Chapter 236: Decisive Battle with Youyun (27)

"The Zhou army has great power and has occupied the East City, the South City and the West City. If we fight to the death, the entire army will be wiped out. We have already lost this battle." Yelu Qing thought about it over and over again, but in the end he still told the truth.

When Xiao Siwen heard this, he glared at Yelu Qing fiercely. Fortunately, there was no one in the tent. If anyone else was present, this sentence was a shaken word. Xiao Siwen stopped in front of Yelu Qing: "This sentence cannot be said again, let alone in front of others, otherwise the family law will serve you."

After Youzhou was surrounded, Xiao Siwen went from a drunkard, a sloppy man to a general with a distinctive armor and a powerful force without anger. Although Xiao Siwen stared at him with extremely unfriendly eyes, he was also aggressive in his words. Yelu Qing felt very at ease in her heart. She did not retreat and calmly faced Xiao Siwen's gaze.

Xiao Siwen has always kept a distance from his wife, Princess Yelu Lu Bugu of Yan. The two have been married for many years, and except for the occasional love between bed brothers, they basically have no communication. He knows that his wife is arrogant, looks down on cowards, is ungrateful, and does not do her job properly. However, this is exactly the effect she wants to achieve when she is in a weak position. The struggle between the powerful and nobles in Shangjing is extremely cruel, and Xiao Siwen really doesn't want to join in.

At this time, the situation in Youzhou was as dangerous as it could die at any time. Xiao Siwen didn't want to pretend to be stupid anymore. He reached out and held Yelu Qing's chin, and with a little force, Yelu Qing's cheeks were slightly raised, "Change the name, I don't like Yelu Qing. Yelu Lu Bugu is the real Khitan name, have you heard it?"

At this time, the city was broken, and perhaps it was the last day of life, so Xiao Siwen didn't have to worry about anything.

This action was extremely provocative, and Yelu Qing was also a little stunned for a moment.

Like most ordinary women, Yelu Qing dreamed that her husband was a hero since she was a child. In the age of a girl, Yelu Qing once secretly liked a tall and mighty guard of the imperial guard. After this guard of the imperial guard died on the battlefield, Yelu Qing was sad for a long time. In her mind, his husband should be like the guard of the imperial guard, an enthusiastic and hero who stood up to the sky.

When Yelu Qing learned that his husband Xiao Siwen was once a general of the imperial army, he was also very fascinated, but he was disappointed after getting married. Xiao Siwen looked quite majestic, but he was ungrateful and was immersed in the voice and sex every day. He was really a playboy. Yelu Qing gradually became disappointed and eventually became completely desperate.

At this time, Xiao Siwen was rough and domineering, but Yelu Qing was not disgusted at all. He nodded and said, "I will change my name and use the Khitan name - Yelu Lubugu."

Xiao Siwen raised his chest and said generously: "My wife, the Khitan only has generals who died in battle, but no generals who surrender. Even if they die in battle, they will die wonderfully. Unfortunately, God has given us too little time, otherwise everything will never happen."

When Yelu Lu Bugu heard the last sentence, tears gradually burst out in her eyes. She held Xiao Siwen's hand and said, "I'm not afraid even if I have a man by my side." After years of marriage, her relationship with Xiao Siwen was as plain as water. She had never said such love words that showed true feelings. After this sentence, a blush appeared on Yelu Lu Bugu's face.

The decisive battle to the end became the official answer of the Khitan army to persuade the Great Zhou to surrender.

In front of Guangji Temple, a headless corpse was placed in the temple courtyard. This person was the messenger who went to the Khitan military camp to persuade him to surrender. After being beheaded by the Khitans, his head was hung on a tall wooden pole, and the headless corpse was thrown out of the Khitan military defense line.

The Zhou army generals, full of murderous aura, saw the messenger being killed in Guangji Temple. They were all filled with righteous indignation. However, none of the generals took the initiative to ask for the battle. They knew very well that the Battle of Youzhou could be said to have won a complete victory, but the remaining Khitan army occupied the North City, and the trapped beasts were still fighting. The first person to break into the North City would inevitably suffer major losses, just like the Iron Cavalry Army that first attacked the city.

When victory is about to come, no one will impulsively take the initiative to chew this hard bone.

Hou Dayong waited for a while, and saw that no general took the initiative to ask for the battle, he cursed in his heart: "What a group of old foxes. He said, "General Yuan Yan obeyed the order."

Yuan Yan complained secretly, but had to come forward.

"The Khitans occupied the North Gate and could abandon the city at any time. General Yuan immediately led his troops to join forces with Guangzituo and Wang Tengxiang from the North Gate, so that a Khitan person could not escape."

Yuan Yan was overjoyed when he heard that his troops did not have to attack the North Gate. After receiving the order, he quickly walked out of Guangji Temple.

"General Liu Chongjin, you will be in command of all the people on the city wall. Be sure to take down the North City Wall tonight. The large troops on the North City Wall are difficult to deploy, but the crossbow soldiers have great advantages. General Liu can mobilize crossbows among the army in the city, and the crossbows set up on the earthen platform outside the city can also be moved to the city wall."

On the city wall were the Iron Cavalry Army, Long Jie Army and other Zhou troops. The establishment was chaotic and they were fighting on their own with their bravery. Although the Zhou army had many people on the city wall, the attack was repeatedly frustrated. Hou Dayong sent Long Jie Right-Entertainment Army to unify the command.

Hou Dayong raised his voice and said, "The rest of the generals will send small troops to take turns to harass the Khitan army tonight, so that the Khitan army will be unable to sleep or eat."

All the generals here are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. They have experienced a lot in the imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty. When Hou Dayong was the commander of the northern camp, although Hou Dayong was the prime minister and had great military achievements in the northwest, the generals of the main force of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not completely convinced.

In the early stage of the Northern Expedition, Chai Rong was actually in charge of the command of the Northern Expedition Army. After Chai Rong became ill, Hou Dayong obtained the command of the Northern Expedition Army.

After Hou Dayong obtained command, he first led the army across the Juma River and established a consolidated position on the river bank, so that the army had both a retreat and sufficient logistical support.

The second is the Battle of Gubeikou.

The imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty kept snatching the Gubeikou military camp, wiped out 14,000 Khitan cavalry, and blocked the Khitan army who came to rescue them north of the Gubeikou military camp. The Khitan army from the northeast was also pushed to the periphery of Youzhou. It was precisely because the Khitan reinforcements were cut off that the Northern Expedition Army could concentrate its main force to attack the city with all its strength.

The third is to break through the city within one day.

The generals of the Great Zhou were deeply afraid of attacking a strong city like Youzhou City. In the year of Xiande, the Great Zhou army besieged Taiyuan City for several months, and finally lost their troops and returned without success. In the battle of the Southern Expedition, the Shouzhou City blocked the Zhou army for a year. In Chuzhou, although the Great Zhou army finally occupied the city by force, it suffered huge casualties. Chai Rong was furious and issued a city massacre order. This time, the attack on Youzhou City actually attacked the city within one day, and the casualties paid were acceptable, which was far beyond the expectations of the generals.

After these three things, the generals respected Hou Dayong. After Hou Dayong's order, the generals no longer had the heart to complain about Hou Dayong.

After Liu Chongjin, the commander of Long Jie's right wing, took hundreds of personal guards to the city wall from the east gate.

Khitan General Xiao Limu sat on the city wall and gasped for a while, and heard the sound of killing sounds on the city wall. Because the Zhou army attacked the city wall frequently last time, Xiao Limu did not care too much, but just cursed: "Looking for death." But he did not stand up.

It was already dark at this time, and the Zhou army lit a torch on the city wall, making the city wall bright as daylight.

A Khitan soldier ran over quickly. Before he could reach Xiao Limu, he shouted in horror: "General, Zhou army has brought the crossbow to the city wall, we can't hold it anymore." Xiao Limu grabbed the longbow beside him and ran towards the fire. Before he could get close to the fire, he met the Khitan soldier who was retreating backwards.

The city wall is a narrow passage. The Khitan soldiers beside Xiao Limu used large leather shields to form several rows of shield formations. Behind the shield formation are hundreds of Xiao Limu's personal guards. These guards are Khitan hunters with accurate archery skills. They are of the same clan as the commander of Youzhou Xiao Siwen and general Xiao Limu. They are the most elite troops in Youzhou City.

Seeing that the defeated army was about to come to the front, Xiao Limu took a torch from the soldiers beside him, threw it on the ground, and ordered: "Those who retreated torch will be killed."

Two big Khitan leaders jumped out of the formation and stood beside the torch. They were twin brothers, with the same appearance. They were tiger-backed and bear-backed. They opened the mountain with the same axe. They shouted at the same time: "When you retreat torch, kill."

The sound is like thunder. It can be clearly heard in the chaos.

These two big men are both Xiao Limu's personal guard leaders. They are very famous in the Youzhou Khitan Army and are called Tieta Brothers. When the defeated soldiers heard the Tieta Brothers shouting, they knew that General Xiao Limu was behind. One reason was that there was no way out behind, and the other reason was that they felt that they had a support, so the defeated soldiers turned around and faced the approaching Zhou army again.

The Zhou army's offensive pace was slow and firm. The soldiers at the front were all pedaling crossbowmen, and behind the crossbowmen were bulky bed crossbows.

Since Hou Dayong served as the Northern Camp Recruitment Envoy, he has mentioned the three-stage crossbow method in the army many times. The three-stage shooting method was quite popular among the Tang army. With the destruction of the Tang army, the troops of the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou dynasties gradually forgot this powerful tactic, just like the Modao was eliminated.

The generals in the army did not care much about the three-phase method proposed by Hou Dayong. Only Liu Chongjin was quite interested in this. He asked many times and got the key to the three-phase method. It was precisely for this reason that Hou Dayong ordered Liu Chongjin to unify the troops on the city wall and ordered him to mobilize crossbowmen in each army.

Liu Chongjin did not mobilize crossbowmen from each army. There was originally a crossbow camp in the left wing army of Longjie, with 500 crossbowmen. This is Liu Chongjin's favorite camp. It is usually strictly for training. After the time to take time to siege the city, these five hundred crossbowmen can also master the essence of the three-stage shooting method.

However, the crossbowmen were temporarily recruited from each army and used the three-stage method without training. It is very likely that he would not become a dog when learning tigers in the face of the battle. Therefore, after Liu Chongjin Sixu, he still brought his own crossbow camp.

On the northern city wall, there was a corpse between the Zhou army and the Khitan army. The obstacle was not too high. It just reached the chest, but there were three or four steps so thick that the Zhou army wanted to cross this obstacle several times, but was shot and killed by the Khitan soldiers.

Liu Chongjin had a normal appearance and was even a little ugly. His face was as pockmarked as the stars in the sky. He stared at his eyes as big as mung beans and glanced at the battlefield, and he had a solution in his mind.

Soon, several tables piled up into a simple wooden table. The wooden table was located behind the obstacle, slightly higher than the obstacle, and the crossbow was placed on it. A team of Zhou army soldiers approached the obstacle and threw corpses or other debris under the city wall.

The Khitan soldiers had a very tight defense, and twenty archers were hiding behind obstacles. When they heard the noise, they jumped up and shot Zhou soldiers with their strong bows.

More than a dozen Zhou army soldiers were shield soldiers. Because they wanted to throw miscellaneous items, they did not bring a round shield, but just hung a waist knife. Under the close attack of the Khitan soldiers' strong bows, they had no power to fight back. They were all shot down in a blink of an eye.

The Zhou army crossbowmen who were standing beside Hushi attacked at the same time, and powerful crossbow arrows broke out of the air, and several Khitan archers were also shot.

After a while, more than twenty Zhou army soldiers came up. They were divided into two groups, one group holding large infantry shields, and the other group just hung a waist knife. Under the cover of the large shield, the Zhou army soldiers threw the bodies and other debris off the city wall bit by bit. Seeing that they could not stop the Zhou army, several Khitan soldiers were ready to cross the obstacle to attack the Zhou army. As soon as they climbed up the obstacle, they were shot down by the Zhou army's crossbow arrows.

Dozens of Khitan soldiers saw that the situation was wrong and rushed over to rescue them.

The observer of Zhou army standing on Hu's table waved the red flag. With the loud "roar, roar", three thick crossbow arrows came towards him. The power of the crossbow was so great that it could reach a thousand pounds. The Khitan soldiers in the ground fell heavily on the city wall like straw in the strong wind.

The bed crossbow is a groundless weapon in the Khitan army, and it is also the weapon that Khitan soldiers are most afraid of. In essence, the damage effect of ordinary crossbows and bed crossbows is not much different, but the wounds of the bed crossbows are extremely scary, and the person who is in the middle dies very miserable, which often has a great psychological impact on the sergeant.

Therefore, the crossbow is a powerful weapon to kill people and an excellent weapon to shake the morale of the army.

The Khitan soldiers on the city wall saw the Zhou army moving the crossbow to the city wall, and all looked terrified. After fierce competition between the two sides, all obstacles that blocked the Zhou army were finally removed.

Without obstacles, the Zhou army's crossbow stairs can fully exert its power. The powerful crossbow arrows caused a sharp increase in casualties between Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers were forced to retreat until they met the Iron Tower brothers.

The brothers from the Iron Tower shouted in unison: "The shielded man is in line in front of the formation."

There were many soldiers with skin shields in the defeated Khitan army. They were unable to play a role in the defeated army. After the Tieta brothers called out, more than 40 shield soldiers squeezed in front of the team and formed a densely-formed military shield formation according to the Khitan army's formation method.

The Iron Tower brothers shouted again: "Archer, prepare to launch."

Most of the Khitan soldiers carried bows and arrows, and after being ordered, they all raised their bows to the sky.

The two orders of the Iron Tower Brothers were brief and clear. As soon as the order was issued, the Zhou army, which followed closely behind, shot dense crossbow arrows. The range of the crossbow used by the Zhou army was far greater than that of the Khitan bows and arrows. The Zhou army did not need to get close to the Khitan army at all, and could give the Khitan army a heavy blow beyond the range of arrows.

Although there is shield protection, many Khitan soldiers still fell to the ground after being shot.

The Tieta brothers looked at each other, and they were in the same mood. Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it would be better to fight to the death.

The tower brother shouted: "Keep the formation forward."

The Khitan soldiers maintained their formation and, under the cover of the shield soldiers at the forefront, rushed towards the Zhou army with rounds of crossbow arrows. Although the soldiers kept falling to the ground, under the loud supervision of the Iron Tower brothers, the Khitan soldiers did not retreat. Soon, the Khitan soldiers entered the archery route.

The tower brother stopped shouting: "Start."

The Khitan soldiers had been pressed by the Zhou army's long-range crossbow arrows just now. After suffering many casualties, they were able to finally send out sharp arrows for revenge. One arrow, two arrows, and three arrows, the Khitan soldiers fired arrows desperately. They knew that as long as the Zhou army was breathless, the powerful crossbow arrows would be difficult to resist with their flesh and blood.
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