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CoM The hateful Khitans enclose them like cattle and sheep. They hated them, but they had nothing to do except hate. After being surrounded, they had fought. Their cavalry and infantry fought many times, either completely wiped out or returned in a defeat. Their courage to fight disappeared little by little, and finally disappeared!

The lie fabricated by the nobles that "the enemy will retreat soon" was self-defeating.

They did not retreat in summer, and in autumn, and they still showed no signs of retreating as winter was about to come.

The Khitans who besieged the city must have received guidance from experts. Their technique of besieging the city is very sophisticated. Since summer, they have dug trenches two miles away from the city wall. They are ten feet wide and ten feet deep. The bottom of the ditch is densely covered with pile marks. If the people fall down, they will definitely die. The pile marks are made of wooden and iron, and more are bamboo sticks. There are no bamboos in the hundreds of miles around Dashi City. I don’t know where these Khitans got the bamboo sticks.

The Khitans used the soil from the digging trenches to build a wall of earth along the outside of the trenches, which was 1 zhang high, and a earthen castle was set up every 100 feet. The shape of the earthen castle looked like a miniature bowl tower.

It seems that the Khitans were ready for a long-term siege. Their arrogant and ignorant commander actually tried to swallow Dashi City in one bite. This is simply a joke. It is important to know that Dashi City has never been broken by foreign enemies since its completion. The morale of the city defenders was very high. They decided to give the Khitans a bloody lesson and let them see what a "city that never falls for a thousand years" is.

But the wise man had to consider a question: Dashi City has not experienced a great war for nearly a hundred years. Can the glory of the past be repelled? The answer is obviously impossible. How courage and courage did these Khitans dare to siege the city under the nose of the Son of the Son of the Sky Wolf? The Son of the Sky Wolf turned a blind eye to them, which shows that they must have reached some kind of private deal. This move alone shows their skills.

"The 'City that Never Falls for a Thousand Years' will not be broken by anyone."

At the beginning of the battle, everyone firmly believed in this. But after several victories of Dashi City, the Khitans who besieged the city first shook this belief. If the cavalry of Dashi City were as weak as women, would their seemingly tall city walls be as unbearable as cheese?

"Dashi City has encountered a strong enemy, a strong enemy that has not been encountered in a century."

A month after the siege of the city, the defenders of Dashi City realized this. In another month, this panic spread throughout the city. This awareness originated from the legendary cavalry that was killed without returning. Dashi City has a cavalry of the famous grassland. The knights wore dazzling bright silver armor and silver-white cloaks streaked with golden threads. Their horses were all white dragon foals. This gorgeous cavalry team, known as the "Sky Horse Knight", is the pride of Dashi City, but they have never participated in any decent battles. At best, it is a guard of honor, but the residents of Dashi City are superstitious about them and believe that they are brave and invincible. During the siege of the city for a month, under the pressure of strong public opinion, the city lord Kraje sent the "Sky Horse Knight" against his will.

In order not to completely shake the morale of the army because of the defeat of the "Sky Horse Knight", Krare made a prelude and made a noise, saying that the night sky starry sky shows that the "Sky Horse Knight" is now in the weakest period in a thousand years and is not suitable to go to war. If you barely go to war, the victory or defeat may be difficult to predict. No one believes this "prophecy". The fanatical residents believe that even if the "Sky Horse Knight" is in the weakest period in a thousand years, they will definitely live up to expectations and beat the Khitans' butts.

When the "Sky Horse Knight" officially went to fight, Kraje played a big and small trick again, such as a gust of wind blowing the military flag, and the leading knight suddenly fell off the horse, warning the public that the "Sky Horse Knight" will have a good chance of fighting this time, and this is the will of heaven and cannot be saved by human power.

Although the article was done well, it was so frustrating that the "Sky Horse Knight" was defeated. The shadow of failure still made people breathless.

"Will the Great Rock City be broken?"

Five months after the siege, this problem was already in front of everyone. Although the defenders felt the huge pressure, the siegemen were not under a small pressure. Apart from the battle to wipe out the "Sky Horse Knight", the siegemen did not actually achieve any decent victory. After tasting several failures, the defenders hurried in the city and defended with danger. Except for the Zuoying, the other battalions, did not dare to try it. Even the Zuoying, which was known as the invincible weapon, had completely stopped under the Dashi City.

Zuoying attacked the city three times and suffered three defeats. Zheng Huatai, who was personally in front of the front line, was shot in the cheek and almost died.

The winter of this year was extremely cold, with heavy snow, and it was falling for half a month. The snow was covered with knees and people could not move. The road to Datong River was blocked by wind and snow from the end of October. Although the grain in the military camp was piled up like mountains, the food and grass officer swears: "The food and grass can last for a year for the military. Everyone just eats it openly. How much can you eat if you eat it openly? If there is not enough food, you will chop my head." Having said that, the panic caused by the cut off of the food route still spread rapidly in the battalions.

If you cut your head, you can use a bird to cut off your head. Look how many pots of soup can you make with a big head?

So the "law enforcement team" came into being. It was a special team directly under the command of the commander. There were about a hundred people and had the privilege of "judging immediately". That is, after arresting those who are shaken will, they can be tried immediately. According to the trial results, five types of punishments can be imposed: whip, rod, cage, behead, and thorn. In October, they killed more than 200 shaken people, and the sentenced people exceeded 600. In November, this number doubled. In the first six days of December, the "law enforcement team" killed three digits every day.

At the end of the month, when the law enforcement team leader Mu Hong reported to Yang Hao, his face was as gray as dust, and his face was haggard. His lips trembled and said a number: 2,420 people. The "law enforcement team" killed a total of 2,420 shaken people in the 27 days of December. After the report, Mu Hong was crying. Yang Hao patted his shoulder and said, "It's hard for you. I heard that you have been suffering from rheumatism recently, and you have to take care of it day and night. Let's go back and take care of it."

Yang Hao felt that Mu Hong was weak and could not bear to make things difficult for this honest man anymore. He replaced him. The newly appointed commander of the law enforcement team was Bo Lai. When he took over the bronze axe symbolizing authority from Mu Hong, he had three days before the end of December. In the last three days, he killed 888 people in one breath. This number, which seemed extremely auspicious to the merchants, turned into a mutiny.

The mutiny began from the inner military camp and quickly spread to the right camp, front camp and back camp. There were thousands of soldiers involved in the rebellion, which was twice as good as the rebellion soldiers. The rebels rushed into the law enforcement team's base, released the detained soldiers, and stripped the soldiers who could catch them one by one. The rebellion began at midnight and lasted until the early morning of the second day. Six hundred barracks were burned in the chaos, killing more than a thousand people. Early the next morning, the rebellion was suppressed by the town. One hundred and thirty perpetrators were beheaded, and one thousand two hundred people were imprisoned.

The Dashi City defenders judged from the flames that the Wuhuai tribe had civil strife, so they urgently mobilized troops to attack the defending camps and tried to rescue the strife. After losing all previous battles, the defenders were slow to move and started mobilizing from midnight to open the city gate until dawn of Tianma. At that time, the civil strife of the Wuhuai tribe had just been quelled and people were unstable. Yang Hao ordered the inner military camps, the right camps, and the front camps were still in control, and they were not allowed to fight in the camps. He personally led the teaching camps, and the Yushe camps fought with the left camps.

Yang Hao was wearing a helmet and armor, holding a long spear, and riding a black horse surrounded everyone. The battle formation was not yet ready. A loud "rumbling" sound came from the front, and he saw broken snow flying like jade, and thirty infantry phalanxes emerged from the wide city gate in a hazy way, with about a hundred people in each formation.

The soldiers in the square formation were all wearing heavy armor. Except for a pair of eyes, no inch of skin was exposed. The outermost layer of the queue was sixty shield players, holding shields in one hand and holding a long spear to form a square iron barrel array. In the iron barrel array were thirty crossbows and ten spearmen. The crossbows were equipped with a long bow and a continuous shooting crossbow. Each crossbowman had 180 long arrows and 320 crossbow arrows. Ten spearmen held two meters long spears, specifically used to attack the approaching cavalry. The array was about ten feet apart, like scales intertwined, and they were horns.

Teams of people rushed over, shouting in unison, sounding like thunder.

Yang Hao exclaimed, "Is this the iron armored army formation in Dashi City? How about ours?" Zheng Huatai said, "It's incomparable. They have invested a lot of money. This kind of iron armor costs 1,800 taels, and the materials are exquisite, which is comparable to the school uniform of our generals. The workmanship is extremely exquisite. The knife and knife cannot be cut through, the arrows cannot be shot through, and it is quite difficult to deal with."

Zhang Bozhong twisted his beard and sneered: "I don't know if it can be burned thoroughly with fire."

Yang Hao smiled and said, "Even if you can't burn it all, you're probably OK to burn it to mature." The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

There is an iron armored army in Dashi City, which Yang Hao had known for a long time. He also asked Zhang Bozhong to find a set of them, and he put them on his body and let Dongfang Lan cut with a knife and shoot with an arrow. Sure enough, it was impossible to damage the slightest amount.

Iron will be melted by fire. Many people understand this principle. Fire can roast people to death. People almost understand this principle. Yang Hao thought that no matter how thick the iron armor you wear, it would still kill you. In the past, Zhuge Wuhou burned vine armored soldiers, and today I would make a fire to burn iron armored soldiers to take a look. He and Zhang Bozhong figured out the method of breaking the Iron Armored Army. Zheng Huatai was not involved, but he knew the situation. Yang Hao informed him several times, and Zhang Bozhong also informed him. Even if no one reported it, he would know that there were always some admirers who would risk their lives to reveal some secrets in the army to him.

Zheng Huatai's deputy general Zheng Ye waved the order flag, and the commander shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow." Hundreds of archers from the left camp stepped forward, and the arrows fell like rain. The infantry formation immediately surrounded the shield like an iron barrel. The arrows fell on it like rain to hit the banana and slid down one after another. As soon as the rain of arrows passed, a team of crossbow soldiers stepped forward again and shot a round of crossbow arrows. The iron armored infantry formation had no time to retract the iron shield, and withstood the wave of crossbow arrows with their bodies, with only a slight casualty.

The soldiers of the former army were shocked to see this and retreated one after another, while the Iron Armored Army took advantage of the victory. At this time, the Yushe Camp was dispatched. The current Yushe Camp not only had high shooting skills, but also had excellent skills at the moment. The strength of the riding and shooting was no less than that of the elites of the Zuoying Camp. This time, the Yushe Camp dispatched two hundred cavalry, like a butterfly, and kept harassing the iron armored infantry formation and shot arrows. The feather arrow shot on the iron shield, like rain hitting the banana leaves. Occasionally, soldiers fell down in the formation, but it did not affect their progress.

In this way, under the constant harassment of the Yushe Camp, the Iron Armored Infantry gradually lost patience and became manic, like a crazy bull being led by the Yushe Camp, step by step into the "fire pit" set up by Yang Hao for them. It was a camp, and except that the terrain was slightly lower than the surroundings, it was no different from other camps. If there was any difference, it was that there was nothing else in the camp except for the firewood soaked with tinder oil.

When the Yuzhai Battalion "escorted" the armored infantry formation into the "fire pit", Zheng Huatai, who was in charge of the command of the front enemy, looked at Yang Hao. Yang Hao stared at the distance in a blank look, and the people stood there motionless. Zheng Ye carefully reminded Zheng Huatai's infantry formation that had entered the "fire pit". If they did not make a decision immediately, they would quickly escape the "fire pit" and kill towards the Central Army camp. If this is true, they might be as powerful as they could not stop it.

Zhang Bozhong coughed and reminded Yang Hao: "The enemy has fallen into the trap, please make a decision early."

Yang Hao seemed to wake up from a big dream and quickly said, "Then let's start."

After ordering to reach every gunner, Zheng Huatai personally raised the order flag and shouted loudly: "Start the cannon!" With a command, he heard the sound of thunder, hundreds of large fireballs flew out from the east and south directions, and flew into the air and took off to the infantry phalanx in the "fire pit". The fireballs were burning tinctures (unrefined oil) jars, falling to the ground, tinctures splashed everywhere, and the fire bloomed everywhere with the splashed tincture oil.

The infantry formation was suddenly in chaos, and the iron armor was indestructible but could not withstand the fire. For a moment, the formation was in chaos and retreated one after another. Unfortunately, the iron armor was too thick. Although it could block the damage of the knife and arrow, it was very inconvenient to move. How could it be easy to leave? For a moment, the stern howling sounded across the clouds and sky, and the smoke pillars soared into the sky, and countless souls were wrapped in the smoke pillars.
Chapter completed!