17. The new armament of the Tang Army

First, the four teams at the front stopped, waving large and small flags, and then the following teams in twos and twos, like the "horns" of the chariots of the Spring and Autumn Period, spread out in a fan-shaped sequence, and soon formed a huge horizontal formation, covering the various vehicles behind.

The Tang soldiers in the first horizontal formation, six became crow-necked long hands, and the remaining forty percent were lined up on the side and back of the team, each holding a boring palladium in their hands, and carrying a fire flint, a medicine twist and a Wenshen thunder rocket behind them.

Then the second horizontal formation is also lined up, some of which are group players and swingers, and some are crossbowmen and palladium boring players.

The last one was the vehicle, as well as Xu Si's mule soldiers.

"Boom!" There was a bang, and in the center of the car, several drummers beat the big drum from the front and back.

The long towers like a forest, and the dense boring palladium, in the sun and the wind and smoke, the tip of the blade shone like a scale, began to follow the sound of the drum, and the small flags and orders waved by the heads of the buildings, the soldiers of the Dingwu Army in the horizontal formation marched forward in unison with their leggings, and the armor pieces on their bodies shook with their movements, vibrating like a low tide.

At this time, the party members who reunited in person showed a look of fear on their faces.

They are accustomed to boasting about their personal bravery, and when they encounter a large army that is in a strict formation and silently approaching them, they instinctively feel, "This is not a blood feud between the falls!" Thus feeling intimidated and withdrawn.

Because the second general of the Dingwu Army, the eight battalions, a total of more than 3,000 foot soldiers, fully walked out of the momentum of 20,000 or 30,000 troops:

The large formation of the Dingwu army, after advancing ten steps, stopped in an uproar.

Then there was another loud drum, and they continued ten steps forward in response to the sound of the drum.

The drums beat with a bang, solid and powerful, and the Tang army got closer and closer to this group of party items.

Until a hundred paces away, the party cavalry began to draw their bows and shoot arrows, arrows were constantly fired from between the manes of their horses' heads, arrows were swaying in the air, with a little light, one after another fell in front of the Tang army, scattered and scattered, some Tang soldiers fell with arrows, and were soon dragged away by their companions, and the whole horizontal team was still as solid as an iron wall.

The palladium boring hands in the Dingwu army, listening to the order, knelt on the ground one after another, and began to tie the thunder rocket to the three teeth of the boring palladium, and then lit it. Soon, in the formation of the Tang army, which was five hundred paces long, the fierce sparks with the roaring green smoke first burst out, and then became denser and denser, and even converged.

The party cavalry group was briefly stunned.

Then the sound of the sky cracking exploded, and hundreds of Shenlei rockets dragged their shiny tails and flew out from the rows of boring palladium teeth, and the rolling gunpowder smoke "swallowed" the Tang Army's large horizontal formation, and the rockets fired out were also "torn" apart by the formation of the party cavalry who came to intercept - some people turned on their backs, and some wolves rushed to the pigs.

Then in the white smoke, the Tang Army's commanders rushed out, and the momentum of shouting in unison shocked the neighing of the party's war horses, and the number of the second general of the Dingwu Army's Liufu party cavalry was actually collapsed in an instant, and fled northeast along Dashunchuan in twos and threes.

Cheng Junren did not chase after him, and asked the mule soldiers to cut off the heads of the people killed in the Liufu Party and hang them under the wheels of the car, so he directly ordered to burn all the grass from Dashun River to Baibaochuan.

Then the horizontal formation of the Tang army again became a marching column, and continued to advance towards Baijingshu. Some of the soldiers stayed for the time being, and in groups of two, one dressed in cotton clothes with armor and holding a fire pipe, the other carrying a kettle, stood very scattered on the grassland by the river.

The water and grass here are abundant, and it is a suitable place for grazing horses and camping. Burning them would cut off the basic source of survival for the nomadic people's cattle, horses, and sheep.

"Poof!" Blazing flames erupted from the flameburst pipes, tumbling among the long grasses, and the crisp and dry air of early autumn was the most suitable for arson, as long as you stood upwind.

The reinforcements of the Tang army advancing towards Baijingshu had the head of the party rebelling on the cart, and a boundless fire was burning behind them......

"What, the Fan Luo who went to intercept it has been defeated, and the Tang family's reinforcements are advancing here from the Great Wall Ridge?" The mud incense prince on the Shovel Mountain looked at the hundred wells on the opposite side, surrounded by fire and arrows, and then shouted to the people who came to report the news.

The man also told him that the Tang army carried a mysterious long tube, the tip of which seemed to be in the shape of a dragon's head, and when it was cast, it could fly out of a dazzling fire dragon and burn the grass for miles in a radius.

There are also a large number of long-handled weapons with three teeth, and the rockets with toothed heads can fly straight a hundred paces away without a bowstring.

"The grass is burned, how can we survive the winter? We can shoot a large number of rockets without a bowstring, so what is the use of our cavalry? Prince Muxiang felt that this rebellion of the party members might be a miserable road of no return.

Because Gao Yue's armament regulations of the Tang Army have surpassed his imagination, or most of his contemporaries.

But when he learned that the Tang army that came to help was only more than 3,000 people, Prince Nixiang still had the idea of "giving it a try, concentrating superior military strength, eating this deep Tang army first, and then taking advantage of the main force of the Tang army to attack and slaughter Baijingshu".

At this time, the slopes on all sides of Baijingshu have been filled with the bodies of the wounded and dead of the Liufu Party, the wooden fence, the trunk, and the rock crevices are all arrows, some are bent, and some are still inserted straight, but the defenders also have more than 300 casualties, the first wooden fence was destroyed, Zhou Ziping and Sibo Daye surrounded the Fengsui and Quanjing at the core of the mountaintop, relying on the earthen barrier and the wooden fence, forming the second line of defense with a length and width of more than 200 steps, and it is also the last line of defense.

After spending the night, the next day there were more than 10,000 Liufu party members, almost without stopping to launch an offensive against the Baijing fortress, this time they became more flexible, no longer charging in a dense formation, but a small team of three or five people, using trees, grass, rocks, and even the corpses of their companions still left on the hillside as cover, approaching the Tang side's wooden fence and earth barriers, and then pulling the string and firing arrows.

A cousin beside Si Bo Ohno, who was leaning against the wall just now, was about to draw his bow, but in an instant, a cold arrow flew in from the gap in the wall, straight through his neck, blood splashed Si Bo Ohno's body, and also dyed a large piece of the dirt wall red, when Si Bo Ohno pulled the cousin back, he saw that the other party had already swallowed his breath.

Under such a constant exchange of fire, the battle of the entire Baijingshu became extremely cruel: twenty or thirty paces away, or even ten steps away, across the barrier wall, across the wooden fence, or just across some rocks, either you pull the bow, or he shoots arrows, life and death are doomed in that second, the casualties of the defenders are getting bigger and bigger, and the mentality and will are beginning to reach the critical point.

"Damn, when the hell is this a head?" In the corner of the fortress wall in the northeast corner of Baijingshu, Sibo Ono was half-kneeling in the gap, and there were already five corpses of Si clansmen lying on his right side, blood was squeaking under his feet, and seven or eight arrows were also hit on his thick rhino armor, but fortunately none of them hurt him, and two personal soldiers behind him continued to deliver arrows to him, one of whom was seriously injured in the leg and could only lie on the ground - Sibo Ono was like this, constantly hooking the strings, pulling the bow ears, and shooting arrows with hatred flames one after another at the enemy under him.