Chapter five hundred and thirty third night attack and end
Kucha City is not much different from the last time he came. There are still no local people, the roads are empty, and the population is sparse. The Han soldiers and civilians are concentrated in the south. Every household has large winter melons planted in front and behind the house, and many people put bases on their roofs.
They carry hundreds of large winter melons, and they rely on this to survive when there is no food in winter.
"Shijun Guo!"
Guo Song heard someone calling him from behind. When he turned around, he saw a tall, slender, dark-skinned young general of the Tang Army. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, but his eyes were very vicissitudes of life, but at this time he had a look on his face.
Full of smiles.
Guo Song thought he looked familiar. He thought about it and suddenly smiled and said, "You are Xie Tianshan!"
The young general looked surprised and said: "Your Majesty, you still recognize me?"
Xie Tianshan was the guide soldier that Guo Song met when he first came to Anxi. Now he has grown into a young and promising general of the Tang Army.
"The brat has grown up!"
Guo Song smiled, punched him in the shoulder, and asked, "What is your position now?"
"Replying to the envoy, I am currently serving as a school captain. I am stationed in Yanji Town with Envoy Yang Bingma. I just returned to Qiuci yesterday to attend to business."
"Not bad! He was actually promoted to captain. Is the Yang Bingmao you are talking about Yang Xiaoyan?"
"Exactly, we are all looking forward to your visit to Anxi every day."
Yang Xiaoyan was the first Anxi army scout to go to Chang'an to report the news. He led Guo Song and three hundred warriors to Anxi. He had not seen him for ten years, and now he was on his own.
In fact, Guo Song didn't know that the rank of the captain of the Anxi Army was not low. The Anxi Army had too few troops. The military commander was only equivalent to a general. Below the military commander was the colonel. Although Xie Tianshan was young, he was already a captain.
He is one of the five captains of Yanji Town.
Guo Song smiled again and asked, "Are you familiar with Qiemo City?"
"Of course we are familiar with it. When I was a scout before, the old prince sent us to Qiemo City to investigate the enemy's situation. We stayed around Qiemo City for more than a month, and we know every plant and tree there very well."
Guo Song smiled slightly and said, "Then would you like to be our guide again?"
"Of course I am willing to take a humble position!"
Xie Tianshan suddenly jumped up with joy. He scratched his head and said: "But I have to tell Yang Bingmao, otherwise I will be punished by military law for my humble position."
"Don't worry! I will make arrangements and not embarrass you."
"When will the envoy leave?"
"Leave early tomorrow morning and go to Puchanghai!"
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Early the next morning, Guo Song led 3,000 cavalry and camel teams back to Puchanghai, followed by Xie Tianshan. Before leaving, Kucha City sent an additional 5,000 large winter melons to the Tang army to show their concern.
When we returned to Puchanghai Camp, we happened to encounter the fourth batch of food supplies arriving at the camp. During this period, the camel team had been transporting grain from Shazhou. The food in Puchanghai Camp had reached 100,000 shi, and there were also fire
Oil, weapons and many other supplies.
The army was still undergoing intense training and did not dare to slack off at all. Guo Song returned to the Chinese army's tent, and the military envoy Li Bing came to report.
"In the past half month, the brothers have been mainly training for night combat. There is also desert adaptation training. They take soldiers to march in the desert to strengthen their physical strength. The effect is very good!"
Guo Song nodded and asked, "Is there any news about the Tibetan army?"
"Not yet. The scouts have gone to Qiemo City to investigate. It is very peaceful there. However, many Tibetan herdsmen were found near Qiemo City. They all came from the south after the beginning of spring."
Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "Five thousand brothers are left to guard the camp, and the other fifteen thousand are ready to set off tonight!"
"I humbly obey orders!"
That night, Guo Song led 15,000 people to attack Qiemo City. Two days later, the army arrived at Qiemo City. According to Xie Tianshan's suggestion, they stopped thirty miles west of Qiemo City. Guo Song ordered to attack Qiemo City.
Ground camp.
In a temporary marching tent, Xie Tianshan told everyone: "The walls of Qiemo City are built with huge stones. They are very strong and it is not easy to attack the city. But its weakness is the city gate, which is made of poplar wood."
It is very old and dry, so it is easy to be burned. You can attack the city gate with fire, then hit the wood with a light bump to open it."
"Will the defenders in the city block the city gate with huge rocks or sandbags?" Li Bing asked.
Xie Tianshan's face turned red and he was speechless for a long time.
Guo Song waved his hands and said: "Xiao Xie's idea is right. Attacking the city gate is a wise choice. Li Bing is also right. The enemy is likely to use sandbags and boulders to block the gate. So the best way is just one word, quick!"
To catch the enemy by surprise so that they have no time to block the door, this requires us to first operate at night and then break through the door at once."
"We have prepared two battering rams, I am willing to fight!"
Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "Mocheng's problem is not big, so let's use it as an experiment for us!
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At two o'clock, a Tang army of 3,000 men appeared in the north of Qiemo City, about 300 steps away from the city gate. They were crawling on the grass. This army was invisible from the top of the city. Behind this army were 5,000 men.
Tang army cavalry.
But the protagonist tonight is the five firearms battalion soldiers. To be precise, it is a large porcelain bottle and jar in their hands. This is the porcelain fire thunder brought from the Shazhou Firearms Camp. There are three in total, each weighing
It weighs fifty pounds and looks like a gas can. There are no poisonous nails in these three cans. They are pure medicine cans.
Five Tang soldiers sometimes ran and sometimes crawled, gradually approaching the city gate. There were Tibetan defenders walking around on top of the city, but there were not many of them, and most of them were probably sleeping.
The five people quickly approached the city wall. There was no moat under the city wall. The five soldiers pressed their bodies against the city wall and slowly moved toward the city gate. They soon arrived at the city gate.
Five firearms battalion soldiers had participated in countless experiments and were very experienced. They first set up a tripod, and then placed the large porcelain jar on the tripod and placed it tightly against the city gate.
One soldier lit the match, five soldiers nodded, and the soldiers lit the match directly. The five soldiers turned around and ran for more than a hundred steps. There was a depression in the grass in front, and the five soldiers were crawling in the depression.
He covered his ears tightly, and three thousand Tang soldiers also covered their ears.
For a moment, a bright red fire flashed, followed by a loud bang, the porcelain fire thunder exploded, and a strong shock wave blew a big hole in the city gate.
Three thousand Tang troops jumped up and charged towards the city gate 300 steps away with shouts. The Tibetan soldiers in the city were also awakened by the explosion and stood up to prepare for the battle.
The city gate only had a big hole blasted, not completely exploded, but dozens of defenders inside the city had already been scared to death and fled. The hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the front were holding a wooden stick. They shouted and rushed towards the city.
The door was knocked open, and with a bang, the city gate was completely opened. Three thousand Tang troops rushed in. Then thousands of horses galloped, and five thousand Tang Jun cavalry came up and rushed directly into the city gate.
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There were no residents in the city. At dawn, the Tang army completely occupied Qiemo City. One thousand Tibetan soldiers did not surrender and all died in the battle. The Tang army also paid the price of nearly 200 casualties.
Guo Song arrived at Qiemo City at dawn. He heard the explosion clearly from twenty miles away last night.
There would be no suspense in capturing Qiemo City where more than a thousand troops were stationed. Guo Song was more concerned about the effect of the first fire and thunder explosion. About 150 steps away from the north city gate, Guo Song got off his horse and picked up a piece of stone from the ground.
Porcelain shards, he shouted to the soldiers: "Let's look for any exploding porcelain shards further away?"
The soldiers searched one after another, and soon found more than a dozen pieces of porcelain. The farthest one was one hundred and eighty steps away. The data Yang Jun gave him showed that the farthest one was about one hundred and thirty steps away, but in fact it was one hundred and eighty steps away.
Found it eighty paces away.
Then the killing range of the poisonous nails in the porcelain bottle should not be just fifty steps, but about sixty steps.
Guo Song urged his horse to come to the city gate. He saw that the city gate had been blasted with a large irregular round hole, about a person tall. This was still a wooden city gate of relatively poor quality. If you encounter a city gate wrapped with iron sheets, porcelain
Fire and thunder are basically useless.
Guo Song secretly shook his head. The impact of the porcelain fire thunder was still not enough. It weighed fifty kilograms, and the city gate was still not blown down.
Guo Song could basically conclude that before the iron shell fire thunder appeared, the explosion shock wave alone would not do much damage to the enemy. He still had to count on the thousands of poison nails shot out at the same time to be effective.