There are two major pastoral areas in the Shuofang area. One is the foothills of Helan Mountain in the west, and the other is the central grassland in the northwest of Lingzhou, which is today's Hangjin Banner area in Inner Mongolia. The grassland is vast and has always been the pasture of the Qiang people in southern Shuofang.
.
But now the pasture has been occupied by the Dangxiang people, and more than 200,000 ordinary Dangxiang people are waiting on the grassland.
Of course, not all the Dangxiang people are here, there are still some Dangxiang people who are still staying in the mountainous areas of Gyeongju and Wonju, and there will be no danger for the time being. The Dangxiang people from Xiazhou and Yinzhou have not come here either.
The sun is shining brightly on the grassland, the breeze is blowing, and both sides of a small river are full of green grass and flowers are blooming. The grassland is full of large cars parked for more than ten miles. People in twos and threes are sitting everywhere, and groups of children are sitting on the grassland.
Running, everyone's eyes are full of expectations for future life.
At this moment, the ground began to tremble, and everyone stood up and looked to the northwest in shock.
A black line appeared in the distance. At this time, dozens of party cavalry rushed over, shouting: "It's the Tang army coming to kill, everyone hide quickly!"
The party members were immediately in chaos. Countless people held their children and took the elderly with them as they fled south, stumbling and crying for their fathers and mothers.
Three thousand Dangxiang cavalry escorts went up to fight and were quickly surrounded by the Tang army. The two sides fought fiercely on the grassland. The Tang army cavalry fired arrows and thunder continuously, which exploded and caused the Dangxiang cavalry to fall on their backs and the team was in chaos.
With the power of thunder, the 10,000 Tang troops wiped out 3,000 Dangxiang troops in less than half an hour, and continued to pursue the Dangxiang people.
Most of the people in Dangxiang were old, weak, women and children and could not run fast. All the Tang army cavalry caught up with them. The Tang army cavalry shouted: "Everyone sit down where you are. The Tang army will not kill women and children!"
The legs of the party members were weak, so they had no choice but to sit down.
Two hours later, more than 200,000 party members, old, weak, women and children were all captured by the Tang army, along with nearly 4 million sheep.
More than 200,000 party members and sheep were escorted south by the Tang army. Lu Yan's raid completely cut off the logistics of the party army.
On the afternoon of the next day, the party cavalry who came to collect food came to the central grassland station and saw only corpses all over the ground. There were no traces of more than 200,000 people and sheep.
The news that Tuoba Qimei ordered the army to massacre the city reached Lingzhou, and Tuoba Chaoguang almost went crazy.
"Madman! Idiot! Absolute idiot!"
Tuoba Chaoguang was so angry that he cursed loudly. Tuoba Qimei's order undoubtedly cut off all their escape routes. How could the Tang army let them go again?
No more scolding will help, the matter has come to this, now they can only sink their boats and fight to capture Lingwu County, otherwise the Tang army will come to kill them, and they will be completely ruined.
The irritability in Tuoba Chaoguang's heart calmed down a little, and he immediately ordered: "Prepare to attack with all your strength!"
At dawn, the attack drums of the Dangxiang army sounded again. Driven by thousands of personal guards, all the 40,000 troops of the Dangxiang people in Yuanzhou were dispatched to cover up the city.
The leader, Tuoba Chaoguang, sent out siege ladders, nest carts, and trebuchets among the army. Forty thousand troops were as dense as a swarm of ants, vast and vast, covering the wilderness outside Lingwu City.
This time Dangxiang's army became smarter. They paved the road with wooden planks and laid out dozens of boardwalks, allowing Dangxiang's army to avoid assassinations on the ground.
But they could not avoid the fire and thunder array above their heads. Twenty trebuchets fired continuously. Iron fire thunder roared down from the sky and exploded among the party soldiers. Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams resounded throughout the wilderness.
A nest car full of soldiers was hit by an iron fire thunder. The iron fire thunder exploded inside the nest car. In an instant, huge trees flew everywhere, thick smoke rose into the sky, the soldiers were blown up, and the nest car collapsed.
The only battering ram was also hit. The iron fire thunder exploded in the air, the hammer body was blown into two pieces, the wooden platform was overturned, the two wooden wheels fell off, and the huge body of the battering ram tilted and lay on its side.
He could no longer move on the ground.
Iron fire thunders exploded in the crowd one after another, and screams continued to be heard. The huge fear caused the morale of the party troops to drop, and many party soldiers turned around and wanted to run away. Tuoba Chaoguang was already prepared, with three thousand personal guards.
The cavalry held swords and held down the formation from behind, and nearly a hundred party soldiers who escaped from the formation were chopped to the ground.
The soldiers of the Dangxiang Army had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward. As the Dangxiang Army advanced, the Dangxiang Army's counterattack also began.
Fifty trebuchets were in place one after another, and boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms flew towards the city.
On the top of the city, all 12,000 soldiers went into battle, and another 8,000 young and strong men were also temporarily recruited. They were wearing leather armor and holding bows and arrows. Except for their momentum and proficiency, they were almost indistinguishable from ordinary soldiers.
.
At this time, Dang Xiangjun's trebuchet was about to be launched, and Cheng Bingquan shouted: "Be careful of flying rocks!"
As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of large rocks flew toward the city. The soldiers on the city shouted and squatted down, "Bang! Bang!" The boulders hit the city wall and the city head, and rubble scattered everywhere.
A general rushed to Zhang Bingquan and said: "General, use arrows and thunder!"
The firearms of the Tang Army were mainly supplied to Liaodong and the Western Regions on a large scale.
There is also a little bit here in Shuofang, but it is mainly placed in Fengzhou. Fengzhou is the first stop to resist the nomadic cavalry in the north.
There are only a thousand heavy-duty arrow mines and more than a hundred iron fire mines in the Lingwu County warehouse. There are no explosive arrows, but there are thousands of barrels of kerosene.
Zhang Bingquan looked at the chariot in the distance, pondered for a moment and said: "First take five hundred arrows and thunder, kill the enemy's trebuchet, and the soldiers will use kerosene to deal with it!"
"Follow the order!"
Soon, the soldiers took the arrows and mines, and Zhang Bingquan ordered them to be used by twenty sharp archers to destroy the enemy's trebuchets.
Twenty sharp archers mounted their large yellow crossbows and aimed at the trebuchet 150 steps away.
Twenty arrow mines were launched almost at the same time. The powerful heavy crossbow arrows hit the trebuchet one after another. The arrow mine at the front exploded violently, the trebuchet bracket was blown off, and the eighteen trebuchets collapsed suddenly.
There was a burst of cheers on the top of the city. Zhang Bingquan was overjoyed and shouted: "Shoot again!"
Three rounds of sixty arrows were fired, and all fifty of the party's large trebuchets collapsed. It was difficult to repair them and they were basically considered useless.
But the siege battle officially started. Ten thousand party archers rushed forward, and a bow and arrow battle broke out between the two sides.
Eight thousand newly recruited soldiers of the Tang Army fired arrows down on both sides of the battlements of the city wall. There were archery openings on the city wall of Lingwu City, and they could use the battlements as cover, while another group of soldiers shot arrows at an elevated angle from behind.
The Dangxiang army had a slight advantage due to its dense numbers. Arrows from both sides were like dense rain, weaving a black arrow net in the sky. The Dangxiang army suffered heavy casualties, and the Tang army also suffered casualties. People kept screaming about being hit by arrows.
In the dense rain of arrows, Dangxiang's army began to cross the moat and approach the city wall. To Dangxiang's surprise, there was no water in the moat. It was just a large trench two feet deep and two feet five feet wide. But whether there was water in the moat, it was unknown.
There was no point in the party's army. They put up wooden planks up to three feet long, making the moat lose its defensive role.
At this time, dozens of large siege ladders and twenty nest carts rumbled in. Each nest cart was loaded with hundreds of party soldiers, each holding a spear and a shield, followed by more than three hundred people.
Shoot arrows upward together.
The chariot slowly approached the city wall, less than fifty steps away from the city wall. At the same time, the Tang army's arrows and thunder began to exert their power.
"Coming! Coming!"
A school lieutenant pointed at a nest car that was slowly approaching and shouted: "Wring it up and take aim!"
Two soldiers set up two heavy yellow crossbows and aimed at the nest car.
The captain yelled, "Launch!"
The two soldiers suddenly pulled the hanging knives, only to hear two sounds of 'click! click!', and two heavy-duty arrows were shot out from the shooting trough, roaring towards the nest car fifty steps away.
‘Boom! Boom!’ There were two explosions, and the Chao Chao was hit by two arrows and lightning. Two large holes were opened, and a pillar and beam broke. The Chao Chao shook violently, and then continued to move forward.
"Fuck, come again!"
The captain cursed, and several soldiers loaded the arrows again, but without adjusting the direction, two more arrows were fired powerfully, hitting the Chao vehicle again, and exploded inside the Chao vehicle. There was a scream in the Chao vehicle, and the Chao vehicle
It was blown into two pieces.
Dozens of belts tied to the main beam of the Chao vehicle were blown apart. The Chao vehicle disintegrated instantly, and countless soldiers fell down screaming.
．
．
．
．
．
．
．
．
．
Although the Tang army's arrows and thunder were powerful, they could only destroy all the nest vehicles. Dozens of siege ladders finally set up on the city wall. Under the siege ladder, dozens of party soldiers climbed up with swords. Hundreds of Tang soldiers fought against one.
Ladder, and a fierce battle with the enemy.
More than twenty siege ladders were set up on the top of the city in succession. Dangxiang soldiers climbed up the ladders and rushed up madly. Tang soldiers fought with swords, swords and spears against the oncoming enemy troops. Dozens of Tang soldiers stood on the horse wall.
Duannu shot the party soldiers on the stairs from behind. The powerful crossbow arrows penetrated the wooden shields, and party soldiers kept screaming and falling down the city.
The battle gradually became bloody and brutal.
Zhang Bingquan saw that the time was ripe and ordered: "Throw fire oil!"
Thousands of barrels of kerosene were thrown down the city. The barrels shattered, the kerosene flowed, and were ignited by torches. The city was suddenly ablaze, and thousands of bundles of wheat straw were thrown down.
The 20,000 Party troops were engulfed in flames in just a short moment.