Chapter 276: Caught in a Siege

The angelic army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Tibet, and has fought several skirmishes in the middle, basically defeating the enemy.

The climate on the plateau was unpredictable, and the sky began to drift with snow again, and the evening wind blew the snow particles up like sand and clanged on the blood-frozen leather robes. The setting sun struggled to shine a little behind the clouds. The faint glow was immediately frozen at the edge of the sky, filtered by the solidified clouds, and turned into a faint pink ice chip.

The snow also slowly began to pink, and in the tens of thousands of miles of boundless pink world, Xia Xue led the angel army to move with difficulty against the cold wind of the plateau. The bloody horseshoe prints made a deep furrow in the snow, like someone drawing a knife and cutting a wound in the earth's body, deep and painful to the marrow.

In late March, early in the morning, the angelic army came to a large river, the river was wide, the ice was not thick, the water was deep, and the water was very cold. Before reaching the river, there were already scouts who reported that there was a big river ahead, and the ice was not thick enough to cross the river on ice, so Xia Xue asked the soldiers to cut down a lot of trees on the mountain and prepare to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, she didn't want to take unnecessary risks.

Xia Xue, who was inspecting the river and preparing to direct the construction of the pontoon bridge, suddenly felt the ground begin to tremble, and then the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came from a distance. At the same time, the sound of horses' hooves was also heard in the south, and after Xia Xue observed with a telescope, he found that at least 50,000 cavalry were rushing towards him.

"Oh no, surrounded!" Xia Xuedi instinctively told herself. The Tibetan army was only less than fifteen miles away from him.

Time was pressing, Xia Xue immediately unloaded the ammunition, grain, grass, medicine, and materials of the baggage vehicles, and arranged more than 800 baggage vehicles around the angel army into a large semicircular barrier, with his back to the big river, and decided to fight against the water.

Xia Xue ordered all the horses to be gathered near the river in a semicircular rampart, and set up 1,000 logistics personnel to guard them. Move ammunition and other supplies to the middle of the semicircular rampart. 500 artillery and 200 mortars are all in the middle, 1000 machine guns and 2000 machine gunners are in the outermost periphery, the machine guns are mounted on the carriage of the baggage truck to increase the stability of shooting, 5000 riflemen are behind the machine gunners, 100 snipers are behind the riflemen, and behind the snipers is 1000 riflemen in reserve.

The Tibetan army was already less than 3,000 meters away from him, and the number of the Tibetan army from the north was at least about 350,000, including 150,000 infantry and 200,000 cavalry. The Tubo soldiers from the south were all cavalry, numbering about 100,000 people, and the equipment and horses were obviously much higher than those in the north, and they seemed to be elite troops.

After the convergence of the two Tibetan roads, seeing what the generals of the two roads were discussing, soon after, they seemed to have unified their opinions, only to see that the soldiers and horses of the Tubo were constantly mobilizing, slowly surround themselves, and the horn of attack came from the Tubo army.

It seems that the Tubo wants to attack with infantry first, and wait for the attacking angel army to consume about the ammunition and physical strength, and then send out cavalry to give the angel army the final fatal blow.

"Don't fire yet, wait until the enemy is at a distance of 300 meters before shooting!" Xia Xue ordered that infantry is slower than cavalry, so you can get closer and fight again, which can increase the hit rate and lethality.

"2000 meters!"

"1000 meters!"

"500 meters!"

"400 meters!"

Xia Xue visually measured the distance of the enemy and kept shouting loudly.

"300 meters! Fire! Xia Xue ordered loudly.

"Knock knock!"

"Da Da Da!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

……

For a time, the sound of gunfire was loud, like thunder and lightning, resounding in the sky over the plateau.

The Tibetan infantry, which rushed up like a tide, fell to the ground one after another under the blow of the storm, either killed by cannonballs or killed by zigzag shells, like wheat in summer, frantically harvested by the death sickles of the angelic army.

Angel mortars can fire 20-30 shells a minute, and 200 one-minute mortars fire 4000-6000 shells, carpet bombarding the area between 1000 and 300 meters.

The Angel machine gun can shoot an average of 100 ZI shells in a minute, and 1,000 machine guns can fire 10,000 ZI shells in a minute, like a metal storm to block the enemy within 300 meters.

The Angel rifle can shoot an average of 15 ZI rounds per minute, and 5000 rifles can fire 75000 ZI rounds per minute at the same time. This dense zigzag bomb was like a whirlwind of death and rushed towards the rushing Tibetan infantry.

The Tubo soldiers who were lucky enough to pass through the network of guns and artillery, their faces were covered with blood and their expressions were hideous, and one by one they put life and death out of the way, brandishing scimitars and maces and rushing towards the angel army that had already aimed at them. But in the end, no one was able to break through this terrible barrage, and they were beaten into a hornet's nest one by one.

In less than half an hour, the 150,000 Tibetan infantry who bravely rushed up were basically wiped out, except for a few Tibetan soldiers who were wounded but not dead on the ground screaming and wailing on the ground, there were stumps, broken bones and heads everywhere, corpses were all over the field, blood flowed like a river, and the 150,000 Tibetan infantry army had no sound.

Astound! What a shock! The entire army of Tibetan cavalry was stunned!

Since they started the war with the Tang Dynasty, they have never encountered such a terrible Tang team. Army, they only have 10,000 people, but this combat power is more than hundreds of thousands of Tang. The army and troops are terrified.

What follows is an involuntary shudder!

It's terrible, Don on the other side. Is the army still a man?

They're all devils, no, more powerful than the devil, and more ferocious!

The Tibetan soldiers began to chill!

The commander of the Tibetan army, the younger brother of the great minister Gar Zannedob: Gar. Qin Ling rode a strong horse and stood majestically under the banner of the Tubo handsome who hunted and fluttered. As a figure at the level of the Tibetan god of war, Gar. Qin Ling is a burly figure, pure Tibetan blood, with high cheekbones, high nose, dark skin, and showing a red color that has been exposed to ultraviolet rays for many years, like blood oozing out of dark skin, and his eyes are like torches, looking mighty and strong.

But at this time, Gar, who was calm and calm on the outside. Qin Ling, cold sweat broke out on his head, his face was pale, and blood was dripping in his heart. These 150,000 Tibetan infantry followed their own expedition to the south and the north, captured Qinghai, captured the four towns of Anxi in the Western Regions, conquered everything, and were invincible, and today they all died in this unknown wilderness.

Through scouting, he already knew about this time Tang. The leader of the army is the eldest grandson queen of the Tang Dynasty, so he swore to do everything to capture him alive, so that he could greatly boost the prestige of the country and hit the morale of the Tang Dynasty; Second, I heard that the Tang Emperor Li Shimin loves this eldest grandson empress very much, and if he catches her, it is estimated that he is willing to let Li Shimin sacrifice the entire Tang Dynasty. Therefore, no matter what happens today, no matter what the cost is, the Tang Dynasty Empress must be captured alive.

Thinking of this, Gar. Qin Ling endured his grief and immediately ordered: "The enemy cannot be given a chance to breathe, the second round, the yak formation!" ”

Xia Xue was observing the battlefield with a telescope on the wooden box, and suddenly felt that the wooden box began to tremble, like an earthquake, and a heavy rumbling sound was heard from the far south from the south, and smoke and dust were flying. Xia Xue looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but be shocked in her heart, "Ah, yak array!" ”

I saw more than 10,000 strong yaks rushing towards me like crazy, like rows of black monstrous waves, carrying a terrifying impact, as if they were about to break everything towards the angel army.

There was an uproar in the angelic army, but after all, there were more battle-hardened veterans, and they held their breath, clenched their weapons, and waited for the queen's orders.

"Concentrate all your weapons, strike at the yak herd, split ten mortars, and fire incendiary bombs at a distance of 500 meters." Xia Xue took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and ordered loudly.

Summer snow is suspicious of napalm. The projectile was fired every time with a catapult, and the catapult was troublesome to make, and the projectile distance was up to 300 meters, which was too close, and later improved, an incendiary bomb that could be fired with a mortar was designed, and the firing distance could be up to 2000 meters, although due to the mortar. Cannon. The bomb is small in size, and the power is not as large as that of the catapult, but the combustion power is still not small, and the killing range of 100 meters in the past can basically reach 50 meters now.

"Knock knock!"

"Da Da Da!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

All the weapons frantically opened fire on more than 10,000 yaks that were running wildly, and 10 incendiary bombs ignited a burning wall of fire at a distance of 500 meters.

No matter how strong the yak is, it is also flesh and blood, and it was shot by multiple machine gun bullets and rifle shells, and it fell to the ground and died. If you are hit by a shell, you will still have stumps flying sideways and die. In particular, the animals were afraid of fire, and when they saw the blazing fire in front of them, the yaks were finally frightened, and did not dare to rush to the fire again, and turned to the Tubo cavalry army in the north.

For a time, the Tibetan cavalry army was in chaos, and they involuntarily drove their horses to dodge, but many Tubo people were still knocked off their horses by crazy yaks, trampled into meat and mud, and injured more than 2,000 people. Many of the frenzied yaks were also shot by the Tibetan cavalry, and finally more than 2,000 of them fled to the valley in the east.

Gar. Qin Ling's face turned blue with anger, he stabilized the Tubo army as soon as possible, and then asked the Tubo general Ku Dayan to personally lead the 100,000 Zampu guards from the southern capital Luosa to prepare for an attack. The guards of Tubo Zampu are equivalent to the Praetorian Guards of the Central Plains Emperor, and they are all elite soldiers who are one in a hundred. This was personally sent by the new Zampu Mangson Manzan, that is, Jean and Gar. After the northern expedition of Qinling converged, the angel army that invaded the hinterland of Tibet was wiped out.

After all, the yak is a beast, it has no brains, and it does not have tenacious perseverance and the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. The army must also rely on people and the warriors of Tibet.

Gar. Qinling asked the general Ku Dayan to lead 100,000 elite Zampu guards from the Tang Dynasty. The south side of the army position attacked, and he personally led 100,000 elite Tibetan cavalry to attack from the middle road, and let another Tibetan general, Denobu, lead the remaining nearly 100,000 Tibetan cavalry to attack from the north side.

Gar. Qin Ling is also a battle-hardened veteran and knows that if he wants to break through Tang. The position of the army must be pressed by the whole army in one blow and in a broken boat, and it must attack fiercely without stopping. Any respite from the army, so that it can be successful. If you are cautious to attack in batches and squads, it is a tactic of constantly sending fuel to death, this stupid tactic Gar. Qinling will definitely not adopt it. He had just seen Don. The artillery fire of the army was terrible and loud, and in order to avoid frightening the horses, all the cavalry had plugged the ears of the horses with cloth and silk. Blindfolded, so that's Don. No matter how fierce the artillery fire is, the war horses will only blindly rush forward. What Qin Ling wants is this kind of indomitable effect and momentum.

"Tubo warriors, just take down the opposite Tang. The military position, you can capture the queen of the Tang Dynasty alive, then we will achieve the final victory! For the sake of the victory of the Great Tibetan, for the survival of the Great Tibet, and for the glory of the Great Tibet, we must fight with the Tang Dynasty today. Once the army fights to the death, we have no way out! Warriors, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, we must not retreat! Chong--" Gar. Qin Ling pulled out the golden Tibetan knife, with red eyes, and a cry of tearing liver and lungs, and issued an attack order to the entire Tubo army.

"Woo-" Tubo's low attack horn sounded.

"Knock knock!" The war drums of the offensive also sounded.

"Kill-" The 300,000 Tibetan army blindfolded the eyes of the war horses, plugged the ears of the war horses, shouted in unison, the sound shook the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves was like rolling thunder from the north, south, and southeast to the angel army's position.

Under the trampling of 300,000 war horses, the earth also began to tremble, and the 300,000 Tubo cavalry army rushed towards the angel army position like a super tsunami.

The nerves of all the angel army couldn't help but tense, cold sweat broke out, such a fierce attack, so many cavalry impacts, and they had no favorable terrain such as trenches, slopes, and highlands to rely on, and the cold and lack of oxygen ......, they didn't dare to think about it anymore, many soldiers couldn't help but put their noses against the outlet of the oxygen bag to inhale oxygen.

"Don't be nervous, our Angel Special Operations Regiment is the most powerful military and invincible!" Xia Xue cheered everyone up, she knew that the victory or defeat of a war was often determined by morale.

"150 mortars, blockade the range of 500 meters to 800 meters around the position, the remaining 50 mortars, specially fire incendiary bombs, block the range of 500 meters to 300 meters around the position, machine guns and rifles block the enemy within 300 meters, and no enemy cavalry and war horses can be allowed to rush into the position within 100 meters, snipers focus on shooting the standard-bearers and generals in the Tibetan army, and destroy its command system. The reserves are constantly on the lookout for the replacement of wounded fighters, and the fire must not be interrupted. The hygienists paid attention to rescuing the wounded, and the logistics personnel paid attention to drawing water from the river to cool down the overheated barrels and barrels of the guns that had been beaten for a while......" Xia Xue calmly gave the order, and the soldiers heard the sweet and calm voice of the queen and queen, and their tension and fear were greatly reduced.

"Win or break in this battle!" Gar. Qin Ling and Xia Xue both said secretly in their hearts.

The tsunami-like army of Tibetan cavalry galloped within 800 meters of the Angel Army's position, and suddenly saw countless cannonballs falling from the sky like dark clouds.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

……

Violent explosions came and went, and 150 mortars fired 3000-4500 mortars per minute. Cannon. The 12-meter killing range of each shell turned the range of 500-800 meters from the Angel Army's position into a sea of death. The area was swooped down by mortars. Cannon. The shells were all covered, the explosion point of the shells burst into brilliant flowers, and the shock wave of the explosion and the flying shrapnel tore apart the flesh of people from time to time, sending broken bones, stumps and pieces of flesh into the sky.

Luckily rushed through this sea of death and entered the distance from Don. Within the range of 500-300 meters of the military position, I saw many shells falling from the sky and igniting a raging fire after exploding, emitting a high temperature of about 1000 °C, and after the explosion, a layer of flames was formed to splash around, and it could stick to the nearby Tibetan soldiers and war horses and burn for a long time, unable to extinguish, until the people and horses were burned into charcoal. This sea of fire burned everything it entered to ashes like a blazing purgatory.

If there is a fluke that rushes through this sea of fire, enter the distance from Don. Within 300 meters of the military position, then it will be hit by a metal storm of machine gun and rifle shells, which will destroy all living creatures that come close to the angel army's position like a storm.

These three cruel blows, three terrifying death lines, and three layers of terrible hell, like a terrible meat grinder, constantly devoured the lives of Tibetan soldiers and war horses.