Seeing the soldiers ashore, more than a hundred boats turned their heads like big white fish and nimbly sailed towards Xiangliudu.

Before they went ashore, a few soldiers were a little scared. They are two lone armies, and if they only cut off the enemy's reinforcements on the left and right and keep fighting, they can still do it. However, if the middle battalion army makes a mistake and misses it for half an hour, it is very likely that the middle battalion will send a military team to attack on both sides, then this line will be more auspicious.

At this moment, the horn sounded in the direction of the middle camp on the north bank, far away, it was not really visible, but some soldiers could climb high and see the light of the middle camp.

At the same time, Xue Ne and Xin Chengsi both said to this group of subordinates: "Boys, wait for meritorious service." ”

Until now, I have also recorded my military exploits, and it is fair to remember my military exploits. It is difficult to change others, but Li Wei is so close that no low-level officer dares to be sloppy and greedy for the merits of his subordinates. The credit was credited, and the reward was not issued. But don't worry about that, because there is Moufu City.

In the 41st year of the 6th year of the A.D., in the battle of Nehavin, the whole army of Yi Si Qi was annihilated by the great cannibals, and fled to the city of Moufu, where the lord of the city of Moufu Ma He and the Turks killed his guards, and Yi Si Qi fled to the mill and was killed by the miller. Maha immediately surrendered to the Great Cannibal. Therefore, the policy of treating the city of Moufu is different from that of the cannibalism of Ctesiphon. The city was rarely plundered by the Great Cannibals, and it was occupied for a long time, and many of the Great Cannibals came to live there. And all the riches that he plundered many times in the river were hoarded in the city of Moufu.

The city itself is also the largest city in Central Asia, second only to the original Persian capital Ctesiphon, and has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years. Once breached, there will be a huge gain. But if you want to distribute the spoils, you have to give credit.

This was one of Li Wei's mobilizations before the war.

Forcibly stabbing the soldiers will show courage when fighting, otherwise these soldiers in the river are very weak and not very useful. After fighting hard, I realized that it was all about. It'll be good for the next time. So under the leadership of generals at all levels in the Tang Dynasty, when it comes to credit, almost everyone is thinking about gold and silver.

Rumble!

All of a sudden, the spirit came and rushed forward.

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Perhaps the former generals of the Hanaka region did not care about the time error. Li Wei would never allow this to happen, and this example could not be replicated, because the terrain was flat on both banks, even flatter than the North China Plain. But the North China Plain is full of villages, ravines, canals, and crops. However, except for a few crops, the area is a flat oasis, and the Gobi Desert and desert are difficult to find even in the woods.

This kind of flat terrain makes it very difficult to mobilize large armies for battle. Countless arrangements were spent, and the fighters were won. At this critical time, there must be no half-mark error in time. The hourglass timing is very inaccurate, so prepare many hourglasses in advance, and slowly check them to find out more than a dozen of them that are more reliable. The speed of the ship was calculated, and only after there were no mistakes did the hourglass be distributed. There may be an error, but it won't take more than ten minutes.

On the eve of dawn, when the night is still very dark. As a surprise attack, it is impossible for Xue Ne and Xin Chengsi to blow the horn to notify them after they arrive. I can only look at the hourglass, and when it comes to the fifth watch, the horn blows. All the boats went together, but there were many small wooden boats in the large camp, and they got on the small wooden boats together.

This is the clarion call for a general attack.

With this clarion call, the Tang Dynasty troops of the first battalion in the east and west rode their horses one by one and gathered towards the middle camp. This time, the Tang Dynasty army was the same as the Great Cannibal, not full cavalry, and half of the soldiers from the countries in the river were infantry, but after some transfers, the left and right battalions prepared a large number of war horses. The number of horses was insufficient, and more than two thousand soldiers were picked up by ships in advance. This is to ensure that the 50-mile road will be completed in the first place, so that the strength of the Chinese army will be thickened.

There were 10,000 troops behind, and they got up at half past four o'clock. Because it was all on foot, they would be the last to arrive. But the time difference is not very big, they all come at a trot, enough to keep them all coming for more than half an hour. But you can't leave too early, because leaving too early will make Salem aware and prepare in advance.

As soon as the horn blew, Salem got up.

These days, the Tang Dynasty people made the immortals want to die, and they wanted to lead the army back to the city to defend it many times, and waited until the weather was hot to fight. But the food slowed him down.

Looking at the river, many Tang Dynasty soldiers got on small wooden boats, and had done similar things before, and even cooperated with large boats to do exercises. At this time, Salem had already learned of the news of the Tang Dynasty army's attack on the border camp. Guards were sent to inform the middle camp and prepare to respond. But after dealing with each other for so many days, I also know that the enemy likes to fight in the real and the virtual, and attacking the border camp may not really attack the border camp, but it is very likely that he will attack the middle camp, and it is very likely that he will attack the first battalion when the left and right battalions are empty. Therefore, the left and right battalions were ordered to be optimistic, and they were not allowed to easily dispatch their troops, and they were deceived by the enemy.

There are three mistakes, the Tang Dynasty did not attack the border camp, but kept "crossing the river", attacking only a few ships, using trebuchets and projecting fire pills. The Tang Dynasty army did not go ashore, and there was no way to go ashore, so those people were sent to death if they were allowed to go ashore. But under the fear of the two generals of the border camp, they were negligent and did not report this news.

Speaking of the fire medicine, the generals of the border camp also said that it was terrible, in order to seek the support of other reinforcements, the focus was on crossing the river, and countless Tang Dynasty troops were crossing the river. I've heard it before, but the fire pill has always been used as an auxiliary weapon and has not played a decisive role, so the scout said lightly. I only know that it is powerful, but I don't know how powerful it is, otherwise it would have been taken out and used a long time ago.

I know that around this time the Tang Dynasty army is really attacking. However, under the hypocrisy and reality, he ordered the generals of the left and right battalions not to be easily dispatched, and believed that even if the Tang Dynasty launched an attack on the middle road, there were still many Tang Dynasty troops more than 90 miles away from the east and west. At least there are more than 10,000 people, and they are not inferior in terms of troops. Gave up the time to gather the main army.

However, he still calmly made arrangements, allowing the soldiers to enter behind the low wall to prevent the Tang Dynasty army on Guaegg Mountain from attacking, and deployed troops on the two banks to prevent the Tang army from coming ashore from both sides.

Since the start of the war, there have been many reasons, lack of talent, lack of preparation, lack of righteousness, and from the beginning of the battle of Guadanshan, Salem has made a series of mistakes. In the pre-battle arrangements of this meeting, the mistake was the greatest.

The enemy he faced this time was different from any rebel army operating in Persia, or with the Turks, the Transoxians, and the Tocharians. Not only can he command the army, but he also has a group of fierce military teams, and the best at it is all kinds of conspiracy and trickery.

The Tang Dynasty army in Guaegg Mountain saw that some small wooden boats had crossed to the middle of the river, so they began to set out.

First of all, 300 trebuchets were introduced, and there were more than 200 of them, which were made after coming to the river, which were relatively coarse, and the average range and rate of fire, or the weight of the projectile, were slightly stronger than those of the big cannibal trebuchet. The difference is not much because of the craftsmanship of the individual components.

But the trebuchet technique of the big cannibal should not be underestimated.

The trebuchet technique of the Great Cannibal was an improvement on the craftsmanship of the Byzantines and Persians. It turns out that Western trebuchet technology has been taking shape very early, such as Alexandria, or the siege of Jerusalem, the largest trebuchet can throw 52 kilograms of stone 370 meters away, if it is a lighter object, it can be thrown more than 400 meters away. Of course, this kind of large trebuchet often requires hundreds of people to operate, which is inconvenient to operate and transport, and even if it can be made, it is rarely seen in wartime.

This technology has not been advanced for a long time because of process problems. The trebuchet of Dashi is about the same as the peak of ancient Rome, or the same as the trebuchet craftsmanship of the original Tang Dynasty. There are many disadvantages, slow launch, manpower for operation, high cost, and easy damage.

The trebuchet technology of the Tang Dynasty was improved by Li Weili using scientific principles. But he understands the principle, but he doesn't know the specific details. After seeing the power of the Battle of Yaozhou, the court made improvements, and Li Wei wrote down the principle of lever and the principle of torque and elasticity of the instrument into a booklet and taught it to the craftsmen. Why there are these principles, the craftsman does not ask, but with these principles to guide, the direction is pointed out, and the technology is further innovated, and various types of trebuchets are introduced. For example, the small trebuchet used on the ship, the first batch of transported to Guaegg Mountain, is also this kind of small trebuchet.

It also brought some large trebuchets from China, and after repeated improvements, the power was no less than that of the later Yuanmeng Hui cannon. Although they cannot throw a thousand-pound weight at a distance of several hundred meters like the peak of the return artillery, these large trebuchets can project an object of nearly 200 kilograms at a maximum and a weight of more than 100 kilograms normally, and if the weight is reduced, the maximum firing range can reach nearly 600 meters away.

The distance was long, the transportation was inconvenient, and there were only 200 trebuchets transported from the country, and less than 60 such large trebuchets, and the eastern and western armies were divided some. Later, after the Wuhu River was burned, all the large trebuchets of the Western Route Army were transported to the Guaegg Mountain, and they were not used in order to prevent the enemy from being prepared.

Three hundred trebuchets were operated by nearly 3,000 soldiers. In particular, the thirty large trebuchets, each of which still requires more than 30 people to operate, is very slow, but powerful. Mainly on the east and west sides, in order to open the landing passages, ten large trebuchets were concentrated each, as well as most of the excellent trebuchets. The rest of the soldiers were armed with bows and arrows to protect each other with shield soldiers, and some soldiers were prepared with spears and swords to kill the enemy. The rush out from the gates of the various fences has long been arranged, how to advance and retreat, and even what each soldier does, so many days have been prepared.

Seeing the Tang Dynasty army coming out of the melon egg mountain, the big cannibal also began to strike with trebuchets. For so many days, the Tang Dynasty army made a lot of preparations, and the big cannibals also made a lot of preparations, and brought more trebuchets. Some stones fell and hit the Tang army. After paying some sacrifices, the Tang army lined up and also counterattacked.

A very ferocious counterattack, the 300 catapults were made into three shifts, and the "grain" that had been transported at noon was carried out together. Packets of fire medicine were packed, and even some fire pill barrels were prepared for large trebuchets, and after the fire was fired, all the Tang Dynasty soldiers plugged their ears with cotton.

This is the real explosion.

Especially the thirty fire medicine barrels, each of which brought more than a dozen food soldiers into the sky.

Three waves of bombing were carried out without stopping, and the big cannibals were bombed, and Salem was also bombed.

Fifty paces further, the archers and some of the shieldmen, and the spearmen went forward a hundred and fifty paces, and it was the trench dug by the great cannibals, and the trench was very deep, and it was covered with thorns, and behind the trench was a low wall made of the earth from which the trench had been dug, and one man was high, and there were battlements of arrows. After the bombing just now, some of the Persian soldiers were so frightened that they fled, but Salem was very strict in governing the army, allowing the Persian team to kill, preventing the timid Persian soldiers from escaping, and some soldiers were killed, along with the battlements of the wall were blown out one by one, but many of the remaining soldiers continued to resist, trying to use bows and arrows to arrange a defensive line.

After rushing, there were not enough soldiers in the river to come out, and some soldiers left a gap because they were afraid of death, causing a lot of sacrifices. Since the guidance of the Tang Army, the army has been governed very strictly, and military law has been repeatedly enforced, and soldiers in the river who did not obey orders have been killed. However, deficiencies are deficiencies, and once you look at the mass deaths, the formation gradually becomes disordered. Luo Wuquan hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat, protect the soldiers who set up the trebuchets, and carried out a second round of bombardment, mainly against the big cannibals behind the low wall.

After the second round of bombing, a vacuum was formed behind the low wall. The lethality is too strong, especially the hexagonal thorns, which are convenient for the wall to cover, these hexagonal thorns still keep spinning. And most of them were Persian soldiers, whose armor was not fine, and their protection was weak, piercing into the skin, and some of them went deep into the bones, howling incessantly. Originally, the Persians were not very combative, and almost all of them frightened this situation.

Luo Wuquan took the opportunity to ask the soldiers to shout, surrender without killing, and let you go home. Climb over the wall, you will be safe on this side of the wall, and the injured will be treated immediately.

Except for a few big cannibals who resisted stubbornly, many Persians have long heard of the battle in front of Guaegg Mountain, and the Tang Dynasty people do what they say, really let you go home. Immediately climb over the side of the wall to avoid the killing of the Great Food Minister.

Fifty paces more on the trebuchet, the archers and shieldmen made a second charge, and came to the front of the trench for protection, and the soldiers behind carried planks and set up on the trench. Spearmen and archers again crossed the other side of the trench from the planks. Then the soldiers in the back lowered the planks and brought mud bags one by one. In order to seize this wall, many people were sacrificed.

At that time, when Salem built this trench and this wall, he did not take into account the fire medicine of the Tang Dynasty, but it was considered very comprehensively, not only the trench was more than three feet wide and deep, so that horses could not jump over, and the wall was also more than one person high. And it is very thick, that is, with the largest impact wood, for a while and a half will not want to collapse the earthen wall. On the other side of the wall, there are walls, side walls, and battlements, which are no less than the walls of an ordinary city.

Without the cooperation of trebuchets and fire pills, this wall and ditch would have become a meat grinder in the Tang Dynasty.

After lying down nearly two thousand fighters, mud bags were erected one by one. The soldier was able to stretch out his upper body and fight the few big cannibals on the other side of the wall again. After nearly 1,000 casualties, the wall was finally snatched up.

can grab it, and the balance of the war situation fell to the Tang Dynasty.

In turn, this wall became a barrier to the safety of the Tang army's life. With the cover of this wall, a network of arrows was formed, which prevented the Great Cannibals from taking a single step. The trebuchet also pushed in front of the trench and continued to fire fire potions at the Great Cannibal.

Luo Wu wiped his sweat, and ordered again, emptying both sides.

After this order was given, all medium- and large-sized trebuchets were replaced with small fire pistol kits. Part of the trebuchet was also shifted to the side, mating with each other. At that time, the Tang army relied on the fence built according to the mountain, and the big cannibals vacated the trench for more than 200 meters in order to prevent the Tang army's long-range weapons. The terrain of more than 200 meters is very flat, and it was originally thought that the space of more than 200 meters would become a battlefield of death for the Tang Dynasty army, but I did not expect it to become the activity space of the Tang army. Packets of fire medicine were swept across with sparks in the darkness of the early morning, and some fell more than 400 steps away. After several rounds of bombardment, the banks of the river on both sides were freed up for more than a mile. The first wave of the Tang Dynasty rushed ashore from the wooden boats and seized the beachhead.

The Byzantine envoy on the other side was also watching, and after seeing the power of the fire potion, Matthew said, "Your Majesty, can you teach us this technique to the Byzantines?" ”

Can this be taught?

The four major inventions, papermaking, began to flood due to the lack of attention, and both Silla and Wakoku people knew how to make paper. Even compass technology is flooding again. There is also this trend in movable type printing, and it cannot be controlled. The court did not attach importance to it, and there was no relevant legal decree to sanction it. Only this fire medicine remains, and it must be kept a secret no matter what.

"Didn't I say that there are many materials for making and making the coffin, which are the specialties of the Central Plains of our Tang Dynasty, and even if they are taught, you Byzantines can't make them. If necessary, I'll give you a list of materials, and if you don't believe it, try it yourself. ”

Matthew was silent.

Do you clearly disagree, what kind of material list, according to this material list, it is strange to create such a powerful martial weapon. But I wondered in my heart, whether I could get it by some means, I really couldn't get it, if the cost was not expensive, could I buy a batch back. There are also trebuchets in the Tang Dynasty that are also good, far more powerful than the trebuchets of their own country, and the range is longer. There are a lot of good things, as well as those horned bows, crossbows, range and power that make Matthew equally excited.

While thinking about it, he saw a puzzled scene again, and asked, "Why did you let the little wooden boat run away on its own?" ”

The Tang Dynasty army had gradually set up a beachhead on the shore, but there was no small wooden boat to carry them ashore, and these small wooden boats were allowed to flow downstream with the river on their own.

"Regardless of death, this time our army is mainly composed of soldiers from all countries in the river, how can they have the courage to fight fiercely?"

One sentence made Matthew think deeply.

He was the vice-governor of Asia Minor, and he was well versed in military affairs, no matter how powerful the weapon was, using the tactics of men, commanding and generals. Why did the big cannibals who beat the Byzantines to the point of running away fall into disadvantage in this battle? It's also because of tactics and morale.

While he was thinking, more than a hundred large ships returned, slowed down, and landed, and one by one the soldiers rushed into the boats, and then entered the river. The lead was taken, and the decisive battle began.