Chapter 45 Burning the City
The outer city of the original Dali City was built in the fourth year of Daye. It is a long strip long east-west and flat north-south. The north city wall is ten miles long, while the east-west wall is only two miles long, with both ends tightly facing the back of the Dali City.
The Qionglong Xuanshi Mountain is built in the west, and a plank road with a hundred steps long distance was connected to the outer city and the middle city. This plank road was burned when the Sui army evacuated the outer city. I want to start---
Another biggest feature of Dali City is that there are no walls for the outer city and the middle city. You must go up from the inner city and then go to the middle city and the outer city head through the suspension bridge and the plank road respectively. The advantage of this design is that
Even if some people pretend to be merchants and sneak into the city, they cannot seize the city gate. The iron chain winch that opens the city gate and the suspension bridge are all on the top of the city.
At night, forty thousand Turkic troops were busy in the outer city. In the middle city, ten thousand Turkic archers took turns toward the inner city. Although they could not see a Sui army, they did not dare to slacket off the slightest order under the military order.
The 30,000 Turkic troops were busy building gentle slopes of stone roads, and hundreds of torches shone outside the city walls as if it were daylight.
But hundreds of times it was dark, with dozens of heavy trenchers standing alone in the dark like giants. The military camp of 40,000 was also dark, with only hundreds of cavalrymen on the ground.
The camp inspected back and forth, and there were only a dozen posts on the outer city wall. After taking down the middle city, the outer city wall lost its defensive significance, and the Turkic army no longer paid attention to it.
At the hour of Hai, just as the Turkic army was busy in the outer city, abnormal changes occurred at the end of the east wall of the outer city. The plank road was located on the west wall. This was a dead road, close to the stone wall of Qionglong Mountain, Qionglong Mountain was a
The granite mountain has no soil and no plants can grow, but a few giant vines grow in the soil filled with the city walls and the cracks of the rocks. The rocks climbed up to the mountain are more than ten feet high, and the giant vines grow lushly, and it is twilight.
It was when it was lush that almost covered a rock.
The abnormality happened in the vines. At night, a hand appeared from the vines, slowly pushing the vines away. A pair of bright eyes looked out for a moment, and a Turkic soldier rushed out from inside.
He was a Sui army soldier wearing Turkic iron armor and a muddy hat. This was the dress of the Turkic Guards.
Immediately afterwards, there were a second person and a third person coming out, and more and more. There were as many as fifty people. They lined up neatly, just like a team of real Turkic patrol soldiers. They lined up towards the north wall.
This is something that the Turks never dreamed of. For more than ten years, the military and civilians of Dali City have been dug up in Qionglong Mountain. It is covered with countless caves, making it a natural wine cellar in Dali City. However, these caves are not used by the military
, it is also impossible, there is a huge military secret hidden here.
That is, a military secret passage was dug out from Qionglong Mountain, leading directly from the inner city to the outer city wall. The exit is at the top of the east city, covered by vines, and another fake wall is built, which is well-disguised, but the plank road is in the west
City wall.
This secret passage was dug and completed in eight years in Daye and has never been used in more than four years. Today is the first time it is used.
Fifty "Turkish sentries" lined up on the city wall and walked quickly. After a moment, they arrived at the northern city wall. There were less than twenty Turkic sentries on the northern city wall in the entire outer city. Their responsibilities were to open and close the city.
Door.
In front of a sentry point, three Turkic sentrymen were leaning against the city wall and chatting boredly. The topic is also inseparable from women and lambs at home.
"Who is it?" A soldier shouted when he saw a group of Turkic soldiers walking in the dark.
"Come on the order of Khan to check the post!"
The other party's tone was extremely harsh. The three Turkic sentries were panicked and stood up straight together.
Fifty 'Turkish soldiers' walked past them, and only a few muffled groans were heard, three bodies were dragged away and replaced with new sentry. Only a quarter of an hour later, all twenty sentries on the city were
Killed, silent.
At this time, countless Sui soldiers wearing Turkic military uniforms surged out of the secret passage, about four or five hundred. They were different from the top fifty people. They looked almost the same as the Turkic people. These were all from the Sui army in Fengzhou.
There were 500 people in Tielle, and they were camel cavalrymen from Fengzhou, all of whom were Qiezi.
They brought a bucket of turbulent oil to the city wall and found an entrance to the east end of the city. The two of them drilled into the city wall and pushed a few bricks from under the city's root for a moment and drilled out. This was also a secret of the city's downtown.
The road is just not a staircase, but a slide, surrounded by a small forest.
These Tieler Sui army carried the turtle oil barrels to the open and dark outer city. They placed the wooden oil barrels on the ground and stabbed the wooden barrel plug with a dagger. The sticky turtle oil flowed out of it, filling it with a full flow.
land.
By chance, they also encountered inquiry from the Turkic soldiers on the other side of the camp, but their difficult appearance from the Turks made them not encounter any doubts. Within an hour, they dumped thousands of barrels of turmeric oil on two high hills.
On top, this is a place where the catapult cannot hit the blind spot and the tinder oil cannot flow. These two areas can occupy at least ten thousand people, and Yang Yuanqing will not let a Turkic army survive.
At the first update, the figure of the Sui army appeared on the empty inner city. Thousands of Sui soldiers raised their huge shields and rushed to the city wall. Then five thousand militia soldiers rushed to the city with turbulent barrels.
These tincture oils were collected from Yan'an County to dig deep wells and were important military resources in Fengzhou. In fact, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, tincture oils were used in wars.
At this time, a hundred heavy trenchers installed on the inner city wall began to squeak. In the panic of the Turkic army, turbulent oil barrels were thrown out and smashed into the outer city. More than a dozen were ignited
The huge fireball also soared into the air and headed towards the outer city.
The fire in the outer city was burning rapidly, and the 30,000 Turkic soldiers who were building a gentle slope were in chaos and fled towards the north camp, but there was also a fire in front of them, and then the camp in the outer city began to burn.
Fires surged into the sky, and thick smoke rolled.
The fire continued to be thrown out from the inner city, and the fire became bigger and bigger. Even the walls of the middle city began to burn. Ten thousand Turkic archers screamed in the fire and ran away from the city to escape, but what was waiting for them was not to fall
Death is engulfed by a fire.
Yang Yuanqing stood on the lookout platform on the top of Qionglong Mountain, silently staring at the outer city gradually engulfed by the fire. During the winter preparation, he had reserved tens of thousands of barrels of turmeric oil, just waiting for this moment.
The air was filled with pungent burnt stinking and thick smoke. The outer city gates were closed. The 40,000 Turkic troops in the outer city had no way to escape. The fire spread, swallowing up groups of desperate Turkic soldiers. The shrill screams were heard.
In the outer city, Yang Yuanqing's eyes were not sympathetic, but endless coldness.
Six thousand Sui soldiers appeared at the top of the outer city. They were lying on the skeleton, holding a crossbow in one hand and covering their mouths and noses with wet linen cloth. Behind them was the Turkic army's outer city camp.
.At this time, flames were already soaring into the sky and heat waves were rolling in.
In the wilderness outside the city, tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers rushed towards the city. They wanted to snatch the city. Open the city gate and let the soldiers in the city escape, but what greeted them was dense raindrops, large and large pieces of arrows.
The Turkic soldiers fell down. The screams and flames in the city made them feel frightened and they were completely decisive. After being ambushed by the Sui army, they turned around and fled, rushing up again and again, and were retreated by crossbow arrows again and again.
Turkic Khan Duji stood in front of the camp gate, looking at the fires rising from the sky three miles away, his eyes were filled with despair. In fact, he thought of the possibility of the Sui army attacking with fire, so he did not allow soldiers to enter.
In the middle city, but he never dreamed that the burning fire of the Sui army could swallow up the entire outer city.
"Khan! I can't kill you, thousands of Sui troops emerged from somewhere and blocked us with arrows."
Duji knew that his forty thousand troops were all over, and a heart-wrenching pain made him unbearable. His eyes turned dark and he fainted on the ground.
"Khan! Khan!" There was a mess in front of the camp.
The sky gradually became brighter, the pungent burnt smell in the air still did not dissipate, and the entire outer city was still blazing with blue smoke.
A team of Sui soldiers emerged from the secret passage. The situation in front of them made many soldiers turn their backs in horror. They dared not take a look again. What kind of hell is that? All 40,000 Turkic soldiers were burned to death in the outer city, and the whole thing was
The outer city was pitch black.
More than 10,000 of them were not burned by the fire. They were squeezed into a narrow open space about two hundred steps wide between the fire and the camp. The tincture did not flow, but they all died, and more than 10,000 people may be
He was tortured to death by the fire, but most of them died of suffocation.
As Yang Yuanqing said before the war, he wanted to make generations of Turks unable to forget the cruel killings of the Battle of Fengzhou.
The cruelty of war lies in the fact that there is no mercy on the battlefield. Any mercy towards the enemy is a crime against oneself. Whether it is the Turkish army or the Sui army, they use the most cruel methods to kill each other and completely eliminate the enemy.
On the same day that the city of Dali was burning, the battle situation in Kawaguchi City reached its last moment.
Ten miles north of Hekou City, the battle between 30,000 Sui cavalry and 4,000 Modao soldiers against nearly 50,000 Turkic cavalry opened.
Li Jing led 14,000 reinforcements from Lingwu County, and cooperated with the 20,000 Sui army in the city, with a total of 34,000 people, commanded by Li Jing, Sima of Fengzhou.
He abnormally used the vanguard of 4,000 Modao Army as his vanguard and set up a large formation. Thirty thousand cavalry were divided into six teams, cooperating with each other, and attacking the enemy from six directions.
The war horses galloped in the wilderness, 50,000 Turkic cavalry covered the sky, swept towards the four thousand Modao Sui army. The 10,000 Sui cavalry guarded on both sides of the Modao formation were like rain, and dense arrows intertwined in the air to form arrows.
Net, Turkic cavalry were shed, and the people and horses fell down while running. The horses ran past the fallen soldiers, and the horses stepped into flesh mud, but the 50,000 cavalry were still powerful, as if they were thriving towards the Sui Dynasty.
Junmo Daojun rushed over.
‘Hundred and fifty steps…thirty steps…twenty steps’
Tens of thousands of Turks finally came to their sight. They had great confidence in themselves and wanted to use ten thousand pounds of force to defeat the heavily armored infantry of the Sui army. Four thousand Modao soldiers were platooned in four rows, one thousand new soldiers were in the third row, and the rest were
Three thousand people have experience in fighting against the Turkic army.
When the enemy had fifty steps, they quickly moved closer, and four thousand heavy armored soldiers leaned against each other. At the moment when the enemy was attacking like a crazi wave, the Modao Army pushed the tail of the long knife rod to the ground and leaned forward.
Half kneeling on the ground, let the Modao and the ground be at an oblique angle. Four thousand Modao are like half-lost forests, stabbing towards each other densely, while the other end is pressed against the ground. They are using the power of the earth to fight.
The first wave of the most powerful Turkic cavalry.
Thousands of war horses neighed miserably, and long blades pierced into their bodies. Many war horses were pierced by Modao, but Modao was extremely hard and did not break. This is why the Modao requires the maximum hardness. They must be able to
Withstand the powerful impact of the cavalry army without breaking or bending.
As the first wave of shock disappeared, the drums of war sounded, and the first row of Qianmo sword soldiers waved the sword like a wall, followed by the second row of soldiers standing up, also like a wall, and the third row,
The fourth row advances in turn, one person in front falls and the one behind fills up.
They cooperated with tacit understanding and resisted the impact of the Turkic cavalry with their collective strength. They also swung their swords to kill, cut off the heads of horses, and cut off the bodies of soldiers. Under their steps, corpses piled up and blood flowed into a river, killing the Turkic cavalrymen overturned their horses and killed them, and killed them.
It was a heavy blow. At this time, Li Jing saw that the Turkic wings were empty, and immediately ordered four Sui cavalry to come from all directions, with the Modao Army as the core, and attack the Turkic cavalry from six directions.
The cavalry fought fiercely, and the horses were neighing. The Turkic cavalry used thousands of people as teams, spears, swords and ropes as weapons. Under the command of his brother Ashinadu, they fought with the Sui army in Hekou City. This was a jing
The sharp Turkic cavalry was their expertise in field combat with cavalry.
Both sides were in an orderly manner, always maintaining their formation, and refused to lose easily in the hands of the opponent. This battle lasted for three days and three nights, and the two sides confronted each other more than ten times. Nearly 10,000 Sui army was killed and Modao Chong's Armored Army was also killed and injured.
Thousands of people, but the Sui army became more and more braver as they fought, while the Turkic army showed signs of fatigue and gradually could not hold on.
Although the Turkic Army is the overlord of the grassland and has superior military strength, in front of the Sui Army, which is well-trained, well-equipped, and has 4,000 heavy armored Mojian soldiers, this fierce Turkic Army eventually lost, with nearly half of the casualties.
Finally, the entire line collapsed, the Turkic cavalry was defeated, the Sui army chased and killed tens of thousands of enemies, and Ashinaduo led less than 10,000 remaining troops to flee east.
At this point, after nearly a month of defense of Fengzhou, only less than 300,000 Turkic cavalry left to attack Fengzhou, with a large-scale loss of nearly 70%, and 200,000 Turkic soldiers died in the land of Fengzhou.
But the Sui army in Fengzhou also paid a heavy price, losing more than 50,000 people, of which 42,000 were killed and more than 8,000 were disabled for life, but they did not surrender and stubbornly defeated the alien army. The Red Flag of the Sui Dynasty was
Fengzhou has always stood firm.
Chapter completed!