Chapter 979: Learning War in War
"Boom-"
A huge packet of powder landed beside Gershap, and the spark of 'Zizi' burned to the end. The fierce explosion of flames seemed to bloom a dazzling orange spark in the flat ground, blooming in the streets of Nishapur, and a powerful shock wave swept across the surrounding radius of thirty or fifty zhang, and the heavily armored soldiers, the ghulam and the retinue on tall horses, were all blown into a gourd that rolled around, and even the two trebuchets were overturned.
Mahmood, one of the lieutenants, was directly swept up by the air wave and hit the side of the remnants, his head slammed, and it was no longer interesting when it was dark in front of him.
Gershap's right arm was also hit by a flying stone, blood gushed out, and his bones appeared to be broken. The slightest movement was extremely painful, and he didn't know what had been wiped open on his forehead, as long as a child's palm, and his face was covered with blood. In addition, the explosion ignited a cart of oil on the side, and the fire burned so hard that it was as if they were wrapped in flames.
"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire. Be careful of the black oil...... "Gershap, who came to his senses, was full of liver and gall, for fear that if he shouted a second late, the other two cars of black oil would also be ignited!
This is a great weapon for them to resist Lu Qibu's army.
He yelled at the sailors to grab the oil truck, "splash the sand, splash the sand...... "In the end, the local aborigines know how to deal with black oil.
It's just that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and when Gershap shouted for men and horses to rescue Black Oil, Nishapur's defenders had already collapsed.
It's brutal.
In this era, the huge lethality and deterrence of the medicine powder packet can make people quickly transform from 'humans' into frightened animals.
When the artillery bombarded the walls of Nishapur, Gershap moved his hand-to-hand soldiers to the gap and waited, and the two sides had been fighting for several days. But today, the hand-to-hand combat he thought did not break out, but came in packets of powder of different sizes. It was sent into the city in large quantities by the Liangshan cannon outside the city.
Poor Gershap has already mobilized a large number of troops, and even the elite troops in his hands are arranged in the gap, just waiting to fight with Lu Qi's army in hand-to-hand combat.
As a result, they were all wrapped in orange-red flames, and in an instant, they were shattered, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the scene was terrible.
As soon as the main battle force collapsed, it was when Gershap shouted loudly for people to save the black oil. Nishapur is as finished as the great hall with its tops and pillars collapsed.
The defenders who were controlled by fear, that is, a group of startled horses that had fallen away, or a piece of fish meat placed on the chopping board, could only be slaughtered by Lu Qijun.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The last explosions were gone.
"General, General......"
A large number of Lu Qi troops poured into the city, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing reached Gershap's ears. The attendant beside him hurriedly shouted.
……
The sun finally set, and the sky turned from blood-red to boundless darkness.
Most of the fires in Nishapur have been extinguished, and there are only a few fires left - why use them? That's because all they have left is a fire.
For example, the largest Xingyue Temple in the city, when the defenders were defeated, it was burned by the rebels. It is still the brightest torch under this sky.
Gershap is gone, but many of them remain, living and dying with Nishapur. Although it is an enemy party, Li Yanxian, Niu Gao and other generals who are besieging the city also have to say: Seek benevolence and get benevolence.
Nishapur had already fought many times before and after the battle. The Seljuks suffered great losses, but they resisted very bravely, of course, this was also due to Yue Fei's reluctance to suffer too many casualties.
In the battle for more than half a month, Lu Qi's army lost as many as one or two thousand inside and outside the city, but compared to these casualties, their results were huge and incredible.
However, whether it is Li Yanxian, Shi Jin, Niu Gao and other generals, they are all very complicated in their hearts at this moment. Because they all know that the protagonists of this great victory are bags of medicinal powder, not them.
Looking at the restored calm city of Nishapur, the expression on Arslan's face was cold and hard. Powder pack + Liangshan cannon, this powerful weapon Lu Qijun has been hiding it before, and not a trace of wind has been exposed.
He couldn't have imagined that this was just Yu Yunwen's inspiration, he saw that the defenders in the city resisted stubbornly after the city wall was broken, so he came up with this method. It took only two days for the soldiers to experiment with the length of the fire rope and the weight of the powder packet.
The lethality of a simple powder pack is "limited", and it is the correct way to open it by decorating it with some gravel and iron.
Arslan didn't know all this, and only thought it was Lu Qi's military secret. His heart was full of fear. If his father had chosen a different path, would Nishapur's doom also befall the head of the Flower Thorn Mold?
Arslan couldn't help but think so. The power of the Liangshan cannon + powder pack is too huge, and the appearance is too abrupt.
The outsiders didn't hear the slightest bit of news. Now once it is used, it will be a big killing!
Packets of medicinal powder exploded, which made people think of thunder!
What is certain, however, is that news of the battle will quickly reach the Seljuk Sultan Sanjar. Gershap and many others have fled from Nishapur, and the news cannot be hidden.
This is also teaching the Celestial People, because they also have trebuchets in their hands, and they also have medicinal powder in their hands. Although it is inferior to Lu Qi in terms of unit power, it is still not a killing move.
The Seljuks were not ignorant idiots, learning war in the midst of war. Like the combat power that has just ended, they also played with grenades. A large number of grenadiers were organized, which played a huge role in the final hand-to-hand combat phase.
In this bloody battle of the Seljuks, the Lu Qi army captured as many as 30,000 Seljuk soldiers. Some of the interior were captured in the city, and many more were captured by cavalry waiting outside the city for soup.
Together with the soldiers killed in and out of the city, half of the 100,000 troops assembled by the Seljuks could not return.
Fifty miles north of Nishapur, a small city that had been completely overrun by the army of Lu Qi and its vassals and numerous auxiliaries, you could not see the Seljuk natives.
In a heavenly mansion, Wu Yong and Song Jiang, two busy people, are sitting in it at the moment and burying their heads in the book. As the deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army and the division of the Left Army, the two were responsible for commanding the rear road. The stack of paperwork on the bookcase at hand has been piled up for a long time, but the two of them are so busy, they always seem to be distracted while working, and they look up at the door from time to time.
The water in the teapot was added one after another, and the leaves were soaked a little lightly, and neither of them minded.
This mansion was the location of the logistics core of the Western Expeditionary Army. The daily affairs were so numerous that they could be buried straight away.
Not to mention the transfer and deployment of supplies and military supplies for the army, nor the placement of the wounded, it is enough to overwhelm the two of them by saying that the formation of the official governments in Tocharian and Khorasan, including political propaganda.
Don't look at the two of them buried in official business, the whole room is very simple and quiet, that is the general bureau where you didn't go to the subordinates, the large and small branches are like a small court, there are not too many people.
This nameless town has a close connection with the establishment of the army, and the flying pigeons send a message, and the battle in Nebshar today is quite meaningful. If things go well, the fight will be over.
This also means that the Seljuks have lost their last core city in Khorasan, which means that the Western Expeditionary Army has completely occupied Tocharian and Khorasan, and they can go to greet the Jade Dragon Chijie's Ajisi and lead people southward on a large scale......
Emperor Lu wanted to let the Flower Thorn Zim people go to the Persian Plateau, and it would also take a process. Let him taste the sweetness first, and take the initiative to turn into the sleeve, which is much better than pulling hard.