For two consecutive days, there was no movement in the Tubo military camp, let alone an attack, which made Zhao Ziliang's premonition even worse, he guessed that the deputy general of the Tubo army, Tie Jian Xinoro, was rectifying the soldiers and horses, after all, the Tubo people had just suffered heavy losses, and their morale was a little low, and as a general with rich experience in leading the troops, rectifying the soldiers and horses and restoring morale was the best way to improve combat effectiveness.

Zhao Ziliang constantly inspected the various sections of the city wall, reminding the generals guarding the city to be vigilant, but not to be too nervous to cause too much psychological pressure on himself and the soldiers.

On the fourth day of the battle, the Tubo people finally had another move, this morning, the Tang army in the city had just had breakfast, the Tubo army came as a whole army, and it didn't take long to arrive at the city, all kinds of siege equipment were ready, as for how big the performance was, it still needed to be tested to know.

This time, the Tubo army did not besiege the four gates, and gathered the most soldiers and horses at the south city gate, and only laid a small number of soldiers and horses at the other three gates to contain the Tang army's strength and prevent the Tang army from deploying most of its troops on the south city wall.

On the tower of the South City Gate, Zhao Ziliang used a telescope to observe that the main and deputy commanders of the Tubo Army were there, but it was no longer Lang Zhidu who gave the order, but the iron-bladed Sinoluo.

After observing for a while, Zhao Ziliang said to a servant beside him: "Bring a few Tubo prisoners over!" ”

"No!"

Not long after, the soldiers came with a few Tibetan prisoners.

"General, people have brought!"

Zhao Ziliang turned his head to look at it and asked one of the captives, "Who is the person in the Tubo army who wears shining armor and rides a famous horse?" ”

The captive replied, "It's the son of Zampu, the second prince Lang Zhidu!" ”

The other captives also nodded.

"And who is the person around him?"

"It's the lieutenant general, the Iron Blade, Lord Shinoro!"

As long as the main owner is confirmed, there is no need to let the prisoners stay on the city wall, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Take it down!" ”

With the movements of the Tubo soldiers, Zhao Ziliang and other generals on the south city gate also probably saw the command ability of the iron blade Xi Nuoluo, although the Tubo army was not neat enough in the marching army column, and the execution was not very good, but compared with the previous two days, there was a world of difference, which showed that Lang Zhidu and the iron blade Xi Nuoluo were not generals at the same level at all.

Due to the containment of the Tibetan army in three other directions. Zhao Ziliang could not deploy all his forces on the southern city wall, several times the Tubo army did not deploy troops on the other three city walls, and Zhao Ziliang could not concentrate all his troops on the southern city wall.

The Tibetan army did not attack at the beginning, after sorting out the offensive formation, it began to use siege equipment, the first to come was a simple ballista and bed crossbow, catapults deployed in the middle of the military formation, protected by a large army, without worrying about being destroyed by the Tang army's surprise attack.

Once the long-range siege engines were deployed, Ironblade Zenoro began to give orders to be projected onto the walls. One after another, stones and stones were thrown from a distance, and some large stones smashed on the city wall, causing the city wall to vibrate violently, and small stones hitting people would also cause great casualties.

Unlike trebuchets, the Tubo people had a large number of ballistae and bed crossbows, and the crossbow arrows were fired from a distance, and many Tang troops defending the city were killed, but it may be that the Tubo army captured some Tang craftsmen in the previous battles, and hastily built these ballistas, bed crossbows and trebuchets. It may be a technical problem, or it may be that the craftsmen did it on purpose, but all in all, the power and range of these siege machines are much worse than those used by the Tang army.

Zhao Ziliang saw that there were already casualties on his side. He immediately ordered: "Order the trebuchet to launch a countermeasure, first focus on hitting the opponent's trebuchet, this thing is too destructive to the city wall and the houses in the city, and they can't be thrown all the time." Then let our ballistae and bed crossbows attack the enemy, and strive to destroy the siege equipment of the Tubo people in one fell swoop! ”

"Yes!" The herald quickly conveyed the order, and the Tang army's trebuchets in the city, the ballistae on the city walls, and the bed crossbows quickly countered the enemy.

There is a condescending advantage on the city walls. The field of vision is also relatively wide, so the Tang army ballistae and bed crossbows on the city wall can easily find out where the siege equipment of the Tubo army is, and as soon as Zhao Ziliang's order is issued, the Tang army's bed crossbows and ballistas are uncamouflaged and begin to load crossbow arrows to counterattack.

Condescending has the advantage of range and vision, and in terms of operating siege equipment, the Tang soldiers are undoubtedly much more skilled than the Tubo soldiers, the Tubo soldiers fire a crossbow arrow, the Tang army has fired three, after calibration, the accuracy will come up, and a Tubo bed crossbow and ballista are destroyed by the Tang army's crossbow arrows.

Generally speaking, it is very difficult for the defenders to use trebuchets to counter the enemy trebuchets outside the city, mainly affected by the field of vision, the trebuchets cannot be installed on the city wall due to their large size, and can only be installed in the city, but because the city wall blocks the view of the soldiers, the soldiers can not accurately find the location of the enemy army, in order to solve this solution, Zhao Ziliang asked Zheng San craftsmen to build a tower higher than the city wall at the trebuchet, and there are special soldiers on the tower to inform the soldiers who launch the trebuchet below the location of the enemy trebuchet.

"Whoosh ・・・・・・・"

The two sides kept using crossbow arrows to shoot at long distances, and the Tubo people wanted to use ballistas and crossbow arrows to inflict a lot of damage on the Tang army on the city wall, but they did not expect that the Tang army also had a large number of ballistae and bed crossbows, and the deployment on the city wall had a greater threat to the besieging side.

Seeing that one of his bed crossbows and ballistas were destroyed by the Tang army's crossbow arrows one after another, and even the soldiers who operated the bed crossbows and ballistas suffered heavy casualties, Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo's face became a little serious, he knew that his side was very different from the Tang army in terms of siege, but he didn't expect that the gap between the two sides would be so big, and he didn't expect that the Tang army would deploy these weapons that were originally used for siege on the city wall to launch a counterattack against himself.

"It seems that this battle is not easy to fight!" Iron Blade Sinoro said with some emotion.

Lang Zhidu, who was riding on horseback next to him, snorted coldly: "You also know how powerful the Tang army is now, don't always say that this prince can't fight, it's not that this prince is incompetent, but that the Tang people are too cunning!" ”

Iron Blade Sinoro said in a deep voice: "Second Prince, no matter whether the Tang people are cunning or not, the battle is not like the previous ****, you see, although our bed crossbows and ballistas are seriously damaged, and the soldiers who operate these siege tools have also suffered a lot of casualties, but we have also caused a lot of damage to the Tang soldiers, but our losses are more serious, and their losses are lighter, for siege warfare, as long as the casualty ratio is less than three times, it is worth it, because we have more soldiers, they have fewer soldiers, we can afford to consume, they can't afford it!" ”

Although Lang Zhidu accepted the iron blade Xi Noluo's statement, he was still unconvinced, and hummed: "If you don't sing well, I don't think a few Tang people on the city wall have died!" This is not a way, we must find a way to let the Tang army go to the outside of the city to fight a decisive battle with us, so that we can give full play to the strength of our Tibetan cavalry and camel soldiers, and can also give full play to the advantage of our army's large number of troops."

Iron Blade Sinoluo thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It can be seen from the Tang Army's deployment of bed crossbows and ballistas on the city wall that the Tang General guarding here is not a simple person, and it is very difficult to lure the Tang Army out of the city!" Besides, do you think that in terms of cunning, you are the opponent of the Tang people? ”

Lang Zhidu shook his head like a rattle when he heard this, "The Tang people are too cunning, this prince doesn't like cunning people the most, and he has the ability to fight with this prince for three hundred rounds!" ”

As the two were talking, they saw a large number of stones flying out of the Tang Army City in the distance, not only all the Tubo soldiers were dumbfounded, but even Lang Zhidu and Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo looked stupid.

"What's going on? Could it be that the Tang people deployed trebuchets in the city? Lang Zhidu muttered to himself.

The stones flying out of the city flew high and far, the head was a little worse, none of the trebuchets of the Tubo army were destroyed, but the surrounding Tubo army that protected the trebuchet was suffering, those thrown stones were cobblestones, and after landing, they would roll far ahead, the speed was extremely fast, but all the Tubo soldiers on the rolling stone rolling route had no time to dodge and were crushed to death, and the Tubo army was in the formation of blood and flesh for a while, corpses were all over the field, and screams were repeated.

Ironblade Sinoro reacted and shouted, "Quickly send an order for the soldiers to dismantle the trebuchet and move it to the rear, go quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

Although the iron blade Xi Nuoluo reacted in time, the disassembly and assembly of the trebuchet was an extremely cumbersome matter, and it was impossible to complete the work in a short period of time.

The accuracy of the rolling stones thrown from behind increased each time, and the trebuchets of the Tibetan army were continuously destroyed, and the soldiers suffered a large number of casualties.

Seeing this, Ironblade Sinoro sighed, "It's too late! The first echelon was ordered to start attacking the city, and the other echelons retreated back out of the range of the Tang army, leaving the archers to follow behind the first echelon and press the formation! If this matter is not attacked, it will only cause greater casualties by the Tang army's long-range siege weapons."

"Yes!"

The siege of the Tibetan army finally began, this time under the command of the iron blade Sinoluo, the Tibetan army fought in style, both the archers suppressed, and the siege soldiers carried the ladder and pushed the well fence to approach the city wall, and the rear was the sword and shield handler.

Zhao Ziliang saw the siege deployment of the Tubo army, and immediately ordered: "The sword and shield soldiers are on the left, the pikemen are on the right, the sword and shield soldiers protect the pikemen, the pikemen are responsible for attacking, the sword and shield soldiers are responsible for covering, and the Tubo soldiers who climb the ladder are killed, and the archers under the archers under the city and the archers on the well fence are suppressed!" ”

The deployment was completed quickly, and the effect was very obvious, the Tibetan army climbing on the ladder was poked down as soon as they climbed the top of the city, and the defenders were covered by sword and shield soldiers when attacking.

As more and more Tubo soldiers besieged the city, Zhao Ziliang transferred young men to throw stones and rolling logs under the city. (To be continued.) )