Chapter 202 Trench

"Have Bazhuo's scouts come?" Li Chengqian asked.

"Yes, Your Highness! The secret sentries we arranged outside reported that there are more than five groups of Xueyantuo scouts lurking outside our army camp.

" "Now that the "accurate" information has been sent back to Bazhuo, Bazhuo must have already assembled his troops to attack." Wang Fangyi said. "

In this case, the Xueyantuo should appear in front of us soon. Are all the troops ready?" Li Chengqian said.

"According to Your Highness's instructions, a wire mesh has been built outside the camp, and trenches have been dug outside the wire mesh. If the Xueyantuo want to break through the camp without paying a price, I'm afraid they won't even be able to touch the corner of the camp." Wang Fangyi said.

"Okay! Go and keep an eye on it. Now is a critical moment. Don't be careless! Also send people to Shengzhou, Shuozhou, and Lingzhou for help." Li Chengqian said.

"Yes!" Wang Fangyi took the order and withdrew.

"Wang Quan, you leave immediately and go to Xiazhou for help! We will wait here for the reinforcements to arrive." Li Chengqian ordered.

"Yes!" Wang Quan took the order, "Take care, my lord!"

Now is the time to play his role as the crown prince. When Song Junming, Liu Lan and others in Xiazhou hear that Li Chengqian is surrounded, they will definitely lead troops to rescue him.

If they don't rescue him, it will be a dereliction of duty. If something really happens to the crown prince, they will be blamed. When the emperor is furious, they will definitely be killed.

Therefore, Song Junming and others had to send troops to rescue no matter what. In order to make Song Junming and others believe more, Li Chengqian directly sent his personal eunuch to ask for help.

This is also the important reason why Li Chengqian dared to set up camp here to defend and wait for reinforcements, and dared to use himself as bait.

Otherwise, he would not be so stupid to use 20,000 troops to provoke Bazhuo's 200,000 troops, because there were Tang troops in Xiazhou, and Tang troops stationed in Shengzhou, Shuozhou, and Lingzhou.

Li Chengqian dared to be so wild, otherwise, he would have patted his butt and left back to Chang'an!

Pei Xingjian and others thought that Li Chengqian would leave first at first, but they didn't expect that the prince would stay.

It was too late when they reacted! The prince refused to leave the camp, and the Xueyantuo army could appear at any time.

It was too late for the prince to leave now. It would be bad if he met the Xueyantuo army on the way.

Everyone was helpless and could only let the prince stay in the camp.

At this time, Xueyantuo Duomi Khan Bazhuo assembled 50,000 troops and led them by the general Meng Gu'etai to attack this place. He was determined to completely wipe out the Tang army and capture the Tang prince alive.

Xueyantuo's troops were on their way. The Xueyantuo army would soon arrive at the battlefield and launch the first wave of attack.

This ignorant Tang prince must know how powerful the Xueyantuo soldiers were.

Meng Gu'etai led his troops to the trench outside the Tang army camp and stopped.

In front of Meng Gu'etai was a trench with a width of six meters, a width of four meters at the bottom, and a depth of nine meters. There were many sharp objects inside. On the

opposite side of the trench, there was another two-meter-high earth embankment.

This was the Tang army following Li Chengqian's instructions to pile all the soil dug out of the trench on their side.

In order to facilitate their own bulldozing and filling the trench during the counterattack, they could launch an effective counterattack.

In addition to this function, the two-meter-high earth embankment could also effectively affect the line of sight of the Xueyantuo army, making it impossible for them to see the situation of the Tang army opposite.

Menggu'etai looked at the trench in front of him and ordered: "Tell the soldiers to cut down trees on the spot and build a bridge across the trench."

"Yes!" The messenger took the order and passed it on to the army behind him. The

50,000-man army immediately divided 10,000 soldiers to cut down trees, and soon they cut enough trees. As long as they could successfully build a wooden bridge, they could successfully pass through the trench.

All the Tang soldiers hiding behind the trench were killed. Of course, except for the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, no one else would be spared. This was the order given to Menggu'etai by Dumi Khan.

A series of simple wooden bridges were put together, and then the bridges were built, and then the whole army passed through and killed the enemy.

Could the Tang Dynasty let them build bridges so easily?

The answer is obviously no!

Although the Xueyantuo people could not observe the situation of the Tang army on the opposite side, the Tang army could observe the movements of the Xueyantuo army on the opposite side through the watchtower.

Meng Guwutai ordered people to cut down trees to build bridges. The sentry saw that he wanted to build a wooden bridge on the trench, and the sentry passed the news to the generals in the camp.

When the Xueyantuo army wanted to connect the wooden bridge they had built from one side to the other, the Tang army immediately rained arrows on the opposite side.

Countless arrows flew into the sky, drew an arc in the air, and shot down like a rainstorm.

The Xueyantuo soldiers hurriedly raised their shields for defense.

After a wave of attacks, the Tang army behind the earthen embankment stopped shooting. After all, their arrows were limited and could not withstand the casual production of arrows.

In the first battle between the two sides, the Xueyantuo suffered 1,000 to 2,000 casualties and the Tang army suffered no casualties. The Tang army replaced the glory of the first battle.

Meng Gu Etai sent people to carry out aimless counterattacks while ordering people to try to build a wooden bridge, preparing to rush over and kill everyone.

After many efforts, Xueyantuo finally built the first wooden bridge. With the first one, there will be the second and third ones.

"General! The wooden bridge is ready!" said Menggu'etai's deputy general.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Menggu'etai laughed and said, "Pass the order down, the whole army rushes over and kills all the hateful Tang people on the opposite side."

"I want to see how these rats who can only hide behind will tremble under the attack of my Xueyantuo army."

"And remember, you must capture the prince of the Tang Dynasty alive!"

"Yes!" The deputy general received the order and was about to leave.

"What is that?" Menggu'etai looked forward and found that something was flying, to be precise, it was flying towards the wooden bridge on the trench.

At this time, countless black spots flew in the sky, and they quickly grew larger in front of Meng Gu'etai and his Xueyantuo army.

"Bang, bang," countless stones rushed in and hit the trench fiercely. The huge impact destroyed all the wooden bridges that the Xueyantuo army had just built.

The Tang army behind the earthen embankment on the opposite side actually used catapults to throw large stones as ammunition at the wooden bridge above the trench.

This made Meng Gu'etai's plan to build a wooden bridge over the trench fail.

After two waves of stones, the Tang army behind the earth embankment stopped throwing stones, as if they could see the situation here.

Seeing this, Meng Gu'etai was so angry that he almost vomited blood. The wooden bridge that he had successfully built was ruthlessly destroyed by the Tang army!

Meng Gu'etai was very angry, but he had no choice but to think of a new solution.