Chapter 997: The Strongest Duel
People with dense phobia will certainly not be able to tolerate the scene when the Tibetans are attacking the city.
Standing at the head of Liangzhou City and looking from a distance, the dense crowd of people is a large group of black beetles crawling quickly, they are scrambling to squirm, like an ocean!
The Garqin Mausoleum used this most untechnical and effective crowd tactic to launch a fierce attack on Liangzhou.
One of the biggest features of this style of play is: regardless of casualties!!
At this time, human life is no longer human life, but a grain of dust. The number of casualties is so cold, as if it were a math problem accidentally made by a schoolboy.
The siege vehicles had already been pushed to the front of the city defense under artillery fire and countless arrows. Boom bang There was no rush to the city gate, and a thick ladder was stretched out from behind the city, and the Tubo people, who were not afraid of death, did not even wear leather armor, and everyone painted a strange oil paint pattern naked, and crawled towards the city head with a knife.
Anyone who has seen this will have nightmares. Because these Tubo people don't look like people, but like a group of demonic beasts!
They don't know pain, they don't know fear, even if the burning arrow is already lying on their body, as long as they still have a breath, they still crawl forward!
Dang Jinbi's eyes were red as if he had already breathed fire, and he roared: "Explosion!" β
The mechanism behind the city wall was pulled, and a large number of large explosive mines that had been buried in front of the city wall were detonated.
There was a loud rumbling sound, and the entire huge city seemed to shake. The mushroom clouds and firelight that rushed into the sky flew out like demons breaking through their shells.
A large area of land in front of the city defense was completely blown up. A large pit five or six meters deep suddenly appeared, and many shock and Tubo soldiers fell into it, and below it was all a person long, iron-beaten spike thistle!
This is a situation that is impossible for the Garqin Mausoleum to detect, and it is also the grave that the rat man and the rat woman have dug for the Tubo people a few months ago!
Watching the black clouds rise in front of him from a distance, listening to the deafening loud noise, Garqinling's face was cramping.
But he waved his flag and gave the signal to charge again - "Hit!" β
The Gong Ren beside him felt a burst of panic, this is too fatal! Father has completely let go!
"What's the solution?" On Gongren sighed secretly, "Zampu's order has been issued, asking my father to withdraw his troops!" β
The Tibetans rushed even harder, rolling like angry waves. They scrambled to the corpses of their companions, facing billowing black smoke and raging fire.
The large pit in front of the city defense was almost filled with abandoned trucks and corpses.
The ladder finally reached the top of the city, and the Tibetans began to climb.
There was a "click" sound, and the city wall, which was only more than a meter high from the ground, was opened with hole-like dark openings, and countless hook and sickle spears and long lances were pierced from it, which they used to hook over their ladders and assassinate the soldiers guarding the ladders. There are also crossbow arrows from the crossbow, which keep radiating from it.
After suffering a few losses, the Tibetans began to learn to use shields and even the corpses of their companions to resist these dark holes.
Immediately, the Zhou army defending the city changed its tactics again. The stabbing out of the dark hole was no longer a knife and gun, but a lot of oil and fierce fire spewed out. A fiery dovetail torch was thrown down from the top of the city to ignite the fierce fire oil, and the front of the city suddenly turned into a sea of fire. The body and soul of the Tibetan people danced together in the smoke and fire......
Such a battle lasted for three days and three nights, and hardly stopped. Within a radius of 100 miles, there was a pungent smell of burnt skin and flesh. The drenched blood and the human oil burned by the fire merged into the pit blown out by the explosives, and it almost became a moat for the Liangzhou Military City.
The Tubo people, after all, broke through Xue Shao's first line of defense. But they paid the price of tens of thousands of soldiers.
Xue Shao led his army to retreat to the second line and engaged in fierce street battles with the Tibetans in the middle of the first and second lines of defense.
The advantage of the Tibetan people in cavalry is very great, but foot combat may not be. Especially in the "away", Xue Shao's soldiers are familiar with all the geographical advantages, and there are even many hidden tunnels that can be used. In order to advance the boundary of one or two miles between the first and second lines of defense, the corpses of the Tibetans covered all the square inches.
It soon became clear that the second line of defense was completely independent of the first. Previously, he thought that as long as he broke through the first city, he could "share the geographical advantage" with Xue Shao. Now it seems that he is still too naΓ―ve.
How could Xue Shao give himself such a chance?
As soon as he caught fire, he burned all the wooden fence aisles erected in the middle of the two city defenses. Such a wooden gate aisle, it will be easy for Xue Shao to build it inside. But if the Garqin Mausoleum was to be built under the firepower of the Zhou army, he would rather attack the military town again.
After taking the first line of defense, the Garchin Mausoleum found almost nothing but a stone wall and piles of corpses.
However, this already shocked Xue Shao.
He didn't expect that in this era without air strikes and long-range artillery support, there were still people who could capture such a city defense with flesh and blood and pure cold weapons.
Such a war can only be described as inhumane. The losses of the Zhou army were not small.
After this battle, Tubo occupied the first line of defense, and the Zhou army stationed in the second line of defense was only two or three miles away, and a crossbow could be shot.
Zampu came with another order, and ordered the Garqin Mausoleum to retreat immediately and not to engage the Zhou army again.
Because, Heyuan Heizhi received an order from Xue Shao and had already launched an attack on the Tubo defenders of Dafeichuan. And Zampu of Tubo thought that it was not appropriate to start a war with the Great Zhou at this time, and he wanted to make peace.
Garqinling pressed down Zampu's two orders in a row, and withstood the pressure and issued another order: continue the onslaught!
Xue Shao's side has not changed, and continues to defend it!!
No matter how brave and not afraid of death is, they are flesh and blood after all. After laying the first line of defense at all costs, the Tibetans became the last of the crossbows.
This second line of defense, they really can't gnaw.
After seven days of fighting, they suffered heavy casualties and no gains!
The Garqin Tomb had to temporarily stop the attack, and withdrew from the range of the Liangzhou defense line and retreated to his base camp. Xue Shao did not regain the first line of defense that had been abandoned without moving, and held the second line of defense unchanged.
The two sides invariably began to reorganize their troops and horses, and ceased fighting for several days.
Xue Shao immediately began to count the casualties, make every effort to treat the wounded, reorganize the equipment and rearm the defense, and accurately liquidate and redistribute the grain and grass.
In this nearly half a month of fighting, the Great Zhou soldiers lost more than 10,000 yuan, and the price paid by the Tubo people was at least double. Xue Shao's grain and grass problem doesn't have to worry too much for the time being, at least he can hold on for more than half a year. Medical supplies were also plentiful, and all the wounded received little treatment and care.
At this time, Xue Shao was extremely grateful to Lou Shide, if it weren't for his foresight and sufficient grain and grass, the battle would have been very difficult at this time. At the same time, Xue Shao was also very relieved that the national strength of the Great Zhou was still so strong. If it weren't for such strong logistical support, he would have lost to the Garqin Mausoleum long ago!
On the other hand, in the Tibetan army, it is not so optimistic.
Before he laid down Xue Shao's defense line, Garqinling's heart still had enough strength to go down. But after taking the first line of defense, almost every Tibetan was a little discouraged. There are two equally strong lines of defense in the back, when and how many people will die, is it the head?
"One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion" is almost a true portrayal of the current Tubo army.
"Father, will you withdraw?" Gong Ren didn't care about anything else, and said to his stern father, "Even if you return to the Qinghai camp first to make some supplies, it's good." At that time, we will consult with Zampu and agree on the next military action. β
Garqinling's eyebrows were tightly locked, and he didn't say a word.
The other generals saw that the major generals had taken the lead in speaking, so they all plucked up their courage to persuade Garqinling to withdraw their troops.
The generals' voices were not loud, but they kept talking.
Garqinling was furious, and slapped the table and shouted, "Hugh is so impatient!" β
So everyone was silent and did not dare to say anything more.
"Let me think again!" Garqinling didn't want to offend the anger of the public, so he threw down the sentence "more than enough to advance and retreat", and left with his sleeves touched.
At this time, Xue Shao was walking in the wounded barracks with a group of generals, checking the injuries of the sergeants and giving condolences.
The wounded soldiers were full of soldiers, wailing and wailing.
Xue Shao's face tightened, as if a knife couldn't chop in.
At this time, a general behind him whispered: "I don't know when the Tubo people are going to attack the city again." β
Xue Shao was striding forward, and when he heard this, he suddenly stopped, suddenly turned around and shouted angrily: "Whenever he comes, kill as many as he comes, and never retreat!" Never throw in the towel! β
"Yes!" The generals were almost collectively frightened, and at the same time clenched their fists in agreement.
With a "bang", Xue Shaodouran pulled out the Taiyi Imperial Sword on his waist, pointed at the knife, and said: "This is the Taiyi Imperial Sword given by the first emperor, and I often use it to command battles." I am a concubine of the two dynasties, a military important matter of Xia Guanshang Shupingzhang, and the supreme commander of the 700,000 army of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I can't be killed by the enemy, let alone captured, otherwise I will only breed the prestige of the enemy country! β
"Listen up, my robes and brothers!"
"When you all die in battle, and Xue Shao is the only one left. I'll cut my neck with this knife, and I'll go down to you!" β
"When I go to the underworld, I will also take you to kill all the yin ghosts in Tibet!"
"Yes!!" The generals, as well as the soldiers in the wounded barracks, roared together.
"Xue Shuai is mighty!"
"Xue Shuai is mighty!!"
Such a roar gradually spread throughout the barracks. No one organized it, but all the Great Zhou soldiers who heard this sentence all hissed and roared.
"Xue Shuai is mighty!!"
This roar is earth-shattering, and it is as far as a hundred miles!
There was a commotion in the Tubo camp, and people were carrying swords, horses, and armor, and were in strict formation to prevent the Zhou army from launching a sneak attack.
But they only heard the roar, but they saw not a single soldier attacking.
Garqin Ling also rode on his horse, and looked at the Liangzhou city in the distance with black smoke in the distance.
"After such a tragic battle, the soldiers of the Zhou army did not fall but rose!" He muttered in a low voice, "Xue Shao'er leads the troops, and he does have some special abilities!" β
"Father, Xue Shao may be ...... than we imagined" Gong Ren's words were halfway through and he didn't dare to continue, for fear of damaging his prestige and increasing the morale of others.
"The strongest generals and the strongest army in the world are already here." The corners of Garqinling's disapproving mouth raised lightly and smiled faintly, "The battle of Liangzhou is the strongest duel in this era. There is no doubt about it, and it cannot be replicated! β