The bloodshed was not only against the Tang army, but also against the Turks and various tribes.
It has to be said that Li Shan's efforts to sow discord are still effective. Although the gap caused by this effect is not large, it will become larger and larger as time goes by.
But for this war, the effect may not be positive.
After all, with an army of more than 100,000 people and sufficient strength, the Turks were besieging them on three sides. Jieli Khan sent Ashina Sheer to lead his troops to attack the north, Tuli Khan to lead his troops to attack the east, and Tiele's tribes to attack the west.
The Tuli Khan in the east was just a showman... Now everyone in the Turks knows that Tuli Khan formed an alliance with Li Tang. This kind of thing is not uncommon among grassland tribes. There were many similar things in the pre-Sui period.
Well, as long as the marriage with Li Shanyi is not revealed... the grassland tribes will not reject Tuli Khan very much, except of course Jieli Khan.
Jieli Khan's subordinates, who were also facing the north, naturally attacked with all their strength, but what Li Shan didn't expect was that the Tiele tribes in the west kept attacking like they didn't want their lives... Zhang Shigui couldn't help but secretly curse Li Shan's mouth, maybe Tie Le
Tie Le does have a disobedient heart, but you openly exposed it. This is forcing Tie Le to express his feelings.
The Turks, who were as big as ants, ignored the extremely lethal and long-range Tang crossbows and charged forward. They dismounted near the city wall and climbed up with the ladder.
The defenders on the top of the city kept smashing down large and small rocks, holding long spears and sharp blades to stab and knock down the barbarians who climbed up one by one. The roars and screams never stopped.
Although the defenders had the advantage of the terrain and could even shoot an arrow casually without missing a target, the Turks' numerical advantage was too obvious. Corpses were piled up and down the ladders and city walls, and blood flowed like rivers.
Zhang Shigui is worthy of being a famous general who once stood alone. He carefully arranged each team, divided each team's defense zone, determined the response to each situation, and even set aside some troops as a reserve team to quickly reinforce the three walls.
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From a certain point of view, the small size of the Guji Town Fort played a key role, which allowed Zhang Shigui's orders to be conveyed quickly, and also enabled each troop deployment and defense change to be completed in the shortest time.
Xue Wanche stared intently at the barbarians climbing up the ladder. The guards around him held shields to protect them. From time to time, cold arrows hit the shields and made a dull sound.
The next moment, Xue Wanche pushed away his guards, held a huge log in his hand, and threw it down with a wild cry. The huge log knocked the barbarian who was about to emerge behind him, and continued to move, splitting the upper end of the ladder into two halves.
Xue Wanche dragged the giant tree and rushed along the city wall. The unparalleled force knocked down several barbarians who had climbed up on the ladder. The guards around him raised their swords and chopped down the few barbarians. The remaining one or two
The barbarian had no choice but to turn around and jump off the city wall.
In any attack on a city, ant attack is the most brutal, and in any attack on a city, the first priority is the city gate.
Therefore, Zhang Shigui placed the most powerful Xue Wanche on the wall near the city gate. This was the focus of the Turkic attack, but Xue Wanche perfectly defended the defense area. Even if more than a dozen enemy soldiers climbed up, it was Xue Wanche who
Do it deliberately and annihilate them all at once.
The crazy siege battle lasted until noon and came to an end. Zhang Shigui looked a little ugly. Did Jieli Khan hate the King of Handan so much?
Well, of course, my son was captured alive twice and is now in the underworld. I failed to capture Yanmen Pass and planned to come to Guji Town to pretend to be 13, but my calf was broken when I failed to pretend...
But although today's Turkic attack method is a bit stupid, in the final analysis, it is to exchange for human heads, but even so, it put great pressure on Zhang Shigui.
After all, others have more than 100,000 yuan, but I only have more than 2,000 yuan... I really can't afford to change it!
"Mr. Lang."
Zhang Shigui casually wiped it on his clothes, took a few bites of the bun from the guard, and suddenly asked: "Where is Your Highness?"
"In the wounded barracks."
"The guards didn't participate in the battle, right?"
"No." The guards clicked their tongues, "Everyone was ready and waiting to fight, but the east side was just showing off."
Zhang Shigui nodded and stopped asking. Li Shan's personal guards were naturally placed in the reserve team, but he deliberately placed them behind the east city wall, where there would be less pressure... Tuli Khan did not want to fight at all
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In fact, Li Shan's personal guards were disappointed by not being able to participate in the war.
Fan Shi watched with eager eyes the baskets of steamed buns being sent to the city wall, and pressed hard on his growling stomach... Li Shan had already ordered that the soldiers facing the enemy should be fully fed, and the rest half-eaten.
"What are you doing!" Zhu Wei came out to take a look and scolded in a low voice: "If it doesn't work, I will make you eat meat until you vomit in a few days!"
Fan Shiyi grinned. There are now more than 100,000 enemy troops outside, and most of them are cavalry... The Tang army can only defend, and it is no longer possible to attack. So many horses must be killed to replenish food.
In fact, even if there is enough food and grass, most of the war horses will still have to be killed... There is not that much food and grass in the castle, and one war horse consumes no less food than a young man.
In the inner room, Li Shan finished the last operation with an expressionless face and asked his assistant to take care of the suturing. He turned around and asked in a low voice: "Are the statistics ready?"
Zhu Shiliu, the leader of the escort, nodded and said: "A total of seventy-three wounded were sent, sixteen were dead, eighteen were seriously injured, and thirty-nine were slightly injured."
Li Shan finished washing his hands in the basin without any expression on his face, "Those who are slightly injured will eat half a meal, and those who are seriously injured will eat half a meal."
From a medical point of view, this is not in line with the principles, but this is a battlefield... Li Shan said to himself in his heart.
What is serious injury?
What is a minor injury?
What are the criteria for judgment?
All the wounded who are sent must first go through a selection... Those who are likely to return to the battlefield in a short time and can at least serve as civilians are lightly wounded, and those who cannot recover in a short time are seriously wounded.
If the left arm is broken, the right arm can still lift the knife. Even if both arms are disabled, the back can still be used to transport rocks and food.
Therefore, regardless of whether the injury is minor or serious, those with injured legs and those who cannot walk are all seriously injured. As long as they can still walk normally...most of them are lightly injured.
The cruelty of war was clearly revealed at this moment... Although Li Shan had been on the battlefield many times.
Li Shan sighed, and went out to look around at the lightly wounded people on the opposite side. Most of them were handled well. Originally, the garrison in Guji Town was allocated thirty guards. Later, Li Shan was trapped here. There were also many personal guards around him.
The old man can serve as a guard, but for now, he can barely survive.
Hearing a wounded man's stomach growling, Li Shan stopped and said softly: "It will be delivered in the evening, just bear with it."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
There were endless compliments, and Li Shan looked a little complicated. He originally thought that his actions would lead to low morale in the army, but Zhang Shigui soon told him that you were wrong.
The world has been in chaos for many years, and the treatment of wounded soldiers in the army... is unimaginable and intolerable to doctors of later generations. In a word, basically you can survive if you can survive, and if you can't survive, you can die.
This "suffering" is not only about the injury, but also about food... Under normal circumstances, unless the army has a lot of food and grass, there will not be much food left for the wounded.
Nowadays, the fortress is running out of food and grass, but the wounded soldiers still have food, which makes them burst into tears of gratitude.