521 encircled the point to send reinforcements
That night, Li Jing left with an army of 30,000, leaving only his "Underworld Artifact" and a few hundred soldiers to block those Arab soldiers in the city of Kalinga.
He believed that after the first day of fighting, if he did not attack, the people inside would never dare to rush out in the face of artillery fire.
And the other four armies outside the city received Li Jing's order to do the same.
Soon, Li Jing's army of more than 100,000 people was assembled behind these cities.
The soldiers who went to ask for help were originally let go, and now they just had to go to the ambush halfway.
In the entire Tianzhu, except for those dragged by Tang Ping in the west, there were also 100,000 troops left in the direction of Latan City in the north, and the rest were gathered by Arum.
He also knew that Datang's weapons were powerful, and their only chance to win was to concentrate their superior forces to fight more and less.
For this reason, he also mobilized the entire army in the middle of Tianzhu, and after a total of 200,000 troops were assembled, he marched towards the besieged cities.
The news they got now is that Datang landed from here, probably the 150,000 army.
Now he dared to attack five of them at the same time, and now he led these 200,000 troops to break through each of them was the best chance.
It's just that he didn't expect that Li Jing would have been waiting for him halfway with someone a long time ago.
As soon as they crossed the Mahanadi River, they were attacked by Li Jing's half-crossing.
First of all, the upstream area was stopped by Li Jing, and when they were halfway through the river, the river was released.
The army that crossed the river was only halfway through before it was divided into two banks.
Then Datang is still the old three, artillery, firecrackers, and hot air balloons.
This time, Li Jing and the others used almost one-third of their ammunition to block the army of the Arab Empire crossing the river by the river and beat them up.
The heavy cavalry, which the Arab Imperial Army was most proud of, had no chance to charge at all, and how much of a threat could the cavalry that had lost its impact power be?
In addition to artillery and firearms, Li Jing even used things like bed crossbows, anyway, in a word, the Arab army on this side of the river will die for me!
The 200,000 Arab troops, swept away by the river, killed, and surrendered, add up to more than 80,000.
The remaining 120,000 Arab troops had to retreat to a small city on the other side of the Mahanadi River.
Then the Tang Army began to cross the river again, and they also wanted to learn from the Tang Army to attack half-crossing.
What they didn't expect was that Datang's artillery had a wider range than the river, and when they arrived at the river, they were bombarded with seven meat and eight vegetables.
Then the hot air balloon came again, and dropped a loop of isolation belt directly with fire oil.
After the fire was extinguished, the musketeers and archers of the Tang Dynasty had already crossed the river, and the rows of guns were sent back to the city for the Arab heavy cavalry.
Then Li Jing led people to surround the city.
At this time, the ammunition brought by Datang was running out, so Li Jing did not plan to storm this small city, but directly surrounded the city.
Li Jing is not in a hurry now, the opposite side is inside the city, and they are outside the city.
If the grain and grass are consumed, how can the city compare with them?
Then Zhen Youqian and Laga Sri found Li Jing again, they were already active in the vicinity, and when they saw Li Jing blocking the main force of the enemy, they directly patted their chests and said that they would hand over the task of raising grain and grass to them.
When the locals of Tianzhu provided them with food, they went directly to the Manahadi River and consumed them with the Arab army.
Li Jing not only wanted to win, but also to minimize losses.
The siege is to win, and the loss will be greater in the end, so he is surrounded outside the city like a defensive side.
Arum also tried to break through once, but this city, the gate is so narrow, and more than a dozen horses can run side by side at a time.
As soon as they went out, Datang was entertained with firearms kits.
Leaving a corpse at the door, he was beaten back again.
The Arab army is now called a bad one.
Rush it, it seems that you can't rush out, and when you go out of the city gate, you will have a set of firearms to cover your face.
But keep it, this grain and grass is getting less and less day by day, and there will always be a day when it will be eaten.
Fortunately, Amru sent a letter to China when he sensed that Datang was going to attack.
So they thought that the country would definitely send a large army to reinforce it.
They can be considered to have figured out the attack of this Datang, and the artillery is the enemy's most powerful means of attack, but the number is not too much, and it is difficult to turn.
As long as the reinforcements arrive, the inside and the outside should be combined, and their hundreds of thousands of troops are still afraid that they will not be able to defeat these Tang people?
Unexpectedly, Fakhr al-Din led the 200,000 troops who entered Tianzhu and was forcibly dragged by Tang Ping and Duan Zhixuan with more than 20,000 people.
After waiting left and right in the city for reinforcements, the food finally bottomed out.
The morale of the Arab army has also dropped to the lowest point, and I thought that it was the most powerful army in the world, but I didn't expect to be pressed to the ground by others and had no power to fight back.
This change in heart, coupled with the fact that the rations are less than one day a day, and the stomach is rumbling with hunger, where is the morale to fight?
In desperation, Arum sent all the food and began to prepare for a breakthrough.
But he didn't expect Li Jing to put the artillery at the other three city gates, and let go of the southeast direction.
Without the threat of artillery, Arum of course chose to break through from the southeast.
And Datang doesn't seem to have any intention of preventing them from breaking through, but just using various long-range attacks to consume the army of Arum breaking through.
When they all ran out, they chased after them.
So the Arum army could only keep running, but the hot air balloon on the head was like the devil.
When they rested in the evening, they threw oil from heaven down.
With little time to rest, it took three days for the army to reach the northernmost city of Utu, the besieged city, and drill headlong into it.
Then Li Jing led people to besiege the city again.
When Arum entered the city of Uda, he called the guard Nasser.
"Didn't you say that there were 30,000 troops guarding you outside the city? Where did those Tang troops come from? ”
Nasser shook his head, he was also puzzled, pointed to the outside of the city and said, "It's really been outside the city all the time, not only the tens of thousands of defenders are there, but also the kind of big black pipe they brought." ”
Arum followed Nasser up the city wall, and saw that the Tang army had surrounded them, and then demolished the straw men and fed the grass to the horses.
"You idiot, it's full of dummies out there!" Arum was angry, if it weren't for the false information sent by these fools, he would have been ambushed in the middle of the road?
"Have you been in the city for a month, fighting wits and courage with those dummies outside?"
Arum pushed Nasser: "Come on, lock him up for me." ”
Thinking about it this way, I'm afraid that the other four cities are the same, blocked in the city by dummies.