Martial Sage

Chapter 108: Sudden Change in Xiangcheng

At night, in Tang Hao’s house.

Chen Chumo and Tang Hao chatted around the kraft paper for a while. After filling the two small pots of wine, Chen Chumo left.

During these talks, Tang Hao also basically knew the overall situation of the Northern Territory, as well as the deployment of forces between the two sides.

Tang Hao quietly looked at the cowhide map, and began to ponder every detail of the raid in his heart.

One step is wrong, and all the games are lost, and even the lives of these three thousand Qingqis will be buried in the vast grassland.

This also made him have to be cautious.

Tang Hao picked the wick to make the flame brighter.

Recall every detail of Li Jing’s raid on the Turkic army in history.

suddenly!

Tang Hao found a problem!

“In history, Li Jing led thousands of Qingqi, rushed to the Yinshan Mountains for thousands of miles, and finally reversed the overall situation and completely tied the situation in the Northern Territory. That’s because Li Jing himself is the master. The overall strategy is in his grasp!”

“In other words, at that time, all the soldiers and horses led by Li Jing had his team as the core. Even if the war is anxious to the end, it must be a big decisive battle after ensuring the safety of Li Jing’s surprise attack team. ”

“And what if the leader of this light cavalry unit is not Li Jing himself? Or should it be someone else?”

Thinking of this, Tang Hao’s heart instantly fell to the bottom.

Perhaps judging from his current performance, he has indeed performed well enough, whether in talent or martial arts, he has been a figure on the cutting edge of Datang, praised by Empress Changsun, and praised by King Tang. But Tang Hao was not arrogant enough to think that this battle would be based on himself.

In the overall situation of the Northern Territory, these big figures manipulating the Great Tang army will inevitably abandon this light cavalry force for the final victory!

Even abandoning aristocratic disciples like Cheng Chumo for the final overall victory!

If he rushed straight to the King’s Court of the Golden Account, he would be found at the last moment of Yinshan Mountain.

The main force of the East Turks will inevitably retreat. At that time, how did Li Xiaogong, the coach of Datang, choose?

Do everything in one battle!

If Li Xiaogong chooses this way, then what awaits them will be an abyss that will never be restored.

In the face of tens of thousands of Turkic troops, Tang Hao, who was added with Martial Soul in time, would definitely not rush out of the siege.

The final outcome is that Li Xiaogong led the crowd to eat the retreating main Turks, and these retreating main Turks will encircle and suppress one of his Qingqi department!

Tang Hao felt cold.

Recalling Li Xiaogong above the court, he blindly said the feasibility of this trip, but did not mention the protection of this team.

Perhaps from the very beginning, the coach ignored the life and death of this Qingqi, without considering it!

Before he knew it, Tang Hao gritted his teeth and clenched his fists secretly.

The lives of these three thousand soldiers can no longer depend on the coach, and can only be held in their own hands.

a long time.

Tang Hao calmed down. If he was sitting in the position of the coach now, he would do it for the sake of the overall situation.

The arrow is on the string, there is no way out.

That’s it!

The command of the coach Li Xiaogong was to attack Xiangcheng and send his troops to Yinshan.

Then you might as well go straight to the Golden Tent King Court behind Yinshan Mountain and capture the Turkic royal family as a bargaining chip!

Tang Hao no longer thought about it, and fell asleep deeply.

In the early morning, the three thousand soldiers who had finished the supply quickly left the supply camp, bypassing the Datong Mansion, and finally disappeared into the vast north.

After finishing the supplies in the camp a few miles away from Mayi, Tang Hao ordered the saltpeter and sulfur to be removed.

I have to say that Chumo’s luck was not so good. Only three cans of saltpeter purchased were “glauber’s salt” and could not be used. Others were fine.

Tang Hao ordered the people to grind them one by one, and then collected the burned logs in the camp to extinguish them, using them as charcoal, and crushing them in the same way.

After packing up, a group of people set on the road again, no one knew that there was such a team on the northern border where the situation had changed suddenly, heading towards the vast grassland.

In another half a day, the three thousand soldiers led by Tang Hao reached the Eyangling generation who had nothing to do with it.

At noon, while the spies were investigating the situation in Xiangcheng City, Tang Hao removed the jars and mixed the three powders together with an estimated weight.

The sulphur and saltpetre were mixed, and the sun was blazing. Tang Hao was afraid of accidents while mixing, so he ordered someone to move the jar to a small valley and study it on his own.

When it was an hour, Tang Hao had packed the ten or so cans of powder, and added two cans of the honey prepared in advance to increase the adhesion, and to prevent open flames from jolts and shaking, bury the screwed ones. The gauze is used as the lead, and in this way seven or eight cans of crude black powder are manufactured.

For now, although these black powders are crude, they shouldn’t be a big problem in terms of blasting the gates of this small city in Xiangcheng.

Holding the made gunpowder can, Tang Hao held the made gunpowder can and returned to the camp again for about two hours.

This is the boundary line between the Datang and Turkic regions.

To the south is the Mayi city of Datang, and to the north is Xiangcheng occupied by the Turks.

But now what Tang Hao had to do was to go straight to Xiangcheng, and before the Turkic people could react, they took down the city.

How to rely on these three thousand cavalry to take Xiangcheng is a test for this three thousand team.

Tang Hao didn’t care about this city at all. After all, Li Jing had captured it in history, and he was confident that he would have no problem.

But compared to Tang Hao’s indifferent, Cheng Chumo couldn’t sit still.

“Brother Tang! Although the main Turks are moving eastward, there are still more than a thousand people stationed in this city, what shall we do?”

Tang Hao smiled faintly.

“It’s just over a thousand people, don’t we have three thousand elite soldiers, why worry?”

Chen Chumo was still a little worried outside the camp.

“This cavalry attacking the city is a big taboo for soldiers! We are afraid that we will suffer heavy losses in the strong attack!”

“Report!”

At this moment, the spies sent out to inquire came back.

The spy hurried forward, and when he got closer, he rolled over and got off his horse, knelt down on one knee, cupped hands said.

“General, there is a change in Xiangcheng ahead! Only a thousand Turkic cavalry have entered Xiangcheng.”

Hearing the spy’s report, the expressions of Tang Hao and Cheng Chumo changed suddenly.

Originally a thousand defenders could be attacked by force, but now there are a thousand more Turkic troops, which undoubtedly doubles the defenders in the city.

Hearing this, Cheng Chumo frowned, and his already worried heart fell into an ice cellar.

In the current situation, he couldn’t think of any way to break the city.

Xiangcheng is the key place to go north, if you want to enter the Turkic rear, this Xiangcheng must be broken!

However, the three thousand light knights he led did not have a siege ladder or heavy weapons. It was almost impossible to rely on three thousand soldiers to conquer a city with two thousand defenders.

Tang Hao’s face was solemn, and he slowly walked up the mound, looking at the city looming on the grassland in the distance.

For the time being, to win this city, it seems that you can only rely on these bottles.