Chapter 824: King Ming Arrives
Over the sky of Guzhu City, dark clouds pressed down on the city. Groups of young and strong men carried sandbags and filled up the moat. Tens of thousands of soldiers pushed siege towers, ladder vehicles, and battering rams to attack Guzhu City from all directions.
Earth hills rose up one after another, and arrow towers were set up, and the overwhelming arrow rain covered Guzhu City, and the defenders had to hold their shields to move around.
Corpses piled up in the trenches, tens of thousands of soldiers died in the siege, and the sound of killing resounded throughout the battlefield.
Cheng Yu arrived with a team of craftsmen, and a large trebuchet over ten meters high stood outside Lone Bamboo City. The giant stones and fireballs fell down, and Lone Bamboo City trembled!
Sun Chuanting led the defenders to resist the attacking Xia army. The Xia army was like a wave, wave after wave, attacking Guzhu City.
The defenders threw rolling stones and logs downward, and screams came and went.
Some Xia troops climbed the city wall and were driven out by Sun Chuanting's elite soldiers.
boom!
A boulder dragging black smoke hit the tower, and the tiles of the tower cracked and scattered all over the ground.
Among the guards of Guzhu City, three guards were injured and thousands of people were killed or injured.
"Xia Jun's offensive is really fierce. If this continues, it may not be able to hold for a year."
Sun Chuanting wiped the black smoke from his face, because the smoke thrown by the trebuchet had a paralyzing effect, and Sun Chuanting's hand holding the sword was shaking.
Sun Chuanting looked down, and there were countless soldiers and horses of Xia's army, stretching all the way to the sky.
King Xia's handsome flag is in the Xia army, inspiring people's hearts.
The movement of the Xia army besieging Guzhu City could be heard by the Xianbei and Wuhuan cavalry stationed not far away.
Before the arrival of Mingguan, Murongba, Duan Pidun, Yuwen Yidougui, Tadun and other tribal leaders did not dare to take the initiative to meet Chutian's main force. They could only watch Xia Jun attack Guzhu City. City, defeated Xia Jun's soldiers, and then waited for an opportunity to counterattack.
To the north of Guzhu City, the most elite Liaodong army outside the pass finally arrived late.
Hongwu cavalry, Guanning cavalry, Tiefutu and other elite cavalry came from Liaodong, and spent almost all the money of Mingguan to build an elite army with strong soldiers and strong horses.
As long as the Liaodong Army was not seriously injured, it would not be a serious injury to Mingguan.
Large carriages rolled out ruts on the ground.
Mingguan rode a steed and led a group of light cavalry as the vanguard, directly breaking into the camp of the Xianbei tribe, and no one in the Xianbei tribe dared to disobey it.
"I heard that the failure of the Duan clan led to the defeat of the Yuwen tribe and the Murong tribe."
"This subordinate is incompetent, my younger brother was killed by Li Guang, that's why he failed..."
Duan Pidun felt terrified in the face of the aggressive Mingguan.
"In a decisive battle with the Xia army, the soldiers and horses of the Duan clan must fight to the death to make up for their mistakes."
"yes……"
"Murong Ba, Murong Ke, you two are the left army, Xu Da is the right army, and Chang Yuchun and I will personally serve as the central army. We must defeat Xia army."
"Xia's army is attacking fiercely. If there is no special means, it may be difficult to defeat them. How will they enter the pass?"
Murong Ke looked at Mingguan with serious eyes.
Only a few people such as Murong Ke have the ability to talk to Mingguan.
"Naturally there are some means."
Ming Guan bears the hand,
Looking in the direction of Lone Bamboo City.
Lone Bamboo City is under the continuous attack of Xia Army.
Sun Chuanting was trapped in the city.
If it weren't for the main force of Mingguan as foreign aid, it would be a matter of time before Guzhu City fell.
"My lord, the Liaodong Legion has arrived outside Guzhu City, and King Ming has arrived in person."
When Chutian personally supervised the battle and attacked Guzhu City, he learned that Mingguan, one of the most powerful opponents, was less than a hundred miles away from him.
The Xia army and the Ming army faced each other in the Liaoxi Corridor, and the front of the soldiers stretched for hundreds of miles.
"Mingguan's Liaodong Legion..."
What Chu Tian was facing was the Liaodong Legion, which was similar to his imperial guards, and almost all of them were elites of hundreds of battles.
"Continue to attack Guzhu City and force Mingguan to take the initiative to fight us."
"My lord, Miss Ye's coalition forces have arrived in Ji County."
"Miss Ye..."
Chu Tian was stunned for a while before he could react.
The so-called Miss Ye is Yekaterina.
In addition to Zhang Dao, Mu Ke, Huo An, and Xu Fengnian, Chu Tian also pulled Yekaterina into the Northern War within the Han Empire.
Borrowing troops from other civilized areas is a bit of a suspicion of cheating, but Ekaterina is his, so borrowing troops from the Tsarist Russian Empire to increase his winning rate is nothing, but it is a bit cruel to Mingguan.
"Let Yekaterina secretly lead the troops to Lone Bamboo City, her army may be the key to the outcome."
Chu Tian knew that Yekaterina's army was strong and destroyed the Golden Horde head-on.
"Le Yi is on the Central Plains battlefield. For the time being, Geng Yan will command the siege troops, and Cheng Yu will manage the catapults and other siege equipment, and work together to attack Guzhu City. The other armies are on guard against the Liaodong Army and the Xianbei people."
When Chu gave the order, Xiao Chuo spread out a map comparable to a scroll, marking the positions of each legion on it.
Geng Yan and Cheng Yu were mainly in charge of attacking the city, and the real main force was still confronting Mingguan.
Mingguan wanted to use the solid Guzhu City to drain Chutian's morale and frustrate him.
Chu Tian rushed to attack Guzhu City, and he must save those who attack Ming Pass.
Both sides are looking for an opportunity for a decisive battle. At the same time, the consumption of rations and weapons is extremely high.
There are even millions of arrows consumed every day, and countless grains and grass are consumed.
Millions of war horses also need to use refined grains as feed.
"The Khitan Legion has taken shape and is ready for dispatch."
Xiao Chuo heard that Ekaterina was coming, and for some reason, he felt a sense of crisis, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight.
"Khitan Legion..."
Chu Tian looked at the basic panel of the Khitan Legion.
[Legion]: Khitan Legion (custom)
【Chief General】: Xiao Chuo
[Deputy generals]: Brother Yeluxiu, Yelu Xiezhen
【Pioneer】: Xiao Talin
【Number】: 40153
[Status]: high
【Average grade】: 51
[Morale]: 89 (combat power ↑)
[Physical Strength]: 85 (combat power ↑)
【Number of horses】: 50652
[Subsidiary arms]: Shan army (17,500 people), low-level cavalry (22,653 people)
...
The Khitan Legion has absorbed a group of elites left by Yelu Abaoji, so the average experience is not low.
The main force of the Khitan Legion is Xiao Chuo's Sub-Shan Army, which was established by Queen Shuluping of the Liao Kingdom in history.
"Brother Yeluxiu and Yelu Xiezhen have been relying on me for a long time, and it's time to use them."
Seeing Xiao Chuo, who is usually proud, with his head upright, Chu Tian couldn't bear to dampen her enthusiasm, and what's more, raising soldiers for a thousand days, using them for a while.
With Yekaterina and Xia Liang's army still missing, Chutian had assembled an absolute main force to fight the Liaodong Army to the death.
"Ekaterina's reinforcements, 30,000 elite troops are enough."
According to Ekaterina, after the destruction of Attila's Hunnic Empire, the German region of the Holy Roman Empire began to rise, and it expanded wildly around, forcibly annexing the Grand Duchy of Austria, which brought pressure to Ekaterina huge.