Chapter 181: White Bull
According to the military newspaper, the Wolf's Tooth Army arrived at the city of Talas in the afternoon, besieged the city in the evening, and after dusk, ten thousand arrows were fired, and the crossbow arrows were like a raging storm and rain, which lasted for a long time. Until all the houses in the city were reduced to rubble, and the ordinary armor soldiers were killed and wounded, the Wolf Fang army stopped the rain of arrows and began to attack the city.
The wolf's tooth army relied on the fierce beast war horse, galloped in front of the city wall, and the men and horses jumped up the city in one piece, and the city wall monks gathered to intercept it. The wolf's tooth army has iron hooves, and the momentum is fierce and abnormal, and the Great Food Monk is invincible, and the stars fall like rain. The defenders of the Grand Monk, Hu Yanwen and others, although they fought hard to kill the enemy and had quite a success, they were sniped by the wolf's tooth military cannon, and they hated on the spot.
In just half an hour, the Wolf Tooth Army entered the city in a big way, and the defenders formed a formation to resist, relying on the big shield spear, giving the Wolf Tooth Army a lot of trauma. However, because the city was already flat, the defenders were finally broken through the formation by the fierce beast war horses, and under the trampling of iron hooves, the defenders suffered countless casualties, so they were unable to fight.
After that, the wolf's tooth army rushed back and forth in the city, those who entered from the south gate, went out from the north gate, and those who entered from the east gate went out from the west gate.
It was day and night, the blood in the city was monstrous, mixed with the blood-colored aura tide, dyed the night sky red, and the sound of fierce battles and howls spread for hundreds of miles.
The sky is not clear, the battle has ended, the city of Talas fell into the hands of the wolf's tooth army, defending the city of the army, only a few thousand people broke through the siege and escaped to the west, the rest were all killed, and the wolf's tooth army also suffered nearly 20,000 casualties. The inside and outside of the city are filled with corpses, and the blood is drifting, and people can't walk.
The first rays of morning light sprinkled on the city, and Li Ye looked solemn.
The Wolffangs' capture of Talas was the breakthrough point for him to break the stalemate, but the more than 10,000 casualties still made his heart ache.
The 100,000 soldiers of the Wolf Tooth Army, which is equivalent to the combat power of 200,000 Qi cultivators, attacked a city garrisoned by only more than 100,000 Great Qi Cultivators, and still lost nearly 40,000 monks in the case of proper tactical use, clearing obstacles in advance, and having the advantage of troops.
The Crescent monks are indeed not to be underestimated.
However, after this war, the balance of the battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food in the Black Khanate was completely broken. In the future, the Wolf Tooth Army only needs to drive straight in, and in front of them, there will be no more armies or cities that can stop their steps.
This will trigger a change in the entire situation of the war, and the Great Eclipse army will be forced to retreat, not to mention the easy way to attack and defend, and their battle line will also face a complete collapse. As for where to stabilize it, it depends on the offensive speed of the Wolf Tooth Army and the comparison between the return speed of the Great Food Army.
The Wolf Tooth Warriors have a leg strength advantage, and under normal circumstances, they will go far, far away. In this process, the Wolf Tooth Army can choose at will whether to cut off the back road of the Great Food Army according to the development of the situation, so that they will have difficulty returning home and die in a foreign land.
No matter how the battle situation develops, as long as Datang does not make big mistakes, he will completely control the situation!
Of course, to achieve this goal, there is another premise, that is, the Tiger Guards in Kunon City cannot be defeated by Mullen's Guards. Once the Tiger Guards end up with the same fate as Xi Luchi's own army, the Wolf Tooth Army will not be able to rush west, and must return to rescue the Yulin Army, and the battle situation will change again.
In a good case, a new equilibrium situation will be formed, and in a bad case, a total rout of the Tang army will be formed.
Unlike Li Ye's relatively calm complexion, Ma Lun's expression was very distorted, his whole face was wrinkled into buns, and the anger in his eyes was no longer in the mood to hide.
"What do you think Mullen will do?" Li Maozhen asked Li Ye with interest next to him.
"Either withdraw immediately, or give it a go. Li Ye took it for granted
Authentically, there aren't many options for Mullen.
If Mullen chooses to withdraw his troops, with 50,000 fresh troops as cover, the Tiger Guards, who have been fighting fiercely for many days, will not be able to pursue, but it is difficult to say whether the back road will be cut off by the Wolf Tooth Army.
If Mullen chooses to give it a go, he can turn the tide of battle by defeating the Tiger Guards, but if he can't defeat the Tiger Guards, his Guards will be killed.
Neither option is easy to make.
With Shangguan Allure leading the elite cavalry of the Wolf Tooth Army, quickly captured Talas overnight, and almost completely annihilated Xi Luchi's pro-army, the situation was already developing in the direction favorable to the Tang Dynasty.
Without waiting for King Qi to speak again, Maren had already made his choice.
The Great Food Guards went out of camp and began to prepare for the attack.
"Although the Tiger Guards are defending the city, the city wall's ability to restrict Qi cultivators is too weak, and the Great Food Guards already have a strength advantage, although the casualties are greater than those of the Tiger Guards during the siege of the city, but if they cooperate with 50,000 strange soldiers to lose a fight, the Tiger Guards are in a worrying situation. ”
Li Maozhen glanced at Li Ye, and said seriously, but there was excitement in her long and narrow eyes.
She knows very well that at this point in the battle, Kunon City and even the entire battle situation have reached the final node of dividing the victory and defeat, and it is time for her to play, "Whether you can hold Kulun City will determine the direction of the war between Datang and Dashi." ”
Li Ye nodded and didn't say anything more.
The situation could not be clearer.
It depends on who will kill the deer today.
The Great Food Guards began to take over the city.
They still have about 100,000 soldiers, more than 10,000 people, boundless, 100,000 troops surging forward, anyone who sees it, will be shaken.
It was a sense of fear that would blow a river or a flood, and the power of the individual was too small to control one's own destiny in such a situation.
King Qi's face was full of eagerness, and he rubbed his hands and said: "The army of the Tang Dynasty Qi Cultivators is 300,000, but the actual combat power is far more than that, you have hidden the method of pressing the bottom of the box for so long, and now you should use it, right? ”
The "battle of wisdom" mentioned by King Qi is rooted in the fact that the Tiger Guard Army showed weakness from the beginning.
With 100,000 men against 150,000 people, luring the Great Food Army to give up the advantage of defense and take the initiative to attack; and when the two armies faced each other, they only used conventional combat power, that is, the means that the Tang Army had used before, and the Great Food could know about it, forcing the Great Food Guards to still storm Kulun City despite their own heavy losses.
Mullen felt that his 50,000 fresh troops could decide the outcome as long as they were put into battle.
But for Li Ye, although the 50,000 strange soldiers did not appear, they were also a force on the surface, which must be taken into account when fighting. If you are not sure of defeating the other side, then the wisest choice is not to fight.
From the moment he learned that the Great Food Guards appeared in the Seven River Valley, Li Ye issued a combat order to Zhao Poyu and Chen Qinglin to show the enemy's weakness in accordance with the prior arrangement. dared to fight, because he was not afraid of these 50,000 fresh troops entering the battlefield.
These days, the Tang army seems to be brave and desperate, but it is just to make Mullen feel that victory is hopeful, so that he can put all his military forces into it, instead of going back to the Great Food Country to defend.
If the Great Food Guards returned to China to defend and had the advantage of fighting on the mainland, it would undoubtedly be time-consuming and laborious for the Tang Army to attack one city after another. The other party is a little more upset, the Tang army wants to capture Dashi, don't talk about it
It will also take years.
After several years of war, the burden is too great, and the consumption of the Tang Dynasty's national strength is too much, and in the process, many unpredictable variables and risks will gradually appear, threatening the victory of the war.
What Li Ye wants is to finish his work in one battle and fight to the death with Ma Lun in the Seven River Valley.
Let the opponent's guards be exhausted for a long time and unable to retreat smoothly, and then at the right time, try to annihilate them in one fell swoop.
As long as Malen has no guards, no matter how vast the territory of Dashi is, it will also be allowed to gallop by the Tang army.
In the final analysis, with the background of the Tang Dynasty and the development of cultivation over the years, the reason why there is only an army of 300,000 Qi cultivators is not that it cannot have more numbers, but that Li Ye made a choice to configure the best combat power after weighing the pros and cons.
"The next battle is not as easy as you said, although the Tiger Guards have the means to press the bottom of the box, but the power of the Crescent Moon Sect's true gods is still not to be underestimated. The city is far away from the Talas city of Taiyuan, and within two days, the wolf's tooth army will not be able to support it. And this duel will not take two days to determine the winner or loser. ”
Li Ye saw that the Great Food Guards had begun to jump up to the city, fighting with the Tiger Guards, and set his eyes on the wasteland in the northwest. A puff of yellow smoke had already appeared at the end of the sight, and it was conceivable that it was Malen's 50,000 fresh troops who had arrived.
"Zhao Poyu, get ready, once Ma Lun's 50,000 strange soldiers are put into the battlefield, according to the prior arrangement, the means of pressing the bottom of the box will be used. Li Ye gave Zhao Poyu an order.
Zhao Poyu took the order and left.
As in previous days, the battle became extremely fierce at the beginning, the two armies fought inside and outside the city walls, the Great Food Guards soon entered the city, the Tiger Guards relied on the terrain such as streets and alleys and houses to defend it, and the terrifying muffled sound of bows and crossbows was heard from time to time.
The Wolf Tooth Army's normal heavy crossbow can't break through the Great Food Guard's round shield shield, but the magic bed crossbow can. The bed crossbow arrays erected at various key crossings and commanding heights, every time they roar, there will be a large food guard monk who will be penetrated through the body, and where the formation is dense, there will even be people strung into a gourd.
Suddenly, in the sky above the city, the great monks of the two armies went back and forth, catching and killing each other, the rabbits rose and fell, and they did not give in to each other, and the fight was inseparable. From time to time, someone vomited blood in the air and fell into the city with heavy blows.
If it falls into your own military formation, it is fine, but once you fall into the enemy's military formation, you will be attacked by a group, and there is basically no possibility of rising into the air again.
Finally, the 50,000 fresh troops of the Great Food Guards attacked Kulun City from the north gate.
When they have been recuperating for a long time, they are full of spiritual energy, their armor is complete, they are in good condition, and their fighting spirit is also the highest. As soon as he came into contact with the soldiers of the Tiger Guards, he attacked the Tiger Guards formation like a fierce tiger in the mountains. After a short time, they fought their way out of the breakthrough and attacked the ranks of the Tiger Guards, rushing left and right.
The soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army resisted hard, but after all, because their strength was far inferior to that of the other party, they were killed and retreated.
Seeing that most of the defense area behind the north city wall was about to be destroyed by the Guards, at this time, behind the Tiger Guard array, a drum with a peculiar rhythm but thick as thunder suddenly sounded.
Hearing the drum and knowing the order, this is a necessary quality for the soldiers, and the soldiers of the Tiger Guards who fought against the new force of the Guards immediately fought and retreated under the order of the general, giving way to a large number of streets and alleys.
Just when this group of fresh troops thought that the Tiger Guards could not resist themselves and could only be forced to retreat to defend the next line of defense, at the end of the streets and alleys that were basically empty, a group of strange vans suddenly rushed out.
White Bull.
The momentum of the charge, people are not as good as horses, horses are not as good as cars, and the white bulls in the Tiger Guard are not just used to transport soldiers.