Chapter 554: Soldiers Coming to the City
"Tang Guo is thousands of miles away, even if they know that the princess has fallen into my hands, what can they do? Hahaha・・・・・・" and Bo Silin (the name of the ancient Chinese book, that is, Abu) said and laughed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This surprised many people around him, his subordinates knew that he was usually a person who was not smiling, but they didn't expect to see another side of him today.
Princess Hera is angry, but she has nothing to do, now she is a man for the sword, I am for the fish, even if it is not for the sake of her own life, she must think about her own chastity and not provoke and Bo Silin.
At this moment, a soldier rushed in and reported: "Leader of Bo Silin, an army has come from the east, all of them are cavalry, and the strength is about three thousand, but all of them are two horses, and they are less than twenty miles away!" ”
The faces of the other generals around changed slightly when they heard this, and Daoud was furious at this time: "What are you detectives doing with the outpost, the enemy has not found out until twenty miles, what use do you want?" ”
And Bo Xilin's expression remained unchanged, his eyes flashed with light, and he raised his hand to exempt the scout from the guilt of the scout post: "It's not the fault of the scout, the enemy marched overnight in order to cover his ears and eyes, and it is normal for the scout to not find out." Everyone's two horses? It seems that they are all light rides, and they are coming so fast! Let's go and see who this enemy army really is! ”
Seeing that he was not in a hurry, Ziyad, Daoud, and Saeed calmed down a little, and followed him out of the mosque towards the eastern gate.
Although the city of Sehran is not a big city, just a small town, but it is a strategic place, otherwise he would not have brought 15,000 men to attack here, this city covers a small area, but the walls are similar to other large cities, it is not so easy to easily attack it, but it is such a city that was not even defended for three days before it was breached by Bo Silin.
The reason why the city was breached was not that the city was not strong enough, the only possibility was that the defenders in the city had already been frightened, and they would have no fighting spirit and fighting spirit, and only then would they be so vulnerable.
As soon as he went up to the tower, he saw the yellow sand sweeping in the distance, a large number of flags faintly fluttering in the smoke and dust, and there was a continuous vibration under the feet, and a large number of horses' hooves rolled like thunder.
Soon, a cavalry rushed out of the smoke and dust with unparalleled momentum, like a long dragon out of the water, the momentum was huge, the cavalry in such a high-speed march to keep such a neat formation, suddenly an overwhelming murderous aura rushed from the opposite side, and Bo Xilin and others couldn't help but stand up with cold hairs, many soldiers on the city wall involuntarily clenched their weapons, and sweat stains were faintly oozing from their palms.
This cavalry with a large amount of murderous aura rushed to the open space outside the East City Gate in a few breaths, and then the rebels finally saw the banner of this army clearly, but Bo Xilin and others did not know the words of the banner on the Great Silk, and some of them vaguely guessed that it was the text of the Eastern Tang Kingdom, because the banner and the Great Silk were made of Oriental silk.
This army stopped at a stone's throw outside the east city gate, only to see a tall and burly person in the front, carrying a strange-shaped weapon, the skill of controlling the horse is extremely exquisite, after this person stopped at the horse, a large number of cavalry behind him also stopped, the formation was not scattered in the slightest, still neat.
In the blink of an eye, the rolling thunder stopped, the ground did not shake, and there was not the slightest sound coming from the army outside the city, only the smoke and dust were still rising.
Including the Bo Silin, almost all the generals of the Great Food Rebel Army couldn't help but gasp when they saw this situation, how long does it take for such an army to be trained, and how strict is it to be restrained by military law to achieve this level? It's not an army that humans can have, it's like a complex machine made up of countless parts, but each part of this machine has to work together with each other to make this army run at high speed and normally.
And Bo Xilin unconsciously touched his forehead, feeling a cold palm, only then did he realize that a cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he saw this cavalry, a heart actually sank faintly, this feeling is very bad, things have exceeded his imagination and control.
Three thousand soldiers and horses is not enough for Bo Silin, he has 15,000 men in his hands, which is five times the number of this army and horses, but although this army is only 3,000 people, judging from the performance just now, this army is only afraid that it is not so easy to handle.
After the army stopped at a stone's throw outside the city walls, it immediately set up in formation at a very fast speed, but after that, the army stopped, everyone sat motionless on horseback, no one spoke, no one made small movements, all erected there like a statue, which made the big food rebels on the city wall feel even more upset.
After more than half an hour, and seeing that this army did not send anyone to negotiate, he had already guessed that this army should be the Tang army that had come to meet Princess Hera, and he ordered a general behind him: "See if there is anyone in the city who can speak Chinese, and find one to act as an interpreter!" ”
"Chief, the Tang Kingdom is a powerful country in the East, and every year there are tens of thousands of merchants who come and go to the Eastern Tang Kingdom and our big food, and there should be people who can speak Chinese in the city, so my subordinates will go to find it!"
Soon, an old man in his sixties was brought to the city wall, "Chief, this old man used to go to the Tang Kingdom to do business when he was young, and now he is old, so he will return to his hometown to retire here, he can speak Chinese, he should be able to translate for the leader!" ”
The old man hurriedly saluted and Bo Xilin: "I have seen the chief, the little old man knows some Chinese!" ”
And Bo Silin nodded and said, "Okay, you come and ask the general of the army opposite, who are they?" ”
The old man agreed, and then stepped forward and said loudly in Chinese to the army outside the city: "General opposite, who are you?" ”
Zhao Ziliang listened to this unfamiliar Chinese pronunciation, and shook his head at Bai Xiaode beside him, Bai Xiaode nodded in agreement, and stepped forward and said loudly: "Listen to the people on the city tower, my general is General Zhao Ziliang, the envoy of the Northern Court of the Tang Empire!" Let your top officials or generals come out and answer! ”
The old man who acted as an interpreter heard the words and said to Bo Xilin: "My lord, when they were the soldiers and horses of the Tang Empire's Beiting Protectorate, the general who led the troops was called Zhao Ziliang, and he asked people to come forward to answer in person!"
When Said and Daoud heard the name Zhao Ziliang, they couldn't help but tremble, their faces changed, and Bo Xilin quickly discovered this phenomenon, looked at the two and asked, "Do you know this person named Zhao Ziliang?" ”
Said and Daoud looked at each other, and Said said to Bo Silin: "Chief, don't hide it, last year I led the army to attack Sogdia, and encountered the army of the Tang Empire when I went deep into the north, we just captured the city of Henglus not long after the Tang army besieged the city, at that time there were 10,000 people, including 2,000 infantry, 3,000 heavy cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry, the leader of the Tang army was this Zhao Ziliang, he had 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands at that time, most of them were cavalry, but these soldiers and horses were improvised patchwork of northern barbarians, It stands to reason that he doesn't have much combat effectiveness, so his subordinates decided to go out of the city to fight with him, but he didn't expect that Zhao Ziliang's command was very powerful, and a group of improvised rabble was actually exerted by him to exert great combat effectiveness, and his subordinates were defeated, and there was not one out of ten who could escape back. Later, his subordinates defended the city, but they didn't expect that the Tang army's siege ability was more terrible than that of the Byzantines, and their siege equipment was more destructive than that of the Byzantines, and their subordinates really couldn't resist it, so they had to lead their troops to break through, but they didn't expect that he had already arranged an ambush halfway through our escape, and his subordinates ・・・・・・ subordinates fled back to Khorasan Province with only a few guards."
Daoud also said with a look of shame: "His subordinates were under the command of General Said at that time, after he was besieged in Henglus City, his subordinates were ordered to lead troops to the rescue, and before they got the news that General Said broke through the siege, they encountered the Tang army commanded by Zhao Ziliang halfway, the two sides fought several battles in a row, and there were losses to each other, but he sent people to secretly copy the path to capture the Shiguo Tuozhi City, cutting off the return route of our army, and when our army arrived at the Shiguo Tuozhi City, the subordinate army was almost deceived into the city and was strangled by him, fortunately, his subordinates found it in time, Temporarily took a third of the soldiers and horses around the city and fled back, otherwise it would be ・・・・・・".
And Bo Silin listened to the words of Daoud and Said, his brows furrowed involuntarily, although he had not officially fought with Zhao Ziliang, he already felt that this person was only afraid that it would be difficult to deal with, just looking at the army in front of him, it was not something that ordinary people could train.
And Posilin knew very well that the fifteen thousand men in his hands really counted the army of less than six thousand, and the rest were some believers, although these believers were not afraid of death for the sake of Allah, but these people fought without any tactics at all, but rushed forward with firm faith. If such an army is not strict with those armies with strict military discipline and weak combat effectiveness, it can indeed defeat the other party in one go, and it can be done only by relying on these believers who are not afraid of death, but if these believers encounter an army with strict military discipline and strong combat effectiveness, such as the Tang army in front of them, they are afraid that "they are not afraid of death" and will become "sent to death" at that time.
And Bo Xilin touched his beard and sighed: "This time we are only afraid that we will be in big trouble!" ”
His general, Ziad, said: "Chief, what are you afraid of him? This is our big food, but not the Tang Kingdom, please give me 3,000 cavalry, let me go out of the city to fight him, and wait for me to dedicate this person's head to the leader! (To be continued.) )