Chapter 121
East vs. West
In the afternoon, the scorching sun was setting in the west, and the grassland army, with their backs to the sun, launched a tentative attack on the Great Wall!
Those huge siege weapons that were assembled, which the Taiyue people had never seen before, hurled huge stones one after another, forcing the defenders of the Great Wall to hide in the city walls and dare not show their heads.
Liu Buqi suddenly realized that those machines were actually catapults!
Then, a sense of crisis came over me!
The catapults used by the Steppe Khanate looked strange. According to the Taiyue Dynasty, which was completely fictional but parallel to the history that they were familiar with, catapults of this appearance should not have appeared under normal logic!
So when I saw the grassland reinforcements assembling just now, I didn’t recognize them immediately!
This illustrates a very obvious point: this group of reinforcements was not assembled within the territory of the Steppe Khanate! Instead, they were likely returning soldiers from the expedition to the Western Yuezhi!
Because this type of catapult should have a more resounding name "Huihui Cannon"! It is a typical product of the Islamic sphere of influence!
If this group of reinforcements was indeed the return of the grassland expeditionary force, then were they just a small group of soldiers transporting spoils of war who happened to be there? Or had Yesen's army already begun to turn back?
This question must be clarified! Because once it is confirmed that the large army of the Steppe Khanate has returned, then let alone the current Great Wall defense line, even if the Lushan defense line is added, it will be difficult to resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops!
Yue Lingxi's Youzhou army, which is fighting in Yehe, may need to prepare to withdraw immediately!
Fortunately, the Great Wall beneath our feet was built through the continuous consolidation of three dynasties and thousands of years! Even the gap that had been occupied by the grassland for many days was only demolished for a few dozen meters!
Although these Huihui cannons look powerful, they are actually difficult to cause substantial damage to the Great Wall, and the damage to the soldiers defending the city is also minimal!
However, the impact on the civilian recruits was enormous! At least in the first wave of siege defense, most of these recruits might not be useful!
The enemy's movements can be observed very clearly from the city wall. Under the cover of the Huihui cannons, a large number of enemy troops are already very close to the city wall!
When the stones gradually stopped, the veterans rushed out suddenly, drawing their bows and arrows, and brought out gold, hot oil, stones and rolling logs all at once!
The smell of blood and stench filled the Great Wall for a while. Although the defenders' advantage of being on high ground had been largely offset by the Huihui cannons, the grassland people could only use corpses to "pave the road" with a distance of only tens of meters!
Soon, a few grassland soldiers carrying ladders rushed to the foot of the Great Wall and began to climb. What followed was a close combat along the battle line that stretched for several miles!
Liu Buqi's focus was always on the gap that could not be filled at all, which would definitely be the focus of the attack!
A team of grassland soldiers, clad in luxurious heavy armor, took advantage of the tense situation around them and rushed towards the gap, facing the arrows! Liu Buqi once again confirmed that the grassland reinforcements must come from the western battlefield!
Heavy infantry! Regardless of gender, any modern person with a basic understanding of medieval Europe can immediately recognize that this type of soldier is completely different from those in the East!
Even though the war was so brutal, Liu Buqi couldn't help but look up at the distant west!
What kind of enemy was Yesen facing on the battlefield of Dayuezhi? Or, what was actually happening in the West?
The Roman Empire? The Crusades? The Arab Empire? The Steppe Khanate? The Central Asian War?
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The heavy infantry used as the vanguard soon approached the gap. These steel monsters, who were not afraid of arrows, were throwing corpses into the big pit in the gap. Their intention was obvious, which was to destroy the defense at the gap!
Liu Buqi sent Gongsun Wuhui, who was beside her, out. She had previously selected five hundred soldiers with some martial arts skills from the army!
Most of these soldiers were those who failed in Yue Lingxi's previous selection of "Special Forces". Now they were being used by Liu Buqi as a simplified version of the "Special Forces"!
Of course, Gongsun Wuhui has a more important task, which is to capture these heavy infantry alive!
He waved his hand again and called Guan Ying and Xiao Junzi up. These cavalrymen were gathering their strength. As the saying goes, defending without attacking is a dead end. After a few brief instructions, the two men went down to prepare!
A martial artist like Gongsun Wuhui is an absolute threat on the battlefield! Under Liu Buqi's guidance, the five hundred men she leads are truly capable of using any possible means!
On the one hand, he specifically targeted the enemy's defenseless eyes, and on the other hand, with his nimble body movements, he scattered ropes all over the ground around these heavy infantrymen!
Afterwards, the soldiers squatting behind the city wall rushed forward again and tightened the ropes on the ground. The disadvantages of the heavy infantry, such as difficulty in movement and turning, were immediately highlighted. From time to time, soldiers were tripped and could not get up at all, and could only wait to die on the ground.
Zhuanqu Yanshi had never expected that the iron can army that had been praised as so powerful by the reinforcements would be completely wiped out in the blink of an eye!
He hurriedly ordered the siege troops to desperately move closer to the breach to rescue the heavy infantry! But it was too late. He could only watch as the Youzhou people carried the iron men rolling on the ground back to the Great Wall!
Zhuanqu Yanshi shook her head indifferently. It was said that the Khan had spent a lot of effort to break through the defense line of this strange army, but now it seems that this is nothing!
If Liu Buqi knew what Zhuanqu Yanshi was thinking at the moment, he would definitely laugh and scold her, "Country bumpkin!"
Although the Steppe Khanate boasts unparalleled cavalry and archery, this heavy infantry is a powerful counter to cavalry! A fight with Yesen would be a struggle, with twice the effort and half the results, and extremely difficult!
However, these bulky guys were basically sitting ducks when pitted against Eastern infantry! They were completely useless in city attacks and defenses!
Therefore, it is impossible for such useless soldiers to appear in Eastern civilization!
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The first round of siege ended in the first battle in the East where the heavy infantry were completely wiped out!
Both sides were busy gathering their camps, treating the wounded, and licking their wounds, but Liu Buqi immediately came to a pile of iron cans rolling on the ground!
He pointed casually, and the soldiers who gathered around out of curiosity immediately stepped forward, removed the iron lump, revealing the panicked grassland people inside!
After learning about the situation of the grassland army in detail, he questioned more than a dozen people in succession, even using some means of torture.
Liu Buqi finally breathed a sigh of relief! Yesen's army did not return. Compared to the tough bone of Youzhou in the east, the Dayuezhi in the west was like a meticulous girl encountering a gangster!
The wolf-like and tiger-like grassland army plundered countless wealth crazily and occupied most of the Yuezhi territory in a short time.
Then Yesen inexplicably went to war with an army that suddenly appeared and he had never seen before. It was said that they were the king of Dayuezhi, hired from the farther west at a huge price!
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