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Bandar is also a border town for the Khazar Khanate. It takes ten days to ride to their capital, Samandar. Thirty percent of the residents in the city belong to Sogdians, 30% to Khazar Turks, and 30% to Arab.

The White Food has repeatedly fought wars with the Khazar Khanate. The first stop was to attack Badar City. Thirty years ago, it even destroyed Barengal, the first capital of the Khazar Khanate.

However, a conflict caused by the civil war in the Khazar Khan once again involved the Tang Dynasty into a confrontation between great powers.

As night fell, the rumbling war drums sounded in the Tang army's camp. Li Ye left a thousand soldiers to guard the camp, horses and camels, and he personally led nine thousand troops to the city.

Bandar City is a large triangular city with walls three feet high. To the west is the Aral Sea. A short canal leads directly to the city. In times of crisis, you can escape from the city by boat. This is also the confidence that Rossini dared to go to war with the Tang army. Others will live or die by him. No matter, but he can withdraw by sea at any time.

Ten thousand soldiers stood on top of the city. In addition to his five thousand soldiers, he also forcibly recruited five thousand young men from the Khazars in the city and asked them to wear armor and hold spears to participate in the defense of the city. .

Captain Suman said to Rossini: "Your Highness, the other party did not carry siege weapons. We are surrounded by wheat fields and there are no trees. At most, they will demolish some old houses, but it is unlikely to get wood unless They are going to distant places to cut wood, but I estimate that they are most likely to start at the city gate, and I suggest that His Highness send heavy troops to defend the city gate!"

Rossini nodded, "You are right, the city gate is the most important thing!"

He immediately ordered three thousand elite soldiers armed with bows, arrows and spears to guard the city gate.

The Khazar army's judgment was correct. The Tang army did not carry siege weapons. They could not attack the city walls and could only attack the city gates.

Tang Jun found a thick date palm trunk from a wealthy family outside the city. The trunk was three feet long, required two people to hug it, and weighed several thousand kilograms.

Tang Jun melted a pot of molten iron, cast it into a huge pig iron head, and installed it on the front end of the tree trunk to make a powerful battering ram.

Fifty soldiers hugged a thick tree trunk. A deep groove was dug at the bottom of the trunk to facilitate the soldiers to grasp the trunk. On both sides of the fifty soldiers were a hundred heavy-shielded soldiers. They held their large shields high to form a shield wall for tight protection. Lived tree trunks and soldiers.

From a distance, it looks like a thick centipede, moving towards the city gate step by step.

Behind the battering ram were a thousand heavy armored infantry, three in a row, holding Mo knives in their hands, and they pushed forward step by step under the leadership of the black spear.

Li Ye rode his horse and stared at the top of the city gate. The top of the city gate was not a city tower, but a tall spire tower with a row of small windows at the top. This should be an observation tower.

This structure makes it impossible to defend the top of the city gate. Instead, one can only shoot arrows from both sides and stick the body out of the city wall. This is undoubtedly asking for death.

Two thousand soldiers of the Tang Army raised their crossbows and fired arrows at the top of the city. The arrows were like rain. The archery soldiers on the top of the city were hit by arrows one after another, and fell from the top of the city screaming. No one dared to shoot arrows at the siege soldiers.

Li Ye stared at the observation window directly above the city gate. He suddenly noticed movement. There was a fire burning, and someone was preparing to throw kerosene. Li Ye immediately ordered: "Give me the short spear!"

A soldier immediately handed over several short spears. Li Ye took the short spears and threw them toward the window. The short spears drew a parabola and shot into the window. Only a scream was heard, followed by a bang, and there was a clay pot. The sound of falling to the ground.

"Shoot rockets!"

Dozens of soldiers fired rockets at the window together, and the rockets shot into the window, 'Boom! ’ The ground started to burn. Sure enough, I guessed correctly. The other party was indeed planning to use kerosene.

I saw a dozen burning clay pots of kerosene thrown out from the windows on both sides. There were no Tang soldiers below. The pots fell to the ground and were smashed into pieces. More than a dozen pools of kerosene immediately burned, and then seven or eight more fire pots were thrown out. , because the front window was blocked by Tang Army arrows, the soldiers inside could only throw kerosene jars from the windows on both sides.

Then five or six more fire oil jars were thrown, but this time they were thrown from the front window. They stood far away in the room and threw them, and the arrows could not hit them.

The kerosene jar fell on the heavy shield at the front of the team. The heavy shield was covered with burning kerosene. A fire suddenly ignited on more than a dozen heavy shields. Several heavy shield soldiers also began to burn. They came from the team. He ran out and rolled on the ground while dozens of soldiers rushed to rescue him.

"Do we have kerosene jars?" Li Ye asked.

"have!"

More than a dozen soldiers immediately rushed to get clay pots of kerosene. In order to attack with fire, the soldiers of the Tang Army specially found hundreds of clay pots filled with water from the houses outside the city and put buckets of kerosene into them.

After a while, the soldiers brought thirty pottery jars, and Li Ye lit the kerosene jars and threw them toward the observation window above.

Li Ye threw into more than twenty jars of burning kerosene clay pots in one go. Two hundred kilograms of kerosene flowed all over the floor. The room turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the large amount of kerosene stored in the room also burned together. There was a sound in the room. Several people came and screamed, and the sounds gradually faded away. The entire room was engulfed in flames, and tongues of fire and thick smoke spurted out from the windows.

Without the threat of kerosene, the battering ram began to accelerate. "Boom!" There was a dull bang, the city gate shook violently, the sand and wall above fell, and several thin cracks appeared on the tower.

Rossini shouted anxiously: "All soldiers go to the city gate to fight and block the enemy."

Captain Suman said anxiously: "Your Highness, the opponent's battering ram is so powerful that the city gate will definitely not be able to be defended. Why don't you let me lead two thousand cavalry to fight out and fight the Tang army in a bloody battle!"

"Can!"

Suman got on his horse and blew the horn to attack.

"Woo——"

The horns in the city were blown continuously, and Li Ye immediately realized that the opponent was about to break out of the city. He immediately ordered: "Withdraw the battering ram and press the heavy armored infantry!"

The battering ram quickly retreated, the city gate slowly opened, and the heavy armored infantry charged forward, and a cavalry rushed out. There were fifty or sixty people at the front, and the leader was none other than Captain Suman, who was the chief general. , of course we must be brave first.

It was also his misfortune that he met Black Spear, the general of Modao Army, who gave a cold shout and slashed at him with his sword.

Suman raised his spear to resist. There was a click, and the spear split into two pieces. Then his body split open on both sides. Suman was split into two halves by a knife, including both man and horse. He fell to the ground with his internal organs and blood all over the floor. .

The tragic scene made the soldiers behind freeze with fear, but the heavily armored Modao army had long turned a blind eye. They attacked step by step. The cavalry were so frightened that they retreated one after another and blocked the city gate. The heavy armored infantry kept pace. Fighting all the way in, the cavalry blocking the road were chopped into pieces amidst desperate screams.

After killing three hundred cavalry in a row, the ground inside and outside the city gate was covered with torsos and internal organs, brains and blood mixed together, and they were trampled into mud by the heavy armored infantry. It was extremely bloody and terrifying.

The city gate passage was finally opened. The Khazar cavalry screamed in fear and ran away on horseback desperately. However, the Khazar soldiers inside did not see the horrific scene on the ground. Two thousand archers raised their bows and blocked the city gate.

Black Spear led hundreds of Tang Army heavy armored infantry to rush in first.

"Fire the arrow!"

Arrows rained down from all directions at the heavy armored infantry of the Tang Army who rushed in. The arrows hit the heavy armor and made a clanging sound. The arrows could not penetrate the thick iron armor.

A thousand heavy armored infantry rushed in and began to kill the enemy archers, causing screams.

Immediately afterwards, groups of Tang troops rushed in.

Rossini ran out of the Governor's Mansion, and a group of cavalry rushed over and shouted: "Your Highness, hurry up, the Tang army has already entered the city."

"Where is General Suman?"

"I heard that he was split in half by the devil-like Tang Jun's sword. It was slashed from the forehead, and the war horse was also split in two."

Rossini felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet. He felt extremely regretful. If he had known that Tang Jun was so powerful, he should have agreed to it!

It was too late to regret now, Rossini shouted, "Let's retreat!"

He led a group of men towards the pier in Xicheng. The pier was built in a large building with dozens of long oar boats moored inside, leading directly to the Aral Sea.

At this time, hundreds of soldiers rushed in and began to snatch the ships. The dock was in chaos.