Chapter 151: The five armies of Taiyuan City are unified, and the Tiande army is attacking the city with ten thousand horses

Han Xueqing bowed and saluted: "Lord Zhuang, there is something unknown to my subordinates, and I want to ask my lord for advice." ”

Zhuang Xiaowei said: "This general is on business, and he has no time at the moment. If General Han has something, he can ask later. ”

Han Xueqing said: "What my subordinates want to ask is related to the military affairs of the Hengfeng Army. ”

Zhuang Xiaowei said: "Oh, I don't know what General Han asked?"

Han Xueqing said: "My lord said that he would rearrange the defense area for our Hengfeng army, but I don't know why? Isn't our previous defense area already set, and all departments have also been arranged, wouldn't it be too hasty to replace it at this moment, and it will be difficult for the soldiers to familiarize themselves with the new defense area as soon as possible." This is very bad for the war!"

Zhuang Xiaowei sneered: "General Han is too worried, if you want to talk about the familiarity of Taiyuan City, who else in this city is comparable to General Li? General Li has already transferred people from the original defenders of Taiyuan, scattered into all kinds of military horses, with their assistance, you can be familiar with the new defense area in a very short time." As for the reason for the sudden change of defense area, this was formulated by General Li in order to facilitate unified command and in accordance with the military situation of various circles and the movements of Tiande, and the general could only carry it out, and if General Han had any objections, he could question General Li in person. ”

These words were eliminated and all Han Xueqing's questions were blocked. Han Xueqing opened his mouth, but he had nothing to say.

Han Xueqing was defeated and retreated, and the rest of the Hengfeng army was even less qualified to speak. Zhuang Xiaowei took advantage of the power of forcing Han Xueqing to shout: "The military order is like a mountain, the military situation is urgent, all the troops act immediately! These brothers under my command are already familiar with the content of the military order, and they will take you to various new defense areas!"

The generals of the Hengfeng army looked at each other, not knowing whether they should receive the order or not, and looked at Han Xueqing one after another.

Han Xueqing raised his eyebrows slightly, and was about to speak. At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps at the gate of the camp, and the captain he had just sent walked in quickly.

The other party looked gloomy, walked a few steps, came to Han Xueqing's side, and said a few words in his ear, Han Xueqing's complexion suddenly changed.

He glanced at Zhuang Xiaowei with complicated eyes, and suddenly turned his head to the Hengfeng generals in the audience and drank: "What are you doing stupidly? Didn't you hear General Zhuang's order? Don't you act quickly!"

Han Xueqing's statement, the generals of the Hengfeng army immediately stopped delaying and received orders one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the people on the school field were gone, leaving only Zhuang Xiaowei, Han Xueqing and a few Hengfeng generals who had not received the task.

Han Xueqing pondered for a moment, hugged his fist towards Zhuang Xiaowei and said, "General Zhuang, my subordinates have offended a lot before, I hope your lord will forgive me." ”

Zhuang Xiaowei waved his hand: "No need! Taiyuan City is in danger at the moment, you and I don't know whether we are alive or dead, just don't do these face-saving things! You and I know the previous things, I only hope that you and I can let go of the past and fight the enemy together!"

Han Xueqing said: "My subordinates will definitely do their best!"

Zhuang Xiaowei said: "That's good! The general has other military affairs, farewell!"

Zhuang Xiaowei was not polite, and with a wave of his hand, he led a few of his subordinates to get on the horse and go.

As soon as Zhuang Xiaowei left, the remaining Hengfeng generals on the school field gathered around and asked Han Xueqing, "My lord, has General Zhou really been assassinated? What should we do in the future?"

Han Xueqing sighed: "Lord Zhou did go, but whether he was assassinated or not, not yet."

Say. Now Li Hengchuan is the biggest in Taiyuan City, and we can only accept his orders! But no matter what, now our biggest enemy is still Tiande, let's survive this difficulty first. ”

The reception of Hengfeng Army was a bit of a small episode, and the incorporation of the remaining three people was much smoother. Overnight, the situation in Taiyuan City changed dramatically, and Li Hengchuan finally took control of all the five route military horses. He immediately redeployed the defense of Taiyuan City as quickly as possible, and filled in the loopholes in the original defense as much as possible.

Although the lack of a large number of high-ranking generals caused the city's defenders to lose their combat strength slightly, the integration has greatly improved the situation compared to the previous fragmentation.

Tiande would never have expected that their assassination not only did not plunge Taiyuan City into chaos, but in a certain sense, it prompted the Southern Qi army to increase its cohesion.

In the final analysis, all this is because of Zhuang Xiaowei's existence.

By mistake, Zhuang Xiaowei broke the secret of the Tiande assassin in Tianguan City, and then became the only survivor of Tianguan City. This made Li Hengchuan prepared, temporarily changed his location, escaped the assassination of the Tiande assassins, and became the biggest winner of Taiyuan City.

Tiande naturally didn't know what was happening in the city, and with the help of the hidden wolves lurking in the city, they successfully explored the residences of the generals from all walks of life, and then secretly reported to Yelu Tailong.

Yelu Tailong took the opportunity to send his immortal disciples into the city to assassinate him.

They received a report from the returning assassins, and knew that the generals and colonels of all the armies in Taiyuan City except Li Hengchuan had suffered heavy losses, and the defenders of Taiyuan could not be said to be leaderless.

Just after receiving Kuifeng's report, Yelu Tailong immediately summoned the generals of the army and organized the army horses to prepare for the siege of the city.

During the time of waiting, the Tiande army was not idle, and there was a lack of craftsmen in their army, but it was not nothing. During this period of time, a small number of craftsmen in the Tiande army have been stepping up the production of siege equipment.

There are high mountains on both sides of Taeyuan City, and there is naturally no shortage of trees on the mountains. The Tiande army cut down a large number of trees, and rushed to produce dozens of improvised ladders and a small number of trebuchets in successive days.

After breakfast, the horn of the Tiande army sounded, the drums shook the sky, the eight banners were unfurled, and the millions of troops arrayed under the city, under the order of Yelu Tailong, more than a dozen trebuchets took the lead in attacking, and then tens of thousands of troops began to pour towards Taiyuan City like a flood, and the siege began!

The defenders of Taiyuan had already discovered the abnormal behavior of the Tiande army, and took precautions early, and when the first round of boulders was thrown, the city walls were already densely packed with longbowmen armed with bows and arrows.

Tiande's trebuchets were not numerous, and the frequency of boulder bombardment was not intensive, and they did not cause much damage to the walls and defenders of Taiyuan. When the Tiande soldiers and horses came to the city, in order to prevent accidental injury, the trebuchet suddenly stopped attacking, and at this moment, the crossbow and trebuchet at the head of Taiyuan City began to counterattack.

Different from Tiande, the craftsmanship of the military craftsmen of the Southern Qi Dynasty was more exquisite, and the number of ballistae and trebuchets at the head of the city was even larger. As soon as these two instruments were powerful, they immediately made the Tiande army suffer enough.

The boulder the size of the millstone fell like raindrops, smashing the Tiande cavalry and men and horses into a pile of meat and mud, and then, the boulder rolled around with the help of inertia, and almost all the Tiande cavalry who touched it were spared. Each boulder could take the lives of a few or even a dozen Tiande cavalrymen.

The two-meter-long giant crossbow arrows were comparable to spears, and with the thunderous sound of the bowstring, the crossbow arrows shot out with a piercing wind howl, on the battlefield all over the Tiande cavalry

Passing through, four or five Tiande cavalrymen who couldn't dodge were strung together like sugar gourds and nailed to the ground, and the screams resounded under the city, making people unbearable to hear.

The power of trebuchets and ballistae is enormous, and the damage they do is shocking, but compared to the millions of Tiande cavalry, these injuries are like a drop in the bucket. The formation of the Tiande army was still black and oppressive, rushing towards the Taiyuan city wall.

Approaching the city wall, the Tiande cavalry jumped off their horses one after another, and their war horses had been trained for a long time, and they ran to the sides on their own, not blocking the Tiande cavalry's charging footsteps in the slightest. They carried ladders on their backs, or flicked the hooks in their hands, and rushed forward without fear of death.

On the Taiyuan city wall, several Southern Qi generals looked intently at the Tiande soldiers and horses that were gradually approaching under the city, and on both sides of them were thousands of Southern Qi longbowmen who had already prepared their bows and arrows.

"All the troops listen to the order!" the generals shouted in unison, and the Nanqi archers immediately bent their knees and leaned back, and the feathered arrows in their hands pointed diagonally at the sky.

"Shoot!"

There was a thunderous roar, and there was a "buzzing" sound from the city wall, and a black rain of arrows immediately rose into the air.

The rain of arrows cut a graceful arc through the air, like a large net, spreading to the limit, and scattering towards the black human head.

"Ah~" The terrible screams resounded on the battlefield, and hundreds of Tiande soldiers fell to the ground like hedgehogs, and a blank appeared in the charging formation, but in the blink of an eye, the blank was filled by the Tiande soldiers behind.

On the city wall, the sound of the bowstring began to tremble regularly, and bursts of arrows rained down, like the soul envoys of Hell Yan Jun, taking away the souls of hundreds of Tiande soldiers.

However, the soldiers of Tiande were fearless, one after another, and bravely took the lead.

As they approached the city wall, the Tiande soldiers and horses also began to return fire with bows and arrows. Most of the Tiande soldiers and horses were herdsmen and were good at riding and archery, and when they attacked Tianguan City, they first used bows and arrows to open the way.

However, Tiande has always been poor, and the materials are not abundant, and the arrows carried by Tiande soldiers are also used for hunting on weekdays, which are extremely cherished and easily refused to be used. In this expedition to the Southern Qi Dynasty, Yelu Tailong ordered all the arrows of the whole army to be collected and deployed in a unified manner. In the previous battle with Hu Chao's army, the charging Tiande cavalry did not use arrows.

Speaking of fighting with the Hu Chao army, the archers of Southern Qi destroyed the bows and arrows in their hands at the last moment, and there were not many bows and arrows captured by Tiande.

This attack on Taiyuan was a key battle in the march into Southern Qi, and Yelu Tailong distributed the bows and arrows among the generals, in order to win the battle, which can be regarded as a bloody investment.

The arrows of the Tiande soldiers are known for their dexterity, and they have their own advantages with the Southern Qi arrow array. At this moment, two archery units with very different styles began to fight, which can be described as a contest of archery between the north and the south.

The Southern Qi army occupies the geographical advantage of the city wall, and the arrow array has a unified command, and the power is undoubtedly even more powerful at this moment, but Tiande wins in the number of people, and the soldiers' archery skills are known for their accuracy.

Taking advantage of this faint opportunity, the Tiande soldiers finally touched the walls of Taiyuan City.

At the risk of the imminent arrows, the Tiande soldiers sacrificed their lives to erect the ladder and leaned towards the city, at the same time, countless hooks flew up, and thousands of ropes shrouded Taiyuan City like a spider web, and the next moment, countless black dots began to climb up along the spider web.

The general offensive of the Tiande army has begun!