Lord of the People of Online Games

Seven thousand white robes climbed the city, with white clothes and silver armor like snow, repelled the enemy soldiers who had climbed the city, and regained the city wall and Urn city!

Because of the arrival of General Chu Zi's reinforcements, the morale of the Yumenguan army rose sharply, and the Mongolian army and the servants retreated to the rear like a wave of low tide.

Yumen Pass, which was crumbling before, stick to it again!

Within a day, the offensive and defensive battles of Yumen Pass changed again and again, until Chutian led the arrival of reinforcements and the Mongolian army retreated.

Xu Fengnian almost sat on the brick wall, panting.

The Mongolian empire's army temporarily withdrew, so that Xu Fengnian could finally take a good breath, otherwise, with Tiemu really strong, maybe Yumenguan would really be captured by the Mongolian cavalry.

He looked around and found that all the Han army regiments guarding Yumen Pass were almost maimed in the fierce battle. The army and servants of Temujin and Ali Hague were killed in battle. Near Yumen Pass, there was a sea of ​​corpses.

Zhang Xiu and hundreds of soldiers from Xiliang took back the body of Zhang Ji from his father, silently.

In this battle, Lao Qin had sent to assist the general of Yumenguan, the former general of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army, Zhang Ji, who died in the battle, and Zhang Xiu gritted his teeth.

"The Roman legion killed my slave father, and he must pay a corresponding price for it!"

Zhang Xiu still has a hatred of the Roman Legion.

The Roman legions were all high-level arms, and Zhang Ji invaded the Roman legions and was killed by the Roman legions.

Xu Fengnian's encounter with Zhang Xiu just shook his head.

Zhang Ji was just one of countless generals killed and injured in the battle at Yumen Pass.

The war will only get worse and worse, even if the entire army is wiped out.

"Why did the scream stop? Could it be that the Mongolian army has already penetrated into the pass?"

The injured Zhang Xi held his shoulders burned by the fire and tried to get up to fight, but was stopped by the old acquaintance Ju Yi: "Don't worry, the main public reinforcements come, we don't need to continue fighting."

"It turns out that the lord came, so it seems that the Mongolian army will probably retreat."

Zhang Xi heard that Chu Tian had arrived, so he lay down in peace.

Currently, only Chutian is qualified to play cavalry with Temujin.

As expected, the Mongolian army chose to withdraw, just as Zhang Yun had inferred.

Temujin was still hesitating whether to fight Chu Tian decisively.

Temujin also knew that Chutian was the largest prince of the Han Empire. If the decisive battle with Chutian failed, the end of the Mongol Empire would soon come.

According to Zhang Yun's inference, Temuzhen is still accumulating strength, so he has always avoided confronting Chutian.

"Go to meet Chu Zimou."

After breathing heavily, Xu Fengnian finally got up and went to see Chutian with Ma Teng, Han Sui, Feng Yi, Xie Ai and others.

If it weren't for the arrival of Chutian's reinforcements, perhaps Yumen Pass had become a ruin now.

Under the offensive of the Mongolian cavalry, not many people could defend Yumen Pass, but this group did it!

When Xu Fengnian got up, he almost fell because of his loss of strength. It was Wang Yanzhang who held Xu Fengnian with one hand, and Xu Fengnian did not fall.

Chutian dispatched a white robe army to take the lead to relieve Yumen Pass.

After dismounting, the white-robed army can become light infantry and behead the enemy on the wall, which is no less inferior to the high-level light infantry.

Compared with heavy infantry, light infantry has very low protection, but its speed is faster, and its physical strength is slower, so it is suitable for continuous combat.

After the Mongolian army retreated, Chu Tian entered Yumen Pass and found that the houses inside Yumen Pass had been burned halfway and a mess. The city walls and nearby houses were billowing with black smoke, apparently after an extremely tragic battle.

Tens of thousands were killed.

Collapsed city walls, houses, broken battle flags, broken spears, broken armor...

Chu Tian has experienced many tragic battles, but the Yumen Pass battle is rare in his life.

The Mongolian army’s trebuchets used fire attacks and almost razed the entire Yumen Gate to the ground.

In the era of cold weapons, it is not easy to fight a tough battle of this scale.

"Good brother, you really came!"

When Xu Fengnian saw that Chu Tian arrived as scheduled, Chu Tian took the lead to assist before the arrival of the two great princes, Old Qin and Mingguan. It is enough to see that Chu Tian attached great importance to Yumen Pass and the Western Regions, as well as Xu Fengnian and others.

Xu Fengnian couldn't help giving Chu Tian a solid hug, slapping Chu Tian on the shoulder, and not many people could understand the feeling of the rest of his life.

Chu Tian saved his life, so it was a life and death.

Originally, Xu Fengnian and Chutian were only trading partners. After the life-and-death battle, the foundation for cooperation became more solid.

Tongque and Sun Jian also met during the Yellow Turban Rebellion and became brothers alive and dead.

Ma Chao looked at the coming Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun, and Ma Chao, who was about to grow up, was almost the same as Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun in terms of force and appearance. At this time, he saw two people who had similar styles to him and couldn't help attracting them.

Of course, at this time Ma Chao has not reached the peak, and there is still a gap between the two people. In Ma Chao's eyes, Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun are regarded as the same seniors as Wang Yanzhang.

"Just stay alive."

Chu Tian also patted Xu Fengnian on the shoulder to appease the powerful and powerful in Liangzhou.

Xu Fengnian integrated into the Xiliang family, and as the main representative of the Xiliang family, Chu Tian needed to win over.

At the same time, Xu Fengnian dared to hold on to Yumen Pass, to hold this pass for the Han Empire, and to hold two or three hundred thousand Mongolian troops, it was not easy.

According to the information obtained by Chu Tian and his own estimation, the Mongolian army and its servants entrenched in Dunhuang County are about 200, 300,000, or even more.

Ma Teng took off the blood-stained helmet, and his scalp was injured by avoiding the boulder thrown by the Xiangyang Cannon. However, Ma Teng, the descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan, did not say a word, and cautiously asked Chutian: "Xiu'er, Tie'er and Lu'er, how are they?"

"They are all in Xiacheng at the moment. Even if we are defeated, there is no worry about our lives."

Chu Tian didn't expect Ma Teng to be tall and magnificent, yet still have iron bone tenderness.

Chu Tian muttered in his heart, Ma Teng's daughter punched her son, but she didn't care about it.

Really need to care about the debts of the female father...

Ma Teng also has ambitions, but as he grows older, his ambitions gradually fade. When he heard that his children were safe in Xiacheng, he secretly felt relieved.

"The fireball thrown by General Zhang Yun for the Mongolian trebuchet was burned and he was unable to see the lord."

Instead of Zhang Xi, Ju Yi came to visit Chutian.

When Chu Tian heard that Zhang Yun was injured, he couldn't help but shake. Zhang Yun was one of the five good generals: "What is so special about the trebuchet used by the Mongolian army that it can actually damage Zhang Yun?"

Among the high-levels present, as a player, Xu Fengnian is very knowledgeable. As a player, he knows the names of some large-scale siege equipment: "It is very likely that it is the Xiangyang gun used by the Mongolian army to capture Xiangyang City, which is also a large counterweight. The trebuchet can easily throw hundreds of catties of boulders. The city wall of Yumenguan was in disrepair and collapsed by Xiangyang artillery."

"Counterweight trebuchet?"

When Chu Tian heard this familiar term, he felt it was not easy for the defenders.

At present, the most advanced catapult in the Eastern Han Empire should be a large catapult (produced by drawings) from the Song Dynasty.

Chu Tian also obtained the Ba Niu crossbow, a large siege weapon, but it was a bit worse than the Xiangyang Cannon.

Historically, Xiangyang and Fancheng blocked the offensive of the Mongol Empire for several years. The Mongols had a great headache for the strong city defense system of the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, they got craftsmen from the Western Regions and introduced large counterweight trebuchets. The city wall of Fancheng, Xiangyang surrendered.

Later, when the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty defeated the Song Dynasty, the Xiangyang Cannon achieved results in a series of fortified battles. The fortresses of the Southern Song Dynasty were destroyed or surrendered.

It can be said that the existence of Xiangyang Cannon made up for the shortcomings of the Mongolian army's insufficient siege of the city, so even if the Mongolian army slaughtered the city, it rarely slaughtered artisans.

The Temujin cavalry, coupled with the Xiangyang Cannon, the most advanced siege equipment in the current "Lord", makes the Mongol Empire invincible regardless of field or fortification.

"Not only that, the opponent also has generals who can provide bonuses to siege equipment, similar to Liu Ye. The Xiangyang Cannon can also use special attack methods such as fireballs and wolf smoke."

Xu Fengnian believed that it was necessary to inform Chu Tian of all the information he had obtained.

The intelligence of the Mongolian army was obtained by Xu Fengnian and a group of soldiers in exchange for their lives.

"You should be talking about those big guys, that is Xiangyang Cannon?"

Chu Tian saw the outline of Xiangyang Cannons. Fifty Xiangyang Cannons stood upright. Each of the large trebuchets was several meters high, and the tallest one was even more than ten meters. Throwing stones weighing hundreds of catties was like a meteorite falling. The early bronze guns were not inferior.

It is estimated that the inspiration for the bronze cannon is also a large projectile siege equipment such as the catapult. The original bronze cannon fires solid bullets, which are equivalent to the stones of the catapult. The weight of the solid bullets is higher than the stone used by the catapult. The block is smaller. Correspondingly, the original bronze gun is more convenient to use than the catapult, and the initial speed of the gunpowder is faster.

"No wonder Yumen Pass has almost become ruins... Yumen Pass is only temporarily reinforced. Usually, it is rarely used here, and the city walls have been weathered."

Chu Tian checked the wall of Yumen Pass, and the situation was not optimistic.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars broke out. All the princes were busy with civil wars and would not care about the fortifications of Yumen Pass and the Great Wall of Han Dynasty. After all, nomadic tribes were weak during this period.

Gongsunkang led three thousand cavalry to defeat an army of fifty thousand Fuyu, and the southern Huns were chased and killed by Mongolian cavalry with fewer numbers than him...

Yumen Pass was also the Xiong Pass that was rebuilt after Xu Fengnian retired here, otherwise the defense of Yumen Pass would be even more vulnerable.

"The opposite should be Temuzhen's army. He was driven away by me in Hetao and Monan. In the end, he wants to fight us in the Western Regions."

Chu Tian already felt that Tiemu really hesitated.

Facing the Han army led by him, Temujin was not sure of victory, so Temujin retreated and then retreated.

The Mongol Empire’s losses in Hetao and Monan resulted in the loss of approximately 100,000 cavalry and two to 300,000 tribal herders, but it was not serious. Temujin was still accumulating strength.

According to Chutian's inference, Temujin chose to fight the Han Empire in Luntai, Tianshan or Altai Mountains in the Western Regions-in short, far away from the Central Plains.

Temuzhen’s strategy is similar to that of Xiongnu Yizhi Xianyu in the Battle of Mobei.

The closer to the hinterland of the Central Plains, Hebei, and Guanzhong of the Han Empire, the easier it was to supply the Han Empire.

Even if the Han Empire is defeated, it will soon be possible to recruit a large army from these densely populated places to come to fight the Mongol Empire.

If things go on like this, the Mongol Empire will ultimately fail.

Therefore, regardless of whether Temujin or the Xiongnu's Yi Zhixianyu, their goal is to use the mobility of the cavalry as much as possible to lengthen the supply line of the Han Empire.

The longer the supply line, the fewer soldiers and horses the Han Empire can send, and the greater the pressure it bears.

To fight at home, the Han Empire could send one or two million troops.

If you fight across thousands of miles, it will be more reluctant to dispatch hundreds of thousands of people.

A typical example is Yang Guangzheng, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, conquering Goguryeo, conquering a million troops, traveling long distances, and encountering a cold winter, unable to calm Goguryeo, but losing a lot of soldiers, horses, grain, and weapons, and the people are overwhelmed.

Later, Li Shimin sent only more than one hundred thousand elite soldiers to capture more than ten cities of Goguryeo and rob hundreds of thousands of people.

The princes of the Han Empire knew about this reason, so Chutian would rather fight in relatively close places such as the Hetao Plain and the Monan grassland, at the gates of Bingzhou and Youzhou, and the cattle and sheep provided by the Monan lords as food .

However, Temujin and others also knew this truth. He chose the place for the decisive battle, either the Western Regions or Mobei, both of which were very far away from the Han Empire.

Yi Zhixianyu chose Mobei for a decisive battle with the Han Empire. Chu Tian, ​​Xu Fengnian and others who participated in the battle of Mobei knew how difficult it was to march in Mobei, and Tie Muzhen...

"Tie Muzhen intends to use the Western Regions Protectorate as a bait to attract us to expedition, and then annihilate us in the Western Regions. Once the elite of our Han Empire is lost, then Hetao and Monan will be their spheres of influence."

Xia Liang followed Chutian and looked at the counterweight trebuchet standing west of Yumen Pass.

Xu Fengnian, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were surprised at first, but then nodded again.

The inferences of Chu Tian and Xia Liang coincided with their faint conjectures, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why Temujin tried to avoid decisive battles in Hetao and Monan.

After the Mongolian Empire lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Hetao and Monan, UU read www.uukanshu. Com retreated immediately, apparently preserving his strength.

"The Protector of the Western Regions is under Huo An's control. Huo An is really unlucky. If there were no Mongol Empire and the Four Khanates, maybe he could dominate Central Asia..."

Xu Fengnian finally found someone more unlucky than himself—Huoan, the guardian of the Western Regions.

Huo An had already conquered Wusun Kingdom and Dawan Kingdom, prepared millions of grains and grass, prepared to defeat the Seljuk Empire and Khwarazmo, and become the hegemon of Central Asia, but the Fourth National War disrupted him. The deployment of the Western Regions is precarious.

If the Protector of the Western Regions is the bait, then Huo An happens to be the Protector of the Western Regions, and there is no luck.

"It's difficult to change the position of others in Huo An. Under this circumstance, it is difficult to destroy the Wokotai Khanate, and his main force seems to have not been completely damaged... No matter who is in this position, we are not Can't be saved."

Chu Tian discussed with Xu Fengnian and others to open up the Hexi Corridor. When he headed to the Western Regions, Zhu Jun, whose armor was stained red with blood, arrived with a sad expression in his expression: "General Zhengbei Huangfusong, I am afraid it will not work..."