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Chapter 573
Yelu Deguang did not get carried away by his anger and directly ordered the army to attack Taiyuan City. After venting his anger, he ordered the army to set up camp. The 200,000-strong army was divided into three groups and divided the west gate, north gate and east gate of Taiyuan City.
They were all sealed off, except for the south gate.
He did this not out of any kind intention to leave a way for the Han troops defending the city to survive. On the contrary, if possible, he would not let go of even a sheep or a chicken. Even if there were not those 8,000 heads, Taiyuan City would be washed away with blood.
This was his earliest strategy. Liu Ling ordered the prisoners to be killed and piled up in mountains to frighten the enemy. Yelu Deguang knew that he might do the same thing if he were in his place. And to massacre a city, the Khitans also went south to attack
A necessary deterrence method for the Han people.
It's all about winning the war. If you don't kill people, there will be no conquest.
Yelu Deguang just found out with some depression and helplessness that the Han people had got rid of the so-called benevolence and morality. In his impression, no matter how ruthless the Han people were in their internal fights, they would still be hypocritical when fighting abroad.
Pretending to be a benevolent and righteous gentleman, the Han people were very concerned about hypocrisy such as not killing prisoners, being kind to the people, not trampling crops, not raping, plundering, and not setting fires. Emperor Sui Yang didn't
Did they do something stupid like the Korean army surrendered six times in Liaodong City and he surrendered six times? Three hundred thousand elite government soldiers had their heads cut off by the Koreans and built into the city wall. Aren’t those officials in the Sui Dynasty still talking about the world?
Can't Wang Tu kill the Koreans too hard?
Even if they are bullied to the head, don't the Han people still have to reason and say that a gentleman can talk but not take action? Even if they are robbed of land, food and women, don't the Han people still say that they can't be like the barbarians in Saibei?
Aren’t the Han people advocating education based on benevolence and righteousness?
Why can't we see all the principles admired by the Han people when we come to Liu Ling's Han army?
Those Han troops killed people more ruthlessly than the Khitans! The pastures north of the Great Wall were burned more than once by those hateful Han people?
Yelu Deguang had a vague feeling that the Han people were no longer the two-legged sheep that others had bullied before.
Two hundred thousand troops besieged Taiyuan City and then began to build a camp. When the sun rose the next day, a group of Khitan cavalry protected a Khitan general outside the north gate of Taiyuan. The general loudly persuaded him to surrender, claiming that as long as the Han army opened the door
To surrender, His Highness the Prince of Daliao was merciful and would never kill anyone or destroy a single plant or tree. The Han army guarding the city was very moved by the sincerity shown by Yelu Deguang, so they shot the gushing Khitan general with an arrow.
Wear them right.
Then thousands of Han troops on the city wall shouted in unison: "Fight if you want!"
The remaining Khitan warriors retreated to the camp in embarrassment, not even wanting to leave the general who was still alive. After a while, perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, a group of cavalry galloped over and threw a rope around the Khitan general's body.
He was dragged back by his neck like a dead dog.
The defenders on the city wall burst into laughter, and the laughter was like a knife cutting through the pride of the Khitan people. More than ten years ago, if the Khitan wolves rode south, those officials in the Northern Han Dynasty would not immediately open the city gate.
Kneeling on both sides of the gate and begging for mercy? Even if a Khitan centurion could whip a Northern Han Dynasty governor to death, and then humiliate the governor's wife and daughter in public, who among those Han people would dare to step forward?
It has only been more than ten years, why has the world changed?
Did the Han people become stronger, or did the Liao become weaker?
Yelu Deguang couldn't find the answer. He only knew that if he wanted to regain his position as the overlord of the Liao Dynasty, he must give those Han people a bloody lesson!
The Khitan people set up the camp very quickly, and the felt tents carried by the army were quickly erected. They cut down all the nearby trees, and lined up their horses in front of the camp. The camp, which stretched for dozens of miles, looked like a hill.
Each felt tent is like a grave mound.
The people who were forcibly captured from Datong Prefecture and the herdsmen who came with the army from the grassland set up camp behind them, while the Khitan people formed a formation at the gate of Taiyuan City every day and shouted curses. The chirping grassland barbarian language was mixed with Chinese.
They themselves couldn't hear what they were shouting. But no matter what actions they used to express insults, what language they used to curse or shout, the Han soldiers on the city wall all turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye.
After more than ten days, the Khitan people themselves felt a little bored.
After the camp was set up, Yelu Deguang mobilized a team of two thousand people to start a tentative attack on the north gate of Taiyuan City. This time the Khitans went south with a large number of siege equipment, and they learned a lesson from each step. Last time they went south in a hurry
They suffered enough from the lack of siege weapons, and hundreds of thousands of troops died under the Han people's city. A team of 10,000 people held down the formation, and another team of 10,000 soldiers pushed siege rams, carried ladders, and even assembled them.
The siege towers surged toward Taiyuan City in a dense black mass.
The Persians hired by the Khitan people with a lot of money hurriedly directed the laborers to assemble the powerful Huihui cannon. The Persians, who thought they were noble, held whips in their hands and whipped those who were clumsy in their eyes. Huihui cannon.
The power is huge, and the range can reach more than 500 meters. Huge and heavy stones can smash holes in the city wall. If there are hundreds of such things, it will undoubtedly be a nightmare for the defending side.
But what frightened the Persians was that the unbuilt Huihui cannon immediately became the target of the Han army. Then more than a dozen black things that exploded when they hit the ground blew the Huihui cannon into pieces.
The huge air waves and explosions knocked people over and buried them in the soil. Even the Persians, who thought they had an absolute advantage in siege equipment, didn't know what those weapons were that could kill a group of people at once.
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From the looks of it, it seems to have a farther range than the cannon!
There are only twenty artillery pieces on the Taiyuan city wall, and the maximum range of this newly developed artillery is actually almost the same as that of the return artillery. The key is that the Han army's artillery is placed on the city wall. It is like two chickens with the same mobility.
The same principle applies to people standing on the city wall and peeing down, and the other person peeing up. If the person standing on the city wall takes aim, he will pee on the face of the person below, and the person below can only urinate on his own shoes.
If the wind is favorable, the people on the city wall should urinate more sharply.
The originally proud Persians were reduced to disgrace by the bombing. Even if they were beaten to death, they did not dare to enter the range of Han weapons on the city wall. Even if Yelu Deguang doubled the bounty, they would just make up their minds to go home and fight again.
He did not interfere with the war between the Easterners. In a rage, Yelu Deguang beheaded all the more than a hundred Persians, saving a lot of gold and silver treasures promised to the Persians.
Without the support of long-range weapons, Yelu Deguang gritted his teeth and ordered the army to attack the city.
A team of ten thousand Khitan cavalry gave up their horses and switched to infantry. They carried ladders and pushed the ten-foot-high siege tower forward. Before them, two thousand elite cavalry rushed over and tried to suppress the defenders on the city wall with bows and arrows.
Archers and cavalry shooting of the Khitans have always made them proud. In the past, this was their most invincible means.
Two thousand cavalry charged at them diagonally, but before they could reach the range of their bows, the ballistas on the Taiyuan city wall and the gunpowder trebuchets that had been gradually retired began to show off their power.
With the emergence of artillery, gunpowder trebuchets that were bulky and inconvenient to transport were gradually eliminated. However, in this kind of offensive and defensive battle with intensive soldiers, the lethal effect of gunpowder trebuchets was not comparable to that of artillery. Moreover, because
They had just been developed, and the artillery was mainly equipped on the battleships of the Han Dynasty Navy. The twenty artillery pieces on the city wall were quickly built to be supplied to the navy. Liu Ling ordered them all to be shipped to Taiyuan. Bei.
There are eight gates on the gate, the west gate and the east gate, each with six cannons.
A heavy crossbow more than ten feet long can be fired from the city wall and can nail the Khitan cavalry that is speeding up to the ground, including men and horses. If a heavy crossbow with a thick arm hits a person, it can break the person's waist.
.The crossbow arrows pushed out by Jikuo are extremely powerful. When they hit a dense crowd, they can skewer more than a dozen people into candied haws in one go.
The Han army had crossbow chariots, and the Khitans also had crossbow chariots.
After the cavalry suffered heavy losses, the Khitan generals who attacked the city began to mobilize their ballistae to bombard the gates of Taiyuan City and the Han troops on the city walls. However, compared to the Han army, the Khitan's ballistae were inferior in both quantity and quality.
After the Khitan's crossbow cart was pushed up, the Han army's artillery, which had been silent for a while, began to fire. However, the accuracy of both sides was not too high. After bombing for half an hour, the Khitan's crossbow cart was bombed.
More than twenty were damaged, but not even a single door panel of Taiyuan City Gate was knocked down.
It's not that the Khitan's ballistas are not powerful enough. The reason is simple. Liu Ling added a layer of iron armor to the Taiyuan city gate. Outside the city gate, Liu Ling sent craftsmen to cast an iron plate weighing several thousand kilograms.
After the door was closed, the iron plate was lowered from above, and the wooden city gate was closed inside by the iron gate. The crossbow arrow hit the iron gate, but it had no effect at all except for wiping out a stream of sparks.
It seems that the Khitan's attack methods have no effect on Taiyuan City, but this is not because the Khitans are incompetent, but that Liu Ling has made full preparations for the Khitan's attack. Every method used by the Khitans, Liu Ling
Ling had predicted it before. Whether it was the Persians' return artillery or the attack on the city gate, Liu Ling had already thought of a way to deal with it. Since he had already made a plan to hold on to Taiyuan City and wait for an opportunity to counterattack, if
Wouldn't it be too incompetent to have no means of coping?
Various long-range weapons were basically unable to cause damage to the Han army defending the city, so the Khitan people could only bite the bullet and attack the city.
The siege tower, which is almost as high as the city wall, is pushed forward slowly by hundreds of people. A team of ten thousand people, half of the attacking soldiers, and the other half are almost pushing carts. Some are pushing siege rams, and some are pushing siege rams.
There are those who push the siege tower and those who push the ballista. Just one siege tower requires at least 500 soldiers to slowly push it. It is about ten feet high and has two floors. Thirty archers can stand on each floor.
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There is a ladder hanging on one side of the siege tower, which can be set up on the wall as long as it is close to the city wall. In this way, the soldiers on the siege side can rush directly to the city wall from the siege tower. And the archers on the siege tower can suppress the city wall.
The defenders on top of it are the largest siege equipment. As long as they are approached by the siege tower, it is basically easy to rush to the city wall.
The Khitans who originally wanted to test the attack were really fired by the long-range weapons of the Han army. A team of 10,000 people pressed forward, and another team of 10,000 people immediately started to test, and turned into a strong attack.
On this day, I don’t know how many new and incomplete ghosts hell will accept. (To be continued)
