Siege warfare is an extremely cruel thing for both warring parties, this is not only a test of blood and fire, but also a contest of will, the corpse mountain and the sea of blood are common things, for every soldier who enters the battle, it is in the ghost gate, there is no courage to die and then live is absolutely unable to persist in this cruel battle to the end, as far as this article is concerned, it is the same for both the offensive and defensive sides - the Tang army has no way to retreat, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance as the defending side of the city also has no way to retreat, therefore, This is a duel on the cliff, but the situation in front of the Tang army is more severe than that of the Three Kingdoms Alliance - as the besieging party, the Tang army has no geographical advantage, and the total strength is only half of the opponent's, so it is not easy to take the heavily guarded city.

Blood is always hot and cannot be shed in vain. Although Li Zhen didn't really have to take Hetian, but in order to catch Tagan and take the bait, he had to play a full role, of course, Li Zhen never wanted to fake the show, if he really lost a lot of money under this small Hotan City, even if he won, it would be equivalent to losing Anxi's future, the reason is very simple - not to mention that Xue Yantuo is still watching the chaos in the Western Regions, not to mention that the class of King Qiuzi is tossing around blindly, even if there are no these annoying things, If Li Zhen wants to go to the north of the Tianshan Mountains in the near future, he will have to have a battle-hardened army, if this battle will fold the old book in, then the following days will not be easy, in this regard, Li Zhen has to make a cautious move - just when the siege battle is about to start, there was a sudden commotion from behind the Tang army formation, and a large group of young men in tattered clothes appeared next to the Tang army array under the escort of a group of Tang army soldiers.

Beggar? Of course not, this large group of young men with a scale of nearly 10,000 people is the officers and soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance who were captured by the Tang Army half a month ago, cannon fodder? It's not like, this group of prisoners who were escorted to the front of the battle by the Tang army did not hold weapons, and they were not even wearing armor, some were just a hemp bag in each person's hand, and it was obviously empty.

Li Zhen did not explain to the army the purpose of this group of prisoners of war appearing here, but just waved his hand coldly and said, "Begin!" Hundreds of Tang officers and soldiers pushed twelve divine crossbows and ten huge trebuchets slowly out of the array, and went straight to a distance of about three hundred steps from the city, and methodically began to adjust the firing angle of the ballista and trebuchet, at the same time, the officers and soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance at the head of the city were also busy tinkering with the city crossbows placed at the head of the city, trying to destroy the Tang army's siege weapons first. Most of them are fixed angles, and if you want to adjust them in place, you can't do it for a while.

Trebuchet, this thing is not uncommon in the Western Regions, and there are also many such tools in the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but such a behemoth used by the Tang Army has never been seen, even if he has never heard of it, Fu Yanxiong, who was originally staying on the city gate tower, only glanced at the trebuchet pushed out by the Tang Army, and immediately gasped, and ordered loudly: "Quick, adjust the crossbow and attack the trebuchet with all your might, quickly!" As soon as these words came out, the soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, who were already busy, were even more panicked, and in a hurry, the adjustment work not only failed to speed up, but was much slower, which made Fu Yanxiong anxious and angry, but helpless.

"Put!" Seeing that the sergeants under his command were all in place, Ying Wu, the captain of the Shenji Battalion, suddenly waved a small red flag in his hand and gave the order to attack, but when he heard the sound of machine springs, twelve Shenji crossbows took the lead in launching, and more than 100 huge crossbow arrows shot out, heading straight to the head of the city with a strong roar, and then ten huge trebuchets were also launched in unison with more than 200 Tang army soldiers, but saw ten huge stones with more than 300 catties in the air across a wonderful parabola, whining towards the city head.

Chaos, a big mess! The soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance at the head of the city were frightened by such a huge momentum and fled in all directions, trying to avoid the kiss of death, how could the city head not be big, the city was full of soldiers, and there was no way to hide, although less than half of the more than 100 crossbow arrows of the Tang Army really fell on the city, but they instantly took the lives of dozens of officers and soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but although the ten stone bullets were only two in the middle of the city, the rest were all shot into the city wall, but they unexpectedly achieved a lot of results- One of the two stone bullets at the head of the city destroyed a city crossbow, and the other hit the city gate tower, and the city gate tower made of stone collapsed half of it, and almost wiped out Fu Yanxiong and others as soon as the battle began, as for the eight stone bullets that fell behind the city wall, they also fell into the array of the shield knife hands of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, which was on standby under the city and ready to reinforce the city at any time. The Triple Alliance Army, which was caught off guard, lost more than 300 people, and what made the officers and soldiers of the Triple Alliance even more worried was that Fu Yanxiong and others were all in the half-collapsed city gate tower, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead.

"Fight back, fight back!" Fu Yanxiong was dragged out of the ash heap by a group of guards, spit out the spittle with mud and sand, pulled out the treasure knife on his waist, and shouted wildly, those officers and soldiers guarding the city saw that their king was fine, so they stabilized their hearts, and took advantage of the moment when the Tang army was loading, launched a counterattack, but saw that the ten intact ballistas on the head of the city were launched one by one, and the ten giant crossbows went towards the location of the Tang Army's Shenji Battalion, but unfortunately the momentum was not loud, not to mention, there was nothing accurate, Except for a crossbow arrow blind cat encountered a dead mouse and shot a Tang soldier who was busy operating the equipment, there were no other results.

"Your Majesty, you can't go on like this." The disgraced Prince of Shule, Hersa, didn't care about wiping the dust off his head, glanced at the Tang army outside the city, and lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, this place is too dangerous, I'd better hide for a while." ”

Fu Jiaxiong didn't know that the city was dangerous, but he knew better that there was no commander in front of the formation, his morale would inevitably be low, once the Tang army began to charge the city, the city could not be held no matter what, if someone else mentioned this suggestion to him, Fu Jiaxiong must have cut the past, using this person's head to boost morale, but unfortunately it was Hersa who said this, Fu Jiaxiong also counted on King Shule to lead the army to help, this knife naturally could not be cut, but he didn't give Hersa a good look, and glared at Hersa angrily, Strode to the front of the city, pointed at the Tang army array outside the city with a treasure knife in his hand, and said loudly: "Sons, show courage, the widow is here to watch you kill the enemy, for my fathers and fellow villagers in Khotan, for the glory of me as a soldier, kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

Not to mention, the officers and soldiers of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, who were originally demoralized, saw that Fu Yanxiong was so brave, and their morale recovered for a while, and the chaos in the city also calmed down, no one said any slogans, but the hands holding the swords and guns were a little stronger, only Hersa glanced at his mouth disdainfully, cursed a few words in a low voice, and no matter what others thought, he flicked his sleeves and walked down the city angrily.

Put it again, put it again! A long-distance battle between the city and the city was very pleasant, although the Tang army had the absolute upper hand, but in addition to the great results of the initial attack, the next because the defenders of the city evacuated the crowd, strengthened the vigilance, and failed to reproduce the glory, what is more troublesome is that although the power of the Shenji crossbow is large, there are many crossbow arrows that can be consumed, only after four rounds of salvos, the crossbow arrows carried by the army have been exhausted, and they have to stop, and the ten trebuchets because of the relationship between the head, although it seems to be a good fight, The actual results were very average, hitting the stone wall, the damage effect was only average, and it could not cause too much damage to the wall.

It's almost time to go! Li Zhen, who had been silently watching this long-distance confrontation, saw that more than half of the city-defending crossbows that posed the greatest threat to the besieging troops on the city had been destroyed, and his heart moved, and he made up his mind to start rushing the city, waved his hand, and ordered loudly: "Fill the city!" ”

The horn of the Central Army of the Don Army sounded again poignantly, but in a moment, the rush troops set off, however, to everyone's surprise; The first attack team was not any unit of the Tang Army, but a group of prisoners of war with bulging bags and bags in their hands - at the moment when the crossbows were shooting at the city and the city, the nearly 10,000 prisoners of war had been under the custody of nearly 1,000 Tang officers and soldiers, taking sand on the spot, filling all the bags with sand, and at this time, they were trembling under the blades of the Tang Army's supervising team and marching to Hotan City.

Not good! Fu Yanxiong, who had always stood at the head of the city, was stunned at first when he saw the prisoner of war team dispatching, and then immediately reacted, the Tang army was going to use sand and stones to fill the moat, and his heart suddenly shook violently, regardless of the fact that the Tang army's trebuchet was still firing sporadically, and ordered loudly: "Blow the trumpet, the archers will go to the city immediately!" ”

In the sound of the horn, the Khotanese archers, who had been evacuated to the back of the city to hide because of the Tang army's crossbow arrows and trebuchet attacks, immediately braved the stone bullets that fell in a mess, and rushed to the city, each bending their bows and arrows, lined up in an array, ready to attack, but when they looked again, the people who came to the stroke were all captured their own brothers, and they were all dumbfounded for a while, and they didn't know whether to release arrows to their own people.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Seeing that the POW brigade was getting closer and closer, and that all his archers were hesitating there, Fu Yanxiong immediately became anxious, brandished the sword in his hand, and shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty, those are all my brothers." As soon as a commander of an archer who looked like a thousand households heard Fu Yanxiong's order to release the arrows, his face turned pale with a "swish", and he hurriedly reminded him.

"Bastard, when the moat is filled in, and the Tang army rushes, won't our army be in danger, hurry up and release the arrows!" Fu Ja roared in a rage.

Fu Jiaxiong has given the order to die, all the sergeants can no longer bear it in their hearts, and can only obey the order, but seeing the arrows raining down on the head of the city, in an instant, it will stir up a miserable cry in the group of prisoners of war who are getting closer and closer, and pity those unarmed prisoners of war fell more than 100 people immediately under this volley, this is still the result of the defenders of the city because they can't bear it in their hearts and release the water, Rao is so, the frightened prisoners of war still blew up the pot, many people dropped the cloth bags in their hands, turned around and fled backwards, but unfortunately they didn't wait for them to run far, The cavalry of the Tang Army, which was the supervising team, rushed up, and all those who fled backwards without a cloth bag in their hands were cut down to the ground.

After a period of chaos, hundreds of bloody corpses lay all over the ground, and the panicked prisoners of war saw that there was no escape, and had to move forward again under the threat of death, the speed was much faster than before, and they rushed to the moat, scrambling to dump the sand and gravel in the cloth bags, and then turned back and left in a panic, as for the rain of arrows falling from the city, they couldn't take care of it, and just like that, although nearly a thousand prisoners of war were shot on the way, there were still thousands of bags of sand and soil filled the moat, The already small moat was completely filled.

Inhumane? Perhaps, it is a bit cruel to take prisoners of war to fill the city, but compared to using the corpses of his subordinates to pile up the road to the city, it is still cost-effective, as for the humane and inhumane, Li Zhen can't take care of so much, at this time, seeing the rain of arrows at the head of the city, I admire the ruthlessness of Fu Yanxiong in my heart, and when I saw that the moat had been flattened, Li Zhen issued a combat order again, and the cavalry on both wings of the Tang army flew out under the leadership of Chen Wu, rushed to the moat, and nearly 5,000 Tang cavalry galloped around the city, Constantly raining down on the head of the city, desperately suppressing the archers on the city, the POW brigade, under the supervision of the Ranger Battalion led by Eagle Five, once again rushed towards the city wall with sacks full of sand and stones, all the way through the filled moat, until it reached the bottom of the city wall, and dumped the sand and stone to the ground.

Oops! Although Fu Yanxiong withdrew to the half-destroyed city gate tower because he was evading the rain of arrows like locusts from the archers of the Tang cavalry, he was taken aback when he saw the prisoner of war brigade going and returning—the Tang army was planning to fill in a slope that reached the head of the city, and once the Tang army succeeded, a large number of Tang troops would be able to rush up the slope to the city.

At this time, due to the limitation of the area of the city, the archers who can line up and attack are very limited, and only about 2,000 archers can not repel the Tang cavalry rushing to and fro under the city, although the whole shooting scene is still evenly matched, and even the dead and wounded Tang officers and soldiers are slightly more, but because of the existence of the Tang cavalry, the archers at the head of the city have been pinned down for most of the time, and they can't spare their energy to shoot those prisoners of war who have filled the city, not to mention that the archers at the head of the city are unwilling to shoot arrows at their own people. Intentionally or unintentionally, he was releasing water, seeing that the soil slope under the city was constantly rising, Fu Yan was so anxious that he gritted his teeth fiercely, and called Fu Yan Yong, who was always standing behind him, to his side, and said in a low voice: "Second brother, you will lead 3,000 cavalry to kill out of the city, leave the Tang army alone, just scatter the prisoners of war, and then go around the city, return to the city from the south gate, go quickly!" ”

Fu Jayong was one of the few generals in Khotan, and he knew the power of the Tang army's move to fill the city, but the people who were hindered by the reclaiming of the city were his own prisoners of war, and he didn't dare to speak casually before Fu Jaxiong made up his mind, at this time, as soon as he got Fu Jaxiong's order, he didn't say much nonsense, just nodded silently, led a few guards all the way down the city, hurriedly ordered three thousand cavalry, and went straight to the city gate along the road in the city, The officers and soldiers guarding the gate who had already received the order saw the cavalry from a distance, and immediately busily removed the heavy bolt, desperately rushed to the city gate before the cavalry arrived, and pushed the city gate open.

Fuck, damn it! Li Zhen, who was observing the dynamics of the battlefield, suddenly found that the closed city gate was suddenly opened, and immediately guessed what Fu Yanxiong wanted to do, and immediately his heart shook wildly, and he hurriedly ordered in a loud voice: "Order, Chen Wu's headquarters immediately step forward to block the enemy cavalry, and be sure to ensure that the prisoner of war brigade is not scattered!" ”

It was too late, it was fast, although Li Zhen's order was extremely timely, but it was a pity that at this time, Chen Wu's department was speeding in the direction of the city gate, and it was impossible to turn around in time, and there was a time difference in using the horn to transmit the message, these two factors were added together, and Li Zhen's efforts were completely empty - as soon as the cavalry of Fu Yanyong's department rushed out of the city gate tower, they did not follow the five Ying troops who were killed behind the prisoner of war brigade, and they did not pay attention to the cavalry of Chen Wu's department that came from behind, and the whole army shouted, Broke through the interception of dozens of cavalry of the Tang Army Inspector Brigade who hurriedly met them, and entered the prisoner of war brigade, and his subordinates were not merciful at all, but seeing the scimitar sweeping, the heads rolled to the ground, and the war horses collided, the "flying man" was full of sky, how could the originally frightened prisoner of war brigade withstand such killing, plus the Tang Army rangers who were originally supervising the battle nearby had been scattered, without supervision, and facing the fate of the killing of their own cavalry, how could the prisoner of war brigade still remain calm, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately dropped the cloth bag in their hands and shouted, Flee in all directions.

The chaotic flow of people ran all over the field, which had little impact on the Fu Yan Yong Department between the rush and killing, but it was a big trouble for the two Tang troops who were chasing after each other, and when the two Tang Army killed and dispersed the fleeing prisoner of war brigade, Fu Yan Yong's department had already fled, leaving only the corpses and cloth bags scattered everywhere at the scene......

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