Chapter 285: The military song is loud and bright
"Shoot the arrows!"
"Whoosh ......"
With Cheng Wuting's loud roar, the sound of dense bowstrings also sounded in the Tang military fortifications.
The Tang army camp was standing on a small hillside, and even in the fortifications in front of the camp, the external shooting was a downward shot, while Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers were always shooting from the back.
At this time, Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers walked to a distance of twenty years away from the Tang military fortifications, and the two sides began to shoot at each other.
The Tang army still had armor on their bodies in the fortifications, and only a very few people were injured by arrows, while Xue Yantuo's infantry wore at most one piece of leather armor, and in the absence of a shield to cover them, when the Tang army released arrows with all their might, their casualties were very serious.
Li Chengqian looked at Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers who fell one after another with an expressionless face, without any excitement for victory, he knew that Xue Yantuo was just the beginning.
Sure enough, Xue Yantuo Mingjin withdrew and prepared to come back as a team.
Although Xue Yantuo's attack suffered a little loss, the Tang army also exposed its shortcomings, they never used gunpowder, and Xue Yantuo's attack will never be so cautious next time.
Sure enough, Xue Yantuo's infantry retreated, and Xue Yantuo's army was all pressed up, and Wu Su saw that the Tang army on the opposite side did not use gunpowder, so he boldly moved forward and led the army forward one hundred and fifty steps.
Wu Su, who had once again gained a foothold, immediately ordered the four thousand Xue Yantuo to fall into the camp and start attacking.
Although the soldiers of Xue Yantuo's trapped camp are not as brave as the soldiers of the trapped camp of the Tang Dynasty, they are also one of the best grassland warriors in a hundred, only to see them one by one, they are vigorous and fast, wearing short fights, holding scimitars in their hands, bowing their heads and bending their waists, and running forward quickly, the target is the fortification in front of the Tang army's camp.
Li Chengqian looked up and saw that the sun in the sky was still far away from noon, and felt that time was really slow.
Cheng Wuting watched Xue Yantuo move out to trap the camp with no expression on his face, just waiting for the enemy to run into the range of the bow and arrow, and ordered without emotion, "Release the arrow!" ”
On the battlefield again, arrows rained down, and the soldiers who rushed to the front of Xue Yantuo's camp rushed forward while dodging arrows, and the wounded by arrows fell down in batches, but there were also a few people who rushed to the front of the Tang fortifications, although these simple fortifications could block the rain of arrows, there was still a big gap compared with the city wall.
At first, the Tang army was prepared, and as soon as the enemy arrived, they would stab the enemy to death with spears, but as more and more people rushed to the front of the fortifications, the Tang army could not kill all the enemies at the first time.
The Tang army in the fortifications could only jump out and fight hard with the enemy, and the sounds of fighting and shouting on the battlefield slowly became louder.
Gradually, the Tang army released fewer and fewer arrows, and more and more people fought head-on with the enemy, and the Tang army began to be wounded or even killed in battle.
Seeing that the trapped camp was engaged in a full-scale battle with the Tang army, Wu Su immediately ordered the Xue Yantuo army behind him to press up another 10,000 foot soldiers, and he wanted to destroy the two thousand Tang troops in one go.
Under the leadership of Cheng Wuting, the 2,000 Tang Army fought to the death in the face of an enemy several times its size.
The battlefield soon became a meat grinder, and the casualties on both sides were very serious, but because the number of Tang troops was already small, the long battle time became more and more unfavorable to the Tang army.
Li Chengqian looked at the Tang army fighting bloodily below on the hillside, and wanted to use the killer scissors as soon as possible, but Su Dingfang had not returned so far, and if he used the killer scissors now, he would not be able to achieve the tactical goal of defeating Xue Yantuo's northward middle route army.
Just when Li Chengqian was in a dilemma, he saw that Wu Su on the opposite side sent another 10,000 troops to help the camp, and he planned to fight a quick battle.
Li Chengqian watched the 10,000-strong army rush towards the battle between the two sides where the Tang military fortifications were located, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he sneered, and began to chant "No Clothes" in the "Book of Songs".
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. ……”
As soon as Li Chengqian began to chant, hundreds of wounded soldiers around him also began to chant.
"Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son. ……”
Hundreds of wounded soldiers watched their comrades fighting bloodily, and saw that the whole army was about to be wiped out and buried here, and they felt even more tragic when they sang this poem.
The tragic song spread all over the battlefield along the mountain wind, and Cheng Wuting, who was tearing and killing, heard the tragic military song behind him, only to feel endless depression in his chest, and slashed the head of the enemy in front of him with a knife, regardless of the blood on his face, he raised his head to the sky and roared, and the sound shook for miles.
When the officers and men of the Tang Army heard this, they were sad and indignant in their hearts, and they all swung their war knives fiercely at the enemy, and for a while, all the Tang troops on the battlefield were possessed by the god of war, and they fiercely tore and killed the enemy.
"Do you say you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. ...... with the son"
The singing continued, and the 10,000 troops pressed up behind Xue Yantuo were getting closer and closer, until they reached a distance of fifty steps from the Tang army camp.
"Boom... Boom..."
The sound of gunpowder explosions sounded, and the people on the entire battlefield felt that the ground was shaking and the mountains were shaking, and there were continuous explosions under the feet of the 10,000 foot soldiers that Xue Yantuo was attacking.
Li Chengqian's original plan was for Su Dingfang to go out of the camp to make a meeting with Liu Renliang, and Wu Su would inevitably send cavalry to intercept it, and then send 10,000 foot soldiers to attack here.
Therefore, Li Chengqian buried a batch of gunpowder in advance at a distance of 50 steps from the Datang camp, and the gunpowder was evenly buried in a dot matrix at a place the size of a formation of 10,000 people, in order to solve the crisis in front of the camp at one time.
Since Li Chengqian's crossing, he has only invented gunpowder and explosives packets, but has not made grenades or anything else, so until now, gunpowder has only been accessible to a few people in the army.
However, this time, Li Chengqian's gunpowder buried in the ground was different from the past, and when he buried the gunpowder, he specially ordered people to add a lot of broken stones to the gunpowder, and there were many arrowheads collected on the battlefield.
The gunpowder exploded with the effect of a flowering projectile, killing and wounding almost all of those who were hit, and only a few on the edge escaped.
There are only three words written down by 10,000 people, but the area occupied by the 10,000 foot soldiers on the battlefield is more than 4,000 square meters, and the explosion of such a large area makes the people around have a feeling that the end is coming.
Almost all the Xue Yantuo soldiers on the battlefield were stunned, and their first reaction was to flee the battlefield, because they didn't know what other means the Tang army had. It is naturally safer for Wu Su and the others to retreat one hundred and fifty steps away from the Tang army's camp, but the retreat of the thousands of foot soldiers who are fighting with Cheng Wuting is to leave their backs to the Tang army.
Cheng Wu had already killed the red eye, and as soon as he saw the enemy retreating, he chased after the tiger roared, and the other Tang troops who could still move also joined the ranks of chasing and killing Xue Yantuo's rout.
Xue Yantuo's rout army was bent on escaping and didn't dare to turn back, Cheng Wuting and the others killed in the back as easily as chopping melons and vegetables, as long as they caught up, they could solve it with one sword.
Li Chengqian saw Cheng Wuting crying and laughing on the hillside when he only cared about chasing and killing Xue Yantuo, and turned back to Liu Kui and said, "Write it down, Cheng Wuting came back and asked him to get twenty whips himself." ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince, let's arrest General Cheng back and fight him now." Liu Kui heard the words and suggested.
Li Chengqian watched Cheng Wuting run farther and farther, knowing that he couldn't catch him for a while, and Qiu Xinggong had already led some Tang troops to this side, so he didn't immediately send someone to arrest Cheng Wuting.