Chapter 55: A New Era of War
Under the city.
The Tang army had already dismounted and lined up, and the only 1,000 Mo swordsmen on the right guard were divided into five teams, each team of 200 people, all of them were covered with heavy armor, carrying Mo knives, and each team was followed by 500 musketeers, which could not only protect the rear of the Mo swordsmen, but also launch long-range strikes against the enemy in the distance.
These 4,000 men were the main force of the siege.
Chekole in the city was ready to wait for the Tang army to attack the city, but the Tang army under the city did not have the slightest intention of attacking, just a neat array.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Just as the Tang army under the city was waiting, in the confusion of Xue Yantuo in the city, the gunpowder buried in the wall after drilling the city bricks with a stainless steel drill exploded.
With a few deafening roars, the tall and sturdy city wall of Wuchuan Town, which was regarded as rock-solid by the Xue Yantuo people, collapsed like a balloon from the explosion point.
The fragments of masonry were blown up into the sky by gunpowder, and several huge collapses appeared in the solid wall in an instant, and the soldiers of Xue Yantuo, who had no time to dodge in the city, fell down with the reincarnation of the collapse, fell into the collapse, and were crushed by the continuous collapse of the masonry.
Fang Jun sat on his horse and waved his hand.
The sound of the horn pierced through the air and cracked the clouds, the flags were unfurled, and the five assault troops who had already taken the array slowly pressed towards the gap in the collapsed city wall.
Fang Jun's eyes were gloomy, penetrating the wind and snow and falling on the ruins of the city wall of Wuchuan Town, where there was still black smoke after the explosion of gunpowder swirling and rising, mixed into the heavy snow.
Storm?
Inexistent.
As the formula of gunpowder became more and more sophisticated, and the power became more and more powerful, the walls made of such masonry were like tofu scum in the face of the mercenary of gunpowder enough to open mountains and crack stones.
The way of war has quietly changed.
In every change, there are always people who have to pay the price, become victims who are drowned by the rolling torrent of history, and witness the change happening. And the Xue Yantuo people, who were at a loss and greeted this change in the way of war for the first time, were already doomed to tragedy.
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The entire town of Wuchuan has become a mess.
No one knows how the Tang army made the strong city wall collapse after a bang, a power that is by no means controllable in the human world, except for the omnipotent gods, I am afraid that other gods cannot have such power.
And ignorance can bring the greatest fear.
Chekoler was carried down the city wall by his own soldiers, he was lucky not to stand on the gap in the gunpowder blast, and after noticing that the wall under his feet seemed to be arched by some evil monster under his feet, he ran down the steps, and when he was halfway there, a deafening roar sounded in his ears, and the masonry under his feet seemed to be beating every piece, and the boundless fear made him jump off the wall......
Fortunately, when he jumped down, he fell on the next team of debris in the city, otherwise he might have to break his bones and tendons.
"Qu Shuai, what should we do?"
The brave and combative soldiers around him all turned pale, and the two trembled, in the face of this unknown power of fear, all the Xue Yantuo people had a plummeting morale and had no heart to fight.
Che Kele settled his mind, looked at the panicked soldiers around him, and then looked at the Tang army behind him who had slowly entered the city from the gap in the city wall collapsed, gritted his teeth, and suddenly ordered: "Leave 2,000 people to block the enemy, don't fight the Tang army head-on, just use the houses in the city to fight with it to buy time, the main force retreats north with me, and we wait until the Nuozhen water array!" ”
Now that the soldiers under his command have been frightened, even if the whole army goes into battle, the low morale has also greatly reduced the combat effectiveness, what is the use of being the soul of the Tang army's saber?
It is better to take advantage of the opportunity of retreat to stabilize the morale of the army, build another position, and block it.
If you stay in the city and fight to the death, I am afraid that more than 20,000 defenders will all die here.
Wuchuan Town, I can't hold it......
Met with little resistance, the confused and fearful defenders were simply unable to organize an effective defense, and the Don army had already stormed the city from the gap in the collapsed walls. The sporadic defenders stepped forward to block, and they were shot by the musketeers from a distance, and the few Xue Yantuo people who rushed to the front of the battle could only be slaughtered in the face of the heavily armored Mo knife hand.
Mo Dao Hand is not only the nemesis of the cavalry, the strong defense makes them almost ignore the enemy's attacks, holding the Mo knife in both hands as long as a zhang sharp and heavy, swinging it with a huge impact to slash at the enemy, the sharp blade easily breaks through the leather armor, cuts into the body, the bone is broken and crushed, one or two pieces.
The Tang army slowly but firmly advanced, its Xu was like a forest, and the invasion was like fire!
The Xue Yantuo people retreated step by step, they had no way to deal with this kind of Mo swordsman who was the most famous in the Tang army, and they were full of fear of the musketeers who followed closely behind with an iron pipe "bang" and constantly exploding and emitting puffs of smoke, and then someone was shot and fell to the ground.
O Almighty God!
Is this a demon who has escaped from hell?
Mo Dao Hand who couldn't cut the Tang Army, once he approached, his flesh and bones would be broken in two, and he couldn't get far away, the kind of iron pipe was smoking and "banging", and the fired garden bullet could pierce their bodies at a long distance......
How will this battle be fought?
Finally, someone got into the houses in the city like ostriches, no matter how to block and repel the Tang army, the iron pipe that hid in the house couldn't hit, so let's save my life first......
But it still didn't work.
One by one, the earth-shattering thunder was ignited and thrown into the house where the Xue Yantuo people were hiding, and the houses made of bricks, stones, and wooden planks were lifted into the sky like cardboard boxes, and even if they were not killed by the collapse of the wall, they were buried alive under the collapse of the wall......
Just like this, the defenders of Xue Yantuo in the city couldn't even organize an effective defense, and they kept retreating with a wolf howling when they threw away their armor, and when the Tang army suddenly saw it, it suddenly opened up in front of them, and it had already penetrated the entire city.
From arriving at the city of Wuchuan, blowing up the city wall, launching an attack, entering the city, until the south gate penetrates the city to the north gate, it takes an hour.
Wuchuan Town, which was relied on by the Xue Yantuo people as the Southern Heavenly Pillar Stone to resist the Tang people's entry into Mobei's strong and unfortungeable fortress, rushed into the sky in the heavy snow, the city wall collapsed, the houses collapsed, and the ruins and broken walls were captured by the Tang army with lightning speed.
When Fang Jun rode into the city and walked through the houses burning with fire and smoke in the city, he climbed the tower at the north city gate, and saw the defenders of Xue Yantuo, who had lost their armor in the distance, spread their feet and fled to the north, and couldn't help but sigh and regret: "Running so fast!" ”
He really didn't expect the guards of Wuchuan Town to be so decisive, and immediately fled when he saw that the situation was not good, without even the slightest hesitation.
If this had been known, an army should have been sent to bypass Wuchuan Town and block its rear road.
But even so, Fang Jun was very satisfied with the results.
Xue Rengui came to Fang Jun's side and asked, "Marshal, Xi Junmai has already led the army in pursuit, how many soldiers will be left in this Wuchuan Town?" ”
As a barrier to the north of the desert, Wuchuan Town is the most important city for Xue Yantuo to resist the Tang Dynasty, and now that the Tang army has captured it, it must be guarded against being attacked by Xue Yantuo, and the Tang army will cut off the Baidaokou and cause the whole army to be wiped out in the first war, and use the Tang army.
Fang Jun shook his head: "There is no need to do more, Wu Chuan will stay and deal with it for Xue Wanche, the soldiers are very fast, in this vast desert north, the vast moraine, if Xue Yantuo's tooth tent receives the news, it will be troublesome." I am not afraid that they will gather a large army and face it, but I am afraid that they will become frightened birds and scatter in a hurry...... The Hu people in the north live by water and grass, where the cattle and sheep are, where the home is, the so-called tooth tent is just more of a symbol, can move anytime and anywhere. Once the Yinan Khan is reduced to zero, what can we do with such a small number of troops? Even if it's hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, we can't catch them. Therefore, don't clean up the battlefield, don't take prisoners, just let the disabled enemy fend for themselves, wait for Xue Wanche in the back to come up and hold the endgame, we only capture the war horse, which can not only change horses and ride to improve the power of the machine, but also can be used as military rations. We have to keep chasing it, and at the same time that the news arrives in Xue Yantuo's tent, we will also come to the city and not give them a chance to reflect! ”
Whether it is Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Dou Xian of the Han Dynasty, or Li Ji and Li Jing of the Han Dynasty, the most important thing is to be able to achieve world-shattering feats that shake the past and the present, and the most important thing is to be fast!
The soldiers were very fast, and they smashed the Hu people's tooth tent with lightning speed, defeated their army, and overthrew their country.
Otherwise, once the Hu people are given a chance to react, so that they have time to calmly arrange and break into pieces, even those world-famous generals with three heads and six arms, it is impossible to chase all the Hu people one by one and kill them all in the vast moraine of the reckless grassland.
When the Han people withdrew, the Hu people changed places casually, and they were still their tooth tents.
Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate.
Only by rushing into the Thunder Sweep Cave and smashing the Dragon City can he directly defeat the center of the Hu people and completely destroy it.