Firecrackers in the Tang Dynasty, that's really firecrackers.

That is, some flammable powder, such as sulfur and nitrate, are stuffed into the bamboo tube, dragged outside with a fire rope, and lit when used, igniting the sulfur and saltpeter inside, so that the burning bamboo tube reports a violent deflagration sound.

When Xifan points the military parade, in addition to drumming, he will also blow up firecrackers.

At night, the Xifan scouts who go out to patrol will also carry a string of firecracker tubes, and when they detect the enemy, they will use this thing to warn the city.

"What's going on?" The soldiers at the head of the city all stood up in surprise, only to see that in the darkness about two or three miles below the city, there was constantly the light of firecrackers exploding, which made people extremely nervous.

Then a pair of bonfires suddenly lit there, and in the light of the fire, the figures of several cavalry swept by, rushing towards the gate of the sand castle, shouting:

"There are Tang soldiers attacking, and the support team that passed through Xiaoguan and Baicaoyu before has been ambushed by them!"

"What!" Soon, the head of the castle was pounding, and the drums of the garrison were beating rapidly, mixed with the sound of trumpets. On the city wall, some of the soldiers opened their bows and arrows, and some stood between the battlements to protect the archer's "transfer shot", the so-called transfer wood, that is, the log is tied into a "work" shape, covered with cowhide, can guard against enemy arrows, the middle of the transfer wood is chiseled out of a round hole, used to set up a strong crossbow, and for the shooter to observe, there is a hinge below, which can allow it to pitch and rotate to shoot, in short, it has the same effect as the shield of the machine gun behind it.

The fire in the city was blazing, and the sound of alarms was everywhere, and even the ambassador of the defense city, Hu Qulu Ximeng, was startled from his sleep, and immediately began to put on his clothes and look for weapons.

He was still in a daze and couldn't believe it, "Where did Tang Bing come from?" ”

Then under the city that destroyed the sand castle, more than 100 cavalrymen wearing the armor of the Xifan soldiers appeared, shouting to the people on the fortress as they ran, "We are all going to Baicaoyu during the day, hurry, the Tang soldiers behind us are killed, let us enter the city!" ”

Among them, there were also a few soldiers of the old Changwu Army, riding horses, throwing away their weapons, and raised their heads and shouted to the hurried city head: "Wang Yuhou (Chaogan), Daxi military envoy (Xiaojun), we are so-and-so!" Hurry up and let us in, the Tang soldiers are coming, all of them are in white helmets and white armor, wearing the filial piety of Empress Zhaode! ”

These words aroused the panic of the guards of the sand castle, and soon in the northeast corner tower of the city, several soldiers who were guarded stood under the tent of the horse face wall, pointed to the opposite mountain, and shouted violently: "The Tang soldiers in white helmets and white armor are here!" ”

People followed the shout and looked behind their battlements.

On the indistinct barren mountains for miles, only the sound of horses' hooves like wind and thunder could be heard, and then a large black shadow seemed to be moving rapidly.

But after a while, patches of dark clouds were dispersed by gusts of wind, and the cold moonlight shone again on the Hulu River in the gap between the high clouds.

Really, it was really thousands of Tang cavalry, covering the entire hill, chasing their own people, and the armor and hats of the Tang soldiers were really tied with white linen, blowing along the wind on the armor and blades, rolling towards the sand castle like a heavy frost.

"Hey......" At this time, at the east gate of the sand castle, the soldiers defending the city were pulling their wheels and slowly lowering the originally hung city gate, preparing to prepare for the "defeated soldiers" from Baicaoyu to enter the city.

At this moment, Hu Qu Lu Ximeng had just walked out of the government office in Zicheng, and wanted to ride his horse to the east gate to observe the situation, but when he got a report from his subordinates, he couldn't help but be furious, and hurriedly whipped his horse to stop it, "The truth and falsehood on the battlefield are mixed, how can you easily let the defeated soldiers enter the city?" ”

Before the words were finished, inside the curved wall of the urn city that destroyed the east gate of the sand castle, a huge killing sound suddenly broke out in the flat ground:

The "defeated soldiers" who had just been put into the city suddenly revealed their true colors.

Ming Huaiyi, who was disguised as a soldier (this time he didn't dare to pretend to be a leopard skin general, because all the generals in the sand castle were familiar with each other and could not be disguised) drew his knife first, and cut down the two guards at the city gate and road like lightning.

"Fake, fake!" Soon, Ming Huaiyi heard the sound of explosions on the city tower.

Then the gate drawbridge creaked and was slowly pulled up again.

"Brother!" Ming Jingyi pointed to the inner door behind the heavy wall of the urn city and shouted, the inner door that was originally opened, several city soldiers pushed it back, ready to cover it again.

"Jingyi rushed over with me, seized the inner gate, and rushed in - only Yi, you are here to cut off the iron rope of the outer gate, and plan the army to enter the city!" After Ming Huaiyi finished shouting, he and his brother Jing Yi flew on the horse, and more than a dozen sisters and party soldiers rushed in front of the inner gate of the urn city to neigh, and rushed in through the cracks in the city gate.

"Kill, kill." Then the two brothers of Ming Huaiyi immediately clamped the city gate, swung their swords and slashed left and right, resolutely not letting them close.

The Xifan soldiers rushed up, and the tridents, long guns, flying arrows, and blades rained down on them, and soon Ming Huaiyi's chopping became a block, left and right, fortunately, the chain mail on the body was captured from the Xifan, and it was tenacious and unmatched, and there was no injury after the death!

Soon, the follow-up reinforcements arrived, and the few Changwu soldiers who were anyway threw fire everywhere and shouted, "The Changwu Army is anyway, lead the heavenly soldiers to climb the city from the northwest side and climb in!" ”

At this time, there was chaos in the sand castle, and the long soldiers who had just left the camp collided with the soldiers who mistakenly believed in false information, and without saying a word, they fought and killed together.

At the outer city gate, Ming Weiyi also and several heavily armored white grass soldiers swung sharp axes and slashed, cutting the iron cable of the rumbling city gate suspension bridge, and the suspension bridge fell on the moat.

On the hill opposite the sand castle, under the black and white Pixiu flag, Gao Yue was wearing armor and riding on a horse, commanding—no, it was the white grass army and horses around him who commanded the soldiers and horses of the various roads, and frantically broke into it along the east gate that had been successful.

Soon, the night attack in the sand castle panicked, fell apart, the army system of Xifan is divided into three kinds, one is Zampu's Praetorian Guard, which is drawn from various tribes, and has the strongest combat effectiveness; the second is the "frontier army" composed of inferior warriors from various tribes, such as Shang Jiezan and Ma Chongying, whose combat effectiveness is also very strong; The third is the so-called defense army, the source of troops is complex, and there is a lack of war horses, because the cavalry basically went to the forbidden army and the border army, so the combat effectiveness is the weakest among the three, and it is not the opponent of the Tang army's thousands of elite cavalry.

And Gao Yue fights the weakest, that is, the Art of War says that it is necessary to force the weak and avoid the real to attack the weak.

At dawn, the Tang army had already opened the inner and outer city gates from the east, and bravely occupied most of the watchtowers and corner towers, expelled and suppressed the Tibetan soldiers with high expulsion, and set fires everywhere, and the flames filled the entire sand castle - the Tibetan soldiers, Qiang soldiers, and the rebels of the old Changwu army could only open the west gate and began to flee along the mountain road to the pass behind.

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