Datang: Integrate three times the combat power of Lv Bu at the beginning

This is the tent of the Central Army of the Western Turkic Commander Yehu Khan. This time, the Western Turkic Turks were dispatched in full force, and the Tongyehu was even more personally conscripted.

Under the banner of avenging Jieli and Tuli, they attacked Datang, but in fact they had hidden evil intentions.

He is also Li Huanlin's staunch ally.

Zhang Xiong stood at the head of Gaochang city, his brows were tightly furrowed, his face was serious, standing beside him was Duan Xinghe, the leader of the Black Xuanwei Unit.

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"General, there is an urgent report from Yizhou that He Wenjin has rebelled. He has joined forces with Li Yuan from Ganzhou to capture Jiayuguan. The Hexi area has already fallen into He Wenjin's hands. Our reinforcements may not be able to come."

"The brother we sent to Yizhou for help was also killed by He Wenjin."

"He Wenjin launched a rebellion?" Zhang Xiong was dumbfounded, unable to believe it.

Below the city is the 30 army of Western Turks, and after Gaochang is He Wenjin's hundreds of thousands of rebels.

Gaochang has been encircled, isolated and helpless.

How did things get to this point.

This is the result of Li Chengqian sending Duan Xinghe to inform Zhang Xiong in advance.

If not, Gaochang City may not be safe.

at the same time.

A group of cavalry came out of the Turkic camp and galloped towards Gaochang City.

a little while...

A Turkic general in a black battle robe came to the city on horseback and said loudly: "Zhang Xiong, my Dahanian has some friendship with you, and I don't want to tear up your face with you. Go out of the city and surrender. If not, I, the Turkic The army is bound to slaughter all your people in Gaochang."

Zhang Xiong said angrily: "Put your mother's shit on! None of my Tang soldiers are afraid of death, and none of my Tang people are afraid of you Turkic wolves. If you want me to surrender, go back and ask Tong Yehu!" Dog, is he worthy!"

"Zhang Xiong, don't you know what's good and what's wrong!" The Turkic general in the city pointed at him with a machete and yelled, "Everything west of Jiayuguan has fallen into our hands. Your Highness the Tang Prince is in danger. How can he come to save you? Your stubborn resistance will only increase the casualties of the people of Gaochang, as the commander of Gaochang, how can you bear it, and what face will you have to meet the ancestors of your Zhang family after you die."

Zhang Xiong didn't speak, he picked up a bow and arrow on the side, aimed at the Turkic generals in the city, and shot out: "My people in the Tang Dynasty would rather die in battle than surrender to you Turkic. The head of the city is waiting for him, if he has the guts to come, he will be beheaded as a novice."

The Turkic general under the city looked like a torch, and said viciously: "The day Gaochang City is broken, is the time when your people in Gaochang will perish."

After the words fell, he galloped away.

Zhang Xiong watched him leave coldly.

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He said to Duan Xinghe on the side: "Brother Duan, you should lead Hei Xuanwei's brothers out of Gaochang City tonight, or you might not even be able to get out of the city any later."

Ever since Zhang Xiong led Gaochang soldiers and people to seek refuge in Datang, he cut off all other thoughts.

Li Chengqian did not let him down either. Under his governance, Datang was thriving and prosperous day by day, and the people's life had hope.

Now that the damned Turks are attacking with all their strength, and even asked him to surrender, he will never agree.

He would rather lead Gaochang soldiers to die in battle than surrender.

Zhang Xiong firmly believed that Li Chengqian would not abandon them, as long as he led his army to defend the city, he would definitely wait for reinforcements.

Little He Wenjin and Li Yuan are definitely not Li Chengqian's opponents.

Duan Xinghe looked serious: "What is General Zhang talking about, you stick to the city and let us evacuate? Isn't this treating us as brothers? The order I received is to defend the city with the general and wait for rescue."

"Let us leave the people of Gaochang and flee alone. What face do we have to go back to see His Majesty? What face do we have to go back to see His Highness? What face do we have to go back to see the people of Tang Dynasty?"

"If the Turks fight, we will fight to the death. We will live and die with Gaochang City. There is no coward in the Tang Dynasty."

Duan Xinghe slammed loudly, without any fear in his heart.

"Okay, what brother Duan said is good!" Zhang Xiong's heart was full of enthusiasm: "I don't have a coward in the Tang Dynasty. Although we didn't live together, we want to die together."

"The Turkic bastard wants to break through my Gaochang city, so let's step over us first!"

"We want to tell them with the sword in our hands that the land of Datang is not something they can get their hands on."

Chapter 358

The next day...

The eastern sky had just revealed its fish belly.

The Turkic army outside Gaochang couldn't wait to launch an attack.

outside the city...

The drums were beating continuously and the horns were beeping.

Tong Yehu stood in front of the Turkic army.

"Warriors, the frail Gaochang Two-legged Sheep refused the Khan's kindness and refused to leave the city to surrender. Today we will let them experience the strength of our grassland warriors."

"Gaochang city was destroyed, burned and killed for three days, all the men were killed, and the tender women and delicious children were all robbed. The first warrior to attack the city will be rewarded with a thousand gold and sealed as the leader of the ten thousand tribes."

"Warriors, kill!"

Tong Yehu Khan gave an order, and tens of thousands of Turkic troops carried ladders and pushed carts to kill Gaochang City.

"Kill! Slaughter the two-legged sheep!"

The sound of shouting and killing was shocking.

Zhang Xiong was wearing black light armor and holding a golden horse lance, looking coldly at the tigers, leopards and wolves below the city.

"Brothers, Turkic beasts, they have lost all conscience, invaded our land, captured our people, burned, killed and looted, and committed all kinds of evil."

"Today, my brothers and I will stick to Gaochang, protect our people, stain the sky with blood, and kill wolves with our hands!"

"kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

On the city wall, the Gaochang army was waiting in formation, holding the horizontal knife tightly in their hands. Behind them were their wives and children. Even if they died, they would never let the Turks step into the city.

When the Turkic army attacked 500 meters below the city.

With Zhang Xiong's order, thousands of Mohist crossbow machines were launched at the same time.

Whoosh!Whoosh!whoosh...

Thousands of crossbow arrows as thick as spears, with a cold light, poured down the city like locusts flying all over the sky.

These crossbows are not only Gaochang City, many cities in the borderlands of the Tang Dynasty are equipped with Mohist crossbows, which can be called the magic weapon for city defense.

The crossbow arrows fired by the Mohist crossbow machine are fast, penetrating and extremely lethal.

Li Chengqian spent huge sums of money to build tens of thousands of crossbow machines to strengthen the defense force of border cities.

Outside Gaochang City.

The thousands of crossbow arrows that fell into the Turkic army turned the Turkic soldiers on their backs and defeated them.

Even the shields they were holding were pierced through.

Before they could react, the second round of crossbow arrows rained down from the sky.

The tens of thousands of troops were forcibly hit by the rain of arrows from several rounds of carts, unable to move an inch.

Rivers of blood flowed below the city, and corpses were everywhere.

The Turkic soldiers were dumbfounded.

They had seen a crossbow before, but this was the first time they had seen a crossbow with such a huge lethality.

It is simply a killer in the world.

Tong Yehu rode his horse in front of the army formation, looking at the Turkic soldiers who were shot and killed most of them before reaching the city, his eyes were cold and scarlet.

"Who can tell me what is hidden in Gaochang City and why it has such a huge lethality."

"Ja Luhe, this is Gaochang City Defense after your investigation!"

The words fall...

A Turkic general beside Tong Yehu immediately got off his horse and ran to him.

"Forgive me, the last general really didn't know that Gaochang City has such a powerful weapon for defending the city."

Tong Yehu looked at him coldly: "As the scout commander of our army, you actually told Ben Khan that you didn't know, what should you do!"

"Come here, push Jia Luhe to Ben Khan and kill him, just to make a warning to others."

The words fall...

Jia Luhe was shocked, knelt down on the ground, and begged for mercy: "Khan, spare your life, sweat, spare your life, I know I was wrong!"

The crossbow machine is not a rare thing, and Jia Luhe never took it seriously, but he didn't expect it to cause such a big trouble for them.

"Khan calm down, our army beheaded a general in the first charge, which may shake the morale of the army."

"Although General Jia Luhe has committed crimes, he is not guilty of death. I hope that the Great Khan will give him a chance to make meritorious deeds, so as to show the great Khan's benevolent heart."

Ashina Chacha, the counselor of the Western Turks, spoke persuasively.

"Huh..." Tong Yehu Khan said coldly: "Since the military master Chacha is begging for you, then Ben Khan will spare your life. Next time you attack, you will be the vanguard general. If you attack the city, Ben Khan will spare your life." The Khan not only grants you innocence, but also rewards you."

"If you can't win the battle, then don't blame Ben Khan for being ungrateful."

Tong Yehu was cruel and moody by nature, and it was common for him to kill a few courtiers.

But he attaches great importance to Ashina Chacha, as long as it is his words, Tong Yehu can listen to more than [-]%.

If ordinary people dare to intercede at will, let alone not being able to keep this person, they may have to sacrifice their own lives.

Jia Luhe looked at Ashina Chacha and cast a grateful look. It seemed that the usual gifts were not in vain, and Ashina Chacha really saved his life at the critical moment.

But he hated Tong Yehu in his heart: "Damn Tong Yehu, you let me lead an army to attack the city. Isn't this pushing me into the fire pit!"

Although he hated it in his heart, he didn't dare to show it on the surface: "Thank you for the grace of the Great Khan, the general will definitely devote himself to the end and die!"

But Tong Yehu didn't pay any attention to him: "Mingjin withdraws troops, and we will attack the city after noon."

Hearing the signal to withdraw troops, the Turkic soldiers hurriedly retreated from the front of the city, leaving thousands of corpses under the city.

The Mohist crossbow machine shocked them too much.

In fact, Zhang Xiong and Duan Xinghe were no less shocked than Turkic.

When the Mo family brought the crossbow machine, Zhang Xiong didn't care, thinking it was a routine operation of the Ministry of Industry and War of the Tang Dynasty. After all, the crossbow machine was not a rare thing.

He was not present when the city defense army tested.

But he never expected that this thing has such great power, no matter it is the rate of fire, attack distance or penetration power, it is beyond the comparison of ordinary crossbow machines.

"How many crossbow arrows do we have?" Zhang Xiong looked at the commander of the city defense army beside him.

If there are enough crossbow arrows, it will not be a problem to stick to Gaochang for a month.

After all, the power of this crossbow arrow is really great.

The commander-in-chief of the city defense army replied: "Back to the general, the Mo family only brought more than [-] crossbow arrows, but they gave us the blueprint for making them, and left behind [-] arrows, all of which are made of fine steel. The penetrating power is extremely strong, if the [-] pieces are used up, we will have no material to use."

Zhang Xiong nodded, [-] finished crossbow arrows, [-] arrowheads, this was far beyond his expectations.

He had just researched crossbow arrows, and the production cost of this thing was definitely high, and Gaochang City alone had so many of them.

Zhang Xiong really couldn't imagine Datang's financial resources.

However, it is well known that Li Chengqian is extremely rich.

Not to mention anything else, the white-robed army under his command, the soldiers of Modaowei, if he pulls out one randomly, the equipment is better than the weapons and armor of his general before.

The weapons and armor forged by Li Chengqian's arsenal are the dreams of every Tang soldier.

He Gaochang got ten sets of general armor and one thousand sets of soldier elite armor.

When the armor was brought in, all regiments of the Gaochang Army were blown up.

Knowing it with reason, moving it with emotion, soft and hard, stubbornly asking Zhang Xiong for this armor.

In the end, he resisted all opinions and established a thousand-strong army, the Goshawk Guard.

This is his hole card, and also his trump card for defending Gaochang City this time.