The first thousand two hundred and twenty-nine chapters the noose around the neck of the Tatar
The Tatars are not good at siege. This is not because they lack the courage to climb the city and fight hand-to-hand, but because they lack siege equipment. Facing the Tang Army's city defense system, the Tatars have not had any good solutions in recent years.
In recent years, they have not tried to attack cities. They have also attacked some cities on the Great Wall defense line, but they have been able to capture them almost every time.
That is to say, in recent months, in order to cut off the supply lines of the Tang Army, they gathered heavy troops to besiege some of the earthen fortresses along the supply lines. Even so, they paid a heavy price every time.
Why were the thousands of cavalry killed and wounded? Most of them were casualties from attacking these earthen fortresses.
But, more importantly, how can those earthen fortresses be compared with a big city like Dongsheng City.
The Tang Army generally only spent a few days building those earthen fortresses. Generally speaking, they were just small field fortifications. At the beginning, there were only five or six hundred troops stationed there, but later they grew to nearly a thousand.
However, as for Dongsheng City, Anda Khan knew very well that the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty spent more than a month building it, and the number of troops stationed there was at least 20,000.
Although he has an army of 60,000 to 70,000 people under his command, it is impossible to gather all of them to attack the city. Some of them must be left to attack the supply lines of the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although this cannot completely cut off the supply lines of the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it can at least be done.
It will bring huge pressure to them and contain their large number of troops. Otherwise, they will be able to transport supplies safely and not need many troops to escort them.
If it were not for the large number of troops that were tied down on the supply line, the number of Southern Tang barbarians in Dongsheng City today would not be 20,000, but 40,000 or even more.
A supply line contained at least more than 30,000 troops of the Tang Army, which was a quite large number.
Of course, Anda Khan also invested a lot of troops, basically maintaining a force of more than 10,000 cavalry in this area.
In addition, he also needs to maintain a certain amount of troops in other directions to prevent accidents, because just like the Tang Army still maintains a large number of troops in many places on the Great Wall defense line, Anda Khan also needs to maintain a certain amount of troops in the corresponding places mentioned above.
With the strength of the troops, not to mention attacking, at least the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty cannot be allowed to attack the Great Wall from other places.
Based on this calculation, the number of troops he had on hand to besiege Dongsheng City would not exceed 50,000.
Fifty thousand people want to attack Dongsheng City?
I don't think it's reliable!
Even though he is a Tatar, he also knows that siege operations require at least several times more troops than the defenders, and sometimes even ten times more troops.
It doesn't matter that he doesn't have enough troops, but he still lacks the means to attack the city.
The Southern Tang barbarians on the opposite side used guns and grenades to defend the city. Their firepower was quite terrifying.
If you want to fight against such an enemy, the best way is to have corresponding guns and artillery, especially artillery. But does Anda Khan have artillery in his hand?
some!
But there are only a pitiful number of more than thirty pieces, and most of them are old-fashioned general cannons obtained from the former Ming Dynasty.
These old-fashioned artillery have common characteristics. They are all shotguns with short range and low power. They are usually used as defensive weapons to attack enemy infantry. However, if they want to be used as siege weapons, bombardment
Don't expect to break down the enemy's wall.
What is really useful is that through various means in recent years, especially when the earthen fortresses were breached in the past few months, most of the artillery of the Southern Tang Barbarians was captured, but the number was very small, not even ten.
No.
However, these old artillery pieces and captured artillery pieces from the Tang Army were treated as treasures by Anda Khan. They were usually carried by his direct troops and would never be used by other collateral troops.
But does this work?
It’s no use!
He didn't know how many artillery pieces the Southern Tang Barbarians had across the street, but he knew that there were at least hundreds of artillery pieces in Dongsheng City.
Those are all real cannons. This cannon is not a name, but a literal meaning. There are large artillery, cannons weighing thousands of kilograms or even several thousand kilograms.
Compared with these cannons, all the old cannons at home had to be thrown into the garbage dump. Only a few cannons obtained from the Tang army could be put to use.
Anda Khan has been trying to obtain the artillery of the Tang Dynasty over the years, but the Tang Empire has always refused to export artillery. Even to Fuso, the Tang Empire can only sell some shotguns at most, but the long body
All cannons, regardless of whether they are five-pound cannons or nine-pound cannons, are not allowed to be exported.
Naturally, Anda Khan could not directly purchase these artillery pieces. Even if he was willing to pay a high price to purchase them, the Tang Empire had never purchased them.
Of course, the Tang Empire has been equipped with artillery for many years, and some artillery pieces will always be lost in wars. In addition, there is another way that causes a lot of artillery leakage, and that is the artillery equipment on various merchant ships.
Although the Tang Empire had very strict management of the artillery on these merchant ships and strictly stipulated how many doors they had to leave the port and how many doors they had to use when coming back, not every merchant ship could return smoothly.
Some merchant ships were attacked and captured by pirates, or ran aground in some storm, and the artillery on the ship would be lost. Although the number each time was not large, the cumulative number was quite a lot.
At least, many pirates in Southeast Asia are equipped with artillery produced by Datang.
However, Anda Khan was unable to obtain the artillery of the Tang Dynasty through this method.
Because Anda Khan was in the north and Tang Dynasty was in the south, the huge Great Wall defense line blocked the Tatars tightly. They could not contact the Nanyang region at all, let alone transport such conspicuous things as artillery.
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Most of the artillery in Anda Khan's hands, whether it is the old general cannons of the Ming Army or the new cannons of the Tang Army, were captured. These captured artillery have also given Anda Khan a lot of help in previous wars.
of assistance.
However, this little artillery is not enough when compared with the Nanmanzi artillery on Dongsheng City.
What's more important is that although they have captured artillery, they don't have enough ammunition. Most of their ammunition is also captured. As for buying it, sorry, the Tang Empire doesn't sell it either.
It is impossible to get it from other places.
And self-made is even more nonsense. They Tatars are good at raising horses and herding, but they are not good at handling these guns.
Anda Khan, who was considering his own strength, found out very pessimistically that it was almost an impossible task for him to capture Dongsheng City.
What to do if you can't take it? Continue the stalemate with the Southern Tang Barbarians? But how long can the stalemate last, one month? Two months?
Although the Tatars are quite comfortable on the grassland, the army still needs to consume a lot of supplies outside. It has been here for several months, and I don't want to see it dragging on like this.
But regardless of the words of these Southern Tang barbarians, the consequences will be even worse. Now Dongsheng City can only be regarded as a military fortress at best, but if the Tang people are allowed to stay here, it will soon become a reclamation area, and then Dongsheng City
As a stronghold, earth fortresses were built everywhere.
Those earthen fortresses are quite bad habits. They seem simple and simple, and there are not many troops stationed there. But they can be defeated without killing or injuring several times the number of troops. More importantly, even if they are defeated, they will not be able to face the Tang Dynasty.
The army's counterattack was also unable to defend.
I was thinking hard about what to do.
Deng Xide was quite comfortable in Dongsheng City. After several months of hard work, he finally gained a firm foothold in Dongsheng City.
In order to gain a foothold here, it was not easy. Countless supplies were consumed. In order to maintain the supply line, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed or injured.
However, despite paying a heavy price, Dongsheng City was finally built, and he had considerable confidence in the newly built Dongsheng City.
This Dongsheng City is completely different from the ordinary cities built during the Ming Army era. Today's Dongsheng City is a super large bastion, and the core buildings are made of cement transported thousands of miles from China. The protective power is
Quite amazing.
Such a large bastion can accommodate at least 30,000 soldiers in combat.
Of course, the current Dongsheng City is still very crude. It only has the most basic military defense capabilities. To put it bluntly, it is actually a replica of the earthen fortress, only larger. Material supplies still need to be transported through supply lines.
come over.
If you want to garrison for a long time, you need to colonize this area. After all, tens of thousands of people need a lot of food, and it is too difficult to maintain supply lines.
However, even though there were many difficulties, Deng Xide felt that this was enough.
With Dongsheng City as a basis, he can make the next plan. Then he will want to see what these Tatars can do to him.
It didn't take long before he summoned the generals and began to issue relevant orders.
He ordered the troops to get ready and prepare to continue building the earth fortress. Where to build it? To the north, where is the north? Yinshan Mountain!
If the first one is built, then continue to build it until you reach Yinshan Mountain. What will happen then? Just look at the map and you will know that the entire Tumo River will be divided into two and the Tumo River will be completely cut off.
and the Hetao area.
Anyone with a bit of intelligence will know what impact it will have on the Tatars once the Tang Army takes over.
If Dongsheng City is a huge nail, then the earthen bastion defense line that Deng Xide is going to build, combined with the original bastion defense line and Dongsheng City, will form a huge chain!