When Li An and the generals at the head of the city heard this, they looked at each other and laughed, needless to say, this must be the Nanzhao soldiers and horses who returned from a great victory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Army had completely controlled the city of Queensland, and the Nanzhao army was powerless, and could only watch the city being taken by the Tang army.

"Is it the Nanzhao army?"

Ang Lee asked casually.

"Generals, whether they are banners or armor, are like soldiers and horses under the command of Chongdao."

The scout replied.

"General, how can Chongdao defeat the Nanzhao army, how is this possible."

"The scouts have already found out that there are 20,000 elites in the Nanzhao army, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Chongdao have been forced to defend the lonely city, which is ......"

"General, it seems that the Nanzhao army is here to fight with us, and even the banner and armor have been changed."

Li An nodded lightly: "Nanzhao fought hard, but we picked up ready-made, of course Ge Luofeng would not give up, he was worried that he would tear his face with Datang on the surface, so he came up with such a childish trick." ”

"General, Ge Luofeng has a strong army, I guess I didn't take my Pingnan Army in my eyes, it seems that we have to behave well, let Ge Luofeng see the power of my Pingnan Army."

"General, the dense forest outside the city is where my Pingnan army exerts its might, and our army can send some soldiers and horses to hide outside the city, and the inside and outside should be combined to inflict heavy damage on the Nanzhao army."

The generals actively put forward various opinions.

Li An nodded and said: "Ge Luofeng's heart is unsettled, he will definitely attack the city with all his might, the main force of our army must be stationed in the city, and only a small group of elite soldiers can be deployed outside the city to attack and kill the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao, so that they can know the gap between themselves and our Pingnan army." ”

"Big brother, let me lead the troops out of the city! I will definitely teach the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao a good lesson. ”

Li An looked at Kunxiong, Feiyu and other eight generals, and ordered: "Each of you eight leads fifty soldiers, you must select the most elite soldiers, each soldier carries a bow and crossbow, a horizontal knife and enough arrows, do not seek to kill the enemy, but come back intact, in addition, it is best not to kill, it is best to shoot and wound a large number of Nanzhao soldiers, understand?" ”

"Yes, General."

Eight generals, including Kunxiong and Feiyu, heard the order, and each selected fifty elite soldiers, carrying various weapons, and quietly left Queensland City and ran towards the woods outside the city.

These eight teams are distributed in different positions, ready to cooperate with each other to inflict heavy losses on the enemy. Let Ge Luofeng understand that the Pingnan Army is not something they can match.

The officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Army in Queensland City were actively preparing for battle, preparing to meet the unconvinced Ge Luofeng, and Ge Luofeng led his troops and horses, and also with a sense of hatred, he slaughtered towards Queensland City with great momentum.

The distance between Weizhou and Queensland is not very far, only a few tens of miles away, such a short distance for a trained soldier and horse can be reached quickly and ready for battle.

The 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Ge Luofeng soon arrived not far outside the city of Queensland, and stopped to adjust their formation, preparing to launch a siege battle.

"The eldest prince, the city is full of Tang soldiers, it seems that they are fully prepared."

"The eldest prince, the Tang army is well prepared, it seems that he has a premonition!"

Ge Luofeng looked at the large number of Tang Army soldiers in Queensland City, sighed heavily, looked back at Duan Jianwei beside him, and said softly: "What do you think of Mr. Duan, do you also think that the Tang Army has expected all this a long time ago?" ”

Duan Jianwei's face was black, and his whole complexion was very bad, as if he was seriously ill, of course, this was because the actual situation was too far from what he expected, and everything that happened now was out of his control.

"Eldest Prince, since we are already here, let's try Tang Jun's catties! I have been founding the country for many years, and I really haven't learned the methods of the Tang Army, besides, can't the eldest prince swallow this breath? ”

Duan Jianwei was really unwilling to admit defeat like this, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, he was willing to try again, even if it made the Nanzhao army pay the price of blood.

With Duan Jianwei's encouragement, Ge Luofeng made up his mind to attack the Queensland City garrisoned by the Tang Army desperately, after all, the Tang Army's sudden seizure of Queensland City was regarded as robbing them of the fruits of their battles and the fruits of their victories, how could he just forget it, if he returned to Nanzhao in such a disgraced manner, how could he explain to his father Pi Luoge.

Moreover, the failure to seize the land will greatly reduce his prestige, so that he will definitely fall behind in inheriting the throne, and thus be taken away from the long-coveted throne by the second prince Yu Chengjie.

As the eldest prince of Nanzhao, Ge Luofeng is very looking forward to the throne, he very strongly wants to inherit the throne of Nanzhao, and become the respected king in the history of Nanzhao, and with the increase of his status, ability and prestige, this desire is getting stronger and stronger, if he suddenly loses the opportunity to inherit the throne of Nanzhao, he will go crazy.

This is the situation that will inevitably occur when people reach a certain stage, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, the status is the same, the status is suddenly improved, and people can quickly adapt, but if the status is reduced, or the hope of further improvement is suddenly dashed, it will be difficult for people to adapt, this is the nature of people, to be good, but also better.

Ge Luofeng looked at the Nanzhao generals under his command and ordered: "The whole army is ready immediately, and before nightfall, Queensland must be captured." ”

"Yes, Lordship."

Since the generals of Nanzhao entered the planing land, they have already decided that the planing land belongs to Nanzhao, and now, the city of Queensland was suddenly occupied by the Tang army, and their hearts were naturally very unhappy, the opponent's troops were far less than their own, and they were afraid of attacking.

Obviously, these Nanzhao generals have not yet realized the strength of the Pingnan Army, they just feel that the Pingnan Army has only been trained for a few months, and its strength will not be much stronger than the soldiers and horses under the command of Fu Chongdao, or even inferior, and the lack of troops makes the Nanzhao generals despise it even more.

The only thing that worries the generals of Nanzhao is the serious consequences of the war against the Tang army, and now, they are wearing the clothes and armor of the army under the command of Fu Chongdao, waving the banner of Fu Chongdao, after destroying the Tang army, they can completely die and not admit it, so what is there to be afraid of?

In the process of unifying the Six Edicts, the Nanzhao army gained sufficient combat experience, and in the process of learning from the Tang Empire, it also obtained many advanced weapons production methods.

In this case, the Nanzhao soldiers became extremely conceited, and they all thought that they were an elite army, and it should not be any problem to defeat the Tang army that had just been trained.

After just two moments of preparation, the Nanzhao army was ready to make operational arrangements for the siege of the city, and dozens of catapults lined up in two rows, ready to throw boulders at any time.

"Mr. Duan, these catapults were all taught to us by the Tang Dynasty, but now, we have to use the weapons taught by the Tang Dynasty to deal with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, is this some revenge!"

Duan Jianwei smiled disdainfully, and said with a straight face: "Great Prince, my Nanzhao and Datang cooperate with each other to jointly fight against the invasion of Tubo, and they are also kind to Datang, but Datang uses us to attack Nanzhao and snatch the fruits of my Nanzhao's victory at the last moment, is this a revenge?" ”

Ge Luofeng grinned and nodded: "That's right, Datang and Nanzhao are just a relationship of interests, Datang wants to use us to deal with Tubo, and also use us to deal with Nanzhao, but in the end they don't let us get anything, this breath Xiao Wang can't swallow it anyway, okay, let Tang Jun taste the taste of being bombarded by boulders!" ”

Duan Jianwei smiled lightly, looked at the Nanzhao soldiers beside him, and asked them to immediately start attacking the city.

The military orders to prepare for the attack on the city were conveyed downward in turn in the Nanzhao army, and at the head of the city of Queensland, the officers and soldiers of the Pingnan army have not been idle.

When the Nanzhao army outside the city began to assemble the catapult, the Tang army soldiers at the head of the city, under the command of the generals, were nervously assembling bed crossbows, and tied cotton wool stained with fire oil to the arrows of the giant crossbow arrows, preparing to attack the catapults outside the city.

Each bed crossbow is equipped with fifty giant crossbow arrows, and the Pingnan army has been expanded, and the number of bed crossbows has reached twenty, which is used to defend the city A very frightening weapon, of course, the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao may not be aware of this problem.

Looking at the small fire lit next to each bed crossbow, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of Ang Lee's mouth.

With this kind of sharp weapon, it is more than enough to deal with the Nanzhao siege equipment outside the city.

"General, the Nanzhao army is ready, and it looks like it's ready to attack."

"General, all the bed crossbows in our department are aimed at the target and can be fired at any time."

Li An looked at the catapult outside the city that was loading the boulder, and ordered: "The bed crossbow immediately fires crossbow arrows to destroy the catapult outside the city." ”

"Yes, General."

The Tang soldiers had already aimed at the Nanzhao catapult outside the city, and after receiving the order to attack, they immediately ignited the cotton wool near the arrow of the giant crossbow arrow, and launched it at the same time.

Twenty giant crossbow arrows, with burning flames, flew towards Nanzhao's catapult like twenty fire dragons, and most of them accurately hit Nanzhao's catapult, igniting the wooden Nanzhao catapult.

After a round of attack, the Tang army, of course, will not stop, and continues to ignite the giant crossbow arrows and shoot them at the catapults outside the city, so as to annihilate all the Nanzhao catapults that will become as soon as possible.

The burning flames continued to nail Nanzhao's catapults, and in a very short period of time, all Nanzhao's catapults were plunged into a sea of fire.

The sudden change surprised the commander of Nanzhao, Ge Luofeng, and the soldiers under his command, all this happened too suddenly, and all the boulders of Nanzhao had not yet had time to throw themselves at the city, and the catapult was about to be burned to ashes.

Duan Jianwei looked at everything in front of him in surprise, a trace of cowardice flashed in his heart, he didn't expect at all that there was a weapon in the world that had such a range against the sky, the range of this bed crossbow was more than twice that of ordinary crossbow arrows, Duan Jianwei had never seen it, and he had never even heard of it.

Of course, not only Duan Jianwei and the soldiers of Nanzhao have never seen or heard of it, even the soldiers of the Tang Army have seen this kind of weapon for the first time, this is the weapon of the newly developed equipment of the siege team of the Pingnan Army Special Regiment, except for the soldiers of the siege team, no other soldiers of the Pingnan Army have ever seen this kind of thing, let alone understand its performance.

"The eldest prince, all the catapults of our army were destroyed, the three siege vehicles were also burned to ashes by the fire, the loss of the ladder was also quite large, and many soldiers were shot by giant crossbow arrows and were seriously injured and died."

"Great Prince, what kind of weapon is this, and why can it shoot so far?"

"I've never heard of a crossbow bolt that can shoot so far, even from a high wall."

"Prince, what should we do now? There are only a few dozen ladders left, do you want to continue the siege? ”

Ge Luofeng suddenly ran out of ideas, and took a few generals to check the casualties.

Looking at the dozens of catapults that were burning, Ge Luofeng's heart was very painful, these were the main weapons he used to attack the city, and they were actually destroyed like this.

Looking at the soldiers who were shot into sugar gourds by giant crossbow arrows, Ge Luofeng's mood was even worse, many of these Nanzhao soldiers who were shot were two people who were strung with gourds, and even up to four soldiers were worn on the same giant crossbow arrow.

"It's the first time Xiao Wang has seen such a big crossbow arrow, and the bow and crossbow that fires this kind of crossbow arrow must be very large."

Ge Luofeng sighed with emotion, looked at Duan Jianwei beside him, and said, "Mr. Duan, what do you think of the chances of my Southern Zhao Army?" Can we still breach Queensland? ”

Duan Jianwei sighed and said softly: "The battle hasn't been fought yet, and it's not easy for subordinates to judge, everything still needs to be decided by the eldest prince himself." ”

Obviously, Duan Jianwei already had a premonition that this battle would be difficult to fight, but if he gave up like this, he was very unwilling in his heart, and he did not dare to take the responsibility for the defeat, so for this reason, in a word, he pushed this hot potato to Ge Luofeng.

Ge Luofeng pondered for a moment, looked at the Tang army soldiers showing off their might at the head of the city, and ordered: "Continue to attack, Xiao Wang should have a good look and see how powerful the Tang army is." ”

"Knock knock ......"

With the issuance of Ge Luofeng's military order, in the formation of the Nanzhao army, the war drums of the attack sounded.

"Kill ......"

The soldiers of Nanzhao, taking advantage of the superiority of troops, killed the city wall of Queensland.

Looking at the Nanzhao soldiers who came like a tide, Li An shook his head mockingly, he didn't plan to teach Nanzhao too much of a lesson, but Ge Luofeng was not convinced, so he couldn't be blamed.

"So many Nanzhao soldiers came to die, the general was a little unbearable, and the order went down, and Zhuge Lian crossbow was ready to shoot."

Li An calmly issued a military order to meet the battle.

Although the training time of the officers and men of the Pingnan Army was very short, the intensity of the training was very large, and for this reason, it was a veritable elite soldier and horse, and after receiving the military order, they quickly made comprehensive preparations to meet the battle.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, soon, the Nanzhao soldiers entered the shooting range of the Zhuge repeater, and the soldiers of the Pingnan Army holding the Zhuge repeater were also ready to meet the final preparations.

Seeing that at least a thousand Nanzhao soldiers had entered the range of Zhuge Repeater's crossbow, a strange smile appeared on the corner of Li An's mouth. (To be continued.) )