Chapter 137: Gaochang City is broken
After paying the price of nearly 3,000 people, MΓΌller's naturalized army was finally strangled by all the encircled Turkic Chinese army, and then after the rear army was also scattered, the naturalized army hurriedly formed a formation, and even the corpses of the war dead did not have time to be cleaned up, because a large army of Turks had faintly appeared in the east, and from the banner, it was the Turkic front army that was too sudden and somewhat disconnected from the Chinese army.
Mueller squinted his eyes for a moment, and then asked the officer next to him, "Have you counted the numbers?" β
The officer nodded and said: "Our army still has more than 15,000 people who can participate in the battle, and the seriously injured have arranged for the guards to take a detour to avoid this front army and return to the base camp under Gaochang City to recuperate, and the rest of the people who can participate in the battle are here, general." β
Mueller nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed to the Turkic army in the distance and said: "There are only 10,000 Turkic troops left in front of us, and we still have 15,000 people, which is an absolute advantage in numbers, and the Turks in front of us are nothing more than that, they only dominate the steppe because of their large number of minions, but our saber and courage will prove to them who is the real warrior on the steppe!" β
Although the naturalized army suffered heavy casualties, these also inspired their bloodthirsty and fierce temperament. Moreover, they defeated the Turks, who had always been invincible in the steppe, and their hearts were also extremely excited. At this time, the soldiers of the naturalized army heard Mueller's words, and they also raised their weapons in anger and kept shouting.
Seeing that the morale of his subordinates gradually increased, it seemed as if he had returned to the pre-war period for a while, and he took advantage of the situation to issue a combat order: "The whole army is assaulted!" Targets, Turkic lackeys ahead! Then he took the lead with the naturalized army and rushed to the Turkic front army without hesitation.
Let's put down Mueller's side first, and then look at Zhang Juntai's army hoarded under Gaochang City.
"Why is the number of naturalized soldiers added later so small?" Zhang Juntai frowned and said.
"There were originally few Hu people in our original territory in the Western Regions, and under the coverage of the subsistence allowance policy, these Hu people have become a lot more stable, and there are not many people who have joined the Naturalized Army, and most of them have joined our Western Regions Army. The main force of our current naturalized army is the Hu people who are dissatisfied with the rule of Gaochang of the Koji clan, although there are many Hu people in Gaochang, there are more than 100,000 people, but now the naturalized army has pulled out an army of 30,000 people, far exceeding the red line of one out of ten, and if it is pumped again, it can only be some old, weak, sick and disabled. However, word came from the city of Gaochang that many Hu people had moved into the city after he became king, and instead expelled a large number of Han Chinese to make room for the Hu people to live. If his information is reliable, we can at least pull out a team of 20,000 people if we break through Gaochang City. The military lord looked at the account book in his hand and explained to Zhang Juntai.
"Well, what about the wounded of the naturalized army?"
"It's all taken care of, no one will come back." The warlord nodded and said.
"How many naturalized troops do we have in our hands?"
"There are still 4,000 naturalized troops to supplement the Mueller army, and they are all stationed in the naturalization camp."
"Let them attack the city, the return of the wounded soldiers will show that the Muller army has achieved the expected goal, and these people are of little use." Zhang Juntai said.
"Then do you want to give these naturalized troops an opening in the city wall to maximize their effect?" The military owl said.
"Okay, let's try their new explosives pack this time, this thing has been transported to the front line for a long time, and I have never dared to use our own people to experiment, let them try the effect, and tell them how to use it." Zhang Juntai nodded and said.
Soon, the naturalized army mastered the use of this convenient and portable explosive bag, and then armed with knives, axes and shields, and launched an offensive against the rain of arrows shot from the city. When the naturalized army braved the rain of arrows and rushed to the bottom of the city wall, they divided into two teams, one group threw feathered arrows at the head of the city, covering the other team; The other team dug a hole in the earthen wall with a shovel and pickaxe under the cover of their teammates, and then lit the fuse.
With a bang, accompanied by a puff of smoke, a large amount of yellow sand and dust flew out from the breach. But the walls still stand, but the breaches have become much larger. The naturalized army under the city concocted three or four times, and finally blew down a section of the city wall, and the naturalized army rushed into the breach under the leadership of the officer, and joined the defenders of the city with short combat.
Zhang Juntai, who was guarding the rear, saw that the naturalized army had climbed the city, so he ordered the Western Regions army to also attack, and the armies of the two sides had a bloody battle at the head of the city. In the end, under the joint efforts of the Naturalized Army and the Western Regions Army, the city wall was finally captured, and the defending troops dared to enter the city.
Because the naturalized army was completely lost in the offensive and defensive battle at the head of the city, the street battle at this time could only be carried out by the Western Regions army itself, so the Western Regions Army, which had experienced street battle training early, gradually suppressed the defenders in the city who fought separately in the street battle, and retreated to the Gaochang Palace step by step.
Zhang Juntai also climbed to the top of the city after cleaning up the corpses at this time, watching the army pouring into the city gradually suppress the retreat of the defenders, and nodded secretly in his heart, at first Li Wenyuan mentioned to him that he had become an army composed of professionally trained professional soldiers, he was still noncommittal, and only supported Li Wenyuan out of trust in Li Wenyuan. But now it seems that after special training, the combat effectiveness of this army is indeed higher than that of any army he trained before defecting to Li Wenyuan.
At this time, Lu Boren sat on the throne, his mouth was full of blisters, and he became more and more angry when he listened to the reports of his subordinates. Then Koji Boren stood up with a trembling body, swept the things on the table in front of him to the ground, and shouted angrily: "Get out! You useless shit! In less than a day, the city walls were all gone! Now all that's left in the city is the Imperial Palace! What's the use of asking you? A bunch of garbage, get out of here! β
At this time, a Turkic man with a bearded hat on the side stepped forward and said to the people in the room: "Your Majesty is now worried about the fortunes of Gaochang and the country, so you should go out first." β
After waiting for all the people in the house to withdraw, the Turks persuaded Lu Boren: "Batuk, or let's go, here the Great Khan also said that it is okay to delay the Han army." β
"Uncle, I can't go, there are many people who doubt my origin, and now that I'm gone, wouldn't it be confirmed that my identity is not from the Koji clan?" Ba Du dismantled the hair crown that was tied up like a Han person, and slowly restored the hair to the Hu people's quilt hair, and said weakly.
(End of chapter)