Princess Consort of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 143 Siege
This is really a big mouth for the lion, and there is really no room for negotiation, and there is not much room for bargaining.

Black heart silently sips.

Provide him with siege equipment, ten heads are not enough to cut off.

But Mochuo represents Turkic, and as an outsider, it can play a great role now.

Song Yan was very calm, had served in the army, and assisted Wu Sansi in dealing with many important government affairs, he was not at all flustered in front of Mo Chuu.

"Khan can think about it again. I haven't completed the mission of the prime minister, and I don't have a good job, so I will stay with Khan and advise you?"

If you stay, you can talk slowly, he believes that Mo Chuai will definitely compromise.

Mo Chuai nodded in agreement, Song Yan was calm and composed, and his intentions were not harmful to him.

The siege requires three times the strength of the city, and the life of the Turkic warrior cannot come to fill the hole here, he will never attack the city.

Of course, Song Yan also knew that he would never attack the city.

Wu Sansi's sincerity is obviously not enough.

In Wu Sansi's view, the Turks came here to harass the border, invade the weak points of the army, and hit a nail. He would definitely not reject his friendship, but he still underestimated the greed of Mo Chuai.

Running water has always been cut off, not poisoned.Because the water flows from the top to the small, from the inland to the sea, it is moving.The amount of water is huge, and the poison will be slowly diluted.It may even endanger yourself, for example, the hunted game has just drank water, and there will be endless troubles.

Therefore, Zhang Yang's actions also have a great impact on the battle situation.

Once Zhaozhou's water source is connected, both morale and physical strength in the city will definitely improve a lot.

Li Quan received news of the Turkic attack on the camp at night, and hesitated whether to go out of the city to support him, but in the end, his trust in Zhang Yang and his responsibility to the people of Zhaozhou made him decide to close the city and stay out.Soon, he heard the ecstatic voice of his subordinates, telling him that the water was flowing.

Zhaozhou City announced the arrival of reinforcements by beating gongs and drums, and soon the army and the people were united.

On the second day, Mo Chuan led the warriors to Zhaozhou River to call for battle.

Zhang Yang spread traps around the camp, ignored the insults from the Turks, and the soldiers focused on training.

The pitfalls are obvious and complex.

Behind the camp is water, and on the left are various traps, hunting traps, bamboo spears, and horse pits.Thousands of troops and horses filled the pit, and I am afraid that they can pass through. I really don't know if this group of people stayed up all night, doing trap work.

A trench has been dug on the right side, water is introduced into the pit, and the open space in the middle is divided into pieces, covered with iron nails and broken blades, densely packed on the ground.

There is only a path for one person to pass in front of the camp.

The camp was surrounded by mounds of one meter high, like the walls of a dwarf country.

There are many soldiers with bows and arrows standing behind the one-meter-high soil circle.

Zhang Yang trapped his troops in a place with their backs against the water. Although it looked safe, if there were trebuchets, they would be easily surrounded and wiped out, and there was no need to enter the camp at all.After a long time, they could not get supplies by land.

Mo Chuai ordered people to hold shields to clear the trap, and at the same time called in the siege heavy weapon catapult, intending to teach the people inside a lesson.

The catapults began to attack the camp crazily, and the screams of "ahhhhhhh" came from time to time, which made the Turkic people feel happy.

However, the number of people with bows has not decreased, and the speed of clearing the traps is very slow, and there are sneak attacks from time to time.

Mo Chuo also wanted to surround himself with an earthen wall. It would be more convenient if he brought a wall to set up traps.

The catapult threw a lot of stones into Zhang Yang's camp, and the soldiers changed wave after wave, but still did not know the result of the battle.If the trebuchet caused them serious trouble, shouldn't they break out?

Silence is still waiting to see how they get through the trap they set up.

The soldiers who lined up the traps were on fire. If they used shields to form a line for the horses to pass through, there would be no need to clear these traps.

As for the filling, those sharpshooters in all directions will not give them this chance.

Regardless of the Zhou Dynasty or the Turks, iron is an important wealth of a country, and the use of shields to pave a road must be consulted with the Khan.

Covering his face, Song Yan also looked at Tucheng in front of him.He fought blindly all morning, and he didn't know how many people were killed. Could it be an empty city plan?

Mo Chuai didn't want to know, he was very distressed to use these iron shields to pave the way, the shields would be damaged.But thinking about being able to kill the commander-in-chief of the brave army, it is still acceptable.

"Dazhou man, what's your opinion?"

Song Yan shook his head respectfully. "Earth walls and tents prevent prying eyes and block sight. We don't even know how many people are inside, so we can't venture in."

"Cowardly." The Turkic general began to complain crazily. It was good luck to have someone from Dazhou beside him and be able to get angry with him.

Taunting him, as if taunting the entire Great Zhou, let the Turkic general regain a little sense of self-confidence.

Mo Chuai's soldiers began to pave the road with planks and shields to widen the route into the base.

The soldiers walked carefully through the trenches, step by step, and the planks were erected to pave the way.

Reach the second trap block.

The wooden board is put down, and the whole trap block is directly under the tower, so he has to fill it up to pass?

How can those Zhou people set up traps so fast!
The Turkic soldiers set up a trap, and then retreated cautiously.

The trap on the right is a nine-square grid with nine times as long. In each row, one or two grids are always collapsed, and the road cannot continue. It is water.

The Turkic soldiers responsible for clearing the way were in a terrible mood.

Zhang Yang just used current engineering principles to simply set up some traps.

The traditional trap on the left is more deterrent to Turkic soldiers, and the trap design on the right is inspired by a narrow escape game.

It's just that there is no gunpowder yet, and the effect of trampling and bombing cannot be triggered, so iron nails and blades are used instead.

It is absolutely not advisable to expect to cover iron sheets with wooden boards and build bridges to lay roads.

If the already soft soil is pressed up by gravity, it will inevitably collapse towards the already soft place, unless the Turkic people give up their horses and walk over.

There seems to be only one line of earthen walls in the city, but it is actually more complicated.

If you can enter it silently, you will find that even if the trebuchet can cross the earth wall and tent and enter the inner ring, it will be difficult to cause damage to the training army.

At this time, the training army was huddled in the pergola made of iron shields for training.

The pergola covers half of the center area. If there are not two gaps in the middle for lighting, it would be a square turtle shell.

Except for the use of wood at the joints, all other places are standard iron shields in blocks.Use wooden tenons to connect, and then use the triangular principle to strengthen the wooden structure, and then put iron shields on the outside and inside of the pergola like tiles.

At this time, the training ground is a real steel training ground, which is indestructible.

The stone hit on it only deepened the firmness of the tenon and caused a little noise.

On the contrary, people who hide behind the earthen wall are much more dangerous.

The weapons of this era are very backward in Zhang Yang's view. Fights are all based on slashing. Although the trebuchet has strength, it cannot penetrate the iron block.Using the skills handed down by Lu Ban is enough to defend the land that is backed by natural dangers.

What a coincidence, there are workers who are proficient in carpentry in the barracks, and many Turkic soldiers were captured last night. There is no shortage of manpower, just use his mind to design traps.


(End of this chapter)