The night has shrouded the battle array under the city of Taiyuan. Countless flaming torches were stacked on the battlefield, and the firelight swayed, reflecting the Jinyang Xiongcheng behind them, pulling out a tall and majestic shadow in the dark night.

The shouts of killing echoed in the night, and the sound waves hit the city wall and splashed in all directions, adding ten times the murderous aura to the ongoing night battle!

The Tang Dynasty military horses kept moving back and forth in the night, and a team of armor soldiers filled it up, and the dead and wounded soldiers were also carried down like water. Hundreds of three-bow bed crossbows, because of the high frequency of firing, have fallen apart in half, and no one has to clean them up. Li Pu's artillery soldiers just desperately used the remaining three-bow bed crossbow to blast the Mongolian army's camp.

In the field battle during the day, it was obviously the Tang army with a larger number of people who had the upper hand - although Chen Dexing did not really want to save Li Pu, but after Kublai Khan's 50,000 troops were imprisoned in Hebei, the number of Mongol troops remaining under the city of Taiyuan was at an absolute disadvantage. In Taiyuan, Li Pu has 100,000 people, while Baturu only has 50,000!

Moreover, Li Pu has not only a numerical advantage, but also the combat effectiveness of the Tang army, whether it is the directly subordinate government soldiers or the attached feudal army, is not weak! In particular, Li Pu's Yulin Army and the Shi Family's Iron Army are the best infantry of this era. In contrast, the Gongchang Wang family was injured in the battle of Meng Ge into Sichuan a few years ago, and lost all the elite (the loss of the Shi family is not small, but the Shi family has 50,000 households, and its strength far exceeds that of the Wang family, so it has not hurt the fundamentals), and now although it is barely replenished, the combat effectiveness is always a little poor. It was okay to fight against the ordinary Tang army, but when Shi Tianze let the whole army start charging in the iron armor of the foot armor. Only leather armor to protect himself, Wang Jiajun, who had been fighting hard for another morning, suddenly couldn't bear it. Baturu did not dare to press his own Mongolian households. had to order Brother Wang Tian to gather his team and retreat to the camp.

And Li Pu and Shi Tianze did not hesitate at all. Immediately put in the army to attack the Mongol camp. In the afternoon, the outer walls of the Mongol camp had been breached, and now there were fires burning on all sides, and all the timber used to build the walls and watchtowers was set on fire to illuminate the battlefield. In the crackling and crackling sound, the surrounding battlefield was illuminated as bright as day.

Under the firelight, the red Tang Army armor torrent, shouting slogans, red eyes surged up, and dozens of flags of various colors rolled and fluttered under the four flames. The troops symbolized by these flags have all established a great reputation in the foreign expeditions of the Tang Empire hundreds of years ago. It's just that now it has long been annihilated in the long river of history, but I don't want to be excavated from the pile of old papers by Li Pu and Wang Wentong and resurrected on the battlefield!

Dozens or hundreds of drums were under these banners, making an earth-shattering sound. The heavily armored soldiers of the Tang Army swarmed forward, swooping down on the second wall of the Yuan army again and again.

The arrows of both sides are densely intertwined on this night, as if endless. Every gap in the wall of the Yuan army's wall, there are countless people there to fight to the death. Reinforcements from the Yuan army also arrived one after another. They all came from the northeast, east and west of Taiyuan. A steady stream of gaps was filled. The Yuan army also had some three-bow crossbows and heavenly thunder arrows, and now they were all pushed to the front line, and they were launched out tightly, crowded with the Tang army in the gap in the wall. The armor on his body seemed to be torn open like tofu, and he fell down with a scream, followed by a sudden fireball and explosion. The offensive of the Tang army was suddenly stagnant. The Yuan soldiers would launch a counterattack at the opportunity, as if to drive the Tang army out of their camp!

The reason why the Mongol army fought to the death like this. It's because Kublai Khan gave a death order! Without his order, the 50,000 troops besieging Taiyuan were not allowed to retreat! Because Kublai Khan was worried. Once Li Pu rushed out of Taiyuan, he would immediately wave his army to Jinan. In this way, it is possible for the two armies of Tang and Ming to meet in Hebei, which is tantamount to a catastrophe for his 200,000 Mongolian army!

When the Mongol army began to resist with all its might, Li Pu and Shi Tianze also came to the front line to supervise the battle, of course, the banners of the two of them could not be fought on the first line, otherwise they would definitely end up with Meng Ge - Chen Dexing's invention has obviously changed the shape of the battlefield in some way. The banners of the generals must not be too high, otherwise they will definitely be bombarded by the thunder arrows of the sky.

Baturu and Brother Wang Tian also went to the front line to supervise the battle, they stood behind the wall, but they could play the banner without worrying about being bombarded by thunder arrows. Beside them, there were dozens of big drums beating deafeningly. One by one, hundreds and thousands of Mongolian households were robbed of blood, and some of them even swallowed their last breath in front of Baturu and Wang Tiange.

But at this moment, the two of them didn't look at some of the casualties, they just pursed their lips and stared at the gaps in the walls of the several camps in front of them.

Once again, the torrent of the Don army receded, and more Mongol corpses and wounded were carried down. One of them was the nephew of the Wang family, one of his arms was gone, and the wound had been scorched with a red-hot knife and no longer bleed. As soon as he saw Brother Wang Tian, he knelt on the ground and cried: "Uncle! My thousand-person team is thousands of children, and almost thirty percent of them are spelled out! The sons have done their best, let them get out! We don't want this Taiyuan......"

Before Brother Wang Tian could answer, he saw several Mongols wearing the willow leaf armor of the cowardly Xue army galloping from the side, and as soon as they rode on their horses, they shouted at Baturu: "Pass on the order of Xue Chan Khan, Marshal Baturu can retreat to Bianliang on the tenth day of October!" ”

Baturu glanced at Brother Wang Tian and said in a deep voice: "The tenth day of the tenth month of October...... Three days to go! We'll keep it for three more days! Hold on no matter what! ”

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At the same time, the sky-high fire was also lit in the wilderness outside the market town of Liujia. Liujiaji Town is the temporary shelter that Guo Kan chose for tens of thousands of Han refugees. This market town is about the Jin Kingdom or even the Northern Song Dynasty, the scale is not small, but the town is less populated, most of the houses are either deserted or collapsed, only the center of the town still has dozens of residents. Now tens of thousands of people poured in, and there were many livestock vehicles, which suddenly made this small market town a crowded place for individuals, but at last most of the people were accommodated, and the remaining ten thousand were crowded in the south of the town, with large carts to guard, and archers, spearmen, and sword and shield men organized by the powerful leaders.

And Guo Kan lined up in the south of this "circle". The 300 sword and shield hands lined up in front of them, all in a half-squatting posture, holding rattan cards to form a "rattan wall". Behind them were archers in leather armor.

Guo Kan's army did not use strong crossbows, but used compound bows to shoot arrows, just like the Mongols. Although the number is only six hundred, all of them are marksmen, no longer under the cowardice of the Mongols, and each archer also received twenty armor-piercing arrows - this is a feather arrow with steel arrows specially produced by the Northern Ming Military Affairs Department for the Eight Banners, which is very precious. Each Eight Banners soldier can only get ten, and if you want more, you have to pay for it (ordinary iron arrows can be obtained for free).

Behind the archers, there were pikemen sitting on the ground, three hundred people in a row, a total of seven rows, of which the first three rows were wearing steel armor, and the last four rows were wearing Qingtang Qizi armor - the protective ability of this armor was not under the steel armor, but it was heavier.

In fact, the metal used in Qingtang Qizi Nail can barely be regarded as steel, but it is not medium carbon steel, but low carbon steel, and the hardness is not as good as that of medium carbon steel, but it is relatively soft, which is also the reason why Qingtang Qizi Nail can be cold forged.

The iron pieces used to create this Qingtang Qizi nail are not produced in the Central Plains, but from the Western Regions, and are made of iron ore with low sulfur phosphorus and charcoal. Therefore, it has the possibility of cold forging. In addition, the willow leaf iron armor worn by the Mongolian cowardly Xue army was also cold-forged from the same metal. And the price of this kind of cold forging armor is very high, each collar is worth hundreds of pieces, and it is not much cheaper than Beiming's plate armor.

Behind the seven columns of infantry were thousands of people who were building a wall, all of whom were selected from among the refugees.

Confronting Guo Kan's travelers, it was five Mongolian thousand-man teams. They arrived in the afternoon, first surrounded on all sides, Guo Kan ignored it, and there was no way to manage money, because he had already asked the black flag vest to go to Chen Dexing to report the news. There is no horse army around, only an infantry army, so naturally they can only be armed.

After the Mongols had completed the siege, they launched several more tentative attacks to find out what was going on. As a result, corpses were left all over the place! And Guo Kan's brigade suffered almost no casualties.

But the truth is still clear. A few steel armor-piercing arrows, which easily pierced through the two layers of armor (one leather and one chain mail) on the Mongols from a distance of sixty or seventy paces, were quickly delivered to Kublai Khan.

"This is steel?" Under the light of the butter fire, Kublai Khan carefully looked at the clusters of arrows sent by his men.

"It's steel!" Boyan frowned, "It doesn't seem to be under Uzi Steel!" ”

Boyan had spent many years in the Ilkhanate and had seen many weapons of Uzi steel, and in his opinion, although the materials used for these steel arrows were not as beautiful as Uzi steel, they should be about the same hardness and toughness.

"How many are there?" Kublai Khan asked again.

"There are about 50,000 or 60,000 Han households, all of whom are crowded around a market town. There were up to 4,000 anti-Ming armor soldiers, all of whom were foot soldiers, and there were no cavalry, and they were deployed in the south of the market town. A Mongolian head of a thousand households reported.

"No cavalry? Have you ever encountered it before? ”

"I have encountered the black-clothed cavalry, it should be the so-called Eight Banners and Black Flag Cavalry."

"Great Khan, these black-clothed cavalrymen should have gone to ask for help from the Chen thief!" Boyan Jian said, "Let's eat this group of 4,000 people first." ”

Kublai Khan pondered for a moment and shook his head: "No, if you eat them all, the thief will not come...... The target of this battle is still Chen Thief himself! (To be continued......)