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A day later, Huolu triumphantly pulled up Abaoji and once again raised his troops to attack the Yingzhou military camp. This time he chose the flank.
This time, he used the soldiers of the Ministry of Rites. In Huelu's heart, the soldiers of the Ministry of Rites were very useful. They did not worry about damage, and they fought more fiercely than the soldiers of many tribes. They were really rare high-level cannon fodder. As for
However, Huolu was reluctant to move his own cavalry infantry. They stayed behind and waited for the effect of the attack before deciding on their whereabouts.
The main attack direction this time was the right wing of Yingzhou Military Camp.
The soldiers of the Ministry of Rites carried huge wooden planks. These wooden planks were made by disassembling and splicing the wooden planks of the Xi chariots in the Holu collection army. The soldiers of the Ministry of Rites used the big wooden planks as shields to resist the arrows and rushed towards them.
When they arrived at the ditch, they poured the planks down and put them on top of the ditch to make three ditch bridges. Then they rushed across the ditch with shouts and reached the bottom of the village wall.
The long bows of the Yingzhou Army are good at launching arrow rain, but it is difficult to grasp the accuracy of shooting with a single bow. With such a big bow and such a heavy weight, few people can hold the bow to strike accurately, so this time the Yingzhou Army did not use it either.
Big arrows, it is quite a luxury to use big arrows to cover the scattered charging queue. Although these wooden boards cannot withstand the blow of long bows and big arrows, they can deal with ordinary bows and arrows. Therefore, on the way of this attack,
The soldiers of the Ministry of Rites were not damaged at all.
It was the first time that the soldiers of the Ministry of Rites attacked the wall of the village. They raised their shields in ecstasy to protect the arrows from above, and tried their best to chop at the log wall that was deeply rooted in the ground with their swords and axes, hoping to break through a hole.
Push down the wall.
The soldiers of the Yingzhou Army stood on the plank road inside the wall, firing arrows downwards, or stabbing downwards with long spears. The three armored spearmen guarding the front of the wall were killed by the Khitan Army 300 steps away.
The formation is restrained and they dare not make the slightest move. Once they go around the wall to reinforce the flanks, the front wall will face the impact of Khitan soldiers, and the trouble will be even greater. Fortunately, there are trenches blocking the flanks and the front, so the soldiers of the Ministry of Rites can only
They roared at the armored array across the ditch, but they couldn't attack them for a while.
But the situation is already a bit tense.
Two hundred armored spearmen from Dingdu and Wudu of the Lancers Battalion have been deployed in the camp to stand ready. Waiting for the moment when the enemy breaks through the wall and enters, the soldiers from the two camps of the Sword and Shield Battalion are also ready to fight.
Wang Yibo was commanding the frontline operations on the archery tower. Everything was clearly visible at this moment. He signaled to the flag-bearing soldiers: "Open the right wing gate and don't let these Sun Tzu dig in. It's not easy for us to build the wall. Let them come in."
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The flag-bearing soldier waved the flag, the soldiers at the winch twisted the rope, and the wooden village gate was pulled back. A gap appeared. The soldiers of the Ministry of Rites immediately burst into a wave of cheers and pushed desperately to open the gate of the village.
The gap gradually widened, and then poured in.
A dazzling cold light from the armor shook the eyes of the Rites Warriors who rushed in, dazzling them. The armored spearmen stepped forward neatly at the sound of the command, and stabbed out the spears in their hands. Rows of bloody holes were born at the same time,
Pieces of blood flowers bloomed at the same time. Under the neat thrusts of the armored spearmen, the soldiers from the Ministry of Rites fell down in piles with screams.
Faced with this tragic situation, Li Chengzhong, who had seen a lot, couldn't help but sigh on the watchtower behind: "It's really... faster than queuing up to be shot..."
The Rites Warrior in the front row was crowded by his companions in the back row and pushed to the front to receive the shot. The Rites Warrior soldier in the back row cleared the front row of his companions. Then he was pushed to the front row by his companions in the rear row to receive the shot.
"Don't squeeze! Gun formation!"
"Stop squeezing in the back, there are enemy troops in front!"
"Hurry up and move away. Don't push the brothers behind!"
"Hold on from the front, we are behind, hurry up and open a path for us to go in too!"
"Don't forget to retreat from the front, we are going to be pushed out of the trench!"
"What are you doing? If you don't rush in, we'll be shot from behind!"
"They're using crossbows! What's going on in front of you? Hurry up and get in!"
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"The gap has been opened! Brother Chuoli, we have opened the gap! We have won!" Huelu shouted happily in the formation.
Abaoji was also overjoyed: "Order the soldiers of the Sudden Division and the B Chamber Division to charge. Follow the gap and rush in!"
After some intense mobilization, nearly a thousand soldiers gathered together, rode their horses and rushed to the right wing of the Yingzhou military camp. They endured two waves of arrow rain on the way, and two to three hundred soldiers fell.
, finally rushed to the edge of the trench, jumped off their horses one after another, and pushed forward from behind the crowded group of soldiers from the Ministry of Rites.
At the same time, the second group of Khitan warriors were also ready, waiting for further impact.
Wang Yibo licked his dry lips and ordered: "Let the spearmen camp retreat ten steps and let more people in." This is what happens in the Yingzhou Army. If ordinary military formations are fighting each other and order to retreat,
, then there is only one result, a disastrous result - the collapse of the entire army. But this is a well-trained Yingzhou army, so Wang Yibo dared to issue this order.
The command flag was waved, and the two spearmen shouted the command loudly. The first row of spearmen put away their guns, took two steps back behind the second row of spearmen, and the second row of spearmen put back their guns, and continued to take two steps back behind their companions.
After five attempts, the gap was finally opened. The soldier from the Ministry of Rites was pushed in by the crowd in the back row and continued to hit the spear tip of the Yingzhou Army's armored spearman.
The gap widened, and the Khitan people pushed the rites warrior and rushed to the wall of the camp. The second wave of Khitan warriors saw the right moment, shouted, and launched another attack on the Yingzhou military camp.
Nearly two thousand people crowded into the flank of the camp, which was less than 200 paces wide. They crossed the ditch via three ditch bridges and piled up beside the wall of the camp.
Wang Yibo saw the opportunity coming and ordered: "Fire the arrow!"
On the two archery towers on the right wing of the camp, several rockets were ignited, and in the blink of an eye they shot into the ditch on the outside of the right wing. The fire immediately broke out, and along with the fire, there was thick black smoke.
The Yingzhou Army not only erected spiked wooden stakes in the trench, but also covered the bottom layer with flammable dry branches, leaves, hay, poured grease, horse manure, and gunpowder matched by Liucheng's "Scientific Research View" - this kind of
The combustion of gunpowder is not yet complete enough to be used as the basic material of Li Chengzhong's ideal explosive, but it is enough to quickly start a fire!
The fire rose and thick smoke billowed, igniting the three ditch bridges above the ditch. Hundreds of soldiers crowded on the ditch bridge were burned in the fire, burned into burning figures, and rolled down into the ditch screaming.
, and then burned into pieces of human-shaped charcoal. The inside of the trench was also crowded with Khitan soldiers. Their leather armors and fur clothes did not last for a moment under the high temperature, and they burned one after another, and then ignited more companions around them.
The lucky six to seven hundred Khitan soldiers were isolated by the fire. Seeing their comrades rolling and twisting in the firelight, and hearing the pitiful screams that penetrated their hearts, they all lost their minds and fled back to their formation with their legs and feet weak.
Seeing that there was no way out, hundreds of soldiers from the Ministry of Rites who had invaded the inside of the camp threw down their weapons and knelt down to ask for surrender. Both armored spearmen raised their heads and looked up at Wang Yibu, who was commanding on the archery tower.
Yibo pressed his palm down expressionlessly, and the armored spearmen immediately stepped forward and attacked the Rites Soldier.
Hundreds of soldiers from the Ministry of Rites who surrendered cried and begged for their lives, but no one dared to resist. They rolled around in the narrow circle to dodge, or hugged the ankles of the armored soldiers and begged, but all they got was their bodies.
Deep muzzle.
The corner of Wang Yibo's mouth twitched for a moment, then he sighed softly and murmured: "Just accept your fate, no one can save you without food..."
Houlu stared dumbfounded at the sudden fire and smoke. He stood stunned for a long time, and then cried loudly: "My soldiers, my more than two thousand soldiers, are just gone..."
Abaoji's mind sank to the bottom of his mind, and his hands and feet were cold. It took him a long time to regain some energy. Hearing Huolu's cry, he slowly said: "The soldiers from the Rites, Tuoju and Tulubu tribes."
Huo Lu continued to cry: "Those are also our soldiers..."
Abaoji hesitated: "Fifteen hundred, six or seven hundred were withdrawn..."
"My 1,500 soldiers... are just gone... Wuwuwu... God damn Li Chengzhong! Damn the Yingzhou Army... Wuwuwu..."
Abaoji sighed with emotion for a long time, shook his head and said: "The whole army has returned to camp, there will be no fighting today."
The leisurely sound of bull horns sent an order to the tens of thousands of pale-faced Khitan soldiers to return to their camps. The Khitan soldiers turned back to their respective camps dejectedly.
Seeing Huolu sitting on the ground crying, Abaoji impatiently summoned two personal guards and put him on his horse.
That night, Abaoji found several surrendered prisoners from Bohai and Han slaves, and asked in detail how to attack the city. The Khitans expanded rapidly in the past two years, and once occupied several cities in Yingzhou and Bohai, such as Liucheng and Yanjun.
, Huaiyuan Military City and Fuyu, but to be honest, they have never really fought a tough battle. Most of the cities occupied by the Khitans were because the defenders had no intention of fighting, and they succeeded in climbing the city with wooden ladders. They had never encountered such a difficult battle.
With the Khitan's siege capabilities, when they attacked Zhengzhou, Hezhou and other strong cities in the Bohai Kingdom, even if they faced the weak Bohai Navy, it would be difficult to continue their attack.
Even the military cities of Liucheng, Yanjun and Huaiyuan were not captured by Abaoji, but by Pinbu and Wukui. In the real siege, Abaoji himself only directed the battle to attack the Lulong Army's border wall, but
The success of those several wall-breaking plunders was not due to the force of breaking down the border wall. They either relied on sneak attacks, or the defenders had too few troops, or the defenders escaped on their own. When the Lulong Army formed a unified Shanbei camp, Abao
Ji then had nothing to do with Lu Longjun's border wall. Just like today, at the same time, this was also the first time that he had seen so many means and tricks to defend the city.
The few Bohai and Han surrendered prisoners who were recruited talked a lot, but in the end it boiled down to one point: there were no attack tools, such as cloud carts, ram carts, crash carts, trebuchets and other large equipment, and when Abaoji asked how to make them
At this time, these people were speechless, and no one could speak clearly, which made Abaoji feel agitated for a while.