As time goes by, the White Horse Department outside Qingping Pass is gradually reducing the frequency of attacks on Qingping Pass. Ye An clearly feels that the White Horse Department knows that it cannot defeat Qingping Pass, and is just constantly testing the bottom line of Qingping Pass.
They even hoped to lure the enemy out of the pass, pretending to be defeated in the hope of clearing the Pass and sending troops to pursue them. However, Ye An had already issued a death order, and the defenders in Guanzhong were not allowed to leave the pass without a military order. Those who disobeyed the order could not avoid being beheaded no matter how much military merit they had!
Defending the Qingping Pass is something that Ye An has long decided. In a sense, the current westward-moving rebels are almost all the young and strong men of the Western Qiang tribes, cutting off their connection with the Qinggang Gorge.
It is tantamount to cutting off the vital forces of the Western Qiang tribes in Huanzhou.
If you want foreigners to stay in your own land, the best way is to let them annex. But as a foreigner independent of the Han Dynasty, who would be willing to annex even if they surrender?
The so-called internal annexation is not just a simple surrender, but an internal migration into the territory of the Song Dynasty. Only in this way can we cut off the possibility of them rebelling again. To put it bluntly, it means moving the Western Qiang people into the belly of the Song Dynasty and spreading them out.
, let Han civilization continue to wash away them and assimilate them.
Even if they are unwilling to rebel and cause chaos, Ye An has no intention of letting the Xiqiang people escape, and it is impossible to wipe out all the tens of thousands of Xiqiang people. The only way is to defeat them.
At the same time, I place my hope in Zihe Pingling.
The Xiqiang army in front of them is gathering more and more, posing a threat to Qingping Pass. No one knows what they will face next. The tens of thousands of troops are already several times more than the Song army at Qingping Pass. Even Zihe Mao
Ling took the Zihe tribe he gathered and the Xiqiang people who were willing to follow him and abandoned most of their belongings and returned to Qinggang Gorge from Jiulian Mountain, but there were still not a few soldiers clearing Pingguan.
Sha Wentian would climb the city wall every half an hour to observe the enemy's situation. Tieniu no longer dared to take Zhao Hu, Li Ergen and others out to harass the Xiqiang rebels.
Although Ye An is still very calm, he is still worried deep down in his heart. Fighting to the end is the only way out for Qingping Pass. Why did he set up that ambitious ambition in the first place.
Perhaps it was a good choice to let the Baima tribe leave at the beginning, but now the Baima tribe has once again become the leader of the Xiqiang tribes, and seems to be commanding the entire army.
As for the Baima Ulan who died in Qingping Pass, Ye An believed that he and the current Baima Ulan must be twins. Li Er even took two of the best lurking scouts to the Baima Department and took a closer look at the Baima Department.
After carefully describing the appearance of the white horse Wulan, Ye An was sure that they were twins.
Although they look very similar, there are still major differences in some places, such as the outline of the ears, which is almost impossible to change in today's era, and of course the sound.
It was just luck that the three of them were not caught by the people from the White Horse Division, but they were considered to have made a great contribution.
"Master Marquis, why haven't Zhou Wenzhi and others led an army to help? He has nearly ten thousand Dingbian Army and Security Army in his hands. Logically speaking, they should have arrived at Jinkou Ferry, but there is currently no news. Once the West
The whole Qiang army stormed the pass, how could I, Qingping Pass, withstand it?!"
Ye An was slightly silent. He had trusted Zhou Wenzhi from the beginning, and he was even willing to excuse him. But even if his ability was insufficient, he should not be unable to fulfill military orders!
Either something happened at Zhou Wenzhi's place, or he was too timid to step forward. Ye An had no way of understanding what happened with Zhou Wenzhi, and he couldn't make any assumptions, but he could not escape the responsibility for delaying the military plane.
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The area outside Qingping Pass was already desolate, and the forest was burned down by the advance army of the Western Qiang people, showing the desolation of the northwest, and of course, it was also full of murderous intent.
An even more desolate horn sound sounded, and the densely packed Xiqiang army began to organize its troops. Standing on the city wall, it looked as spectacular as a colony of ants. Unfortunately, this "ant colony" was about to rush towards the Qingping Pass where it was...
The densely packed Xiqiang people rushed under Qingping Pass in an instant, and the rapid beating of drums was also remembered on the city wall. At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Anhua Army and the Security Army did not dare to slack off. Even though they were well-trained, they were still under the attack.
Facing a Xiqiang rebel army several times larger than his own, he still couldn't help but feel a little panicked.
The veteran team member was bending over and constantly shuttling back and forth on the city wall. At the same time, he warned the Song soldiers on the wall: "Lower your heads, Xiqiang thieves, be on guard against five hundred arrows!"
"When the thief enters 300 steps, the whistle will sound and the crossbowmen will step on the crossbow to fire! There must be no mistake in the rotation of the three rows!"
"Here!"
"When the thief reaches a hundred steps, the strong archers will take turns to shoot, four rows of them will take turns! The thief will not stop, and the arrows will not stop!"
"Here!"
"Bagniu crossbow ready!"
The huge tarpaulin was lifted, and the ferocious crossbow arrows were exposed. This was one of the most powerful cold weapons in the Han Dynasty and also had the longest range.
The distance of seven hundred steps is its limit, but the accuracy is always very worrying, and it is simply not enough to attack and kill. However, on a battlefield densely packed with soldiers, the distance of seven hundred steps is already quite amazing and practical.
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Ye An looked at the iron gun-like crossbow arrows. He ordered the iron gun to fly out, and the crossbow strings made a harsh buzz. The energy transmitted by the eight complex tendons was astonishing, and it glided through the air with a whistling sound.
Looking at the arrows flying out, Ye An felt that the bow and arrows used by Hou Yi to shoot the sun were nothing more than this.
The iron gun quickly shot into the body of a Xiqiang man, and continued to advance without slowing down. The dense Xiqiang people were penetrated like "meat skewers". After killing several soldiers, the Xiqiang man wore the inherited
Stopped.
The Xiqiang people who were pierced by the iron spears did not fall down. The iron spears were deeply pierced into the ground. Some of the Xiqiang people stacked on top of each other and were not dead were still making miserable howls.
But such a scene did not scare the rebels who moved westward. They had already seen the terror of the Song Army's Eight Ox Crossbow before. It's just that the Eight Ox Crossbow looked scary, but in fact it was only amazingly powerful, and the actual effect was not very good. Some
The iron gun was inserted directly into the ground and had no killing effect.
The big gun with a wooden barrel was shot over, and the wooden fragments produced by the broken wooden shaft killed the Xiqiang people, but the threat they posed to the Xiqiang people was not as great.
However, the crossbow arrows were not as simple as they imagined. A substance like white wax fell from the broken wooden barrel. To the Xiqiang people, this white wax was as good as gold.
Many people even thought that the stupid Song people planned to use white wax to attack them with fire, but they did not know that this thing was not white wax, but a more terrifying burning substance "white phosphorus".
The temperature in summer is very high, and many Xiqiang people who picked up "white wax" began to spontaneously ignite. The light blue flames flickered with a green color. The Xiqiang people wailed and rolled on the ground trying to extinguish the flames, but these blue
The green flames are like "tarsal maggots".
The wooden arrow shafts were taken out from the huge water tank, set up one by one on the Eight Ox Crossbow, and then projected out, gradually starting to burn in the sunlight, forming a large wall of fire.
The Xiqiang people watched in horror as their fellow tribesmen were burned. The sudden blue-green flames reminded people of the demonic flames in the underworld. The Xiqiang people receded like a tide while screaming...