Chapter 148: Crooked Hit
Compared with Chu Ge and Liang Qi, Wei Meng's luck can be said to be extremely poor, in view of the fact that most of the turquoise troops in He Hunting City have bows and arrows, and the defense is very strong, Wei Meng originally wanted to sneak attack, but he didn't expect that not only did the sneak attack succeed, but was blocked by the Turks of He Hunting City in the hole of the city gate, and finally lost more than 100 before retreating, but the Turk Shi defenders of He Hunting City also lost a lot of money, there were originally five hundred people, after the sneak attack failed, there were only four hundred people left in He Hunting City, this is mainly because the nomads are not good at foot combat, The Tang army was very strong in both foot and cavalry combat.
After setting up camp outside the city, Wei Meng lost his temper in the big tent in a rage: "It's a failure, it's almost a little bit to rush into the city, it's just such a little bit, let us lose a hundred brothers!" ”
Deputy Lieutenant Chen Biao said: "This sneak attack failed, the Turks in the city will definitely be vigilant, and after we have precautions, it will be difficult for us to sneak attack again!" If we attack by force, even if all of our 900 people are dead, we may not be able to attack it, it seems that we have to find a way, otherwise we will not be able to take He Hunting City within three days."
Wei Meng was dissatisfied: "I know this, do you still need to say it?" The key now is to be able to outwit it, outwit it, yes, outwit it! ”
Chen Biao shook his head and didn't speak, obviously not having any good ideas.
At this time, a team stood up and said: "Captain, why don't we dig tunnels, dig quietly from outside the city, all the way to the city, if half of the troops are used, change people once an hour, we should be able to dig into the city within two days, as long as our army enters the city, the Turks in the city will be finished!" ”
Wei Meng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he slapped his thigh and smiled: "Hahaha, it's good, it's good to dig a tunnel, and immediately upload the military order of the captain of the school, leaving half of the people to guard against the sneak attack of the Tuqi people out of the city." The other half of them find a low-lying place to dig a tunnel, use a sword without tools, and within two days must dig a passage into the city for the school captain! ”
"No!"
Wei Meng was happy for a long time before he was distressed again, the matter of digging the tunnel had not been carried out for a morning, and he couldn't dig it in the afternoon!
Why? Just because this hunting castle is on the south shore of Atami, there is a meter of water deep when the tunnel is dug to a depth of two meters, and if you want to let a person pass, two meters deep is obviously not possible, and the top of the tunnel must be a distance from the ground, at least more than one meter five. Therefore, the tunnel should be dug down three meters and five deep, and the tunnel at this depth will be more than two meters deep in water, how can the soldiers pass? The digging of tunnels can only stop there.
The strong attack was not good, and he couldn't think of any other way to attack the city, which made Wei Meng anxious, and only one day later, Wei Meng was so anxious that his mouth was bubbling.
Seeing that two days had passed, Wei Meng hadn't thought of a way yet. In desperation, Wei Meng could only light up his troops and horses to prepare for a strong attack, and the simple siege equipment ladder was still easy to build, and more than a dozen were built overnight.
On the morning of the third day. Wei Meng led all 900 people to the city of He Hunting.
The city walls of He Hunting City are one zhang and two feet high, all of which are rammed earth, although they are somewhat damaged by the rain, but it is not easy to break through. on the city walls. The Turk warriors, all armed with bows and arrows, were piled with stones in front of them, and a fire was burning in the oil pot. The oil in the pot has been burned to smoke.
Wei Meng reined in his horse, raised his hand to signal the army to stop, remembering that the Tuqi Shi people in the city couldn't shrink in the past two days, he couldn't help but scold: "Listen to the people in the city, don't you barbarians think you are warriors?" Why is it that the turtle is now cowering in the city and not coming out? I think you are afraid of death, if you are not afraid of death, why don't you have the courage to come out and fight Lao Tzu to the death? You damned cowards have simply insulted the prestige of your ancestors, and if your ancestors had designated your present shit, they would have crawled out of the dirt in anger to fight with you! Come on, there are some eggless people in the city, give Lao Tzu a good humiliation to them! ”
When the soldiers behind him heard Wei Meng's words, many of them took off their pants and peed on the turks on the city wall, and some even shit on the city wall with their butts.
This behavior directly angered the defender of the Hunting City, Abra, who was an authentic Turgish and a close confidant of the Fire Spitting Fairy, and despite some military talent, he was a violent man with a burning temperament.
The Turgish soldiers shouted one by one with weapon dolls, shouting that they wanted to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Tang army, wash away the humiliation, and Abra had already been so angry that he would be dizzy, if he was indifferent to such humiliation, he thought that he would decline in the status of the soldiers and would be looked down upon by the soldiers.
"Come on, prepare the horses, leave fifty people to defend the city, and the others will go out of the city with me to fight to the death with the enemy!"
The subordinates were shocked: "Commander Qian, don't do it, the other party is obviously using the method of agitation, and the commander of the thousand men will lead the troops out and fall for his plan!" ”
"What's the plan? Bullshit! I don't care about you! Abra cursed, pushed it aside, and ordered: "Go out of the city to meet the enemy!" ”
Soon, with a creak, the gate was pulled up by a noose, and Abra came out of the city with a horse, followed by more than 300 horsemen, all armed with spears and spears, maces, or scimitars.
"Oh Hello Woo Hello" The Turk cavalry waved their weapons and kept shouting to cheer themselves up, rushing out of the city without any formation.
Wei Meng didn't expect that scolding people could also scold the enemy out of the city, scolding people would have this effect, he saw a flash in his eyes, this is a godsend! Immediately raised the Qinglong Sword and shouted: "Chen Biao led four hundred people to block them, don't let one go, the others follow a certain kill into the city, keep in formation, kill-"
"Kill-" All the Tang troops held their weapons and rode their horses to rush towards the Turgish cavalry coming from the opposite side.
Wei Meng held the Qinglong Sword tightly and stared at Abra who was coming from the opposite side, he saw Abra running in front of the horse and wearing thick iron armor, he knew that this person must be Abra, the defender of He Hunting City.
A stone's throw away from the land, the two sides galloped towards each other, and soon encountered, Wei Meng raised the Qinglong knife and slashed at the other party, shouting: "Die!" ”
"You're going to die!" Not to be outdone, the spear in his hand stabbed at the Qinglong Knife in Wei Meng's hand.
With a sound of "dang", the Qinglong knife was stabbed, Wei Meng immediately swung the Qinglong knife, and the blade swept towards Abra's waist, but he didn't want Abra to follow closely and stab the spear at Wei Meng's Lebu, both sides had no room for it, and there was no time to change their moves, both of them were hit.
"Ahh
"Shhhh
Wei Meng's Qinglong broadsword was extremely sharp, and it easily cut Abra's waist, leaving his intestines behind. And Abra's long hair also pierced the nail leaf of Wei Meng's ribs, but the armor on Wei Meng's body was more defensive, and Wei Meng was injured, but it was not fatal.
As Abra galloped, his intestines flowed out and dragged long on the ground. Abra was stabbing a Tang cavalryman to death, but he didn't expect that his intestines were trampled by the Tang army's war horse, and the entire large and small intestines were pulled out. He turned his head to look, shouted, and fell headlong, being trampled into a meatloaf by the oncoming Tang army horses.
Wei Meng endured the pain between his ribs, and kept wielding the Qinglong knife to slash and slash the oncoming cavalry, the two cavalry collided, and the soldiers on both sides fell off their horses one after another, and the big life was intact, and the moment of bad luck was trampled into pulp.
The neat cavalry formation of the Tang army completely gained the upper hand in the collision, and the stragglers of the Tuqi cavalry were rushed to pieces by the Tang cavalry team, and no one could penetrate the deep queue of the Tang cavalry and fell to death, while Wei Meng led the Tang army to rush forward non-stop, and killed a pair of Tucai cavalry as soon as they rushed out of the city gate, and successfully rushed into the city.
Before the turks on the city wall could put down the city gate, they watched the Tang army rush into the city, and the turks behind the city gate were knocked out of dozens of people.
He Hunting City is not large, only the size of a small town, with a population of only more than 3,000 people, and there is only one main street in the city, which can be killed in two minutes on horseback.
After the Tang cavalry rushed into the city, the Trolls began to collapse, and even the most elite, combat effectiveness and fighting will of the army would decline rapidly after the city was broken, and defeat was inevitable.
There were only fifty defenders on the city wall, and these people were quickly cleared by the Tang army, while the Tuqi Shi cavalry outside the city was left after the first wave of charges, and was blocked by Chen Biao with four hundred people behind, no one escaped, more than a hundred people were surrounded in the middle, and finally besieged and killed.
The battle was not long, the front and back added up to only a little more than an hour, all the turk Shi defenders in He Hunting City were wiped out, but the Tang army also suffered a lot of casualties, originally a thousand cavalry, after the battle was less than 700 people, and lost more than 300 people. This is still because the other party went out of the city to fight, if he defended the city with all his might, Wei Meng was afraid that even if he fought a thousand people, he might not be able to break through He Hunting City.
Clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpses in the city, the armor, weapons, and intact leather armor on the corpses of the enemy are all recyclable trophies.
Before he had time to count the gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep and horses that Abra had left in He Hunting City, Wei Meng found two reliable people and ordered: "Go and report to the general immediately, just say that a certain has taken He Hunting City, our army has lost 300, and all the defenders of He Hunting City will be annihilated!" ”
"No!"
Zhao Ziliang personally led people to attack the broken branch city, he still has 2,500 foot cavalry in his hands, it is easy to attack a broken branch city, there are infantry must be able to attack the city and craftsmen, with craftsmen can easily build siege equipment, for the city in this place, the Tang army does not have the slightest difficulty in attacking the city, the broken branch city is only one zhang and two high, and the city wall of an inferior county in the Tang Dynasty is higher than this, Zhao Ziliang only took one day to capture the broken branch city, and it is a frontal attack, and his own losses are still very small. (To be continued.) )