Chapter 0618 Broken Copper Platform(1/2)
Di Qing and others only regretted that the horses on their backs were not strong enough and the armor on their bodies was not strong enough, otherwise they could break through Tongtai Pass and rush all the way to Shangjing City of Liao Kingdom.
When Di Qing led the Tiger Army, they rushed out of the trail and met the Liao soldiers patrolling the Liao Kingdom.
The Liao soldiers patrolling the Liao Kingdom heard the report from the scouts, saying that there were enemies, and wanted to come over and clean them up.
But after seeing the full lineup of Di Qing and others, he was so frightened that he immediately turned around and ran away.
The Liao soldiers did not take a closer look at what soldiers and horses were behind the formation of the Tiger Army led by Di Qing. Just the cavalry of the front army was enough to frighten them into fleeing in confusion.
Heavy armored cavalry!
The great weapon of cavalry charging into battle, heavy armored cavalry!
Without sufficient preparation in advance, if the Liao's rangers faced off against the heavily armored cavalry and faced off head-on, it would be no different than seeking death.
Even though the people sitting on the horse were Song people whom they looked down upon.
The Liao soldiers encountered Di Qing and his party and wanted to escape.
But Di Qing did not give them a chance to escape.
Although the Tiger Army was not equipped with muskets, it was equipped with crossbows.
Di Qing and others pursued the Liao soldiers, drew their hand crossbows, and fired fiercely at them.
Those who ran fast naturally escaped with their lives, while those who ran slowly became dead souls shot by arrows.
Some of those who were not shot to death fell off their horses and were trampled to death by the iron hooves rushing up from behind.
Hundreds of kilograms of weight rolled over them.
In the end, they turned into a pile of minced meat.
Di Qing estimated that two sticks of incense would be enough to reach Tongtai Pass, but in fact, it only took one and a half sticks of incense.
The reason why the speed was faster than Di Qing expected was also because they encountered Liao soldiers on the way to charge.
The tiger-character army lived up to its name. Seeing the Liao soldiers was like a hungry tiger seeing a sheep.
They pushed their horses forward with all their strength, just to rush in front of the Liao soldiers and give them a blow.
One knife is enough to take away the life of a Liao soldier.
The knives in their hands were very sharp and could easily cut through the leather armor of Liao soldiers and chop into their flesh and blood.
The Liao soldiers were either hacked to death on the spot, or after being hacked, they could not get help and died of excessive blood loss.
When Di Qing and others rushed to Tongtai Pass, the guard of Tongtai Pass appeared in panic on the pass.
"Song Jun?!"
"Why did the Song Army appear at Tongtaiguan?!"
The Tongtai Gatekeeper looked at the Tiger Army led by Di Qing in disbelief.
Since Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty Zhao Guangyi failed in his three Northern Expeditions, traces of the Song army have completely disappeared from Daliao.
The Song army did not dare to step into Liao territory for decades.
Once Song troops set foot in Liao territory, without Daliao doing anything, the emperor of Song would send people to cut off the heads of those Song troops and send them to Daliao to calm Daliao's anger.
The general guarding Tongtai Pass had long forgotten the appearance of the Song army invading Liao.
Maybe it's not just him.
Most Liao people have forgotten the Song army's invasion of Liao.
After all, decades have passed since the Song Dynasty bared its teeth to the Liao Dynasty.
Decades of time are enough for many people to forget many things.
In their eyes, the Song Dynasty was just a big fat pig that they kept in a pigsty. When they were hungry, they could go over and cut a piece of it and roast it.
They never thought that the pigs they raised would grow tusks and bite them back.
When the Tongtai Pass guard saw the Tiger Army led by Di Qing, he was in disbelief at first, and then became angry. Before his anger could be vented, a panic arose in his heart.
"quick!"
"Quickly defend against the enemy!"
"quick!"
The Tongtai gatekeepers panicked and roared loudly on the gate.
The defenders in Tongtai Pass hurriedly came out to defend themselves against the enemy, holding weapons and armor.
A sporadic rain of arrows fell for a while.
Di Qing and others rushed to the top of the city, dispatched twenty cavalry and rushed out. With the scattered arrows falling from the top of the city, they crossed the trench by long ladders and cut off the iron cables on the suspension bridge.
After the iron cables were cut, the suspension bridge crashed to the ground with a loud bang.
"Bang bang bang..."
The crossbowmen who followed closely used their crossbows and fired fiercely.
The crossbows pierced the city wall fiercely.
The Tiaodang soldiers rushed along the suspension bridge, climbed up to the top of the city with their crossbows in hand.
"Quick! Kill them quickly!"
The Tongtai gatekeeper shouted in panic.
The Liao soldiers were holding swords and bows and shooting with all their strength.
However, the Tiaodang soldiers in the Song army surged upward like a tide.
Without the help of rolling logs, stones, gold juice and other powerful weapons, the Liao soldiers would not be able to defeat them.
"Bang!"
Just when the Liao soldiers at Tongtai Pass struggled to resist the Tiaodang soldiers climbing on the city wall.
The auxiliary soldiers of the Tiger Army have already pushed the siege chisel across the suspension bridge.
Pushed by the soldiers, the huge log slammed into the gate of Tongtaiguan.
One after another, holes were made in the door.
The Tongtai Gatekeeper felt the heavy blows hitting him in the heart. He panicked so much that he immediately sent more people to guard the city gate.
It's just that his order to send additional manpower has not yet been conveyed.
The Tiaodang soldiers had already jumped onto the top of the city.
The confrontation between the two sides changed from the exchange of bows and arrows to close combat.
Hand-to-hand fighting unfolded everywhere on the city.
A Tiaodang soldier rushed under the eyes of the Tongtai Gatekeeper, and the Tongtai Gatekeeper had to take action himself and fight hand-to-hand with the Tiaodang soldiers.
The hand-to-hand fighting was very brutal.
In order to make it easier to climb the city, the jumpers all wore light armor. The only protective tool they could rely on was a small buckler in their hands.
Both sides went back and forth, and blood spurted out.
"Bang!"
A collision sounded that was obviously different from the others.
The Tongtai Gatekeeper who was killing was shaken all over.
"The city gate is broken?!"
"The city gate is broken!"
The gatekeeper at Tongtai Gate was muttering to himself in astonishment.
The auxiliary soldiers of the Tiger Army under the city wall were roaring with all their strength.
Both sides said the same thing, but their thoughts were completely different.
After the city gate was smashed, the auxiliary soldiers of the Tiger Army pushed the siege chisel and rushed in arrogantly.
The Liao soldiers in front of the city gate had no way to kill them and could only be forced back by the siege chisels.
The moment the city gate was breached, Di Qing hardly hesitated. He raised his spear and led his cavalry in.
"Fight in! Take no prisoners!"
Di Qing led the cavalry and rushed into Tongtai Pass in a swarm.
The reason why he did not take prisoners was not that Di Qing was bloodthirsty, but that he was conducting a sneak attack on this trip, so he did not bring much food and grass.
When the army led by Cao Wei did not capture the entire territory of Zhuozhou, it was very difficult for him to replenish food and grass.
He couldn't afford to keep so many prisoners.
When the cavalry rushed into Tongtai Pass, the battle was already over.
Di Qing led his cavalry and rushed from the gate of Guancheng to another gate. Seven or eighty-eight Liao soldiers inside the pass had been killed.
To be continued...