Chapter Forty-Nine: The Veteran Enters the Urn
The timing of Kundayan is very good!
The speed of the Tibetan army was extremely fast, and 40,000 soldiers gathered in the dark night, and it only took half a day to kill under the town of Guang'en. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Almost without any hesitation, Kudayan ordered people to block the tributaries of the Tao River to Guang'en Town, cut off the water source of Guang'en Town, and excavate the sediment in the river.
The summer morning came very early, only a quarter of a moment, but it was already bright at five o'clock.
Feng Changqing and Jiang Yue got the news as early as last night, but they only strengthened the arrangements for arming, and did not investigate the situation, but rationally grasped the remaining moment of rest: Although Guangen Town is not as thick as Jincheng's city defense, it is also as high as two zhang, and it is difficult to fly across.
Tubo rushed overnight, and must not have carried siege equipment, so it was impossible to immediately enter the battle.
The next battle is very important, Feng Changqing and Jiang Yue need to ensure that they have enough spirit to deal with any change.
Feng Changqing stood on the tower of the city tower, looking at the Tubo camp not far away, the gust of wind blew, taking away a little summer heat.
Jiang Yue then climbed the tower.
Feng Changqing said: "Brother Jiang, what's the situation?" ”
Jiang Yue bowed his head and said, "It's all calmed down!" "The soldiers in Guang'en Town, as soon as they woke up and opened their eyes, they found that their home was besieged by soldiers and horses several times their size, and even the water source was cut off, and the psychological pressure can be imagined.
As soon as the day dawned, Jiang Yue immediately got busy, pacified the army everywhere, and arranged for the soldiers to go to the three wells in Guangen Town in an orderly manner to draw water: when planning the city defense of Guangen Town, Pei Min and the others had already taken the first step to consider the problem of possible water supply cut-off, and specially drilled three wells in three important places in the town, which were enough to supply the water source of the whole town.
"I also checked the whole town one by one, all kinds of military equipment, all the places that can be thought of, as far as the current situation in Guangen Town, they want to come and knock hard, and make sure to knock their teeth." Jiang Yue said jokingly, at the moment of the great enemy, the two of them were in charge of Guangen Town, talking and laughing, turning the hostile outside the city as nothing, and invisibly giving a tranquilizer to the soldiers in the city.
Feng Changqing said: "Pei Shuai is right, the old guy in Kundayan has been staring at Guangen Town, don't you know, after they cut off the water source, they started to ......dig for stones by the river as soon as possible."
"Are they going to siege the city?" Jiang Yue was proficient in military affairs, and he groaned slightly, in order to understand the intentions of Kun Dayan.
Feng Changqing said: "So-and-so thinks the same, without in-depth research, how could they come up with the idea of using soil to attack the city?" ”
Guangen Town is not as good as Jincheng back then, the biggest feature here is that there is not a single tree in the surrounding dozens of miles, if you want to make siege equipment, you must go to the west slope mountain fifty miles away to cut down trees.
This has brought great convenience to the defense of Guangen Town.
The grassland of Hexi is full of grassland at a glance, and after the trampling of cattle, sheep and horses, the land is firm, and the difficulty of digging soil and attacking the city on the spot is not ordinarily large. But the land by the river is different, except for the silt, the rest is loose wet soil, and now it is summer, as long as it is sun, it can be used immediately.
In the face of the situation in Guangen Town, the Tubo marshal Kun Dayan obviously made a lot of hard work.
Jiang Yue grinned when he heard this, and said, "The more they toss like this, the more miserable the end will be. ”
Feng Changqing also laughed gloomily.
The Tibetans moved very quickly, cutting off the water source at night, digging up the sediment immediately, and at noon they began to pile up the mound, and the progress was rapid.
"It seems that Kundayan is bound to win our Guang'en Town!" Feng Changqing's expression was a little heavy, Pei Min trusted him very much, and entrusted the burden of Guangen Town with full authority, in case he stumbled, it would not be good: "Be prepared for battle, you can't let them build the mound so smoothly." ”
Jiang Yue didn't answer, but gestured with his hand and asked, "Chang Qing, how far do you say their mound is from us?" ”
Feng Changqing looked at it for a moment and said: "Almost an arrow away, our bows and arrows can't shoot, but as long as they pile up the mound higher than our city tower, they can shoot into the city and use bows and arrows to suppress it." A veteran is a veteran, and this distance makes us very uncomfortable. ”
"With a gunstone cart!" Jiang Yue suddenly grinned and said, "When I was training the gunstone truck operators, I specially trained their crosshairs and discovered several talents. I don't dare to say that there are 100 shots and 100 hits, and the distance between a few arrows is a little bit in 10. ”
Feng Changqing is good at commanding troops and governing the army, and he is not as good as Jiang Yue in the heart of city defense, most of the city defense of Guangen Town is in charge of Jiang Yue, and the operators of the artillery and stone ballistas are all under his control.
"Then what are you waiting for, give them a taste of flying stones first...... No, don't worry, keep them busy first, and then do it when the mound has a look. ”
Jiang Yue smiled and said, "That's what I mean!" ”
The mound gradually rose high, Jiang Yue was lucky with dantian, and shouted: "Call me!" Twenty or thirty boulders rose into the air and smashed into the Tibetan soldiers working on the mound with strong winds.
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Outside Guang'en Town, the mound has been piled up to about one meter high, and Cheer and naked, playing with a horsewhip in his hand, shouted enthusiastically to the hot Tubo soldiers beside him: "General Kudayan said that as long as the mound is completed, all of us, one person and ten sheep." If Guang'en Town is broken, one person will be rewarded with two shepherd slaves. ”
For an ordinary soldier, ten sheep is already a great reward, and two shepherd slaves are a gift from heaven.
In the face of such a heavy reward, the Tubo soldiers one by one were particularly nimble.
Seeing that the soldier's hands and feet quickened again, Cheel nodded in satisfaction, as an overseer, if the matter was to be accomplished, his reward would not be comparable to that of ordinary soldiers: he would be able to get fifty sheep, plus ten shepherd slaves. Not long ago, he happened to be angry and killed a herdsman, and there was a shortage of manpower. Ten shepherd slaves were enough for him not to graze under the sun, and he hid comfortably in his tent and enjoyed the taste of mare's milk wine, and supervised him with great effort.
Just as I was about to go on another tour, the sky suddenly became overcast.
Chelhe frowned, and a thought flashed in his heart: "It's changed?" I couldn't help but look up, and I was suddenly dumbfounded under this look: dozens of flying stones flew all over the world, and one of them was even head-on!
Before he could react, he smashed the boulder directly into the mound and turned it into a meatloaf.
The original sound of shouting and working hard was instantly replaced by exclamations and screams.
Huge boulders cut a beautiful arc in the air and smashed accurately on the mound.
The mound was originally loose and bombarded by many boulders, and the mound instantly fell to the other side, burying the Tibetan soldiers who were working on the mound in it, and there was chaos.
The gods in Guangen Town cheered in unison.
Feng Changqing laughed and said: "Everyone on the other side, don't blame the cannon stone for having no eyes, if you want to blame it, blame you for following the wrong general - Kun Dayan himself is incompetent, but let the pawn come to send him to death!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Kun Dayan is incompetent, but let the pawn come to die!" The soldiers of the Shence Army on the tower of the city were full of energy when they heard Feng Changqing's words, and shouted in unison, sending these words far away.
The Tibetan soldiers were extremely angry, and they scolded one after another, but they shouted their own and became a noisy piece, far less neat than the Tang army.
When he came to the front of the formation, he saw that his 5,000 soldiers were digging and carrying the earth, and the results of most of the day's work were directly destroyed by the cannon stones, so he was so angry that his eyes were round and his beard was flying, and he almost didn't scream.
"General, what should I do?" The commander in charge of carrying the dirt came to report with a bitter face.
"Keep piling up!" Kun Dayan shouted angrily: "Guangen Town, uncle, I am bound to win." It just so happened that Tang Jun sent us flying stones, and they were piled up with them. Don't believe it, their gunstone carts can fire without limits? ”
Now that the troops have been dispatched, Ku Dayan is ready to sacrifice in his heart, as long as he can take Guang'en Town, everything is worth it.
The mound was finally erected, and in the face of the attack of the cannon stones, the fierce Tubo people used the corpses and the cannon stones and sand of the Tang army to build a mound almost equal to Guang'en Town: their original intention was to pile up a mound that was higher than the city wall of Guang'en Town, but they found that with the increase in the height of the mound, the Tubo soldiers working on the mound gradually entered the range of the Tang army: the arrow feathers in the sky fell wildly, and the higher each layer they piled up, the greater the resistance they encountered, and the casualties rose sharply.
Although he made up his mind to ignore the casualties, the endless losses forced him to retreat.
"The dirt slope has been piled up! The rushing carts and ladders have also arrived, and a quarter of an hour later they will attack the town of Guang'en. "The final order was given.
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The Great War is coming!
Feng Changqing, Jiang Yue, and Li Yide looked at the rushing cars and ladders that had been carried to the head of the formation, and couldn't help but look at each other.
They couldn't have imagined that the Tubo army was so well equipped!
Half a ring!
Feng Changqing, who was the most active, reacted and said, "A veteran is a veteran!" It's amazing! He is emulating Pei Shuai's one-night city, and he learns really fast! We didn't expect it. ”
Jiang Yue also reacted and sighed: "It's our negligence!" ”
Li Yide couldn't help but understand.
Jiang Yue said: "This Kun Dayan may have been half a year ago, or even earlier. A small force was quietly arranged, and the detour returned to the West Slope Mountain. The west-sloping mountain runs from east to west, and it is a mountain range that stretches for more than 500 miles, and they quietly make all kinds of siege equipment and hide them somewhere in the inaccessible mountain forest. Now that they are attacking, they don't need to cut down wood to make it, they just need to spend time transporting the storming carts and ladders there! is the same as Pei Shuai's original strategy. ”
Li Yide was dumbfounded when he heard this.
"There are ladders and vehicles rushing to the city, and there are earth barriers in the distance, suppressing from far and near, it is a hard battle!" Feng Changqing solemnly ordered: "Prepare your equipment to meet the battle, at most half an hour, they will attack!" ”
Li Yide and Jiang Yue returned to their posts without hesitation.
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The fierce battle lasted for two hours, but Guang'en Town was never able to defeat it.
Feng Changqing is a person who is orderly and has an overview of the overall situation. Jiang Yue is delicate and flexible, he commands the artillery and crossbow operators, constantly looking for the flaws in Tubo, attacking and killing in a large area, Li Yide is very brave, and directly stands on the front line of the city to fight. The eight-foot long snake spear is like the blade of death, and the Tibetan warriors who reaped the city have landed.
The three of them worked together to turn Guangen Town into an iron bucket, which was extremely difficult to attack.
Seeing the dead and wounded Tubo warriors being carried down continuously, Ku Dayan became more and more irritable, and a sense of foreboding came to his heart: he had always thought that the Tang army was powerful as generals rather than soldiers. It's really because Pei Min and Wang Haibin impressed him too deeply at the beginning.
Now it is found that the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army is completely different from the defenders of Jincheng in the past.
The strength displayed by the Shence army on the other side is not inferior to their Tibetan warriors.
It's only been a few years, and the soldiers of the Tang Army have changed so much?
How effective is the conscription system?
Not only the soldiers, but also the other party's guards commanded especially in place, he relied on more fights and less, and had earthen ramparts as a basis, offsetting the advantage of some of the enemy's city walls, and did not take advantage of the slightest advantage!
This little Shence Army, in addition to Pei Min, has such a powerful character!
Could it be that because of him, Pei Min was relieved to leave?
The feeling of uneasiness in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.
"General......" a commander rode to his side, "the soldiers are very tired, do you want to let them rest?" ”
"Fart!" Hearing this, Kun Dayan was furious, "There is only one chance, and we will rest for an hour, which is undoubtedly a chance to give reinforcements to the Tang Army." The order goes down, and if Guangen Town is not captured for a day, no one is allowed to stop! I'm the same, just standing here and overseeing the battle! ”
The commander scolded him for his head and face, and the gray horse commanded the battle.
Kun Dayan licked his dry lips, only to feel that his throat was like a fire: he was only supervising the battle in the rear, and even so, the soldiers on the front line were even more tired when they wanted to come, but at this moment, they really couldn't wait, looked at the sun that was already on the verge of the west, and looked forward to the twilight coming soon, and also relieved the fatigue of the soldiers.
Suddenly!
Inexplicable!
Without warning!
Behind them was dusty, and the dust was like a raging torrent coming towards them!
What's the situation?
Raise your eyes and look out!
With his eyesight, it is not difficult to discern the approximate number of rides, which is between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand.
Excluding Pei Min's mother-in-law's Shence army, all the cavalry added up to only 5,000, so how could there be 15,000 or 20,000.
Could it be reinforcements?
Is it their Tibetan reinforcements?
Kun Dayan had this suspicion, and did not transfer back the soldiers and horses fighting on the front line, and directly arranged for You Yi to investigate the situation, but only prepared for battle.
You Yijun hasn't come back yet!
"Kill ——!!!"
An earth-shattering roar rang out behind him!
Cavalry!
The mighty nearly 20,000 cavalry of the Tang Army rushed to their rear like a torrent, accompanied by a thunderous roar, they ran one by one, fast as a dragon, invincible, and killed people when they saw them, as if they were revenge ghosts and gods who had returned to the world from hell.
At this moment, there was an exclamation from the front!
The gates of Gwang'en Town are open!
A group of men and horses will come out......