Chapter 190: Siege
Xie Feiyu's kraft paper armor has been changed three sets, acting is more tiring than fighting, the Tubo people's riding ability is strong, the city wall more than ten meters high is not a problem for their throwing arrows, although the arrows hit on the kraft paper armor cannot penetrate the paper armor, but it can cause some damage to the paper armor, the paper armor that has fallen off the paper skin or broken steel wire can no longer be used, the siege methods of the Tubo people are much more ferocious than Yang Lin imagined, and the Tony King City did not dig a moat as deep as the Han city, Therefore, after the Tubo people set up a long wooden plank bridge nailed with horizontal logs to the head of the city, the cavalry could directly rush to the city wall from the plank bridge, fortunately, the guards had Mo knives, and after using various methods to lift the heavy plank bridge, the Tang army defending the city began to rush onto the plank bridge in armor, and killed the Tubo cavalry who rushed up from the back attack with a Mo knife, and this slope-like plank bridge became the main grinding position of the two armies for attack and defense.
In fact, Xie Feiyu can easily blow up these plank bridges with explosives packs, and then use grenades and thunderbolts to bombard the Tubo cavalry under the city, but this will not play the role of luring the enemy, and whether it can be broken is the effect that Yanglin wants him to do. Their logs were never close to the walls before they were forced back by sharp gunpowder bullets.
"General, it's just a breath away, the Tang Army's defenders are not many, as long as we attack the city from multiple positions, they won't be able to take care of it, as long as we take the city of King Tony. We can grab enough food for us to advance and retreat freely, in fact, we have no choice in this battle, the general should give the order early! ”
The curly-haired, blue-eyed Tubo man who had been mixed with King Hongdu before gave Litu a yì saying. He was right, the Tubo army had no choice, there was not enough food, they couldn't even retreat, but the keen war instinct told Sù Litu that this situation in the Tang army was very abnormal, and there was no need for them to put the important Tony King City in such a predicament. The weight of grain and grass is a problem that any army attaches more importance to, and it was this mistake that he made before to lead to today's situation, and he believed too much in the speed of the cavalry. He never thought that the Tang army would attack his rear so quickly by water.
"Partu, it is my sin that the Dove Bird died tragically in the hands of the Tang Army because of my light enemy, or because of my mistake in guiding the Imperial City of Tony into the hands of the Tang Army. I don't have the face to go back to see Lord Lu Dongzan. You are right, the attack on the city of Tony is our only choice now, but I feel that this is a trap dug by the Tang army for us that we have to step into, I now order you to lead the three thousand youngest knights back to Tibet, I will bring all the food to you, each with three horses, the return journey is too far, if there is no food. Kill your horses for your meat. Although it is a shame to kill horses and eat meat, in order to prevent the Tang Army from bringing greater shame to my Tibet. You must go back alive and tell Lord Sùlu Dongzan about the situation here, and if you still decide to use troops here, I hope that you will be the one who will lead the troops again. ”
Li Tu's tone has the momentum of seeing death as home, Partu has always been the number two person in the Tubo army in Jiaozhi, he is the Tubo people who have experienced all the battles with the Tang Army, not only saw the power of the Tang Navy, but also saw the power of the Tang Army, and understood the wisdom of the young commander of the Tang Dynasty, he may not be mature enough in the battle array, but in the overall political layout, he is definitely a super wise man of the same level as Lu Dongzan, in less than a year, The people under the rule of the four kings of Jiaozhi have obeyed his orders, and if he is allowed to run for a few more years, there will be a strong opponent in the south of Tubo that is enough to threaten the survival of Tubo.
"General, no, you are the commander of this army, as a subordinate must ensure the safety of the commander, I will lead the army to attack the city of Tony, you can lead the army back!" This glimmer of life I can get in Partu, it's my luck, if I can't win it, it should be my fate, when that fool in Hongdu was defeated by the Tang army, I should have died at sea. There were already some tears in Partu's blue eyes, the number of five thousand siege troops was not dead, just now a cavalry sentry came to report, it was already the last two echelons ready to enter the city, the opportunity to exhaust the defenders was not easy, if they still had any chance to capture the city of Tony, this opportunity to pile up with human lives was the best.
"Didn't you hear me? This is an order, an order that cannot be disobeyed, come here, according to my plan, point out three thousand men and horses, gather the grain and hand it to Partu, and the rest of the sons, you will either break through Tony City with me and enter the city to eat and drink, or die under the city, and never be able to eat or drink, use the most powerful strength in your body, and let the Tang army know that the bravest warriors are the warriors of my Tubo country. ”
The reason why the Tubo people were able to be so powerful in this period was because their war culture developed very quickly, even better than that of the Tang Dynasty, Partu was tied to a tall war horse and taken away, three thousand, nine thousand horses walked so quickly, Li Tu's command knife finally waved, and the remaining 20,000 or so Tubo cavalry rushed towards the direction of Tony Wangcheng on the rolling dust waves.
"Quick, let go of the wolf smoke, all the troops of the Tubo people have entered the encirclement, and now we must inform the commander to tighten the encirclement and annihilate them all under the city of King Tony."
On a hill not far from where Litu's army was staying just now, the two Tang soldiers with a bundle of grass tied to their bodies and heads put down the binoculars in their hands and climbed up from the grass.
Yang Lin received the news in half an hour, and at the same time received the news Peng Jian on the water, he is now more than a hundred miles away from the downstream Tony King City, hiding the naval army upstream, and when he launches a surprise attack, he can reach the battlefield faster.
The arrival of a large number of Tubo cavalry made Xie Feiyu, who was sweating like rain on the city wall, very excited, and finally didn't have to act, without his command, the four leaders of the Yanglin Guards had already begun to use gunpowder shells to blow up the Banqiao that rushed to the city, and it was impossible for more than 3,000 people to withstand the impact of more than 20,000 people, they only needed to hold the Tony King City for two hours with the gunpowder bullets and Shenwei cannons in their hands, and two hours was enough for Yanglin to seal all the directions where the Tubo people could escape.
"Boom, boom, boom"
A loud bang sounded under King Tony's city to prove that Litu's conjecture was correct, the Tang army's previous barely supported was pretended, they only took less than a quarter of an hour to destroy the siege of the city, and killed and wounded many Tubo cavalry on a large scale, and the last two siege echelons were destroyed by them almost instantly.
The ugly face of Li Tu to give any military order is very difficult, this is no different from the sentence of his subordinate sons to death, when he waved his sword to command the sergeants to start charging, his rear, one by one the horse fence began to move in the direction of the position, that is the infantry ambushed in the underground hiding hole dispatched, two people in a group to carry a very sharp horse fence began to approach the battlefield, to the battlefield two hundred meters away, they neatly lined up the horse barrier, enough to surround the entire battlefield more than a dozen layers, On the ground under the horse fence, they also sprinkled the iron thistle terrestris that can pierce the hooves of the war horse, the Tubo people do not have the most comprehensive equipment of the Tang Wan cavalry, and they don't know the new thing of horseshoes, so the iron thistle terrestris, which is useless for the Tang army's war horses, is very useful to the Tubo cavalry.
"Well, the arrangement is good, in this situation, unless the Tubo people can fly, it is impossible to break through this fenced area, and the herald shield array and arrow array are prepared, and the artillery will push the Shenwei cannon to the forefront of the position, and all the shells will be loaded."
Yang Lin swept the well-arranged encirclement with a telescope, nodded in praise and ordered, on the Mekong River in the distance, he had already seen the flag on the Tang warship with a telescope, his precise calculation could not be wrong, under the guidance mode of mathematical science, any arrangement can be docked very accurately.
The defenders of the city wall had been overwhelmed by the rain of arrows, and Li Tu saw the movement behind him, compared to the encirclement built by Yang Lin, he thought that the city of Tony, which had begun to become tattered, was easier to break, so the order to storm at any time had been given.
The three hundred horse guards with kraft paper armor all over their bodies climbed the city wall, each of them held a wooden box, the wooden box was full of fist-sized grenades, this thing they must play every day when they were training in the Furong Garden, they could not throw the fake grenade in their hands fifty meters can not be regarded as a qualified guard, now the ordinary level of the guards is about eighty meters, then they will play the game of throwing grenades again, against the rain of arrows of the Tubo people.
The continuous explosion sound sounds from a distance like peas stir-fried in a clay pot, the cracking sound of the explosion is very fun, Yanglin set up a rocket launcher again, if the city wall is really broken by the Tubo people, it will be big, Yanglin has always shown the kind and friendly side to the Jiaozhi people, today, he wants to show the Jiaozhi people the powerful and incomparable side of the Tang army, especially the people of Tony Wangcheng, it is very necessary to establish an invincible image of the Tang army in their hearts, So after a test bomb, Yang Lin decisively loaded with white phosphorus bombs, the Tubo people all gathered near the city wall, it was simply a huge target, three rockets rose into the air, Yang Lin closed his eyes with his hands folded, a wail like from hell sounded near the city wall, the rain of arrows on the city wall suddenly stopped, the curious Tang soldiers stood up and looked at the city, a smell of hair and barbecue came from not far outside the city, they saw the fate of the people bombarded by the white phosphorus bomb very closely, Yang Lin can guarantee that they will not have any appetite for three days. (To be continued......)