The five hundred and sixtieth chapters of the hero's end (2)
Update time:2012-12-23
On September 11th of the first year of Yifeng, the Double Ninth Festival had just passed, and the weather had become cold. Although it was not so cold that it turned into ice when breathing, the frost had already fallen. The north wind blew, adding a bit more frost.
The desolate coldness is better, but the patrol patrolling the Funiuchuan Pass wall is better. They can exercise to some extent to get some warmth, but they can be on duty on all sides.
The fixed sentries on the Arrow Tower of the Wind were not so convenient. Their skin turned purple due to the cold air, and they could only keep stomping their feet to keep warm, but it really didn't make much difference. They were all cursing in great annoyance.
The extremely stingy boss has waited so long for the season and still hasn’t issued winter clothes. Isn’t this a lie?
"...You bastard, it's so cold today, and I won't even send you a fur coat. This shabby armor can't stand up to anything, those damn dog thieves are all..., ah, Tang, Tang, Tang...
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A Tibetan soldier standing on a high arrow tower couldn't stand the cold wind. He was stamping his feet and cursing. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw what seemed to be something on the horizon in the distance.
Something happened, so I hurriedly looked over, and my face instantly turned pale, my eyes widened, and I couldn't stammer out a complete sentence.
"Jiangba, you are a grandson, you are so stupid..., ah, Tang, Tang Jun, damn, the Tang thieves are coming, the Tang thieves are coming..."
Another soldier on duty couldn't help but cursed when he saw his colleague's expression was extremely strange. He followed his gaze curiously. As soon as he looked at it, his face also turned extremely pale. After stammering twice, he finally said:
After coming back to his senses, he didn't care much and started shouting wildly at the top of his lungs. In an instant, the originally orderly wall was completely in chaos.
"...A man should be in a dangerous career, so how can he let a scholarly scholar ruin his life..."
The Tang army is indeed coming, but the marching speed is not very fast. They are riding horses and singing loudly all the way. The passionate singing is powerful and high-pitched. The sound waves are shaking in the sky, and an invincible spirit has arisen, soaring straight into the sky!
After consecutive battles and victories, the morale of the soldiers was high. Li Xian, who was riding in front of the army, was also in a good mood. This was not entirely due to the victories one after another, but more due to the tacit understanding of Gar Qinling.
Cooperation makes it even better
Satisfied - Gar Qinling fully reduced its troops and tried to fight a battle to defend Fuqi City. Li Xian was naturally happy to see the success. Not only did he not stop the gathering of Tibetan troops from various departments, but he opened the door to facilitate it.
Reinforcement at the Buha River
At the entrance, let the defeated Tibetan troops everywhere flee to Fuqi City. Do you have a plan? Needless to say, you want to kill all the Tibetan troops in Tuyuhun. The reason is very simple. Instead of playing cats with the Tubo troops on the vast prairie
catch mice
The game is not as good as catching a turtle in a urn head-on. As for Gar Qinling's thoughts, Li Xian already knew it. It was just the plot of the hero's end, but there was nothing to say about it.
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"The whole army stops and forms a formation on the spot!"
The army marched in a meandering way. Although it was not very fast, it was not slow either. In just over half an hour, it had reached Funiuchuan Pass. Li Xian raised his hand and stopped him four hundred steps away from the city.
After gathering their troops and horses, and after a shrill sound of trumpets, the entire army of more than 50,000 people formed an attack formation below Guancheng.
The wall of Funiuchuan was not originally very high, only three feet high. In the past ten days, the Tibetan army had tried their best to reinforce the wall, not only raising the wall to more than five feet, but also setting up a
Defense facilities such as watchtowers and arrow towers were even installed with a few city-defending crossbows. Unfortunately, the city defense was still pitifully crude. Not only did the Tang army disdain it, but it was Gar Qinling himself.
They are not optimistic either. In addition to the 10,000-strong Captain Suolenzan and more than 1,000 Tubo people guarding this wall, the other nearly 4,000 people are all miscellaneous soldiers from various Tuyuhun ethnic groups gathered together.
They were not defending to the death, but hoping to take advantage of the geographical advantage of Guanqiang to consume as much of the Tang army's strength as possible. As for the life and death of those tribal soldiers, Gar Qinling didn't care at all.
"Bring your damn strength together, prepare for war, prepare for war!"
Sorenzan obviously understood what Gar Qinling had not said clearly. When arranging the defense of the city, he did not send all the more than a thousand guards under his command to Guancheng, but basically placed them in Guancheng.
After entering the city, it was reserved as a reserve force. As for the city, all the soldiers of various ethnic groups were arranged. Although there were many people, there were three thousand people who could fight.
Strength, let alone how high it is. Facing the powerful army of the Tang Dynasty pressing down on the border, all of them were trembling so hard that their legs were weak. As soon as this situation of timidity before fighting appeared, they immediately ordered Suo Suo to do so.
Lunzan saw it and was anxious in his heart. Although he was annoyed, he had no choice but to force himself to tighten his face, raise his voice and roar angrily to cheer up the soldiers.
"Commander Xiao, I'll give you half an hour to blast open the city gate!"
Li Xian only glanced at the city defense, and he could already see the reality. He didn't want to waste more energy here, and he was too lazy to talk nonsense. He just waved his hand indifferently and gave the order to attack.
"promise!"
Xiao Sanlang was taciturn by nature, and he only responded to Li Xian's generals with a crisp response. He did not say any nonsense like rhetoric, but he was not slow at all in his actions. Then he rode back to his headquarters.
He immediately ordered the officers and soldiers of the first brigade to march forward, guarding the artillery battalion and pushing towards Guancheng.
"Set up the cannon, hurry up, move damn fast!"
The battle was about to begin. Su Qingsheng, the commander of the artillery battalion, was so excited that his dark face turned red with excitement. This was not surprising. He had the most powerful troops in the first brigade, but he failed to catch up with the previous battles.
Seeing that the war was coming to an end, his artillery battalion was still empty-handed and had not even achieved any gains. It had become the laughing stock of the entire brigade. This made Su Qing, who was always proud and arrogant,
His voice was so embarrassing that he had already worked hard to put on a good show. This time it was finally his turn for the artillery battalion to show off its power. Su Qingsheng could not help but be a little too excited. Only then did he get close.
At the scheduled battle position a hundred steps away from the city, he didn't even wait for the brigade commander to give the general order. He was already shouting loudly, directing his subordinates to unload the cannon from the carriage and assemble it on the spot.
The artillery battalion does not have many types of artillery. There are only two models. One is a light infantry artillery, totaling 18 pieces, and the other is a heavy siege artillery piece. There are only two pieces in total. The number is not much, but
It is extremely heavy and heavy. If nothing else, even a lightweight infantry gun is actually not much lighter. Even if the gun frame is not taken into account, the pig iron body of the gun weighs hundreds of kilograms.
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As for the heavy artillery, it is even more incredible. The whole cannon actually weighs more than two thousand kilograms, and each shell weighs more than thirty kilograms. The reason why it is so big is not for the sake of prestige, but because of the molten iron.
The quality has never been improved, and the quality of the fine steel cannot pass the test. In addition, the power of black powder is not too great. All kinds of factors are accumulated together. In order to ensure the power, the weight of this artillery cannot be reduced.
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"Command: Guard the city with crossbow attack!"
Although the defenders on the city had heard that the muskets of the First Brigade were extremely sharp, they had never experienced it personally, so they were not very afraid. When they saw that the Tang army did not launch an attack on the city, but instead attacked the city a hundred steps away. They stopped at a distance to the left and right, and some people couldn't help but mutter, wondering what the Tang army was doing there. Even Sorenzan, who had been severely defeated by the First Brigade, couldn't figure it out. What were those big black guys, but they knew that Tang Jun could not be allowed to assemble those black guys smoothly, so he hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and gave an order.
"Bang, bang..."
Now that the general had given the order, the defenders did not dare to neglect it. The only four defensive crossbows on the city head fired one after another, and four huge iron arrows roared through the space and shot towards the first brigade. It fired at the place where it was located. The force was not small and the sound was loud. Unfortunately, the accuracy was extremely poor. All four giant arrows hit the empty space. In addition to shoveling up a large amount of soil on the dry grassland, the company's third arrow was shot. There was not even a single scratch on the edge of the entire journey.
"The first group, attack at close range and suppress the firepower at the top of the city!"
The Tubo army's ballista attack failed to achieve any results, but it successfully aroused Xiao Sanlang's anger, so he planned to give some appetizers to the defenders at the top of the city.
"promise!"
The leader of the first regiment, Wan Chenghe, had already been gearing up. After hearing the general order, how could he not be extremely excited? He quickly responded, waved his hand, and shouted the order: "First regiment, go ahead!"
"Dong, dong dong..."
After Wan Chenghe gave the order, the drummers lined up on both sides of each company did not dare to be negligent at all, and beat the small drums hanging on their chests one after another. Amidst the sound of the drums, the officers and soldiers of the first regiment were divided into three square formations. Started moving forward.
"Crossbowmen, prepare!"
Sorenzan had experienced the pain of volleys of musketry. When he saw the first group starting to press forward, he immediately panicked involuntarily and barked orders at the top of his lungs. The soldiers did not dare to Otherwise, they all poked their heads out from behind the city wall and aimed their strong bows and crossbows at the officers and soldiers of the first regiment who were slowly pressing forward.
"Stop the advance, each company fires freely, focus on attacking the enemy's ballista!"
The defenders at the top of the city were well prepared, but unfortunately Wan Chenghe did not intend to give the defenders a chance to perform. The whole regiment only advanced twenty steps before stopping. This position happened to be the crossbowmen at the top of the city. Outside their attack range, even if some soldiers with strong shooting skills can shoot arrows here, they are already at the end of their strength. It is impossible to pose much threat to the officers and soldiers of the first regiment. As for being able to attack The four city-defending crossbows of the first regiment are currently being reloaded and will not be able to fire arrows again for a while.
"Bah, bah..."
After Wan Chenghe gave the order, the shooting performance of the first regiment began immediately. However, three rows of soldiers from each side took turns shooting and reloading, and the gunshots exploded like fried beans in an instant...
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