Almost fifty simple catapults were used (it was impossible for a heavy catapult with a counterweight to be used on a mountain road), and the opposite side was burned with incendiary bombs.

The loud sound of the explosive packs fired by the flying thunder cannon was constantly heard... It seems that no enemy can stop our army... But the truth of the matter is that the Franks avoided the attack, and they calmly waited outside the circle of fire.

When the Tang army came out on the edge of the cliff, they saw the dense smashing stones, which frightened them to retract their heads and quickly swing back to the side that had already been squared.

The fighting patterns of the Franks were inherited from the Romans, who were not superior in bows and arrows, but in stone and spear throwing.

There are many stones, and the Franks have collected a lot, and when they meet, they throw them wildly, and they don't spend money anyway.

Only when at close range, the Franks threw throwing guns.

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The Tang army attacked in many places, and in one place, three hundred people boarded!

However, they were attacked by as many as a thousand Franks!

They rushed from all directions, the Tang army was still very calm on the defense, a young officer, shouting elite to guard around, sword and shield soldiers outside, spearmen included, the officers themselves in the middle and the archers together, the archers attacked in all directions, the soldiers came up very quickly in the order to surround the formation, they were all the people who had survived a hundred battles, and the skills in the battle formation were very familiar.

The Franks were heavily armed and powerful, and it was difficult for ordinary enemies to deal with them, but the Don army relied on excellent equipment to deal with the Franks

The big knife of the Tang saber shield soldier, the blade is all iron, it is as wide as a palm, the back is thick and the blade is thin, the knife is four feet long, slightly curved, the handle can be held with both hands, and its tail has a ring, which can be tied with cloth strips to prevent slipping. Battlefield encounters, short combat, in addition to the big axe and iron mallet, what short weapon can be compared to the big blade?

The steel spearhead of the short-handled carbine, which the soldiers stabbed out with great force, could break through the leather armor and wooden shields of most infantry of this era.

The Franks had the upper hand over the numbers; With the help of equipment, the Tang army won a complete victory.

The Franks roared, and the Don army immediately responded to the battle.

Fifty arrows fired in unison, buzzing - the battlefield resounded with the sound of flying arrows breaking through the air.

Tuk tuk, the leather shield was hit hard, although it was not broken, which made the shield-wielding soldiers tremble. Puff, puff, some of the crossbow bolts flew through the gaps in or above the wooden shields, striking the soldiers behind, and with a terrible howl, the Franks stirred a little, and soon recovered under the pressure of the officers, and the team was able to move on.

The two sides quickly engaged, and the sound of the collision of weapons was endless, bang bang! It was the crackling sound of a leather shield being chopped.

Sonorous ping-pong! This is the sound of weapons breaking.

Puffy puffy! It's the sound of a heavy object hitting the body.

The whizzing of arrows continued,

The Tang army slashed down with a sword, smashing the enemy like chopping wood for a while, blood was like a basin, and a whole team of Frankish elites was gone in the blink of an eye.

The two sides were short of each other, and the Franks had a formation to cooperate, but the Tang army had a three-dimensional defense line!

In addition to swords, shields, spears and bows and arrows, the Tang army also threw "grenades" (ignition cannon battles) everywhere, plus short-barreled flintlock pistols, which Frank is a fierce general's brother, take advantage of his unpreparedness, give him a troll!

With a "boom", the Franks became a blood gourd, and they were miserable.

Don't be afraid of the Franks, even Tang Jun's heart is beating.

For a moment, all that could be heard was the terrible clash of shields, the clanging of weapons, and the wild cries of the belligerents.

The battle lasted half an hour, and both sides were equally fierce and heroic, but the strength of the Don army was much smaller than that of the Franks.

The defeat of the Tang army was still the throwing of stones, and the Franks in the back picked up large stones and threw them at the positions of the Tang army, plus the dense javelins, which could break the armor under the gravity of the Franks, and the key javelins themselves could also be used as stones.

The disadvantage of the small number of soldiers in the Tang army was fully revealed, and under the constant attacks of the Franks, they were smashed to the point of bleeding, and they could only flee in embarrassment under the command of the officers!

Most of the Don troops used ropes to escape, but more than fifty Tang soldiers who served as the rearguard were forced to jump off the cliff by the Franks, including their officer, a young man named Gui Yongyue!

The Franks did not have time to celebrate, and the angry Tang army had already thrown rockets, flying thunder cannons, and bows and arrows in their minds, with the result that the Franks had suffered more than 300 casualties.

Judging from the loss of troops on both sides, the Tang army had the advantage, but in terms of achieving the goal of the battle, the Tang army was defeated!

In the next many attacks, the Franks defended with danger, every time the Tang army came, they stopped the Tang army, and when there were few people, they drove down directly, and the Franks launched a counter-charge when there were more people, all in all, the Tang army did not want to pass!

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"Stop attacking!" Cheng Boxi ordered.

He convened a military meeting and said: "This kind of fighting, our army is using the tactics of adding oil, and if you can't form a superior force, don't attack, waste military strength!" ”

Everyone took it for granted, so they took a break and urged the rear team to transport supplies and build roads, and the army began to build the city!

All of them worked together to build cities, build houses, and improve people's living conditions.

The Franks were amazed to see a new city rise right under their noses, as if by the power of God, and a new city was erected.

This "Xinlin Prefecture" became an important transportation hub until another major earthquake destroyed the city hundreds of years later, and the rift in the sky completely collapsed and disappeared, and the traces of war were also wiped out.

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The construction of Xinlinzhou was done by the Tang Army, in fact, Cheng Boxi was a little pessimistic about directly attacking the rift in the sky, thinking that the other party's natural danger was really insurmountable.

However, the Tang army still sent some reconnaissance teams to try to find another way around.

"No news!" The daily reports were the same, the mountains were steep and difficult to walk, and the Tang army even went down to the crack in the sky, trying to find a way out of the dark underground.

It's a pity that they couldn't find it.

The terrain at the bottom of the Crack in the Sky is extremely complex, layered with mud puddles, puddles, and dampness, and the road is really difficult to navigate, the key is that it is too big and too deep for thousands of scouts to find even a person.

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The senior officers in the military tent were drowsy, and everyone understood that if they continued to fight like this, the only thing would be to withdraw their troops.

Or, everyone is contrived, and during the battle, plus reconnaissance, it was found that the Franks were deployed everywhere, with more than 5,000 people, and the supply of a large number of Franks was also not easy, and the cost was not less than that of the Tang Army. After all, the Tang Army has already built roads, and the Franks are defending layer by layer by virtue of their climatic momentum, and no one can do anything about it, so they can only fight for national strength.

Now the offensive of the Tang army has stopped, but the feints are still continuing, maintaining the pressure on the Franks and keeping them idle.

Just when everyone was having a headache, a staff officer came in and reported excitedly: "Gui Yongyue, who we were forced to jump off the cliff earlier, has returned, and he has found a way out to the enemy's rear. ”8910