Chapter 155: Stone Fort Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 1)

With sufficient manpower in Hulu Valley, we can't help but worry about money and food in a short period of time. We are in the mountains, without missing trees or stones. Under Jiang Feng's advocacy, the valley looks like a day, opening up a road that runs through the valley, and the city defense of the fortress at the entrance of the valley and the valley in the valley has also begun. In time, Hulu Valley will become a solid fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In the cold winter, Yan Xiaoyi sent back the news that the Mongolian army outside Anqing City began to mobilize intensively, and it seemed that they were preparing to launch a large-scale attack. Yun Zhao immediately took Tu Xiong, and the two quietly sneaked to the vicinity of Anqing to observe the movements of the Mongolian army and the Anqing defenders at close range. The focus of Yun Zhao's observation was the stone fortress, the only road to Yizhou controlled by Anqing defenders, which was the stone fortress, which was the only road through Bayankala, which was controlled by Anqing defenders. In Yun Zhao's plan, this stone fort must be controlled by him.

This road crossing the Bayankala Mountains was decades ago. Before the Great Vietnam war against the Mongolians, it mobilized hundreds of thousands of civilians and tried tens of millions of hardships to fight through Yizhou. The Great Vietnamese army, which suddenly appeared on this road, once gave a fatal blow to a Mongolian army. As the war ended, the road was slowly abandoned. The path that crossed the mountains was too difficult and dangerous. In addition, with wild beasts raging in the mountains, ordinary merchants did not dare to walk on this road. As time went by, the road began to grow again with trees, and too many places collapsed and could no longer walk.

With the invasion of the Mongols, Anqing became an isolated city. In desperation, Anqing's guards sent soldiers to risk their efforts to cross the Bayankala Mountains from this abandoned path and ask for help from Yizhou. In the past six months, they have been on this abandoned road. Although there are not many, they can make Anqing breathe and make the soldiers guarding the city have a glimmer of hope to send materials from this ancient road. In winter, heavy snow covers the mountain, and this road can no longer transport supplies, but its existence is the hope of Anqing City. As long as the stone fort that protects this path does not collapse, Anqing soldiers have hope. As long as they can persist until the ice and snow thaw, materials will be transported from there.

Therefore, the significance of the battle for the stone fort is not the small fortress that can only accommodate 300 soldiers. What is more important is a psychological hint. If the stone fort is there, the Anqing people will have hope. They would rather die than surrender and bear the hardship. However, if the stone fort is lost and the hope of the Anqing people is destroyed, and the attack on Anqing will definitely be twice the result with half the effort.

Tatar Barutu tried to attack the stone fort, but at that time, the stone fort was sufficient supplies. Dozens of units were arranged on the small stone fort walls, and several consecutive attacks were attacked several times. After heavy losses, Barutu gave up the attack and siege Anqing for a long time. Mengfang lacked siege equipment, and Barutu was unwilling to use his elite cavalry soldiers to attack the city.

Until Tatar'er's troops were transferred and Lakathi, the coalition forces arrived, and Anqing City, which had already entered winter, finally cut off the supply of supplies and life became harder and harder.

The guardian Yue Ming of Anqing was well aware of the importance of the stone fort, and sent the three hundred soldiers in his hands to the stone fort, led by his deputy Su Dingfang. No matter how fierce the battle situation was, he always tried to keep the number of guards in the stone fort. Even if the stone fort was there, even if the stone fort was just a group of rookies and farmers, he was sure to keep the stone fort. If the stone fort was lost, even if the soldiers who had lost hope, would still have the courage to fight to the decisive battle?

With the advent of winter, Yue Ming's brows became deeper and deeper day by day. The opponent Lakathi of Guo Luo's army was unknown, but he was a difficult opponent. These days, he has been constantly exploring the attack and constantly consuming the few materials reserves of the stone fort. If it weren't for heavy snow, he would have received supplies, but now he has used one less.

Yue Ming knew the importance of the stone fort, but why didn't Lacath know? Nearly 30,000 coalition forces, Lacath led more than 20,000 people to besiege Anqing, and ordered the coalition forces to attack the stone fort with his second only to his own Luoshe troops. The Luoshe troops had more than 3,000 cavalry. Lacath also assigned Rava, Zion and other small tribes to the leader of the Luoshe tribe, and promised that as long as the Shiqigu captured the Shiqigu, the first contribution would be considered as the Shiqigu after finally taking Anqing.

After two consecutive days of fierce attacks, Qiqige's own subordinates gathered hundreds of corpses under the stone fort, and the few small tribes he gave him were also damaged, which made Qiqige very painful, and the few small tribes were no longer willing to attack hard. They were originally weak, and if they fought like this, the Mongolian cavalry were not good at attacking the city, and their efforts were completely inconsistent with their gains.

Before Qiqige went to Lacathi to complain, Lacathi had sent people to criticize Qiqige, claiming that if the stone fortress cannot be conquered within three days, the clans would be driven back to the desert. Of course, in order to ensure that Qiqige's siege was not disturbed by any interference, he would send 5,000 cavalry to completely cut off all the connection between Anqing City and the stone fortress, so that Anqing would not have any soldiers and soldiers sneaked over to support the stone fortress.

"Qiqige, you have three thousand men and horses, plus other tribes, a total of more than 5,000 people, and there are only more than 300 people in the stone castle. Even if you change one ten, you are enough!" This is the original saying that the messenger sent by Lakathi warned Qiqige not to delay. Qiqige was so angry that he was crazy, and his little braids were flying all over his head. If the siege could be calculated like this, then Lucheng would have been taken down by the Mongolians long ago. There was still a need for Princess Yardan to plan for several years and make up her mind to succeed?

Those tall stone walls and sturdy castles were born to be nemesis of Mongolian cavalry.

But Lakathi's orders cannot be disobeyed. This is not only because Lakathi is stronger than himself, but also because he is very much loved by King Wuda. If he really angers him and drives himself and his tribe back to the desert, it would be light. It is not impossible to find an excuse to kill himself and then annex the entire clan. The history of the entire desert is a blood and tears history of annexation and anti-annexation. Countless emerging tribes rose, and countless old tribes declined and even disappeared.

But the fighting style like before is definitely not good. Even if you really take down the stone castle, your subordinates will die. As Lakath said, you should exchange your own tribe for this stone castle. The tribe warriors are all dead. What's the use of the tribe's chief's first merit? After you go back, will you sit down and see if the tribe is divided by other people?

Sitting in the cold wind all night, looking at the high walls of the stone castle, the two prism-shaped castle-like buildings echo each other, and what makes Qi Qi scolded was that it was the bastard who designed the stone castle in this way, unlike the square and straight edges in Anqing City. Although the wall is high, it can still climb. You only need to deal with the threat from the top of your head. This damn stone castle is completely an irregular polygon, some places are protruding and some places are concave. No matter you climb from there, you will be hit from three directions and there is no room for dodging at all.

"Damn it, damn it." Qiqige grabbed the braids all over his head while cursing. Seeing that it was dawn, the three days limited to Lacarthy will officially begin, and he has not yet come up with any good idea.

The weather is not good, and the snow breeze is blowing again. Isn’t this really causing trouble for myself! Snow, snowflakes? The eyes lit up. Yes, it is snowflakes. In addition to trees, there are snowflakes. Using trees to build siege towers is very easy to destroy for opponents, but what if it is snow?

He laughed to the sky, and there was a way.

As soon as the sky was dawn, Su Ding appeared at the top of the stone castle. The connection with Anqing City was completely cut off. Several hidden passages were destroyed. The damn Lacath discovered the most secret underground passage from Anqing City to the stone castle. This tunnel that stretched for more than ten miles was manually excavated, then covered with giant trees, covered with soil and planted turf. Now the heavy snow is flying, which makes this passage more hidden. But God knows how Lacath knew that there was such a passage in the stone castle that could replenish weapons and supplies from Anqing City. This secret is also the reason why the stone castle was guarded by 300 people but could stand, because no matter how many people died in battle here, the wounded soldiers could be dragged back to Anqing.

In the city, reinforcements will be replenished continuously, but now that the passage has been cut off, he can only rely on the three hundred soldiers he had just replenished to resist the opponent's attack. Damn, Su Dingfang pounded the naked city wall. Yesterday, Lakathie smashed the passage, and some of the weapons and soldiers transported inside were buried in the passage. Fortunately, Anqing and Shibao reacted quickly and immediately blocked the passage. Otherwise, the enemy would attack along the passage, and the consequences would be unimaginable. Looking at the dense tents of the Mongolian army opposite, Su Dingfang's scalp was a little numb. Can he survive until spring? Can he survive until reinforcements arrive? It would be great if there was an army in Tanzhou to come to support it.

Su Dingfang knew that he was in a foolish dream. The main camp of the Mongolian army gathered in Tanzhou. Tanzhou was a clay Buddha crossing the river, and it was difficult for him to protect himself. Where can he care about an isolated city like Anqing?

Thinking of this, Su Dingfang couldn't help but hate Pan Haoran, the governor of Yizhou. When the war broke out, the defenders of Lucheng were defeated thousands of miles away. Seeing that the situation was not good, General Yue Ming immediately sent someone to ask for help from Yizhou, hoping that Yizhou could send an army to Anqing to support him. However, Pan Haoran flatly refused on the grounds that he did not dare to mobilize the army without the orders of the court. In fact, who didn't know that the Yizhou Town Army was his private army, Pan Haoran's private army. The imperial decrees had long been violated and were not effectively implemented. Even if the imperial edict was arrived, he might have to push the three and four. General Yue Ming sent people to repeatedly beg him and only asked him to provide weapons to Anqing and replenish food. If there were 20,000 to 30,000 troops in Anqing, how could the Mongolian army bet down?

Now it is useless to say that these things are useless. Maybe I really want to follow General Yue to be loyal to the country.

As the sky was getting bright, the sound of war trumpets sounded above the stone fort. The soldiers who had been calm all night quickly rushed to the top of the city. A bed crossbow was pushed out of the Tibetan military cave. In this ghost weather, if the bed crossbow was not covered well at night and pushed back to the Tibetan military cave, the strings were too easy to be frozen. After a few days of fierce fighting, dozens of bed crossbows lost a quarter, and now there are only more than twenty pieces of it that can be used. Despite this, twenty bed crossbows were gathered on the small castle of the stone fort, and the density was already quite high. The question is, there are not many crossbow arrows. What should I do when the bed crossbow is used up?

"How many stone cannons are there?" Su Dingfang turned his head and asked a Zhiguo Captain beside him.

"Secretary Su, there are more than 30 stone cannons, but there are not many stone cannons!" The seventh-rank Zhiguo School Captain had a cloth strip wrapped around his head, and blood was stained. This was the injury he suffered yesterday.

"Any stone in the castle that does not endanger the main castle will be removed for me and made into stone bullets." Su Dingfang ordered.

"Captain Su, the stone bullets of the stone cannon need a long time to polish. The stones are so big, what should I do?" asked Captain Zhiguo.

"What's the point of asking about this? Swipe the sledgehammer and the size of a stone bullet is almost the same as a stone bullet. It's also a good thing to polish it. As long as it can be sent out at that time." Su Dingfang glared at him angrily, turned around, his eyes suddenly calmed down, and his face gradually turned pale.

"Oh no!" he murmured.
Chapter completed!