Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 682
Yelua didn't say "wow", and spit out all the wine and meat in his stomach, and he felt better.

He was still at the banquet just now, he ate and drank a lot, and before he had time to digest, he was directly involved in this high-intensity battle, his stomach was like a river overwhelmed.

"Commander, General Xian Yuyan has already died in battle, and the front can no longer stand up."

A soldier who retreated was crying, his face was bloody, and he covered his arms with one hand, his face was pinched together in pain.During the fight, he was hit by a pumpkin hammer from a soldier from the Central Plains. It seemed that nothing happened, but in fact, the bones inside were cracked with several gaps, and his arm could not be used for a short time.

Yelu'a waved his hand and told him to go down for treatment, his brows were tightly knit together.

The most terrifying part of the Southern Dynasties is here. Their economic strength is too strong, and their soldiers are equipped with multiple weapons.When encountering their light troops, their sharp hand knives can easily cause a lot of damage to them by chopping and stabbing.

In the battle of defending the city, the cavalry had little effect. They integrated the cavalry armor this winter and distributed most of the cavalry armor to the defending infantry to enhance the combat effectiveness of the defending soldiers.

As a result, all the siege soldiers in the Southern Dynasties held blunt weapons such as pumpkin hammers, which directly injured their muscles and bones, causing huge casualties to their armored soldiers.

Now the Southern Dynasties soldiers on the city tower, holding the banner of "Kang", charged on the city tower like fierce tigers. Although some of them fell down constantly, there were many of them, and the stream was endless. They marched forward step by step with blood and corpses.

Yelu'a didn't notice it, but felt his heart tighten and his palms sweat: I've heard that the soldiers in the Southern Dynasty were not called soldiers, but soldiers.

They have a fighting spirit that was unmatched by previous armies. They charge forward and are not afraid of life and death. Especially the Twelfth Army Imperial Battalion Division created by Luo Youdu. Any single army can overwhelm the three armies and kill ten thousand generals. Today Against the Xuanwei Army, which is good at siege, it can only be said that its reputation is well-deserved.

The scale of Linhuang Mansion is very large, Gongchen Gate is three miles long to the left and right, and the area where Xuanwei's army successfully ascended the city is a section of the city wall [-] steps away from the west section of Gongchen Gate. They only occupied less than a hundred steps away.

Faced with this situation, he dispatched elites to ascend the city from the left and right steps, flanking the front and back.

In a seemingly stable situation, the Xuanwei Army abruptly entered into a situation with a slight advantage.

The Xuanwei army seemed to have no fear of life and death. They seemed to be transformed into a sledgehammer, just hitting one after another.No fancy tricks, but hard to resist.

If this situation is not reversed, it may collapse.

"Damn! If you can't stop it, you have to stop it!"

Yelua Meili knew that the end was unstoppable, and if they defended the northern city of Linhuang Mansion, they would have a steady stream of resources that could be consumed by the Southern Dynasty for a long time.

Once you can't hold it, relying on the imperial city alone is nothing but fighting a trapped beast.

Yelu'a Meili was young and energetic, and still had a passion in his bones. He held up his sword and said sharply, "There are thousands of Khitan people behind us. If the Gongchen Gate is taken away by robbers today, our family members will become slaves to the country. The country will disappear in history. Regardless of victory or defeat today, we must let the people of the Southern Dynasties know that there are no cowards in Khitan, the city is alive and the city is dead..."

He personally led the troops to fill the loophole left by Xian Yuyan.

At this moment, Luo Youdu had already visited the north of Huangfu City to inquire about the battle situation.

The sudden attack on Linhuang Mansion this time was improvised by him.

Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.

As he grew older, Luo Youdu's understanding of this sentence became deeper and deeper.

Luo Youdu's combat style is not difficult to predict.

He has never fought a battle that he is not sure of. To put it bluntly, he is playing a dull battle, giving full play to his advantages, first standing in an invincible position, and then looking for opportunities to defeat the enemy.

It is Luo Youdu's usual method to win with the right soldiers.

Faced with Yeluu's attitude of fighting to the death, Luo Youdu decisively chose to avoid the enemy's edge, intending to use time to drain the enemy's energy, and at the same time make siege equipment to take advantage of their technologically advanced characteristics.

The arrival of this cold food festival can just win over people's hearts and make the Khitan people in the northern city of Linhuang Mansion lose their will to fight to the death.

When the atmosphere of the Cold Food Festival reached its apex, Luo Youdu had a whim, thinking that Yelu Bishe must have seen through his plan. If so, why not take this opportunity to make a surprise attack?

Therefore, he secretly recruited soldiers and generals to discuss, and at the same time, he took out a large number of rockets to exaggerate the atmosphere, attracting the attention of Khitan generals and people, and then unexpectedly attacked the three gates of Qiande, Dong'an, and Gongchen.

This change, contrary to Luo Youdu's original style, really achieved a miraculous effect.

The three offensive forces all caught the opponent by surprise and achieved good results.

However, the advantage of defending the city is indeed too great. After a period of turmoil, Qiandemen and Donganmen gradually moved back to their disadvantages by virtue of their defensive advantages.

Seeing that the situation turned unfavorable, He Weizhong and He Jiyun stopped insisting and chose to retreat, leaving behind corpses all over the place.

Although the two retreated, they caused huge casualties to Qiandemen and Donganmen.

As the offensive side, the casualty figures of one to two and one to three are already very good.

He Weizhong of Qiandemen also burned a Khitan general to death with fierce fire oil.

The situation at Gongchenmen was an accident on the battlefield.

Xia Junliang negligently dereliction of duty, the lieutenant accidentally stepped on the sand soaked with fire oil while directing the counterattack, and hit the city wall, causing the command to lose control.

The changes in this battlefield are full of strange things, and any accident may happen.

The key lies in whether the general in command can seize this opportunity.

Kang Zaiyu is a former general of the Imperial Army Division. He has been trained by the Imperial Army Division many times. He seized this opportunity at a critical moment and gained a firm foothold on the tower.

Luo Youdu, who heard the news, immediately drove to the north of the city to support.

It was none other than Kang Zaiyu's son Kang Baoyi who reported the situation to Luo Youdu.

Kang Baoyi was fighting on the tower, and met Xian Yuyan, a Khitan general.

The two were killed and the other was injured. Kang Baoyi smashed Xian Yuyan's head with a stick, but he was also shot in the chest, bleeding profusely, and was carried off the tower.

Kang Baoyi made a simple bandage under the tower, stopped the bleeding, and wanted to go up the tower to fight again.

It was also thanks to Luo Youdu who arrived and asked someone to hold him back, otherwise with Kang Baoyi's temper, he would really go to the city and fight again.

"Your Majesty, my father has already established a firm foothold on the city tower, and is expanding towards the city gate with the momentum of one attack and one defense. My father said that if you don't take down the Gongchen gate, you won't go down the city tower."

He spoke very quickly, spit out everything he knew.

He didn't want to claim credit, but wanted to explain the situation as soon as possible so that he could go to the city to fight again.

Luo Youdu still doesn't understand his old general?

Kang Zaiyu, Kang Baoyi's father and son, and Kang Zaiyu's father Kang Zhizhong, the grandparents and grandchildren are all of the same temperament.

They say they are generals, but they are more inclined to be rangers, who commit suicide and righteousness, and are unparalleled in loyalty and bravery.

In history, the three of them, grandparents and grandchildren, all died loyally for the country and begged for thieves, especially Kang Baoyi. Facing Khitan soldiers ten times their size, they fought to the death all night, and the dust kicked up by horseshoes was two feet deep.The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were all generals, but they had no money left. They gave all their salaries to their subordinates, and even borrowed money from the court to take care of subordinates whose families were not well off.So much so that after his death, the family owed hundreds of thousands of money.

Because of being too righteous, the descendants of Kang Bao are called Kang Huang, Kang Gong, Kang Marshal, Kang Zhenjun...

Kang Zaiyu, Kang Baoyi and his son have been taken care of by me in this life, and they fight each other with their lives every time they go into battle.Kang Zaiyu had more than 60 knife and gun wounds, and Kang Baoyi had more than [-] wounds. They were righteous, and none of the soldiers under their command had not been taken care of by their father and son.

So on the battlefield, under the influence of Kang's father and son, everyone in the Xuanwei army was desperate to attack the city and overthrow the village, without any disadvantages, which made Luo Youdu respect and fear them and had to reuse them.

"Your father has been fighting for two hours. I will let Commander Guo take over for your father so that the Xuanwei army can rest well."

Kang Baoyi shouted: "Your Majesty!"

Luo Youdu said with a straight face: "Needless to say, I've made up my mind."

Kang Baoyi doesn't care about merit, but just wants to contribute his strength to Luo Youdu, and he has repaid his kindness, and dare not disobey his orders.

Luo Youdu looked at Guo Tingwei, and said: "Trust minister, find a way to expand your advantage. This opportunity is once in a thousand years. I missed it. I don't know when I will have it next time."

Guo Ting said that he has been guarding the base camp in the rear, and has handled everything in an orderly manner, except for any accidents.

As the saying goes, those who are good fighters have no great achievements.

Back then, Khitan Han Derang's surprise attack team chose the grain and grass camp instead of Youzhou, the base camp in the rear. It is very likely that Guo Tingzhi guarded Youzhou tightly without any loopholes.

Luo Youdu naturally kept his promise, and did not let Guo Tingzhi stay in Youzhou to the end. During Maodong in Dading Prefecture, he made deployments, transferred Guo Tingwei to the front line, and handed Youzhou to Guo Congyi.

Guo Tingwei took the order loudly and led his powerful army to start climbing the city.

The biggest feature of the Xiongwu Army is the uniform infantry armor made of cold forged armor.

The armor of Central Plains soldiers is generally divided into three types, namely light and heavy armor, medium and heavy armor and heavy armor.

The light and heavy armor is the armor equipped by the Xuanwei army. It is made of countless iron armor pieces quenched and forged.

As for the heavy armor, it was the heavy armor worn by the guards led by Liu Fu. They wore heavy armor and held large axes, which were specially designed to resist heavy cavalry like the Khitan Iron Forest Army.It smells a bit like Burenjia, but it's not Burenjia.

The Dayu court already possessed the craft of making step armor, but Luo Youdu did not adopt it.

From Luo Youdu's point of view, the so-called Burenjia is a joke.

According to statistics, the Song Dynasty infantry armored archer can reach 88 catties, and the gunner can even wear to [-] catties. In addition to weapons and food, a soldier can carry more than a hundred catties.

Stacking thick armor is not like this, completely sacrificing flexibility and mobility, it is just a cumbersome iron bump.Even if they could gain an advantage on the frontal battlefield, they would completely lose the possibility of pursuing them.

As for Guo Ting's so-called Xiongwu army, their armor is made of cold forged armor made by cold forging.To put it bluntly, it is cold rolling. The metal is not heated throughout the process, and it is shaped by external force. During this process, the metal will harden and its defense is amazing.

The cold forging method in history was developed by the Xixia people. In history, the iron kite of the Xixia Dynasty and the iron pagoda of the Jinren used the cold forging method.

But the Dingnan army has now belonged to Dayu.

The blacksmith in the Dingnan Army dedicated the cold forging method to Luo Youdu, thus forging the cold forging armor.

The protection of the cold-forged armor is not as good as the heavy armor of the Shenwei Army, but it is relatively light, so it is definitely not as good as the Xuanwei Army for them to attack the city.

However, the Xuanwei army had already occupied a section of the city tower, fighting in the aisle of the city wall, the Xiongwu army obviously had the advantage.

Guo Tingwei personally led the Xiongwu army to a section of the city tower occupied by Kang Zaiyu.

At this moment, Kang Zaiyu had already replaced the saber in his hand with a pumpkin hammer. Facing the Khitan city defense sword in cavalry armor, its power was limited, and it was far inferior to the pumpkin hammer.

He fought for two hours, and his physical strength was exhausted.

But Kang Zaiyu didn't care about these at all, and still rushed forward desperately.

This desperate style of play made the Khitan people opposite him feel fear.

"Is there really someone in this world who is not afraid of death?"

Until Guo Tingwei personally led the team to Kang Zaiyu's side, and ordered Luo Youdu to step back and rest.

Only then did Kang Zaiyu stop his attack. At this moment, his whole body was soaked in blood, and his body was still covered with white brains. It was impossible to tell whether Kang Zaiyu was bleeding, but many nails on his body had fallen off and twisted. Not a minor injury.

Guo Ting said that he and Kang Zaiyu were both members of the imperial court, and had already heard about the "Tiger" of the Kang family.

"I leave it to you, Brother Xinchen."

Kang had been fighting for two hours, relying on a will to support him. As soon as he said this, he was so tired that he sat down on the corpse, unable to move a single finger.

Guo Ting said that Kang Zaiyu was escorted down to rest, and he was greatly shocked. He was originally a very rational person, but seeing Xuanwei's army so brave, his blood boiled, and he shouted: "Brothers of the Xiongwu Army! , the advantage here is the result of the bloody battle of the Xuanwei Army brothers, if we lose it in our hands, we will have to bow our heads and leave when we meet the Xuanwei Army brothers in the Imperial Army Division..."

Before he finished speaking, suddenly there was a burst of explosion sound...

"boom!"

It was like a thunderbolt from heaven and earth struck the street warehouse at the north gate of the north city of Linhuang Mansion.

A series of explosions followed, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

This sudden change has suffocated the offensive momentum of both the enemy and the enemy.

Guo Tingzhi and Yelu Amili stood on the tower, staring blankly at the inner side of the north city gate, dumbfounded...

In the direction of Khitan's warehouse, the surrounding houses seemed to have experienced a huge disaster. Dozens of houses collapsed and flames shot up into the sky.

The nearby Khitan soldiers howled all over the field, which was extremely miserable.

"what's the situation?"

Guo Ting said he didn't know the reason, looking at the place where the explosion occurred, the topographical map that Luo Youdu showed him appeared in his mind, it seemed to be the Khitan's warehouse!

(End of this chapter)