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- Black clouds are pressing down on the city to destroy it, and the armor's light is shining towards the golden scales of the sun.
Whether it is the Sui army or the Turks, they have not experienced a tragic offensive and defensive battle for many years.
On September 25, the Eastern Turkic Allied Forces led by Ashina Qilifu arrived in the west of Dingbei City. Dingbei City has two large passages in the west and southeast and several small passages in the northeast, so Ashina Lifuni divided the coalition into two. He, Ashina Dubi and the Turkic coalition attacked the west, while Li Xiaoxing, Ashina and his neighbors led their troops to attack the southeast.
As Princess Yicheng¡¯s former subordinates, Li Xiaoxing and Ashina Tulin were in a weak position in the coalition forces, so they naturally wanted to join the alliance for warmth.
At this time, there were about 30,000 coalition forces, not including Wei He's troops who had not yet arrived.
There were only more than 2,000 Sui troops, more than 3,000 family members, and more than 4,000 herdsmen in Dingbeicheng.
The herdsmen are all scattered and gathered barbarians of all ethnic groups. As for the more than 3,000 family members of Sui soldiers, most of them were Hu women married to Sui soldiers, and there were also some newborn children.
It had only been a little over a year since the Sui army arrived in Dingbeicheng, and there were not many children even half a year old. As for these military dependents, they are either pregnant women or have just given birth, and have no combat effectiveness at all.
Wei Yunqi placed a brigade of 130 people in each of the two forts in the west and southeast, and the rest were concentrated in Dingbei City. In addition to the Sui army, more than 4,000 herdsmen, men, women, old and young, all organized themselves to strengthen the defense force.
This battle is difficult to fight.
The two forts built by the Sui army were each a regular hexagonal castle only twenty-five paces (37.5 meters) long, covering an area of ??less than two and a half acres.
The entire Guanbao wall is in the shape of a right-angled trapezoid, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The bottom is two feet (5.92 meters), and the narrowest point above is also one foot and eight (5.33 meters). The height of the entire fort wall actually reached an astonishing three feet and five meters (10.4 meters), which is nearly one foot higher than the Great Wall.
It can be said that at this time, the Sui army was quite proficient in the technology of building six-sided bastions.
There are no residents or military dependents in Guanbao, they are all troops. The only few buildings are the fort, school field, arsenal, grain depot and military camp.
The two forts are like two nails, nailed to the road leading to Dingbei City.
The Sui army set up four crossbows on each fort, and placed extra rolling logs and stones. They even had enough food to last 130 people for a year. There are also water wells and mountains of ordnance in the fort. If the number of defenders were not small, they would also be equipped with catapults. It can be called a fortress that will not fall.
The Turkic coalition forces arrived outside Dingbei City and took the lead in attacking the two forts.
Probably because the two gates are 20 miles away from Dingbei City and the other is 30 miles away. Although the area is not large and there are not many defenders, if the Turkic army bypasses the two places and chooses to attack Dingbei City, the defenders of the two gates will be The army will attack from behind and threaten the Turkic army's back.
The Turks and the Sui army have been fighting for so many years, and their technical level is not what it was before. At least some simple siege ladders can still be built.
Soon the Turkic army launched an attack on Xiguanbao.
First, groups of cavalry passed sideways in front of the fort, each holding a bow and arrow and shooting at the city head, wave after wave, without stopping. The Sui army was so overwhelmed that they could hardly lift their heads.
Then the archers fighting on foot approached the city wall under the cover of shields, and exchanged fire with the Sui troops at the top of the city.
The Turks are large in number and are not afraid of attrition. They attack almost like a death squad.
After several rounds of bow and arrow shooting, the Turks carried the siege ladder and launched an attack.
I have to admit that the Turks have been fighting the Sui army for so long, and the level of siege has increased rapidly. If a group of catapults, manholes and other tools are added, the level may not be worse than the Sui army.
Only then did the Turks' attack really begin.
Soon, the siege ladder was set up on the city wall, and the Turkic soldiers began to climb to the top of the city. The Sui army on the top of the city dared to raise their heads and greeted the barbarians with rolling wood, rocks, gold juice and hot oil.
But above everyone¡¯s heads, there were still arrows flying by from time to time.
The Turks fought hard. In order to suppress the Sui army at the top of the city, the archers kept shooting, although the probability of accidental injury was higher than the probability of success.
The Sui army only had one hundred and thirty men, and they did not dare to compete with the Turks.
Fortunately, the wall was three to four feet high and the fort was extremely small, so the Turks could not spread their troops at all. The six walls combined could build twenty or thirty siege ladders at one time, and the number of people attacking at once was not as high as the Sui army at the top of the city.
In the afternoon, the Turks attacked for several hours, causing hundreds of casualties and mourning. Their morale was not as strong as it was in the morning.
Bao Ren, the brigade commander stationed in Xiguanbao, saw the opportunity and had more than ten barrels of hot oil poured on the siege ladder. Although outside these siege laddersThe bread was covered with a layer of earth to prevent fire, but the hot oil itself could ignite the fire, and Bowie also threw dry branches from the fort onto the siege ladder to help fuel the fire.
Soon they became so angry that they ran higher than the city wall, and all the siege ladders were burned down.
In this way, the Turks put up siege ladders again, but they were always burned down by the Sui army. When Ashinalifu saw this, he was so angry that he was itching his teeth, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Ashina Dubi suggested attacking the city gate directly, a small pass, and just suppressed the Sui army at the top of the city and knocked it open.
This time 75 zwz.com Zhang Si. However, the Sui army piled earth and rocks inside the city gate, poured glutinous rice juice and yellow mud on it, and sealed the city gate directly.
This wall is so strong that not even a rat can get through.
Although it is said that defense needs to come and go in order to be more powerful, Bowie also knows that there is zero chance that he, number 100, will be able to kill him. We don't know how long the battle will last, but it would be better to seal the city gate for greater stability.
"Bumping into wood can break open the city gate, but it can't break through the wall."
The Turks risked huge casualties and smashed the city gates, but failed to enter the city.
Ashina Dubi also suggested digging tunnels. I heard that this method was commonly used by the Sui army to attack cities.
But it was useless for the Sui army to take action, and the Turks themselves gave up. Digging a tunnel is not that easy. It requires support, positioning, and excavation. This is a technical job. The Turks dug for three days, but the tunnel collapsed for five minutes, killing dozens of people. In the end, they couldn't stand it anymore.
强牺 hxjxs.com 读牺。 Later, Ashina Lifu still wanted to carry the earth to build a slope, but he Finally gave up.
Not to mention whether this method can be successful, there are only twenty-five steps on each side of the entire Xiguan Fort, and there are only a few horses that can move abreast. If a slope is built and the bed crossbow on the city head is pointed here, it will become a bunch of candied haws.
The Turks fought for several days without success.
Ashinalifu had no choice but to persuade him to surrender. In order to make Bao Ren surrender, he even offered the bargaining chip of a tribal leader.
Zhida z.com Zhixiao. However, what Bao Ren responded to was always the envoy's head.
Seeing that the city could not be breached by any means, Ashinalifu and Ashina Dubi also despaired.
The weather was getting colder and the storm was coming, and they couldn't wait long.
In the end, the two of them became cruel and decided that Ashina Dubi would lead his troops to continue the siege of the fort, while Ashina Qilifu would lead the main force of the Turkic coalition to attack Dingbei City
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