The crossbowmen of the Pioneer Army stopped two hundred meters away from Dingxiang City and fired the first wave of arrows towards Dingxiang City.
This has been expected for a long time. Dingxiang City was originally built to stop the Turks. There are small stone houses on the city walls in order to withstand the enemy's first round of arrows and make his soldiers unable to do so. Built with damage.
After the enemy's first round of arrows passed by, another roar suddenly sounded.
"The arrow formation has passed, the enemy is coming, be prepared!!!"
The school captain was the first to rush out of the small stone house. He saw that the ground outside was densely covered with arrows. They were all shot by the enemy in order to cover the siege army and approach the city wall without being affected by the defenders. !
In this way, the effect is also obvious. After a round of arrows, the Turkic siege army also took this opportunity to approach Dingxiang City. When they came to the bottom of Dingxiang City, they set up ladders and siege chisels. At the city gate, prepare to attack the city gate to break it open.
Most of the Turks' siege methods were learned from the Han people, and even the siege equipment was the same.
After all, most of the Han people relied on the city to resist the invasion of the Turks. The Turks naturally had to change, and it was impossible for the Turks to fly over the city wall on horseback.
Of course, compared to fighting immediately, siege warfare is indeed not the strong point of the Turks. Fortunately, after so many years, no matter how stupid they are, they can learn it.
At the captain's shout, the soldiers who were still hiding in the stone house ran out. When they saw a Turkic man climbing up the ladder, some soldiers immediately panicked. What to do.
Fortunately, the captains all had experience and shouted loudly at the soldiers: "Crossbowmen, shoot for me!!!"
"Prepare the rolling logs and rocks. Let me smash them down. Don't give the enemy a chance to rush up. Otherwise, you will have to fight to the death!!!"
"The boiling oil is there. Is it good or not? Get it quickly and pour it on the city! Scald them to death!!!"
As the captains shouted, the panicked soldiers suddenly calmed down and did their own things in an orderly manner according to what the captains said.
Stones were thrown down from the city and hit the climbing Turks on the head. Suddenly, their heads blossomed. Naturally, the Turks who were hit could no longer climb up and fell directly from the ladder.
He smashed a lot of the Turks below who were about to climb.
The rolling logs even smashed a large area, causing grief and grief everywhere under the city wall.
Not to mention, basins of boiling oil were finally poured down, and the Turks under the city wall were rolling around on the ground, in agony.
At this time, the crossbowmen launched an attack on the approaching Turks, preventing the following Turks from approaching again.
However, the siege chisel was driven by the Turks and hit the city gate one after another.
In response to the siege chisel, basins of fire oil were naturally poured down from above, and flaming arrows were shot down one after another.
Suddenly the city gate became a sea of fire, and the Turks who pushed the siege chisel were covered in fire. In the blink of an eye, they were not swallowed up by the fire, but the siege chisel stayed there intact.
The battle started fiercely from the beginning. As expected by Li Jing, the enemy did not attack all four gates, but only attacked the north gate and the east gate. This was also to concentrate the troops and not be too scattered. After all, There are only 50,000 people in the vanguard army. This is just a test, or attrition.
Test the Tang Army's response and consume the Tang Army's supplies. When the real battle comes, the Tang Army's rolling wood and stone rolling, rolling oil, and kerosene will be much less, and it will also lay the foundation for subsequent attacks.
Li Jing naturally knew about this. The Turks were prepared, and he was also prepared. Mudoda was his back-up, and as for the artillery, it was the most important back-up.
This is one of the reasons why Li Jing asked his soldiers not to use wooden lumps yet, in order to make the enemy mistakenly think that he had consumed a lot, and the next wave of siege would be more successful.
And if he uses the wooden lump at that time, he will cause the enemy to suffer a lot! !
