Chapter 170: Grab the credit
The Uighur scouts hurriedly turned back to their commander and said, "My lord, it seems that they are going to send a large group of men and horses down. ”
Wan Huding, who was in charge of monitoring the Uighur army in this area, stared at it, and sure enough, in the faint moonlight, he saw that many people were hanging down the ropes, and nodded slightly with a hint of happiness: "The general's expectation is good, they really want the dog to jump over the wall in a hurry, thinking of fighting before they die, and robbing our camp." ”
"So what are we going to do? Do you want to kill it now? The Uighur scouts saw that more and more Hami troops had been retired, and they asked the commander with a hint of anxiety.
Captain Wan shook his head solemnly, he had fought for so many years, he had always been known for his steadiness, never took unnecessary risks, and ordered his subordinates: "No need. The enemy's situation is unknown, and the night attack is prone to unexpected damage, and the other party does this because they have no other way but to jump over the wall. We don't have to, just shoot them back with arrows. ”
The captain's soldiers then bent their bows and arrows, and unleashed rows of sharp arrows at the Hami soldiers they saw coming down from the city, shooting almost every Hami soldier into a hedgehog. Seeing the movement, the nearby Uighur soldiers also ran over to support them with bows and arrows, and they all worked together to rain waves of arrows on the Hami soldiers, shooting straight at them for more than half an hour.
The Hami soldiers at the head of the city snickered when they saw this scene, and secretly admired the intelligence of Her Royal Highness the princess.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had not yet spread to the northwest region, and Di Linaza naturally did not know the allusion of the grass boat borrowing arrows, but she loved to read, especially the history of China, because she felt that there were countless wisdom hidden in the vast and smokeless Chinese history books. Her move was completely plagiarized from the classic example of Zhang Xun, the general of the Tang Dynasty during the Anshi Rebellion, however, the commander of the Uighur army, who had not studied well since childhood, naturally did not know this trick, so he fooled himself stupidly, and thought that he had handled it very safely.
It can be seen from this that it is very important to read more books and gain insight.
It took nearly an hour for the Uighurs to come to their senses, and a few brave soldiers rushed to the bottom of the walls and threw their torches upwards to see that it was the scarecrow that had fallen down.
The Uighurs were so angry that they jumped to their feet and cursed, and the commander who commanded the operation was even more furious, feeling that his intelligence had been seriously insulted, casually pulled the hard bow of one of his subordinates, put on a sharp arrow, pulled it full, and shot an arrow at the city wall indiscriminately, he also knew that this arrow was meaningless, purely to vent the anger in his heart.
Di Linaza organized the soldiers to count the arrows harvested overnight, a total of more than 100,000 arrows, this vote is a big one, with this batch of arrows, the soldiers of the Hami army will be more confident in defending the city tomorrow, and they are all smiling.
Satisfied with the results of this plan, Dilinaza gave a few words to the soldiers in charge of the vigil, and found a place to sleep in her clothes at the top of the city, she must maintain sufficient strength to cope with the battle of tomorrow.
It was naturally very uncomfortable to fall asleep on the head of the city, so Di Lina woke up very early, and opened her eyes before dawn, she looked around at the Hami soldiers around her, except for those who stood guard, everyone slept very deeply, and it could be seen that the continuous battles in the past few days had exhausted them all. Di Linaza couldn't bear to disturb them, she stood up lightly, raised her eyes and looked into the distance, looking at the endless Uighur camp in front of her, her heart was like pressing a boulder, she knew that at dawn, they were going to attack again, and this time she was really not sure that she would survive it, even if she could survive today, what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? The reinforcements have not seen a shadow until now.
Di Linaza held the jade pendant given to her by Zhu Ao in her hand, looked at the starry sky in a daze, and resigned herself to fate.
At daybreak, the Uighurs launched an even more fierce attack, and since their intelligence had been badly insulted yesterday, this time it was in a state of shame, and the attack was even more violent.
"Quick! Shoot the arrows! Say you're blind! "A commander of the Hami army was anxiously directing the battle, and his archers were always unable to choose the most targeted in his mind, which annoyed him, although there were 100,000 arrows yesterday, but this kind of trick can only be used once, and this time the arrows are really finished, and they can't help but save some use.
"Shoot that official! Fuck, you wait for the thief army to get close before shooting, don't you think there are many arrows in Lao Tzu's hand? While commanding the battle, the commander of the Hami army jumped to his feet and scolded angrily, and some of the soldiers were indeed a little stupid. But he had no other way, and at this time, it was impossible to let him change people temporarily, so he could only take his brothers and fight the fierce Uighur army.
The Uighur army's attack this time was still focused on the city gate, but it was changed from the north gate to the west gate, because they saw with their own eyes that the north gate had been blocked by stones, and they could not enter it anyway, and they summed up their experience last night, believing that the main reason for the failure of the assault attack at the north gate yesterday was that they did not expect that the enemy army had dug a trench in the city, and the troops who broke through did not bring the equipment to cross the trench, and they were in a hurry to be attacked by the enemy to defend and counterattack. This time they learned a lesson, and the assault team that was preparing to storm the city gate was equipped with long planks, even if the Hami army dug a trench in the western city, they could completely put up the long planks and quickly break through to the city.
The tactics of the Uighur army were the same as yesterday's, which was to send a group of cannon fodder to climb the city walls to attract the attention of the enemy army, and then bombard the gates of the western city with artillery.
Since it was estimated that the Hami army had almost reached its limit, the Uighur general, Borhu, was personally at the front line to take command, and he was not willing to give up this great achievement of conquering the city to the Chilu Han, who had been fighting against him all day. In this regard, Chi Luhan was very annoyed and angry again, but he had no choice but to stand aside and watch Bolhu's performance.
The Uighur army, as always, marched into the city, and the cannons in the back rows roared at the gates of Hami, and finally after a few rows of cannons, a few lucky shells hit the gates, smashing the western gates of Turpan in half. The Uighur commandos were so excited by this scene that they rushed forward with shouts under the command of a commander of ten thousand men, saying that they would take the city of Turpan this time, so as to be ashamed of yesterday.