659. Lanzhou Meat Grinder (middle)
When Songtsen Gampo was busy organizing the team, some Tubo soldiers began to spontaneously break through the surrounding encirclement. They probably guessed that the so-called "heaven punishment" would only continue here. People all yearn for safety. They saw that people outside the encirclement were not "heaven punishment", so they naturally wanted to run outside and avoid the so-called "heaven punishment". But would Jing Wen let them leave so carefreely? So, it was obviously impossible.
"Order the regiments to guard the encirclement and not let a Tubo run away!" Jing Wen said.
"Swoosh swish swish..."
The crossbow soldiers shot the Tubo people inside the encirclement, and the scattered Tubo people began to be shot and killed. The Tubo people wanted to break through this encirclement, but found that their strength could not break through the encirclement at all. They were just a group of spontaneous people, and no one organized a large army to break through, so this relatively "weak" encirclement was enough to cause them to suffer heavy losses, but they were useless.
The Tubo people have been disrupted and have lost their organization. Moreover, they do not have the so-called military rank system and cannot clearly define their command in chaos. Therefore, their breakthrough is simply without any organization, which makes them blocked into the encirclement. The army without any organization is simply vulnerable to the army with a well-organized organization.
"Shoot..." The leaders of various mixed groups shouted.
"Pulleymen are ready. If there are any fish that escaped the arrow rain, you will stab them to death!"
"I understand!" shouted the spearman.
Those Tubo soldiers who broke through scatteredly had to face the enemy's arrows like rain at a distance, and after entering, they had to face the assassination of spearmen. They often had to face the assassination of more than ten spearmen alone, and they could not be opponents at all. Although these Tubo people had a total of 50,000, there were not many people who actually broke through at one time. This created a local opportunity to fight less, allowing the Tang army to occupy a local military advantage. Those Tubo people who broke through were all tactics of fuel and had no use at all.
"Oh my God! Will I destroy my Tubo?" Songtsen Gampo sighed to the sky.
Songtsen Gampo felt that this was the most miserable day. His father was poisoned to death, but his relatives and ministers rebelled one after another. But he did not lose hope and tried hard to organize an army to quell the rebellion. But now, the 50,000 army is extremely chaotic and has lost control. At this time, only thousands of people were able to follow Songtsen Gampo to mobilize. But thousands of people could not encircle the people of the Tubo Tang Dynasty. Songtsen Gampo knew this deeply. And looking at the horrified eyes of the soldiers under the subordinates, Songtsen Gampo already knew that the morale of these soldiers had completely dispersed. If the army had no morale, how could there be combat power?
If Songtsen Gampo had known that the Tang Dynasty had such a weapon, he would not have thought of taking advantage. This weapon was too powerful, and it was bombed for less than two quarters of an hour, which was half an hour, but it had cost him five or six thousand people. Of course, the loss of numbers was not the focus. What was important was that the loss of morale was the most terrible. After this battle, these soldiers would probably be scared. In the future, they would probably have a fear of the Tang Dynasty army. This was similar to the Korean-phobic symptoms of later athletes, who were too afraid of an opponent. As a soldier, losing confidence was equivalent to a lamb to be slaughtered.
"The Tubo people can no longer hold on. Let the firearm brigade bombing not be so dense. We must narrow the encirclement." Jing Wen said.
The brigade commander of the Firearms Brigade heard this and immediately said, "It's really not satisfying yet!"
When the soldiers next to him heard this, they immediately complained in their hearts: "The bombing of just two quarters of an hour has almost exhausted all the missiles. Moreover, the money spent is very huge."
Although the missile bombing was very easy, the missile cost was also very huge. The bombing just now was enough to make the Tang Dynasty fight tens of thousands of people a battle. Therefore, using missiles and using manpower would not save combat costs. The only thing that could be saved was the cost of personnel losses. Because missiles could reduce casualties and further reduce the subsequent economic pressure of the court, this was the reason why Jing Wen persuaded everyone to use firearms.
"All regiments obey orders and narrow the encirclement!" shouted the commander-in-chief.
At this time, the spearmen began to move forward, and the crossbowmen were also covering the spearmen and suppressing the enemy's bows and arrows. The crossbowmen were also covered by the spearmen to protect them from being attacked by the Turkic fighting troops that rushed towards each other. In this way, they could move forward all the time. Although the speed of advancement was not very fast, it was enough to make everyone slow down.
"Come on slower, this is our first time in the infrased artillery collaboration, don't be messed up. If the cooperation is not good, it may be in danger!" Jing Wen said.
Jing Wen was also a little nervous. This was the first time to conduct infantry and cannon coordination in actual combat. According to the previous combat methods, firearms were used first, and then soldiers were allowed to attack with cold weapons. However, the missiles had not really stopped yet, but the soldiers had already begun to advance and narrow the encirclement. This is actually infantry and cannon coordination, which is very important for cooperating with organizational ability. Although some training was conducted before, it was not possible in the actual combat. Now the Tubo people are already in the water, and they can experiment with infantry and cannon coordination in the actual combat.
Although these crossbowmen and spearmen were advancing very slowly, they were still shrinking the encirclement of the Tubo people and constantly compressing the activity space of the Tubo people. The Tubo people were forced to become more and more concentrated, and as a result, they were killed by missiles and became more and more powerful.
"Zanpu, they besieged us!" Qinling said.
Chapter completed!