Su Chen did not answer Cheng Wuting's concerns and asked Liu Jingren: "The east gate of Xila City has the weakest defense, right?
, the cannibals there didn’t dig trenches, right?”
Liu Jingren replied: "Yes, originally there was the cannibal Qiaotou Camp five or six miles outside the east gate."
"According to the previous defense arrangement of the Great Eater, it is impossible for us to attack from the east gate, so the defense arrangement there is the weakest."
Su Chen: "That's where we can launch the attack!"
"Get ready! Let the army break camp and go north to the Qiaotou camp where the cannibals used to be."
"Our next step is to place the camp there!"
Sun Renshi hurriedly said: "Commander, it is only five or six miles away from the city of Shila. There is a big river to the east and the city of Shila to the west."
"We don't need to take the initiative to attack the city. Ottoman comes directly along the river embankment. The defenders in the city come out from the east gate and can easily block us by the river."
"Isn't this just a trick of Ottoman's plan to attack us from both sides?"
Su Chen smiled and said: "Send a hot air balloon to keep a close eye on Osman and the city defenders. Once we find something wrong, we should be able to retreat in time."
"And I don't think Osman will go south easily. That's not the best place for Osman to have a decisive battle,"
"He will definitely want us to continue going north. Once we reach the north of Shila City, it will not be easy to retreat,"
"At that time, Osman will find an opportunity to fight us decisively."
Master Sun Ren said: "Commander, you should take some risks!"
Su Chen said helplessly: "It's time now, just take risks!"
"You also know that the attacks of the Yisiqi and the Khazars in the east and the Orahem people in the west are not going very smoothly, and they will not be able to threaten the Ottomans for a while."
"The big food aristocrats on the peninsula are wavering. If Osman is determined to fight with us, it will last for a long time, and there will be many variables during this period."
"But we have been away from the Tang Dynasty for too long, and the soldiers are homesick."
"It's better to take advantage of the current situation when the cannibal army is distracted and take some risks. If we can capture the city of Shila, the rest will be easy."
After the Rahm captured Najaf, they suffered considerable losses under the city of Kufa.
Yisiqi and the Khazars also suffered a defeat in the northeast of Ctesiphon.
Elsa wrote a letter saying that the food nobles are still connecting with each other, slowly gathering troops, and have no intention of completely falling out with Osman immediately.
Although Osman seems to be in danger, he can still hold on for a while.
But Su Chen's patience has almost run out.
According to the plan at the beginning of the year, Su Chen originally planned to end the war before summer came.
Autumn is coming now, and Su Chen doesn't want to delay it any longer as he is still spending time with Osman.
In fact, everyone in the Tang Army is very agitated now, and they all want to end this expedition as soon as possible!
"It's all damn Byzantium's fault!"
Cheng Wuting suddenly slammed the table and said angrily.
Indeed, the main reason why the war has dragged on until now is because Heraclius was an old fox.
He was unable to work on the front line of Damascus, leaving Osman to deal with Su Chen unscrupulously in the Mesopotamia.
If Byzantium could march into the Mesopotamia, the war would have been over long ago.
Su Chen said helplessly: "Herac was an old fox who wanted to preserve his strength. He succeeded as he watched us fight with Osman!"
"But this old guy just got a small advantage this time. He will regret it later!"
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's discuss how to quickly capture the city of Shila next."
After Su Chen and everyone have agreed on the specific details, the army can break camp and head north.
At the same time, Su Chen had ten hot air balloons keep an eye on the movements of the Ottomans heading north and the defenders in the city.
Then let the remaining fifty hot air balloons carry out the first large-scale bombing of Hilla City.
Ten kilograms of gunpowder packets, each hot air balloon carried ten,
Thousands of kilograms of gunpowder were thrown into the city of Hilla at one time!
Although black powder is much less powerful than real explosives,
But it can't withstand the large quantity. Ten kilograms of black powder are no better than one or two kilograms of high explosives.
The shock wave generated by the explosion of a gunpowder packet of ten kilograms will kill all humans and animals within a radius of tens of meters.
You must know that the charge of a grenade in later generations was only more than 100 grams.
After the non-stop bombing in the past three days, the cannibals were all used to it, and they thought that this time the hot air balloon would drop a few bombs and leave like the previous few days.
As a result, there was a violent explosion and large-scale casualties, and the defenders of Shila City were terrified!
After the bombing, Su Chen let the hot air balloon drop tens of thousands of kilograms of kerosene on the city of Hilla at once, and the city of Hilla suddenly burst into flames.
Afterwards, the hot air balloon dropped leaflets again, telling the cannibal: Continue tomorrow!
The defenders in Hilla City immediately fell into despair!
After Osman received the request for help from Hilla City, he calmly sent people back to tell the defenders in the city:
The Tang people were trying to scare them. The Tang people didn't have that much gunpowder and kerosene at all.
It was also necessary for the defenders in the city to attack him from both front and back and eliminate this group of Tang people in one fell swoop.
When the generals of the garrison in the city heard Osman's response to them, they were all anxious and angry. They were not willing to bet on whether the Tang army really didn't have that much gunpowder and kerosene.
In fact, there is really not much kerosene here in Su Chen. Ordinary oil has been basically consumed. There are still tens of thousands of kilograms of Greek fire, but we need to supply flamethrowers and will not use them to set fire to the city of Shira.
Although there is not much kerosene left, there is still a lot of gunpowder.
When Su Chen left Datang, the most loaded thing on the ship was gunpowder. Each ship weighed dozens of tons on average!
Ten thousand kilograms sounds like a lot, it's only five tons, and the army currently carries dozens of tons.
The army successfully arrived and set up camp five or six miles east of Hilla City. Osman held his troops upstream and waited for Su Chen to continue heading north.
Osman felt that Su Chen violently bombarded Shila City just to force him to go back and fight with him, so that he would not be fooled!
If Su Chen dared to attack the city, he would quickly return reinforcements, and then take advantage of the Tang army's attack to attack the Tang army from behind.
Osman was only twenty miles away from the city of Shira, and he was very confident that his elite cavalry could return to the rescue in time.
Besides, there are still 30,000 defenders in Shila City. Even if some are consumed by bombing,
It was impossible for the Tang army to capture the city of Shila in a short period of time.
Osman also did not believe that the Tang army had so much gunpowder that they could continue bombing.
A large-scale bombing involving tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder sounds terrifying.
But the city of Shila is a big city, with a radius of more than 20 miles, and the effect is far less terrible than imagined!
You must know that bombing during World War II often involved hundreds of bombers and thousands of tons of bombs.
Several cities in a small island country were dropped with 100,000 tons of bombs in three months.
However, this was the first time that gunpowder was used in tons, and it really frightened the defenders in Hilla City to the point of trembling.
