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Chapter 424

Above the city, there were sounds of sounds that made people's teeth sore. It was the stranded crossbow that was working hard to get the strings. The weapon with a range of 700 steps is now being quickly replaced with a larger single-shot iron crossbow. The large iron crossbow, as thick as a child's arm and about half a foot long, was placed on the launch position under the combined force of several people.

After ten days of siege, the crossbow machines in the city were also exhausted a lot, especially for such a crossbow with the longest ranged attack power, there were only less than 30 left. At the emperor's order, all the crossbows that were originally intercepting the Turks in front of the city gate stopped and replaced the target.

For these crossbow operators on the city wall, they have long been familiar with the distances of every position outside the city for so many days. They don’t need to test the shooting. They have a clear idea of ​​the distance and everything.

Thirty chuáng crossbows were the main firepower, and all the catapults were actually stopped attacking, and they were ready to cooperate with the chuáng crossbow attack.

The city lost the support of these crossbow arrows and catapults on the top of the city. More and more Turks successfully rushed to the city gate after rushing through Li Shimin's line of defense. The Turks who were constantly rushing to the city gate began to defend the city gate and counterattacked, constantly fighting into the city gate.

Sima Dekan ran up the hill quickly, "Why did the catapult car stop? The Xiaoguo army under the city could no longer defend, so the catapult car quickly intercepted!"

Yang Guang's eyes were still closely watching the golden wolf crow moving forward. All the crossbow arrows and stone bullets had been loaded, but he was still waiting. Wait for the Turkic golden wolf crow to move forward a little further.

"I asked the catapult to stop launching."

Sima Dekan looked at the emperor anxiously and said, "Your Majesty, there is no way to intercept more Turks without the interception of catapults and large crossbows. More and more Turks have rushed to the city gate, and the Xiaoguo army can no longer defend it, and they will soon be attacked into the city."

Yang Guang still looked into the distance, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer."

Sima was already sweating profusely, and he didn't understand what the emperor was waiting for.

Another sound of footsteps sounded, but Su Wei, Yu Shiji and other civil officials also ran to the top of the city. They were originally commanding the people to set up interception barriers at the city gate and were preparing to make their final plans. However, seeing the battle situation that was originally defending well, the Turks were about to break into the city because of the stop of the catapult carts and crossbow arrows in the city, which made them busy to find out what was going on.

Seeing that these ministers ran up, Yang Guang pointed to the golden wolf crow that was moving forward. "My dear friends, the battle situation tonight has reached the most critical moment. The city gate is now lost. Although we still block the Turks outside the city, this is not a long-term solution. If you don't have a good time, the Turks will rush into the city."

Under the nervous gaze of the ministers, Yang Guang chuckled and said, "See, the Turkish golden wolf crow has moved forward and has come up."

Su Wei looked at the golden wolf crow that was moving forward, and looked at the crossbow arrows and catapults that had been loaded and were waiting for firing. His heart broke out and said, "Your Majesty is you planning to capture the thief first?"

"The three armies can seize the commander, but the flag cannot be taken in front of the formation!" Yang Guang's face was full of smiles at this time. Seeing that Yanmen City was in the most dangerous moment tonight, he did not expect that Shi Bi would come up in person at this time.

"Your Majesty, the Turkic Crown has entered the attack range of the catapult cart. Will it attack?"

A lieutenant reported loudly that the Golden Wolf Crown had already entered the attack range of the crossbow, but there were too few crossbows. In order to achieve the required results, Yang Guang confessed that the Golden Wolf Crown must be allowed to enter the attack range of the Sui army's catapult car before launching the shooting.

Yang Guang's eyes flashed with an excited light, and he nodded to the captain.

"Your Majesty has an order, all the crossbows, catapults are ready, target Turkic golden wolf crows, shoot continuously, release!"

A powerful roar sounded, and equipment was activated, and a huge spring sounded. Thirty large iron crossbows left the string first. The thick iron crossbows, with a roar in the dark night, shot straight into the golden wolf's big flag. Immediately afterwards were stone bullets shot out by all the catapults in the city.

Shibi Khan was under the golden wolf flag, wielding a scimitar and directing all the cavalry to rush to Li Shimin's array. Suddenly, a sharp roar came from the sky. Several years of experience in fighting on the grassland battlefield made him realize that a rumbling crisis was approaching quickly. There was no hesitation in his heart. Before he understood what this danger was, Shibi had quickly used his superb riding skills and hid in a pedal. The person had disappeared from the saddle, and he hid under the horse's belly.

Shibi, who was hiding under the kickstick, heard a series of roars beside him, and then he saw his two cycling horses suddenly falling to the ground. He even found out that the Golden Wolf Shi Guard next to him was suddenly fixed on the ground by a large iron crossbow falling from the sky.

A cold sweat broke out on his body, and Shibi Khan, who was still shocked, suddenly felt a cry of his war horse. He felt that a person suddenly jumped on the back of the war horse. The next moment, the four hooves of the war horse were soft and had already overturned to the ground. His body carried a lot of soil and slid several feet away.

A deep pain came, and Shibi Khan felt that his left half of his body had no sense. He looked down and saw that under the firelight on the battlefield, his entire left tui had been pressed under the body of his war horse.

The ground was covered with blood, half of the horse's body and his left tui were immersed in blood. At this time, I didn't know whether the blood was his own or the war horse's. I shook my head, Shi Bi was about to call his guard, but when he looked up, he was surprised.

I saw his war horse, a large iron crossbow more than meter long, penetrated through his neck, then shot through the entire horse body, and finally shot out from the horse's tun part, and a large piece of lu was outside.

Turning back, I found that the Golden Wolf Shi Guard beside me was basically half dead under this big iron crossbow.

Shibi felt dizzy. In the distance, dozens of golden wolf guards had turned their horses and rushed towards him while shouting something. But he only felt that the sound of Weng in his mind was making noise, but he heard nothing.

The next moment, the voice of Weng Weng was gone, the sound of horse hooves on the battlefield, the sound of metal and iron intertwined, and the screams of those who were still dead and seriously injured beside him poured into his ears like a tide.

At this time, he finally heard the voices of the guards... he only heard the guards shouting, 'The Khan should avoid it, it was the Sui people's crossbow and catapult cart.

"Before the Shiwei finished speaking, he heard the sharp howling sound again.

But this time the whistling was not that loud, but it sounded more, the catapult.

He just remembered this thing, but he saw a huge stone bullet that had already hit the guard's head. In the dim fire, he only saw that the guard's head deformed, splashing out countless red and white, and then fell off his horse.

He finally understood that it was the Sui army's chuáng crossbow and catapult cart. Why did he forget such an important thing just now? He just thought about moving the big ball forward, pursuing morale, and attacking Yanmen in one go. But he forgot that when the big ball moved to the Yanmen Pass formation, it suddenly became a living target for the Sui people. Shooting people first, shooting horses, capturing the thief first. Why did he forget such an important thing?

Having made a little clear, another whistling sound came. Shibi Khan watched a rock bullet fly towards him. At this time, he had nowhere to hide. He made a cruel and forceful hand, and suddenly raised the body of the war horse pressing on his tui. He kicked the helmet that he threw on the ground into the corpse with his other foot, and hurriedly dragged the broken tui and crawled to the side. He had just crawled away, but his position was hit by the whistling tui.

Above the Yanmen City, Yang Guang saw that he had successfully knocked down the golden wolf crow after only two rounds of volleys. He was very moved. At this time, he was not in the mood to care whether Shibi was under the crow. He immediately shouted loudly, "Shibi has been killed by crossbow arrows, swaying horns, and counterattacking the Turks!"

Pei Yun and others on the other side were stunned for a moment, and immediately yelled, "Shibi Khan has been killed in battle, killing all the Turks." The rumbling drums of war resounded throughout the world, and long horns were blown up. On the top of the city, starting from Yang Guang, roars of Shibi were already dead. Among the roars, there were many Sui soldiers who knew Turkic dialect in translations of Turkic dialects.

Li Shimin, who was under the city, led 20,000 people to the gate of the West City, blocking a fierce attack like a tide. However, facing the crazy Turkic people, the 20,000 soldiers and horses were getting fewer and fewer, and the formations were getting smaller and smaller. It was not long before this gradually breaking out, the array was about to collapse.

Suddenly, there were loud roars coming from the wall behind him. When he looked at the Turkic army opposite, the golden wolf crow had fallen. At this time, he didn't care whether the news was true or false. Anyway, as long as the Turkic people were half-believing and half-doubting, it would be enough.

With one arm, Li Shimin raised the scimitar in his hand, "The Turkic Shibi Khan is dead, the golden wolf crow has fallen, brothers, kill me!" Li Shimin's words were yelled in Turkic words. When he was a child, Li Yuan used to be the prefect of Loufu, and he was originally bordering with Yanmen Mayi. In addition, he is now the prefect of Mayi, so he is very familiar with Turkic words.

As soon as Li Shimin shouted, Hua's subordinates also shouted desperately. His headquarters' Xuanjia Camp was mostly from the authentic Mayi border, and the city was full of Turkic words. Roars came one by one, and the Sui army, which was already unstable, was shocked and counterattacked the Turks.

The Turks, who were still charging in the dark, suddenly heard the excited shouts of the Sui army ringing everywhere, and then heard the Turkic words mixed with them, and they all changed. While they were still charging, they looked back and saw that the golden wolf crow that had just moved to the near front, and at this time there was no trace.

At this time, the Khla Khan of Asina's headquarters who was charging forward, Chi Jishe and Lingli Khan,

Tuli Khan and other Shibi's brothers and nephews were all shocked. Although they could not believe the Sui people at this time, they saw that their golden wolf crow had indeed disappeared. They were all very frightened and took their troops to the place where the crow was heard.

The troops of the Ashi's group moved, and the sudden attack from the front was immediately stopped. Li Shimin led the remaining troops and horses to ride on the war horses, but instead rushed his troops to fight back in the chaos. The leaders of the other tribes were not clear at this time, but when they heard their subordinates report that the flag had just been attacked by a crossbow arrow and a catapult cart from the Sui army. Now the golden wolf flag has fallen, Shibi Dahan has lost his trace, and he has no idea of ​​life and death. All the soldiers and horses of the Ashina tribes retreated. They were all panic, and they had no intention of fighting, so they led their troops to retreat.

As soon as the Turkic cavalry units retreated, Li Shimin happened to lead the remaining 8,000 cavalry outside the city to force their troops to kill them. The Turks were defeated for a while, but they were killed and fled everywhere. The troops, which were already panicked, were completely in chaos and retreated desperately to the direction of the camp.

Seeing that the Turks in the distance finally retreated, Yang Guang and others above the city were even more moved.

"Sima Dekan, Yu Wenji, you two can quickly kill the Turkic soldiers at the city gate, and immediately take back the Xicheng Gate, ready to recall Li Shimin and the cavalry outside the city at any time." Yang Guang looked at the Turkic people who were only left at the city gate and were still fighting to the death, so he hurriedly ordered.

Without the Turkic soldiers and horses that kept rushing towards them, the Turkic people at the West City Gate finally became a sourceless water. The defenders at the city gate rushed to the city gate. The Sui army attacked fiercely, and the Turkic people who were guarding the city gate kept falling down. Under the attack of the locust-like crossbow arrows, the corpses were everywhere at the city gate, and the last Turkic soldier finally fell down.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Flashes of gongs sounded, and Yang Guang on the city issued an order to withdraw troops. Li Shimin outside the city took the remaining 8,000 cavalry and took advantage of the situation to hide in the Turkic formation and killed many scattered soldiers. He did not dare to chase into the Turkic camp. When he heard the order to withdraw troops on the top of the city, he hurriedly led his tribe to retreat to the city like a gust of wind.

"Bang!"

The Xicheng Gate was finally closed again, and a team of civilians brought a huge rock and completely blocked the Ximen, which had just fallen into the Turkic hands for more than two hours.

After a fierce battle, the west city gate was filled with corpses. In the tragic battle caused by the attack on the camp, the Sui army lost nearly 20,000 more troops, leaving only 20,000 soldiers and horses in the whole city. Faced with countless broken limbs and broken arms under the city, Yang Guang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

A burst of rapid footsteps came, and an eunuch hurriedly ran up the city and reported to Yang Chan in horror, "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the Empress and the Crown Prince are gone!"
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