Hulu did go crazy, or was driven crazy by Jieli Khan. A company of three generals died in Lingzhou City, Abesili, Abuli, Tie Legu, plus tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers and the most elite three thousand iron cavalry!

The Turks are used to showing off their might, and they have long been accustomed to being domineering at the border of the Tang Dynasty, where have they ever suffered such insults.

Especially in the current situation, Jieli's successive defeats in Lingzhou City not only failed his plan to quickly capture Yi Nan, but even Tuli, who originally wanted to surrender, has been eager to try recently.

Therefore, there must be a break between him and Datang, and Jieli urgently needs a victory to boost the morale of the army.

In this way, Lingzhou City has become the target of public criticism for a while, and it has also protected the 100,000 troops of Lu, 50,000 have been assembled outside Lingzhou City, and the other 50,000 are constantly harassing Zhao Sima of Qiushuer.

He wants to leave Lingzhou City isolated, as long as Lingzhou City is captured, he will immediately transfer troops and horses to send troops to Xue Yantuo. Attack from both sides, see how the other side counterattacks!

The siege of Lingzhou City was also the Chinese army of Yehulu, and the leader was also the famous Turkic general Qi Boer.

This is a beggar general who followed Shibi Khan and went south to fight and made great achievements. This man is good at using people, and is really a real wolf, as the Turks believe. When marching and fighting, the end is old and tricky.

Fortunately, because of Zhou Cheng and Cheng Chumo in advance, they already knew the news of the siege of the Turkic army. So it's not too abrupt to deal with.

But after all, there is a huge disparity in numbers, 10,000 against 50,000, which is a bit incredible no matter how you look at it.

The army of Qiboer was advancing towards Lingzhou City at a rate of thirty miles a day, and in this case, Cheng Chumo and they could only choose to fight.

At the beginning of "The Art of War: Plotting to Attack", he said: "Therefore, the first army to attack and strategize, the second to attack the enemy, the second to attack the army, and the next to attack the city, the method of attacking the city is a last resort."

If the army of Qibo'er wants to break through Lingzhou City, no matter how strong the attack method is used, it is not clever!

A truly clever siege tactic is how not to attack a city, but to let the enemy lose the cover of the city camp and fortress, and directly expose himself to his own blows. As long as you destroy the enemy army first, and then occupy the enemy city, it seems to be a breeze.

This is the so-called: "The army of the people is not a war, and the city of the people is not attacked." ”

Obviously, this is the intention of the beggars, and when the Turkic army approached the city of Lingzhou fifty miles, the army began to set up camp.

The Turks had abundant food and grass and were fully able to support this war. The beggar is not in a hurry, and the best thing the wild wolf is forbearance.

On the first day of the siege, Qiboer sent a cavalry of 100 people close to Lingzhou City, and began to insult the Tang army in the city five miles outside the city.

With such inferior methods, Cheng Chumo and they don't eat this set at all. No matter how insulting the Turks were, the Tang Army ignored them. Therefore, the strategy of wanting to provoke the Tang Army and then luring it out completely failed.

After sending out several waves of soldiers, the beggar also realized this. So then he began to change his method and began to send people to feint non-stop. Every half hour, and then the corpses were left all over the ground, shouting to retreat.

This approach of the beggar made Cheng Chumo very puzzled, because it seemed to them to be meaningless. There are arrows in Lingzhou City, and the Qibol Turks will only sacrifice in vain.

Behind the first earthen wall outside Lingzhou City, the archers of two hundred people were always vigilant, as long as the Turks sent troops to Fan, it was a few rounds of bows and arrows to go down. There was no need to aim, because these Turkic soldiers were like live targets. Every time, when he was about to die, he withdrew from the army.

Cheng Chumo and they can't understand it, it doesn't mean that Beggar Boer is really stupid. Originally, he wanted to lure the Tang army out of Lingzhou City, but now it is obviously impossible.

Since it is impossible to lead troops, it can only be attacked. It's just that he is a vigilant wolf, so he will not send troops until he sees the enemy's fangs clearly.

And the so-called fangs of the Tang Army are the black iron blocks that can explode. Until the power of this thing is understood, the beggar will not send troops.

The Turks rushed wave after wave, leaving only corpses in one place. This was nothing for the Don army, but from the next day, the Turkic offensive did not stop even at night.

This made Cheng Chumo in the city unbearable, and the soldiers sent by Qiboer were also more and more every time, which made them very tired.

It wasn't until he felt that the time was almost right that he sent a thousand iron horsemen to launch a full-scale attack. He wanted to force them to abandon the use of bows and arrows, and instead use gunpowder bullets to resist.

Now that Qin Ze is not here, the only one who commands the Nanding Army can only be Cheng Huailiang, except for him, the Nanding Army even does not even recognize Cheng Chumo.

Five gunpowder shells were thrown, and the Turkic iron cavalry, which was still charging, was suddenly in chaos. The war horses, alarmed by the explosion, fled in all directions like crazy.

This scene was seen by the beggar, and the beggar in the Turkic camp finally showed a smile on his face. I have to say that the Tang Army's gunpowder bullets are indeed very powerful, but their own side has the advantage of numbers after all.

Wolves are social animals, and they never act alone.

At that time, Cheng Chumo, who had been staring at the city wall all night, finally couldn't support it. Dragging his tired body, he returned to his tent and prepared to rest.

But just as he lay down, the sound of a trumpet sounded from outside the city. This is the Turkic three-way trumpet, blowing the first trumpet, marching in line, the second trumpet, the flag and the drum, and the three-way trumpet, which is the time to raise the banner and attack the whole army.

Hearing the sound of the Turkic horn, Cheng Chumo almost jumped out of bed, opened his bloodshot eyes, and rushed out of the tent.

At this time, a Turkic iron cavalry of 1,000 people outside Lingzhou City was rushing towards the east gate of Lingzhou City, and the rear of these war horses were connected together with iron chains. One end of the iron chain is attached to the war horse, and the other end is dragging a few crossbows, and the range of this thing is two hundred and fifty steps, which is not much worse than the Fu Yuanyu of the Tang Dynasty.

In front of a thousand iron horsemen are heavily armored war horses, which are Turkic Xuanjia iron horses, specially used to charge.

The war horses galloped, the war drums of the two sides were noisy, and the flames of war in Lingzhou City were ignited in an instant. A large number of Tang troops appeared behind the first earthen wall, and several trebuchets on the city wall were also ready to go.

The iron cavalry charged in less than a pillar of incense, and rushed into a mile outside Lingzhou City. Cheng Chumo gave an order, and the archers behind the first earthen wall immediately began to shoot non-stop.

Raindrops of bows and arrows rushed towards the Turkic iron cavalry, and the Turks outside the city were beating war drums. Another group of about 2,000 cavalry rushed out, and these cavalry were different from the previous iron cavalry. They are all light horses, and their speed is much faster than the previous Xuanjia iron horses.

Three rounds of bows and arrows were fired, but they were only quietly blocking the Turkic attack. Without hesitation, Cheng Huailiang gave an order, and the three trebuchets on the city wall threw three huge explosive bags into the Turkic iron horsemen.

"Boom! ~Rumble! ”

There were three loud bangs, and the Turkic iron cavalry that was still charging suddenly became completely chaotic. In the Turkic formation, three clearings were suddenly cleared.

Even the tightly wrapped Xuanjia Iron Rider was seriously damaged after these three loud bangs.

However, these Turkic iron horsemen continued to charge, and there was no intention of stopping. At this time, the Tang army, which was guarding behind the earthen wall, also threw out gunpowder bombs one after another.

"It is worthy of the Tang Army's killing weapon, and this kind of sharp weapon can be called a thing that fell from the sky." In the midst of the Turkic camp, the beggar stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips.

"Beggar Khan, do you want to let them retreat first?" The general on the side asked Begger.

The official positions of the Turks were very different from those of the Tang Army, and among their official positions, such as Qibo'er, their positions were equivalent to those of the unified army.

The Turks practiced a tribal military power system, and the establishment of regional military officials was specialized. Therefore, he became the most important military official in the Turkic ruling group, except for the khan, so he was also called the khan when he was called.

Beggar looked at the charging iron horsemen, but his interest was unusually high. He smiled at Lingzhou City with a smile: "No, let them continue." ”

The Turkic Iron Cavalry of the advance army had approached a distance of one mile from Lingzhou City, but it had been completely stopped.

On the city wall, Cheng Huailiang opened his blood-red eyes, and gave another order. Several explosive packets were re-ignited and continued to fly towards the Turkic Iron Horseman......

"Bang!"

Qin Ze looked at the pottery retort he had carefully made in front of him with a dark face, and under this crisp sound, it had been broken into several petals.

This made him very annoyed, because after eating the barbecue for a few days, Qin Ze had completely lost interest. So he began to study making a steamer basket to steam a few carp to eat.

Eating carp is not allowed in Datang, of course, the reason is by no means simple to avoid Li Er's surname.

As far as Qin Ze knows, the reasons why people in the Tang Dynasty did not eat carp are quite complicated, and each has its own theory.

The scholars and doctors worshiped Confucius, and Confucius also called his son "Kong Carp". Therefore, in the eyes of the scholars, eating carp is disrespectful to Confucius, and naturally they will no longer eat carp.

As for the people, because Taoism believes in the legend that the dragon is transformed into a carp, and introduces it into the scriptures. Over time, the carp has become a sacred object revered by believers, sacred and inviolable, and is called "Chihui Gong".

Therefore, the people associated the carp with the gods, and naturally felt the magic of it and deepened their worship of it, so they naturally stopped eating it.

As for Qin Ze, he prefers to believe that those people dislike the carp with too many fish bones, and if there is no seasoning, the fish meat tastes really bland, so the carp can be so leisurely in the Tang Dynasty.

It doesn't matter if it's leisurely, the key is that Qin Ze is also leisurely. So the leisurely carp was leisurely and leisurely shaved and scaled by Qin Ze.

But today I can't eat steamed fish, and the pottery retort that I finally made is broken, so I can only boil fish soup.

The reason why this is so is because his mind is not quiet, or his mind is in turmoil!

Fortunately, this is the last day they have been here, and impermanence has been alive again, but it is a pity that he has returned to his male body. A flat horse made Qin Ze not the slightest interest.

However, after all, I have to leave!