Jieli took a deep breath of the dry and cold air of the prairie, and there was a hint of humidity in the air. This is a sign that spring is coming, and this battle is fought quickly. Returning to the grassland with the spoils of war, it is a serious matter to let the cattle and sheep that have survived the winter stick to the fat.

Five miles away in front is the city of Lanzhou, which is planted with the banner of the word Li. Until now, Jieli can't figure out that Li Shimin's generation of famous generals would make such a mistake. He personally led 20,000 soldiers into Liangzhou, surrounded by barren Gobi. Jieli easily severed the connection between Li Er and his subordinates, and there were originally 8,000 soldiers in Liangzhou City. Counting Li Er, these 20,000 people are only 30,000 people, and he has 200,000 grassland troops behind him.

As long as this Tiance general of the Tang Dynasty is killed, it will greatly deter the Northwest Tang Army. Victory will be within reach, at least there will be no problem in snatching Longyou to the bottom. The broken city wall of Lanzhou City, which was only three zhang high, Jieli never thought it was a problem.

With a wave of the whip in his hand, tens of thousands of soldiers of various tribes began to charge with shouts. They carried ladders and pushed carts. Countless foot archers and cavalry followed, and the foot archers began to shoot with invincibility diagonally. The horse archers, on the other hand, urge the horses to shoot arrows when the horse's speed is at its peak, so that the arrows can fly far away.

The number of arrows was so large that the sky darkened for a moment. As for the density of the arrows, Jieli is very satisfied. Under such coverage, the head of Lanzhou City must have suffered heavy casualties. His invincible steppe army will break through the city. In the future, carrying Li Er's head will definitely make the morale of the Tang army greatly decline.

Hou Junji, who has already become a general, is now hiding behind his shield like a school captain. There was no way not to do this, and there was Li Er sitting in the city tower behind him. The prince himself was on the front line, and he, a general, could only squat on the city wall like a small soldier to resist the arrows of the Turks.

There was a sound of "bang" and "bang" on the shield, and Hou Junji felt a shock to his arm every time he sounded. The Turks are worthy of being able to ride and shoot, and the strength of this arrow alone can reach the level of an ordinary lieutenant of the Tang Army. Hou Junji, who was bored, actually found that there was a small iron plate behind the shield, on which were written a few small characters made by Lintong.

The aimless projectile would continue until the Turkic army came to the city. When there was no longer a "bang" and "bang" sound on the shield, Hou Junji immediately jumped up. Five or six soldiers shouted, lifted a battering rod, shouted a trumpet, and overturned the ladder that had just been erected on the city wall. The Turkic soldiers, whose hands had reached the top of the city walls, fell down screaming.

Before they could catch their breath, several soldiers covered them with large shields. The clanging of the shield is endless!

The moment the siege began, countless blood and screams flew up. Li Er stood on the city tower, the muscles in his cheeks as hard as a stone. In any case, it is necessary to hold out here for five days, after which the various units of the Tang Army will attack Lanzhou from all directions. The tired Turks will be hit like never before. Whether you can win this battle depends on whether you can survive these five days.

"Boom!" Li Er felt the city wall under his feet tremble, and then saw that the side hall of the city tower was dusty.

"Trebuchet!" Master Sheng Yan roared, his eyes as big as a copper bell. Then there was a huge roar on the city wall, and Li Er's pupils shrank. A wall battlement more than a dozen steps away, along with several soldiers, was smashed into the air at once.

Hou Junji was so frightened that he was smashed on him by the flying soldiers, and he slapped him on the arrow stack at once. There was a tightness in my chest, and there seemed to be countless flies flying in front of me. His ears were buzzing, his mouth and nose were salty, and his body was full of blood, and he didn't know if it was someone else's or his own.

"Your Highness!" Master Sheng Yan said eagerly. Now the secret of gunpowder can no longer be hidden, otherwise it will not be in the afternoon, and the walls of Lanzhou City will be smashed. Two hundred thousand people poured in, and then there was nothing to say.

"Blow up those trebuchets!" Li Ertie ordered with a blushing face, he didn't expect that the Turks also had trebuchets. It must have been made by those craftsmen who were taken from Hebei, and the grassland people did not have such craftsmanship.

As soon as Li Er's order was given, the eight-bull crossbow arrows with Mars shot out. There was a rumbling sound in the distance, and a dozen trebuchets turned into a pile of broken debris in an instant. The soldiers who operated the trebuchet suffered heavy losses.

Jieli's pupils shrank, and sure enough, they brought firearms. And it seems to be even more powerful than before, I have learned the power of this thing under Shuofang City, and now I hear the explosion, and my heart still trembles unconsciously.

"Uncle, they have gunpowder!" Tuli exclaimed.

"I'm not deaf, continue the siege!" Jieli let out a low roar, and Tuli immediately lost his voice. He was really afraid of this uncle, if there was the slightest disobedience, he would be chopped into minced meat and fed to the dogs like other members of the Ashina family.

After a morning of siege, the sound of explosions did not come again. Jieli's heart let go a little, Tang Jun has such a powerful thing, but unfortunately there should not be many of them. Looking at the smoke on the city wall of Lanzhou and the half-burned tower, it will take less than three days to take it down. Li Shimin, wait for Ben Khan's butcher's knife!

A wine glass made from the head of the Tang Dynasty should be very valuable.

Hou Junji was fed two mouthfuls of water by his own soldiers, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Lying next to him, the corpse that had not had time to retract, the sternum had been exposed, and half of the head had disappeared. Perhaps it was a hallucination, Hou Junji found that his hands and feet could still twitch a few times unconsciously.

The Turks blew their trumpets, three long and two short! This signal for the Turks to evacuate, watching the Turks retreat like the tide of the sea recedes, Hou Junji breathed a long sigh of relief.

From the base of the city wall to the farthest range of the bolts. There are many Turkic corpses scattered around, and conservatively estimated to be more than a thousand. In less than a morning, more than 1,000 people were killed, and Hou Junji felt that the results were okay.

In the distance, the shouts of the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy were heard: "The first team is the whole team, the second team is the whole team, the third team is the whole team, report the number!" Fuck it all up, and there are still days of rods to beat. ”

"How many casualties our brothers have!" Hou Junji asked his lieutenant of the Chinese military academy.

"I've just seen it, and I'm dead in more than thirty years. The injuries were three times that number, and more than a dozen of them were seriously injured, and it is estimated that they will not survive for a few days. ”

He looked at the corpses under the city and thought about his own casualties. Hou Junji felt that he had the ability to make the Turks shed their last drop of blood under the city of Lanzhou.

When he reported the number again in the evening, Hou Junji was not confident. His three teams of men and horses suffered three percent of the casualties. Although more Turks fell under the city walls, Hou Junji just couldn't be happy.

Life and death are ordinary things! Hou Junji wanted to say this, this is what the veteran said when he first entered the army, and the veteran did not say it impassionedly, but said it very plainly, as if he was saying that I had already eaten.

Hou Junji couldn't get up, and behind him was Li Er. His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Empire, General Tiance. Once there is a mistake, the life of his family is not enough to fill it.

After thinking about it, Hou Junji still came to the city tower with smoke in the afterglow. Li Erduan sat on a tiger skin chair, and although half of the city tower had been burned down, Li Erquan still sat on it with a calm face. Looking at the curling smoke, a mouthful of green onion cake and a mouthful of porridge are sweet.

"Your Highness! Give some firearms to the brothers, we lost nearly 2,000 people in one day today......! ”

"Two thousand? Well! This time, Gu brought 20,000 people, so that Gu could last for ten days. When Li Er heard Hou Junji's report on the battle damage, he just thought about it briefly, and let out a laugh like a night owl.

The perennial battle has made Li Er's heart extremely hard. The casualties were just a number for him. 2,000 men were lost in one day, and exactly 20,000 in 10 days. However, after ten days, Jieli should not have much strength to continue the siege.

"But ......! Your safety, Your Highness, ......! In case of a mistake, the subordinates are really to blame! Hou Junji said with some concern.

"You can't get away with it! From the moment the battle began, there were a constant number of deaths on this wall. The soldiers are dead, and the captains go to fill it. The lieutenants are dead, you fill in. When you're dead, you'll fill it up. Li Er's words made Hou Junji speechless, whether this is the King of Tang Qin or an outlaw gambler.

On the third day of the siege, the corpses at the base of the city walls were stacked half as high as the walls. The entire city tower was burned by rockets to only ruins, and Li Er hid in the city tower without the calmness of the previous two days. Frozen like a turtle, two lines of clear snot flowed down the nostrils.

The stars came out, and the Turks in the distance did not leave, looking at the bonfires outside the city that seemed to be about to reach the sky, and I didn't know how many enemies there were, the first people to attack were the Tuyuhun people, these people were easy to deal with, as long as they killed the generals who were the leader, they would be scattered.

Then came up Xue Yantuo people, their bodies were very strong, they rushed up with their bare bodies, their chests were full of black hair, these guys' necks were very thick, and the sharp horizontal knives could not remove their heads with one knife, but they might be stuck with the blades, their most fierce team died like this, it was a very powerful veteran, just paused like this, and was shattered by the flail of Xue Yantuo's soldiers.

The scimitar surnamed Zhaowu Jiu is very powerful, and most of the people today are dead under the scimitar, and the wounds are on the joints and throats that the armor can't cover.

"Your Highness! Give some powder bullets to the brethren! Hou Junji's tone was full of tears, and the battle damage reported by the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy just now almost made him crazy. The Turks were really playing with their lives, and several times a dozen people had already rushed to the battlements. It was Hou Junji who personally led the people, wielding a steel knife to push the people down.

"Hmmm! One for each person, save a little. Li Er said with a cold face, he knew that Hou Junji was not forced to be in a hurry. Definitely not to beg yourself.

Sheng Yanshi listened to Li Er's words and immediately took Hou Junji to get the gunpowder bullet. He had already asked to fight several times, but he had not received Li Er's permission.

The Turks seemed to have the idea of filling the walls with corpses, and Jieli had gone mad. Li Shimin, who is absolutely opposite him, should also be at the limit, as long as he adds a little more strength, he can use Li Shimin's head to drink.

Corpses were piled up under the city walls, especially in front of the city gates. The Atsugi gates were covered with slashes and axes, and more than half of the corpses lying on the ground had been burned alive with hot oil or gold juice. Because of the large amount of gold juice that was sprinkled, the whole gate of the city stinked.

"Uncle, I have a solution." Tuli said suddenly.

"Say!" Jieli took a sip of the spirit, and the irritability in his heart burned like a fire. He opened his mouth and gnawed on the neck of the maid beside him, and Tuli saw blood flowing down. The maid did not dare to shout, her eyes filled with fear and tears.

"There are the most corpses in the cave of the city gate, so we might as well send someone to set the corpses on fire at night. I got some Datang oil and poured it on the corpse. The water of storage could not be extinguished, and as long as the oil was burned, the fire could burn the gates. At that time, we can rush in as long as we break through the gates. ”

"You got Datang oil?" Jieli's eyes suddenly lit up!

"I bought a lot of money from the hands of General Datang, and there are only three barrels!" Tuli unconsciously took a step back.

"Okay, that's it. I'll burn it tonight, but I want to see how powerful Datang's fire oil is. Jieli laughed wildly.

More than a dozen black shadows sneaked out of the camp, and soon blue flames ignited inside the gate of Lanzhou City. Almost instantly, the blue flames suddenly skyrocketed. The sky-high fire caused the Tang soldiers on the city wall to be in chaos.

The fire quickly set fire to the corpses in front of the city gates, in addition to giving off the smell of burnt flesh. Corpses were also burning at a distance, and human oil was sizzling from the fire. The crows that were eating, "quacked" and "quacked" and flew away.

Jieli looked at the fire and let out a wild laugh. In order to attract the attention of the Don army on the city walls, the Turks launched a night attack. Countless Turks rushed to the city wall of Lanzhou with cloud ladders as they did in the daytime.

Hou Junji shot a crossbow arrow, but before he could wind it, he lit a gunpowder bullet and threw it down. With a bang, a man's arm flew up. This new type of gunpowder bullet is much more powerful than before. In the past, black powder bullets were not so powerful.

The explosions came one after another, and the soldiers threw their only powder bomb almost immediately. Kill one more Turk and you will be able to live a little longer.

Amid numerous explosions, the Turks scattered and fled. They were so terrified of this powerful weapon that even the face twitched twice in the distance. It seems that the Tang army was really in a hurry, and they all began to use gunpowder bullets.

Hou Junji is happy in his heart, as long as he wants some more gunpowder bombs tomorrow. can survive this most difficult day, and leaving Lanzhou City alive is more important than anything else.

In the midst of their triumph, suddenly the Turks let out a loud cheer. Just when he didn't understand what was going on, the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy ran over in a hurry.

"General, no, the city gates have been burned through."