Chapter 949 The Last Battle (Part 2)
The drums of the Turkic army suddenly became tight. This was the drums of attack. The 50,000 Turkic army carried hundreds of siege ladders and eighty leather trucks to fight towards Dali City like a tide, like a huge black carpet, covering the entire wilderness.
After the craftsman quickly installed thirty new trenchers. These thirty trenchers are small trenchers and are a string-type trencher. They use the lever principle to wind the strings. Only three people need to control them. Two people use copper sticks to wind the strings and one person plays them.
In addition, the throwing rod is different from other speculators. This kind of throwing rod has a hard iron pocket, which can sow more than 300 thorns into a range of thirty to 100 steps at a time. Thirty thorns can sow ten thousand thorns in one go.
This small trench thorn spreader is actually a thorn spreader. Thirty thorn spreaders spread dense and small poisonous thorns to the city. The thorns are not only targeted at war horses, but also at siege soldiers. The slender poisonous needle tip can pierce the leather boots of Turkic soldiers.
When the yellow crossbow stopped using it because of insufficient bows and arrows, another weapon that made Turkic soldiers frightened appeared quietly.
While more than a hundred Sui soldiers quietly deployed the thorns, the long-range war on the city was in full swing.
Three hundred stone casters were thrown out in turn, and three hundred stone bullets hit the enemy group that was densely packed with ants. Each stone bullet hit, a gap appeared, dust filled with blood, and wailing sounds resounded throughout the field, but the gap closed in an instant and was flooded by the attacking enemy group.
With a 'boom!', a giant leather bucket truck was hit by a stone bullet, wood chips splashed everywhere, and a big hole was smashed into the leather bucket, and the soldiers hiding below screamed.
The huge leather bucket is specially designed to avoid trenchers and yellow crossbows. The leather bucket is three meters long and one meter tall, and is made of giant wood. It is covered with cowhide and looks like an upside down flat food bucket, so it is called a leather bucket truck.
The leather chariot was invented by the Xianbei people. It was equipped with six wooden wheels under it and was dragged by eight strong armored cows. A leather chariot could hide from eight to one hundred infantrymen.
However, the leather trucks were very fast and slow, and they usually followed the logistics of cattle and sheep, so they came to the army late. This time, the Chuluo Khan took 100 leather trucks to the south, but twenty were damaged on the road, and in the end only eighty were put into the battlefield.
'boom!'
Another leather bucket was hit at the bottom. The two rear wooden wheels on the left broke out. The wheel axle broke. The leather bucket truck suddenly tilted and swayed. It was lying on the ground and could no longer move. The hundred soldiers in the car had to come out and join the team to rush towards the city wall.
The 50,000 Turkic army attacked like a tide. The stone bullets that were fired one after another were like small waves splashing in the ocean, and were instantly submerged by the crowd. Although the densely shot crossbow arrows caused a large number of casualties, they still could not affect the impact of the Turkic army. The enemy, like a craze, finally entered the city wall within a hundred steps.
At this moment, an unexpected situation occurred. Thousands of Turkic soldiers running in the front suddenly fell to the ground and hugged their feet and howled. They stepped on the thornets that had just been sown, as if they were suddenly stinged by the hornets at the most unprepared moment.
Tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers did not realize that there was something wrong ahead. They continued to surge in front of the city walls, and more and more soldiers were stabbed into the soles of their feet by the thorns on the ground.
The thorns and horse pits on the Zihe Grassland left an indelible shadow in the hearts of Turkic soldiers. When this scene appeared again, the Turkic soldiers began to feel extremely frightened.
The enthusiasm of the Turkic army, which was still rushing blood just now, suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if the burning red charcoal was poured on by a basin of cold water.
The large number of crossbow arrows and arrows shot from the city caused heavy casualties among the Turkic soldiers. The fear of the thorns spread rapidly among the Turkic soldiers, and the attack formation began to be chaotic. Some soldiers began to retreat, but some soldiers were confused.
At this moment, a low horn sounded from the Turkic army.
"Woo--"
Hundreds of horns sounded in unison, and a huge siege ram appeared in the team. The siege ram was also placed on a leather truck. The siege ram was made of a thousand-year-old green oak tree. The front end was equipped with pig iron to hit the head, which required two people to hug it. The entire siege ram was eight feet long and weighed ten thousand pounds. The two sides were nailed with dense iron grippers, and two hundred strong soldiers were needed to lift it up.
The eight strong bulls slowly pulled the leather chariot, surrounded by two thousand guard soldiers of the Turkic Khan. They were two thousand special soldiers deployed by the Chuluo Khan in the 50,000 siege army. Each of them was wearing the best armor and holding the strongest copper shield.
But their mission was not to attack the city head, but to the south gate.
At this time, the leather truck stopped, and two hundred strong soldiers stepped forward to hold the gripper on the siege hammer, shouted in unison, and picked up the siege hammer weighing 10,000 pounds.
Next to them, five soldiers raised their shields to guard them, using copper shields bought from the Sogdians to resist the arrows shot like storms on the city.
There were still a thousand alternate soldiers following behind, and one person was shot down, and someone immediately stepped forward to restock.
The cruelest side of the war appeared at this time. Turkic soldiers paved the way with the bodies of the soldiers of the fallen soldiers, and they quickly paved a hundred-step meat path.
The siege ram team, like a thousand-legged giant insect, walked slowly on the "meat road" and walked step by step towards the south gate.
This team was not afraid of the bows and arrows of the Sui army above their heads, nor even the rocks.
On the top of the city, Qin Yongzheng led hundreds of soldiers to throw thousands of wooden barrels and pottery jars weighing tens of kilograms below the city gate. The pottery jars were broken and the black Gaonu oil flowed out. This was the confidence of Yuchi Gong not afraid of the enemy's attack on the city gate. There were thousands of Gaonu oil stored in Shanyang City, which could play a role in times of crisis.
On the narrow slope outside the city wall, soldiers on the city wall poured buckets of turmeric oil on the ground. The black and viscous liquid slowly flowed on the slope. The air finally filled with a pungent smell of oil.
Although some Turkic soldiers realized that something was wrong, the team attacking the city ram did not stop, but instead rushed towards the city gate on the hillside.
This siege ram has become the focus of the entire battlefield. Tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers retreated to a safe area hundreds of steps away and did not continue to retreat, but instead looked at the special team's attack on the city gate.
The drums sounded like thunder on the battlefield, and Khan Chuluo also personally beat the war drum. Whether it could be successful was this blow.
The siege of the city rail was less than twenty steps away from the city gate, and thousands of barrels of high-slave oil had been poured on the top of the city gate. At this moment, a burning torch was thrown down from the city gate.
With a "boom", a flame appeared on the ground, spreading rapidly around and soon spread to the feet of the enemy. The fire became bigger and bigger and spread rapidly. Buckets of turbulent oil kept throwing down from the city, increasing the fire.
Two thousand soldiers siege the city began to panic, some soldiers began to turn around and escape, and many people also ignited fires, screams and screams.
In an instant, the hillside, two hundred steps long and one hundred and fifty steps wide, turned into a sea of fire, with fire people running around everywhere, and the fallen people struggling in the fire, and the shrill screams resounded throughout the wilderness.
The huge siege ram landed on the ground when it was only five steps away from the city gate, rolling down the hillside, crushing countless soldiers into meat pies, and finally being engulfed by the fire.
The wailing of Turkic soldiers before their deaths, the burnt stinking in the air, and outside Shanyang City became a purgatory on earth. Many Sui soldiers on the top of the city could not bear to look at it anymore, and they covered their noses and turned their heads.
The drumstick in Chuluo Khan's hand fell to the ground. After a long time, he sighed, "Tell me my order, the army retreated westward!"
The failure to attack the city ram was the last straw that crushed the morale of the Turkic army. Amid the sound of the withdrawal of war drums, the Turkic army began to retreat.
Although the Turkic army lost 70,000 troops in the Battle of Bingbei, the main Turkic army of 180,000 was still there and did not obtain enough benefits to compensate for the heavy losses of this Battle of Bingbei. The Khan of Luo could not withdraw his troops back to the grassland, otherwise his Khan position would not be able to be saved.
As Fang Xuanling said, Yuchi Gong made a choice for Chu Luo Khan.
The Turkic army attacked Shanyang County with heavy casualties, which made Chu Luo Khan no longer have a choice. He knew the danger of going south, but he could only ignore the existence of Shanyang County and continue the southern expedition.
Two days later, the Turkic army divided into two groups, Kangshao's interest rate was 70,000 troops left behind in Bingbei, and Chuluo Khan personally led an army of 110,000 to cross Loufan Pass and swept towards the southern part of Bingzhou.
At this time, the Northern Sui army deployed as many as 180,000 troops in Bingzhou.
Chapter completed!