Chapter 694: The Battle of Gubeikou
"Boom boom boom~" Yelu tart also ran quickly across a street, explosions came from time to time behind him, buildings were blown up, there were fires and black smoke everywhere, and the entire Gubeikou fell into chaos, even he, the commander, could not find anyone who could command, let alone know the news on the city wall, which made him anxious and angry, sent several waves of people and did not come back, and finally simply went to the city wall to inquire about the situation.
"Damn the Song people, how did they take the Tiger Tooth Peak?" Yelu tart also cursed in a low voice while running, originally in his opinion, Huya Peak can be called a natural danger, the top of the mountain is stored enough to eat a year's worth of food, and there is a water source, coupled with the extremely steep terrain, it is impossible to be breached, but today I don't know what the reason, Huya Peak actually began to fire the unique ballista of the Song people into the city of Gubeikou, resulting in heavy losses in the city, and even the connection between him and the city wall was interrupted.
There is no direct passage between Huya Peak and Gubeikou, after the Song army arrived here before, the connection between Huya Peak and Gubeikou was also interrupted, so Yelu Tart only knew that the Song Army released some hot air balloons a few days ago, but it only flew from Huya Peak, and no personnel landed.
But it's useless to think about this now, Yelu Tart just wants to hurry up to the city wall to learn the news, since the bombardment on the mountain peak, he has been cut off from the city wall for nearly half an hour, in his experience, the Song army will definitely take advantage of the artillery bombardment on the mountain peak to launch a siege, but unfortunately the house he lived in at that time was blown down, and it was not easy to climb out of the mouth, which also made him unable to command the city wall in time.
Jerod also held a shield in one hand. Running forward quickly, the shield is not to prevent the bomb from falling overhead, in fact, if the bomb falls on his head, even if there is an iron shield, it is not bad, but whenever there is a bomb around him, a large number of stones and bricks will be splashed. These things are also very lethal, so Jerod has to protect himself with a shield. In addition to him, the streets were full of fleeing Liao soldiers who were frightened by the bombs, and Yelu Tart wanted to order them to follow him to support the city wall, but unfortunately these people were all frightened and did not listen to anyone's orders at all.
Piercing through the chaotic streets, despite being protected by a shield, Jerubuta was also injured in many places by flying stones, including a rock the size of a man's head in the back. He was bleeding from the nose and mouth, presumably from internal injuries, but these were nothing, because he finally came to the city walls.
Compared with the streets in the city, the city wall was subjected to more intensive shelling, and the surface of the originally strong city wall was full of traces left by the explosion of shells, but fortunately, the city wall of Gubeikou was very strong, and these shelling could not blow up the city wall in a short time. At that moment, Jerod Tart did not also run up the city wall along the passage. It turned out that the city walls were also in shambles, with dead bodies everywhere. It seems that the defenders on the city wall also suffered heavy losses under the previous waves of shells, and the rest of the men all took refuge in the towers.
Yelu Tart also risked his life to run a few city walls, and finally found the director here, and after questioning, he learned that the defenders on the city wall also suffered heavy losses, after all, Huya Peak was above their heads. It was too easy to fire bombs down from above, but luckily the defenders outside the city were probably afraid of being accidentally injured by the bombs, so they didn't attack.
However, before Yelu Tart could feel lucky, he saw that the Song army outside the city finally launched an attack, and at the same time, the cannonballs above his head slowly concentrated their fire into the city. However, the Song army under the city began to fire cannonballs at the head of the city, and it seemed that the Song army did not hesitate to waste a large number of shells to take down Gubeikou.
Seeing the Song army surging like a tide, Yelu Tart's eyes were also red, the city was already in chaos, and there was almost no support on the city wall, so he could only rely on these soldiers on the city wall to resist the attack of the Song army, although he knew that it was difficult to block the attack of the Song army with only these people, but he had no way, and he could only fight hard at this time!
Compared with the Yelu tart who was ready to fight desperately at the head of the city, Yang Huaiyu and Hu Yanqing and other Great Song generals under the city seemed calm and relaxed, and this attack was personally commanded by Yang Huaiyu, and it seemed that he was preparing to capture Gubeikou with one blow and completely put the sixteen states of Yanyun in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.
For this siege, Hu Yanqing also behaved very relaxed, four days ago he personally led the troops to take a hot air balloon, the only water source on the top of Huya Peak was polluted, and then they waited patiently for three days, until yesterday he personally led the troops to attack Huya Peak, this time they were almost not attacked, and when they came to the top of the mountain, they saw a pile of Liao troops who fell together, although many people were still conscious, but their eyes were blank and their lips were chapped, when they came up, Just shouting one word in a hoarse voice...... "water"!
Of course, not all the Liao army did not resist, when Hu Yanqing and they entered the walled city on the top of the mountain, they found the Liao army general who was responsible for guarding the walled city, although the bearded Liao general was already thirsty with red eyes, and his mouth was also bloody one after another, but he still staggered to his feet, pulled out his waist knife and roared forward to kill the enemy.
For this kind of unyielding enemy, Hu Yanqing gave him corresponding respect, took out his double hammer to kill the other party, and buried this person on the top of Huya Peak. Then he informed the Song army under the mountain to transport ballistas and other weapons up the mountain, and launched an attack on Gubeikou early this morning, which really caught the other party by surprise.
With the Song army surging like a tide, the people of Yelu Tart on the head of the city gradually felt powerless, especially the soldiers on the head of the city have been frightened by the artillery bombardment of the Song army just now, and now they see the Song army under the city is menacing, and some people want to secretly escape from the city, and then Yelu Tart also personally hacked to death a few fleeing soldiers, which temporarily stabilized the morale of the army, but when the Song army climbed the city wall along the ladder and siege vehicles, the military heart that was finally condensed collapsed again, and as a result, there were more and more Song troops on the city. Seeing that it is about to exceed the number of Liao troops under his command.
Seeing that the general trend has gone, Yelu Tart is also very sad and angry for a while, he has grown up in the army with his father since he was a child, and has made great achievements in the Eastern Expedition to the North with his father over the years, but he didn't expect to be defeated by the Song army today, which makes him unacceptable no matter what.
"General! Let's run away, the city can't be defended! At this moment, the guards at the head of the city also shouted to Yelu Buye, and their eyes were full of panic.
"Run?" Yelu Tart also heard this, but he looked at the other party with anger on his face, and there was an undisguised murderous aura in his eyes, which made the Liao general startled, and hurriedly retreated, but unfortunately Yelu Tart didn't also step forward with a roar, and cut off the opponent's head with a knife, which frightened the surrounding Liao troops and hurriedly retreated a few steps, for fear that Yelu Tart would not go crazy again.
However, after Yelu Tart also killed a person, the anger accumulated in his heart finally vented, and now only endless sadness and unwillingness remained, and finally he looked up to the sky and roared, and then slashed at his neck, and immediately splashed blood on the city, washing away the shame on his body with his own blood.
With the suicide of Yelu Tart, the Liao army of Gubeikou completely lost the will to resist, and immediately someone opened the north gate and escaped from the city, and the Song army that captured the southern city wall also immediately opened the city gate, and then a large number of Song troops poured in, and Gubeikou also changed hands, which also made Yang Huaiyu and others extremely excited, thinking that they had completed the pre-plan.
However, after occupying Gubeikou, Yang Huaiyu and others did not relax, they immediately cleaned up the debris and corpses in the city, and defended on the back city wall, ready to meet Yelu Renxian's reinforcements at any time, in addition, Panlong Mountain on the east side is also stationed with a Liao army, the terrain of Panlong Mountain is similar to Huya Peak, all of them are one-man passes, ten thousand people are not open, but after occupying Gubeikou, Yang Huaiyu immediately sent people to persuade them to surrender, after all, even Gubeikou was occupied by them, and the Liao army on Panlong Mountain had no meaning to hold on to it at all, As long as they cut off the supply on the mountain, no matter how much grain is stored on the mountain, there will always be a day when they will run out.
It is precisely because of the above reasons, so Yang Huaiyu sent to persuade the surrender of the people quickly achieved results, the Liao army on the mountain after getting some assurances, immediately went down the mountain to surrender, so that the Great Wall defense line of a section of Gubeikou finally completely fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, but Yang Huaiyu and others did not dare to celebrate, and once again stepped up time to prepare, intending to rely on the Gubeikou defense line to fight to the death with Yeluren who came to help.
However, what Yang Huaiyu didn't expect was that they waited for three days after capturing Gubeikou, but the official road in the north was calm, and they didn't see half of the Liao reinforcements at all, which made Yang Huaiyu and Hu Yanqing and others very strange, and some people even felt a little wrong.
In fact, as early as before, when Gubeikou was not breached, Yang Huaiyu and others already felt a little strange, because calculating the time, Yelu Renxian's reinforcements should have arrived a long time ago, but at that time they were bent on taking Gubeikou, so they didn't pay attention to the delay in the arrival of Yelu Renxian's reinforcements, and even deliberately avoided it in their hearts, but now after occupying Gubeikou, they finally let them face this problem.
It's a pity that when Yang Huaiyu and the others found out about this problem, it was already a little late, and on the same night, suddenly a scarred Great Song Dynasty detective horse flew to report that a large number of Liao troops were found in the Danzhou area behind them, suspected to be Yelu Renxian's reinforcements, and they were rushing in the direction of Gubeikou! (To be continued......)