Zhang Huan sat quietly in the big tent, his eyes were full of sadness, in front of him was the battle report sent by Broken Leaf City, the Tang army was killed and wounded nearly half, and finally captured Broken Leaf, but the main general Guan Ying blew up the enemy with his body, and the bones remained.

Although he has seen too much death over the years, and he has been very weak about life, Guan Ying's death made him feel the preciousness of life for the first time, Guan Ying is one of the last survivors in the defense of Zhang Sancheng, life is already a gift from God for him, he should not have died again, he should have lived well, and eventually became a generation of generals, but in the end he still died in Broken Leaves.

It was this deep regret that made Zhang Huan feel a spirit hidden deep in the humble bodies of these soldiers, and this courage to sacrifice himself for the country and die generously for the dignity of the nation made him cry.

After a long time, he gradually calmed down, walked to the door of the tent and stared at the dark mountains in the distance, where was the Tang Dynasty's former thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and tomorrow's battle, it will completely return to its homeland.

"Governor!" A figure slowly walked on the opposite side, the light from the tent shone on his face, and the three long beards fluttered on his chest, it was Pei Mingyuan, he stepped forward and smiled: "I can't sleep, I want to talk to Du Du." ”

"Come in and sit."

The two entered the big tent and sat down, and the soldiers served tea to the two, Pei Mingyuan immediately asked: "I heard that Wang Siyu has returned, and I also heard that Cao Hanchen took the green ridge to guard and capture?" ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "Wang Siyu went south this time and encountered an ambush by the main cavalry of the Great Food. Fortunately, there were contradictions within the Great Food Army, which made him win in adversity and annihilated nearly 20,000 Great Food Army. Among them, there are more than 8,000 main cavalry, which can be described as brilliant results, and Cao Hanchen also took the green ridge to defend the fort, cutting off the way for the big cannibals to return west. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Huan's joy couldn't help but be revealed, "Not only that, but Broken Leaf City has also been taken by us." ”

He handed the battle report of the Broken Leaf Land to Pei Mingyuan, "Let's see for yourself!." ”

There was a burst of surprise in Pei Mingyuan's eyes. He took the battle report and hurriedly swept it, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Take down the broken leaves, and my Han and Tang Dynasty will re-establish the Western Regions!" ”

Zhang Huan didn't speak, he muttered and said, "I remember you told me that you went to Jerusalem many years ago. ”

Pei Mingyuan smiled and said: "That was more than ten years ago, I followed a big food caravan to go back to the big food, a few days ago the governor said that let me go to the big food, is it just to break the leaves?" ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "Broken leaves are only one aspect, I hope the Great Food Caliph can be pragmatic." Acknowledging my Datang's control over the Atami Valley, I would be able to complete the strategy of connecting Anxi and Beiting from the west, and lay the foundation for the westward expansion of Beiting to Yibohai (today's Lake Balkhash). ”

"The governor is right, north of Atami is the territory of the Tuqishi people, the Tuqishi people have declined, and the west of the North Court is the territory of the Qarluqs, in the battle of the North Court, the main force of the Qarluqs has been wiped out by the Dudu, and these two places have nothing to do with the Great Eclipse. I think this great food of favors should be given, the key is what to exchange with them? ”

"In exchange for what?" Zhang Huan smiled coldly and said: "The broken leaf was taken by our Tang Dynasty soldiers with their lives, whether he admits it or not, it has already belonged to us." Why exchange with him? ”

Zhang Huan stood up and paced a few steps behind his back, "Tomorrow after the first battle, Prince Agush of Dashi will become my prisoner of war again, and at least tens of thousands of soldiers will also become my prisoners of war." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Huan stared into Pei Mingyuan's eyes: "But these prisoners of war are not exchanging territory with the big cannibals, do you understand?" ”

Pei Mingyuan stood up and bowed and said, "My subordinates really can't understand, please forgive me!" ”

"I don't blame you, there's no way you could have guessed what I wanted to exchange these POWs for?" Zhang Huan stared at the top of the tent. xUC e-book x first x hair x with a slight sadness in the tone. "In the Battle of Talas, nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Tang Army were captured by the Great Food Army and brought to the West. This is more than 30 years, if they are still alive, they have all reached the age of old age, I hope you can use this battlefield to eat prisoners of war to exchange them back, so that they can return to their roots, this has always been my wish, and it is also the real task of your to go to the big food. ”

Pei Mingyuan's eyes were also a little red, and he bowed to Zhang Huan deeply, "My subordinates will definitely live up to the trust of the governor!" ”

Tianma is bright, boom! Boom! Boom! The fierce war drums sounded in the camp of the Tang Army, the camp of the Tang Army was open, and a group of Xuanjia cavalry, dragon spearmen, tiger sword soldiers, Modao army, and bow and crossbow army poured out from the camp like a torrent, and there were 500 black thunderbolts in the middle, rumbling siege cities, huge stones, and towering cloud ladders, marching towards Shule City 20 miles away.

This will be the embodiment of the full strength of the Tang army, and they want the big cannibals to firmly remember that the land in the east is not something that the iron hooves of their big cannibal army can invade.

The 70,000 Tang Army was divided into three parts, Wang Siyu was the general of the former army, leading 10,000 elite cavalry, 10,000 Mo sword army, 5,000 spearmen, and 5,000 bow and crossbow troops, a total of 30,000 people as the front army; Zhang Huan personally led an army of 30,000 as the Chinese army, and the thunderbolt was also hidden in the army; Cheng Lie did not recover from his injuries, so as a rear general, he led 10,000 Qiang cavalry to protect siege weapons such as siege weapons, stones and ladders.

The army did not go fast, only ten miles out of an hour, at this moment, the city of Shule was already in a panic, there was no suspense in the two choices of whether to go out of the city to meet the battle or whether to defend the city, Agush did not hesitate to choose to defend the city, and Meyali had no right to speak, because he lost his troops in the process of ambushing the Tang army, and was jointly sued by Raschel and the commander of the Damascus cavalry, accusing him of a crushing defeat due to his poor command and blind pursuit of the enemy, Agush immediately removed Meyali from the command of the battle, He was imprisoned, and Raschel, who shared his interests, was appointed as the chief general, responsible for directing the offensive and defensive battles with the Tang army.

At this moment, Agush stood on a lookout tower on the east side of the city and stared into the distance, after two wars of attrition and reinforcements. At present, the total strength of the Great Food Army is still 50,000, plus they captured some strong men in the city, a total of about 70,000 people to defend the city.

There is not much difference between the strength of the Great Food Army and the Tang Army. Complemented by a fortified city, it was Agush who was not worried, and in the previous attack of the Tang army, there was nothing terrible about the offensive methods shown, and he could not hear Meria's pessimistic arguments, which made his mood extremely calm, and now it was a cold winter, and the road was closed with heavy snow. The supply of the Tang army will become more and more difficult, and the Tang army will not stay in Shule for a long time, and will definitely withdraw to Bachang City or Qiuzi, that is, they still have a winter time to calmly arrange.

Here it comes! He had already seen a long black line appear on the horizon, and the moment to decide the victory had finally arrived, and Agushdi's mood had changed from calm to excitement, and he immediately ordered the guards: "Go and tell all the soldiers that if you defeat the Don army, each of them will receive a special reward from the caliph!" ”

The entire city of Shule was boiling. Tens of thousands of food troops began to be busy, morale was high, some wiped the throwing guns, some checked the stone throwing machines, some carried stones and wood, more than 200 stone throwing machines lined up in the city, and nearly 100 soldiers stood in front of each stone throwing machine.

Gradually, the black-pressed Tang army got closer and closer, and the banner covered the sky and the sun, stretching for five miles, and stopped about three miles from the city. UC eBook::First::Hair.. The Tang army had been able to determine that it was going to be a siege battle, and the front army and the Chinese army were reunited, but the army was not immediately launched, and they were waiting for the siege weapons to come up.

This day is the 20th day of October in the first year of Yong'an. After a full half a year of campaigning, the Battle of Anxi finally came to an end, the dark clouds were thick, the north wind was blowing, the heaven and the earth were slaughtered, and the majestic Tang soldiers stood in the vast wilderness, quietly waiting for the coming of the big war.

Suddenly, small black dots appeared in the distance, and as they approached. The earth began to tremble. As they got closer, siege engines began to show their hideous faces. Huge and towering stones, huge bodies like trolls from unknown worlds; A ladder with a long tail and a sturdy steel frame that can resist the smashing of rolling logs.

But what makes people's hearts palpitate is that there are three more huge siege cities, the stone is a dwarf compared to it, the huge iron frame up to six zhang is equipped with a collision made of thousand-year-old trees, a hundred feet long, under the pull of the thick iron chain, staggering forward, the front end of the collision is inlaid with a head made of stainless steel, weighing thousands of catties, as if there is a magic power to destroy all things, this siege requires three hundred horses to pull the horse, thousands of Tang army control.

Its appearance made the loud food army at the head of the city suddenly quiet, and their eyes began to show a trace of horror, the Tang army seemed to attack the city a few days ago, and even Agush felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he began to doubt whether his decision was correct.

"Go and get Moyali out." He didn't know why he had made that decision.

At this time, a Tang soldier galloped on horseback, ran to the city gate and shot a headless arrow, on which was a letter inserted diagonally, the arrow drew an arc, flew up to the city, and a soldier hurriedly ran to the watchtower with the letter and handed the letter to Agush.

The letter was written in Zhang Huandi's own handwriting, in Chinese, and Agush could not read it, and a translator quickly translated it, which turned out to be a letter of persuasion to surrender, persuading Agush to surrender, and the Tang army would guarantee his safety and send him back to Dashi.

Agush tore the letter in half, and the Abbasids never knew what surrender meant

Under the banner of a pole several miles away, Zhang Huan also smiled coldly, he already knew that Agush was in the lookout tower at the head of the city, and no matter who he appointed as a general or not, he himself would inevitably command the battle.

"Let's get started!" He calmly gave the order to attack.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The rumbling drums sounded again violently, and the attack of the Tang army began, and all the big food troops in the city clenched their throwing guns, sweating in their hands, and the speculators creaked, and put one round stone after another into the net pockets of the two hundred trebuchets.

But surprisingly, the Tang army did not swarm up, they still stood there motionless, suddenly, the northernmost Tang army parted to both sides, like a chopping wave to make a way, only to see behind them appeared one after another swarthy carriages, the body is extremely long, there is a cover on it, like a long wooden box book, each car is pulled by eight horses, walking like flying, they form a long convoy. Like a black dragon, it snaked and swam.

The big food army in the city was a little overwhelmed, they didn't understand what the Tang army was doing. But they soon discovered that the carriages had taken a path that seemed to have been accurately measured, that they were too far for the lance to be fired, but too close for the trebuchet, about two hundred paces from the wall, and that was a blank spot in the Great Cannibal defenses.

"Loosen the leash. Shoot! "The trebuchet of the big cannibal did not shoot out with all its strength, the soldiers only used half of their strength, and nearly a hundred boulders were shot far and near towards the horse convoy under the city, if only in terms of power, the trebuchet made by the big cannibal was not much worse than the stone of the Tang army, and it could also shoot eight hundred steps away, but if you look at it from a technical point of view, the two are far apart.

The Tang Army's stone can not only shoot far, but also accurately control the range, and has five scales of gold, silver, purple, red, and yellow on the body. Just like the crossbow machine Earth Lookout Mountain, they represent five ranges of 1,000 steps, 800 steps, 500 steps, 300 steps, and 200 steps, and are controlled by a complex set of machinery.

Not only that, as early as the Three Kingdoms period, Ma Jun, a craftsman of the Wei State, invented Lianzhu, dozens of stone bullets can be automatically loaded. Carry out continuous firing, so that the stone projectile is as fast as lightning from end to end.

The great cannibal was obviously weaker than fine, and more than a hundred stones fell weakly to the front and back of the carriage, but none of them could hit the carriage. Five hundred thunderbolts lined up, and in the high-speed movement, the bottom cover was suddenly lifted, and half of the side panels were also lowered, revealing a small stone, four Tang soldiers were twisting the lever, and another Tang soldier lit the fuse, the fuse burned wildly, and the four Tang soldiers let go at the same time. Five hundred porcelain bullets the size of a pomelo book rose into the air. Hundreds of black lines were drawn and shot at the head of the city with precision. For this reason, the Tang army has practiced countless times, the calculation is very accurate, five hundred porcelain bullets suddenly exploded violently in the city, this batch of porcelain bullets has a total of 2,000, and it is also followed by Pei Mingyuan, this is the latest gunpowder developed by the Longyou Gunpowder Bureau, the nitrate content has reached seventy into six, although it is only less than half a percent increase in the previous nitrate content, but the power is several times greater.

The red flames soared into the sky, the explosion was earth-shattering, like hundreds of fire trees and silver flowers blooming together, and the strong air wave overturned many large cannibals and trebuchets down the city, and hundreds of black smoke rose into the air, and finally formed several huge mushroom clouds.

Not to mention the big cannibals, even the Tang soldiers who had seen the gunpowder explosion under the city were stunned by the power of this explosion, and many people instinctively squatted down and covered their ears.

The dungeon was in shambles, there was not a single person standing in sight, severed limbs and broken trebuchets were sprinkled all over the ground, blood pooled into a stream along the wall, and with the groans of the dying, half of the eastern wall of the three thousand defenders had been swept away, and even Raschel, who had just been promoted to general, was blown to pieces.

Standing in the observation tower, Agush was not shocked, and after a long time, he slowly stood up, with an extremely frightened look in his eyes, and he suddenly remembered something that Meridian had said: the Great Tang Lei.

Agush jerked to his feet and hissed and cried out, "Quick! Go and call General Meria. ”

The drums of the Tang army sounded excitedly again, and the prelude to the large-scale attack officially began, hundreds of stones hit the city wall with overwhelming stone bullets, and the city tower directly above the east gate was smashed to a thousand holes, and collapsed suddenly, even the watchtower where Agush was located was also hit, debris was scattered, the watchtower was cut in half, and Agush fled from the city in embarrassment under the protection of more than a dozen guards.

20,000 Tang troops shouted like a tide, they held a shield in one hand, a knife in the other, jumped on the ladder, and struggled to climb up, more than a hundred ladders stretched out their long hands like giants, and the auxiliary ladder hooks at the front end were put on the battlements, the Tang army was like an ant colony, fearlessly sprinting upward, the Tang army's stone range increased, and the stone bullets passed over the city and shot into the city to prevent accidental injury to the Tang army attacking the city.

At this time, thousands of food troops suddenly poured out of the east city wall, the leader was like a lion, a long curly hair fluttered in the black smoke, Muria led three thousand food troops from the west city, they threw javelins, threw countless boulders and rolling logs, the Tang army began to have casualties, in a moment, more than a dozen ladders were broken, and hundreds of Tang soldiers screamed and fell down the city. The attacking Tang army also began to counterattack, they have opened their crossbows and arrows to shoot at the head of the city, the arrows are dense like a torrential rain, and the big food army on one of the city walls is pressed down, many Tang troops take the opportunity to rush to the city head from here, and the big food army has hand-to-hand combat, but with the increase of the big food reinforcements, hundreds of Tang troops who rushed to the head of the city are all killed, and the Tang army's attack has been greatly hindered.

"Shoot gunpowder bullets with stones!" Zhang Huan coldly gave the order.

With a huge whistling sound, dozens of fuze-burning gunpowder giant porcelain bullets were fired into the city, countless big cannibals shouted in horror, desperately dodging and escaping, and the same as the Tubo people, this incomparably terrifying thunder fire left a great shadow in their hearts, but there were still many people who didn't have time to escape, more than a dozen giant porcelain bullets exploded in the crowd, this giant porcelain bullet was brought before, the power is not as good as the porcelain bullet in the thunderbolt just now, despite this, the lethality of more than a dozen porcelain bullets is still very huge, More than a thousand people were killed and injured by the scattered porcelain shards and blast waves.

Melia was held down by a dozen of his own soldiers to escape, and the flesh and blood of his own soldiers would be stained like a bloodthirsty devil, and he looked at the miserable situation around him in disbelief, and closed his eyes in pain, this battle, the great cannibals were lost.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a slight tremor beneath him, which continued and continued with a rumbling sound, and Melia got up in surprise and looked down at the city, and he was stunned.

Two huge siege planes, almost half the height of the city wall, are slowly approaching the city gate, behind the siege, followed by the dense Tang army, the gate of Shule City is made of wrought iron, up to a foot thick, maybe it is extremely strong, but it is the most critical part, but also the weakest link in the impassable tall city wall.

The drums sounded, the siege rolled forward, the rumble resounded in the sky, it had already reached the city gate, Melia shouted, and threw the iron spear in his hand at the monstrous monster with all his strength, but the javelin disappeared silently like raindrops falling into the sea.

Suddenly, the city gate shook violently, Melia stood unsteadily, fell to the ground, and a deep rumbling sound resounded throughout the city, like thunder in a torrential rain, the iron gate and steel pillars withstood the blow, and then, the thousand Tang troops who controlled the giant beast shouted, and the siege slammed into the city gate again.

The iron lock of the city gate finally could not withstand the force of this ten thousand jun, and it was seriously twisted and deformed, and when the siege hit the city gate for the third time, the east gate of Shule was knocked open.

10,000 Xuanjia elite horsemen shouted, brandishing swords and lances, and took the lead in rushing into Shule City, Zhang Huan gave an order: The whole army entered Shule City!

Tens of thousands of Tang troops poured into Shule City like a turbulent tide, the general Muria saw that the general trend had gone, so he ordered the Great Food Army to stop resisting and surrender to the Tang Army, and the prince Agush escaped from the south gate under the desperate protection of three thousand personal guards, and the general Wang Siyu led 10,000 cavalry to pursue, and Agush was finally unable to pass through the Green Ridge to defend the fort, and was trapped in the city of Drinking Pantuo.

On October 25 of the first year of Yong'an, Prince Agushi surrendered to Zhang Huan in the city of Drinking Pantuo, so far, the battle of Anxi after more than half a year finally came to a complete end, and Anxi and Beiting, which had been away from the Tang Dynasty for nearly 30 years, were finally recaptured.

On October 28, the first year of Yong'an, Zhang Huan led an army of 30,000 to return to Chang'an, and the city of Chang'an was already cloudy at this moment, and a rare snowstorm was coming.

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