Chapter 20: The Battle of Three Levels 16
The cavalry of the Liao army outside the south gate of Sikou Pass had been waiting quietly outside the city for almost two hours, according to the prior agreement, most of the troops of the Song army should have been attracted to the north, and the inner should also open the city gate to welcome themselves into the city.
However, Yelu Muji, the commander of this Liao army, looked up at the sun several times, but there was still no movement at the city gate south of the Sikou Pass, and the Song army on the city gate was still so bustling that he couldn't see any clues.
At this moment, the guards beside him tugged at his shirt: "Captain, look, there is movement on the city wall!" ”
Yelu Muji looked at it, it was true!
The Song army on the city wall south of Sikou Pass was suddenly put down by a group of people wearing people's clothes, and there was not even a little wave, and finally those people still sent a signal to Yelu Muji on the city wall.
"It's been leveled in a few clicks, it seems that Song Jun is still so useless!" Yelu Muji sighed, and then shouted loudly: "Soldiers, our warriors have taken control of the city gate, and everyone is ready to enter the city to harvest the heads of the Song soldiers!" ”
The Liao army behind him instantly fell into a carnival, as if this city was really theirs.
Sure enough, the south gate of the silt gate creaked and slowly opened.
After Yelu Muji stopped the field, he yelled: "Rush! ”
The cavalry of the Liao army lined up in a crowded queue, followed behind Yelu Muji and those generals, and smoothly passed through the city gate, and then smoothly passed through the urn city, and successfully came to the mouth pass. When they were about to raise their scimitars and kill the Quartet, they saw that the streets that were neither wide nor narrow had been blocked by the dense Song army's shield array at this moment, and those Song army's crossbow arrows were sharp and dense arrows shining in the sunlight.
Yelu Muji and the soldiers were forced to strangle their horses, couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and turned their heads to see that the Song soldiers who were supposed to be "dead" on the city wall also got up and pointed their crossbow arrows at themselves at this moment.
"It's over!" Yelu Muji felt a gazin in his heart, it was obvious that this was a trick, and the Nima Song army was still as cunning as before.
However, since he had already entered the city, there was no reason to go back. Even though the speed advantage of the cavalry was limited, Yelu Muji still believed in the combat ability of his men. So, he shouted loudly: "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road!" Warriors, I'll kill you! Kill the Song Army! ”
I have to admire that the Liao cavalry is still very arrogant, they all know that they have been tricked, and they can quickly recover their morale under the leadership of the main general, and raise their swords to kill the Song army.
Boom......
Suddenly, there were two loud noises, accompanied by a few screams, and the two gates inside and outside the urn city were suddenly blocked by two huge stones falling from the sky.
As a result, the 10,000 cavalry of the Liao army was divided into three parts by the two city gates, and the elite team led by Yelu Muji and other generals was divided into the innermost, while the second echelon was blocked in the urn city. There were about 5,000 people in these two parts, and the remaining half was still blocked out of the city.
Suddenly, the morale of the Liao army plummeted again, especially the soldiers in Wengcheng were not only besieged, but also lost the support of their generals, and soon lost their fighting spirit under the threat of a circle of crossbow arrows.
At the same time, more than three fireworks were raised on the city wall, making the scene even more eerie.
Ten miles outside the city, Xia Hou, the commander of the Blue Dragoon Army, who couldn't wait for a long time, saw the three "signal flares", slapped his thigh excitedly, and shouted: "All of them!" Launched! ”
The 20,000 cavalrymen were originally leading their horses, lined up in a neat line, and stood still in the cold wind. Hearing Xiahou's order, they quickly flew on their horses one by one, with consistent movements and neat rhythms, revealing a majestic momentum.
Xia Hou watched the performance of his soldiers with satisfaction, waved his arms ahead and shouted: "Target silt pass, charge!" ”
Xiahou led 20,000 cavalry away, which made Huo Wangxi very unhappy to follow behind, and he wanted to rush up and pull them off his horse and beat them. However, he also thought about it, who let himself choose the infantry in the first place, and it was natural that he couldn't outrun the cavalry.
Huo Wangxi also shouted to his soldiers: "Speed up your pace, put the useless things on your body on the ground first, and run up, don't let the cavalry eat the meat!" ”
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Wanshou stood on the city wall, holding clairvoyance to see everything, and saw that the rhythm of the battlefield was under his control, so he shouted to Yelu Muji, who was in a stalemate under the city: "Hey, report your name, this general will not accept unknown people!" ”
"Humph!" Yelu Muji snorted, pretending to be calm and said: "Listen to the smelly boy of the Song Army, your grandfather is the cavalry commander Yelu Muji under the account of the king of the Northern Courtyard of the Great Liao Kingdom, I advise you to surrender obediently, maybe grandpa can spare you, if not, when my Da Liao captures the city, you will be killed!" ”
Wanshou: "I said you didn't figure out the situation!" You don't look at your situation, do you think you still have a chance to win! I think that your obedient surrender is the right way, and our merciful saint said that as long as you Liao barbarians can surrender, our Great Song Dynasty will still treat the captives preferentially! ”
Yelu Muji scolded: "Let your mother's stinky shit!" All of my Da Liao men are good, and even if they die in battle, they will not surrender to you cowardly Song people! ”
Wanshou smiled: "Really? Are you sure your men think the same way? ”
Yelu Muji: "Of course! Lao Tzu's team, Lao Tzu has the final say, soldiers, all raise your scimitars, let these Song people who can only play intrigue and tricks see the power of our Daliao warriors! ”
Wanshou laughed: "Hahaha! Yelu Lao'er, you are really good at bragging, just a thousand people like you, you can shoot all of you into hedgehogs with just one order! Soldiers of the Liao army, do you have to think about it, do you want to live? Or do you want to taste the taste of ten thousand arrows piercing your heart? I will give you ten breaths to think about it. ”
"Ten"
"Nine"
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Yelu Muji was indeed very hard-hearted, and was not frightened, although he knew that he would not escape today, he still tried his best to boost morale there: "Brothers, our Daliao warriors swear to die and should not be captured, everyone will kill with me...... Belch! ”
Yelu Muji was trying to call the more than 1,000 soldiers behind him, but there was a stinging pain in his back, he turned his head to see that the scimitar of a thousand commanders under his hand was stuck in his back, and shouted unwillingly: "You...... You...... You traitor! You...... No...... Get...... Good ......"
"Master Wanfu, I'm sorry! Brothers don't want to die like this, it's all your command that is not good, and you should also bear this responsibility. Since you want to be a hero, your subordinates have to fulfill you! After the commander finished speaking, he sent the knife into it again, ending Yelu Muji's life completely.
Before the other commanders even had time to react, the plot took a 180-degree turn, and it wasn't until Yelu Muji hung up that they pulled out their knives and pointed them at the commander, asking, "Utosiva, what are you doing?" Do you want to be a traitor? ”
Utosiva leisurely put away his scimitar and said lightly to the other commanders, "What are you doing here?" Do you know that I'm saving you! You don't look at the current situation, do you think we can survive under the rain of arrows of the Song army? ”
"Then you can't kill Captain Wan!" The others continued to get against him.
Utosiva: "Don't kill him?" If you don't kill him, you have to take us to death! You have to think clearly, the captain usually relies on himself to be a descendant of the royal family, and he has made it difficult for us warriors from various tribes. Now that he chooses to die in battle, the court will definitely reward his family vigorously, but what about us? Have you seen when the imperial court took care of our tribes? We also have families and children, who will take care of them when we die in battle? ”
As soon as Utosiwa said this, some of the soldiers had begun to waver, and several commanders had also begun to hesitate. So, while the iron was hot, he continued: "And don't you forget, what is the purpose of our tribe coming to fight? It's to be able to grab something and go back, so that our tribal fathers and relatives can survive this harsh winter, not to run here to die innocently! I'll just say so much, think about it for yourself, if you think I've done something wrong, you can kill me too, but I advise you, Song Jun doesn't necessarily have the patience to wait for you to think about it slowly, it's better to decide decisively! ”
Wan Shou watched all this dramatic change, and also deliberately slowed down the speed of shouting, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to pick up their crossbows and put pressure on the Liao army.
Jingling!
One of the commanders slowly let go of the scimitar in his hand, and it fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
Subsequently, the other soldiers also slowly put down their weapons and quietly waited for the Song army to deal with them.
Utosiwa also laughed and shouted to Wanshou in the city: "General, we are willing to surrender!" Please keep your promise and keep us safe! ”
Wanshou: "Don't worry, this general is what he says, and besides, this is my emperor's rule, as long as you are honest, we will not threaten your personal safety." Now, let your soldiers all go to the prisoner of war camp with our soldiers with their hands raised! ”
"Thank you, General!" Utosiwa said with his fists clenched, then took the lead and walked in front with his hands raised.
"Wait!" Wan Shou stopped him and said, "Everyone, aren't you going to ask for these soldiers outside?" ”
Utosiva was stunned for a moment and asked, "General, what do you mean by that?" ”
Wan Shou said with a smile: "What General Ben means is that all of your 10,000 cavalry have been blocked by the general, and none of them have to run, if you don't plan to ask for them, then the general will have to do it for you!" ”
"Don't, don't!" Utosiva hurriedly called out to Wanshou: "General, please allow me to try it later?" ”
Wanshou: "Okay! Anyway, General Ben doesn't want to make more murders, so General Ben will give you this opportunity! ”
"Thank you, General!" Utosiwa hugged his fists again.
Then, he called several other commanders to the city wall to persuade the Liao army surrounded by the green dragoons outside the city to surrender. Their ability to persuade them to surrender is much stronger than that of Wanshou, after all, most of these people are brothers from their respective tribes, and only a few are soldiers of the Khitan tribe. Even if these Khitan soldiers wanted to object, they couldn't twist their arms around their thighs, and finally they all laid down their arms and surrendered.
Capture so many people at once, this is difficult for the officials who manage the prisoner of war camp, before they were just hindered by the order of the saint, and made a so-called prisoner of war camp. There was no way, so they had to be cheeky and beg Di Qing to ask him to transfer some soldiers to help manage it.
As a result, half of the 20,000 cavalry sent by Xiao Zhuobu were disabled by Huo Wangxi's tower defense tactics, and they fled from then on. Moreover, the other half was captured by Di Qing's generals without a single arrow and a knife, which not only relieved the cavalry threat of the Liao army's right army, but also captured a large number of war horses.
At this point in the battle, there is no need to dwell on it. Di Qing saw that the Liao army's attack was getting slower and slower, and there was no longer any new force, so he ordered his soldiers to throw Yelu Muji's body under the city, and brought a letter to Xiao Zhuobu on him.
And Xiao Zhuobu didn't know that all his "perfect" plans had failed one by one, and he was still holding on to the attack, hoping to see that the shadow son he arranged could fight back, win the silt pass in one fell swoop, and sweep away the depression in his heart.
At this time, he saw several Liao soldiers carrying the corpse of a general towards him, he was already a little numb, since the siege of the city at noon, he has seen many generals die under the crossbow arrows of the Song army, this time it is the unlucky ghost?
However, when he saw the man's face, he almost fainted. When he took the letter from the soldier's hand and saw its contents, he could no longer hold it, his eyes were black, his mouth was spitting blood, and he fell to the ground hard...... (To be continued.) )