Chapter 195: The Battle Is in Progress
The first to attack were the Tibetans.
Lu Dongzan saw that Li Jing actually dared to take an army of 30,000 people to meet him head-on, his heart was overjoyed, he Tubo warriors were the best at riding and shooting, and the Tang army was the best at defending the city, and now they actually did not promote their strengths and avoid weaknesses, but put themselves in a disadvantageous position, Lu Dongzan thought that this was a good opportunity given to him by God, and the arrogant monarch of the Tang Dynasty actually sent him to think that he was so mediocre.
However, the strategists around him seemed to see the crisis, and praised Lu Dong: "Great Minister, Su Wen Li Jing is a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, and now he actually disregards his own strengths to fight us in the wilderness, in the words of the Tang people, that is, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and we have to guard against it." ”
"The national teacher is too worried, just with his little man, any conspiracy and tricks are vulnerable in front of my army."
"Great Minister, I have seen Li Jing's formation, it is a gossip array, this formation has always been a formation of less to win more, don't be careless."
"Haha! How, let people rush into battle to know. With that, he drew his scimitar at his waist and ordered the more than 40,000 men and horses of the front army to start charging into battle.
When Li Jing saw the Tibetan army attacking, he immediately ordered the defenders of the pass to open fire.
The cannonballs fell into the tidal wave of the Tibetan army, and immediately exploded a bewitching blood-colored flower, carrying the stumps of people and horses and flying into the sky.
"This Tang man's artillery is really powerful." Tubo National Teacher.
Lu Dongzan nodded, then waved his command knife and ordered the army to change formation, reduce the density, and speed up the impact.
Li Jing saw that his artillery kept changing directions with the attack of the Tibetan army, so he ordered the front army to be the rear team and slowly retreat towards the Qili Pass.
"Haha, what a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, but Er'er, he was cowardly before the battle, came, ordered the rear army to follow, and broke through the Queli Pass in one fell swoop, and we ate at the Queli Pass at noon." Saying that, he also followed the army and attacked Li Jing's military horse.
The result of arrogance is death, Lu Dongzan is not luckier than Tushi, just when the Tubo army attacked the position of the Tang army before the attack, and the Tubo rear army was also advancing rapidly, the Tubo army also encountered the situation of the sky falling.
Lu Dongzan, who was following the rear army, was also dumbfounded, how did the earth, which was so good just now, suddenly become shaking, and the most incomprehensible thing was that the smoke wall was actually leveled on the ground, and his own people and horses disappeared into the clouds and smoke, and only the sound of explosions could be heard.
Fortunately, Lu Dongzan changed the battle formation before, and the crowd that charged was not so dense, so that he could slowly brake the formation, but despite this, many people and horses rushed into the black and yellow smoke and dust.
Lu Dongzan waited for a long time on the periphery of the wall composed of smoke and dust, but did not hear the expected shouting and killing, only the intermittent explosions and screams occasionally came, which made Lu Dongzan's heart fall straight down, and suddenly he remembered Tu Shi's words, which had carefully told him about their battle with the Tang army, but he didn't care at that time.
After waiting for a long time, the smoke and dust cleared, and when I looked up, my eyes were full of charred black, and in the black and yellow soil, mixed with the stumps of men and horses, and many people who had not died, were struggling painfully in pools of blood.
Lu Dongzan was not much stronger than Tu Shi, the tragic scene in front of him made him break out in a cold sweat, and after a while, even the Tang army did not come into contact, and his own men and horses lost no less than 50,000, how to fight this battle.
On the other side, Tu Shi, who was fighting against Hou Junji, immediately ordered the army to start charging after hearing the earth-shattering shouts of killing, but he did not send many people, but also sent the same number of men and horses as Hou Junji in the array, cavalry cavalry, and the Turkic cavalry was superior to the Tang army in the same number.
This time, Hou Junji did not wait in place, but sent out a dozen or so turtle-like things, crawling very slowly, in addition to the billowing smoke coming out of one side and the two cannons mounted on the top, there was also a circle of pipes the size of three layers of copper coins.
"What is this?" Tu Shi asked the Great Elder beside him.
The Great Elder shook his head: "I haven't seen it, this moving west seems to be made of steel, and I don't see a cow pulling a horse, why did he run away by himself?" Could it be that people are pushing it inside? What's going on with the smoke. ”
Seeing that the Great Elder asked himself, Tu Shi didn't know how to answer, he ordered the cavalry who had advanced to the front to shoot with bows and arrows, but the bows and arrows shot at the tank, leaving only a burst of sparks, and the outer skin of the tank also left scratches, in addition, it did not cause the slightest damage to the people inside.
After the sturdiness of the tank was tested, the tanks dispersed, and the distance between each tank was just the limit position of the Gatling bullets, after the tanks were in place, waiting for the Turkic coalition forces to surround them from all sides, the upper and lower three layers of Gatling began to roar with sparks, and the close people, whether they were people or horses, were instantly torn apart by the bullets.
Seeing this, Tu Shi knew that this was another deadly weapon of the Tang army, which could not be cut by the knife and could not be shot through by the bow and arrow. This time he became capable, and without waiting for the mine array to be powerful, he immediately ordered the troops to be collected, don't look at the enemy army only a dozen tanks, but at this moment, it is the loss of 10,000 people, such a loss, Tu Shi dare not imagine, what he will face in the end.