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Text Chapter 465 The bloody battle at Usha Castle

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    The shrill horn sound echoed in the cold wind. This was not a horn of attack. It did not have that kind of excitement. It was just sad and shrill, announcing the failure of another attack by the Nili Army.  The heavy rain is like notes, and the Sanwai Forts of Wushabao stands like a rock, which is indestructible.  The land outside the fort had been in the rain for a long time, and had been churned into a quagmire by the Turkic army's horse hooves. They stepped on it and submerged their calves.  There were fallen corpses everywhere in the muddy water, and the mud was almost stained with blood, glowing with a layer of black and purple.  Taking advantage of the break in the fighting, the civilians in the castle began to go to the city, transporting straw bags filled with soil to the top of the city and plugging some gaps.  The three outer forts of Wusha Castle are not big, but they are in the shape of horns and refer to each other. Especially there is a Usha Castle in the middle of the three castles, which is stronger, larger and rich in reserves.  Under the fort, there are all kinds of broken and scattered siege equipment, including siege ladders, crash carts, cloud carts, and floor carts. Usha Castle is far stronger and more difficult to attack than the Turks imagined.  The city has no advantage at all.  Nili finally had to let his cavalry take the captured people to cut down trees and build various siege equipment.  However, the equipment they had worked so hard to build did not add much help to their attack. The seemingly simple fortresses had one after another defense fortifications, trenches and deer-foot stakes, as well as countless large fortresses.  The pits and pits add countless obstacles to the siege.  In order to transport the siege equipment to the foot of the fort, Nili almost took human lives to fill the road, filling in all the way and dying along the way.  Not only the captured prisoners but also many Turkic warriors died. At this time, they were all soaked in the rain and turned white.  It is impossible to tell the difference between the brave Turkic warriors and the lowly Southern barbarian slaves.  When it's not raining, siege equipment can be transported faster.  But the black fire oil in the city is even more intense. There is a very powerful fire oil truck in the city.  Just like a waterwheel, it can spray black oil. Once the siege equipment is stained with this black oil, rockets will be shot down from the city. Once the oil touches the fire, it will immediately ignite a raging fire.  , even water cannot put it out.  And these damn Sui troops don't just guard the castle blindly, every critical moment.  The city is always sprayed with black oil, followed by rockets, then catapults, crossbows and crossbows. Then the Sui army in the city will open the city gate, and the elite Huaihuang cavalry equipped with mirror armor will come.  They would fight out and sweep away the siege soldiers and horses under the city. They didn't even care whether many of the people transporting the equipment were Han Chinese, and they would sweep away as ruthlessly as Shuofeng.  After a quick sweep under the cover of the bows and ballistas on the city, they immediately retreated into the city before they sent out cavalry to attack.  All that was left was the burning siege machinery.  There are also layers upon layers of corpses.  When we reached the back, the rain kept falling and there was mud everywhere, even turning into a quagmire.  It became increasingly difficult to transport equipment to the city walls, and no matter how fast they were built, they would not be as fast as the city burned down.  Nili thought of another way and sent people to rush to the city.  Dig the city wall.  They built a large number of large shields, and a team of men carried them on their heads.  It was like lifting an overturned boat and rushing to the city with bows, arrows and stones.  Digging out the soft rammed earth city wall that had been soaked in the heavy rain, digging the wall desperately, digging the foundation. There is no need to dig down, as long as a gap can be dug, the cavalry prepared behind can rush into the city quickly.  But this round of attack was another complete failure.  They used large shields to resist the bows and arrows of the Sui army on the city, and even the ballistae, but the Sui army still had kerosene and gold juice.  Pour down barrels of kerosene and shoot rockets. Once the fire is ignited, it will not go out. No matter how thick the wooden shield is, it cannot withstand it.  The golden juice is even more vicious. It is basically boiled excrement. When poured on the head, it not only has an extremely stench, but is also extremely lethal. Once it sticks to the body, it will cause a piece of skin and flesh to become rotten. It is more powerful than boiling water and boiling oil.  And the most cruel thing is that the golden juice will not only burn the skin and flesh, but also contain poison. Even if it is not burned to death, it will become poisonous later. Those who are infected will basically not be able to survive. They will have a fever and talk nonsense.  , then die.  This method of death is more terrifying than being directly burned to death by kerosene on the battlefield.  Nili¡¯s army suffered heavy casualties under Wusha Fort, and even the outer castle could not be pulled down. This caused Nili¡¯s plan to march into Huaihuang to be postponed indefinitely.  If he couldn't take Usha Fort, he wouldn't dare to lead his troops deep. With a solid nail like Usha Fort on the back road, he would have to worry about his back at any time.  However, the walls of the four castles of Usha Castle were also stained red with blood and corpses were everywhere.  Even if it rains heavily, it can't wash away the blood stains on the city.  According to Yi Feng¡¯s military orders, there were quite a few Huaihuang troops stationed at Wushabao, and they were all elite field warriors, consisting of an infantry and a cavalry.  There are nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses. Gao Jia leads the infantry Huaihuang Army, Shan Xiongxin leads the cavalry Tiger Wing Army, plus the garrison of Wusha Castle, the number of troops is not small, but facing the madman  Despite the ordinary mud force, under the fierce attack, Usha Fort, which was defending against the city, still suffered a lot of casualties.  The city of Usha Castle is strong, butThe disadvantage is that there is no favorable terrain to defend, and it is built on the grassland. Although the inner fort and the three guard forts have been selected high on the hillside when selecting the site, the surrounding areas are still too flat.  The cavalry can easily rush to the city wall. Gao Jia and Shan Xiongxin's ability to defend until now depends entirely on the strength of the castle. The four cities are integrated and refer to each other. At the same time, there are sufficient troops and abundant equipment and food. The soldiers are united as one.  Gao Jia led the team to inspect the city wall, watching the medical team's doctors and the stretcher team treating the wounded, and the collection team composed of civilian husbands collecting the bodies of the dead soldiers, carrying them back to the fort, cleaning their bodies and changing clothes.  Then register and cremate to collect the ashes and avoid the occurrence of epidemics.  "I will go to pay homage to my brothers in the Heroes Hall." Gao Jia stood in the heavy rain and saluted the fallen comrades who had lost their lives in the battle, and said solemnly.  "Go with peace of mind, His Highness the Grand Sun will take good care of your family for you." The other officers also said together.  Gao Jia looked at the soaked and tired defenders on the city and said, "I have good news for you all. His Highness Taisun has already won consecutive battles in Guizhou. Now Kuhezhen and Daman have become turtles in the urn and are being locked up and beaten. Very soon."  Soon, His Highness will be able to lead the army northward and take care of Nili. If we hold on for a few more days, victory is already beckoning to us. " "The military leader is right, we are tired, but Nili is under the city.  We are even more tired. When we are tired, we can take turns to go back to the castle. There are clean and warm rooms, beds, hot meals and soup. But what do they have? It rains so hard, they can only sleep in the rain.  In that damp tent, they had even begun to drag the dead horses back to slaughter and eat them. If they stayed any longer, they would probably have to drag back the corpses of their own people and eat them. They couldn't hold on any longer, and they still had to.  We don¡¯t know the fighting situation inside the Great Wall, otherwise, we would have escaped long ago. ¡°We can¡¯t give them any advantage. There¡¯s no way we can escape,¡± some soldiers shouted.  ¡°Yes, blood debt must be paid with blood, no one can escape.¡± Everyone shouted together.  Gao Jia nodded to the soldiers who had regained their fighting spirit and said, "Of course, they want to run away, but they have to ask us before they can." Outside the city, thousands of soldiers withdrew, covered in mud, water and rain.  The generals who led the siege were all dejected. They followed Nili from the far western regions to the east to seize gold, silver, treasures and female slaves, but not to face the cold wind and rain.  The tall and sturdy Han Chinese castle, and the seemingly inexhaustible supply of bows, arrows, and kerosene for suicidal charges.  Along the way, they even just grabbed a little bit of trivial loot in Yunnei City, and then they stayed in the mud in front of the damn Usha Castle, wrestling and rolling.  Damn Usha Castle, damn Han people, damn Nili!  On a high slope ten miles away from the city was the Turkic camp. The soldiers and horses of various tribes in the camp couldn't help laughing and cursing and taking pleasure in the misfortune when they saw the troops of Gaochang State retreating in embarrassment today.  In fact, under Wusha Castle, Nili's 50,000-strong army almost all took turns to attack, and none of them returned without defeat. Every time the tribal soldiers and horses who retreated from the attack were ridiculed by others,  Make fun of it.  Everyone seems to be used to this method. Seeing others lose, they can finally feel more balanced.  In the rain, under the banner of Silver Wolf, Nili Khan stood in front of the tent and watched the defeated army return to camp, and then looked at the heartless soldiers and horses laughing at fifty steps and a hundred steps.  They couldn't help but feel happy.  Ni Li's subordinate Qu Wentai was full of worries on the side, "Now the army cannot advance or retreat, just like riding a tiger, the soldiers and horses have lost all their vigor and morale. Besides, we came from afar and didn't have much food and supplies to carry. After entering the Sui Dynasty, even more  It was all about plundering and harvesting grain, and fighting to support the war. But now that we are under a fortified city, it is difficult to attack for a long time, and the food and grass are scarce. This is a sign of defeat. I suggested to the Khan that he should make a decision as soon as possible.  The grandson of the current king of Gaochang, his father is the prince of Gaochang.  It has been 140 years since the founding of the Western Region of Gaochang. It has been passed down to the Qu family through three generations of the Que family, Zhang family and Ma family. The Qu family has been in charge of Gaochang for the longest time, for nearly a hundred years.  However, although Gaochang was established as a country, it has always had to submit to the grassland overlords, and has successively attached itself to powerful tribes such as Gaoche, Rouran, and Turks. When Mugan Khan went westward and defeated Gaochang, Gaochang has since surrendered to the Turks.  The Gaochang Kingdom has also been attached to the line of Turkic Mugan Khans. After Mugan, it relied on Mugan's son Apo. After Apo's death, Gaochang continued to rely on Abo's nephew Nili.  This time the Turkic leader sent an order to all the khans to join the Sui Dynasty, and Nili also summoned all the tribes of his feudal state, including the Gaochang state that was attached to him.  Gaochang sent an army to fight, led by the king's grandson Qu Wentai.  Under Wusha Fort, Gaochang's army also suffered heavy losses.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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