"The big marshal, the deputy marshal has begun to attack the city." The headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army led by Wan Yi was still on the way to Kupila, this road was a desert of yellow sand, a wasteland of Gobi, and there were few people, and the 11th Corps was walking in a roundabout way, and the billowing smoke and dust rose to the sky, bringing a new color to this desert that has been endless since ancient times. However, before Wan Yi could think about how these deserts could be turned into oases, the Xuanying Guard in front of him hurriedly sent a telegram. Gao Siji sent his own deployment, because Gao Siji was already directing the deployment of the army when the Xuanying Wei messenger set off, so this can be regarded as sending news of the start of war.

"Go and inform Chai Jia's whole army to speed up, and let him lead the forward to speed up from the logistics force to Kupila to reinforce Gao Siji." Wan Yi took the urgent report, glanced at it hurriedly, and immediately asked Liu Xuan to give an order, ordering Chai Jia to immediately lead the elite of the Eleventh Corps to break away from the large army and immediately accelerate away.

"The deputy marshal is planning to take the other party by surprise, this is gambling that the Uighur army's reinforcements will not have time to reinforce Kupila, but there are 200,000 people in the city of Kupira, and they are basically cavalry, and the deputy marshal has placed two battalions on the front, which is too risky." Liu Xuan asked the guards to immediately convey the order, but he took the urgent report handed over by Wan Yi and looked at it, his face was a little pale. He could see what was going on in the scissors formation, and he could ensure that the Uighur army entering this area would be attacked from three sides and suffer maximum firepower, but only two battalions were responsible for frontal blocking, how could this be stopped? What if the other side ignores it and throws all its forces into the frontal battle? Anyway, if Liu Xuan himself were to command the Uighur army, he would definitely put all his forces into the frontal battlefield at the first time, defeat Gao Siji's weakest Chinese army, disrupt the opponent's deployment in one fell swoop, and destroy the artillery unit that was the most harmful to the cavalry. I believe that the Uighurs can definitely see such a great temptation, but Gao Siji has always been a thoughtful person, how did he leave such a big gap and put himself in a dangerous situation?

"You're you, and you're not a Uighur commander? You can see that the other party may not have such a great determination. Wan Yi shook his head, obviously a little dismissive of Liu Xuan's worries, what needs to be considered on the battlefield is not only the deployment of his own troops, but also the other party.

"Order the troops to speed up, if we're lucky, we'll be able to catch up, and you can go and see for yourself when the time comes." Wan Yi saw that Liu Xuan was still frowning and thinking hard, waved his hand and smiled.

While Wan Yi's side was speeding up, the city of Kubiro had actually started fighting. In fact, Liu Xuan's guess was right, at least the Uighurs who were condescending above the city wall also found at a glance that the biggest weakness of this formation was in the middle after discovering the battle formation set up by Gao Siji under the city, and the troops were too small to be responsible for protecting the artillery units, and the most important thing was that the entire large array needed to be dispatched in the middle was responsible for it, that is to say, the commander of the Tiance army under the city was in the middle where the troops were the least strong. The Uighurs fell into contemplation for being so bold in placing their Chinese army in the front with the least number of troops, and instead placed heavy troops on the two flanks of the front, and the vanguard cavalry that had originally left the city stagnated outside the city and did not engage in battle for the time being. However, his immobility does not mean that Gao Siji will not move. After all the artillery positions were erected, Gao Siji immediately ordered to start the artillery bombardment of Kupila City, and the rumbling artillery fire flooded the city wall in an instant, and the huge explosion overturned countless figures on the city tower, and even some of the shells fell in the middle of the cavalry troops outside the city, directly blowing up hundreds of cavalry.

"Order the warriors to attack, you can't wait any longer, the Tang army has this terrible firearm on its side, this is fearless, I suggest that the army go all out to attack, don't care so much about those firearms given to me, and defeat the opponent's Chinese army, so that you can completely disrupt the opponent's deployment and win this battle." The countless exploding shells made it impossible to stand on the tower, and the Uighur generals who had been watching hurriedly came down from the tower, and some of them immediately spoke. For him, even if the opponent's Tang army laid a trap in the position of the Chinese army, it would not be worse than now, and the most important thing is that the number of Tang troops outside the city is much smaller than his own, and the number of troops is fully doubled, so that he can attack and attack the opponent's Chinese army with all his strength, so as to eliminate the command center of the Tang army in one fell swoop.

"No matter how much it is, General Kulan, you immediately take your subordinates to join the warriors outside the city to assault together, be sure to take down the Chinese army of the Tang army on the opposite side for me, and I will organize troops to fire crossbow arrows on the city tower to help you resist the attack of both wings." The commander of the Uighurs was Ye Hu's younger brother Tiele, who was also the number two of the Anxi Uighurs, so after hearing the advice of his subordinates, his face was silent for a long time, and he suddenly raised his head, and the rumbling voice even overwhelmed the constantly exploding cannonballs, and directly sent his strongest general, Kulan, to lead the charge.

"Haha, general, please rest assured, I will personally lead the team to take down the head of the commander of the Tang Army and bring it back." Kulan was a famous general of the Anxi Uighurs, so when he heard that his commander had let him fight, he immediately laughed, turned around and got on his horse and began to roar: "Warriors of Kulan City, I am Kulan, and now our khanate needs you to follow me to kill the enemy." I command all the warriors of Kulan City to join me in the attack. The roar of Kulan shook the entire ancient castle, and countless figures on war horses galloped from all over the city after hearing Kulan's call, these people exuded a scorching aura like a giant beast in the wilderness, as if they came across the mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, needless to say that this was the last strong pillar of the Anxi Uighurs, the last force to protect the khanate. In the city of Kupila, there are not only the troops of the Anxi Uighurs, but also the men and horses of the various tribes around Shule, and even some mercenaries, these people were suppressed and unable to move after seeing the momentum of Kulan's soldiers and horses, this is a pure murderous and lifeless hell messenger, an iron-blooded army forged with the lives of countless living beings. They stood there and didn't even have to move to suppress all the agitation in the city.

"Go, the rise and fall of the khanate, the glory and disgrace of the royal court all depend on you." Tieler sighed silently as the last of his strong troops were about to enter the battlefield, opened the gates for them himself, and then climbed the city wall to beat the drums and cheer despite the fire and shrapnel, while the trumpeters beside him followed in the footsteps of his commander and blew the desolate horns. It was the clarion call for the steppe tribes to charge to the death, and almost all of the Uighur soldiers clenched their weapons when they heard this ancient song of desolation and began to sing the Uighur war song along the horn.

This kind of majestic and desolate ballad was sung by tens of thousands of people at the same time, and naturally it quickly spread to the side of the Tiance Army, because the troops were mixed, so many of the former Shatuo disciples of the Seventh Corps had been transferred to other units except for those who had retired, but the remaining people still heard it for the first time, this was the war song of the Uighurs, and even Gao Siji heard it from so far away. Gao Siji took out a thousand miles of realm, only to see the countless cavalry under the foot of the city in the distance, singing war songs, and began to line up and charge forward, but also full of emotion, the grassland tribe has not lacked heroic soldiers since ancient times, iron-blooded pride, but it has gradually died out in the collision with the Central Plains Dynasty again and again for thousands of years. Seeing that the steppe tribes disappeared from history one after another, or were integrated and disappeared by the Han people, or continued to migrate westward and flee all the way like the Uighurs in front of the Xiongnu in history, and finally escaped into the wilderness, and finally found a place to settle in a place far beyond the reach of the Han people's power.

"The Uighurs should not perish, I hope that after this war, the Uighurs will be able to integrate into this great era, and this war will be decided in one fell swoop." Gao Siji sighed and waved his right hand down suddenly, only to see the guards behind him constantly following the gestures and waving all kinds of order flags, and at the same time, the horn hand of the Tiance Army also sounded at this moment. I saw that more than a hundred artillery pieces behind him began to adjust their firing range one after another, and an astonishing murderous aura began to permeate from the rear of the artillery position, and the latest mechanical crossbow began to show its fangs.

The latest mechanical crossbow changed the previous ballista structure, and began to arrange the launcher parallel to a huge platform, the overall appearance of a 45-degree angle on the wheeled vehicle, and the inclined arrangement of the platform below a huge box angle is the same as the launch platform. The box of this unified device is full of mounted rockets. Moreover, the latest mechanical crossbow has been able to achieve five consecutive shots, because the length of the new rocket is much shorter than the previous crossbow arrows, so this time the new mechanical crossbow designed by the equipment department led by Qin Yao is very close to the rocket artillery in Li Xuanqing's mind. It can be said that except for the launcher, the range and the power of the rocket itself, everything else is basically the same, and the pre-installed rocket can be automatically loaded by manual operation, which is the first step out of the automatic weapon of this era.

After Goss gave the order, a full one hundred and fifty mechanical crossbows on the mechanical crossbow position were divided into two positions, and the order to fire was given almost at the same time. I only heard countless flames rising into the air for a moment, and after the rocket ignited and fired, the flames brought up long rainbows, and then the speed was extremely fast and crossed their own positions towards the huge offensive formation of the enemy army galloping more than a mile away. One hundred and fifty mechanical crossbows, each time to fire seven hundred and fifty rockets, this kind of extremely fast rockets exploded rapidly after landing, and because the launch speed was fast after landing, the explosion point was very close, almost a row of mushroom-like explosions rose into the air, countless cavalry were blown to pieces in an instant, and the shock wave generated by the explosion drove the sand and stones on the ground to form a second kill and knocked down the surrounding cavalry again. And the most terrible thing is that compared to the slow rate of fire of the artillery, the rocket artillery is almost a row after a row of continuous rise from the position of the mechanical crossbows, and there is almost no obvious firing interval between them, so the result is that the explosion in the forward Uighur army cannot be stopped at all, and a large number of cavalry are like fallen leaves in the wind, and there is no trace of this mushroom directly blown up by this mushroom.

"Order the whole army to attack." Gao Siji accurately grasped the powerful lethality and destruction of the opponent brought by the crazy assault of the mechanical crossbow, and decisively let the two wings of the troops start to fight, countless dense bullets began to take over the battlefield, and the fast firing speed of the mechanical crossbow was also very large, although Qin Yao prepared a huge box for each mechanical crossbow, with fifty rockets inside, but it could only support ten rounds of launches, and all the rockets were all gone. Ignoring the smoke of gunpowder, the ammunition hand who was preparing on the side rushed forward, desperately opened the opening, pulled out the huge steel box ammunition rack, and began to reload rapidly, preparing for the next round of launches.

The ferocious blow of the mechanical crossbow directly blinded Julan, and before he could react in the interval between the launch of the mechanical crossbow, Julan looked back and saw that the explosion of the rocket directly blew out a huge hole behind him, almost all the soldiers and battles in this explosion area were blown to pieces, and his troops lost nearly 10,000 people in less than half a cup of tea, and because of the crazy explosion, his army formation was chaotic, and countless frightened war horses began to gallop around, It was the sound of soldiers shouting and restraining their horses, and the entire charging formation was brought to a halt by this unknown ferocious firearm. This is the iron-blooded legion that he brought out single-handedly, and the cavalry legion that once faced the charge of the western heavy infantry phalanx without blinking was so badly blown up by these firearms that it couldn't even maintain its formation, how could it charge?

Before Julan had the reaction time to adjust the deployment, Gao Siji's order was executed by Wu Si'er and Shi Jian on both wings, and countless bullets began to take over the battlefield in place of the mechanical crossbow, and the artillery position that had previously adjusted the firing distance also roared again at this time, and countless shells began to erupt out of the barrel, and the barrel artillery was much stronger than rockets in terms of range and power, of course, the disadvantage is that the artillery is heavy, and it cannot really accompany the infantry unconditionally, and the firing speed cannot be compared with the mechanical crossbow, However, at this time, the blow of a hundred cannons was no less than that of rockets, because the order of Kulan's adjustment was given very late, so all the Uighur cavalry on the entire battlefield had no power to deal with the skillful coordination of the opponent's various firearms. Once the cavalry assault tactics are broken by the opponent, the speed is innumerable live targets, and under the cover of countless rifle fire on both flanks, it is impossible to even break through in all directions.

However, although Kulan's reaction speed is relatively slow, but the city's boss Tiele is much faster than him, almost as soon as Julan's army was disrupted by rockets, Teller began to move, he concentrated all the front of the army in the city, ready to fight for his life, taking advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the Tiance Army is besieging Julan, gather all the manpower out of the city and prepare to attack the northeast wing of Wusi'er in the two prominent wings of the Tiance Army. In order to knock out the main force of one of the opponent's flanks and then attack the opponent's Chinese army in reverse, turn the tide. It can be said that Tieler's method made Liu Xuan, who captured him after the war, speechless for a while, because he didn't figure out why the other party didn't put all his forces into the front to break through Gao Siji's fire blockade at the beginning, you must know that there are only two battalions of guards on the opposite side, and once he is rushed to the front without his life, Gao Siji has little power to fight back.

However, at this time, Tieler's actions eased the situation on the battlefield, and when Us'er began to counterattack his offensive, Julan adjusted his troops with difficulty, but the huge casualties still made all the soldiers have a palpitation on their faces. However, without waiting for the follow-up actions on Kulan's side, Gao Siji's side is also moving, and it can be said that the real moment of this battle has arrived.