Chapter 491: Shooting Gai Suwen
The morale of the Tang army was in full swing, and the morale of the barbarian coalition had fallen to a low point. It is logical that it is not appropriate to attack the city at this time, but Gai Suwen still ordered the attack. In his opinion, morale was important, but the gap in military strength could not be compensated by morale. They had a large army of 70,000 and the Tang army had only 10,000 remaining soldiers. He did not believe that he could not capture Youzhou City with such a huge gap in military strength.
Murqin and the others wanted to dissuade them, but they also knew that Gaisuwen was very angry now and did not want to go up and hit the nails. Moreover, they also believed that military strength was the most important thing, followed by morale.
Seeing that the enemy army was dispatched, Li Hao began to attack the city, turned his horse and ran into the city. After the city gate was closed, Li Hao immediately ordered: "Closed the city gate!"
Hundreds of people went out together to move the originally prepared landblocks into the corridor and block the city gate. Li Hao rode out of the corridor and entered the urn. The urn was filled with young and strong men who were temporarily recruited. When he saw Li Hao coming, everyone cheered, praising Li Hao as brave as a god, living up to the name of the military god, and even having the power of the god of war, and simply worshipping Li Hao as a god of god.
Li Hao rode on the horse and said coldly: "I am here! Never let the barbarians step into Youzhou!"
Li Hao's words instantly led everyone's emotions to a climax. The thousands of young men who had just recruited felt their blood boiling, and they wished they could run to the city to fight to the death with the enemy. Unfortunately, the army had military rules. Their current task was to be familiar with the battlefield, take the stand-alone in the city, and do logistics work.
Li Hao knew that no matter how close the people was, he could be, but not at this moment. At this time, he had to be high above and hold them like a god, so that they could be respectful, convinced, and believe in themselves. Only in this way can they give them unlimited confidence and inspire the greatest combat power of the people in the city. Sometimes it is very terrible and can surpass the limits of human beings. The mother lifts a car to save her child is the best example.
Li Hao glanced over the crowd, saw Guan Hong in the front row, threw Guan Dao to him, and said, "Thank you for borrowing the knife, and the item will return to the original owner!"
Guan Hong stretched out his right hand to take the Guan knife, and the heavy Guan knife was also lifting the heavy weight in his hands. Seeing this, Li Hao couldn't help but ask loudly: "Guan Hong, how are your martial arts skills?"
Guan Hong hurriedly said, "I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child. Although I dare not compare myself with the prince, I am not weaker than others."
"Okay." Li Hao said loudly, "You follow me to the top of the city to fight against the enemy together!"
"Yes!" Guan Hong was so excited that he seemed to be about to jump into the sky when he heard this. He felt that he had never been so happy in his life. The Tang Dynasty became a martial arts trend. Most of the people who practice martial arts had the intention to serve the country. Guan Hong was no exception. Seeing him like this, Li Hao seemed to see the shadow of Xue Rengui. If he had the chance, he would have to study Guan Hong carefully. Perhaps this person might be a general.
Li Hao dismounted and took Guan Hong to the top of the city. The barbarian army had already entered the range of the Tang army. This time, the Tang army archers followed Li Hao's instructions and ignored the infantry siege ahead. Instead, they arched the arrow rain and shot the archers behind the enemy. The archers on the Tang side were temporarily recruited. Most of these young and strong men had the strength, but they could not drive the bow and ride the horse, and they would not fight. Li Hao recruited them to come over and was responsible for shooting archers in the rear. It doesn't matter if they hadn't learned to draw the bow. It doesn't matter if they had not learned to draw the bow. It doesn't matter if they could shoot in seven days. It doesn't matter if they couldn't shoot correctly. What should they do if they could shoot in the chaos army? Just know how to shoot, and just understand the flag-language commands. These are all very easy to learn.
The Tang army was above the city, with a high position and gained a territorial advantage. The arrows were naturally shot far away. The archers of the barbarian coalition were unable to move forward at all. As soon as they stepped forward, they were shot to death. Before the infantry could set up a ladder, nearly a thousand archers died under the Tang army's feather arrows.
Although Gai Suwen was so angry that he felt annoyed when he saw this, he still said to himself: "I want to suppress my archer, okay, then I want to see how you deal with so many siege soldiers!"
Tens of thousands of infantrymen came to the city and started to build cloud ladders to attack the city. First, there were fewer people. As soon as the cloud ladder was raised, they were pushed open. However, there were more and more ladders behind them. Aside from the city wall, there were dense ladders. The car rushed to the city gate smoothly and began to bump into the city gate. However, the city gate was blocked by the earthblocks and could not be opened at all.
Although there were many barbarian troops, due to geographical disadvantage, the Tang army was in full spirit and was guarding the city walls with swords and guns. When they saw someone showing their heads, they would cut them down with one knife, and the stones rolled down and smashed one person. It was like picking skewers. The entire ladder would be fucked to the end, or half of them were fucked. Shortly after the war began, the barbarian coalition suffered heavy casualties.
Fortunately, the Barbarian Alliance had ten catapults. Although they were all small catapults, they helped a lot. The stones that flew into the sky were quite powerful. Many people in the Tang army on the top of the city were hit by flying stones. Every time the catapults threw a flying stone, they could tear a small gap in the city wall. The barbarian army took advantage of this gap to force the city to climb the city, otherwise they would have no chance at all, because the Tang army now was all like chicken blood, and they were so excited that they completely forgot about life and death.
There were too many barbarian coalition forces. Under the cover of the catapult cart, a barbarian army finally climbed to the top of the city. Li Hao immediately ordered: "Pour turtle oil! Burn!"
The Tang army threw all the turtle oil under the city wall, and a torch was thrown down. A huge fire dragon suddenly emerged under the city, and even the fire ignited on the surface of the moat. The barbarian army was burned and screamed, and they all drilled into the moat. The moat was very long and most of the rivers still had no flames. However, the barbarian army ignored one point. Most of them were not familiar with the water quality because they were all northerners.
There are few rivers in the north and the weather is cold, so most people in the north are not very familiar with water. The barbarians jumped into the moat and did not float up again. In just a short while, corpses were floating everywhere in the moat.
The fire hindered the offensive of the barbarian army. The Tang army on the front of the city took the opportunity to strangle the barbarians who climbed onto the city and threw them down.
There are still many army continuing to attack the city. Although there are fires under the city, they are not everywhere. Turmeric oil was relatively precious in ancient times. Even if the Tang Dynasty has abundant supplies, it is impossible to play like that. If you want to ignite fires everywhere under the city, the urmeric oil consumed is calculated based on tons.
Looking at the fire in front of him and the army with heavy losses, Gai Suwen's face was extremely gloomy. Among the army that was sieging the city, there were soldiers from other three tribes. Murqin felt distressed and stepped forward to persuade: "Master Yuan, the Tang army is in full swing. Why not stop the siege and make a long-term plan."
Gai Suwen snorted coldly: "Bad morale! I don't believe it. My 70,000 army can't capture the small Youzhou City!"
Li Tai also agreed anxiously: "Yes! General Yuan is right! We have a 70,000 army, are we still afraid of Li Hao's only 10,000 remaining soldiers!"
The other commanders of the three armies looked at Li Tai with a look of idiots. Although they didn't say anything, the look seemed to say, "You know how to bet here, you dare to whip here."
Cui Gongwang pulled Li Tai's sleeve again and asked him to shut up. Li Tai stopped embarrassedly and felt a little depressed.
The war continued, and the fire hindered the offensive of the alien army, giving the Tang army a temporary respite, but the alien archers took the opportunity to force them up and entered the range. In addition, the catapult cart caused considerable casualties to the Tang army on the top of the city.
Li Hao immediately ordered to shoot the enemy archers with all his might. After careful study, he found that it was difficult for soldiers who climbed the city to cause damage to the defenders on the city, and the one who actually caused damage to the defenders on the city was the archers, followed by the projection vehicle.
Fortunately, Gai Suwen only got ten small projectors this time. Although it caused some trouble to the defenders on the city wall, fortunately the threat was not great. If the ten more were added, Li Hao would probably have a headache.
Gradually, the fire was extinguished, and both sides were injured. Especially the alien army, when the command troops returned to report the damage, it was reported by 3,300. So far, the barbarian army has lost more than 15,000 people. You should know that the three-tribe coalition army has only lost 22,000 people in a month of siege. Now, more than 15,000 people have been lost in one siege battle. It is conceivable how fierce this siege battle is.
"Master Yuan! Let's withdraw the troops for the time being!" Murqin was a little anxious, and his tone became a little intense. "The morale of the Tang army is too strong at present, and it is not suitable to attack the city. We have suffered more than 15,000 casualties, and the losses are heavy!"
"I want you to teach you when I am in a war! There is no one who can't die in a war! If you want to retreat, go back to Xue Yantuo! Go back to the woman's belly and look like a hero. The battlefield is not suitable for you!" Gai Suwen glared and shouted, then suddenly rushed out, came to the snare drum of the military formation, grabbed the drumstick, and beat the drum himself.
Murqin was humiliated by his verbal humiliation, his face turned red, his eyes widened, and he was breathing heavily between his nose. If he hadn't been thinking about the picturesque country of the Tang Dynasty, he would have been able to withstand such cowardly. He would have slapped his butt and left.
Li Hao was overjoyed when he saw Gai Suwen suddenly running to the front to cheer for the drums. He looked at the distance, which was about 200 meters away, and the bow and arrow could not be shot. So he hurriedly took out his pocket pistol, installed a silencer, hid behind the battlements, and started aiming. He finally could use the plug-in. He was secretly excited.
After aiming for a moment, Li Hao pulled the trigger and made a "chubby" sound. Gasuwen was shot, and a bloody flower rose from his right chest to his shoulder. Gasuwen screamed and collapsed to the ground. Seeing this, the guards around him exclaimed, stepped forward and helped Gasuwen up and blocked Gasuwen at the same time, for fear that another raid would hit Gasuwen.
Li Hao was still preparing to shoot another shot, but Gai Suwen's personal guards blocked their sight and could not find a chance to shoot. In the end, he could only watch the group of guards rescue Gai Suwen. At the same time, the enemy began to call for the gold to withdraw his troops.
Li Hao put away his pistol and sighed secretly: "What a pity, I didn't hit it right."
Chapter completed!