"Fortunately, since the Shule Kingdom army is still camping here to guard us, it means that Kedu City is still in our hands." After a hurry to feel twenty miles outside Kedu City, Situ Liang and others confronted the Shule Army, after arguing with the Shule Kingdom army, he said.
The person couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"This place is not far from Kedu City. Although we cannot see the details of Kedu City clearly, we can communicate through the eagle and falcon. Now, we are camping here now, and we will immediately release the eagle and falcon to ask about Kedu City's current situation.
So that we can make corresponding preparations." Situ Liang ordered in a deep voice.
King Shule was shocked by the arrival of the Zhao army. Originally, he thought that splicing the left-behind army would at least stop the Zhao army for two to three months. Who would have thought that he had just drawn the army from the rear and returned in less than ten days.
The Zhao army appeared behind him. In the past few days, in order to adjust the army, deal with various food, supplies, some powerful people and their own money, they did not have time to attack Keducheng.
While cursing Zhao army and the generals who were arranged to stay, they began to adjust the army camp and set up layers of defense in the rear to block the attack of the Zhao army. For King Shule, the only good news is that behind him
The Zhao army was only more than 20,000, and most of the other Zhao army guarded the territory of the countries in the rear. However, the 20,000 Zhao army and the baggage team of less than 10,000 were enough to make his heart full of clouds.
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"Our army has arrived at the rear of the Shule Kingdom army outside Kedu City. Now, you should rest assured. When the army arrived, the Shule Kingdom army that became is surrounded by our Zhao army. Although outside the city, it is not only the same as the Zhao army.
The Shule Kingdom has 40,000 to 50,000, but they cannot all use it to attack the city." Zhao Jun shook the information that had just been transmitted through the eagle falcon in his hand and said with a smile. His eyes glanced at everyone with sharp eyes, especially in numbers
A young and strong school in the city is the priority.
"The area outside this Keduo City can only provide enemy siege at the same time, and there are only more than a thousand people who can approach the city at the same time. They are four or five major troops coming out together. With this Keduo City, we still have the same situation.
Can nail them here tightly."
"Tell the entire army and make all the soldiers energize. The Shule** team that has become is now at the end of the world."
Zhao Xun did not deliberately pay attention to the war on the front line at this moment. He only needed to know from the good news on the front line that the war in the Western Regions was about to end. Especially after King Shule was taken down, Zhao
Just ask, you will understand that the so-called Southern Union is over.
What Zhao Xun is busy at this moment is taking over and rectifying Xinna Land, especially now that heavy snow is coming, not only in the Western Regions, but also in Liangzhou, all the long border states of Liaozhou, which are all heavy snowfalls.
.For this era, if a bad thing is, it will cause snow disasters.
Therefore, when heavy snow fell, Zhao Xun ordered the governments of the states to investigate the situation above the local area just in case. The other states were fine, whether it was Shangzhou in the north or the south.
The alliance countries that just won need to be properly handled. No matter what, Zhao Xun cannot watch these people die due to heavy snow.
Fortunately, the land of Shangzhou has been taken over by the Zhao army for nearly a year, and the local governments have been able to effectively manage various places, and the population is concentrated in or near new cities in various places, so there is no problem. And the Southern Alliance,
There were still many problems. For this reason, Zhao Xun ordered the rear to transport a lot of supplies to come for rescue.
Of course, this is not the mercy of the Zhao army, but the fact that these places have surrendered. Zhao Xun uses this method to win people's hearts. After all, it is easy to destroy a country, but it is not easy to rule a country. Zhao Xun also wants to take advantage of it.
This opportunity made the Western Regions people in these southern countries know what the difference between the Great Zhao and the previous countries.
The effect of the rescue still satisfies the Zhao army. At least, many people from the destroyed countries have begun to accept the rule of the Great Zhao. Even if they cannot return home, they will not be particularly hostile to the Great Zhao.
People, Zhao Xun believes that sooner or later, Zhao's policies and immigration will make them surrender to the Great Zhao. Of course, force deterrence is also indispensable.
Outside Kedu City, a war between the two sides had begun. Since then, King Shule knew that there was not much time left for him. While arranging the army behind the rear to block the Zhao army's advance, he let the front
The army launched a fierce attack on Kedu City.
Unfortunately, although the Shule Kingdom has a large army, they lack siege equipment, which is also the biggest disadvantage of the Han countries around the Han people, including various ethnic groups in the north. In terms of various tools, they are about creating or using them.
They are far from comparable to the Han people.
Although many times, many races, in soldiers and horses, are far stronger than the Han people in war, the various sharp weapons of the Han people are far beyond their comparison. In particular, Zhao Xun used water conservancy forging and putting Zhao army's weapons
A stronger layer. In addition, various weapons such as crossbows and bed crossbows have been guided by Zhao Xun and have made a series of improvements. The emergence of the thunder in the sky has added magical tools to the Zhao army.
The Shule Kingdom army began to attack Kedu City, and the army behind did not ignore it. While slowly approaching, the rear allowed the rear to transport a large amount of weapons and supplies. Although it could not transport the casting stones at a depth of about a foot of snow.
Large weapons such as chariots. However, bed crossbows, thunder and other materials can still be transported. The Zhao army seized a lot of war horses in the Western Regions and purchased a lot of slow horses from the people of the Western Regions. This also made the Zhao army's baggage
The team's carriage can travel in large quantities with the front line and transport various materials to the front line army.
On the second day of the war, the sky was floating again, and snowflakes fell on the soldiers on both sides and on the entire battlefield. In order to keep the cold, the soldiers of the Zhao army had to take off their armor and put on cotton coats.
, it is no better than in the camp on the battlefield.
Although the armor is gone, the defense is much lower for the soldiers and the danger is much greater. However, the enemy faced by Shule Kingdom, where the opponent's weapons are far inferior to that of himself and his morale is far inferior to himself.
, The danger is not very high. It is not unacceptable to choose cotton coats and give up armor.
Fortunately, most of the soldiers in the Western Expedition were in Liangzhou, and Shangzhou in the northwest and north had been in Shangzhou for nearly two years. They were also adapted to the subsequent and environment here, and they were no worse than the soldiers in Shule Country.
It was uncomfortable, and the soldiers of Shule Kingdom opposite were even more uncomfortable. After all, the Zhao army could still use coal to keep warm in the tent, and the logistics team also continuously transported the various materials needed by the army.
Of course, compared with the Zhao army, the soldiers of Shule Kingdom were much more pitiful to take "drug". Although there were winter clothes, they were more than one step behind the Zhao army. In addition, heating supplies were also very scarce.
Fortunately, the Shule Kingdom army was located between the two mountains and the forests on both sides and the mountains and rivers could also cut down a lot of trees to make fires to keep warm. Otherwise, there would be more soldiers who were frostbitten.
The Shule Army did not stop attacking because of heavy snow, and the Zhao army did not stop attacking because of heavy snow. Situ Liang and others did not test and directly began to push forward. At the front were rows of giant shields, as a defense for Shule National Camp.
The counterattack of the ground archers. Behind the shield wall are the Zhao army's archers and bed crossbows.
"go ahead!"[
With Li Chenfeng's order, the Zhao army rushed towards the Shule team camp, and the neat shield walls slowly advanced and approached the enemy camp. Although the Shule Kingdom established a camp, it was because of Zhao Kingdom.
Too fast, they were not fully prepared, making the rear camp not tall.
"Show the arrow! Stop them!" On the wall, the general of the Shule Kingdom led the army roared angrily. Looking at the Zhao army slowly approaching, the soldiers of Shule Kingdom were not scared. I have to say, the Han people were from
The military formation is indeed very deterrent to a small country like Shule.
Flashes of arrow rain flew out from the Shule State Wall and towards the Zhao army. However, in front of the Zhao army, the three-row shield wall immediately became an excellent weapon to block the arrow rain.
The series of sounds of "bang bang bang bang" reminded the Zhao army's huge shield. Most of the arrows of the soldiers of Shule Kingdom were "shooting" on the giant shield, but they only brought a series of noises, but did not give them at all.
How much damage did the Zhao army bring? Furthermore, the bows and arrows used by the soldiers of Shule Kingdom are far worse than those of the Zhao army.
"Attack us? It's time for you to use our methods to do it now!"
"Arrow, prepare! Let it go!"
With Li Chenfeng's order, clear commands from officers came from the Zhao army's army.
"Swish swish swish swish..."
In the crisp and harsh sound, dense bows and arrows suddenly cut off the falling snowflakes. The arrows were like rain, the arrows were like locusts, and the dense rain of arrows immediately covered the entire Shule military camp wall.
In an instant, a shrill wailing sound came from the wall of the camp. The soldiers of Shule Kingdom standing on and under the camp were killed and injured. However, they had no shields and rarely used standard shields to form shield wall defense.
Several consecutive rains of arrows immediately caused the counterattack of Shule camp to fall to the trough, and most of the soldiers on it were killed or injured.
"Bandit, fire"!"
"Buzz buzz..." A sound that was more harsh than the rain of arrows came out. This time, the crossbow arrows were shot from the bed crossbow. These crossbow arrows were all the size of babies' arms, which were more than four meters long.
The soldiers of Shule Kingdom were surprised that behind these crossbow arrows, there was a common rope.
Looking at Zhao Jun's crossbow arrow shooting on the horse in front of the camp, and looking at the rope behind him, the Lord Shule suddenly turned pale and said anxiously: "Damn it, hurry up, continue."
Shoot, Shoot!"
"Let..." The military orders came from the Zhao army formation again. The soldiers in the Zhao army formation immediately pulled up the rope beside them. After a few consecutive strokes, the ruling horses in front of Shule camp were immediately pulled down by the Zhao army.
On the ground.
"Damn it! What a cunning Zhao Gou!" The soldiers of Shule Country immediately cursed. The revenge horses in front of this camp were still the soldiers of Shule Country who followed the Zhao army of Kedu City when they attacked Kedu City. They could be used to
Those who blocked the Zhao army's advance did not want to fight. The Zhao army did not get close at all, so they broke them with a bed crossbow.
Originally, the soldiers of Shule Kingdom were preparing to dig trenches on the ground, but, for one thing, it was too late, and for the other thing, they didn't know how the Zhao army dug it. The ground was so hard that it failed.
For the Shule king general who was above the camp wall at this moment, he was more worried about the safety of the camp wall under his feet. He knew very well that because the Zhao army came too quickly, the camp wall under his feet was extremely simple. If Zhao army was forced to "force"
Recently, they can use the same method to pull down the wall under their feet.
The shocked general of Shule, while reporting the news here, asked the second interception line in the rear to prepare for the corresponding defense, and also asked the soldiers under his command to continue shooting and fight to suppress the momentum of the Zhao army.
Next. But he also cleared it. Judging from the current situation of the Zhao army, it is almost impossible to intercept the opponent's advance. If it is a field battle, they can still compete with the Zhao army, especially now that the Zhao army is not wearing armor.
In the case, but the battle of the city defense and the battle of the city defense are not what they are good at. Of course, the important thing is that they do not have the equipment for siege and the equipment for siege. Especially, there is no city here for them to defend, but they do
Forced to be able to stand here and fight with Zhao's army.
The Zhao army continued to rain on arrows, causing the deaths and injuries of the soldiers in Shule camp to continue to increase, and also causing the morale of the soldiers in Shule Country to continue to decline. However, the Zhao army still approached the camp wall slowly.
The problem that the chief general of the defender finally appeared, and the Zhao army once again fired a crossbow.
Although the shooting distance of the crossbow was greatly shortened due to the attachment of ropes, after the distance was closer to a certain distance, it still shot deeply into the camp wall. These camp walls are all
It is made of trees, but it is not a real city wall after all. The front end of the crossbow arrow of the Zhao army still has a barb. Once it is shot into the log, it is difficult to pull it out. The Zhao army soldiers,
Pull the rope and pull it hard.
With the loud shouts of the Zhao army, the first wall behind Shule army was finally pulled down by the Zhao army soldiers. The Shule State Camp was directly exposed to the Zhao army's vision.
Immediately afterwards, thousands of troops rushed forward, and the soldiers of Shule Country, with low morale, were not the opponents of the soldiers of Zhao. Soon, under the fierce attack of the Zhao army, the camp behind Shule Country fell into the hands of the Zhao army. The retreating
The soldiers of Shule Kingdom had to retreat in a hurry and retreat to the second camp.
King Shule, who was commanding the entire army in the central army, suddenly became angry and turned blue when he heard that the rear was defeated so quickly. If he had not asked about the battle situation and learned that it was not the fault of the general, he was afraid that King Shule would retreat.
The main general killed the scene. The great defeat in the rear not only surprised King Shule, but also surprised the powerful and powerful countries who retreated to this place and the surrounding countries. They asked King Shule to speed up the battle against Kedu
In the attack of the city, we will strive to open up the passage of westward escape as soon as possible.
Looking at the quarrelsome powerful people, King Shule wanted to deal with them all. But he also knew that these powerful people had a deep relationship with the leaders and generals of the tribes in the entire camp. Once he did it casually, he was afraid that he would go immediately.
It will collapse the entire army.
What made King Shule even more worried was that the Zhao army's offensive was too fierce and it was so fast that it was difficult for him to deal with it. If he continued like this, he was worried that before he took down Keduo City, the Zhao army in the rear would come to him.
It's right.
Therefore, King Shule began to strengthen his attack on Kedu City, and even he no longer cared about the casualties and morale of his soldiers.
The attack of the soldiers of Shule Kingdom increased greatly, which greatly increased the pressure on Kedu City. The attacks for many consecutive days made the defenders of Kedu City exhausted. But Zhao Jie and others also knew that this was the last madness of the soldiers of Shule Kingdom.
If they could be stopped and the Zhao army came, the city of Kedu was their cemetery. If they could not be defended, they would be done.
Zhao Jie and others naturally would not give up the victory, nor would they let these kings and powerful people escape. They understood that as long as they could hold on for a while, the army of Shule outside the city would become theirs.
Human achievements. Therefore, Zhao Jie began to recruit some young women to go to the city to help defend the city. Zhao Jie naturally would not let them participate directly in the battle, but it was still possible to ask them to help transport materials and strengthen the city.
After such a bloody battle, the young and strong grew into a qualified war. And their hands were covered with the blood of the soldiers of Shule Kingdom, so Zhao Jie naturally didn't worry that they would repeat it.
Due to the geographical advantage, the impact of heavy snow and the morale of the soldiers of Shule Kingdom who were sieging the city, it is not too difficult to defend the city now. Zhao Jie divided more than 5,000 soldiers and young men into arrays, replaced them in turn, and used arrows to "shoot"
Kill the soldiers in the city. The women in the city just splashed water outside. In this way, they suppressed the enemy's siege.
After each round of archers is tired, they will rotate in batches and always stay on top to deal with the enemy. They are all new forces. When the situation is critical, there are strong crossbows to help. Although there is no bed crossbow, the other party also has no bed crossbow.
It is not difficult for the soldiers of Shule Kingdom.
Because the heavy snow fell in the sky, it made it much more difficult to siege the city. The cold cold water poured down the city, which also made the soldiers of Shule, who were sieging the city lose their previous morale. Especially after learning that the Zhao army appeared behind him, Shule,
The morale of the soldiers of Le Country began to fall and become distracted. At this moment, they already knew that the Shule Country had been destroyed. And they have now become turtles in the jar. The Kedu City in front of them is an insurmountable natural danger.
Regarding how King Shule encouraged him and how the soldiers of Shule attacked, Dufa rushed to the walls of Kedu City, especially the city of Kedu City gradually increased, making the soldiers of Shule who were sieging the city more and more pessimistic.
But he saw arrows on the tall Kedu City constantly shooting out, and the soldiers of Shule Kingdom who were advancing were constantly shooting in the snow. He reached Kedu in all the places with one arrow
A large number of corpses of soldiers from Shule Kingdom fell on the snow at the foot of the city wall. The white snow had long been dyed into a pool of blood. Then, the corpses of these soldiers were slowly covered by heavy snow...
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Because the walls of Keduo City gradually grew higher, the simple cloud ladders built by the soldiers of Shule Kingdom became steeper and steeper. Because, if not steep, these cloud ladders were not enough to reach the top of Keduo City. However, the vertical one was too straight
The ladder also facilitated the military use of the guards. For a moment, the soldiers of Shule Kingdom also fell into a deadlock in the attack.