Tibet

Chapter 257 Darkness Chen Cang
At one o'clock, [-] Tang troops crossed the Zhenzhu River and approached the city. The two sides of the Juzhanti River were full of Tang soldiers, each with a torch in their hand.

The soldiers of the Tocharian Legion in the city were also on standby. They were mainly distributed on both sides of the city wall and on both sides of the river in the city. Troops were deployed at the entrances of the north and south rivers, and [-] soldiers were deployed.

In addition, [-] soldiers were deployed on several other city walls. This is mainly a kind of alert deployment. Once the enemy is found to attack the city wall, an alarm will be issued, and the soldiers of the Great Food Army in the city will evacuate in time.

The chief general Eguri stood at the top of the city and watched every move of the Tang army. Hundreds of medium-sized leather rafts were put into the river, and the soldiers began to line up to board the rafts. It was obvious that his judgment was correct. In the weak defense of the river, they entered the city on a raft.

"Archers ready!" Eguri yelled.

Nearly [-] defenders, armed with bows and arrows, are ready for battle.

In the southwest corner of Juzhanti City, there is a forest not far away. The forest covers a large area and stretches for more than ten miles. Li Ye led his three hundred soldiers to lurk in this forest.

There are also defenders patrolling back and forth on the top of the city, more of a formal patrol, just for show, since they have already determined that the Tang army will come from the river, they will naturally not work hard on the defense of the top of the city.

Therefore, there is not a single patrolling soldier in the southwest corner. This is a typical formal defense. It looks serious, but it is actually full of loopholes.

With a light wave of Li Ye's hand, he led thirty of his men towards the city wall, and quickly reached the bottom of the city. The soldiers were all standing close to the city. The height of the building was a matter of ten seconds to him, and in just a moment, he climbed to the top of the city.

Li Ye looked carefully, and he could see soldiers patrolling on the western city wall, but they were at least two miles away from him, and the patrolling soldiers on the north city wall were at least one mile away from him.

He put the rope ladder on the battlements on the west wall and threw it down, and his soldiers immediately climbed up the rope ladder.

Li Ye took off the long spear from his back and jumped onto the top of the wall. He didn't disturb the enemy, and squatted down directly against the top of the wall. The patrolling soldiers in the distance couldn't see him at all.

At this time, 250 of his subordinates continued to go to the city one after another, and followed Li Ye to squat against the wall, trying to buy time for the soldiers behind him. [-] of his subordinates rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the city wall together. Gather under the five-hanging siege rope ladder and start climbing up quickly.

Pei Xiu was the first to come up, followed by dozens of his subordinates, and Li Ye led fifty of his subordinates to the north gate.

There are a hundred soldiers of the Great Food Army above the north city gate. There is an organ to open the city gate here, so there must be defenders here. Li Ye led his men to run to the top of the city gate. When they were [-] steps away, the opponent finally realized something was wrong. , Shouted: "There is an enemy!"

Li Ye shouted, "Fire the arrow!"

Fifty soldiers fired arrows together, and the arrows rained like rain. The defenders were caught off guard and were shot down by the arrows one after another.

Li Ye shouted loudly, and led his men to kill them. More than [-] Dashi soldiers saw that there were not many people on the other side, so they also fought and killed them. Li Ye was like a tiger in a herd of sheep. Flying up and down, the heads of the enemy soldiers rolled, and the place where they passed was bloody.

There is also a broken city at the head of the northern city. There are three hundred soldiers at the broken city, holding bows and arrows, ready to guard against the Tang army entering the city from the northern river.

Although the main force of the Tang army was assembled outside the southern city, the general Eguri was also afraid that the Tang army would sneak into the city from the north, so he also deployed hundreds of soldiers to the north.

The fierce battle above the north city gate alarmed three hundred crossbowmen, and they immediately sounded the alarm.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!" It means that Tang Jun attacked from the north.

Eguri led thousands of soldiers who were waiting impatiently. Although more than [-] people from the Tang army got on the rafts, they refused to set off for a long time, which made the Dashi soldiers wait very anxiously.

At this moment, a rapid alarm bell sounded from the direction of Beicheng, and Eguri was taken aback. He immediately realized that he had been fooled.

Tang Jun came from the north, and he shouted: "All assemble and mount your horses, ready to break out of the city!"

Now that they knew about going to the city, the Tang army was just putting on a show when they rode rafts outside the city. It was impossible for them to force their way into the city from the river.

Eguri regretted deeply in his heart. He knew that he should not be brave, and retreating in time was the right choice.

Three thousand and five hundred troops got on their horses and charged towards the north city gate
At this time, Li Ye's subordinates had arrived, had wiped out all the soldiers in the northern city, opened the city gate, and Li Siye, who was waiting outside the city, led [-] Mo Daomen into the city, forming a wall of swords , Waiting coldly for the enemy to come forward.

Meanwhile, Li Ye was leading two hundred soldiers to fight fiercely with the three hundred enemy troops guarding the breach. The enemy soldiers were killed and their bodies piled up. The last dozens of soldiers had to jump from the top of the city into the river below.

Under the city, Eguri led [-] cavalry to the north gate, just in time to encounter the Tang army's Modao formation. This was the first time they encountered the Modao army, and they didn't know how powerful this army was.

Eguri turned his head and saw that the gate of the south city had been opened, tens of thousands of Tang troops entered the city, the situation was critical, Eguri shouted anxiously: "Kill a bloody road, rush out!"

He took the lead and stabbed at Li Siye with his spear. Li Siye shouted loudly and slashed with the Mo Dao in his hand like lightning. The force was astonishing. He immediately split Eguri and his horse into two pieces, and the hundreds of others who followed him The food soldiers were unable to dodge in time, and were chopped into pieces by the activated Mo Dao array. Every soldier was chopped at least two or three times.

The most ruthless thing about Mo Dao is that it has a long blade and is extremely sharp. If it is cut down, the body will inevitably be divided into two parts. Either the waist will be cut off, or the head will be split in half, or the neck and hands will be broken. The dead will never be whole. The corpse was extremely bloody.

After three rounds of impact, none of the soldiers of the Modao Army fell down. Instead, nearly [-] Dashi soldiers were chopped into pieces. There was a pungent smell of blood and a disgusting stench of viscera.

But for the soldiers of the Modao Army, this has long been commonplace, and they don't take it seriously at all. The Dashi cavalry was scared out of their wits and ran back desperately, but the cavalry behind them were also blocked by the soldiers of the Tang Army from Nancheng. They had no way out at all. escape.

Many Dashi Tocharian cavalrymen were so frightened that they lost control of their bowels and bladders. They cried out in despair when they saw the long swordsman from hell approaching them.

But it was useless to cry and beg for mercy. The Tang army's heavy armored infantry Modao flew flying, killing the enemy cavalry with flesh and blood, like cutting wheat, pieces of enemy troops were chopped into pieces by the Modao formation.

Standing on the top of the city, Li Ye silently watched the most powerful army in the world, and he secretly made up his mind that he must make this army his subordinate and work for him.

Gao Xianzhi issued an order to kill all prisoners of war if he did not accept them.

There were shouts of killing everywhere in the city. Tang Jun couldn't tell the difference between civilians and enemy soldiers, but all young men who appeared on the street were killed.

Half an hour later, the shouts of killing gradually stopped, and all the Dashi Tucharian army in the city were wiped out, and even ordinary people were killed by hundreds of people.

The next thing is to deal with the corpse and deal with the aftermath. The so-called aftermath is to collect money. This is what Gao Xianzhi criticizes. Although he doesn't give all of it to himself, he also distributes part of it to the soldiers, but after all, most of the money comes from the city. The folks scraped and looted.

This is also the Anxi food chain. At the top is the powerful Tang army, and below are the various Hu countries. In the eyes of the Anxi Tang army, these weak Hu countries are like ants, allowing them to bully, crush or slaughter them.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, the reason why the Han army or Tang army coerced all directions was also related to this hegemonic thinking. All small countries were afraid of the powerful military power of the Celestial Dynasty, so they had to send princes as hostages, and all nations had to come to court.

At this moment, a soldier came running to Li Ye and said, "General Gao, please go over to General Li!"

(End of this chapter)