Da Wei Chun

Chapter 490
A pig iron pot full of gunpowder was thrown over the top of the city, hitting a pawn just in time.

The iron can weighed nearly ten catties, and the force was so strong that the soldier was smashed and fell off the city wall immediately.But the tin can was left in the wall.

There were only two or three inches left of the lead wire, and the surrounding soldiers surrounded them, watching curiously, wondering why there was fire on the stone bullet?

Suddenly, there was a loud "bang", a fireball disappeared in a flash, and countless steel balls and iron filings sprayed out, like a strong wind blowing through the wheat waves, several soldiers within two feet fell down.

Twenty trebuchets came and went one after another, one after another the iron cans crossed the city wall, were thrown into the pass city, or fell on the city wall.

The hundreds of horses that had just been gathered into the city were completely panicked, running and ramming aimlessly.Just after receiving the urgent order, the soldiers who were rushing to the city wall were knocked and flew around.

There are screams and horses neighing everywhere...

Mo Nahui, the brigade commander, was so frightened that he trembled all over.

He finally knew how Manchester City, which had tens of thousands of warriors, was breached.

Ray... Really Ray?
Under such fetish, apart from kneeling down and praying to the gods, he could no longer have the slightest thought of resistance.

Presumably when the city of Touman was broken, Ketun (referring to the Khan’s queen and concubine, the official wife of the tribe), Teqin (the brothers and sons of the Khan or the tribe), Qi Lifa, and Qijin (all senior officials) in the city, Should be like him now.

Come down...

Just thinking about this, there was a loud "boom" under the tower.The suspension bridge fell down like a mountain, throwing up smoke and dust in the sky.

A group of soldiers passed through the smoke and dust, rushed down to the base of the city like a flock of sheep, and knelt down in the valley like a swarm of bees.

"Drop... we drop..."

"Don't open your bow...we are the Han army..."

"That's right... we were coerced by the Hu thieves, so we had no choice but to obey the enemy..."

Li Zhang bared his teeth with a smile.

When the city of Touman was conquered, thunder was thrown non-stop for nearly an hour, and the city was so blazing that the rammed-earth city wall was blown open, forcing the bandits to surrender.

Although Gaoqueguan City is not as big as Touman City, it is nearly twice as high and its walls are several times thicker.Li Zhang predicted that even if there were not many defenders on the city, it would take more than an hour to blow up the city wall.That's why Li Zhang dared to say "take it in one hour".

But this was on the premise that the defenders on the city would not surrender, so even though it was only three quarters since he issued the military order to Li Song, Li Zhang didn't find it surprising at all.

When I was in Hexi, I saw thunder, and there were so many small tribes kneeling down, Li Zhang was used to it...

With a sharp weapon in hand, Li Zhang is not afraid of tricks played by the enemy.With an order, the artillery stopped throwing mines.

Several groups of white cavalry jumped out from behind the formation, and they were not in a hurry to enter the city, but rushed up the big slope of the city foundation, and shouted loudly around the pass: "The descendants will not be killed, and they will leave the city with their hands tied..."

Seeing that there was no more "thunder" explosion, the soldiers who were still alive on the top of the city knew that they had escaped from death and recovered their lives. Eight out of ten of them wept with joy.

All orders and superiors were left behind, as if urged by a ghost behind him, he rushed to the city like crazy: "Surrender...I surrender..."

Seeing the Hu Zu and the guards of Gaoque Pass coming out in a file, Li Zhang shouted in a deep voice: "Report to father quickly, Gaoque Pass has been broken..."

……

Under the Jinhao pass, the armor is like a cloud, completely reaching the sky.

At the beginning of noon, when the people were full of wine and food, and the horses were fed with fodder, Li Chengzhi ordered the army to set off.

All the way was not in a hurry, like going westward for fun, and only traveled forty miles in an hour.

It doesn't matter whether Hu Qi's scouts come to explore the formation, as long as they are not within two miles of the army formation, or Hu Qi with brigade or more bypasses the Chinese army and outflanks, Li Chengzhi will ignore it.

Standing on the top of the pass, Dou Ling looked at the troops below the city who had already lined up to meet the enemy, his heart twitched faintly, and he seemed to have the feeling of being terrified the night he first entered Jinhao Pass.

He really couldn't figure it out, how could the generals of the Han Dynasty dare to put on a decisive battle posture when they were obviously short of troops?

After many years of conquests with the Six Towns, Dou Ling still has this insight: all the Han troops are out, and they don't even care about the enemy rangers who are exploring the formation. It is clear that they want to have a decisive battle today.

Just rely on the six thousand cavalry?
When it comes to cavalry battles, Hu Bing is definitely better. Even if it is five thousand against six thousand, Dou Ling thinks that his chances of winning should be more than [-]%.Moreover, the relevant city relies on the support and the future is safe, so Dou Ling can't understand, what is the basis of the Han generals?
Just relying on the thousands of infantry rushing from Woye to Linhe County and Jinhaoguan?

In the four fields, if you use infantry to intercept cavalry, if you don't have five or six times as many soldiers, it's just like a joke.

Therefore, Dou Ling really can't figure it out...

"Wuluohou, Afugan!"

The two Hu generals came out together, bowed their heads and said, "My lord!"

"Lead your subordinate troops to meet the enemy five miles away from Guancheng. If the enemy approaches ten miles, you will face it brazenly: divide into four teams each, go forward and follow up, cut the enemy's two wings, and divide them with oblique attacks... Remember, don't spare your troops! "

Wu Luohou is the general of the Fuli Army, and Afugan is the leader of the tribe directly under Dou Ling, so all the elites are dispatched this time.

This shows the importance of Dou Ling.

He suspected that the Han general wanted to repeat the same old trick as a few days ago, using retreat as an advance, forcing him to shrink his troops in a desperate posture, so as to continue to delay time, and wait for the follow-up Han infantry to come to help.

But what's the use?

Yuchi set a period of three days, at the latest at dusk today, the [-] clan soldiers sent to Linhe and Linrong to plunder will return one after another.At that time, whether it is a decisive battle or blocking, the Han generals will be powerless...

Seeing the two battalions of fine cavalry marching eastward from the city, Dou Ling felt a little more at ease.He also called his personal guards and ordered his horses to gallop to Gaoque to report the matter of leaving the customs tonight.

The personal guards went away after receiving the order, and saw that he had just left the pass city, and suddenly there was a sound of golden gongs behind him.

After many battles with the Han army, don't be too familiar with this kind of gong sound: enemy attack!

Dou Ling suddenly turned his head, and a puff of smoke ignited on the beacon tower on the east bank of the Yu River Valley.Looking further away, in the mountains about five miles north of Guancheng, the smoke of the wolf is as straight as a sword, and it goes straight to Yunxiao.

This is... The army has arrived at Jinhao Pass?
The question is, where did it come from?

Dou Ling was startled: No wonder the Han army in Dacheng County put on a decisive battle?

No... This is definitely not a bluff, but a joint attack from both inside and outside?
"Hurry up... order Wuguhou and Afugan to gather the army under the pass and guard the formation... Shuli, please go north on the Guzhong Pass Road to meet us. There will be a fast horse from Gaoque Pass City to report. Be sure to ask. : How many enemies are coming, what is the formation. In addition, urgently order Monalou, even if he dies, he must guard the Gaoque Pass..."

The commander of the personal guards responded anxiously, but before they got up, there was a rush of horns in the valley.

Dou Ling became more and more suspicious: the urgent report from Gaoque Pass has arrived, why so fast?

Wenpen followed Dou Yegu closely, blowing the horn with all his strength, his face flushed red.

Both of them were riding on newly replaced horses. It took less than half an hour to run the nearly [-]-mile-long pass.

But the war horse was also very tired, foaming from the corners of his mouth, it was clearly at the end of his battle.

As soon as it was near the pass, a fast horse came out from the north gate.About a hundred paces away, the fast horse turned suddenly, blew the cornet repeatedly, and ran towards the east gate.

Galloping all the way, Chen Yu's army formation in the valley seemed to be slashed in the air, creating a gap nearly ten feet wide, making way for Wen Pen and Ye Gu.

As we got closer to the east gate, Dou Ling could see it more clearly.He has already recognized that the last rider is Wen Pen, commander-in-chief of the directly subordinate clan soldiers, who was left by him to guard the city at Gaoque Pass.

The face of the man on the horse in front was covered in blood, and he was temporarily unrecognizable, but his figure was very familiar.

A little closer, Dou Ling was shocked: Is it the third brother?
He wasn't defending the city of Touman, why did he come to Gao Que with his face covered in blood?

Has Manchester City changed?
Or... the second brother turned against him, and he was the one who attacked Gaoque Pass?

A bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart, and Dou Ling pressed his hands tightly together, with blue veins all over the back of his hands.

After a while, Yegu was led to the east gate.Seeming to have exhausted the last bit of strength, his legs were so weak that he was carried up to the tower by several soldiers.

Seeing Dou Ling, tears welled up in his eyes, and Ye Gu, who had been calling him by his first name since he could remember, unexpectedly called out "Brother?"

Dou Ling grabbed Ye Gu by the collar and lifted him up: "Second brother is rebellious?"

"Dead... Dead... He would rather die than surrender, and be pierced by the Han army's thousands of arrows... All Lifa and Tutun (official name) are dead, and only my mother, me, and a few others are left Qi Jin was tortured day and night..."

"Where did the Han army come from?"

"do not know!"

Ye Gu shook his head vigorously, "The next day you dispatched troops, suddenly it was like a divine soldier descending from the sky. Thousands of Han troops came from the banks of the Niuwei River and defeated Wuluohou, Yuchi, Afugan, and Shuli in one day...nearly night At that time, it was under Touman City, and in just two hours, the city was breached..."

"fart?"

Dou Ling punched Ye Gu in the face, "If there is no [-] troops, how can the Han army defeat four of my Dulun troops in one day? Even with a [-] troops, they can defeat my head in two hours. It is absolutely impossible...

Ye Gu, it must be the traitor Xionglu who has rebelled and sent you to deceive me and disturb our army's morale, right? "

"There is thunder, the Han army has thunder..."

Yegu was bleeding from the nose, and he laughed like a psychopath, "Once the thunder explodes, it will be swept away by a strong wind within a few feet, and there will be no survivors... It doesn't matter whether it is a horse or a camel, but listening to the thunder is like hitting an evil, and you will be hit by it." The ground is in a state of panic, and it is not controlled by the knights at all...

In addition to thunder, the Han army also has rockets. No matter whether it is a man or a horse, or a robe or armor, everything that sticks to it is like a maggot attached to the bone, which cannot be extinguished even by water... Based on these two things, although the Han army is only a few thousand, but It's like entering the land of no one, breaking through twelve chapters in a few days..."

Thousands of Han troops, not to mention defeating twelve divisions in a few days, actually broke through Touman City?
And he didn't even receive any news?
"Fart fart fart..."

Dou Ling roared sharply, kicked his bones, and rode on him again, his fists rained down: "How dare you disturb our army's morale?"

"The Han army had already captured us alive, tortured and tortured us for days, and released us suddenly this morning? At that time, I expected that the Han general asked me to wait to disturb the morale of the army. But how can I..."

With a sound of "uh", Ye Gu spat out a mouthful of blood, and even though Dou Ling beat him on the chest, he laughed again, "Brother, run away, or even the remaining ten thousand sons will be ruined." This golden moat is closed..."

Dou Ling suddenly froze, and his fist couldn't drop.

Only now did he see clearly that Ye Gu's white teeth had not even a single one left?
Was he really tortured?

If it was the intention of the second younger brother to come here, how could Ye Gu be willing to suffer such torture?

"My lord, there are more than a dozen riders coming from the pass, all of them are Lifa and Tudun (officials who assist the tribal lord in handling military affairs)...and say...and that all the tribes have been captured by the Han army. broken..."

"My lord, the Han army is attacking along the river, like a long dragon, with no end in sight. But the men and horses are all dressed in white linen, and they have never seen such attire, so I don't know where it came from..."

"My lord, the Han army in the pass has reached five miles away, and each is divided into two groups. One is heading south. It seems to want to prevent Lord Yuchi from returning to the north. The other is forming an array five miles away. It seems that an offensive will be launched immediately... "

Dou Ling was crumbling like a thunderbolt.

What Ye Gu said turned out to be true, Du Lun's twelve tribes were all defeated by the Han army?

The Han army didn't want to intercept Yuchi who was returning from the north at all, but was going to chase and intercept when his subordinate Erlang was defeated from the pass to the south...

Dou Ling distorted his facial features, ferocious like a ghost, and raised his bones: "What kind of thunder?"

"Thunder that can blow up even a stone wall..."

Ye Gu laughed miserably, "Dou Ling, I can't beat you... run away..."

Hit or flee?
And the front road is blocked, the back road has been cut off, where can I escape?
waste!

Dou Ling gritted his teeth, hugged Ye Gu's neck and broke it hard.There was only a "click", and the bone was crooked, and he lost his breath.

"Shu Li!"

"grown ups!"

"Execute all the Tulifa and Tutun who fled back, and then let Qixi and Ermian be the rear army, and attack the Han army in the valley along the Guan Road... Well, let those two know: [-] The Qianhan Cavalry has reached the pass, and the road ahead has been cut off. Therefore, even if both of his troops died in battle, he must drive out the Han army in the valley and open up the pass..."

"Yes……"

Shuli responded with a trembling voice, and rode away.

Dou Ling's eyes were as red as blood, staring at the wolf smoke soaring into the sky, his legs trembled slightly.

A thunder that can blow down a city wall?
Like a maggot attached to a bone, a rocket that can't be extinguished by water?
Just a few thousand, and defeated twelve Han troops in a row in just a few days?

And Manchester City, which has tens of thousands of sons and daughters, but only held on for half a day before being breached?
No matter what Ye Gu said, Dou Ling didn't believe a word.

He would rather believe it, but he is also possessed of evil...

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom..."

There was a muffled sound in the distance, which seemed to be the battle drum of the Han army, and it became more and more clear from far to near.

The battle drums of the Han army are not so sparse. They will not ring again after a few breaths...

Dou Lingfu felt his heart, and his pupils constricted rapidly: "That thunder that Ye Gu said?"

……

As close as a relay, one after another explosions started from Gaoque Pass, along the east bank of the valley, and spread to Jinhao Pass one by one.

Li Liang had already led his rangers up the mountain ridge, and about a hundred feet to the west was the river valley.In the valley are densely packed white cavalry.

Hearing the explosion three miles away, he immediately ordered the soldiers to ignite an explosive bag the size of a cow's head.

Except for Lei, there is really no way to describe this kind of movement.

Feeling the vibration under his feet, he felt that the sound was so wonderful, Li Song bared his teeth with a smile: "Li Zhang is not bad, he broke through the Gaoque Pass in only four quarters!"

Li Shi pursed his lips secretly: Don't talk about Li Zhang, even Li Xian, who is the stupidest in the whole army, as long as there are enough explosives, the little Gaoque Pass will definitely be within reach...

Just as he was secretly slandering, he heard Li Song shout again: "Let's fight!"

It is natural to decide on tactics before dispatching troops. If there is no accident, everyone will perform their own duties.

With the sound of a drum, the generals of each Li family quickly issued military orders to their subordinates.

The prepared horses had already been assembled in front of the formation, and there were nearly [-] horses.The hind quarters of each horse were tied with felt soaked in nitrate, and once ignited, the fire would never go out unless the felt burned out.

There are hundreds of horses in each row, and there are soldiers holding torches behind each horse. Once Li Shi waved the flag, a hundred horses would be driven out of the army formation with their tails lit.

Repeatedly like this, in just a moment, more than a thousand fire horses galloped southward.At this time, the two battalions led by Dou had just assembled under the North City Gate.

The mouth of the valley is slightly wider, but it is only about a hundred feet, which is enough for a hundred horses to gallop.Looking around, it was like a fire dragon with no end in sight, heading straight for Hu Zhen.

Standing in front of the battle, General Hu, who was about to take the lead, was startled, his scalp was numb, and his eyes were about to burst: "Shoot the arrow... shoot the arrow..."

But useless at all!
If it weren't for the armor-piercing arrows or crossbows hitting the vital points, the horse would not easily fall to the ground after a few arrows.And Hu Bing's cavalry bow can effectively kill at most thirty or forty steps.And such a short distance is only two or three breaths to the galloping fast horse...

Like a wall of fire, it slammed into Hu Bing's cavalry formation heavily.But the river valley was only a hundred feet wide, and the two battalions of Hu soldiers had nowhere to hide.He could only slash with all his might.

The stinging pain in the horse's butt was unbearable, and the burning horse only knew to rush forward, even if the knife hit its head, it didn't care.

Seeing countless balls of flames rushing towards them, the horses riding Hu Qi in the front row couldn't be controlled at all, and they couldn't help but want to turn around and run back.

The fire horses seemed endless, rushing towards them wave after wave.After a while, Hu Qi's front line became a mess.

it's over...

Qi Xi only felt a chill rushing into his heart, and his whole body was like falling into a cellar of ice.

The Han army was so vicious, and they used such vicious tricks?
So far, even the shadow of the Han army has not been seen, and the two thousand sons have already disappeared?
But the river valley is so wide, there is nowhere to escape except to retreat...

Qixi's eyes were about to burst, and he roared sharply: "Report to your lord: The Han army didn't know what to cover the horses with, and it burned for a long time. Thousands of horses rushed straight to my front, killing them endlessly... If you don't Back, Ermian and I can hold out for at most two moments, and we will collapse after two moments..."

The messengers frantically beat their horses to the south, Qixi gritted his teeth fiercely: "The whole army got off their horses and led the wall with their horses. The soldiers held guns, pressed against the horses' butts, and blocked the river..."

Other than this method, he really couldn't think of any other way to stop the fire horses coming like a tide?

The method is stupid, but it does work.As the Hu pawns got off their horses, the war horses were gathered in front of the formation, and the speed of the fire horses rushing into the formation suddenly slowed down.

But it doesn't help much.It's because Li Song also arranged for cavalry.

Halfway through the journey, at a gentle slope, Li Liang led a brigade of white armor to turn up the river bank.

Among them, besides soldiers and scouts for summoning, Li Song also sent him a team of artillery.

These people are not here to come to the theater!
Seeing that Hu Zu blocked the charge of the fire horse, Li Liang immediately ordered the artillerymen to prepare for thunder, ready to throw him from a high place, and give him a center to bloom.

Such a combined attack up and down is like catching a turtle in a urn, and it is difficult for Hu Qi in the valley not to be defeated...

(End of this chapter)