Great Tang princess

When the sun was setting, it was time for dinner in the barracks.

In the command office, high-level military officers and the emperor are eating here while discussing the next strategy.

During the war, dinner was very different from usual.

Dinner on weekdays is basically porridge with steamed buns, which is relatively lighter.

However, in order to ensure the nutrition and mental state of the soldiers during the battle, the dinner will also be quite rich.

It's just that for the soldiers who are used to eating light dinners, this kind of rich dinner can't eat much.

Li Shouli was holding a bowl of soup, drinking it while looking at the sand table.The Tubo also has secret guard intelligence personnel, with their blueprints, coupled with the superb craftsmanship of the craftsmen, the live-action sand table of Luosuo City has been completed last year.

Compared with the soup in Li Shouli's hand, Xie Chujiu, an officer from Qingdao's Kongtu Company, wrapped scallions dipped in sauce in a pancake, and discussed strategic issues with his deputy in a low voice while eating.

Wu Zetian, the emperor, is much lighter, with preserved egg and lean pork porridge with fresh cold bamboo shoots.

The method of this thing was first taught to them by Li Yuechen, and it soon became popular in the palace and military camps.

But now there has been a trend of gradually becoming popular among the people.

Looking at these young military officers from all over the world, Wu Zetian couldn't help thinking that the young people trained under the new education system of her daughter might really have the power to change the world.

By the time dinner was over, the sun had almost set.

Li Shouli clapped his hands lightly: "Okay, the plan is settled here, and we will send people to persuade us to surrender early tomorrow. Also, we must make a good patrol and protection plan tonight to prevent the enemy from attacking at night."

The other officers agreed one after another.

The peaceful night passed quickly, and the enemy did not launch a night attack, nor did they even send out scouts for reconnaissance.

After breakfast, Li Shouli gave the order: "Get up a hot air balloon and send people to persuade them to surrender, and investigate the situation on the city wall by the way."

After the order was issued, the air assault force quickly let the hot air balloon take off, and at the same time carried an officer who could speak Tibetan, holding a big copper horn, ready to persuade them to surrender.

After being ignited, the hot air balloon began to take off slowly, but just after rising to a height of less than ten meters, the scout on the gondola lowered his binoculars, lowered his head and shouted: "There are a large number of bed crossbows on the city wall, all of them are If the elevation angle is upward, it is likely to have a certain air defense capability."

Li Shouli in the office lightly raised his hand and stroked the not-so-thick beard on his chin: "The order will be carried out as usual, provide them with parachutes, and ask them to find a way to seduce them to see if they can test the maximum range of this crossbow." .”

"Yes!" The orderly agreed, and immediately turned around and went out to deliver the order.

"In addition, ask someone to measure the wind direction and wind speed to see if there are conditions for using air strike arrows."

The air strike arrow was invented by Li Yuechen many years ago, and it has not been used on the battlefield until now.

This thing is a little shorter than normal crossbow bolts, but with bigger arrows.

The main way to use it is to drop it from a high altitude, and let the gravity pull it down, which is a kind of kinetic energy weapon.

But to use this kind of thing, the premise is to judge the wind speed and wind direction, otherwise, the accuracy head will not know where it is.

An officer next to him agreed and turned to do it.

But Wu Zetian turned his head curiously: "There is no bronze sparrow here, how can the wind speed be determined?"

The so-called Bronze Sparrow was invented in the Han Dynasty, a thing that can be used to measure wind speed and direction.

The official name of this thing should be Xiangfengwu, but because most of it is made of copper, it is also called copper phoenix.

It is generally used to be installed on the roof of some buildings, the base is live, and the tail of this copper phoenix is ​​a bit like the movable tail on an airplane.

In windy weather, the bird's head will point in the direction of the wind, and if the wind is too strong, it will rotate completely.

This is what is on top of the Vientiane Shrine in the Eastern Capital today.

One of the tasks of Qin Tianjian is to observe its state and record the wind direction and speed.

Li Yuechen smiled slightly and said: "Aniang, don't underestimate them. Classics and History Collection may not be their strong point, but in terms of science, they are much better than those court ministers."

Today's Wu Zetian can understand the word science, nodded slightly and said: "This is what Chen'er often said about specialization in science."

Not long after, the officer who had just left came back and handed Li Shouli a piece of paper: "My lord, according to calculations, the conditions for using air strike arrows are now met."

Li Shouli took it over and took a look: "Go and make preparations first. Of course, if persuading surrender is useful, that would be great."

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On the other side, as the hot air balloon slowly rose into the sky and gradually approached Luosuo City, the soldiers on the city wall discovered the lonely hot air balloon.

Qiangba, who was in charge of the work, immediately came to the city wall after receiving the news.

Looking at the hot air balloon in the sky, he frowned for a while, lost in thought.

The guard next to him asked, "General, do you want to launch the bed crossbow?"

But Qiangba shook his head: "There is only this one. It is obviously intended to test the range of our military bed crossbow. If it is fired here, it will be fooled."

He nodded slightly to show that he understood, and turned his head together with him, looking at the lonely hot air balloon in the sky, while thinking about the other party's purpose in his heart.

But the next moment, he saw the hot air balloon flying straight towards the direction of Luosuo City.

It seems that they saw that they did not launch the bed crossbow, and they became more and more courageous.

Finally, it hovered at a height of about ten feet above the city wall of Luosuo, and then heard a Tubo language shouting in the hanging basket: "You have no way to retreat, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, and you can avoid the suffering of swordsmen. If you persist in your obsession, my mighty division of the Great Zhou will launch an attack... If someone is willing to surrender, just abandon their troops and unarmor, walk out of the city gate, and guarantee that there will be no danger of their lives..."

Hearing the shout on the balloon, Qiangba frowned tightly.

Originally, after the last battle, the morale of the Tubo army was low. If he was allowed to shout like this, the soldiers here would be the first to launch a rebellion before the enemy launched an attack.

In desperation, Qiangba had no choice but to order: "Shoot it down!"

Although he knew that doing so would expose his bottom line, he didn't dare to let the enemy continue to shout.

The soldiers got the order and immediately began to move the bed crossbow, aiming at the hot air balloon in the sky.

However, this hot air balloon is an unpowered aircraft. It cannot hover in the air stably like a future helicopter. It can only sway back and forth continuously up and down.

This also brought great difficulties to the aiming of the bed crossbow.

This kind of large-scale equipment is inherently unstable, and when used to hit moving targets, the accuracy rate is even lower.

The soldiers on the hot air balloon naturally noticed the situation on the city wall, and they were ready to increase the flames and lift off at any time.

Now they are no more than ten feet away from the city wall. It is impossible to parachute at this height and there is no time to open it.

Therefore, it is necessary to rise quickly when the opponent fires the crossbow. Even if the hot air balloon is poked a hole, it can continue to fly for a period of time, enough for them to escape within the range of the enemy.

After aiming for a few minutes, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly fired crossbow arrows.

With a sound of "嗖——", a huge crossbow arrow was launched into the sky.

Feeling a black shadow brushing past their heads, the soldiers on the hot air balloon couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

In a sense, the Tubo soldiers shot very accurately...but unfortunately, they missed the target.

This crossbow arrow passed between the hanging basket and the hot air balloon without encountering any obstacles in the middle.

It is because of this that the army on the continent got the data of this crossbow.

In the frontline command office, Li Shouli listened to the report of his subordinates: "My lord, according to our calculations just now, the enemy's bed crossbows are fired into the sky, with a maximum range of more than 45 feet."

"Be on the safe side, let's count at fifty feet!" Li Shouli stroked the beard on his chin, "Let the hot air balloon go up and start attacking!"

"Yes!" The orderly gave a "snap", saluted neatly, turned around and went out to convey the order.

After a while, a compact and powerful snare drum sounded: "Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

After hearing the sound of the drum, the officers of Xie Chujiu and other air assault troops who had already prepared, immediately shouted: "Take off! Attack!"

The soldiers in the hot air balloon immediately added carbon to the iron furnace, and the soldiers who had already prepared inside also began to crazily trample on the fans under their feet.

The flame starts to burn, madly filling the inside of the balloon with heated air.

The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time were fully armed one by one, and turned over neatly into the hanging basket.

The infantry units next to them also quickly and neatly organized their queues, and the logistics engineering and medical units were also ready at the same time, ready to go.

A quarter of an hour later, a large number of hot air balloons began to take off slowly, laying like bubbles in the background of the blue sky.

Now that we have obtained accurate data, these hot air balloons will first rise to a height of more than [-] feet in the camp before moving in the direction of Luosuo City.

In this way, the enemy's bed crossbow is basically useless.

A large number of hot air balloons were launched into the sky, and the enemy could naturally see them. The figures on the walls of Luosuo City kept flickering, and it was obvious that they had discovered the situation here.

The moving speed of the hot air balloon is not very fast, but it is not slow. It only took about two quarters of an hour to reach the front of Luosuo City.

"Bed crossbow! Quickly fire the bed crossbow!"

Seeing the hot air balloon that almost occupied the entire field of vision, Qiangba yelled like crazy.

These Tubo soldiers suppressed the fear in their hearts, and fired the bed crossbow at the hot air balloon in the sky.

However, in the face of the hot air balloon that had already exceeded its range, the fired crossbow arrows had already fallen down one after another before they touched the hanging basket.

"General! It's too high, I can't shoot it!" The orderly relayed the situation to Qiangba anxiously.

At this moment, Qiangba has fallen into a state of sluggishness, his eyes wide open, looking at the hot air balloon in the sky, and constantly muttering to himself: "If you can't shoot, what should you do? If you can't shoot, what should you do... "

However, the soldiers in the hot air balloon didn't care about his state, after most of the hot air balloons reached the southeast direction above the city wall.

The soldiers in the hot air balloon pulled the ropes in their hands one after another, and the air strike arrows tied outside the basket in advance scattered instantly. Under the pull of gravity, the arrows pointed downward and continued to accelerate downward.

After adjusting the wind direction, these arrows landed on the city wall like a violent storm.

The voice of "Tuk Tuk Tuk..." kept ringing, and the various watchtowers on the city wall were directly hit by the rain of arrows.

Followed by those Tubo soldiers on the city wall, their heavy armor couldn't resist such damage at all, and many of them were directly tied into hedgehogs in an instant.

Qiangba, who was in a sluggish state, didn't even react, and was pierced through the Tianling Cap by an arrow falling from the sky, and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

And the other Tubo soldiers tried to escape in a panic, which made the people who had lost their command even more chaotic.

Some arrows directly hit the tight bowstring of the bed crossbow, and the broken bowstring bounced off in an instant, cutting the neck of the soldier next to him in half.

Many more people were pierced through their helmets by arrows falling from the sky before they had time to run down the city wall, and fell powerlessly to the ground.

In less than 1 minute, the entire enemy army on the front of the city wall was wiped out.

The officer on the hot air balloon who saw this scene immediately issued an order: "Prepare to descend, occupy the city wall, and open the city gate!"

Some of the hot air balloons lowered their altitude, and then the ropes were thrown from the basket, and the soldiers slipped quickly from the ropes wearing thick animal leather gloves.

Luosuo city is not small, but the front wall was quickly occupied.

Then the soldiers worked together in a division of labor while holding the crossbow and aiming at the enemy troops who might be coming from the other sides, and turning the winch on the other side to gradually lower the city gate.

After the news reached the command office, Li Shouli suddenly proposed, "Would grandma go to the city with the army?"

Wu Zetian raised his head curiously: "Shouldn't you be the one who captured the Tubo emperor and presented it to me?"

"Not to mention, A Niang finally came here, why not go to the Red Mountain Palace to have a look." Li Yuechen suggested, "This is a war to destroy the country. In the future, these Tubo people will become the people of the Great Zhou, so A Niang might as well take advantage of the situation here Show your face..."

"Since Chen'er said so, let's go in and have a look." Wu Zetian immediately agreed.

She was not a timid person, but she just went in to have a look. She really dared to enter the capital of the enemy country.

Now that the emperor said so, Li Shouli immediately ordered the logistics troops to assemble a walking chariot.

This kind of thing is also used in training on weekdays, mainly for medical troops to carry the wounded.

If it is used to carry the emperor, it should be bigger at most.Anyway, they are all modular parts, and there is no difficulty in assembling them.

Li Shouli waved his hand: "Order! The special forces and the hot air balloons will cooperate with me to occupy the main street of Luosuo City! After the saint's walk enters, it must not be obstructed in the slightest! Before the deadline, the main street should be completely cleared to ensure that the saint's walk It can go directly to Hongshan Palace!"