Datang Scout has no pop-up window (the day after tomorrow is going to be defended, and the small half has to get the ppt within two days today and tomorrow, and read the paper, otherwise the consequences will be very serious!) So the update will be a little slower. In addition, because of distractions these days, the quality of the chapters has also declined, and I hope you will forgive me! )

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From the beginning of the twilight, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion continued to harass the Turks stationed on the Evil Yang Ridge, and one after another grenades exploded, and the sound echoed in the valley, and even the Tang army fifteen miles away from the Evil Yang Ridge could hear it slightly.

However, this subtle sound had no effect on Tang Jun, and he still fell asleep soundly. The Turks were different, this night, the earth-shattering explosion and the shrapnel that flew in all directions made the Turks not have the heart to sleep at all, and they had to send out from time to time to search for the Tang army, so they never rested at all.

When a ray of sunlight shone on the Evil Yang Ridge, the Turks, who had been tired all night, reluctantly got up from the couch that had not yet slept hot, held weapons, and defended themselves in several prominent positions in the Evil Yang Ridge.

In order to defend the Tang army, the Turks built three lines of defense on the Evil Yang Ridge, relying on the fence stone wall, and adding guard towers to resist horses and other things. Every day, they are heavily armed and on high alert to defend the defensive line.

Last night's attack made the Turkic general Qi Nuli smell a hint of an unusual atmosphere. He had a hunch that the Tang Army was going to attack Evil Sun Ridge today.

Sure enough, when he got up from his couch, a Turkic soldier reported that all the outposts near the Evil Sun Ridge had lost contact. Just as he was taken aback and ordered the whole army to prepare for battle, another soldier came to report that there was a large number of Tang troops at the foot of the mountain.

Qi Nuli immediately took his own soldiers to a sentry tower at the forefront of the Evil Yang Ridge and looked down, only to see that below the mountain range, the Tang Dynasty soldiers wearing bright light armor were neatly arranged in the mountain clearing. Immediately shocked, he shouted loudly at the Tang sergeant below: "I don't know that the general who is leading the army below?" ”

As soon as his words fell, a general came out of the array of soldiers below, and replied loudly: "The leader is the general of my family, and you will be captured before you can tie your hands!" ”

The slave looked at Tang Jun below expressionlessly, but he didn't say anything, and waved his hand: "Release the arrow!" ”

Suddenly, the Turkic soldiers drew their bows and rained down arrows.

However, where the Tang army was standing, it was not yet within the range of the Turks, so many clusters of arrows fell in the open space in front of the Tang army.

Li Jing, who was behind the battle, smiled at Zhang Yunwen and said: "See, these Turks want to demonstrate to our army with bows and arrows, but they instead expose the range of their bows and arrows, which is really stupid!" ”

Zhang Yunwen wasted no time in saying: "The general is wise!" ”

Li Jing suddenly laughed twice and pointed to the artillerymen who were building an artillery position: "Then when can they play?" ”

Zhang Yunwen said: "Artillery bombardment can be carried out now, destroying the enemy's obvious military targets, and when the army rushes up the mountain later, our artillery can also provide fire cover!" ”

"Good!" Li Jing suddenly burst into high spirits, "Just do what Yunwen said, first destroy obvious military targets with artillery bombardment, and then provide fire cover when the army rushes up!" ”

Zhang Yunwen arched his hand and retreated to the side of the artillery position.

At this time, more than a dozen mortars were lined up, and the soldiers leveled the ground, laid down the base, and erected the barrels. One person measures the range, and the other operates the gun.

Seeing Zhang Yunwen coming, the artillerymen stopped their work one after another and looked at Zhang Yunwen with excitement. "Your Excellency!" "Your Excellency!" The shouts continued.

These 20 or so people are excellent achievers in their usual training. Considering that the terrain in the mountains is narrow and rugged, which is not suitable for the large-scale use of artillery groups, Zhang Yunwen specially selected these more than 20 soldiers with high shooting accuracy to participate in this operation. Of course, in order to appease the emotions of the other students, Zhang Yunwen promised to give them a chance to perform in the future.

"This is the first time that my artillery has participated in a campaign, I am watching you, the general is watching you, His Majesty is watching you. Let me ask you a question here, do you have confidence in the prestige of my artillery? Zhang Yunwen stood in front of 20 artillery soldiers and did pre-war mobilization. I saw him waving his arms, his expression was excited, his spit was splashing around, and his eyes were full of excitement.

"Yes—" The artillerymen replied loudly as if they were infected by his emotions, waving their arms in unison. They looked fanatical, eager to immediately pick up the barrels and rush into the mountains.

"Good!" Zhang Yunwen smiled slightly, "Do you remember the trick that Lao Tzu taught you about elevation angle shelling?" ”

"Remember!" The artillerymen replied in unison.

"Good! Then beat him with a cannonball, *** Turks! ”

"Beat him!" The soldiers roared in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

The rest of the Tang soldiers and generals could hear the loud noise and looked over one after another.

Zhang Yunwen looked at Li Jing not far away, and when he saw that the other party nodded slightly, he immediately turned his head and said sharply: "All of them, ready to fight!" ”

The artillerymen were quick to get ready. The sergeant in charge of distance measurement measured the distance, and then quickly calculated the angle of the shelling and conveyed it to the gunner next to him. The gunner slowly adjusted the elevation angle of the barrel and aimed at the obvious sentry towers on the Evil Sun Ridge.

"Fire!" Zhang Yunwen gave an order.

Suddenly, there was a dull roar from the ten mortars at the same time, and then a puff of black smoke rose from the vicinity of the wooden watchtowers on the Evil Sun Ridge, and the nearby Turkic soldiers were far away from the explosion of the shells.

After a burst of shelling, the gunner recalibrated Zhu Yuan according to the landing point of the shell just now, and fired again.

As a result, the first-floor guard tower of Evil Sun Ridge was blown to pieces in the artillery fire. The Turkic soldiers near the watchtower suffered numerous casualties, and the wooden fence used to defend against the Tang army's onslaught was blown away and broken by shells.

After firing ten shells from each gun, Zhang Yunwen signaled the artillery to stop firing.

A gust of mountain wind blew, and the smoke dissipated on the Evil Yang Ridge.

I saw that one of the Turks' defense line was already in disarray, wooden guard towers and fences fell to the ground in a messy manner, and the Turkic corpses were scattered in this area, and the Turks who had escaped were retreating in a hurry. Nearly 100 three-foot-square craters were densely packed on a defensive line. The only thing that was not damaged was the half-foot-high stone wall behind the wooden fence.

Seeing such an effect, Li Jing was stunned at first, and then stroked his beard and smiled. The rest of the generals looked at Zhang Yunwen and the soldiers who were cooling down the barrels with a ghostly expression.

The expressions of the iron riders weren't much better. Before they came out, these cavalrymen who had won good rankings in the all-army competition looked down on these 400 artillerymen at all, although they did not say it, but their disdainful eyes often fell on the artillerymen. Today's artillery is tantamount to slapping these iron horsemen in the mouth, where can the latter endure it.

So, a general stood up and said to Li Jing: "General, since the Turkic defense line has collapsed, our army should take advantage of the victory, plough the court and sweep the holes, and take the Evil Yang Ridge!" The last general asks to lead the troops! ”

One general took the lead, and the rest followed suit.

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately looked at Zhang Yunwen, who was coming over slowly, but saw that the latter shrugged indifferently, and immediately said quickly: "Okay!" In this case, Ben will order you to attack immediately and capture the Evil Yang Ridge! ”

The generals were immediately overjoyed, and at the same time clenched their fists and took the order.

After a while, the crowd was boiling, and three thousand Tang soldiers with long lances in their hands, bows and arrows on their backs, and horizontal swords hanging from their waists poured towards the Evil Yang Ridge like a tide.

"Why didn't Yoon-moon continue to let the artillery participate in the attack?" Li Jing saw Zhang Yunwen approaching and asked with a smile.

Zhang Yunwen replied with a smile: "Isn't the last general afraid that these generals will tear me apart alive?" If the last general robs me of all the credit, won't the generals be angry with me? Besides, this artillery bombardment has almost hit the morale of the Turks, although the number of Turks is large, but my Tang soldiers can sweep away the Evil Yang Ridge, it is as easy as a hand! Later, we will keep up with the army, and if anything happens, we will support it with artillery fire! Uh, General, what do you think? ”

Li Jing suddenly burst out laughing, finished laughing, and waved at Zhang Yunwen: "Let's go, let's go up and take a look!" ”

Saying that, Li Jing took the lead and walked towards the Evil Yang Ridge with Zhang Yunwen and the artillery under the escort of his own soldiers. Of course, the artillerymen worked very hard to carry the barrels, bases and shells.

Walking all the way up, after passing a defensive line, and by the time we reached the second line of defense of the Turks, the fighting here was almost over, and a brigade of soldiers was cleaning the battlefield here.

Li Jing saw the corpses of the Turks all over the ground, the broken weapons, and the feathered arrows stuck in the ground, and couldn't help but ask a soldier: "Is the war going well here?" ”

When the soldier heard that it was Li Jing who asked, he quickly straightened his body and replied, "Report to the general, the battle here is going extremely well." Our army attacked here, fired four rounds of arrows, and then rushed over, breaking through the Turkic defenses. Pointing to the watchtower, he said, "There's not even a person on it!" ”

Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, these Turks learned really fast, and when they saw the Tang army bombarding the sentry tower, they didn't even go up.

Li Jing nodded and patted the soldier on the shoulder, who was immediately flattered.

He continued upward, and walked along the steep mountain road for three quarters of an hour, and before he reached the three lines of defense, he heard the sound of murder shaking the sky.

Li Jing smiled: "Hehe, it looks like we've caught up!" ”

I saw that not far ahead, the Turks relied on the thick fence stone wall to block the attack of the Tang army. The Turks armed with scimitars and spears shot with bows and arrows behind the fence, and when the Tang army approached, some of the Turks poked with knives and spears, forcing the Tang army back. And most of the clusters of arrows fired by the Tang army were blocked by fences and stone walls, and only some fell among the Turks.

Seeing this situation, Li Jing couldn't help frowning slightly, and Zhang Yunwen immediately ordered the artillery to set up mortars and prepare for another bombardment.

It didn't take long for the cannon to be erected. After obtaining Li Jing's consent, the artillerymen opened fire together under the command of Zhang Yunwen.

"Boom-" A loud explosion rang out behind the stone walls and wooden fences.

When the cannon sounded, the generals who were leading the attack couldn't help but look back and look at the artillerymen with resentment, as if blaming the artillerymen for taking away their credit.

With the cooperation of artillery, the three lines of defense were quickly breached. And all that remains is the Turkic camp on top.

The cavalry and artillery who dismounted to fight converged all the way to the top of the Evil Sun Ridge to kill.

However, before they reached the camp, countless Turkic soldiers shouted and killed from the mountains and fought with the Tang army. The terrain above the mountain ridge was narrow, and the two sides fought together, and Zhang Yunwen could not order artillery cover, so he had to let the two armies fight.

However, the Tang army was the elite after all, and after encountering this wave of Turkic soldiers, they fought for nearly an hour, and finally slashed this wave of Turks to death, and the remaining hundreds of people fled back to the camp.

On the Tang army's side, more than 200 people were killed and seriously wounded, and more than 400 people were slightly injured.

Li Jing looked at the soldiers with a rainbow of morale, stroked his long beard with satisfaction, and pointed to the top of the mountain: "Sons, follow me to level the Turkic camp and capture the Evil Yang Ridge!" ”