Jieli took a deep breath of the dry and cold air on the grassland, and there was a trace of moisture in the air.
This is a sign that spring is coming, so finish this battle quickly.
It is a serious matter to return to the grassland with the spoils of war and let the cattle and sheep that have endured the winter gain fat.
Five miles away in front is Lanzhou City with a big flag with the character "Li".
Even now Jie Li still can't understand that Li Shimin, a famous general of his generation, would actually make such a mistake.
He personally led 20,000 soldiers into Liangzhou, surrounded by the desolate Gobi.
Jie Li easily severed the connection between Li Er and his subordinates.
There were originally eight thousand soldiers in Liangzhou City.
Counting Li Er's 20,000 people, there are only 30,000 people.
Behind him are 200,000 grassland coalition troops.
As long as this Tang Dynasty general Tiance is killed, the northwest Tang army will be greatly frightened.
Victory will be within easy reach, at least there will be no problem in overthrowing Longyou.
Jie Li never considered Lanzhou City's broken city wall, which was only three feet high, to be a problem.
With a wave of the horse whip in his hand, tens of thousands of soldiers from various tribes began to charge with shouts.
They carried ladders and pushed carts.
Countless infantry archers and cavalry followed behind, and the infantry archers moved up diagonally to achieve invincibility and began to project.
The horse archer urges the war horse and throws the arrow out when the horse's speed reaches the extreme.
Such arrow can fly very far.
The number of arrows was so large that the sky darkened for a moment.
Jieli was very satisfied with the density of the arrows.
Under such coverage, Lanzhou City must have suffered heavy casualties.
His invincible grassland army will conquer the city.
In future battles, carrying Li Er's head will definitely demoralize the Tang army.
Hou Junji, who had already become a general, was now hiding behind his shield like a captain.
There was no way not to do this.
Li Er was sitting in the tower behind him.
The prince himself was on the front line, and as a general he could only squat on the city wall like a soldier to resist the Turks' arrows.
The shield made "bang" and "bang" sounds, and Hou Junji felt his arm tremble every time it rang.
The Turks are worthy of being good at riding and shooting.
The strength of this arrow alone can reach the level of an ordinary captain in the Tang Army.
Hou Junji, who was bored, unexpectedly found a small iron plate behind the shield with the words "Made in Lintong" written on it.
The aimless shooting will continue until the Turkic army reaches the city.
When there were no more "bang" and "bang" sounds from the shield, Hou Junji immediately jumped up.
Five or six soldiers came over and raised a knocking pole.
After shouting a slogan, they overturned the ladder that had just been erected on the city wall.
The Turkic soldiers who had already put their hands on the top of the city wall screamed and fell down.
Before they could take a breath, several soldiers covered them with large shields.
The sound of jingling on the shield is endless The moment the siege started, countless blood and screams flew up.
Li Er stood on the tower, his cheek muscles as hard as a stone.
No matter what, we must persist here for five days.
After five days, various Tang army units will launch attacks on Lanzhou from all directions.
The tired Turks will be hit as never before.
Whether you can win this battle depends on whether you can survive these five days.
"Boom" Li Er felt the city wall under his feet shake, and then he saw dust in the side hall of the city tower.
"Trebuchet" Master Sheng Yan roared, his eyes as wide as copper bells.
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Then there was a huge roar from the city wall, and Li Er's pupils shrank.
There was a wall stack more than ten steps away, and several soldiers were smashed into the air.
Hou Junji trembled with fright.
The soldier who was knocked away fell on him and slapped him on the arrow stack.
My chest felt tight, and there seemed to be countless flies flying in front of my eyes.
His ears were ringing, his mouth and nose were salty, and there was blood everywhere on his body.
He didn't know whether it was someone else's or his own.
"Your Highness," Master Sheng Yan said eagerly.
We can no longer hide the secret of gunpowder, otherwise the walls of Lanzhou City will be smashed down before the afternoon.
Two hundred thousand people poured in, so there was nothing to say.
"Blow up those trebuchets," Li Er ordered with a livid face.
He did not expect that the Turks also had trebuchets.
It must have been made by those craftsmen captured from Hebei.
The grassland people did not have such craftsmanship.
As soon as Li Er's order was given, the eight-niu crossbow arrows with sparks shot out.
There was a rumble in the distance, and a dozen trebuchets turned into a pile of broken fragments in an instant.
The soldiers operating the trebuchets suffered heavy losses.
Jie Li's pupils shrank, they indeed brought firearms.
And it seemed to be more powerful than before.
I had experienced the power of this thing under Shuofang City, but now I heard the explosion, and my heart still trembled unconsciously.
"Uncle, they have gunpowder," Tuli exclaimed.
"I'm not deaf, continue to attack the city."
Jieli roared, and Tuli immediately lost his voice.
He was really afraid of this uncle.
If he disobeyed in the slightest, he would be chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs like other members of the Ashina family.
Throughout the morning's siege, no more explosions were heard.
Jie Li felt a little relieved.
The Tang army had such powerful things, but it was a pity that there were not many of them.
Looking at the thick smoke on the Lanzhou city wall and the half-burnt tower, it would take less than three days to capture it.
Li Shimin, wait for Ben Khan’s butcher knife A wine glass made from the head of a prince of the Tang Dynasty should be very valuable.
Hou Junji was fed two mouthfuls of water by his own soldiers and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Next to him lay a corpse that hadn't had time to restrain itself.
The sternum was exposed and half of the head was missing.
Perhaps it was an illusion, but Hou Junji found that his hands and feet could still twitch a few times unconsciously.
The Turks blew the horns, three long and two short, which were the signal for the Turks to evacuate.
Hou Junji breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw the Turks retreating like the sea.
From the bottom of the city wall to the farthest range of the crossbow.
There were many Turkic corpses scattered around, a conservative estimate of more than a thousand.
In less than a morning, more than a thousand people were killed.
Hou Junji felt that the results were pretty good.
The shouts of the Lieutenant Colonel came from the distance: "The first team is forming a team, the second team is forming a team, the third team is forming a team, get ready for the count.
There are still several days to be beaten with rods."
"How many casualties have our brothers suffered?"
Hou Junji asked his lieutenant.
"I just saw it.
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More than thirty people died.
Three times that number were injured.
A dozen of them were seriously injured.
It is estimated that they will not survive for a few days."
He looked at the corpses under the city and then thought about his own casualties.
Hou Junji felt that he had the ability to make the Turks shed their last drop of blood under Lanzhou City.
When it was time to count again in the evening, Hou Junji lost confidence.
His three teams suffered 30% casualties.
Although more Turks fell under the city wall, Hou Junji just couldn't be happy.
Life and death are ordinary things, but Hou Junji really wanted to say this.
When he first entered the army, the veteran said this.
At that time, the veteran did not say it impassionedly, he just said it very plainly, as if he was saying I have already eaten.
Just as bland.
Hou Junji couldn't stand up, and behind him was Li Er.
His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Empire, General Tiance.
If something goes wrong, the lives of the whole family will not be enough to cover it.
After thinking about it, Hou Junji came to the tower with lingering smoke.
Li Er was sitting on the tiger-skin chair.
Although half of the tower had been burned down, Li Er was still sitting on it with a calm expression.
Looking at the lingering smoke, a bite of green onion pancake and a bite of porridge tasted delicious.
"Your Highness, please give some firearms to the brothers.
We lost nearly 2,000 people in battle today."
"Two thousand people.
This time I brought 20,000 people here.
Calculated this time, I can survive for ten days."
Li Er heard Hou Junji's battle damage report, and after a brief calculation, he shouted like a night owl. laughter.
Years of fighting have made Li Er's heart extremely hard.
For him, casualties are just a number.
Two thousand people were lost in one day, and exactly 20,000 were lost in ten days.
But after ten days, Jieli should have no strength to continue attacking the city.
"But Your Highness, if something goes wrong with your safety, your subordinates will really be responsible for it," Hou Junji said with some worry.
"You can't escape the blame.
From the moment the war started on this city wall, people will continue to die.
When all the soldiers are dead, the lieutenants will fill in.
When the lieutenants are all dead, you will fill in.
Wait until you are dead too. , Just go and fill it in."
Li Er's words left Hou Junji speechless.
Is this the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, or a desperate gambler?
On the third day of the siege, the pile of corpses under the city wall was already half as high as the city wall.
The entire city tower was burned by rockets, leaving only ruins.
Li Er hid in the tower and lost the calmness of the previous two days.
He was as cold as a turtle, and two lines of clear mucus flowed out of his nostrils.
The stars came out, but the Turks in the distance did not leave.
Looking at the bonfires dotted outside the city, they seemed to reach the horizon.
I didn’t know how many enemies there were.
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The first ones to attack were the Tuyuhun people.
These people are very good.
To deal with it, as long as the leading general is killed, they will collapse.
The Xueyantuo people came up next.
They were very strong.
They rushed up with their upper bodies bare, and their chests were all covered with black hair.
The necks of these guys were so thick that even a sharp horizontal knife could not remove their heads with one blow.
If he came down, he might get the blade stuck.
This is how his most ferocious team member died.
He was a very powerful veteran.
He just paused and his head was shattered by the flail of Xue Yantuo's soldier.
The scimitars of the nine surnamed Zhaowu were very powerful.
Today, most of the people died under the scimitars, and the wounds were all on the joints and throats that could not be protected by armor.
"Your Highness, send some gunpowder shells to the brothers," Hou Junji said with a cry in his voice.
The battle damage reported by the Lieutenant Commander of the Central Military Academy just now almost drove him crazy.
The Turks were really desperate.
On several occasions, more than a dozen people rushed to the crenel.
Hou Junji personally led the people and pushed them down with a steel knife.
"Well, one pill per person, save some money."
Li Er said with a cold face.
He knew that Hou Junji was not in a hurry.
I will never come to ask for help.
After listening to Li Er's words, Master Sheng Yan immediately took Hou Junji to get the gunpowder bullets.
He has asked for a fight several times, but has not received Li Er's permission.
The Turks seemed to have the idea of filling up the city wall with corpses, and Jieli went crazy.
Li Shimin, who is absolutely opposite him, should also have reached his limit.
As long as he adds more strength, he can drink with Li Shimin's head.
There were piles of corpses under the city wall, especially in front of the city gate.
The thick wooden city gate is covered with marks of knife and axe, and more than half of the corpses lying on the ground were scalded to death by hot oil or gold juice.
Because the cloth was sprinkled with a lot of gold juice, the entire city gate stunk.
"Uncle, I have an idea."
Tu Li suddenly said.
"Say" Jieli took a sip of strong wine, and the irritability in his heart burned like a raging fire.
He opened his mouth and took a bite on the neck of the maid next to him, and Tu Li saw blood flowing down.
The maid didn't dare to shout, her eyes were full of fear and tears.
"There are the most corpses in the city gate cave.
We might as well send people to light the corpses at night.
I got some kerosene from the Tang Dynasty.
I just need to pour it on the corpses.
The preservation water can't be poured out.
As long as the human oil burns out, This fire can burn the city gate.
At that time, we only need to break through the city gate to rush in. " "You got the Tang Dynasty fire oil" Jieli's eyes suddenly lit up
"I bought it with a lot of money from the General of the Tang Dynasty.
There are only three barrels."
Tu Li shrank back unconsciously.
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"Okay, let's do it.
I'll burn it tonight.
I want to see how powerful Datang's kerosene is."
Jie Li laughed wildly.
More than a dozen black figures sneaked out of the camp, and soon blue flames ignited inside the gate of Lanzhou City.
Almost in an instant, the blue flames suddenly surged by ten feet.
The fire that soared into the sky caused the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty on the city wall to become a mess.
The fire quickly ignited the bodies in front of the city gate, leaving nothing but the smell of burnt flesh.
Bodies were also burning in the distance, human oil sizzling from the fire.
The crows that were eating flew away with their "croak" and "croak" calls.
Jie Li looked at the fire and laughed wildly.
In order to attract the attention of the Tang army on the city wall, the Turks launched a night attack.
Countless Turks rushed towards the Lanzhou city wall carrying ladders just like during the day.
Hou Junji fired a crossbow arrow, lit a gunpowder bomb and threw it down before he could wind it up.
With an explosion, a human arm flew up.
This new type of gunpowder bomb is much more powerful than before.
The black powder bullets of the past were not so powerful.
Explosions came one after another, and the soldiers threw out their only gunpowder bomb almost immediately.
If you kill one more Turk, you can live longer.
Amidst countless explosions, the Turks fled in all directions.
They were very afraid of this powerful weapon, and even Jie Li's face in the distance twitched twice.
It seemed that the Tang army was really pushed into a panic, and they all started to use gunpowder bombs.
Hou Junji felt very happy, as he only needed to load some more gunpowder bombs tomorrow.
Being able to survive this most difficult day and leaving Lanzhou City alive is more important than anything else.
While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the Turks let out a huge cheer.
Just when he didn't understand what was going on, the lieutenant of the Central Military Academy came running over in a hurry.
"General, it's bad, the city gate has been burned through
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