In the early morning of the next day, the team circled around the east gate, preparing to launch a strong attack there when the sun rose. The dazzling sunlight would make it difficult for the defenders to face the east;
After entering Qi State, dozens of carriages carrying grain and grass were all dismembered. The removed wheels and wooden planks were spread on the moat to become the path for the soldiers to march. In order to make the wooden planks smooth, He Qizhou also had people dig them overnight.
Hundreds of bags of loess will be placed on the ice covered with caltrops and then covered with wood;
The bed crossbow is the most difficult weapon, and He Qizhou has no other way. He can only rely on strong bows to suppress it. Fortunately, the bed crossbow has a slow firing speed, and its range can only cover a range of ten feet to fifty feet under the city, so as long as it is quickly
By rushing through the center of the moat, you can avoid the threat of bed crossbows.
The sun gradually shone on the top of the city, the three bells and drums rang below the city, and the storming officially began. Two thousand archers who were fifty feet away from the city wall hid behind the shield bearers and began to shoot towards the top of the city, and the archers on the top of the city immediately started firing arrows.
After fighting back from behind, both sides had cover and suffered casualties.
The defenders at the city head who occupied a good location suffered more casualties, because Baofengxue's armor was obviously better than that of Qi soldiers. At such a long distance, it was difficult for the power of Qi's bows and arrows to penetrate light armor.
With a dense rain of arrows overhead, two figures from the Eastern Zhou camp suddenly jumped out one after the other. It was He Qizhou and Yuwen Lingyun who were both carrying shields! According to He Qizhou's idea, he would go up in person and knock out a few crossbows! Yuwen!
When Ling Yun heard this, of course he was not willing to let go of such a good opportunity to show off his skills, so the two generals became the vanguard of the charge!
The two were equally skilled in light skills. He Qizhou was wearing light armor, while Yu Wen Lingyun was wearing heavy armor. The two of them were only a few feet apart and flew towards the east wall! The bed crossbows on the wall quickly woke up and moved towards the two of them.
They shot in the right direction, but it took time to adjust the direction. By the time the small gun-like arrows whizzed towards them, most of them had already landed behind the two of them, and many of the arrows shot in a hurry also deviated from the direction.
But as more and more bed crossbows were fired, two giant arrows came straight towards He Qizhou after all. Of course He Qizhou did not dare to dodge, because behind him was Yuwen Lingyun who was following up, so he could only swing the frost-defying arrows and hit them one after another.
Two huge arrows as thick as forearms flew.
Under the huge collision, his figure was slightly stagnant, and his traveling route was somewhat deviated. When he swung his sword, he put down his shield in his left hand, and a large fluffy arrow suddenly came towards him. Fortunately, He Qizhou was no longer what he used to be. He lowered his head and
With the blessing of internal strength, he used his helmet and armor to block dozens of feather arrows. However, under the dense rain of arrows, three arrows were still pierced into He Qizhou's upper arm and thigh respectively. Fortunately, they only penetrated half of the flesh. He Qizhou
With a slight burst of inner strength, the arrows fell from their bodies, and the two of them rushed to the bottom of the city wall in the blink of an eye.
The outer facade of the city wall looks almost vertical, but He Qizhou knows that such a high city wall is usually larger at the bottom and smaller at the top, with the outside tilting somewhat inward. Even this slight tilt is enough to make the top of the city walls like He Qizhou and Yuwen Lingyun.
An expert can reach the top of the city with just a tap on the wall.
The two men held shields in their hands and braved the locust-like flying arrows from the city. They jumped up at the same time and kicked the thin ice about three feet high on the wall. When they were about to hit the city head again, dozens of large rocks appeared.
Two pieces of wood fell from the tops of their heads, and it seemed that they could be smashed into meat patties in a blink of an eye...
Not long after He Qizhou and the two men rushed out quickly, hundreds of heavily armored soldiers hiding behind the archers also rushed out. At this time, all the crossbows fifty feet wide on the city wall fired a round, but none of them hit.
Taking advantage of the gap between the crossbows on the bed, the heavy armored soldiers held the mud bags and started sprinting with all their strength against the wooden planks. Braving countless locusts and the restarted crossbow arrows, they quickly threw the mud bags onto the ice of the moat, and then spread the wooden planks.
Four passages more than one foot wide were quickly paved on the ice.
The cost of paving these four passages was that more than 20 heavily armored soldiers were pierced by the giant arrows of the bed crossbow and fell forever under the Dingzhou City.
When the two thousand blizzard archers under the city saw He Qizhou and Yuwen Lingfeng ascending the city, they briefly stopped firing in this direction and aimed their full force at the soldiers operating the bed crossbows at the top of the city. Although the bed crossbowmen would always have two shield bearers in front of them
Protection, but gaps were still exposed when aiming and turning. Under the intensive firing in the blizzard, there were still many crossbows holding arrows, and more than a dozen bed crossbows had a brief pause. This not only reduced the casualties of heavy armored soldiers, but also allowed more
The light armored soldiers who charge with more shields can charge towards the city wall more safely.
The charging Blizzard warriors suddenly shouted loudly, and the morale of the entire army seemed to be boosted in an instant, because they saw two elegant white figures slapping each other under the dark clouds of falling rocks and trees.
, the two of them separated more than ten feet to both sides in an instant. After avoiding the heavy objects above their heads, they each raised their swords and tapped the wall lightly. One of them moved vertically, swept up to the top of the city, and then attacked from left to right to the middle with overwhelming force, wherever they passed.
, the defenders at the top of the city were wiped out, and the six crossbows had their bow strings destroyed. The pressure on the Blizzard masters who charged from here suddenly eased.
He Qizhou and Yu Wen Lingyun didn't get a moment's respite after they boarded the city wall. Countless Qi troops came to attack them, including masters from the Tianshu Academy and the Xiao family. He Qizhou and Yu Wen Lingyun began to join forces back to back to defend themselves, repelling wave after wave of attacks.
, the two of them were like pillars standing in the middle of the stream, no matter how violent the waves hit them, they remained unmoved.
There were two people standing on the top of the city, and the blizzard attacking the city began to show their magic skills. Those who threw rope hooks, used iron spears to make ladders, geckos crawled on the wall, and like He Qizhou, Yu Wen Lingyun, stepped directly onto the tower. More and more people
People climbed up from the wall that was less than thirty feet, and then helped to block the incoming tide to both sides.
As the cleared wall became longer and longer, more people attacked the city head, attacked the tower, and captured the city gate... As the first group of Qi troops who resisted tenaciously retreated, the defenders soon showed signs of
After seeing signs of defeat, especially after the commander Chu Xinchuan, who was commanding the battle on the city tower, fled in a hurry, few people dared to resist desperately, and the east gate fell without even using half a stick of incense.
The suspension bridge was lowered and the cavalry rushed in. Most of the defenders chose to surrender immediately. Only a few hundred cavalry came out of the south gate and ran away. In the eyes of Chu Xinchuan, the impregnable Dingzhou City was easily captured by the snowstorm in less than half an hour!
Dingzhou City was still rich in supplies, so He Qizhou let the slightly tired team rest in the city for a day. As for the nearly 20,000 surrendered soldiers, He Qizhou did not want to embarrass them, and most of them were released back to their original stations. There were also many people.
He Qizhou was willing to join the blizzard. After a rigorous examination, He Qizhou recruited more than a thousand people and at the same time eliminated hundreds of injured, weak and weak soldiers in the army. The team recovered to about 7,000 people. In the early morning of the next day, the army brought five people with him.
Daily food grass continues to advance towards the front line of Hutuo River.
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As early as when He Qizhou attacked Zhuozhou, the city of Luoyang was already in a panic. Just because the slogan of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty blizzard changed from "hit Qingcheng" to "hit Luoyang". The former could be achieved easily, while the latter was only more difficult.
Even smaller! Because Emperor Jiang Shan has taken away all the imperial guards and several main forces of the army.
After the prince Jiang Di in Luoyang received the battle report at night, he reported the news to Jiang Shan who was far away in Tuyuhun. At the same time, Mo De, who was eager to become Privy Councilor again, was heading north to supervise the battle. He also ordered Jiang Shan to climb to the top of Zhongnan Mountain.
The real leader Lingtan and his close disciples immediately rushed to Northern Hebei to serve as supervisors and tried their best to stop He Qizhou's advance.
The two gathered two thousand cavalry in the capital. After arriving at the Jinan camp, they discussed strategies to defend against the enemy with Xiao Jixiong, who was also panicked. The three decided to build the most important line of defense along the Hutuo River, about three hundred miles away.
There were originally 20,000 defenders stationed on the long defense line, and Xiao Jixiong sent another 30,000 Jinan infantry troops to march north. However, when the army advancing north was still more than 200 miles away from the Hutuo River defense line, a message came from
Sad news of the state's fall.
The three of them were suddenly at a loss. If they continued marching, they would probably have lost their defense line before they reached the Hutuo River. By then, the army would be the target of massacre by the Eastern Zhou Army. If they retreated now, Jizhong would be in danger.
With no place to hold on anymore, the iron hooves of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty will soon rush to Handan and Luoyang, and what they will face at that time will be Jiang Shan's military law!
The three of them were all treacherous and treacherous people. It didn't take long for them to discuss a countermeasure. While sending people to force the Hutuo River guard to defend, they led the army to the nearby Yunmeng Mountain. At the same time, the army intercepted
All grain shipments to the Hutuo River were stopped; all grain in the official warehouses within a radius of sixty miles was emptied, and in the name of collaborating with the enemy and escaping, they began to hunt down the Qi troops who were released from the front line indiscriminately.
All were taken to Yunmeng Mountain.
Two hundred miles to the north, Chu Xinchuan, who fled to the south bank of the Hutuo River, lost all his energy and was even less able to organize an effective defense. He Qizhou, led by Qi's troops, made a large circle and easily broke through a defense line.
Ignore the defenders on the south bank and march directly south along the official road.
He Qizhou originally thought that it would be more convenient to supply the army after entering the border area of Jizhong. Unexpectedly, after only two days of walking, food began to run out again. There were more people along the way, but most of them were poor households. The government offices were empty, and the officials and wealthy households were empty.
The birds and beasts had long since dispersed, and what was even more incredible was that many people actually blocked the road and filed complaints against them, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Team.
When He Qizhou heard about it, it turned out that a large army had marched in three days ago. As long as any sergeant returned home, the sergeants in the families of those military families were all arrested, their property and food were looted, and the old, young, women and children in the family were at a point where they could no longer survive.
They can only risk asking for help from He Qizhou's army.
He Qizhou had no time to pay attention. After walking for more than ten miles, there were more and more people like this, reaching hundreds of households. About two thousand people were affected. He Qizhou, who didn't have much food in stock, was of course unable to save them. He was aimless.
It was unrealistic to go to Yunmeng Mountain to chase the army, so we could only harden our hearts and continue marching.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, two Quanzhen Taoist priests came up and said that they knew where the Qi army was hiding in Yunmeng Mountain, and that there was enough food hidden there to save tens of thousands of people. This chapter has been completed!