Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 324 The Battle of the Western Regions Begins
Nowadays, the heaviest armored cavalry is not the steel armor, but the elongated steel spear weighing 27 catties (almost equal to about [-] catties now). With a curved shape, it is similar to the Zhangba Snake Spear.

In addition to the steel spear, the knight is also equipped with a horizontal knife and a small round shield hanging on the left arm. This is to block heavy weapons and protect the head. Let the head be shaken, and it is easy to fall off the horse.

Weapons are made quickly, the only thing is that the armor is really slow. Fortunately, there are enough manpower, and craftsmen guide women to assist, which also speeds up the progress a lot.

Due to the extensive use of steel, steel alloys are also made of two materials with good performance. Aluminum-steel alloys are corrosion-resistant and light in weight. They are the best materials for armor and ships. High-manganese steel has high hardness and good toughness. The war knives are all made of high manganese steel, sharper and tougher than the carefully forged horizontal knives in the past.

Steel crossbows, also made of high manganese steel, can be made immediately without drying the wood. The strings of the crossbow are tanned with animal skin and cotton and hemp. The steel crossbow has a keyboard with pulleys, which can be easily wound by one person.

The steel crossbow is made according to the eight-ox crossbow method, but because of the use of steel, the shooting force is stronger, but it is more convenient than the eight-ox crossbow. You only need one person to hold the trigger, one to deliver the arrow, one to wind the string, and three people to cooperate. can fuck.

The arrows are molded from aluminum, which is easy to make, and the biggest advantage is that after the long arrows made of aluminum are shot out, they are not afraid of being used by the enemy. Because aluminum is soft, it is not as good as a bronze weapon. After hitting the target, it is basically dead. out of shape.

Most of the iron ore mined in Qian'an Iron Mine is iron ore, and other aluminum, manganese, tin, gold, and silver are all available, which provides a lot of convenience for forging.

More than 20 people in western Liaoning have been busy for more than three months, exhausting all the stocks of more than a year ago, making 30 weapons, 80 armors, [-] steel crossbows, [-] crossbow arrows, and [-] ordinary arrows.

There are so many ordinary arrows because almost everyone in Khitan and Turkic knows how to buy them. When the government pays for them, everyone helps and plays a huge role.

Later, there were not enough materials, so the recruited migrant workers were put back to prepare for the autumn harvest. The autumn harvest was approaching, which meant that the war was also approaching. Although the armor in western Liaoning was insufficient, the weapons were sufficient, and they also supported Chang'an with [-] horizontal knives. Li Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

The entire Tang Dynasty is busy preparing not only in Western Liaoning, but also in other places, except that steam engines are not used, and the efficiency is not so high, but manpower is more abundant, and there are many sources of materials. It is only distributed to the garrisons in various places, which seems to be relatively small. Western Liaoning supports [-] horizontal Knives are more precious, and Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, has a lot of money at hand.

After half a year of preparations in the Tang Dynasty, the military rations have been escorted to various borders, and soldiers have also secretly arrived in various places. Now, apart from the guards in various places, there are only 20 troops near Chang'an, ready to support all places at any time.

And the military generals in the court also went to various places to guard the border. The only ones left in the court were Li Jing, Li Jing, the two commanders, and the others were clans such as Chai Shao or veterans.

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Just when the Tang Dynasty was busy with the autumn harvest, great changes had taken place in the Western Regions. The nine surnames of Zhaowu formed a 3 coalition army.

Although it is said that the Tang Dynasty has strengthened the prevention of disasters in various places, it did not expect to have so many enemies in order to focus on the Western Regions.

Fortunately, Su Dingfang has always been cautious and found the enemy in advance. After a hard fight, he left more than 600 corpses, and the remaining more than 2000 people were exhausted and broke through.

Immediately afterwards, Gaochang sent [-] troops to attack Yanqi. King Long Tuqizhi of Yanqi was shocked and called [-] soldiers from all over the country to defend to the death.

Su Dingfang fled to the country of Xiqiele. Xiqiele originally had only more than 2000 people and was controlled by Datang. Cheng Chuliang led 200 soldiers to garrison here. In addition to the original [-] guards, the young and strong Datang merchants could form Thousand Guards.

Although Xiqiele is not big, at least there is a city defense. Su Dingfang intends to use the city defense to wait for support.

At the same time, Su Dingfang not only sent an urgent report to Cheng Chuliang, but also sent a letter to another occupied place to rob the country.

Jieguo is a smaller country with a population of just over 1000 and more than 100 soldiers. The so-called city is nothing more than an earthen city, which is used as a backup location. This is why Su Dingfang did not retreat to Jieguo.

On September 25th of the fifth year of Zhenguan, on the fifth day of Gaochang's attack on Yanqi, Yuchi Baolin led [-] elite soldiers, and [-] cavalry composed of family generals and young merchants attacked the Gaochang camp at night.

In the first battle, 3000 people in Gaochang were destroyed, and [-] were captured. Qu Wentai's younger brother, Qu Wenyong, died in battle and relieved the siege of Yanqi city. Zhuang, the warriors of Yingzang, and Yanqi supported [-] people, and a total of [-] people went to support the starry night.

The nine surnames of Zhaowu are now headed by Kang Guo, plus Anguo, Cao Guo against the chariot master, Qiuci, and Shi Guo with the weak Mi, He, Shi, Mu, and Bi, and the five surnames surround Xiqiele.

Although the city of Xiqiele was not big, it was already very strong after more than two years of construction by Cheng Chuliang.

Although there is no stone to build the city in the Western Regions, it is different with the technology of the Tang Dynasty. Outside the original earth wall, a layer of bricks and stones mixed with cement is used to build a layer, which is not only smooth but also firm.

It is also because of this that the Allied Forces of the Five Nations had no choice but to let Su Dingfang and Cheng Chuliang hold out for five days with more than 3000 people. At the end, he promised a big reward and threatened everyone in the city to help deliver supplies and rescue the wounded. With military doctors, this allowed many minor injuries to be treated.

"General Su! No more arrows!" Taking advantage of the rare rest time, Cheng Chumo, whose armor was covered in dark red dried blood, walked to Su Dingfang's side with a knife in his hand and said wearily.

"How many brothers are there who can fight?" Su Dingfang also looked tired, leaning against the city wall, frowning and asked.

"One thousand are still intact, five hundred are slightly injured, but now there are no arrows, I am afraid it will be difficult to last for two days, and there is still a lot of food." Cheng Chuliang replied softly.

"Distribute some food to the people in the city, collect all the oil and wine that can be burned, and if necessary, a certain family will come and burn it all." Su Dingfang's eyes were fixed, and he said firmly.

"Little brother, let's do it now!" Cheng Chuliang nodded vigorously and said.

"Second brother Cheng!" Su Dingfang stopped Cheng Chuliang who turned to leave.

"Brother Su, what else is there?" Cheng Chuliang asked suspiciously.

"If the city is broken, you have to find a way to break out." Su Dingfang walked over and grabbed Cheng Chuliang's shoulder, staring at his face and said seriously.

(End of this chapter)