Chapter 104 Pioneer

The earth monkey burrowed into the tarpaulin shed and could not be seen; Boiling poison sounds scary, but in fact it is not necessarily more interesting than boiling porridge, Xiao Yu looked down at the city for a while and lost interest, and turned his eyes back to Liu Hou: "Taishou just said that there are two places that cannot be guarded against fighting with Fanzi, what is it?" ”

Liu Hou immediately responded: "Fanzi's bastard method, the first 'drive', Fanzi will forcibly recruit a large group of people to be slaves everywhere he goes, and advance with the main force of the army, if the advance army in front of him fights smoothly, then give up, once the battle in front of him is not smooth, the slaves will come in handy after the main force catches up." ”

Ren Xiaozhu didn't know why: "What is the use?" ”

"Give them sticks, long ladders, and drive slaves to siege the city." Liu Hou's face sank: "There are arrows behind him to expel them, and the slaves can only rush forward." If they were left unattended, they would have climbed to the top of the city, and in the blink of an eye, they would have disrupted the garrison of the defenders, and the Tibetan army would take advantage of the situation to attack the city walls; If the switch sends troops to save people, there are a large number of spies among the slaves, and once they enter the customs, the spies will immediately attack and seize the city gate; The safest way is to shoot with a bow, and kill any slaves and civilians as if they were enemy soldiers and dare to approach...... But they are all the people of the previous states and counties, and my compatriots of the Nanli people, and the soldiers were ordered to attack their own people, even if they blocked this wave of offensives, the defenders would no longer have morale at all, and there would be no need to fight the next battle. ”

Ignoring it, putting it in the gate, and resisting the slaughter, Xiao Zhu's brows furrowed tightly, but she only hesitated for a moment, and her depression dissipated...... It's not that I thought of any good way, but Her Royal Highness the princess did another thing in time: With him, I'm worried about a claw?

Ren Xiaoyu looked at Song Yang happily.

Song Yang just smiled at Xiao Yu's gaze, and then looked at Liu Hou: "You can't help but guard against it...... In fact, it is an unpreventable and unsolvable problem. ”

Liu Hou nodded solemnly, and then changed the conversation: "Although it is difficult to drive the army, after all, it is still a 'later story', the slaves will follow the main force of Fanzi, and before them, there will be an advance army in Tubo to kill, and they will use another means: fire." ”

Xiao Jiu'er didn't care about the war, she only cared about her son, she was holding a handkerchief in her hand and wanted to help Song Yang wipe her sweat, and she couldn't help but smile softly when she heard the words, the little maid would never interject on such occasions, but it was inevitable that she would change her mind: My son-in-law has an ancestor who plays with fire, and in front of the fire people, what is the fire of Fanzi?

Not only Xiao Jiu, Ren Xiaoyu was also a general thought, and the two beautiful women laughed at the same time, adding a bit of beauty to Qingyang Xicheng Tower.

"The Western Regions are rich in hot oil, and the purity is extremely high; Gao Yuan Fanzi has another 'rope throwing' stunt, if they really let them perform it......" Ge Sima continued Liu Taishou's words, but he didn't finish it, and finally sighed deeply.

The five countries of Turkey, except for Nanli, have no success, each country has a strong military strength, otherwise it is impossible to fight for hundreds of years and still can't tell the winner, the Han family has a systematic strategy of war, the military array hides mysteries, and the generals use troops strangely and unpredictable; The Uighurs and the Uighurs were particularly adept at cavalry warfare, and when they attacked with iron hooves, they were as fast as the wind and as fierce as fire, far from being as fast as other countries. As for the strength of Tubo, it is the 'abundant fire oil and rope throwing stunt' that Taishou just said.

'Throwing rope', not throwing a rope, but throwing it with a rope, was originally an ancestral gadget of the plateau people.

In ancient times, the plateau people were wrapped around a five-foot long rope around their waists, the first section of the buckle was like a pocket, if there were wild wolves and wild dogs snooping on livestock in the distance during grazing, the plateau herdsmen would take the rope on the waist, pick up a stone and put it in the first section of the rope, and then pick up the rope and hold it high above the top, and after waving for a while, the wrist shook, and the stone whistled away.

The stone borrowed the power of the rope wave, the range was greatly increased, much farther than the arrow, the stone flew out with amazing momentum, the plateau herdsman was more trained to scare off the lone wolf, it is said that the wolves on the plateau have spirituality, as long as the Tibetan people wave the rope, even if there is no stone on it, they will turn around and run.

'Throwing a rope' was originally just a gadget, almost everyone on the plateau can use it to scare wild wolves, but it is almost useless in battle, after all, against a soldier with a crown of armor, the lethality of the stone is limited, it is not difficult to smash a person's head and blood, nose and face are swollen, but it is almost impossible to seriously injure the enemy.

Moreover, the rope throwing should be danced and stored first, and the preparation effort is longer, and it has no effect on actual combat.

However, this juggling method, after being combined with fire oil, immediately changed its appearance and became the killer weapon of the Tibetan army...... When Liu Taishou explained this, Xiao Yu had already roughly figured out the matter, and was shocked: "You mean, the Tubo people will use the method of throwing ropes to throw oil cans at the head of the city?" ”

Liu Hou nodded: "In the past hundred years, the Tubo people have continued to improve their 'rope', and now the rope of the Fanbing equipment is made of a mixture of antelope's tendons and horsetails, and the toughness and elasticity are amazing, so the range of the Fanzi rope has skyrocketed. ”

The container containing the oil is called a 'clay pot', but unlike the ordinary clay pot porcelain bottle, the container of this characteristic is not round, it is diamond-shaped, open, about the size of two fists of an adult, and it is calcined by thin pottery, and the oil is sealed with wax after focusing on it.

Such a jar, throw up one or two nothing, but Fanzi people are good at throwing ropes, the fire oil in the hometown is inexhaustible, when they are attacking the city, tens of thousands of soldiers dance ropes, a salvo is tens of thousands of cans of oil smashed on the city, and Liu Hou once heard that when the soldiers attack the city, launch a 'rope' offensive, there will be at least five rounds of rope salvo.

The range of the throwing rope far exceeds that of the bow and arrow, and the defenders can only watch when they throw, completely helpless, and then the soldiers will send elite horsemen to rush close to the city tower and shoot rockets. Hundreds of thousands of canisters of fire oil have been smashed on the city, as long as a rocket can be fired at the city......

Xiao Yu gasped, and his pretty face turned pale. There is indeed an ancestor who plays with fire in his own family, but against the domineering method of the upper soldiers, even if the fire dao person grows eight more arms, he will only have ten slaps to shake his hands together.

Since the Tibetan invasion of Nanli, I don't know how many small city walls have been burned down by the flames of Fanzi, and I can't count how many Nanli soldiers have been buried in the sea of fire concocted by the enemy.

Although the walls of a big city like Qingyang are so thick that they are not afraid that they will be burned down by fire, it is not difficult to imagine that when the city head turns into a sea of fire, it is not only all the armaments and materials at the head of the city that will be burned by hunting, but also the courage of the defenders...... For the soldiers, the fire at the head of the city did not have a direct impact on them to storm the city gate with sassal wood.

Xiao Zhu's voice was a little tight, and he stretched out his hand to point to the various war preparations that were being continuously transported to the city by the laborers, and asked Liu Hou: "I know that the enemy will attack with fire, but still transport things up?" ”

Liu Hou smiled bitterly: "If you don't have luck, you can't do it, how can the brothers defend the city empty-handed." ”

In a dilemma, there is no good way to defend against the enemy.

Song Yang was noncommittal, as if he had heard it, he only said: "Prepare how you want, and wait for the war to talk about anything." ”

Liu Hou was not disappointed... Or that he didn't have hope at all, the Tubo people's 'rope throwing', like the previous 'drive', is an unsolvable problem for the defenders, Chang Chunhou may be a little magical, but after all, he is not a god.

The arming of the defense, the labor of the labor, no matter how fierce the enemy is, Qingyang must make their own preparations, turn the day to boil the poison, there is a special person responsible for feeding the blades, arrows to feed poison, dry and then distribute back to the city soldiers, the same is ordnance, but the measurement of the poison is different, the knife and gun are used more, and the arrow is used less. The poison measurement on the arrow cluster can basically only be used once and then it will fail, so the main purpose of this treatment is to prevent the enemy from picking up the arrows sent by the defenders and shooting them back.

The armaments from the fiefdom don't have to worry about Lord Liu, how the barbarian beast cicada yaksha departments are stationed has been determined long before the expedition, and now they are also preparing step by step, and everything is in order.

Song Yang, who arrived in Qingyang City, was actually in a similar state as in the fiefdom, still doing his 'big shopkeeper', taking Xiaoyu to visit Master Zhou today, and revisiting the county lord's hometown tomorrow, but unfortunately he couldn't find the vendor who bought candy at the beginning......

Two days later, the front horse survey reported that the vanguard army of Tubo was rushing towards Qingyang, basically all cavalry, and at the current speed, it was only three days away from Qingyang. The army came almost empty-handed, with no siege towers, no stone arm crossbows, not even ladders, but a huge sagile for striking the door.

The towers were too large, and the vanguard was so fast-minded that they couldn't transport those things; And the Tubo people have a 'throwing rope', easy to carry and the effect is far better than the stone wall and the crossbow, the army does not need those things at all; as for the ladder, it is also because of the fire attack strategy, the possibility of using it is not large, if there is a real need, Nanli Duolin, Fanzi can take local materials, cut down wood and build ladders.

However, it is a little strange that the army will bring a huge sandalwood, this kind of bulky thing can be like a ladder, and then choose a big tree to make it when you get to the place, why carry it with you, isn't it too cumbersome?

Tanma is still elite, and found out the truth in advance: the enemy advance carried a piece of wood is a 'weapon of merit', before it was used to use this piece of wood, successively smashed open the gate of Kushui and Hongkou, Fanzi felt that this thing was auspicious, and even specially dispatched craftsmen to rush to work, and carved their Buddha and the sacred mountain palace on it, and now the army wants to use this 'auspicious wood' to break the Qingyang City Gate, and even intends to use this object to destroy the Phoenix City Gate in the future.

The exact number of enemy troops sent in advance is unknown, but depending on the size of their camp, the sentinels also had a rough judgment: between 80,000 and 100,000.

Qingyang City is even garrisoned with feudal weapons, and all together are only 20% of others! This is just the advance of others, when the main force arrives, let alone Qingyang, how can the entire Nanli still have the strength to resist.

The surprise of Chang Chunhou leading troops to help has long faded, and Liu Taishou's face turned pale when he heard the news...... Even though he had known that the enemy was powerful and had been prepared for a long time, he still felt frightened after learning the specific situation.

Not only Liu Taishou, but all Qingyang people are like this.

The arrival of a strong enemy will inevitably affect the morale of the city, Song Yang has long been prepared for this, he does not work, but he will support his friends: since the enemy report came, Shi Xiaoxiao opened the altar and prayed for Qingyang. Originally, it was auspicious to bring a good team from Miaoxiang, and then united with many big temples in Qingyang City, although everything was simple during the war, and the rituals were a little less luxurious, but the grand and solemn place was not inferior.

With the blessings of His Holiness and the blessings of the Buddha, the Zen chanting of compassion refreshes people's hearts and slowly dilutes the fear in people's hearts.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in the past few days, some wandering Tang Lou soldiers have seen Qingyang Fengyan and received Qingyang letter birds, and they have gathered one after another, although the number is not large, only a few hundred, but it has some effect on morale......

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the defenders stood at the head of the city, and the dust was rolling at the end of the line of sight, and some soldiers with keen ears could faintly hear the sound of horses' hooves!

The sky was covered with a faint layer of clouds, not a haze, but it was never clear, and the breeze that should have been cool was also carried by the army in the distance because of the fine sand and dust, becoming pickled and sticky, blowing on the body unspeakably uncomfortable.

At this time, Song Yang and his entourage climbed to the head of the city, the princess and the county lord followed behind, Chen Hui Luo Guan each held a longbow, and the important people in the feudal town followed closely behind, even Feng Long ignored the dissuasion of Gonggong Li, and wore a veil hat on his head to look out.

The enemy army came very fast, the sand and dust swept with the wind and covered the sky, the rumbling horses' hooves gradually sounded like thunder, the galloping momentum of 100,000 cavalry, almost trampling the earth, the entire Qingyang City began to tremble in the loud noise, after a long time, the soldiers at the head of the city could not even tell whether this tremor was the heaven and the earth shaking, or the fear in the heart... Or both.

The horn sounded suddenly, and the special Tubo military horn made of yak horn bones was amazingly loud, with three short and one long repeated cycles, as long as the Qingyang soldiers with a little common sense could know that this was the enemy's urging horn. The enemy cavalry rushed in like a tide, and they galloped all the way, as if they were going to break the thick walls of this fortified city with flesh and blood!

It is completely impossible to achieve, but under the fierce battle intent set off by the 100,000 troops, the Qingyang guards dare not deny that the enemy may really rush all the way and rush over, or maybe they will really overturn this ancient city with their horses' hooves.

If he hadn't been to the wasteland, Song Yang didn't guarantee that his mind wouldn't be taken by the enemy's strong momentum, and the scene in front of him was simply shocking and unimaginably depressing that ordinary people couldn't imagine, but Song Yang had followed the Shamin army to fight for a long time in the territory of Inurong, and had personally experienced terrible and countless killing battles.

Don't say that the Tubo people are now charging like a sea of mountains just to show their might, but it is just a bluff, even if he is under the city at this moment, without the protection of the high wall, and before the iron hooves of the enemy alone, he will still not be moved.

Song Yang's eyes were clear, and he looked at the city quietly, and with his eyesight, he could even see Fanzi's hideous expression clearly.