Chapter 578: Luntai City(1/2)
Luntai City is being besieged by the army of Ogedei and Yelu Dashi.
Before attacking Cheshiguo, Temujin agreed to Ogedei's proposal to obtain Xiangyang cannons to attack Luntai City, and sent craftsmen to Ogedei's army to create Xiangyang cannons for him.
Xiangyang cannon is a level 9 siege equipment with amazing destructive power.
When the Han Empire Expeditionary Force was busy gathering forces, dozens of Xiangyang artillery had already risen from the ground and launched a fierce bombardment on Luntai City!
A stone weighing hundreds of kilograms was shot out by a catapult, like a meteorite falling!
boom!
With the trembling of the city wall, a large piece of bricks broke and fell off, and sand filled the dust. All the defenders of Luntai City trembled in their hearts!
This is the first time that the defenders of the Western Regions Protectorate's Office have seen the powerful Xiangyang cannon!
Temujin had already tempted the Han Empire to send an expeditionary force, so there was no need to continue to siege Luntai.
In order to capture Luntai City at one time, Ogedei directly used huge rocks, fireballs, wolf smoke and other means to razed Luntai City to the ground!
Dozens of fireballs dragging rolling black smoke fell, spinning rapidly in the air, making contact with the air, burning rapidly, and hitting the city wall!
boom!
Fireballs crack, gravel splashes, sparks sputter!
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
The defenders who were splashed onto the armor were covered with fire and rolled on the city walls, trying to destroy the flames on their bodies.
The guards carrying wooden barrels hurriedly scooped water with wooden spoons to extinguish the flames.
With a sneer, the flames on the fired defenders were extinguished, and the place where the flames were burned was already burned with scorch marks.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
More fireballs fell, and gravel and flames were everywhere.
A fireball hit the arrow tower in Luntai City, directly destroying a corner of the arrow tower. The flames spread on the arrow tower. The archers standing on the arrow tower hurriedly escaped.
Huoan looked up at the sky, and the fireball thrown by the Xiangyang cannon was like a fire meteor, spinning at high speed and falling, causing Luntai City to tremble continuously.
Ogedei was completely angered by Huoan, and it was obvious that he wanted to razed Huoan's Luntai City to the ground, just like the royal city of the Ogedei Khanate, Mili City.
Huoan destroyed his Khanate, and Ogedei would also destroy Huoan's Western Regions Protectorate!
"Let the fire burn Luntai to destroy it, turn Luntai into a broken wall and into a ruin."
Ogedei watched the huge rocks and fireballs shot from dozens of Xiangyang cannons constantly bombarding Luntai City. Wolf smoke filled Luntai City, and thick smoke rolled, and finally showed a smile of revenge.
Xiangyang cannon bombarded Luntai City for several days, and at least thousands of defenders died in the fire caused by the huge rocks or fireballs of Xiangyang cannons.
Not only the defenders, many wooden houses in Luntai City were burned by fireballs, and at least hundreds of people were buried in the fire, making people panic.
Yelu Dashi was very interested in the giant siege equipment used by the Mongolian army. He learned for the first time that the Mongolian army had such a siege weapon.
"It's not only the Khan has this kind of catapult, but also the Torei of the Ili Khanate, so he can be invincible in West Asia and defeat everything. The Khan was so good about Torei that he handed over many elite cavalry to Torei, and planned to hand over the military and national affairs to Torei."
Ogedei was very dissatisfied with Temujin's re-use of the strongest military capabilities among the four sons.
Now Torei is fighting with the Persian Empire, shocking Persia and the Arab region, causing Persia and Arabia to have to join forces.
However, Ogedei was destroyed by the protection of the Han Empire.
This made Ogedei unable to raise his head in front of Temujin and others.
The more Ogedei thought about it, he became more and more angry. He pulled out the sword inlaid with gold: "Catch Luntai and allow the robbery of Luntai for three days! Reclaim your family, cattle, sheep, and food. Except for the Protectorate, all gold, silver, food, and women in the city are your property!"
"kill!"
The army of the Khanate of the Ogedei who destroyed the country was filled with anger. After Ogedei decided to allow them to rob Luntai City, they were full of fighting spirit and planned to break Luntai City and rob Luntai City to make up for the losses caused to them by Huo'an's fire Yemili City!
Woo--
The sound of the trumpet echoed over Luntai City. The 100,000 Mongolian troops and their servants recruited by their tribes in nearby villages and towns, followed one after another, like moths flying into a fire, launching a charge with Luntai City as the center!
As long as you capture Luntai City, you can not only regain the property that originally belonged to them, but also rob Luntai City, the richest city in the Western Regions Protectorate!
"Stay on this city, otherwise once the city is broken, the people of the whole city will suffer!"
Huoan knew that the situation was critical. If the defenders did not fight desperately at this time and were captured by the Mongolian army, what would the consequences be? Huoan would not be difficult to imagine.
Gao Xianzhi led the Anxi army and fired arrows to the densely packed Mongolian army and its servants on the city wall!
Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, and under the attack of a fireball like a fire meteor, they counterattacked the Mongolian army, and the arrows broke through the air!
Arrows fell and shot some of the enemy soldiers who were sieging the city!
Temujin supported a large number of craftsmen of Ogedei and Yelu Dashi. In addition to making Xiangyang cannons, these craftsmen were also building siege towers, ladder trucks, crossbows and other siege equipment.
The siege tower cast a shadow and slowly approached Luntai City under the push of hundreds of minion soldiers.
All the defenders of Luntai City looked at more than a dozen siege towers.
The siege tower is like a giant, one end higher than the city wall. Mongolian archers standing on the siege tower can look down on the defenders on the city wall.
The siege tower cooperated with Xiangyang artillery to the extreme threat to the defenders.
The defenders of Luntai City subconsciously swallowed.
The boulders and fireballs are still bombarding Luntai City. If such wooden beasts are approached by the city walls, Luntai City is likely to be lost.
"Fire Arrow Team, Bed Crossbow, Catastrophe, Destroy the Siege Tower!"
Huo'an used all means of defending the city to persevere.
A team of fire arrows fired rockets at the siege tower, hundreds of rockets covered the siege tower, and shot several archers standing on the siege tower!
The crossbow, the catapult uses thick crossbow arrows and huge stones to bombard the siege tower and directly use brute force to destroy it!
Accompanied by Xiangyang cannons and siege towers, there were ladder vehicles and hundreds of simple ladders. In order to increase the pressure on the defenders, Ogedei commanded the siege troops to siege from all directions.
On each city wall, there is a ten thousand men supervising the troops to attack the city!
The Mongolian army braved the rain of arrows from the defenders and approached the city wall desperately. The iron hook of the ladder hooked the city wall. Soldiers holding round shields climbed the city wall and fought fiercely with the defenders on the city wall!
The defenders threw rolling stones and mulberry trees, and the huge yakshas rose and fell, killing the enemy soldiers who were sieging the city.
The siege troops like ants suffered heavy casualties, and under the city walls, corpses piled up like mountains.
However, even so, enemy soldiers still attacked the city wall and fought with the defenders.
Huo An personally held a spear and assassinated a Mongolian siege army.
"This is a soldier from the Wusun Kingdom! The King of Wusun betrayed me!"
Huo'an's military power was not low. He saw clearly the armor of the enemy soldiers he killed, and it was clearly the soldiers of the more powerful Wusun Kingdom among the 36 countries in the Western Regions.
King Wusun, King Loulan and other kings of the 36 states in the Western Regions were responsible for cutting off the rear. King Loulan was killed by Yelu Dashi, the nobles of Dayuan, Jian Mi died in battle, and King Wusun was captured by Ogedei.
The soldiers of the Wusun Kingdom were regarded as servants to attack the city by Ogedei and Yelu Dashi. It is very likely that the captured Wusun King had betrayed Huo'an and served Ogedei and Yelu Dashi.
Some of the 36 countries in the Western Regions were willing to fight for Huo'an, while others were not loyal.
After the conquered by Huoan, King Wusun was captured by Ogedei. In order to save his life, he commanded the cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom and served as the servants of Ogedei.
"King Wusun, if it weren't for you to lead the way, it might not be that easy for us to march to Luntai City. When we capture Luntai City, I will report your military achievements to the Khan, so that Wusun Kingdom can be restored, and at the same time, Huo'an's family will be given to you all."
Beside Ogedei was the pale-faced King Wusun.
King Wusun witnessed the murder of King Loulan and chose to surrender, but he was not very willing to offend his former Lord Huo An.
King Wusun said with a ugly face: "Huo'an's family should be in the southern central region of the Han Empire. After capturing Luntai City, I only asked the Khan to give our tribe a grassland for grazing. As for Huo'an's family, please let Khan let go..."
"Accounting the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the Han Empire will sooner or later be our possession, and the Southern Central region will also surrender to our military front."
When Ogedei saw that the Wusun King was weak, he scoffed at him.
In Ogedei's view, only Yelu Dashi, who has the ability to command and strategy, has the need to win over. The King of Wusun in front of him, with his weak character and mediocre ability, is at most a servant.
"call……"
Huo'an killed seven enemy soldiers who had climbed the city in a row, burned two ladders, panting, and was almost shot by a branch of the arrow.
An injured Han general didn't care about rest and came to see Huoan in person. He saw that Huoan was besieged by a Mongolian centurion with more than a dozen Wusun soldiers, so he bent his bow and shot the Mongolian centurion among them.
"Chen Tang, your injuries are serious and you must not come to the city wall."
Huo An saw that the military general who came to help was the Han general Chen Tang. Chen Tang was besieged by Ogedei and Yelu Dashi, and his injuries had not yet recovered.
At this time, Chen Tang came to the city wall with his wounds and still shot and killed a Mongolian centurion.
"Master Protector, if you continue like this, Luntai City will not be able to hold on for too long..."
As the top three generals under Huo An, Chen Tang's ability decreased after being injured. When he saw Luntai City being bombarded by Xiangyang's cannon, he was in a terrible state, and he couldn't help but feel shocked.
The power of Xiangyang cannon exceeded the imagination of the Luntai City defenders.
If Ogedei and Yelu Dashi had not received support from Temujin, they would have been more than enough to stay in Luntai City for half a year.
However, the military craftsmen supported by Temujin built siege equipment for Ogedei and Yelu Dashi, which posed a great threat to Luntai City.
"What do you think should we do?"
Huoan stabbed a Wusun soldier to death with a spear and asked Chen Tang.
To be continued...