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Chapter 61 Surprise Attack on Talas (5) Suspicion of reinforcements

Dumodu was also surprised when he arrived in Ashabor!

However, he soon understood the truth - "The idiot Erweitler, the Tang army pushed the exterior wall of Ashabor because of the small number of people, and it was not conducive to defense. If there were five thousand people, how could they do this? It would be a waste of a large camp."

When I saw the Tang army demolished the outer wall and built it again inside, Du Modu was overjoyed. "The short wall is only three feet high, and some war horses can cross it. Why are they doing this?"

After thinking for a while, he couldn't figure it out. After observing the length of each side of the low wall, he made up his mind.

"Each side is about fifty feet, and a hundred people can be placed. The Sogdians have big shields. Each time, two hundred people are on the verge of big shields. One hundred people hold big shields, and one hundred people follow behind. When they reach the low wall, one person behind the person behind stepping on the shoulders of the man in front and rushing forward. Tang Jun is so stupid that he actually scared Erweitler's 10,000 troops away?"

"In this case, there are eight hundred people at a time. If the first attack does not work, then you can only arrange up to three waves of attacks. Well, 160 people at a time. In this case, there will be three waves of attacks. Although the Sogdians are weak, I arrange patrol cavalry with scimitars around me. If anyone does not strive forward, he will not forgive me."

"There are few soldiers in Tang, and after three consecutive attacks, there must be no one after three waves. One wave is calculated according to half an hour. At that time, time may have come to Yin Shi. My cavalry will first get off the horse and rest, and then go up after three waves. The Tang army inside the low wall must have had a bad rest when there is a large army outside. At that time, they were tired, and the elite troops of our army had already rested gave him a fatal blow, and the camp took it..."

"Damn it! Now I finally understand why the Tang army demolished the outer wall of the camp, because even if our army takes it back, we cannot station the army. When the enemy's main force arrives, we can easily take it away again!"

"Anyway, we must destroy this enemy before dawn!"

“Woo…”

Soon, after a brief hustle and bustle, the attack on the low wall began under the reflection of torches!

Enemies appeared on all sides of the low wall. The person in the front carried a large shield, followed by another person behind, running towards the shadowy low wall.

At night, Sun Xiurong seemed to be afraid that the enemy would not see him, so he lit torches on all four corners of the low wall. In this way, the enemy could rush over by judging the direction without ignitioning the torch.

In order to deal with the enemy's attack, Sun Xiurong divided the 800 young soldiers into two groups, and there were two hundred people on each side of the low wall, one hundred people were the main attacker and one hundred people assisted.

All the Heifunan archers who had pushed the exterior wall all night rested inside.

Sun Xiurong believed in his young soldiers like this? They were facing the Sogdian soldiers, the largest infantry in Central Asia at this time. Although they seemed to have poor combat power in the eyes of the nomadic tribes, they were well-trained infantry after all. Will the only young soldiers be sure to defeat them in infantry war?

There are four battalions in the front, back, left and right guards. Whether it is the attacking party or the guard, everyone has a spear. A short wall about three feet can be regarded as a barrier for both sides, and there is no difference between good and bad, not to mention that the Sogdians have large shield guards over three feet!

Sun Xiurong stood calmly on the Wang Tower in the middle of the camp, looking completely confident. He was surrounded by several single crossbows with good strings. Since the four sides of the low wall were only fifty feet, that is, from the low wall to the middle of the camp, it was only about thirty feet, fifty or sixty meters. If there was an archer in the opponent's formation, it was entirely possible to shoot him. Of course, on the other hand, Sun Xiurong stood high on the Wang Tower, and with a single crossbow of up to sixty feet, he could easily shoot the enemy.

Sun Xiurong was calm, but not everyone was like this, especially Naren Xiaofeng, who was responsible for guarding the low wall at the east end. Among Sun Xiurong's five camps, Geshuminu's left camp and Nangongxun's front camp were among the best in terms of age and combat power. Li Jincai's back camp was old but average combat power, and Geng Sidu's middle camp was strong but youngest.

Only Naren Xiaofeng's right camp, with an average age of about sixteen years old, is not up or down, and its combat power is stronger than Li Jincai's rear camp. Moreover, after the young soldiers lost 200 people, Sun Xiurong had already transferred all the central camp, which had almost no losses to the other four battalions. In this way, Naren Xiaofeng's right camp was the youngest camp.

The weather in Talas in autumn was already a little cool, and Naren Xiaofeng, who was still wearing the Tang army's summer battle robe, actually had fine beads of sweat on his face!

As the strongest combat power in the battalion, Naren Xiaofeng was not qualified to hide behind and "command". He stood in the middle of the first row with a two-foot-long spear.

Naren Xiaofeng's spear is made by himself, and is made from oak trees in snowy mountains. This tree is hard in material but lacks toughness. However, it is good to find this material to make spears near snowy mountains where tree species are scarce. As a nomadic tribe, if everything depends on external input, the tribe will soon die. At least it can be done by making weapons and tanning leather.

But then again, after Sun Xiurong gathered these young soldiers together, in addition to distributing military uniforms to them, he also replaced the spearheads for them. For the Protectorate's Mansion, armor, strong crossbows, and even horizontal swords are all secrets, but the spearheads are one of the materials that impose restrictions on the surrounding tribes, so naturally there is no need to be stingy with the Naren Governor's Mansion.

The spearhead, including the sleeve and the sharp blade, was all black, and only the tip of the spear was a shiny look. Half an hour ago, all the young soldiers had just polished it!

"Xiaofeng, don't be afraid. When the enemy is carrying a big shield, he will jump onto a low wall. He will most likely use one person to lower his head and one person to step over his back with a spear. At that time, the middle door of them will be wide open. When we were in Naren, we practiced the most, except for practicing bows and arrows. We acted in a unified way according to the usual practice, and stabbed them immediately as soon as they exposed half of their bodies. Remember, stab them uniformly and shouted to stab them. The enemy would not be able to defeat us."

When Naren Xiaofeng thought of Sun Xiurong's previous comfort, he calmed down a little, but at this moment, the enemy had already reached the sight!

As Sun Xiurong said, it is impossible for the enemy to carry a large shield and cross the low wall. They carried a large shield just to avoid being shot by their own bows and arrows on the way to approach the low wall. Sun Xiurong had long expected this section, and this time, he was not prepared to use the bows and arrows as the main weapon to resist the enemy.

As a master who used the short wall in his previous life, when training spears, in addition to the usual left-spike technique against enemies, he naturally practiced the technique of dealing with enemies who were preparing to cross the short wall. It was nothing more than changing the ordinary "left-spike technique" to "upper left-spike".

Compared with the left priest technique, the upper left priest requires more long-term practice, because compared with the pure left priest that can fully utilize the strength of the waist and abdomen, the upper left priest mainly practices the strength of the arms and the speed of the volley. If it is practiced for a long time and forms conditioned reflex, it will be bad news to attack the enemy of the priest in the priest.

"receive!"

After the enemy appeared, Naren Xiaofeng's heart, which had just been beating wildly, calmed down. When dozens of enemies appeared on the low wall, he immediately shouted.

Everyone pulled the spear backwards. Since it was stabbing to the upper left, the spear was slightly larger than usual.

"prick!"

One hundred spears stabbed into the air like lightning. In an instant, under the dim light of the torch, blood mist came one after another with screams. As soon as they met, all the Sogdian soldiers who had poked out half of their bodies on the low wall were stabbed down!

This is the power of the group. If it is still in the Tang Dynasty or tribes, relying on terrain or city defense facilities, although there are a certain number of soldiers on a certain section of the defense surface, after the enemy approaches, they basically look for the enemy to fight. There are very few ways to shoot together like field battles. In that case, they can reveal the brave and tenacious people. However, once they encounter soldiers like "First Ding", most guard soldiers cannot resist it.

So the gap appears, gradually forming a chain reaction, and finally the gap expands and even collapses.

But under Sun Xiurong's system, the most timid person will become a person with courage when he makes a stabbing move with the group almost at the same time. If a strong person happens to be standing by his side, it will be even more powerful. If he assassinated one person, he will soon become a powerful person after seeing the blood.

Although Sun Xiurong and Sun Xiurong's young soldiers were still "teenagers", the teenagers of the nomadic tribe were basically in their midst of fifteen years old. Not to mention fighting, they often encounter wolves when grazing livestock. If they do not have a certain ability, all the livestock groups will be eaten by the wolves. Therefore, they are still better than the young people in the Central Plains.

After a ray of light accompanied by screams, the low wall calmed down again. Since the people in the second row behind had been stabbed down the low wall, the person carrying the big shield in front could only throw away the big shield and use the short knife in his hand to face the spear in the young soldier's hand.

They did the same. It seems that Dumodu had practiced before. These people carrying large shields were obviously more brave than those holding spears in the second row. When the spear soldiers were stabbed, they were just stunned for a moment, and then they leaned over the big shield in the middle of the low wall, turning the big shield into a passable bridge. Then they took a few steps back and rushed up from the bridge with a scimitar about three feet long!

Unlike the spearmen just now, when they poked their bodies out of the low wall, they swept across with the scimitar in their hands. This time, their strategy worked slightly. Some of the young soldiers were swept by the scimitar, but when the spears of one hundred young soldiers stabbed out to the upper left at the same time, one or two of them were swept out of the overall situation. This time, all the big shield soldiers who poked their bodies out of the low wall were still assassinated without exception!

An attack like this is a one-time transaction, which tests the patience and courage of both sides. If it were still the same as before, such a battle would probably take a long time to come to an end. However, under Sun Xiurong's training, his young soldiers defeated the enemy in two encounters!

After seeing this scene, not only Sun Xiurong, but all the young soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. The Sogdian soldiers who had no time to emerge outside the low wall also retreated. There were two hundred people behind each low wall. After one encounter, about half of them lost their combat power. The remaining people naturally had a disheartened heart and had no reason to persevere, because the first ones must be brave, and they were not good at all, let alone others?

Sun Xiurong issued another order.

He gathered the soldiers guarding behind the low walls, who originally belonged to Geng Sidu Central Camp, with fifty people on each side, each with a single crossbow, and the first row of soldiers holding spears in front became eighty and seventy people in the second row.

What he was worried about was that after the first attack failed, the locals would not foolishly come up to carry out the second same attack. There would definitely be new tricks. In the current world, the so-called new tricks are nothing more than two.

First, change the method of using troops in an average manner and concentrate the most brave soldiers on one side to carry out key attacks. This method is of no use to Sun Xiurong. After repelling the first attack, everyone understands that under this highly mechanized and identical stabbing, no matter how high your martial arts are, it will be useless.

Secondly, use the shooting of bows and arrows to cover the attacking soldiers. Sun Xiurong estimated that the enemy would use this move to meet, and then he would have the order to gather the central camp again for quick response.

But things were not what Sun Xiurong imagined. The enemy still sent out a second attack force, just like the first one, and soon returned in a defeat, followed by the third one, and the same result.

It seems that the enemy's generals did not take the lives of the Sogdian soldiers at all, and the message of the first group of Sogdian soldiers who fled back did not fully react to the ears of the Tukha Shiren generals.

In their eyes, the main reason for Sogdians are weak and cowardly.

From the outside, it approaches the position near the low wall, and with attacks, it loses and retreats. Each wave of attack takes about half an hour, and the three attacks add up to less than an hour, which Modu didn't expect.
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