Chapter 0528 The extravagant Zhu Neng, the cowardly Li Yuanhao
"kill!"
War drums roared and shouts of killing were heard everywhere.
The Shazhou Uighur defenders at the top of the city were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground.
They are all private soldiers of the Shazhou Uighur nobles. In order to weaken Cao Xianshun's power, the Shazhou Uighur nobles usually stay behind during wars and will not send them out to fight.
Even if they are sent out to fight, they will only be able to bully the many and bully the few.
They had never fought any tough battles there, and they were not considered elite soldiers.
The elite Shazhou Uighur troops under Cao Xianshun's control have already been used up at Yumen Pass and Guazhou, and the rest are now guarding the palace.
A group of private soldiers who had never fought a tough battle were frightened by the fierce Song soldiers.
It was like running away immediately.
Seeing this, the old Shazhou Uighur nobles shouted in horror: "Keep it for me...keep it..."
However, the private soldiers had no intention of listening to him.
They were busy getting up from the ground and running for their lives.
The inner city wall of Shazhou City is not very tall, only one foot and six feet. The shortest ladder in the hands of the Song army is two feet higher than the inner city wall of Shazhou City.
Kou Ji ordered Yang Wenguang to attack the top of the city in one blow, thus taking a high look at the Shazhou Uighur defenders on the inner city wall.
"Bang bang bang..."
The bed crossbow shot out, the crossbow gun shot out, and penetrated into the city wall. The gun body built ladders on the city wall.
Yang Wenguang rode his horse to the foot of the inner city wall, flew up from his horse, and landed on the gun stuck on the wall. With the elasticity of the gun, he jumped halfway up the inner city wall.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Yang Wenguang was like a gecko swimming on the wall, climbing on the gun body on the city wall, and appeared on the top of the city in a matter of breaths.
The jumping soldiers following Yang Wenguang were as fast as Yang Wenguang.
With knives in their mouths, they climbed up the city wall at an alarming speed like apes climbing trees.
From the time Kou Ji gave the order to attack to the time Yang Wenguang and his party climbed up the city wall, only ten breaths had passed.
It can be seen from this that how low the inner wall of Shazhou City is and how fast Yang Wenguang and others are.
"I surrender!"
As soon as Yang Wenguang rushed to the top of the city, he bumped into a Shazhou Uighur noble who fell to the ground in fright and peed his pants.
When the Shazhou Uighur nobles saw Yang Wenguang, they immediately shouted in horror that they wanted to surrender.
Yang Wenguang smiled ferociously, "The imperial envoy Kou has an order not to leave any male alive..."
The Uighur nobles of Shazhou widened their eyes in horror.
Yang Wenguang threw up the spear in his hand and broke the neck of the Shazhou Uighur nobleman in one stroke.
"I can donate half of my family wealth to the Celestial Empire..."
The elderly Shazhou Uyghur nobles saw the Song soldiers rushing towards the city like a tide, and finally realized how terrifying the Song soldiers were.
He shouted loudly to Kou Ji who was watching the battle coldly on top of the city.
It was as if Koji didn't hear his shout.
At this point, this guy still wants money.
I am only willing to give half of my family wealth.
His greed was beyond Koji's imagination.
However, he had no idea that even if he gave up all his family wealth, Kou Ji would not let him go.
The soldiers and horses of the Dragon God Guards surged up the inner city wall of Shazhou City like a tide. Their attack on the inner city of Shazhou City was already unstoppable.
Even if Zhao Zhen comes in person, he may not be able to stop him.
"Sun Tzu" said: Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, as motionless as a mountain, as unpredictable as the clouds, and as moving as thunder.
It's about the formation of elite soldiers.
Invading like fire, moving like thunder, it is not just something to say casually.
The military momentum has been established and cannot be stopped easily.
Besides, Kou Ji never thought of stopping it.
"Pfft..."
A jumping soldier rushed to the top of the city and immediately saw the shouting elderly Uighur noble from Shazhou. To be precise, he saw the thick gold jewelry he was wearing around his neck.
As soon as the guards around the elderly Shazhou Uighur noble rushed forward, the Tiaodang soldiers rushed up from behind to greet him.
The Tiaodang soldiers who were the first to rush to the top of the city jumped in front of the old Shazhou Uighur noble, chopped off his head with one blow, then took off the blood-stained gold jewelry, stuffed it into his waist, and continued to kill.
Go down.
The Shazhou Uighurs on the top of the city saw the ferocious momentum of the Song army, and they all fled in panic. They had no intention of fighting the enemy.
After the Dragon God's two guards captured the inner city wall, Yang Wenguang left some people to defend the city, sent people to open the city gate, and led the remaining people to fight in.
For a while.
The Shazhou Uighur nobles in the inner city were in chaos, shouts of killing were everywhere, and screams and wails filled the entire inner city of Shazhou City.
Kou Ji was escorted by the men of the patrol horse guard, riding on the Shazhou Uighur soldiers and horses, and the corpses of the nobles, slowly climbed to the top of the city.
Blood stained the entire city red.
Broken limbs and broken arms were everywhere.
Kou Ji walked up to the corpse of the old Shazhou Uyghur noble and said quietly: "I thought you were so powerful that you could negotiate terms with me. I didn't expect you to be vulnerable."
Kou Ji kicked his head off the city wall, put his hands behind his back and looked towards the outer city of Shazhou City.
The inner city wall has been breached, and the war in the inner city no longer requires his attention. Apart from the royal palace and some private fortresses, there is nothing in the inner city that can stop the two guards of Dragon God.
Even the royal palace and private fortress can only slow down the killing pace of the Dragon God's two guards.
In the end, it will inevitably be destroyed in the hands of the Dragon God Erwei.
Given the current situation of the Uighurs in Shazhou, if there is still a place that can resist the strength of the Dragon God's two guards, there must be a valuable treasure.
How could the two guards of Dragon God let go?
The reason why Kou Ji looked outside the city was because shortly after he ordered Yang Wenguang to attack the city, heavy horse hoofbeats could be heard outside the city.
Zhu Neng told Kou Ji that Li Yuanhao would definitely choose a special time to come over and have a fight with them.
I also guessed that it was when they attacked the inner city of Shazhou City.
Now that Li Yuanhao came to attack, Zhu Neng's guess was indeed fulfilled.
Although Li Yuanhao's iron kite suffered a loss in his hands.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
Even if the Xixia soldiers and horses are ordinary rangers, their combat effectiveness is not bad.
It is far from comparable to the private soldiers of the Shazhou Uighurs.
Kou Ji stood on the city wall with his hands behind his back, listening to the shouts of killing inside and outside the city, and narrowed his eyes.
It didn't take long.
Liu Heng sent people on fast horses to rush to the inner city wall.
"Informing the imperial envoy, Li Yuanhao is coming to attack with 40,000 troops and horses... General Zhu is leading his army to meet the enemy... The humble Shangguan sent me here to ask for the imperial envoy's instructions. Do you have any orders..."
Kou Ji thought for a while and said: "Send someone to the military camp and tell the servants of the Kou Mansion to take the muskets I brought and let all the tigers run together and redistribute them to the warriors of the Yuanshan tribe and let them go up the city wall to assist
General Zhu defends the city."
"Here..."
The people sent by Liu Heng quickly conveyed Kou Ji's order.
The patrolling horse guards held muskets and hundreds of tigers rushed to the city wall to help Zhu Neng defend the city.
On the outer city wall.
Zhu Neng stared at the Xixia soldiers and horses surging outside the city and frowned, "What does Li Yuanhao mean? Send a group of minions to die?"
Outside the city, the Xixia soldiers and horses at the forefront looked very awkward.
The formation was scattered and they rushed forward in a panic.
It looked more like fleeing for one's life than attacking a city.
Compared with the Xixia soldiers and horses following them on horseback or escorting large ordnance, they were not worth mentioning at all.
Zhu Neng stared at the Xixia soldiers and horses rushing at the forefront for a long time, and suddenly cursed, "Li Yuanhao, who is so stupid, really doesn't treat the prisoners as human beings. He actually dressed the prisoners as soldiers and horses and forced them to come and die."
Only after the Xixia soldiers and horses outside the city rushed closer did Zhu Neng see the clues.
"Order to go down... let a hundred tigers run together..."
As Zhu Neng's order was conveyed, a hundred tigers rushed together and appeared on the city top.
The hundreds of tigers brought by Zhu Neng and Kou Ji, totaling tens of thousands, rushed together and were pushed to the crenellations of the city wall.
Li Yuanhao's pupils shrank when he saw this scene.
Li Yuanhao has seen the power of a hundred tigers running together.
In his previous attack on Shazhou City, he suffered many losses at the hands of Hundreds of Tigers.
It took him the lives of countless captives to use up all the arrows in Zhu Neng's hands.
Let all the tigers rush to retreat from the city.
Now that Kou Ji has arrived, hundreds of tigers have once again appeared on the top of the city, and their numbers are far greater than before.
Those who watched it felt numb.
Fortunately, the prisoners were sent to transform into soldiers and serve as cannon fodder at the front, otherwise the Xixia soldiers and horses would have died who knows how many.
"put!"
Seeing the Xixia soldiers and horses rushing to the bottom of the city wall.
Zhu Neng gave the order decisively.
Tens of thousands of tigers running together were set ablaze.
The sound of explosions resounded throughout Shazhou City.
Millions of arrows flew out, creating a curtain of rain in the air.
Covering the sky and blocking out the sun.
Seeing the rain curtain as millions of arrows were fired, almost everyone froze on the spot.
Even Zhu Neng, the instigator, looked shocked.
Among those who noticed the situation on the battlefield, only Kou Ji remained conscious.
When Kou Ji saw the line of rain covering the sky and the sun, the corner of his mouth twitched, his heart twitched, and he blurted out a curse.
"Zhu Neng, are you Biao?"
"Biqi's mother..."
Zhu Neng's eyes widened and he screamed.
I saw the rain falling majestically.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
The sound of arrows hitting the ground was like heavy rain falling.
Outside Shazhou City, a forest of thorns suddenly appeared.
Most of the people who rushed to the city occupied it.
"Gudu..."
Everyone who saw this scene swallowed their saliva.
Zhu Neng trembled and exclaimed: "Damn, it's too strong..."
"Come down and let's do two more rounds! Let me see if Li Yuanhao still dares to come!"
Zhu Neng said excitedly.
The lieutenant beside him stood there with a grimace and made no move.
Seeing this, Zhu Neng opened his eyes and shouted: "Hurry up and go!"
The lieutenant lamented: "There are no more arrows..."
"Um?!"
"There were less than a few hundred thousand arrows sent by the Kou officials, plus the ones we hid to deal with the sudden change, there were about a million arrows in total, and you shot them all in one round..."
Zhu Neng opened his mouth but said no more.
In one breath, one million arrows were shot out, which is equivalent to throwing more than 200,000 arrows in one round.
Being strong is what you should be.
It's weird if he's not strong.
This is a war, this is obviously a waste of money.
Zhu Neng coughed dryly and said in a deep voice: "Go down and tell the brothers to prepare to meet the enemy."
The deputy general agreed and immediately went down to deliver the order.
outside the city.
Li Yuanhao's scalp felt really numb as he looked at the thorn forest so close to him.
He had never seen a battle in which millions of arrows were fired at once.
He had witnessed the battle in which the most arrows were fired in one go, and it was the battle when the Liao Kingdom invaded Xixia.
The Liao Kingdom shot 100,000 arrows in one round, overwhelming them until they could not breathe.
There were ten times more arrows, and the scene was so spectacular that he could hardly imagine it.
Its destructive power and harm were beyond his imagination.
All soldiers and horses standing under the rain of arrows were shot into hedgehogs.
Among the soldiers and horses under his command, only the iron kite's heavy armor could withstand such a majestic rain of arrows.
The other rangers wearing leather armor would die if caught in the hail of arrows.
Yeli Yuqi suppressed the panic in his heart and asked Li Yuanhao with a slightly trembling voice, "Your Highness, should we still... fight?"
Li Yuanhao blurted out.
"Fight, why not fight?"
Yeli Yuqi bit the bullet and said, "But...how to fight?"
Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "With such a majestic rain of arrows, I don't believe they can shoot a second round."
"But they still have stronger firearms... That kind of firearms, even the heavy armor of Iron Kites, is difficult to withstand..."
"..."
Li Yuanhao angrily whipped Ye Li Yuqi and cursed: "You are a coward, you actually inflate the enemy's ambition and destroy your own prestige! When you go back, I will hang the fox's tail on your hat and tell everyone that you are a coward."
coward."
Li Yuanhao scolded Ye Liyu for a long time, but never said a word about attacking Shazhou City.
He said with stern words that it was impossible for the Song army in Shazhou City to launch a second round of exactly the same offensive.
But what if it can be ejaculated?
The Song army also had stronger firearms, which were enough to threaten Tie Yaozi's firearms.
Can it be blocked?
Do you dare to block it?
Nearly half of the Iron Kites have been lost. Do we want to bury all the remaining Iron Kites at the foot of Shazhou City?
By the way, bring the servant army in too?
Just to fight for a breath?
Spending such a high price to fight a meaningless war?
Li Yuanhao didn't want to admit that he was timid.
Nor was he willing to issue an order to withdraw the troops.
He scolded Ye Li and Yu Beggar, and by the way, he also scolded Cao Xianshun.
If Cao Xianshun's Shazhou Uighur troops were not incompetent and could not contain more elite Song troops, how could he have fallen into such an embarrassing situation.
Just when Li Yuanhao was cursing others and preparing to find a way out for himself.
A fast horse galloped over from a distance.
When the cavalry on horseback arrived at Li Yuanhao's side, they reined in their horses, clasped their fists and said, "General, I and others found traces of the Song Army ten miles away. They are suspected to be the leading troops of the Song Army's reinforcements."
Li Yuanhao was stunned when he heard this, and was shocked, "Why did the Song Army's reinforcements come back so quickly?"
"It's just the vanguard..."
Someone muttered.
Li Yuanhao cursed loudly: "Shut up, this is obviously a conspiracy of the Song people. It's not like you don't know that the Song people are good at plotting."
After saying this, he didn't wait for anyone else to speak.
Li Yuanhao said loudly: "All ministries, quickly gather troops and horses and retreat to Guazhou. If you encounter a beggar in the wild, you can lead people to break up the rear to prevent the Song people from setting a trap and attacking us from both sides."