Late Tang

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The heavy snow that had lasted for many days finally stopped. Early in the morning, the sky was full of red clouds and the sky was clear and blue. Tuoba and Helian's two vanguards, six thousand cavalry, arrived at the city of Shanyang first.

The rebellious vanguard cavalry slowly approached, like a swarm of locusts all over the sky.

On the broad horizon, Shanyang City, Shuozhou's governing seat, became clearer and taller.The city wall is towering, and there are many arrow towers. As a big city outside the Great Wall, Shuozhou City is tall and majestic, with a large population.Helian and Tuoba, who arrived first, wanted to capture Shuozhou City first again, and the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army led by Zheng Congyu were still a day away.

Helianduo and Tuoba Sigong didn't intend to wait for Zheng Congxuan's army to arrive before launching an attack. They both wanted to capture the city first and make great achievements. Of course, entering the city first was not only for meritorious service, but also for looting.The last time Cui Anqian sued him for going too far in massacring the city in the new city, which made both of them unhappy.But if it was just robbing and not massacring the city, even Zheng Congxun would not punish them too much.

Thinking of the countless Qianbo people in the city, the two Fan armies trembled with excitement.

After a brief discussion between Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo, they agreed to lead their respective headquarters to attack the west gate and south gate of Shanyang City.The soldiers and horses of the other two divisions are not superior to Shanyang City, but their consecutive victories make them a little arrogant. Li Keyong even retreated without fighting Yanmen Xiongguan, and Loufan and Xincheng were directly and easily taken by them. Down.When they arrived at Shanyang City, they saw that there were not many soldiers and horses on the city, and the flags were not neatly organized, and they seemed to stay behind closed doors. They all thought that there were not many defenders in Shanyang City.

Bai Yicheng of the Helian Department reminded Helianduo that Shanyang City is not far from Mayi and Jincheng, and the three cities are like horns. After Zheng Congyu's army arrived, he attacked again.In order to avoid being counterattacked by the enemy, things like Zhaoyi Army, Zhenwu Army, and Lulu Army happened.But Helianduo didn't listen at all at this time, Tuoba's tribe only had half of them, but the two battles between Loufan and Xincheng were Tuobali's first achievements. If they were allowed to attack the city first in this battle, then Helian What is the prestige of the Ministry?

As for Li Keyong, he has already been gutted, otherwise, why would he have retreated without a fight at Yanmen Pass.If Shatuo's army is really as powerful as in the legend, why are they beaten and retreated one after another, and until now, there is only one state left?

In the afternoon, the horn sounded, and the Tuoba and Helian tribes launched an attack at the same time.

The two armies moved together, and the situation shook.

Under the city, Tuoba Sigong rode his horse in front of the Dangxiang cavalry formation, and the Dangxiang people's flag fluttered in the wind, like the sea.Waving his spear, Tuoba Sigong shouted loudly: "Warriors of the Dangxiang clan, for the sake of the Dangxiang clan, pick up your long spears, raise your scimitars, and fight! In Shanyang City before your eyes, inside There are countless gold and silver, and endless women, if you want money and women, pick up your swords and guns, and go with me!"

After finishing speaking, Tuoba Sigong took the lead, leaped across the horse, and was the first to rush down the city. .

"Woo, woo!" Amidst the sound of the horn, two thousand Dangxiang cavalry roared, and followed with their horses. The snow on the ground had not yet melted, and was trampled by iron hooves, turning into a piece of mud and splashing everywhere.The white party cavalry rushed past, like a white wave surging, galloping towards the black Shanyang City, as if to drown him.

"The party members have already gone up, and our warriors from Tuyuhun must not fall behind. Soldiers from the Helian tribe, go up with me!" Helianduo roared, and immediately led four thousand Helian cavalry to attack the south gate.

On the city, Li Youjin, the governor of Shatuo, is guarding the city. In addition, Xue Tieshan, Kang Junli, and Xue Zhiqin, three of the seven generals of Yunzhou, are also in this city. Li Youjin escaped from Yunzhou and now sits in Shanyang City. He commanded [-] infantry soldiers from the Central Plains of Shanyang City, and he himself brought [-] infantry soldiers, and the three generals Xue Tieshan each led [-] cavalry soldiers.Their soldiers and horses reached [-], but the real elite soldiers and horses in Shanyang City belonged to the [-] elite cavalry that originally belonged to Li Cunzhang. It reached [-] soldiers and horses, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.But on the top of the city, only the thousand guards appeared.

Li Youjin watched the cavalry from the Tuoba and Helian tribes attacking, and couldn't help sneering: "Tuoba Sigong and Helianduo are two idiots, are they planning to attack the city with cavalry?"

"With such a small number of people, why don't we just charge out directly," Xue Tieshan said.

"No, what we want to catch is a big fish!" Li Siyuan directly rejected the proposal later, Xue Tieshan was a little dissatisfied, speaking of rewards, he was one of the seven generals of Yunzhou, and Li Siyuan, the senior general of Yun used by Li Ke. He is just a child, but remembering that Li Siyuan is very fond of Li Keyong now, this time he and Li Sizhao's two thousand cavalry are also dominated by him, and he even wears the command arrow given by Li Keyong, so he can't help but Shut up dissatisfied.

Li Youjin's face was sinking like water, and he said slowly: "Just do what Siyuan said. First, let the thousand guards accompany them slowly, and increase their strength little by little. The scouts will report that Zheng Congxuan's 2-strong Central Route Army will be ready tomorrow morning." We can get there, but Yu Jian's [-] rear troops will not arrive until the day after tomorrow. The few thousand troops of Tuoba and Helian are nothing. Our goal is to eat up Zheng Congxuan's Chinese army. "

Thinking of this plan, Li Youjin couldn't help being excited.This plan was proposed by Mrs. Liu, and there are rumors in the army that Mrs. Liu is a female general on horseback wearing a skirt and rouge.If she is a man, she must be better than most men.After the rest experienced the defeat of Yunzhou, Li Youjin was more inclined to Liu's strategy of attacking Yunzhou directly, opening a channel to jump out of the encirclement, and flee to the fortress.

It's a pity that although Li Zhenguo also has this intention, but now that Ce is lying on the couch, all the affairs of the clan have been handed over to Li Keyong.And Li Ya'er was obviously unwilling to flee to the Great Wall just like this. He had just taken over the position of patriarch, and he was absolutely unwilling to flee to the Great Wall once he took office.

The Tuoba and Helian cavalrymen under the city galloped to the city, quickly relying on the riding and archery skills of the Shatuo people, they shot arrows at the city on horseback, and immediately followed after shooting one arrow.This kind of riding and shooting went on for most of the morning, and the defenders on the city suffered a lot of casualties, but Li Youjin and others didn't care.If one dies, two can be replenished immediately.

Until dusk, Tuoba and Helian's [-]nd Division did not directly attack the city with infantry, but kept attacking with cavalry and archery.The purpose of the two seems to be very simple, as if they have determined that there are not many defenders in the city, and they are going to test and confirm the reality of the city, while at the same time consuming part of the defenders' strength and exhausting the defenders.

Their real siege is still preparing to attack the city at night.

Night finally fell, and the attacks under the city finally gradually stopped.Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo chose to attack the city at night.The second part each selected hundreds of elite subordinates, ready to repeat the previous battles.

After dark, every half an hour, the second department feigned a feint, and so on until midnight.

Tuoba Sigong called up the hundreds of soldiers who had been resting after dark, and after eating and drinking enough, he began to take advantage of the interval after the new wave of feint attack to start a surprise attack.

"Captain, the Dangxiang people and the Tuyuhun people are preparing to attack and seize the city. They are coming up." Li Siyuan came from the top of the city and reported to Li Youjin in a low voice.

Li Youjin was sitting in the tower, holding a big knife in his hand, and smiled terribly, "Have they finally come? Grandpa waited for most of the night, thinking that they would not dare to come. Adjust the crossbow arrows and kill them .”

Amidst the creaking sound, groups of Shatuo soldiers in black quietly appeared on the top of the city. The crossbows were unwound, and a row of metal arrows appeared on the battlements, emitting a cold light. It was chilling to see.

A row of metal arrows appeared on the battlements, emitting a cold light, which was chilling to see.

The Shatuo soldiers quickly wound up and took aim.

"Ready!"

These crossbows were captured by the Shatuo people from various states, cities and armies after several consecutive victories. This time, almost all of them were transferred to Shuozhou City.

It was Li Sizhao who commanded the crossbowmen at the head of the city, and he waved his hand: "Shoot!"

At the foot of Ximen City, they didn't understand what was going on at all. A party soldier in the front row who had just approached the city suddenly screamed and fell to the ground with a crossbow arrow stuck in his chest.

Immediately afterwards, Dangxiang soldiers shot arrows one after another, and the wounded soldiers lay on the ground.

There are more and more arrows, more and more dense, whizzing past the ears and shoulders of the party soldiers, or there will be a low puff, and then there will be a low curse moan, that is some unlucky guy got shot.

A wooden shield covered with cowhide could not stop the sharp arrows. More and more people were hit by the arrows. The teams in front of them were obviously withered, unable to maintain their formation, and the dead and wounded soldiers lay down. On the ground, the wounded party soldiers curled up in pain on the ground, the groans and shouts of the dying were mixed with the sharp whistling wind, and the later squad walked past them expressionlessly, the soil under their feet was soaked in blood It was soft and slippery.

Without an order, even if there are mountains of swords and flames ahead, the powerful party fighters will never take a step back.

Tuoba Sigong looked at the fallen party soldiers in pain, these were the most elite fighters, but at this time they fell like the wind blowing rice waves.The city had already been prepared, even expected that they would appear at this time.

This is the ambush that has been waiting for a long time, "Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"

After a lot of effort, out of the [-] elites who came to make a surprise attack, only a mere [-] escaped from the death metal storm in the end.He sent people to inquire about the situation on Helian Duo's side. They were also attacked by Shatuo people's crossbow arrows at the south gate, and lost more than five hundred.

All of a sudden, the two armies lost a thousand elite.

But fortunately, the city did not take the opportunity to fight out, it seems that there are really insufficient defenders. (To be continued.)