The next day it was a little overcast, as if there had been another heavy rain.

Early in the morning, the Tang army came to Jingzhou with siege equipment.

And Li Hedong, who got the news, has also taken people to the city tower.

Seeing the Tang army holding the siege equipment, Li Hedong showed a sneer of disdain, in his opinion, even if the Tang army had a sharp weapon like the Tang Divine Crossbow, it was impossible to attack Jingzhou City.

The two sides didn't say much, and after some preparations, they directly began to attack the city.

On the Tang army's side, they first used the Tang Dynasty crossbow to cover their soldiers to cross the moat, and then transported the siege equipment to the city wall and began to attack the city.

On the rebels' side, sharp arrows are obstructing, and the two sides come and go.

At the beginning, the Tang army was better, and it covered the soldiers and horses across the moat very smoothly, but when they really started to attack the city, the effect of the Tang Dynasty's wrath was much reduced.

On the rebels' side, sharp arrows, boulders, and rolling logs slaughtered the soldiers on the ladder one after another.

Tang Jun's ladder is not like in the TV series, it's just a ladder or something, Tang Jun's ladder can be fixed in the corner of the wall, even if the enemy wants to push it, it is impossible to push the ladder down.

However, although the ladder cannot be pushed down, it is still very oblique, and it is not easy to attack the city tower.

Many places with good terrain are not open for a husband, but in fact, the persistence of the city tower does not have to be bad in these places.

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, siege is a particularly difficult thing, if it is not for several times the enemy's soldiers and horses, the chance of capturing the city is very low.

Especially when the power of the rebels is not weak.

Although their morale is somewhat low.

"Kill ......"

"Kill ......"

The Tang army rushed forward to kill, and one by one the Tang army was killed by the rebels, and soon, a lot of corpses were piled up under the tower.

The lives of these men were gone.

After Hou Junji and Su Dingfang saw this situation, their hearts were dripping blood.

"Master Hou, if we continue to fight like this, we will lose all our soldiers and horses."

At the beginning, Hou Junji really felt that there was nothing to attack the city, but watching his soldiers being killed one after another, he also began to feel distressed, and felt that if he continued to fight like this, the losses would be too heavy.

Qin Tian's eyes stared, and after a moment, he ordered, "Mingjin retreats." ”

This style of play is not good.

If it takes more than half of the lives of the Tang army to capture the city, it is not worth it, not to mention, these soldiers and horses of the three of them were recruited after several efforts, and they were originally intended to be used to fight against the Turks, if they were destroyed here, then their efforts for most of the previous half a year would be all wasted.

The Tang army Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the soldiers retreated from under Jingzhou City, Li Hedong looked at the retreating Tang army, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, the Tang army wanted to capture Jingzhou City with 30,000 soldiers and horses, it was simply whimsical.

If it was really a decisive battle on the ground, his more than 40,000 soldiers and horses would not necessarily lose, let alone defend the city.

In today's battle, the Tang army lost several thousand, and he finally avenged yesterday's revenge.

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The Tang army attacked the city unfavorably and retreated.

Morale is somewhat low.

In the big tent in the army, everyone looked at each other, and they were all a little angry, even Cheng Chumo didn't have the vigor of yesterday.

"His grandmother's, Jingzhou City is so difficult to attack......"

Cheng Chumo scolded, Qin Tian's expression was solemn, at this time, Hou Junji said: "Master Hou, I heard that you can make a thing called a hot air balloon, which can load people into the air, and back then, with this method, you broke the Tuguhun , and now, why don't we concoct it, send our soldiers into the city through the air, and then join forces inside and outside to capture Jingzhou City?" ”

After Hou Junji finished speaking, he looked at Qin Tian, Qin Tian smiled bitterly: "General Hou, if no one knows about this method, it can still be used, but this thing has now been spread to the entire Tang Dynasty, as long as our people enter the air, Li Hedong will inevitably send people to keep an eye on it, in that case, if you can't sneak in, you can only be hunted by the rebels on the ground, it's not appropriate." ”

Hot air balloons are better than surprises, and if you lose this advantage, it will be tantamount to death.

Hou Junji's expression moved slightly, and he didn't continue, Su Dingfang's side, but he didn't say much, anyway, now the command is here with Qin Tian, and as soon as the matter is done, it will be handed over to Qin Tian.

The atmosphere of the big tent was a little dull, Qin Huaiyu held his chin, and said: "It's a pity that we don't have good siege weapons, otherwise if we can attack the city tower more easily, with our strength, we should be able to fight the rebels." ”

"You didn't say this, the siege equipment used by my Tang Army now is already the most advanced, but there is still no way, I think, there are too few soldiers, or recruit a group of soldiers and horses."

Cheng Chumo immediately scolded Qin Huaiyu's words back.

Qin Huaiyu pursed his lips: "How can soldiers and horses be easy to recruit?" ”

The two of them were about to make a move, Qin Tian suddenly stood up, the two of them were stunned, and asked at the same time, "Brother Qin, do you have a way?" ”

Qin Tian's eyes flickered, and he said, "Yes, yes, our siege equipment is still not advanced enough, and we must improve the siege equipment." ”

Doing things with his own hands, this is Qin Tian's strong point, he can make some powerful siege equipment.

Qin Tian began to get excited, he felt that the capture of Jingzhou City was just around the corner, everyone saw him like this, although they were curious about what siege equipment Qin Tian could make, but they didn't ask much, they just hid this expectation in their hearts.

Because they knew that Qin Tian would definitely be able to make some siege equipment.

Everyone retreated to rest, and Qin Tian's side began to think about what siege equipment to make.

In his cognition, the best thing to siege the city is naturally the red-coated cannon, which is powerful and can directly bomb the city wall.

However, gunpowder is not easy to make, and now is by no means the time to make gunpowder, at least not yet, in Qin Tian's opinion.

This kind of lethal weapon will make the death of human beings worse, and he is not sure whether Datang will cause terrible harm to the entire human race after possessing gunpowder.

This is a bit too high-minded, but it is not unreasonable.

In the bones of the people of the Tang Dynasty, there is fanatical blood, they are warlike, and they are not afraid of war, this is different from the Song Dynasty, when the Song Dynasty, there was gunpowder, but because the people of the Song Dynasty were relatively peaceful in their bones, it did not cause much death to the whole world.

But Tang is different, Qin Tian tried to think that if Tang had gunpowder, the territory of the Tang Dynasty might increase several times, but for the entire human race, it would be a kind of destruction.

Uncertain things naturally can't be done, and it's not easy to do, for Qin Tian now.

Article 22

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