Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 340 Battle Nine

The four of them were all wearing military uniforms of the Tang Dynasty, so they naturally had a way of identifying their own people. After interrogation, Li Xiaogong asked them why they entered the city.

"Report to the supervisor! The younger ones came in batches and reported the same thing. General Yuchi has already rushed to the vicinity with his army, and will launch a surprise attack tomorrow. Please cooperate with the supervisor.

If the chief steward receives the news, he will light nine piles of torches on the east wall, three piles each, so that the general and the others can see it. "One of the four said, and then the four took out four secret letters from the seams of their clothes.

Naturally only the generals could understand the secret letter, so Li Xiaogong took the letter and asked the others to go down, and went into the room to check it himself. After checking, he called Niu Jinda to discuss.

"Lao Niu's reinforcements have arrived. Tomorrow, when Tubo is attacking the city, they will raid their main force and ask us to cooperate." Taking advantage of the time when Niu Jin arrived, Li Xiaogong had already followed the instructions in the secret letter. It turned out that the secret letter required nine piles of fire to be formed A row, which is different from what the messenger said.

Seeing Niu Jinda arrive, Li Xiaogong let out a rare sigh of relief and said that he was indeed too tired to defend the city with high intensity for more than ten days, and he didn't have a good rest. Both of them were unshaven and had no time to take care of them. Bloodshot.

"Okay! It's finally here, these bastards have kept Yeye from getting a good night's sleep for a long time, so I have to teach them a lesson.

How do we cooperate?Yeah yeah, you must vent your anger well. When Niu Jinda heard this, his ugly face suddenly grinned.

"Just wait for a surprise attack outside the city, and then go out of the city to drag the other three Tibetans, so that they cannot rescue the main force in front." Li Xiaogong pointed to the map on the table and introduced.

"In this way, wouldn't it be possible to let go a lot?" Niu Jinda said with an unhappy face. He is also a veteran, and he understood how to do this plan as soon as he heard it. It is nothing more than using superior forces to destroy the main force of the enemy and force other enemies Surrender or flee.

"Hmph! What else do you want? The reinforcements here are all government soldiers, and the soldiers and horses trained by Nanyang are not elite at all. The cavalry is only five thousand." Li Xiaogong rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"It's a pity, if there are [-] more cavalry, it will be difficult for these gangsters to escape back." Niu Jinda said, slurring his mouth and wiping his ungroomed beard with his hand.

"There are still [-] cavalry in the city. Tomorrow, Lao Niu, you will lead the coordinated front. The other three sides will be the most east side. The old man will personally lead people to hold them back. The other two sides are just a feint attack, and some people will guard them." Li Xiaogong arranged.

Niu Jinda also knew that he was the most suitable person to lead the cavalry now, so he didn't shirk it and agreed.

The two then discussed some details and the deployment of troops. They didn't go to rest until it was settled and there were no problems.

This night in Songzhou City was also spent in harassment, but the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had become accustomed to it, the guards who should be guarded, those who should rest blocked their ears and continued to sleep.

Early the next morning, the Tubo army began to prepare to attack the city again. In fact, they had already seen the dawn of victory. In the past two days, the defense of Songzhou City had dropped significantly, and there were not many arrows shot. It is estimated that Datang will have no arrows to release for at most two days, and there will not be enough manpower to defend the city. After all, Songzhou only has [-] soldiers. After more than ten days of attack, at least [-] people will be killed or injured. Young and strong, there are not many left who can fight, and their condition will not be very good.

Gar Dongzan's non-stop attack was also worried about the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty. The sentries had been sent out for dozens of miles, but fortunately, no abnormalities were found, including the nearest city.

"Kill!" Gar Dongzan did a good job in ideological work. For the sake of wealth, all the tribes in Tubo ordered their subordinates to attack endlessly for the sake of making huge sacrifices and not getting rewarded.

Moreover, Tubo is located on a plateau, fighting against the sky and nature all the year round, and the people are tough. The difficult environment has created a strong physique for the Tubo people. In terms of single-handed combat effectiveness, they are better than the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty Soldiers have better equipment and good cooperation. The two sides can be said to be almost the same.

Fortunately, one is attacking the city, and the other is defending the city. This is how tens of thousands of people can defend 30 people from attacking.

As for the arrows, Songzhou originally had a lot of them, but they were consumed by the desperate [-] Gui slaves, harassed day and night, and also consumed by false attacks. If he didn't know that there were reinforcements, Li Xiaogong might have considered retreating.

Tubo originally had 20 elites, and there were [-] to [-] casualties in the siege for many days. Fortunately, Gar Dongzan's headquarters had very few casualties, which is why he is confident in continuing to attack.

More than [-] people fought endlessly around Songzhou, the sound of killing was loud, and the beasts and birds in the vicinity of ten miles had already been scared away.

"Swipe! Swipe! Swipe!" A rain of arrows suddenly fell on Gar Dongzan's main formation.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Many soldiers on horseback screamed and fell off their horses, awakening Gar Dongzan who was paying attention to the battle ahead.

Gar Dongzan was taken aback, and looked back in a hurry, only to find that a large group of troops appeared behind him at some point. The frontmost ones had already set up their formations and were slowly advancing. appeared in the forest.

Gar Dongzan was startled and furious. He didn't expect to deploy so many sentries, but he was still touched behind by Tang. Launch a charge against the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. After all, the Tang Dynasty has just lined up. If everyone shows up and arranges the formation, the situation will be irreversible.

The distance between the two sides was not far, and the bows and arrows had already fallen on Tubo's head. This required turning the horse's head, and the whole process would take time. Datang's archers were still firing arrows, causing more Tubo cavalry to fall from their horses.

Ignoring the need to organize the formation, Gar Dongzan yelled at the cavalry to charge, and rushed to the front, so that the archers could not take care of shooting wantonly.

Cheng Mingzhen, Xue Wanshu and other generals were numerous, some were directing the formation, and some were yelling loudly to speed up the shooting.

The formation listed by Datang is the shield wall long spear formation. This kind of shield was improved by Feng Daiwen. It can be combined to form a shield wall. When placed on the ground, it can be supported by long sticks behind it. The middle sticks out to form a gun forest, like a hedgehog.

I have to admit that the elite group of Gar Dongzan is really extraordinary. Although there is no formation, and they are all made of simple leather armor, they still attack desperately. The knight on horseback jumped up from the horse, raised the scimitar in his hand and slashed down fiercely, regardless of the spear piercing his body.

(End of this chapter)