Chapter Eighty-Six: Capturing the Bridge (End)
"Tomoto, Tomoto?"
Xi Dongzan kept raising his hand until he was reminded several times by his subordinates before he came back to his senses.
"What do they want to do?"
Naturally, the cronies couldn't answer, and it was no wonder that this huge device, which only appeared during the siege of the city, suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the Poyi River.
The river is more than 100 steps wide, even if it is connected from end to end, it needs more than ten cars to be built together, unless it is a god, who can do it? If not, why are the Tang people so excited?
Do you provide remote support for the team crossing the river? It makes sense to say, after all, the crossbow arrows of the Tang people can easily shoot more than a hundred steps, and in a condescending situation, it will be a huge threat to the attacker, but this cannot solve the problem of crossing the river, even if the Bolu people in front of him collapse, as long as he takes these more than 3,000 horses and monitors from afar, can this idea of the Tang people still be able to fly with wings?
Xi Dongzan never believed that the Tang people would make such a meaningless move, so the question came, what would they do, and after such a hesitation, the order was not passed on.
"All the group, the Russian one." After a moment's hesitation, he cut his original order in half.
Based on the two armored heavy cavalry among the five people, there are 1,200 heavy cavalry out of his 3,000 cavalry, which is naturally overkill to deal with the Tang squad of less than 100 people.
In fact, with the national strength of Tibet, it is also very difficult to raise a pure armor heavy horse with tens of thousands, iron production is only one factor, and a more important factor is horses, the main production area of Qiang horses is in Qinghai, especially the land of Jiuqu where water and grass are abundant, but the area where the two countries are most at war is also there.
It can be said that each armored heavy cavalry is a warrior of various tribes, they have been in battle for a long time, have outstanding combat skills, and are fully equipped, and their role is to complete the decisive blow on the battlefield. Therefore, even if more than half of Xi Dongzan's 3,000 horses are damaged, as long as the damage to the heavy riders is not large, they can still be explained.
Just when the Tibetans were ready to go into battle, an unexpected situation appeared on the battlefield ahead.
Standing first on the watchtower on the other side of the Poyi River, several sergeants operated a double-bow bed crossbow, and soon fired the first arrow, strangely, this half-meter-long iron spear was not aimed at the surging Tubo light foot soldiers, but at the river bank behind the Tang people's formation!
The closest to nature was the Bold Guy and the others, only to see a huge iron spear snake rushing over, nailed into the dirt at once, leaving only a small half of the outside, the tail of the iron gun is an iron ring, the iron ring is tied with a thick rope, the other end of the rope, even connected to the watchtower more than a hundred steps away!
Just as they were in doubt, there was a movement on the rope, and a small object slipped to the tail of the iron spear, which was a wooden hammer, and he immediately understood what he should do.
He hurried over, picked up the wooden hammer, and with a few "bells", knocked the small part of the iron spear into the dirt, and soon the rope tied to the tail was tightened, and it dangled in the air a few times, and suddenly it was straight.
"Ready, pass!"
On the watchtower, a team was waving his hand, and immediately ran up a fully equipped Tang sergeant, I saw that he carried his weapon behind his back, and held a belt on his free hands, the belt was polished very smooth, he put the belt on the rope, took a deep breath, and then ran with both legs, and just slid off the rope.
On this side of the riverbank, up to the town of Jiedu Feng Changqing, down to the ordinary pawn, all the Tang troops raised their heads and stared intently at the figure in the air.
The height of the watchtower is about ten steps, the width of the river bank is about one hundred steps, this oblique rope is equivalent to erecting a rope ladder with an inclination angle of about 20 degrees in the air, a fully equipped Tang sergeant, weighing about two hundred and five to three hundred catties, relying on the effect of gravity, sliding to the opposite bank, it only takes 20 seconds, what they are worried about is whether they can arrive safely, among them, Yu Wensheng, who is responsible for building, is the most, he held his breath, his fists were clenched, his heart was tightly lifted, and he didn't dare to blink his eyes.
At this time, there was a very strange scene on the battlefield, not only did the people turn around openly, but even the besieged Tang people, many people turned their heads and looked at the figure moving quickly in the air, because the enemy not far in front of them had the same expression as them.
"Whoosh!"
The sergeant fell with a whistling sound, because the speed was too fast, and the others stepped forward to help, so he did not fall directly, he exhaled in some fright, stood up with the other party's hand, and waved his hands desperately towards the other side of the river.
"It's done!"
"It's done!"
Feng Changqing, Tian Zhen and the others looked at each other, revealing a relieved expression, the sergeants around them couldn't help but cheer, and Yu Wensheng on the side was even more excited, this is simply gambling with their lives.
"Quick, quick, give the order, and act in turn!"
Feng Changqing sent all the personal soldiers around him, now is not the time to be happy, the Tubo people still have the advantage, and it is not a small risk to send people across the river under their noses.
Soon, the river bank was boiling like water, hundreds of watchtowers were pushed to the shore together, each building car, as just now, shot a huge iron spear, a rope bridge was erected in the air, one by one Tang soldiers flew down on the opposite bank of the Poyi River, and then gathered together, almost at a speed visible to the naked eye is rapidly increasing.
"Tomoto!"
Xi Dongzan, who was called by his subordinates, saw that his hands and feet were cold, it was a kind of frustration that knew what the other party wanted to do, but he was powerless to stop it, the Tang people's mind was not very coincidental, when the Tubo people attacked the city, they would use a kind of flying grab, the principle was similar to what they did.
However, hundreds of high-rise buildings were erected under his nose, and thousands of Tang troops slid over, the shock was indescribable, the strength of the Tang people's national strength far exceeded his imagination, and they actually used the method of siege to deal with a small Poyi River!
The surrounding cronies and generals are a little anxious, seeing that there are more and more sergeants crossing the river from the Tang people, and if they don't attack, the enemy will gain a firm foothold, you know, only more than a hundred people, they have resisted them for so long, and now every moment, there will be several hundred-person teams assembled, Dongben has not made a decision for a long time, isn't it sitting back and watching the loss of fighters?
There is no chance, Xi Dongzan sighed in his heart, the Tang people seem to be small in number, and they are scattered on the bank of a river, but they have already received the support of the crossbowmen on the watchtower behind them, and they have discharged the cavalry to attack? Don't be kidding, is it not fast enough to die with such a big goal as people and horses?
It is not the work of a wise man to take precious heavy horses to fight the enemy.
The sound of fighting in front has stopped, the actions of the Tang people, the first thing to defeat is the fighting spirit of those light foot soldiers, seeing that even the Tubo people have lost their fighting spirit, they are still stupidly rushing ahead, don't you see that the Tang people have been blessed by the gods and flew directly across the river?
"Run!"
With the movements of some people, the retreat spread like a plague, these foot soldiers were afraid to run slowly, facing the army of the Tang people alone, even those archers who were in the rear of the formation, hung down their bows and arrows, did they really fire at their own people?
"Get on the horse, let's go."
Since he was unable to return to the sky, Xi Dongzan made a quick decision, and the loss of Po Yichuan was an expected result, but this process was a little unexpected, riding on the horse, his eyes did not stay on those retreating foot soldiers for a moment, and the Tang team that was besieged by them behind still maintained a complete formation, and with his eyesight, he couldn't see what the one standing at the top looked like.
But I can feel the spirit and arrogance of the other party.
Liu Ji had no intention of pursuing, they were all foot soldiers, and they had just fought hard, and they did not have an advantage in physical strength and speed, while the Tubo people still had a complete new force, once they left the riverbank, they might fall into the hands of the enemy.
Facing the enemy's back, he mustered up the last bit of strength, raised the heavy Mo knife above his head, and roared angrily.
"Dry pit!"
"Strikers!"
From death to the rest of their lives, the brothers behind them all forgot about their pain and fatigue, and just wanted to vent the excitement in their hearts, they lifted everything they could lift in their hands, and shouted vigorously, even the people who didn't understand Tang and others.
"Dry pit!"
"Wan Sheng!"
The Tang troops on both sides of the strait echoed in unison, and the sound shook all over the world.