17. Dongfeng Rapid Fire
In the first trench, the soldiers of Xifan rushed in were already blocked. They were tenaciously endured the torture of barbs and bamboo sticks. They threw the torch onto the barrier, drew their swords and slashed, or fought against the long spear that the Tang soldiers stabbed out of the fence.
After pushing it to the point where the fence was cut open, the Western Fan warriors in heavy armor drove the Tang soldiers from three barriers outside the north gate of the city to retreat, and began to burn the siege equipment and vehicles stationed there, but found that they were very small, so they continued to attack the second trench.
As a result, in this trench, the Tang soldiers retreated into the camp began to throw "thunderstorm". The black iron balls burning fuses rolled down the slope of the trench. Only then did the foreign soldiers realize why the trench was waterless, with a bunch of dull explosions accompanied by the dancing iron slags and red and orange poisonous smoke: the chain mails on many of the victimized foreign soldiers, although the marshes were pierced, they were also exploded, revealing the bloody and fuzzy trauma, crawling in pain and rolling in the smoke.
After finally climbing up to line up, I found that after the camps and defenses, most of the soldiers of the Dingwu Army, Yining Army and Fengyi Army had already arranged dense anti-raid lineups - Gao Yue and Wei Gao's siege tactics were "fair front and solid back". The front focused on scattered soldiers and archers monitoring, and behind was the main defense department.
The elite foreign soldiers who climbed up noticed that the Tang army on the opposite side were not scared by their "results" of breaking through the first trench. Instead, they formed a strict response formation. The sword and card players were listed on the first floor, followed by soldiers holding crow neck guns, and on both sides and behind were boring rakes, rockets, and the last were all powerful crossbowmen from Xichuan.
The Dingwu Army gunmen, who were shot after the shield chariot, began to fire volleys amid the sound of the whimpering bronze horns;
Then the boring rakes began shooting rockets;
Countless guns and fire snakes shot into the vanguard of the Xifan army.
At the same time, the "Qiu Niang" rockets and powerful crossbowmen in the Tang army's rear team also began to shoot dense large rockets and crossbow arrows.
The rocket had the longest range and directly hit the heads of the Xifan rear team, mainly Yong. The fireworks kept burning up. Most of the Yongs were armorless. Many people were wrapped in fire and screamed and fled into the city, or jumped into the trenches full of bamboo sticks and trenches because there was water there.
The Tang army camps on both sides of the protruding part, the tiger-squatting cannons moved out began to fire out one after another under the shield of the shield chariot, and with the strong wind of death, they hit the "side waist" position of the Xifan army.
At this time, the vanguards of the two armies, the tiger and leopard skin warriors from the Western British, and the jumping soldiers of the Tang family, quickly began to fight. After a short moment, the brutal hand-to-hand combat passed, and the rear team and the first defeated Fan army on the flanks quickly could not stand it. The formation was in chaos. Regardless of the scolding of the cage officer and the Cao people, they turned their heads and retreated to Taideng City. The Tang army launched a charge with long swords and ravens.
As a result, the second trench suddenly turned into a flesh-and-blood purgatory. The foreign soldiers who were trying to escape fell layer by layer. Some were trampled by their own people, while others were assassinated by the Tang army who rushed over and fell back into it. After the body was almost as good as the trench, the Tang army wades past like a flat ground and continues to pursue the city gate.
The beggar on the enemy stage and shouting to reorganize the formation was useless. He could only lead three hundred tribal soldiers to rush out of the north gate, face the city walls and resist to death, and cover other foreign soldiers into the city like a tide.
The Tang army hit countless spears, rakes, and long knives, begging to hide and cover the heavy armor, fighting bloody battles and never retreated, nailing them to the city gate, never retreating.
At this time, the two large bronze cannons of the Tang army "Dongfengwu" and "Dongfenglu" outside the East Gate suddenly roared: Two stone bombs hit the watchtower and a section of the city wall in the middle platform, causing huge smoke and dust.
Before the foreign soldiers guarding it began to repair the fire, the gunner behind the two big bronze cannons broke the rhythm of firing for half an hour, and suddenly filled the divine thunder medicine. Then, using the rotating rod to push the other two stone bullets that had been wrapped in Shujin silk smoothly into the cannon chamber where the heat had not dissipated. After the gap was closed, he decided to ignite the medicine twist.
Another loud noise that shook the sky and the earth was the "radden fire" of the Tang army.
The two stone bullets that came again continued to work hard, and directly collapsed the area of the east wall of Taideng City, which was seven or eight meters wide: the watchtower and the war shed completely collapsed and shattered, and then a large fire ignited and spread quickly to the surroundings.
"The city of Taideng is lost, the warriors of the imperial edict, rush!" In the south of the city, Yi Mouxun, who saw this scene, made a quick decision, raising the flag yak, and rushing to the front was the "white-clothed and dead army" attached to Nanzhao. They were all barbarians with less spiritual level, wearing white trousers, naked upper body, with nostrils in their nostrils, holding a terrifying big knife and poisonous arrow in their hands, swarming forward, howling, and began to board the cloud ladder, climbing the city wall forever.
"Dingwu Army cannot be behind!" At this time, the Tang army camp was at the east gate. Hao Yan, who had already taken action, gritted his teeth, held a bright long sword in his hands, rushed out first, and after crossing the trench, he rushed towards the east gate of Taiding City, which was blazing.
Taking this as an example, the Dingwu Army of the other battalions also shouted loudly and spontaneously attacked.
The collapse of the East Gate City Wall was burning everywhere. Hao Yu's eyes were full of cracks. He waved his long sword and killed several foreign soldiers who were half dead under the rubble. He stabbed the blade into their heads, turned it hard, and then pulled out his brain with his bones and blood. After the knife became dull, he grabbed the anchor axe and chopped it like crazy.
At the north gate, after half an hour of hard fighting, the personal soldiers were injured and killed, and they could only retreat to the gate, shouting that the guards would fire the gate stone and fall down, hoping to block the Tang army's pace.
However, at this time, the south gate and the east gate had fallen, and the foreign soldiers on the north gate had already lost the courage to hold on and had already fled, and no one responded to the hiding and hiding.
In the entire Taideng city, the generals and soldiers of Xifan brought their families to the West Gate and were fighting for the West Gate. The screams of those who were squeezed to death were terrifying.
In the backyard of the palace, Quizang dug out the wooden slips that Zanpu were given again with a sword and tied them to himself with a straw rope. When he walked to the vestibule, the walls of the fort were covered with Tang soldiers, and shouted to him: "Isn't this the Xifan general? Come and subdue quickly!"
Qizang Jiezhe said nothing. He did not expect that an assault on the city would bring disaster to Taideng City. "The warriors of Dafan must not use the old methods to fight against the Tang army. I hope my death can awaken Zanpu and awaken everyone..." Thinking of this, Qizang Jiezhe took off his pocket, and then leaned on the pillar in front of many Tang soldiers who were surrounding him, pulled out his sword and swept over his neck heroically!
Among the mountains and ridges of the plateau, Shang Jiezan's heart suddenly sank, and he heard a long cry of sorrow.
At the end of the mountain, the mighty and beautiful eagle with feathers fell down and continued to fall until it disappeared between the cliffs and could no longer be seen.
"I beg to hide my son..." Shang Jiezan covered his face and sobbed.
Chapter completed!