Hou Junji and Gao Xianzhi boarded an airship and traveled through the open field, and said to the stunned Gao Xianzhi: "What kind of expression will the defenders of Damascus have when they see the air force of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Li Hou also brought with him a new weapon developed by engineers from the Weapons Research Institute: poison gas bombs.

This is the chili bomb invented by Li Su, which is to grind dried chili peppers into a fine powder, fill them into various bullet bodies, and use them on the battlefield.

At that time, after the completion of the test, the engineer reported various experimental data to Li Su.

When it came to the effects of the test, he was horrified at the terrifying power of this weapon. He said:

"We were near a horse, a medium-caliber shell exploded, because the horse was fixed on a tethered post, and in less than three minutes, the horse fell to the ground and died, almost bleeding from seven orifices. If this is to be done on people......" he shook his head in horror.

Li Su knew the power of this weapon, and if it was used in a small and unventilated space, it could kill people.

Li Yu himself felt that because of his crossing, so many killing weapons were released in advance, and he also had a feeling of fear in his heart.

He wanted to end the war as soon as possible, then collect his weapons and forge his sword into a plowshare.

The reason why Delamb wanted to hold on to Damascus was because he wanted to take advantage of the contradictions between the three enemies, although they are united now, but there are deep contradictions between them.

As long as they suffer heavy losses when attacking Damascus, the contradictions between them will be further aggravated, and what he has to do now is to resolutely hold Damascus, continue to consume the strength of the enemy's army, and when the time is ripe, he will take out the treasures in the city and divide and disintegrate these three families, and when the time comes, there will definitely be a situation in his favor.

Delambb's strategic intentions have been supported by his ministers and generals, and everyone is full of confidence in the defense of Damascus.

In order to ensure that Damascus could be held, Delamb organized all the men in the city who were over 14 years old and under 50 years old to conduct military training on a daily basis. In this way, in addition to the 250,000 troops from all over the city, there were 300,000 additional auxiliary troops.

When Harold returned to his headquarters, he told his generals about the outcome of today's meeting, and everyone praised his resourcefulness.

Harold had already made up his mind, and when it was his turn to attack the city, he would rather make a small share of his possessions than lose his main force in this siege campaign.

Of course, if he has the opportunity to be the first to attack Damascus, he will not let go of the opportunity, and everything depends on the changes in the situation on the battlefield.

Hemar had the same idea as Harold, he had more eyes, and he wanted to wait until everyone was exhausted, and then take the initiative to make a promise to Delamb in the city to give him certain conditions, maybe he could take the initiative to open the city gate.

All three of them were thinking about a few months later, and they had no intention of taking Damascus in a short period of time.

Delamb has a deep study of the Tang Army, and he knows that the Tang Army has a Flying Tiger Army, which is good at sneak attacks. Therefore, regardless of day and night, a large number of people were sent to guard every corner of the city wall to prevent the Tang army from sneak attack.

On this day, the weather was clear and there was almost no wind, and the Don army began its first offensive.

On the city wall, the Arab defenders, ready for battle, bows and arrows, rolling wood thunder stones, and long-haired broadswords have long been prepared, just waiting for the Tang army to come and send them to death.

He put the troops defending the city at a distance of dozens of meters away from the city wall, on the city wall, and only put a small number of monitoring posts, when the enemy used artillery to bombard, the troops were hidden, and when the enemy sent out infantry to attack, the large army was in Shangcheng, so that the Tang army's artillery lost its role.

Sure enough, the tactics of the Tang army's attack were still old-fashioned, and under the cover of the shield bearer, the Tang army pushed the cannon and approached the city wall.

The artillery of the Tang army stormed for a while, and although there was some damage to the facilities on the city wall, the main force of the Arabs basically did not suffer losses.

At this time, the infantry of the Tang army began to attack the city, and the Tang army, in a neat formation, approached the city wall and gradually approached the city wall.

At this time, the artillery of the Don army also stopped shelling, and the officers and soldiers of the Arabs came to the city wall, took their positions, and prepared to repel the attack of the Don army.

However, when the Tang army reached a stone's throw away, it did not continue to advance, and the Arab defenders were very puzzled, not knowing what the Tang army was doing.

At that moment, someone on the city wall shouted, "Look at the heavens, what is that?" ”

When everyone heard the shouting, they all looked towards the sky, only to see that from the direction of the enemy army, a dozen black dots appeared in the sky, and the black dots kept getting bigger, obviously flying towards the city.

The black dot grew bigger and bigger, and gradually people could see clearly, there were huge objects floating in the sky, and there were people moving on them.

This strange phenomenon frightened the superstitious Arabs, many of whom lay on the ground and prayed for Allah's blessing.

The airship finally flew above the city, Li Hou saw the Arabs lying on his stomach below, he smiled in his heart, he picked up an explosive bag, lit it and threw it down.

After a violent explosion, the defenders on the city wall suffered heavy casualties, and some of the living continued to pray on their stomachs, and they quickly ran away from the city wall.

Li Hou lowered his height and sent a team of Flying Tiger officers and soldiers to climb the city tower along the rope.

Li Hou did not follow, he commanded the airship to fly towards the palace in the city.

When Li Hou came to the sky above the palace, Delamb had already received the news of the destruction of the city, and when the airship appeared in the sky, the palace guards were almost gone.

Li Hou shouted in the air: "Caliph Drumb, listen, the Tang army has entered the city, please order surrender immediately to avoid the destruction of your lives, the Tang army will guarantee the safety of your life!" ”

Seeing that the army was discouraged, Deramp knew that the tide was turning, and ordered him to surrender.

The Tang army successfully occupied the whole city.

At this time, Hou Junji suddenly regretted that he was not ready to give up other parts of Damascus, he wanted to swallow it alone.

Harold was ready for a long battle, he sat in the tent, doing nothing, and playing with Khalid and others to fight the landlords he learned from Chang'an.

Suddenly, someone came to report that the flag of the Don Army had been replaced on the head of the city of Damascus.

Harold and Khalid were taken aback, thinking that this matter was incredible, today was the first day of the attack on Damascus, and they originally planned to be able to conquer Damascus in a few months, but they did not expect that it had already been captured by the Don army.

This Tang Army is also too powerful!

Harold and Hemar come to Hou Junji and ask him to fulfill the previous agreement between the three families. Mobile phone users should browse and read for a better reading experience.