659, Lanzhou meat grinder (middle)

While Songtsen Gampo was busy organizing his ranks, some of the Tibetan soldiers began to spontaneously plan to break through the surrounding encirclement, and they probably guessed that the so-called "heavenly punishment" would only continue here. And people have the idea of yearning for safety, and when they see that people outside the encirclement have not been subjected to "divine punishment", they naturally want to run outside to avoid the so-called divine punishment. However, will Jingwen let them leave so freely? So, obviously, it is impossible.

"Order all regiments, guard the encirclement, and don't let a single Tubo escape!" Jingwen said.

"Whoosh ......"

The crossbowmen shot at the Tibetans inside the encirclement, and the scattered Tibetans began to be shot one after another. The Tibetans wanted to break through this encirclement, but found that their strength could not break through this encirclement at all. They are just a group of people who spontaneously got up, and no one organized a large army to break through together, so this relatively "weak" encirclement is enough for them to suffer heavy losses, but it is useless at all.

The Tibetans have been disorganized and have lost their organization. Moreover, they do not have a so-called military rank system, and they can no longer clarify command authority in the confusion. Therefore, their breakthrough was not organized at all, which also made them blocked into the encirclement. An army without any organization is simply vulnerable in the face of a well-organized army.

"Shoot the ......," shouted the commanders of the various mixed regiments.

"Pikemen prepare, if there are any fish that have escaped the rain of arrows, you will stab them to death for me!"

"Understood!" The pikemen shouted.

Those Tibetan soldiers who broke through scattered had to face the enemy's arrows like rain when they were far away, and after they entered, they also had to face the stabbing of pikemen, and often had to face the assassination of more than a dozen pikemen alone, which was impossible to be an opponent at all. Although there were 50,000 of these Tibetans, there were not many of them who really came to break through. In this way, there is also a local opportunity to fight more and less. Let the Tang army occupy a local superiority in troops. Those Tubo people came to break through, all of them were refueling tactics, and they were useless at all.

"Oh my God! Is the sky going to kill me? Songtsen Gampo looked up to the sky and sighed.

Songtsen Gampo felt that this was the most miserable day for him, because his father was poisoned to death, and as a result, his relatives and courtiers rebelled. However, he did not lose hope and tried to organize an army to quell the rebellion. But now, the 50,000-strong army is actually in chaos here, and it has lost control. At this time, there were only a few thousand people who could listen to Songtsen Gampo's mobilization. However, thousands of people could not be encircled by the Tang Dynasty at all, and Songtsen Gampo knew this deeply. And looking at the frightened eyes of those subordinate soldiers, Songtsen Gampo already knew that the morale of these soldiers had completely dissipated. If the army has no morale, then where is there still combat effectiveness?

If Songtsen Gampo had known that the Tang Dynasty had such weapons, he would not have thought of taking advantage of them at all. The strength of this weapon was so powerful that it had only been bombed for less than two quarters of an hour, that is, half an hour, but it had lost five or six thousand people on its side. Of course, the loss in numbers is not the point. The important thing is that the loss of morale is the most terrible. And after this battle, these soldiers will probably be frightened. In the future, they are afraid that they will have fear in the face of the Tang Dynasty army. This is similar to the Koreanophobia of later athletes, who are too afraid of a certain opponent. As a result, confidence was lost. As a warrior, to lose faith is to be a lamb to the slaughter.

"The Tibetans can't hold it anymore, so let's stop the firearms brigade bombardment so intensively, and we have to narrow the encirclement." Jingwen said.

The commander of the firearms brigade heard this. He immediately said, "Really, it's not fun yet!" ”

When the soldier next to him heard this, he immediately complained in his heart: "The bombing just two quarters of an hour. We've almost exhausted all the missiles. And the cost is huge. ”

Although the bombing of missiles is very refreshing, the cost of missiles is also very huge. The bombing just now was enough for Datang to fight a battle of tens of thousands of people before. Therefore, the use of missiles and manpower will not save combat costs. The only thing that can be saved is the cost of lost personnel. Because missiles can reduce casualties and further reduce the subsequent economic pressure on the imperial court, this is the reason why Jingwen persuaded everyone to use firearms.

"All regiments listen to the order and narrow the encirclement!" The herald staff shouted.

At this time, the pikemen began to move forward, and the crossbowmen were covering the pikemen, suppressing the enemy's bows and arrows. Crossbowmen were also covered by pikemen, protecting them from the onslaught of the Turkic fighting troops. In this way, they can keep moving forward with each other's cover. Although the speed of progress is not very fast, it is enough to slow everyone down.

"Slow down, this is our first time to coordinate with the artillery, don't mess up. If the cooperation is not good, then I am afraid it will be dangerous! Jingwen said.

Jingwen was also a little nervous, this was the first time to carry out infantry and artillery coordination in actual combat. According to the previous method of warfare, firearms were used first, and then soldiers were allowed to attack with cold weapons. But now the missiles have not really stopped, but the soldiers have begun to move forward and reduce the encirclement. This is actually the coordination of infantry and artillery, and it pays great attention to the ability to cooperate with the organization. Although there was some training before, it was not possible to achieve it in the actual combat process. Now the Tubo people are already water dogs, and they can just coordinate with each other in the actual combat process.

Although these crossbowmen and pikemen advanced very slowly, they were still constantly narrowing the encirclement of the Tibetans and constantly compressing the space for the Tibetans to move. The Tibetans were also forced to become more and more concentrated, and as a result, they were killed and wounded by missiles and became more and more powerful.

"Zampu, they're besieging us!" Qin Ling said.

And Songtsen Gampo finally knew why the Han people dared to surround them like this, it turned out that they had that kind of mysterious weapon. And Songtsen Gampo immediately felt envy and jealousy in his heart, if he also had this kind of weapon, how much should it be. And Songtsen Gampo also has a period of imbalance in his heart, the Tang Dynasty people rely on weapons to win their own battles, if there is no weapon advantage, then it is not known who will kill the deer! And Songtsen Gampo didn't know that Jieli Khan also thought so back then! But people are bullying you, what can you do? (To be continued......)