Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

When Li Daozong and the others rushed to Gaochang City, the influx of huge troops immediately caused commotion in Gaochang City.

After discussing the situation here with Li Daliang, they are not worried about the situation here.

"General Li, General An, I have a heartfelt request." After they finished discussing the battle, Zhou Shaoshan said.

"Commissioner Zhou, please tell me." Li Daozong and An Xinggui no longer ignored this seemingly ordinary, but extremely charismatic political commissar.

"Release these captives, explain the relevant situation to them clearly, and let them go back to publicize the policies of our Datang army to the people of Gaochang and other cities, which can effectively alleviate the troubles we will encounter next, and our army will continue to fight It's impossible to bring them all." Zhou Shaoshan said.

Li Daozong and An Xinggui thought about it, and then agreed.

Although these captives are said to be Gaochang elite soldiers and Turkic people, in fact, just like what Zhou Shaoshan said, their army’s actions will not be able to carry them. More importantly, after these ten days of intensive walking, these captives Their view of the Tang army must have changed.

Release them at this time, so there is no need to worry about them coming back to fight against the Tang army. Besides, it is impossible for them to enter the capital ahead, and at most they will return to other cities in Gaochang.

After the two agreed, all the soldiers immediately released the captives, and at the same time told them that Datang allowed them to go home, and asked them to tell their family members or the people in other villages that the Datang army would not target any Gaochang People, as long as they don't attack the army, they won't do anything to these people, and they won't make things difficult for them.

Regardless of ancient times or modern times, unorganized ordinary people seldom dare to fight against the army, even if some troops are obviously invaders.

What's more, in these countries in the Western Regions, there is basically no such thing as family and country feelings.

Although the captives were a little shocked, they all left in the end. What shocked them even more was that when they left, the Tang army actually gave them dry food for two days.

Although these dry rations themselves are their previous dry rations, but... have you ever seen which army released prisoners and gave them food to the other party? !

This is... unheard of.

The ordinary soldiers were released. They were a little dazed at first, but soon dispersed to all directions of Gaochang. They all came from all directions of Gaochang. Even some family members were in Gaochang city, and they could only follow themselves temporarily. Their colleagues left, they knew very well that it was impossible for the Tang army to let them enter the city.

There is only one exception.

Anda.

As a Turkic general, Li Daozong and the others not only released Anda, but also released the remaining 800 Turkic people in Anda. But there is one thing, Anda needs to bring Ju Wentai's ashes back to the capital of Gaochang to explain this to the Gaochang people. matter, and brought in Li Daozong's credentials.

Anda agreed.

He doesn't agree. As for the corpse, there can't be a corpse. It's summer, and they walked on the road for twelve days. The corpses were cremated.

When Anda brought Ju Wentai's ashes into the capital of Gaochang, Ju Zhisheng who got the news was at a loss, dead?His own father died just like that?The ministers including those in Gaochang were also at a loss.

His Majesty the King, who had always been ambitious and wanted to fight against Datang, was finally... frightened to death?

From Anda's expression and his words, they could tell that the other party was telling the truth.

But...it's hard to accept.

Whether they can accept it or not, they can only accept it.

In the letter carried by Anda, Li Daozong asked Ju Zhisheng to surrender unconditionally immediately, and ordered Gaochang to surrender without any comments.

And at the end, Li Daozong added a sentence according to His Royal Highness's request: Don't say that it is unpredictable!

But how could Ju Zhisheng surrender, he still had illusions.

But Anda left, completed the task assigned by the people of Tang Dynasty, and he left the capital of Gaochang. This was the request given to him by the people of Datang, asking him to leave immediately after explaining things.

Anda didn't object, because he knew Gaochang was a small country, and he didn't know how terrifying Datang was.

Ju Zhisheng didn't let anyone stop him either. An Anda is useless. He is nothing in Turkic, and since the people of Tang Dynasty are willing to let him go, it is also a good thing. After he returns, he will report to Turkic. Come to support.

Anda left, and after Anda left, Li Daozong directly ordered to attack the city!

Or... test.

The first thing to test is the counterweight trebuchet. This brand-new trebuchet carried a total of two this time, and then it was assembled. It took more than an hour for the artisans accompanying the army to assemble the two counterweight trebuchets.

Compared with the counterweight trebuchet that can be made in this era, it was made by Datang Ordnance. It first uses a brand new ball bearing, which allows it to convert the gravitational potential energy to a higher ratio!

In addition, the necessary structural parts have been strengthened and fixed to make it easier to disassemble.

There is also the addition of a pulley block structure, which can add more counterweights.

If it weren't for the long-distance transportation by horse-drawn carriage, it would be too troublesome, and it is estimated that they would have to directly carry cast iron blocks as counterweights.

Here, the best choice is naturally to use local materials, either soil or stone, but they used stone plus soil.

Put the stones first, then add sand and soil to slip through the gaps, and the breeding is full.

Heavier stones can be cast with a specially wound wire rope.

After the formation was successful, after precise calculations by engineers, the two counterweight trebuchets aimed directly at the huge tower on the Gaochang City Gate.

The first projection was two slightly polished round stones of about 30 kilograms.

Li Daozong and the others watched curiously not far away.

When the two soldiers directly pulled down the rope next to it, the buckle fell off in an instant, and then the counterweight quickly fell from a high altitude, and then the round stone in the chute track was quickly drawn out of the track groove smeared with lubricating oil. The long swinging arm suddenly drew an arc, and when the stone reached the highest point, the rope at the end of the bag just slipped down.

Then the stone egg was thrown out directly, watching the terrifying stone leap over a distance of about 300 meters, and directly and accurately bombarded the upper half of the tower above the Gaochang city wall.

Both Li Daozong and An Xinggui were stunned!

The terrifying power directly blasted a huge hole in the roof of the wooden tower on the Gaochang city wall, directly penetrated the entire tower, and then hit the streets of Gaochang city, smashing a huge hole.

The soldiers standing on the wall of Gaochang looked at this scene with horror on their faces... Can they really defend each other? !