Chapter 466: The Battle of Youzhou
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes were divided and competed for the world.
Among the grassland peoples, the Xiongnu and Karasuma united because of Qin Feng and jointly attacked the powerful Xianbei. They wanted to exterminate Xianbei so that they could equally divide the fertile Mongolian steppes of later generations.
The forces of the Xiongnu and Karasuma were not Xianbei's opponents, but the Xiongnu, Karasuma and Qin Feng did not need to guard against the rear, and they had Qin Feng's well-traded equipment, so they arranged all their combat power to the front line.
Behind Xianbei was a strong enemy of Goguryeo that needed to be defended, so it tended to be inferior in the battle, and gradually lost to the alliance of the Xiongnu and Karasuma over time.
As a result, Xianbei Wang Kebineng came up with an idea, which was to fund Gongsun Zan to wage war against Youzhou. If Gongsun Chan was able to defeat Qin Feng in Youzhou, then the Xiongnu and Karasuma would lose their supply of sophisticated weapons and equipment. In addition, Kebineng is not free to fund Gongsun Zhan, but conditional. This condition is to attack Karasuma and the Xiongnu from behind.
In this way, Karasuma and the Xiongnu suffered from the enemy, and the danger of Xianbei's defeat could be immediately lifted. There is also a great opportunity to eliminate Karasuma and the Xiongnu and monopolize the steppe.
Gongsun Zhan, who was entrenched in Liaodong, killed Gongsun Du of the same clan, and his ambition was self-evident. But he knew that he was not Qin Feng's opponent at the moment, so after killing Gongsun Du, he had been making every effort to develop internal affairs, and befriended Sanhan in the south of Lelang County to expand his influence.
However, after receiving grain and grass and 70,000 war horses funded by Xianbei, he was full of ambitions. He thought that the opportunity for God to help him regain the rule of Youzhou had come, so he gathered an army of 150,000 and cavalry of 100,000. Kill Beiping County.
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"Charge!"
"Ladder!"
"Well fence, catapult ready!"
Beiping County. This one of the best cities in Youzhou is now shrouded in wolf smoke and war. Beneath the tall city. The murderous Gongsun Chan army was surrounded on all sides, like a turbulent tide, wave after wave, lapping against the tall city wall.
In the sky, boulders and arrows fly.
In the thick smoke, the city was full of blood, and the corpses were everywhere under the city.
The soldiers were falling one after another, standing at the head of the city. The armor was stained with blood, and the resolute and dark face had a hint of exhaustion, but a pair of tiger eyes were murderous.
At this moment, the Gongsun Zan army under the city once again organized and launched a new round of charge.
Behind the battlements of the city wall, there were standing Qin archers, when this wave of enemies entered the firing range. At the sound of an order, ten thousand arrows were fired. Arrows fluttered in the sky like swarms of locusts, and fell on the body of the soldiers of the Gongsun Chan Army. Often there is more than one arrow.
On the city wall, there is a huge, three-meter-long, two-meter-wide crossbow machine. A crossbow arrow with a calf-thick thickness can penetrate the chests of more than a dozen enemy soldiers under the city with just one shot. This crossbow machine is the invention of the Northland Military Research Institute. Huang Chengyan combined with Ma Jun's invention, and at the same time invented the Yuanrong crossbow. Can fire fifty arrows. However, due to the complexity of the workmanship, it cannot be made by non-high-level craftsmen. So the production is very scarce.
Gongsun Zhan's military shield covered the vital points, braved the rain of arrows, stepped on the corpses of his companions, stepped on the moat that had already been filled in by the corpses, and erected the ladder on the city wall.
"Kerose!" Gao Shun commanded loudly.
In the whirring, a large number of clay pots were thrown down the city by the soldiers of the Qin army, smashed on the ground, smashed on the enemy, and smashed on the cloud ladder. The clay pot was torn apart, and the pungent smell of fire oil was splashed everywhere.
"Torch!"
After a loud bang, the flames were monstrous, and more than 100 cloud ladders on this side of the city wall were instantly turned into ashes, and nearly a thousand enemies were burned along with them.
Gongsun Zhan's soldiers howled and cried, and they were all over the fire, and they were finally consumed by the flames.
Distance.
Gongsun Zhan, who was holding a lance, was wearing a purple and black delicate armor, and there was no expression in it. His army had swept through the entire Beiping County, but this last Beiping county town blocked his westward advance. He had already sacrificed 20,000 men under the city.
"My lord, the enemies in the city are less than 10,000, and Gao Shun is already at the end of the crossbow. It's best to ......, take this city today, and the news from Tanma before, Qin Feng led an army of 200,000 to help, and the vanguard is less than a hundred miles away from here. Gongsun Zhan's military strategist Guan Jing said.
Behind Gongsun Zhan was a formation of 100,000 people covering an area of several miles, each formation was 10,000 cavalry, and 100,000 iron cavalry in ten formations was the trump card force that he dared to take the initiative to attack Qin Feng. The infantry in front of the cavalry, there were still 20,000.
"Bei Yan, Tian Kai, Yang Zuo, and Ru each bring 10,000 cavalry, dismount, and cooperate with the infantry to attack the city!" Gongsun Chan said coldly.
"Whoa!" The three generals came out together, and the 30,000 cavalry immediately dismounted, turned into infantry, and joined the siege battle.
The advantage of large numbers and strength began to manifest, and the 50,000 Gongsun Zhan army frantically attacked the four city walls, and the Qin defenders who were only 10,000 in the city suffered a large number of casualties, and the defense line began to loosen.
Cooperate with the Qin general Tian Chou, who defended the city, and led the last elite guards to fight fires everywhere.
The soldiers of the Qin army were not afraid of death, and they used weapons, fists, and even teeth to suppress the enemies who were constantly pouring into the city. The stump and severed arm flew sideways in the air, and under his feet were overflowing blood organs, and a puff of hot blood turned into a blood mist, enveloping the entire defense line.
In this blood mist, the soldiers of the Qin army and the Gongsun Zan army did not know left and right. One side wants to drive the enemy off the city, and the other side wants to fight into the city, but they all have the same direction, that is, forward, forward, forward!
however
"General, the western city wall is in an emergency!" A bloodied colonel rushed to Gao Shun.
"How much longer?" In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, Gao Shun shouted loudly.
"It's ......, and there are only more than 100 people left!" Xiao Xiao bowed to the ground, and his sad tone was filled with a decisive momentum.
Xiuxiu......
Gao Shun suddenly dodged and grabbed a random arrow, he looked at the tip of the arrow with the edge exposed, and broke it in two. shouted: "Order the Yuanrong crossbow team to go to Xicheng to support ......." ”
The Yuanrong crossbow soldier is a new class of troops set up by Qin Feng. Due to the extremely difficult to make the Yuan Rong crossbow, the entire northern land was only equipped with more than 3,000 people. Because of the need to be organized, there is only one hundred-man team in each state.
I saw a well-armored squad rushing out of the standby of the city tower, holding a baby-sized Yuan Rong crossbow in their hands. It has a metallic luster.
The team soon came to ...... the western city wall.
A member of Gongsun Zhan's army, a general, who killed the god and stood at the head of the city with blood all over his body. Blood was constantly flowing from his armor to the ground. He swung his knife and cut off the head of a Qin soldier, and saw that there was no Qin army left and right. laughed and said: "Hahahaha, kill these Qin soldiers, Lao Tzu is the first to enter the city!" ”
A large number of Gongsun Chan troops climbed up from under the city and gathered behind him, these Gongsun Chan troops had hideous joys on their faces, and after ten days, they were finally able to stand firmly at the head of the city.
"Shoot three times in a row, ready!" At this moment, the Yuan Rong crossbowmen of the Qin army arrived. Under the captain's shout, the crossbowmen in the front row were on one knee to the ground, and the Yuanrong crossbow in his hand was placed in front of him. The soldiers in the middle row bowed in the middle, and the soldiers in the back row stood upright.
"Charge, charge!" Seeing that there were only more than 100 archers, Gongsun Zhan's army was fearless in his own force, so he casually picked up a shield and rushed to kill him with a sword. Behind him, nearly a thousand soldiers followed. A large number of soldiers climbed up to the top of the city to reinforce them.
"Put!"
Woooo In the huge crossbow box of the Yuan Rong crossbow, there are fifty crossbow arrows ten inches long and the thickness of chopsticks. Even if it's a hundred. The crossbow bolts fired also formed a scale of 10,000 arrows in front of them.
"Wow!" I saw Gongsun Zhanjun, a fierce general, who fell to the ground with dozens of arrows in his body, although the shield protected the vital point. But his limbs were full of arrows, and he fell to the ground and lost his shield protection. Immediately shot into a hedgehog.
Xiuxiu...... Xiuxiu......
"Ahh
"Wow!" Then Gongsun Zhanjun was shot into a sieve one by one. Fell to the ground and died.
The crossbow bolts are so powerful that they almost pierce through the enemy's body. In an instant, the head of the city was once again covered in blood sprayed out.
"Forward, forward!" The Qin army's Yuanrong crossbow team began to advance, a dense rain of arrows, and at the same time as they advanced.
This Yuan Rong crossbow actually played the effect of an automatic rifle in later generations, and with the advance of the Qin army's Yuan Rong crossbow team, the soldiers of the Gongsun Chan army continued to fall one after another, but in a few breaths, there was no longer a standing Gongsun Chan soldier on this side of the city.
"Shoot at the head of the city to stop the enemy from attacking the city."
The Yuan Rong crossbowmen immediately lined up in a row and shot downward, instantly suppressing the Gongsun Zhan soldiers who were climbing under the city. Since this city was briefly occupied by Gongsun Zhan's army, Gongsun Zhan's army used this as a breakthrough and gathered thousands of people. However, in just half a pillar of incense, he was condescendingly shot and killed by the Qin army's Yuanrong crossbow team.
The Gongsun Zhan army under the city was suddenly killed by the sharp crossbowmen, and the soul was scattered, and the liver and gall were scattered and fled. Even for a long time after Yuan Rong's crossbow arrows were exhausted, no one in the city dared to climb.
The bloody battle continued, and the other three city walls began to be in crisis, but Gao Shun was already without the strength to support. He personally joined the battle line, and with the swing of his broadsword, he continued to take the lives of the enemy.
"General Gao, withdraw!" Tian Chou hurried over, wiping the sweat on his head, and suddenly it was full of blood.
"You dare to say goodbye!" Gao Shun was furious, and the big knife in his hand flashed, and it was placed on Tian Chou's shoulder.
Tian Chou turned a blind eye and shouted: "General, there are more than 100,000 enemies in the city, and there are only a few thousand of our army left in the city. I can't defend it anymore, general, retreat! Tian Chou turned over and bowed down, and said desolately: "We are not afraid of death, but general, we can't let the Youzhou garrison corps be wiped out here." For our Youzhou garrison corps, leave a trace of incense, General! ”
Gao Shun's eyes jumped, and he looked around at the soldiers who were killing the enemy on the left and right, these people were the last strength of the Youzhou garrison legion. "Defend the country, the soldiers of Youzhou, die for Youzhou, and die as you deserve!" Gao Shun shouted, turned around and slashed angrily, and cut off the head of a soldier of the Gongsun Zan Army who had just emerged.
Blood splashed with the sweeping broadsword, and the handle of the knife smashed again on the city, Gao Shun raised his arms and shouted: "The city is here, the city is destroyed, and people are dead." The time has come for us to take up arms and fight to the death against the enemies of the city today. ”
"The city is in the people, the city is destroyed and the people are dead!"
"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! The cries were passed out one after another in the shouts of the Qin soldiers, and then thousands of remnants of the soldiers chanted in unison. They are not timid because they are about to die, their morale is high, and they defend their honor and their homeland with their lives and blood.
"We are the Youzhou Garrison Corps, and we are fighting for Youzhou. Fight to the death! "The soldiers of Youzhou, who are determined to die, burst out with the last power in their lives, the most powerful force. In a short period of time, the rising Gongsun Zan army was suppressed and suppressed under the city.
Gongsun Chan's military side
"Damn, damn!" Seeing that the city was about to be broken, Gongsun Zhan was beaten down again, annoyed, and shouted: "We Liaodong Jian'er are the real warriors of Youzhou, take out your courage, the whole army dismounted, attacked the city, broke the city, and slaughtered the city for three days!" ”
The Liaodong man was also a good man in the north, and when he heard this, he rose up in shame, and saw 70,000 cavalry dismount en masse, and gathered to prepare for the final charge.
"Lord, Gao Shun is incompetent!" Gao Shun looked at the army of Gongsun Zan that began to assemble under the city in the distance, clutching the bleeding broadsword. He jerked off a piece of clothing and wrapped it tightly around his slippery palm. At the same time, the soldiers of the Youzhou Garrison Corps were sitting on the same thing. In their eyes, they are fearless, generous and heroic.
"General......." Tian Chou also clenched his spear. He knew that it was not Gao Shun's incompetence, but because the difference in strength was too great.
The sun was setting in the west, and the sky was gradually sinking. This day is coming to an end, and the defenders of Beiping City are about to face the final battle.
Under the city, more than 100,000 Gongsun Zhan's army gathered again. They stared at the scarlet eyes and shouted the earth-shattering slogan: "Kill, kill, kill!" ”
However, at this time, on the distant horizon, in the afterglow of the setting sun, a black line appeared.
This was followed by the sound of horses' hooves rumbling to the sky, making the earth tremble.
Gongsun Chan was taken aback, and when he looked into the distance, he saw that in front of the center of the approaching black line, a golden glow reflecting the sunlight was dazzling.
"Report ......." At this time, a member of the detective horse came to the front in a panic, and fell off the horse with a panicked bang. He hurriedly got up, fell to his knees, pointed his arm in the direction where the cavalry had arrived, and shouted with fear on his face, "My lord......." The trapping legion is the trapping legion of the Qin army! (To be continued......)
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