The drumbeat of the Turkic army suddenly became tight, it was the drumbeat of the attack, and the 50,000 Turkic army carried hundreds of siege ladders and 80 leather bucket wagons to the city of Dali like a tidal wave, like a huge black carpet, covering the entire field. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Thirty new trebuchets were quickly installed by craftsmen, which were small trebuchets, a kind of string trebuchet that was wound on the principle of levers and could be operated by only three people, two of whom were wound with copper rods and one of whom were released.

In addition, the throwing rod is also different from other speculative machines, this kind of trebuchet with a hard iron bag, can spread more than 300 tribulus thorns to a range of 30 to 100 steps at a time, and 30 trebuchets can spread 10,000 tribulus thorns at a time.

This small trebuchet is actually a tribulus terrestris spreader, thirty tribulus terrestris splicers, scattering dense and small pieces of quenched tribulus thorns under the city, the tribulus thorns are not only aimed at war horses, but also at siege soldiers, and the slender quenching needles can pierce the leather boots of Turkic soldiers.

When the rhubarb crossbow was discontinued due to a lack of bows and arrows, another weapon that frightened the Turkic soldiers quietly appeared.

At the same time that more than 100 Sui soldiers were quietly deploying thistles, the long-range war on the city was in full swing.

Three hundred long armbars of trebuchets were thrown in turn, and three hundred stone projectiles smashed into the dense group of enemies, and each stone projectile fell down, and a gap appeared, and the dust was filled, blood burst out, and the wail resounded throughout the field, but in an instant the gap closed, and it was drowned by the attacking enemy group.

'Boom! With a bang, a huge bucket truck was hit by a stone bullet, sawdust flew everywhere, and the bucket was smashed into a large hole, and the soldiers hiding below let out a scream.

The huge volume of the leather bucket is specially designed to avoid the trebuchet and the rhubarb crossbow and tailor-made, the length and width of the leather bucket are three zhang each, one zhang high, made of giant wood, the whole body is covered with cowhide, the shape is like an inverted flat grain bucket, so it is called the leather bucket car.

The leather bucket cart is a kind of chariot invented by the Xianbei people, equipped with six wooden wheels underneath, dragged by eight strong oxen wearing heavy armor, and a leather bucket cart can hide 80 to 100 infantry.

However, the leather bucket trucks are very fast and slow, and they generally follow the logistics cattle and sheep to act together, so they came to the army relatively late, this time Luo Khan carried a hundred leather bucket trucks south, but 20 were damaged on the road, and in the end only 80 were put into the battlefield.

'Boom! ’

The bottom of another leather bucket was smashed, the two rear wooden wheels on the left side came out, the axle was broken, the leather bucket truck suddenly tilted, swayed, lying on the ground and could not move, and the hundred soldiers in the car had to get out and join the team to rush to the city wall.

The 50,000 Turkic army attacked like a tide, and the stone bullets shot in turn were like small waves splashed in the ocean, and they were instantly submerged by the crowd, and although the crossbow arrows shot out intensively caused a large number of casualties, they still could not affect the impact of the Turkic army, and the enemy army like a frenzy finally entered the city wall within a hundred steps.

At this moment, an unexpected situation appeared, and the thousands of Turkic soldiers who were at the forefront suddenly fell to the ground, holding their feet and wailing, they stepped on the thorn of thistle that had just been sown, as if they had been stung by a wasp at the most unsuspecting moment.

Tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers, unaware of the problems ahead, continued to rush towards the city walls, and more and more soldiers were stabbed in the soles of their feet by the thistles on the ground.

The tribulus thorns and horse traps in the purple river steppe left an indelible shadow on the hearts of the Turkic soldiers, and when this scene reappeared, the hearts of the Turkic soldiers began to be extremely frightened.

The enthusiasm of the Turkic army, which was still enthusiastic just now, suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if the red-hot charcoal had been poured head-on by a basin of cold water.

The large number of crossbows and arrows fired from the city caused heavy casualties among the Turkic soldiers, and the fear of thistles quickly spread among the Turkic soldiers, and the offensive formation began to be confused, with some soldiers retreating and others at a loss.

At this moment, a muffled trumpet sounded in the Turkic army.

"Whew-"

Hundreds of horns sounded in unison, a huge size of the battering ram appeared in the team, the battering ram is also placed on a leather bucket car, the battering ram is made of a thousand-year-old green oak tree, the front end is equipped with a pig iron made of the head, it takes two people to hug it, the whole battering ram is eight zhang long, weighs 10,000 catties, both sides are nailed with dense iron grippers, it takes two hundred soldiers to lift it.

Eight healthy oxen slowly pulled the leather bucket cart, surrounded by 2,000 soldiers of the Turkic Khan's Guards, who were 2,000 special soldiers deployed by the Chuluo Khan in the siege army of 50,000, each wearing the best armor and holding the strongest bronze shield.

But their mission was not to attack the head of the city, but to the south gate.

At this time, the leather bucket cart stopped, and two hundred strong soldiers stepped forward to grasp the grip on the battering ram, roared in unison, and lifted the battering ram weighing 10,000 catties.

Beside them were five men with shields, shielded from the arrows of the city by a storm of arrows with bronze shields bought from the Sogdians.

A thousand alternate soldiers followed, and when one was shot down, someone immediately stepped forward to fill the position.

The most brutal side of the war came at this time, when the Turkic soldiers paved the way with the corpses of the fallen warriors, and they quickly paved a fleshy road that was a hundred paces long.

The battering ram procession, like a thousand-legged giant worm, walked slowly on the 'meat road', and walked towards the south gate step by step.

This team was not afraid of the bows and arrows and crossbows of the Sui army above their heads, and they were not even afraid of rolling wood and stones.

At the head of the city, Qin Yongzheng led hundreds of soldiers to throw thousands of wooden barrels and pottery urns weighing tens of catties to the city gate, the pottery urns were shattered, and the black high slave oil flowed out, this is the confidence of Wei Chigong not to be afraid of the enemy attacking the city gate, and there are thousands of urns of high slave oil stored in Shanyang City, which can play a role in a critical moment.

On the narrow slope outside the city walls, the soldiers at the head of the city poured barrels of fire oil on the ground, and the black viscous liquid flowed slowly on the slope, and the air was finally filled with a pungent smell of oil.

Although some of the Turkic soldiers realized that something was wrong, the battering rams did not stop, but accelerated towards the gate on the hillside.

This battering ram has become the focus of the entire battlefield, and tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers retreated to a safe place hundreds of paces away and did not continue to retreat, but watched the special team attack on the city gates.

The drums on the battlefield were thundering, and Chuluo Khan also personally beat the war drums, and whether he could succeed or not was a blow here.

The procession of battering rams was less than twenty paces from the gate, and thousands of barrels of high slave oil had been poured on the city, when a burning torch was thrown from the gate.

With a 'boom', a fire appeared on the ground, which spread rapidly to all sides, and soon spread to the feet of the enemy, and the fire burned bigger and bigger, spreading rapidly, and barrels of fire oil were constantly thrown from the city, increasing the fire.

The 2,000 besieging soldiers began to panic, some soldiers began to turn around and flee, and many of them were also on fire, screaming and screaming.

In an instant, the slope of the mountain, which was two hundred paces long and one hundred and fifty paces wide, became a sea of fire, and everywhere there were people with fire fleeing, and those who fell struggled in the fire, and the terrible screams resounded throughout the wilderness.

The massive battering ram slammed to the ground when it was only five steps from the gates, rolled down the hillside, crushing countless soldiers into meatloaf, and finally engulfed in flames.

The wails of the Turkic soldiers before they died, the scorching stench in the air, and the outside of Shanyang City became a human purgatory, and many Sui soldiers in the city couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so they covered their noses and turned their heads.

The drumstick in the hand of the Luo Khan fell to the ground, and after a long time, he sighed, "Pass my order, the army retreats west!" ”

The defeat of the battering ram was the last straw that crushed the morale of the Turkic army, and to the sound of the war drums of the withdrawal, the Turkic army began to retreat.

Although the Turkic army lost 70,000 troops in the Battle of the North, the main Turkic army of 180,000 was still there, and did not obtain enough benefits to compensate for the heavy losses of the Battle of the North, and the Khan of Chuluo could not withdraw his troops back to the steppe, otherwise, his throne would not be retained.

As Fang Xuanling said, Wei Chigong made a choice for Luo Khan.

The Turkic army attacked Shanyang County, suffering heavy casualties, and Luo Khan had no choice, and he knew the danger of going south, so he could only ignore the existence of Shanyang County and continue the southern expedition.

Two days later, the Turkic army was divided into two routes, with 70,000 troops staying in the north and Luo Khan personally leading 110,000 troops across the Lou Fu Pass and swept away to the south of Bingzhou.

At this time, the troops deployed by the Northern Sui Army in Bingzhou also reached as many as 180,000. (To be continued.) )