Chapter 397: The Great War Broke Out
Prince Yu, the younger brother of the current emperor, blocked the military power when the emperor was terminally ill.
In order to protect himself, the crown prince planned an unsuccessful coup d'état, according to the original plan, Prince Yu and most of his supporters would be poisoned en masse at a banquet, but the final result was still a failure.
Prince Yu also happened to take this as an opportunity, has been Qing Jun side as an excuse, in the northern Xinjiang mercenaries self-reliance, and the court formed a situation of confrontation between the north and the south, when everything surfaced, people found that Prince Yu was almost completely prepared, his mutiny was by no means an act of righteous indignation, but a far-sighted plan.
This also made the imperial court, which originally planned to cut through the chaos quickly, suddenly become at a loss, and the dying emperor wanted to use his last life and last ability to clear the last obstacle for his son before he finally ascended the throne, but it backfired, and the court was not sure of victory.
So the two sides started a long-term confrontation, knowing that after the sudden death of the emperor, the newly enthroned crown prince could no longer hold back, and he was determined to break this illusion of peace and destroy the current confrontation situation, so the great war that the people expected began early!
Northern Xinjiang is now southern Xinjiang, the first to bear the brunt of the world's first pass "Valley Pass", which is in the hands of the imperial court, is the only place for the northern Xinjiang army to enter the Central Plains, after the two sides suddenly started a war, it quickly became the focus of attack and defense on both sides!
The 300,000 people of Yong'an City in the valley pass have just experienced the difficulty of the tiger power and evil beasts, and they are about to experience a war disaster, and hundreds of people have begun to move their families south.
In the northern Xinjiang, which has entered the depths of winter, it has snowed for several days in a row, and the avalanche on the high mountain has smashed the post road, making it even more difficult for the people of Yong'an City, who had been fleeing very slowly, to move an inch at this moment.
Three or four hundred thousand people braved the heavy snow and were trapped on the official road, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
Huge valley pass, there is hardly that army in the world can break through it, it is built according to the mountain, along the mountain undulations on both sides to build the city wall of more than three zhang high, the main pass of the valley pass is 11 zhang high, the middle gate floor is nine rooms wide, eighteen zhang, five rooms deep, seven zhang.
There is a huge urn city in front of the pass, the arrow tower is lined up, the female wall is solid, the city gate is wide, standing in front of the huge valley pass, often makes people have a feeling of self-insignificance, since the moment the valley pass was built, it stands there, no one has ever been able to successfully pass it.
And at this moment, it will usher in an army of 110,000, and the 40,000 soldiers defending the city are already waiting for the day at this moment, and at night, the snowflakes in the sky are getting bigger and bigger, and all the soldiers in the entire valley pass are waiting for it.
And as far as the eye can see, more than ten miles away, a gray object is moving rapidly towards this side, the dark brown armor of the Jade Prince's army is perfectly integrated with the night, and the torches lit by the sergeants stretch out, like a fiery dragon galloping towards the valley pass!
Slowly, the overwhelming army of the Jade Prince was getting closer and closer, and the hot breath exhaled from the mouths of the sergeants gradually became clear, and after half an hour, the white breath exhaled by the 110,000 army was like a white mist coming from the sky, slowly spreading towards the valley pass.
This piece of white mist is like a huge gray-white cloth, spread on the earth, stretching into the distance endlessly, standing on the arrow tower of the lookout soldiers, looking far away, can not see the end of this white mist.
How many fierce enemy troops are there who are not afraid of death, and what kind of hatred is it that turns into this overwhelming, merciless, and endless army of death?
For the first time, the battle-hardened generals frowned, and for the first time, a trace of fear floated in the hearts of the bloodthirsty and warlike soldiers, and the rumbling sound was getting closer and closer, with strength
An incomparably oppressive force surged towards the valley pass.
Just when the soldiers' hearts were a little shaken, there was a loud bang on the platform, and the roaring war drums resounded through the valley, and the soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time immediately became enthusiastic when they heard the sound of war drums.
Finally, the advance of Prince Yu's army arrived in front of the valley pass, and it was unbelievable that this group of soldiers who had also experienced a hundred battles stood neatly in front of the pass, watching the situation on the pass.
The continuous roar of war horses resounded in front of the pass, and above the city tower, the military advisor frowned, and said incredulously: "This is impossible, these countless sergeants seem to have fallen from the sky, and the heavy snow in the past few days has not been able to stop their march!"
General Wang Chen looked at the sergeant with a deep face, and a command flag was played, and the war drums on the platform played a specific drum rhythm, conveying the general's military order to the soldiers defending the city.
The 10,000 archers in the urn and behind the female walls of the city walls immediately bent their bows and prepared for a salvo.
The torches that could not be seen at a glance stretched backwards from the gate like ghost fire, which is no longer tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of such quantities can be described, and the terrible siege soldiers seem to be endless, and the mountains and fields are full of fire.
Suddenly, a deafening roar mixed with the sound of rain resounded in the sky, and the besieging soldiers who could not see the edge suddenly burst out as if they had received the order to attack, and rushed towards the valley pass in a frenzy.
At this moment, a rocket shot into the sky, tens of thousands of bowstrings made a "boom" sound, and the flying arrows in the sky tore through the snow curtain and shot down towards the front of the pass, and suddenly formed a barrier composed of a rain of arrows one or two hundred steps away in front of the pass.
In the dark night, the golden arrow rain poured down, and the front of the valley pass suddenly roared again and again, and the soldiers who were shot by the golden arrows screamed miserably, and suddenly reached the ground, and the follow-up soldiers didn't even have time to take a look at the injured and fallen comrades, and rushed towards the valley pass master pass one after another.
Prince Jade's siege troops carried a large number of siege equipment, but there were 110,000 people, their advantage was naturally a large number of people, and there were many siege equipment, but the biggest disadvantage was the unattainable fortress in front of them.
The biggest disadvantage of the imperial court's defending troops is that they are understaffed, only 40,000 garrisons, but their advantage is also huge, that is, this huge valley pass at their feet.
In an instant, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides interacted, and both sides immediately entered the most cruel gelatinous state, and the soldiers on both sides were filled with righteous indignation, both of them felt that one of them was right, that their own side occupied the moral high ground, and that the other side was stupid and deserved to be killed!
The drum beat on the platform changed suddenly, and with a bang, behind the valley pass, the salvo of the hard crossbow phalanx began, and the huge dense arrow curtain even covered the snowflakes in the sky.
The four or five thousand martial arts people who supported the imperial court side hidden in the Tibetan military building were incorporated into the infantry phalanx, and at this moment, looking at the orderly and flying arrow rain in the sky, they were all amazed.
Although the attacks and killings between the various sects on the rivers and lakes are also extremely tragic, compared with the formation of today's army confrontation, it is simply not worth mentioning.
In this sea of arrows, no matter how high your martial arts are, no matter how deep your cultivation is, it is only a drop in the ocean, not worth mentioning, the powerful arrow rain blocked the attack of most of the soldiers, and some of the soldiers who survived the arrow rain and rushed to the city were shot fiercely by the archers on the wall platform.
The general of the imperial court sat on the platform, smiled slightly, and said: "Prince Yu's rebellious party, the rabble, actually went against the sky, how can they compete with my army?"
The sergeant next to him frowned, shook his head and said: "General, don't take it lightly, the siege army is coming, we must not be on guard!"
As soon as the military advisor's words fell, he heard a different drum beat in the night, and the siege soldiers who were attacking the city head-on suddenly divided into two ways, looking for the weak spots of the arrow rain on both sides, and rushed over.
The defenders' war drums sounded rapidly, and the archers adjusted their positions in time to block the way of the soldiers who came in a roundabout way, but in this way, the pressure of charging the soldiers head-on was relieved, and the numerical superiority of the besieging side was immediately apparent.
Suddenly, like a river bursting its banks, the overwhelming siege soldiers broke through the barrier formed by the rain of arrows like a flood, and the next moment, only to hear a loud bang, the siege soldiers crashed into the city wall.
These are obviously specially trained in siege, as soon as they arrived under the city wall, they immediately used the shield in their hands to set up a barrier, and the follow-up ladder troops swarmed in, one by one the ladders were quickly supported, and countless siege soldiers were like ants climbing up trees, climbing towards the top of the city wall frantically and quickly along the ladders!
The military advisor pointed to the city wall and said loudly: "General, the enemy army is divided into three teams to attack the city, and enough enemy troops have gathered under the city wall, and it doesn't make much sense for our archers to fire another volley at this moment!"
General Wang Chen stood up and said: "The other party wants to disperse our forces defending the city, so that the archers shoot at the root of the city, and the shield soldiers and foot soldiers are ready!"
The huge herald drum sounded, and the archers in the wall platform turned to shoot the siege soldiers at the base of the wall, about a cup of tea, and the archers in each wall platform were in place, and the two thousand five hundred archers in each city platform fired a volley, and most of the piles of siege soldiers under the wall were killed at once.
Several ladders collapsed, but the number of siege soldiers was too large, and they were not afraid of death, and for every one shot killed, ten or a hundred people pounced again.
At the same time, a team of men and horses rushed out of a bloody road in the middle, and frantically rushed to the gate of the urn city, and five hundred shrewd people in the gate held spears and shields, desperately resisting the city gate, only to hear a loud "bang", and a huge tree with a thick hug hit the city gate.
At the same time, the swarming siege soldiers cut down the city gate with their knives and axes, and the old city gate was made of iron birch, which was as hard as iron, and in order to prevent fire and knife cutting, a thick layer of iron plates was wrapped on the outside, and it was guarded with thick copper nails.
But even such a hard city gate was cut down by this group of crazy soldiers in an instant, and the hundreds of elite soldiers guarding the city gate fought hard through the holes in the city gate, or arrows, or stabs.
With the bow and arrow salvo weakened, more siege soldiers reached the walls of the urn city, and at first only three teams of men and horses attacked the walls, but now it suddenly grew to six teams.
The besieging soldiers rushed desperately and frantically towards the city, and the shield soldiers on the walls were on standby, and the archers within the walls fought hard to kill the soldiers who climbed the walls.
Under the uninterrupted impact of the soldiers who were not afraid of life and death, a few people finally jumped onto the city wall!
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Codeword Dog: Touching the Head......
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