Tibet

Chapter 280 Decisive Battle in the City ([-])

At night, the coach Gao Xianzhi brought a group of generals to the Talas River. The width of the Talas River is about [-] feet. The turbulence makes it impossible to cross the river directly, so a pontoon bridge must be used.

"This time, the cannibals are coming very aggressively. What are your thoughts and countermeasures?" Gao Xianzhi asked the crowd.

Li Siye smiled and said: "Soldiers come to block, water comes to flood the earth, how did we defeat him last time, this time it will be the same!"

Cheng Qianli smiled slightly and said: "General Li is right in principle. There is only a real hard fight. There is no tricky way, but there may be room for discussion in terms of tactics."

Gao Xianzhi smiled and said, "What good idea does Mr. Cheng have?"

Cheng Qianli said indifferently: "Actually, there is no good way. Either it is Tian Ji's horse racing strategy. The above is against the other, the middle is against the bottom, and the bottom is against the top. But the key is to know yourself and the enemy."

Gao Xianzhi sighed and said, "That's right, knowing yourself and your enemy is the key, but now we know ourselves but don't know each other, and the other party is the same."

Gao Xianzhi glanced at Li Ye, and then asked, "What do you think of Li Ye?"

Li Ye pondered for a moment and said, "Reporting to Commander, we actually still had some advantages that we hadn't brought into play in the last battle."

"What advantage?"

"We have at least two advantages. The first is our crossbow. I tested it with the opponent's shield last night. The opponent's shield is relatively thin, the wood is relatively loose, and it is only covered with a layer of cowhide. The biggest advantage of this shield is lightness.

So on the battlefield, they all hold a shield in one hand and a spear in the other. The horned crossbows we used for the first time in battle, their shields can withstand the penetration of the horned crossbows, but the humble staff changed to the crossbows for experiments, and the shot Heavy arrows can easily pierce the opponent's shield and at the same time penetrate their leather armor. "

Gao Xianzhi nodded, "What about the second advantage?"

"The second advantage is kerosene. We still have [-] barrels of kerosene we got from Pulling Khan. It's a pity that we don't use them!"

"Will the fire oil have the effect of killing the enemy?" Cheng Qianli asked with a smile.

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "The biggest effect of kerosene is not to kill the enemy, but to disturb the enemy. I believe that the enemy commander will never think that we use kerosene. Once a large amount of kerosene is burned, the main force of the enemy will definitely be in chaos." Pull back for a while, and then we'll have a chance."

Cheng Qianli smiled and said to Gao Xianzhi: "General Xiao Li's fire oil strategy is very reasonable!"

Gao Xianzhi nodded, and then asked Li Ye, "Then how can we take advantage of kerosene?"

"Humble job to consider several plans, and give humble job a little more time, and humble job will report in detail!"

Gao Xianzhi pondered for a while and said, "The enemy army has already reached eighty miles away, and the day after tomorrow at the latest, a big battle will break out. I hope to get a report on your plan early tomorrow morning!"

While the Tang army was discussing how to deal with the big food army, about [-] miles away from Talas City, [-] big food troops were also camping by the same river. West, and finally flowed into the medicine-killing water.

The food army did not carry tents, and the soldiers lay down and rested on the spot, with only a blanket wrapped around them.

The sky is full of stars, under the starlight, densely packed soldiers are sleeping on the sandy ground by the river, and thousands of patrols are standing around. camp.

Inside a tent in the big camp, the lights are bright.

More than a dozen high-level generals of the Great Food Army are also discussing strategies to deal with the Tang army.

Undoubtedly, the Tang Army's heavy armored infantry was most feared by the Dashi Army. The opponent's two thousand heavy armored infantry was the root cause of their disastrous defeat in the last battle. They must find the opponent's weakness and kill the opponent's heavy armored infantry.

The heavy armored infantry of the Tang Army is also the focus of everyone's discussion on the military situation tonight.

Ziad said slowly: "We can't shoot through each other with bows and arrows, but what about heavy blows? They will definitely not be able to withstand them. The lowly position should first consider throwing spears, and secondly consider using heavy hammer soldiers. You should not use cavalry to deal with them!"

Abu Muslim nodded, "This army is the nemesis of cavalry, so we also use infantry to deal with it. We have [-] heavy hammer army infantry, which can be deployed. As for throwing spears, I don't think the effect will be too obvious. They are Fight in line, not in groups, so you only get one chance."

Ziad said with a smile: "One chance is enough. When the cavalry approach them, throwing spears at once can kill at least seven or eight hundred of them. The key is to seize the opportunity!"

Abu Muslim pondered for a moment: "Let three thousand spear-throwing cavalry be in the back row. When they are close to the heavy armored infantry, they will speed up and throw spears. This opportunity must be seized. The remaining more than 1000 Tang army heavy armored With five thousand heavy hammer soldiers, as long as we get rid of these two thousand heavy armor soldiers, with our strength superiority, we will surely win this battle!"

Two days later, the Dashi Army and the Tang Army met again on the banks of the Talas River, almost at the same position in the last battle. The Tang Army was short of troops, and all [-] slightly injured soldiers went into battle.

King Murdo of Bahana sent the last 8000 cavalry, bringing the number of Bahana's cavalry to 9000. The Bahana's cavalry and Suiye Tang army totaled [-], all led by Li Ye.

But Li Ye's [-] cavalry were not in the team, and Bai Xiaode led [-] cavalry to pretend to be the left wing, under the banner of Li Ye.

Li Ye's cavalry ambushed a few miles to the west. Once his first plan of arson was successful, he would immediately lead his troops out and cut off the retreat of the attacking enemy army.

Li Ye also made a bet that the momentum and effect produced by the burning of 35 catties of fire oil would definitely make the head coach of Dashi Muslim feel horrified and retreat.

Then his chance came.

Except for the absence of Li Ye on the left wing, everything else is normal. The right wing is Cheng Qianli's 5000 Beiting Army, and Gao Xian leads [-] people as the Chinese Army.

In addition, on the other side of the Taros River, the [-] Tocharian coalition troops also went into battle. This is also one of Li Ye's plans. Put the battlefield on the Taros River and use the river to block it. The weaker Tocharian army can also fight. When they went into battle, they were mainly crossbow troops and catapults, and eighteen large catapults pushed towards the river.

At the front of the Tang army are no longer six thousand crossbowmen, but two thousand strong crossbow soldiers. These two thousand soldiers are all tall and powerful. They use kicking crossbows and heavy arrows. One is to lie on the ground, arch the back with your feet, and pull the bowstring with your hands. The other way is to stand and pull the string with your feet on the back of the arch, and pull the string upwards with both hands.

But no matter which method is used, it requires the cooperation of leg strength, waist strength and arm strength.

The second is heavy arrows. The arrows are two feet and eight inches long. The arrowheads are spike-shaped and the shafts are thick. Can't help it, especially the light and thin shields of the Great Food Army, which can not only be shot through with one arrow, but also can shoot through the leather armor of soldiers at the same time, which is extremely lethal.

And all the crossbows of the Tang army were handed over to the Tocharian coalition army ambushing on the other side of the river. They launched crossbow attacks on Dashi from the side across the river,

In addition to the 150 heavy crossbow soldiers, about [-] steps in front of the Tang army, there appeared a [-]-step-wide and five-mile-long pottery zone. There were [-] pottery pots, and the ground was covered with hay and straw.

This is Li Ye's most important arson plan. Using kerosene to attack the enemy, it is estimated that at least thousands of people can be burned to death, but the key is that 35 jin of kerosene is burning!Such a powerful shocking fire, if Abu Muslim is cautious, he should retreat to avoid its edge.

This is probably the first time that the food army has encountered such a situation in the field. They never thought that this would be a fire attack from the Tang army.

"Ugh-"

The scout cavalry in front blew their horns, and a black line appeared in the distance. The main force of the Dashi had appeared several miles away, and they were slowly advancing north.

Gao Xianzhi immediately ordered: "Break the clay pot!"

Immediately, [-] soldiers rushed out, holding hammers, and they rushed into the fire oil formation, with a clear division of labor. It only took a cup of tea time to smash all seven thousand clay pots, and the black fire oil flowed all over the place. Thick dry grass.

Tang Jun made all preparations and stood ready.

(End of this chapter)