lazy tang

Chapter 831
Waves of the sea rushed to the surface of the sea, and the Persians also landed ashore one after another.The main warships of the Datang Navy are not in Strait Castle.The Datang is located in Yazhou, while Zhenhai and Dinghai are maintained at the Jiangning shipyard.A ship that has been fighting at sea for seven or eight years should have been repaired long ago.Among other things, the oysters on the ship's side alone caused the speed of the two ships to be greatly reduced.

Without the support of the navy, Cheng Chumo did not go out of the city to fight the Persians.Instead, he chose to quietly watch the Persians land, and then worked hard to build his own fortress.

The fire in front of the city gate was extinguished, and the Tang army had no intention of going out yet.

Darius was very happy, the merchants were telling the truth.Inside Straits Castle, there are only a few thousand Tang troops.Although they may be very elite, but there are more than [-] men under him, there is no reason why they can't beat them.

They have what they have, gunpowder, kerosene, and hot air balloons.It's just that Persian hot air balloons don't move on their own.

Since the Tang people were not planning to go out of the city, Darius felt that he did not need to waste fire oil.Although Persia is very rich in kerosene, it is not easy to transport it so far.After sending out the security forces, the Persians began to build their own camps swaggeringly.

Darius was a cautious man, and he did not plan to attack the Tang before he had a solid base.Of course, the best result is to let people take the initiative to go out of the city to attack him.

A solid camp, plus ten times the number of enemy troops.Darius felt that if he was defeated, he could hang himself and wipe his neck.

Cheng Chumo watched the Persians harden his hard drive, feeling itchy and uncomfortable.Tried with a range-finding projectile, the trebuchet could not reach that distance anyway.He wanted Ling Jing to use his secret weapon, but was always rejected.Cheng Chumo was so angry that he wanted to strangle the old guy to death!

As the days passed, Darius' hard drive had stabilized.Tang Ren has no intention of attacking yet, and he has been standing on the shore of the strait for six full days.

Can't wait any longer, the wealthy Tang State is beckoning to him.Although Darius had never been to Tang, he knew from those merchants that it was the most affluent place in the world.This time, he was going to loot that place.Relying on the scimitar in his hand, he seized the most wealth.

Let those guys who are thinking about going to Constantinople know how stupid their decisions are.Compared with the huge Tang Kingdom, the wealth of Constantinople is not worth mentioning.

On the seventh day, Darius' army moved.The Persians on the whole beach formed a dense army like ants, and they fought against the enemies of the West for many years.Being loose by nature, they have also learned how to form an army formation in order to maximize the strength of the army.

The trebuchet was in the center of the army formation, surrounded by heavy soldiers.Due to limited capacity, there were only twenty trebuchets.Next to the trebuchet is a general riding a tall Persian horse.Also because of limited capacity, only generals will have horses to ride.

With the sound of the horn, a strange music sounded in the army formation.It has a sense of rhythm, and the Persian soldiers marched by this kind of music.The pace is very neat, as if in a military parade.

Cheng Chumo stood on the city wall, looking down at the forest of spears and scimitars like snow.The swarthy Persian soldiers almost covered the entire beach.As the army marched, their steps were uniform.Cheng Chumo swears that none of Datang's government soldiers can walk like this.The Imperial Forest Army in the palace is fine, but those guys are just for show.Do the Persians rely on the guard of honor to destroy their castle?Their coach's mind is normal...!
When the Persian stepped over the range-finding arrow, Cheng Chumo roared.The arrows all over the sky are thinking of the Persian army array, and the number of arrows is so dense that it can block the sun.

No gunpowder bombs, no kerosene bombs.From every perforation above the battlements fired pure crossbows and crossbows.

The big shield held by the Persians was broken by the crossbow gun, and the sergeant behind the big shield was carried away by the thick crossbow gun.Even so, the strict military formation of the Persians is still slowly moving forward.

The people in the first row were taken away by the eight bull crossbows, and the people in the second row immediately made up for it.The big shield was gone, so he continued to move forward with his companion's corpse.Even if he was hit by an arrow, he couldn't hear the cry.The entire battlefield was filled with the tooth-piercing sound of crossbow arrows piercing the flesh.

It's only a few dozen steps, and usually it can be completed in one breath.Now every step forward, there will be a layer of corpses on the ground.

The Persians did not fight back, but were beaten.Finally, the immediate general shouted.Then the trebuchets in the army array started firing!
"Boom" "Boom"...!The sound of explosions continued, and one by one gunpowder bombs exploded.After the blazing fire, there is the steaming smoke.

The corners of Cheng Chumo's mouth curled up slightly. According to the performance, the Persians are indeed strong soldiers.But their generals were a little stupid. Their gunpowder projectiles bounced off the walls and then exploded when they hit the ground.Such a thing is simply scratching the itch for the Strait Castle made of stone.

"How long are you going to endure?" Cheng Chumo looked at the Persian army formation, without looking at Ling Jing beside him, as if talking to the air.

"It's time, have you seen that? That thing is much scarier than a trebuchet!" Ling Jing said, pointing to a cart pulled by a dozen tall Persian horses in the distance.

"If the old man's guess is correct, there must be a lot of gunpowder in the cart. If this thing reaches the gate of the city, the gate will disappear after a bang. Compared with these things, the trebuchet can only be regarded as second-class Target. Target gunpowder vehicle, launch!" Ling Jing pointed, and someone immediately conveyed his order.

The artillery is not very stable yet, only a fool would stand beside it and direct the battle.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" There was a deafening sound on the city wall, and shells were ejected at a speed that the naked eye could not catch.

Almost at the same time as the shell was fired, a gunpowder cart two hundred steps away made a huge explosion.The violence of the explosion is enough to be described as breathtaking.

Cheng Chumo dodged to avoid a horse's leg that was thrown at him, thinking about the explosion just now, he was really terrified.Jiang was still old and spicy, so he didn't notice those carriages.I thought it was a carriage with eight oxen crossbows!

After the gunpowder smoke, those places that were just carriages.Now it has turned into a big pit, and there is no living person within a radius of dozens of steps.There were charred bodies everywhere, and the Persian horses that pulled the cart had simply disappeared.At the same time, the carriage of the carriage also disappeared. Only the broken wheels far away can prove that the carriage once existed.

Darius' eyelids twitched, he didn't know what kind of weapon Tang was using.But definitely not a trebuchet!
This explosion killed at least a thousand people.There is no way, the formation of the Persian army is too dense.It seems that although the traditional western military array can effectively resist arrows, it is difficult to resist the long-range weapons of the Tang army.

The horn sounded again, and the Persian army began to disperse.At the same time, the trebuchets also began to suppress the trebuchets on the city wall.For a time, the battle between the two sides became a cataclysmic battle.

Without the dense army formation, the Persian infantry has a lot more space.Tang Jun's crossbow arrows shot at the Persian soldiers from all angles.Rows of Persian soldiers fell almost every second.The casualties were even more tragic than before!
Without the gunpowder cart, only the most primitive method can be used.Things like ladders and construction trucks come in handy!

There are also Persians who carry gunpowder packs one by one, pile them up and ignite them when they are carried under the city wall.Once a hole is formed, continue to fry.But it only lasted a few times, and there was no way to continue.

Grenades are always falling from the sky, and often the city wall is only blown out of a small hole, and the Persians have to pay hundreds of lives.It may feel that this is not cost-effective, and the Persians climbed the ladder again.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" There was another loud noise on the tower, and the Persian trebuchets exploded one after another.The second salvo of the artillery killed three enemy trebuchets.Even the general next to the catapult was blown to pieces.

"What the hell is that? Why isn't there any information on it?" Darius snatched up the spy chief who was dressed as a businessman.

"I...! I...! I...! I don't know!"

This stuttering sentence became his last words.As soon as he had finished speaking, Darius drew his machete and cut off his head himself.

The roar will sound every once in a while, even if the catapult has been withdrawn far away, it will be hit by those exploding guys, and then turned into piles of debris.

Darius' heart was bleeding, which was his reliance on this siege.Now it's all reduced to a pile of broken wood!

However, something happened that made his scalp tingle even more.Those explosive things actually started to bombard their camp.All huge tents are the focus of those things.

There were explosions one after another, occasionally mixed with violent explosions.Sometimes it was a black cloud like a mushroom that rose up, and Darius' mouth opened wide.He was stunned, and he couldn't figure out what weapon Tang Ren was using.

Gunpowder depot, kerosene depot.All the balloons that hadn't been lifted into the air were all turned into balls of flames.Every time there was an explosion, Darius' heart seemed to tremble.

Ling Jing looked into the distance with the binoculars. The observations of the past few days had allowed him to draw a good strike map for the artillery.The marked targets are being hit by shells one by one.

This is the first actual combat of the artillery, and the Duke said that the effective range of this thing is five miles.Now it seems that it should be able to go further.Because he saw that a warship trying to approach the coast was also hit by shells and caught fire.

Exploding cannonballs are filled with kerosene and icing sugar.With these two things in place, almost any target hit will burn.What's more, many places are oil depots for kerosene.Persia is rich in crude oil, and this time they brought a lot of fire oil.

(End of this chapter)