"Old Xue, are we just watching from the city wall?"
Zhang Wu looked at the enemy troops under the city wall and asked Xue Hu.
Xue Hu also wanted to kill the enemy, but when he saw the appearance of the soldiers on the city wall, he shook his head and said: "We lack weapons. These are new soldiers in the city. They will die on the battlefield."
Zhang Wu reluctantly agreed with Xue Hu's words. They were able to hold on because of the tall walls of Wuwei City.
If there really was a decisive battle outside the city, the soldiers in Wuwei City would really not be enough to defeat the Tibetans.
Zhang Wu actually understood this truth, but it was still very humiliating to watch the Tibetans marching in battle before his eyes.
Xue Hu looked at the Tubo army preparing to fight and said:
"Just wait, as long as they are defeated, it will be time for us to leave the city for a decisive battle."
"Inform the troops in the city to take time to rest. If Tubo comes, we will leave the city to pursue them!"
Panting, Zhang Guangde pushed his cannon up the hillside. He took out his binoculars and looked around, and said with satisfaction: "This place is great. It's condescending, just perfect for blasting!"
After his men installed the cannon, Zhang Guangde picked up the telescope and saw the Tibetan flying geese formation.
Zhang Guangde spat and said, "Damn it, these dogs have learned so well that they actually used this formation to deal with our cannons."
I only saw that the Tubo soldiers were standing very scattered, with two Tubo soldiers separated by more than two meters.
Obviously, the enemy is not stupid either.
After the last Battle of Jinshan Pass, the Tubo people also learned their lesson.
Last time, the former general's beetle was shot off by artillery, which led to the collapse of the entire army.
After Shang Qixin'er returned to Tianqian City, she immediately summoned the officers who participated in the war to study ways to deal with the Tang Dynasty's artillery.
After a long discussion, Tubo also figured out the performance of the cannon.
Cannons have a long range and high accuracy, but are not very lethal.
As long as the crowd didn't gather together, even if a shell came down, it would kill one or two people at most.
The Tubo people stood in such a scattered formation, obviously they had done their homework.
Zhang Guangde sneered and said: "Do they think this is enough? Come here, let me blast the military flag!"
Why was the artillery of the Napoleonic era able to dominate the world?
It is because France at that time had the best mathematicians in the world.
One player took out a wind vane and quickly measured the wind direction and speed.
Other players began to adjust the muzzle angle, added gunpowder and started the first round of test firing.
"Three, two, one, boom!"
Twenty cannons fired in unison, and even the cavalry troops led by Zheng He who were far away from the battlefield were in commotion.
Zheng He quickly stabilized his horse. Before cavalry in the artillery era went to the battlefield, they had to first train their horses to get used to artillery.
The Tubo people in the battlefield were under direct pressure from artillery.
Dai Ze watched with a livid face as the Tang people launched an artillery attack, hitting the soldiers not far from him.
The shells smashed the soldier into a pulp, but Dai Ze just frowned.
There is no eye on the battlefield, and no matter how brave and skillful a general is, he will lose his life due to small accidents.
Dai Ze saw the smoke from the artillery position on the opposite side, and continued: "It was the same during the Battle of Jinshan Pass last time. There was a period of time between each artillery fire. Now is our opportunity to charge."
Dai Ze drew out his saber and said: "Give me the order to charge!"
A melodious trumpet sounded on the battlefield, and the Tibetan army began to advance!
Standing on the high ground, Yu Chixin looked at the slowly advancing Tibetan army, and the Tang Dynasty also formed a formation.
Yu Chixin's formation was a large square formation. After seeing Yu Chixin's large formation, Dai Ze showed a smile on his face.
He said to the soldiers on the left and right: "I thought this Yu Chixin was a man who knew how to fight, but I didn't expect him to be just a reckless man with artillery."
A clever soldier under his command immediately asked: "General, why is this?"
Dai Ze also showed off and said: "This square formation is mostly used to deal with cavalry. Moreover, this square formation is restrained by my flying geese formation. If their formation is torn apart later, the Tang people will collapse!"
The formation of flying geese, as the name suggests, is the way the army lines up when the wild geese fly south. From the sky, it looks like a large herringbone formation.
When the geese fly south, the strongest geese will fly on the protruding part to break the air resistance and fly with the geese on the flanks.
The same principle applies to the Flying Geese Formation. The most elite soldiers stand at the tip of the formation. After breaking through the enemy's formation, they lead the flanking soldiers into the enemy's formation.
Dai Ze had confidence in his Tibetan soldiers. As long as he engaged the enemy in close combat, he had a numerical advantage. The Tibetan soldiers were also braver and better at fighting than the Tang army, and he would definitely be able to defeat Yuchi Xin's army.
There was no expression on Yuchixin's face. When the two armies were about to collide, Yuchixin suddenly ordered the entire army to stop.
When he saw Tang Jun stop and put up his shield, Dai Ze even sneered.
The timid Tang people really do not deserve to own this fertile land in Hexi!
"Send the order, the whole army speeds up, open a hole for me!"
The trumpets in Dai Ze's army became more urgent, and the Tibetan soldiers in the front row also quickened their pace.
Generals Xue Hu and Zhang on the city wall saw everything. The Tubo army was more numerous than the Tang army. Now they formed a flying geese formation and rushed towards the Tang army's position. It was really overwhelming.
Their hearts were in their throats. They knew how powerful Tubo was. These madmen who were not afraid of death were about to dye the walls of Wuwei City red.
Can you beat it?
Yuchixin stood calmly under the military flag, silently calculating the distance in his heart. When the Tibetan soldiers were about to rush into the front row of the Tang army, Yuchixin finally gave the order.
"bomb!"
Only the Tang soldiers in the first row were seen taking out the grenades from their waists, lighting the fuse and throwing them with all their strength over the heads of the Tibetan people.
After the first row of bombardiers finished dropping their bombs, they quickly retreated behind the second row of shield soldiers.
There were loud explosions, and the screams of the Tibetan people could not be heard.
The grenade exploded in mid-air. The Tibetan soldiers at the center of the explosion were naturally blown into pieces, and the soldiers near the center of the explosion were not spared. The scattered shrapnel became a terrifying death storm, involving the surrounding soldiers.
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Smoke rose, and now the Tibetan soldiers in the front row were completely panicked.
Seeing that the man in front of him was killed by a grenade, but the sound of the marching horn did not stop, and the military judge behind him was watching eagerly, the army could only continue to press forward.
The soldiers who completed the first round of bomb dropping hid behind the shield, and then started the second round of bomb dropping!
At the same time, the cannon that had just been fired also fired, and this time the cannonballs landed intensively on the head of the flying geese formation!
Zhang Guangde sneered and said: "I didn't expect that grandpa's Italian cannon has been upgraded! Load it and kill these Tibetan dogs!"