Section 968 Eyelid jumping
Knowing that it was unknown which side was raging against the Bolgars and was advancing on their side, Khan Nikita of the Avar Khanate immediately ordered the defenders to be on guard and convene a military council.
"They are all cavalry, I heard that they are from the East, and they have already defeated the Arab Empire......"
"They've captured Pliska too!"
"It's the Bulgars who have attacked!"
"It is said that they call themselves the Tang people!"
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Although the Avar Khanate came from the East, they were not like the Lahul tribe and the high priests of the Uraso, who had returned to the Tang people, and they were so divinely deified that they did not know what happened that year.
There was no formal confrontation yet, but they had defeated even the mighty Arab Empire and the Bolgars, and it seemed that the comers were not good and not weak, and the Avar Khanate did not dare to slack off, believing that it was necessary to gather a large army in order to deal with the invaders.
It turned out that the Avar Khanate needed cannon fodder when fighting, and always let the infantry of the conquered tribes stand in front, and their cavalry was placed in the back as a decisive striking force, first let the infantry go into battle to fight the enemy, and then the cavalry flanked ... Proper nomadic tactics!
Khan Nikita roared: "What are you waiting for, go now!" ”
"Report!" An urgent scream came, which shocked everyone's hearts.
Urgent report: The Tang army has passed through the Mako region and is heading towards the center of the Khanate... Kill the territory between the fertile Danube and Tisza!
The Avars can't believe it, so fast, so ruthless!
I had just received a report of the appearance of enemy cavalry on the border, and I had just held a combat meeting, and when I raised my eyes, the other side had already attacked!
The Mako region is located in the east of the Khanate, the geographical location is extremely important, it is the barrier of the Khanate, and they also have the "Sebao Circle", which is a very strong fortress for the surrounding peoples and countries, but I did not expect that it could not stop the advance of the Tang army.
The Avars added a wooden fence to the camp of their tents and absorbed some concepts similar to the Roman walled land to form the "Fortress Circle".
Its periphery is composed of a certain width of the city wall and battlements, under which a ditch of a certain depth and width is built, and in the ditch there are sharpened wooden stakes and other facilities to prevent the enemy from carrying out a rapid attack. This kind of facility is relatively not very good for defense, but it is a difficult obstacle to break through for Europe with rough tactical literacy in the Dark Ages, and it caused great problems for the Franks and Slavs, who suffered heavy losses in the attack on the "Seborg Circle". The military work is poor, and there is no strong long-range attack force.
He even awe-inspires that the "Seborg Circle" is as impregnable as a copper wall, and it is an insurmountable natural danger!
But when the Tang people went to the side of the "Seburgh Circle", they almost lost their fun!
Is it a mud wall? Wood is!
Is it twelve to fifteen meters tall? Wood has!
Double-walled walls? Kimi!
You want to use such a pediatric fortification against my army? It's too much to underestimate us Tang people.
With a single stretch of his little finger, he can knock them all down!
The Avars who were guarding it did not know that death was imminent, and they were still waving their spears and shouting on the so-called "walls"!
The Tang army feinted, and the Avars threw spears and flying stones, which simply laughed off the big teeth of the Tang army soldiers.
Speaking of which, their long-range attacks are still very sharp, flying more than eighty meters and smashing heavily into the ground!
But their efficiency is too low, it is okay to scare those hillbillies Europa, but it is simply not worth mentioning for the Tang army, who has seen the big scene!
Flying Thunder Cannon!
Boom, killed, wounded, deafened!
Catapults!
Stone bombs, chemical bombs fired!
They were stoned to death, their buildings were smashed, and chemical bombs enveloped the entire camp in a terrible gas.
The Sebao circle is not large, according to the practice of building a city and building a walled city in the country. If the circumference of the walled city reaches 900 paces, it is called a city; those with 900 to 500 steps are called villages; And below five hundred paces, it is only a fort; As for the one that is less than two hundred steps, it can barely be regarded as a beacon.
It was less than 500 steps, there was no depth, it was completely covered by the firepower of the Tang army, and it was all taken as ordered!
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The battle of that day was not worth mentioning, and the staff officer also wrote a few strokes in the combat log, and he wrote a few strokes, all of which were brushed aside.
Can you write about bullying children in detail? This is a famous record in military history that you robbed children of candy!
When the engineers of the Tang Army broke through in many ways and filled the trench with earth, what they saw was the lost Avars.
Their heads were blank from the unprecedented attack, and they were burned to death by the poisonous gas.
Swanchao ordered that no prisoners be left and that all the physically disabled Avars be sent to God!
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The Tang army marched at great speed, and any "Sebao Circle" on the main traffic road encountered was all attacked, and the Avars who dared to block it were all killed by arrows.
There was no one to stop the iron hooves of the Tang army, and Khan Nikita, who was about to reach the Avar Khanate, could only hastily put together 20,000 Slavic servants, and 20,000 cavalry to fight.
In fact, the population of the Avar Khanate was small, and there were only 50,000 cavalry at its disposal... In those days, not all forces would have hospitals and maternity and child health hospitals!
The previous strength of the Avar Khanate was that they used the mobility and tactics of the nomads, but when they settled down in the base area, their families and lives were stable.
The number of 40,000 is still a lot, and the head of a black man in front of him is like a horse head rolling in the back like a wave of wheat, and Khan Nikita is at ease.
They occupy a hill and, condescendingly, to increase their advantage.
Then the Tang army entered the field, and the mountains and fields were full of ironclad cavalry, reflecting the light, dazzling.
The Avars frowned in unison, the enemy must have too many iron weapons!
Generally speaking, the light cavalry wears leather armor to fight very decently, both to protect and not to slow down the speed of the horses, but the smelting technology of the Tang people is too BT, and the half-body armor produced is light, but the protection is better than the leather armor, which is said to be what kind of "alloy".
All the cavalry were ironclad and had a wide variety of long weapons: spears, swords, maces, bones, axes, etc., and the sunlight shone brightly.
Let the Avars drool, what a lot of little money!
The productivity of the Tang Army has beaten the world, and the steel output has exceeded the world's steel production by more than several times, and the poor Avars have never seen so much metal, which makes them feel incredible.
Who is the enemy, where does it come from, and why is there so much equipment?
Khan Nikita's left eyelid suddenly jumped!
Others don't think much about it, but he knows what the other person's equipment means!
He glared at the fierce eyes, his head slammed to the side, his neck made a "click" sound, and he ordered: "Send troops, attack, attack!" ”