Chapter 513: Fierce battle with the infantry division

The explosion on the river surface could be clearly heard dozens of miles away. This was the signal of the Tang army's attack. The Tang army to the west began to march towards the Bushi City. At the same time, the 30,000 Tang army to the north also received the order from the Tang army commander Li Qing'an and pressed forward from the north to the south. The two Tang army formed a siege against the Tubo army in the Bushi City.

The Bushi City was panicked, and every household was closed. There was no one on the street. Only teams of Tubo soldiers were smashing the doors from house to house. They looted each place on the grounds of searching for spies from Tang army. All the food, money, and livestock were stolen. Some young and beautiful women would be defiled. Tubo used his cruelty to the people in the occupied areas to cover up their panic, which also showed that they were not optimistic about the future of Bushi City. Before the Tang army occupied Bushi City, they carried out a final loot of the people in the city.

Above the city, Lun Xizhu, the chief general of the Tubo army in Bushicheng, looked into the distance in despair. He seemed to have seen the figure of the main force of the Tang army. Although he ordered the repair of the pontoon bridge, it would take at least three days to repair the pontoon bridge. Dozens of small boats could not transport many reinforcements across the river.

The Tang army's army is approaching. What should I do? Should I fight with the Tang army or guard the city and wait for reinforcements? The crisis is imminent, but he has not yet thought about how to deal with the Tang army.

When people are in a panic, they often retreat without thinking about being enterprising. This is the weakness of human nature. Only brave and extraordinary people dare to challenge themselves in adversity.

The Tubo general obviously lacked the courage. He hesitated that the main force of the Tang army was under the pressure of the Tang army, and he had no courage to go out to fight the Tang army. He looked carefully at the walls of Bushi City. The walls were only six people high and there was no moat. Although they were not very high, they were very thick. They were all made of large bluestone. They might be able to withstand the Tang army for a few days, or they might be able to wait for the day when reinforcements arrived.

He was looking for comfort in various self-assumptions, but the arrival of the Tang army was real, not his illusion.

‘Woo~Woo—’

The low and distant horn sounded in the west of the earth, and a long black line appeared in the west, just like an echo. The horn sounded in the north, and the Tang army in the north also appeared.

The black line gradually spread out, pulling out a black curtain covering the sky, with flags like clouds, armor, neat teams, swords and guns like endless forests, cavalry in front and infantry in the back, the marching speed was not fast, but every step was so thrilling. The rhythm of the march came with the sound of trumpets, and the rumbling drums rolled across the sky like muffled thunder.

This is an army dominated by Han people. They still retain the unique neat military appearance and strict discipline of the Han army, but they cannot see the feminine spirit of the Han army in the Central Plains. They have an Anxi unique blood and fire, and a steel-like tough temperament. They are like a piece of high-density steel, invincible.

The Tubo army had retreated from all directions of the city. They were in a very embarrassing retreat, and even many of the supplies were abandoned without time to transport them. As the 10,000 Tubo army stationed on the north bank of the floating bridge retreated to Bushi City, the gate of Bushi City slowly closed.

All 40,000 Tubo troops went to the city. They did not have heavy defensive weapons such as catapults or crossbows, only bows and arrows, and the most primitive wooden rolling stones. It was easy to obtain stones. They demolished all the stone houses near the city walls and obtained a large number of stones.

In Qiemo City, the Tubo army attacked the city, but today it turned around. Eighty thousand Tang troops attacked the Infantry City, and the city was already in chaos. The main general Lunxizhu commanded the soldiers to block the door with huge rocks in front of the city gate. The huge rocks weighing thousands of kilograms were moved by Tubo soldiers, and they were densely blocked behind the city gate. The city gate was the most fragile place in the city city, Bushi City, and it was very easy for the Tang army to open a gap from here.

Lunxizhu's voice was hoarse. He pointed to a door and shouted hoarsely, "Hurry! Here, here, block here."

More than 200 Tubos used pry sticks and rolling wood to slowly transport a square huge stone, blocking the city gate, and several large stones were transported behind them one after another, piled up on the large stones.

At this time, Tubo soldiers drove thousands of old, weak and weak women and children from all directions to the city. Many women and children were holding their children in their hands and cried and begging, but Tubo soldiers ruthlessly used whips and wooden sticks to catch them ruthlessly. These old, weak and weak women and children were their hostages and could hinder the Tang army's attack.

The drum sounds outside the city gradually subsided. The two Tang troops in the west and north arrived at the Bushi City almost at the same time. They stopped moving forward two miles away from the city, waiting for the next order.

Li Qing'an rode on a horse, the middle army in the team. He looked at the familiar city with cold eyes. Although he had made plans for several possible situations, he did not expect that the Tubo army would eventually choose to trap itself in the city. Although the thick walls of the Bushi City could slow down the iron hooves of the Tang army for a while, the Tubo army could not defend the city at all. On the contrary, the walls would trap the pace of Tubo soldiers' escape.

If it were him, if he knew he was defeated and no reinforcements came, he would rather choose to break through and break westward. After all, they also have 40,000 troops, and at least 20,000 people can break through the siege and be trapped in the city, and they will be more likely to be wiped out.

"Look at the general!"

A personal soldier pointed to the city and shouted, "They have brought all the women and children into the city."

Li Qingan couldn't help but smile contemptuously. He had already smelled the timid breath of the Tubo army. He used women and children to the city as shields. Doesn't it even more that their timidity?

These Tubo troops did not understand what war was. War was a fight after soldiers turned into beasts. They had no mercy. In the face of war, the most valuable thing was human life, whether it was soldiers or the elderly, weak, women and children.

"Tell me my order and the chariot will go to fight!"

The rumbling drum sounded again, and two hundred chariots appeared behind the Tang army brigade. This was a heavy weapon made by Anxi for many years. It was huge in size and had six wheels to carry weight. The entire carriage was made of a century-old iron wood unique to the Yibohai coast. The wood was extremely delicate and thick, and it was the raw material for the Anxi army to make shields. This iron wood was actually a kind of oak, not afraid of fire or knife cutting, and was extremely hard. Only a crossbow could shoot through it within 150 steps. The military craftsman wrapped a layer of iron outside to make it stronger. A carriage was about three meters long, one meter wide and one meter high. It was pulled by twenty-four tall and majestic Dayuan horses. In the Central Plains, this luxury of using horses was unimaginable, but it could be easily done in Anxi.

Each car can hide thirty crossbowmen, with shooting holes all around the car. In addition, there are small stone cannons with bed crossbows and winch type, namely stone generators, rather than lever trenchers. This kind of stone cannon can launch objects weighing twenty kilograms to three hundred steps away. This kind of tank is actually an ancient heavy tank.

Although it seems a bit bulky and not fast, it can exert great power in cluster combat. In particular, the Anxi military craftsmen invented a uniform combustion lead, which has an extremely important impact on the control distance and time of the thunder. It is possible to throw the thunder from a distance, and the power of the chariot can be exerted twice.

‘If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!’

The thunder of the sky was not Li Qing'an's invention. It was invented by military craftsmen in the Song Dynasty more than two hundred years later. It was an inevitable product of gunpowder used to a certain extent. Under the development of the Tang army at all costs and costs, and under the repeated trials of hundreds of experienced gunpowder military craftsmen, after several years of careful development, it will also appear. Li Qing'an just pointed out the direction of using iron shells.

In fact, the gunpowder army craftsmen of the Tang army also invented the assault musket last year, and also used bamboo tubes to fire iron sand. However, this weapon was not practical, with a range of only ten meters and was cumbersome to use, and would be damaged in two or three times, far less sharp than the Tang army's bows and arrows. At this time, the forging technology of the Tang Dynasty could not reach the level of creating seamless gun barrels, so they gave up the development of assault muskets and focused on the development of simple and practical assault thunder.

Compared with the Battle of Khwarezm last year, the thunder began to appear in small and huge shapes. The small one weighed eighteen kilograms and was like a flat watermelon. It was specially developed to cooperate with the use of a chariot. The huge thunder weighed about two hundred kilograms, like a large tank, which was extremely effective for exploding the city wall.

Today, the two hundred chariots did not carry crossbowmen, but were loaded with a small stone generator, fixed in the carriage, and operated by three soldiers.

At the command of Li Qing'an, two hundred chariots rumbled towards the Bushi City. The scouts of the Tang army had already discovered that there were no catapults in the Bushi City, and the Tubo army did not have a long-range capping weapon. The Tubo army was not good at defending the city. Although they learned a lot of skills from the Tang Dynasty, they could build sharp weapons, make bows, and make strong chain mails, but they could also build various heavy weapons and various high-quality weapons like the Tang army, and form a complete military-industrial system, but they did not have that ability.

When it comes to defending the city, the Tubo army still used the most primitive method, using rolling wood and stone to engage in close combat with the Tang army, but today they were fortunate to see the most advanced and sharp weapon in the world: the two hundred six-wheeled chariots used by the Tang army for the first time.

Six wheels, a huge carriage like a room, and twenty-four heroic war horses were seen flying dust, covering the sky and the sun. The momentum of two hundred war horses running towards each other shocked the Tubo soldiers on the top of the city. Two hundred chariots stopped about 250 steps away from the city wall, turned the head of the horse, and turned the rear of the car to face the city wall. At this time, the cover plate at the rear of the carriage was lifted, revealing a black stone cannon. Two Tang soldiers on the left and right had tightened the winch, and a dark red flat-round thunder was placed on the stone cannon, ready to go, dragging a two-foot-long slow fuse, and a Tang army lit the lead.

There are scales on the leads, ranging from 200 steps to 250 steps, but the chariot's stance is not so accurate. In order to prevent the thunder from shooting to the city head too early and not blowing it up by the enemy's water or cutting off the lead, a craftsman invented a special design and made an iron cover on the thunder so that the leads of the last thirty steps can burn inside the iron shell.

Each thunder is engraved with the name of a manufacturing craftsman. If a dumb thunder occurs or explodes in advance, the craftsman will be held accountable. This accountability is not only used on important firearms. All the weapons of the Tang army have craftsmen engraved with names for commendation or accountability. This ensures that craftsmen work diligently in manufacturing every weapon. Slogans such as "sweat more sweat in normal times and less blood in wartime" are useless. Only strict and complete systems and assembly line-like division of work can truly ensure effective management and quality.

The lead was burning with a snail of white smoke. Tang Jun, who was operating the stone cannon, narrowed his eyes. The lead had already reached a scale of 250 steps. He pressed the handle hard, and the winch was filled with power and burst out. The powerful thrust pushed the dark red thunder out. A 'Click! Click!' impact sound, two hundred thunders emitting white smoke drew a series of parabolas and shot towards the top of the city.

The carriage started and left. After walking a few steps, I heard a deafening explosion sound at the top of the city, which shocked people's hearts almost stopped beating. Thunder exploded one after another. Red flames burst out, and black smoke rose into the sky, gathering into a huge mushroom cloud.

A large section of the city wall was blown up, and the dense crowds on the top of the city were gone. Countless gravels and bloody flesh were scattered. The air was filled with choking smoke and disgusting blood. Screams of death and screams of extreme fear came one after another, just like the tragic phenomenon in hell.

The 80,000 Tang soldiers from miles away were also shocked by the power of the sky-shaking thunder. Although the power of this small sky-shaking thunder was relatively small, the effect of 200 explosions caused by the explosion still made the Tang soldiers feel a little chilled.

The city was already silent. In a powerful explosion, thousands of Tubo soldiers disappeared, and all Tubo soldiers were shocked. Everyone felt a sense of despair, as if the god of death had captured their hearts.

At this time, Li Qing'an issued a second order, "Siege the city!"

The sound of drums sounded again, hundreds of nest cars and cloud ladders had been assembled, and they began to rumble to attack the Bushi City. Sixty thousand Tang soldiers rushed up like a tide. Although the Tang army already had the most advanced and sharp weapons, the war was people. The Tang army needed to hone themselves with blood and fire. They needed to grow in death and become the most powerful army in the world in the baptism of war.

The Tang army was full of morale. A ladder was erected on the city. The Tang army soldiers climbed up the city. Arrows on the city were like rain, and rolling wood and stones were smashed like hail. One Tang army soldier was smashed to pieces and fell down the city screaming. Another soldier bravely rose up again and fought with the Tubo soldiers on the city with a spear. Under the city, 20,000 Tang soldiers fought back with strong bows and crossbows. The overwhelming rain of powerful arrows made the Tubo soldiers on the city unable to look up. The Tubo army suffered heavy casualties and injured, and soldiers kept falling into the city by arrows.

At this time, the fifty nesting chariots of the Tang army finally arrived beside the city wall. A roller was installed under the nesting chariot, and hundreds of soldiers pushed it forward. The wall of the Bushi City was not high, and the nesting chariot was just the same as the top of the city. There were two hundred soldiers in each nesting chariot. The iron plates of the city were pulled up by iron chains to resist the bows and arrows of the Tubo army.

‘Boom!’ There was a loud noise from the ground, and the iron plate hit the city, smashing the gravels and flying. Two hundred Tang soldiers shouted and rushed out of the nest car, waved their swords and spears, rushed into the Tubo army, and fought with them. As the ten thousand Tang soldiers in the nest car killed the city, the Tang army who were climbing the ladder got a chance. They rushed to the city, with strong fighting spirit and high momentum, and shouting and killing sounds. However, the Tubo army still sank in the clouds that had just shook the sky and was unable to extricate themselves. Their morale was disintegrated, their morale was low, and they were killed by the Tang army to retreat step by step.

At this time, Bushicheng became a cage of the Tubo army, making it difficult for them to escape.

Seeing that the gate of Bushi City was open, the Tang army waved the flag of Anxi Army. He immediately pointed at the city gate with a sword and ordered the 20,000 most elite cavalry: "Kill the progressive division city, and the resisters will kill them!"

The horse's hooves rolled, and the momentum was stormy. The 20,000 cavalrymen rushed towards the Bushi City like the highest wave.

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