Tang Taizong is my elder brother

Chapter 61
The Sui army defending the city lit the gas-death wind lamp, and then the shooting soldiers lit the arrows tied with pine oil with the lamps, aimed and fired, and shot the rockets on the siege vehicles.

The distance from the wooden wall to the castle was less than 50 meters. The Turkic people hid behind the siege vehicles, followed by the cover of the bunker, and kept dismantling the obstacles set along the way.

It wasn't until the flames completely ignited the car that a few flaming people rushed out from behind, but they were immediately targeted by the Sui archers who had been waiting for a long time and shot dead on the spot.

The two sides are constantly burning cars, and they are constantly confronting new cars.

The two sides also played hide-and-seek. Changsheng saw a Turkic man rushing out suddenly while the Sui army was firing, ran wildly, and hid behind another car.

But an arrow flew right through his thigh, and he fell to the ground in pain, struggling to lie behind the bunker, but was immediately nailed to the ground by the whistling arrow, and he twitched a few times before not moving.

After fighting for a whole morning, the Turks exhausted all their siege vehicles, finally broke through the first line of defense, and reached 30 meters in front of the bunker.

Tall watchtowers were also slowly built.

Changsheng could see the face of the enemy, and at this time she missed the artillery that was being developed in the distant camp.

Chen Ping saw that Changsheng was staring at the opponent's observation tower in a daze, so he came over to comfort him and said, "It's okay, it doesn't matter if the opponent shoots from there, I've prepared for it."

As he said that, a row of archers and auxiliary soldiers holding shields came up. The auxiliary soldiers held their shields to block the front, and the archers shot coldly at the watchtower from the gap.

It was obvious that the Turks took advantage of the shooting. They used cover to shoot down from a high place. In order to protect the archers behind, the auxiliary soldiers on the city wall had to act as human targets to block the front. Several people had already been shot down. landed.

During the confrontation, the distance between the two sides was slowly approaching, using the watchtower to divert a lot of attention.

The Turks pushed the siege vehicles and ladders and slowly approached the city wall, which also meant that the real hand-to-hand combat was coming.

Looking at the enemies coming to the city like a tide, Chen Ping gave an order, and the soldiers unsheathed their swords one after another, ready to attack the enemies coming up.

In an instant, Changsheng felt the ground vibrate, and then there was a low impact sound!
The enemy's rushing car began to hit the door!

Under the high tower in the city, an officer is offering practice wine to dozens of dead soldiers in a phalanx. They are going to go out of the city to destroy the enemy's siege equipment.

This also means that dozens of lives are basically gone forever. Because of the guest army, this job falls to the Dunhuang defenders.

When ready, Chen Ping gave an order, and the officers and soldiers on both sides of the city gate poured hot boiling water and hot oil at the same time, and then there were stones and rolling logs all over the sky!
Last but not least is the archer's cover design.

With this set of combined punches, the enemy's offensive in front of the door was stagnant.

The officer who secretly stretched out his head to observe hurriedly gestured to the people below, and the door burst open, and the Sui army inside roared like a [-]-meter sprinter and galloped out.

In an instant, they fought with each other and became a group. The Turks were caught off guard, and the siege troops at the gate were repelled far away.

The soldiers guarding the gate tried their best to close the two gates. Changsheng watched the commando's back slowly disappear from sight.

The flag on the tower kept shaking, as if announcing that the attack was going well.

The soldiers on the wall beside the city gate were no longer as flustered as before, and their attacks became calm and orderly.

Like hot knives cutting through butter, this group of soldiers cut a big hole in the center of the enemy army.

More siege weapons were burned, and the Turkic vanguard was forced back tens of meters by the fierce offensive.But Changsheng knew that this was only the first wave of attack, not far behind the Turks, the second wave of offensive was accompanied by more siege weapons and people ready to go.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the chilling vibration sounded again.

So the same scene in front of the door appeared again: a group of people who were at home drinking farewell wine...

Chang Sheng finally understood that Chen Ping's tactic was to use people to pile up. As long as the gate was not breached, a solid city wall could stop the enemy's attack.

Originally, this was a good tactic, using small troops to contain, attract the enemy's firepower, delay the time of frontal confrontation, and try to use long-range shooting to consume the enemy, so as to obtain a good exchange ratio.

But this tactic has a huge hidden danger: the number of defenders is limited.

Therefore, Chen Ping only dared to let the opponents gather in front of the gate and start attacking the gate before ordering to go out of the city to attack, just like the People's Liberation Army with few bullets in later generations wanted to put the enemy in and beat them for reason.

This inevitably brought more sacrifices. Looking at the backs of one by one, Changsheng knew that the closed door behind them would never be opened to them again.

The first day of attack ended before dusk.

The Turks have lost more than half of the siege equipment they worked so hard to get from fifty miles away.

Several attacks failed under the frenzied counterattack of the Sui army. This kind of fearless spirit exceeded their expectations.

Although the results of the first day were gratifying, Changsheng was not optimistic about the battle situation.The enemy didn't hurt his bones. In his opinion, shooting can't kill these bastards.

If it's still like this tomorrow, in case it's her team's turn to serve as the Death Squad, can she accept this reality?
Fortunately, this answer did not appear, and the sky was drizzling the next day when we played chess.

The Turks stopped attacking temporarily, and the bow strings of the bows and arrows would be greatly affected in the wet weather, and the vision would be blurred, which was very detrimental to both sides.

But the defenders had a geographical advantage.

The experienced Chen Ping asked everyone to carefully remove the bowstring, store it in a dry place, and take it out when the weather is fine.

The Turks used this time to convert damaged siege weapons into ladders.

Chang Sheng feels that there are definitely craftsmen who understand equipment in the opponent's camp.

……

The matter that Changsheng cared about finally appeared. After the fierce battle of the first three days, the defenders of Dunhuang began to be stretched.

Changsheng knew that her Longevity Army was about to appear.

Sure enough, on the morning of the fourth day, Chen Ping pointed in the direction of the south gate on the tower and said: "It seems that the enemy's army is weaker there, and there is Mr. Lao, please send three hundred soldiers out of the south gate to destroy the enemy's offensive over there." .I'm covering you from the front."

After Changsheng took the order, he called Qin Qiong and asked him to leave the city with a group of troops.

Chen Ping had never seen the strength of the Longevity Army. From the previous battle reports, he knew that they had confronted the Turks twice, but both of them failed. To be honest, he had no idea.

Changsheng knew that his subordinates were different from the past, but after all, it was the first time to confront each other head-on, so he was unavoidably nervous.

For a while, the atmosphere in the city was a little dignified.

However, in less than a quarter of an hour, a message came from the semaphore on the city wall: Qin Qiong's small team won a big victory!The enemy retreats temporarily!

Chen Ping heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and praised: "Sure enough, the strong general has no weak soldiers under his command. You deserve a credit for repelling the enemy so quickly!"

After finishing speaking, he said: "However, it is not appropriate to pursue deeply, let the brothers come back!"

Changsheng nodded in agreement.

Chen Ping decisively ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

The south gate opened, and Qin Qiong came back with 300 men at the first horse. These soldiers sat on the ground panting after running back without riding their horses.

Only Qin Qiong was alone, with two heads hanging on the pier, galloping over on his horse.

When he came close to Chen Ping and Changsheng, he dismounted from his horse and said, "This is Qin Qiong, the commander of the Changsheng camp of Duke Guo of Tang." As he spoke, he inserted a flag stuck behind his back into the ground in front of him, and hung two heads on it: "A certain soldier captured one side of the military flag and beheaded two enemy officers!"

Since then, Qin Qiong and the first battalion commander have taken turns to attack, and every time they come back, they have gained:
The second time is two big flags.

The third time was the heads of three enemies rolling around under Changsheng's feet.

The fourth time is a big banner, beheading a person...

Before nightfall, Qin Qiong had already become a well-known hero in the south of the city. Every time he shouted: "Someone is Qin Qiong, the commander of the Longevity Battalion of Duke Guo of Tang" and rode his horse triumphantly, the surrounding defenders and soldiers would all be shocked. There was a thunderous applause.

Everyone on the city wall applauded him except Changsheng.

"It's just the commander, he's such a strong general, it's like the second master Guan is reborn..." Chen Ping, who was full of surprises, finally couldn't help but said to Chang Sheng.

As soon as I said it, I realized that it was inappropriate to say it. If you praise the other party's subordinates in front of others, is this trying to poach people?

Fortunately, Changsheng didn't seem to care, but Hong Antong behind him had already stared at Chen Ping with wide eyes. Chen Ping knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he smiled awkwardly and stopped talking.

That night, the Turkic people burned the abandoned siege equipment and retreated ten miles to set up camp.

The brave Qin Qiong made the enemy realize that Dunhuang could not be defeated with such crude siege weapons.

They need more powerful siege equipment, and they must concentrate their attacks instead of dividing their forces.

At the small celebration banquet held in the city that night, Chen Ping and the Changsheng people were seated according to their former residences.

The scene was harmonious at the beginning, but after drinking for three rounds, Chen Ping never took his eyes off Qin Qiong again.

Everyone was so excited that all the sergeants on both sides performed martial arts. After watching a few times, Qin Qiong finally couldn't help it, and jumped out and said that he would perform a performance for everyone.

Chen Ping was overjoyed, and quickly asked someone to move out a trained straw man, on which three white circles were drawn on the throat, heart and lower yin.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

Qin Qiong first fired three shots in a row, piercing the center of the circle and piercing the straw man.

All the generals present knew that their level was far from reaching this level, and they were all shocked.

Chen Ping came down with a glass of wine to watch the straw man come, Qin Qiong looked at Chang Sheng, seeing her smile at him, she was also happy, feeling that this made the little father-in-law a lot of face.

After looking at the straw man, Chen Ping said three times: "Okay!"

Admiringly asked: "How did you find such a hero, little father-in-law?"

Changsheng briefly talked about Qin Qiong's origin, and didn't mention that Qin Qiong refused to accept the management and attacked without authorization after he came, nor did he mention his usual arrogance and arrogance.

Changsheng has always been tolerant of talented people.

After all, Chen Ping was a young man. After getting drunk, he finally couldn't help but said, "I, Chen Ping, would like to exchange a thousand armors and two hundred good horses for Commander Qin. Is the young master willing to part with them?"

This is actually very impolite, it is a direct face-to-face poaching, Qin Qiong is Changsheng's confidant and love general, it is absolutely impossible to exchange, but the other party's words do not give her room to refuse.

"Why don't you add [-] pieces of weapons and give them to the young master?" Chen Ping gritted his teeth and said, if the [-] pieces of weapons were placed on the black market at the border, the coconut milk would cost thousands of taels of silver, and Chen Ping loved it very much. Qin Qiong, so she spent all her money.

"It's not some kind of goods, so how can it be exchanged?"

Before Changsheng could speak, Qin Qiong said displeasedly, and when he said this, everyone's faces became ugly.

Although it was Chen Ping who was rude first, but you are so rude, it is too disrespectful to the master.

Chang Sheng hurriedly shouted, "Commander Qin, step down!"

Qin Qiong curled her lips and stepped aside. After all, it was the two bosses who were talking, so it was logically impossible for him to intervene.

Just as Changsheng was about to explain a few sentences, Chen Ping said with a smile: "My little lord, I, Chen Ping, have never begged for favors in my life, and now I can only congratulate my little lord when I see Brother Qin as a loyal subordinate who protects the lord. Already!"

Changsheng hurriedly exposed the donkey, "If you don't dare to be the one, you just have to be the one." After complimenting each other, Changsheng asked Qin Qiong to accompany Chen Ping to apologize.

Chen Ping gulped it all down, and said with a little regret: "Such bravery, and made great achievements in battle, why don't you ask the Holy One to give your brother an official title?"

"When the time comes, the lord will ask me to be an officer." Qin Qiong interrupted again.

Chang Sheng frowned and scolded: "So many good dishes can't stop your mouth, back down."

Qin Qiong pouted and backed away silently.

Seeing this, Chen Ping was secretly startled, it was the first time he had seen this kind of unbreakable loyalty.

Changsheng hurriedly dragged Chen Ping to continue drinking.

It's not that Qin Qiong doesn't know that his rebellious personality is not pleasing in the army, but he is like this when he urinates. He always says whatever comes to mind, and he dares to blatantly contradict his superiors.But Changsheng didn't seem to care about it at ordinary times, at most he yelled "shut up" twice.

Qin Qiong also knew that his wild temper could not be tolerated elsewhere. If he changed to Shangfeng, he would either be suffocated to death by the management, or be dealt with by military law.He felt that although Changsheng was young, he really understood what he was thinking in his heart and was willing to discuss it with him, without the airs of a rich and powerful kid.

Originally, he was a free-spirited person, but after several failures and long-term collective life, he fell in love with this place, so he didn't want to leave from the very beginning.

After the banquet, Changsheng found Qin Qiong: "Do you know where your biggest problem is?"

Changsheng came straight to the topic.

Qin Qiong lowered her head and said, "This subordinate loves to talk, but this subordinate is really..."

"It's not this." Chang Sheng interrupted him and said, "If you don't realize the real problem, even if you have made military exploits, I will not promote you to be an official!"

"Why is this, my subordinates don't know!" Qin Qiong said with his eyes wide open, his tone a little annoyed.

"Isn't it you who killed the most generals and captured the flag today?"

"That's right!" Qin Qiong replied loudly.

"That's exactly why I won't recommend you!"

(End of this chapter)