The fighting lasted from day to afternoon, and as the sun set in the west, the killing finally ended.
The battle flag of Da Chu has been hung high on the top of Tieshan City, and the last city stronghold of Xianbei in the west outside the Great Wall has been included in the territory of Da Chu.
Based on the results of the battle, nearly 15,000 Xianbei troops were killed, and less than 5,000 of them managed to escape the siege by luck.
In Tieshan City, the Xianbei people had looted from the Han Dynasty over the years, and accumulated mountains of wealth, as well as nearly 60,000 cattle and sheep, all of which fell into the hands of the Chu army.
Yan Liang captured Tieshan City and rewarded his soldiers with fine wine and meat to celebrate a great victory.
The army rested for a night in Tieshan City. At dawn the next day, after the three armies were full, Yan Liang gathered up 60,000 iron cavalry and headed towards Yinshan Mountain, following Tuoba Liwei in pursuit.
A hundred miles away at Yinshan Pass, a fierce offensive and defensive battle had been going on for a whole day and night.
After Tuoba Liwei rushed to the Yinshan area, he stabilized the chaotic Xianbei tribes, and launched a crazy attack on the Yinshan Pass with a main force of 20,000 people, plus tens of thousands of weak soldiers forcibly recruited as soldiers.
"Come on, I will invade the enemy's stronghold and kill Zhao Yun, and I will reward you with thousands of cattle and sheep!" Tuoba Liwei waved his scimitar and promised a heavy reward to the Xianbei people.
Tens of thousands of Xianbei people, tempted by the huge reward, filled the mountains and plains and rushed towards the Chu camp at the mountain pass like crazy.
At the gate of the mountain pass camp, Zhao Yun stood with a gun, proudly looking down at the incoming Hu bandits without any fear.
Seeing the Hulu approaching, Zhao Yun shook his silver gun and shouted softly: "Fire arrows and shoot the Huru at will!"
Under the order, the elite soldiers of the Chu army arrayed on the front line of the camp fence took advantage of the swooping momentum to launch Yuanrong's crossbows in turn towards the Xianbei army down the slope.
Tens of arrows were fired, and tens of thousands of arrows flew over the sky and covered the earth. In an instant, like rain hitting withered grass, more than a thousand Xianbei people were pinned down on the charging road.
The terrain of the Yinshan Mountain Pass gradually drops from north to south. If the Chu army marched up to the mountain pass and set up a stronghold like this, there would really be one man guarding the pass and ten thousand men would be able to stop it.
What Zhao Yun did was just take advantage of his position and shoot arrows at the Xianbei army at will.
These three thousand knights are an elite army skilled in bows and horses. When they arrived, they were all equipped with improved repeating crossbows, specially prepared for today's defensive battle.
The power of the powerful, ten-shot repeating crossbow, and the power of the volley fired by the swooping momentum, cannot be stopped by flesh and blood.
The powerful arrows can even penetrate the enemy's leather armor, bones and flesh, and directly pin the enemy to the ground.
After one round of firing, the thousand crossbowmen retreated, and the second row of crossbowmen took over, continuing to fire volleys at the enemy soldiers down the slope without any gaps.
Using advanced tactics, the Chu army launched endless arrow attacks. In just a few rounds, tens of thousands of arrows were fired, densely covering the hillside.
Under this dense volley of arrows, the Xianbei people's will instantly collapsed. After leaving behind thousands of corpses, they retreated down the slope in embarrassment.
"You cowardly bitch, I told you to run away!" Tuoba Liwei was so angry that he slashed a Xianbei soldier who escaped beside him with his sword and knocked him to the ground.
With such suppression, Tuoba Liwei suppressed the retreat of the soldiers and reluctantly gathered them at the foot of the hillside, but did not dare to charge up the mountain again.
"It is rumored that the Chu army's crossbows can fire ten rounds with one crossbow, which is very impressive. When I saw it today, it was really powerful. If you charge blindly like this, you will never be able to charge into the enemy camp."
Although Tuoba Liwei was annoyed, he also realized that the long-range firepower of the Chu army was too strong, and forcing a charge would only fill the soldiers' lives into a bottomless pit.
"What should I do? What should I do?" A hint of despair flashed through Tuoba Liwei's heart.
At this moment, the scouts came on flying horses and exclaimed: "Master Qi, something bad has happened. The Chu army has broken through Tieshan City and is rushing towards Yinshan Mountain."
The iron mountain has been broken!
Tuoba Liwei was so shocked that his whole body became so violent that he almost fell off his horse.
"Tieshan City has 20,000 soldiers, and I have only been here for one day. How can the Chu army break through?" Tuoba Liwei shouted in horror and disbelief.
"The Chu army deceived leader Dugu into opening the city gate before they could enter the city. Our army suffered heavy losses. Only a few thousand people escaped. Even Master Dugu was killed by the Chu people."
The scout's answer was like a knife, piercing deeply into Tuoba Liwei's chest, causing him unbearable shock and pain, and almost suffocating him.
Even if Zhao Yun captured Yinshan Pass, there would still be a time lag in reporting the news to Yan Liang. How could Yan Liang judge Zhao Yun's success out of thin air, and then move forward while Yan Liang turned his back and attacked the city.
Why, how did Yan Liang make his judgment? Is he really capable of predicting events hundreds of miles away?
Tuoba Liwei fell into a deep fear of Yan Liang. Of course, he would not have thought that it was Dugu Loumo's unusual act of offering fifty thousand sheep that allowed Yan Liang to deduce that the Yinshan Pass had been broken.
intelligence.
"Is the iron mountain broken? How is that possible!"
"The Chu people are coming to kill us. Where should we escape?"
"Sir, what should we do?"
The Xianbei noble leaders on the left and right were all frightened, and Tuoba Liwei howled in horror, forcing him to come up with an idea.
Tuoba Li took a few breaths, slowly raised his head, his eyes fell on the Chu camp on the slope, gritted his teeth and said: "At this point, only by capturing Yinshan Pass and retreating to Mobei can the whole clan survive.
opportunity.”
"But, the Chu army has weapons as powerful as repeated crossbows, how can we possibly capture them?" the leader of the group howled.
Tuoba Li looked back slightly, his eyes scanning the camps, the coldness in his eyes getting stronger and stronger, as if he was brewing some cold strategy in his heart.
Suddenly, Tuoba Li's eyes flashed fiercely, and he already had an idea.
On the top of the mountain, Zhao Yun and his soldiers could finally take a breath after repelling another round of Xianbei attacks.
From the long-distance attack to seize the Yinshan Pass to withstand the crazy attacks of the Xianbei people, Zhao Yun and his three thousand soldiers had not slept deeply for several days. At most, they closed their eyes and squinted for a while.
"Soldiers, please take the time to rest. The bastards can't just give up. I expect them to attack again soon."
Zhao Yun passed the order and sat down against the camp fence. He and the soldiers took a seat and chewed a few mouthfuls of dried meat.
"At this moment, Your Majesty should have captured Tiecheng as planned. Maybe His Majesty's reinforcements are already on their way to Yinshan Mountain." Zhao Yun chewed the dried meat and thought in his mind.
He possesses magical weapons such as repeating crossbows and has the advantage of high ground. The main force of the Xianbei people has been lost. How can they attack up the slope with this small force alone?
As long as we can't hold on for more than one day, the emperor's army will surely arrive.
Zhao Yun thought like this. Although his body was tired, the fighting spirit in his heart became stronger.
Wuwuwu~~
Down the hillside, the Xianbei people's horns sounded again, which was the horn of attack.
Zhao Yun came back from his thoughts, jumped up on his horse, and ordered the soldiers who had not rested for a long time to quickly return to their defensive positions.
Zhao Yun stood on his horse and looked from a distance. When he saw the scene down the hillside, he couldn't help but frown secretly.
This time, Tuoba Liwei Nahu Chief did not urge his remaining troops to launch a massive attack on the hillside. Instead, he drove tens of thousands of Xianbei old and weak men without fighting power down the hillside.
Here, about 30,000 to 40,000 old and weak Xianbei people have gathered at the foot of the hillside.
Seeing such a scene, the officers and soldiers of Dachu were all surprised. They thought that Tuoba's force was weak and had no soldiers to use, so they planned to rush all the old and weak to the battlefield.
However, Zhao Yun was shocked and murmured: "This Tuoba Liwei is probably planning to use his own clan members as human shields."
Under Zhao Yun's suspicious gaze, Tuoba Liwei at the foot of the hillside had already issued an order.
Each of the 30,000 to 40,000 old, weak, women and children were given simple weapons and a wooden shield, and they crowded in front of the hillside.
Tuoba Li gave a slight order, and more than 20,000 regular Xianbei soldiers used scimitars to force the old and weak, forcing them to rush towards the Chu camp on the hillside.
Zhao Yun frowned and said coldly: "Tuoba Liwei actually used his own people as human shields. The Hulu are indeed Hulu. This is their true beast surname."
At the foot of the hillside, although the old and weak were afraid, under the threat of their own soldiers, they could only bite the bullet and climb up the mountain.
Tuoba Li looked at the tens of thousands of human shields, and there was even a hint of pride on his ferocious face, as if he was proud of his masterpiece.
These tens of thousands of old and weak men all died in the battle with the Chu army. It can be said that they all became orphans and widowed mothers without anyone to care for them. Tuoba Liwei wisely chose these people as
A human shield will prevent the soldiers under his command from rebounding.
But now, these surviving Xianbei soldiers only want to seize Yinshan Mountain and flee to Mobei. In order to survive, they have forced their own people to die with their own hands, so it doesn't matter.
Anyway, those old and weak people who act as human shields are not their relatives.
Tens of thousands of people clambered up the hillside noisily, and soon came within the range of the Chu army's powerful crossbows.
Zhao Yun's sword eyebrows were unfolded, and without any hesitation, he resolutely gave the order to release the arrow.
When the two tribes fight, you will die or I will live. Today, Zhao Yunruo felt sympathy and lost the Yinshan Pass, allowing the Xianbei people to flee to Mobei. In the next year, they will recover and fight back to Monan. I don’t know how much Chu land there is.
People were killed.
If he doesn't kill these old and weak barbarians, his compatriots will be killed. Faced with this situation, Zhao Yun will certainly not choose hypocrisy and hypocrisy.
Amidst the deafening buzzing sound, arrows shot up into the sky, whizzing towards tens of thousands of Xianbei meat like raindrops.
The locust-like arrows instantly knocked countless Xianbei people to the ground, and traces of blood splashed out, forming a blood mist in the blink of an eye.
There were screams, howls, and stampedes, and tens of thousands of Xianbei human shields fell into unprecedented fear.
Under this blow, the regular Xianbei army could not bear it, let alone these old and weak soldiers. Driven by fear, they quickly began to turn around and flee down the hillside.
At this time, Tuoba Li raised his scimitar slightly and shouted sternly: "You are not allowed to retreat, but anyone who retreats will be treated as a traitor and will be killed on the spot by me!" (To be continued.