Chapter 54 Cottage

The red sun hung in the treetops, and the birds flew to the sound of drums and trumpets, and it was rare for this wild place to have such a lively scene. Columns of men and horses flowed through the river and gathered only a few hundred paces away in front of the cottage on the opposite side. Seeing that the gate of the village was closed, the enemy soldiers showed no sign of taking the initiative to attack, and the Tang soldiers pressed to a distance of several hundred steps. After crossing the river, the banks of the river were a little lower and flatter, but the hills were undulating, and the army formed a horizontal camp among the low trees and grasses that were uneven.

After a while, a horse carrying a flag-raising sergeant ran towards the gate of the village, shouting: "The Tang Dynasty Annan Du Hu Yang Gong is edicted to rebel, open the door and surrender to avoid death!" ”

The horse wandered in the distance for a while, and suddenly saw an arrow shot from the bamboo arrow tower but did not hit the horse, so the knight turned around and rode back, and came to a hill and reported: "Yang Gong, the rebels refuse to surrender. ”

The generals smiled, and one said, "That's the only way to fight." ”

Yang Siqiao stood there expressionlessly and carefully looked at the shape of the cottage for a while. This place is located at the junction of several waterway traffic, it can be seen that it is a relatively large number of villages, far away you can see many low houses and bamboo buildings on the mountain and under the mountain, it is one of the important towns inhabited by barbarians; However, the disadvantages are also more obvious, there are no dangerous mountains and rivers within the radius, and the place where the military town is a little insufficient, but the transportation is convenient for the distribution of goods.

Rao is so, its defense is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the slope is steep, only the entrance to the gate is relatively flat, and there is also a heavy defense, and in front of the valley built a stone wall, there are fortifications on the wall, just like the city tower of the Central Plains, several arrow towers are built left and right. But Yang Siqiao confidently said last night that if he took this place one day, the soldiers would not be afraid to look like they were determined to win.

Obviously, there is only a frontal attack, and the right attack is also in line with the name of the suzerain, and the momentum is the first. But I saw that the people on the arrow tower and the stone wall opposite were dressed in all kinds of clothes, some wore black cloth, wore white turbans, and some hung animal skins, and even many people were shirtless and naked, exposing their tanned loach upper body...... In the eyes of the officers and men of the Tang Army, these people could not be called an army.

At this time, Yang Siqiao gave an order, and the soldiers under the hill approached forward with the assembled ballistas, and stopped and aimed at the arrow towers within the firing range.

After a while, I saw that the heavy arrows of the ballistas flew up one after another, and there was fire on them, and from a distance, it looked like rockets and meteors, whirring and scurrying.

The armament of the Tang army is the most exquisite and advanced thing in the surrounding area and even the world, with a range of hundreds of steps, far beyond the range of Nanzhao's weapons, and they can only wait to be beaten. The ballista was shot for a long time, but the stone wall in the middle was almost intact, and the arrow towers on both sides were made of wood and bamboo.

After a burst of drums, ......the horns were also blown in three long and five short ways, and the Tang Army's vanguard in front of the camp beat the leather drum and moved forward neatly. The movements of the various divisions were orderly, and the footsteps of the marching troops in the mountains were almost unordered. I saw that the barbarian guides and the small allied troops on the Tang Army's side were all stunned to look at the scene in front of them, obviously it was rare to see such a scene of coordination of so many people under the decentralized economy of the mountainous area.

Several warbands slowly approached the gate of the fortress with several giant wooden trunks, sword and shield bearers in front of their shields, and crossbowmen shooting arrows at the wall in the back to cover them. The equipment of the brute soldiers is backward, and even the range of the bow and crossbow is a big difference compared to the Tang soldiers, although hiding behind the wall has the advantage of not shooting the Tang army's crossbowmen, they can only attack the sword and shield hands that come up, and greet them with arrows and stones. For a while, arrows and stones flew up and down the stone wall, and from time to time people fell off the wall. The roar of the Tang army shook the sky, and the barbarians also screamed, and the two sides fought hotly.

At this moment, a can of oil suddenly poured down, and it fell right on the shield of the sword and shield hand in front of the door, and the oil juice splashed everywhere. After a while, many torches were thrown out one after another, and the Tang army below was lit before they could react, and the sergeants' bodies suddenly burst into flames with a "coax", some waved under the wall to fight the fire on their bodies, some rolled on the ground, and some held things to extinguish the fire on the lit soldiers. Screams erupted, and a stench of paste dispersed in the thick smoke. The formation in front was chaotic, and when the arrows and stones on the wall fell down, the defense was greatly discounted, many people were hit by arrows, and some people were smashed to the point that their heads were broken and bleeding and covered their heads and screamed in pain.

There was a burst of "quack" laughter on ......the wall, which was as ugly as a duck's cry, and it was shouting something that the Tang people didn't understand at all, but it was not a good thing to understand.

The army was furious, and the general of one of the vanguard teams looked back and said, "What are the shooting battalions doing!" ”

The crossbowmen were sweating profusely and firing at the wall in a dense manner, when a bare-chested brute came to the wall with a crockpot. It was too late to say that it was too late, and one of the shooters immediately let go of the bowstring in his hand, and the arrow feathers went to the crockpot right in the middle of the crockpot, and "banged" and then inserted it into the head of the goods. Immediately, more than a dozen ignited rockets flew over, and the wall was on fire with a "coax", and Tang Jun watched those people with fire on their bodies scurrying and falling down from the wall, and immediately cheered with revenge.

The strikers took this opportunity to carry the giant tree to the door, and the wood was full of people standing on both sides, "One, two, three...... Bump! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Boom......" The loud sound shook the stone wall and almost collapsed, and the dust fell down. The people under the walls were busy beating each other with long-range weapons, and some of the Tang soldiers carrying the wood were injured by arrows, and they would immediately make up for it, and the courage of the soldiers and servants broke out in the roar.

After hitting it for a long time, there was a sudden "bang", and the heavy wooden door was actually knocked through a hole, so it didn't open it? I heard someone shouting: "The back is blocked with a big stone, and the barbarians don't plan to come out, I'm afraid they won't be able to hit it!" ”

A general ran to the hole to look inside, and suddenly poked out a sharpened bamboo from it, the general hurriedly dodged but did not dodge, and blood splashed in one eye socket, he screamed and took a few steps backwards, covered his eyes and shouted: "Grass|Your mother, Lao Tzu's eyes are blind!" ”

"Big rock!"

A general shouted: "Retreat!" I can't knock it out and go back and get a ladder to attack! ”

When the army heard this, they hurriedly turned around and ran away in a disorderly manner, because the gate was blocked, they did not have to worry about the enemy soldiers chasing them out to cover the killing, so the team members did not care about the team and ran to a distance before forming a team. The retreat looked a little wolfy, and the brutes on the wall laughed and cheered, as if they had won the battle.

Several generals went back and knelt down on one knee in front of Yang Siqiao to plead guilty, and one of them had gauze wrapped around his eyes, looking like a one-eyed dragon pirate.

After hearing their descriptions, Yang Siqiao said: "Since you can't hit it and you don't bring other equipment, you don't have to wait." ”

"Let's take the ladder and continue the attack!"

Yang Siqiao said indifferently: "It's too slow to climb the wall, I have another killer feature." Come on, carry it up! ”

After a while, two sergeants came up carrying a wooden barrel, and someone was surprised to see this: "It turned out to be gunpowder!" ”

Yang Siqiao said: "During the battle of Shibao City, King Xue Lang of Jin used gunpowder and poison to break the city of iron blades, which can be called a surprise battle. There are many dangerous places in the village of Wu Si Nanzhao, and it is inconvenient for the soldiers to attack, so they prepared gunpowder in case of emergency, fortunately, they brought a lot, and now they are just trying to burn down the city gate. ”

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