Only two hours after the camp was settled, the Turkic army launched its first large-scale attack, and the 50,000-strong army was like a black tide rolling towards the city of Dali, with a hundred ladders and fifty nest carts mixed in.

The Turkic soldiers held their shields aloft, 20,000 storming soldiers with spears and swords in their hands and high morale, followed by 30,000 archers, who were in charge of covering. Boom! Boom! To the sound of the drums, they marched in a dark formation towards the city of Dali.

Ladders and nest carts were dragged by the strongest horses, slowly moving through the crowd, following hundreds of people behind each ladder and nest cart, the drums seemed to beat on huge wooden wheels, accompanied by waves of shouting and killing, the Turkic army rose and fell like waves, and the momentum was huge.

The Sui army dug three trenches one zhang wide two miles from Dali, but these three trenches could not stop the Turks, and they put thick wooden planks on the trenches, so that the trenches immediately became ineffective.

A mile and a half away from the city wall, the drums suddenly became dense, and the 50,000 Turkic army rushed towards the city wall with shouts, and the defenders on the city wall watched the Turkic army nervously and expectantly, as if waiting for something to happen.

The one hundred and eighty heavy trebuchets on the front of the city began to creak and rattle the thick ropes, and the long projectile rods bent backwards, and the accumulated potential energy reached the extreme.

Outside the city is a barren grass, all the knees of the people, the Turkic army rushed forward, rushing to the front of the thousands of people suddenly wailed, one fell to the ground, they stepped on the grass scattered on the iron thistle, this iron thistle terrestris has four one inch long spikes, scattered on the ground, there is always a spike facing upward, the iron thistle terrestris has been tempered in the poison, once stabbed, the light is disabled, the heavy is fatal.

In addition to the thistle, there are countless trapped horse holes, there is a three-inch long poisonous iron thorn inserted in the hole, many Turkic soldiers stepped into the hole, the long spikes pierced the instep, the attacking Turkic army was caught off guard, more than 1,000 people fell down and howled, crying and wailing all over the field, and the more terrifying thing was that the legs began to become black and swollen, the pain was unbearable, many people rolled and howled for a while, and then they died of poison.

"Cut off their legs!"

Amutai shouted loudly, his bloody thighs were cut off, and the wounded Turkic soldiers were dragged back, when a strange sound came from the sky, like the sound of a flock of pigeons circling in the sky.

The Turkic soldiers looked up at the sky one after another, only to see small black dots appear in the sky, whistling and flying above their heads, getting closer and closer, the Turkic army suddenly burst out with a frightened shout, it was actually a boulder, they scattered and fled with their heads in their hands, a thousand-pound boulder smashed down, rolled and crashed into the crowd with a scream, blood splattered, and several people were hit into flesh and mud The boulder knocked over more than a dozen people in a row, the light was seriously injured, the heavy was a corpse, nearly two hundred boulders rolled in the crowd, the Turkic army was killed and wounded, and then A second wave of boulders roared in.

The boulder on his head pressed on the top, the ground was hidden with murderous opportunities, the Turkic army was still a mile away from the city, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded. ”

Tens of thousands of Turkic troops retreated like a tide, and the Sui army in the city cheered......

"Give it to me!"

At the sound of the order, dozens of guards swarmed up, dragged Amutai, who had just rushed back to the camp, off his horse and pressed him to the ground.

Du Ji's eyes flashed with murderous intent, stared at him and said coldly: "I didn't order the retreat, you dare to withdraw without authorization, shaking the heart of our army, are you impatient?" ”

Amutai raised his head and shouted, "Khan! The Sui army planted poisonous thorns in the ground, and we were not prepared, and thousands of people were killed and wounded. ”

"The dead and wounded can be used as a foreshadowing for the army behind, you dare to retreat without authorization, shake the morale of the army, and push me down and cut down."

The soldier dragged Amutai down, and when Amutai saw Duji's cold gaze, he suddenly understood, so he shouted, "Duji, you are killing me under the pretext, and my people will not spare you!" ”

Before he finished shouting, a big man chopped off with a knife and cut off the head of the other person, and Ji Ji sneered, and said to everyone behind him: "Block the news that Amutai is dead, and no one is allowed to spread it." ”

He also said to the commander of the ten thousand soldiers: "The 30,000 troops of the Tata Department will be handed over to you as commander, give me another siege of the city, and I will send another 30,000 troops to fight with you!" ”

"Obedience!"

Munda turned on his horse and pointed his spear at the wall, "Beat the drum and attack!" ”

The offensive drum of the Turkic army sounded again, driven by tens of thousands of guards, the 30,000 troops of the Tata Department were forced to turn around and go to the city, and Shibi Khan sent 30,000 troops to join the attacking team, which became 60,000 troops to attack Dali City, and the ladders, nest carts, and trebuchets were mixed in the army, and the 60,000 troops were as dense as ant colonies, and they were vast and covered with the wilderness outside the city of Dali.

This time the Turkic army became smarter, they paved the road with wooden planks, paved dozens of plank roads, so that the Turkic army escaped the assassination on the ground, but they couldn't avoid the Stonehenge overhead, hundreds of boulders roared down from the sky, rolling in the Turkic crowd, flesh and blood flying, screams resounded through the field, a nest car was concentrated by boulders, the nest car blossomed in the air, the giant trees flew wildly, the corpses were vacated, the nest car fell apart, another ladder was hit, the ladder was broken, the wooden platform was pierced, the two wooden wheels fell off, the huge body of the ladder was Lou, Lying on the ground, he could no longer move.

A succession of boulders smashed into the crowd, terrible screams kept coming, the huge fear made the morale of the Turkic army drop, and many Turkic soldiers turned around to run, Du Ji had already prepared, 3,000 guards with knives in the back of the formation, nearly 100 Turkic soldiers who escaped from the big array were cut to the ground.

The Turkic army had no choice but to charge forward, as the Turkic army advanced, the bow and arrow battle between the two sides broke out, 10,000 Sui troops on both sides of the city wall battlements down arrows, there are archery ports on the city wall of Dali City, you can use the battlements as a cover, and the row of crossbows is in the back to shoot arrows at an elevation angle, the Turkic army is dense in numbers and has an advantage, the arrows on both sides are like dense rain, weaving a black arrow net in the sky, the Turks suffered heavy casualties, and the Sui army also had casualties, and there were constantly people screaming arrows.

In the dense rain of arrows, the Turkic army began to cross the moat and approach the city wall, very much to the surprise of the Turks, the moat turned out to be without water, just a large trench two zhang deep and two zhang five wide, but there was no water in the moat, it was no longer meaningful to the Turkic army, they put up a wooden plank up to three zhang, so that the moat lost its defensive role.

At this time, dozens of large siege ladders and nest carts rumbled up, and a nest cart was full of fifty Wei Turkic soldiers, each holding spears and shields, and more than 200 people were followed by more than 200 people shooting arrows together.

The nest car slowly approached the city wall, less than fifty steps away from the city wall, at this time, the Sui army's forty stone robes began to exert their power, the stone robe is actually a kind of super-large bed crossbow, the body of the stone robe is one zhang long, the arm is one zhang and five feet long, and the bowstring is placed on the specially built robe platform and is controlled by ten militia soldiers to wind it with a winch.

The stone robe fires a kind of polished and smooth stone projectile, weighing about fifty or sixty catties, with a range of up to 70 steps, and there are special soldiers responsible for ranging and aiming.

"It's coming! Here it comes! ”

A fire captain pointed to a slowly approaching nest car and yelled, "Wound me and aim at it!" ”

Eight soldiers pushed the long winch rod like a grinder, the huge bowstring was squeaked apart and buckled to the hook, and one soldier fed a stone bullet into the firing groove, and the fire commander was also the aimer, he lay on the crossbow, stared at the lookout mountain, and shouted: "Half a quarter to the east!" ”

Scales are painted on the ground behind the stone robes, and the soldiers lift the stone robes and move them east for half a quarter.

"Good!" The fire grown.

He jumped off the stone robe, stared at the nest car for a moment, and yelled, "Launch!" ”

The two soldiers jerked out the string hook and listened only to 'Click! With a loud bang, a stone projectile flew out of the slot and roared towards the nest car fifty paces away.

"Boom! There was a loud bang on the ground, the nest car was hit by a stone bullet, a pillar beam was broken, the nest car shook violently, and continued to move forward.

"Fuck, come again!"

The fire chief scolded, and the ten soldiers wound up again to feed the bomb, but the direction did not need to be adjusted, and another stone bullet shot out strongly, hitting the nest car again, and was shot twice in a row, a belt tied to the main beam of the nest car was finally released, and the nest car instantly tilted and collapsed, and fifty soldiers screamed and fell.

The soldiers below cheered and praised the power of Shi Selenium, and the fire chief scratched the back of his head and scolded with a smile: "Damn it, you have to do it twice!" ”

Although the stone robe of the Sui army is powerful, it can not destroy all the ladders and nest cars, several nest cars finally reached the city wall, the iron plate fell and smashed on the city, the gravel flew wildly, behind the iron plate, fifty Turkic soldiers rushed out of the nest car with spears, and a hundred Sui soldiers killed from both sides, and the enemy fought fiercely.

The nest car was actually a kind of enclosed ladder to the city, and a steady stream of Turkic soldiers rushed out of the nest car and killed the city.

There are seven or eight ladders in a row to set up the head of the city, the Turkic soldiers climb the ladder soldiers and rush up frantically, the Sui soldiers wield knives and spears and fight with the enemy soldiers who rushed up, on the horse wall, dozens of Sui soldiers shot the Turkic soldiers on the stairs from behind with crossbows, the strong crossbow arrows shot through the wooden shields, and the Turkic soldiers continued to scream and fall down the city.

The battle gradually became bloody and fierce.

Yang Yuanqing stood on the high observation tower, watching the offensive and defensive battles of Dali City, he was experienced in a hundred battles, and saw the battle in front of him very thoroughly, although there were constantly enemy siege engines on the city, and Turkic soldiers began to kill the city, but Yang Yuanqing knew very well in his heart that the current situation was not out of control, the situation was still within his control, and the casualties of the Sui army were also very normal, and there was no war without casualties.

A lieutenant ran to the lookout and knelt down on one knee to report: "Report to the chief, the brothers have suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and General Yang asks for more troops to support!" ”

Yang Yuanqing said coldly: "Tell Yang Sien that I won't increase one soldier, if he can't withstand it, then he can come down and let Ma Shao be the main general." ”

"Yes!"

The captain agreed, ran down, Yang Yuanqing's eyes cast to the Turkic camp in the distance, he is the commander of the entire campaign, in charge of the overall situation, he does not interfere in the battle on the specific city, he just stares at the main Turkic force, the enemy army only has ten nest cars left on the battlefield, and there are less than twenty ladders, but Shibi Khan did not increase their number, and the battering rams and ladders did not appear, which means that this Turkic army attack is just a temptation, and he will never increase his troops.