Except for the Jiuhu Festival in early June, when the Shiwei people attacked Zuowuguan, the Jiuhu people remained stationary throughout early June.
But the towering siege tower gradually took shape in the eyes of the frontier troops at the Zuowuguan outpost.
Obviously Aragbari is not in a hurry for success. Siege battles have always been the battle that the Jiuhu people are least willing to face. But when Zuowuguan blocked the southward path of the Jiuhu army, this battle had to be
beated.
Fighting around the pass, leaving the defenders of Zuowuguan behind, as long as the Beiyuan Protectorate sends troops to join forces with the Sanguan Protectorate, the last army of 200,000 Hu people will be in despair.
Aragbari made another big gamble to open up the road south, so that millions of Russian troops could take advantage of the opportunity to go south in accordance with the alliance, and the Jiuhu people could also obtain the surviving pastures in order to rise.
The rain in June comes quickly. It rained for several days in mid-June. When the weather cleared up, the Jiuhu people were already ready.
Catapults, siege towers, cloud ladders, light ladders, trench bridges... each piece of siege equipment was born in the hands of Ross craftsmen. Twenty miles north of Zuowuguan, the central army of the Jiuhu Army consisted of more than 40,000 Wei.
At the same time, young centurions from various Rus principalities also taught the Shiwei people how to cooperate with the siege and how to use siege equipment during these ten days.
The Jiuhu people's attack on Zuowuguan was supported by the principalities of Rus, but in Beiding, there was still an endless stream of caravans from Rus and Daqian at the right and right passes.
The Kingdom of Rus also completed the change of power in the two years of Daqian's restructuring.
In addition to the royal territory of King Charles I of Russia, it also has the vassal Marquis of Yingluo. The Marquis of Yingluo is not a hereditary system, but is held by King Charles I of Rus himself. It is an honorary title. Within the territory of the Marquis, it belongs to the Kingdom of Rus.
The standing army is divided into more than 50,000 knights. The knights form the Ross Guards, which are divided into five legions. This is the sword used by the King of Ross to control the kingdom of Ross, while the strong shield is the royal guard in the king's territory. The five major guards
The legions, like the Guards, are also standing armies. Ten legions and one hundred thousand knights together formed the basis of the rule of King Charles I of Rus.
Among the four major principalities, the Southern Principality of the Duke of Lvov, the Eastern Principality of the Duke of Will, the Northern Principality of the Duke of Conce, and the Western Principality of the Duke of Zheluoge each have a principality army of 50,000 people.
Aragbaz spared the Duke of Lviv and signed an agreement with his brother, the current King of Rus, Charles I. When the Jiuhu people opened up the south passage, King Charles I of Rus issued an expedition order in the name of the king to occupy the North Plains and even the
The whole thing.
The ambitious Charles I vowed to conquer the heavenly kingdom that the Daqian merchants said.
Therefore, nearly a thousand Ross officer regiments led by John, the commander of the Third Guards Corps, appeared in the Jiuhu army.
At dawn on June 15th, the 15th year of Longsheng, when the dark clouds disappeared and the morning star accompanied the moon, the siege equipment made by Ross craftsmen moved slowly to the north of Zuowuguan outpost, driven by Shiwei people.
A place to step.
Aragba gave an order, and more than 40,000 Shiwei people who had undergone brief training finished eating the mutton and kumis provided by the Jiuhu people, picked up the round shields provided by the Russians, and started the attack on Zuowuguan with daggers.
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"The enemy troops are in formation, go and report to the captain!" The outpost soldiers who were on sentry swallowed their saliva as they looked at the densely packed Shiwei army under the starlight, and quickly sent their men to notify the outpost captain Xie Kaizheng.
"Report! Lieutenant, the enemy troops are forming up!" Liu Qian, a frontier soldier from the third group of the second regiment of the second regiment of the outpost battalion, made an urgent report, which opened the prelude to the battle of Zuowuguan.
Xie Kaizheng, the outpost captain, opened his eyes, took out a sachet from his arms, and went north to guard the border for ten years. Chan'er has been waiting for ten years, and she really wants to return to Chang'an!
The silk fabric of the sachet had faded, and the broken silk made tassels hang on the sachet. The spices inside had long lost their smell. Xie Kaizheng stuffed the shriveled sachet into his arms and shouted to the messenger next to him:
"Extinguish the lights, beat the drums! Prepare to meet the enemy!"
"Here!" the ordering soldier shouted and quickly ran to the second floor of the main archery tower.
"Commander's order! Extinguish the lights, beat the drums! Prepare to meet the enemy!"
"Dong! Dong! Dong!..." The dull drum beat began to beat.
"One breath, one drum, this is the drum to welcome the enemy! Come here, wear armor!" He was still sleeping soundly in his dream and was awakened by the sound of the drum. He listened carefully and quickly called Li Huaimin to wear armor for him.
While Su Ce was putting on his armor, on the entire outpost city wall, the outpost soldiers were awakened by the whistle of their team leader. They picked up the weapons around them and worked in pairs to check each other's weapons. If there was no problem, they shouted:
"good!"
With a voice: "Okay!" came from the wooden corridor of the arrow tower.
The brigade marshals blew the bronze whistles in their mouths one after another. Compared with the bronze whistles of the gang leader, the brigade marshal's whistle was sharper.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!..."
"First team, second team, all together!"
"Second Regiment, Second Regiment, all together!"
…
The sound of passwords and the sound of drums and whistles sounded at the outpost. At this time, the left and right fortresses also had the same scene, and the Qianguan and left and right Yuhouguan to the south also began to order troops at this time, but they were different from the three battalions in the front and the fourth battalion in the north.
The people did not beat the drums, but started to prepare for the battle with the rapid whistle.
Outpost Colonel Xie Kaizheng had already climbed to the third floor of the main archery tower. He frowned and looked at the dark enemy troops under the starlight in the distance. He tapped his fingers quickly on his armor. This was a rough estimate of the number of enemy troops.
With the tapping sounds of fingers and armor, a thin layer of sweat began to appear on Xie Kaizheng's forehead.
I saw the people of Shiwei forming ten irregular square formations. Behind these square formations were twenty siege towers towering five feet high. Between the siege towers were various other siege equipment.
, surrounding the equipment were the Shiwei people who controlled these large siege equipment.
"Send the order, call the Second Regiment of Wengcheng to come up."
Xie Kaizheng also knew at this time that the Jiuhu people were not trying to test the enemy. The entire Zuowu Pass was facing the enemy for four miles, with the left and right outposts one mile each, and the connecting points each half a mile.
There are 1,500 soldiers available for use at the outpost, but it does not mean that all of them are on the city wall. The first regiment of Wengcheng has been mobilized on the city wall before, and they control the crossbows. Therefore, Xie Kaizheng still has four regiments of troops.
It can be called. Now that there are many enemy troops, Xie Kaizheng, in order to take precautions, mobilized the men of the second regiment to come up.
Aragba rode a white horse to the Nanyuan Gate from the Central Military Camp. Holding a bent bow, he lit a rocket. He looked at the Zuowuguan city wall where he could only hear the sound of drums but could not see any lights. He hesitated for a while and suddenly
Take a breath and pull the bow with both arms.
"Boom!"
"Chirp!"
A rocket streaked across the night sky!
Luo Dan, the leader of Shiwei, shouted: "Here!"
The Shiwei people's phalanx began to move, and the huge siege equipment began to move slowly while making a creaking sound.
"Four hundred steps!" Lieutenant Su Jianxing, who was on duty on the city wall, was lying behind the female wall, shouting the distance.
"Three hundred and fifty steps, engage the enemy!"
"Three hundred steps! Stretch your arms!"
"Two hundred steps! Shoot!"
…
The fierce battle started in an instant.
The Shiwei man at the front held up a wooden bunker, which was actually a ten-foot-high wooden raft placed on the south bank of the moat. The moat bridge went straight into the moat along the gap in the bunker, and a wooden plank for the moat bridge was erected on the moat.
On the ground, more than a dozen bunkers were quickly moved away, three or four trench bridges were spliced together, and the huge siege tower began to move slowly on the trench bridge.
The crossbows in the archery tower also started shooting. The harsh sound of breaking through the air stimulated everyone on and off the city. Huge crossbow arrows shot over the wooden raft bunker of Wei people in the cover room. The crossbowmen on the city fired accurately.
Shooting the Shiwei people who had lost the protection of the raft bunker.
The Shiwei people suffered heavy losses under the fire of bed crossbows and armband crossbows, but the belligerent Shiwei people still transported the eight siege towers to the north of the moat in a thousand breaths of time, and began to approach the outpost little by little.
In less than a moment, the crossbowmen on the city wall fired a pot of crossbow arrows with accurate armband crossbows. Hundreds of crossbowmen killed at least a thousand people. The bodies of the Shiwei people either fell by themselves or were thrown into the moat by their companions.
Float downstream with the current.
Individual lives are of no importance in a siege. Corpses will only block the progress of the siege tower. Shiwei people are indeed born warriors. The loss of more than a thousand people did not make these Shiwei frown, who had just drank kumiss.
Under the stimulation of alcohol, the siege tower quickly approached the city wall one hundred and fifty steps. The hundreds of Shiwei people on the eight siege towers began to shoot at the outpost soldiers on the city wall. The towering siege towers surrounded the outposts.
The military's height advantage was wiped out.
The outpost's main archery tower, two turrets, and four horse-mounted crossbows protruded from the wall, ranging from sporadic firing to block the construction of trench bridges to centralized attack siege towers.
"Archer's throw!"
"Catapult! Throw kerosene!"
"Rocket! Quick!"
The torsion catapult on the city wall began to throw jars of burning oil 150 steps down the city. The jars collided and shattered on the siege tower, and the burning oil inside flowed along the siege tower.
As rockets were thrown one after another, the fierce fire oil was ignited, and the outer shell of the siege tower, which was wrapped in cowhide and smeared with mud, was burning with flames, but it did not hurt the Shiwei archers inside.
During the crossfire, Shiwei people were constantly shot and thrown off the top floor of the siege tower by their companions, and their vacant positions were filled by Shiwei archers below.
The frontier troops on the outpost on the city wall also suffered casualties during the exchange of fire. There were always weaknesses in the thick armor protection. Shiwei's bow skills when hunting in the forest and snowfields were not much worse than those of the Jiuhu people.
More than twenty crossbowmen were shot in the face. Their visors could protect them from stray arrows, but they were still unable to stop the arrows that were fired at them.
The border soldier who was shot in the face was pulled down from the fighting position by the auxiliary soldiers and quickly transported back to the pass along the city wall connecting the outpost and the front pass.
There is always luck and misfortune that are always intertwined. The casualties at the outpost continue to increase as the siege tower gets closer to Baibu. At this time, the power of the Shiwei people's bows and arrows no longer need to be considered attenuated.
In five hundred breaths of time, thousands of Shiwei people were shot and killed, and one and a half regiments of the outpost troops on the city wall were also lost. More than 300 people were sent back to the pass, and there was an open space next to the military medical camp.
Someone was carried over, and the soldiers and officials took writing brushes to record the information on the wooden sign. Later, they would cross out the names of these people from the military register.
Seven or eight military doctors and their apprentices looked at each of the border soldiers who were carried over. The pretended dead were treated, while those who were sure to be dead were covered with white cloth. The auxiliary soldiers then carried the dead covered with white cloth to
aside.
The auxiliary soldiers began to take off the clothes of the deceased, suture the wounds with needles and thread, and wipe the blood on the body.
The general kiln next to the open space began to heat up, and general pots were placed next to it. After Su Ce put on his armor, he came to the combat hall. At this time, the battle situation at the outpost was also constantly reported.
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