Datang Longya

Chapter 186 Siege
A red pillar of smoke appeared high in the sky. Looking at it from the Gaochang King City, it seemed to fly out of the morning sun, so many passers-by who didn't know it even thought it was a miracle, and immediately fell to their knees and spoke in Western Region dialect. Whispering about something.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who had been waiting in full force for a long time also saw this smoke column. Unlike the passers-by in Gaochang King City, they immediately drew their horizontal swords, and those who carried the siege ladder immediately raised the ladder and waited...

peng!

The cloud piercing arrow in the sky burned up its propellant when it flew above the Gaochang Palace, and the black powder in the front arrow was ignited, making an explosion sound!

"Kill!" The captain of the Pioneer Battalion pointed his spear forward and let out a roar like tearing vocal cords!
Regardless of the sore throat, the captain immediately charged!Although the Vanguard Battalion had the highest casualty rate in the entire army, its contributions were twice, or even several times, that of the others!
"kill!……"

"kill!……"

The entire vanguard battalion roared in unison, and when the voices of the entire 5000 people mixed together, the sound of "kill" turned into the sound of "ah" instead!

The Gaochang soldiers guarding the city hadn't fully opened the city gate. Seeing the troops shouting "kill" appearing in the direction of the rising sun, their liver and gallbladder were broken, their adrenaline was soaring, and they hurriedly closed the city gate. Some of them were a little timid Those who didn't even manage the gates of the city directly ran back to the city to report the news.

As Gaochang King City, there must be a garrison here, and there are a lot of them. If the Dragon Tooth Army was there, Li Jing would definitely try Leng Feng's method of crossing the city wall secretly and switching directly, but the Dragon Tooth Army is not there!
Although the Dragon Scale Army is also elite and equipped with gunpowder weapons, they have not been trained by Leng Feng after all...

Whether it is the army of the Central Plains or the army of the Western Regions, the common weapons are bows and arrows, so when the vanguard battalion just sprinted halfway, countless arrows flew out of the city wall, flooding the vanguard battalion overwhelmingly!
But they were doomed to be disappointed... The equipment of the Vanguard Battalion was the top armor in the entire army. Countless arrows flooded them, but only injured some soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Before the second wave of arrows fell, the Pioneer Battalion was already building ladders and smashing into the city gate with battering rams.

The city wall of Gaochang King City is only eight or nine meters high, so the ladder was successfully built on the city wall.

A Gaochang soldier guarding the city immediately took a thick wooden stick to top the ladder, trying to push the ladder down, but he didn't know that the reason why the Tang army climbed up the city directly with the ladder was because...

"Two points for the fuze, target above the enemy, prepare!"

The Dragon Scale Army led by Li Xiaogong closely followed the Pioneer Battalion, and did not stop until they reached 80 meters outside the city wall. At this distance, they would not be threatened by enemy arrows, nor would they miss the city wall.

The treatment of the Dragon Scale Army was not inferior to that of the Dragon Tooth Army, and they all practiced with real thunder arrows, so when Li Xiaogong gave an order, there was a uniform sound of opening the arrow box, taking the arrow, and cutting the fuze.

Li Xiaogong himself got involved, and after igniting the fuse, Li Xiaogong shouted loudly: "Let it go!"

As a result, a total of one thousand two hundred and one thunderbolt arrows flew towards the city wall!

Why did Li Xiaogong stipulate two points for the fuze, and why did he aim at the top of the city wall?The reason is that he gave up the shock wave damage of Thunderbolt Arrow and maximized the fragment damage!

peng! peng! ………

The fuze is also divided into two points, but the sound of the thunderbolt explosion is not neat, one is that the soldiers shoot arrows not neatly, and the other is that the thunderbolt is a handmade product after all.

After just one round of salvo, countless screams came from Gaochang King City. The effect of this round of salvo definitely surpassed that of ordinary arrows.

What the Pioneer Battalion was waiting for was this opportunity. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were holding the ladder underneath immediately began to climb. The opportunity was fleeting!

Seeing that the Pioneer Battalion had started to climb the ladder from the rear, Li Jing immediately drew out the purple cloud-piercing arrow, ignited it, and shot it out!
The Dragon Scale Army of the Pioneer Battalion is attacking so violently, does that mean they are the main force?Of course, but Li Jing didn't expect the Vanguard Battalion to break through the city gate. What he pressed was the other three routes!

The Longlin Army of the Pioneer Battalion is in a stalemate, and the other three defenders will definitely support them. This time is the best opportunity to attack!

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

The moment the cloud-piercing arrow of purple mist appeared, the other three siege troops roared in unison!
Attack from all directions!Li Jing didn't believe that Gaochang King City could still stand under the attack of all four forces!
In a siege battle, the siege party is always at a disadvantage. When the blood-stained defenders of Gaochang King City began to throw stones down the city, the Tang army inevitably suffered casualties.

After all, a helmet can block arrows, but it cannot withstand the force of a stone.

"Second round! Let it go!"

Li Xiaogong saw the Tang soldiers who hadn't climbed the city wall, and led the Dragon Scale Army to shoot a second wave of lightning arrows!

peng! peng! ………

After another round of volley, Li Xiaogong saw that the battering ram could not hit the city gate, so he pointed his bow at the city wall and said, "Scatter freely! Those who shoot all the lightning arrows, also go to the bottom of the ladder! Such a high city wall, mother!" We can also throw Jinglei up! Separate some people and pile up Jinglei at the city gate to see if we can blow the city gate open!"

Li Jing didn't have a telescope, but he could estimate how the battle situation had developed. He squeezed the green cloud-piercing arrow in his hand, and Li Jing didn't want to shoot it.

But Murphy's Law is so annoying, the more Li Jing doesn't want to shoot this arrow, the faster things will happen!
Yiqi rushed into the camp with flying dust, and the cavalry on the horse shouted before the horse stopped: "Twenty thousand reinforcements from Western Turks have arrived!"

Kicking the stool to pieces, Li Jing ignited the sweat-stained Cloud Piercing Arrow in his hand, and shot it out!

"Green smoke! Marshal! It's green smoke!"

A sharp-eyed soldier of the Dragon Scale Army saw the column of smoke appearing in the air, and immediately reported it to Li Xiaogong.

"Spit!" Li Xiaogong spat fiercely: "I don't know if it is the Gaochang Frontier Army or the Western Turkic reinforcements! Retreat..."

"Change to the big guy!"

What big guy?Earth-level thunder!
A trebuchet is necessary to use the ground-level thunder. Li Jingning had to walk slowly through the desert during the march, so he had to arrange a carriage to carry the dismantled trebuchet. Now, it came in handy!

"Clang clang clang!"

Ming Jin withdrew the troops, and the siege troops on the four routes retreated one after another. This was not a retreat after a defeat, so the retreating soldiers even had time to carry the corpses of their companions back.

This is an order from Li Xiaogong, under the thunder and explosion at the prefectural level, everything will be turned into dust, he doesn't want the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to be affected, even if they have already died in battle!
(End of this chapter)