Hu Biao's guess is correct, but it's also incorrect!
After the defenders of Kucha City expressed their determination never to surrender with practical actions, a long sound of horns was heard from the center position of the Tibetan army.
Suddenly, on the left wing, a large number of people dismounted and marched toward the city on foot.
It was a large, dense area, and it looked like there were tens of thousands of people there.
Why was Hu Biao so sure that he could even master the legendary "art of observing troops"? No, he just felt that the wave of attackers in front of him was almost the same as the total number of soldiers and civilians in Kucha City.
Although judging from the distance of this wave of attackers, walking speed and other factors, it would take at least half an hour to reach the city.
However, Hu Biao found that facing this kind of battle involving more than ten thousand people, there was a panic in his heart.
My heart was beating hard under the great tension, and my blood pressure was definitely over 150. My whole body was like a piece of wood, and I didn't know what to do except holding the spear in my hand tightly.
Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Tiezhu, the captain of the team, saw such a scene and cursed:
"Don't panic! The more scared and panicked you are on the battlefield, the faster you will die. Be smarter when the fight starts later, and we will take care of you.
Don’t worry! People don’t die that easily.”
The other members of the Second Cavalry Team of Xuan Ge Camp did not say anything, but they stretched out their hands to pull Hu Biao and others away from the wall stacks and pulled them behind them.
Hu Biao immediately felt relieved when he saw the gang leader Liang Daya, who was half a head shorter than himself, standing in front of him.
But soon after, he felt that the expression on his face must be one of great shame.
Because facing the enemy's first attack, which was several times more powerful than his Anxi Army, Guo Xin at the city gate shouted: "Prepare your armor and fight to the death~"
After hearing this, the two dozen personal guards behind him shouted:
"Prepare your armor and fight to the death~"
In the shouts that spread throughout the city wall, Wang Xiaowei, Zhang Tiezhu, Liang Daya, One-eyed Dragon and other Tang troops from the Xuange Camp on this section of the city wall.
All the soldiers of the Anxi Army on other city walls began to tidy up their clothes and armor.
At first, Hu Biao still didn't understand why they were doing this.
But looking at Zhang Tiezhu, the team leader who can be said to have a scary face because of the huge scar on his face, he looked extremely serious and solemn when he was arranging his clothes and armor.
Suddenly, Hu Biao and others miraculously understood.
They, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, hoped to die in battle with the neatest appearance of a soldier.
Instinctively, Hu Biao and the others started to scramble and tidy up their robes that were not neat at all due to the hasty gathering just now.
The next second, the movements of their hands stopped.
Mainly because after sorting their clothes and armor, Zhang Tiezhu and others took off their helmets one after another, intending to straighten their buns and put them back on again.
During this process, Hu Biao and the others saw that the city wall was covered with white hair.
To be precise, among the thousands of Anxi troops in the city, all the soldiers were white-haired old men; mixed with their 21 heads of black hair, they looked so endlessly desolate.
For a moment, their throats were severely blocked...
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Regarding the first attack by the Tibetan army, in fact, neither the offensive nor defensive personnel paid much attention to it, knowing that it was just an appetizer.
The greater significance of these people's attack is to consume the arrows of the Tang army on the city wall and test the strength of the Tang army's defense on the city wall.
Specifically, more than a dozen Turkic tribes who had attached themselves to the Tibetans mobilized a force of over 10,000 to attack the city.
To be more precise, these Turks are the remnants of the post-Turkic Khanate. After the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs joined forces to destroy the Turkic Khanate, part of the surviving Turkic people moved westward.
The other part formed numerous small tribes, and now it has become a dog under the Tibetan people.
In this attack, although the number of Turkic cannon fodder looked scary, it did not have much effect at all.
Don't look at the earthen wall of Qiuci City. Although it is only a little over four meters high, it is not something that Turks without any siege equipment can climb up with their hands.
What's more, before climbing, they had to find a way to cross the moat at the foot of the city wall, which was seven to eight meters wide and three meters deep.
After they rushed over, facing the river that could drown them, they could only shoot at the Tang army on the city wall.
In this mutual exchange of fire, the Turks suffered a great loss, and finally retreated in embarrassment after killing more than a thousand people.
The Tang army on the city wall suffered only dozens of casualties.
The reason is very simple. The Tang army on the city wall was protected by wall stacks, and with the shield erected, it could very effectively prevent upward and thrown arrows.
On the contrary, when the Tang army on the city wall shoots arrows from a high position, there is a significant bonus in terms of power and range.
Coupled with the dozen or so large crossbows on this wall, every shot has a disastrous outcome for the person who hits it.
The leather shields and wooden shields inlaid with iron sheets in the hands of the Turks were of no use against such violent crossbows.
Therefore, looking at the scene of the Turks retreating, let alone Guo Xin, the commander-in-chief of the Anxi Army.
Even Liang Daya, some of the team leaders who were equivalent to the platoon leader level, did not have any joy on their faces, but only solemn expressions.
Because they knew that attacking a small city like Kucha City did not require any complicated siege equipment; relying on the large number of people, simply making a few ladders could pose a fatal threat to them.
Of course, Hu Biao and other rookies didn't think so. The shooting scene between the two sides just now frightened them.
For example, take the warehouse manager, a greasy middle-aged man who has lived happily for half his life.
When the Turks retreated at the sound of the horn, an old soldier in front of him put down the shield he held high.
After he poked his head out a little and saw clearly the enemy's hasty retreat, Cang Guan breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Seriously! He was really scared just now.
The dense arrows were like raindrops, constantly hitting the shield in front of him. At that time, his mind was completely blank.
I never thought of counterattacking with a hand crossbow.
Fortunately, now, all this has passed, he was not hit by the arrow, and nothing happened.
The next second, when he felt the wetness between his legs, he awkwardly bent down, trying to hide the fact that he had been frightened to pee.
Unfortunately, this scene was seen by the old pawn in front of him.
The old pawn did not reprimand him, he just laughed and cursed:
"How can a man who is almost six feet tall be so cowardly? But it's okay. When these old guys went into battle for the first time, I don't know how many of them were also scared to wet their pants.
After you pee a few times, you won’t pee again.”
After hearing this, more veterans looked over. Xu thought of the embarrassing things he had done when he enlisted in the army many years ago, and suddenly burst into laughter.
At this moment, the warehouse manager wished that there was a big crack in the city wall that he could crawl through.
At this moment, an unexpected incident resolved the warehouse manager's embarrassment, but he did not want such a scene to occur at all, and would rather everyone continued to laugh at him.
Because at this time, it is said that there is a second-generation gangster in the family who is a bit ruthless.
He finally recovered from the horror of having a sharp arrow fly past his scalp in the previous battle.
Facing such a real death threat, he couldn't care about anything else, including guilt, mission, sanity, etc.
After throwing down a long gun in his hand, without saying a word, he pulled away the netizen who was blocking him and ran towards the ramp leading down to the city wall dozens of meters away.
Obviously, this frightened hapless guy wanted to escape from here.
Even in theory, there was no way he could escape.
Upon seeing this, Lieutenant Wang, who was 100 meters away and had burst into tears from laughter a second ago, yelled: "Stop, stop, otherwise don't blame me for doing military law~"
But at this moment, Gangzi couldn't hear anything in his head.
So after a few seconds, Lieutenant Wang put down a pair of pumpkin hammers in his hands, quickly took the bow from behind and fired an arrow at him.
The walking bow in Wang Xiaowei's hand is much larger than the usual model, at least it has the standard of one stone in the Tang Dynasty.
If you switch to the modern dimension, it would require 79.32 kilograms to fully pull it, which is a terrifying level of more than 170 pounds.
Even if Wang Xiaowei drew the bow to a third of the way and then let go in order to shoot quickly, the arrow was also fast and urgent, hitting Gangzi's back, and the arrowhead popped out from his chest.
Fortunately, Gangzi ran right in front of the warehouse manager at that time.
The blood that was splashed out at that time was all over the warehouse manager's face; some even flew into the warehouse manager's mouth, who was yelling at Gangzi not to run away.
In the end, under the sound of the warehouse manager vomiting crazily, other netizens turned pale.
It was also after such a scene happened that all netizens gave up on the idea of running down the city wall and finding a place to hide if the situation was critical...
