Tibet

Chapter 427
Bandar is also a border city for the Khazar Khanate. It takes ten days to ride a horse to their capital Samandar. Thirty percent of the residents in the city belong to the Sogdians, [-] percent belong to the Khazar Turks, and [-] percent of the residents are Arab.

Baiyi Dashi repeatedly broke out wars with the Khazar Khanate, and the first stop was to attack Badar City, and even destroyed the first capital of the Khazar Khanate, Barengarh 30 years ago.

However, a conflict triggered by the civil war of the Khasa Khan once again involved the Tang Dynasty in the confrontation between great powers.

As night fell, there was rumbling drums in the camp of the Tang army. Li Ye left a thousand soldiers to guard the camp, horses and camels, and he personally led nine thousand troops to the city.

Bandar City is a large triangular city with a wall three feet high, facing the Aral Sea to the west, and a short canal leading directly to the city. In times of crisis, you can escape the city by boat. No matter, but he can withdraw from the sea at any time.

Ten thousand soldiers stood on the top of the city. In addition to his five thousand soldiers, he forced another five thousand strong young men from the Khazars in the city to put on armor and hold spears to participate in the defense of the city. .

Chief Wan Suman said to Rossini: "Your Highness, the other party did not carry siege weapons. We are surrounded by wheat fields and there are no trees. They can at most demolish some old houses, but it is unlikely to get wood, unless They went to distant places to cut wood, but I guess they are most likely to start from the city gate, I suggest that Your Highness send heavy troops to defend the city gate!"

Rossini nodded, "You are right, the city gate is the most important thing!"

He immediately ordered that three thousand elite soldiers be sent to guard the city gate with bows, arrows and spears.

The Khazar army's judgment was correct. The Tang army did not carry siege weapons. They could not attack the city walls, but only the city gates.

Tang Jun found a thick date palm trunk from a wealthy family outside the city. This trunk is three feet long and requires two people to hold it together.

Tang Jun melted a pot of molten iron, cast it into a huge pig iron bumper, and installed it on the front end of the tree trunk to make a powerful battering ram.

Fifty soldiers were holding the thick tree trunk. A deep groove was dug at the bottom of the trunk to make it easier for the soldiers to grasp the trunk. On both sides of the fifty soldiers were a hundred soldiers with heavy shields. They held up their large shields to form a shield wall, tightly protecting Lived the trunk and soldiers.

From a distance, it looks like a thick centipede moving towards the city gate step by step.

Behind the battering ram are a thousand heavy armored infantry, three of them in a row, holding Mo Dao, and they are also advancing step by step under the leadership of the black spear.

Li Ye rode his horse and stared at the top of the city gate. The top of the city gate was not a tower, but a tall tower with a pointed top. There was a row of small windows at the top, which should be an observation tower.

This structure makes it impossible to defend the top of the city gate, but can only shoot arrows from both sides, and it is necessary to protrude the body out of the city wall, which is undoubtedly a dead end.

Two thousand soldiers of the Tang army raised their crossbows and shot arrows at the top of the city. The arrows rained down on the city.

Li Ye stared at the observation window directly above the city gate. He suddenly noticed a movement. There was a flame ignited, and someone was about to throw fire oil. Li Ye immediately ordered: "Give me the short spear!"

A soldier immediately handed over a few short spears. Li Ye took the short spears and threw them towards the window with all his might. The short spears crossed a parabola and shot into the window. The sound of falling to the ground.

"Shoot a rocket!"

Dozens of soldiers fired rockets at the window together, and the rockets shot into the window, 'Boom! 'The ground started to burn, and I guessed right, the other party really planned to use kerosene.

I saw more than a dozen burning kerosene pots thrown out from the windows on both sides. There were no soldiers of the Tang Army below. , because the front window was blocked by Tang Jun's arrows, the soldiers inside could only throw kerosene jars from the windows on both sides.

Immediately afterwards, five or six fire oil cans were thrown out, but this time they were thrown from the front window. They stood far away in the room and threw them, and the arrows could not hit them.

The fire oil tank landed on the heavy shield at the front of the team, and the heavy shield was covered with burning fire oil. A raging fire suddenly ignited on more than a dozen heavy shields, and several soldiers with heavy shields also started to burn. He ran out, lying on the ground and rolling, dozens of soldiers rushed up to rescue.

"Do we have a kerosene tank?" Li Ye asked.

"Have!"

More than a dozen soldiers immediately rushed to get pottery pots for fire oil. In order to attack the fire, soldiers of the Tang army specially found hundreds of pottery pots for water from the houses outside the city, and filled barrels of pottery oil into them.

After a while, the soldiers brought thirty pottery pots, and Li Ye lit the kerosene pots and threw them towards the viewing window above.

Li Ye threw more than two dozen pots of burning kerosene into clay pots in one breath, and two hundred catties of kerosene flowed all over the floor, turning the room into a sea of ​​flames, and the large amount of kerosene stored in the room also burned together. The screams of several people came, and the sound gradually faded away, and the whole room was engulfed in flames, and flames and thick smoke spewed out from the window.

Without the threat of kerosene, the battering ram began to speed up, "Boom!" There was a dull loud noise, the city gate shook violently, the sand and wall skin above fell rustlingly, and several thin cracks appeared on the tower.

Rossini shouted anxiously: "All soldiers go to the city gate to fight and block the enemy."

Chief Wan Su Man said anxiously: "Your Highness, the opponent's battering ram is strong, and the city gate will definitely not be able to hold it. Why don't you let me lead two thousand cavalry to go out and fight the Tang army!"

"can!"

Suman got on his horse and blew the horn to attack.

"Ugh-"

The trumpets in the city sounded continuously, and Li Ye immediately realized that the opponent was about to fight out of the city, so he immediately ordered: "Remove the battering ram, and the heavy armored infantry will press on!"

The battering ram quickly retreated, the city gate slowly opened, the heavy armored infantry rushed up, and a cavalry rushed out in front of them. There were five or sixty people in the front, and the leader was Suman, the chief of the Wanfu, who was the general. Of course you have to be brave first.

It was also his misfortune, he met Modao Junlang Hei Mao head-on, Hei Mao gave a cold shout, and slashed head-on.

Suman held up his spear to resist, and there was a click, and the spear was cut into two pieces, and then his body was split to two sides. Suman was cut in half by a knife, a man and a horse, and fell to the ground with viscera and blood flowing all over the ground. .

The tragic scene frightened the soldiers behind, but the heavily armored Modao army had already turned a blind eye to them. They rushed up step by step, and the cavalry were scared out of their wits, and retreated one after another, blocking the city gate. The heavy armored infantry kept walking, Fighting all the way in, the cavalry blocking the way was chopped into pieces amidst desperate screams.

After killing [-] cavalrymen in a row, the ground inside and outside the city gate was covered with torsos and internal organs, brains and blood mixed together, trampled into mud by the heavy armored infantry, it was extremely bloody and terrifying.

The passage to the city gate was finally opened. The Khazar cavalrymen screamed in fear and ran away on horseback desperately, but the Khazar soldiers inside did not see the terrifying scene on the ground. Two thousand archers raised their bows and blocked the city gate.

Hei Spear led hundreds of Tang Army heavy armored infantry and rushed in first.

"Fire arrows!"

Arrows shot from all directions like raindrops at the heavy armored infantry of the Tang Army who rushed in. The arrows hit the heavy armor, making a clanging sound, and the arrows could not penetrate the heavy armor.

A thousand heavy armored infantry rushed in and began to kill the enemy archers, screaming all at once.

Immediately afterwards, teams of Tang Jun rushed in.

Rossini rushed out from the governor's mansion, and a group of cavalry came and shouted: "Your Highness, hurry up, the Tang army has already entered the city."

"Where's General Suman?"

"I heard that he was cut in half by Tang Jun, who was like a devil, from his forehead, and the horse was also cut in two."

Rossini only felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet, and he felt extremely remorseful. If he had known that Tang Jun was so powerful, he should have agreed to him!

It's too late to regret now, Rossini shouted, "Let's retreat!"

He led a team of men to the pier in the west city. The pier was built in a large building with dozens of long paddle boats moored inside, leading directly to the Aral Sea.

At this time, hundreds of soldiers rushed in and began to snatch the ships, causing chaos in the dock.

(End of this chapter)