Different from Mangbu, after Wangbu got the relevant news, they directly gathered all the nearby tribes in their main city. It was also a plain in a valley, where there was a certain amount of land for farming. , allowing them to sustain a larger population.
Looking at the huge village in front of him, Zhang Liang sneered. He didn't know how many people Wangbu had gathered and whether they had mobilized all of them. These were not important.
When the other party was unwilling to surrender, Zhang Liang directly mobilized his troops to prepare for the attack.
Looking at the Tang army outside, the leader of the Wang tribe, Awa Buqi, felt very uneasy. He actually wanted to surrender, but the Tang Dynasty had already made it clear that it wanted to avenge the Tang tribe. Although they had no chance to kill, Because I didn't catch up, I didn't find out when I got there. I just burned down the opponent's village.
But since the other party wanted to take revenge, he, the leader, could not escape. As the leader of Wangbu, he really didn’t know that it was the territory of the Tang Dynasty. This large mountain forest had always been the territory of the Shanyue people, and various small villages Tribes make up everything in this mountain forest.
Of course he knew about the Tang Dynasty, the unification of the six imperial edicts, and the final surrender of the Nanzhao Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty. He also knew that Nanzhao itself was a long way from them, and there were many mountains in between. The most important thing was that there was nothing on these lands. There were obvious signs, and they had no idea that Datang was there.
There has always been a conflict between Wangbu and Mangbu. They were chasing those people, thinking they were people from Mangbu, so their talents chased them all the way. Who knew they were people from Datang.
So, he wanted to surrender, but he didn't want to die.
The problem is that Wangbu is almost surrounded by mountains, and Wangbu has been the strongest here for generations. It is difficult for others to pass through the mountains and forests outside, let alone penetrate deep into these hinterlands.
Therefore, although their villages also have walls, these walls are not even as good as the Matsube village in Mangbu. People can stand on the walls. Their walls are as high as two people and are made of wood and bamboo. There are more Time to guard against the beast.
No one can stand on the city wall. There are separate watch towers behind the city wall where people can stand, but there are not many people standing on these watch towers.
In other words, if the opponent wants to attack, they can only wait behind the city wall and wait for the opponent to break the city, or they can go out to meet the enemy.
The bows and arrows on the guard tower could not stop the Tang Dynasty's army from advancing. In fact, so far, they have not come into contact with the Tang Dynasty's army.
Looking at the simple city in front of him, Zhang Liang couldn't help but smile. That's it? You call this a city wall? Do you have any misunderstanding about the city wall? With this kind of city wall, why was it so difficult for the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms to rule these places and couldn't defeat them?
Is there any need to fight against an enemy like this? Isn't the situation obvious?
However, Zhang Liang apparently forgot that he was able to arrive here smoothly because 80% of the more than 10,000 troops he led were also rigorously trained mountain people.
The remaining 20% were the 2,000 longbowmen dispatched from Shu before.
However, just this city wall...
"Bed crossbowmen prepare." Zhang Liang directly gave the order loudly.
Also carrying a hundred medium-sized crossbows, they quickly spread out at the front of the team about a hundred and fifty meters away from the city wall, and the thick crossbow arrows were directly stuffed into the grooves.
The soldiers standing on the guard tower screamed in horror, and all the soldiers inside the city wall began to commotion, but they didn't know what to do! Because they have no means to attack the enemy at all.
These bed crossbows are not the weapons they should have at all.
And they could only watch helplessly as the hundred bed crossbows pulled the strings of their crossbows, and then suddenly pulled the triggers under Zhang Liang's order.
A low "buzz" sound sounded, and then three hundred crossbow arrows directly hit the wooden fence wall at a terrifying speed.
"Bang" and the harsh sound of wood exploding sounded. At least 60% of the crossbow arrows shot directly through the wooden city wall, bringing countless splinters of wood and ruthlessly piercing the bodies of the soldiers behind the wall.
The piercing screams instantly echoed through the entire city.
Only a small number of crossbow arrows that directly hit the thickest wooden piles on the city wall did not penetrate, but even so, the huge impact force often even completely broke those wooden piles.
Listening to the screams coming from inside, Zhang Liang sneered, waved his hand and said: "Longbowmen, prepare, test the bows and arrows in your hands, in units of 1,000 people, take turns shooting to keep the arrows covered."
"yes!"
The commander of the longbowmen quickly ordered the two thousand longbowmen to line up. Then when they pulled the bows and arrows in their hands, they began to throw the arrows in their hands at an elevation angle.
The ultra-long bow arms and specially made stable arrows allow the arrows fired by these longbowmen to easily reach a range of about 200 meters, and have terrible penetrating power at this range.
Although if the longbow soldiers use iron arrows at this range, the penetration power against the current steel armor of the Tang Dynasty is still somewhat insufficient, but against traditional armor patches, its penetration power is terrifying, especially the traditional Tang Dynasty armor. The three-sided armor-piercing arrow can cause devastating damage.
In fact, this kind of longbow soldier can only be regarded as some tests of some weapons proposed by Li Ke, because according to the current composite recurve bow of the Tang Dynasty, it uses beef tendons, bone fragments, and wood composites with suitable hardness. The compound bow produced by recurving the arm can kill unarmored personnel at a distance of nearly 1,670 meters.
The armor-piercing ability is somewhat weakened compared to this type of longbow, but it still has terrifying lethality when combined with Datang's three-edged armor-piercing arrow at a distance of about a hundred meters.
Therefore, this kind of longbow soldier is actually relatively useless, but if it is covered with arrows, the killing range of about 200 meters is still good, especially for these armies that are seriously under-equipped with armor, it has a full killing effect.
Sure enough, under Zhang Liang's gaze, dense arrows flew directly over the opponent's city wall and shot down from the air. Another wave of screams began throughout the city.
Even the city walls are within the coverage of these arrows. Anyway, there are not many things in the Tang Dynasty now, but there are many arrows.
"Prepare to attack. After ten rounds of arrows, attack the city directly." Zhang Liang said.
"yes!"
Dense arrows covered the entire city wall like rain, and the leader of Wangbu in the distance was frightened.
