I have 800,000 private soldiers. The emperor forces me to hand over military power?

The next day.

The ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Daxin Lingwu.

The 100,000-strong allied army in the Western Regions, headed by Pei Luo, the stronghold of Huairen Khan of the Uighur Khanate, finally launched an siege against the ancient city of Yanqi, one of the four towns in Anxi.

At this time, two full months had passed since the Western Region Allied Forces besieged the city.

The young and brave Azar, the leader of the generals of the Uighur Khanate, personally served as the siege vanguard general. He rode his horse and stood proudly at the foot of Yanqi City in front of the three armies.

Behind him are tens of thousands of Western Region coalition troops armed with various weapons.

From the generals to the soldiers, the eyes that looked into the Yanqi City were full of greed and ferocity, as if they wanted to swallow up this ancient city that stood on the Silk Road of the Western Regions for hundreds of years.

On Yanqi City, Anxi Frontier Army Staff General Tan Li personally sat at the top of the city, commanding the border army officers and soldiers guarding the city to defend against the enemy.

Even though we are outnumbered and helpless;

However, when the soldiers of the Anxi frontier army, including the city guard general Tan Li, faced the Huihe enemy forces under the city that were several times their own, there was no fear on their weather-beaten faces, and they were full of determination to regard death as if they were going home.

The officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army knew very well that what they wanted to protect was not only the wives, daughters, sisters, and fellow villagers in Yanqi City, but also the military spirit of the Anxi Army battle flag behind them, as well as the Han nation's legacy on the Silk Road in the Western Regions. Dignity and glory.

Due to the perennial drought climate, the city of Yanqi, an important town in Anxi, did not have a wide moat as the first line of defense like the cities in the mainland.

Only the city wall, which has been continuously reinforced with blue bricks, huge stones mixed with glutinous rice juice for hundreds of years, is the last support for the 20,000 Anxi frontier troops and 50,000 Yanqi people.

The offensive and defensive sides were facing each other hundreds of steps away, and they could even see the expressions on each other's faces clearly.

At noon.

The warm winter sun shines slantingly on the ancient Yanqi City, casting a layer of golden warm light on the blue bricks on the city wall that have long been built on Yanqi City. The chill and sadness of the eve.

Above the city wall, there was silence.

Only the battle flag of the Anxi frontier army whistled in the biting wind.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Suddenly, drums and horns sounded loudly in the Uighur military formation outside the city.

The Uighur general Azar drew his sword, raised his arms and shouted: "Warriors from the Western Regions, follow the guidance of my general's blade and attack the city!"

"Siege the city!!!"

The siege order issued by Azar was infinitely amplified by the roar of his soldiers.

Until, the sound of siege penetrated the entire Yanqi City inside and outside.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Immediately afterwards, in the Huihe military formation, large ballistas, trebuchets, arrow towers and other long-distance siege weapons took the lead in attacking the Anxi frontier army on the Yanqi city wall.

Arrows as thick as halberd shafts and huge boulders were thrown at Yanqi City as if they were free.

Occasionally, there would be catapults that would throw "stone bullets" poured with heavy fire oil into Yanqi City one after another.

All of a sudden.

On the Yanqi city wall, fire was blazing and gunpowder smoke filled the air.

With the help of the suppression of long-range weapons, Azar commanded the Uighur siege infantry, and began to carry ladders, push siege vehicles, set up battering rams and other weapons to break the city, and surged towards Yanqi City like a huge wind and wave. .

He dreamed that with the scimitars and sharp blades in his hands, he could easily break through Yanqi City, then rush into the city, slaughter and abuse the people in the city without restraint, and loot the property in the city.

This group of barbarians from the Western Regions screamed and charged. Every time they attacked the city gate or set up a ladder, they carried their hatred and contempt for the ancient city of Yanqi and the Anxi frontier troops in the city.

However, these barbarian troops from the Western Regions underestimated the determination and courage of the Anxi frontier troops defending the city, who vowed to live and die with Yanqi City.

The Anxi frontier army under the command of General Tan Li was not frightened by the massive attack by the barbarians in the Western Regions. Instead, it aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers who would rather die than surrender.

While using crossbows, spears, and rolling logs in their hands to aim at the barbarian troops from the Western Regions who climbed up the ladder, they fought back hard. At the same time, they used the water and yellow sand prepared in advance to quickly put out the fire on the city wall.

In short, when the soldiers come, the water will be blocked and the earth will cover it up.

I would rather die taking one step forward than live even half a step back.

As the battle progressed, the barbarian army from the Western Regions led by the Uighur general Azar made more offensive attacks. Almost all of the dead soldiers who had attacked the city several times had climbed onto the Yanqi city wall.

In the end, they were repelled time and time again by the Anxi frontier army defending the city.

This brutal siege lasted from noon to Youshi, from the bright sun to the treetops above the moon.

It was not until the corpses and bloodstains lay everywhere inside and outside Yanqi City that the Uighurs on the attacking side offered gold and retreated their troops.

Tan Li, the commander-in-chief of the garrison, dragged his tired body around the city wall. While ordering the civilians who came to help in the battle to strengthen the damaged city wall, he also asked his soldiers to report the casualties on the first day of defending the city.

"Report——"

"General, in today's battle, our army suffered more than 2,000 casualties and more than 800 were seriously injured. According to the number of corpses of the Western Region barbarians under the city, their casualties should be twice that of our army."

At this time, the generals under his command immediately reported the statistics of casualties to the commander-in-chief Tan Li.

Um!

Tan Li nodded solemnly and ordered: "Give me the order. Except for the soldiers on duty, the rest of the soldiers should take a break. The real fierce battle is still to come."

"Soldiers on duty at night should also be alert and alert to night attacks by barbarians from the Western Regions!"

"The general will get the order!"

The night passed.

The second day is the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Daxin Lingwu.

The Western Region Allied Forces commanded by the Uighur general Azar, today's siege momentum is even better than yesterday. From the beginning, they adopted the tactics of fire attack, trying to burn the border defenders on the city wall to achieve the purpose of breaking the city. .

"Fire attack, release!"

Following Azar's order, the large trebuchets in the Uighur army's formation launched fireballs one after another towards the Yanqi city wall.

In an instant, the Yanqi city wall turned into a sea of ​​fire. The defenders who were burned by the fire screamed and wailed endlessly.

Fortunately, the garrison staff general Tan Li predicted in advance that Azar might adopt a fire attack strategy and prepared a large amount of water and yellow sand on the city wall in advance.

This ensured that the soldiers of the Anxi frontier army guarding the city did not suffer too many casualties under the enemy's fire attack.

Even so, in the second day's defense battle, there were still more than 500 Anxi frontier army casualties, half of them were injured and half were killed.

The third day is the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Daxin Lingwu.

On this day, the barbarian army in the Western Regions commanded by the Uighur general Azar used the human sea tactic to storm Yanqi City.

When the two sides fought fiercely, several city gates were almost broken by the barbarians from the Western Regions. It was Tan Li, the chief of the defenders, who personally led 800 soldiers under his command to rush to support, and this was the only way to keep the city walls intact.

On this day, the Anxi frontier army defending the city suffered casualties, and it also ushered in the most serious day of casualties since the war began.

More than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Anxi Front Army rested forever under Yanqi City. After pouring their last blood for this city they loved deeply, they gave up their young lives.

More than two thousand people were seriously injured; countless people were slightly injured.

In just three days, more than half of the Anxi frontier troops defending the city suffered casualties.

But, the morale is still there.

The brutal siege battle is still continuing!

...

The first year of Daxin Lingwu, the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

This day was the tenth day that the Anxi frontier army defended the city.

At this time, of the 20,000 soldiers of the Anxi Army guarding the city, fewer than 3,000 were still able to climb the city to fight.

General Tan Li, with a bleeding bandage on his forehead, climbed onto the tower again with his sword in hand.

Looking at the 3,000 remnants of the army on the city wall who were at the end of their war effort, and then looking at the bottom of the city, they seemed to be the barbarian army from the Western Regions coming out in full force. On that resolute face like a knife, two lines of hot tears slipped quietly. .

Finally, Tan Li raised the steel knife in his hand, looked at the enemy troops below the city with firm eyes, and shouted sonorously: "Anxi Frontier Army, guard the Western Regions, promote our country's prestige, and nine deaths without regrets!"

"Anxi Frontier Army, guard the Western Regions, promote our country's prestige, and survive nine deaths without regrets!"

The three thousand remnants of the army roared in unison, as loudly as if there were thousands of troops.