In Jiuquan County, tens of thousands of troops used the towering Yumen Pass as a battlefield, and the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth!

Temujin stood on the heights of the Gobi outside the Guanwai and personally supervised the battle with dozens of Mongolian generals.

Tens of thousands of Dunhuang servants took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the city wall, and siege equipment such as siege towers, ladder trucks, crash cars, ladders, and chariots were all used to attack Yumen Pass.

As long as this strong pass was captured, the main force of Temujin's Mongol army could withdraw and turn to attack the Western Regions or Guanlong and Monan.

"The person who guards the Yumen Pass is Xu Fengnian, the pastor of Liangzhou, who has dozens of generals and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and can be regarded as a generation of heroes. It's just that under the offensive of the Great Khan, the Yumen Pass will definitely be lost. ”

Borshu, one of the four cowardly Xue, flattered Temujin.

"Yumen Pass is not so easy to attack, Guanzhong has sent 100,000 troops to reinforce Yumen Pass."

Temujin had obtained information from Guanzhong, and the news of the dispatch of troops by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, the last famous local generals of the Han Empire, had reached the Hexi Corridor.

The Mongol general Zheleme (one of the four mastiffs) personally came to the city to supervise the battle, and used a group of Mongolian cavalry as the supervising team to urge the servant army to storm the city.

Temujin's servant army came from the national war and the main world, not only the servant army of Dunhuang, but also the servant army from other civilizations, and even the servant army of Monan, forming a siege force of 50,000 people, and launched attacks on Yumen Pass again and again!

The behemoth-like siege towers were taller than the walls of Yumen Pass, and Mongol archers stood on top of them, condescending, and stray arrows covered the walls from time to time, shooting at the shields and armor of the defenders.

Rumble!

The hideous battering ram slammed into the heavy gate, making a dull loud noise that made the defenders' hearts tremble!

"Defend the walls!"

Xu Fengnian, Ma Teng, and Han Sui came to the city wall in person, and after sending all their families to Xia Cheng, they could withdraw and defend with all their might!

The Xiliang archers unleashed their crossbows, and tens of thousands of arrows fired in volleys, piercing through the servant army below!

When defending the city, there is no need to care about what civilization the army under the city comes from, there is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, only victory and defeat!

The princes in the pass arranged for Xu Fengnian to guard the Yumen Pass, so they had to defend it.

Even if they die in battle, the princes of Kannai will treat their families well.

Ma Chao pulled the bow, and its powerful force made Zhemu's bow body tremble, and a streamer shot out, hitting the head of a Mongolian centurion.

The centurion, who was urging the servant army to attack the city walls, was killed and fell to the ground, and the morale of the servant troops around him was greatly reduced.

Even if it is a servant army, there must be a team of generals to supervise it, otherwise their morale will be seriously affected.

"Well done!"

Wang Yanzhang and a team of archers arrived, shooting arrows at the enemy troops below with all their might, and the dense rain of arrows took the lives of hundreds of servants.

A group of Mongol archers shoots arrows at the archers of the Yumen Pass, trying to overpower the defending archers and gain a chance for the servant army.

This Mongolian archer is commanded by a Mongolian bow general, which has a damage bonus, causing considerable losses to the defenders.

Wang Yanzhang shot an arrow at it, and the streamer shot through the shield of one of the guards, killing the guards and nearly hitting the Mongolian generals. The latter saw that Wang Yanzhang was so fierce, so he retreated out of range and commanded the archers.

Rumble!

There was another muffled snort when the door was closed, and Han Sui, who was defending the city wall at this time, turned pale.

An army of several hundred servants was pushing battering rams, breaking through the gates head-on and putting pressure on the defenders.

"The Jade Gate Pass has been transformed into an urn city structure, and even if they break through the city gate, they will not enter the city easily. You lead your generals and a team of crossbowmen, and once the Mongols enter the city, shoot them with arrows. ”

Xu Fengnian sent Han Sui to guard the urn city.

Although nomadic civilizations have higher mobility, war mobilization rates, and lower costs of war than agrarian civilizations, agrarian civilizations tend to have more advanced urban defense technology.

Han Sui had many second- and third-rate generals under his command, and they were not the opponents of the Mongol cavalry in the field, and they used bows and crossbows with fixed damage to defend the city.

Rumble!

With a loud bang, the heavy gate cracked under the battering ram, splintered wood splattered, and a troop of servants from Khorezm rushed into the city first.

"Han Sui of Jincheng County, Liangzhou, has been waiting for a long time!"

Han Sui and his generals Liang Xing, Cheng Yin and others set up more than 1,000 strong crossbows, pulled the crossbow machine, and the crossbow arrows shot out, and the crossbowman's arm shook slightly!

Hundreds of Khorezm servants were shot with crossbows, and their corpses with crossbow arrows fell to the ground.

Yumen Pass has an urn city structure, and even if the first gate is broken, the Mongol army will have to break through the second gate.

And to attack the second city gate, first of all, they faced the blow of the first wall of arrows, and secondly, the second city wall had a semicircular structure, and the besieging troops faced three rounds of arrow rain shots.

The Yumen Pass was reinforced by the local guards, and there were also stone arrow towers, watchtowers, horse faces and other defensive facilities, and it was difficult for the servant army of the Mongol Empire to capture this pass for a while.

After the servant army that attacked the urn city was shot and killed by Han Sui and his generals, hundreds of people were killed, they withdrew from the urn city, not daring to enter the city easily.

The main breakthrough of the Mongol army was still in the city wall, and as long as the city wall was captured, then the city of Urn would also be broken.

The siege towers, pushed by the servants, gradually approached the city walls, and the tall siege towers cast shadows, and the defenders were even more afraid of this behemoth-like beast.

The advantage of the defenders is that they are condescending, and the height of this siege tower is also above the city wall, and the Mongol marksmen deployed at the top of the siege tower can shoot the defenders with impunity.

The siege tower also has a drawbridge, and if you get close to the wall and lower it, a steady stream of minions will flood the wall.

Xu Fengnian led the fire arrow team to release rockets to the siege tower, and thousands of rockets hit the tall siege tower, and most of the rockets were blocked by the cowhide covered on the surface of the siege tower, making it difficult to ignite the siege tower.

A few rockets hit the wooden frame, which was extinguished by specially arranged soldiers.

The walls were strong, and the besieging party also summed up a set of methods to protect the siege equipment.

The siege tower is still approaching, this time Xu Fengnian directly used the bed crossbow and trebuchet to shoot at the siege tower!

The burly sergeant hits the crossbow machine of the bed crossbow with a hammer, and the thick crossbow arrow hits the siege tower!

Dozens of pounds of stones were thrown into the air, then fell, smashing into the archers on the siege towers!

The siege tower was bombarded by bed crossbows and trebuchets and was finally destroyed, and some of the soldiers deployed in the siege tower were killed.

Before the defenders could cheer, soon the second and third siege towers cast shadows!

The thick drawbridge smashed down, forming a bridge between the siege tower and the city wall, and the servants hiding in the siege tower killed the city wall!

Xu Fengnian pulled out the ring head knife, held the shield in his left hand, and must kill the siege tower and burn it!

Wang Yanzhang followed Xu Fengnian's side, holding an iron spear in his hand, killing more than ten people in a row, and forcibly blocking the enemy army, making it impossible to cross the bridge.

The marksmen on the siege tower concentrated on Wang Yanzhang, and dozens of arrows covered Wang Yanzhang!

Ma Chao came out with a spear to block the rain of arrows!

On the other side, Xu Fengnian's general Yang Shihou led a group of elite infantry to hold the city wall and expel the enemy troops who landed in the city, standing still!

Yang Shihou's legions, each soldier held a silver spear, and the order was forbidden, but whenever anyone ascended the city, they stepped forward to engage in battle, and forced them back with a dense spear formation.

"These people really don't know whether they live or die!"

Li Hu slew a servant soldier, and the ring-headed knife curled as it struck the iron armor.

The Mongol army drove the servant army to attack the city, and regarded this group of servant troops as expendables, so they did not care about the life or death of the servant army, so that the servant army went forward one after another, and continued to ascend the city and consume the defenders.

Stones tumbled, fire oil splashed, and from time to time servants fell and died while climbing the walls.

The iron hooks of the ladder carts hooked the city walls, and the servant army, urged by the Mongol generals, ascended the city and fought with the silver spears like moths to a fire.

"The morale of the defenders is high, and it will be difficult to capture Yumen Pass for a while."

The minister Yelu Chucai arrived.

After Temujin conquered Dunhuang County, the administrative office of Dunhuang County became the center of communication between Mobei, Monan, Tianshan and other places.

"Let Ali Hague be the siege commander, he has a bonus to siege troops and siege equipment."

Temujin gave up personally commanding the attack on Yumen Pass, and instead handed over command to a general.

"Great Khan, where are you going?"

Although Yelu Chucai was Temujin's prime minister, he only assisted Temujin in managing his internal affairs, and persuaded Temujin to attach importance to Confucianism and appease people's minds.

"Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun came to help, and I bypassed the Yumen Pass with strange soldiers, passed through the desert and the Gobi, and entered the pass from other sections of the Great Wall to annihilate the reinforcements. There are no reinforcements outside the Yumen Pass, and it is self-defeating. ”

The Mongolian army besieging the city was replaced by a strong general of the siege, and the pressure on the defenders of Yumen Pass suddenly increased!

If it is Chu Tian, he will know that there are some military generals whose characteristics are suitable for siege, such as Le Yi, and then superimposed bonuses such as the aura of the whole army, treasures, and the characteristics of non-conflicting lieutenants, which can provide a lot of bonuses for the siege troops.

For example, under Chu Tian, Le Yi, Le Jin and Ju Yi cooperated.

Ali Hague is a Mongolian military general who is good at attacking cities.

When he took the place of Temujin to attack the city, the power of the siege equipment was strengthened!

Xu Fengnian ordered Wang Yanzhang to enter a siege tower, and burned the entire siege tower, choking black smoke billowed out, the entire siege tower was destroyed, and dozens of servant troops who had no time to escape were burned to death.

Wang Yanzhang protruded from the smoke and returned to the city wall.

Xu Fengnian cut down a servant soldier who landed in the city, and found that the damage of the siege army's arrow rain and siege equipment increased, and the number of defenders who died under the siege army's arrow rain increased.

"Did they change the besieging generals......"

Xu Fengnian had rich combat experience and was keenly aware of the changes in the Mongol army.

"They're using trebuchets!"

The defenders looked in horror at the stones falling from the air.

The besieging Mongol army used trebuchets, and there were generals who could increase the power of trebuchets, and dozens of pounds of stones could destroy a corner of the arrow tower with the help of gravity!

A crack appeared on one side of the tower, the stone fell off, and the defenders below hurriedly dodged.

Round after round of stone bombardment, trying to tear down all the fortifications and turn the majestic wall of Yumen Pass into a smooth road!

"Their trebuchets are more powerful than before, is this the hero who can increase the power of trebuchets?"

Xu Fengnian knew that there were some special heroes who had a special bonus effect on siege equipment.

The Han Empire also had such heroes, such as Liu Ye, who could provide bonuses to the Thunderbolt.

"Xiliang, fight to the death!"

In the face of the Mongol army's offensive, Xu Fengnian had no choice but to fight to the death, holding on to the Yumen Pass with all his might, delaying Temujin here and preventing him from going to other battlefields!

In the tragic offensive and defense, under the premise that both sides have a certain amount of wisdom, it is difficult for the strategy to play a role, and only the strength of the competition is still morale.

The Xiliang Legion stubbornly defended the Jade Gate Pass, and when the Jade Gate was closed, the corpses were all over the field, and the corpses gradually piled up......

Temujin left with a detachment of cavalry.

In the Khorasan region of Persia, the Ilkhanate was established and attacked the capital of the Persian Empire.

One of the generals used a terrible trebuchet to destroy a city defended by a Persian army.

The commander Tuo Lei rode a war horse and led the Mongol army to attack the city and kill the Persian army in the street fighting.

"With this general, it is easy to storm the city."

Satisfied with the performance of his generals, Tuo Lei forced tens of thousands of Persian troops to surrender.

His son, Hulegu, said: "It is said that the Persian emperor announced our crimes to many lords, intending to gather 300,000 soldiers and horses to retake the Khorasan region. ”

"Defeat the king of Persia, and then defeat the Arab Empire, and West Asia will be in our pocket. plundered the city for three days. ”

In order to keep the morale of the legion high, Tuo Lei allowed the city to be plundered.

Kublai Khan hesitated and tried to persuade his father to drag the mines, but thinking that the Persian army of 300,000 was approaching, and if the morale depleted by the siege was not restored as soon as possible, then the Mongol army might be defeated.

On the contrary, if the army of the Ilkhanate and the Persian servant army led by Tulei, Hulegu, Möngke, Kublai Khan and others could defeat the 300,000 soldiers and horses called for by the Persian emperor, then Western Asia would become one of the territories of the Mongol Empire.

The Chagatai Khanate was conquering Central Asia, the Golden Horde was conquering Eastern Europe, and the Ögedai Khanate was conquering the Western Regions, and the heroic quality of the Ilkhanate was probably above that of other khanates, and only the main body of the Mongol Empire Temujin could surpass the Ilkhanate.

The enemies of the Ilkhanate are also extremely powerful enemies, the ancient Persian Empire and the Arab Empire, if not careful, may be defeated in Western Asia.

The generals who commanded the siege forces to capture the city defended by the Persian defenders sat beneath a dilapidated siege tower and watched the city fall into flames.

This is the thirty-third city he captured in the Persian Empire for Tulei, Hulegu and others.

The Persian Empire was terrified of the rapidly expanding Ilkhanate, and 300,000 troops converged from all sides of the empire to the center of the empire.

Some of the Persian nobles and remnants of the defeated army who fled from the Khorasan region occupied by the Ilkhanate spread fear.

In their description, the enemies from the east are three feet tall and giants, and their trebuchets can destroy walls and crush rocks.

The Holy Fall Cavalry, the Undead Army, the Parthian Heavy Cavalry, the Parthian Archers, and the servants of various tribes gathered, and the pressure on the Persian Empire may be even greater than that of the Han Empire.