Early the next morning, troops from Tianxiong Army and Lanzhou Xiang Army arrived in Datong one after another.
Including the Qing Shun Army that surrendered to Shuozhou, the Western Route Army not only captured the outer city of Datong in a surprise attack, but was expected to complete the assembly of more than 35,000 troops in Datong in three days. The speed was not unsatisfactory.
Of course, the troops and horses that arrived in Datong one after another early in the morning were also exhausted, in desperate need of rest, and incapable of continuing to fight.
Although the forward troops and horses had recovered a lot of physical fitness after seven or eight hours of rest, Ge Huaicong still did not want the cavalry to dismount and attack the city.
Ge Huaicong saw that the enemy troops in Yingzhou, Jincheng, Huairen and other places were all behind closed doors. He did not do anything rashly. Except for sending three to five hundred soldiers and horses each to control the other three city gates in the morning, he still wanted to wait for Tianxiong's army.
After the main force arrived in Datong, they began to storm the inner city.
In the early morning, several generals walked into a Xi people's restaurant in Xicheng to eat. After having breakfast, they wanted to leave but were grabbed by the owner.
During the beating, the shopkeeper stabbed one person to death and then fled.
Unwilling to do so, these generals beat two waiters to death, set fire to the restaurant, and gathered dozens of people to break into the house to search for the culprits.
Zhu Hang learned about this and ran to persuade Ge Huaicong to restrain his subordinates, but the generals of Tianxiong Army were firmly opposed.
All the generals said that there was no reason for the assassination of a general and allowed the Hu killers to escape, and further advocated that all the Khitans and miscellaneous captives in the Xicheng area should be driven out in time to avoid disturbance, so that more troops and horses could be stationed and gradually move forward.
The South City, North City, and East City advanced, and finally controlled the four cities, and formed an encirclement on the inner city for a storm.
Not to mention that Han and Tibet are no longer in conflict with each other. If we can't search without restraint and don't expel the Khitans and miscellaneous captives, how can the generals benefit from this war?
Do you expect the imperial court to reward you with three melons and two dates?
As a newly attached general, Cao Shili saw the fierce momentum of the Tianxiong army generals and did not want to be isolated in the future, so he kept silent.
Yue Hailou knew that during the border provocation more than ten years ago, the Tianxiong Army was beaten by the Khitan people and lost their armor. They retreated steadily and finally relied on the Jingsheng Army to regain the lost territory. To this day, the Tianxiong Army is still embarrassed.
I feel deeply ashamed and have long wanted to take revenge.
Before the Tianxiong army conquered Yan, they had allowed their generals to plunder the Tibetan people in Landai and other places. At this time, when they entered Datong City, the blood of their generals was raging. They suddenly thought of restraining military discipline and would only call the army.
Resentment breeds in it.
The 6,000 soldiers recently added to the Tianxiong Army are all bandits recruited from Tongbai Mountain. According to careful statistics, almost 60 to 70% of the more than 30,000 generals are refugees and have backgrounds as bandits.
Rather than burning, killing and looting, which would arouse the Khitan and Tibetan people to resist, Yue Hailou was more worried that restricting military discipline at this time would arouse uproar and make things more difficult to deal with.
In fact, when everyone was arguing about this matter in the camp, more and more generals came out of their bases and broke into houses to plunder property under the pretext of raids. The Khitan and other Tibetan people also picked up their swords and stood up to resist.
At noon, Zhu Guangwu, the sixth general of the Tianxiong Army, led 6,000 forbidden troops and arrived in Datong. Ge Huaicong saw that the number of troops they had assembled in Datong had exceeded 20,000, and more than 15,000 troops would arrive tonight, so he decided that everything was complete.
Taking control of the situation in Datong, he ordered the expulsion of tens of thousands of Hulu in the Xicheng area, and allowed his generals to massacre all the Khitan and Zalu who tried to stop and resist.
Although the Khitan and Tibetan people frequently resisted, even gathering in groups to resist in strong courtyards, or tearing down buildings and building street barriers, setting fires everywhere to hinder the passage of Qing purging troops, Ge Huaicong and others still believed that Xiao
Large-scale resistance is nothing to fear.
Ge Huaicong and others thought that as long as they kept an eye on the remnants of the enemy trapped in the inner city and did not dare to act rashly, they would soon be able to suppress the zero-point resistance in Xicheng District, and then formally send troops to advance to the South City, North City, and East City.
In their opinion, as long as they send out troops quickly and decisively, they should be able to control the four cities and complete the siege of the inner city before dark.
Ge Huaicong and others underestimated the resistance will of the Khitan people and Tibetan people in the city. The generals below were even more obsessed with plundering property, and did not forget to hug a long-legged orchids with fat breasts for fun, which made the entire afternoon
The purge operation was fragmented. Even though hundreds of Hulu Qingzhuang were killed and injured, more and more Hulu Qingzhuang were forced to pick up their swords and bows and stand up to resist.
As dusk approached, in addition to controlling the other three city gates, it was difficult for the soldiers and horses to advance even half a step deeper into the South City, North City, and East City areas. Even hundreds of generals were killed or injured because of the resistance launched by the Khitan people and the Tibetan people.
Death.
Ge Huaicong and others had previously focused on the movements in the inner city. By the time they realized something was wrong, the Khitan people and Tibetan tribesmen had already gathered in large numbers in the other three cities.
Most of the Khitan people and Tibetan tribesmen in Datong City have become citizens, and the old tribal structure has been dismantled and deconstructed by the lane system that imitates the Han system.
However, when the clouds of war shrouded the sky over the Huihe River, the Khitan tribes on the south bank of the Huihe River retreated north one after another, taking their livestock and fleeing to Datong City to avoid the disaster of war.
These young tribes are not only good at riding and shooting, they are also civilians and soldiers, and they also retain a relatively strict paramilitary organization.
With these trouble-avoiding tribes as the core, the loose Khitan people and Tibetan tribesmen in the city gathered together to form combat units. Their combat effectiveness in the streets and alleys could not be underestimated, and soon the Tianxiong army was sent to the south city.
, the Beicheng area advanced, and the military front, which was not too fierce in the first place, contained it.
In fact, at this point, even if Xiao Linshi did not secretly send people to lurk in Datong City to stir up trouble, before the main reinforcements of the East Route Army arrived, the Tianxiong Army relied on its existing troops and the fighting will demonstrated by its generals.
, it is already difficult for Datong to chew it down.
When Ge Huaicong rushed to the front line with his generals to watch the battle, the sky had darkened, his field of vision was restricted, and he could not clearly see the situation. He was also worried that his generals would suffer losses in a night battle because they were not familiar with the streets and terrain of Datong City, so he ordered to shrink his troops.
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After suffering such a heavy loss in the afternoon, and temporarily suspending the fighting at night, how could the generals of the Tianxiong Army be willing to return to the garrison to rest and recuperate?
Each and every one of them would be full of resentment and vent it out on the Khitan and Tibetan people who were still in the Xicheng area. They would break into houses and kill people with butcher knives, even women and children.
However, such killings are meaningless. They will only make many generals more irritable and difficult to restrain. It will also only make the South City, North City, and East City areas that are not controlled by the Tianxiong Army, the Khitan people and the Tibetan tribesmen become more and more violent.
Gathering unity, they even launched a surprise attack on three other city gates late at night.
Ge Huaicong concentrated his troops mainly on the west city, and only allocated two thousand troops to control the other three city gates.
This small number of people only controlled the three city gates before dusk, and they did not expect that the mob in the city would gather to counterattack. They were caught off guard and were not able to hold on for long, and they all retreated, watching helplessly as the other three city gates were resisted.
The Khitan and other Tibetan people took it away.
Even at this point, Ge Huaicong, Yue Hailou, Zhu Hang and even Cao Shili all thought that they were just careless and underestimated the intensity of the people's resistance in the city and suffered a minor setback.
At this time, the main force of Tianxiong's army had arrived in Datong. A total of more than 40,000 forbidden troops controlled Shengde Gate and Xicheng. The troops advanced directly to the inner city where the remaining troops were stubbornly guarding. They temporarily lost control of the other three city gates and regained control of the city gates.
What does it count for?
In addition to Datong City, they also had more than 20,000 forbidden troops gathered in Shuozhou and Ningwu. The East Route Army gathered east of Yingzhou and as many as 100,000 troops south of Yingzhou.
Who would believe that Dai Viet would lose this battle at this time?
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Xu Huai stood on the northwest corner tower. He didn't know whether the Tianxiong army deliberately set the fire when they retreated, or for some other reason. He saw that the north city gate tower was engulfed in flames.
The resisting people in the city were blocked by fire and could not be pursued out of the city.
At this time, more than a hundred soldiers who had escaped from the north city gate were hurriedly escaping against the base of the outer city wall toward the Shengde Gate of the west city.
Some soldiers did not have time to withdraw from the north city gate tower, and together with the previous defenders on the western section of the north city wall, they fled along the city wall towards the turret where Xu Huai stood.
However, on the city walls on both sides of the turret, Xu Huai had previously used the excuse to divide the warning area and placed multiple barriers to block the city road.
There were almost two hundred soldiers who were blocked by Ju Ma on the north city wall in a noisy manner. They were furious, yelling and swearing, and were about to push Ju Ma off the wall.
Xu Huai stood on the turret all day long, watching with cold eyes as people like Ge Huaicong held great power, but were arrogant, greedy and incompetent. Every decision they made made the situation collapse step by step. There was always a bad breath in his chest that could not be vented.
The pursuers were blocked by the fire in the city gate tower and were unable to climb the city wall. These useless things actually wished they could have an extra leg to escape here. Xu Huai could not suppress the anger in his heart, and murderous thoughts suddenly arose in his heart.
Without warning, he stretched out his hand, took the spear from the hands of the guards around him and roared, rousing his strength, throwing the spear out with a roar, and in the next moment he was about to push the horse away.
The three generals who came down from the city wall were pierced chest to chest.
"General Xu Huai of the Supervisory Army Envoy is here to supervise the battle. Anyone who retreats without permission will be killed without mercy!"
At this time, Xu Huai slowly walked up to Juma, then took off the knife from his waist, held it horizontally in front of him, and stared murderously at the faces illuminated by the firelight.
There was not much panic on these people's faces, but more violence and hatred; there were also three or five people who had fear of him in their eyes.
It was obvious that these generals did not think that Tianxiong's army would be defeated, and they did not think that the loss of the three city gates was a big deal. They just did not want to fight a tough battle with the rebellious mob in the city, especially when a big victory was within easy reach.
, use your own life as a stepping stone for others' glory and wealth.
Xu Huai took a gentle breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and pointed at the three people who were still twitching when he threw a spear to kill them. He stared at these insurgents and said sternly,
"You immediately retreat from locking the city and refusing to mount a horse, otherwise these three people will be your role models!"
The city wall of Datong is five miles long from east to west, from north to south - from the northwest corner tower to the north city gate tower, there are a full 1,200 steps, which was already extremely long in this era.
Although the city wall is made of rammed earth and is not covered with bricks and stones, its shape is quite complete.
In addition to towers built above the four city gates and turrets built at the four corners of the city wall, horse-faced walls were built every 100 to 150 steps.
In addition to strengthening the overall structure of the city wall, the horse-faced wall protrudes outward. Soldiers standing on the horse-faced wall can shoot the enemy troops attacking the city from the flanks. The horse-faced wall also has a garrison war shed.
As a node that controls each section of the city wall.
Going east and south from the northwest corner tower, there is a horse-faced war shed one hundred and twenty steps away. Each war shed is three to four feet deep, made of bricks and stones, and is extremely strong.
The generals who defended the city could hide in the war shed to rest, and it was also used to stack horses, hammers, weapons, crossbows and other war equipment.
Only by mastering the two horse-faced war tents as nodes can one fully control a section of the city wall.
Xu Huai did not have many troops in his hands. On the other hand, the situation was not completely chaotic yet. He could not directly pull the two hundred supervisors and envoys to the city wall.
At this time, he wanted to confine more than two hundred scattered soldiers to the north city wall to prevent them from using the corner tower to evacuate. In addition, he needed some soldiers and horses on the north city wall to guard the east war tent for him to prevent
In addition to the possibility that the resisting people would make a surprise attack along the city wall toward the turret, if necessary, he could directly recruit these soldiers and horses to solve the shortage of manpower...
