The camp of the Tibetan army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Dazarugan sat on the main seat covered with wolf skins with his eyes closed, and the Tibetan ministers and generals sat on either side, and no one spoke, and everyone was silent.

I don't know how long it took, but a Tibetan general finally couldn't help but say: "Marshal, we have killed and wounded 18,000 people in the past three days, if we fight like this tomorrow according to today's siege intensity, we will have no infantry to attack the city in less than five days."

Dazarugon opened his eyes and looked at the person who spoke and asked, "What?" You can't bear it? Want to lead the army back to Tibet? ”

The Tibetan general hurriedly said: "Marshal, I didn't mean that, it's just that the casualties are too great, and the morale of the sons and daughters is low, and if it continues like this, we ourselves will collapse first・・・・・・"

Dazarugon exclaimed, "That's what you mean! You greedy for life and afraid of death, how can there be a general like you in the Tubo Kingdom? Come on, drag him out and cut him down, and give Zampu a burial! ”

The Tubo general was horrified, and hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Marshal, wronged, wronged・・・・・・"

A few Tibetan warriors outside the tent ignored him, and most of them walked in and dragged him outside, slashing him with a knife, and after a while, a warrior carried this person's head into the big tent to pay the order.

Dazaru Gong waved his hand, asked the warrior to raise his head, and said coldly to the ministers and generals: "Just now he was right about the fact that our casualties in the past three days have indeed been very large, if we follow the intensity of today's siege, we will have no infantry to attack the city in five days, but can the Tang army hold out for five days?" It only takes two days for the corpses to pile up at the level of the walls, and then our army can rush up the walls and enter the city as if they were on the ground! How can there be immortals in war? As long as you can kill Zhao Ziliang and kill all the Tang troops in the city, even if all 60,000 infantry die, it will be worth it! When Xiping City is broken, Ben Shuai will slash Zhao Ziliang and cut off his head, and the sons and daughters can rush into the city and kill all the Tang army and everyone in the city! Ben Shuai decided that once Xiping City was breached, the sons and daughters would be allowed not to seal the sword for three days! If there are any more people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and disturb the morale of the army, they will be killed! ”

The Tibetan ministers and generals stood up one by one tremblingly, saluted in unison, and said, "Obey the marshal's orders!" ”

Dazarugon asked again: "Is the Tang official in charge of building siege equipment here?" ”

"Marshal, I'll get him!" A Tibetan general walked out after speaking.

After a while, a Tang Dynasty official walked in with a frightened look on his face and bowed to Dazaru Gong and said, "Your Excellency greets the marshal!" ”

Dazarugon asked, "How many trebuchets have been built?" ”

The official hurriedly said: "Back to the marshal's words, after the villains have been building day and night, twenty-two more have been built so far, all of which have been assembled and can be used at any time!" ”

"Good!" Dazaru Gong slapped the desk and shouted: "Thousand households are long Zama, these twenty-two trebuchets are handed over to you!" The Tang army lit a fire under the city wall every day to prevent our army from sneaking up on the city wall at night, although we can't sneak attack, but these fires can let us see the scene on the city wall, I want you to take your sons and daughters to push all the trebuchets to the launch site, take advantage of the opportunity for the Tang army to rest and sleep overnight to destroy the trebuchet on the Tang army's city wall, and tomorrow we can use the trebuchet to throw fire bombs at the city wall without any care! ”

Zama stood up and saluted: "Yes, marshal!" ”

While the Tang army was resting and sleeping, the Tubo army's trebuchet team pushed 22 trebuchets to the firing position under the command of Zama, and the stone bullets were carried by the Tubo army one by one.

Zha Ma held his waist knife and looked at the brightly lit west wall of Xiping City in the distance, silently, and the wall was mottled black and brown with the blood of the soldiers of the Tubo army.

A Tibetan soldier came running over and reported: "Master Qianhu, twenty-two trebuchets are ready, and a thousand stone bullets have been carried and ready to be fired at any time."

Zha Ma snorted coldly: "Hmph, a thousand stone bullets, I don't believe that I can't smash their sixteen trebuchets, pass my order, and fire oil bombs at the trebuchets on the city wall of the Tang Army!" ”

"Yes, Sento-sama!"

"The elder of a thousand households has an order to fire fire oil bombs at the trebuchets on the city wall of the Tang Army!"

"Whew-"

"Whew-"

"Whew-"

One by one, large fireballs flew into the sky in a parabolic trajectory and smashed towards the trebuchets on the Tang army city wall, and in an instant, the entire sky was illuminated by the firelight, which made the Tang soldiers on duty on the city wall find out.

"Ahh Go and report to the general that the Tibetans are firing fire oil bombs at us! Enemy attack, enemy attack ・・・・・・・"

"Enemy Attack ・・・・・・"

"Dangdang Dang ・・・・・・" The alarm bell rang urgently.

As if cold water was poured into the oil pot, the city wall was boiling instantly, and the soldiers of the Tang Army who were sleeping on the city wall turned over one after another and picked up their weapons to prepare for defense, and Duan Xiushi, the general of the Tang Army who was responsible for guarding the city at night, also quickly walked out with his own soldiers from the city tower with his sword.

A lieutenant greeted him and hugged his fists and said: "General, the Tubo army is throwing fire oil bombs at us, and there is no sign of the Tubo soldiers rushing towards the city wall for the time being!" ”

Duan Xiushi's face turned pale: "Hmph, it's too late for you to find out, let the soldiers prepare for battle!" ”

"Yes, General!"

A general next to him clasped his fists and said, "General, do you want our trebuchet to throw fire oil bombs at the trebuchet of the Tubo army?" ”

Duan Xiushi looked at it and said loudly: "Of course, it is not our style to be beaten passively, and the order is to let the catapult crew fire oil bombs to the opposite side, and smash and burn all the trebuchets of the Tubo people!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Taishou Mansion, Zhao Ziliang was awakened by the rapid bell alarm, he turned over and got up, shouting while dressing: "Come on, come on!" ”

Soon, a pro-soldier walked in and reported: "Commander! ”

"What's going on out there?"

The soldier said: "Commander, this is the alarm bell on the city wall, it should be a night attack by the Tubo people to attack the city, otherwise the bell will not be ringed!" ”

"Prepare your horse and give me armor!"

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Putting on the armor, Zhao Ziliang held the waist knife and led his soldiers to the gate of the Taishou Mansion and was about to get on the horse, Cen Shen and other officials also rushed over, Zhao Ziliang said: "Since the start of the war these days, the Tubo people have never attacked at night!" It just so happens that since you're all here, let's go to the city wall together! ”

Everyone arched their hands and said, "Yes, handsome!" ”

Everyone rode together and quickly rushed to the west city gate, just walked to the vicinity, more than a dozen fire oil bombs appeared in the sky, some fell on the city wall and smashed many wall bricks, some smashed on the roof of nearby houses, smashed out a big hole, the house was instantly ignited, and two hit the trebuchet on the mound behind the city wall, igniting the fire oil piled up nearby, and many Tang soldiers who launched trebuchets were engulfed by the fire.

Everyone quickly dismounted and ran up the city wall, Zhao Ziliang walked to the wall battlement with a waist knife and looked outside the city, Duan Xiushi learned that Zhao Ziliang and others went up to the city wall, and immediately came over to meet him.

"Dashuai, this Tubo people are just tossing around, only firing fire oil bombs but not attacking the city!"

Zhao Ziliang frowned and looked at the pitch-black Tubo army camp outside the city and said: "In the middle of the night, the Tubo people don't sleep and only smash fire and oil bombs, are they crazy?" ”

At this time, a captain ran over panting and clenched his fists and reported: "General, six of our trebuchets have been smashed and burned, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, most of them have been burned to death!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked left and right when he heard this, and found that most of the fire oil bombs fired by the Tubo army were near his own trebuchet, while the fire oil bombs launched by the Tang army were unable to find the specific location of the Tubo trebuchet at night, and they threw several rounds without smashing a single Tubo trebuchet.

He instantly understood, and immediately shouted: "Quickly order all the soldiers of the catapult unit to retreat with the canisters of fire oil, and leave the trebuchet alone!" The goal of the Tibetans is to destroy our trebuchet, and when the trebuchet is gone, we can build it again, so that the soldiers can save their lives! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

"The marshal ordered, all the soldiers of the catapult immediately retreated from the city wall with the canister of fire oil to rest!"

The order was quickly conveyed, but fortunately, the hit rate of the trebuchets of the Tubo army was really not flattering, and it took more than a dozen rounds to destroy six Tang trebuchets, and the Tang soldiers in charge of the remaining ten trebuchets were not injured, and they retreated from the city wall and hid to safety with fire oil cans.

Zhao Ziliang observed on the city wall for a few minutes, and said to Duan Xiushi: "It seems that the main intention of the Tubo people is to destroy our trebuchet, let the soldiers hide, avoid unnecessary casualties, and leave only the observation post to stare at the direction of the Tubo military camp!" ”

Duan Xiushi was unwilling to say: "Dashuai, there are still nine trebuchets intact now, it is better to let the soldiers go over and dismantle and carry them down, it is a pity to be smashed by the Tubo people like this!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "No need, it's too dangerous to let the soldiers go over now, the craftsmen have not been idle these days, we have more than 20 trebuchets built, we can quickly assemble them early tomorrow morning, without waiting for the Tubo people to launch an attack on the city, as long as we can see the location of the trebuchets of the Tubo army, we can quickly destroy them, Dazarugon wants to use this trick to destroy our long-range strike ability, I think he is delusional!" ”

Duan Xiushi hugged his fists and said, "Yes, handsome!" ”

Huang Fuxian said: "Dashuai, judging from the siege of the Tubo people in the past few days, the Tubo people must have caught a lot of our craftsmen, otherwise they would not have been able to create so many siege equipment, in the past two days they have launched several well railings, but they were all destroyed by the design of the marshal, but if the Tubo army does not let the well fence close to the city wall, only let the Tubo soldiers on the well fence suppress our soldiers on the city wall with bows and arrows from a long distance, our casualties will inevitably increase, and then the soldiers will not have enough energy to deal with the Tubo soldiers who climbed the city wall!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was stunned when he heard this, and then sighed: "If this is the case, we can only use bows and arrows to counter-suppress, if we can't suppress it, we can only organize cavalry to go out of the city and destroy the siege well fence of the Tubo people!" (To be continued.) )