Chapter 34: Growing Up in War

"Khan, let's retreat, the three people just now are clearly the warriors of the Tang people, I don't know how many people and horses are ambushed in the city, this is clearly a trap!" Tutu Wu'er was just frightened by Cheng Yun, if it wasn't for Cheng Yun not chasing, his name might have been explained on the battlefield.

"Kuchiha, you sinister poisonous snake is really trying to lead us into a trap." Tutuwur took aim at Kuchiha again

Kuchiha was about to defend when another Turkic nobleman interrupted first

"Tutuwu'er, I see that you were frightened by the Tang people, just now the enemy clearly did not dare to pursue, but you ran back like a timid rabbit. You don't deserve to be the first warrior of the Gilikre! ”

"Ilad is right, Tutuguer, you don't deserve to be the first warrior!" Several other Turkic nobles also clamored

These were not the warriors of the Khan's headquarters, and several of their tribes had suffered some losses during yesterday's tentative attack, and had been expecting to be compensated after the breach, and if they retreated, their losses would not be regained.

"Khan, these three Tang warriors are the three people I mentioned to you before." Khuchiha also did not want the Gelikreh tribe to retreat, so he took the opportunity to jump out and say to the Turkic Khan

The Turkic Khan thought for a moment, as if Kuchiha had indeed said that his tribe had been repelled by three passing Tang warriors

Kuchiha saw that the Turkic Khan remembered, so he continued: "The most difficult thing to deal with in this city are these three Tang warriors, my tribe is weak, so I can only retreat, but the Khan's tribe is different, there are more than a dozen warriors in the Girikreh Department, the strength is strong, there is no need to be afraid of the warriors of the Tang people..."

"Shut up, you poisonous snake, Khan, you must not believe this cunning slave, he just intends to let us lose both with the Tang people, so that we can take advantage of it."

"Tutuu'er, you don't..."

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The upper echelons of the Turks fell into a brief confusion because of the sudden appearance of the three palace guards, and Cheng Yun and the others were cheered by all the Panjiabao people, especially Ruda, who simply became a super idol, surrounded by those half-grown boys in Panjiabao.

The chaos of the Turks did not last long, only Tutuul was the only one who advocated retreating, and the other Turkic nobles did not agree, and Tutuul did not really think that there was an ambush in the city, he just became a little suspicious because of the sudden fright.

However, after such a delay, Pan Xiaogu's purpose of delaying time has been achieved, and by the time the Turks reorganize their men and horses to attack, the sun has already risen.

When defending yesterday, Pan Xiaogu only let half of the stone throwers attack, but today there is no such limitation, and at the same time, in order to increase the long-range suppression ability, he will also deliberately arrange fifty Tang army crossbowmen into the four watchtowers and the city gate tower.

Similar to yesterday's routine, the Turks with watered shields walked in the front, followed by a large group of archers and Turkic infantry carrying long ladders, and the advance towards the city gate was still the same car used to hit the gate yesterday.

Yesterday, because the effect of the ignited charcoal attack was not ideal, so the ammunition fired by the stone thrower today was simply replaced with stones and bricks, don't tell me about the aerodynamic shape or something, anyway, it is a metaphysical weapon, and the polished stone ball is no different from the plate brick.

When all the Turks had crossed the small ridge that was marked, Pan Xiaogu immediately shouted

"Launch!"

With Pan Xiaogu's order, 20 bricks flew high into the air outside the wall, and then rushed headlong towards the advancing Turks. I don't know if it's because of the increased fire density, or because the 'gunners' have accumulated enough experience to upgrade, or simply because of the hidden properties of the bricks, anyway, the first round of 'shelling' works surprisingly well, half of the bricks hit the target, most of them smashed on the shield, causing no damage, but a small part passed over the shield and smashed into the Turkic archers who followed.

Immediately after that, the second round of bricks flew over, and one or two more unlucky Turks were smashed on the head and broke the blood, and the third round of bricks simply flew directly to the heads of the Turkic infantry who followed behind, but except for a few who reacted too slowly, most of the bricks were blocked by people with shields.

The Turks advanced to a position of more than thirty meters from the city wall, then stood in place the shield, and the archers began to throw from behind the shield to suppress the fire on the city. The militiamen at the head of the city already had experience, and hid behind the women's wall early, and the people carrying the materials on the inside of the wall also learned from yesterday's experience, and put several layers of folded clothes on top of their heads to guard against the stray arrows flying in.

"Start proofshooting!" Pan Xiaogu saw that all the Turkic shields were already standing in place, and gave another order

After receiving the order, the militia in charge of the stone thrower began to deliberately adjust the firing strength and angle, so that the projectile landing point was concentrated near the shield, and when the aim was almost over, the firing speed was slowed down and the next order was waiting.

"Oil change bomb!" Pan Xiaogu saw that most of the rubble calibration was over, and immediately gave the next order

The militia in charge of loading carefully placed the sealed clay pots into the firing scoops of the debauching stones, which were filled with grease.

"Launch!"

Because of the previous school shooting, most of the oil tanks fell near the shield, and some simply smashed on the shield, and the stone thrower fired 5 rounds of oil tanks in a row, launching all the oil in Panjiabao.

"Set off a fire bomb!" Pan Xiaogu ordered again

The burning charcoal fell to the ground like a meteor, and as soon as it touched the grease on the ground, it immediately ignited a flame, and the flame spread rapidly in the direction of the grease flowing, and soon scurried to the shields.

Although the Turks poured water on the shields beforehand, it did not play any role, most of the shields were stained with grease, and they were lit at once, not only that, but a lot of grease flowed behind the shields, and even flowed to the feet of the Turkic archers, so the flames also rushed there, and some Turkic archers who reacted slowly became sacrifices to the flames.

The ignited shield was now transformed into a wall of flames, which not only blocked the advance of the Turkic infantry, but also forced the Turkic archers out of the shield's range, making it the best target for the archers.

Of course, Pan Xiaogu would not miss such a good opportunity, and immediately ordered the crossbowmen to fire a volley.

The power and accuracy of the Tang army's heavy crossbows were not comparable to those second-hand bows and arrows, and the crossbow arrows flew towards the most densely populated areas of the Turks, nailing the Turks one by one in place, and killing twenty or thirty Turks in just one volley.