Valley Emperor

The Tartars are not good at sieging cities. This is not because they lack the courage to go to the city and fight hand-to-hand, but because of the lack of siege equipment. Facing the city defense system of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty, the Tartars have not been able to do much for the past few years. .

Over the years, it is not that they have not tried to siege cities. For some cities on the Great Wall defense line, they have also fought, but they can take them down almost every time.

That is, in recent months, in order to cut off the supply line of the Datang 6th Army, they have gathered heavy troops to continuously besiege some of the earthen bastions on the supply line. Even so, they have paid a heavy price every time.

How many thousands of cavalry were killed and wounded, most of them were killed or injured by attacking these earthen bastions.

But, more importantly, how can those earthen bastions be compared with a big city like Dongsheng City.

Those earthen bastions generally only took a few days to build by the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty. Generally speaking, it was just a small field fortification. The garrison was only five or six hundred people at the beginning, and then it was spread to nearly a thousand people.

However, as for Dongsheng City, Altan Khan knew very well that those southern Tang barbarians spent more than a month to build it, and there were at least 20,000 troops stationed there.

Although he has a large army of 60,000 to 70,000 people, it is impossible to gather all of them to attack the city. He must leave some people to attack the supply line of the southern Tang barbarians. Although this cannot completely cut off the southern Tang barbarians' supply line, it can be done anyway. It will bring huge pressure on them and contain a large number of their troops. Otherwise, they will be able to transport the supplies safely and steadily, and they will not need a lot of troops to **** them.

If it wasn't for the fact that the supply line contained a large number of their troops, the southern Tang barbarians in Dongsheng City would not be 20,000, but 40,000 or more.

A supply line at least contained more than 30,000 troops of the Datang 6th Army, which was a considerable number.

Of course, Alta Khan invested a lot of troops, basically maintaining a force of more than 10,000 cavalry in this area.

In addition, he also needs to maintain a certain amount of troops in other directions to prevent accidents, because this is the same as the Datang 6th Army still maintains a large number of troops in many places of the Great Wall defense line, and Altan Khan also needs to maintain the corresponding places above. A certain amount of troops, not to mention the attack, but at least those southern Tang barbarians cannot be let out of the Great Wall from other places.

If this is calculated, the number of troops he can use to besiege Dongsheng City will not exceed 50,000.

50,000 people want to attack Dongsheng City?

I don't think it's very reliable!

Even if he is a Tatar, he knows that the troops required for siege operations are at least several times that of the defenders, and sometimes even ten times more troops.

Even if the troops are insufficient, he still lacks the means to siege the city.

The southern Tang barbarians on the opposite side used guns and grenades to defend the city, and the firepower was quite terrifying.

If you want to fight against such an enemy, the best way is to have the corresponding guns, especially the guns are the most important, but does Altan Khan have guns in his hands?

some!

But the number is only a measly thirty or so, and most of them are old-fashioned general cannons that were obtained from Qian Ming.

These old-fashioned artillery have common characteristics. They are all shotguns with short range and low power. They are usually used as defensive weapons to attack enemy infantry, but they can still be used, but if you want to use them as siege weapons, bomb If you break the enemy's walls, don't count on it.

The only thing that is really useful is that they have seized most of the artillery of the Southern Tang barbarians through various methods in the past few years, especially when they broke through those earthen bastions and bastions in the past few months, but the number is very small, even ten. No.

However, these old cannons and the captured Tang Army artillery are also treated as treasures by Alta Khan. They are usually carried by their direct troops and never used by other collateral troops.

But does this work?

Useless!

He didn't know how many artillery pieces the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty had in total, but he did know that there were at least hundreds of artillery pieces in Dongsheng City.

Those are all real cannons. This cannon is not a name, but a literal meaning. Large-scale artillery, thousands or even thousands of pounds of artillery are available.

Compared with these cannons, the old cannons at home have to be thrown into the garbage heap, and only a few cannons obtained from Tang Jun can come in handy.

Over the years, Altan Khan has been trying to acquire Datang's artillery, but the Datang Empire has always refused to export artillery, even if it is Fusang, the Datang Empire is only selling some shotguns, but the long body No matter whether it is a five-jin cannon or a nine-jin cannon, all cannons are not allowed to be exported.

Altan Khan was naturally unable to directly purchase these artillery pieces. Even if he was willing to pay a high price to buy them, the Tang Empire had never bought them.

Of course, the Tang Empire has been equipped with artillery for many years, and some artillery pieces will always be lost in the war. In addition, there is a major way to cause a lot of artillery outflow, that is, the artillery equipped on various merchant ships.

Although the Datang Empire was very strict on the management of artillery on these merchant ships, and strictly stipulated how many guns left the port and how many guns must be returned, not every merchant ship could return smoothly.

Some merchant ships were attacked and captured by pirates, or ran aground in some storm, and the artillery on the ships would be scattered. Although the number of each time was not much, it accumulated a lot.

At least, many pirates in the South Seas are equipped with artillery produced by Datang.

However, Altan Khan was unable to obtain Datang's artillery in this way.

Because the Altan Khan is in the north, the Tang Dynasty is in the south, and the Tatars are strictly blocked by the huge Great Wall defense line, they can't make contact with the Nanyang region at all, let alone transport in such conspicuous things as artillery. .

The artillery in the hands of Altan Khan, whether it is the old-fashioned general cannons of the Ming army or the new cannons of the Tang army, are mostly captured. These captured artillery pieces have also given Altan Khan a lot in previous wars. 's assistance.

However, this cannon, compared with the cannon of the Nanmanzi on Dongsheng City, is not enough to see.

More importantly, although they have captured artillery pieces, they don't have enough ammunition. Most of their ammunition is also captured. As for buying them, I'm sorry, the Tang Empire also doesn't sell them.

It's impossible to get it from anywhere else.

And self-made is even more nonsense. They Tatars are good at raising horses and herding, but they are not good at these guns.

Altan Khan, who was thinking about his own strength, was very pessimistic and realized that if he wanted to win Dongsheng City, it was an almost impossible task.

What if I can't get it? Continue to stalemate with the Southern Tang Manzi? But how long can it last, a month? two months?

Although the Tatars are quite comfortable on the grasslands, the army also needs to spend a lot of materials outside. It has been out for a few months, and Altan Khan has been dragging it on.

But regardless of these Southern Tang barbarians, the consequences will be even worse. Today, Dongsheng City can only be regarded as a military fortress at best, but if the people of the Tang Dynasty are allowed to station here, it will soon become a settlement area, and then Dongsheng City will become a settlement area. For the stronghold, build earthen bastions everywhere.

Those earthen bastions and bastions are quite a bad habit. They seem to be simple and there are not many troops stationed there. However, if they don’t get killed or injured, they hope to be able to take them down. More importantly, even if they are defeated, they will face the Great Tang Dynasty. The 6th Army's counteroffensive was also unable to hold back.

I was thinking about what to do.

Deng Xide in Dongsheng City was quite comfortable. After months of hard work, he finally gained a firm foothold in Dongsheng City.

In order to gain a firm foothold here, it is not easy, and countless materials have been spent. In order to maintain the supply line, more than 10,000 soldiers and soldiers have been killed or injured.

However, despite paying a heavy price, this Dongsheng City was finally repaired, and he had considerable confidence in the newly built Dongsheng City.

This Dongsheng City is very different from the ordinary cities built in the Ming Dynasty. Today's Dongsheng City is a large-scale bastion, and the core buildings are all made of cement transported from thousands of miles in China. Pretty amazing.

Such a large bastion can accommodate at least 30,000 soldiers to fight.

Of course, the current Dongsheng City is still very rudimentary, but it has the most basic military defense capabilities. To put it bluntly, it is actually a replica of the earthen bastion, but it is larger, and supplies still need to be transported through supply lines. come over.

If you want to be stationed for a long time, then you need to carry out reclamation here. After all, it is not a small amount for tens of thousands of people to eat, and it is too difficult to maintain the supply line.

However, even though there are many difficulties, Deng Xide feels that this is enough.

With this Dongsheng City as a support, then he can plan the next step, and then he will see what these Tatars can do with themselves.

It didn't take long for him to convene the generals and start issuing relevant orders.

He ordered the troops to get ready~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to continue to build the earthen bastion, where to build it? To the north, where is the north? Yinshan!

If the first one has been cultivated, then continue to cultivate until it reaches Yin Mountain. What will happen then? If you look at the map directly, you will know that the entire Tumo River will be divided into two, and the connection between the Tumo River and the Hetao area will be completely cut off.

Anyone with a little IQ will know what impact it will have on the Tatars once they are made by the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

If Dongsheng City is a huge nail, then this earthen bastion defense line that Deng Xide is going to build, combined with the original bastion defense line and Dongsheng City, will form a huge chain!

Totally strangle the Tatars!

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