Chapter 871: Bloody Battle Datong

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Yelu Abaoji held a shield that was higher than his body, his eyes were swollen red, and he shouted meaningless chapters loudly, stepped over the corpses of his clansmen lying under the city, and rushed to the corner of the city for the third time.

At this time, the sky above the south of Yunzhou City seemed to be raining a violent rain of arrows, rolling a deadly storm of metal. The dense array of feathered arrows almost made the sun in the sky lose its light. At the foot of the city wall, there were unextinguished flames of war burning everywhere, and the boiling water spilled by the Qin army was still steaming on the ground.

Everywhere were the corpses of tribal warriors in all kinds of leather armor, broken wooden blocks of cloud carts, rushing cars, and building carts smashed by stones, as well as blood stains everywhere, and severed limbs and arms.

Screams, roars, war drums, and horns mingled.

The creaking of the wooden wheels of the ladder car against the wooden trestle on the ditch, the vibration of the bowstring, the sound of the feather arrows breaking through the air, the rolling sound of the stone thrower firing, the stone bullets falling on the city wall, the rumbling of the battlements, all these sounds are intertwined, and the smoke of gunpowder, the fire of war, and the blood and broken corpses all merge into a scene of purgatory on earth.

Yelu Abaoji completely lost the ability to think at this time, but instinctively followed the more than 3,000 brothers of the Tart Horse Department, clustered on the cloud ladder, and launched a charge towards Yunzhou City again and again. Behind the first ladder were hundreds of tribal warriors.

And further behind them, outside the range of the Qin army, or beyond the range of ordinary attacks of the Qin army's ultra-long-range super-heavy equipment. The two hundred cable-type trebuchets built by the Hu people were divided into three teams. Constantly throwing stones and mud blocks at Yunzhou City. suppressed the Qin army in the city.

Although this kind of improvised trebuchet, compared with the counterweight trebuchet of the Qin army at the head of the city, there is a world of difference, five to eight catties of stone projectiles, hit the solid and steep city wall of Yunzhou City, can only leave a mark and turn into powder, they are also difficult to cause too much damage to important fortifications, but if they can successfully smash on the defenders of the city. So no matter how sophisticated and strong the Qin army's new full-body plate armor or half-body cuirass is, and how good it is for defending against arrows, they will definitely die. Moreover, the biggest targets of these trebuchets were the arrow towers and corner towers at the head of the city, as well as the heavy ballista vehicles of the Qin army, as well as the counterweight overweight mine-throwing vehicles inside the city walls.

Jerushru's face tensed, and he fought a thousand paces from the city wall.

In the beginning, Yelu Shilu's banner of the Chinese army was actually advanced to 200 paces below the city, which is a traditional safe distance. The presence of the coach on the front line is indeed a great boost to morale. But they underestimated Qin Jun. The Qin army could never be inferred from conventional traditions.

When Yelu Shilu, dressed in gold armor, stood eye-catching on a high cloud chariot and personally commanded the siege, the Qin army on the city directly transferred ten blocking heavy crossbows to block the attack. This kind of blocking rage is specially designed to stop the enemy officer. The range was 100 paces long, and it used an iron crossbow spear with a thick arm and an accuracy of less than three feet.

Ten crossbows at a time blocked, this was a must-kill blow. However, at the critical moment, Yelu Shilu's personal guards desperately saved his life, and a group of Khitan guards directly pounced on him and stacked a mountain of meat on him. Ten crossbows blocked, directly blowing up the cloud car, a group of guards died, although Yelu Shilu escaped, but also broke an arm, the leg was grazed by the tip of a spear, drawing a deep blood groove.

Then Jerusherus retreated to a distance of seven hundred paces to command.

This time, the Qin army directly transferred the eight Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannons in the city, loaded them with a giant cannonball weighing three hundred catties, which was a huge explosive package composed of super-large earth-shaking thunder and Greek fire, and then called the best artillery, and after aiming, he directly gave Yelu Shilu another cluster shelling.

The range of the 20,000-pound counterweight hammer and the five-zhang long boom super counterweight stone-throwing vehicle is extremely terrifying, and he can throw a 300-pound stone projectile a hundred zhang away.

This time, the blocking almost succeeded in serving Yelu Shilu and other Khitan generals, and eight heavy artillery pieces of 300 catties directly exploded into a huge crater within the ten zhang range of Yelu Shilu's handsome banner. More than a dozen tribal officers and hundreds of guards directly turned into a pool of broken corpses and blood, and the handsome banner no longer existed. Jerushru, who was not under the banner at the time due to a leg injury, had a similarly shaped soldier wear his armor to pretend to be him, only to escape again.

However, the commander of the Chinese army was directly blown up, which still caused the great fear of the Hu people who were besieging the city, and the guards in Yunzhou City opened the city gate in a timely manner, and released a thousand cavalry who had been waiting, taking advantage of the chaos of the enemy army, and a fierce charge under the city, repelled the Hu people who were besieging the city, and set fire to a large number of siege equipment such as ladders.

Yelu Shilu took a lot of effort to stabilize the scene, but unfortunately there were too few soldiers and horses of the Qin army in Yunzhou City, otherwise it was very likely that he would be able to defeat the Hu people in one fell swoop this time.

After that, Yelu Shilu was already very careful, not only did he move the new handsome banner to two miles from the battlefield, but most of the time, he sent a stand-in to replace him, and he himself hid five miles away from the city wall, and guarded by his side, for fear that the Qin army would have something more terrifying.

Today, however, Jerushlus was once again on the front line, and moved a thousand paces in front of the battle with his banner.

The defeat of the Golden City and the death of his brother Jerodzah in battle moved him with deep concern, and he had begun to worry. Maybe this time going south is not as easy as I imagined. The Qin army's reinforcements came too quickly, and the original Qin troops in Daibei were too capable of resisting, just like that Li Siyuan, who had not yet obtained his head.

He was even a little worried, the 30,000 tribal soldiers and horses sent to pursue Li Siyuan's defeated army seemed to have been out of contact for more than a day, could something happen to them?

Shaking his head, he swept the worrying thought out of his mind and looked back at the battlefield.

In any case, the Qin army's reinforcements had already reached Jincheng, and the Qin army's reaction speed was far beyond his expectations, and the Qin army's reinforcements might arrive here at any time. There was not much time left for him. He had to take Yunzhou quickly. Then go south again to the golden city of Shuozhou. At the very least, you have to meet with the Shatuo soldiers of Yanmen. 200,000 people went south, the supply of grain and grass was a big problem, and the land of Daibei was too poor to grab anything at all.

His eyes saw his nephew Yelu Abaoji under the city, and his eyes were full of appreciation. Although he was only ten years old, this nephew was already as strong as an ordinary adult, and he could not only hold up a strong bow with more than one stone, but even shoot arrows on horseback, and immediately step down to fight, all of which were quite good, and one person could fight against more than three tribal warriors. It was really a brave descendant of their Yelu family, but it was a pity that his father died so early. Zala's death was a great loss to their branch. Especially now Pu Gu, who is now Yili Jin and Khitan Dadielie Mansion, is only seriously ill. Seeing that as soon as Gu Gu died, he Yelu Shilu would transition from the current position to offside. When he really succeeded Pugu and only became the new Dieli Sumire of the headquarters and the entire Khitan Dadielie Mansion Yili Sumire, the death of the brother, the tart horse tamarin, was a complete loss.

Fortunately, there is a successor of the brothers, and he has such an outstanding son, at the age of ten, he has become a warrior respected by the Khitan warriors, and he will definitely be even more heroic in the future. Yelu Shilu has officially taken the official position of Khitan Yuyue, which temporarily represents the state affairs of the Khitan army, and granted Yelu Abaoji to take over the post of tart horse tamarin shali who died in battle, and officially became the guard officer of the newly built guard army of the Diera tribe.

At the age of ten, he became the commander of a guard army formed by the elite warriors of the Diera tribe, which was unprecedented. But no one objected, and Yelu Abaoji's bravery earned him the position. Most of the original guards were killed in Jincheng this expedition, and Yelu Shilu reselected a group of warriors from his own Khitan soldiers and horses, as well as from other ethnic groups, and finally formed a new tart horse department of 3,000 horsemen. This nephew is outstanding, and Shinichi takes over the tart horse Tamarin Sari and immediately asks for a siege. Using elite warriors to attack the city seems to be a bit of a knife to kill chickens, but the last Yelu Shilu still agreed.

Although he had 100,000 horses gathered under the city of Yunzhou, he was a little helpless in the face of the 10,000 Qin army defenders in the city.

The Qin army only had 10,000, but they recruited a large number of people in the city to help defend the city. Not only that, but the Qin army's endless, varied, and powerful city defense equipment gave them even more headaches. Sturdy steel armor, strong bows and crossbows, and Fuyuan double crossbows, Fuyuan heavy crossbows, three-bowed and eight-ox crossbows, winch crossbows, and all kinds of large and small catapults, as well as the thunder carts, mine-throwing carts, and the thunder carts that terrified the tribal soldiers and horses, and the dragon thunderbolt cannon that would inevitably kill dozens of soldiers with each shell, as well as those gas bombs, smoke bombs, mines, explosive packs, divine fire, flying fire, and ghost fire

These strange weapons, which most of the tribal warriors couldn't even name, made them suffer a lot during the siege.

The powerful and brave tribal warriors, excellent in riding and archery, fierce and fierce, but in the face of high walls, fierce firearms, and dense rain of arrows, they could not even touch the corners of the enemy's clothes, and they were already lying under the city.

These days, Yelu Shilu is also constantly getting the tribal warriors off their horses, picking up the murderous battle axes to cut down trees, and then letting some border people captured by Yunzhou rush to build siege equipment. Unfortunately, although there were some craftsmen among the border people, they would at most build some rough ladders, rushing carts, cloud carts, arrow towers, battering rams and small catapults.

It is impossible to create a ballista, ballista, and throwing cannon like the Qin army with a long distance, a high head and a fierce attack.

For example, the Qin army's dragon and thunderbolt fire general cannons, although there are only eight in the city, and every time it is launched, it needs hundreds of manpower and animal power to pull, and it also has to use leverage, basically only three or four shots can be thrown in an hour. But these super catapults, every time they bombard, they can directly empty a range of several zhang, and the real people block and kill, and the gods block and kill the gods.

With a range of 600 paces and a bomb volume of 300 catties, it is a real weapon of great destruction.

Whenever the tribal warriors fight for their lives to gain some advantages, and they are about to rush to the city, these damn super cannons will suddenly launch, and then eight giant cannonballs weighing 300 catties will fly out from behind the city wall and fall within 600 steps outside the city, emptying the soldiers who follow up, giving the defenders at the head of the city a critical time, so that the warriors who are besieging the city will have no support, and they will be helplessly driven down from the city by the Qin army.

Damn, it would be nice if they also had this kind of trebuchet, even if there were one or two of these giant cannons, one of them on the battlefield, then any fortifications in Yunzhou City, as long as they were hit, would be smashed to pieces. It's a pity that this kind of trebuchet weighs 20,000 catties with a counterweight hammer alone, and a boom is as long as five zhang, and the high frame is almost all made of stainless steel structure and giant wood, which is not only extremely difficult to transport, but also the key is that the manufacturing technology is extremely high, and even requires the cooperation of an extremely excellent artillery throwing group to throw the cannon into a general range.

It's a pity that he doesn't have any of these, so he can only watch every two or three quarters of an hour, and there will be a piercing roaring sound in the sky, and then he will honestly lie down, and bear a collapse of the sky and the earth, the earth shaking, and the roar of his ears, and dizziness.

Damn, I don't know how the Qin people transported these eight giant cannons, these oversized guys weighing tens of thousands of catties, how did they get to Yunzhou in such a short time? He couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, there are only eight such giant cannons in the Qin army, and this kind of giant cannon consumes too much gunpowder, and a cluster bombardment is more than 2,000 catties of gunpowder, so the Qin army will not dispatch until the critical time. Otherwise, he estimated that his tribal army would have been shattered by the Qin army.

The Qin people are really fucking powerful at guarding the city, Yelu Shilu couldn't help but sigh again.

100,000 people attacked a city guarded by 10,000 people, and after attacking it for so many days, the city was still impregnable, if he were not the commander of this battle, he would have thought that the general who commanded the army was an incompetent person with wine bags and rice bags. But now, he can only sigh over and over again, damn it, the Qin people are really good at defending the city.

Damn, there's a kind of face-to-face battle between you, and Jerusherus was so angry that he couldn't help but want to roar at the city.

Yunzhou City, as the center of Daibei, has been war-torn several times, and several major tribes have stationed troops here, so this city is constantly repaired. The fortifications of the entire Yunzhou City are designed very tightly, and there are sheep and horse walls outside the outer city, so that the enemy cannot directly attack the outer city, and even outside the gates of the outer city, several small but very dangerous urn cities have been built.

A deep and wide ditch was dug around the outer city wall, which not only buried a large number of sharp piles, but also filled with water, which was a huge trouble for the Hu people, who lacked siege equipment.

And in the whole Yunzhou City, there are thirteen city gates alone, and there are many that people dare not imagine, the east and west of the Central Plains are only twelve gates, damn it, there are thirteen gates in a city on the side. There are many city gates, and it seems that the defenders have to disperse their forces to defend them, but in fact, in the battle to defend the city, the city gate is extremely crucial. Otherwise, why don't you just block the city gate with stones when defending the city? This is because there are city gates, you can defend and counterattack, the enemy can not let go of the siege at ease, there are many city gates, although it is more difficult to defend them, but it also allows the besieging side to score troops to defend, because Yunzhou has thirteen city gates, which also means that the defenders in Yunzhou City can rush out of any city gate at any time and kill them.

Damn, Yelu Shilu couldn't help but scold his mother again, before this, he really didn't expect that Datong was so difficult to attack, and the Qin army was so difficult to deal with! (To be continued......)