Yang Peng asked the soldiers to sleep well at night and prepare to face the enemy the next day. Early the next morning, the horns sounded in the Khitan stronghold, and more than 10,000 Khitan soldiers ran out of the camp one after another and formed an array.
In front, Khitan soldiers in gray armor and military uniforms formed a square formation. Each team of 100 people formed a small formation, and each team of 1,000 people formed a large formation. The military appearance was neat and looked very spectacular.
After the Khitan soldiers stood in formation, the gold-woven dragon scroll slowly moved from the Chinese army's stronghold to the middle of the array. Yang Peng raised his telescope and observed, and saw Ye Qi Hongguang riding silently on his horse, and the Khitan generals on the left and right.
Everyone was silent. Obviously, the strong crossbows in Dagou City yesterday made them very depressed. This time the Khitans entered the pass and won consecutive battles. They have not yet tasted defeat. Dagou was the first one to let the Khitans suffer.
A city with great losses.
Behind the array, more than a hundred aerial ladders were carried out. Those aerial ladders were five to six meters long and more than five meters high. They were not heavy and were carried by twenty followers and auxiliary soldiers, so they could go very fast. These ladders were carried by twenty followers and auxiliary soldiers.
The ladder was built by the Khitan soldiers yesterday. It was originally intended to be used after the shield vehicle filled the holes outside the city wall. The Khitan people did not expect that the shield vehicle could not stop the long arrows of the powerful crossbows on the city wall, so they simply used the ladder directly.
It was launched directly to attack the city.
If the ladder is set up on the city wall of Dagou, the Khitan soldiers can jump directly onto the city wall from the ladder. Yesterday, Ye Qian Hongguang saw the power of the crossbows on the city wall and knew that the shield chariot standing still in front of the pothole was a living target.
But he believed that the fast-moving ladder would not be hit by the crossbow. As long as the Khitan warriors climbed onto the city wall, the city would also fall down!
Carrying the ladder, the Khitan array pressed down four miles north of the north city wall and stopped. To be cautious, Ye Qi Hongguang did not let the army launch an attack immediately. Instead, he asked the 300 infantry and vests to cover the 200 auxiliary soldiers.
He carried ten ladders to test the siege of the city. Although Ye Qi Hongguang was known for his bravery, he also knew that fighting should not be reckless. There were so many powerful crossbows in this ditch, and who knew if there were other means, it was better to try it out.
Seeing the Khitan sent light soldiers out to test, Yang Peng smiled. It seems that yesterday's powerful crossbow frightened the Khitan dogs, and they did not dare to attack the city directly. Instead, they sent light soldiers out to test the details of Dagou. If Yang Peng let
The musketeers fired with all their strength from two hundred meters away, easily repelling the five hundred Khitan troops. Ye Qi Hongguang must have turned around and fled, never to attack Dagou again.
Yang Peng was not prepared to let go of Ye Yi Hongguang so easily. He wanted to earn a fortune from these 10,000 Khitan soldiers. He wanted to trick Ye Yi Hongguang into raising all the chips, and then eat a big one in one bite. Five
One hundred Khitan soldiers who were probing the attack carried ten ladders and walked quickly towards the north wall of Dagou. One hundred and fifty meters into the city wall, they encountered potholes of various sizes and could only walk around them. Potholes
There were also large and small horses and deer antlers placed between the potholes. The Tatars worked hard to move these obstacles, and then slowly approached the 75 meters below the city wall.
At a straight-line distance of 75 meters, they circled at least 150 meters before approaching the city wall. The crossbows on the city did not fire. The Khitan soldiers and horses detoured between traps and pits, and were pulled into
A long snake formation, with horse and foot armor in front and ladders behind. After the first thirty people in the long snake formation attacked within fifty steps of the city wall, they immediately set up their long bows and started shooting arrows at the city wall. Khitan's
Arrows are famous for their heavy weight, and are poisonous because they are soaked in human and animal excrement. If they are hit by an arrow, they will basically lose their combat effectiveness.
However, fifty steps was still far away. More than thirty forwards of the Khitan soldiers fired a round and only hit four soldiers of the Huben regiment behind the city wall. Seeing that four soldiers were shot and wounded, Yang Peng felt very painful. These
They are all soldiers trained by himself. Even if one of them is shot, Yang Peng will feel uncomfortable.
"Hanging household!" Xuanhu is a device used in ancient city defense to prevent bows and arrows. A wooden frame is made on each crenel, with two feet inside the city. The frame is hung outside the city close to the edge of the crenellation. It is covered with a cup and blanket, and is beaten with water.
Wet. If such a device blocks the outside of the crenel, bows and arrows cannot shoot in.
Five hundred hanging huts were hung up, and the Khitan soldiers' arrows could not shoot in. Seeing that the hanging huts were hung on Dagou City, the Khitan soldiers stopped shooting. Five hundred Khitan soldiers slowly walked in with ten ladders, and then
After circling for a long time, we finally reached the foot of the city wall. Ten ladders were set up, across the moat, and the ladders were set up directly on the city wall. The Khitan soldiers' horse-armored infantry only had to climb up the ladders to reach the ditch.
City head.
Fifty vests took the lead and climbed up the city. "Throw rolling stones and wood!" "Pour gold juice!"
The fighting ability of the Huben regiment was far inferior to that of the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers' landing on the city would cause chaos. Of course, Yang Peng could not let these Khitan soldiers climb to the top of the city. He immediately ordered the troops to use city defense equipment to serve these 500 Khitan soldiers. A large number of rolling stones and wooden quilts
It was smashed down from the city wall and killed more than 20 Khitan soldiers who tried to climb the city under the city wall. The golden juice was boiled excrement and was poured on the heads of the Dengxian Tatars, burning the skin and flesh of these Khitan soldiers.
These feces are poisonous, and become even more toxic when heated. The scalded wounds will rot due to the toxins in the feces and will not heal at all, requiring amputation or even death.
Before the fifty soldiers who took the lead reached the city walls, more than twenty of them were beaten to death by city defense equipment and burned to death beside the city wall. The remaining four hundred Khitan soldiers were not determined to die under the city wall.
Knowing that Ye Qi Hongguang was using them to test the enemy's situation, they were unwilling to risk their lives and charge. They looked at the four thousand Song Dynasty soldiers standing on the city wall and did not dare to charge again.
More than 20 vests who were still alive on the ladder jumped off the ladder and fled back along the way. When the other Khitan soldiers saw that the vests had escaped, they also dispersed and fled collectively along the way.
Yang Peng looked at the fleeing Khitan soldiers and smiled, secretly thinking that he had deceived the Khitan soldiers this time. Sure enough, Ye Qian Hongguang observed it from a distance and felt that Dagou's city defense measures were ordinary, but that they were relatively well prepared.
That's it. Apart from the crossbow, there are no other powerful means in the city, just rolling stones and wood. Although there are many traps outside the city, just go around them. Not many people will die if they are shot by the crossbows on the way around. Rolling stones
With limited wood, it is still possible to capture such a city with 12,000 troops.
The Liao Kingdom fought all year round, and the soldiers were killed in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Their combat effectiveness was far beyond what the Song soldiers, who were hungry, could match. As long as the warriors climbed up the city wall to open a gap, the Song army would collapse. Yesterday here, here
More than 600 warriors were left behind under this city. If we do not capture this city, we will be sorry for the heroic spirits of those warriors. If we abandon this city, the majesty of the Khitan army's invincible attack this time will be damaged.
Ye Qi Hongguang is a brave and brave general. Since he started the uprising with Empress Dowager Xiao, he must be in battle and attack first, so he got the most honorable dukedom among ministers with a foreign surname. Empress Dowager Xiao usually treats him very well.
The general also needs to pay more attention to it. He does not believe that such an ordinary small county town in front of him can stop his footsteps. Ye Qian Hongguang and several recruiters looked at each other. Although the several recruiters had serious expressions, they still had
Those who were confident of winning this city had very optimistic eyes. Ye Qi Hongguang no longer hesitated and shouted loudly:
"All the troops attack!" The horns were blasting, the drums were thundering, and the 12,000 Khitan soldiers shouted loudly, running forward with ladders and rushing towards the north wall of Dagou. Viewed from the city wall of Dagou,
I saw smoke and dust billowing, and the Khitan army was coming here like a gray sea. When the team of 12,000 Khitan soldiers advanced to 200 meters outside the city wall, the hanging houses on the city wall were removed, and 16
Sixteen powerful crossbows began to fire.
One hundred and sixty-six rounds of powerful crossbows were like the scythes of the god of death, crashing into the group of Khitan soldiers. Some of the long arrows hit the bodies of the Khitan soldiers before they hit the ground. The long arrows immediately pierced the evil-doing body, spewing out countless blood.
Mud plasma, then quickly bounced forward on the ground, and then bounced again until it hit the body of the next Khitan soldier. The Khitan soldier who was punched through the stomach died immediately. Even if his hands and feet were touched by long arrows, they would be severed immediately.
Foot. Screams immediately rang out among the Khitan soldiers. More than a hundred Khitan soldiers were hit by long arrows and fell in a pool of blood.
The Khitan soldiers had long known that they would be shot by long arrows, so they were relatively calm. Under the shouts of several envoys who rushed to the front line to command, the Khitan soldiers withstood the first round of attacks from the Tiger Regiment and rushed outside the city wall.
One hundred and fifty meters. When we reached here, the ground was already covered with potholes. The Khitan soldiers began to go around the potholes and move forward from pothole to pothole.
Yang Peng did not ask the riflemen to shoot immediately. Yang Peng wanted to catch a big one this time. There were 500 crenels on the north wall of Dagou, plus the shooting holes on the female wall, there were 1,000 shooting positions on the north wall.
Yang Peng asked the soldiers to stand in groups of four behind the shooting position, preparing to fire in four rounds. At this time, the first row of soldiers on the shooting hole had already held their breath and aimed at the approaching Khitan army. They only waited for the order to be passed on.
Pull the trigger.
When the Khitan soldiers rushing in front rushed a hundred meters below the city wall, Yang Peng shouted loudly: "Shoot!" The horn on the city gate sounded immediately, conveying Yang Peng's order to the entire army. The first row of soldiers in the shooting position
Aiming at the target one hundred meters away, he fired his flintlock rifle. A thousand conical bullets shot out from the city wall like dense raindrops, attacking the first thousand Khitan soldiers, horse armor and infantry.
Yang Peng's soldiers had been trained for a long time, and their accuracy was astonishing at a distance of one hundred meters. In one salvo, more than 800 bullets hit the target. The 800 Khitan soldiers were suddenly stunned, and blood burst out from their bodies.
More than 300 vests were hit. At a distance of one hundred meters, the bullet's potential energy was still considerable after breaking through two layers of armor, and it could already damage the body of the vests. Although such injuries are often not fatal, they can also cause wounds to the vests.
The pain was severe and the bleeding continued. After being shot, the vests did not dare to move violently to tear the wounds. Except for a few unusually tough ones, most of the vests that were hit had lost the ability to charge into battle.
They either held themselves up and could not move, or fell to the ground and screamed in agony. In addition, more than 400 infantrymen who rushed in front were also shot. These infantrymen only wore dark armor inlaid with iron plates.
Can the bullet be fired at close range? The bullet easily breaks through the armor and penetrates into the flesh under the armor. The bullet receives uneven force during the process of breaking through the armor. After piercing the body, it spins irregularly at high speed, like a tear.
The juicer presses the body, stirring all the human organs encountered by the juicer core into blood.
The four hundred armored men were like four hundred sandbags, plopping to the ground. Screams rang out one after another, mixed with the blood spurting from the injured and dead, leaking intestines and fallen limbs, forming a scene.
It was a terrifying scene that made people turn pale. Walking a little behind, the armored infantrymen who were lucky enough not to be shot were full of disbelief - there is such a ferocious weapon in this world that can kill people seventy steps away.
life.
The Khitan general Ye Qi Hongguang, who was standing two miles away on horseback, was shocked when he saw the scene on the front line. Why didn't the Song Dynasty have fire blunderbuss when he tested the Song army just now? He was deceived? Why did the Song Dynasty deceive himself? Could it be that he
The Song Dynasty was confident of victory, so it wanted to deceive itself into investing more troops in order to accumulate more military exploits? Why was the Song Dynasty army so confident? Could it be that this fire blunderbuss could fire continuously?
Ye Qi Hongguang thought about it, secretly thinking that something was wrong, and his face was already pale. More than 800 Khitan soldiers at the front were beaten to the ground, and the several hundred soldiers at the back ran forward a few steps in fear, and walked away
Going to the dead man bleeding on the ground, secretly thinking that such a horrific shooting can only happen once, right?
However, they guessed wrong. The second salvo on the city wall started five seconds later. There was a crackle of gunfire, and patches of white smoke came out of the city wall, and another thousand rounds of bullets came quickly.
, the horsemen in the front row who were about to board first fell down in pieces like weeds hitting a lawn mower. The bullet hit the stomach, and the stomach was a bloody mess. The bullet hit the chest and entered the heart, and he immediately died.
Life is lost. If a bullet hits the face, half of the head will be knocked off and it will be lifeless. If the bullet hits the hands and feet, the bones will be broken immediately, and even the hands will be broken on the spot.
More than 800 Khitan soldiers were either dead or injured, lying in a pool of blood. The area a hundred meters outside the city wall seemed to have become a death zone, and those who entered were either dead or injured. The half-dead wounded fell to the ground and shouted.
, the shouts that made the listeners tremble severely hit the morale of the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers behind them no longer dared to rush forward. They turned to look at the recruiting envoys guarding the formation to see if the recruiting envoys were there.
Instead of staring at yourself, if you run back, can you save your life?
Just within a few seconds of their hesitation, another gunshot rang out from the city wall, and the third salvo began. This was no longer a war, this was a massacre. A crackling sound of gunfire fell, a distance from the city wall.
Another 800 people fell more than 100 meters away. The more than 300 Khitan vests that were shot were okay. The two layers of armor saved their lives. The wounds could heal as long as the bullets were removed, so they were not seriously injured. But although there were no
Seriously injured, the bullet also penetrated the armor and entered the flesh. It was obviously impossible to charge on foot with such wounds. They stopped advancing and stood there covering their wounds, or simply fell to the ground.
The more than 400 riflemen who were shot were not so lucky. The bodies penetrated by the bullet spurted out blood, flowing out like a fountain. The power disappeared quickly along with the gushing blood, except for dozens of people who were hit in the hands and feet.
None of them were killed, and more than 300 other riflemen who were shot soon died on the road in the middle of the tunnel.
The Khitan soldiers were defeated. What kind of weapon is this? It can actually kill people at a distance of seventy or eighty steps, and the rate of fire is so fast, and there are so many of them. Rushing up is no longer fighting, it is sending someone to death.
. On this winding road, rush to the city wall. I am afraid that all the Khitan soldiers will be dead by the time you reach there.
The Khitan soldiers screamed and fled in all directions. They had lost their fighting spirit. Now they were more afraid of the rifles on the city wall than they were of the messengers.
Fire blunderbuss is like queuing up and being shot, and its terrifying level is not even on the same scale.
The Khitan soldiers, who had been so aggressive just now, were like a piece of sea water at ebbing tide. They turned around and fled towards the camp in panic. The recruiters shot arrows to prevent the deserters from retreating, but it was of no effect. Ye Qihong
Guang Li stood not far from the battlefield and looked at the soldiers who collapsed on the battlefield. His face was pale and his heart was ashen. He could not utter a word. This battle was a terrible loss, and so many warriors were lost. The whole army was under the enemy's city.
After being defeated, the soldiers no longer dared to attack the city. This was probably the most costly battle for the Liao Kingdom in the past ten years. With such a huge loss, the emperor would not let him go easily. It seemed that his title was going to be completely deprived of him.
Which Song army was he facing? How could it have such terrifying combat effectiveness? Yeli Hongguang defeated too many Song armies: During the Battle of Yingzhou during the Taizong period, Yeli Hongguang defeated the Song Army's West Route Army
And the Northern Route Army. Every time he met the Song Army, Ye Hongguang could defeat it, and there was never any surprise. The Song Army was synonymous with sick men in Ye Hongguang's eyes! Ye Hongguang never thought about himself
Will you encounter such Song troops on the Dagou city wall? These Song troops were so powerful that they killed more than a thousand elite warriors of the Xi army in one fell swoop! How come the troops on this city wall are completely different from the Song troops I have seen?
Where did the Song army come from? Ye Qi Hongguang was there to lament the casualties of the Khitan army, while the riflemen on the city wall were still shooting. They moved their positions and started the fourth round of volley. Yang Peng released the Khitan soldiers to a
The order to shoot was given after 100 meters, just to make it impossible for them to escape.
The Khitan soldiers could not run fast on the winding road between potholes and were still within the shooting range of the musketeers. The fourth volley began. One hundred and twenty meters away from the rear of the Khitan soldiers, 700 flintlock rifles spit out tongues of fire.
He sprayed deadly bullets at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. The cone-shaped bullets penetrated their armor and helmets, knocking down another five hundred Khitan soldiers. Two hundred staggering fleeing vests were shot, many of them
He had been shot several times and bled too much. He fell to the ground and died. More than two hundred infantrymen were also shot. The bullets made a bloody splash on the armor, penetrated the armor and penetrated into their bodies.
Beat them to death in this ditch.
A "Fengde Bashiku" was shot in the thigh and leg bones, and his left leg and leg bones were immediately broken. He screamed and fell to the ground. Fende Bashiku was the second-largest soldier among the recruiters.
The officer who recruited the envoy was usually considered to be a senior official with more than a hundred people. However, at this time, countless Khitan soldiers ran past him, but no one paid attention to him, and no one came up to carry him.
After this, Bashiku gritted his teeth and climbed up. While screaming, he jumped on one leg in the direction of the main camp to escape for his life. The Khitan soldiers were still fleeing, and the massacre continued. The last part of the Khitan soldiers fled to a distance of 140 meters from the city wall.
When they were about 1,000 feet, the second round of shooting began, and another thousand shots were fired. The fleeing Khitan soldiers fell to the ground one by one like reeds blown down by the strong wind.
A fleeing vest was hit in the back of the head, and his skull was broken with a bang. The brains and blood burst out together, and he fell into the hole in front of him. A fleeing infant was hit in the left shoulder, and the bullet penetrated
The body was violently rotated and stabbed, shattering the bones of his left shoulder and completely paralyzing his left hand. He screamed and fell to the ground.
A vest who had been shot in the abdomen was covering his stomach and running away. He had just been shot in the stomach. His face was pale due to excessive blood loss. One foot was deep and the other was shallow, but he was suddenly hit by another flying bullet.
Back. The bullet broke through two layers of armor and pierced his left back, causing a flower of blood to spurt out from his back. Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground clutching his back.
The cavalry and infantry who rushed in front were originally the most proud warriors of the Khitan, but now they were like refugees being driven away. They could only see wolves and pigs rushing through the potholes, and hundreds of them died in this big ditch.
On the land. At this time, the Khitan's infantry had already killed two thousand people, and almost all the two thousand powerful infantry of the forty thousand-man team died at the foot of Dagou City.
No matter you are weak or brave, you are all equal before the flintlock rifle, and you can solve the problem with one shot.
If one shot can't solve the problem, then use two shots. Finally, the forward of the Khitan soldiers escaped from the hole and fled a hundred steps outside the city wall. The escaping Khitan soldiers looked back and thought they were
This is safe.
But the riflemen on the city wall actually started shooting again a hundred steps away. There was another scream, and more than 600 Khitan soldiers were shot. The mood of the Khitan soldiers could no longer be described as panic.
, but outright fear. The person standing on the city wall seemed not to be an enemy, but a god of murder, who could actually kill people a hundred steps away! The Khitan soldiers fled frantically back and forth as if they had seen a ghost.
The ground was littered with the weapons and flags of dead Khitan soldiers. The corpses of Khitan soldiers were piled up and down on the road at the edge of the potholes. The blood flowing from the corpses gathered together and flowed like a stream. Many Khitan soldiers were on their way to escape.
He tripped over these corpses and fell to the ground with a clatter.
The forward of the Khitan soldiers fled two hundred meters outside the city wall. The Song troops on the wall were still shooting, like divine soldiers and generals! The last round of shooting was aimed at the Khitan deserters 190 meters away. Bullets flew over like raindrops.
, hitting another six hundred Khitan soldiers. Two hundred vests wearing heavy armor were shot, but they had already escaped to a safe distance at this time. After the bullet penetrated the two layers of armor, it had basically no penetrating power, so
Their injuries this time were relatively minor. However, the more than 300 unarmored followers were unlucky. They were shot in the body by bullets and their organs were shattered. Each one of them vomited blood and died.
The Song army could actually kill people at this distance? Is this still the army of the Song Dynasty? The Khitan soldiers had no courage at all. They dropped their flags and ran back just to save their lives. Eight thousand Khitan soldiers were still alive.
The soldiers were like eight thousand crabs retreating into the sea, without any plan. They carried the envoys who were unable to stop the retreat and ran to the camp a few miles away.
Ye Qian Hongguang and several generals stood on horseback in the middle of the retreating troops. Their faces were pale and speechless. They could only sigh. How could these defeated troops who escaped look like the warriors of the Liao Kingdom?
How does it look like the victorious army that swept across Liaodong, Mobei and the Song Dynasty? Now, each of these defeated troops looks like a rabble with their souls stolen, as if the guns on the city wall are invincible devils.
How come the Song army on the city wall is so strong? Is this the army of the Song Dynasty? The nine-sided army of the Song Dynasty, which is known as a powerful army, is here. Ye Qi Hongguang has the confidence to come down with a drum. But when he encounters this army on the city wall,
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty had no choice but to be beaten. In this battle, the Northern Rebellion inflicted staggering losses, especially the two thousand infantry armor that rushed in front! These infantry armor only had a layer of cotton armor inlaid with iron plates, and the losses were the heaviest, almost
They have all been killed under the city. The two thousand infantrymen, all the warriors of the Liao Kingdom, are all gone!
The situation of the elite vests was slightly better. They relied on two layers of heavy armor and suffered slightly less losses. Six hundred people were killed, and more than a hundred were too injured to fight anymore. The followers following the infantry also died.
A lot of them were killed, and a full 1,200 fell under the city. In this siege, the Liao Kingdom lost nearly 4,000 warriors.
These were warriors who had been killed in a mountain of corpses and experienced hundreds of battles, but they all fell under the Song army's city. After this battle, the Northern Recruitment Envoy was almost disabled. Ye Qi Hongguang thought about it
As he looked, his old eyes became redder and redder, and finally shed two tears. I don't know what will happen to the news of the emperor's success? Will he be shocked to the point of speechlessness, will he whip himself with a whip in anger, or will he be as excited as himself?
The warriors of the Liao Kingdom shed tears? As a Khitan noble, I could not attack the city for the Liao Kingdom, but because of the enemy's lack of warning, I lost four thousand warriors of the Liao Kingdom under an isolated city.
It's shameful that he was listed among the Khitan nobles and ended up like this. Ye Qi's red tears rolled down his face and couldn't stop for a long time. The messenger on the side sighed and said slowly: "My lord, all the defeated troops are gone."
We have escaped into the camp, let's retreat too!" Ye Qi Hongguang closed his eyes and stopped crying. After a long time, he opened his eyes and turned the horse's head.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.