"Second team! Rush me! Xue Wanche gave another general order with red eyes, and the second 10,000-person team that had already been fully prepared rushed to the fortress where the Arab army was stationed like a tsunami carrying a ladder and a tsunami, and the trebuchet and the eight-bull crossbow continued to roar, shooting the anger of the Tang soldiers, in front of them, the charge and attack of the first team of 10,000 people was nearing the end, and there was nothing to be done under the loss of troops.

This is the third day of the second twelve days of the battle for the Arab fortress, and it is also the last day of the second round of attacks of the Tang army, to be honest, Xue Wanche really feels that he is a little too carried away, there is artillery but not used, and he wants to make the Romans and Persians shed a little more blood, but the result is really retribution, heavy rain fell from the sky, flash floods, and a heavy flood washed away the ammunition depot of the artillery battalion......

The first three days of fighting were very intense, the Tang army wanted to vent, wanted to prove itself, one hit more ruthlessly than the other, but they never expected that the Arabs were really well prepared, and gave the Tang army a head-on blow, the Tang army lost more than 7,000 soldiers and horses to end the battle, Xue Wanche looked solemn, Xue Rengui also frowned, they all realized that this fortress battle was not very easy to fight.

The Romans and Persians obviously thought the same way, the most capable Tang army was beaten to pieces, not to mention them, starting on the fourth day, the Roman legions began to attack, and the result was of course worse than the Tang army, this fortress is very particular in Xue Wanche's opinion, there are main cities, auxiliary cities, main forces, and reserve troops, and there are enough arrows. There are enough rolling logs and stones, and the old weapons that the Tang Dynasty had before can be seen here in another version of the storage zài.

The versions are different, but they are just as lethal, so the Roman legions suffered huge losses for this, and there was really a trebuchet in the main city. I don't know if it was the trebuchet of the Romans captured before or some trebuchet from other places, anyway, a Roman army was destroyed by a big stone, and there were not a few who smashed it into meatloaf, and they didn't know why there were so many arrows and rolling wooden stones, as if they couldn't run out.

The terrain and the structure of the city made it possible for any army to attack at a maximum of 10,000 men, because the battlefield was so large that the heads of the three armies could not do anything about it, and the artillery team could not attack, the fortress was almost impregnable. Zhang Qi analyzed with his professional eye and came to the conclusion that the person who built this fortress must be a master of military art, otherwise this fortress would not be so strong.

The Roman army killed more than 20,000 people in four days of attack, but did not capture even a single auxiliary city, these cities are made of huge stones, the texture is very hard, perspective and the eight-ox crossbow seem to have no effect on this, the incendiary can be burned. But the stone could not be burned, and there was no gunpowder. Even iron cannons could not be fired, and the 370,000-strong army was helpless against these fortresses made of huge stones.

Zhang Qi, who shouted all day long to attack the heart for the upper and lower for the siege, was also dumbfounded, he knew that the premise of attacking the heart was that his side had an absolute advantage, and according to intelligence, the Arab army stationed in this fortress was at least 150,000. There are also 50,000 people who are absolutely elite, and the standing army specially stationed in this fortress knows this fortress very well, and the first time the Tang army was fully defeated with the cooperation of the main city and the auxiliary city, and everyone was terrified.

A frontal attack will not work. Then attack by other methods from other aspects, when it was the turn of the Persian army, the Persians borrowed the Tang Dynasty's eight-ox crossbow and trebuchet, put them on the relatively high mountain, and tried to use the height to smash the stones and incendiary canisters directly into the inner city, causing a fire, Xue Rengui shook his head, and told them that the Tang army had already done this before, and the farthest distance of the trebuchet and the eight-ox crossbow could not be reached, a little further, it was their strike range.

The entire offensive site had been destroyed by the Arabs before the arrival of the Triple Alliance, the ground was full of potholes, there were many traps, and the huge trebuchet and eight-bull crossbow could not shoot in the most effective shooting range, which greatly limited the power of long-range strikes, and in this case, the most famous long-range strike methods of the Tang army failed.

Xue Wanche used the fastest speed to send people to urge the domestic artillery shells and gunpowder, as well as urging the domestic research to develop the method of moisture-proof and moisture-proof gunpowder, there were many times when gunpowder was damp and could not be used, but this problem has never been solved, and the plan to use oil-paper sealing has not been successful, and it cannot be completely free of gaps, this technology is currently the highest scientific research institution in the Tang Dynasty can not do it, and the children of the Mo family are very troubled by this.

But the progress is relatively slow, just like the lighter artillery that Li Tai is researching, all the scientific research projects seem to be in the service of the war, there are many problems faced in the war and the problems that the army needs to solve, the entire Gewu University is studying for this, the original hundreds of children of the Mo family and the more than a thousand technical nerds who are now enrolled are studying these problems day and night, hoping that they can be solved.

There is demand, there is motivation, not only the needs of war, but also the need of life, farmers need more advanced and effective agricultural tools, workers need more advanced and effective tools, businessmen also need more light and effective transportation tools, everyone has their own needs, this demand is gathered together, arrived at the highest scientific research institution in Datang, Gewu University, Gewu University is responsible for solving this demand, of course, it will also openly recruit solutions from the whole society, etc., we will study together.

After the Confucian tycoon was eradicated, no one thought that this kind of technology was a miracle, invention and innovation were originally the source of our progress, if we had been conformist, where would we have such brilliant achievements today? Those people in Confucianism just can't see everyone become stronger, they can't see everyone become rich and better, so they have such a strong demand to suppress the development of science and technology and the development of civil forces.

This is a rumor sent out by Suning to build momentum for the rise of the Mo family.

In fact, this is true, you give science and technology a nickname for strange skills, thinking that this will make everyone lazy, and thus reject the progress and development of science and technology, what is this called?

Ancient Chinese science and technology went all the way to the Ming Dynasty. It is not necessarily worse than the West, but there are advantages and disadvantages of each other, mainly because of the empirical rules that China has always pursued, and no one has summarized them into scientific laws to study, so everyone does not care, and feels that this situation has been discovered. Remember, it's okay to pass it on to future generations, and no one cares what the root cause of these things is.

Suning injected new impetus into the development of the Mo family, and he asked the children of the Mo family to trace their roots, find the truth behind these rules of experience, sort them out, summarize the general laws, and educate the masses. They must not only understand the etiquette of poetry and writing, but also understand the most basic scientific principles of the world in which they live.

The prosperity of culture cannot be denied, and the development of culture cannot be stopped, but science and technology are equally important, culture is the spirit of a nation and a country, and science and technology are the body of a nation and a country. Otherwise, a scholar who is powerless will have no matter how strong his academic ability is. can't fight against a big man who doesn't even know the words.

On the one hand, Datang should develop spirit, develop culture, promote education for all and cultural prosperity, promote the emergence of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending, and create a thriving academic atmosphere in which they compete with each other and learn from each other's strengths. The speaker is not guilty, you can say whatever you want, even if you want to scold the emperor and scold his ancestors for eighteen generations, as long as you are not known by others, it is also your freedom. Anyway, there are not a few literati in all dynasties who sarcastically and secretly ridicule the emperor and angrily scold the emperor's ancestors for eighteen generations, and the Tang Dynasty just wants to expand this scope to the whole people.

On the other hand, the strength of the armed forces should be enhanced, and there is a part of the history of the development of science and technology that should provide absolute services for military technology, specialize in the study of weapons, and study new types of firearms.

Our weapons are better than yours, our training is better than yours, we can press you to fight, we can press the Arabs now, and we can also press the Persians and Romans in the future, and the inability to attack this fortress is only a temporary phenomenon, and we will definitely be able to break through this fortress in the future.

During the nine days when the Romans and Persians attacked the fortress, Xue Wanche gathered the 37th general of the expedition to the west and all the staff officers to study how to attack the fortress without artillery.

We have to fight, we have to move, we have to consume the military strength of the Persians and Romans, maybe we need the Persians and Romans to further increase the number of troops in the Tang Dynasty, maybe we will also have to increase the troops, until now, the number of casualties has been close to 20,000, the number of troops is insufficient, in case of some emergencies, we will be very passive, although we have lost more than 70,000 soldiers and horses in three years, plus the current losses, it is not difficult to imagine that after the end of the war, our losses of soldiers and horses will be more than 100,000, but it is worth it, eliminating a potential strong enemy, And the losses of the Romans and Persians were several times greater than ours.

Compared with us, we only lost the army, there is no interference with life and production, three years, the Western Regions has basically calmed down, after the rebellion was basically quelled, the Anxi Protectorate began to carry out economic construction, with a stable life and superior material conditions so that the people of the Western Regions gradually forgot their former motherland, with Chinese education and Han culture gradually let the people of the Western Regions identify themselves as Tang people, and are willing to serve in the military for the Tang Dynasty.

Maybe if there is a war with the Romans and the Persians, you can directly mobilize the soldiers and horses composed of the people from the Western Regions to start a war with the Romans and the Persians, and there is no need to recruit Han soldiers and horses from the Central Plains.

Isn't that bad?

Now the loss is only temporary, we are an example for everyone, we don't work hard, the Romans and Persians will not work hard, we don't work hard but ask others to work hard, then we will give people a handle, this is a loss that we can't afford, reputation is more important than interests for Datang at present, with reputation, in the next period of time, we can continue to obtain benefits and build our motherland!

For the sake of this qiē coming, so that in the future we can easily take the two great states of the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire, and expand the territory to the legendary continent of Europa, we must bear such sacrifices!

Datang, Wansheng! (To be continued......)