Chapter 59 The knife will not be sealed for ten days

The puppet was furious, and blood splattered five steps. The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed. Although the Khan is not the Son of Heaven, he is the lord of a country. Tong Ye Hu was angry, naturally it was not trivial, and countless people would definitely die for it.

Outside Liangzhou City, as soon as the sky was dark, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Western Turks began to rush to Liangzhou City.

These Western Turkic cavalry were outside the range of the defenders of the Tang army, shouting and running back and forth, with terrifying momentum.

Li Daozong, standing on the wall of Liangzhou City, looked out of the city, there were Western Turkic cavalry everywhere, the sand and dust were rolling, people were roaring and neighing, standing on the city wall, all the Tang soldiers had a fear of being surrounded on all sides. And as the Western Turkic cavalry approached again and again, this psychological pressure became more and more intense.

The generals of the Tang Army shouted loudly to keep the soldiers calm, but it was useless, it was not the recruits who could keep calm on the battlefield, the siege of the city for nearly two months, the elite veterans under the command of Li Daozong, the casualties were also very heavy, and a large number of recruits were replenished, these were still ordinary people a few months ago, or dozens of days ago, they were young and strong, holding weapons, and their bodies trembled like chaff.

When a group of Western Turkic light cavalry screamed and rushed towards Liangzhou City, and approached closer and closer, finally someone couldn't hold on anymore and shot the bow and arrow in his hand, and with the first bow and arrow fired, the Tang soldiers who were almost nervous about to break their nerves rushed to release the arrows as if they had found a way to vent.

"Woo Woo ......"

A dense rain of arrows poured down on the cavalry of the Western Turks, and then it was useless. The cavalry of the Western Turks was still shooting with bows and arrows, and although the shooting was very dense this time, the distance was too far, and there were few Western Turkic cavalry who fell to the ground with arrows.

At this moment, the Western Turkic cavalry immediately rode over and killed them, and the arrows were like pearls, and the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the Tang soldiers fell in response.

The screams made the Tang soldiers even more flustered, and even some Tang soldiers were so frightened that they dropped their bows and crossbows, turned around and ran. Fortunately, Li Daozong still has reserves, so that the elite veterans can fill this gap in time and stabilize the situation.

However, the cavalry of the Western Turks, running in circles around Liangzhou City, rushed into the range from time to time, causing casualties to the Tang defenders on the city wall, but relatively speaking, the Tang army nodded to the geographical advantage and was condescending, but the cavalry of the Western Turks was running and it was more difficult to shoot at the moving target, so the two sides had advantages and disadvantages to each other, and someone would fall to the ground screaming every minute and every second.

Gradually, Li Daozong felt that something was wrong, the Tang army had a city wall to cover, even if it was hit by an arrow, it could be treated immediately, especially Chen Ying's surgical treatment method was implemented, and the possibility of the Tang army's wounded soldiers healing was as much as eighty percent.

However, the Western Turks are different, each of them falls to the ground from their horses, and they will immediately be trampled into pulp by the hooves of the horses behind, which means that as long as one of the Western Turks is hit by an arrow, they will die nine out of nine.

In such a battle, the Western Turks will not have any effect except for increasing casualties, after all, war horses cannot fly on the city wall.

Tong Ye Hu Khan looked at his subordinates indifferently, not because he was cruel, but because of these attacking Western Turkic cavalry, in the eyes of the Tang people, these are all Western Turks, in fact, Tong Ye Hu knows very well that these are just servant troops drawn by the servant tribes of the Western Turks, that is, cannon fodder troops.

Tong Yehu used these servant troops to consume the arrows and strength of the Tang army, cold weapon combat is different from hot weapon combat, when cold weapon combat, a soldier controls a heavy machine gun, shooting hundreds or thousands of people is not a problem. But the point is that the era of cold soldiers crying is too laborious.

A qualified archer shoots a pot of arrows at a time, and then his physical strength will drop rapidly, and if he fights reluctantly, the bow and arrow will not be able to pull into a full moon, and excessive physical consumption will also hurt the body of the soldiers.

This cat-and-mouse siege lasted for almost two hours, and when it was almost noon, all the officers and men of the Tang Army, including Li Daozong, felt that their physical strength could not support it.

The rain of arrows that fell under the city was not only sparse, but also weak.

Tong Ye Hu saw it very clearly, and ordered lightly: "Ben Khan used more than 3,000 lives, just to do it in one fell swoop, if you disappoint Ben Khan again, Ben Khan dragged him to death with a horse!" ”

A group of Roman servants hurriedly followed the order and launched the attack. The Byzantines sent more than a thousand men to push hundreds of two-wheeled carts, which were equipped with a large wooden barrel, about three feet in diameter and more than six feet high, and the most strange thing was that it also carried a wooden lever more than three feet long. The wooden poles raised high resemble the barrels of self-propelled guns.

This is not actually a self-propelled gun, but a Greek fire invented by the Greeks. The so-called Greek fire, which is the same principle as the fierce fire oil tank invented in the Song Dynasty, uses a unique formula to put crude oil into a wooden pipe wrapped in brass, and uses the power of air compression to spray out the fire oil and cause damage to the enemy.

This was originally a weapon of water warfare, but due to the large space on the battleship, it can be made into a large gas cylinder and has a longer range. However, this is only a land version of Greek fire, and it is not too powerful.

But in this plane, it is a weapon that people are afraid of. Once the Greek fire is cast, a fire dragon as thick as a bucket will shoot out more than 30 steps, and within a radius of more than 30 steps, a sea of fire will instantly form.

When Li Daozong saw this scene, he was shocked, and he hurriedly roared: "Archers, beat these Turks back!" ”

The soldiers of the Tang Army also knew that this Greek fire was powerful, and they also wanted to release arrows, but the problem was that now after two hours of shooting, their physical strength had long been exhausted, and there were not many arrows left.

Obviously, they had no physical strength, and these Tang Army archers couldn't care about it, they opened their bows one after another, gritted their teeth and opened their bows and arrows, and many soldiers were full of strength, and their faces were flushed.

"Woo Woo ......"

The arrows hit the Greek fire, because it was a brass liner, although the arrows hit the Greek fire, clanging, and sounding lively, but the fart was useless.

A small number of archers were helpless, and they angrily fired arrows at these Byzantines, this time it finally worked, as the rain of arrows fell, some Byzantines screamed from time to time and fell to the ground, however, the archers who can release arrows are really pitiful, just hundreds of bows, what can be used? Not to mention those battle-hardened Western Turks, even the Byzantines themselves didn't take this casualty seriously, and pushed the Greek train silently and continued to move forward!

Li Daozong watched as these Byzantines pushed Greek fire, and within twenty steps of entering Liangzhou City, these Greek fire vehicles, under the operation of the Byzantines, slowly fixed, and then adjusted the angle of the fire oil nozzle.

The soldiers of the Tang Army shouted in despair.

Right now, there's nothing they can do.

Li Daozong roared: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

The Byzantines, who had taken twenty steps to Liangzhou City, could easily burn the entire city wall into a sky-high fire with Greek fire. At this time, no matter how many people were left on the city wall, they were all the same, and they were all buried in the fire.

Hearing Li Daozong's order, all the Tang army sergeants hurriedly ran towards the city wall, at this time there was no hero, and no one was a hero, at this time, there was no point in doing so.

Just when the Tang army was running towards the city in embarrassment. More than a thousand Byzantines roared, and seven or eight men worked together to pull down the long lever, which rang out with a deafening roar.

Fire dragons as thick as buckets pounced on Liangzhou City with teeth and claws.

Soon the entire city wall of Liangzhou City fell into a sea of fire, and there were many Tang soldiers who had no time to retreat in the sea of fire, and they screamed miserably in the sea of fire.

More Greek fire is aimed at the gate of Liangzhou City, even if it is a city gate wrapped in iron sheets, it will be burned in front of Greek fire.

Losing the resistance of the Tang army archers on the city wall, these Turkic cavalry hula surrounded them again, tens of thousands of Western Turkic cavalry, raised the bow in their hands, the bowstring trembled into a piece, pulling people's heartstrings, the screaming sound of sharp arrows from the strings was almost connected into a line, there was no gap, tens of thousands of sharp arrows crossed the sky, and shot towards Liangzhou City, before the first arrow landed, the second round of arrow rain was thrown into the air, followed by the third round, the fourth round......

The wind is blowing, it's a metal storm.

It's raining, it's the rain of death.

The soldiers of the Tang Army, who had finally retreated from the city wall, immediately suffered another catastrophe.

These Tang soldiers who had just escaped from the sea of fire, before they had time to catch their breath, the Western Turkic feather arrows fell like a downpour, the muffled sound of the arrows tearing flesh and blood was terrifying, death swept the foot of the city wall like a storm, no one was spared, in the bowstring trembling of the Western Turks, the Tang soldiers fell in rows.

Due to the retreat was too hasty, when many Tang soldiers ran down from the city wall, they only had one blade, and some even fell off the blade, and the only thing they could do was to look up at the feather arrows flying densely in the sky in a daze, and then the arrows fell.

However, the range of bows and arrows is limited, when the Tang soldiers ran out of the range of the bows and arrows of the Western Turks, and looked back, there were already corpses all over the field, and the Tang army, which was lucky not to fall, looked around in horror, and saw piles of corpses and struggling and screaming wounded.

However, their nightmare is not over.

The gates were already creaking, and the sound was unusually harsh in the crackling fire.

"Not good, city gates!"

"It's the city gate that can't hold on!"

"Quick, keep the gates!"

The soldiers were terrified and shouted.

Because everyone understands that once the city gate is breached, Liangzhou will have to be killed into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. With the brutal nature of the Turks, I am afraid that within ten days, the sword will not be sealed.

However, Li Daozong's expression was as usual.