Chapter 304: The Sin of Delay

The first to arrive at Fu Qi City was Li Daoyan's army. After this army of 10,000 people arrived at the barracks, Li Daoyan reported the situation to Li Jing. In the northern part of Tuyuhun, Li Daoyan's army kept fighting with the Tuyuhun, Qiang, Dangxiang and other ethnic groups in the north, and in the past few months, the credit has also been great.

Then, Li Daliang's army also arrived at Fuqi City on the same day.

By the time we arrived on the fifth day of the eighth month, almost all the troops and horses had gathered here. Except, of course, for the Southern Route Army.

So outside the whole city, nearly 70,000 troops were arranged into three large camps, the tents were endless, and the smoke was like clouds every day.

However, what made Li Jing angry was that Gao Zhensheng, the governor of Minzhou and the head of the Yanze Road march, had not yet arrived at Fuqi City on the sixth day of the eighth month. This forced Li Jing to delay the deterrent offensive that he had launched on the second day.

When he heard the word "deterrence", Zhang Yunwen suddenly thought of an idea in his heart, and said it to Li Jingyi first. After hearing this, Li Jing immediately stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This strategy is very good, once implemented, it will be able to quickly disintegrate Tuyuhun's fighting spirit and make it surrender the city!" ”

In the early morning of the seventh day of the eighth lunar month, the sound of the assembly of Tang soldiers and soldiers sounded outside the city as usual. When the Tuyuhun soldiers helplessly got up to observe the situation, they found that today's situation was a little different from the past. Columns of foot soldiers came out of the barracks, carrying something, and lined up in a neat line about five hundred paces from the city wall.

Then, these Tang soldiers took a black cylinder from their shoulders and came down, put down the pedestal tripod, and faced diagonally towards the city wall. There are about seventy or eighty of these blackened iron cylinders, arranged in a semi-arc. The soldier next to him opened a wooden box and took out a black object, but he didn't know what to do.

Behind these foot soldiers, columns of infantry lined up neatly, carrying ladders in their hands and supporting the chariots. Further back, groups of cavalry were cruising outside.

As soon as they saw the Tang army's formation, the Tuyuhun soldiers defending the city suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly went to inform Murong Ping and those Tuyuhun nobles, asking them to come to the city to see the movements of the Tang army.

After these people arrived, they only glanced at it, and immediately knew that the Tang army was about to attack the city, and immediately shouted loudly: "It's not good, the Tang army is going to attack the city!" Immediately mobilize soldiers to defend against the Tang Army! ”

Suddenly, there was chaos in the city, and a group of soldiers came from the barracks to the city wall, bundles of arrows, and stones were also moved. Fu Qi Castle was ready to defend with all its might.

As for Murong Ping and the Tuyuhun nobles, they watched Tang Jun's movements nervously.

I saw that those Tang soldiers didn't care when they saw their own actions, and after their own troops were increased and the arrows and rolling stones were prepared, a horse came out of the column and went straight to the city wall.

When he came to the bottom of the city wall, the knight shouted loudly: "Listen to the people in the city, my general has an order, you must wait for the surrender of the city within three days, otherwise our army will attack the city, and the city will be destroyed!" ”

After saying these words, without waiting for the people on the tower to answer, this man immediately fled away from the city wall.

Hearing this person's words, all the nobles glanced at each other, but they were all silent, wanting to see Tang Jun's next move.

I saw the foot soldiers standing in the front squatting down, taking a black thing handed by the soldier next to him, putting it into the black iron cylinder, and then quickly holding his head, covering his ears, away from the iron cylinder.

When Murong Ping and the royal family were wondering, they saw the green smoke spewed out of the iron cylinder, and then a deafening sound came, but they felt that the city wall under their feet shook, the sand and stones soared, and the smoke and dust rose. There was no scream from the soldiers, and a loud explosion, interspersed with the faint moan. However, there was a cloud of smoke and dust in front of me, and I couldn't see what the situation was.

A gust of wind blew through, slowly blowing away the smoke and dust. Murong Ping and the nobles' eyes gradually became clearer, and when they looked down, they suddenly felt cold. I saw half-zhang sized potholes arranged along the city wall, some of which were blown out of the wall, and even two of them were above the city. Around the pit, there were soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned.

Seeing this, Murong Ping and those royal clans immediately understood the meaning of the Tang Army knight's words.

After this round of shelling, the Tang army collected the mortars, broke up the formation, and began to practice.

And the knight ran to the bottom of the city wall again, stretched out three fingers, made a gesture of "three", and rode away, leaving behind the Tuyuhun people with heavy hearts.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Tang army again placed the mortars in an arc and aimed at the walls of Fuqicheng. This time, however, the number has doubled to 150. This made the Tuyuhun soldiers very nervous, and spent the whole afternoon in trepidation. Fortunately, the Tang army did not fire a single cannon and withdrew the cannon into the camp when it was dark.

However, they didn't know that the extra seventy or eighty cannons were models made of wood by Zhang Yunwen, painted with black paint for repairing arrows, and erected at the back. Those Tuyuhun people looked at the city, and they could tell the difference clearly.

Now, what the Tang army is waiting for is Murong Ping and the nobles who surrendered the city.

However, Tuyuhun had not yet made a decision, and a late army arrived at Fu Qi City first.

Gao Zhensheng, the head of the Yanze Road march, finally arrived at the foot of Fuqi City with more than 8,000 cavalry.

When someone informed Li Jing of the news, Li Jing just said lightly, "Got it!" Then he told the generals to assemble in the big tent.

Li Jing sat in the big tent, the generals were on both sides, Gao Zhensheng half-knelt in the field, raised his eyes and quietly looked at Li Jing's face.

"Gao Zhensheng, you are guilty!" Li Jing's cold voice sounded in the big tent.

"The last will be convicted!" Gao Zhensheng happily confessed, after all, he was indeed wrong. Besides, after pleading guilty, maybe Li Jing will not be punished in the face of being an old minister of the Qin Palace. Gao Zhensheng had such wishful thinking in his heart.

"Good!" Li Jing's eyebrows rose suddenly, "Since you have pleaded guilty, what kind of punishment should you take according to military law?" ”

"Well, the light will be punished with a cane for thirty, and the heavy will be shown to the public!" When he said this punishment, Gao Zhensheng couldn't help but feel a thrill, should this Li Jing really want to do it to himself?

"Now that you already know, then you will go to the army to get rid of the staff fifty!" Li Jing's voice carried an irrefutable momentum.

Hearing this, Gao Zhensheng's heart trembled, now that he is in the big tent, before the generals, Li Jing's words actually didn't give him face at all, it was really hateful. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stand up abruptly and said loudly: "I am an old minister of the Qin Palace, and when I followed Your Majesty to fight the world, you Li Jing still didn't know where you were!" How dare you do this to me today! ”

Hearing Gao Zhensheng's words, Li Jing was not angry, but said lightly: "Do you want to go by yourself, or do you want me to let someone escort you there?" ”

"You-" Gao Zhen pointed at Li Jing fiercely, and after a moment, he put down his finger angrily, turned around and walked out.

Li Jing looked at the shaking door curtain and said in a deep voice: "Remember, all generals, military orders are like mountains, military laws are like iron, and no one is allowed to violate them!" The old man doesn't care if you are an old minister of martial arts or an old minister of the Qin Palace, if you don't obey military orders and don't abide by military law, the old man will definitely be severely punished! ”

The generals immediately clasped their fists together and said, "Oh! ”