Chapter 410: The Battle of the Siege (Part 2)

This time, the Dashi Army did not give the Tang army any chance. The incendiary bombs were thrown round after round. Not only did the huge fires ignited on the top of the city, but the fires were also rising into the sky on the walls and inside the city. However, the Tang army quietly and without any counterattack. The Dashi Army was getting closer and closer and entered the most tragic field again. Many Dashi soldiers began to rescue their companions who were struggling in the pool of blood and quickly carried them off the battlefield.

With a sound of 'Boom!', a carriage climbed into the city finally reached the west side of the north city where there was no fire. The huge wooden board was put down, and more than a hundred big food soldiers holding shields and spears rushed to the top of the city, shouting and rushing towards the west city. The carriage climbed into a passage, and more big food soldiers climbed up from the stairs inside and rushed up the city wall continuously.

But two thousand Tang army crossbow archers had been waiting for a long time. When the Dashi Army had just rushed through the corner of the city, thousands of arrows were immediately fired at once. The dense rain of arrows blocked the way for the Dashi soldiers to advance. Within seventy steps, powerful crossbow arrows shot through their shields. The Dashi soldiers were killed and injured. The first batch of soldiers who rushed up were almost wiped out. They retreated one after another and were suppressed in a narrow corner of the North City.

At this moment, the nightmare of the Dashi Army came again, and dozens of thunders were shot out from the east and west city heads on both wings. Although they could not shoot 800 steps like the Dashi Cataloger, they could shoot 500 steps at the farthest, and there were 500 steps, 300 steps and 200 steps. Three distances were intertwined, and they exploded violently in the dense Dashi Army, as if countless blood-colored waves were stirred up in the black ocean. Large areas of Dashi soldiers were blown up. Dashi soldiers wailed and screamed, and then dozens of thunders were thrown into the crowd, exploding violently, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and the dead were extremely injured.

Haman was already in a semi-crazy state. He watched the blockbuster army being killed, his eyes turned red, and he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Catting the stone plane came forward and burned the East City and the West City to white ground!"

An officer was shocked and rushed forward and said, "His Highness Emil, our army has attacked the city and cannot expand the attack."

"asshole!"

Harman was furious and stabbed the officer to death with his sword, roaring with his bloody sword: "Cater comes forward and fire incendiary bombs!"

The catapult rumbled forward and walked for about two hundred steps. The ground fired a fire bomb. Dozens of burning fireballs passed through the sky, crossed the north wall, and hit the city heads on both sides of the east and west. On the west city head, huge fireballs roared. At the corner of the edge, thousands of Dashi Army soldiers who had already rushed to the city head were hiding behind the corner to fight with the Tang army. They never dreamed that the fire would burn on their heads, and more than a dozen fireballs

Their hiding place was hit. In an instant, the city was engulfed by a fire. The big food soldiers wailed. Hundreds of firemen fled with their hands and ran away. After a few steps, they fell head-on. However, the biggest impact was the city car. The four city car that had just approached the city was hit by a fireball. The fire immediately ignited. Thousands of big food soldiers gathered in the city car were in chaos, trampling on each other and running downwards. They were engulfed by the fire one step later and all were burned to death in the city car.

A hundred steps away from the west city, the Tang army's crossbowmen were also hit by the fire. In an instant, hundreds of Tang soldiers were engulfed by the fire. The Tang army soldiers retreated one after another. As the fire came after balls of fire, the flames had approached the catapult on the city. There was a thunder thunder next to the catapult, and the crisis began to appear.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and shouted loudly: "The general has an order, Zhentian Lei will retreat immediately! The general has an order, Zhentian Lei will come down immediately!"

The situation was extremely critical. Thousands of soldiers rushed down the city with the thunder of the sky. The catapult could not be withdrawn and was instantly swallowed by the fire. The fire of the Dashi Army was overwhelmed. The entire northern part of Shiva City was in a raging fire. The city was in chaos. The terrified residents screamed and retreated to the south of the city. Many people could not escape and were engulfed by the fire. With a loud bang, a thunderclap burned and exploded in the fire, exploding the corridor of the lower city. The last 400 Tang soldiers had no way to escape and died tragically in the fire.

Although the Tang army's defense was greatly suppressed, the Dashi Army was also unable to attack. At this time, fifteen heavy trench planes of the Tang army counterattacked in the city, and one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and the Dashi Army was terrified, and they rushed to escape. However, the Dashi Army was too dense, and every time the Dashi thunder exploded, hundreds of people were always killed by the bomb.

The soldiers of the Great Food retreated again and again, but were driven back by thousands of troops who were pressing the formation again and again. His Highness Emil had a strict order to take down Shiva City at all costs and capture Li Qing'an alive.

At this time, all the opportunities of Haman were placed on the attacking ram. He also found that most of the thunder shot out by the Tang army from the inner city were concentrated on both sides, and there was almost no in the middle of the city, so he captured the city gate and brought a glimmer of hope.

The earth shook, and thousands of big food soldiers desperately pushed the siege ram forward step by step. The five hundred camels that were originally pulled were already paralyzed by the fierce battle and refused to work hard. As long as human power was used, the siege ram would be larger than the siege used by the Tang army. The hammer body was ten feet long, and the wooden rack was four feet high, and it required three thousand people to push it.

This siege ram was a powerful weapon to capture the city of Damascus. The Arabs called it the name "Demon" and was made by two thousand craftsmen in Kufa. At that time, the army of 200,000 Abbasids besieged Damascus, and finally it was this siege ram that broke through the gates of Damascus.

The three thousand great food soldiers shouted rhythmically, and the siege rifle rumbled forward. Two balls of fire fell in front of the city gate, and the flames soared into the sky. The siege rifle advanced in the flames and the sound of explosions.

At this time, a thunderous thunder fell into the crowd next to the siege rifle and exploded violently. The powerful air waves exploded hundreds of people. The blue iron nails burst out in scattered, and screamed. The siege rifle suddenly tilted to the left, the iron chains rustled, and the huge hammer body swayed left and right, which scared the two great food soldiers shouted in unison, "Blessing God, the siege rifle has finally stabilized."

The attacking ram continued to move forward, walked a hundred steps, and finally arrived at the city gate. At this time, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Great Food pulled up the chains and roared backwards. The hammer body was gradually pulled up. An officer raised the flag and waved it down. The armies put the chain together. The hammer body suddenly smashed towards the city gate, like a blow that shook the sky and the earth. There was a dull sound, and everyone's heart was almost shaken out. The city gate shook violently, and cracks appeared again in the city bricks that had just been repaired.

In the city, four layers of large bluestones were piled on the city gate. Despite this, the huge impact force still caused the four layers of large bluestones to shake back and forth, like an earthquake. The two large rocks on the edge fell down, almost killing the Tang army below.

Seeing that the situation was not good, a Tang army captain ran back. He rushed through the flame formation and soon found Li Qing'an who was commanding the thunder.

"General, the enemy uses a siege ram to attack the gate. The power is too strong, and the gate may not be able to resist it!" Li Qing'an felt the shaking under his feet just now. However, the towering viewing tower in the middle of the city covers too much area, blocking the attacking route, making it impossible for the heavy trenchers to project into the middle of the city gate. The viewing tower is surrounded by flames, and the fire is extremely rapid. The trenchers cannot move forward. Li Qing'an had to sigh that the fireball of the Dashi Army is indeed too fierce, and the turbulent oil overflowed from the fireball is not the kind of sticky oil of the Tang army, but the light gasoline refined by later generations, with more rapid firepower.

At this time, there was another violent shaking, and the siege hammer hit another heavy blow. Li Qing'an frowned. He knew that the newly repaired bricks had not yet dried out and might not be able to support the siege hammer's heavy blow. He looked up at the head of the city again. The fireball flying over the head of the city seemed to have weakened, and the big cannibal trencher should not be able to withstand the frequent projection.

Now there is only one way, he resolutely said: "The First Scout Camp sent someone to the city to throw thunderstorm by hand!"

Immediately, hundreds of warriors dripped buckets of water from their heads, carried ice and fine sand, wrapped a few large wooden boxes containing thunder in quilts, and carried them to the north to run.

Although the main offensive target of Dashi has turned to the east and west sides and inside the city, there are too many kerosene bombs shot from the north city, and the kerosene is still burning with flames of more than one person.

The soldiers quickly spread a straight road with ice and fine sand, leading directly to the city gate. Hundreds of Tang soldiers lined up into a long humanitarian line, endured the flames on their backs, and quickly teleported three thunders to the battlements. Nine Tang soldiers squatted down close to the battlements and pried open the wooden box with a dagger. In a group of three, the two carried out more than 40 pounds of iron shells thunder.

At this moment, the Dashi Army below shouted again, and the lieutenant shouted, "Squat down!" Tang Jun, who was so scared that he hurriedly squatted down, and only heard a dull sound of "boom!" The muffled sound made everyone's heart almost burst. The city was shaken violently. Dozens of Tang Jun stood unsteadily and fell into the flames. In an instant, they were covered in flames and even their hair was ignited. The Tang Jun was in a hurry and pulled them over and beat them. Despite this, more than a dozen people were still burned to death.

I heard the Dashi Army cheering in unison outside the city gate. The gate had been knocked open, revealing the faint green stones that reached the door. At this time, as long as you hit it again, the gate would break. The Dashi Army could move the stones away from the outside, and the army would rush into the city.

The situation has reached an extremely critical moment, but God is destined to change history. Before the cheers of the Dashi Army stopped, three dark round iron guys were thrown from the top of the city, emitting white smoke and landing on the bottom of the siege ram. Hundreds of Dashi soldiers around were frightened and their souls were scattered, turning around and fleeing. But it was too late. One of the thunders exploded violently, exploding more than a hundred soldiers around them into the air. The other two thunders were blown away and landed in the crowd behind, exploding continuously, with bloody limbs and pieces of meat everywhere.

The base plate of the siege rifle was exploded, and more than a dozen thick side pillars were broken. The mount could no longer support the siege rifle weighing tens of thousands of pounds. It collapsed and the iron chain flew around. The hammer body, which was 10 zhang in diameter and 10 zhang long, rolled down, smashing more than a hundred big food soldiers into meat sauce.

The remaining survivors shouted, turned around and ran backward. The collapse of the siege ram caused the war to reverse the situation. The morale of the Dashi Army was depressed and he had no intention of fighting again. The head coach Haman was stunned. He looked at the soldiers who were blown up by the Tang munitions and thunder bombs. The army was no longer in formation. Nearly half of the 70,000 soldiers disappeared. Shiva City was still towering in the fire. He finally realized that he had committed a heinous crime.

"Retreat... army!"

He was so angry that he was shocked, and his eyes turned dark and he fainted suddenly.

This was an extremely tragic battle. There was no close contact between the two sides, but they used the most violent weapons to attack the other side. However, the number of Dashi soldiers killed and killed far exceeding the Tang army. The Tang army was burned to death by fire and burned, although nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Dashi Army in one morning, and the Tang army had already thrown a total of more than 40,000 thunders.

The tragic first day of the siege finally came to an end. On the top of the city, Li Qing'an watched the Dashi Army retreat slowly. It was clear that the morale of the retreating Dashi Army was very sluggish, and they carried a large number of wounded soldiers, at least tens of thousands of people.

Li Qing'an's eyes narrowed, his expression was complicated, and no one knew what he was thinking?

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The war ended, and the Dashi Army withdrew from the camp ten miles away, but the air was still floating with the strong smell of burnt stench of the corpses, which did not dissipate for a long time. In the Dashi Army camp, injured Dashi Army soldiers were lying everywhere, and some people died and were carried away. Many people began to vent their venom, and the wounds were black and swollen, with pus flowing. The Dashi Army doctors were too busy, so the soldiers could only solve the problem by themselves, and used a knife to cut off the flesh of the poisoned part. Some even cut off their arms. Screams one after another, and their morale was extremely depressed.

In the commander's tent, Haman was lying on the bed with his eyes blank. The Interior Officer was reporting to him the battle report he had just counted. There were 39,000 soldiers who did not come back on the battlefield, and there were 16,000 wounded in the withdrawn army. Some people were constantly seriously injured and died, and almost all the rest had lost their combat effectiveness.

In a war of more than half of his 100,000 troops were killed or injured. Although he had the advantage on the surface and the Tang army was beaten by his gun bombs, in fact, he was the real loser.

Haman's heart was extremely painful. Suddenly his throat felt sweet and a mouthful of blood spurted out. Several military doctors quickly stopped the bleeding for him.

Haman waved his hand and said in an extremely weak voice: "Go to General Shaikh and invite him!"

A personal soldier went out and for a moment, he invited the deputy general Shaikh in. Shaikh had a gloomy face and said nothing.

Haman sighed and said, "General Shaikh, the reason why I didn't obey your opinion on the last military ration is because I think we have tens of thousands of camels. If it really doesn't work, I can kill camels as military rations. But I scolded you directly without explaining it clearly. It's because I'm wrong. I apologize to you!"

This is probably the first time in Haman's life. Shaykh's face finally eased a little. He sighed to the sky and said, "I am not afraid of the Tang army's fire thunder, because our burning fireball is no less than its power. What I am afraid of is Li Qing'an's tactics. Your Highness must have seen it with his own eyes. In fact, the Tang army has the same heavy trencher as us. If they use the heavy trencher to fire thunder bombs at us from the beginning, then we will have no chance to throw the burning fireball at all, but they don't need it. This is the terrible thing about Li Qing'an's tactics. It is better to be passive in offense and defense than to attract our army to press forward. Then they use the fire threncher to kill our soldiers in large quantities. This is Li Qing'an's strategy and annihilate our living forces. Have you ever thought about such consequences?"

Haman lowered his head and said nothing. Shaikh glanced at him and said slowly: "I thought it through later, because Li Qing'an knew about our internal conflicts and killed a large number of troops loyal to the Caliph, then the power of the Caliph to control the empire will become weak, and then the Chiyad of Khorasan will become stronger accordingly. Our empire will most likely have civil wars, so Egypt, loyal to the old Ali, may split, and there are also the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain. Their power is not weak, and the empire will fall into a serious crisis. This is Li Qing'an's strategy."

"But... But we are no match for Tang Junhuo Lei anyway. Their fire thunder are so powerful." Haman murmured in a pale face.

"No! I have already said that the Tang army's fire thunder is not powerful, but Li Qing'an's strategy is powerful."

Seeing that Haman is still stubborn and still only recognizes weapons, Shaykh couldn't help but feel heartbroken: "We have a chance to defeat him. As long as we pretend to be rations at the beginning and withdraw our troops, Li Qing'an wants to annihilate us, he will be forced to chase us, or he will give up the city to retreat south, as long as he leads him out of Shiva, we will send troops to cut off his retreat, and the main force launches a large counterattack, then we will have the advantage in fighting in the desert, and even if the Tang army has thunder, it will definitely not be our opponent. We will win this battle, a pity! We were deceived by his strategy of seducing the enemy and did not seize this fight."

Haman's face turned pale, and he complained for a long time: "But you didn't say this plan at that time. You just said that the military rations were insufficient, otherwise I wouldn't have siege to attack the city."

Shaikh was speechless. In fact, he only remembered this strategy later, but it was too late. At first, he did not understand Li Qing'an's real purpose, and later he gradually understood that it was just Zhuge Liang afterwards.

Neither of them said anything, the tent was silent. After a while, Haman said in a hoarse voice: "What should we do now? Will we withdraw our troops and attract him to come out?"

Shaykh shook his head, "It's a bit late now, 50,000 to 30,000, morale is low, and we have brought so many wounded soldiers. We are not superior, and our burning fireballs are almost used up. The Tang army's bows and arrows are basically not used. Even when fighting in the desert, we may not be their opponents. Now, we can only really withdraw our troops and withdraw our troops overnight while he is unprepared."

"Then can we wait for the Caliph's reinforcements?"

"No! No! Before the Caliph's reinforcements arrived, the Tang army's reinforcements came first. At that time, we would really be wiped out. We must withdraw so that most of the troops could be preserved."

Harman pondered for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Okay! We withdraw our troops overnight."
Chapter completed!