After a pause, looking at the enemy troops swarming under the city, Zhan Shutang sighed quietly: "Qingyun is just a county town after all, and the enemy troops are several times ours. There are no complete defenses, and there are not enough troops.
It is extremely valuable to have reserve troops that can last until the sun rises tomorrow. Fang Xiao, Zhuang Ke, are you prepared to die?"
Fang Xiao smiled slightly, while Zhuang Ke said with an indifferent expression: "Legion Commander, you have been following you for so long, it's not like you don't know what kind of people you are. Although our Qilin Legion is only a second-line legion, it is
Not a coward."
Zhan Shutang raised his head proudly. Zhuang Ke said it right. The Qilin Legion is indeed only a second-line army, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is not much worse than the first-line army. The only difference between them lies in their seniority and the size of the army.
However, as long as he wears the military uniform of the Hetao soldiers, they are the best soldiers. They are all the same iron-clad men who would rather break than bend.
"In this case, tell Mr. Hao that all the people who can fight will be dragged up to the city wall. Since the city's destruction is a foregone conclusion, then we will try our best to buy a little more time for the millions of people in Hetao. Neither do I, the Qilin Legion.
It's an easy bone to chew. If they want to capture Qingyun, they must be prepared to knock out two big teeth!" Zhan Shutang shouted proudly: "Fang Xiao!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"You lead your cavalry out of the city. The opponent is the three coalition forces. Although the Guards Corps is all cavalry, its combat effectiveness should be the worst among the three. You can use the Guards Corps as a breakthrough. No matter how you play, commander of this army,
Everything is up to you to act according to your circumstances!"
"yes!"
"Zhuangke, you come with the commander of our army! Our Qilin Legion only has warriors who died on the battlefield and no cowards who retreated. Even if the whole army is annihilated, it cannot damage the reputation of our Hetao soldiers and the Qilin Legion!"
"yes!"
Two hours later, Fang Xiao personally led 10,000 cavalry. Taking advantage of the gap where the opponent's offensive had just ended and the soldiers were retreating, they suddenly surged out from the four city gates. After a brief fight, they converged into a torrent.
Kill the Imperial Guard Corps led by Liu Peng.
The Guards Corps was not prepared at all, and it had just been formed, and Liu Peng had no prestige in the army. As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Guards Corps collapsed. Following the route of the Guards Corps' retreat, the Hetao cavalry killed them with lightning speed.
Xiang Zhu Zhao led the Bliss Army. After several charges, the Hetao cavalry who were still like dragons finally became less and less. In the afternoon, when the evening glow poured over the blood-stained ground, the Qilin Army finally
A cavalryman was finally killed by Zhu Zhao himself after being wounded in more than twenty places. Since then, the entire army of ten thousand cavalrymen was wiped out, while the Paradise Holy Cult lost more than twenty thousand people, and the Imperial Guards were even more defeated.
Zhan Shutang on the city tower did not feel sad at all. Even when he watched Fang Xiao being killed by Zhu Zhao, he did not frown because he understood that Fang Xiao just took the first step.
At noon the next day, Qingyun City was defeated, and the 40,000 soldiers of the Qilin Army relied on the buildings in the city to resist. The three coalition forces finally broke into the county town after spending a lot of effort. That day, the whole city
With all his ink and yellow hair hanging down, no one survived. Hao Gui, the magistrate of Qingyun County, clung to the county government and finally committed suicide. Hao Quan, the old man of Haofu, burned down Haofu and sat down with Hao Fei and his wife.
He burned himself to death in front of his tomb.
Qingyun is the hometown of half of the senior officials in Hetao, and the sense of honor and bloody spirit of the people in the city is second to none in Hetao Sanlu. After the coalition forces invaded the county, both women and children fought desperately to resist. Due to the huge casualties, and the leadership of the Paradise Holy Cult,
As a result, Qinchuan soldiers and the Imperial Guards all joined in the burning, killing and looting. Although Li Bicheng tried his best to stop him, he was unable to order the soldiers below who were already going crazy. Looking at the Qingyun County town with flames soaring into the sky, listening to the constant noises coming from
Li Bicheng smiled miserably at the women's screams. He understood that the fight between the Hetao and the Li family was really a fight to the death. In this battle, more than half of the 200,000 coalition troops participating in the battle were lost, and there were less than 10,000 Imperial Guards left.
.
The Qilin Legion became the first legion among the organized legions in Hetao to be completely wiped out. After the establishment of the empire, the Qilin Legion sank in the Yangtze River and was named Duke Yun by Haotian, becoming the Eight Kings and Nine Dukes who founded the Hetao Kingdom.
One of the ten princes. The other generals such as Fang Xiao, Zhuang Ke, Ke Biwu, Yu Shang, and Jian Shi Zhong were all posthumously granted the title of Bo.
As soon as Sashan's army arrived, the Bai'er Army and Sashan began to attack Dingzhou. At this time, Qingyun was still raging with war.
Li Xiao's situation is worse than anyone imagined. When the Hetao resettled the Keshui people, they mainly distributed them on Northwest 2nd Road. However, there were also settlements in the Dingzhou area, but the number of people resettled here was not enough.
Three thousand, so it's not too noticeable.
The armies of the Song and Li families besieged the city, and the people outside the city retreated into Dingzhou City. The people of the Keshui tribe also retreated into the city under the leadership of the elder Shui Qing. However, Li Xiao had never thought before that the Keshui tribe had actually joined forces with Song and Li.
The two families colluded together. As soon as the coalition forces outside the city attacked the city, the Keshui tribe started to stir up trouble and cause trouble in the city. Some strong young people even stormed the city gate under the leadership of Shui Qing.
"Shoot these bastards to death!" Li Xiao stood on the tower of Nancheng with an ashen complexion and commanded the archers around him fiercely.
The Keshui tribe's private soldiers were not very powerful in combat, but they were mixed in with the crowd and caught off guard, which caused a lot of trouble for Li Xiao. Fortunately, the Red Snake Legion was also well-trained and calmed down immediately after a brief panic.
, without giving the other party an opportunity to take advantage of it.
"Legion Commander, Sa Shan has gathered an army of 100,000 to attack my western city. My brothers can no longer withstand it!" A soldier ran over and said.
Li Xiao suddenly turned around, his eyes glowed coldly, and he glared at the soldier fiercely: "Tell Xu Tou, you have to resist even if you can't bear it!" After thinking about it, Li Xiao said: "Come here, tell Lord He.
, dragging 20,000 of the people he trained to Nancheng."
The West City is obviously Sashan's main attack direction, with all 180,000 soldiers gathered here. As for the East City and Nancheng, the Song family did not try their best. However, this is also in line with the Song family's style. Song Junlin has always loved to conserve his strength. If he
Li Xiaocai felt that it was abnormal when he worked hard from the beginning.
The Red Snake Legion only has 40,000 infantry. In addition to the 10,000 cavalry on standby, there are 10,000 people placed on each city wall, so there are no soldiers available at all. Fortunately, the number of people in Dingzhou City exceeds 800,000, and Dingzhou has always been good at martial arts.
After mobilizing all the people, a hundred thousand people were immediately organized. However, Li Xiao could not guarantee the combat effectiveness of these people.
Li Xiao put his hands on the city wall and stared at the soldiers of Sashan below the city. Sashan is a powerful country in the Central Continent, and its military strength is naturally not weak. However, Sashan is not very good at attacking cities. Sashan
Shan's main targets in the mid-continent were the Mauryan Dynasty in the southeast, Rouran and the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions in the north, and the small principalities affiliated with Obsburg in the west.
There is a natural danger in the Cartel Desert between the Maurya Dynasty and Sashan in the southeast. This generation of Maurya King is shrewd and capable, and its ambition and ability are no less than those of the current Acharius. However, the Maurya Dynasty has been divided for many years, and it is not possible to reunify.
Easy. Therefore, the battles between Sashan and the Maurya Dynasty are often active attacks, but the other side uses the Kartel Desert as a barrier, and both sides mostly fight in the desert.
The small principalities of the Western Continent and the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions are both city-states, and their construction level and scale are far inferior to those of Shenzhou. The city walls of ordinary small principalities are only similar to the county walls of Shenzhou. Loulan, the most powerful country in the Western Regions,
The size of their city is only equivalent to the city wall of the state capital in Hetao.
Under such an environment, Sashan naturally did not have much experience in attacking cities, otherwise she would not have repeatedly lost troops and generals under Jiayuguan Pass.
But even so, Sashan's offensive is still quite fierce. To a certain extent, Sashan and the Bliss Holy Cult have a lot in common, that is, their warriors all have a crazy belief, so when they fight
It means giving up life and forgetting death.
Unlike the fallen Holy Bliss Sect, the rising Sani Sect is undoubtedly more threatening. Li Xiao saw with his own eyes that a Sashan soldier whose legs had been cut off actually shouted:
He didn't know what the slogan was, but he carried a Hetao soldier over the city wall. Later, after listening to the explanation from a guy next to him who had been running a horse and carriage business in the Western Regions for a long time, he realized that the soldier was actually shouting: May the glory of God Sani shine on the world!
"Legion Commander, the Empire's Suzaku Legion has also joined the battle. Beicheng is in urgent need!" A soldier hurried over and said.
Li Xiao smiled bitterly, and the Suzaku Army entered the battle. In his heart, he originally expected that the Suzaku Army would be better off just sitting on the sidelines, so that at least he would be under much less pressure. Fortunately, he kept sending Wen San into battle.
Ten thousand infantrymen are placed here, otherwise the position will be in chaos.
"Tell Mr. He that the civilians who have been organized in the city will send 20,000 people to each city wall. Other civilians who volunteer to participate in the battle are asked to help move strategic materials to the city wall. Our soldiers cannot get away. The rest of the civilian population
Stand on standby and be ready to rush to dangerous areas at any time." Li Xiaodao.
After saying that, Li Xiao focused his attention on the battlefield again. At normal times, a Red Snake Legion could fully cope with Dingzhou's city defense affairs. In addition, with the more than 100,000 soldiers summoned immediately in the city, even if there were two
A hundred thousand troops besieged the city, but Li Xiao was content and not afraid.
However, the number of enemy troops outside the city was too great, and he also deeply understood that he had no reinforcements at all now. If the enemy troops outside the city did not have their own motives, he had no doubt that Dingzhou would definitely fall in two days at most.
Fall.
The strength of Dingzhou is not inferior to that of Yanzhou. However, the opponent's arrival was so sudden that Li Xiao had no time to react. If Zhan Shutang hadn't bought him some time in Qingyun, he would have been delayed.
Without the opponent's 200,000 troops, Dingzhou might not even be able to block the opponent's first round of offensive under the sudden attack.
"Damn it, if there wasn't a traitor who informed us, it would have been impossible for the other party to know our troop deployment so well and then quietly surround us." Li Xiaoyin thought with a sullen face.
Now, he has used all the troops in his hands to the limit. Xu Tou led his 10,000 infantry to guard Xicheng. Since this is the focus of Sashan's attack, deputy army commander Fu Yang personally led the 20,000 people who had just been dragged onto the battlefield here.
Among the many generals under Zhuang's command, Li Xiao was most assured of Fu Yang. Although Fu Yang was the commander of the cavalry, this assistant who followed him when he made his fortune in Dingzhou had extraordinary talents in commanding the overall situation.
Here, Li Xiao felt quite relieved.
Tong Mingqing's 10,000 infantrymen were divided into two groups, guarding the south gate and the east gate respectively. Frankly speaking, if he hadn't seen through the character of the Song family and knew that Song Junlin was not working hard, Li Xiao would not have dared to arrange it like this.
After all, the White Ear Army is Qingfeng's famous city-attacking army. If the Song family is really willing to go all out, not to mention 5,000 soldiers, even 25,000 soldiers will be very difficult to block the desperate attack of 50,000 elite soldiers.
Fortunately, the Song family is indeed very generous.
Near the north are the 10,000 infantrymen of Wen Sanchong's troops. Li Xiao is very wary of the Suzaku Legion. In any case, this is the only established old legion in the empire, and there are also 100,000 of the Li family here.
Cavalry, so although there was no fighting here at the beginning, Li Xiao still did not dare to take it lightly. Ge Nan's 10,000 soldiers served as the final reserve.
Suddenly, Li Xiao's expression suddenly changed. Looking at the dozens of large crossbows and trebuchets slowly pushed out of the Sashan formation, Li Xiao's eyes almost burst out with fire.
Sashan came all the way, so naturally she would not bring any siege equipment. These were obviously provided by the Song family. This seemed to be a signal. In Sashan's army, dozens of mobile archery towers were slowly erected.
The siege vehicles that appeared at the beginning, and just relying on the current siege equipment, Sashan was able to compete with the medium and long-range defensive equipment on the city wall.
Of course, if this is all, then Li Xiao is at least somewhat mentally prepared. Because along the passage specially made by Sa Shan's soldiers, tens of thousands of people slowly walked out of the opponent's formation. These are obviously the suburbs of Dingzhou.
residents.
Fu Yang's face also looked very ugly. He walked quickly to Li Xiao and said in a deep voice: "Legion Commander, what should we do now?"
"You said that?"
Fu Yang shook his head: "Sa Shan is so despicable! Let's not talk about whether we can issue this order. Even the soldiers may not be able to do it."
Li Xiao nodded and added: "Besides, the mistress is still in the city."
God is kind in his heart, and if he sees such a scene, he will definitely not order the arrows to be fired. However, if the arrows are not fired, the turbulent moat will definitely be filled up by the sandbags carried by the people. In that case, Dingzhou's city defense will
More dangerous.
"Come here! Let Ge Nan lead his troops to come for reinforcements immediately! All officers and men are ready. Do not shoot our people. If any people climb up the city wall, let them go!" Although Li Xiao knew that this was a very painful decision, but
He finally gritted his teeth and roared loudly. Perhaps, this order would make tens of thousands of soldiers die in vain, but if they really wanted to attack their fathers and fellow countrymen, as soldiers, they would probably rather die themselves.
Nor will he raise his own weapons.
Nearly 100,000 people were driven by Sashan soldiers and slowly walked towards the city of Dingzhou. These people were mainly old people, but this was normal. After the Hetao Third Road suffered heavy losses, the strong men suffered heavy losses. Although they passed through several
Years of recuperation, but it takes at least sixteen years to truly cultivate a strong man. Coupled with the repeated expansion of the army in Hetao, there are naturally not many men left at home.
Dingzhou is the main military base in Hetao. There are more than 200,000 soldiers in the army, so there are naturally fewer strong men. However, there are few young women in the team. Seeing the current situation of the people in front of him, Li Xiao has already guessed