Chapter 966: Breaking the Enemy (5)
After this night's offensive and defensive battle, time passed rapidly, and soon the east was white, and it was about to reach dawn.
It was only at this time that the Mongolian army under the city realized how much they had paid for this night's battle. Hundreds of corpses had fallen in front of them, all slain by the arrows and stones that had been fired from the city.
And after paying these casualties, they still can't pose much threat to Datong City, and even the moat has not been completely filled at this time. This made the Mongolian army, which had been invincible in the grassland and elsewhere for several years, feel discouraged, and even Tuta, as the main general, felt nervous at the moment.
"This Datong City really lives up to its name, as one of the nine important towns of the Ming Kingdom, its defense is really strong."
"What to do? Are we going to continue the siege as we did yesterday? But the Ming army above has already prepared......"
In the Mongolian army, there were constantly whispers, looking at Tuta in front with uneasy eyes, waiting for him to make a final decision. And Tuta was also looking up at the head of Datong City at this time, and his heart was also fluctuating: "How can this be? It's been all night, why is Datong City still so impregnable? Shouldn't Daba have already gone into the city and completely disrupted the situation in the city? Could it be ...... Did they miss? ”
Tuta is a little hard to believe and accept this. In order to take Datong in one fell swoop, he made full preparations this time, including the previous raid on Xuanfu, all to capture Datong. Moreover, he also has great hope and confidence in the elite team he has cultivated and trained, and it is really hard to believe that they will suffer such a defeat.
"Perhaps...... The Ming army in the city is just holding on, as long as we continue to attack the city and cooperate with Daba's offensive in the city, Datong will definitely be able to be successfully taken! After a moment's hesitation, Tuta made such a decision.
It's like a gambler who has already bet more than half of his wealth, even if he feels that the situation is not good, and in the absence of other better options, the only thing he can do is to make additional bets and fight to the end.
After taking a deep breath and stabilizing his emotions, Tuta immediately turned around and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Blow the trumpet, continue to attack Datong, I believe that this time, it will definitely be able to take it down." ”
Since the main general said so, those people below naturally did not dare to disobey, and suddenly a desolate horn sounded again through the heavens and the earth, and then in the burst of shouts, thousands of Mongolian troops rushed to the towering city again. As they approached, they fired countless arrows at the top of the city, as they had done before, to suppress the attacks from above.
And at this moment, the morale of the Ming army in the city is much higher than just now. They already knew what was going on below, and they knew that the enemy had lost the battle for a while, so although they were faced with the arrows that rained down like locusts, they did not panic at all, but methodically erected huge shields to block all those arrows.
After the arrows were shot close to the tea time, the Mongol army approached the city wall again, and then the ladders were erected again, and a new round of assault began.
However, the Ming army was fearless, still defended and counterattacked by various means, and continued to harvest the enemy's lives with the advantage of condescending.
When the dazzling golden light of the sun fell on this part of the city, nearly a thousand Mongolian soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and their only gain was to put a few ladders on the top of the city.
"Tuta, we can't attack anymore, our damage is already great......"
"Tuta, our steppe cavalry is not good at such a stalemate offensive and defensive battle, if it continues like this, it will only completely defeat our spirit......
"Tuta ......"
The leaders of the Mongolian army had already seen that the situation was not good, and they rushed to persuade them.
You must know that although the Mutu tribe on which Tuta relied has almost unified the entire Mongolian steppe, the team he waved south is still composed of various Mongolian tribes, and these people are the capital that the heads of the tribes can gain a foothold in the steppe.
Tuta had also sensed that the situation was not good at this time, and he had only been difficult to ride a tiger before, so he would continue to urge the drum army to attack the city. But now, under the persuasion of so many people, he finally began to hesitate and regret it: "Collect the troops!" Finally, he gave the order that relieved everyone.
The fierce and heroic Mongolian warriors finally stopped their attacks after the drums and trumpets stopped, and slowly retreated. This made the Ming army breathe a sigh of relief, and such a ferocious attack was also extremely stressful for them. After this round of attack and defense, the Ming army also lost no less than 500 people, and the rest of the people were injured by a similar number of people, almost all of whom were injured by the arrows shot by the Mongols into the city.
Now, these terrible enemies have finally retreated, and after a night of hard fighting in the morning, the Ming army has long been physically and mentally exhausted, and just wants to rest well.
Guo Rong was finally able to take the time to think carefully about a question: "What can these heads be for?" While thinking, his eyes had fallen on the heads of the large baskets not far behind him, which were sent by the defenders in the city before dawn, saying that Yang Dudu felt that this thing was very useful to the city guards, so he sent them over.
Before, because he had to deal with the enemy's crazy attack, Guo Rong didn't think deeply about this. But now, when the war was over for the time being, he turned his mind to it, and soon had an idea. He immediately waved his hand and called his cronies around him and ordered, "Go find a few people with loud voices......
Unlike the Ming army, which was very jubilant, the retreating Mongolian army was dejected. Several times under Datong City, this is still a big blow to them. Especially for their team, which has won almost all of them for several years, this setback is particularly profound.
Seeing this, Tuta was also annoyed in his heart, but he quickly said solemnly: "Don't feel discouraged, even if the eagle can't take its prey for a while, it is still an eagle. We will definitely be able to take Datong. ”
His words also had a certain encouraging effect, but some people were still very worried and said: "But Tuta, why haven't you arranged Daba all the way to succeed?" Doesn't they should, with us in front and out? ”
"Maybe the Ming army in the city has found out the people I arranged inside, so I can't accept them into the city." Tuta sighed helplessly. But then he said: "But you don't have to be disappointed, even if no one answers, with Daba's ability, they can enter Datong City." Maybe by tonight, Datong will be a complete mess. So all of you go back and rest, and there might be a big battle tonight. ”
Hearing him say this, everyone could only nod their heads in agreement, and then walked back very tiredly.
At this moment, there was a shout from the direction of Datong behind him, but because of the distance and the fact that this place was too empty, the voice was faint and unreal.
"What are those barbarians yelling about? But at last we know how powerful we are, so we are going to surrender in Kaesong? ”
"It would be great if this was the case, I must kill all the people in Datong to avenge the great revenge of my brothers......"
"How wasteful is it to kill them all? The women of the Southern Barbarians are all smooth-skinned ......"
Many of the Mongol soldiers were talking wistfully, and the other generals were unconsciously unsettled, and listened carefully to what was being shouted in the city.
Finally, as those people in the city cooperated better, the voice finally reached the ears of many people clearly. Although ordinary Mongolian people could not understand the words of these Ming people, there were still those Mongolian leaders who understood these words, and in an instant, everyone's expressions changed.
Tuta's face turned even bluer, and he could hardly believe his ears. Because the words shouted by the Ming soldiers in the city were very simple - "Listen to the Mongolian people under the city, the thousand guys you sent to the southern city have all been annihilated by us." If you don't want to be like them, hurry up and give me as far as you can, or when we open the city and send troops, we will definitely kill you without leaving a piece of armor! ”
"This ...... How can it be? After all the Mongolian people knew what the Ming army said, their faces immediately changed, and at the same time, they all looked apprehensive and incredulous.
These people have a deep understanding of Daba's thousand-strong combat power. At the beginning of the steppe, Tuta had led this thousand men to sweep through several tribes, defeating the enemy to the point where they could not fight back. Coupled with the recent record of conquering dozens of fortresses one after another, this team of 1,000 people has become the absolute trump card in this Mongolian army, and it is also their biggest reliance to capture Datong.
And now, the Ming army actually said that this army had been wiped out by them, which is really hard to convince.
Just when the people were suspicious, the city made another move, only to see that after someone's wave, one by one the bamboo baskets were lifted, and then as soon as it tilted, countless heads rolled down from the city like raindrops.
"This is the head of the Mongolian army you sent to the south gate, if you don't believe it, you can come and take a look!" The city shouted again. With the rolling human head, its deterrent effect has increased exponentially.
"This ...... How is this possible? All the Mongols looked at everything in front of them with ghostly expressions, and even if they doubted it, it was enough to prove that they were right.
And Tuta, his face was even more blue and red, and he didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him for a while, and his body trembled......