Chapter 244 Siege from all sides
After Chen Zhibao finished speaking, Ge Luofeng had already thought of a set of words and took a step forward. Just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Li Qing. Li Qing smiled and said, "You Nanzhao people don't have to think about anything. Even for your Nanzhao himself, you can fight whatever you should do!"
Ge Luofeng thought that this is indeed what Li Neng said. It was obvious that his own tribe members could be safe if they defeated the Tubo people. If they stood up and said something for Li Neng and the Tang Dynasty, it would be a bit nonsense.
So Ge Luofeng smiled and retreated while hiding her embarrassment.
In the following time, Li Yi once again told them the plan they had set before. In this battle to defend the city, each team had the meaning of their existence.
Li Yan had known for a long time that his team consisted of four parts, namely the team he brought from Hebei Road and Chang'an City, the men and horses brought from Lingnan Road, the people of Nanzhao and some soldiers from Yizhou.
Among these soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the troops brought by Li Neng and Li Guangbi is obviously the strongest. Even if the troops in Yizhou are a little stronger than those of the Nanzhao people, they are not much stronger.
So Li Neng specially selected the troops from Yizhou and the Nanzhao people, and asked them to be responsible for defending the city in the true sense, that is, to operate the city-defense equipment, so as not to allow the enemy to attack the city wall or break through the city gate.
His own men and Li Guangbi's men were divided into several parts by Li Yan. The cavalry would not directly participate in defending the city according to Li Yan's instructions, and they were also regarded by Li Yan as a trump card in his hand in this battle.
Although there were only more than 20,000 cavalry led by Chen Zhibao, if these more than 20,000 people were used properly, Li Qing knew that they could play a role of 100,000 people.
The remaining Li Neng and Li Guangbi's troops were scattered by Li Neng near the four city gates, so that they could make up for it whether there were any changes in the city gate or the city wall.
This arrangement is indeed more conservative than Li N's previous battles. This is indeed not the style Li N's real desire, but this time the enemy is too strong, which forced Li N's to do so. Moreover, he is ready to fight the war of attrition in Jiannandao. If Yaozhou cannot defend it, he will have a backup plan.
Yaozhou was indeed ready, and since Chisong Dezan entered the territory of the Tang Dynasty, he did not make a quick move. He directly made the distance between the 10,000 cavalry in front of him not more than ten miles from the infantry, so as not to prevent these cavalry, which seemed to them as eyes, were suddenly attacked by Li Qing.
He approached Yaozhou little by little with such a compact formation, and was indeed not ambushed by the Tang army at all in the middle.
However, Chisong Dezan couldn't be happy at all, because Li Neng was obviously not a person waiting to die. Since he didn't come to attack him at this time, he must be staring at him in secret, or he had some other ways to deal with him.
An unknown enemy has never been a good thing, so after a long journey, Chisong Dezan chose to camp at a place fifty or sixty miles away from Yaozhou, and rest for a day.
"Prince Prince, the enemy camped without entering the distance of the pit we set up. It seems that we are not in a hurry to attack!"
Li Guangbi observed all the movements of the Tubo people, and he had to repay Li Qing for everything in detail.
He knew that Li Neng was no longer the young man who followed him and Guo Ziyi's butt, but the God of War in the Tang Dynasty. He could defeat the Uighur cavalry, known as the strongest cavalry in the world, so he was willing to fight behind Li Neng.
"Oh, this Chisong Dezan is as I expected. Although she is young, she is not the courage of an ordinary man. He must have studied the battles before this king, so he is so nervous. But it doesn't matter. As long as they approach Yaozhou, our arrangements will definitely be effective. However, after such a slowdown, the effect will be reduced."
Li Guangbi could have heard from Li Yan's cautious words that Chi Song Dezan might be really a character, so he nodded slightly and made up his mind to do everything he could this time so that Jiannan Road would not fall into the hands of the Tubo people.
At this time, Li Guangbi had to think more about it than Li Qing, that is, once Jiannandao fails, Guo Ziyi will be immediately made into dumplings by the Tubo people. With Guo Ziyi's personality, once such a situation occurs, it is almost impossible for him to give up the place he guards and escape.
Once such a situation occurs, the Tang Dynasty will no longer have decent generals to guard it. Therefore, the battle Li said before was not an exaggeration, but a real existence.
After the two armies confronted each other for a day, the Tang army did not respond to the Tubo people entering the territory and remained firm in the city, which made Chisong Dezan slowly strengthen his thoughts.
After a day of rest, he finally ordered to launch half of the siege equipment he brought this time, head straight to Yaozhou City, and start the siege of the most siege.
Moreover, because of the large number of people, Chisong Dezan did not want to waste time and directly ordered a siege on all sides, turning Yaozhou into a dead city.
He knew that if he did this, no matter whether Li Yan had prepared enough food and grass in the city before, it would be unprecedented in the pressure on the enemy. Under such heavy pressure, he believed that he would one day be able to conquer Yaozhou.
After taking Yaozhou, the entire Jiannan Road will obviously be smooth for Tubo.
The next day, the Tubo army began to slowly siege the city. The soldiers of the Tang and Nanzhao in the city watched a large number of enemy troops approaching their city little by little, and their hearts were beating quite fast.
Li Neng knew that when he set some obstacles for Chisong Dezan, Chisong Dezan was not idle either.
However, not much time had passed since the camp, the Tubo people's march had happened. Many soldiers fell into a pit several feet deep, and the pit was covered with cut wood. Once people fell, they would undoubtedly die.
Such unknown danger has increased the pressure of the Tubo army. They don’t know how many such pits are ahead. They originally thought that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty would not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy, but now it seems that this is not the case. They have already arranged these outside the city and are waiting for them to come to their door.
After the news was passed into Chisong Dezan's ears, Chisong Dezan pondered for a moment and gave an order.
Chapter completed!