Chapter 64 The attack and defense of the Tahe River flowed like a river of blood

"Fang Dudu, a certain former army just watched the Chinese army and the left army as the siege vanguard?" Returning to the former military camp, Xue Jian snorted angrily and shouted to his boss.

"How did you talk to Fang Dudu?" Li Xiancheng, the head of the Right Army and the Governor of Heishui, who was invited to the banquet again, said with a smile: "A certain right army has not been included in the siege sequence? ”

"Right Weiwei, Liaocheng Army and Huaiyuan Army are listed as the first echelon, Yingzhou Army and Baoding Army are the second echelon of the Xincheng Army, and our front army is the third echelon, what's wrong with this?" Fang Sihai said with the god in his presence.

"The third echelon? Our former army eats ashes behind other people's butts? ”

"Donald Fox spent a lot of effort but only won a second echelon, General Xue doesn't think there is a problem?" Li Xiancheng said without yin or yang.

"That's right, he's an old fox, the left sentence is that the front army has suffered heavy casualties, and the right sentence is that the front army needs to be repaired, why didn't he grab the vanguard?"

"He's not wrong, a certain former army does have heavy casualties and needs to rest,"

"But..."

"Is General Xue afraid that there will be no battle?" Li Xiancheng and Fang Sihai, the two governors, clinked glasses and drank wine.

"The pioneer is just a false name, Donald Fox doesn't want it, what does a certain former army want him to do?" Fang Sihai said disdainfully: "Tahe is so easy to lay? Just rely on the right to defend those honor guards? Is Ashina Jisheth easy to deal with? In this battle of crossing the river, the Turks were so powerful that they didn't understand it? ”

"Yes, I wonder if General Xue understands? The Tang army suffered more than 4,000 casualties in this battle, which was a real battle with more than 3,000 soldiers killed, and the Turks responded in a hurry, but only lost more than 5,000 soldiers and horses. Talking about the battle a few days ago, Li Dudu still had palpitations.

"Donald Old Fox doesn't want to be a pioneer, he just doesn't want the former army to earn more credit" Fang Sihai Governor is actually an old fox" The third princess Yan Junluan wanted to fight for breath, I heard that the right Weiwei in the host was suppressed by the demon wolf? ”

"Where? Although the demon wolf is domineering, he is not so strong as to bully the little lady, and Aldan Huma's head skills are all right guards" Li Dudu smiled, and he was also a little weak-hearted, suppressing the forbidden army? That Demon Wolf Celestial Star is playing with the forbidden army.

"Hmph, the old man is not blind in his eyes and deaf in his ears," Fang Sihai scoffed.

"Although he didn't fight for the vanguard, he couldn't be idle, General Xue had to watch carefully these days, observe the flaws in Tahe City, and wait for the turn of a certain siege to make a contribution" Fang Sihai comforted the young subordinates who were lacking in interest.

"I still have to do a good job of construction, what are the requirements of the former army, although I have orders, there are still quite a lot of craftsmen in the thirteen departments of the Far East"

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say"

If the army and the right army did not have a banquet in advance, the right guard battalion of the Chinese army also quarreled.

The young generals of the Forbidden Army were red-faced, arguing about who should be the vanguard of the vanguard.

The governor of the left army, Tang Xiujing, personally went to the Huaiyuan military camp on the north bank of Huma to supervise the preparations for the regimental battalion tomorrow.

On the fifth day of the seventh month of the tenth year of Yantang Shenlong, at the time of Chen, the right Weiwei Qin Chong Department of the Chinese army of Zhengmohe received the siege equipment delivered by the right army on the west bank of the Tahe River, and the cloud bridges and ladders were readily available.

At that time, the battle in front of the Tahe Pioneer City was completed.

Yan Junluan sat on the yellow horse, and the golden bright light armor was like a god in the sunlight.

Yan Guofeng, the ambassador of the Liaocheng Army, looked at Tahe City with satisfaction, and felt a burst of pride, he relied on the old man to sell the old man and roll around yesterday to snatch the first battle of the siege from the proud soldiers of the forbidden army.

Compared with Chang'an, Tahe City is like a rural earthen wall, even compared with Liaocheng, it is also a lot simpler, but it is also three zhang high, the black soil is built, the porcelain is rammed, the battlements are lined up, the bed crossbows are densely covered, and the corner tower horse face parapet wall is readily available, but at this time it is silent, faintly a few figures are shaking, and there is no activity of the Turkic soldiers.

The cold crossbow bolts sticking out of the hole did not make the proud soldiers of the Forbidden Army tremble, and the young Right Guard generals were already boiling with blood, and the victory of the friendly army a few days ago made them see the ambition of victory.

More than 50 catapults in the front row were in place, and Yan Junluan took Ximen Ying and other guards to ride horses back and forth in front of the Tang army.

"A certain group came to make contributions to the Tang Dynasty, kill the enemy, and reward"

"First Climber, One Level"

"Datang Wansheng"

There was a burst of bloody shouts, and a dull drum sounded.

With a wave of her hand, the third princess Yan Junluan started the catapult that left the city two arrows away from the city in front of the Tang army, and the boulder the size of a horse's head smashed into the head of Tahe City like a dark cloud.

About 8,000 people of the Liaocheng army pushed the two-person high baffle car out of the column and slowly moved towards the Tahe city wall, followed by a four-zhang high ladder car with a chassis, and each column of sergeants wore heavy armor and moved into the wall, like a mountain to advance.

Tea kung fu, catapults each cast more than ten rounds, the head of Tahe City is in a mess, several battlements were smashed out of the gap, but unfortunately the battlements are quite tall and square, and the situation of the defenders can not be seen.

There was no moat in Tahe City, and a trench of different widths was also filled in by the former army, and the officers and soldiers of the Liaocheng army quickly rushed to the bottom of the city, and several siege crossbows aimed at the head of the city and began to scatter to cover the placement of cloud ladders.

Yan Guofeng was overjoyed and shouted, "Sons, go up"

The soldiers of the Yan army have already shouted and shook the sky, this shout was drowned out silently, the cloud ladder has been hooked up on the daughter wall, and the ant-like general attached the ladder to the top, at this time, the city head did not send an arrow.

In the blink of an eye, some sergeants climbed halfway up the ladder, only to hear the sound of a gong, and a few wolf teeth were exposed to the city.

With a howl, several wolf tooth rolling logs broke the ladder and smashed into the siege soldiers, and in an instant more than 20 cloud ladders broke up, and the rolling soldiers who rolled down didn't have time to get up, and the rolling logs covered with iron nails smashed down.

More than 2,000 people from the Liaocheng Army marched first and wailed under Tahe City in an instant.

Ten thousand arrows began to fire at the battlements at the head of the city, and the siege queue and the follow-up teams immediately formed a blood ditch.

"It's a plan, retreat quickly" Yan Guofeng didn't wait for General Yan's order and roared.

"Catapult cover, fast" Xiao Jing, the ambassador of the Huaiyuan Army, was also the first echelon of the siege, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately shouted.

"No, there are still soldiers under the city who have not retreated" Yan Qiong's face turned pale, but she still stopped the catapult action.

"I can't save it, I want to suppress the Turkic siege crossbows" Xiao Jing's face changed greatly.

"Don't throw stones" Yan Guofeng, the ambassador of the Liaocheng Army, had already turned his horse's head and retreated, listening to the sound of wild shouts.

General Yan Qiong and Yan Junluan also hesitated, and Lieutenant Qin Chong, who commanded the catapult, squinted and waited for the order.

At the moment of the dispute here, the catapult at the head of Tahe City began to throw stones, and the stones that were fiercer than the Tang army in the previous section were overwhelmingly smashed towards the Tang army.

The first two arrows of Tahe City were perfectly covered with stones.

Seeing the friendly soldiers constantly being smashed and their heads exploded, Qin Chong gritted his teeth.

"Release, release" Qin Chong didn't care about the instructions, and ordered to his subordinates.

The confrontation between the catapults of the two armies ended with the destruction of all the catapults of the Tang Army, after all, it was much more difficult to launch them from the bottom up than directly from the city.

Before noon, the Tang army's siege vanguard withdrew, and the Liaocheng army lost 3,000 soldiers.

In the afternoon, the angry Tang army once again mobilized a hundred catapults, and after three hours of intensive bombardment, the Tahe city wall seemed to be stormy.

On the sixth day of the seventh month of the tenth year of Yantang Shenlong, the vanguard of the Tang army of Zhengmohe attacked the city again, and the main force of the right Weiwei took turns to fight in eighteen Chongfu, and the 10,000 Huaiyuan army and the remnants of the Liaocheng army also attacked in turn, but unfortunately no one boarded Tahe City.

On the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the second echelon battalion state army attacked in turn,

On the eighth day of July, the Xincheng Army and the Baoding Army continued their onslaught.

On the ninth day of July, it was finally the turn of the former Bohai Navy.

As usual, there was a burst of stone throwing, and the 20,000 Bohai Navy launched a huge load, and five towers that were as high as the wall were also sandwiched between them.

Every evening, the defenders of Tahe City allowed the Tang army to search for the bodies of the dead, and the ground washed by the blood left behind was black.

The earth city of Tahe has been hit by the Tang army a few days ago, but the thick earthen walls are still standing.

This time, the Tang army finally landed first, and a team of Yingzhou jumping teams insisted on a bowl of tea at the head of the city, and returned to silence.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, the Lu Long Army and the Black Water Army attacked the city.

"It's finally someone's turn" Ambassador Xue Jian was fully armored, riding on a tall horse and laughing wildly, while the battle maniac was speechless.

Guo Yi Duwei of the right regiment of Temple Street was seconded by the former army, and has been accompanying Xue Jian, who is also a militant, these days while watching the armies attack the city, while drinking and playing in the Lu Long army, it is much more relaxed than when he was in the right army, and the wolf group is a little happy, although he doesn't know the allusion of this idiom.

The 18,000 Lu Long Army was hidden behind the thick horizontal board, the 20,000 Black Water Army pressed the formation, and the second brigade of the Wolf Regiment on the right side of Temple Street was heavily armoured, hiding in several hill-like arrow towers.

The catapult still smashed into the mottled Tahe city wall, and the dust was filled, but it still could not be damaged at all.

The three-mile-long southern wall of the Tahe River also responded to the fierce stone and wood arrows.

First, slowly moving the array, approaching the city wall for a hundred steps, the Tang army suddenly exerted force, divided into several groups, a few breaths, and the cloud ladder was set up at the head of the city, although the Lu Long army lost a few people every time he stepped forward, but finally approached the city wall.

The walls have been knocked out of many caves that can be hidden, but they are still strong.

The Turkic wolf's fangs had been worn out, and the defenders had to brave the arrows to poke out of their bodies and smash the ladders with hooked scythes or flails.

From time to time, ladders were smashed or pushed, and many Turkic soldiers were shot to death or stabbed to death with spears by besieging soldiers.

The arrow tower, which is level with the wall, continuously fires crossbow bolts to suppress the Turkic defenders at the head of the city.

Approaching the city wall, only three of the five building cars remained, as soon as they made contact, several tall figures jumped into the city, and the morale of the Tang army besieging the city was greatly boosted, and several soldiers who were not afraid of death also rushed to the city.

The head of the city of Tahe, the face is more than a zhang, can accommodate the horse to run, the Tang army that just climbed on the wall was surrounded by countless Turkic soldiers, the two sides fought in one place like beasts, and the blood flowed in the city like water.

The Tang army paid hundreds of lives and finally opened up the situation in a city.

Xue Jian is worthy of the young son of the Imperial God Knight, who is not afraid of arrows and climbs the wall himself, and he is brave and unparalleled.

Here, the Tang army has gathered nearly a battalion of more than 200 soldiers, and the head of Tahe City is in danger.

An iron pocket arrow on the arrow tower at the head of the city was not good, and the siege crossbow was ordered to turn around, and several dense bowstrings sounded, and the Tang army at the head of the city penetrated a few strings, and most of the besieging Turkic soldiers were also swept away.

Seeing that things were not good, the battle maniac who came up with Xue Jian left the city in his turn.

Xue Jian encountered a rain of arrows on the way to the city, fell to the city like a hedgehog, turned over and went down the city, picked up the pile of Mingguang armor and desperately recited it, a team of Turkic warriors at the head of the city hit like the wind, and the Tang army at the head of the city was chopped into meat sauce, only a sip of tea was missing, and the young son of the imperial god knight almost died at the head of the city of Tahe.

Duguzhen, the general manager of the Tang Army of Zhengmohe, looked at Xue Jian, the unconscious ambassador of Lu Long, and then looked at the temple street captain who was bandaged but didn't care, and his eyebrows twitched.

The commanders of the five armed forces present were all grim-faced, and no one dared to speak.

"Commander, tomorrow a certain battalion of the state army is willing to be the vanguard, and rush again" For a long time, the former army commander Fang Sihai gritted his teeth and asked for an order.

"Let's fix it for the day," Dugu was tired.

Six days of onslaught, 20,000 casualties, did not hurt Tahe at all, and the proud Tang soldiers had to bow their noble heads.

"Let's talk about the siege of the city, how do you feel?" Out of the Golden Sore Camp, the former army's big tent was seated, the soldiers of the various armies of Zhengmohe stood silently, and the general manager of Dugu had to make an inquiry.

"The Turks are well prepared, the city is high and the walls are thick, and they have done their best, please punish the chief manager" Yan Junluan, the head of the Chinese army, had to grit his teeth and accept his fate.

"What about the Tang Governor and the Fang Governor?" The chief manager, Duguzhen, was noncommittal and continued to ask.

"The Tahe Turks occupy a favorable geographical position and have a good schedule, although they try their best, they are tired of running for their lives and have suffered a lot of losses," Tang Xiujing, the Confucian general of the left army, muttered.

"I think we should continue to attack urgently, our army is tired, and Tahe has exhausted its strength, if it is attacked for another three or five days, it will be defeated" The former army governor Fang Sihai was angry that his deputy was injured and did not wake up.

"The siege equipment is seriously damaged, and if you continue to storm it, you will suffer heavy casualties," Li Xiancheng, the commander of the right army, said with a bitter smile.

The general manager of Dugu was silent, and he patrolled the generals several times, "Dugu Tianxing, the captain of Temple Street, hasn't come back yet?" ”

"Not yet," Li Dudu had to reply stubbornly, "but yesterday I sent someone to reply and found that there were traces of Turkic soldiers and horses in the dense forests around Tahe."

"The camp has also been warned," the deputy chief manager replied.

"Alarmist," Dugu sneered, "It's not yet to the point of rumors"

Then the Dugu manager got up.

"The right army will speed up the construction, and the rest will prepare for battle, and attack again the day after tomorrow,"

"The former army is the vanguard, and the first to ascend will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be 100 gold"

After a day of repair, the Tang army recovered a little morale, the governor of Fang Sihai personally supervised the battle, and the 20,000 battalions of the state army fought to the death for a day.

Pick up the lantern and continue to fight at night, until there is no more progress in the morning.

On July 13, the Chinese army attacked the city with a loss of nearly 2,000 soldiers, but did not capture the city.

It was night, the moonlight was as clear as water, the Chinese army camp was full of injuries and illnesses, and behind the ten major military gates of the empire, Cheng Peng, the little grandfather of Cheng Men, was hanging with a bandage on his right arm, with a bitter face.

Captain Qin Chong, who was also a disciple of the military sect, drank wine silently, Shi Zhuwu, the head of the right guard, and several other commanders Zheng Ne Dou were straight but had no appetite.

"It's going up when I see it, it's really unlucky" Cheng Peng took a big sip of wine.

"Qin Duwei is not bad today, he has a lot of credit for slashing and killing an iron manhole," Zheng Neduwei said with a vinegar taste.

"For the sake of complete merit, it is not worth mentioning" Qin Chong responded lightly.

"It's the turn of the Yingzhou Army tomorrow, right?" Captain Dou Zhidu asked.

"It should be them, hey, how is the right army moving?" Zheng Ne wondered.

"Who knows?" Cheng Peng said disdainfully, "Let a certain forbidden army attack first in the next round, and a certain person will not believe that he will not be able to attack this small Tahe City."

"Hey, what's the movement?" Xuanjie Captain Gu Meng, who had been silent, suddenly wondered.

"What?" Captain Zheng Nedu scoffed.

"Something is wrong," Qin Chong put down the wine bowl.

Young Grandpa Cheng Peng listened carefully for a while, threw down the wine bowl and opened the tent.

I saw a fire near the camp tent, and the sound of killing shook the sky.