Chapter 32: Fierce battle with surrendered city

Wang Zhongsi was about to explain, but a general rushed in and reported loudly: "Master, the Turks have attacked, and the beacon has been lit!"

"Let's go and see!" Zhang Shougui waved his hand, stood up, and took the lead out of the cave. Under Zhang Shougui's leadership, Chen Wanrong and the others came to a high place and looked north. They saw wars rising from the north. The distance here was a bit far and I couldn't see clearly.

Even so, after a brief estimate, there are more than 1,000 beacons ignited, and the beacons of such a scale are unique. Chen Wanrong had to secretly praise the power of our ancestors.

The three surrender cities are the Xishoujiang City, the Zhongshoujiang City and the East Surrender City. The Zhongshoujiang City is about 400 miles away from the east and west cities. These three surrender cities are the backbone of preventing the Later Turks from moving south. Zhang Renyuan put in some effort when he was built that year. The three cities are the corners of each other. One is attacked, and the other two cities will inevitably rush to help.

In order to make a message, Zhang Renyuan also built 1,800 beacons. Later, the Turks went south and the beacons were lit. The scene was extremely spectacular.

This time, all three surrendered cities were attacked, and the beacon was lit. At first glance, there were beacons everywhere, which was amazing.

Mochuo knew very well how threatened the Suicide City was to them. Although he was throwing stones to ask for directions, he also invested 100,000 troops. Moju was a good general, and he knew the horns of the three cities that were suicide. One place was attacked, the other two must come to support. If you want not to let other places come to support, only three places launched an attack at the same time, restraining the other two cities, and concentrating heavy troops to attack Suicide City.

Zhongshoujiang City is located in the middle section. If it is captured, the pattern of the three cities of Sujiang City will be broken, and each other cannot be reinforced. Then you can concentrate your troops and defeat them one by one.

I have to say that Moju's idea is very correct. He invested 20,000 troops in the east and west cities to restrain these two places, and concentrated 60,000 troops to attack the surrendered city.

The Sujiang City was a strategic defensive facility that the Tang Dynasty focused on operating in the north, and it also dispatched a lot of troops. In addition, the Tang army was well-trained, well-equipped, and high morale. It was not enough to restrain 20,000 troops. Considering this, Mo Ju ordered the Turkic army to build trenches outside the two Sujiang City, east and west, to block the Tang army's attack.

With the assistance of the moat, the Tang army in the east and west abdicated city did not have the strength to break through the Turkic army to reinforce the Chengshoucheng.

At this time, fierce battle was about to break out at the city of Zhongshoujiang. Moji rode on a tall horse, wearing iron armor, and shouted at the city: "General Zhang Suo: I am the right wing of the Great Turks. At the order of the Khan, I led an army of 300,000 south to attack the Great Turks! You have been surrounded by a group of people. If you put down your weapons and surrender to my Great Turks, I will protect you from glory and wealth! If you do not know the right and wrong, and try to be an enemy of my Great Turks, you will die without a place to bury them! General Zhang, you should think carefully!"

Zhang Suo was in his fifties, with dark face, bright eyes, and tall. He followed Zhang Renyuan to fight and made great contributions in the battle to win Monan. He was a veteran. He knew the situation of the Turks with a clue. He stood on the top of the city and pointed at Moju and laughed: "Moju, Moju, you made me funny!"

"What's ridiculous?" Moju's face sank and he asked.

Zhang Su laughed and said, "There are many ridiculous things. If the right wing officer is willing to listen, I might as well tell you in detail."

The preface of the formation is mostly used for momentum. If you dare not listen, it is like losing to Zhang Su in terms of momentum. Mo Ju didn't even think about it and nodded, "I wish to listen to the high point!"

Zhang Suo laughed and then said sarcastically: "You Turks have always liked to go straight, not like circles, and not like preaching in front of the formation. When did the right wing detect become an old woman who likes to nag, and chat here?"

This is scolding Moju as an old woman. Yuuu, how can Moju not understand. He raised his eyebrows and became angry. He glared at his eyes. He then held back, laughed, and retorted: "General Zhang, this is not thanks to you Han people. If you have been in contact with you too much, you naturally learned some. If you want to say Yuuuu, you Han people are even more unbearable than us."

"Haha!" Zhang Suo laughed so hard that he leaned back and forth, and kept shaking his head, as if he heard the most funny words in the world: "Youxiangcha, since Jie Li was captured, the court has treated you very well. He not only taught you the ways of sages and wise, but also allowed you to live in the Hetao land with beautiful grass and water. You are not grateful and rebelled against the court. Now, you have to be in the bitter and cold land of Mobei. Mobei is very hard, and it has frozen your mind. He actually forgot the ways of sages and wise, and learn some useless words."

"You..." Moju couldn't help but speechless.

Zhang Su ignored him and continued, "The funny thing is two. Who in the world doesn't know that you Turkic people only have 400,000 troops. How could you lead 300,000 troops to come? Will Mochu trust you like this? Or did you use the convenience of being Du Gulu's son to kill Mochu and steal the Khan position?"

This is a provocation. If it reaches Mochu's ears, there might be a beheading disaster. Moju was anxious and shouted: "Stop it! The 400,000 army is the past. Now, I, the Great Turks, have millions of soldiers! Zhang Su, if you don't know the current affairs, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"The Turks were betrayal and killed my border people. When did they show mercy to the Tang Dynasty? Just come!" Zhang Suo didn't care at all, and a sneered at the corner of his mouth.

Originally, he was persuading surrender, but he didn't expect to mock Zhang Su. Mo Ju was very angry and waved his right hand and shouted: "Siege! Cast the stone, prepare!"

"Trailing machine? The Turks had a siege?" Zhang Su knew very well about the Hou Turks and knew that these nomadic peoples knew nothing about technology. The siege machinery they had obtained when they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty had been used up. It was not ordinary and difficult to make Zhang Su believe that the Hou Turks had a sharp siege weapon.

"Today's Great Turks are not the Great Turks of the past!" Seeing Zhang Su's surprise in his eyes, Mo Ju was very proud, pulled the corners of his mouth and returned to his original formation.

Zhang Su didn't believe what he said was true. He shook his head and said disdainfully: "Brave!" However, a huge sound came. When he looked closely, tall catapults pushed out the Turkic soldiers.

"This... where did they get the catapult?" Zhang Suo didn't know that this was Dashi's catapult to increase the attack power of the post-Turkish people, so he specially sent craftsmen to help build the catapult. He was completely confused and his eyes widened.

The Turks were good at fighting in the field and lacked siege machinery, which was a common problem among nomadic peoples. If the Turks had a large number of powerful siege weapons, the surrendered three cities would not have posed such a great threat to them.

"I want to see if your catapult is powerful or our city walls are strong!" The Tang Dynasty had very developed city building technology. When constructing the Sushu City, it considered that this would be the forefront of fierce fighting. Even if the Turks did not have sharp siege equipment in the rear, they would destroy a lot of fierce fighting.

Therefore, the three cities under surrender were cultivated extremely strongly, and Zhang Su thought with great confidence.

Dozens of trenchers were arranged neatly, and looking from the top of the city, it was very spectacular.

The Turkic soldiers were busy and prepared the catapult. Moju ordered proudly: "Boom me! Blast the city wall!"

Dozens of catapults were all exerted, dozens of stones rose into the air, and fell to the top of the city with strong wind. When they fell, there was a banging sound, which was very terrifying. For a moment, rocks on the top of the city collapsed and stone chips splashed everywhere.

When the smoke and dust disappeared, Zhang Suo stood there and looked at the place where he was smashed by the stones. He saw some white spots appearing on the top of the city, without worrying damage. He couldn't help but laugh: "The Turks are just things!"

During the Tang Dynasty, although siege equipment such as siege machines were used for siege cities, their effectiveness was not very good. Like the Tang army's crossbows, they could be said to be the most top siege weapon in the world at that time.

Since ancient times to the present, "siege the city as the bottom" has been a classic motto of military strategists, especially before the Song Dynasty, which was a dogma followed by military strategists. They would not attack the city unless they had to be forced. The reason is that the power of the siege equipment is insufficient.

The era when this dogma was truly broken was the Song Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, a large number of siege equipment appeared and it was extremely powerful. The ancient throwing machines of the Song Dynasty took a big step forward compared to the Tang Dynasty. They were too powerful, and those sturdy cities could no longer resist it.

More importantly, the Song Dynasty also vigorously promoted firearms, and explosive firearms appeared, which made the war more complicated, more lethal, and weakened the city's resistance, and had to innovate the technology of building a city. Chen Gui made outstanding contributions in this regard.

Although the Arab Empire at that time was much stronger than the Post-Turks, it had just started in technology and civilization. Even the political system was still learning from the Byzantine Empire and imitating it, and had not yet formed a political system of its own. The catapult technology was just starting. As for the "Hui Hui cannon" used by Kublai Khan in the capture of Xiangyang, it was hundreds of years later.

The Turks rarely use siege equipment. When Tang soldiers first saw it, they were surprised, and then surprised. Now, after understanding the power of the siege, they didn't care about it at all. They joked with each other: "The Turks are full and they are full. This thing is useless and useless. It is better to climb the city!"

Mo Ju didn't care about those, he just ordered the catapult to rush. He threw stones one after another, and didn't know how many rounds he threw. Finally, the female wall on the top of the city collapsed and countless smoke and dust splashed.

"Haha, it finally collapsed!" Moju's confidence increased greatly and he was very happy.

However, his joy didn't last long, and the Tang soldiers on the city wall shouted in unison: "It's been more than fifty rounds before a female wall is knocked down. Moju, are you planning to bombard it until a hundred years later?"

The female wall was built on the top of the city, in a mountain shape, higher than the city wall, in order to protect soldiers. The female wall exited the stage of history, which was in the Song Dynasty. It took more than fifty rounds to knock down a female wall. When the city wall was blown open, it would take at least one or two months.

A month or two later, the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty could arrive. With the Tang army's rapid mobility, the Tang army arrived at no 100,000, but also 50,000. Even if it was 50,000 Tang army, the latter Turks had to invest at least 300,000 troops to win, which was impossible.

"Silly Big Food Pig! It took so much effort but it was useless!" Moju was very discouraged and couldn't help but spread this resentment on the Big Food Pig, cursed in secret, waved his hand and shouted: "Build a ladder and attack the city!"

The Turks were skilled in cavalry and shooting, and were good at fighting in the field and plundering, and they were not their strengths. However, now they are powerful and have to do so. Who said that the trencher with high hopes has no way to use the city walls of the Tang Dynasty?

I wanted to smash the city gate, but the city gate of Zhongshoujiang City was made of stainless steel and was even stronger, so I can't even think about it.

When Moju thinks of this, he feels very depressed, very depressed, roaring like thunder, venting his dissatisfaction with all his heart.

As soon as the order was passed, the Turkic soldiers dismounted, rectified their formation, carried the ladder, and rushed towards the city with shouts.

"If you cut the enemy immediately, the Turks still have some combat power. When it comes to siege, they are not their strengths!" Zhang Su couldn't help laughing when he saw this.

That's right, the Turks' individual slashing and slashing are the strongest. If they really want to slashing and slashing individually under the same equipment, the Tang army may not be able to beat them. However, the Tang army has excellent equipment and good coordination and cooperation, which is not something that the Turks can do.

It is a taboo for military strategists to attack the enemy's strengths with one's own shortcomings, but due to the situation, it is necessary to do it.

The Tang army not only had sharp attacks, but also had a variety of methods, but also had a great chance to defend the city. With a wave of Zhang's hand, the crossbowmen began to get busy, loaded up arrows, and aimed at the marching Turkic soldiers.

When the Turkic soldiers entered the range, Zhang Suoling's flag waved and crossbow arrows were fired at once. Countless crossbow arrows were dense like raindrops, flying straight into the Turkic formation.

The Tang army's powerful crossbows could not even resist the heavy cavalry of Dashi. The Turkic soldiers in leather armor could not bear it. As soon as the arrow rain arrived, the Turkic soldiers fell in pieces. The place where the arrow rain hit the arrow rain seemed to be a hole made by a huge rock in the water, and a big hole appeared.

This is just a repetition of the tragic incident of the Later Turkic attack on Sushucheng!

"Full the team, keep the formation!" Moju shouted in the distance, waved his hand, and the horn sounded, passing his orders down.

The marching Turkic soldiers were ordered to gather their formation and continue to move forward. The rain of arrows was still greeted by them. The more they moved forward, the denser the crossbow arrows of the Tang army were, and the more they were killed. When they entered the range of the archers and the archers of the Tang army joined, the rain of arrows became even more dense.

When the Turkic soldiers rushed to the city, at least 30% of them were injured and killed. Such a heavy price was staged many times under the Suijiang City, and the Tang army did not take it seriously at all.

The Turkic soldiers leaned against the city wall and began to climb to the top of the city.

The Tang army's arrow rain continued, and the crossbow arrows were mainly responsible for shooting and killing Turkic soldiers in the distance, and the archers were responsible for the Turkic soldiers under the city. The close cooperation of the arrow rain alone was enough for the Turkic soldiers.

The Tang army had various methods of attack, and similarly, their defenses were also diverse. Needless to say, rolling wood and rocking stones, what the Turks couldn't stand the most was the Tang army's "hard turtle oil". Wherever they were touched or burned, it was impossible to roll out the fire, and many people burned them to death.

Fierce tinder oil is actually oil. Of course, it is not entirely oil, it is processed oil. The first to use fierce tinder oil to fight was the Qin State, because the main production area of ​​oil in ancient China was the current Yan'an, which happened to be within the territory of Qin State. Qin State used fierce tinder oil very well, which can not only be used to defend cities, but also to attack cities.

When defending the city, hot turbulent oil is poured on the ladder, and the enemy can't stand it. When siege, fill it with a jar and throw it onto the city gate with a stone throwing machine to burn the city gate, which has a miraculous effect.

The Qin army was good at fighting, and the strong tinder made a lot of contributions.

Since the Qin State, harsh tinctures have been used throughout the ages. The ignition materials such as sulfur are added to the fierce tinctures used on the battlefield, which are easier to burn than pure oil.

Wherever you touch it, burn it. As long as you touch it, even a little bit, it will be unbearable. Seeing the harsh tinder burning your body bit by bit, it is a torture, and it is so painful that it is endless!

The Tang army's fierce turbulent oil poured onto the ladder and lit it with fire. All the people and the ladders caught fire. Turkic soldiers fell off the ladder and would be burned to death if they were not thrown to death.

The Turkic soldiers rolling down the city jumped around, trying desperately to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but how could they? For a moment, many fire people appeared under the city, jumping around, which was a wonder.

When the first round of offensive collapsed, the Turkic soldiers did not touch the city at all. Without good siege equipment and insufficiently equipped, and were not good at siegeing the city, they would not take the Tang army seriously, and it would be too simple to repel their attack.

Now there is no way out for the Later Turks, and Moju has no way out for the retreat. He can only take down the Suicheng at all costs and drive the Tang army south of the Yellow River. Only then can the Later Turks have a chance to breathe.

The price is not a problem, give as much as you want. Moju remembered what Mochu said to him before leaving: "Moju, this southern expedition is very difficult. The Sui Zhuo City is strong. Even if you have the help of a catapult, it will definitely be a fierce battle. Don't worry about the price being too high. As long as you can win the Sui Zhuo City, even if your 100,000 troops are exhausted, you will make a contribution!"

If Mochu had to pay a price of 100,000 to take the surrender city and kill him, he would not have to do it now.

Mo Ju decided to take the trumpet from his trumpet at any cost and blew it up. This was the order of the attack, and the Turkic soldiers began to attack again, lined up in neat formations, one after another, and rushed to the surrender city in the middle.

Zhang Su, who was standing on the top of the city, saw it, and the Turks were surging like a tide, shocked in his heart: "The Turks are fighting hard! In the past, if the attack was not good, they would retreat, and the next attack would have to wait for the old man. As for today, such a cost-effective thing has not happened yet, why is this?"

Zhang Suo was an excellent general, but not a strategist. He did not understand that Mochu concluded from a strategic perspective that "the Tang Dynasty left no more time for the Post-Turks." Mochu was a battle of the whole country, and Mochu was a desperate attempt.

They have no way out, they can only fight to the death!

Just as Zhang Su was thinking, the Turkic soldiers had already advanced to the range of the crossbow. The Tang army was not polite, and the crossbow arrows shot overwhelmed and harvested the lives of the Turkic soldiers in pieces.

After the Turkic soldiers attacked the city and set up a ladder, the Tang army still had the same rules, rolling wood, pounding stones, and greeting them with hot turbulence. This siege was completely different from the past. In the Turkic camp, the horns were constantly and there was no stop. The Turkic soldiers' attacks were like waves of rising tides, one wave higher than the other. The momentum in front was driven, and the waves behind were coming again.

They did not care about life and death, and they continued to attack the city without considering life and death. The ones in front fell down, and the ones in the back stepped on their corpses to continue to attack the city.

Half an hour later, the tall and majestic city wall dyed the blood red!

One hour later, the ground was dyed red!
Chapter completed!