Chapter 59: Will not seal the knife within ten days

When a man is angry, blood splatters five steps. When the emperor is angry, he will hide millions of corpses. Although Tongye Hu Khan is not the emperor, all families are the lords of a country. When Tongye Hu is angry, it is naturally a matter of difference. There will definitely be countless people who will die for it.

Outside Liangzhou City, just as the sky was dawn, tens of thousands of cavalrymen of the Western Turks began to rush towards Liangzhou City.

These Western Turkic cavalry shouted and ran back and forth outside the range of the Tang army guards, with a terrifying momentum.

Li Daozong, standing on the wall of Liangzhou City, looked out the city, and the figures of Western Turkic cavalry were everywhere, with sand and dust rolling, people roaring and horse neighing. Standing on the wall, all the Tang soldiers had a fear of surrounding them. As the Western Turkic cavalry approached again and again, this psychological pressure became greater and greater.

The Tang army general shouted loudly to keep the soldiers calm, but it was useless. The recruits were not the ones who could keep calm on the battlefield. After nearly two consecutive months of siege, the elite veterans under Li Daozong also suffered heavy casualties, and a large number of recruits were added. These young and strong men, who were still ordinary people a few months ago or dozens of days ago, were holding weapons and their bodies were shaking like sieves.

When a team of Western Turkic light cavalry rushed towards Liangzhou City with a strange cry and became closer and closer, someone finally couldn't hold on and shot out the bow and arrow in his hand. As the first arrow was shot out, the Tang soldiers, whose nerves were almost broken, rushed to shoot arrows as if they had found a channel for venting.

"Swish swish swish swish..."

The dense rain of arrows poured down towards the Western Turkic cavalry, but it was useless. The Western Turkic cavalry was still shooting out of the bows and arrows. Although the shooting was very dense this time, the distance was too far, so there were not many Western Turkic cavalry who fell to the ground by the arrow.

At this moment, the Western Turkic cavalry immediately rode their horses and came over. The arrows were like beads, and the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the Tang soldiers fell down as they responded.

The screams that followed made the Tang army even more panicked, and some Tang army soldiers were so scared that they threw down their crossbows, turned around and ran away. Fortunately, Li Daozong had a reserve team, allowing the elite veterans to fill this gap in time and stabilize the situation.

However, the cavalry of the Western Turks ran around Liangzhou City and rushed into the range from time to time, causing damage to the Tang army defenders on the city wall. However, relatively speaking, the Tang army nodded in the right position and was condescending. However, because the cavalry of the Western Turks was running and moving targets were harder to hit, the two sides had their advantages and disadvantages. Every minute and every second, someone would scream and fall to the ground.

Gradually, Li Daozong felt something was wrong. The Tang army had city walls to cover. Even if they were shot, they could be treated immediately. Especially when Chen Ying's surgical treatment method was implemented, the possibility of the Tang army's wounded soldiers recovering was as high as 80%. Unless they hit the key point, under normal circumstances, being hit by an arrow would not be fatal at all.

But the Western Turks are different. Each of them falls off a horse and falls to the ground, and they will be immediately trampled into meat paste by the horse's hooves behind them. This means that as long as one of the Western Turks is shot, 99% of them will die.

Such a battle will not have any effect except for increasing casualties. After all, war horses cannot fly to the city walls.

Tongye Hu Khan looked at his subordinates indifferently, not because he was cruel, but because these attacking Western Turkic cavalry were all Western Turkic people in the eyes of the Tang people. In fact, Tongye Hu knew very well that these were just servants set up by the Western Turkic servant tribes, which were cannon fodder troops.

Tongye Hu used these servants to consume the arrows and strength of the Tang army. Cold weapons combat is different from hot weapons combat. When cold weapons combat, a soldier controlled heavy machine guns and shot hundreds or thousands of people was not a problem. But the key is that the cold soldiers cried in the era of too much effort.

A qualified archer shoots at most one pot of arrows in one battle, and then his physical strength will drop rapidly. If he barely fights, the bow and arrow will not be able to pull into a full moon, and it will consume too much physical strength and will also damage the soldiers' bodies.

This siege battle, which was like a cat playing with a mouse, lasted almost two hours. It was almost noon, and all the soldiers of the Tang army, including Li Daozong, felt that they could not hold on to their physical strength.

The rain of arrows shot to the city was not only sparse, but also weak and weak.

Tongye Hu saw it very clearly and ordered lightly: "Ben Khan spent more than 3,000 lives, just to kill this. If you let Ben Khan down again, Ben Khan will drag him to death with a horse!"

A group of Roman servants rushed to attack according to the order. The Byzantines dispatched more than 1,000 people to push hundreds of two-wheeled vehicles. These two-wheeled vehicles were equipped with a large wooden barrel, which was about three feet in diameter and about six feet high. The strangest thing was that it also carried a wooden lever more than three feet long. The high-rise wooden bar seemed to be like a barrel of a self-propelled cannon.

This is actually not a self-propelled artillery, but a Greek fire invented by the Greeks. The so-called Greek fire has the same principle as the fierce turret cabinet invented in the Song Dynasty. It uses a unique formula to put crude oil into a wooden pipe wrapped in brass, and uses the power of air compression to spray the turret oil out, causing damage to the enemy.

This was originally a powerful weapon for water battles. Because the space on the warship is large, it can be made into gas cylinders and has a longer range. However, this is just a land version of Greek fire, and its power is not too great.

However, it is a weapon that makes people scary when placed in this time and space. Once Greek fire begins to be cast, a fire dragon, as thick as a bucket, will spray more than thirty steps, and within the range of more than thirty steps, a sea of ​​fire will instantly form.

When Li Daozong saw this scene, he was shocked. He roared quickly: "Archer, take these Turks back!"

The Tang soldiers also knew that the Greek fire was so powerful that they wanted to shoot arrows. The problem was that after two hours of shooting, their physical strength had already been exhausted and there were not much arrows left.

Even though they had no physical strength, these Tang army archers didn't care. They all set their bows, gritted their teeth and shot arrows. Many soldiers tried their best and their faces turned red.

"Swish swish swish swish..."

The sparse arrows hit the Greek fire. Because they were made of brass, although the arrows hit the Greek fire, they jingled and sounded lively, but they were useless.

A few archers were helpless and shot arrows at these Byzantines in grief and anger. This time it finally worked. With the rain of arrows falling, some Byzantines fell to the ground from time to time. However, there were very few archers who could shoot arrows. What's the use of just hundreds of bows? Not to mention the Western Turks who had been through the battle for a long time, even the Byzantines themselves did not take this casualty seriously, and pushed the Greek train to continue walking forward silently!

Li Daozong watched helplessly as these Byzantines pushed the Greek fire and entered Liangzhou City within twenty steps. These Greek fire vehicles were slowly fixed under the operation of the Byzantines, and then adjusted the angle of the turbulent oil nozzle.

The soldiers of the Tang army roared in despair.

At the moment, they can do nothing.

Li Daozong shouted: "Get out quickly, retreat!"

The Byzantines who were carrying out twenty steps in Liangzhou City could easily burn the entire city wall into a huge fire with Greek fire. At this time, no matter how many people were left on the city wall, they were all buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Hearing Li Daozong's orders, the Tang army soldiers hurriedly ran under the city wall. At this time, there was no hero, and no one to be a hero. At this time, it was meaningless to do so.

Just as the Tang army was running towards the city in a panic, more than a thousand Byzantines roared, and seven or eight people worked together to pull the long lever, and with a series of deafening roars sounded.

Fire dragons, as thick as buckets, pounced on Liangzhou City with their teeth and claws.

Soon the entire Liangzhou City wall was trapped in a sea of ​​fire. There were still many Tang soldiers who had no time to retreat in the sea of ​​fire. They screamed shrillly in the sea of ​​fire.

More Greek fires are aimed at the gates of Liangzhou City. Even if the gates wrapped in iron will be burned in front of the Greek fire.

Losing the blockade of the Tang army archers on the city wall, these Turkic cavalry surrounded them again. Tens of thousands of Western Turkic cavalry raised their bows in their hands. The bowstrings were trembling and connected together, pulling people's heartstrings. The sharp arrows were almost connected in a line without any gaps. Tens of thousands of sharp arrows crossed the sky and shot towards Liangzhou City. Before the first arrow fell to the ground, the second round of arrow rain was thrown into the air again, followed by the third round and the fourth round...

It was windy, it was a metal storm.

It's raining, it's rain of death.

The Tang soldiers who finally retreated from the city wall immediately suffered a catastrophe.

Before these Tang soldiers who had just escaped from the sea of ​​fire could breathe, the Western Turkic feather arrows fell like a pouring rain. The muffled sound of the arrowhead tearing the flesh and blood was creepy. Death swept the foot of the city wall like a storm, and no one could escape. As the bowstrings of the Western Turkic people trembled, the Tang soldiers fell in rows.

Because the retreat was too hastily, many Tang army soldiers ran down from the city wall, and some even lost their weapons. The only thing they could do was to look up at the feather arrows flying densely from the sky, and then fall down by the arrows.

However, the range of bows and arrows is limited. When the Tang army soldiers ran out of the range of the Western Turkic bows and arrows, they looked back and saw corpses everywhere behind them. The Tang army, who had luckily failed to fall, looked around in horror, and saw piles of corpses and wounded people who were struggling and screaming.

However, their nightmare is not over yet.

The city gate had already creaked sounds, and the sound seemed extremely harsh as the fire was burning.

"No, the city gate!"

"It's because the city gate can't hold on!"

"Quick, keep the city gate!"

The soldiers were frightened and shouted.

Because everyone knew that once the city gate was broken, Liangzhou would be killed into a mountain of corpses and blood. With the cruel nature of the Turks, they would probably not be able to seal the sword within ten days.
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