Chapter 690: Explosives
Yanmen
Outside the city, Xiao Kun came to ask, "Deputy General Zhou, are we still attacking the city today?"
Others also started talking at once.
"Those damn Xianbei barbarians are resisting even harder."
"They had already accepted their fate before, but recently they probably thought reinforcements were coming and thought they were up to it again."
Zhou Da touched his chin. In this case, they must attack the city.
Chen Jinlong and Meng Jingfeng's team went to ambush the reinforcements, and even Liu Ye led his team to provide support in case of any changes.
When Liu Ye left, he gave him full authority over the siege.
Calculating the time, Zhou Da guessed that the fighting had already started.
He looked at the Yanmen defenders who were resisting stubbornly, and his eyes rolled. "Attack the city! We need to increase our strength!"
In the evening, Zhu Dazhuang reported in a muffled voice, "Deputy General Zhou, it's evening, and we've finished throwing all the Molotov cocktails for today."
"Hmm, we've been attacking the city for two hours already? Fine, that's all for today, let's call it a day!"
The soldiers of the Jintai Army's personal guards began to retreat in an orderly manner, not at all afraid that the Xianbei soldiers from Yanmen would rush out.
"Retreat! The Jintai Army has finally retreated!"
The Xianbei soldiers cheered softly and suppressedly.
Helan Yan felt uncomfortable listening to this, and felt even more uncomfortable when he looked at the devastated city after the bombardment by the Jintai army.
Helan Yan was a general stationed at Yanmen, and his life was very difficult during this period.
All this is because Pingzhou’s siege weapons are too powerful.
Originally, the phrase "strong soldiers and strong horses" was used to describe the Xianbei people. Their Xianbei soldiers were tall and strong, and faced with the enemy attacking the city, they were not afraid at all, and they could overturn the ladders and people!
At the same time, their arms were strong and their range was great. Generally speaking, in long-range attacks like shooting, the Xianbei were superior to the Han. Sometimes, Han arrows would not even touch their insteps before they were already within the Xianbei's range.
The siege troops from Pianpingzhou seemed like an accident. Their long-range attack capability was not much inferior to that of the Xianbei.
In other words, compared with the soldiers attacking the city outside Pingzhou, their Xianbei abilities were not superior!
This is outrageous.
In addition, the Jintai army responsible for the siege is so abominable!
They didn't engage in close combat with their Xianbei soldiers at all. Ladders were useless. They just stood on tall spliced ladders and threw things at them!
The stones thrown by the catapults completely crushed the city walls they had reinforced.
The most terrifying thing was the glass bottles they threw at us. In Pingzhou, these glass bottles are called Molotov cocktails.
They knew that Pingzhou could make glass, but no one knew what was inside this glass bottle. It was so lethal!
The Molotov cocktails they threw either hit people or objects, or exploded in the air.
Anyone who is hit will suffer severe burns and the fire on their body cannot be put out.
It exploded in the air, sending broken glass flying everywhere and attacking the soldiers defending the city.
Helan Yan had thought about sending troops out of the city to engage in close combat with them and eliminate this attacking army.
But the teams that were sent out never returned.
After two or three times, he stopped sending troops out of the city and just stayed in hiding.
At this time, the soldier who was cleaning up the mess asked him, "General Helan, when will our reinforcements arrive?"
Helan Yan soothed them, "It will be soon. It should be within the next two days. Everyone, hold on a little longer."
Now he only hopes that reinforcements will arrive quickly so that he can kill those hateful guys outside one by one like cutting melons and vegetables!
These guys don’t fight in close combat when attacking a city. What city are they attacking?
At the same time, he thought sourly in his heart, they are fighting like this and wasting war supplies, doesn't the female governor of Pingzhou do anything about it?
The Sun family soldiers who were fighting guerrilla warfare in the wild far away in Xinxing said that they loved this kind of prosperous war very much.
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After dividing the troops into two groups, Yuchi Rui led 25,000 soldiers and horses to advance in an orderly manner.
Suddenly, the scout team in front stopped and one of them turned back.
"What's wrong?" Yuchi Rui asked.
"General, there is no ambush, but the road ahead has been dug up."
"Dug it out?"
"General, you'll know if you go and take a look." The young scout's expression was indescribable.
Yuchi Rui squeezed his horse's belly and drove it forward, and his personal guards followed.
When he saw a long section of official road ahead that had been dug up, he fell silent.
"Needless to say, this road must have been dug up by the people from Pingzhou. How despicable!"
Looking at this dug-up road, it was like a chasm. If it wasn't repaired, the cavalry couldn't pass through, so they had to take a detour.
It really lacks virtue.
"Everyone be careful!" Yuchi Rui asked everyone to be alert.
He rode his horse and looked around.
But it was no use, they had already entered the ambush area of the Jintai army.
Meng Jingfeng, Lu Dayou, Feng Shuo and others each led a team of cavalry and appeared like ghosts on their periphery.
It was indeed an ambush!
"Form a line!" Yuchi Rui ordered, "Who are you? I, Yuchi Rui, will not kill nameless people with my sword!"
Meng Jingfeng and others looked at each other. Who is arguing with you? Don’t you know that you want to delay time?
"You can ask the King of Hell about this question after you die!"
Meng Jingfeng didn't give them any time to respond after he finished speaking. With a long beep, soldiers on horseback rushed towards them from three directions.
Three people form a unit and rush forward in a triangular formation.
"What is the Jintai army doing?" The Xianbei soldiers were confused. Did they want to rely on these dozens of cavalry to disperse their army?
These people didn't notice that the leading cavalrymen were carrying a square package of items on their horses, and the cavalrymen on both sides were guards.
Just when dozens of cavalrymen of the Jintai army were charging, Yuchi Rui gave an order and the same number of cavalrymen from the Xianbei side rushed out to intercept them.
However, the Jintai Army's cavalry suicide squad members did not entangle with them at all. With the help of their comrades, they broke through their blockade and rushed straight towards the cavalry army. When they were almost at the same distance, they directly ignited the explosives on their horses' backs and quickly jumped aside.
boom--
boom--
boom--
This is a battle that will cause mountains to collapse and earth to split!
This was a bloody battle!
Yuchi Rui and Yang Min escaped with the remaining troops and joined forces.
This was what they had agreed upon when they divided their forces. If they all encountered an ambush and were defeated, they would turn back.
After the reunion, Yuchi Rui learned that Yang Min's troops had also encountered the same ambush. In fact, the crisis they faced was even more serious because Qin Sheng happened to be taking the mobile team to Chen Jinlong's side.
"Where's Yuchi Xun?"
"He was shot to death by Qin Sheng with an arrow." Yang Min was extremely grateful that when the troops were divided, he was still wearing the young general's armor, so he was not targeted by Qin Sheng.
Yuchi Rui: ...
When the troops were divided, he arranged his cousin to serve as Yang Min's deputy general, hoping to gain some credit for it, but he unexpectedly lost his life.
Yuchi Rui didn't say anything, and neither did Yang Min.
Compared to what they had experienced and heard, Yuchi Xun was nothing.
The two men were still in shock, and the soldiers behind them were even more terrified. It was so scary!
"Is this Pingzhou's secret weapon?" Yuchi Rui said as if talking to himself.
"That should be it."
"Is this the reason they launched a massive attack on the Xianbei?"
Isn’t that the confidence?
They encountered a round of bombing and were then surrounded by the Jintai Army's cavalry. Out of 50,000 soldiers and horses, only 3,000 to 4,000 people escaped.
Both of them were in a heavy mood.
"General Yuchi, are you still going to support General Helan?" Yang Min asked softly.
Yuchi Rui: "Yanmen cannot be defended. Let's go back to Leping and inform the Khan that Pingzhou has weapons of mass destruction!"
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