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Chapter 25: Bloody Battle with Italy (Part 2)

The morning sunlight also shines thousands of miles on the scent of the endless stream gradually comes to Yin Mountain.

In a huge mountain pass in Yin Mountain, a cavalry of more than 80,000 people appeared, with flags waving, vast and boundless.

This was the main force of the Qieba cavalry who came from Jinshan. The battle situation in Dali City changed their combat plan. They gave up fighting Xueyantuo in the south of Jinshan. Instead, they took advantage of Xueyantuo's opportunity to attack Dali City and attacked their empty nest.

At the front of the team was a middle-aged man in his fifties. His beard was gray, but his eyes were bright, and his body was still as strong as a young man. He wore a rolled-brimmed hat, and a ruby ​​as big as a chicken egg in the middle of the hat, a chain mail made of gold, and a sword inlaid with gems around his waist.

He was Khan Gelang of the Qiezi tribe. When he received the news from his eldest son Qiezili with an eagle, he immediately led a large army south. He led a coalition army, not only the Qiezi army, but also the troops of Gaochang, Kucha, Yanqi and other countries. Gaochang King Qu Boya sent 10,000 troops to follow him to fight.

Beside Qiebing Khan was his eldest son, Khan's heir Qiebing. A goshawk standing on his shoulder, which was a falcon that had just flew from Dali City. Qiebing got the information from Dali City. Xueyantuo dispatched 90,000 troops to attack Dali City, and their Golden Wolf-headed King Flag also crossed the Yellow River.

This is the most important information. Wang Qi crossed the Yellow River, which shows that Xue Yantuo dispatched the most powerful army, and their Xue tribe must have no soldiers.

"Accelerate forward and defeat Xueyantuo in one battle"

Eighty thousand Qiye cavalry crossed Yin Mountain and rushed towards Xueyantuo's empty core tribe.

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It was already in the afternoon when the fierce battle at the head of the city. Twenty nest cars and hundreds of cloud ladders leaned onto the city wall one after another. The huge wooden board in front of the top platform of the nest car fell down and landed onto the city head to form an air bridge. Dozens of Xueyantu soldiers waved their swords and rushed towards the city head. Behind them, Xueyantu's army climbing up from the stairs was emerging continuously.

After a morning of fierce battle, there were many dead bodies on the top of the city, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Xue Yantuo's 70,000 troops were pressed on the entire line, and their troops had an absolute advantage. They gradually began to gain the upper hand. More than 2,000 enemy troops rushed to the top of the city and fought fiercely with the Sui army on the top of the city, and the situation became critical.

"General, the east end of the city is almost unable to hold on." A Sui army rushed to report.

"You guys come with me"

Yang Yuanqing led 500 Sui troops to the east of the city. There were more than a dozen scattering machines in the east of the city, mainly composed of craftsmen. Xue Yantuo's army built eight nesting chariots and dozens of cloud ladders here, and more than a thousand enemy troops had already killed the city.

After all, the craftsmen had no training. They were exhausted during the two days of defending the city. When they were facing the enemy, facing bloody battles and piles of corpses of companions, they began to be scared away by the god of death and began to panic. Thousands of craftsmen were in a state of chaos, and their chaos also affected the battle of the Sui army.

"General, please let all these useless people take down"

The guard of Dongcheng was Ma Shao. When he saw Yang Yuanqing leading his army to help, he was so angry that he shouted, "It's not that I can't resist it, this group of useless people has affected our battle."

Yang Yuanqing also saw it immediately. The gap was mainly between the two nest cars, and there were more than 2,000 craftsmen and soldiers. The Sui army could not get through. It was the craftsmen and soldiers there that could not resist, which caused the enemy to surge in a steady stream, and the catapult could not play a role at this time.

"All craftsmen are withdrawn from the inner city"

Yang Yuanqing issued an order to retreat by craftsmen. Thousands of craftsmen retreated to the inner city like water. The suspension bridge was filled with craftsmen running one after another. A craftsman was squeezed down from the suspension bridge while running and screamed and fell off the city.

As thousands of craftsmen withdrew, the outer city suddenly became empty. Ma Shao shouted loudly and led 1,200 Sui troops to reorganize their formation and counterattack towards Xueyantuo's army rushing to the top of the city.

Next to the dense soldiers, Yang Yuanqing saw Yang Wei, who was still fat. He was still a fat man who was desperately fat. He was sweating profusely and swung the sledgehammer to smash and hit the enemy. Wherever the sledgehammer passed, Xue Yantuo's soldiers burst into pieces and were covered in blood.

At this time, a thousand-man Xue Yantuo held a spear in his hand and stabbed Yang Wei silently in the back. Yang Yuanqing immediately took off his bow and took an arrow.

Yang Wei had already discovered a sneak attack behind him, and it was too late to turn around. At this critical moment, Yang Yuanqing arrived with an arrow, penetrated the head of the captain, and threw it down the city with a scream.

Yang Wei saw Yang Yuanqing, grinned, raised his sledgehammer and waved it to him. At this time, two Sui troops beside him were stabbed to death by the enemy spear. Yang Wei was furious. He roared wildly and swung the sledgehammer and rushed towards the enemy.

The craftsmen on the other side of the gap had retreated. Yang Yuanqing had a horse and led five hundred Sui troops to kill towards the gap. The Sui army had a very regular battle and cooperated with tacit understanding. Three hundred Sui troops surrounded the two sides. In the middle, two hundred Sui troops knelt on one knee and fired arrows. The arrows were like rain, and the enemy troops rushed up were all over.

"Kill them back"

Yang Yuanqing's voice was hoarse. He activated his war horse, waved his long spear, and led the Sui army to fight bravely. Under his encouragement, more than 500 Sui soldiers were in full swing, killing the enemy's corpses everywhere, retreating step by step, and retreating back to the nest chariot.

A Sui army soldier took the opportunity to throw a leather bag full of tinder oil onto a wooden board and lit the tinder oil. The tinder oil ignited the ground. The fire burned rapidly, and thick smoke rolled, swallowing the wooden bridge in the air.

"General, burn the nest cart with tinder oil," Ma Shao suggested loudly.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head. The nest car and the cloud ladder were wrapped in raw cowhide, and the tincture oil would not be too effective. Yang Yuanqing had their own uses for 500 barrels of tincture oil.

Moreover... his eyes looked out of the city. Hundreds of steps away, more than twenty nest cars and hundreds of ladders were waiting to get into the city, and they couldn't finish it.

More importantly, four or five thousand enemy troops have already rushed to the top of the city from various gaps, and the number of Sui troops on the city is the same, so the outer city will definitely not be able to defend.

Yang Yuanqing shouted loudly, waved his long spear, and the cowhide belt of a catapult was cut off. The catapult scattered and the long wood fell to the top of the city.

"Destroy all catapults and withdraw back to the inner city"

One by one, the catapults were destroyed by the Sui army, and teams of Sui soldiers began to retreat while fighting. A thousand archers suppressed the enemy's pursuit with dense rain of arrows. Hundreds of Sui army raised their shields to form a shield wall. The soldiers ran across the suspension bridge and shot arrows on the inner city wall to cover the Sui army's retreat. The team was in order.

Liu Jian, who was in charge of Xichengtou, also led hundreds of Sui troops to withdraw, but at this moment, Liu Jian suddenly found that there were two catapults at Xichengtou that had not been destroyed, which was so shocked that his heart was about to break. This was his dereliction of duty. He knew that the consequences of leaving two catapults would be destroyed by these two catapults.

Liu Jian was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He suddenly made a fuss and ordered him to say, "First team comes with me."

He roared and led fifty Sui troops to counterattack the dense Xue Yantuo army. He waved his sword and was extremely brave. In an instant, three enemy troops were chopped to death by him. Fifty Sui troops followed him and concentrated their strength to rush, like a hard fist, rushing left and right, gradually breaking out a bloody road. However, there were more than two thousand enemy troops on the west city wall. They attacked left and right, surrounding the fifty Sui troops who came to their door.

"General, Liu Lushuai rushed over." A soldier reported to Yang Yuanqing urgently.

Yang Yuanqing had already seen it, and he also saw two catapults standing at the west end of the city, in a corner that was most easily overlooked.

Yang Yuanqing stared at the fifty Sui army who had been gradually submerged by the enemy. His pupils shrank into a line and the sky-breaking spear in his hand was tightened.

At this moment, Liu Jian, who was covered in blood, rushed out of the dense siege with several soldiers. His big sword was gone and he became a bloody man. He pulled out the horizontal sword, slashed several people in a row, and rushed to the scattering machine, swung the knife and slashed the belt hard. The belt broke, and the huge scattering machine collapsed and disintegrated. He turned around and rushed to another scattering machine. The knife in his hand was broken, leaving only half of it.

At this time, hundreds of enemy troops were chasing them. Seeing that they were catching up, several Sui soldiers fought to the death and were instantly cut to death by random knives. A commander of a thousand men was furious when he saw the Sui army officer trying hard to cut the last catapult. He opened his bow and shot Liu Jian with an arrow, and the arrow penetrated through the neck. Liu Jian let out a muffled groan and fell on the catapult...

By the suspension bridge, more than a hundred of Liu Jian's men shouted wildly, drew their swords and rushed forward. Yang Yuanqing waved his long spear and stopped them. He shouted sternly: "Return to the inner city, those who violate the orders will be killed."

More than a hundred subordinates slowly retreated with tears in their eyes. They suddenly turned around and rushed into the outer door of the suspension bridge and ran towards the inner city. Yang Yuanqing's eyes also turned red. He took a last look at Liu Jian and slowly retreated into the door. The outer door of the suspension bridge was closed. After walking over a dozen steps of the huge stone bridge path, he could enter the suspension bridge. The last dozen soldiers used shields to escort him and the war horses to resist the rain of arrows from both sides.

Here, Yang Yuanqing could still see the catapult and Liu Jian lying on the catapult. At this moment, the last catapult collapsed with a bang and the giant tree rolled down to the city.

The sudden change caused Xue Yantuo army, who had left the west of the city, to turn around and run back. Liu Jian, who was seriously injured, struggled to stand up slowly. He just now lay on the catapult and cut off the belt with a broken knife.

Life was about to leave him, and the arrow pierced his neck. He could no longer speak. His eyes were filled with endless longing for life. Xue Yantuo was furious and pulled out his battle knife and rushed towards Liu Jian. He wanted to cut off the head of this person.

Liu Jian took a last look at Yang Yuanqing, smiled miserably, stabbed half of the knife into his chest, turned around and fell to the top of the city wall.

Tears surged from Yang Yuanqing's eyes, arrows around him were like locusts, hundreds of Xue Yantuo soldiers chopped with axe at the outer door of the suspension bridge. Seeing that the gate was about to be split, the soldiers were anxious and shouted, "General, go quickly."

Yang Yuanqing urged his horse to run towards the inner city wall. When the last soldier ran over the suspension bridge, the long suspension bridge was pulled high by the iron chain, and a four-meter-wide cliff appeared between the two cities, which Xue Yantuo's army could not cross.

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Chapter 25: Bloody Battle with Italy (Part 2)
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