Just two hours after setting up camp, the Turkic army launched its first large-scale attack. An army of 50,000 people rolled toward Dali City like black water, with a hundred ladders and fifty chariots mixed in.
This time they did not go all out to attack the Turks, and neither the ladders nor the battering rams were put into battle.
The Turkic soldiers held their shields high, and the 20,000 storming soldiers held spears and sabers in their hands, with high morale. Behind them were 30,000 archers, who were responsible for covering. Amidst the heart-shaking drumbeats of "dong dong dong", they lined up in a dark column to attack Italy.
City march
The ladders and nest carts were pulled by the strongest draft horses and walked slowly among the crowd. Behind each ladder and nest cart were hundreds of people. The sound of drums seemed to be beating on huge wooden wheels, accompanied by
With waves of shouts of killing, the Turkic army rose and fell like waves, with a huge momentum.
The Sui army dug three trenches one foot wide two miles away from Italy, but these three trenches could not stop the Turks. They put thick wooden boards on the trenches, making the trenches immediately useless.
One and a half miles away from the city wall, the sound of drums suddenly became intensive, and the 50,000 Turkic army roared and rushed towards the city wall. The defenders on the city wall watched the Turkic army nervously and expectantly, as if waiting for something to happen.
One hundred and eighty heavy trebuchets on the front city head began to creak and twist the thick ropes, the long hurling rods bent backwards, and the accumulated potential energy reached its extreme
Outside the city was a piece of grass that was as deep as one's knees. The Turkic army rushed towards them. Thousands of people at the front suddenly screamed and fell to the ground. They stepped on the caltrops scattered in the grass. There were four iron caltrops on them.
Inch-long spikes are scattered on the ground, and there is always one spike pointing upward. The iron caltrops has been tempered with strong poison. Once the sting is stung, it will be disabled at least, and it will be fatal at worst.
In addition to iron caltrops, there are numerous horse-trapped holes with a three-inch long poisonous iron thorn stuck upside down in the hole. Many Turkic soldiers stepped into the hole and the long spike pierced the insteps, attacking the Turkic troops.
Unprepared, more than a thousand people fell down and howled and screamed. The horror was that their legs began to turn black and swollen, and the pain was unbearable. Many people rolled and howled for a while before the poison attacked their hearts and died.
"Cut off their legs"
Amutai shouted loudly, and the bloody thighs were cut off. The injured Turkic soldiers were dragged back one after another. At this moment, a strange sound came from the sky, like the sound of pigeons circling in the sky.
The Turkic soldiers looked up to the sky one after another, and saw small black dots appearing in the sky, whizzing towards their heads. As they got closer and closer, a panicked shout suddenly broke out among the Turkic soldiers. They were actually pieces of black dots.
They hugged their heads and ran away. A huge boulder weighing 1,000 kilograms crashed down and rolled towards the crowd. There were screams and blood splashed everywhere. Several people who were hit were reduced to a pulp. The boulder knocked over more than ten people in a row.
They ranged from serious injuries to corpses. Nearly two hundred boulders rolled among the crowd. The Turkic army suffered heavy casualties. Immediately afterwards, a second wave of boulders roared in.
Huge boulders weighed down on their heads, and murderous intent lurked on the ground. The Turkic army was only a mile away from the city, but more than 3,000 people were killed or wounded. Amutai was heartbroken, and he shouted, "Retreat!"
Tens of thousands of Turkic troops retreated like a flood, and the Sui troops on the city cheered...
"Get it for me"
Duji gave an order, and dozens of guards swarmed forward, dragged Amutai off his horse and pushed him to the ground, who had just returned to the camp.
Duoji's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he stared at him and said coldly: "I didn't give the order to withdraw, but you dare to withdraw without permission and shake the morale of our army. Are you impatient?"
Amutai raised his head and shouted: "Khan Sui's army planted poisonous thorns on the ground. We were not prepared and thousands of people were killed or injured."
"The dead and wounded can be used as a basis for the army behind. If you dare to retreat without authorization and shake the morale of the army, I will push you down and chop you down."
The soldiers dragged Amutai down. Amutai saw Duoji's cold eyes. He suddenly understood and shouted, "Duoji, you are killing me for an excuse. My people will not spare you."
Before he finished shouting, a big man chopped off his head with a knife. Duji sneered and said to the people behind him: "Stop the news that Amutai is dead and don't allow anyone to spread it."
He then said to Munda, the captain of ten thousand men: "Leave the 30,000 troops of the Tata tribe to your command. Let me attack the city again. I will send another 30,000 troops to cooperate with you in the battle."
"Humble your duties and obey orders"
Munda got on his horse, pointed his spear at the city wall, and "attacked with drums."
The drums of the Turkic army's attack sounded again. Driven by tens of thousands of guards, the 30,000 troops of the Tata tribe were forced to turn around and cover up the city. Shibi Khan sent another 30,000 troops to join the attack.
In the middle, it became a 60,000-strong army attacking the city of Dali. Ladders, nest carts, and trebuchets were mixed in the army. The 60,000-strong army was as dense as an ant colony, and it was so vast that it covered the wilderness outside the city of Dali.
This time the Turkic army became smarter. They paved the road with wooden planks and laid out dozens of wooden paths, allowing the Turkic army to avoid assassinations on the ground. However, they could not avoid the Stonehenge above their heads. Hundreds of huge stones roared down from the sky.
The crowd rolled, flesh and blood flew everywhere, screams resounded throughout the field, a nest cart was concentrated by huge rocks, the nest cart bloomed in the air, giant trees flew randomly, corpses soared into the air, the nest cart crashed to pieces, another ladder was hit, the ladder
It was smashed, the wooden platform was pierced, the two wooden wheels fell off, the huge body of the ladder tilted, and it lay on the ground unable to move anymore.
One after another, huge rocks smashed into the crowd, and screams continued to be heard. The huge fear caused the morale of the Turkic army to drop, and many Turkic soldiers turned around and tried to run away. Duji was already prepared, and three thousand Guardsmen held swords in front of them.
The formation was suppressed from behind, and nearly a hundred Turkic soldiers who escaped from the formation were chopped to the ground.
The Turkic army had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward. As the Turkic army advanced, a bow and arrow battle broke out between the two sides. Ten thousand Sui troops fired arrows down on both sides of the crenellations of the city wall. There were arrow holes on the wall of Dali City, which could be used.
The battlements served as cover, while the platoons of crossbows fired arrows at an elevated angle from behind. The Turkic army had the advantage due to its dense numbers. Arrows from both sides were like dense rain, weaving a black arrow net in the sky. The Turks suffered heavy casualties, and the Sui army also suffered heavy casualties.
There were casualties, and people kept screaming that they were hit by arrows.
In the dense rain of arrows, the Turkic army began to cross the moat and approach the city wall. To the Turks' surprise, there was no water in the moat. It was just a large trench two feet deep and two feet wide. But whether there was water in the moat, it would be a big surprise to the Turks army.
There was no point anymore, so they put up a three-foot-long wooden plank, making the moat lose its defensive role.
At this time, dozens of large siege ladders and chariots rumbled in. One chariot was loaded with fifty Turkic soldiers, each holding a spear and a shield, and there were more than two hundred people below who were shooting upwards.
arrow
The chariot slowly approached the city wall, less than fifty steps away from the city wall. At this time, the forty stone cannons of the Sui army began to exert their power. The stone cannon was actually a large crossbow. The stone cannon body was one foot long and the bow arm was It is one foot and five feet long. It is made of beef tendon or hemp rope. It is placed on a specially built fort and is manned by ten militia soldiers. It is strung with a winch.
The stone cannon fires a polished stone bullet that weighs about fifty or sixty kilograms and has a range of up to seventy steps. Special soldiers are responsible for ranging and aiming.
"Coming, coming"
A fire chief pointed at a nest car that was slowly approaching and shouted: "Wring it up and take aim!"
Eight soldiers pushed the long capstan rod like a grinder, and the huge bow string was pulled open creakingly and buckled on the string hook. A soldier fed a stone bullet into the trough. The fire chief was also the aiming hand. He lay on the crossbow, stared at Wangshan Mountain, and shouted: "Turn eastward for half a moment!"
There are scales painted on the ground behind the stone cannon. The soldiers raised the stone cannon and moved it eastward for half a moment.
"Okay" Huo Chang shouted
He jumped down from the stone cannon, stared at the nest car for a moment, and yelled, "Shoo!"
The two soldiers pulled out the string hook suddenly, and heard a loud "click" sound. A stone bullet flew out from the trough and roared towards the nest car fifty steps away.
There was a loud "boom", the nest car was hit by a stone bullet, one of the pillars and beams broke, the nest car shook violently, and then continued to move forward.
"Fuck, come again"
The fire chief cursed, and the ten soldiers loaded the string again, without adjusting the direction. Another stone bullet was fired powerfully, hitting the nest car again, and was hit twice in a row. One was tied to the main beam of the nest car. The belt was finally loosened, and the nest cart instantly tilted and collapsed, and fifty soldiers fell down screaming.
The soldiers below cheered and praised the power of the stone cannon. The fire chief scratched the back of his head and laughed and cursed: "What a shame, he actually had to do it twice."
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Although the Sui army's stone cannons were powerful, they could not destroy all the ladders and chariots. Several chariots finally reached the city wall. The iron plates fell and hit the top of the city. The gravel flew everywhere. Behind the iron plates, fifty people The Turkic soldiers rushed out of the chariot with spears. Hundreds of Sui soldiers attacked from both sides and fought fiercely with the enemy.
The chariot is actually a closed ladder to climb the city. A steady stream of Turkic soldiers rushed out of the chariot and fought towards the city.
Seven or eight more ladders were put up on the top of the city. Turkic soldiers climbed up the ladders and rushed up madly. The Sui soldiers fought with swords, swords and spears against the rushing enemy troops. Dozens of Sui soldiers were standing on the horse wall. Duan crossbow fired at the Turkic soldiers on the stairs from behind. The powerful crossbow arrows penetrated the wooden shields. Turkic soldiers kept screaming and falling down the city.
The battle gradually became bloody and brutal
Yang Yuanqing stood on a high observation tower and watched the offensive and defensive battles of Dali City. He had experienced hundreds of battles and had a clear understanding of the battle in front of him. Although enemy siege engines continued to set up on the city head, and Turkic soldiers began to appear, Although Yang Yuanqing knew very well that the current situation was not out of control, it was still within his control. The casualties of the Sui army were also normal. There is no war without casualties.
A school lieutenant ran up to the observation deck, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Report to the general manager, the casualties among our brothers have exceeded 1,000, and General Yang is requesting additional troops for support."
Yang Yuanqing said coldly: "Tell Yang Sien that I won't increase my number of soldiers. If he can't stand it, he can come down and let Ma Shao be the general."
"Follow your orders"
The captain agreed and ran down. Yang Yuanqing cast his eyes towards the Turkic camp in the distance. He was the commander-in-chief of the entire battle and was in charge of the overall situation. He did not interfere in the actual battle on the city walls. He just stared at the main Turkic force and the enemy.
There were only ten chariots and less than twenty ladders left by the army on the battlefield. However, Shibi Khan did not increase their number, and neither battering rams nor ladders appeared, which shows that this time the Turkic army
The attack is just a test, and he will never increase his troops.
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