Chapter 44: The Siege (I)

The white space between the sky and the earth, all the scenery is covered by the wind and snow, and where you enter the eyes, it is a dazzling white, and after looking at it for a long time, it will be a little shaky in front of you.

At this time, Zhao Chen was standing on a small slope buried by wind and snow, holding binoculars with both hands, looking at Xue Yantuo's camp from a distance.

This was already the afternoon of the third day, and the time limit given to Xue Yantuo that day was three days to withdraw from the White Dao.

But now that the third day has passed, Xue Yantuo's 3,000 soldiers and horses have not only shown no signs of withdrawing, but Zhao Chen also found that there are obvious traces of emergency fortifications in the camp.

"It's been said a long time ago, these people don't cry when they don't see the coffin!" When he put down the binoculars, Zhao Chen turned his head, looked at the old lieutenant Chi Gong who was also holding the binoculars next to him and said, "They are gambling, Datang will not do anything to them!" ”

"By the time it's night, they'll understand!" When the old lieutenant Chi Gong heard Zhao Chen's words, he also put down the binoculars, raised his hand and wiped the ice ballast on his beard, and opened his mouth with a cold gaze.

After Wei Chigong's words fell, he turned around and walked down the hillside, and Zhao Chen behind him looked back at Xue Yantuo's camp, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he chuckled, and then followed Yu Chigong down the hill together.

At the bottom of the hillside, there are 3,000 Tang soldiers quietly waiting, including 1,000 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army, at this time, they are all sitting on the climbing plow, wiping their weapons, waiting for the night to come, and they will kill into Xue Yantuo's camp together.

In addition to the 3,000 soldiers in front of him, there are also 2,000 men and horses led by Li Jing himself.

At this point, it's in the other direction. After waiting for this side to launch an attack on Xue Yantuo, he will be responsible for cleaning up the perimeter.

It's time to settle down. Xue Yantuo was limited to three days, but it's a pity. Xue Yantuo didn't take it seriously at all, relying on Datang's reluctance to be an enemy of the entire grassland, and planned to die here.

And the other tribes are also secretly observing at this time, if the Tang Dynasty lets Xue Yantuo stay here this time, then these tribes who are secretly watching will swarm up.

At that time, once this phenomenon does occur. Then don't expect two years to calm down Monan, even if you add a few more years, it will be difficult to really calm down.

Therefore, this time Li Er was also ruthless, and directly ordered Li Jing to take the soldiers and horses in the middle to besiege and kill Xue Yantuo's 3,000 men and horses, which can be regarded as showing those tribes who are still holding a fluke mentality.

Since it was a siege, then this battle was doomed to be bloody from the beginning. Do not let go of one of Xue Yantuo's people, and do not accept a single Xue Yantuo captive until the last Xue Yantuo is killed.

Following Jieli, Xue Yantuo's three thousand people. It will become another sacrifice of Datang in the grassland, showing the majesty of Datang.

Zhao Chen is still in charge of artillery fire, so. As soon as I came down the hill, I climbed into my own climbing plow. Bring more than 100 guards and prepare to set up the cannon barrel.

Here. There is still some distance from Xue Yantuo's camp, and because it is a flat line shooting, this simple earthen cannon cannot exert its power at all.

And it just so happened that on the left side of Xue Yantuo's camp, there was a snow-capped mountain, just like in the Evil Yang Ridge, as long as the cannon barrel was erected on the mountain, then the 'cannonballs' fired would fall directly into the camp of the Xue Yantuo people.

"Be careful, Brother Chen!" Zhao Chen said goodbye to the old lieutenant Chi Gong for the time being, and when he was about to leave, Cheng Chumo came to Zhao Chen's climbing plow, looked at Zhao Chen on the climbing plow, and asked.

"Don't worry, I'm fine!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle at Cheng Chumo, and then looked at Cheng Chumo and said, "It's you, when you charge at night, pay attention to your own safety!" ”

"Understood!" Cheng Chu grinned silently, chuckled at Zhao Chen on the plow, looked at Zhao Chen with a mysterious face, raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm still waiting to go back to Chang'an to pick up girls!" ”

"Get out!" Zhao Chen didn't listen to this, but when he heard Cheng Chumo's ruffian words, he immediately lay back to climb the plow as if he was weak, and couldn't help but roll his eyes at Cheng Chumo, and said angrily.

When these words fell, Cheng Chumo was still with his mouth open, standing there grinning, but Zhao Chen had already taken more than a hundred guards to bypass this hillside and go straight to the snow-capped mountain on the left side of Xue Yantuo's camp.

The mountain in front of him still belongs to the Yinshan Mountain Range, but compared to the side of the Evil Yang Ridge, the mountain is obviously not so steep.

Half an hour later, Zhao Chen and his entourage came to the foot of the mountain, and then arranged for two wingmen to climb the mountain.

As before, after waiting for the two wingmen to go up and hang down the rope, Zhao Chen dragged the rope and climbed to the top of the mountain.

When I went down the mountain, I couldn't feel any cold wind, just the biting cold in the ice and snow.

However, when Zhao Chen climbed to the top of the mountain, what he felt was that the wind was whistling on the top of the mountain, mixed with the fine snow foam on the top of the mountain, which was like a knife, and the cheeks of the people who were scraping hurt painfully.

Zhao Chen climbed to the top of the mountain, and the whole person was lying in the snowdrift, looking down at Xue Yantuo's camp at the bottom of the mountain.

At this time, looking from the top of the mountain, even if there is no telescope, Xue Yantuo's camp can be seen at a glance, and it is extremely clear, and even the faces of Xue Yantuo people can be seen clearly.

At such a distance, if you fire artillery fire later, it will naturally be more than enough.

Zhao Chen observed Xue Yantuo's camp for a while, and then gave a thumbs up and began to measure the distance simply, preparing to set up the cannon barrel.

After a while, when Zhao Chen finished surveying and mapping and designated a location for the two wingmen behind him, he quietly stepped back and gave up his position to the two wingmen who were crawling behind him.

The distance is very close, especially on the top of the mountain, they can see Xue Yantuo's camp clearly, and the other party can naturally see them clearly.

Therefore, in order not to be discovered by the Xue Yantuo people, they can only crawl on the ground and dig a pit little by little!

The winter was a little short, when Zhao Chen was separated from Cheng Chumo and the others, it was only noon, and when he set up the cannon barrel on the top of the mountain here, after a slight delay, the sky gradually darkened.

At this time, Zhao Chen climbed in the snow and observed Xue Yantuo's camp with a telescope.

And a wingman. He crawled on the other side, also holding a telescope in his hand. But instead of looking at the Xue Yantuo camp under the mountain, but. Looking at the army of the Tang Dynasty on the other side of the mountain.

The command of the battlefield is still in charge of the old lieutenant Chi Gong, and when the attack is decided, the old lieutenant Chi Gong will make a gesture over there, and then Zhao Chen will launch the first round of artillery bombardment.

In Xue Yantuo's camp, it was quiet at this time, and it seemed that a few people were quiet, but. The scouts were sent out in waves, although they were betting that Datang could not really attack, but in the end they were still secretly on guard.

"A bunch of stupid pigs!" Zhao Chen looked at the waves of scouts, going in and out of the camp, his eyes still looking through the binoculars, looking at the camp below, but he couldn't help but scold.

The matter of Evil Yang Ridge has obviously been rumored, but these people. But he only stared at the front, but he didn't care about the mountain on the side.

"Master Hou!" Just when Zhao Chen was observing Xue Yantuo's camp, the wingman beside him. But at this time, he suddenly put down the binoculars and turned his head to look at Zhao Chen to speak.

As soon as he heard the bureaucrats call him. Zhao Chen immediately turned his telescope to the side of the Tang army. When looking through the binoculars, Zhao Chen saw that the old lieutenant Chi Gong was waving at him at this time.

And when the old lieutenant Chi Gong kept beckoning. The three thousand men and horses of the Tang Dynasty in front of him and behind him had already sat on the climbing plow, ready to go one by one, just waiting for an order, and they would immediately rush towards Xue Yantuo.

"Wave the flag, prepare to attack!" When he came, he had already told the old lieutenant Chi Gong that as long as Zhao Chen was here, waving the flag would indicate that he had received the order.

Another wingman who had been waiting behind him for a long time, when he heard Zhao Chen's words, he immediately raised the flag in his hand, stood in a place that Xue Yantuo couldn't see, and waved the flag towards the old lieutenant Chi Gong and the others.

"Children, set off with the old man!" On the other side of the hillside, the old lieutenant Chi Gong stood there, holding a telescope and staring at the top of the mountain on Zhao Chen's side.

When he saw a wingman waving a flag, he immediately put down his binoculars, walked down the hill in a few steps, stepped onto a climbing plow, and screamed at the three thousand soldiers behind him.

As soon as the roar fell, he took the lead in driving the climbing plow, rushed down the hillside, and led three thousand 'whooping' Tang pawns to gallop all the way to Xue Yantuo's camp.

On the top of the mountain, Zhao Chen had already gotten up from the snow, picked up an explosive bag next to him, and put it into the cannon barrel that had been erected a long time ago.

Just like in the battle of Evil Yang Ridge, the explosive bag was thrown into the cannon barrel, and a loud 'boom' was heard, and a thick smoke rose, and the explosive bag that had just been thrown into the cannon barrel was violently ejected from the cannon barrel.

Whistling in the air, with a parabolic route, it rolled rapidly, straight to the camp of Xue Yantuodi, and the next moment, it fell into the camp at once, and there was a loud 'boom'.

With this loud bang, in an instant, in the camp of Xue Yantuo, the fire flashed, and in the center of the 'cannonball' landing, an invisible wave spread to all sides.

Like ripples, where the waves passed, the dirt and snow on the ground were suddenly urged by the waves to fly into the air!

The two Xue Yantuo soldiers, who were still standing here just now, had been violently swept away by this wave of air the moment the 'cannonball' fell, and by the time the two fell, they were already bleeding and crawling on the ground, obviously dead.

"Tang people!"

"It's the Tang Dynasty here!"

The camp that was calm just now, suddenly because of a 'cannonball', completely exploded, and the panicked screams immediately sounded in the camp, and with this scream, Xue Yantuo's soldiers began to appear in the camp in a panic one by one.

And in the Xue Yantuo camp, when there was a complete panic, on the top of the mountain, there was a loud 'boom' again, and then, when the panicked Xue Yantuo people raised their heads, they saw another 'cannonball' whistling towards the camp in mid-air.

"Spread out, spread out!" In the camp, at this time, a commander of Xue Yantuo watched the 'cannonballs' fly again, and his face turned pale with fright, and he yelled desperately at the soldiers who were still gathered.

There was a loud 'boom', and when the thousand-commander's roar just fell, the whistling 'cannonballs' exploded violently in the camp.

A loud explosion followed, and then the air waves rolled, the earth mixed with snow droplets splashed, the fire flashed, and a terrible cry was heard, and the whole camp was filled with a choking smell of gunsmoke.

The 'cannonballs' were still whistling one after another, and when they exploded in the camp, there would always be Xue Yantuo people, swept away by the air waves, and let out a miserable shout. (To be continued.) )