Samad built the city by the Tang army surrounded by water, the Tang army camp is densely stationed outside the four city walls, the camp is full of flags fluttering in the sky, the camp is densely armored, in the direction of the four city gates, Zhao Ziliang deployed elite cavalry to prevent the big food army from rushing out of the city to launch a surprise attack, once the big cannibal really dares to go out of the city to raid, the deployed elite cavalry can immediately face the battle, as long as these raiding big food cavalry, the infantry originally used to deploy on both sides for siege can be flanked on the big food army from both sides, If the Great Food Army retreats, the cavalry of the Tang Army can follow the situation into the city, so under normal circumstances, any city will not dare to send troops out of the city easily when it is attacked by the enemy, because the army out of the city has no chance of survival, which is equivalent to death, unless the siege equipment of the siege party is big enough to threaten the city defense, and the defender will send cavalry out of the city to destroy the siege equipment of the attacker. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After five days of preparation, the Tang army was ready, and on this morning, the Tang army was ready to launch the first siege after the siege.

Outside the north gate, the Tang Army marched.

The lords of the Sogdian countries walked into the big tent together, and walked to the middle of the big tent under the gaze of all the Tang army generals and officials, and saluted Zhao Ziliang, who was sitting on the throne.

"I've seen the General!"

"Excuse me!" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and said: "Lords of the country, according to our investigation, there are 20,000 main forces of the Great Food Army in this city built by Samad, and 10,000 armies from all over Sogdia, a total of 30,000 horses, but they forced all the men in the city to the city wall to assist in the deployment, but the combat effectiveness of the strong men who were forcibly pulled can be negligible!" Our army has been besieging the city for five days, and all preparations for the works have been completed. General Ben decided to officially attack the city this morning, including the east, west and south three gates for a back attack, the main attack on the north gate, the lord of Kang, this is the capital of your Kang country, and your Kang army will take the lead in attacking the north gate! Before the official siege of the city, our army siege equipment will carry out a long-range attack on the city wall, your army waits for the military order, once the military order for the attack is issued, your army only needs to fill the moat first, and when your army fills the moat and rushes to the city, our army's long-range siege equipment will stop attacking, you can take the opportunity to use ladders, wells, rushing cars, etc. to attack the city! This general will send a team of overseers to supervise the battle in the back, and if you don't have the order to retreat, you will retreat without permission, and you will not be forgiven if you retreat! ”

At this moment, Lord Kang knew that he could only fight to the death with the Great Food Army, no matter what aspect he had, he could not retreat, let alone fight, otherwise until Zhao Ziliang killed him, the army under his command would no longer support him as a king.

Lord Kang immediately agreed: "General rest assured, the big cannibals occupy our land, kill my people, and adulterate my wife and daughter. This time, Xiao Wang personally supervised the battle, if there were people who retreated without authorization, without waiting for the supervising team to make a move, Xiao Wang would order the guards to kill them first! ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang got up and said, "Okay, the siege is about to begin, you guys go to the north gate with me!" ”

Despite the hot weather, the inside and outside of the city were filled with a solemn atmosphere, and the temperature seemed to have dropped a lot under this solemn atmosphere, and the besieging army was already lined up in neat formations around the city.

Zhao Ziliang and the generals came to Shuaitai to observe the enemy's defense situation on the northern city wall, the big cannibals obviously did not know that the Tang army planned to attack from that wall, but the city wall had strengthened its troops, in addition to the Great Food Army, there were also Sogdian troops and Zhuangding.

Zhao Ziliang and the others observed for a while, and Lord Kang sent someone to report: "General, my king has sent a villain to report, our army is ready to fill in the moat!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said to Sima Chen Qing on the march: "General Ben doesn't believe how strong the city wall that Bo Xilin built in less than a month can be, and ordered the catapult to start long-range strikes, and long-range bows and arrows such as infantry crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows are also fired!" ”

"No" Chen Qing agreed, and immediately ordered the herald to convey the military order.

Zhao Chongyu, who was in charge of the command of the long-range siege equipment, heard the drum sound several times, and saw the order flag on the handsome platform shaking, and immediately pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted: "The infantry crossbow, the Fuyuan crossbow, and the stone throwing city are ready for test firing!" ”

The various commanders of the infantry crossbow, the Fuyuan crossbow and the catapult immediately issued an order, the test firing of the bow and arrow and the catapult is to measure the shooting parameters, most of them are to calculate the shooting angle of the bow and arrow, with what angle the bow can be just shot on the city wall, this can be measured, although it is not very accurate, the bowstring pull of each bow is different, and the firing range is slightly different, but this difference is allowed, because the bows and arrows of the Tang Army are made of standard equipment with a unified process.

There are soldiers who specialize in test firing, after several rounds of test firing, the best angle for bow and arrow shooting is measured, the same is true on the trebuchet side, the cobblestone used in the trebuchet is carefully polished, the weight is almost the same, the difference is not big, only need to adjust the torque during the test firing.

After calculating the shooting parameters, the Tang army began to carry out large-scale bow and trebuchet strikes, first a row of dense arrows flew into the sky to form a black straight cloth belt, and then this black cloth belt instantly spread out from the air and fell on the city, the big food army, the Sogdian servant army and the strong men who defended above the city wall did not expect the Tang army's bow and arrow to shoot so accurately, this batch of arrows almost more than eighty percent fell on the city wall, with this dense level of bow and arrow, the big food army on the city head, The servant army and the strong men immediately suffered heavy losses.

Ziade's face turned blue, he pushed away the shield of his own soldiers covering his head, got up and saw that thirty percent of the defenders on the city wall were shot by bows and arrows, two percent died, and the other one also lost their combat effectiveness, in general, a bow and arrow strike made the defenders on the city wall lose thirty percent of the troops, this level of accuracy of bow and arrow strikes, in the war between the Great Food Army and the armies of various countries, has never been encountered, if the Tang army comes a few more bow and arrow strikes, the defenders on the city wall will soon be finished.

Ziad began to realize that he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tang army, and the armies of the East have been famous for their lethality and range of bows and arrows since ancient times, and they really deserve their reputation! I'm afraid that this city won't last long, and he must tell him about these situations as soon as possible, so that he can make plans as soon as possible. But after thinking about it, the Tang army came from afar, and the arrows and other military materials written about are not very many, and it is impossible to use such a dense bow and arrow for long-range strikes all the time, as long as the protection is done well and the arrows of the Tang army are slowly consumed, it is not so easy for the Tang army to replenish the arrows.

Thinking of this, Ziyad immediately shouted to the people around him: "Hide, hide!" Those who do not have a shield hide behind the battlements, and those who have a shield use their shields to protect themselves and others! ”

The city wall had just experienced a bow and arrow strike, and under the heavy casualties, there were miserable howls and cries everywhere, and it was a mess, where could Ziad's voice be heard, only some people around him heard it, and the big food army, servant army and strong men in other positions could not hear it at all, and the order was not conveyed in time, and the second wave of arrows of the Tang army quickly shot over, and the city wall was once again bloodied.

Ziad could no longer care about his danger, he immediately took a shield and put it on top of his head, and ran to the side of the wall, shouting as he ran: "Hide, hide······".

Finally ran a large section of the city wall, and passed on the order, and most of the remaining big food army, servant army, and strong men on the city wall hid, but at this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Oh, Allah, run, run·······"

Ziad couldn't help but turn his head to look outside the city, only to see countless fire oil bombs flying in the sky, looking at the trajectory of these fire oil bombs, I am afraid that six out of ten will fall on the city wall, and the others will fall in the city even if they do not fall on the city wall.

"Bang, clang······" One by one, the fire oil fell on the city wall and was crushed, and then the fire oil splashed on the city wall "boom boom ······" Burn it all.

Countless big food soldiers, servant soldiers and strong men were splashed with fire oil and soon their whole bodies were on fire, one by one burned screaming again and again, some people immediately rolled on the ground to extinguish the flames, some people were burned to lose their minds and jumped off the city wall directly and fell to their deaths, and many soldiers who were not burned were frightened and kept avoiding the invasion of the flames, the strong men were so frightened that they fled off the city wall, and the big food army killed many people in a row and couldn't stop the strong men from escaping from the city wall.

The Great Food Defenders originally prepared a lot of materials and equipment to defend the city on the city wall, such as arrows, rolling wood, fire oil and boiling water, but after the Tang Army's fire oil bomb strike, the arrows, rolling wood and fire oil stacked on the city wall were almost all destroyed, and after the fire oil was ignited, the fire burning on the city wall was even greater.

After several consecutive long-range strikes with bows and arrows and trebuchets, Zhao Ziliang observed through a telescope and found that there were only a few large food troops on the city wall, which was not enough to cause large casualties to the siege troops under the city.

Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "Order Lord Kang, immediately dispatch the Kang army to fill the moat!" ”

The soldiers sent by Lord Kang to report the news immediately agreed: "Yes, Your Excellency General"

After receiving the military order, the Kang Guo lord immediately gave an order, and the Kang soldiers carried the basket that had already been filled with dirt on their shoulders and rushed towards the moat, and the entire north gate ground was full of dense Kang Guo soldiers, these people were like ants moving, and they were originally piled up outside the city to prevent the big cannibals in the city from carrying a long mound of dirt to the moat.

The fire on the city wall burned for a whole morning and then began to gradually extinguish, this is the Great Food Army under the orders of the generals began to go up the city wall again, but then the Tang Army used trebuchets to fire a large number of stone projectiles, smashing the city wall into potholes, the soldiers of the Great Food Army did not dare to go up the city wall, they could only watch the Kang soldiers continue to pour the soil into the moat, waiting for the Tang Army catapult to launch a little sparse, the Great Food Army dared to continue to go up the city wall, using bows and arrows to shoot some Kang soldiers who were carrying the soil, But this level of loss is almost negligible for the dense Kang ****.

At dusk in the evening, with the efforts of 5,000 Kang**** and more than 10,000 Kang people brought from nearby villages, the moat was finally filled. (To be continued.) )