Chapter 282: Camel Cavalry
The remnant sun is like blood, and Li Bin has been besieged for more than three months. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAll the manpower of the entire Gaochang was mobilized by him, although the heads and massacres of Tianshuigou hit the morale of the Tang soldiers to a certain extent, but they also inspired the determination to fight to the end.
After all, it is obvious that after Tubo captures Gaochang this time, it will definitely slaughter the city. So it didn't matter what Li Bin said, the more than 20,000 households living here joined the ranks of defending the city. Yang Zhengu has been here for so long, and he is naturally solid. And the residents from outside the city were also moved in, and arranged to live in various taverns and large households.
Those big families naturally agreed, and arranged all their families for Li Bin. Once Gaochang City is captured by Tubo, the fate of those big families may be worse than that of ordinary people. Moreover, Li Bin is also a capable general, so naturally the whole city supports him.
The opponent is Zhang Yan, and Li Bin is too familiar. In order to prevent Zhang Yan's sneak attack, Li Bin dug a deep ditch not far below the city wall and put a large vat to listen to it. And mobilize the people, basically not leaving people for a day. Zhang Yan was found in several sneak attacks, although she also killed nearly 100 people before and after, but it could not achieve the effect of beheading.
As for digging the city wall, the city wall of Gaochang City also has a foundation, and it is all superimposed with huge stones. The width of the city wall is more than ten meters, and if Zhang Yan is not careful, the collapsed stone will have to smash her inside, so she can only attack hard.
Gunpowder bombs, Zhang Yan has indeed done a lot in the past few years, but for this kind of city wall made of boulders, she can only take her time.
Basically, on the first day, the gates of Gaochang were blown open. Then as soon as they rushed in, a few people were crushed to death by Li Bin's broken dragon stone, and quickly blocked the gate with something.
However, Zhang Yan looked at it and still felt that the location of the gate was the easiest place to attack and enter. In particular, placing explosives at several points can collapse an entire area. Zhang Yan is on the main plane, but she has done a little engineering drawing, and it can be seen that some positions are the weaknesses of the building.
All right...... But going to the city gate to put explosives, this kind of thing can't be fast, so the matter has been delayed. After all, there are many people in Tubo, more than ten times that of Datang, and she also got the news that Yan Hanshui is fighting with Dashi. Although we all know that the news of this era is a bit laggy, it is normal for a big siege to last for a year.
Of course, there is another reason why Zhang Yan did not attack the city with all her strength, that is, she is not in Gaochang at all now. Although there are siege teams in Gaochang every day, most of them are infantry. And Zhang Yan took the cavalry to the north of Yizhou. This was the only way for the Uighurs to reinforce the North Garden, as the rest of the area was blocked by the Jinshan Mountains and could only be partially passed. If the Uighurs wanted to help the Tang Dynasty, they had to bypass it from the Yizhou side.
The Uighurs had already received letters from Yan Hanshui and Yang Zhenggu asking for help, and they knew that if it were not for the obstruction of Beiting and Anxi, they would be the only ones who would have fought the Tibetans in person. Therefore, the North Court also had to be saved, and soon the Uighur court also sent a message, ordering the Great Minister Jie Gangas, to lead the main tribe, and some other small tribes, to gather troops and go to the North Court.
The Uighurs were not bad, otherwise they would not have been able to exist in the north for hundreds of years. This time, they simply brought 50,000 cavalry, 30,000 slaves, and 100,000 odds. It took almost two months to bypass Jinshan.
However, just when they had just bypassed the Jinshan Hengkou, they were ambushed by Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan used her main force to attract the Uighur tribes to attack, and then led her own team to raid the Uighur grain and grass teams. Although the Uighur leaders reacted quickly, Zhang Yan burned more than half of the grain.
And in the evening, he used his rat ability to kill the leader of the Great Prime Minister Gangas in the big tent. The next day, taking advantage of the chaos, they attacked again and completely routed the Uighur tribal alliance. After sitting down all this, Zhang Yan smiled: "Beiting is basically in the palm of my hand......"
Of course, it was at this time that the war between Yanhanshui and Da Shi finally broke out. Nasser came to the front of the formation and raised his body slightly to the smoke and cold water and made a gesture of blessing: "Forerunner, it seems that you have many enemies." ”
"Hmph, the surroundings of Datang are already full of tigers and leopards, don't think it's unusual." Yan Hanshui said coldly.
Nassert smiled indifferently: "How about we cooperate?" As long as you lend us the land west of Tingzhou within the last year, we can even join forces to attack the Tibetan soldiers. ”
Yan Hanshui didn't believe it at all, the man on the other side had no credit at all, and he could even sell the soldiers of the big food for his own points. "Do you think I can trust you? None of our Datang land can be lost from my injury. Yan Hanshui said a word, and then shot the phoenix claw out of his arm.
"Okay...... Then we'll give it a try. After all, the land is acquired by oneself, and the truth is only under the iron horse. Nasser waved his hand, and soon Yan Hanshui found that they had turned their infantry into cavalry. Merely...... All camel cavalry. Almost 10,000 camel cavalry, and the big food soldiers on them were all armed with scimitars. Those camel cavalry were in the camp and were preparing to attack the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
Yang Zhengu suddenly paused, and then said with some recollection: "I think of a very early years, Li Daduhu once said an interesting story. That is, there are tribes that like to use camel cavalry. Although the camel cavalry is slow, it is difficult to get a suitable armor. But they have one good thing, and that is to restrain the cavalry. ”
Yan Hanshui naturally didn't know, so when she heard this, she immediately said: "Since the horse cavalry is restrained, then we will try to use infantry against the enemy." ”
"Let the dependent tribes test it first, and if they restrain themselves, they will immediately leave the battle." Yang Zhenggu thought about it, and he also forgot why he said that the camel cavalry restrained the horse cavalry. After all, in this area, there are basically no tribes that use camels as cavalry, and Yang Zhenggu does not have these materials.
Soon...... The camel cavalry that lined up rushed towards Datang's main formation, and the speed was not fast, only half the speed of normal cavalry. The same tribal cavalry of about 8,000 people went to intercept from the flank of the Tang Dynasty, and there was also an infantry of 10,000 people coming out of the Tang Dynasty to deal with the defense after the cavalry lost its effect.
Due to the slow speed of the camel cavalry, when the tribal cavalry reached in front of them, they were not even in the middle of the field.
But the difference soon appeared, and the horses of the tribe, after approaching the camels, actually spread out in all directions. There is even a feeling of encountering natural enemies, even if it is a tribal warrior with good riding skills, it is very difficult to control the war horse.
"Let them retreat quickly...... Keep the infantry in the way. Immediately let the soldiers of the tribesmen who met the enemy come and tell us what happened during the battle. Yang Zhengu frowned, sure enough, there was something wrong with the camel cavalry.