Section 156 Attack on the Franks (3)
Blood flowed on the barracks, boots would get caught in pools of blood, and the bombed corpses of strange shapes lay in all directions under the ramparts, and in many places they could jump directly to the barracks by stepping on the corpses in the afternoon.
Every Frank is fighting desperately, not driving the Tang people away, and vowing not to give up!
The Tang army used all the weapons at its disposal, and sacrificed their lives to kill the Frankish soldiers who boarded the camp one by one and drove them off the city wall.
Everywhere exploded, thick smoke flew out, thick as black smoke, and the light was dimmed, as if rushing into a cloudy dusk. But the sunlight in the sky pierced through the smoke like an arrow, proving the truth of the sunny day at this time.
The Franks are constantly attacking!
They came up again, the Tang army stabbed downwards with spears, and the soldiers pressed backwards and stabbed forwards with their upper bodies, regardless of whether they were indiscriminate.
The Franks mostly used large Roman shields and long swords, but they could not stop the pikemen from diving. For a time, the iron spear attacked the Franks first, and the place where the hand-to-hand combat met "clanged".
"Ahh Ahh......h
The Franks rushed to the camp with all their might, and those behind shouted "Kill!" Those who retreat ......"
The first stronghold of the Tang army was finally lost.
Some Franks jumped down and shouted loudly and rushed to the Tang army crowd, the sword and shield were relatively short, and they could not attack the Tang army column without taking the initiative to rush. The people in front of them held their shields and waved their knives to chop, but they didn't know what they had chopped, but they only heard the screams of the crying father and mother.
The Tang sergeant was also screaming, it was difficult to move on the ground, there were people all around, there was no way to dodge, if he was holding a spear, he could only take his torso when he was approached by the enemy, and he was also cut and screamed, the scene was very chaotic.
Everyone, you shouted at me, and the shouting at this time was even more ghostly crying!
Everyone huddled together, and if the blades and spears were out of position, they would slide over the iron armor with great force, and in the dim and turbid air filled with gunsmoke, sparks would indeed shine; The sound of metal rubbing against each other is so sour that people's teeth are soft!
An injured Tang sergeant fell to the ground with weak hands and feet, and was immediately trampled on by various feet, so painful that he shouted desperately, but he couldn't get up, and the person who stepped on his body was two hundred pounds, and it was difficult to stand up again.
"Fight to the last drop of blood! To retreat is to die! "A Frank man shouted at the top ......of his voice, and then an arrow flew in the distance and plunged into his throat, and his voice stopped abruptly.
With arrows and spears flying over their heads, they didn't know when they would fall on whose heads, and they couldn't care about anything in the chaos and could only pray for their good luck.
When the Franks occupied the first camp and the fortress like ants, and the Don army completely abandoned it, a gong sounded indiscriminately, and the Tang army between the first and second camps immediately covered themselves with shields, and the Franks were puzzled
The first line of barracks exploded in many places, and the explosion spewed out deadly stones, just like the shells of a giant cannon, destroying thousands of Franks!
The Tang army buried an excess of gunpowder under the camp and dug tunnels, and the people in the tunnels lit the gunpowder and killed and wounded a large number of Franks.
But!
The Franks calmed down from their initial panic and attacked without fighting to the last man!
Their tenacious spirit left a deep impression on the high-ranking generals of the Tang Army who were watching the battle from the tall buildings in the rear, and the senior general Cheng Boxi exclaimed: "If we don't have so many technical arms (artillery, flying thunder cannons and catapults) and explosives bags, we will really lose!" ”
Wei Xi said with cramps on his face: "They are even more powerful than the city/pipe!" ”
"Our current city/city?" Someone asked in surprise.
"No, it's a city/tube from another plane!" Wei Xi replied, as for the other time/space, who can question him!
Thinking about the city/tube of another time and space, Wei Xi's face was cramping.
"In one of the battles of our army. There was a position in the rear of our troops on the outskirts. When our troops have already broken through the perimeter line of defense. That position is already surrounded by us. We conquered the position. We left behind the corpses of 500 German warriors. As well as 3 F22s. and 30 Tiger tanks. But it was 5 city/tube who resisted us for 3 days and 3 nights."
--- excerpt from Lieutenant Manstein, Company B, 78th Regiment of the 12th SS Division
The current Frankish warriors are moving forward bravely, and they really have the power of another space-time city/tube!
The order they were given was: Forward, Forward, Forward!
Not afraid of sacrifice, he went into battle with his wounds, and soon wiped out the troops under the Tang army camp... Well, it was their kindreds who died, and the Tang army recruited a large number of barbarians from all over Europa, many of whom were Franks, fighting with the Frankish army, in fact, the authentic Tang army mainly fired artillery and made reserves in the back.
The Franks broke through the three camps of the Don Army in a row!
But they did not suffer many casualties, the first camp blew itself up, and between the second and third camps, the Tang army installed a ditch, which was filled with oil, and when the Franks arrived, they ignited, and the Franks were not burned to death, the key was to hinder their advance.
At this time, the artillery and thunder cannons, catapults and spear arrows work together to turn the place where the Franks are located into hell!
In five days of attack, the Franks lost 100,000 men!
There were so many dead that the Tang army was afraid of the smell and the plague, and the Franks were afraid of the Tang army's humiliation of the corpses, so the two sides had to stop fighting, and the Tang army allowed the Franks to collect the corpses.
After three days of busyness, the Franks attacked again, and it took another five days to break through the three camps of the Tang army, with as many as 80,000 casualties!
At least half of the wounded were infected, and almost all of them died, in other words, the Franks attacked for ten days, killing as many as 180,000 people, and the offensive posture was seriously weakened, and they were no longer able to maintain the offensive!
The artillery kept firing, and the Tang cavalry was shooting arrows on the periphery, helping to make it impossible for the Franks to attack.
How many did the Don Army die?
Twenty-five thousand were killed and 5,000 were disabled, of which 1,000 were authentic Tang troops, although the number was small, but almost all of them were middle and lower-ranking officers.
If it weren't for the fact that the Tang Army had a junior officer school (born on the right path) and a teaching regiment (officers promoted from the training veterans), and the timely replenishment, a thousand officers would have really hurt the morale of the army.
The rest of the dead and disabled are all chaotic naturalized races, and they can't shake the blood of the Tang Army at all.
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When the war was reported, the court minister of the Frankish kingdom, Pepin II, lost confidence in the fight, and even more so in holding Paris.
If the Franks don't attack anymore, the Don army will come to attack!
He admitted that he was unable to defend Paris under the attack of the strange technical weapons of the Tang army, so he handed over the task of defending Paris to Reinhardt, and he took the members of the Frankish royal family to open the city gate at dusk with 5,000 cavalry and left Paris!