Chapter 10: The Battle of Jingyang
The mighty team drove directly into Jingyang City, and almost all of the small cities on the edge of Weishui were crowded, with more than 50,000 troops, as well as Li Eryi's family, and the families and relatives of various important ministers in the court, at this moment it seemed that Jingyang City was the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, on the head of Jingyang City, a huge white juan was written in bright red cinnabar: no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies. Those who dare to offend the Tang Dynasty will be repaid with blood and blood until they fight to the death. Whoever takes a step back, slash!
This pair of characters is Feibai, which is obviously Li Er's handwriting, and the pen is heavy, with a kingly momentum of conquering the battlefield and immediately fighting the world. It makes everyone who sees this pair of words feel a chill in their hearts.
"It seems that this history has completely entered a fork in the road! Where will Datang go in the future? Hehe......" Lu Hanyang looked at this picture and smiled.
Of course, at this time, he was no longer in Jingyang City, but stood four or five miles away from the city. Because of this body, his ears and eyes are not enough to describe it, and at this time, he can still clearly see the blazing battle intent in the eyes of the patrol soldiers at the head of Jingyang City.
"Turkic, what do you do now? You have caused the suffering of many people in the Central Plains by going south, and now it is time for you to pay for your blood debts, and the entire Central Plains will be the tomb of your Turkic cavalry. Although the burial of your corpse in the land of Datang can be regarded as a kind of defilement. "Lu Hanyang can't be said to be a nationalist, but he is limited to these Turkic cavalry, and he thinks that these people all deserve to die.
Because none of these Turkic soldiers who went south were innocent, and all of them were stained with the blood of the people of the Central Plains. So let them stay here once and for all, to atone for the sins they have committed.
Of course, the movements on the Tang side, the Turks are not blind, of course they know, but their scouts were not placed at such a distance before, so after the Tang army began to enter Jingyang City, they discovered this huge change.
"Why? Why did Li Tang suddenly attack with the whole army this time? Don't they want the capital city of Chang'an? "In the midst of the Turkic tent, the Khan of Jieli, dressed in sheepskin, was questioning the scouts.
"This, the last general doesn't know, it's just that their army did drive into this Jingyang City. And the banner on the head of the city seems to have gone out of their emperor himself. There was also a huge banner hung up! "This scout doesn't understand the Central Plains script, so he doesn't know what is written on it.
"What banner? Let Ben Khan check it out! "The Turks had already come to the outside of Jingyang City at this time, and it was only ten miles away from the city wall at this time. Jieli rode his horse for a while and arrived outside Jingyang City, and when he saw that banner, he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.
"Damn, aren't you here to take advantage of the fire to rob and hit a dozen grass valleys? Do you need to fight with me? Even the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the death of the king was written. Jieli suddenly felt that the Tang Emperor was crazy, after all, such a thing as the imperial driving expedition was definitely not done by Ming Jun.
Because there is an absolute difference between Li Tang's emperor and their Turkic khan, as long as the Turkic Khan is strong, then it doesn't matter who should be, after all, each tribe still has its own policy. However, the Central Plains is a unified country, and everything they have needs to be under the auspices of the emperor before they can act.
This emperor who has just ascended the throne is not stable in his throne, and he actually comes to fight with himself! At this moment, Jieli felt that if there was a husky in front of him, he would definitely suffer.
Of course, all this Jieli couldn't understand what Emperor Li Tang was thinking, but he also knew that the other party was going to fight hard with him. So he directly ordered the Turkic army to be ready for battle.
So the day after the Turks came to the outside of Jingyang City, the offensive and defensive battle of Jingyang City was opened! All the Turkic cavalry straddled their horses and charged the city in front of them, and the effect of galloping ten thousand horses could be seen at this moment.
The overwhelming yellow dust filled the entire sky, and the rumbling horses' hooves shook the earth, as if the whole earth was constantly trembling and being ravaged under the horses' hooves. And the Turkic soldiers skillfully set up bows and arrows on horseback, so that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had to be on guard.
Of course, the Turks are not good at attacking cities, their siege equipment is pitiful, and at this time, these people are running directly around the city wall, and they have no intention of attacking the city at all. And on the tower of the gate of Datang City, a row of eight-bull crossbows was directly erected.
In the army of the Tang Dynasty, such a city-defying weapon is definitely at the level of a big killer, with an arrow shaft with the thickness of an arm, and a siege chisel with a cold light on it, which is directly assumed to be on the Eight Bull Crossbow. Arrows more than a foot long were fired at the most densely populated areas of the Turks.
"This ...... It's a big killer! Sure enough, in the era of cold weapons, the bed crossbow was definitely the strongest weapon to hit the enemy's morale. Lu Hanyang was still observing at this time, and he felt that the bravery that Datang was showing now was very much in line with his expectations. Since you have come to Datang, you definitely want to leave your name in history and let this era be engraved with your own mark.
"I'm afraid the Turks will give up the attack on Jingyang City, after all, this is a difficult bone to gnaw. Therefore, the minister thought that a group of soldiers should be excluded from the upper reaches of the Weishui, and strive to intercept the flow of this river, and then wait until the Turks crossed the river, and then attack it halfway.
When the time comes, you can directly use the water of the river to drown these Turkic cavalry in the rolling torrent! And we can also take the opportunity to cover up and kill them and directly catch them off guard. Fang Xuanling was giving Li Er advice at this time.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter can be done, but it is necessary to let the defenders who took over Chang'an City pay attention to protection, otherwise, I am afraid that the Turks who crossed the river will directly copy Chang'an!" Fang Mou Du Duan is really good, Du Ruhui affirmed Fang Xuanling's plan at this time, and then put forward the shortcomings.
"Although this kind of strategy is simple and crude, but simplicity often works wonders, as for whether Jieli will be fooled, it depends on how attractive Chang'an City is to this guy!" The eldest grandson Wuji also agreed.
"It seems that the strategists around Li Er are still very conscientious, and all three of them have the talent of Zaifu. And there are countless guys who are a little worse, but Li Er's vision of people is extraordinary. Lu Hanyang thought in his heart.
But this guy is definitely not a good father, at least in history, there are basically few good children he has educated. There were several rebels, not to mention the princess. "Anyway, Lu Hanyang's senses for Li Er are very conflicted.