Chapter 253
The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of snow falling, unknowingly, the time has come to the last day of the third year of Zhenguan.
This year, the Tang Dynasty can be said to be in turmoil. First, there were droughts and floods in various parts of Shandong. Guanzhong, the base of the Tang Dynasty, was also plagued by locust plagues. It can be said that there were many disasters.
It seems that it is almost the end of the year, and the Turks are about to be attacked again. Anyway, there is no time to stop.
Logically speaking, given the situation in the Tang Dynasty, it should be a time to recuperate and rest with the is really not a wise move to initiate a decisive battle with the Turks at this time.
But that's often the case, the enemy won't wait for you to fight after you're ready.
It is true that the Tang Dynasty was full of disasters, but the Turks made it even worse, worse than the Tang Dynasty. This allowed everyone in the Tang Dynasty to see an opportunity.
Sometimes when two countries compete, the competition is not about who is stronger than the other, but about who is weaker than the other.
Yes, Datang was not neither do the Turks. At this time, it depends on who can seize the opportunity.
When things got to this point, Jie Li was defeated in the first battle and returned in defeat after several counterattacks. He also ran to his lair to lick his wounds, preparing to negotiate peace with Datang, and wait until he calmed down to fight again.
But will Datang give him a chance?The answer is: no!
This is when Turk is at his weakest. If we don't give him a fatal blow now, if we wait for him to recover, what will happen to Datang? Even if Datang could defeat him then, it would be impossible to have such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Whether it is Li Jing, the emperor Li Shimin, or the important ministers in the court, they all understand the truth that wild fire cannot be burned out, but spring breeze blows again.
With the current size of the Turks, as long as they have a hero and then unify the entire Turks, where the Turks span thousands of miles and have the strength of millions of people who can control strings, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to deal with it.
Therefore, at this time, the Turks are divided internally, and they must be crippled even if they grit their teeth, so as to weaken the overall strength of the Turks to the greatest extent.
Don't forget that the Tang Dynasty is currently facing only the Eastern Turks, and to the west of the Tang Dynasty there are the Western Turks who are even more powerful.
Therefore, the top management of Datang know very well how rare this opportunity is. If they cannot seize it, they will be the sinners of Datang.
Ji Song has received Li Jing's military order. At this time, Tang Jian has arrived at the Turkic base camp. He will try his best to delay time and buy more preparation time for Datang.
But he told Ji Song that it wouldn't be long and asked him to be ready to go to war and be ready to go at any time.
It was impossible to pass the Spring Festival. The entire rear army camp immediately came to life after Ji Song gave the order.
The eight hundred soldiers under Su Lie's command never stopped training every day, no matter whether it was windy or snowy outside.
But the intensity was weakened a lot by Ji Song. After all, they were about to fight, and it was still very important for them to maintain good physical strength.
With nothing to do, Ji Song came to Jiangzuo Camp to check how the things he asked them to make were doing.
Now that he has accepted the task, he must do his best. It is also his responsibility as the manager to minimize his own casualties while completing the task.
After all, a general who can win battles and ensure the casualties of his soldiers is more likely to gain their support.
"How's it going?"
Ji Song asked as soon as he arrived at Jiangzuo Camp.
"I have seen Hou Ye!"
Just by hearing this title, you can tell that he is an old man from before.
That's right, the leader of the general camp in front of him is the son of Old Man Gao of Sinong Temple, Gao Liang. According to his father's idea, he hopes that his son can become a high-ranking pillar.
Sorghum did not disappoint me either. He became the principal at the age of more than thirty. His craftsmanship is beyond words, it is absolutely the best.
Since receiving the appointment, Ji Song has started to make some preparations. This time he came here just to see how they are we have these two things when we go on an expedition, we will not only reduce casualties, but also inflict maximum casualties on the Turks.
Gao Liang didn't waste any words and said directly: "Master Marquis, please come with me."
Soon, they came to a school ground, which was where they tested weapons. In front of them was a mountain wall with many holes on it, which were left when testing weapons.
Seeing this, Ji Song was overjoyed and knew that things were going well.
So, he was not in a hurry anymore and just waited for Gaoliang's performance. Then he called someone to call Su Lie and several captains, preparing to let them have a look. After all, they were the ones who used it in the end.
After a while, everyone arrived. Ji Song waved his hand to indicate that they didn't need to be polite and just wait.
Sorghum worked for about half an hour before everything was ready.
What was placed in front of them was a wooden box with two wheels and a wooden box on top. There were many holes arranged regularly on the wooden box.
"Master Marquis, you are ready. Do you want to start?"
Gao Liang came to Ji Song and said.
Ji Song waved his hand and said: "Let's start!"
"promise!"
After giving the order, three people opened two bundles of arrows that were as thick as a child's arm, with a huge arrow emitting cold light at one end.
Opening the cover behind the wooden box, everyone saw that it was filled with dense mechanisms and placed the giant arrow inside and strung it.
Ji Song roughly counted, there were 49. Ji Song nodded, it was not easy to reach this point.
Finally, the cover was put on, two of them were waiting aside with giant hammers, and one began to adjust the direction and height.
When everything was done, they nodded to the sorghum to indicate that it was ready.
Zhang Lun, Su Lie and others were confused. They didn't know what the manager meant by asking them to look at this 'big box'. Ji Song didn't care what they thought, they would know later.
Ji Song nodded when he saw Gaoliang nodding to him.
"Smash!"
"哐" "哐". Gao Liang gave the order, and saw two men holding giant hammers smashing down the machine behind the 'big box' one after another.
Only the sound of whooshing through the air rang in my ears, and the sound of 'dong, dong' also sounded from the mountain wall in the distance.
Everyone looked up and saw two huge arrows that were still trembling at the end of the hard mountain wall.
The arrow had completely penetrated the mountain wall, and was actually a foot deep. This made Su Lie and others completely dumbfounded. What would it look like if it hit a person? Several people looked at each other and saw each other's shock. With this thing, as long as there are enough, it will be the enemy's nightmare.
They could imagine that if they suddenly revealed this sharp weapon when the enemy was charging, they would probably be shot into gourd skewers before the enemy could charge forward.
Ji Song couldn't care about their thoughts at this time, after seeing such was also a little excited and said to Gaoliang: "Continue until the launch is finished."
"promise!"
Now he just wants to see how the performance and reliability of this weapon he named the crossbow is, lest it misfire on the battlefield, which would be a big joke.
I worked overtime until [-] o'clock in the evening and didn't come back until I set up automatic publishing. I was really sleepy, so I'd better go to bed first!
(End of this chapter)
