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Chapter 44 Blood Sacrifice

Yelutela had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward.W     w W                                                                                                              �

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The CoM Tiger Camp encountered the most severe test since its establishment. They arranged six lines of defense in front of the position: Iron Gangjiao, Horse Resistance Formation, Trench, Spear Formation, Horse Knife and Modao Team. Each line of defense can cause major damage to the enemy, but no one can know whether it can stop the rolling iron flow. This is how the war is. The strength of both sides determines the victory or defeat.

For the last glimmer of life, the Khitans were completely crazy! The iron horse galloped like thunder, and the heaven and earth were trembling.

Yelu Yundeshi saw his brothers and tribesmen running towards the land of life, but was accidentally buried in the torrent of the Shiwei people. The Shiwei people were like two hammers falling from the sky, instantly determining the fate of the Khitans in the low-lying areas.

Twenty thousand people fought in one place, the air was so thick that it could not be dissolved, and the entire valley was in a state of madness and restlessness. Blood and death filled every corner of the world, everything stopped, and all the rest were the collision of soldiers and the endless struggle.

The pressure Yu Chongchong was actually the greatest. On his front were three thousand already crazy Khitan cavalry. They were driven by a primitive belief and rushed towards death without hesitation! The soldiers used their flesh and blood to break the sharp horse-rewarding horses, filled the trenches with their corpses, and moved forward in the face of the dense spear formations. The iron horn, horse-rewarding horse-rewarding formations, trenches, and spear formations were broken one after another, and the saber and the Modao team could not stop the impact of the Khitan cavalry. The soldiers of the Tiger Camp could only use their flesh and blood to support them.

All the elite troops of the Tiger Camp were released, and even the chefs and the handlebars in the rear picked up swords and guns and went into battle. Yu Chongchong shot and killed six Khitan soldiers who were trying to rush up. The enemy was too close, so he dropped his bow and arrow and pulled out his waist, leading the guards to fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Although his archery skills were unparalleled and his sword skills were cold, he was not willing to use swords and guns on the battlefield. A true commander, his value is not just to lead by example and charge into battle.

The Khitans were getting more and more frustrated. They had exhausted their last strength in their lives and were still unable to break through the defense line of the tiger camp. Now they were dead, and the breath of despair was shrouded in everyone's hearts. They had to accept their failure. Yelu Tila's heart was dark. He was the youngest Yilijin in the Khitan history. Half of it came from his own talent, and the other half was also the one that his father had won for himself by ending his political life in advance.

He had also achieved a series of victories before, but all these "great achievements" will be destroyed. But now everything is over, and he will be the first Yilijin to die on the battlefield. If he falls into the hands of the enemy and is tortured by them like a dog, it will be a shame that the Khitans have never experienced before. His father and family will be shamed for all their lives because of themselves.

When Yelutela thought of death, he would rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the enemy. He put the scimitar on his neck, his hands trembled a little, and his will began to shake.

"What else can I miss you?" Yelu Tiela looked at the tribe's people for the last time, clenched the hilt of the knife and scratched the neck...

Yelu Tiela did not die. At the last moment, Yelu Geba led his seventeen disciples to arrive in time. Yelu Geba shot Yelu Tiela's arm with an arrow, which was the only way to save him at that time. After a short debate, Yelu Geba and his disciples protected the commander and fled to the northwest. The "Three Masters of Youyun" took the lead, and wherever the arrows went, the enemy cavalry fell to the ground one after another.

This is an era of heroes. Eighteen warriors bravely defended the last trace of dignity of the Khitans with their blood.

Yu Chongchong watched Yelu Tiela escape, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he could do nothing. The guards had never seen the coach so disobediently, and Yu Chongchong was extremely anxious. As the coach, he could not leave his post without his position and act as a hero for a while, but as a man, his blood was full of the passion of a hero.

He grabbed his carved bow and shot an arrow at the eighteen warriors with all his strength. The bow was originally owned by Meng Bochang. Meng Bochang gave it to Yang Hao when he left Fengzhou. Before the war, Yang Hao gave him to Yu Chongchong himself.

This place is called Muyaling. Yelu Tiela only realized many years later that the opponent who defeated him was not Yang Hao, but Yu Chongchong. He engraved the three words "Muyaling" on the hilt of his knife, reminding him of his miserable defeat today. In this battle, the 10,000 Tama army lost 90% of the time, and Muyaling was filled with the bodies of the Khitans. After the war, Qu Qingquan recruited local people to bury the bodies, and each one buried was 50,000. This item was spent in total 2,500 taels of silver. Five thousand Khitans buried their bones here, and about 4,000 remained as prisoners.

Yelu Yundeshi was one of the prisoners. When the defeat was decided, the twelve-year-old boy did not abandon the wounded soldiers and fled alone. Then he saw the most terrifying thing he had seen in his life. He saw a team of iron men with blood-red skulls embroidered on their armor riding an iron horse like a sea of ​​iron horses. The horse's hooves shook the earth, and the three hundred Khitan warriors who served as the rear guard trembled in front of the rolling iron stream, and the resistance was crushed in an instant.

The name of the Kurube Heavy Armored Cavalry Regiment was deeply imprinted in the mind of this young man and accompanied him throughout his life.

The war was not over yet. Under the escort of Yelu Geba, Yelu Tiela miraculously crossed the blockade lines and came to the old city of Tiande Army to meet Yelu Guluo. Yelu Guluo had built more than 20 "triangle houses" at this moment and was slowly sieging the city. When he learned of Yelu Tiela's defeat, the veteran Khitan seemed extremely angry. He waved his fists and shouted: "You must not just retreat like this. You must teach the Tang people a lesson." He issued a death order to the siege troops: the city must be attacked within three days. The order had just been issued and was immediately recovered, and the three days were changed to one day.

Thirty thousand Khitans surrounded the old city of Tiande Army, and the "triangle house" opened its stance to attack the city from all sides. This kind of instrument had great destructive power to the earthen wall. In just half a day, the wall of the old city was decimated for a section, about eighteen feet long. The Khitans swarmed in from the gap and occupied the old city in an hour. The defenders were about 700, most of whom died in battle. More than 100 captured people were tied to wooden stakes and burned to death with fire.

Yelu Guluo was determined to take advantage of the situation to attack Jiuniang Pass, but when they arrived at Jiuniang Pass, most of the Khitans were relieved. Jiuniang Pass was built against the mountains and waters, and the city wall was made of huge stones, with the highest point being twenty feet and the shortest point being more than ten feet. The high city wall alone is nothing, but more importantly, Jiuniang Pass was built against the Yellow River, and outside the pass was the Yellow River. In other words, if you want to solve the problem, you must first take a boat to cross the Yellow River. This section of the river is not wide, and the water flow is also smooth, but without a boat, everything is useless.

In March, the weather was still very cold in the northern country, and many soldiers were still wearing winter fur coats, making it difficult for them to wade in the water to attack the city. These soldiers were used to riding horses on the grassland, and many people no longer knew what they would do next after leaving the horseback.

Yelu Tiela ordered the withdrawal of the army, but Yelu Guluo refused to listen, and the uncle and nephew had a dispute. Logically speaking, Yelu Tiela was the chief general appointed by Khan himself, holding the Jin order for the purpose of communicating troops. Yelu Guluo should obey unconditionally, but Yelu Guluo was a veteran with outstanding achievements and could not see clearly in his eyes the "little hairy child" in his early twenties. In addition, he was Yelu Tiela's uncle, and more importantly, he had a 30,000 army in his hands, while Yelu Tiela had only eighteen people left.

The dispute ended with Yelu Guluo's opinion prevailing. Yelu Guluo ordered the soldiers to tie the rafts. Most of the soldiers had never done this job, learned and did it now, not to mention inefficiency, but more importantly, there was no suitable wood around. All this affected Yelu Guluo's subordinates, and the veteran became extremely angry, but he could do nothing. At this time, Yelu Tiela calmed down. While he was recuperating, he did things within his ability. He reduced himself from the lord to Yelu Guluo's deputy.

Yelu Guluo tried his best to build more than 200 rafts and lined them up on the other side of Jiuniang Pass. The defenders of Jiuniang Pass raised new questions one after another: No one would use "this kind of weird thing in Guli". Some even refused to board the raft. The frustrated Yelu Guluo almost collapsed. He was furious and killed ten centurions who refused to board the raft in a row, and punished two complaining commanders as slaves.

The battle to attack Jiuniang Pass lasted for two days. In the past two days, in addition to the defenders of the Tiedang Camp, the Navy Battalion also came to assist in the battle. In addition, the silhouettes and crane-shaped boats were moving around. The river outside Jiuniang Pass was full of corpses, and the clear Yellow River water was dyed red by blood. The Khitans suffered losses and generals, and Jiuniang Pass stood tall. At this time, the Xining army suddenly emerged from the nearby mountains and forests and surrounded the Khitan army from all directions. The Khitans still had more than 20,000 people, but almost all the generals believed that if they went to war with the Xining army, they would undoubtedly be defeated.

The continuous defeats made the Khitans feel a sense of failure. In addition, the food route was cut off and the epidemic in the army was prevalent, and morale was extremely low.

Yelu Guluo, who was as strong as a cow, suddenly became ill and the power of the army fell on Yelute Tiela. The first thing Yelute Tiela did when he took over military power was to withdraw his troops. In order to ensure that the army could withdraw from the Tiande Army safely without losses, Yelute Tiela chose the sparsely populated western route. This route was to go north along the Hebei River, creating the illusion of being ready to cross the river and advancing west at any time, confusing the Fengzhou defenders.

The most important condition for achieving this strategy is to ensure that Datongchuan is in his own hands. In order to attract the main force of the Xining Army, Yelu Guluo only left a few hundred soldiers in Datongchuan. Such a little force obviously could not stop Yang Hao's footsteps. If Datongchuan fell, the Khitan army heading south would suddenly fall into a desperate situation.
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