Li Siye didn't know the deployment made by the top military officials and thought that a brutal siege was about to begin. As the captain of the eighth regiment of the Tiaodang branch, he was about to lead everyone to prepare for the assault on the city after General Jieshi gave the order.
He has never participated in a siege battle, but he has watched TV shows. The attackers are simply filling it with human lives. Even though he is wearing the thin scale armor of an officer in the Tang Army, the enemy's spears and rolling stones are smashed down from the top of the city. It's the same.
It will cost you your life.
This anxiety was also accompanied by excitement. He was almost too excited to sleep at night, but he could not show this emotion in front of the soldiers. After all, he had served as a guard and commanded a hundred-man brigade in small-scale battles.
, how come you look like a new recruit?
On the second day, there was no movement. The Chinese army set up camp on the hillside outside the city. The rear army's supply camp was cutting down trees, probably to make siege equipment and prepare for the next battle.
On the fourth day, the army finally began to form a formation. The Tang army, the Tuqi Shi Hemo tribe, and the armies of Central Asia and other countries formed an offensive formation in the shape of an inverted pin. The Tuqi Shi and the armies of Central Asia and other countries were in front of both flanks.
, the Tang army was located behind the center.
Looking down from the sky, the phalanx of the Tuqi Shigamo tribe is mottled in brown and gray color. This is the background color formed by the leather armor and pointed felt hat. The armies of Central Asia and other countries especially show great color differences.
There were leather armors, cloth armors, chain mail armors, and even herdsmen wearing nettle suits.
The Tang army's own formation showed a hexagonal six-flower formation with an inner circle and an outer square. Li Siye's Youyuhou army was at the forefront of the battle formation. Looking from a distance, the Tang army only showed three colors of echelons, silver.
, golden and dark ink tones, different types of arms have different armors, and due to the arrangement of the units front and back, there is a jagged gradient.
In Youyuhou's army, there are crossbowmen at the front and archers at the rear. However, they do not only play the role of crossbowmen. When they meet on the frontal battlefield, they must also serve as the vanguard. Behind the crossbowmen is Tiao Dang.
and Qi Bing.
Li Siye took off his shield from his horse, drew out his horizontal sword, and his heart was beating continuously. The nearly two miles wide General Peluo's city wall lay across his field of vision, and the weathered rammed earth city with no edges and corners was floating in the air.
The sudden cavalry carried black banners and flags with the surname Hei. The soldiers hid behind the parapet, and the swords, guns and bows and arrows protruding from the crenels pointed outwards.
Is it about to begin? Is the bloody war about to begin?
Suddenly the sound of drums sounded from the Chinese army in the rear. Li Siye looked back and saw an earthen platform built where the six banners were. There were four people on the platform waving square flags and issuing military orders to the surrounding camps.
"Go forward, go!"
Everyone stepped forward, and the formation slowly approached the city wall. The drums suddenly stopped, and the footsteps of the formation also stopped at the same time.
The central army waved the flag again, and the front began to change formations. The two flanking phalanxes marched forward and lined up with the Youhou Army, forming a formation like a crane's wings.
Hundreds of Fuyuan crossbows were brought up. This is a weapon for two people. It can be placed on the ground to adjust the angle. One person pedals the crossbow, holds the lever with both hands to wind it with waist strength, and the other person installs the arrow.
This method is also used to string the crossbow used by individual soldiers, but the crossbow is stepped on the ground and bent with both hands to string it. This is an extremely labor-intensive job. It takes five stones to pull the crossbow, but compared to
The advantage of the bow is that it can mobilize all the strength of the whole body and can be completed without a strong man.
The single-person crossbow team is divided into four rows at the front and rear, and fires in turns. The front row buckles the string and retreats to the rear to cock the crossbow. The second row takes over to fire. After the four rows have fired one round, the front row has loaded the arrows.
Arrange the formation to the front again. Although this rotation method does not have the special effect of densely packed locusts swarming, it is as continuous as hail and arrows. Any enemy will be terrified under the attack of this hail rain.
The convoy of crossbows originally belonging to the baggage troops lined up at the end, firing arrows with thick child-armed arrows. The parapet built of rammed earth was like tofu in front of such powerful crossbows.
The prison guard stood beside the array and saw the square flags of the Chinese army waving, and the command flag in his hand was also waved down at the same time.
The crossbow team began to fire at the top of the city. The dense arrows seemed to fall on the wall stacks for free. They seemed to be able to hear the screams of the cavalrymen behind the city wall.
The black Tuqishi in the city also started sporadic counterattacks. However, they deployed too few crossbows on the top of the city. Occasionally, sporadic arrows were shot out, which could not cause an effective blow to the Tang army. The range of the bows was far less than that of crossbows.
, can only watch helplessly as he is suppressed.
He Moganda's formation continued to move forward, and the siege ladder built within three days was transported to the front of the team. He Mo Ganda personally blew the yak horn, and a low whine sounded over the battlefield.
The Tuqishi people pushed the ladder cart and rushed towards the city wall, letting out a roar that shook the sky. Li Siye, who was watching the battle from the back, felt relieved and regretful at the same time. It seemed that there was no need for him, a Tang military captain, to appear.
The crossbows, whose accuracy could not be guaranteed, stopped firing, but the heavy arrow shafts they left on the city wall became the best tools for Tuqishi soldiers to climb. Fuyuan Crossbow and Zhang Zhang Crossbow continued to throw arrows at the top of the city.
, the black surnamed Tuqi Shi soldiers behind the city wall still did not dare to show their heads.
When the Hemo tribe began to climb the city wall, the offensive and defensive battle between the two sides officially began. Stones began to be thrown down from the top of the city, and barbed wooden pillars were smashed down the ladder. The soldiers who climbed the ladder first were badly wounded.
drop down.
The cruel side of the war showed its ferocious face. Just this kind of rammed earth city wall caused a large number of casualties to the soldiers. The swords of both sides were added to each other, and the cavalry and soldiers fired at each other up and down with their bows. It was hard to tell who had the upper hand for a while.
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The fierce battle between the two sides reached the afternoon, and Mohe Dagan offered a reward of fifty taels of gold and thirty yaks. A group of heavy-armored cavalry soldiers began to attack the city wall. It was obvious that He Mo
I started to invest money. Only the soldiers and horses of Hemo's headquarters had such iron armor for the Tuqi Shi named Huang.
In Li Siye's sight, a man with a bear-like figure attacked the city with the cover of six or seven subordinates. The weapon in this man's hand was also different from ordinary people. It was a long straight knife that was much wider than a horizontal sword.
, it was several kilograms heavier than other swords. Taking advantage of the weapon's advantage, it knocked down several people with wide swings. The armored soldiers from behind swarmed up and opened a gap on the top of the city.
He Mo was so excited that he shouted excitedly from below: "Sonadu, good job! I'll give you all the bounty, and I'll make you the village chief!"
"People behind! Follow quickly!"
The Tuqishi soldiers followed the path opened by Sonadu and poured into the city in a steady stream. There was no suspense in this offensive and defensive battle.
The adobe walls of General Peluo's city were not conducive to defense. The crenellations of the female wall were severely damaged, and the wall was only nearly three feet high. Li Siye saw with his own eyes that a soldier fell from a ladder, but he was still able to stand up and climb to fight.
"Everyone go to the city gate!"
Hemo Dagan twitched his horsewhip and gave the order. The teams that did not participate in the siege rushed towards the city gate. The black flags on the city top were pulled off one by one. The city gate was opened inside, and Hemo's soldiers poured in like a tide.
In the city.
From beginning to end, the Tang army had been watching the battle from a distance, seemingly disdainful of such a victory.
The siege battle finally came to an end. The strong man Sonadu used a rope to drag out a guy who was tied into a rice dumpling. He strode forward while the opponent staggered behind.
Sonadu walked up to Hemo Ma, knelt down on one knee and crossed his chest and said loudly: "Fortunately, as the Great Khan did, Sonadu captured Nahanda alive!"
He Mo turned over and dismounted, stretched out his hand to help Sonadu up, and said happily: "Sonadu, your contribution is not enough to be recognized only by being named the commander of the village. In the past, when Zha Qili, the best warrior of Tuqi Shi, was competing in Chang'an,
He was injured by an unknown person and later died of shame and anger. The title of the first warrior is vacant. Now that you have bravely taken over my three surnames of Tuqi Shi, you can be worthy of being the first warrior of Tuqi Shi!"
Sonadu quickly knelt down excitedly: "Thank you Khan for giving me the highest honor."
Li Siye stood in the Tang army's formation and did not hear what He Modagan and others were saying in front. He could only faintly hear the first warrior Tu Qi Shi. Why did it sound so familiar?
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