Zhao Bei had more and more companions around him, killed more enemies, and captured a large area of the city wall, which quickly attracted the attention of the top brass of the Tubo army, and a large number of Tubo troops rushed over to this side to surround him and the mercenary groups around him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The fierce battle for the head of the city began, and people continued to climb up from under the city, and corpses continued to fall from the walls or die on the walls.

The battle continued for an hour, the mercenaries besieging the city suffered heavy casualties, and a layer of corpses had been laid under the walls, while the battle on the walls was still going on, and mercenaries were constantly climbing up the ladders under the walls.

Xuan Jiu observed this, knowing that the sharpness of the first attack had been lost and Zhao Bei and the others were almost exhausted after fighting for more than an hour, if they were allowed to fight again, the people who had already climbed to the city wall would only be afraid that they would stay there forever, so he immediately ordered: "Mingjin!" ”

"Dangdang Dang ・・・・・・" gong sounded, the mercenaries besieging the city retreated like a tide, and Zhao Bei and others on the city wall quickly forced back the besieging Tubo soldiers and slid down the ladder.

Zhao Bei, who returned to the main formation, had blood all over his face, he sat on the ground with a horse lance, Xuan Jiu came over and hugged his fists and said: "General Zhao, take a good rest, and then our department will attack the city!" ”

Zhao Bei nodded: "Okay, I'll leave it to you, at most an hour, I will order Mingjin, once the gong sounds, don't be reckless, withdraw it first, let the next wave continue to attack, as long as we continue to attack, there will always be a time when they will drain their strength!" ”

The servant army, Tianzhu soldiers and mercenaries kept exchanging and taking over the attack, which did bring a lot of pressure to the Tubo army in Jinding Pass, and the contact combat made them extremely tired, and the casualties increased sharply, while the Western Qin army due to the large number of troops, it could continue to recruit or capture strong men from all over the country to attack the city, and it could continue to replenish in terms of troops, while the Tubo army in Jinding Pass was not replenished, and the troops were getting smaller and smaller.

This tragic siege battle was carried out on the fourth day, the daily casualties of both sides were increasing, the Western Qin army suffered 2,000 casualties on the first day, and it increased to 2,500 on the second day, and directly lost 3,000 people on the third day, and 4,000 people died on the fourth day, and more than 5,000 people died in Jindingguan in these four days.

Night had fallen, and the siege was still over, and it was already the fourth day, and every day and night had not stopped, and the defenders of Jinding Pass were exhausted.

All the Tibetan soldiers on the city wall sat on the ground with their backs against the wall battlements to fight for a rare little rest, and they had to complete the march in this short two quarters of an hour, and recover their strength as much as possible, because the Western Qin servants who were besieging the city would attack the city even at night, and they would not rest, they were completely playing with their lives.

A Tibetan commander said to another commander: "If we continue like this, we are afraid that we will not be able to withstand it, we only have more than 4,000 people, and almost all of us have not rested in the past few days, and this golden dome pass will be broken at any time!" ”

Another commander said: "Don't worry, I heard that the commander has sent people to Luo Some City to ask for help, from Jinding Pass to Luo Some is not dangerous to defend, if Luo Some City does not want the Western Qin army to fight under the city, you must send troops to reinforce it, it is estimated that the reinforcements will arrive here in two days!" ”

"Two days? Ha, it's hard to say if we'll survive tonight! ”

Two quarters of an hour later, the Western Qin servants and mercenaries began to attack again, and the Tubo soldiers had to drag their tired bodies to prepare to resist.

Although the soldiers guarding the pass were divided into two groups by the Tibetan general, and one of them could be allowed to rest, but who could sleep? No one wants to be killed in their sleep.

At the time of Li Min, the Tianzhu soldiers finally retreated, and the Tubo troops at the head of the city were all paralyzed on the ground one by one, some people were already exhausted to death, and some fell asleep.

The commander of the Tibetan Thousand Commanders scolded: "Crazy, they are all crazy, they have seen such a lifeless person, I have never seen such a lifeless person, who will attack the city all night long?" Isn't that crazy what is it? ”

"Stop yelling, hurry up and rest, and when those people down the mountain are full of food and drink, they will kill again!"

At the beginning of the new day, the tragic siege continued, and a large number of corpses were piled up above and below the city every day, and due to the cold weather, although it had been more than ten days, there was still no smell of corpses.

At the end of the morning, when the frontal siege battle was still in full swing, the first batch of soldiers of the first division of the Huya Army climbed to the top of the cliff one after another, and a soldier in his twenties first put his hands on the top of the cliff, he pulled up hard, his head slowly stretched out to scan everything around the cliff top, and when he saw that there was no one around, he immediately jumped on the top of the cliff and quickly took off the crossbow that had been loaded with the arrow box from behind and squatted down to aim at the front, as long as someone appeared, he immediately pulled the trigger.

After observing for a while, he put down the repeater, immediately opened the rope buckle on his body, tied the rope to a big tree next to him, and then shook the rope, seeing that the rope was shaking regularly, the soldiers below knew that the top was tied, and immediately began to climb up with their hands and feet and grabbed the rope.

Zhang Ben was the second person to jump up, he took out the repeater and wound the arrows in the arrow box to the front, and then touched the first soldier to come up and asked, "Is there any movement?" ”

"No, the battle in front is so fierce, it is estimated that the Tubo soldiers have been sent to defend the city!"

Zhang Ben looked around, made a gesture to the soldier, the two of them found a place to hide, and soon other soldiers climbed to the top of the cliff, and dozens of soldiers climbed up in less than a quarter of an hour, Zhang Ben saw that more than 30 soldiers had gathered around him, and immediately divided these people into three teams, one team stayed here, and the other two pairs began to reconnoiter the pass, and the task was to find the grain and grass hoarding point and water source.

Zhang Ben and his team had just turned to the corner of a stone house when they ran into a dozen Tibetan soldiers carrying grain.

Zhang Ben immediately shouted in a low voice: "Let go of the arrows, not a single one will be left!" ”

The soldiers in an offensive tactical formation while using crossbows to shoot arrows at these Tibetan soldiers, while alternately covering these people who are approaching quickly, and when they rush to these Tibetan soldiers, these people have all been shot, an arrow box can hold twenty crossbow arrows, in close attacks, the power of the crossbow can be described as terrifying, it only needs to keep pulling the trigger to release arrows continuously, it is completely semi-automatic, but the force of pulling the trigger is a little large.

"Quick, five people on guard, others hide these corpses!" Zhang Ben squatted on the ground and turned his head to look around, then waved his hand to the soldiers.

After receiving the order, the soldiers divided into two groups, one of which quickly sought cover and hid and kept a close eye on the surroundings, while the other group walked quickly to the hiding place with the corpse on their shoulders and hidden.

The corpse was quickly hidden, and Zhang Ben said to the two squad leaders: "These Tubo soldiers are carrying grain and are ready to cook, which shows that the grain storage point is definitely not far from here, let's touch it from the direction they came from to see if we can find the grain depot, go!" ”

"Yes, General!"

As soon as they left, a large group of Huya soldiers came to converge behind them, and everyone moved forward together.

"The Western Qin soldiers, the Western Qin soldiers have come in, come on!" A Tubo soldier didn't know where to turn out, and happened to bump into Zhang Ben and others who were moving quickly from the side.

Zhang Ben's face changed, and he immediately aimed the crossbow in his hand at the Tubo soldier and pulled the trigger, and with a "whoosh" sound, the crossbow arrow hit the back of the Tubo soldier.

Although he shot the Tibetan soldiers, this person had already attracted a large number of Tibetan soldiers, and when these Tibetan soldiers saw Zhang Ben and others, they immediately raised their weapons and killed them.

"Array!" Zhang Ben roared.

The soldiers lined up according to the original formation at a very fast speed, and after the members in the front row finished queuing, Zhang Ben shouted: "Squat down in the first row and release the arrows!" Second row ready! ”

"Whoosh・・・・・・" arrows kept shooting out, and the Tubo soldiers who had rushed to only a few meters away fell to the ground one after another, and there were more Tubo soldiers rushing towards them.

When all the arrows of the first row of soldiers' crossbows were fired, Zhang Ben immediately shouted: "The second row of arrows, the first row and the third row are ready!" ”

The Tubo soldiers who had just rushed up were hit by a large number of arrows, and they fell to the ground and died, and the corpses of the Tubo army on the ground piled up in a short period of time, and more and more Tubo troops used it here.

At this time, the soldiers of the Huya Army came with more and more reinforcements, and the newly joined soldiers of the Huya Army were added to the queue, increasing the width of the queue.

When the last Tibetan soldier was shot dead, a large number of corpses had piled up around the Huya army's formation, and blood was flowing everywhere.

Zhang Ben stood up and shouted: "Okay, everyone listen, the first brigade is divided into ten squads to scatter to find grain depots and water sources, and the others take back their crossbow arrows and reload them, ready to deal with the counterattack of the Tubo people at any time!" ”

"Yes, General!"

After the soldiers dispersed, the good news soon came, the grain depot was found, Zhang Ben immediately ordered to set fire to the grain depot, and when dozens of torches were thrown into the grain depot, smoke soon rose.

At this time, the soldiers who came up from the side of the mountain stream also climbed to the top of the mountain under the leadership of the deputy general, and soon completed the convergence with Zhang Ben's side.

Zhang Ben and the others looked up at the city wall of the pass, and found that the banner of the Western Qin army had been erected on the city wall, it turned out that when the grain depot was ignited, the Tubo army no longer had the courage to resist, they could not support it, and the grain depot was burned into the last straw that overwhelmed them.