Chapter 245
When some soldiers fell into the pit and died, Chisong Dezan immediately ordered the marching to stop, and all the troops returned to the previous barracks.
"What? They stopped moving because those few horses fell into the pit?"
After the Tang Dynasty scout sent the news into the city, almost everyone was quite surprised by the Tubo people's actions.
Originally, the aliens were more cruel than the Tang Dynasty, so Li Neng thought that Chisong Dezan would not care about the dead people and would have to drive all the way to the city, but it is obviously not the case now.
After Chisong Dezan returned, he sent a small team of troops not long after, and slowly arrived at the place where he encountered a trap before and began to test forward step by step. Obviously, it was to open the way.
When the news reached Li Lan's ears, Li Lan could only sigh, because he knew that even if he sent troops to clear out the enemy troops who were exploring the way, it would be too late.
The number of traps is not very large, and most of them are distributed within a range of miles. By the time Li Yan sent someone over, they had already detected the location of the traps.
"Prince, our trap is probably not of any effect!"
Zhang Xun was obviously a little unhappy about this situation. As a civil servant, Li Qing did not ask him to go out to lead the troops, but asked him to help him out with his side. After all, Zhang Xun's head was still very fast.
After hearing Zhang Xun's words, Li Qing nodded slightly. This was indeed something he had never expected before, but since it was broken by Chi Song Dezan, Li Qing could only change his mind.
"These traps did not cause much damage to the enemy, but their effect was achieved. Do you still remember what I said? The arrangements outside the city were not to kill many of their troops, but to slapped their aura. Now, this goal has been achieved."
"What the prince means is that our plan and the rhythm of sending troops have been disrupted by us?" Zhang Xun's understanding ability is still quite good, and he immediately knew why Li Wen said that.
"Only one trap is enough, it won't affect their mood much. After all, Chisong Dezan made a great decision to attack Jiannandao. However, for them, the most difficult thing to accept is that there are many unknowns ahead. We have prepared five levels for them. If they can have such a good mentality every time, even if they lose, I will be convinced!"
At this point, Zhang Xun fully understood that the reason why Li Qing had been tirelessly setting up so many scenes that could not cause too much damage to the enemy was that these scenes would eventually make the enemy angry. Once they were annoyed, they would naturally lose their previous aura.
Sure enough, the Tubo people had discovered all the remaining traps without spending much effort, and the whole process only delayed them for most of the day.
In Chisong Dezan's heart, most of the day was nothing for the long offensive and defensive battle, which should have been a very long time, so he really delayed this time, so he simply let the soldiers spend another night in the camp and wait until the next day to attack.
When fighting with the Tubo people, Li Gui found that it was really different from the Uighur people. Because of their region and temperament, the Uighur people were mostly not good at fighting tough battles. They liked to fight quickly, but the Tubo people were different. The Tubo people have been studying the Tang Dynasty these years. No matter whether it was a tough battle or not, they could fight.
But the next day, when they walked through the trap smoothly, outside a forest, they suddenly shot out very thick crossbows.
There are not many powerful crossbows, but these are obviously equipment that have been arranged there for a long time. Their shooting distance is definitely not comparable to arrows that ordinary humans can pull.
Not only that, those crossbow arrows could easily shoot through a soldier's body, and even three or four soldiers were directly strapped with candied haws by a powerful crossbow.
Because this object was not available in Tubo, when these crossbows were just shot out, the Tubo soldiers did experience a short period of panic. After the panic, when Chisong Dezan sent people into the woods to find these crossbows, they did find it, but the Tang army that operated them had long since run away.
In fact, only hundreds of people were killed by this wave of shooting, but their death was really a bit tragic, just like the person who fell into the trap before, almost unable to keep a whole body, which had a big impact on ordinary Tubo soldiers.
Some of them finally began to realize that the Tang people would not let them reach the city easily. There might be such a terrifying thing waiting for them along the way. Maybe as they walked, they died on the road before they could react.
This kind of emotion spread among the soldiers, and Chisong Dezan could also feel it, but this time he made a decision not to go back and rest. Instead, no matter what kind of means the Tang Dynasty had waiting for them, he had to go there.
Chisong Dezan asked his soldiers to convey his words to every soldier, that is, they would not stop, nor would they lose many people when they arrived at the city of Yaozhou. All this that the Tang people had done was just to delay the time of their demise when they were exhausted.
This is indeed true, and many soldiers also know that what he said is right, but one thing is that these soldiers don’t know if they will be themselves who will die so miserably next time.
And some of them were indeed right. After they walked for a long time, they were attacked by huge rocks flying over from somewhere. Obviously, this was a catapult that the Tang Dynasty had but they did not have.
Chapter completed!