"Kill!" More than a hundred Bian soldiers suddenly rushed to the earth wall and put down the planks.
As if it was a signal, figures loomed in the darkness in the distance, and a large group of soldiers armed with weapons rushed over...
In front of them was a trench, with the excavated soil patted into a wall and piled behind it.
Being rushed forward by the Bian army, the defenders were also a little anxious, and the gongs were immediately struck, resounding throughout the night sky.
The resting grassland men jumped up, picked up bows and arrows, and hid spears, sickles, axes, bones and other miscellaneous weapons to fight the enemy.
"Shoot!" The braided chieftain, wearing iron armor, ordered loudly.
Long arrows were shot out intensively, and a layer of white hair immediately grew on the shields of the Bian soldiers.
Screams came one after another, and no one knew how many people died on the spot in the darkness.
"The descendants of King Mi Yao, uh" a chieftain was shot in the throat by an arrow just as he was about to boost his morale.
In fact, there was no need for him to encourage him, and the two sides quickly killed each other.
The Bian army climbed over the earth wall with difficulty, and were soon stabbed to death by the Tibetan spears. No matter how many layers of armor you wear, there are always areas on your body that cannot be covered. When faced with more than a dozen sharp spear points, your chances of winning are slim.
It's always low.
The corpse fell helplessly behind the wall, and the successors took advantage of the chaos they caused to climb over the wall one after another and fight desperately.
Swords and axes were flying, spears were stabbing, blood was raining, and one life after another was lost in the night wind.
The strong Tibetan people could not withstand the bloody fight, and some of them had already retreated, but what greeted them was a dense barrage of arrows. Even the Bian soldiers who were eager to fight and chased them were shot to pieces.
In front of the second earthen wall, there was a solemn array of archers and spearmen, and the number of people was despairing.
The sound of drums sounded in the dark night.
Every time the drum was played, a chieftain would charge forward with his strong men.
Most of them were unarmored and had a variety of weapons. Their coordination was terrible, and they had no killing skills. They only had brute strength and wildness, and were driven forward by howling and screaming under the supervision of the battle team.
The Bian army was pushed back step by step, and the first earth wall was recaptured.
Lu Huaizhong came down from the watchtower with a serious face, still looking at the retreating Bian army from a distance.
The sergeants of the Wuwei Army brought in dozens of broken soldiers, and in front of everyone, they raised and lowered their swords in order to enforce military law.
Not only will the deserted sergeant be beheaded, but his family will not be eligible to receive land. In fact, the leader of his tribe will be punished more severely, and Shuofang's army will not care.
But even such harsh punishments still cannot stop some people from escaping. There is a great terror between life and death, and even barbarians cannot cross it.
"This night attack is not as good as yesterday." Lu Huaizhong looked at the Tibetan soldiers who were pouring out of the earth wall to pursue the Bian army and said: "Last night we fought in front of the second earth wall, but today we didn't even completely break through the first one. The rebel army
, the energy is declining."
Yang Liang, who rushed back from Mengzhou City to supply food and grass, was watching the battle. Hearing the words, he echoed: "Baiyacang City has been attacked for two days and more than 500 men have been lost. Can we attack it by force?"
"Commander, please surround us first, and then persuade us to surrender." Lu Huaizhong shook his head and said, "Baiyacang, it's best if we surrender without a fight."
Attacking such a city with relatively dangerous terrain will cause heavy casualties and may not be possible.
Before the chaos, the imperial court attacked Shibao City. Tubo mobilized the whole country to rescue the city, but was defeated one by one by the Tang army. During the attack and defense of Shibao City at the core, the Tubo defenders actually only had more than a thousand people, and the only ones who defended the city were
A few hundred, but the Tang army died in more than 10,000 battles.
The main casualties were not the ants attacking the city. In fact, when attacking the Stone Castle itself, there were not many casualties, and there were very few defenders in the castle. In the end, they even surrendered collectively, and more than 400 people were captured. The real flesh and blood mill was up the mountain.
On the way, according to historical records, the Tubo people prepared a large number of rolling logs and stones, rolled them down the mountain road, fortified them layer by layer, and intercepted them everywhere. Without city walls, the terrain alone would cost you tens of thousands of casualties, and all this was caused by just a few people.
Just a hundred defenders.
During the blockade and counter-blocking around Shibao City, a large-scale field battle broke out between Tang and Tuhuan. Both sides fired real fire, and the Tang army suffered tens of thousands of casualties.
This was a tragic victory soaked in blood, and whether it is worthy of comment by future generations. Anyway, Wang Zhongsi cared about the lives of the soldiers, "How could a loyal Si sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of people for an official?" He refused to use a hundred thousand troops to attack only one
A stone fortress with only a few hundred defenders.
Of course, the terrain of Baiyacang is not as extreme as that of Shibao City, but Shao Shude is not as determined as Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to make up for the disadvantages in the terrain with human lives. Just build an earth wall to block the road for the Bian army to descend the mountain to harass.
The dock has been captured, now it is still important to attack Heqing County.
Bianjun may not necessarily give you much time.
At this time, outside of Heqing County, the Xia army besieged the city on three sides. The main force of the Wuwei army and nearly 20,000 Heweifan soldiers had been attacking the city for several days. The defenders in the city went out to fight several times, but they were all defeated. They suffered losses.
After that, he concentrated on hiding in the city and holding on.
The Xia army suffered heavy casualties, but Gao Renhou, who had full authority to command the offensive and defensive battles, was no longer "kind" and drove groups of Tibetan soldiers to consume the city's defenders all night long.
The Bian army is still unwilling to surrender, and it seems there is no need to surrender if the fight continues. This place will definitely become a land watered with blood.
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Inside the Shaanzhou River Transport Institute, all the sailors were summoned.
There were orders for Zhoujin and Liang in the imperial dynasty, with ninth-rank officials in charge of sailors and carpenters. The River Transport Institute and the Land and Water Transport Institute were of higher levels, with transshipment envoys, and they had jurisdiction over more ships, chariots, horses, drivers, and sailors.
Shaanzhou River Transport Institute has not started construction for a long time.
In fact, not only them, Weikou, Heyang, Heyin and other yards have also not started construction for a long time. Some of these shipping yards are the end and starting point, and some are maintenance and storage locations in the middle. Their entire work is to transport money, food, and mainly goods for the imperial court.
However, the war in Kanto continued and water transportation was intermittent. These bureaucracies, sailors, carpenters and the like who relied on water transportation were half-starved and faced extremely difficult times.
But their fortunes turned around.
Shao Shude, the king of Lingwu County, sent an order to recruit ships for the transfer yard to transport grain, grass, and equipment. The destination was Liaowu Wharf in Heqing County downstream.
The principle of water transportation between China and North Korea is that river ships cannot enter Bian, Bian ships cannot enter the river, and river ships cannot enter Wei. Because the hydrological conditions of each river system are very different, the ships sailing on them are specially designed. From Tongguan
For the Heyincang section, it is absolutely right to use the ships and sailors from the imperial transfer yard.
The transshipment envoy of the Shaanzhou River Transportation Institute was named Wei Nian. After meeting with Huang Tao, the governor of Guozhou who came in a hurry, he immediately took action.
The sailors and boatmen received rewards of one string, two bolts of silk, and two hugs of wheat, and their morale was greatly boosted.
Who are you working for? If the court doesn’t pay you, will everyone starve to death?
"You are all capable and experienced people. I don't want to say anything more. These 50,000 hu of military rations should be transported to Liaowu Wharf as soon as possible, unloaded and stored." Pei Nian called for official Zuo Er from the transfer hospital.
Ji Zaren said with a serious expression.
"Official, the place in Liaowu is not big. There is a small warehouse, which can only store 30,000 dendrobium at most. It is rainy now, and if there is no main warehouse for storage, the extra 20,000 dendrobium may become moldy." Soon, a man came.
The miscellaneous official reminded.
"We'll transport it over first." Pei Nian said irritably: "Every time you transport it, there will be a reward. You don't care whether it is enough for storage, we just transport it. Think about the whole family, they all hope that you can take the reward back to live. That's it.
Something happened on the way, and Huang Shijun of Guozhou said that the state would pay for the pension, and based on the death of the Yamen army in battle, the family would be given one bushel of food per month for ten years."
"Officials, in the section from Weikou to Liaowu, there are towering mountains on both sides, and the towpath is difficult and dangerous. It used to be in the middle of the river. Shaanxi and Guo sent out transporters and trackers, but now..."
"Someone will make arrangements for you when you return to the city." Pei Nian said impatiently: "Hurry up and leave. The military situation is urgent. If we are late, we may not be able to catch up. If you are lucky, you will receive an extra reward. Why are you hesitating?"
"In that case, I'm speechless, so let's set off."
"When officials have orders, they should obey them."
"We can't open the pot at home. It's a good thing that Prince Lingwu is willing to use us."
Everyone responded one after another, and then dispersed, gathering their own people without mentioning anything.
Pei Nian breathed a sigh of relief, but then he remembered something again and became a little anxious.
The Xia Army envoy who came with Huang Tao also asked him to find more carpenters to build a simple fireship to block the Bian Army navy from moving upriver and block shipping.
There were many types of naval forces in the imperial dynasty, but they generally followed the old system since the Han Dynasty, including six types: building ships, stern ships, fighting ships, walking boats, yachts and sea falcons.
There are very few ships going up the Yellow River, and the Bianjun navy's most equipped equipment is battleships and Mengchong.
"A warship has a middle wall on the side, a gutter hole under the half wall, five feet on the side, and a shed and parapet on top of the shed, and a parapet to rearrange the battle layout, with no one covering their backs, front, rear, left and right, and tree teeth.
Flags, streamers, golden drums, and warships."
"Meng Chong, cover his back with rhinoceros leather, open two holes for the levers, and open crossbow windows and spear holes at the front, back, left and right. The enemy cannot get close, and the arrows and stones cannot defeat him. There is no need for a big boat. The purpose is to advance quickly to take advantage of the unpreparedness of others.
, not a warship."
There are two types of power for warships, namely oars and sails, which are quite different from those of tank ships.
Cao boats can basically be considered unpowered because of their small size. They use pole poles to control the direction of the boat. When encountering dangerous sections and going upstream, trackers are also required to pull the boats.
But warships are powered. They row through "holes" and are equipped with sails. They are also highly maneuverable and do not need to pull fibers most of the time.
Ship weapons include crossbow bolts projected through crossbow windows, spears thrust through spear holes, striking weapons and batons, and sergeants equipped for melee combat. When a ship encounters them, it will basically be sunk in one or two blows.
There is no suspense.
Except for places where the water flow is particularly fast, and the Bianjun navy may not be willing to risk going there, they definitely dominate the overall situation on this big river.
Transporting grain downstream from Weikou, Shaanzhou and other places is quite eye-catching to be honest. Once discovered by the Bian army, and the navy rows upstream, none of these canal boats will be able to escape.
Temporarily preparing some fire ships is also a helpless move. As for whether it can play a deterrent role, only God knows.
"This trip is really a life-and-death trip." Pei Nian sat down on the chair, his face a little pale.