Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 587 The thunder is heavy and the rain is small
There are more than ten thousand soldiers, boundless. Li Shan has heard this sentence in his previous life. In this life, he has also seen the more than ten thousand Turkic army led by Ashina Sheer outside Guantao City, but he did not know it until today. Words may not be correct.

The three thousand Turkic soldiers yesterday seemed overwhelming to Li Shan, but today, he discovered that this is called overwhelming.

Around the fort, there is only a small distance within the shooting range, and the fort itself is like a small sailboat in the vast ocean. If you look around, you can't see the grass, you can't see the ground, and even the distant You can't even see the sky, which is called piercing the sky.

In sight, there are only the dark Turkic cavalry, and besides the heavy panting of the soldiers, there are only the shouts of the enemy cavalry.

Li Shan tried his best to hold his mind, and did not ask Zhang Shigui, "Can you hold it?" Sufficient, and have the confidence and confidence to hold on to the siege of tens of thousands of troops, but now...

"It's more than [-]?" Xue Wanche, who had been at war with the Turks for many years, couldn't help asking. The number of [-] was said by Li Shan at Yanmen Pass the day before yesterday.

Zhang Shigui hesitated for a while, "It should be more than [-] to [-] people."

Naturally, Li Shan didn't know how to monitor troops, but he did understand that Xue Wanche and Zhang Shigui were famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty, and even they couldn't estimate the number of enemy troops.

"Not necessarily." Zhu Wei comforted: "The tribes in the grassland are counted by tribes. The most are tens of thousands, and the few are only one or two thousand..."

Li Shan burst out two words from his teeth, "Ma Yi."

Zhu Wei suddenly realized that Turkic wanted to attack Hedong, so it was impossible to let Mayi go and only attack Guji Town, so the Turkic army should not only be outside the fortress.

Both Zhang Shigui and Xue Wanche glanced at Li Shan. You swore that the Turks would not attack in advance, but they did. You said that the Turks would not attack the whole country, but they did attack the whole country...

Wang Junhao on the side was thinking in his heart blankly, he didn't know what Su Dingfang who was in Yanmen Pass would think, what Ling Gong who was still in Chang'an would think...

At this time, the guards outside sent a report, and Wen Bang came striding forward.

"Did you come out?" Xue Wanche rushed to ask. In yesterday's battle, more than a thousand enemy troops were beheaded and hundreds of prisoners were captured. After interrogation, he learned that the Turkic upper echelon ordered Li Shan's head to be taken.

Li Shan can understand this, it must be Jieli Khan... But what Li Shan can't understand is that besides beheading Yu Sheshe, he has always only targeted Jieli Khan, and now Tuli Khan is secretly making trouble, There are various tribes outside the country who have different ideas. How could Jieli Khan dare to attack the whole country? Isn't he afraid of something happening?
Today the Turks invaded the country on a large scale, Xue Wanche personally went out of the stronghold and captured a few scouts, only asked about the news that the Turk Khan had also sent troops, and left the rest to Wen Bang for interrogation.

Facing Li Shan, Wen Bang lowered his head and said, "I have already told you that Yugu, the only son of Jieli Khan, was set up in the middle of April via Lingzhou and returned to Wuyuan County in the north. He killed himself in the king's tent yesterday, and Jieli Khan was furious. , all the country came to attack, and each tribe took it for themselves, only asking for..."

Li Shan rubbed his neck, "Just ask for a certain head to sacrifice his son?"

Now Li Shan really regretted it. As early as two months ago when he returned to Chang'an, Ling Jing mentioned that there might be hidden worries about forcing Yuan Junzhang to surrender and beheading Yu Sheshe last year.

The death of Yu Sheshe forced Tuli Khan to blatantly break his face with Jieli Khan early, which triggered Turkic civil strife, but it was also the death of Yu Sheshe, which forced Tuli Khan to send troops together.

Tuli Khan can ignore how Yugu She died, but no matter from which point of view, it is impossible to openly let go of Li Shan who is sworn to Jinlan with him.

Of course, the fuse was Yugu Shi’s death. Although this guy’s reputation is ruined, his status as the only son of Jieli Khan is very important. His suicide gave Jieli Khan an excuse to attack... The mental quality is too bad!
After pondering in his heart for a while, Li Shan sighed, "Han Xin can only endure the humiliation in his crotch, so he can be one of the Three Heroes in the early Han Dynasty. It's really shameless for Yugu to set up this fellow!"

Rao Zhang Shigui has a dignified disposition, and now his mind is mixed, so he couldn't help but glance over... How can you say such words?
Isn't all this made by you?

Li Shan took a deep breath, and suddenly remembered that Yugushe had no suicidal tendencies at all in Chang'an, and he committed suicide after returning to Wuyuan County for so long. It just happened to be such a coincidence that it gave Jieli Khan an excuse to send troops.

If Jieli Khan could invade Hedong, he would be able to win over all the tribes, and maybe there was someone behind him who could completely overwhelm the Tuli Khan who was gradually gaining momentum.

Could it be suicide?
Li Shan is still thinking about these messy things. The Turkic side has already begun to organize an offensive. Guji Town is backed by hills, so there is no worries. There are three walls in the south, east and west. However, the fort itself is not large in scale, and there are no ordinary residents. It is just a military fortress, and it is more convenient to defend.

The troops on the three walls had already been arranged, Zhang Shigui only waved his hand, and with the guards around him delivering orders, he could only stare at the Turkic army in the distance.

Suddenly thought of something, Zhang Shigui turned his head and said in a low voice: "None of the personal guards under the command of the King of Handan will participate in the battle, they are only on standby in the village."

Xue Wanche nodded and said: "If the Turks know that the King of Handan is here, they will definitely attack fiercely and never retreat."

The corner of Li Shan's mouth twitched and he didn't say anything. He really became a disaster star!
But since he had entrusted everything to Zhang Shigui, Li Shan didn't intend to interfere, and went straight down the city wall with his personal guards to observe the battle situation from a slightly higher place.

In fact, I didn’t see too much, and there wasn’t even any intense fighting. The Turkic cavalry approached, trying to suppress the defenders of the city wall with arrow rain, and then drove the infantry to transport ladders to attack the city. The way of the city, the ants are attached.

But the ant attach is also very particular. The ladder is only the most basic method. Other siege methods and equipment are a bit difficult with the capabilities of the grassland tribes today.

This is also the reason why the Turks repeatedly invaded Hedong, but not many cities were lost. At that time, Liu Shirang held on to the new city for more than a month, and it was difficult for the Turks to break through the city. At that time, Jieli Khan also had Gao Kaidao and Yuan Junzhang under his command. These Han warlords did not lack troops with experience in siege.

Seeing the flags flying at the top of the city, a large number of stones and rolling logs poured down, knocking down the infantry who were about to climb up the ladder.

Compared with the arrow method, the soldiers of the Tang army are generally difficult to compare with the Turks, but the crossbow is an exception. This is the most advantageous weapon for the Tang army to defend the city, and it also has the greatest advantage.

Generally speaking, the shooting range of bows and arrows is about sixty to one hundred steps. The riding bows used by Turkic cavalry are horn bows, and the shooting range is slightly shorter, while the Tang crossbow has an effective range of more than 150 steps.

Moreover, shooting on a large scale does not require any precise shooting skills, not to mention that Guji Town is built on the hillside, which is already condescending, and the shooting range of both sides has slightly increased or decreased.

A mass of crossbow arrows shot out from the blackness. Li Shan couldn't see the result of the battle, but he could clearly see the Turkic cavalry fleeing outward.

Zhu Wei tutted his tongue and said, "Fortunately, Da Lang was alert and sent someone to deliver the crossbow arrows in advance."

Li Tang followed the former Sui Dynasty, and the people were not allowed to hide armor, crossbows, and lances. Now that the war is chaotic, other things are easy to talk about, but crossbows are strictly prohibited.

But Li Shan murmured: "Why is it so...the thunder is loud, but the rain is little?"

(End of this chapter)