The guards had a grudge against the Talas! The moment Zhou Jianliang bowed to take the order, many people present were shocked. Looking at the "formula" placed on the Shuai Case, the chill instantly covered their backs.

However, everyone consciously remained silent. Wei Dao, who had a good relationship with Zhang Qian, did not ask randomly. What old grudges did both sides actually make Zhang Qian, who has always been kind to others, want to smooth out Talas in one fell swoop?!

You should know that in places like the Western Regions, no one can read orally and read in a hundred people. The history of cities depends entirely on the elders’ oral teachings. The cohesion of a group depends entirely on the upper nobles in the clan.

If a city or tribe's upper class nobles are killed, the city or tribe will become a rootless tree. Soon, the city will be destroyed and become a ruin, and the tribe will become the dependents of others until it is completely annexed by other tribes.

A distant example is Gaochang. At that time, the power of Gaochang Kingdom was so huge that after Hou Junji was angrily killed by all royal families, Gaochang Ancient City has now become a ruin.

Recently, Tiele. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Tiele Jingqi was also famous in the Western Regions. Unfortunately, he met Xue Rengui. After a series of suppression, Tiele became Gelu. (Note: Gelu was once a branch of Tiele, and later replaced Tiele.)

Now, the Sogdians of Talas have met Zhang Qian again. No matter how important the city was in the Western Regions, it can be foreseeable that after this battle, there will be no Talas in the Western Regions!

With four-point uneasiness and six-point confusion, the generals and civil servants went down separately to prepare. The next and third days, the Snow Ye Army launched several attacks on Talas City according to Zhang Qian's arrangement from the east and north respectively. However, each attack, because the defenders resisted fiercely and used the "Meat Shield Technique" and returned in vain.

The casualties between the enemy and us are also very few. In addition to the crossbow, the stone army can also occasionally cause some damage to the Shattered Ye Army? Other weapons are too far apart? It is difficult to shoot through the baffles of the Fire Dragon Car. The Shattered Ye Army smashed the gunpowder bullets on the city wall? Because the flight speed is not fast enough, the Sogdian warriors have enough time to avoid it. The killing effect is getting worse and worse.

On the afternoon of the third day, the Sogdian warriors guarding the city also gained experience. Seeing that the catapult car of the Shattered Ye Jun was loaded? Either face the front of the car? Either drive the "Tangren" to the city as a meat shield. Or run away and leave the empty city walls for gunpowder bullets. When a round of gunpowder bullet explosion ended, they quickly ran back to fill the seats, holding crossbows and shooting at the city under the city? Resolutely do not give the attacker the opportunity to set up a ladder near the city wall.

The soldiers of the Shattered Ye Army had already received the order from Zhang Qian? Deliberately paralyzed the Shi Army. So they stopped the troops in a hurry before sunset for two consecutive days. The Shi Army found that the attacking party was so single and the offensive became increasingly weak, and their morale suddenly surged.

Some bold warriors in the Shi Kingdom even urinated at the city. After seeing this, the soldiers of Thunder Ye seemed to be helpless with these people, except for cursing a few words.

There were also some experienced generals of Shi Kingdom? vaguely felt something was wrong. They took the initiative to find Yi Hu and reminded him to be careful of breaking Ye Jun with other plans. And Yi Hu? He was fooled by the wise man of the Great Food and could not find Bei? He firmly believed that as long as he could not defend himself, he would be more than 70% sure that he would persist until the day the Great Food reinforcements arrived and ignored all reminders.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the southeast wind blew so refreshed. After using the Chao Food, more than 5,000 Thunderbolts and more than 2,000 Thunderbolts and servants from all over the town of Suiye Town gathered in the east of Talas. Half an hour later, the sound of war drums sounded, and the entire team slowly pressed towards Talas City with the drum beats.

On duty, the general of the Shi Kingdom, Little Berksulder, was an expert in many battles. When he saw that almost the entire army of the Shaye Army was dispatched, he immediately realized that the decisive battle was coming. While sending people to report to Yihu, he rushed all the soldiers under his command to the top of the city and was ready to go.

However, he was so busy that he was sweating profusely, but he could not hear the familiar explosion. He hurriedly followed the horse road back to the city. He calmed down and looked out carefully. He saw that after the Tang army of the Tang army advanced three hundred steps from the east gate of Talas, they all stopped. Thousands of wheelbarrows loaded with different objects were pushed to the front of the military formation by carefully selected soldiers of the Shaw Ye, and rearranged with clear layers.

"Dagan, come and see, what is Tang Jun doing? That car of green things looks so familiar?" Even though he was two hundred, seventy or eighty steps away, Sulled still vaguely argued that the two or three hundred wheelbarrows in the front might be loaded with weeds. He turned around and pulled Dagan She Tuo from the horse road and asked loudly.

"Weeds? How is it possible?" Dagan She Tuo was shocked, hunched over, holding the battlements, looking out with his hands. After a while, he nodded hesitantly, "It seems that it is a weed, it is still not dried, and it is still green. Could it be that the Tang army is going to use another magic method?"

Speaking of the word "demonic method", he was shocked and made a cold war. He quickly turned his head to Little Berksulder and suggested loudly, "No matter what is installed on the car, don't let it get close to Talas. The person named Zhang is a demon. Anything that comes to his hands may turn into a weapon, just like iron thunder."

As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderous sound of painting sounded from the Tang army outside the city, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" It was like the north wind blowing across the desert in the cold winter, and in an instant, it made people feel cold.

Immediately afterwards, all the wheelbarrows began to move forward slowly, row after row, like waves rushing towards the beach.

"Iron-winged car, an iron-winged car that can spit out fire! Iron-winged car that can spit out fire has also been launched, following the green wheelbarrow!"

"Take Tail, Tang Jun's catapult is coming again. Hurry up and take the "Tangren" to the horse's face to stop them from throwing iron thunder!"

"What kind of car is that? Why are there many wooden boxes on it?"

"Boxes, are you moving? So many boxes are pushed away by wheelbarrows?"

"Why are there bamboo poles on the box? Do they want to build a ladder?"

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The chaotic screams also sounded on the city wall one after another. The soldiers of the Shijun distinguished the differences in the loads between the wheelbarrows, but did not understand the functions of most of the items loaded on the wheelbarrows, and shouted loudly in hoarse voices.

"Use a bed crossbow, intercept it with a bed crossbow, no matter what car it is pushing over!" Dagan She Tuo suddenly pulled the little Berksulder's armor and shouted, his old face was full of fear. "Hurry up, the person named Zhang must not be kind. When you understand it, it will be too late."

"The crossbow is ready to shoot at the Tang army." Sulede was so quarreled that he was so quarreled that he didn't care about carefully judging the Tang army's intentions. He opened his voice and ordered loudly, "Grass Cart, no, aim at the catapult behind the grass cart and the iron-wing cart and shoot me!"

"Bed crossbow, Burke ordered the bed crossbow to shoot. Aim at the catapult behind!" The messenger opened his voice and quickly spread the order throughout the eastern city wall.

"Yes!" Several stone soldiers agreed loudly on the face of the horse on the left side of the city gate, and then raised the wooden hammer and knocked it hard on the launching mechanism of the crossbow.

"Huh!" Three crossbow arrows, one and a half feet long, flew out from the faces of the horses on both sides with the sound of wind, and flew towards the center of the Tang army's traffic, as fast as lightning.

"Hu————" The east wind was very fast, and the flags were blowing on the top of the city. The water vapor evaporated by the sun was invisible and colorless, but everywhere. Under the influence of wind, water vapor and gravity, the wooden crossbow rod quickly deviated from the established track, floating up, sinking, swaying left and right, and in the air, like swimming poisonous snakes.

Before the traffic flow approached the Tang army, the two "venomous snakes" turned around and plunged into the soil, splashing large masses of mud. Another "venomous snake" was blown by the wind and landed on the edge of the traffic flow, leaving a deep mud ditch.

"Hu——" "Hu——" "Hu——" The sound of breaking through the air broke out again, and three other giant crossbows shot down from the horse's face on the right side of the city gate, and rushed towards the Tang army's traffic again.

Two giant crossbows shot in the air, and the last "venomous snake" finally lived up to expectations and pierced hard on a catapult car moving forward. The sharp crossbow tip instantly dug a big hole in the bamboo frame of the catapult car.

Then, the crossbow rod collided with the support rod on the frame many times, making a series of noisy sounds. Until the accumulation was completely exhausted, it still did not break through the obstacle of the frame and was stuck between several support rods and swung back and forth.

The brother who protected the driver with the shield despised the annoying sound of the collision between the crossbow rod and the frame. He raised his hand, pulled the crossbow rod down, and threw it on the ground. The catapult car was pushed by the other four brothers and continued to move forward slowly, without any pause from beginning to end.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" The Tang army's central army once again sounded a series of high-pitched horn sounds, making people's scalp numb.

"Oh, oh, oh--" Two large groups of thunderbolt servants suddenly launched, bypassing the wings of the traffic flow, and quickly pounced on the city wall in the distance. The warriors on the horses shouted loudly while putting feather arrows on their bows.

The stone army on the city wall took the lead and shot the feather arrows down like hail. However, the samurai warriors suddenly turned around and fled quickly.

The range of feather arrows flying against the wind was greatly shortened, and they landed one after another without catching up with the figure of Tukha Shiren. The Tukha Shi warriors shouted and retreated, their voices filled with mockery of the enemy.

"Don't be fooled, keep your physical strength. No matter how powerful the cavalry is, it cannot attack the city!" Little Berksulder was furious and rushed to the connection between the city wall and the horse's face. He grabbed a neck at a soldier who was shooting an arrow. "Stop, don't waste your physical strength. When the Tangren approaches later, if you don't have the strength to shoot, I will push you to block the iron thunder!"

"Burke forgives the crime, Burke forgives the crime!" The beaten soldier put away his horn bow with red face and bent down to apologize, and did not dare to make a complaint.

Sulled was right, and he was right. No matter how powerful the cavalry was, it was impossible to fly over the city wall. With the strength of the cavalry, even if it was thrown at the speed of the war horse, it would not pose much threat to the defenders on the city wall.

During the war, even those with excellent physical strength will be exhausted to their limits in a battle. If the defenders waste all their strength and arrows on the thunder cavalryman, what can they use to deal with the Tang army's attack later? (Note: The bow is used immediately, the bow is short, and the feather arrows shot are about forty meters away.)

"Everyone listen, keep your energy against the Tang army, and do not shoot at the cavalry!" Knowing that many of his brothers lack combat experience, Little Berksulder let go of the unlucky guy in front of him, opened his voice and shouted instructions to the others.

Before he finished speaking, the samurai warriors had already turned their mounts and turned back. Although the number was only more than 2,000, the momentum was like a sea tide. It was obvious that they were deliberately wasting the defenders' physical strength and arrows to create opportunities for the Tang army's subsequent attack.

"Don't worry about them, keep your energy against the Tang army, keep your energy against the Tang army!" Sulled was anxious, raised his voice, and continued to shout at all the Sogdian soldiers on the city wall and horse's face.

"Don't worry about them, keep your energy against the Tang army, keep your energy against the Tang army!"

"Don't worry about them, keep your energy against the Tang army, keep your energy against the Tang army!"

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The confidants behind him also opened their voices and repeated his orders over and over again.

On the city wall, the relatively experienced Sogdian veterans heard the shouts, put away their horn bows, and then huddled their bodies to the squadrons, allowing the squadrons Shi to continue to show off their power. However, the new recruits who accounted for the vast majority of the defenders were once again frightened by the squadrons Shi, who came in a fierce manner, raised their horn bows and shot the feather arrows down the top of the city without any money.

Before the feathered arrow flew closer, the samurai warrior Shi turned the horses again and left like a tide. From beginning to end, he did not fire an arrow at the head of the city.

"Don't worry about them, keep your strength against the Tang army, keep your strength against the Tang army!" Little Berksulder's face turned blue with anger, and with more than a dozen loud personal soldiers, he shouted and inspected quickly. Seeing the soldiers who did not obey the order, he immediately whipped the other party's back with a whip.

Under the double warning of shouting and whip, most of the Sogdian soldiers guarding the city finally regained their calm one after another. The thunder servants rode their horses and rushed to the city from afar for the third time. The shouting waves were higher and higher. However, there were only a few Sogdian recruits on the top of the city. Most Sogdian soldiers tried hard to restrain their desire to draw their bows and let the enemy cavalry come and go freely.

"Oh, oh, oh--" The thunder cavalry and servants found that the move failed and retreated like a tide again. Then, the two teams merged into one, moved from the east of the city to the north of the city, and changed their positions to use the same trick again.

"You go to the north gate to remind Wuliboke that the cavalry is using fraud!" Sudler immediately breathed a sigh of relief, pulled his confidant Tuge, and gave a loud command. Then, he ran to the horse face on the north side of the east gate again, "Are the giant crossbow equipped? Release it quickly, the Tang army is almost within a hundred steps!"

"Let go, let go..." The little arrows in charge of controlling the crossbow were stunned and quickly realized that their duty was to stop the Tang army's convoy from continuing to approach the city wall, rather than dealing with the attack of the samurai warriors. They shouted and raised the wooden hammer and smashed it hard on the crossbow cart.

"Swoosh--" "Swoosh--" "Swoosh--" Three giant crossbows rose into the air and rushed straight to the convoy a hundred and twenty steps away. The first one was affected by the east wind and water vapor and completely deviated from the target. The second one hit a straw cart, splashing a green "wave." The third one shot on the guardrail of the Fire Dragon Car. With a "bang", he dug a hole in the iron guardrail, and overturned the entire Fire Dragon Cart to the ground.

The Tang army's convoy stopped a little, followed by it, and advanced forward at a faster speed. The injured soldiers were lifted up by their companions and quickly turned to the formation. The broken grass-pushing cart and fire dragon cart were also pushed out of the team to avoid blocking the footsteps of the robe.

"Swoosh--" "Swoosh--" "Swoosh--" Three giant crossbows roared towards the traffic, two fell into the air, and one hit a simple catapult. The huge impact force pushed the catapult to the ground.

Several nearby Tang soldiers were injured, but the impact on the entire team was minimal. Other well-trained Tang soldiers rushed up quickly, diverted the injured, helped the catapult cart up again, and then followed the brigade to continue moving forward.

"Continue to load the bed crossbow, look for the catapult cart to shoot. Hold the crossbow and aim at the Tangren behind the grass cart, and release it." Disliked the poor attack efficiency of the bed crossbow, Berksulder decisively changed his tactics and took out a killer move that he would not easily use.

"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh swosh swosh-" Dozens of crossbow arrows roared down the city wall and headed straight for the grass cart. The emerald green artemisia was shot up and flew up like water waves.

Five or six Tang soldiers who were pushing a cart were hit by crossbow arrows and staggered to the ground. The robes beside him quickly filled up, held the handrail of the wheelbarrow, and pushed forward steadily, without slowing down at all than before.

"Grandma, I'm scared!" A gang leader of the Thunder Ye pulled out a horizontal knife and quickly cut down against the surface of his iron vest. "Crack!" The crossbow rod pierced on his chest was cut into two pieces. He didn't bother to look at the crossbow cluster stuck on the iron vest. He put away the horizontal knife and walked towards his straw cart, resolutely refused to drag the robe's hind legs.

"It's okay!" "It's safe!" "Blessed by Buddha!" ​​"Grandma, it hurts so much!" Cheers rose one after another in the convoy. Tang soldiers, who were hit by unfortunate crossbow arrows, stood up one after another, waved their swords or bare hands to remove the crossbow poles on the iron vest.

Because the distance is too far, most of the crossbow rods cannot penetrate the iron vest. A few people who have sufficient energy have managed to penetrate the iron vest, but they only poked a layer of flesh on the chest of the iron vest owner, and could not continue to go deeper. The Tang soldiers who were caught in the arrow found that they were not dead in the disaster, and they all suddenly became morale. They laughed and took a step, caught up with their own straw cart, and at the same time spread the good news throughout the ears of the robes around them.

Unexpectedly, the ugly iron vest could even defend against a strong crossbow. The other Tang soldiers who pushed the cart and protected the straw cart were also greatly encouraged. They accelerated their steps and pushed the straw cart forward, and pushed the straw cart within eighty steps from the east gate of Talas with the crossbow arrows shot down one after another.

"Hu——" "Hu——" "Hu——" The crossbow on the horse's face was finally loaded and roared at the Tang army's catapult cart again. Most of them deviated from their targets and pulled up wet mud on the ground in vain. Occasionally, one hit was blocked by the high body of the catapult cart, making it difficult to damage the Tang army soldiers who were pushing the cart.

"The Shuofang Camp has all. Stop and the catapult cart will be unfolded on the spot!" He raised his hand and pulled off a giant crossbow from the nearby catapult cart. Zhou Quji suddenly opened his throat and shouted a loud command.

"Stop and unfold the throwing cart on the spot!" The eight messengers held their shields in one hand and waved the flag in the other, running left and right. In a blink of an eye, they spread the orders of their captains to the ears of all brothers Shuofang.

The brothers of Shuofang Army, who had been harassed by the giant crossbow, immediately quickly opened more than forty catapults along the gate and wall of the east side of Talas City, ninety steps away from the gate and the city wall. In a blink of an eye, they formed a nearly straight horizontal formation.

"Fix the bottom support, prepare the counterweight, 60 kilograms, aim at the city wall, knock on the mountain and shake the tiger!" Zhou Quji glanced at Talas with his eyes and continued to issue orders.

"As for the order!" The brothers agreed in unison, took out the wedges and wooden hammers, and fixed the four supporting feet of the catapult cart in place. The counterweight basket quickly sags, and countless shovels were waving at the same time, taking materials on the spot, weighing the wet soil, and filling them one after another.

A row of powerful crossbows and feather arrows flew from the city at the same time, like locusts. However, most of them were blown by the wind, and a small number of them were lucky enough to hit the target, and were blocked by helmets and iron vests, which was futile.

There were only two or three sporadic shots of some unlucky Tang Jun's thighs, causing a series of screams. However, the screams were quickly held back by the injured person. The nearby robe swung his knife to cut off the arrow shaft or arrow rod, dragging the injured person back quickly. The rest of the companions continued to load the counterweight step by step, rotated the rocking arms, and slowly pulled the throwing basket to the launch position with a rope.

The Sogdian soldiers on the top of the city were not attacked, but their hearts began to feel weak, and the feathered arrows and powerful crossbows shot out quickly became sparse.

According to the combat experience summarized a few days ago, they must evacuate the city wall before the Tang army's catapult car is ready. Otherwise, waiting for them is an iron thunder falling from the sky. Anyone who gets one will definitely be divided!

"Don't panic, don't panic, there are Tang people on the city wall and horses on their faces!" Sudler himself began to beat the drum in his heart, but he still raised his voice to boost morale. "Aim at the Tang army behind the catapult cart, the Tang army behind the grass cart and the iron-wing cart, and handed it to the bed crossbow!"

The weeds on the grass cart are too thick, and the effect is minimal whether they are shot up by crossbow arrows or feather arrows. However, after the stone casting cart is unfolded, it does not provide too much cover to the surrounding Tang army, which is most suitable for being covered targets as feather arrows and feather arrows.

When the Sogdian soldiers on the city heard this, they had to bite the bullet and continue to release crossbow arrows and feather arrows. However, the effect was still unreasonable.

The Shuofang Army soldiers who were operating the catapult car had too much combat experience. Most of the time, they hid their bodies behind their teammates' shields. Even if they had to expose their bodies, they always exposed their parts protected by iron armor and helmets, and refused to give their opponents any opportunity to take advantage of.

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The four strands deviated from their target on the way, one stranded to the ground early, and "plowed" a deep ditch on the ground. The last strand missed the throwing arm of a catapult cart, making a loud "bang" sound, which scared people's scalp. Apart from that, it did not cause any consequences.
To be continued...