Chapter 451: Battle Sandbank
Today, Chang'an is a good day, and according to Qin Tianjian, today is a good day for celebrations. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Chen is dressed properly, he rarely wears a grand court dress today.
It's not the kind of clothes that are usually worn casually, it's a grand court dress, and it's inconvenient to wear. After all, today is a grand day, although it is not the winter solstice court, but this kind of people come to worship, or the people of the region who have been trapped by the enemy for decades, and it is not wrong to be cautious.
Li Chen walked slowly up to the Taiji Palace, the east side of the Yanxi Gate, there were already people scurrying outside the door, many people of all ages were already waiting here, seeing Li Chen boarding the city gate, he immediately cheered, and then began to undress...
It's not that the Tang Dynasty was more open, and when I saw the emperor, I was happy to take off my clothes. They just removed the original Tibetan costumes on the outside and put on a decent Tang crown belt.
I saw a group of young and old, dragged the tight-fitting left-hand clothes outside, changed into the robes of the Tang people, and replaced the strange Tubo felt hat with the crown commonly used by the Tang people. Then, there was another burst of cheering, this time even more enthusiastic, and many onlookers also cheered.
Li Chen took the opportunity to announce the reward, so that this group of excited people returned, and he also walked down the city tower, and at the moment he felt a little uncomfortable, no wonder they were all men.
In addition to this good thing, there is another thing, it is not that the Shence army conquered Huizhou, but that Zheng Yazuo, who made Zheng Ya play in Shannan Xidao, said that recovering Fuzhou, which was invaded by Tubo and occupied Fuzhou, was a beautiful thing that was icing on the cake.
Xiaohu They failed to catch up with the icing on the cake, although they had conquered Huizhou, but because of the journey, they had not been able to send the news back to Chang'an. However, it doesn't matter if it's a few days late, it's just a matter of joy.
Conquering Huizhou is easier than you think. Blockade news along the way, although it is still a trade road along the way, but in the state of Tubo, there are not so many business travelers, plus there is camouflage, correction, the Tongxi tribe scouts who originally belong to Tubo went forward to block the news, and they soon arrived at the city of Huizhou.
After arriving at the city of Huizhou, the Shence army began to set up camp, and the next day began to cut wood to make siege equipment. Absorbing the experience of the last battle of Victoria, they don't plan to seek speed, and then there is any loss, the last battle of Victoria, although it was also quickly broken through the city gate, and there were strong crossbowmen in the distance to suppress it, but some falling rocks or something, also brought them a certain degree of damage, this time it will be safe, directly use siege vehicles. The Tibetan guards did not have much fighting spirit, so they only closed the city gates tightly to make their operations much smoother.
The operation went smoothly, and because the vicinity of this state is full of mountains and forests, only the river valleys in this area are suitable for living and farming, and they came up with brand new tools, saws, no longer traditional axes, one person on the left and one on the left and one on the right had to pull, and soon cut down a tree, cut off the branches and leaves, and hastily set up a siege vehicle, and it was about to be attacked.
This siege vehicle, there are wheels under the bottom to push, there is a roof like a roof to protect against bows and arrows, under the roof is a solid beam and column, all made of metal, they brought from Chang'an part of the supply, to the battlefield, as long as the wood is used as a roof, it can be used, both strong and fast.
In order to prevent the enemy rockets, or fire oil, or giant trees, falling rocks and other objects from destroying the siege vehicle, they also use soil bags, piled on the roof of the siege vehicles, so that any ignition is difficult to burn, falling rocks, giant trees and the like are not afraid, there are soil bags that can absorb the impact force, and with a strong metal support, the siege vehicle will have no problem in a short period of time.
After the two siege vehicles were built, and then they were forced to suppress them remotely, Huizhou got Tibet, and enjoyed the treatment of Victoria at the beginning, wave after wave of accurate arrow rain, and the Tubo soldiers in the city couldn't raise their heads.
If during the Battle of Victoria, the Tang people got a rain of arrows, but it was just a drizzle, then today it will be a heavy downpour. Last time, after all, there were only 3,000 people, but this time, they mobilized 20,000 people, more than seven times the number. Although the state is larger than Victoria, it is not seven times larger.
After suppressing the enemy at the head of the city, the siege vehicle came into play, and a bunch of soldiers hid under the strong siege engine, and launched an attack towards the gate of Huizhou. The Tibetan guards were powerless, so they could only watch the siege vehicles approach the city gate, and the only consolation was that he strengthened the city gate overnight yesterday, although it was not impregnable, but it was much more reliable, and it was time for them to fight back after the rain of arrows from the Tang people on this slope.
However, a few loud noises shattered his dreams. It still works like a simple siege bomb box, several of which are piled up at the city gate, and the city gate is easily blown open.
Then everything was a copy of the Battle of Victoria, the Tubo people who were thrown out of the city and thunder and shocked surrendered almost without any consideration, and then Xiaohu and they also got information.
It turned out not so long ago, the distant green. The generation of the Haihe source army, Shang Wanwen and Lunkong Re were another big battle, but Hui Shang Wanwen was defeated, and when he left, he stayed Tuoba Huaiguang to guard Shanzhou, and he went to the west of Guazhou to avoid the edge of the fear of heat. At that moment, Xiaohu decided to leave only a small number of men and horses to garrison Huizhou, notify the Lingwu Jiedu envoy in the rear, and send troops to take over Huizhou as soon as possible.
The rest of the people, will divide the army, recover other states and counties, the Tubo people, now the fighting spirit is not strong, the troops are not enough, originally here the Tubo Festival envoy was defeated for a while, fled, it is a good time to recover the river Huang. However, now it is necessary to divide the troops, and there is still the question of the direction of the main attack to be decided. It's just that they don't know that manpower is sometimes poor, or that it is difficult to disobey God's will, and soon someone helped them make a decision.
There is a saying that the opportunity is for those who are prepared, and it cannot be said that the Tang Dynasty has picked up any big bargains, and it is also the Tubo people's own civil war for a long time that will give the Tang people the opportunity to recover the lost land, just like the De'an History Rebellion back then, if the Tubo people had already declined, they would not have picked up the cheap capital. However, there are others who are prepared and can also seize this opportunity.
Late at night, in a certain city in Longxi, this night, the city seemed to be like the New Year, and the silence was so quiet that it was broken by a group of people.
I saw a group of young men in leather armor and armed with various weapons, several of whom shared a torch, and came out of the courtyard of a large guard's house.
There is more than one such situation, and I saw that in this city, many large families are open in the middle door, and a group of young people who are not too good at weapons, but the battle is high-spirited, have appeared on the street from the house, and all of a sudden, the city is full of fire, as if the New Year is in advance, and begins to drive away.
It's right to drive away the suffocants, but it's a little different, the general exorcisms are the demons and monsters, and all kinds of epidemics and disasters. Today they are expelling the Tibetans. They have endured long enough, and they don't have to endure now.
I saw this group of militiamen, who may have been ordinary young people a few months ago, silently following their captain to a target in the city. They were holding torches, and in the night, they converged into a new star from the original firelight, and then slowly turned into the Milky Way, but in the eyes of those who care, this scenery is more dazzling than the Milky Way in the sky. The heads of all families and the relatives of the soldiers all found a foothold on the courtyard wall, and some simply climbed the trees and watched the scenery silently.
Such a scene naturally alarmed the Tibetan guards, who had to put on his robe in a hurry, and even the leather belt was not fastened, so he tied it around his waist at will, and ran out of his city lord's mansion to watch the situation.
'General. A Tibetan soldier said with a bitter face, "We are in trouble, and the Tang people in the city have rebelled." ''They are so bold. The Tibetan guard was so angry that he slammed the wall next to him.
"Gather, gather, I want to give them a little color to see, let them know that in this land, even if the commander is defeated, this is not where the Tang people can run rampant." Gather my guards, and we'll kill them. Looking at the torches getting closer and closer in the distance, the guard said with a twisted face.
His plan was very simple, that is, to gather the soldiers quickly, he had to go to the barracks first, recruit those soldiers, he believed, when the time came, he would be able to easily kill these Tang dogs, leaving no armor behind. Even, this guard is thinking about which big families in this city have more beautiful women, and which ones have more money. When the time comes, someone should be sent to search for those rebels, so that he will not be corrupted too much.
It's just that people have been planning for a long time, how can they make his dream come true easily? When he led the guards out, he immediately ran into the people who had come to the city lord's mansion to arrest him.
The Tang people here have endured the oppression of the Tubo people for a long time, and this Tubo guard hates these chaotic people, and does not accept the rule of Tubo.
Therefore, the two sides did not answer, and when they met, they were fighting. This general has now put on his armor, and inside is the Tang people's Mingguang armor, and I don't know where he got it. The appearance is the same as that of the Tubo people, a robe is slightly gorgeous, showing his identity.
Carrying a horizontal knife from the Tang people, this general took the lead and took the lead in killing the people's army. But the people's army did not rush at the beginning, first with a strong crossbow, and then with a bow and arrow, completely learning the Tang army's set of firepower coverage methods.
Although it is a pity that it failed to reach the shooting intensity of the Tang army in the past, it was enough to shock the Tubo guards, he was not afraid of the dense rain of arrows to the cold, but he recognized that these were the weapons of the Tubo people, which means that the arsenal had already fallen, and even if he recruited soldiers, it would be useless, and those soldiers were afraid that except for a small number of people with blades, everyone else would have to be bare-handed.
The Tibetan garrison was a little frightened, but he quickly stabilized his mind and rushed forward with all his strength through the range of bows and arrows. In Datang, generally speaking, Wu Qi can be used, only some more powerful weapons, of course, are not cannons and muskets, but such as armor, horse tips, and crossbow arrows are forbidden.
Tubo did it more thoroughly, it was not like Qin Shi Huang, even the kitchen knife was taken away, but they were also restricted from holding horizontal knives, Mo knives are not allowed, long-range weapons, not to mention strong crossbows, even bows and arrows are not allowed to hold.
Although the bow and arrow were fast, the distance was also limited, and the guard, under the cover of several guards, rushed to the distance of hand-to-hand combat, and the two sides began to exchange hand-to-hand combat. Talking to each other with weapons, venting the hatred of both sides.
The fighting was extremely fierce, and these guards were originally the best among the Tubo soldiers, and they were skilled in martial arts. And the rebel soldiers, although they continued to practice, were not the opponents of these Tubo soldiers with strong fighting spirit, and they were killed and retreated as soon as they fought.
The commander of the attack here was the middle-aged man, he looked at the roof of the house in the distance, his expression was serious, but he couldn't see the nervousness, he had already prepared for the defeat ahead.
How long has it been? How long has this ability Datang Frontier, a rich and humanistic city, fallen into the hands of the Tubo people?
Don't look at the desolation of Liangzhou, in fact, in the late Han Dynasty, this place is a paradise, the Central Plains war did not involve this place, many scholars, Confucians, in the Central Plains turmoil, some have to flee to Jingxiang, some have to flee to Liangzhou, so that this was originally a cultural desert place, brought in the culture from the Central Plains, laid the foundation here.
And this city, now in the hands of the barbaric and uncivilized Tibet, has been more than forty years, and he was born after the fall of the local area. From childhood to adulthood, his grandfather and father taught him not to forget that he was a Tang man and a proud Tang man. Although we were forced by the Tibetans to change our dress habits, we are still Tang people in our bones.
When Longxi was captured by the Tibetans, the aid from Chang'an was cut off, this and several neighboring cities insisted on resisting for 11 years, until the ammunition ran out of food, and had to give up resistance, this is the pride of the Tang people, you barbaric, backward Tubo people do not understand, now it is time to get back everything that belongs to us.
At this time, the guard broke through the defense, killed the group of rebels who came to round him up, he took the rest of the guards, rushed through the square streets like a chessboard, he was going to the barracks, what if the weapons were gone, as long as the brave Tubo soldiers were gathered, they could still leave these pieces of armor that were so cowardly that the Tang people killed them, what about their bare hands? Weapons can be snatched from the dead Dons.
It's just that... It was all over quickly. At dawn, this city, which had fallen into the hands of the Tubo people for more than 40 years, returned to the hands of the Tang people.
Just when the middle-aged people, in high spirits, were ready to regain the other cities in one fell swoop, the bad news came, putting them in a dilemma.
is also caught in two rare situations, and there is also the left army of Shence, but Xiaohu is very decisive and quickly made a decision. (To be continued.) )