Chapter Seventy-Five: Attacking Tahe Again The Tang Army is fierce
The demon wolf Tianxing saw that the tiger was really confused, and he didn't care, and ordered Dugu Qiuqiu to lead a carriage and send him to the military camp to recuperate.
"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island. My Fair Lady, Gentleman. Males do not live alone, females do not live alone. The basalt turtle and snake are entangled and supported by each other. After all, it is the same as each other. Dugu Tianxing hummed in a strange voice, continued to sit on the black coffin, and ignored the busy soldiers of the various battalions around him.
Duguzhen, the general manager of the camp of the Expedition to Mohe, and Chen Dao, the superintendent of the army, watched the right army attack the city at night, did not return to the Chinese army, and stayed at the Tahe Wuhao Gang Fort.
After more than an hour, I heard a disturbance in the direction of Tahe City, and the generals who were watching the battle in their armor got up one after another.
"Before the time comes, the right army will begin to prepare to attack the city?" Chen Daoqi said.
"Nonsense, the repair is not good, the army is tired, how to attack the city" Duguzhen's face was uncertain, and he didn't know if he was not sleeping enough or was angry.
"Send someone to investigate" The third princess Yanluan and her escort Ximen Ying rested on the ground floor, and climbed up to the third floor at this time.
After a while, the sentry will report that there will be a sneak attack by monsters under Tahe City.
One after another, some people reported, and the generals who watched the battle in Gangbao gradually became clear, and a giant monster was summoned by the Turkic shaman and prepared to attack the military camp at night, but was stopped by the Demon Wolf Celestial Star Grand Magician, and then there was a Louguan faction Tiger real person to help, and finally subdued the troll.
At that time, Li Xiancheng, the governor of Heishui, personally brought breakfast, and the truth of the whole incident was revealed one by one.
Temple Street Duwei Dugu Tianxing Grand Magician found out that there is a shaman hidden in Tahe earlier, good at controlling the soul, Dugu Demon Wolf secretly sent someone to summon the tiger real person Zhong Licuo who was far away in Hailan Pao to cultivate the temple, Zhong Licuo was hidden in the black coffin during the day, although the siege occupied a section of the city wall on the eve of the night, but it did not force this shaman to appear, Dugu Tianxing Duwei resolutely ordered the withdrawal of troops, ugly, the Tahe Turkic shaman was impatient after all, and made a bold move, Yan Tang Junyan and the two elites joined forces to lead the thunder and yellow spring water, and dissipate the heroic spirit of the dead soldiers condensed the troll, Destroyed the spell-casting shaman.
The generals sighed for a while, and there were more sorcerers with the team to solve everyone's doubts, the Turkic shaman and the Yan Tang sorcerer are at the same level, they are good at communicating ghosts, this shaman's spell is weird, the yin knot soul, the fierce battle in front of Tahe City, the accumulation of dead spirits, is a great place to cast spells.
Shaman condenses the demon of the soul, can resist the blade, is not afraid of arrows, and likes to devour the soul of living creatures.
"Can penetrate the overall situation, retract and release freely, and be able to observe the details and plan for the future, Captain Tianxing, a great talent!" Chen Dao, the military supervisor, patted his leg and praised.
"When the floating is white, there is no wine in the battle array, and the tea is replaced" Duguzhen, the chief manager, is also honored.
The two camp bosses praised the Demon Wolf Tianxing, and the Yunlu general Yan Qiong and the soldiers of the army also had a great understanding, and the great magician made a move, and mortals didn't understand.
Every half an hour, there were sentinels in the front camp to report, nothing more than what the siege soldiers were preparing for.
This morning's breakfast is the same as last morning, with a lot of variety, and the generals have a great appetite and eat it all.
At that time, the Chinese army came to watch the battle again, and Wang Jiangnan, Zheng Suier, and Zheng Xiuer were also among them.
Although the three little ladies were wearing military uniforms, they couldn't hide their pretty, and the Dugu Governor and Chen Jian were speechless to each other, okay, after the battle, it was about to become a place for outings.
However, the two of them are not easy to say, two of the three little ladies are high-achieving students of the Tang Academy, and they joined the army for cultivation, and they are about to use military law, and all parties are unhappy.
The arrival of the three little ladies, the general of the forbidden army on the second floor of the Gangbao is the most welcome, and after a day and a midnight fight, suddenly three little ladies came, eye-catching and heart-warming.
Under the hospitality of the generals, the three little ladies were also smiling and groaning, eating the special breakfast made by the Temple Street Zhechong Mansion, and listening to the generals talking about yesterday's fierce battle, and they were very happy.
In particular, Wang Jiangnan, who is known as the goddess of fire in the Tang Academy, was amazed by the generals' mouthful lotus flowers, which made the generals hate to go into battle in person, and made himself the hero of the little ladies' admiration.
When the time came, General Yan Junluan personally invited the three little ladies to go up to the third floor to watch the battle, which made the generals on the second floor annoyed.
On July 17, the tenth year of Yantang Shenlong, early in the morning, Tahe.
A long horn sounded, kicking off the Tang army's attack on Tahe City again.
In front of Tahe City, the Tang Army's right army of Mohe was in a strict formation, and the Temple Street Zhichong Mansion was still in the formation, the black water army on the left, and the thirteen feudal soldiers and ghost mercenaries in the Far East on the right.
In front of the battle, there was still a carriage and a black coffin, and on the black coffin stood the sleepless Great Warlock Demon Wolf Celestial Star.
The Celestial Star Grand Warlock waved his hand, and two carriages drove out of the formation, and there were actually two black coffins on the carriages.
The demon wolf guard, the blonde King Kong bear, and the short-bodied boy Ah Dog, took over the towing of two coffin-carrying carriages to the city gate, and the big bear shouted loudly, "Listen to the stick of the khanate, a certain captain is kind, and return you and other soldiers who died in battle"
The Turkic soldiers on the tower of the city probed to watch, but no one answered.
"One for Kolkut, one for the Great Shaman" Da Xiong continued to shout, his body was pitched, and his sound shook all over the world.
After a while, four ropes were lowered, and Big Bear and Ah Dog kindly helped, carried down the two coffins respectively, tied the ropes, and waved their hands to let the Turkic defenders pull themselves up to the tower.
When the big bear and the dog were finished and were about to pull the carriage back to the battle, a cloth bag was thrown on the castle tower, and the cloth bag fell to the ground, scattering a lot of gold and silver.
Big Bear grinned and picked up the cloth bag and went back to the formation.
Dugu Tianxing was teaching the siege of the city with the generals, and the leading generals of the thirteen mercenary armies of the Blackwater Army around him nodded frequently, and even Zhao Yong, the captain of the Temple Street Cavalry Academy, was also impressively listed.
Dugu Tianxing ignored the big bear and sorted out the gold and silver in the cloth bag with a smile, and waved his hand to let the generals return to the battle.
The voice of the big bear can be heard by everyone in the city in front of Tahe City, even the generals of the Tang Army who are watching the battle in the fort by the Tahe River a few miles away can also be vaguely heard.
"What is Captain Celestial Star doing?" Wang Jiangnan's little lady is a talking baby.
"Return the corpses of the dead soldiers of the enemy army in battle" The clever Zheng Sui'er guessed the scene in front of Tahe City.
Sure enough, after a while, the sentinel came to report, and the right army returned the body of the dead Turkic general.
"The Captain of the Heavenly Star has an ancient style, which not only promotes the virtue of benevolence and righteousness of my Yan Tang, but also shows the heart of attacking the city, this strategy is wonderful" Chen Dao supervised the military envoy and has a tendency to become a supporter of the Demon Wolf Tianxing.
"Hehe, as long as you don't learn to be pedantic in Song Xianggong," Dugu's chief manager also smiled.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong abided by the principle of "benevolence and righteousness", adhered to the "military salute", and pursued the principle of "gentlemen are not seriously injured, do not capture Ermao, do not obstruct passes, and do not drum and do not form columns". During the battle, Song Xianggong insisted that the Chu State first arrange the troops before he sent troops to meet the battle, and the result can be imagined, the Chu State defeated the Song State, and Song Xianggong became the prisoner of the Chu State. In the end, under the mediation of Lu Guo, Song Xianggong was released, and Song Xianggong's behavior seemed to be very cowardly, and it also left a laughing stock for the world.
As for the unprofitable nature of the Demon Wolf Tianxing, I don't know how to write the word benevolence and righteousness, right? Wang Jiangnan slandered.
Before the time came, the sun was still in the sky, the light mist was ethereal, and the right army of Mohe in front of Tahe City was nervously preparing siege equipment.
Six siege towers that are level with the three-zhang city wall are in full swing, a hundred catapults are ready to go, and the Tang army craftsmen are still building two large appliances, this is a wooden siege vehicle, the front is more than three zhang high, the slope mops the ground, ten zhang is long, and there is a wooden shaft under it.
The Tahe Turkic defenders saw that the huge siege engine was about to take shape, but there was nothing they could do, and several rounds of crossbow bolts and slings were fired from the city, but they could not make the car.
There were only a few bones left in Tahe City, so he had to shout loudly for the guards to carry the equipment for defending the city.
"This time, the Demon Wolf Tianxing is going to die," Cheng Peng, the captain of the forbidden army, laughed.
"Then you have to let the Turks put the siege vehicle close," the Kyoto Forbidden Army had a name, and Duan Yunduan, the commander of Guoyi Duan, who was called the Huazhou Dao Cavalry Army, poured cold water.
A dull horn sounded, and the hour had come.
The slings on the hundreds of catapults rose into the air and began a wild bombardment for nearly half an hour.
As soon as Shi Yuyun rested, the Tang army slowly moved forward surrounded by six siege towers and two huge siege vehicles.
The Turkic defenders of Tahe City began to return fire with catapults and siege crossbows.
The Tang army ascended first and carried the ladder, but the speed was not fast, and the crossbows on the siege towers began to shoot at the defenders.
Immediately, the Tahe Turkic defenders found that the situation was different from the past, and this time the Tang army did not say anything about shooting bows and crossbows, but most of them were rockets.
Before the Turkic defenders could recover their strength, a sudden rain of fire suddenly drifted in the Tang army's array.
More than 100 bowls of fireballs fell on the city wall in an instant, and the head of Tahe City was suddenly in flames.
It was the Temple Street Warlock Team hidden in the siege queue, led by the Demon Wolf First Disciple, the Little Demon Wolf with all the power, and the thirteen-year-old genius sorcerer of the Temple Street Wolf Regiment.
"This is the hole card of the wolf group, how can there be no warlock under the great magician?" A few little ladies watching the game chattered.
The generals of the forbidden army in the second-story guard fort also began to bet, betting on how many hours the right army would take to capture Tahe.
"One for five hours"
"Four hours pay two"
"Three hours for three"
"Five to two hours"
"One hour pays ten"
"The remainder pays ten"
Hearing Duan Yun's shouting downstairs, Wang Jiangnan's little lady blinked her eyes a few times, and shouted downstairs, "Ten gold for one pay"
"Wang Shenjun is so optimistic about the Demon Wolf Heavenly Star?" Chen Daojian made the military envoy Qidao.
"Supervisor Chen, I am betting that the captain of Tianxing will capture Tahe City in two hours"
"Huh? Wang Shenjun is so optimistic about the Demon Wolf Heavenly Star? "The chief manager of Dugu is also curious.
"Gambling, of course, it's big with a small one," Wang Jiangnan's little lady said innocently.
Everyone laughed and laughed.
"How do you define the capture of Tahe City?" Little Lady Wang asked again.
"Just open the city gates," Duan Yunduwei replied.
"Supervisor Chen, why don't we also gamble a game?" Dugu said with a smile.
"Oh, I think that three hours is enough" Chen Jian Jun took over, which is also the opinion of most generals.
"I think two hours is enough," Dugu responded.
"Hehe, it's indecent to bet on things, it's better to bet on poetry, right? The loser writes a poem for the devil wolf? ”
"Daya, I have heard for a long time that Chen Jian Jun has made the poems and writings strange, and you should be blessed with a feast on your ears" Dugu's general manager looked like he was winning.
"However, the Liao Guogong article is beautiful, and Kyoto Chang'an has been singing for many years, and today a certain number of blessings are there" Chen Jian military envoy did not show weakness.
The generals who watched the battle slandered each other, what poems? The men in the army still come to the silver money.
After all parties finished placing their bets, they all looked back and watched the grand occasion of the offensive and defensive battle of Tahe with a smile.
A horse galloped in the distance,
"Report, Temple Street has entered the city"
"Ah, so fast?" The spectators were dumbfounded.
How long has it been, and a cup of tea is not enough?
"How's it going?" Chen Daojian's military envoy was not calm, and went to the sentry gate to personally lean out of his predecessor and asked.
"Is that a cavalry?" Wang Jiangnan had good eyes in his young eyes, and looked in the direction of Tahe in the distance and exclaimed.
The chief manager of Dugu also built a pergola and tried to distinguish the distance like an ant siege queue.
"Yes, it should be the Temple Street Cavalry"
"Cavalry siege?" The generals watching the battle are not calm, and the cavalry is attacking the city? It's unheard of.
The first to attack the city was Zhao Yong, the captain of the Temple Street Cavalry Army, Zhao Heishan, the former knight of the Right Jin Wuwei of the Forbidden Army with a face like a beautiful girl but covered with black veil.
Cavalry first? At this moment, even he himself did not believe that he had accomplished this eternal feat.
Earlier, the Dugu Demon Wolf beckoned him and asked him if he had the intention of going first, and Zhao Yong was stunned.
Zhao Yong is also a bold person, otherwise he would not give up the knight division of the Kyoto Forbidden Army and defect to the Far East Wolf Regiment, even if he is like this, he only thinks that when the city gate is opened, the cavalry will be useful.
"When the siege vehicle is close to the head of the city, the slope half a zhang wide is enough for you to drive a horse, you take a few horses to rush up the slope, and it is not a problem for the horse to jump up the city, and build a defense line with a shield to cover the follow-up queue."
After explaining his task in a few words, Zhao Yong couldn't help but be enthusiastic, and his handsome face turned red.
At the beginning of the siege, Zhao Yong, the cavalry captain of the temple street Zhechong Mansion, took a team of personal guards, and slowly moved forward with the siege first, and by the way, he also shot a few arrows.
The siege car left the city before there were still five zhang, has hit a few arrows, fortunately the rough wood is strong, just a few tremors, break a few horizontal logs, do not hinder the big thing.
The two siege carts next to the siege car frantically suppressed the city head, and the sorcerer team also desperately threw it towards the city head with a rain of fire.
The siege vehicle needs a hundred people to move, and at this moment the surplus strength is exploding, and the speed of moving forward is accelerated, and the Turks in the city also feel that something is wrong, and they fight back, and the shield hand covering the siege vehicle has been changed twice, and finally only two zhang away from the city wall.
Zhao Yong's eyes narrowed, the corners of his mouth pulled under the veil, and he rode his horse with a lance, and took the lead in rushing up the siege slope.
Ten zhang slope into a forty-five degree oblique angle, good horses gallop, but the number of ten breaths, the siege vehicle is not more than a zhang away from the city, Zhao Yong shouted, the crotch of the war horse in the three zhang high siege car head jumped to the head of the Tahe city.
Tahe city head has been panicked, a series of fierce battles, Turkic veterans do not exist two, yesterday the Turks have not been able to use the elite attached to the wolf soldiers to defend the city, sure enough, the siege of the Tang soldiers caused huge casualties, but unfortunately the Tahe attached to the wolf soldiers after all, there are only more than 10,000, even plus Kolkut with thousands, today there are only three thousand, Ashina Jishe had to withdraw the last elite of Tahe, and the defenders sent are recruits who have been in the army for less than half a year.
Although the Turks were fierce, the recruits who had not experienced the big war naturally had limited experience, and the other cavalry rushed to the city, and they all looked stupidly.
Zhao Yong has been fighting with the Turks for several years, how can he give up the opportunity at this time, the long lance waved, and the horse rampaged at the head of the city, until a siege crossbow turned around and shot his mount, Zhao Yong's long lance was thrown, and the siege crossbow was torn apart.
Zhao Yong took down the shield on the side of the horse, and the next few horsemen leaned on the horse's corpse to form a tight shield array.
The thirteen horsemen who followed him to attack the city actually went to the city in full.
When the Turks reacted, they dispatched a large team to squeeze over, and the siege vehicle had already arrived at the head of the city, and Jin Yifeng's infantry had followed the siege vehicle.
In less than a cup of tea, the head of Tahe City, which this siege vehicle faced, had been captured by the Tang army in a three-zhang long area.
The luck of the other siege vehicle was not so good, the slope was smashed out of several large holes, the war-mad wolf warrior brigade was put down under the car, and the Turkic defenders used a few long logs against the head of the siege vehicle, and they could not advance an inch.
Seeing that the Turkic guards pushed a few ballistas, the all-powerful little magician hurriedly threw out a few fireballs the size of a basin, and Dugu Wuming rubbed the car with the jumping team, and climbed up along the crossbars on both sides.
The jumping squad is heavily armored, ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate, Dugu Wuxing was shot like a hedgehog, fortunately, it did not enter the flesh, and the Tang army continued to fall, Dugu Wusheng finally approached the city, turned over and danced with a knife, and knocked down several Turkic soldiers defending the city, and finally gained a firm foothold.
The battle frenzy roared angrily in the sky, and rushed along the siege vehicle with a horse chopping knife, and the follow-up soldiers also swarmed with him.
Several stones the size of the millstone were rolled down by the Turkic soldiers, and the siege vehicle immediately collapsed, but fortunately, the siege vehicle had a long log that was not broken, and it was supported at the head of the city alone.
Dugu had no help from the wolf warrior, the pressure was greatly reduced, and the two of them were back to back, forcing themselves to open up the situation in the city.
The car under the city continued to release arrows to suppress, and two ladders were erected, and the follow-up first went up to the city one after another.
The siege vehicle on the east side of the city tower finally completed its mission, and hundreds of Temple Street soldiers attacked the city, and the follow-up continued.
"The demon wolf is really demonic," sighed Fang Sihai, the commander of the former army of Zhengmohe, who was watching the battle at Luhao Gangbao.