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Chapter 154 Breaking the Spring Ice

The cold winter of the fourth year of Tiance finally passed, and when the spring of the fifth year of Tiance came, everything did not recover early. The full-text ad-free novel is all on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info [This chapter^ section is updated by Wanshu Ba]

This whole winter, the Tiance Tang Army and the Tianfang Hui Army have not fought a big battle, although they have only made a small contact, but they have not started because of the weather.

After the spring warmed and froze, the battles were put back on the agenda, and the better the weather, the tighter the defense became, but in February, the dynamics of the two sides became strange again.

In the past winter, the military rations of both the attacking and defending sides were almost consumed, Guo Wei did not show the mountains and waters, did not attack the city but blocked the way out of the Heavenly Army to the east, and did not fight a very fierce battle but made the people of Samarkand dare not go out of the city lightly, which led to Samarkand, Bisheng City and Bohid basically in a state of consumption and no income.

The Tang army was also not comfortable here, although Guo Luo mobilized a qiē of resources, all that could be saved, and even some non-combat teams had begun to use the grain restriction policy, which was very dangerous, and mobilized the people to try their best to loot the eastern part of the Nami River valley for a qiē that could be eaten, but by the beginning of February, the entire army was still in a state of running out of food at any time! The transportation from Ningyuan to Nami was not completely thawed until mid-January, and the follow-up supplies were difficult to arrive.

So after entering February, the most eye-catching thing for the offensive and defensive sides was still not to fight, but to supervise grain, Satuk actually left Samarkand and rushed to Kushan Prefecture one by one, because there had just been a small rebellion there, and if the rear was unstable, it would be useless to hold the front line!

And Guo Luo is worried about food!

"It's coming, it's coming soon!" He always said that.

Guo Wei sent people to ask several times, because he didn't dare to officially start the siege because the follow-up food was not available! And Guo Luo is really sad, you must know that although the mountain road thaws in early spring, the road at this time is very difficult to walk, so the daily speed of the grain transport team is several times faster than that of summer and autumn, and there are often accidents, although the first batch of grain has arrived, but the number is too small, compared to the entire army is simply a drop in the bucket.

Guo Luo calculated that according to the current situation, the food that is enough to supply the whole army will definitely not be able to arrive within half a month, and after five days, the Tang army's food will be exhausted, and then it will enter a terrible period of starvation, even if the number of troops is large enough to try to adjust again, but after ten days, the Tang army must consider retreating! Because of Essatuk's shrewdness, he will not wait until that time not to counterattack!

Now the shape of the east is already very bad, if the west is not successful, the entire Tiance regime is afraid that it will enter a state of great contraction and retreat!

At this time, Guo Luo, what he fought with Satuk was not who was stronger, but who was more stoic!

"Is God really going to kill me?"

How much thought has been put in, how much situation has been laid out, and everything is ready, is it necessary to be blocked by a few days of food at this juncture, so as to fall short?

Within a few days, his gray hair had grown dramatically! On February 10th, seeing that the food was about to run out, Guo Luo's god became more and more unsightly, and half of his black hair was white! Although he tried his best to block the news, there were some things that could not be hidden, and there was an impetuous atmosphere in the whole army!

At this time, the Wula Mountain was completely unsealed, and this mountain road led to the Baishui Chengchi District, which in turn led to the Danros region, which in turn led to the Broken Leaves region -- this was another future of the Tiance Tang Army. However, Guo Luo did not take this future into account, the successive soldiers from the Broken Leaf area to the Danros region made this place very tired, although Xiaoshi stabilized the situation there with the help of the Shi and Ge families, but Zhang Mai and Guo Luo's expectations for their side were only to hope that there would be no chaos over there, although Shi Ba also tried to transport some grain and grass, but the quantity could not become the main supply of the war in the Nami River Basin.

But at this time, after the thaw of the Ura Mountains, a flock of sheep poured from the mountain road!

"Report! The supplies over there are broken leaves, they have arrived, they have arrived! It's already past the Urashan! ”

Guo Luo didn't take it seriously at first after receiving the news, but found that the messenger's tone seemed to be a little too excited, and asked, "How many?" He thought to himself that although it couldn't be too much, but in the current situation, if he could survive one more day, there would be more hope.

The messenger reported a number, and Guo Luo jumped from his seat and shouted, "How is it possible! ”

The messenger presented a letter, this letter has been sent for a long time, and the date is October last year, but because of the ice and snow closure of the road, it has not reached Guo Luo's hands until now!

Guo Luo opened it and looked at it, but it was not written by Shi Ba, but by Yang Yi! It turned out that after Yang Yi came to the book last autumn and thought that he should continue to insist on the west first and then the east, he thought of all the problems that might be encountered on the western front, so he sent a letter to Shiba, asking him to search for all the sheep in the Broken Leaf area, and transport all the sheep west to Hengluo and Baishui City before the winter solstice, and at the same time he mobilized the sheep that Beiting could raise to move west to make up for the lack of the Broken Leaf area.

Yang Yi's move almost drained the potential of Beiting and Broken Leaves, making the Beiting area extremely empty, but for Guo Luo, this is a batch of life-saving materials!

When the first batch of sheep and horses arrived in the Namihe Valley, Guo Luo gave an order to Guo Wei: "Attack!" ”

The general attack, which has been waiting for a long time, has finally begun!

On this day, Guo Wei slaughtered many newly arrived sheep samples, so that all the soldiers - including the combat troops and civilians - were fed!

Eating the newly arrived military rations, the whole army knew that the biggest crisis had passed!

"After this meal, we will attack the city! Seven days! The city will be taken in seven days! ”

The whole army cheered and thundered, like the roar of the sea, and some people shouted: "Why bother for seven days! One day is enough! Today we will take the city of victory! “

Although there was no particularly big battle in the past winter, it also allowed Guo Wei to be fully prepared, most of the siege equipment had been completed when spring came, and when Guo Luo's order came, the war suddenly entered the high tide from peace!

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, wearing silver sè armor, flocked to the outside of the city like a school of fish in spring, and Shuyibar knew that the opponent had to grasp the field power of this war at the first time!

While the cavalry marched in, 2,500 movable catapults outside the city were slowly propelling!

These catapults are the design of Ningyuan mechanical master Sadie, some key parts have been built in Ningyuan, dismantled and transported here, and then local materials, made a lot of underframe and matching parts, Sadie has trained a total of hundreds of craftsmen, in this winter to do 2,500 catapults, each catapult to use 20 people to control, plus the surrounding guards, this huge catapult group alone has reached 80,000 people!

It is also thanks to Guo Wei that he has done I don't know how many jade exercises in advance, and almost every place in the west of the trench has arranged the corresponding catapult placement place1-~ This pre-arrangement took an unknown amount of trivial effort! But it is precisely because of this that this operation will not be chaotic!

In order to make the actions of nearly 100,000 people in a small space in an orderly manner under such technical conditions as this generation, it really requires extremely valuable command art!

Countless bridges were erected in the trenches, and black pressure catapults poured in, and the shells were all brimstone and oil bombs, and there were also huge stones that were fired on the spot!

Looking at the black and oppressive group of catapults, the people in the city were shocked! They didn't expect that there was such a sharp weapon hidden behind the trench! Catapults are not uncommon in the riverine area, but 2,500 catapults! That's a terrifying amount!

"Gather in one place, give me zá!"

Guo Wei ordered!

The Catapult has a greater effective range than the Bow and Arrow, and it has a guard set up to defend against long-range and weak bows, but the Catapult moves slowly, so both Ibar and Ishtar will be able to see what they're going to do next from the Catapult swarm!

"Please let us fight!" Ista represents the black knights of the Heavenly Sect and comes to ask for battle.

His request for battle is reasonable, in the city of victory, the archers can not help these long-range siege tools, if you want to deal with catapults, you can only use catapults, and there are only one hundred and fifty catapults in the city, this "only" is actually not properly described, this number is actually a lot elsewhere, but compared to the number of Tang Army catapults outside the city, it is not enough for the other party to be a fraction!

And to use the catapult in the city to accurately project the catapult outside the city, there must be someone who is proficient in long-range ballistics, (that is, the hand taken in the Tang army), after all, Satuk is a shallow army, and there are not many people in the army who can be proficient in long-range ballistics, with the current situation, the catapults in the city are obviously unable to effectively suppress the actions of the catapults outside the city, as long as the Tang army is placed in this catapult group, the walls of the city will face an extremely terrible and even irreparable situation!

Of course, the catapults have a natural disadvantage of being almost defenseless against melee troops, and Sadie's design, while dexterous, is also so clever that it is impossible to arrange every catapult into a very strong little fortress - it would be difficult to move and unbreakable!

"As long as our cavalry approaches and tramples all the way, God forbid, we can flatten this catapult array in one trip!" Isha said: "This catapult group should be the last killer weapon of the Tang people, as long as it is destroyed, the morale of the Tang army will definitely be greatly damaged, and it is bound to collapse!" ”

Istta's analysis makes sense, but Shuibar has another concern: "But what if this is a trap for the Don Army?" He said.

"It's a trap, we have to get out!" Ishtar said, "If all these thousands of catapults are set in motion, do you think the walls of the city will be able to withstand it?" ”

The walls of Bisheng City, many of which are made of stones, are very resistant to blows, and Shuyibar has synthesized the defensive techniques of various countries, prepared cotton tire cloth vines to offset the zá force of the stone, and prepared various fire extinguishing things, so he was not very worried about the catapult siege method. Not only the catapult siege method, but also the ladder, crash, tunnel, water attack, etc., he was prepared, but he didn't expect the Tang army to use the numerical advantage as soon as it came up!

Two thousand five hundred catapults, if they are started at the same time, hundreds of them are aimed at one place, how long can the hard and thick walls resist?

"Gotta get out of town!" All the black cavalry shouted!

"Even if the other party has an ambush, but this is under the city, our bows and arrows can help suppress the other party, this battle, we have a chance to win!"

Last winter, Shuibal's turtle could not shrink, which has made most of the Heavenly Cavalry very dissatisfied, if Shuibar refuses their invitation to fight at this time, then if the battle goes smoothly, it will be forgotten, if the battle does not go well, these people may become uncontrollable!

In many cases, the commander may not be unaware of the danger, but he must also take care of the morale and morale of the army. Fighting a war, after all, is not a script.

"Well," said Shoibar, "but you are not the strikers, but the main force.

"What do you mean?"

Shuibar didn't answer, but he knew that although the cavalry under Istah's command reached twenty or thirty thousand, the real core elite was only six or seven thousand, and these six or seven thousand people were one of Satuk's biggest assets. In addition, he has another power that he has not yet used, and this power is not suitable for defending the city in the eyes of Shuibar, and that is the Zealots from the Heavenly Realms!

These people have also been clamoring for war in the past winter, and they are very dissatisfied with the shrinking of the turtle of Joibar, they are very terrible after being inspired, but defending the city is a technical job, and it depends on perseverance more than fanaticism, so Joibar decided to let these people go out of the city to be cannon fodder!

The Tang Army has a mountain-like catapult, and I don't have a fanatic like the sea!

This battle is about to start before the catapult is arranged!

The 2,500-seat catapult is a very large project to be arranged, and although the action has been started since early in the morning, the calculation time will not be completed until at least dusk!

And before noon, the order of Shuibar had been spread throughout the city!

"Let's fight!"

He ordered!

The tens of thousands of Heavenly Fang Sect fanatics who were suffocated all screamed wildly, and the agents of the Mountain Immortals personally went to the crowd to boost morale!

"Let's fight, let's fight! The East is a flower-like Tang Dynasty, and if we win, the territory there will be ours! We are going to conquer their men and take their women! Even if you are going to die in battle, the true God has prepared for you in Heaven with beauty and wine, where you will have eternal life and eternal happiness! ”

Wild cheers came from inside the city, and when the gates were opened, what a terrible crowd poured out!

What terrible things will happen in this space between the catapults and the walls of victory?

"Now is the time for you to show your loyalty to Datang." Before the war, Guo Wei had already asked Guo Luo for almost all the Hu cavalry, "Can the city of victory withstand our robes?" No way! Just wait for the robe zá to open a way, and you guys will rush in! Tian Khan has already given an order, those who enter the city first, the soldiers will be crowned! General ripping the ground! The city of Marand will be given to the tribe that first enters the city! ”

Hu Qi was overjoyed, they had been accustomed to seeing the turtle of Shuibar in the past winter, and felt that as long as the catapults could open a way, it would not be difficult to rush in, and they did not know what awaited them in front of them!

"Let's go!" When the gates were wide open, Ishtar shouted, "The catapults are inconvenient, not to mention that there are so many catapults that they can basically fill up all the places they can move!" So if we just rush closer, we win! You don't have to fight, you can win by charging!! ”

"Victory, victory!"

The cheers came from inside the city, and from outside! In this season of spring ice, both the offensive and defensive sides feel that victory is in sight! (To be continued.)

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