Chapter Sixty-Eight: The New Camp of Divine Fire bore the brunt
As a top assassin, Caesar's skills of concealing his tracks were almost all learned from Mo Ya, and now Mo Ya himself went out and had the cover of night, and soon came to the city of Ganzhou.
However, his physical strength was not good, and the city wall was full of blood stains after coagulation, and he didn't spare his hands, and he waited to speak, but he was not a pure Tang person, and his accent was stiff, and he let the defenders shoot him to death under the city as soon as he said it.
Fortunately, Mo Ya is quite intelligent and experienced, and he actually wrote the military situation in Zoroastrian secret language, and shot it far into the city with bows and arrows, and when the defenders reacted and the city was noisy, he had already disappeared into the night and returned by the same way.
The defenders of the city head were accustomed to seeing the arrows, and thought that they were sent by the enemy, but under the lookout, they found that there was no enemy surprise attack, and they hid behind the battlements for a while, but they did not wait for the follow-up arrows, and they were suspicious in their hearts, and they hurriedly raised fire to search around, and finally found the feathered arrow, but found that the arrow was tied with soft paper, and when they unfolded it, the book on it was like a tadpole earthworm, twisted and unrecognizable.
The defenders didn't dare to be careless, reported layer by layer, and reached Li Jing's hands, Li Jing hurriedly found a translator (translator) in the army, and the interpreter was also puzzled, only that it should be the ancient text of the Western Regions, and no one could understand it if they wanted to come to Xuanmy, and many talents were helpless.
Strategist Liu Shuyi mentioned on the side, saying that Dr. Li Jia knew astronomy and geography, and he could be said to be knowledgeable from ancient to modern, and he studied Western arithmetic, or he could understand it, and Li Jing hurriedly sent someone to invite Li Chunfeng over.
Li Chunfeng saw that his head was also big, and he vaguely recognized it, although he didn't know the specific connotation, but he saw the origin, so he reported it to Li Jing, saying that this document was a Zoroastrian ciphertext, so why not ask Xu Zhen to come and see him.
Li Jing didn't like Xu Zhen fiddling with foreign teachers, and he didn't care about ghosts and ghosts, but something was wrong, and it was bound to be investigated, so he invited Xu Zhen to come over.
Xu Zhen follows the cliff every day to learn the scriptures, and how can he not understand this ciphertext, seeing that it is said that Qi Qi He Li has come to the city, and will launch a sneak attack at the noon tomorrow night, hoping that Li Jing will send troops to meet Yunyun, so he is overjoyed and reported to Li Jing, and the entire camp is boiling!
It has been two months since Ganzhou was trapped, and although the enemy army had many shocks on the way, Li Jing had rich combat experience, had a good command, and was calm and steady, and was suitable for defending the city.
Although Li Jing's face was expressionless, he was also happy in his heart, and even ordered him to go down, transfer troops and generals, make more adjustments and arrangements, and ordered the sergeants to order all battalions to be well fed and ready for battle.
The whole Ganzhou city was immediately mobilized, although the main general stabilized the army's heart, exaggerated the grain reserves, but everyone knew that after the secret road to transport grain was blocked, the daily food has begun to decrease, but today but the pig and sheep are slaughtered, knowing that the decisive battle is coming, one by one the spirit of movement, the horses and horses, just waiting for an order, you can kill a way out!
Xu Zhen's battalion headquarters has been reorganized into an exclusive artillery battalion, and Li Jing has been given a name, called the Shenhuo Battalion, and people of insight are naturally impressed, but there are also people in the army who disdain it and sneer at the new Shenhuo Battalion.
After coming back and arranging many things, Xu Zhen calmed down and analyzed it carefully with Zhang Jiunian, but he couldn't be happy.
This secret letter is used in the Zoroastrian cipher, although Caesar is rough and furious, but he can't get its essence, that is to say, this cipher letter can only come from the hand of the cliff, and the cliff has already come to the front line, and it is determined that he Li Mingda brought it here.
Although I don't know what Gao Zhensheng's idea is, Li Mingda is in the battle formation, which is enough to make Xu Zhen feel uneasy, and he can't discuss it with Zhang Jiunian, so his heart is inevitably empty.
Fortunately, under Liu Shenwei's treatment these days, the injury was healed, and he finally had some confidence, and he went to the Shenhuo camp to swim around, and the examination was proper, so that he could sleep with peace of mind.
Mo Ya returned safely, Qi Bi He Li was naturally happy, but worried that the arrow that sent the letter was ignored, and the military situation was not known to Li Jing, so he was a little worried, so he paraded the barracks, made preparations, pulled out the camp, and slowly marched forward to the army, waiting for the night, and then launching a surprise attack.
Although Li Mingda and Xu Zhen have gone through several battles, but after all, they are all small scenes, and he has never gone into battle in person, in the past few months, he has followed Li Dexian, Zhou Cang, and Li Wushuang to practice martial arts.
Ashina Lier is not that incompetent, the wolf rider under his command is fierce and heroic, although he verbally sent Murong Hanzhu, but he has already made people do enough vigilance and defense, just wait for Qi Bi He Li to break in, he will definitely beat him and slaughter the dog!
The forces of all sides are preparing their own preparations, but they think they are strict and subtle.
In the evening, but it rained lightly, the weather was cold early, and it turned into the first snow at night, fluttering and sprinkling, the temperature plummeted, and many sergeants also hurriedly added warm clothes, the sky was not beautiful, but it also put on a desolate and bleak coat for this battle, as if to show the sadness of this battle.
The defenders of Ganzhou gathered in the west of the city, but eight carts rumbled and crushed the streets, and under the attention of the soldiers of the whole army, they came slowly.
"This is the new group of Divine Fire Battalions..."
For ordinary soldiers, the Shenhuo Camp is like the mysterious girl who half-hugs the pipa and still covers her face, she has heard of her name for a long time, but she is not allowed to see each other, and for the high-level generals, the Shenhuo Camp is just the product of Yan Lide's child's play, but at this time, seeing this copper and iron cannon weighing more than 1,000 catties rumbling, everyone closed their mouths.
The Shenhuo Battalion used all Xu Zhen's own people, and only they knew how to use artillery, which was divided into eight phalanxes at this time, each of which protected a heavy artillery.
The gun carriage is also specially made, it takes eight horses to be able to pull it, and it also needs a lot of control hands, filling and loading, handling the fire, passing the fire pill, and guarding the artillery, which can be described as extremely cumbersome, and it is no wonder that Xu Zhen said that this is a heavy weapon for defending the city, and it is not suitable for taking the initiative to attack.
However, Li Jing was afraid that Qi He Li's army would not be strong and would not be able to synchronize when the time came, so he would not wait for the attack to be flanked, and the thousands of men and horses of Qi Qi He Li would be swallowed up by Ashinarier, so he chose to take the initiative to attack and let Qi He Li attack the rear of the enemy army.
Xu Zhen knew the importance of this battle, although he couldn't get the information from Hou Junji's side, but from the posture shown by Gao Zhensheng, he could also deduce that Hou Junji and Li Daozong's side were estimated to have already captured Fu Qi City!
This also means that whether or not you can win this battle will become the decisive key to the entire war, and your own Shenhuo battalion has become the key in the key.
Because the heavy artillery has not been tested in actual combat, it is under such tremendous pressure in the first battle, Xu Zhen is also a little weak in his heart, and the soldiers of the other battalions must cooperate with the Shenhuo Battalion, if the brothers of the battalions are allowed to charge first, and they are worried about being accidentally injured by the artillery, and the range of the archer phalanx is not as far as the artillery, so the Shenhuo Battalion is bound to be at the forefront.
If the Shenhuo Battalion fails to make contributions, it will inevitably fall into a passive disadvantage, and the battle will become more and more difficult, and more importantly, the brothers have no confidence in the Shenhuo Battalion, and if it fails under the pressure of great expectations, it will be a heavy blow to the morale of the army.
Li Jing judged the situation and already understood the joints, but the eight heavy cannons gave him a feeling of being separated from the world, and he always felt that such objects should not appear in this world, and the so-called things that were beyond the world were probably like this.
Due to the light snow, Xu Zhen was also worried about the gunpowder being damp, so he made extra preparations and stored the gunpowder in a closed clay pot, which added a little more complicated difficulty.
But what is coming is coming.
Li Chunfeng saw the time and reported the card to Li Jing, the old military god looked at the city from afar, nodded, and the banner soldiers behind him shook the flagpole, Li Jing shook his spirit, and when the whole army stood solemnly, he resolutely ordered: "Open the city!" ”
Although the voice was not high, it passed through the wind and snow, dispelled the cold, and ignited the blood of the whole army!
How can there be anyone in the army who does not worship the great ** god? To be able to fight with the god of war in his lifetime, if it is a true son, even if the battle falls, what a pity!
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
The sergeants knocked their shields and armor with their blades, cheered in unison, their morale soared, and the desolate and fierce murderous aura dispersed the entire Ganzhou City, making the first snow that he had come early overshadowed!
Xu Zhen took a deep breath, waved his hand, the Shenhuo camp was launched, under the hard pull of the eight horses, the heavy artillery rumbled forward, for the sake of prudence, two more gates were left at the head of the city, and the brothers who had been instructed by Xu Zhen used the slipping lever and other things, and built a diagonal bridge, and worked together, so that the heavy artillery was placed at the head of the city, and a large number of military slaves were driven to carry neatly cut boulders, piled on top of the gun carriage, and fixed the heavy artillery on the head of the city.
I don't know why, after these two heavy cannons were established, Li Jing's heart suddenly quieted down, as if what he saw was not two heavy cannons, but two pagodas that guarded the country for thousands of years!
The movement of Ganzhou City quickly woke up Ashinarier's team, these wolf riders and dead soldiers have put on armor and held soldiers, and lined up from the camp tent, the plain in front of the city has just been dyed white by the first snow, and now it has been blackened by the enemy army in the blink of an eye!
The Tang Dynasty pays attention to horse politics, builds more pastures to store war horses, and kills horses according to the law to punish major crimes, so horses are brave, which is also the foundation of the Tang Empire's repeated victories, but Tuyuhun also takes horses as his life, these wild soldiers die on horseback, beg for a living on horseback, and charge on horseback, and they are not afraid of big ** soldiers!
Ashinarier also knows the stakes, this time Li Jing must break through to the death, if the best policy is to block the city gate and not get out, otherwise when the ** opens the formation, under the conflict between the two sides, his side will also suffer a lot of losses.
His side was also a regular sortie, and since there were no heavy cavalry, the infantry phalanx was the leader, the archers were in the rear, and the ranger phalanx occupied the left and right flanks.
As long as the enemy enters the range of the archers, you can use the rain of arrows to consume it first, and then the left and right rangers will attack and kill, messing up the enemy's battle formation, you can wave the foot soldiers, close to each other, and use the numerical advantage to completely pile the enemy to death!
Ashinarier is also a battle-hardened veteran, and he feels that Li Jing must also use archers first, and then a large number of rangers should attack, looking for a breakthrough, and after opening the gap, he slowly expands, so he put the infantry phalanx in front, that is, Li Jing's army can not break through, and use archers to block the enemy at the city gate!
Naturally, he has not forgotten Murong Hanzhu's secret information, and he has left enough people to rob the palace, as long as Qi Bi dares to take advantage of the fire to rob, he is not a prodigal woman who can be kneaded by others!
"All the troops are attacking!"
Ashinariel sat upright on the back of the dragon chestnut horse, drew a scimitar decorated with gems, pointed in the direction of Ganzhou, and issued an order to attack!