Chapter Seventy-Nine: Passively Beaten
The Tubo defenders of Songzhou City saw the military camp in the distance outside the city, and the entire Songzhou City fell into panic and tension, and Duan Zhixuan, Niu Jinda and others looked at the well-defended and strong Songzhou City and frowned, after all, Songzhou City is a strategic place for Tubo and the Tang Dynasty, no matter who occupies here, it is a strategic support for the other party, in addition to more than 20,000 defenders in Songzhou City, there are nearly 100,000 residents, among these residents are mainly Tubo people, there are also a small number of Han Chinese, so to speak, Once the siege is launched, the residents of Tubo can be transformed into soldiers, whether it is a minority such as Tubo or Turkic, they are all on the horse for the soldiers and dismounted for the people, so the pressure on the Tang army is particularly great, and they have received 50,000 reinforcements from Lu Dongzan have rushed to Songzhou, if they do not take Songzhou before the arrival of the other party's reinforcements, then they will meet before and after, but such a high city and deep Songzhou City, can it be taken in a short time?
"Ten times the encirclement, five times the attack, and the double battle, now our situation is not advantageous in terms of troops, how can we take Songzhou in a short time?"
"Since there is no good way, let's test it tomorrow and see."
"That's all."
Duan Zhixuan ordered to prepare siege equipment, tomorrow to attack the city, Li Yong looked at the busy military camp and knew that it would definitely be opened tomorrow, as for whether he could gnaw down Songzhou, that was negative, as long as people with a little military common sense knew that such a tall city wall and defense, even if he Duan Zhixuan rushed his 50,000 up, it would not be enough to fill, unless he had something like artillery or explosives, or something like a surprise move to win, otherwise rely on people to rush? Only fools do this, but Li Yong is not worried, at least he doesn't have to worry about these at this stage, he just needs to continue to pay attention, and when it is necessary, he will make a move, anyway, now is not the time, this time is still reserved for General Duan to perform. The next morning, the Tang army began to line up after breakfast, and then walked out of the camp to Songzhou City, after reaching a safe distance, 50,000 troops stood neatly in front of Songzhou City, for the Tang Army's preparations to attack the city, the Tubo defenders in the city were all strictly guarded.
"Listen, people of the city, open the gates of the city quickly, or when the city is broken, you will be destroyed."
Li Yong looked at everything in front of him in the camp, so he couldn't see it really, but he could see a general wearing armor and riding a tall horse shouting at Songzhou City, as for what he shouted, he couldn't hear it, it was too far, it was estimated that it was like a TV series or a movie, Li Yong looked at the scene in front of him like a mentally retarded person, sure enough, no one in Songzhou City responded to him at all, responding to him was just air, Duan Zhixuan saw all this and knew that it was futile, and he had already ordered the front camp to start attacking the city, Li Yong looked at the black and dark soldiers and began to move forward, and then the arrow rain on Songzhou City flew down like leeches, those soldiers who were hit by arrows fell to the ground one after another, and the rest of the soldiers raised their shields to cover while continuing to advance, what a crash, the flying cloud ladder was pushed out one after another, and the soldiers who pushed the siege equipment became the main target, and the soldiers who were shot fell down, and another soldier made up for it, the scene was really much more shocking than the movie and TV series, and the Tang army had already suffered more than half of the casualties before they reached the city wall, Duan Zhixuan saw this situation and asked the front battalion to withdraw, and then the left battalion took over the front battalion and entered the palace, this time the effect was a little better, maybe the physical strength in the city was limited or something, the attack was not so strong at the beginning, since they let them touch the city wall, but the flying cloud ladder was still open, they were smashed by the stones thrown down from above and could not be deployed at all, and even many were ignited by the fire oil, and the left battalion also failed, and the two attacks in one morning were repulsed, Duan Zhixuan had no choice but to withdraw his troops, because originally today he only wanted to test the reality of Songzhou City, Now it seems that Songzhou is really difficult to break, although the two attacks were repulsed this morning, but the casualties are not large, Duan Zhixuan knows more that Songzhou's defenders can also see that he is tempting, so Songzhou's strength has not really been exposed. However, there is not much time left for Duan Zhixuan, because he is afraid of the arrival of the 50,000 reinforcements, so he must hurry up and set a strategy, after thinking hard for a day, he really has no better way to Songzhou, then the rest is to storm, and then Songzhou City began an endless offensive and defensive battle, the Tang army braved the rain of arrows to charge like a lifeless, and climbed under the rain of fire and stones, one after another Tang Army corpses were thrown under Songzhou City, and four hundred miles away in a place called Savage Valley, This is the only way to Songzhou, more than 3,000 black troops have been lined up in front of the valley mouth waiting, that day and night rushed to support the 50,000 Tubo reinforcements let 20,000 cavalry go first, because they have received an urgent request for help from Songzhou City, of course, this letter for help is estimated by the black army to let go, otherwise how could the soldiers who asked for help pass through the Savage Valley occupied by the Black Army, the Savage Valley is not like other valleys, there are no woods in the valley to hide, and the mountains are even bare, so the Savage Valley cannot ambush and ambush at all, But the Savage Valley has a characteristic, that is, the shape is like a gourd, the valley mouth is very narrow, but the valley is very wide, this is why Xue Rengui chose to fight here, the terrain on the valley here is suitable for artillery to set up positions, according to the maximum range of twelve pounds, it can completely cover the entire battlefield, the musket array can be fired in a half-moon shape in front of the valley mouth, such a shot can be cross-fired to almost every position, and the dragoons are roaming left and right at any time to support or guard against sneak attacks, because the flat terrain outside the valley mouth is very suitable for cavalry. The cavalry who rushed to support saw a strange army in black armor in front of him, and the cavalry general saw that there were not many people on the other side, only about a few thousand people, or infantry, and he had to rush to support Songzhou, so then his cavalry rushed directly to the battle, crushing the army blocking them in front, they were the elite of Lu Dongzan, looking at the Tubo cavalry rushing towards him, the artillery that had already set the angle was waiting for them to enter the firing range.
"Open the gun~"
"Boom~" The loud sound of thunder came out of the valley, and the horses that had not heard the loud sound of artillery fire immediately stopped in fright, and then one by one solid bullets smashed in front of these cavalry, and in an instant the people and horses were shattered, and the flesh and blood were flying, and before they could react, the thunderous loud sound sounded again, and those solid bullets ruthlessly harvested these chaotic cavalry, and the ground was also smashed out of craters by cannonballs, and traces of being ploughed by solid bullets, these solid bullets smashed down with huge power on the ground, As long as they were touched, they were either dead or wounded, the Tubo cavalry was blinded by the sudden artillery, many people shouted this divine punishment, but they were all cut off by those even centurions, after all, this time can not disturb the morale of the army, these cavalry after all are the elite of Lu Dongzan, quickly came back to their senses, under the leadership of the main general, braved the artillery fire of the black army to charge again, but the idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, when they have rushed out of the shelling of the artillery fire, but they are about to face the shooting of the musket phalanx. "Bang ~ bang ~" The gunshots rang out over and over again, the rider on the horse was hit as if he was pushed by something, and the person fell off the horse, and the cavalry commander watched the knights around him fall down one by one, and he was even more anxious, the cavalry behind did not dare to rush forward, they all thought that the army on the opposite side would be demonic, and after the white smoke of the stick in their hands, they fell.
"Don't be afraid, follow me, ah~"
The Lord cried out in a rage, but the next moment the bullet hit him, and his brow was bleeding, and the last thing he saw was the blue sky in the sky.
"He's meowing, just if you wear such a coquette, don't snipe who you snipe."
The ghosts hiding in the musket phalanx sniped at those Tubo cavalry with rifled flint muskets, and the tall cavalry commander in armor became their main present, because his armor is too obvious, everyone is leather armor or something, you have an iron armor, who you don't fight, this is why Li Yong unified their armor and everything, so that the enemy can't tell who is the main general. The cavalry, without their commander, became even more uncontrollable and began to flee in all directions, but as soon as they ran back, they forgot that there was still artillery, and the artillery that had ceased fire began to bombard again, and the musket phalanx also moved forward alternately according to the beat of the drums, and these beat the remaining cavalry in circles.
"You guys, that's what the commander said about being beaten passively, right?"
"Yes, like a flock of lambs to the slaughter."
"Let the dragoons go up, if you continue to fight, there will be no one, these are our bonuses."
Looking at the cavalry that was constantly being wiped out, Xue Rengui was very heartbroken, these are all very good slaves, but they are worth a lot of money, the number one trafficker of the black army has begun to think about these cavalry becoming slaves, the dragoons received the order to quickly surround the cavalry who was beaten and had nowhere to escape, and the artillery fire on the mountain also stopped shelling, and those surviving cavalry saw that they had been surrounded, and a stick that could cast a demon spell was aimed at them, which made them frightened.
"Lay down your arms, dismount and surrender."
The Tubo language of the Black Army Society shouted in unison, and the cavalry who were no longer able to fight threw away their weapons one after another, jumped off their horses, and then were gathered by the Black Army to take care of them, Xue Rengui rubbed his hands and smiled Where to go, this looks not like a generation of famous generals at all, more like a profiteer.
"Ah, why is there so little left, let you take it easy, 20,000 will be woe to you."
"Commander, that's all there to do."
"Boss Fan, look?"
"Commander, don't they have 30,000 reinforcements behind them, are you afraid that there will be no slaves?"
"Yes, I almost forgot that there were 30,000 people, quick, clean up the battlefield, and the ghost should go find out the whereabouts of the 30,000 reinforcements, no, the 30,000 slaves."