Chapter 174: Barbarian Archers
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The sounds of fighting and roaring mingled across the battlefield, and blood stained the grass on the ground. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the land, the corpses of the slave soldiers gradually piled up, and the subsequent slave soldiers still rushed forward without fear of death.
The barbarians' bows and arrows are behind them, and the arrows of the soldiers of Cangzhou City are in front of them, and there is still a glimmer of hope of surviving Cangzhou City.
This was the order of Gurtai, the head of the Huyantuo banner before the siege.
In order to survive, they can no longer care about their comrades on the opposite wall, and behind the city wall is the land of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and the people of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.
No, they are not only trying to survive, they actually have hatred in their hearts, they hate Da Yu State, they hate their wives and children when they are **** by barbarians, why does Da Yu not send troops!
They hated that when their homeland was burned down by the barbarians, why didn't the Great Yu Kingdom send troops!
They hated King Yong when he killed the king's mansion, why didn't the Great Yu Kingdom send troops!
This hatred simmered in their hearts day and night, and the kingdom behind the walls grew stranger to them, and a desire for destruction grew in their hearts.
Die! Let's die together!
Gurtai smiled at the slave soldiers who were constantly attacking the walls of Cangzhou City, the strategy of using slave soldiers as the vanguard was very popular among the barbarians, and the victory of one war after another pushed this strategy to a lofty position.
In their eyes, other peoples are cowardly, and the threat of death and the desire for life will make these slave soldiers willingly driven by the barbarians.
And most importantly, these slaves saw no hope of returning to their homeland.
No one and no army can fight the barbarian cavalry on the steppe.
From time to time, they would instill in these slaves the idea that their monarch had abandoned them, which made these slaves gradually lose hope in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.
Liu Xuan was also looking at these desperate slave soldiers, his expression was complicated, and he couldn't tell whether it was sympathy or sadness in his eyes.
It's just that this sentiment is quickly replaced by hatred.
In the Golden Horde, there were many people from the Great Yu Kingdom who advised the barbarians, ranging from depressed scholars to merchants who traveled between the two countries.
More were the descendants of the slaves, who were now fully integrated into the life of the barbarians, and the Great Chongqing Kingdom was nothing more than a distant country for them.
Like many merchants who traveled to and from the steppes, he believed that it was only a matter of time before the barbarians conquered the Great Chongqing Kingdom.
Because for him, the word barbarian is nothing but the prejudice of the Great Chongqing State against the barbarians, which is a country that is not inferior to the Great Chongqing State in terms of government affairs, people's livelihood, commerce, and skills, and has a complete bureaucratic and military system.
And because of the control of the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, the barbarians made a lot of money by taxing the merchants along the route.
The magnates of the Great Yu Kingdom believed that the war between the barbarians and the Ottoman Empire was only because the barbarians were bloodthirsty and belligerent, but they did not know that the barbarians and the Ottoman Empire were actually fighting for this trade route between the east and the west.
After all, the strength of the Ottoman Empire also benefited from this trade route, and they imposed heavy taxes on merchants from the West to the East, which led to high trade costs, so in recent years Western merchants gradually abandoned this trade route and supposedly opened a route from the sea to the East.
This incident annoyed the barbarians, and this led to a war between the barbarians and the Ottoman Empire.
But the Ottoman Empire was no less powerful, and the barbarians killed a thousand and injured eight hundred.
Liu Xuan came back to his senses and looked at the battlefield again, when the slave soldiers rushed over the stone pillars in front of the city wall and began to build a ladder.
His attention was drawn to the soldiers of the city walls, all wearing silver armor that covered their bodies.
He looked at Gurtai, who looked playful and said, "You have also noticed that in the Khan's palace I have seen several similar armors, which are said to have been brought from the west. ”
"It's also the first time I've seen this kind of armor, and I haven't been back for a long time." Liu Xuan said.
Gurtai frowned and said: "This kind of armor is not easy to deal with, ordinary swords are not of much use to them, and it takes a lot of silver to forge a pair of this kind of armor, when will you not only master the forging of this kind of armor, but also create so much armor." ”
"According to the information I have gotten, King Qi seems to have mastered the forging technique of this armor, so this King of Qi is not simple." Liu Xuan reminded Gurtai.
Barbarian nomadic tribes, one tribe is one flag, the small clan is the small flag, the middle clan is the middle flag, and the big clan is the big flag, and the leader is called the flag head.
The Huyanta tribe was nothing more than a central banner in the Golden Horde.
Because of his outstanding contributions in the capture of Shanhaiguan, Tian Khan gave him all the land in Shanhaiguan.
Therefore, this war is especially important to him, because it will mean whether he can continue to expand the territory of his tribe.
Over the years, the population of the Huyantuo tribe has grown considerably, and if he gets more abundant land in Guannei, he believes that it will only be a matter of time before he becomes the leader of the banner.
"There are few princes of the Great Yu Kingdom who are useful, what if they wear these armors, can they still resist our bows and arrows? Swap for armor-piercing arrows. Gultai pouted.
Seeing the slave soldiers rushing to the city, he waved his hand at the cavalry beside him.
Two thousand barbarian archers immediately formed a phalanx and moved towards the city walls.
At this time, at the head of the city, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army kept throwing stones and rolling logs and smashed them at the slave soldiers who climbed the ladder.
The slave soldiers on the ladder were constantly killed and wounded by stones and rolling logs, but one after another continued to climb upwards.
"Hot oil!" Niu Ben looked at the battlefield situation and gave an order.
The slave soldiers went forward one after another, and the arrows under the city were dense like hedgehogs, and the wounded slave soldiers wailed in pain under the city, and soon died at the feet of the slave soldiers who followed.
On the inside of the city wall, the boiling hot oil had been boiled out, and Niu Ben's order was given, and the auxiliary soldiers immediately carried the hot oil onto the city wall.
These oils are there to deal with the ladders, and as long as the ladders don't break, the slaves will keep climbing.
Xiao Ming had been observing the situation on the battlefield when he noticed that the barbarian archers were beginning to move forward.
It's just that this is not his main concern, because at the same time he finds that the slave soldiers under the city are digging the roots of the city walls.
"You guys, kill those slave soldiers!"
Xiao Ming commanded a pair of crossbows to point at the slave soldiers who were digging a hole under the wall, and these slave soldiers had only one purpose in digging the hole, that is, to blow up the city wall with gunpowder.
The crossbowman received the order and immediately opened fire on the slaves, who immediately fell in a pool of blood during the victorious screams.
At this time, the barbarian archers were getting closer and closer, and they were there to cover the siege of the slave soldiers.
At this time, Xiao Ming shouted: "Catapult, get on the gunpowder canister!" ”
(To be continued.) )