading knight suddenly fell off his horse, so as to warn the people that the "Pegasus Knight" was lucky enough to fight this time, which was providential and could not be reversed by manpower.

Although the article is sufficient, when the "Pegasus Knight" is defeated, the shadow of frustration and failure is still overwhelming.

"Will Big Rock be breached?"

After five months of siege, this problem has been placed in front of everyone, the defenders of the city of course feel the great pressure, the pressure of the siegers is not small, except for the total annihilation of the "Pegasus Knights" that battle, the siegers actually did not achieve any decent victory, the defenders after tasting several defeats, then retreated in the city, holding on to the danger, the attackers except the left battalion, the other battalions did not even dare to try, even the left battalion, known as the invincible siege weapon, also completely rested under the big stone city,

The left battalion attacked the city three times, and suffered three fiascos, Zheng Huatai, who commanded in person, was shot in the cheek and almost died.

This year's winter is unusually cold, ten years of snow, intermittent for half a month, the snow is knee-high, people and horses can not walk, since the end of October the road to Datong River is cut off by wind and snow, although the grain in the barracks is piled up like a mountain, the grain and grass officer swore and said: "The grain and grass in the army can support a year, everyone just open their bellies to eat, how much can you eat when you eat open, if the food is not enough to eat, you cut off my head." "Having said that, the panic that came with the cut off of the grain route spread rapidly among the battalions.

Chop off your head for a bird, look at your big head can make a few pots of soup,

So the "law enforcement team" came into being, which is a special team directly subordinate to the commander, the number of about 100 people, has the privilege of "immediate trial", that is, after arresting those who shake their will, they can be tried immediately, according to the results of the trial, they can be whipped up, rods, cages, beheaded, hanged five kinds of punishment, in October they killed more than 200 shakers, more than 600 tortured, in November, this number doubled, in the first six days of December, the "law enforcement team" killed three digits of people every day,

At the end of the month, when Mu Hong, the leader of the law enforcement team, reported to Yang Hao, his face was like dust, and his lips trembled and he said a number: two thousand four hundred and twenty people, the "law enforcement team" killed a total of two thousand four hundred and twenty wavers in the first twenty-seven days of December, after the report, Mu Hong couldn't cry, Yang Hao patted him on the shoulder and said: "It's hard for you, I heard that you have had a rheumatism attack recently, and you have pain day and night, and go back to take care of it." ”

Yang Hao thought Mu Hong was weak, and he couldn't bear to embarrass this honest man anymore, so he replaced him in the end, the new leader of the law enforcement team was Bo Lai, and when he took the bronze axe symbolizing authority from Mu Hong's hand, there were still three days before the end of December, and he killed 888 people in one go in the last three days, which seemed to be a very auspicious number in the eyes of the merchants, but it caused a mutiny,

The mutiny began in the inner barracks, and quickly spread to the right, front, and rear battalions, and there were several thousand soldiers involved in the rebellion, and the number of soldiers who sympathized with the rebellion was doubled, and the rebels stormed the law enforcement team station, released the imprisoned soldiers, stripped off the clothes and slashed the law enforcement team soldiers who could be caught, and the rebellion began at midnight and lasted until the early morning of the second day, burning 600 barracks in the chaos, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people, and in the early morning of the second day, the rebellion was suppressed, 130 perpetrators were beheaded, and 1,200 people were imprisoned.

The defenders of Dashicheng judged that there was a civil strife in the Wuhuai Department from the fire that kept going all night, so they urgently mobilized troops to attack the defenders' camps, trying to take advantage of the chaos to relieve the siege, after the defeat in the previous battles, the defenders acted slowly, and began to mobilize from midnight, until Tianma Ma Liang did not open out of the city gate, at that time, the civil strife of the Wuhuai Department had just calmed down, and the people were uncertain, Yang Hao ordered the inner military camp, the right battalion, and the front battalion to stand still, and guard the camp carefully, and not to go out of the camp to fight, and he personally led the teaching battalion and the feather shooting battalion to fight with the left battalion,

Yang Hao wore a helmet and armor, held a spear, and rode a black horse to the front of the formation surrounded by everyone, the battle array was not yet fully arranged, and a loud "boom" sound came from the front, but saw the snow on the opposite side flying like jade, and thirty infantry phalanxes came out of the wide city gate in the haze, each of which was about 100 people,

The soldiers of the phalanx are all dressed in heavy armor, except for a pair of eyes, no inch of skin is exposed, the outermost layer of the queue is sixty shield bearers, holding a shield in one hand and a spear in a square iron bucket array, in the iron bucket array are thirty crossbowmen and ten spearmen, the crossbowmen are equipped with a longbow and a repeating machine crossbow, each crossbowman has one hundred and eighty long arrows and three hundred and twenty crossbow arrows around him, ten spearmen hold two zhang long spears, specially used to attack the approaching cavalry, the distance between the arrays is about ten zhang, showing "products" Glyphs advance, each other is horns,

Groups of people rumbled over, shouting in unison, like thunder,

Yang Hao exclaimed: "This is the ironclad army formation of Big Stone City, how is it compared to ours." Zheng Huatai said: "There is no comparison, they are bloody, this kind of iron armor costs 1,800 taels, the materials are exquisite, worthy of our general's uniform, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, knives, knives can not be seen, arrows, arrows can not be shot through, quite difficult." ”

Zhang Bozhong sneered: "I don't know if it can be burned through with fire." ”

Yang Hao smiled: "Even if it can't be fully scorched, I'm afraid it's okay to burn it to maturity." The three of them looked at each other and laughed,

There is an ironclad army in Big Rock City, this is something that Yang Hao has known for a long time, and he also asked Zhang Bozhong to try to get a set, and he wore it on his body for Dongfang Lan to cut with a knife and shoot with an arrow, and sure enough, he couldn't hurt a bit.

Iron will be melted by fire, this truth is understood by many people, fire can roast people to death, this truth is almost all understood, Yang Hao thinks that no matter how thick the iron armor you wear, put it in the fire to roast, it will also kill you, in the past, Zhuge Wuhou burned the rattan armor soldiers, today I will make a fire to burn the iron armor soldiers to see, he and Zhang Bozhong pondered the method of breaking the iron armor army, Zheng Huatai did not participate in it, but he knew the situation, Yang Hao informed him several times, Zhang Bozhong also informed him, even if no one reported, he would know, There are always some admirers who will risk their lives to reveal some military secrets to him,

Zheng Huatai's lieutenant general, Zheng Ye, waved the command flag, and the herald shouted: "Release the arrow." "Hundreds of archers from the left battalion stepped forward, flying arrows rained down, the infantry array immediately surrounded the shield like an iron bucket, the arrows fell on it, "crackling" and slid down, just after the rain of arrows, a team of crossbowmen stepped forward again, and fired a bunch of crossbow arrows, the ironclad infantry phalanx did not have time to take back the iron shield, and withstood this wave of crossbow arrows with their bodies, and there were only slight casualties,

The former sergeants were horrified when they saw this, and they retreated, and the ironclad army pursued by victory, at this time, the feather shooting battalion was dispatched, and the current feather shooting battalion was not only superb in archery, but also immediately kung fu was even better, and the strength of the cavalry was not inferior to the elite of the previous battalion, and the feather shooting battalion dispatched two hundred horsemen this time, such as wearing flowers and butterflies, around the ironclad infantry array kept harassing and releasing arrows, the arrow shot on the iron shield, like the rain hitting the banana sound, and occasionally the soldiers fell down in the formation, but it did not affect the speed of its advance,

In this way, under the constant harassment of the feather shooting battalion, the ironclad infantry formation gradually lost patience and became manic, like a crazy bull being led by the nose of the feather shooting battalion, step by step into the "fire pit" set up by Yang Hao for them, that is a camp, except that the terrain is slightly lower than the surrounding area, there is no difference from other camps, if there is a difference, that is, there is nothing else in the camp except for firewood and grass soaked in fire oil,

When the feather shooting battalion escorted the infantry formation into the "fire pit", Zheng Huatai, who was in charge of the command of the former enemy, glanced at Yang Hao, Yang Hao's eyes stared blankly into the distance, the person stood there motionless, Zheng Ye carefully reminded Zheng Huatai that the infantry formation had entered the "fire pit", if they did not make a decision immediately, they would quickly get out of the "fire pit" and kill the Chinese military camp, if this is the case, they may be like a rainbow, and they will not be able to stop it at all,

Zhang Bozhong coughed and reminded Yang Hao: "The enemy has fallen into a trap, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Yang Hao seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, and hurriedly said, "Then let's start." ”

The order was quickly issued to each gunner, and Zheng Huatai personally raised the command flag and shouted: "Fire." At the sound of the roar, hundreds of large fireballs flew out from the east, west, and south directions, and took off towards the infantry phalanx in the "fire pit".

The infantry array was suddenly in chaos, although the iron armor was indestructible but could not withstand the fire, for a time the formation was in chaos, and they were defeated and retreated, but unfortunately the iron armor was too thick, although it could block the damage of swords and arrows, but the action was very inconvenient, it was not easy to go, for a while, but I heard the loud howl resounding through the clouds, and the pillar of smoke rose on the pure snow, and the pillar of smoke was wrapped in countless souls.

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