The night was already shrouded in the battle formation under Taiyuan City. △↗Countless burning torches were stacked on the battlefield, and the flames swayed, reflecting the Jinyang Xiong City behind them, pulling out a tall and majestic shadow in the darkness.

The shouts of killing echoed in the night, and the sound waves hit the city wall and splashed around, adding ten times more murderous aura to the ongoing night battle!

The Tang Dynasty horses kept moving back and forth in the night. Teams of soldiers filled in, and the soldiers were killed and injured, and they were lifted down like flowing water. Half of the three-bow crossbows were dispersed due to the high-frequency launch, and no one was going to deal with it. Li Feng's artillery soldiers just desperately used the remaining three-bow crossbows to launch thunder arrows to bombard the Mongolian army's camp.

During the daytime field battle, it was obvious that the Tang army with a large number of people had the upper hand. Although Chen Dexing did not really want to save Li Yu, Kublai Khan's 50,000 army left Niangzi Pass and entered Hebei, the number of Mongolian troops left under Taiyuan City was at an absolute disadvantage. In Taiyuan, Li Yu had a population of 100,000, while Batulu only had 50,000!

Moreover, Li Yu had not only a numerical advantage, but the combat power of the Tang army, whether it was the direct government soldiers or the subordinate vassal army, was not weak! In particular, Li Yulin Army and the Iron Army of the Shi family were both the best infantry of this era. In contrast, the Gongchang Wang family slandered the vitality in the Battle of Mengge in Sichuan a few years ago and lost all the elites (the Shi family suffered a lot, but the Shi family had five ten thousand households, and their strength was far superior to the Wang family, so they did not hurt the fundamentals). Although they barely made up for the troops, their combat power was always a bit unhealthy. They were still just right against the ordinary Tang army, but when Shi Tianze asked the entire army to start charging in the iron armor of infantry armor. He had only leather armor to protect himself, and the Wang family army, who had fought hard for another morning, could not bear it. Batulu did not dare to suppress his Mongolian households. He had to order Wang Tiange to gather his team and retreat to the camp.

Li Yan and Shi Tianze did not hesitate at all. They immediately joined the army to attack the Mongolian camp. In the afternoon, the outer wall of the attacked Mongolian camp had been broken, and now there were raging fires everywhere. All the wood used to build the village walls and the watchtower were lit to illuminate the battlefield. Amid the crackling sounds, the surrounding battlefield was illuminated as bright as day.

Under the fire, the red Tang army soldiers shouted slogans and rushed up with red eyes. Dozens of flags were rolling and flying under the flames around. The troops symbolized by these flags had established great reputations in the external conquests of the Tang Empire hundreds of years ago. However, they have long been obliterated in the long river of history. Unexpectedly, they were dug out from the old paper pile by Li Guan and Wang Wentong and were resurrected on the battlefield!

Dozens or hundreds of big drums were beating the sky-shaking sound under these banners. Dead soldiers of Tang army armored soldiers flocked forward, striking the second wall of the Yuan army again and again.

The arrows of both sides were intertwined on this night, as if endless. Countless people fought to the death in each gap in the Yuan army's village wall. The reinforcements of the Yuan army arrived one after another. They all came from the northeast and west sides of Taiyuan. They kept filling in the gaps. The Yuan army also had some three-bow crossbows and thunder arrows, which were now pushed to the front line and fired out in a sturdy manner. The Tang army, who was crowded with the gap in the village wall, seemed to be easily broken open like tofu, and fell down with screams, and then there were suddenly fireballs and explosions. The Tang army's offensive suddenly stopped. The Yuan soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to launch a counterattack, as if they were going to drive the Tang army away from their camp!

The reason why the Mongolian army fought to the death was because Kublai Khan gave a death order! Without his order, the 50,000 troops besieging Taiyuan were not allowed to retreat! Because Kublai Khan was worried that once Li Yu rushed out of Taiyuan, he would immediately go across Taihang to Jinan. In this way, the Tang and Ming armies might meet in Hebei, which was tantamount to a catastrophe for his 200,000 Mongolian army!

When the Mongolian army began to resist with all their might, Li Yan and Shi Tianze also came to the front line to supervise the battle. Of course, the banners of the two of them could not be fought on the front line, otherwise they would definitely end up with Mengge - Chen Dexing's invention obviously changed the form of the battlefield to some extent. The generals' flags should not be too far ahead, otherwise they would definitely be bombarded by the thunder arrows.

Batulu and Wang Tiange also went to the front line to supervise the battle. They stood behind the village wall, but they could use the banner without worrying about being bombarded by the thunder arrows. There were dozens of big drums beside them, which were deafeningly beaten. One by one, hundreds of Mongolian households and thousands of households were snatched off, and some even took their last breath in front of Batulu and Wang Tiange.

But at this moment, the two of them didn't look at the casualties of the generals, but just pursed their lips and stared at the gaps in the battalion walls that were fighting ahead.

Once again, the torrent of the Tang army retreated, and more Mongolian corpses and wounded were carried down. One of them was the nephew of the Wang family. One of his arms was gone, and the wound was burned with a red-hot knife and no longer bleeding. As soon as he saw Brother Wang Tian, ​​he knelt down and cried: "Uncle! My thousand-person team has almost 30% of them! The men have tried their best to let them retreat! We don't want this Taiyuan..."

Before Brother Wang Tian could answer, he saw several Mongolians wearing the willow-leaf armor of the Qiexue Army galloping from the side. He rode on the horse and shouted to Batulu: "Transfer the order of Xue Chan Khan, Marshal Batulu can retreat to Bianliang on the tenth day of October!"

Batulu glanced at Brother Wang Tian and said in a deep voice: "On the tenth day of October... there are three days left! Let's guard for another three days! No matter what, we must guard it!"

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At the same time, the fire soared into the sky was also lit in the wilderness outside the Liujia Market Town. Liujia Market Town is a temporary shelter chosen by Guo Kan for tens of thousands of Han refugees. This market town was probably found in the Jin Dynasty or even the Northern Song Dynasty. It is not small in scale, but the town is terriblely few people. Most of the houses were either abandoned or collapsed, and there were dozens of households in the center of the town. Now tens of thousands of people were poured in, and there were still many livestock vehicles. This small town became a crowded place, but finally it accommodated most people, and there were still tens of thousands of people left to squeeze into the south of the town, using a big cart, and there were archers, spearmen and swords and shields organized by powerful leaders.

Guo Kan formed a formation south of this "circle". The 300-biting shield hands were lined up in front, in half-squatting postures, holding rattan cards to form a "vine wall". Behind them were archers wearing only leather armor.

Guo Kan's army did not use strong crossbows, but like the Mongols, he used a composite bow to shoot arrows. Although the number was only 600, they were all sharpshooters, no longer under the Mongolian Qixue. Each archer also received twenty armor-breaking arrows - these feather arrows with steel arrows produced by the Beiming Military Affairs Department for the Eight Banners soldiers, which were very precious. Each Eight Banners soldier could only receive ten, and if you want them, you had to pay for it (ordinary iron arrows can be obtained for free).

Behind the archers were spearmen sitting on the ground, with 300 people in a row, and a total of seven rows were seated. The first three rows were wearing steel armor, and the back four rows were wearing Qingtang wart armor. The protective ability of this kind of armor was not below the steel armor, but it was a bit heavy.

In fact, the metal used in Qingtang Crab can barely be considered steel, but it is not medium-carbon steel, but low-carbon steel. Its hardness is not as good as medium-carbon steel, but it is relatively soft. This is also the reason why Qingtang Crab Crab can be cold forged.

The iron sheets used to create this Qingtang wart armor were not produced in the Central Plains, but from the Western Regions. They were made of low-thiophosphate iron ore and charcoal. Therefore, they had the possibility of cold forging. In addition, the willow-leaf iron armor worn by the Mongolian Qiexue Army was also cold forged with the same metal. The price of this cold-forged armor was very high, and each collar was worth hundreds of stagnant, which was not much cheaper than the plate armor of the Beiming.

After the seven step formations, there were thousands of civilians who were building walls, all of whom were selected from the refugees.

The confrontation with Guo Kan and his voyage were five Mongolian Thousands of Man teams. They arrived in the afternoon and surrounded them all at first. Guo Kan ignored them and had no way to manage his finances because he had already asked the black flag vest to go to Chen Dexing to report the news. There was no horse army around him, only infantry army, so naturally he could only deploy defenses.

After the Mongols completed the siege, they launched several more tentative attacks to find out the truth. The result was that corpses were left in the ground! And Guo Kan's brigade had almost no casualties.

However, the truth was still understood. Several steel armor-breaking arrows that easily shot through the two layers of armor (one layer of leather armor and one layer of chain mail) that had been outside sixty or seventy steps were soon sent to Kublai Khan.

"Is this steel?" Kublai Khan carefully looked at the arrows sent by his subordinates under the light of the butter fire.

"It's steel!" Boyan frowned, "It seems not under the Uzi steel!"

Boyan spent many years in the Ili Khanate and had seen many Uzi steel weapons. In his opinion, although the materials used for these steel arrows are not as beautiful as Uzi steel, their hardness and toughness should be similar.

"How many people are there?" Kublai Khan asked again.

"There are about 50,000 or 60,000 households in the Han Dynasty, all crowded around a market town. The maximum number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty was 4,000, all infantrymen were infantry and no cavalry. They were defenses on the south side of the market town." A Mongolian Qianhu Chief reported.

"No cavalry? Have you ever encountered it before?"

"I have encountered a black cavalry, which should be the so-called Eight Banners and Black Banners Cavalry."

"Khan, these black-clad cavalry should have gone to Chen Zhe for help!" Boyan suggested, "We might as well eat the 4,000-man ignorant armored soldiers first."
Chapter completed!