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Chapter 55 The first battle with Datong

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    The fall of Dulan's Chinese army was the straw that broke the camel's back.

    The entire Turkic camp was ravaged by the Sui army and could only cry out in pain.

    At this time, the Sui army that was raging in the Turkic camp was not idle. When they saw Dulan's flag falling to the ground, a clever soldier who knew Turkic dialect immediately opened his voice and shouted: "Dulan is dead, the Turks have been defeated"  ¡¤¡¤¡¤¡¤¡±

    Of course Dulan was not dead at this time, but he had no way to tell this information to the entire Turkic army in the camp.  He wanted to shout that he was here, but Fu Li beside him immediately stopped him.  Ashina Mi had just saved him with his own life. He would not be beheaded by the Sui people again. Who knows if anyone in the Sui army that is raging everywhere will find him.

    Du Lan is a smart man, so he chose to remain silent.  Dulan's silence made the Turks lose the possibility of turning defeat into victory for the last time.

    At this point, the entire Turkic army in the Turkic camp completely collapsed.

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    Half an hour later, Huang Mingyuan, who had been watching the battlefield situation not far away, ordered the crossbowmen and slave cavalry who were the first to attack to start withdrawing from the battlefield.

    He knows that his troops are insufficient, and he has now achieved the maximum result he wanted. If he continues to attack, he will probably cause greater losses to himself.  Without follow-up reinforcements, there was no way to effectively expand the results of the battle, and he did not dare to consume his limited strength.  Now they have inflicted a lot of damage on the Turks, making the next defense battle even easier to fight.

    After Cai Zhiyun's slave cavalry withdrew into Muna Mountain, Huang Mingzhen, Liu Yunfang, and Hu Lusheng also took turns covering the troops and retreated in the direction they came from.  After Ashina, the most powerful butcher, was arranged to be eliminated by Huang Mingyuan, Huang Mingyuan made it clear that he wanted to consume the strength of the butler.

    It was not until daybreak the next day that the entire collapsed and chaotic Turkic camp calmed down.  There were stumps of limbs and broken bodies everywhere, and injured people lying everywhere groaning and wailing among the cattle and sheep.  More than 70% of the supplies and tents of the entire Turkic army were burned down.  The army of more than 70,000 people suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and more than 10,000 people fled to no one knows where, so they had to gather again.

    The most terrifying thing is that after this battle, the morale of the Turks dropped to the valley, and there was no trust between tribes and comrades.  Huang Mingyuan's raid only opened Pandora's box, with limited damage.  The biggest cause of Turkic casualties was the stampede and fighting caused by the chaos among tribes competing for horses and escape routes.  Countless people fell under the butcher's knife of their own people.

    This army has been abolished now, but Du Lan cannot let it be abolished.  At this time, anyone with any sense would understand that it was time to retreat.

    But what about the previous losses?  Du Lan knew that he couldn't retreat now. After experiencing such a huge defeat, he didn't even see the Sui people's city wall skin. When he returned to Mobei, those nasty hyenas had to bite him severely.  And based on the current situation, even if they really retreat, it is still a question whether they can reach Mobei safely due to the wind and snow along the way and the harassment of the Sui people.

    "I am the supreme Khan of the Great Turks. I want to conquer the world with glory. How can I escape back in despair?"

    Paranoid Du Lan not only was not frightened, but instead organized two Wanqi with minimal losses to rush to Datong City early the next morning.  He knew that the current strength of Datong City was weak. As long as Datong City was defeated, he would still have a chance to stand up.

    Dulan still wants to assemble his army and fight again, but now he can't look back.

    Huang Mingyuan stood on the city wall, stroking the scarred female wall.  Looking at the Turkic cavalry in groups of twos and threes outside the city, he clenched his fists.

    If you want to fight, I will fight.

    At this time, the Turks¡¯ coach Ashina Badush looked at the scene in front of him and took a breath.

    Batu led the army for more than 20 years and invaded the Sui Kingdom countless times. He even participated in the Zhoupan War with Daxi Changru.  But he has never seen a city with such terrifying defenses.

    Datong City is still there, but it is no longer the Datong City he is familiar with.

    Huang Mingyuan asked Hou Mo and Chen Xi to organize manpower to burn green bricks, and then wrapped a layer of green bricks on top of the original rammed earth city wall, making the entire city wall thicker by more than two feet.

    The biggest change in the defense of Datong City is that Huang Mingyuan designed four protruding circular archery towers at the four corners of the city. Each archery tower can effectively monitor and attack enemies on both sides of the city wall.  A connecting troop transport wall was added to the inside of the city wall, which greatly reduced the time for personnel to move between the two adjacent city walls.

    The biggest change in Datong City is reflected in the design of the barbican city. Originally, the barbican city that appeared during this period was very rough. The design of the barbican city flourished in the Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasties.  Datong City originally had no urn city, but Huang Ming?On the basis of the original city wall, a small urn was built outside the main entrance.  Pass through the doorway under the city wall to reach the urn city. There is an archery tower above, where troops can be hidden.  In addition to the main city gate, there are two door openings on both sides of the Wengcheng, each connected to the outside world by a suspension bridge across the moat.

    In fact, Huang Mingyuan wanted to add Moon City and Inner Urn City, but such a small frontier fortress city gate was really not necessary, and Huang Mingyuan didn't have the ability now.

    And the moat outside made Batu even more speechless when he looked at it.  Originally, the weather was cold now and the moat had long been frozen, so the Turks could attack the city directly on the ice.  But Huang Mingyuan dug three more trenches around the moat. Each trench was two and a half feet wide and one foot deep.  Two feet of water were poured inside, and bamboo that was sharpened upwards was inserted.  After the river was blocked by ice, the entire trench became a spear array.

    Huang Mingyuan built the famous anti-tank Golan trench on the inside of the trench.  He piled all the soil on the inside of the trench to form a 45-degree upward slope. The inside of the slope was blocked by vertical green bricks. After pouring hot water, the frozen slope became an indestructible embankment.  The entire ice slope is nearly one foot above the ground, making it impossible for humans and horses to cross.

    All the trees within fifty miles around the city have long been cut down and transported to the city.  Small siege vehicles were arranged in a circle along the inside of the city wall.  Huang Mingyuan looked at the inside and outside of Datong City, and he felt that he was a little too similar before. Not to mention the traditional defense tools such as gold juice, wood, knife carts, ballistae, etc., but looking at the modifications of this city, it is also in this cold season.  It¡¯s hard for the Turks.

    Batu outside the city did not flinch. Although the defense of Datong City seemed scary, it might actually be so.  But as a rare wise general under Dulan's tent, he knew that he had to destroy this weird city, for the sake of the Great Turks, and for himself.

    Because the Turks did not have the equipment to fill the trenches for the time being, Batu could only use his cavalry to test Datong City once.  First, two teams of archers rushed to the outside of the ditch, and formed a rain of arrows with bows and arrows to cover the attacking cavalry. Then, the string control men wielding scimitars lined up in twos and threes and charged towards the city wall.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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