With Li Zhongyi's order, the 20,000 elite Han army launched an attack on the Tubo step by step.

Nearly a hundred warriors were scattered from afar, controlling every move within a radius of fifty miles.

Ten thousand troops rushed up, surrounding the earthen castle so that it could not even be escaped. The other ten thousand elite troops dismounted and rested, drank water and ate dry food, and were ready to fight the reinforcements at any time to start a decisive battle with the reinforcements.

Ten artillery pieces were pushed to the main entrance of the castle and divided into two rows.

According to the regulations of the Artillery Code, the fixed personnel of a cannon are 13 people. These include one gunner, one deputy gunner, two loaders, six draggers, two drivers, and one hullwashers.

The six-pound cannons brought by Li Zhongyi this time have all been improved. Except for the fact that they are made of bronze, the appearance is almost exactly the same as in the old movie "War and Peace".

The cannons installed on the wheels can follow the army and have strong maneuverability to have true lethality to the enemy.

Li Zhongyi wanted to command the command first, but was stopped by Li Anguo. His attitude was very humble, but his attitude was extremely firm.

"You are the body of thousands of people, how can you go to the dangerous place? If you insist on moving forward, just step on the body of your subordinates?" Li Anguo made Li Zhongyi speechlessly without any concession.

"Get out." Li Zhongyi was very angry. He raised his right leg and kicked Li Anguo hard on the butt.

Li Anguo rolled and crawled away, but Li Zhongyi did not continue to move forward, but stayed at the position two miles outside the castle, rode on Xiaoxue's back, and carefully observed the situation of the enemy in front with a monocular telescope.

Looking at the bronze cannons lined up, Li Zhongyi sighed secretly. Unfortunately, the technology of iron smelting and steel smelting has not improved significantly, and the cannons can only be cast in bronze.

Compared with iron cannons, the casting cost of bronze cannons is much higher, and the output is completely incomparable.

But the problem is that the craftsmen in the military weapon supervision have never found the best formula and optimal temperature for iron smelting. The cast iron cannons are easy to build.

The cannon has a large loading capacity. Once it explodes, many people will die. Who dares to be careless?

In the earthen castle, the chief general who guarded the food and supplies was the patriarch of the Luye family, and Luye Chengxiu.

Luye Chengxiu never dreamed that the Han army had penetrated nearly a hundred miles deep into the desert and quietly touched him.

As a clan leader of the Zahu, Luye Seizuke had seen the power of the Han army's artillery. When he saw clearly, the Han army lined up ten artillery pieces and his face was pale when he was scared.

There are only three thousand Hu soldiers in the earthen castle. Although these people are skilled in bows and horses, they have no organizational discipline. They are okay to fight with the wind. Once they go against the wind, most of them will run away in all directions.

Li Zhongyi knew that time was extremely precious and could not send someone to persuade the surrendered generals. He ordered people to hold the flag of the commander and told the vanguard Li Anguo that as long as he was ready, he would start the general attack immediately.

"Didi!" The loud military trumpet sounded, and the artillery army Ding Dudu Kuang Yi waved the little red flag in his hand and shouted loudly: "Three-three groups, fire five shots quickly, release!"

The ten artillery pieces were divided into three waves and continuously bombarded the village gate of the earthen castle.

How strong can the earthen castle in the desert be?

Li Zhongyi had already seen that the so-called village gate is composed of several thick wooden boards assembled together and combined.

This kind of parallel storehouse can be burned immediately even if the cocktail is thrown over.

However, this earthen castle is just a village gate. If the door is blocked by fire, even if the rebels cannot come out and the Han army cannot rush in, it will greatly delay the total attack time, which is not taken by the wise.

The rebels in the fort had only bows and arrows to fight back, so they could only watch the Han army set up artillery and bombard the village gate fiercely.

After all, Seung-soo Rino is the leader of a clan. After he had passed the initial fear and tension, he immediately asked his confidant around him: "When will the nearest reinforcements arrive?"

The confidant cried and explained, "There should be no reinforcements nearby, they all went to set up an ambush."

Lu Ye Chengxiu's heart couldn't help but sink to the bottom of the valley. If the food and supplies in the fort were taken away by the Han army or burned by fire, nearly 100,000 miscellaneous Hu would be out of food.

Originally, because they were hiding in the desert, it was impossible to bring more horses with amazing consumption. Now, if the food is gone, even if the miscellaneous people can kill the horses and wait for a few days, they will eventually run out of food.

The six-pound cannon belongs to the category of field artillery and is used to attack thick city walls on the plains, and it is indeed ineffective.

The problem is that the rebels' storing food storing are just real stolen stolen stolen and cannot withstand several volleys.

Luye Chengxiu was already regretful and planned to send someone to beg for surrender to the Han people, but just as he walked down the wall of the fort, he heard a loud noise.

"Crack." A terrifying strange sound was made at the wooden door of the earthen castle. Luye Seung-soo turned his head and looked, but saw a big red black ball breaking in, smashing fiercely on the temporarily raised grain bag, bounced up and fell into the crowd of soldiers from the Hu.

The big black ball rotating at high speed, like a god of death, raised the death sickle high and reaped the lives of everyone unscrupulously.

"Ah..." A soldier with a broken leg rolled on the ground, howling heartbrokenly.

"Mom..." A soldier who was hit in his stomach had no time to call out Mom, and fell into a pool of blood and died.

Someone tried to use a shield to block the rotating large iron ball. Unexpectedly, the seemingly thick shield was easily penetrated, and the man's head was smashed to pieces, and his blood-red and white-colored brain splattered around.

How else do you do this? Luye Seung-soo closed his eyes in pain. He had arranged for people to block the castle gate with a grain bag, but he could not resist the power of the cannon at all, and turned into a futile laughing stock.

The artillery army was headed by Kuang Yi, and he could see clearly that although the fort gate was broken, there were many grain bags blocking the gate, but the gap was too small and the war horse could not rush in.

"Ten rapid fires." Kuang Yi was an old artillery army. He naturally knew that he could not hesitate at this time. He had to expand the collapse of the fort gate as soon as possible so that the army could charge in.

In fact, the moment the fort gate was bombed, the morale of the Mihu soldiers guarding the fort had fallen to freezing point.

Ordinary Hu soldiers were not Lu Ye Chengxiu, and they had never seen the power of artillery firing.

They took it for granted that the Han army would build a ladder and use human lives to fill the castle wall. As long as they guard the most difficult beginning, there would be hope that reinforcements would arrive.

However, the reality was extremely cruel. It took less than a quarter of an hour to break the Fort Gate.

As the rupture of the fort gate became larger and larger, the bodies of the Mihu soldiers near the fort gate became higher and higher, and the fighting will of the Mihu soldiers finally collapsed.

Li Anguo seized the opportunity and ordered people to blew the charge. Countless Han soldiers rushed into the fort like tigers going down the mountain.

However, there was only one gate in the earthen castle. The defeated soldiers of Mihu retreated into the granary and hid in the dark to counterattack the Han army with bows and arrows.

Li Anguo's reaction was quick, and continuing to attack was a meaningless sacrifice.

"Drop the bombers and throw cocktails." Li Anguo did not hesitate at all. He didn't care at all. What a miserable ending would the remaining soldiers of the Mihu be?

Soon, flames rose from the castle, and cries and shouts drifted into Li Zhongyi's ears with the breeze.

Li Zhongyi couldn't bear it, but said nothing. As the commander, Ci didn't control the soldiers!

If he was lenient, the warriors of the Han army would have to lie down for at least several hundred in such a narrow combat environment.

It’s better not to have meaningless sacrifices, just let the Miscellaneous Hu rebels be buried with food and grass!

After Li Anguo set off a fire, he commanded the Han cavalry to withdraw from the fort, and ordered people to carry the grain bags used by the rebels to block the door and block the fort door again.

Out of cautious combat habits, Li Anguo arranged for the brothers of the artillery army to replace with shotguns and block the door outside the fort.

When ten cannons equipped with shotgun were deployed in front of the fort gate, Li Anguo ordered a thousand divine arm crossbowmen to completely block the fort gate and not allow a mouse to escape from it.

Through the monocular, Li Zhongyi saw the arrangement of Li Anguo.

"Well, be cautious in using troops, make fewer mistakes, and win all the battles that should be won, which is great." Li Zhongyi easily did not praise his generals. Li Anguo's performance obviously satisfied him a little, and he actually said so many words.

The Han army's desperate plan scared the Mihu rebels in the fort. They ran out of the granary, held the steel knives in their hands, and rushed out of the fort with all their might.

Kuang Yi smiled coldly and ordered: "When the rebels rushed over, they fired three times in a row with two guns as a group."

"Here."

The Han army had the advantage of the range of the divine arm crossbow and the huge melee lethality of the shotgun. From the fort gate to the fifty steps ahead of the artillery position, the bodies of the Mihu rebels were lying.

When the earthen castle was completely shrouded in flames and no more Hu soldiers rushed out, Li Zhongyi turned his head and asked the commander of the throat camp who was serving beside him: "Where is the enemy?"

"Report to the Emperor, according to the military report half a quarter of an hour ago, the enemy has not arrived yet."

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly. This battle destroyed all the food and supplies of the rebels. Even if they could kill horses, how many days could they survive?

"Hehe, we have burned up so much food and grass in one breath and with so many miscellaneous Hu tribes, the commander of the rebels must want to find us to fight as soon as possible." Li Zhongyi changed his words and immediately ordered, "Play the assembly trumpet, the entire army quickly retreated northward and immediately left Dijinze."

Li Zhongyi came quickly and retreated faster. When the main rebels rushed back, he only saw a darkened earthen castle, and the air was filled with a pleasant smell of meat.

The food and grass were gone, so many soldiers were burned to death, and the rebels were all red-eyed.

The rebels were eager to find the position of Li Zhongyi's troops and were eager to fight immediately, but Li Zhongyi led a large team and ran a hundred miles away without changing horses.
Chapter completed!