Li Dongsheng also looked over to take a look, and his lungs were about to explode. Hou Junji's neck was bruised: "Damn, I haven't seen such an arrogant person in the army for decades." ”

Niu Jinda also trembled with anger: "Little Tubo dares to be so arrogant!" As long as the city is attacked, no one who can speak Chinese will be left! ”

He immediately ordered the drums to be beaten. Including Li Dongsheng, all the major generals stood respectfully in the tent, and Niu Jinda's expression was grim: "The situation has changed so much when we came, and now there is no way but to fight this battle hard." Now that Tibet occupies the city, and we have few troops, how should we fight this battle? "Red arrows were thrown out, and military orders were taken away by the generals.

"Commander, since we have a huge disparity in strength, why don't we besiege the city and wait for reinforcements? I'm afraid the casualties will be too great if we attack with this little force, right? "The Turks are stubborn, and what they fear most is to attack the city.

Hou Junji frowned and said, "Besieged and waiting for help? Where are the reinforcements? It also takes time to assemble the government army in Guanzhong, and it will take at least ten days from Chang'an to Songzhou, and there are more of them than us, and there is nothing good about their equipment, so it is better to attack it first. ”

Niu Jinda also means this, he has been on the battlefield for decades, and his judgment is very accurate: "Well, weigh their weight first and then say." As he spoke, he sent out the arrows one by one.

Li Dongsheng is considered a middle-level cadre here, and it is not his turn to speak at all, so he can only watch the officer next to him go up and take the order.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Tang army outside Songzhou City blew a low horn, in the sound of the horn, the Tang army camp out of the five thousand crossbow archers, lined up about one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, and then the leading generals waved the red flag down, Li Dongsheng just like seeing Zhang Yimou's large heroes like a dark cloud of dense crossbow arrows flew towards the head of Songzhou City, those Tubo soldiers saw the Tang army array, clever have long squatted under the arrow stacks of the city wall, dodging round after round of arrow rain, from time to time on the city head of the city from time to time someone was hit by arrows, one fell to the ground, and those who were hit by the arrow did not die immediately, and let out a miserable scream.

After a dozen rounds of arrows, the rain of arrows finally stopped, and after a long time, the crossbowmen's arms were about to be wounded, so they put away their bows and crossbows and quickly retreated to the camp of the army. The Tubo soldiers at the head of the city just breathed a sigh of relief, and some arrogant guys danced at the head of the city, and some people unbuttoned their pants and peed downwards to show their insult to the Tang army.

At this time, there was another rumbling drum in the Tang army. Dozens of stone-throwing trucks were pushed out, and I saw that the leading general gave an order, and the stone-throwing trucks sent out countless boulders, which flew towards the head of Songzhou City like hailstones.

Those Tibetan soldiers were a little panicked this time, because those stones were not accurate, and they were huge, even if they were sassafras, they would break their arms and legs.

I saw the stones flying around on the head of the city, and after they fell, they were also rolling everywhere, and no one knew where the stones would fall, so everyone could only desperately squeeze behind the arrows of the city wall, which was the safest.

More than a dozen rounds of stone rain passed, the city was originally crowded with Tubo soldiers, they also knew that the Tang Dynasty's army could fight, so they were the maximum number of soldiers in the entire city, who knew that the Tang Dynasty did not directly use people to attack the city, first with bows and arrows, and then with stones, they had never seen this trebuchet, the result was that there were too many people in the city, and they could only watch the stones fall into the crowd.

When the Tubo soldiers were wailing and screaming, the Tang army changed their weapons again, only to hear the rumbling of drums, and the stone-throwing cart changed things, and what was thrown out was no longer a boulder, but a jar after a jar of fire oil, and the overwhelming jars flew up to the city, and then slammed and cracked after landing, and the Tubo soldiers on the city wall were shocked, desperately running under the city wall, dozens of archers wrapped the arrows in cloth strips stained with fire oil, and there were soldiers next to them to light the cloth strips, and then an arrow was shot, and the fire oil on the city head suddenly burned, The people below saw that in the raging fire, many Tibetan soldiers were on fire, running around in panic on the top of the city, and then rolling on the ground screaming miserably.

The officers and men of the Tang Army were all excited when they saw the tragic situation of the Tubo soldiers, and they shouted loudly with their swords and halberds. Li Dongsheng, who was standing next to Niu Jinda, was dazzled, this is a real blockbuster, the offensive methods of the Tang Army are already the peak of this era, and the soldiers and generals of the Tang Dynasty are also the strongest in this era.

Xi Junmai muttered: "It's too fierce, I really want to attack the city!" Li Dongsheng listened to his words, and then looked at the generals around him, everyone's eyes were full of longing, even the Gao Xianxing, looking at the soldiers who lined up to prepare for the siege, their eyes were full of envy. Soldiers are not afraid of death, this is the confidence of the Tang Dynasty.

The rumbling drums beat again, and the Tang army began to attack the city, everyone with horizontal swords and wooden spears in their hands, and the black pressure poured towards the city wall, and some people carried a long ladder and rushed towards the city head like an ant-like tide without hesitation.

Li Dongsheng sighed: "I finally know what it means to be an ant." ”

Yu Chi Baolin also sighed: "Now is the most tragic time. It is also the time when the casualties are the greatest. ”

Li Dongsheng is the first time to really see the siege of the cold weapon era, watching the Tang army soldiers rush across the moat one after another against the rain of arrows on the city, from time to time someone falls on the way to charge, and when they rush to the city wall, a few people climb up along the ladder set up, and the soldiers below the city wall keep using crossbow arrows to cover it, shooting and killing the Tubo people who leaned out of the city wall.

And the Tubo soldiers were not to be outdone, using forks and sticks to push away the cloud ladder erected at the head of the city, or pouring boiling tung oil on the cloud ladder, and countless Tang soldiers fell down from the ladder more than ten zhang high. Or be poured on the body by the boiling tung oil, screaming and falling under the city wall. There were also unfortunate Tubo soldiers who leaned out of their bodies with the stones thrown by the trebuchet just now to smash them, and the unlucky Tang army spit out a mouthful of blood when they were hit, and gradually lost their breath.

At this time, the city wall of Songzhou was already a purgatory. The Tang army and the Tubo soldiers fought desperately under the city wall, both sides have a number of psychology, since the Tubo captured Songzhou, slaughtered the people in the city, the war has been irreconcilable, this battle is already endless, this is the battle to recover the country, but also the battle of revenge.

Li Dongsheng looked at the fierce battle in the city, feeling the tragedy and cruelty of the war, the Tang army did not attack the city at all in the battle of Dingxiang City, so such a cruel picture was the first time to see, every Tang army fell from the city, it made him worry, and his heart beat fast. Foaming at the mouth non-stop. Niu Jinda suddenly turned his head and said, "Dongsheng, it's not easy to be a general, right?" ”