Chapter 230: Decisive Battle with Youyun (21)

Sorry statement: There was an error in the previous chapter. Dako led 4,000 cavalry, leaving 1,000 horses to guard the horses. The remaining Khitan soldiers participated in the battle to attack Nanshankou, and some were damaged. Yelu Hongshan led 10,000 cavalry out of Youzhou City, leaving 3,000 people to defend the horses. The total number of people to protect the horses was 4,000, led by Zabuge, and the remaining Khitan soldiers participated in the battle to attack the mountain.

Therefore, when Han Tong led his army to the foot of the mountain, the total number of remaining soldiers in the Khitan army should be 8,000 to 9,000. Due to the narrow mountain road, there were about 5,000 people left at the foot of the mountain, and more than 3,000 Khitan soldiers attacked the fourth trench.

I am hereby correcting it. Thank you very much for Brother Tang Mumin and Brother Hunan Army Commander!!

Han Tong was the deputy commander of the personal guards. Although he was Li Chongjin's deputy, he was deeply trusted by Chai Rong. In addition to being the deputy commander of the personal guards, he also served as the general inspector of the Daliang City and was responsible for the public security of the Daliang City.

Han Tong had nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, and even Li Chongjin, the head coach of the personal guards, was difficult to mobilize this 10,000 soldiers. Li Chongjin and Han Tong also formed a situation of mutual restraint among the guards. When the new imperial guards were formed, Han Tong was appointed as the head coach of the Crane Control Army, and the 10,000 soldiers became the backbone of the Crane Control Army.

These 10,000 soldiers were from Qingzhou. The men of Qingzhou were generally tall and tough. They were excellent soldiers with a little training. Since ancient times, Qingzhou elite soldiers have been famous all over the world. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the most brave part of the Yellow Turban Army was the Qingzhou Army. Later, Cao Cao surrendered more than 300,000 Yellow Turban Army in Jibei. The elite soldiers were mostly from Qingzhou, so they were called "Qingzhou Army". This army became Cao Cao's main force for the world.

The Qingzhou Army, which Han Tong's troops were all infantry. After the army was formed, square shields, hanging crossbows and long wooden ladders became indispensable equipment for the Qingzhou Army and also became prominent characteristics of the Qingzhou Army. Although other generals of the Guards often mocked the Qingzhou Army for carrying ladders, Han Tong was unmoved and still regarded the ladders as an indispensable weapon. It is precisely because of this that the Qingzhou Army was famous for its good at attacking and fighting among the Great Zhou Imperial Army.

With the order, tens of thousands of infantry soldiers rushed towards the Khitan camp calmly. The Qingzhou infantry in the front row held a large square shield, followed by spearmen and crossbowmen, and some soldiers were carrying hundreds of wooden ladders.

The square shield stopped moving forward outside the range of arrows. The Qingzhou infantry had 500 crossbowmen. They used all kinds of crossbows. They needed to use both hands and feet to skeletons to skeletons. The effort to skeletons meant that the power was strong. The range was higher than that of ordinary crossbows, but they were not as good as bed crossbows.

A tall commander, holding a red flag in his hand, ordered like a bell: "Prepare, sit on the ground, hang the strings, fire." These eight words are the complete launch process of stepping on the crossbow. I don't know how many times I have practiced this set of movements. Five hundred crossbow players do it and flow, but it has a bit rhythmic.

When the red flag was swung violently, he made a "bang" sound at the same time as the crossbow was stepped on. The sound seemed extremely loud because it was neat and echoed continuously in the mountains. The crossbow arrows were hail falling down from the cover and smashed violently at the Khitan position.

After the five-wheeled crossbow arrow, only the drums in front of the Hantong Central Army's tent were heard. The soldiers in front of the sergeant holding a square infantry shield immediately dodged to the left and right, revealing a large passage, and three large collisions appeared on the passage. The large collision was originally used to hit the city gate. At the bottom was a flatbed car with sixteen carriage wheels. A thick giant tree was tightly tied to the flatbed carriage. Each large collision was pushed by forty sergeants and quickly collided towards the wooden fence of the Khitan army.

The Khitans defended behind the wooden fence were originally cavalry. After losing their horses, they had no choice but to become infantry. Five rounds of crossbow arrows descending from the sky made them frightened. However, they stood close behind the wooden fence, and several rounds of crossbow arrows descending from the sky did not cause major casualties.

When the Zhou army drums sounded, Khitan soldiers poked their heads out and saw three giant cars coming.

The Khitan General was the deputy general Yelu Hongcang, who was commanding the military camp at the foot of the mountain. The day before yesterday, he sent more than a dozen soldiers to the west, preparing to bypass Yanshan and report the details of the battle in Youzhou to His Majesty Yelu Shulu. However, the journey to the west was long and more than a dozen people were flexible. Even if they took some shortcuts, they would have to go to Kyoto for at least twenty days. Twenty days later, how the situation of the battle would develop is an unknown.

When a large crash came towards him, Yelu Hongcang shouted, "Prepare to shoot arrows."

When the Khitan army attacked Nanshankou, they suffered all the hardships of the fence. Therefore, after Yelu Hongcang went down the mountain, he ordered the military camp at the foot of the mountain to camp completely in the style of the fence of Nanshankou. The fence was more than one person high, and there was a row of earthen platforms on the inside. The sergeant stood on the earthen platforms and could expose his upper body, which was conducive to firing arrows and attacking the enemy from a high point.

Yelu Hongshan originally wanted to set up trenches, but the Zhou army came quickly, and the foot of the mountain was no better than that of the Nanshankou. They didn't have so much time to build complete fortifications.

The soldiers who pushed the car crash were all chosen by many people. They were wearing thick subway armor, with leather armor made of nitrogen and two layers of armor wrapped their whole body tightly. They took solid steps and approached the wooden fence step by step.

In front of the crash, a team of infantry soldiers held large square infantry shields, blocking the Khitans' arrow branches in front. When the crash was about to approach the wooden fence, the crossbow arrow position behind him once again sounded terrifyingly, and the crossbow arrows that were thrust over the sky and flew towards the Khitan military camp again. The Khitan soldiers guarding behind the fence had to squat behind the fence to avoid the attack of crossbow arrows like flying rain.

The Zhou army's war drums sounded violently again, and the car that had been stable and stable suddenly started quickly. The armored men shouted, pushing the car to run wildly towards the wooden fence.

When the Khitan army heard the sound of war drums, they poked out their bodies and raised their bows and arrows again. The crash was approaching. The Khitan army's iron arrows were densely shot at the armored man, and the "ding-dong" sound continued, but they could not stop the crash from advancing.

"Boom, boom, boom" The three crashes were fiercely hitting the wooden fence. The thick trees on the crash were as heavy as a thousand pounds. They were pushed by forty strong men. With the momentum of running, the power of this collision was so powerful that several thick and thick trees that were hit fell down in response.

At this time, Zhou Jun, who was commanding the crash, discovered a problem. The crash was originally used to hit the city gate. The city gate was a whole. Whenever it hits a point, it would put pressure on the city gate as a whole. If it hits a few more times, the city gate would naturally be unbearable. At this time, the wooden fence built by the Khitans. However, the wooden fence built by the Nanshankou built by Wang Tengxiang on Zushan was buried deep on the ground by thick woods, and they were not connected to each other. The fierce collision of the crash caused several thick woods to fall to the ground at most, but did not affect the overall defense of the wooden fence.

The armored men had extremely rich experience in impacting, and after the first collision, they realized the problem. The men who commanded the collision shouted, and the men turned around and pushed the collision backwards, preparing for the second impact.

The Khitan army in Youzhou City has always been disciplined and lazy in training. However, in this opportunity of life and death, the Khitan soldiers who had no way to retreat had to fight to the death. When they saw the armored men pushing the car backwards, a group of Khitan soldiers immediately climbed over the fence and rushed towards the armored men.

The rest of the Khitan soldiers shot arrows behind the fence to prevent the Zhou army from rushing to the ground.

The Khitans were nomadic peoples and have always established a country with riding and shooting. Riding and shooting is not only a skill, but also a life skill. In daily life, the Khitans often use archery as a play, and the most famous are the plays of shooting rabbits and shooting willows.

What is the play of shooting rabbits: "Every March 2, every year, wood is carved as rabbits, and friends are divided into horses to shoot them. Those who hit the first win, those who lose will get off the horse and get into wine, and those who win will drink it on the horse."

What is the play of shooting willows: "When the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, every five-day worship ceremony is completed, and the willow ball court is inserted into two lines. The person who should shoot is in order of superiority and inferiority, each with a handkerchief to identify the branches, and remove the ground by about a few inches. The skin is peeled and white. First, a person gallops to guide the horse, and then a horse is driven by a horizontal arrow without feathers. Those who have broken willows and caught with hands are the best. Those who have broken but cannot be caught with are the next. Those who have broken but cannot be stopped, or those who cannot be stopped with green but cannot be cut, and those who cannot be stopped with the middle will be negative. Whenever they shoot, they must cut the drum to help their energy."

It is precisely because the Khitans generally like riding and shooting that although the Khitan army in Youzhou City was not elite, their archery skills were still accurate. They shot in a round of rapid shooting, causing many long spearmen in the Zhou army's shield players who were following the crash and were forced to retreat.

The Khitan soldiers who had crossed the wooden fence had already fought with the armored soldiers. There were ten big mountain axes on each crash. This was prepared for the ten most powerful men, specially designed to chop the city gates. When the Khitan soldiers surrounded him, the armored men either carried giant axes or pulled their waist knives and fought with the Khitan soldiers.

But in a few rounds, a group of Khitan soldiers fell on the ground.

Yelu Hongcang saw that the Zhou army warriors were wearing iron armor, and the swords and guns in the hands of the Khitan soldiers could not cause harm to them. He had an idea and ordered: "Use a horse rope."

The Khitan defenders were all cavalrymen, and many soldiers were wearing horse ropes. Soon, dozens of Khitan soldiers were crossing the fence with horse ropes. The armored warriors were already a little slow, and warriors were constantly trapped by horse ropes and then pulled to the ground. As soon as the armored warriors fell to the ground, the Khitans rushed forward, slashing the khitans, and they did not give the warriors a chance to get up. More than twenty armored warriors died under the horse ropes.

These 20 armored warriors were Han Tong's heart-to-heart treasures to defeat the enemy. After many major battles, they had not been damaged. This time, they fought a simple small camp and suffered a lot of losses. Han Tong's eyebrows stood up and shouted, "Arrowers come forward and shoot arrows."

The penetration power of stepping on the crossbow is stronger than that of the bow and can penetrate iron armor. If the distance between the bow and arrow is slightly far, it will be difficult to penetrate two layers of protection from iron armor and leather armor, so Han Tong just ordered the archers to shoot arrows.

The armored warriors were in a tough battle, and fatal horse ropes could soar into the sky at any time. At a critical moment, a dense feather arrow shot, and almost all the Khitans around them were shot down. The armored warriors were also hit by many feather arrows. The "dang, dang" sounds were endless. The feather arrows at a distance could not penetrate the iron armor, but could penetrate the Khitan leather armor. This wave of arrows was like a burst of timely rain, saving the armored warriors.

Several giant axe warriors were stubborn. They no longer used a car crash, so they held up giant axes and rushed in through several gaps from the ground that broke out of the car crash. The Khitan soldiers guarding the gap without any reason to resist the fierce giant axe. The Khitan army that was close to them was cut to the point of blood and flesh. Soon, more than a dozen axe warriors occupied the gap. The rest of the warriors held waist knives and broke in under the cover of the giant axe warriors.

There were 120 armored warriors, with nearly 20 casualties. The remaining about a hundred warriors rushed into the wooden fence. These warriors were all practitioners of martial arts in Qingzhou. After they rushed into the Khitan military camp, twenty people formed a square formation. Although they were surrounded by Khitans, they were not afraid at all. They rushed left and right in the camp. Although there were many Khitan soldiers, they were helpless against these iron-armored soldiers in an urgent manner.

Yelu Hongcang said anxiously: "Put the horse rope, use the horse rope quickly."

The Khitan soldiers' horse ropes were usually hung beside the war horses. After losing the war horses, most of the horse ropes also left. After fighting outside the fence just now, the final horse rope holes were exhausted.

When Han Tong saw the armored warriors rushing into the camp, he ordered: "The whole army attacks."

The central army war drums sounded again, and under the cover of crossbowmen, ten thousand Qingzhou troops rushed towards the Khitan camp fiercely and violently.

Although the Khitan military camp was in chaos, there were still many Khitan archers lying behind the fence with the Zhou army's crossbow arrows, desperately shooting arrows at the charge of the Zhou army. By the time the Zhou army approached the wooden fence, thousands of Zhou troops had already fallen to the ground.

The Zhou army quickly flooded the entire camp like a flood.

Yelu Hongcang was already red in his eyes. He had already scorned seven Zhou army soldiers with a gun, but he was also cut off on his back. "Come on, come and die." Yelu Hongcang shouted in Khitan, regardless of whether the other party understood or not.

A Zhou army thrust the gun at Yelu Hongcang. When Yelu Hongcang was using his gun force and the tip of the gun was almost approaching his side, he shook his forearm with his black wooden spear easily swept the long spear of the Zhou army soldiers. Yelu Hongcang took a step forward and stabbed him, and the tip of the gun penetrated from Zhou army's waist.

Zhou Jun was stabbed, an ordinary soldier, wearing only a piece of leather armor. He placed an iron piece on his chest to protect his chest and abdomen. Yelu Hongcang's shot was penetrated from under the iron piece, and the tip of the gun penetrated a big hole in his waist and abdomen.

Another Zhou army was a shield soldier. He took advantage of Yelu Hongcang's assassination of the spear soldiers and slashed the shield soldiers with a knife. Yelu Hongcang drew his gun and dodged to the left at the same time, dodged the blade, and used the gun as a stick, and smashed the shield soldiers' head hard.

The Zhou army's shield soldiers were determined to prevent the enemy general from stabbing the ground and used the shield to protect their bodies firmly. Unexpectedly, the enemy general used this strange move. After receiving a heavy blow on his head, he felt that the world was spinning, and then he fell heavily to the ground like a rice bag.

Yelu Hongcang killed nine people in a row, and was extremely distressed. After retracting the gun, he was breathing heavily. Suddenly a gust of sword wind came from behind. Yelu Hongcang did not dare to turn around and jumped forward and stabbed backward with the tail of the gun. When he landed on the ground, Yelu Hongcang felt a pain in his back and was injured by the enemy. However, his tail of the gun also stabbed the incoming enemy. Yelu Hongcang's gun was inlaid with a sharp short spear head. At this time, the short spear head stabbed the face of the incoming enemy. The incoming Zhou army fell to the ground with howling.

Yelu Hongcang had not stopped yet, and another armored warrior appeared on the front. He raised his sword and swept across the sword. The sword wind was unstoppable. Yelu Hongcang avoided the blade and stabbed the gun. He heard a "double" sound, and the tip of the gun had already stabbed the chest of the armored warrior.

The tip of the gun failed to pierce the iron armor. Yelu Hongcang was about to stab the enemy's face. Suddenly a knife light flashed, and his left arm felt a huge pain. When he looked down, he saw a broken arm spraying blood outward, "Is it my arm?" Under the huge pain, Yelu Hongcang also slowed down. Another knife light flashed, and Yelu Hongcang in the air heard a cheer from a distant place: "The Khitan General was beheaded."
Chapter completed!