Chapter 363: The Qarluqs Cornered
After discussing for a long time, Gao Xianzhi denied the plan of refusing to defend the city first and consuming the sharpness of the black-clothed food, and then going out of the city for a decisive battle after they suffered heavy losses, because first, if this is the case, the Qarluq people will be left in the city, and they will make a mess to be difficult to control, and secondly, the logistics in the army can not withstand the long-term attrition, so in the end, it was decided to rest for two days, and when Ziad's army arrived, he would go directly out of the city to fight a decisive battle with him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
On the second day, when Gao Xianzhi told his decision, Li You, Li Siye and others, who had already known in advance, were expressionless, and Asilanda Khan, who was in charge of logistics, was overjoyed, and he and Li You were responsible for escorting grain and grass along the way, and the pressure was quite high, if this battle ended earlier, he would be able to relax as soon as possible. And the stabbing is scattered but his eyes are wandering, and he doesn't know what to think.
After the discussion, Gao Xianzhi sent a scout horse all the way west to explore the traces of the black-clothed Dashi army, and the generals responded to organize the army under their command to prepare for the upcoming battle, and Li You and Pan Feng were pulled by Li Siye to practice martial arts and test archery.
Immediately after returning to the camp, he gathered his cronies together in the tent and discussed the whole day, until night, when a decision seemed to have been made; As the night wore on, three black-clad soldiers crept out of the Qarluq camp and ran to the western wall.
At the bottom of the city wall, the three of them evaded the patrol of the Tang army, quietly touched the head of the city, found a gap in the battlements according to the situation observed during the day, slipped down the rope, and then ran quickly to the west.
"As expected, these Qarluqs do have bad intentions." When the three of them were gone, a man came out of the shadows, and he reached out and pulled the rope left behind by the Qarluqs.
"My lord, why don't you stop these people? Instead, let them escape? His entourage asked suspiciously, these people were going to report information to the black-clothed eater, aren't they afraid that they will leak secrets?
"This is Lord Cen's order, you don't need to ask more, you go back to the camp immediately and tell Lord Cen about this." With that, the man disappeared into the darkness again, and then, under the cover of night, he touched the camp of the Qarluqs, looked at it, and chose a luxuriously decorated tent to enter.
Two days later, the Qarluq envoy finally found the black-clad army and was brought to Ziyad and Humet, and after checking the fuse, he took out a wax pill from his personal body, "This is a letter from Lord Ye Hu to the general. ”
Dissecting the wax pill and taking out the secret letter to unfold, Ziad read it slowly, and gradually his brows relaxed, and handed the letter to Humeide, "There is good news from the assassination, there are not many thunderbolts used by the Tang people that day, the total number is only a dozen, as long as the soldiers are told in advance, they will not play a big role." ”
The lethality of a thunderbolt explosion is actually limited, the key is that the sound is too scary; Ziad had come up with some solutions in the last few days, such as plugging the horses' ears with a cloth, and he wanted to do some similar training, but unfortunately he could not find a way to make such a loud noise as Humet said, so he had to give up.
But now the details of the Tang army have been clearly revealed, this kind of thing called thunderbolt is extremely difficult to make, and there is not much inventory in the Tang army, and they have been used almost in the last attack on Talas City, and if they fight again next time, as long as they survive the panic at the beginning, the Tang army will have nothing to do.
"God willing." Hearing this, Hou Meide let out a sigh of relief, as if the Tang Dynasty would definitely lose without such a weapon, "Kia's generals, after defeating the Tang people, must capture all those craftsmen, and the weapons they make will be the key to the conquest of the world by the warriors of the true gods." ”
As a veteran of the war, he could not ignore the power of the thunderbolt, and he knew that with such a weapon, neither the Franks, nor the Byzantine Empire, nor the Tibetans would be opponents of the Great Cannibals.
"This is a more important task than defeating the Tang people, and of course it would be better if there were any of these craftsmen who knew how to make silk, paper and porcelain." Ziad showed a greedy gaze, how much wealth did the Tang people earn with these things, if they could hold all of this in their hands, maybe the gold of the whole world would be gathered in Kufa, the capital of the black-clothed food.
"Go down and rest first, and I'll write a reply to your master later." Ziyad waved his hand for the stabbing messenger to retreat, turned to Humed and said, "We must also beware of the Qarluqs and the warriors of the true gods competing for craftsmen. Humet nodded silently when he heard this, obviously he had already thought of this.
Two hours later, the Qarluqs, who had rested, returned to the road with wax pills, in which Ziyad told him that he would lead a large army to the city of Talas in two days to fight the Tang army, and that if the Qarluqs were able to fight back, the vast area from Talas to Atami would be given to the Qarluqs after the victory.
After the messenger returned to Talas to deliver the news to the assassins, his hanging thoughts finally relaxed, and now the Great Cannibals still had great strength, and it was up to them to decide who would win the battle.
"Lord Duhu, the army of black clothes and food has reached twenty miles away." On this day, when everyone was in the midst of a military discussion, a scout came in in a hurry and reported.
"Good time!" Gao Xianzhi slammed the table and stood up, "Everyone, today and with the capital to protect this enemy!" ”
"Datang Wansheng! Destroy the enemy! When everyone heard this, they got up together, went up to Li Siye and Duan Xiushi, and went down to Asiranda Khan, who plotted to assassinate and scatter rotten, and answered loudly at the same time.
"This is a decisive battle, and all generals must strictly abide by military orders, and if they violate it, they will not be spared!" Gao Xianzhi shouted loudly, and the gaze in his eyes swept over the generals in the tent.
"Obey the military orders of the Lord Protector, but don't dare to disobey any orders." The crowd replied in unison again.
"Good!" Seeing that the morale was available, Gao Xianzhi immediately took out the order arrow and began to distribute military affairs, as usual, Duan Xiushi led the cavalry to lure the enemy, Li Siye led the Modao team to prepare to give the enemy the maximum damage, Gao Xianzhi held the middle army steadily, and Li You and Asilanda Khan served as the rear army.
Let's take the flanks this time, right? The idea of stabbing and scattering has drifted outside the city.
"The plot is scattered, and you will lead the people of your headquarters to act as a vanguard!" Gao Xianzhi's order made him stunned at that time, the Qarluq people who had been moved to the front had been driven to a dead end, and it was not as easy to counterattack here as it was on the flanks. (To be continued.) )