Below the city, the barbarians who left behind hundreds of corpses were retreating like a tide.
While Luo Du and Qian Buzhou were still hearing their words of persuading Su Lu to mobilize the reserve team, the barbarian vanguard had already withdrawn.
"The barbarians retreated"
Excited roars sounded from the top of the city, and the barbarians retreated. A group of sergeants who had just fought a bloody battle were still in the excitement of raising their guns, and they all let out excited roars.
Luo Du and Qian Buzhou looked at each other in disbelief, some of them couldn't believe that the barbarians actually retreated.
"Are the barbarians so easy to fight?"
Hua Xun, who was lying on the top of the city watching the retreat of the barbarians, had a confused look on his face. Everyone was ready to prepare. The barbarians who were rumored to be so mysterious in the army just withdrew immediately after they met each other.
"The enemy is defeated. If we can take advantage of the victory and pursue it, we will be able to win another great victory."
Hua Xun said excitedly.
Lu Zhan next to him said with a sarcastic face: "That's because you haven't seen how fierce the charge of the barbarian group is. If you are attacked by the barbarian group once, you won't say what you just said again."
Hua Xun looked unhappy when he heard this: "Fart, the commander will direct you, I won't be afraid of being beaten again."
Lu Zhan was speechless and speechless. It seemed like this. Although the barbarians were powerful, the commander-in-chief and the army did not allow the barbarians to gain favor.
When Hua Xun saw that Lu Zhan could not speak, he beat the city bricks and shouted: "Commander Commander, this wave of barbarians is in a huge rout. Let's go after them. We will destroy this group of barbarians and let the barbarians know that we are very strong."
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The surrounding generals and captains all focused their attention on Su Lu. Since the barbarians were not too difficult to fight, they should catch up with them and destroy them to show off the prestige of our country.
Su Lu patted the dusty city bricks and gave instructions: "Spread out the scouts and pay close attention to the movements of the barbarians. This is just the first attack of the barbarian scout team. When their large team arrives, if you can defeat them, we will start the counterattack."
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After Su Lu finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the bottom of the city wall.
Lu Zhan gave Hua Xun a look to see if he had seen me. The commander-in-chief looked approvingly at me, and followed Su Lu down the city wall.
On the top of the city, Zhang Gan touched the ballista and carefully considered the direction and angle of the firing. He felt relieved. According to what the mountain leader said, the adjusted hit rate of the ballista was greatly increased. The three salvos just fired killed him.
There were dozens of barbarians.
Zhang Gan is now very confident that if the barbarians try again, he can achieve a higher hit rate.
"Captain Zhang, the way we fired just now was a bit strange. Is it the way you taught us in the martial arts hall?"
Next to him, the captain who was also in charge of the crossbow battalion came over and said hello.
Pang Wei was the captain of the Gongnu Battalion. Before Zhang Gan came, he was responsible for the deployment and attack of long-range weapons such as crossbows, crossbows, catapults and trebuchets at the top of the city.
Zhang Gan came and immediately became the commander of the city's ordnance defense. Pang Wei had some objections at first. Why on earth do you think it's just because you graduated from a martial arts school? It's totally unreasonable.
But after the battle just now, Pang Wei was really convinced.
It was also a crossbow shooting. My own sergeants fired more than a dozen times, while the other ballista battalion only fired three rounds of volleys, but the difference in results was huge.
They killed dozens of barbarians in three rounds. Of the barbarians lying down on the battlefield, the pikemen killed less than half, and the ballistae battalion killed more than half. I... still shot and killed seven or eight barbarians.
But the gap in the number of people is a bit big!
Pang Wei thought with some shame, he had a battalion of two hundred men, and others had a battalion of two hundred men. Damn it, the soldiers of the Jiangwu Hall were really powerful.
Zhang Gan glanced at Pang Wei and smiled shyly. This Pang Wei had been so polite to him just now, but now he was talking nice about him.
On the battlefield, strength is still respected.
Zhang Gan responded with a smile: "It's something from my martial arts hall, but it's not what I learned in the martial arts hall before, but what the commander-in-chief taught me these days. If you want to learn it, I can teach it to you."
Zhang Gan said sincerely, although Pang Wei is not a soldier at the head of his own battalion, he serves under the commander-in-chief and is a subordinate of the commander-in-chief. If Pang Wei wants to enter the martial arts hall, he can apply for admission in the next academic year.
In a few years, Pang Wei may become a student soldier who graduated from the martial arts hall, and he will also be his disciple. There is nothing he can't say.
Pang Wei became excited: "Really? Colonel Zhang, just now I saw that when you were still far away, the ballista was pointing upwards, and the ballista was ejected. Although it was not as high as the accuracy when shooting downwards later, the lethality was not bad, Colonel Zhang."
Lieutenant, I see that the angles of your two launches are different, what is the basis for adjusting this thing?"
Zhang Gan pulled Pang Wei over, lay down in front of the ballista, and pointed at him.
"Look, here is the elevation angle of the ballista, and here is the height of the ballista. The combination of height and elevation determines the range of the ballista..."
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The Tang army was defeated and retreated to Sanhui City. Xie Ruyu took over the military affairs of the city defenders.
Standing at the top of the city, Xie Ruyu looked at the dark clouds in the distance, her face as dark as the clouds.
This time he sent his army to invade the Qin State, even risking a war with the Han Dynasty, and defeated the Han army in the Five Plains, in order to carve up the Qin State's territory after the Qin State was attacked by the Western barbarians.
Unfortunately, God's calculation is not as good as man's calculation. The barbarians can't communicate with each other, and dividing the territory to rule has become a complete illusion. Three of the troops he brought with him have gone to two, and the remaining capable warriors are less than ten thousand. General Wei
He was also surrounded by enemy troops, and the situation was definitely in danger.
How should I explain to His Majesty when I go back? The battle that staked the fate of the Xie family was lost like this.
"coming"
Qinjun reminded Xie Ruyu.
On the horizon in the distance, long stretches of yellow sand gradually rose up, and large groups of barbarians came overwhelmingly, almost hiding the sky in the west.
Xie Ruyu was shocked, why are there so many barbarians?
A rough estimate is that the number of barbarians now is almost tens of thousands. How come there are so many barbarians suddenly?
"Assemble all the soldiers to go to the city and prepare for the night battle."
Xie Ruyu gave the order.
The barbarians are powerful, and without enough backing troops, there is no way to stop the barbarians.
Xie Ruyu looked at the barbarians in the distance, thinking about strategies to defeat the enemy.
…
Three days later, Xie Ruyu, who still couldn't defend Sanhui City after a series of hard battles, was finally defeated.
Coming out of the east city gate, Xie Ruyu looked at the beacon smoke in the city, a hint of darkness flashed in his pupils.
Are barbarians really invincible?
Why was he defeated again and again in several battles and never even won a battle?
Wei Hu, who had recently returned, grabbed Xie Ruyu's sleeve: "Sir, retreat. Sanhui City has been destroyed. If we don't leave, we will be surrounded by barbarians. We won't be able to leave even if we want to."
Relying on the escort of more than a dozen black flag troops, Wei Huzi managed to break out of the barbarian encirclement. Now he was afraid of the barbarians like a tiger and only wanted to retreat.
Xie Ruyu sighed and ordered: "Let's go and evacuate to Pengxi. Your Majesty's order should be arriving soon. We will just go to Pengxi to receive it."
Xie Ruyu smiled sadly. His Majesty would definitely blame him for his incompetence in using his troops this time, and he would be relieved of his military duties. There was no doubt that the entire Xie family would be killed.