Chapter 371 Trapped in the Western Regions, a Great Victory in Varahan

"Enemy attack——"

"Disperse quickly, the enemy is attacking——"

The frightened enemy Persian cavalry officers relied entirely on instinctive reactions. They tightened the reins of their horses and tried to turn the horses' heads and directions to avoid the attack of the red cannons on the Tang Dynasty naval warship outside Suifeng Fort. He shouted loudly, trying to remind Pao Ze behind him to react in time and escape from the range of the Tang army's red cannon at Suifeng Fort.

However, all this was in vain.

How can it be said that the cavalry phalanx that charged up in a dense formation could be stopped when it stopped?

The enemy Persian cavalry rushing in front had just tightened the reins of their horses and tried to slow down. They were immediately knocked down by their own cavalry horses from behind who had no time to react. They were knocked over and screamed repeatedly.

On the warships of the Tang Dynasty outside Suifeng Fort, the soldiers of the Tang Army's Shenji Battalion, under the command of the frontline commander and Baihu, began indiscriminate bombing of the enemy forces outside the city.

"Target, enemy baggage train artillery, fire!"

"fire--"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Boom, boom, boom!

After sending all the first salvo of artillery shells into the enemy's Persian cavalry formation and disrupting the enemy's cavalry charge, the soldiers of the Datang Shenji Battalion immediately aimed at the artillery of the Arab Empire army. .

The Arab Empire's reinforcements, which were dragging copper cannons weighing hundreds or thousands of kilograms, were now using the power of draft horses to drag the heavy copper cannons to Suifeng Fort, trying to get in and shoot them. The power of artillery is maximized on the battlefield.

However, before the soldiers of the enemy's heavy artillery team could arrange the 200 copper artillery pieces purchased with a large sum of money into specific attack positions, they were immediately attacked by the Shenji Battalion of the Datang Army.

When the explosive shells fired by the red-coated cannons exploded in the marching camp of the Arab reinforcements artillery, they immediately knocked down the enemy's artillery and caused many casualties.

"Spread out, spread out quickly!"

"The range of the copper cannon is limited, spread out to avoid enemy bombardment!"

The commander of the Arab Empire's reinforcement artillery had seen the power of copper artillery with his own eyes, and he knew the shortcomings of copper artillery. He didn't even care about the power of the Tang army's artillery fire outside Suifeng Fort, and hurriedly jumped on a tractor-trailer. A carriage carrying a bronze cannon waved its scimitar in its hand and shouted loudly, reminding the artillery soldiers under its command to disperse and avoid the cannon.

Boom!

Suddenly, a bomb fell right next to the enemy's artillery commander.

After an explosion, there was billowing smoke.

Before the thick smoke after the explosion cleared, not far away, the Persian cavalry commander Saleh, who personally led his soldiers into battle to supervise the battle, saw with his own eyes the commander of his own artillery team fell headlong into the thick smoke, his life or death unknown.

"This, how is this possible!"

General Saleh's voice was full of tears, with both reluctance and doubt. Until now, he couldn't figure out how these ten warships appeared out of thin air outside Suifeng Castle on the Pamir Plateau. ;

It is even more unclear when the army of the Tang Dynasty mastered the bronze artillery technology, and their cannons seemed to be far superior in range and power to the bronze artillery purchased from the Charlemagne Empire for a large amount of money;

However, as the commander-in-chief, Saleh knew one thing very well, that is, the warships of the Tang Dynasty outside Suifeng Fort were by no means what he had said before to encourage the morale of the troops. They were the warships of the Tang Dynasty. It is a deception, but a real murder weapon, which is harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Arab Empire under his command without stopping for a moment.

at the same time.

On the broken city wall of Suifeng Castle, there is a golden figure wearing a golden armor, standing proudly on the highest point of the city tower above Suifeng Castle, condescendingly looking down at everything that is happening outside Suifeng Castle.

This person was Chen Huaian, Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty, who traveled across the starry night from Harabalegas, the capital of the Uighur Khanate, to Suifeng Castle.

At this moment, Chen Huaian's young and heroic face finally showed a satisfied smile.

The feat of moving naval warships to the Pamir Plateau and bombarding the enemy was probably only possible in the world, only Chen Huaian, Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty, who had the [Innate Emperor's Destiny] system, could have imagined and accomplished it.

In fact, before Chen Huaian personally led his troops to the Warahan Corridor, he was still thinking about dismantling the red cannons mounted on the warships and placing them on the walls of Suifeng Fort and Flint Bay. above to defend against enemies;

However, after he conducted an on-site inspection of the city defense conditions at these two passes, he discovered that this method simply did not work.

After the battle for the Warahan Corridor a few days ago, the fortifications at Suifeng Castle and Flint Bay Pass had already become dilapidated;

In some places, the enemy's cavalry can even charge directly onto the city wall with the help of the power of the horses and the piled corpses. The defender's advantage of taking advantage of the danger is completely gone!

In desperation, Chen Huaian came up with this method of moving the warship directly outside the plateau city wall, using the wide and strong hull to form a protective barrier around the dilapidated city fortifications to resist the enemy;

Judging from the current results, it’s not bad!

Of course, this method of using the hull of a warship as a city defense bunker is not foolproof or invulnerable.

For example, he was afraid of fire with this wooden hull.

Otherwise, there would be no allusion to the burning of Red Cliff.

Sure enough, the enemy Persian cavalry outside the city quickly adjusted themselves after being bombarded by the red cannons of the Shenji Camp.

The enemy deputy general Omar hurriedly rode back to the main general Saleh and reported loudly: "General, the Tang army, the Tang army's warships are equipped with a large number of copper cannons. Although the firepower is fierce, it also has fatal flaws;"

"That is, the Tang army's warships cannot move on land. I ask the general to hand over all the fierce fire oil carried by the baggage team to me. I will personally lead a special force to burn the Tang army's warships!"

The proposal of deputy general Omar was immediately agreed by the main general Saleh.

The latter's eyes were bloodshot, and he ordered sternly: "Come here, do as General Omar asked, and hand over all the flammable weapons carried by the entire baggage train to General Omar;"

Speaking of this, Saleh patted Omar's shoulder heavily, and said seriously: "General Omar, everything is up to you!"

"Please rest assured, I will not fail in my mission!"

Soon, Deputy General Omar, who received the order from the commander Saleh, led hundreds of his personal soldiers, carrying a large amount of flammable oil and rockets, ready to take advantage of the chaos to attack the Tang warships outside the Suifeng Fort, and stage a "burning Chibi" miracle of the Varahan.

And the Persian Iron Cavalry Commander Saleh immediately ordered the imperial artillery team to disperse and build artillery positions on the spot, and use copper cannons to bombard the red cannons of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, he also ordered the cavalry that had been feinting on the left and right wings to disperse their attacks and use small groups of cavalry to harass, so as to minimize the damage caused by the red cannon to their own cavalry and create an opportunity for the deputy general Omar to approach the Suifeng Fort for a surprise attack on the Tang warships.

Saleh's deployment of troops and pre-war dispatches naturally did not escape the eyes of the Tang Zhaowu Emperor Chen Huaian who was watching the battle in Suifeng Fort.

In fact, in the face of absolute strength, all strategies and tricks are paper tigers that can't stand a single blow.

Even if the enemy's main general Saleh did not make a change in formation, the Tang iron cavalry that had been ready in Suifeng Fort would soon receive the order and go out.

With the arrival of Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, the original 5,000 Tang defenders in Suifeng Fort became 50,000 overnight, all of whom were elite cavalry armed to the teeth.

On the wall of Suifeng Fort, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian slowly drew out the sword from his waist, pointed the tip of the sword directly at the enemy Persian cavalry outside Suifeng Fort, and gave an order: "Warriors of the Tang Dynasty, the opportunity to make contributions to the Tang Dynasty has come-"

"All troops attack!"

"Kill!"

In an instant, shouts of killing rang out in Suifeng Fort.

Then, the slightly broken and mottled gate under the wall of Suifeng Fort opened wide, and the Tang cavalry that had rushed out of the city in two columns jumped out of the gate, crossed the gap deliberately left between the ten warships outside the city, and rushed straight to the enemy Persian cavalry.

Dengdengdeng, Dengdengdeng!

The sound of horse hooves like rolling thunder rushed into the sky, and the sound of the iron hooves of the war horses hitting the ground made Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, who was on the wall of Suifeng Fort, clearly feel the violent vibration.

At the same time when the Tang Dynasty cavalry went out of the city to fight, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty Shenjiying on the ten warships also tacitly stopped the external bombardment, just taking this opportunity to cool down the red cannons whose barrels had become hot due to continuous firing.

However, the soldiers of the Shenjiying were not idle either, but leaned on the deck and the side of the ship, waving their swords, flags, etc., waving flags and shouting for the Tang Dynasty cavalry to fight out of the city to boost their momentum.

"Cavalry, the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty!"

The Tang Dynasty cavalry was discovered by the personal soldiers of the enemy's deputy general Omar as soon as they left the city.

At this moment, the enemy's deputy general Omar personally led hundreds of his personal soldiers to charge on horseback, and the bows and arrows in their hands were already covered with fierce fire oil, just waiting for the Tang Dynasty warships outside the Suifeng Fort to fire thousands of arrows and burn Suifeng Fort.

Unfortunately, Omar's wishful thinking fell through with the Tang Dynasty cavalry's initiative to go out of the city to fight.

"General, Tang, the enemy cavalry of Tang is getting more and more, General——"

Swish, swish, swish!

Boom, boom, boom!

However, the answer to the personal soldier was a sharp whistle, followed by the sound of shells falling to the ground and exploding.

However, the shells were not fired by the Tang warships under the city of Suifeng Fort, but by the copper cannons of their own imperial artillery behind them.

What Omar and his personal soldiers did not expect was that the shells of their own artillery were actually directed at them!

Boom, boom!

After several more explosions, the cavalry phalanx where Omar was located was suddenly divided by several groups of blazing flames.

It was the soldiers carrying fierce fire oil in the cavalry phalanx. After the explosion, the fierce fire oil they carried was ignited, and Omar's personal soldiers phalanx was immediately turned into a sea of ​​fire.

"Fire, put out the fire!"

"Artillery, who told you to fire? Are your eyes covered by your buttocks? Can't you see that your shells are hitting your own people?"

"Stop the shelling, stop the shelling!"

"..."

For a moment, helpless and desperate shouts resounded throughout the enemy cavalry phalanx, and the already messy formation became even more messy.

However, they never thought that the Persian cavalry reinforcements who reinforced the Empire's Eastern Expedition Army would face even more desperate things.

There were countless Tang cavalry soldiers wearing bright armor, holding ring-headed swords, and riding tall and long-legged strong war horses. They were sweeping in with overwhelming force, like a moving steel torrent sweeping across the entire plateau battlefield outside the Suifeng Fort, destroying everything that was blocking the torrent and crushing it mercilessly.

"It's over. The 20,000 Persian cavalry and baggage trains of the empire are all over, and the strategic deployment to open up the Varahan Corridor is also over!"

When the enemy's main general Saleh saw tens of thousands of Tang cavalry rushing out of the Suifeng Fort and sweeping away his own Persian cavalry and baggage artillery with overwhelming force, the first thought in his mind was that everything was over!

The whole person seemed to have been drained of all his strength in an instant, and he collapsed in an instant.

How could this be possible!

Wasn't it said that the Tang army stationed in the Suifeng Fort was less than 10,000 people? How could there be so many Tang soldiers suddenly overnight?

And the ten warships that appeared out of thin air!

It is said that when this person is about to die, his mind will recall his life experiences like a revolving lantern.

But for the enemy commander Saleh at this time, he did not recall his life in his mind. Instead, he was worried about the fate of the Abbasid Dynasty, which was marching eastward, and the hundreds of thousands of imperial troops trapped in the territory of the Uighur Khanate;

It was too weird, too incredible!

The Tang army stationed in the Suifeng Fort was full of weirdness. If it continued to develop in this way, it would not be the empire's eastward expedition, but the Tang Dynasty's westward expedition!

No, I have to survive, I must return to Baghdad alive, and I must report the series of weird events that happened in Suifeng Fort to the Caliph, so that the Abbasid Dynasty can prepare early!

Suddenly, the enemy commander Saleh, who was originally desperate, had a strong desire to survive.

Then, he suddenly cheered up, got on his horse, and issued an order: "Pass the order, the central army garrison (reserve) must stop the enemy cavalry's attack at all costs;"

"Personal guards, follow this general to retreat, quickly!"

"Retreat--"

Before he finished speaking, the enemy commander Saleh galloped away without looking back, fleeing in the direction he came from.

The commanders were the first to run away, and the enemy soldiers who had already been disrupted on the battlefield would not have the strength to fight, and they began to scatter in an instant.

As the saying goes, a defeat like a mountain collapsing describes the state of the enemy reinforcements outside the Suifeng Fort at this time.

Everywhere there were Persian cavalry soldiers fleeing for their lives, everywhere there were ownerless horses neighing, and everywhere there were corpses of enemy soldiers who were beheaded.

"The enemy commander wants to run away, brothers, chase him!"

"Come on, take the enemy commander's banner!"

"Kill him!"

However, the Tang cavalry, who were in high spirits, could not give up such an opportunity to beat the enemy when he was down. They immediately rode their horses to pursue the enemy commander, not giving him any chance to escape.

Finally, after chasing for dozens of miles, a small group of Tang cavalry caught up with the enemy commander, Saleh, who was running for his life, and shot him away with an arrow.

Before he died, Saleh still refused to close his eyes, as if he was worried about the future of the Abbasid Dynasty!