First he heard a loud noise, and then Xiao Huo'er could no longer hear anything. A warm strong wind blew on his face and almost suffocated him. The four legs of the horse under his crotch softened and fell to the ground.
The legs were pressed tightly.
After the soldiers rescued him from under the horse, he ignored the pain on his body and immediately watched the battlefield.
The scene in front of him horrified him. Three chariots as high as the city wall disappeared, and some broken wood was scattered on the ground. A huge wheel suddenly appeared in his military formation, and it was alive among the cavalry group.
A clearing filled with flesh and blood was created.
Hua Tianshou, who had long since dismounted from his horse, stood aside obediently. At this time, it was very unwise to tease someone who was feeling ashamed and angry. However, the bloody fact in front of him made him secretly happy. In the face of this fact, Rong Rong
Xiao Huo'er must not bow his head.
Xiao Huo'er gave an order, and those Liao troops on the battlefield who were lucky enough not to get close to the city retreated slowly. Today's siege seemed to be over.
Xiao Huo'er didn't know that Ge Tianfang, who was standing at the top of the city, was even more nervous than he was. He could even hear the city wall under his feet emitting its final cry. Seeing the Liao people retreating, he roared at the top of his lungs:
"Retreat, everyone, retreat to Wengcheng. Get off the wall quickly, it's about to collapse!"
After shouting, the first one ran down from the city wall, and kept urging Tan Wei to come down from the top. Tan Wei ignored this and just ordered his subordinates to quickly move the ballistae. Without the ballistae,
It is impossible to defend Pianguan. Once the Liao people's trebuchets lose their scruples, they will bury the entire Pianguan with stones.
The big explosion just now completely destroyed the city wall. The first thing to fall down was the stone shell outside. When the stone shell fell down, the city wall dispersed silently like a pile of loose sand.
This scene was different from what Ge Tianfang had imagined. He never dreamed that a tall city wall would be filled with loose sand.
Tan Wei's legs were buried in the loess, and he stood there stupidly with a crossbow frame on his shoulder. His soul seemed to have disappeared. When he saw a hand sticking out of the loess next to him, he struck.
He was so excited that he threw away the ballista's frame and dug into the soil with his hands like crazy. When he dug out a head full of loess, he saw that the head was still breathing, and he picked out the dirt in his mouth and nose in twos and twos.
Mud, one was breathing loudly, while the other was laughing like crazy.
"Grandpa Zu, don't laugh. The Liao people are charging up again." Ge Tianfang helped Tan Wei pull another subordinate out of the soil. He didn't have time to search if anyone else was buried alive, dragging the crossbow frame with him.
, rolled and crawled and ran into the Wengcheng.
Lang Tan looked at his two embarrassed subordinates, and the clouds on their faces seemed to be able to hold water. In just one day, the outer city had already been lost. Although the collapsed city wall was only part of the front, the wall was dozens of feet long.
The existence of a wide gap is not much different from the fall of the whole city. At first, I discovered the shortcomings of the city defense, so I built the Wengcheng. However, time waited for no one, and the Liao people came before the inner city was completed.
The Guanghua Army has always been an army trusted by the people elsewhere. As long as the Guanghua Army wants to build city defenses, the local people will often go all out to help. In Pianguan, no matter what he says, they will even provide food and money.
Come, the people are indifferent, as if everything here has nothing to do with them.
Sadness is greater than heartbreak. To Lang Tan's Guanghua Army, the people here are just weeds in the wilderness, felled tree stumps, just some humanoid creatures. They have nothing to do with the Song Dynasty or the army. Lang Tan
I even thought that if a bandit was sent to these people as the city lord, they would come forward to worship in a dull manner, and then disperse in a hurry.
A broken heart and a broken city wall are generally not worth relying on.
When Ge Tianfang forced the people to evacuate the day before yesterday, the aggression and hostility shown by these people made Lang Tan feel chilled. They actually thought that the Liao people would not do anything to them after they arrived, as long as they were obedient enough, until
Ge Tianfang took these people to the gate of Wengcheng. When they saw countless burnt bodies of Liao people, they gave up completely. Some elderly people pointed at Lang Tan and complained, saying that he was the one who had been detained.
The people brought disaster.
This makes the soldiers of the Guanghua Army find no reason to fight, which is the biggest trouble.
Seeing the Liao people pouring in from the big gap like ants coming out of their holes, Lang Tan could only order the eight-niu crossbows and ballistae to cover the place. After repelling the Liao people's attack, Lang Tan prepared to repair the scattered city wall.
After walking there and taking a look, I realized that no matter what I did, it was all in vain. There was no possibility of repairing the place.
After planting countless gunpowder, Lang Tan returned to Wengcheng, sat behind the desk and began to write documents. He had to tell Yun Zheng about the terrible situation here. It was already difficult to complete the task of holding on for ten days.
He focused on the support of the people and the changes in morale in the army. It is impossible for the army to take care of city defense and logistics at the same time. The Guanghua Army only has 10,000 people, but the area it defends is very large.
As far as the chemical army is concerned, there is already a serious shortage of manpower.
There was no smile left on his exuberant little face, and he also knew that the situation the Guanghua Army faced now was very bad. Once the Guanghua Army, which lacked horses and lost the protection of the city, would end up no better than his own people.
No matter what, you can't outrun the cavalry on two legs, especially in the Hetao area like Pianguan, which is most suitable for cavalry to attack and show off their power.
In the early morning, the eagle took away Lang Tan's letter. Lang Tan stood on the urn and watched the eagle fly away. But soon, a smile appeared on his face, because the eagle fell just as it took off.
"The commander is only fifteen miles away from us, right in that mountain valley!" Bo Bo was very happy. Fifteen miles is exactly the best distance for cavalry to attack. The horses are running at full speed from warm-up to the end. This distance is the best.
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In fact, Yun Zheng watched yesterday's battle with cold eyes. Except for the sudden collapse of the city wall, nothing else exceeded his expectations. When the city wall collapsed, he had to modify his battle plan. Until now, Xiao Huo
Er still carefully gathered his troops in a circle within a radius of five miles. It would be difficult to make a sneak attack.
So his reply to Lang Tan only contained two simple words: "Stick to it!"
Xiao Lin walked up to Yun Zheng with a gloomy expression and said, "Hua Tianshou is not a simple person. He is a remnant of the Maitreya Sect."
"Maitreya Cult? Gao Tansheng was killed by me. Fang Xiandong was trapped and killed by Han Qi in Hejian Mansion. Bai Tieyu heard that he had fled overseas. The Maitreya Cult in the Song Dynasty has been gradually wiped out in recent years. How did the Maitreya Cult come out again?
Congregants?”
Xiaolin said: "Yesterday, I found clues and raided the abandoned military stronghold of the Volcano Army, Henggu Village. I found the Maitreya Cult altar and sacrificial inscriptions there, and captured six people. After interrogation, they admitted that they were Hua Tianshou's old tribe, the one they first believed in.
It was Hou Ziguang, the Buddhist prince of Yanchuan, and it was Hou Ziguang who founded the "Public Little Qin Kingdom" in Pianguan generation.
Yun Zheng let out a long breath and said: "No wonder Lang Tan said in his letter that the people here are not here. He ran into obstacles everywhere in Pianguan. Even if he took out gold and silver, he couldn't find any people to help him. In the end, he had no choice but to destroy Pianguan.
When the people moved out of the city, he found that these people were likely to help the Liao Kingdom deal with him. It turned out that the crux was here.
As long as it involves the Maitreya Cult, it should not be underestimated. Back then, Gao Tansheng almost put me in a nightmare. I finally managed to kill him with the help of the Xixia people. Now Hua Tianshou jumped out again. I thought
This person was only involved in corruption. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a member of the Maitreya Cult. The Maitreya Cult is really my good friend. I can meet them wherever I go.
Since Hua Tianshou is in the Liao army's camp, I'm afraid we won't be able to hide our hidden troops in Huangjiazhai for a long time. Now is the time for us to fight for time with the Liao Kingdom and see who God will give time to."
Xiaolin smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid the time is not optimistic for us. Guo Hengchuan is fighting Li Dongchu at Yanmen Pass. This man is extremely tough. He has lost countless soldiers in eighteen battles and refused to take a step back. According to the scouts' report, Guo Hengchuan
Hengchuan has become red-blooded this time. No matter how Xiaoshi uses the two puppets, they will not have the slightest impact on Guo Hengchuan. Now Li Dongchu is ready to abandon the Eighteen Pans and retreat to Tiegao Mountain to rely on more dangerous terrain to continue.
It's not worth it to deal with Guo Hengchuan and fight against the Liao people in the 18th game.
Yelv Dagu's attack on Ningwuguan was also as fast as fire. Fortunately, Jiang Zhe's city defense was extremely abnormal. The power of the bastion made the Liao people suffer a lot. It is said that the Liao people could not even pick up the corpses under the city. If Ning
The city defense of Wuguan is the same as that of Pianguan. We might as well retreat the whole army to Yanmen Pass. Why fight?
Overall, time seems to be on the favor of the Liao people."
"The emperor of the Song Dynasty should really come to Yanmen Pass to see how rotten the Yanmen Pass he relied on was like the Great Wall. Our internal integration has not been completed. What kind of war are we busy with? After one battle, everything will be ruined."
It has been exposed, the fatigue of the border, the poverty of the people, the corruption of the government, and now coupled with the rampant evil cults, God knows what big troubles are waiting for us.
Pass the order, let the whole army rest and recuperate. As soon as there is a fighter plane, we will pounce on it. There is really no time to pay attention to the results of the battle. You are right, in the battle of Yanmen Pass, if we want to win in the end, we can't do it without bloodshed.
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After Yun Zheng gave the order, he returned to a small tent to recharge his batteries. There would be no such opportunity again in the coming days.
Xiao Lin clenched his fists and turned around to leave. He caught six spies and wanted to squeeze out all the information they knew. There was such an appalling thing like the city wall falling apart in a border area. He wanted to know how the city wall was built in the first place.
At the end, how did they pass the Ministry of Works inspection, and how did a Maitreya gangster serve as the guard general of the border gate for more than ten years without being known to anyone. (To be continued)