Chapter 1349: The Prince Watches the Battle by Himself
After being silent for a while, Fazler suddenly turned his head and looked around, and saw that no one was looking at them deliberately, so he whispered to Said:
"I'd like to see if the Tang artillery can get closer, or something else. ”
"This ......"
Said smiled helplessly, this prince really regarded the Tang people as fools, could it be that people would have no protection for militaristic weapons?
However, since Fazler has brought it up, he has to be satisfied in other ways.
"I'm afraid it won't be possible to walk out of the barracks, it's too obvious, if you can get to the edge of the barracks wall, maybe you can!"
The officer who had been following them was sitting in the shade, and Said went to negotiate with him, and after a moment he walked back with a relaxed expression.
Fazler saw him smiling, and guessed that the officer had probably granted their request.
"It's finished?"
"With a piece of gold, the man finally accepted it, and they all said that the Shenwu Army had strict military discipline, and now it seems that it is nothing more than that!"
Fazler said solemnly:
"Historically, strict discipline in the army has not been measured by money, otherwise who would use gold and silver to boost the morale of the soldiers......?
"What His Excellency the Prince said is very reasonable, the villain is taught!"
In the face of Prince Fazler, who said that the head was the Tao, Said did not argue. He acted and spoke, unconsciously with a bit of Tang style, which made Fazler feel fresh and a little awkward at the same time, but he also knew that Saeed had lived in the land of the Tang Dynasty for decades, and it was inevitable that he would be contaminated with the habits of pagans, and in addition, Saeed's special experience was also the reason why he was reused by the caliph, so why should he bother with some irrelevant things.
With the acquiescence of the military officials, they went to a clearing on the edge of the barracks, where there was even a half-built arrow tower, but somehow it was not continued.
The two of them also went out, climbed up one after another, and condescendingly observed the drill in the distance.
At this time, Fazler noticed in the distance a makeshift rammed earthen wall, about three people high and dozens of steps long.
Suddenly, a rain of arrows rained down from the earthen wall, and Fazler couldn't help but let out a cry, wouldn't such a drill kill and injure his own family?
This Tang man's training is really deadly.
Hearing Fazler sigh like this, Said explained:
"Those arrows are not equipped with arrows, they are used for military training, and they must be picked up and reused after the training is over.
"So that's the case, there are really a lot of tricks in the Tang people!"
Fazler said casually, as if to find a step down his ignorance to avoid embarrassment. It's just that his eyes are still staring at the outside of the city without blinking, for fear that he has missed something important.
The next Tang man's drill was much beyond Fazler's understanding.
In fact, siege warfare has always been a major problem, and it is necessary to rush to achieve it, otherwise it will cause a large number of casualties.
But in this era, population was extremely valuable, so most generals chose a relatively conservative siege when besieging a city.
Therefore, when it comes to attacking cities by force, in terms of specific strategies and tactics, it is really lackluster.
But the posture of the Tang people's formation did not look like a siege or a strong attack.
"Sayyid, look, what are they going to do?"
Because of the preconceived impression he left, he was mentally prepared for whatever tricks the Tang people came up with at this time.
Saeed couldn't take his eyes off it, and replied word by word:
"It's going to be shelled!"
Then he hurriedly added:
"Cover your ears!"
"What?"
At the stall where Fazler was surprised, the sound of cannon came in a continuous manner.
Like the previous thunderous cannonade, the shelling at this time can be called shaking the earth, like the end of the world when the earth is shattered.
Fazler's legs were weakened by the sudden sound of cannons, and he almost fell off the half-built arrow tower.
Fortunately, he was quite flexible in reaching out and grabbed the pillar next to him so that he didn't fall.
Seeing this, Said quickly grabbed the hem of his robe to prevent him from really falling.
"They, what are they going to do?"
Fazler's voice was a little hoarse, he really didn't know what tricks the Tang people were playing, but just now he was almost frightened and fell from the three-person high arrow tower, his heart was stimulated and thumped, and his body trembled involuntarily.
"This is to bombard the city!"
"How can the city be broken by artillery bombardment? Can it still collapse the city wall?"
Fazler just didn't believe it, but Said nodded solemnly.
"Bombarding the city wall with cannons, it's not the first time that the Tang people have done this!"
As he spoke, the sound of the second round of shelling came one after another, and its momentum was like a thousand thunderbolts, and its prestige was far greater than that of the first round. This time, Fazler was prepared, and naturally he was not as out of shape as he was just now, but his heart was completely shocked.
Although this is not the power of ghosts and gods, what is the difference between it and the power of ghosts and gods?
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have thought that there would be such a terrifying and powerful weapon in this world.
The next moment, an even more incredible scene appeared in front of Fazle, only to see that the earthen wall dozens of paces long and more than three people high was actually cracked open, and the earth and stones flew wildly, until the end of the third round of shelling, the earthen wall had collapsed most of it.
Immediately afterwards, the earth-shattering shouts came from all over the world, and the infantry who had already been in a neat formation rushed to the collapsed earthen wall together, and in no time, the scarlet battle flag was erected on the earthen wall, and they hunted and moved against the early autumn wind on the grassland.
For a long time, Fazler was silent, wondering what would have happened if the army had just faced the walls of Ctesiphon.
Although Ctesiphon's walls are far from being comparable to the earthen wall in front, it is really hard to say how long Ctesiphon's walls can last under such heavy shelling.
The power of this weapon is so terrifying that it is impossible to resist.
"Can we make this weapon called artillery?"
"Of course you can, this thing is nothing rare, as long as the process of casting copper and iron is passed, as long as there is enough ore, you can make as much as you want!"
Hearing this, Fazler turned his worries into joy.
"It's better to recruit some craftsmen from the Tang people! By the way, the empire captured a lot of Tang people ten years ago, how many are left now? Maybe there are craftsmen who can cast artillery!"
Said did not raise any objections, as far as he knew, when Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing successively controlled the Western Regions, there was no such weapon as artillery in the army, and blacksmiths would definitely have it, but casting artillery would not necessarily be.
It's just that what if, what if someone really will?
At this point, Fazler's attention was completely off the siege drills, and all he could think about was how to learn to cast artillery from the Tang people......