Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 625 Chapter 643: Burning the Royal Court
Fan Lihua's arrow frightened the Western Turkic army, but in fact she was also shocked by Yang Fan. She knew the power of the arrow just now, and it was definitely not something ordinary people could catch, but Yang Fan actually took it. , and was only knocked back by a foot, which shows how high Yang Fan's martial arts skills are. No wonder he was confident that he would fight him one-on-one just now.

Fan Lihua couldn't help thinking to herself: "It seems that Yang Fan's 13 years of hard training is really effective, but I don't know how his military strategy is. If he is also good at military strategy, then this siege of the city may be a tough battle."

With such thoughts in mind, Fan Lihua turned her horse's head and was about to go back. Just after walking a few feet, she heard Yang Fan shouting from behind: "Come here without indecent assault! Take an arrow from me too!"

Fan Lihua immediately turned her head to look back when she heard the words, and saw Yang Fan bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot towards her.

Fan Lihua frowned, swung the silver gun suddenly, and with a "snap", the arrow was pushed away by her. Although Yang Fan used a strong bow, it was far from the steel tire bow. Moreover, the arrows are also made of wooden poles, which are too light and have limited power.

"Hmph! Sneak attack from behind! Despicable villain!" Fan Lihua snorted coldly, gave Yang Fan a contemptuous look, and then walked away.

Yang Fan was very angry when he heard the words. He clearly reminded him just now, but he was still called a despicable person. If he knew it, he would not have reminded him.

After returning to the camp, Fan Lihua ordered all the guards who shouted to persuade them to surrender to come back, and no longer persuaded them to surrender, and ordered the whole army to prepare for the attack on the city tomorrow. Busy, began to assemble various siege equipment.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the Tang army lined up in a neat formation and advanced towards the royal court. When they arrived at the royal court, they stopped more than two miles away and began to set up catapults there. , a total of 120 catapults.The city rush car was also pushed out, and countless ladders were all ready.

At the same time, Wangting City was also busy, and the Western Turkic army was also making pre-war preparations, rolling stones and rolling logs, bundles of arrows, jars of kerosene... all kinds of defenses... The props are being transported to the city.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Fanli Hualing flag waved, and the siege began. The catapult threw stones first, and the fire was suppressed. Rain, rushing down the city.

It wasn't until this time that Fan Lihua suddenly discovered that the number of defenders at the top of Wangting City was wrong, it was much more than expected. According to her experience in defending the city, the number of defenders in the city definitely exceeded 4.

This is not good news. The siege army is usually at least twice as large as the defending army, so that it can barely fight. However, now the opponent has 6 to [-] troops defending the city, and they only have [-] people attacking the city. She knew how difficult it was, but now that the war had begun, how could she stop it so easily, so she could only fight hard and see the situation first.

Tang Jun quickly rushed to the bottom of the city, set up the ladders and began to climb the city wall, but countless stones and rolling logs kept falling from the top of the city, knocking Tang Jun to this side. It is three feet shorter than the city wall. Don't underestimate the short three feet. At the last moment when you have to climb the city wall, if you are short of three feet, you will not be able to wait for the city. It is simply climbing up to die.

When the messenger came back to deliver the order, Fan Lihua frowned, and immediately ordered the soldiers whose ladders were too short to withdraw, and asked people to push out the bed crossbows to suppress firepower and help others wait for the city.

As soon as the bed crossbow joined the battlefield and cooperated with the catapult, it really had some effect, but although the bed crossbow was powerful, it could not penetrate the battlements. There were too many defenders in the Western Turks, and the Tang army was still unable to attack the city wall. After looking at the city gate for a long time, the passageway of the city gate has been blocked, and it is impossible to break through.

The battle lasted for nearly an hour, and both sides suffered casualties. As the attacking side, the Tang army naturally suffered more heavy losses. Fan Lihua knew that fighting like this would only increase the battle losses, so she immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw.

As soon as the gong sounded, all Tang Junjun retreated, and the Western Turkic army at the head of the city all cheered excitedly. The first battle was fought beautifully, which frustrated Tang Jun, so they naturally wanted to cheer.

After the army was recalled, the war damage was counted. In just a short while, the Tang army lost 8000 people. At the same time, Yang Fan also counted the war damage, and they only lost more than 500 people.

8000 people is not a small number, which made Fan Lihua very distressed. She knew that the fight could not continue like this, otherwise she would be defeated, so she immediately ordered the marching chiefs from all walks of life to have a meeting in the tent of the Chinese army to discuss the strategy of breaking the city. .

That night, Fan Lihua and all the marching chiefs formulated a strategy, and decided to use Li Hao's method of attacking Khan Futu City at the beginning, and set fire to the city. To set fire to the city, naturally they had to use the same magic weapon - oil.

Petroleum is extremely rare in this era, and everyone is not familiar with it, or even what this dark thing is, but Li Hao is no stranger to it, and Li Hao knows that it is a rare treasure.

Although Li Hao doesn't have the technology to mine oil yet, it is still possible to get a few tons of oil, but it's just a little troublesome.In order to help Fan Lihua defeat the Western Turks, Li Hao took great pains, and let Fan Lihua bring all the [-] tons of oil he got.

From the next day, Fan Lihua began to send people to wrap stones with thick cloth, wrap them with iron wire, and make large cloth balls with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters, and then soak these cloth balls in oil to make four to five hundred One, they call it a big fireball, because it's a big fireball when it burns.Then they also filled large jars with oil, hundreds of large jars.

After working for two full days, everything was ready. In the early morning of the third day, Fan Lihua ordered all the trebuchets to be moved forward for more than one mile, which was just outside the range of the Western Turkic soldiers, which made the Western Turkic soldiers at the head of the city very puzzled. , Catapults are used to throw boulders and gravels to deal with the enemy army on the top of the city, but if they are so close, they can only throw stones into the city.

When Yang Fan saw this scene, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and immediately began to estimate the throwing range of Tang Jun's catapults. He vaguely guessed Tang Jun's intentions, and immediately ordered people to move all the people within the throwing range.

Just as the people were moving in the city, a large jar suddenly drew an arc, crossed the top of the city, and landed on the street in the city. Everyone jumped, and when they saw the black liquid, they didn't understand what it was, but they instinctively felt a little creepy.

Immediately afterwards, countless jars flew into the city, some fell on the roof, some fell on the street, and some directly hit people, killing or injuring them. Anyway, no matter where they fell, these jars would shatter, after all It is a sand pottery jar, which is easily broken.

Every broken jar will splash black liquid all over the place. Looking at the scene, Yang Fan seems to have guessed something, and quickly sent people to send orders to stay away from the black liquid. Everyone quickly evacuated the throwing area. Take shelter at the foot of the wall.

Just as the messengers were delivering orders, a big fireball appeared in the sky, dragging a long flame and black smoke, as if dragging a big tail, drawing a beautiful arc, and fell into the city. Immediately after the fireball landed, It was scattered and split, and flames shot everywhere. Since the city is now full of oil, a burst of fire suddenly broke out, whistling, like a dragon raising its head. In just a moment, a small spark has developed into a long fire. The long fire dragon lay across the street and began to devour the houses on both sides. The people around were terrified and screamed, and fled in all directions. Some people ran slowly, and their clothes were burned by the fire, screaming and rolling on the ground.

At the same time, the sky was like a meteor shower. Countless fireballs dragged their long tails, crossed the city and flew into the city. After each fireball landed, a large sea of ​​flames would appear. The Western Turkic army at the city looked up and flew past. Looking at the sea of ​​flames spreading in the city, everyone was dumbfounded, and a sense of powerlessness welled up in their hearts.

"Damn it!" Yang Fan turned his head to look at the fire in the city, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said to himself, "Tang Jun really has a lot of means, I don't know where he got so much black oil."

At this moment, Fan Lihua said coldly, "Siege the city!"

(End of this chapter)