Chapter 253: Looting and killing the grain and grass team
The attack of the Tubo army this time was very fierce, so fierce that it exceeded the imagination of the Tang army, and began to attack the city in the morning, and as soon as it was shot, it mobilized all kinds of siege equipment, launched an offensive against the three city walls, and attacked like crazy, completely regardless of the damage, no one knew what the commander of the Tubo army thought, or he was also very anxious, in a hurry to capture Songzhou City.
In the evening, the city was full of corpses, the two sides were seriously damaged, the Tubo army still did not stop, continued to attack the city, did not stop for a moment, the crazy momentum is simply terrifying.
On the other hand, on the side of the Tang army, when Hou Junji did not come to Songzhou, 8,000 people defended the city, but the weather was not so cold at that time, and the siege equipment of the Tubo army was not transported at that time.
Now that the Tibetan army has siege equipment, it suddenly has more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and it stands to reason that its strength should also be greatly increased, but the problem is that the weather is too cold, more than 40,000 Tang troops, more than 30,000 people have frostbite, their hands are swollen into steamed buns, some people are even frozen to the point that their skin is cracked, and they can't even hold their weapons steadily, and more than 40,000 people can't even exert their combat power of 20,000.
The Tubo army attacked the city for nearly ten hours in a row, the Tang army's stone rolling wood was exhausted, and had to demolish the house to replenish the stone rolling wood, the Tubo army took this opportunity to attack aggressively, almost seized one side of the city, Hou Junji personally supervised the army to fight, and the Tubo army retreated.
The battle is fierce, a loud noise came, the west gate of Songzhou was broken, there was no urn city in the west city, it was simply a broad road after being broken, Hou Junji was taken aback, and immediately led the army of eight thousand to block the enemy army at the city gate, the two sides fought in the streets of the Yongdao, the corpses were covered with Yongdao, the blood flowed into a river, the Tubo army was fierce, and the number was dominant, like a tide poured into the city, Hou Junji immediately conveyed the military order when he saw this, and set fire to the enemy in the city.
It is very dangerous to set fire to the city, it is the same as setting fire to one's own house, although it can block the enemy, but it will also burn one's own house beyond recognition, but now the situation is critical, there is no other choice, and the stubborn mind immediately ordered to set fire, and suddenly many oil cylinders were smashed on the streets of the city, and the sky smelled of fire.
"Ignition!" Stubbornly lost his thinking, gritted his teeth and drank orders.
"Huh--" The fire was like a fire dragon, from east to west, straight to the city gate, and instantly engulfed hundreds of Tibetan soldiers, but many Tang troops who were fighting were also killed.
Now it is the season of dry weather, the fire is like a fierce beast, unstoppable, the west gate will be sealed in an instant, the Tubo army outside no longer dare to rush to the city, and the thousand Tubo army that has rushed into the city has become a lone army, the Tang army suddenly swooped up like a tide, fighting, screaming, firelight, Songzhou City suddenly turned into a Shura slaughterhouse, purgatory on earth.
At dawn, Tubo finally withdrew its troops, leaving the devastated Songzhou City and corpses everywhere, this battle was too tragic, even the experienced Hou Junji and the stubborn loss of thought are only seen in their lives, although they held the city, but at this moment the city has already been a mess, the fire burned for a whole day, thousands of houses were engulfed in the fire, thousands of people died, some people were burned to death, more people died in the stampede, the fire broke out everywhere, the people fled in panic, the city was in chaos, trampled to death and trampled countless injuries, among which the elderly and women and children were the majority.
More than 40,000 people defended the city, almost didn't hold it, made such a mess, this kind of thing is the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Junji stood at the head of the city, looking at the Songzhou City that was burned beyond recognition, his eyebrows were locked, his face was gloomy like water, he never expected the Tubo army to be so fierce, nor did he expect the Tang army to be so low in cold weather, after this battle, the morale of the Tang army plummeted, he was the commander of the three armies, and his heart was even more up and down, he didn't know if they could withstand the next attack of the Tubo army.
Just when Tubo was desperately attacking Songzhou City, Li Hao of Gansongling found the Tubo grain transport team through the telescope, and was heading towards Gansongling, Li Hao smiled happily: "The fat sheep is coming, the army listened to the order, extinguished the brazier, went to Qiansongpo to set up an ambush, and prepared to slaughter the fat sheep." ”
In the afternoon, a huge grain and grass team came to Gansong Ridge, Li Hao led people to ambush on both sides of Qiansong Slope, and roughly counted the enemy army, about 6,000 people, 30,000 stone of grain and grass, this is a very large grain transport team, and it is really a fat sheep.
The leader of the Tubo grain and grass team was a bald head, tall and mighty, with a wide mouth and a nose, and constantly looked at the hills on both sides all the way, very cautious.
However, Li Hao they hid very deeply, there were many pine trees on the thousand pine slopes, and Li Hao's army was well hidden, Li Hao put the front team and squadron of the grain and grass team over, and when the tail team arrived, he suddenly got up, bent his bow and arrows, and shot at the enemy team leader general, but because it was too far away, his archery skills were not high, and the arrows he shot deviated from more than two zhang and stuck to the ground, and the tail feathers of the arrows shook more than once.
The Tang Army and the Tubo Army were all stunned, Li Hao was so embarrassed, and yelled: "What are you doing in a daze!" Kill! ”
Only then did the Tang army and the Tubo army react, countless Tang troops rushed out of the woods shouting, arrows rained down, shooting at the Tubo grain and grass team, the Tubo grain and grass team was caught off guard, hundreds of people fell to the ground in an instant, and the Tubo general roared in the array, although he spoke the Tubo language, but it can be seen from his demeanor and movements that he was directing the soldiers to rush to kill the Tang army.
Sure enough, the Tubo general shouted for a while, and immediately gathered a large number of Tubo troops and rushed towards the dirt slopes on both sides.
"Keep firing the arrows! Roll wood! Li Hao shouted the order, only to see feather arrows flying, shooting hundreds of people to the Tubo army that rushed over, and then I saw countless wooden sections rolling down, the Tubo army that had just rushed up the soil slope was immediately smashed by these rolling logs, screaming again and again, some people were even directly crushed to death by the huge rolling wood, on the other side of the soil slope, this is roughly the case, Li Hao has a mental calculation or no intention, and also has a numerical advantage, how can the Tubo army beat them.
The Tubo general saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered to flee loudly, he rode a BMW, took the lead in escaping, raising a piece of dust, Li Hao saw this and turned over on the horse, kicked the horse's belly, the lion skulled in pain, neighed, ran wildly, chased towards the Tubo general, and when passing by the Mo knife team, Li Hao shouted: "Borrow a Mo knife from the general!" ”
A Mo knife soldier hurriedly threw a Mo knife to him when he heard the sound, Li Hao took it in his hand, and continued to ride his horse and gallop wildly, the lion skull is a famous horse of the first class in the world, much faster than the horse of the Tubo general, and the Tubo general is followed by four horses, all of whom are his personal guards.
After chasing more than five miles away, Li Hao got closer and closer to the Tubo general, and the Tubo general shouted in Tubo dialect: "Kill him for Ben General!" ”
The four guards immediately stopped their horses, and then turned their horses' heads and rushed towards Li Hao, Li Hao's eyes narrowed when he saw this, his right hand holding the knife tightened, and he clashed with the first guard in an instant, the opponent's movements were too slow for Li Hao, Li Hao picked off the opponent's blade with a knife, and the horizontal knife pulled hard, cutting the guard's waist into two sections, the sharpness of the Tang Mo knife really deserved its name, of course, Li Hao's strength is also an important reason.
Li Hao just killed a personal guard, and two more personal guards came towards him in unison, Li Hao moved very fast, slashed one person with one knife first, blocked the other person's attack with the handle of the knife, and then stabbed behind him with one hand, cut off the opponent's arms, and continued to move forward, and the last personal guard.
Li Hao killed three people in an instant, and there was no one under his command to join him, and he was powerful for a while, like a god general, the last guard was already timid, and he killed Li Hao hard, Li Hao glared and shouted: "Death!" ”
The guard was stunned by his roar, and by the time he came to his senses, his head was already flying into the air.
The fleeing Tubo general happened to look back and see the picture of Li Hao killing his four personal guards, and suddenly his heart was shocked, and he whipped his BMW lifelessly, but no matter how fast his horse was, there was no lion fast, the two chased and fled, and traveled nearly five miles, Li Hao finally caught up with him, and slashed at the Tubo general, the Tubo general's martial arts are not weak, and he turned around to be a boring, and opened Li Hao's Mo knife, Li Hao did not hit him with a knife, but cut it on his horse's leg, the Tubo general's BMW hissed and fell, and he jumped up and jumped to the ground, ran a few steps in a row to stabilize his body, which shows that his martial arts are indeed not weak.
"Good skills!" Seeing this, Li Hao's arrogance increased sharply, he pulled the reins violently, the lion skull stopped, he turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the Tubo general step by step, intending to have a fair duel with him.
When the Tubo general saw that Li Hao had actually abandoned his war horse and planned to fight against him fairly, his eyes immediately showed admiration, and he said in Tubo dialect: "Apcha (you are very good)!" ”
Li Hao said coldly when he heard this: "Lest you say that we Tang people are bullying people at that time." "He had been to Tibet in an RV and had understood the words of this Tibetan general.
The Tibetan general said loudly: "Hi Murazan, Apukanam? ”
Li Hao also understood this sentence, he said that his name was Murazan, and asked him what his name was, Li Hao said loudly: "Listen, I am the Marquis of Lantian County of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Hao, the head of the Taohe Road March!" ”
"Li Hao?" Murazan nodded, it seemed that he could understand Li Hao's words, because the Tang Dynasty was too strong, and many countries learned Chinese, so it was not surprising that Murazan could understand Chinese, but he might not be able to speak it very well, because the pronunciation of Chinese is really a bit complicated, and there are various dialect versions.
Murazan threw away the boring in his hand and slowly pulled out the scimitar from his waist, Li Hao also threw away the Mo knife when he saw this, and pulled out the Tang knife on his waist.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came, and Jin Li rode his horse with seven or eight Blade special combat members, and shouted from afar: "General, we are here to help you!" ”
"Don't come!" Li Hao's eyes kept staring at Murazan, and he shouted coldly, "General Ben wants to take this person personally!" No one is allowed to help, otherwise military law will deal with it! ”
Jin Li and the others were stunned when they heard the sound, and they stopped ten zhang away, Jin Li quietly took out the crossbow and held it in his hand, if Li Hao was in danger, he planned to make a move, even if he was dealt with by military law, he also admitted it.
Li Hao was a little impulsive this time, as the commander of an army, it was really unwise to take risks so alone, but I don't know why, as long as he started a war, he couldn't stop the fighting spirit in his heart, this time it was particularly prominent, when he killed several of Murazan's personal guards, there seemed to be blood boiling in his chest, and Murazan This battle, he had to fight in person, otherwise he estimated that he would not even be able to sleep well.