Chapter 12: The Bloody War
Tashi looked at the black-armored Mo Dao camp that pressed over like a mountain, and swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe Heishan army has fought with the Tang Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and knows that the most terrible army in the entire Tang Dynasty is this Modao battalion that has attacked the Turks in the north, resisted Goryeo in the east, Baiyue in the south, and Tubo in the west!
Although this Modao battalion had suffered more than half of the casualties in the multi-day siege battle, and had become a crippled battalion, their uniform pace did not show the slightest decline in their combat effectiveness. Tashi's eagle-like deep eyes looked at the Modao battalion that was crushed step by step, slowly lowered his body and put his waist knife on the ground, and drew a longbow from his back. The Tibetan warriors behind Tashi had cultivated a deep tacit understanding with Tashi in many years of warfare, and they didn't need Tashi's orders at all, and they drew their longbows one by one.
Tashi stared at the black-armored men in the Modao Camp, and silently counted in his heart: "One hundred and fifty steps...... One hundred and twenty-five steps...... One hundred steps...... Seventy-five steps...... Fifty steps ......"
When he counted fifty paces, Tashi suddenly pulled out a wolf-toothed arrow and shouted, "Release!" In an instant, an arrow array composed of a hundred wolf tooth arrows pierced the ranks of the Modao Battalion like locusts. Suddenly there was a "flutter...... The sound of "thumpping ......" and "clanging...... The sound of an arrow being bounced off by iron armor alternately .......
Tashi knew that this round of arrow rain looked terrifying, but it did not bring much harm to the Modao Battalion. The heavy armor on the Modao Battalion can only be effectively shot through by the armor-piercing cone, and the wolf's tooth arrows can only be injured at most, and it is far from making the Modao Battalion lose its combat effectiveness.
After a round of arrow rain, Tang Jiang, who was at the top of the Modao Battalion's sharp arrow formation, roared at this time: "Rush!" In an instant, everyone in the Modao Camp shouted in unison: "Gale! Gale! "Instantly began to pick up the pace. However, the armor on the Mo Dao Battalion was too heavy, and although the Mo Dao Battalion had tried its best to charge, the short distance of fifty steps still took more than twenty breaths.
In just twenty or so breaths, a short distance of fifty paces, Tashi's hundred-man team shot four waves of arrows. However, except for a few unlucky eggs who were killed by arrows through the cracks in the armor, these four waves of arrows did little damage to Modao. At this time, the Tang army had already rushed to the front of Tashi's defense line piled up with horse corpses, Tashi threw the longbow in his hand to the ground, picked up his waist knife, and shouted: "Gong Ju Keqin!" "I took the lead in greeting him.
Suddenly, the black wave crashed against the earthy yellow reef, and after a brief standoff, Tashi's team of 100 people immediately retreated. The scimitars and spears of the Tubo people had no effect on the heavy armor on the Modao battalion. The waist knife is a white line when it is cut up, and the spear is a white spot when it is pierced, and the big Mo knife weighing dozens of catties in the hands of the Mo Dao battalion can cut the Tubo people and their armor in half with a single knife.
Tashi used the spear in his hand to cover the attacking swords, and listened anxiously to the dying roars of the Tibetan warriors. In fact, the Modao Battalion is not without weaknesses, because the heavy armor of the Modao Battalion is too heavy, so the Modao Battalion only wears armor on the chest, and there is only a layer of leather armor behind it. In the past, when the Blackwood Army fought with the Modao Battalion, as long as they grabbed the array of the Modao Battalion and greeted the back and side of the Modao Battalion, the Blackshirt Army and the Modao Battalion were not without a fight. However, the current battlefield is too narrow, and the Modao battalion marches in a row and marches together, so that Tashi's hundred-man team does not have the slightest chance to grab the array of the Modao battalion, and can only watch in vain as the brothers around him desperately block the route of the Modao battalion's advance, and then be chopped by the rows of falling Modao knives.
However, at tea time, the Modao battalion broke through the three lines of defense built by Tashi with horse corpses, and pressed Tashi's 100-man team from the city gate to the city gate, and less than 20 people were killed in the 100-man team, and the entire city gate cave was full of broken limbs and flesh, just like the Shura field.
Tashi gasped and leaned against the city gate, blood and sweat running down his cheeks into his clothes, a spear in his left hand, and his right hand had already been cut off by a Mo knife on his forearm. Although it has only been half a pillar of incense to fight, both the Tang army and the Tubo people have reached a point in terms of physical strength. The Tang army began to shrink its formation, recover its strength, and prepare for the next wave of offensives, while Tubo was ready to pull a few more pads.
With his left hand, Tashi struggled to tear off a strip of cloth from the placket of his shirt and laboriously wrapped the section of his right arm. There were still a dozen or so of his hundred-man team left, and Tashi beckoned them to form a semicircle while wrapping up his wounds, each with their backs to the city gate, forming the last line of defense that could withstand the attack of the Modao team.
Just when the temporarily calm battlefield was brewing the next wave of thunder and rainstorm, suddenly, a soldier with a face covered in smoke and dust climbed down from the city tower, rushed to the Modao team formation, and said to the officer, "General, the Tubo brigade is here!" The officer of the Namo knife team was taken aback when he heard this, knowing that although Tashi had few people, he was holding the gate of the city, and if he could not recapture the city gate before the Tubo brigade of people and horses entered the city, then Liangzhou would fall into an unprecedented crisis.
At that moment, the commander of the Mo Dao Battalion did not care about the fatigue of his subordinates, and immediately waved the command flag to organize the last wave of offensive.
Although Tashi could not see the smoke and dust rising behind him, he could feel the urgency of the Tang army from the futile intensification of the Tang army's offensive. With his keen intuition for many years on the battlefield, Tashi immediately realized that his reinforcements were coming, and immediately shouted in Tubo: "Brothers, hold on, the prime minister is behind us, Tang Gou is in a hurry!" ā
Tashi's 100-man team had suffered heavy casualties, and although he still had the strength to fight with years of battlefield experience, he couldn't help but be a little demoralized when he couldn't see the hope of victory. Now when I hear Tashi's shout, although I don't know whether it's true or not, I feel that my morale is in vain. At the moment, they all gritted their teeth and desperately resisted the offensive of the Tang Army.
Tashi swung a spear in his left hand and fought for his life. The soldiers of the Modao battalion are tall and strong, which is an advantage, but the burly soldiers of the Modao battalion in the city gate cave can only face Tashi with two people at a time at most, and the original tall and strong figure has become a disadvantage.
Tashi's spear resembled a poisonous dragon, pointing to the gap in the armor of the Modao Battalion. In one fell swoop, many soldiers were injured. Although the commander of the Modao battalion saw Tashi's bravery, he also knew that it was just a return to the light, even if no one cared about him and let him toss himself like this for a while, Tashi's little life would probably be explained. But what Tang Jun lacked at this time was precisely time. At that moment, the commander of the Modao battalion ordered all the soldiers to besiege Tashi's subordinates, and he rushed towards Tashi with the Modao himself.
Tashi was brave, but his men were exhausted and wounded after so long fighting. As soon as the Modao battalion stepped up its attack, the last dozen or so Tubo soldiers became ghosts under the knife one after another. Seeing that the commander was fighting Tashi alone, the Modao battalion didn't go to help, knowing that Tashi was just the end of a strong crossbow. So the soldiers of the Modao battalion in the front row stuck their knives into the ground one after another, reached out to push the city gate, and tried to close the city gate. However, after a push, it was discovered that Tashi had blocked a horse corpse in the crack of the city gate when he first entered the city.
The commander of the Modao battalion saw that he could not recapture the city gate without killing Tashi, and at the moment he had the strength in his hand, and the Modao knife was as fast as a knife, slashing Tashi's left and right, but Tashi did not retreat, and he was dead at the crack of the city gate, and let the commander of the Modao battalion cut him all over blood, and he was standing tall.