From the Qingluoyuan near the Dafei River, all the way to the northwest, with each step, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army felt like they were one step closer to hell. Seven Way Chinese please remember ours

The thin air was like the yin fire of purgatory, tormenting every Tang army soldier, including Qin Mubai.

As a result, the army had to stop and go so that everyone could gradually adapt to the geography. Qin Mubai even had the idea of entrenching on this plateau for a year or two, training all the soldiers into authentic "locals", and then going to a decisive battle with the Garqin Mausoleum.

But this is clearly unrealistic. The god of soldiers, the Tubo Dynasty, which had just been hit hard by Hou Junji, was desperately gathering the last vitality, and the Garqinling was trying his best to increase the army and expand the army and transfer the generals.

Along the way, the Kwantan army encountered almost no resistance, and almost all the people, animals, soldiers and horses of the Tubo tribes along the way were withdrawn, and there were no grains left in the granaries. Therefore, the further you go to the plateau, the more difficult it will be for the follow-up supply of the Kwantai Army.

Moreover, winters on the plateau are always long and ferocious. Although it is the middle of summer, it may not be more than two months before the wind and snow will hit.

If it drags on until then, it will definitely be a disaster for the Kansai Army!

There is no turning back when the bow is opened, even if it is difficult and dangerous, Qin Mubai and the Guanxi Army can only grit their teeth and advance towards Luoqi City.

A month and a half later, the sun was shining heavily on the plateau, and the weather was extremely hot.

Xue Rengui pioneered the first part and led the army to the former place of the battle between Hou Junji and Garqinling - Pamoli Grassland.

Here, it is only more than ten miles away from the royal city of Luo.

Xue Rengui quickly set up a defensive formation to prevent the Garqinling from taking advantage of the Tang army's unstable foothold to come and attack. At the same time, report the news to Qin Mubai, the main force in the rear, and report the situation here.

At night, the temperature plummets again, and compared to the heat of the day, it is a day of ice and fire. Xue Rengui and his soldiers were tired, and they did not dare to relax their vigilance. The camp was ambushed outside to prevent the Tibetans from attacking at night.

Sure enough, the Chinese side of the army had only heard a second watch, countless cavalry came from the northwest direction, rockets flew all over the sky, and the Tang military camp suddenly burst into flames.

Just as the Tubo people who were sneaking up on the attack had just arrived in front of the camp, Xue Rengui led the army to kill and came to a counter-encirclement of the Tubo. The Tibetans were caught off guard and were defeated. In the middle of the fierce battle, Xue Rengui not only repelled the enemy, but also led the army to kill more than 3,000 and won a complete victory.

From then on, the Tibetans did not dare to come to rob the camp again.

Seven days later, Qin Mubai led the main army of 70,000 composed of Yifu elite cavalry and arrived at Pamoli. On the military merit book, remember Xue Rengui's merit again.

Qin Mubai ordered the soldiers and horses to be rectified, first based on the defensive, and waited for the news of the other six-way soldiers and horses.

At the same time, waiting for Pang Fei's logistics troops stationed in the Lianghe River Basin, they sent the most important combat equipment - Shenwu cannon!

The Galqin Mausoleum was really calm. As early as before the Tang army came, he imitated the ancient art of war in the Central Plains to defend the city, sent a large number of people and troops, dug a large gap more than ten zhang wide in front of the city, and then introduced the water of iceberg melting snow as a moat. Unless a drawbridge was released from the royal city by boat, the moat was extremely difficult to cross.

Between the city wall and the moat, the Garqin Mausoleum built more than 300 guard towers, arrow towers and beacon towers with the method of "stone piles and then covered with iron shields", and there were almost no blind spots in the vision before the royal city, and these military buildings also became the strongest fortress of the royal city.

From the distance between the moat and the walls of the royal city and these iron and stone guard towers, it can be seen that the Garqin Mausoleum has taken into account the Tang army's siege weapon, the Shenwu cannon. These guard towers were both sturdy and fireproof, and they were not at all afraid of the Tang Army's traditional long-range fire arrows. Even the Shenwu cannon, shot from such a long distance, can wield a lot of power. Moreover, even if the cannonballs are used up at any cost, it is estimated that it will be difficult to blow up this circle of turtle-like arrow tower defenses, let alone bomb the city gates.

The defense of the royal city is so strict that it is enough to be worthy of the words "impregnable".

The Garqin Mausoleum is indeed the culmination of a soldier who has both offense and defense.

Having robbed the battalion once before, it seems that the Garqin Mausoleum is just tentatively trying to test the strength of the Kwantan army after this long journey. Now seeing the soldiers approaching the city, he did not move. It seems that he is also like Qin Mubai, waiting for the other soldiers and horses to gather together for a crisp and crisp decisive battle.

The two armies each defended the camp and the city, and they actually fought against each other for half a month, without moving a single soldier.

Soon, the rest of the people from all walks of life sent Qin Mubai a military intelligence report here. Except for Pang Fei's subordinates who stayed in the two river valleys, the rest of the five roads successfully conquered the military important places demarcated by Qin Mubai, and all of them led the army to advance towards the royal city of Luo.

The net is already slowly tightening.

At this moment, the Garqin Tomb is like a tiger shark that has fallen into the net, not only is it not in a hurry or struggling, but it does not move. It's as if waiting for the fisherman to come and collect the net, and then launch a deadly counterattack.

More than 300,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses were all stationed in the three large camps inside and outside the royal city, forming the horn defense system of the iron triangle. In addition, there were nearly 400,000 civilians in the royal city. In the entire Luo City, the last Qi of Tibet was gathered.

Qin Mubai convened all the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

"There are very few people who are as calm as the Garchinling." The veteran general Li Daliang said, "I have to admit that this kid is a bit of a general." He is now responding to all changes with the same, and attacking with static movement and defense, simply trying to consume us! ”

"He's waiting for winter to come." Qin Mubai said, "Although it's not just the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, I can also feel that the weather is getting cooler significantly. On this plateau with an eerie climate, there is a possibility of snow in another month or two. At that time, our army will be quite disadvantaged! ”

"If it is a conventional war, we can completely besiege it without attacking, and wait for its internal chaos or although it is out of food and water, and then go to the urn to catch turtles." Li Junxian shook his head, "But the situation in front of us is just the opposite. Tubo concentrated the country's troops and grain and grass in the royal city, and was not afraid of running out of supplies in a short period of time. On the contrary, if it continues to be consumed, it will be us who will be cut off from supplies. In addition, when the winter snow falls, our army will not be able to adapt to it at all, and if the Garqin Tomb counterattacks at that time...... He is indeed a cunning and ruthless opponent, making full use of the right time and place! ”

"So, we can only storm the city by force?" All the generals will say together.

Qin Mubai's eyebrows locked deep and pondered for a moment, "Wait for ten more days!" - The last ten days! ”

"What are you waiting for?" The generals asked in confusion.

This scene, even for a day, is precious. Not to mention anything else, the amount of grain and grass for 400,000 horses in one day alone is astronomical. The rear side had to transport grain and grass to the city of Raksha, and the cost was more than three times more than the previous supplies!

"When the time comes, you'll know." Qin Mubai took a deep breath, slowly exhaled it, a strange smile appeared on his face, and said to the generals, "Our army has come from afar, and it is quite tired. In ten days, the generals reorganized their soldiers and horses in order to fight a decisive battle. During this period, our army must not use a single soldier in vain, and at the same time, we must strictly guard against enemy troops robbing the camp. ”

"No! - "Although I don't understand why Qin Mubai did this, the general order has been issued, and the generals have no choice but to receive the general order, and then return to the camp separately.

Being able to get a few days of rest and recuperation is rare for the current Kwantai Army. Many soldiers with strong altitude sickness gradually recovered their health and adapted. The Galqin Mausoleum still did not leave the royal city without a single soldier.

The rest of the five armies had advanced to the vicinity of the royal city, and the distance between each army was not more than a few miles, and the sound of trumpets and smoke could be heard from each other.

Seven days later, the Shenwu cannon and more than seventy carts of five-fingered divine thunder that Qin Mubai wanted to wear finally arrived at Pa Moli!

Qin Shi, the most trusted "dog slave" by Qin Mubai, was once again ordered to accept a secret mission from Qin Mubai along with many craftsmen in Tiegu.

In two days, more than 100 craftsmen made more than 600 flying kites according to the drawings given by Qin Mubai!

It's a kite!

It's just that this kite is different from the kites that ordinary people use to play. It is composed of three sturdy armor-piercing arrows as the main trunk bone, with tough wood as the broken bones, and the body with the vine cloth of the marching tent as the body, and the wings are more than one zhang (three meters) wide, and the whole is a streamlined swallow shape.

After the completion of the project, Qin Mubai invited the generals to the wilderness more than thirty miles behind the camp to test in public.

The generals didn't know what these things were for, and Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Garqinling uncharacteristically dressed up as a turtle, which is beyond my expectations. Some cities are impregnable, and it is unlikely that they will be attacked by force, and even if they are barely captured, the losses of our army will be extremely serious. Then, I have no choice but to blast the Garqin Mausoleum out of the Logo, and then fight a decisive battle with it! ”

"Bang out of the way?" The generals were puzzled and asked, "That's all there is to it—flying kites?" ”

"Of course." Qin Mubai smiled mysteriously, "Actually, I designed these things a long time ago, and I have done a few experiments, and I feel okay." In the past few days, I have asked the military craftsmen to rush to make a batch, hoping to come in handy - Qin Shi! ”

"The villain is here!" Qin picked it up and answered the order.

"Let's see with the generals."

"Yes!"

Qin Shi and several craftsmen and soldiers immediately took action, and first brought out a special "bed artillery crossbow" made by Tiegu - this is what Qin Mubai has reformed from the bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty according to what he saw in history.

The bed crossbow is the pinnacle of crossbow and arrow weapons, and it looks like a loom at first glance, but the wooden frame body is not a weaving machine, but three iron-tired hard bows!

This kind of bed crossbow requires ten people to turn the two axles on both sides to pull it apart, and the range can reach a terrifying 1500 meters! On the eve of the alliance between Song Liao and Tanyuan, the Khitan general Xiao Dalan was killed by a bed crossbow arrow, which greatly demoralized the Khitan.

It's just that the bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty shoots iron-headed crossbow arrows, and the bed artillery crossbow made by Qin Mubai asks Tiegu to shoot is a powerful gunpowder blasting arrow with a five-fingered divine thunder!

Now that this crossbow has been transformed again, even Qin Mubai doesn't know if it can wield the power it deserves.

Qin Shi has already done it.

Huge flying kites were mounted on the crossbow carriage instead of the thick cannon crossbows. According to Qin Mubai's own experiments and design optimization, these bed crossbows used to use three-sided iron-tired bows as strings, but now they only use hybrid bows with reduced elasticity on both sides, otherwise the flying kite will definitely be torn to pieces by the instantaneous powerful air anti-devouring force.

Loaded. Qin Shi looked at Qin Mubai, and Qin Mubai nodded.

"Shoot!

The strings ring!

The giant flying kite, shaped like a house swallow, flew into the sky like a lightning bolt, and then glided forward gently, falling miles away!

This distance has greatly exceeded the effective range of the Shenwu cannon, and compared with the distance between the current Kansai Army cantonment camp and the Tubo Royal City, it is roughly similar!

"Success!!" Qin Mubai stroked his palms and laughed!

"We get it!" The generals also suddenly realized, and said with a smile, "If these flying kites are tied to the five-fingered divine thunder, they can be allowed to fly into the Tubo King City in the camp of the Kansai Army a few miles away!" At that time, no matter how solid the walled city, tower whistle and moat outside his royal city are, let's dig out his heart first! ”

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "It's just that there is another question in this, did this divine thunder detonate with an impact or did it ignite the fuse first?" If so, how long should I use it? - Qin Shi, I'll leave this big trouble to you! ”

"The villain takes the order! The villain immediately began to test a hundred times, and within three days, he would surrender to his master! Qin Shi solemnly promised.

"Good!" Qin Mubai shouted, "Three days later, the six battalions attacked at the same time. But it's not soldiers and horses attacking the city - it's a god soldier descending from the sky and a fire phoenix burning the city! ”

"Haha, good!!" The generals laughed together!

Qin Mubai sighed and said secretly: "Garqinling, you are indeed a master of the peak of this era, I know that I can't compare to you if I cultivate for another ten or eight years." You've seen my Shenwu cannon, too, but—if I'm not a little bit smarter than you, and don't waste it that I'm from more than a thousand years later? …… With the power and range of these Shenwu cannons alone, it is indeed far from enough to bombard your fortress castle, and I will not be able to build any Scud missiles in a short period of time. However, I always know how to use catapult and glide to increase the range of airdrop bombing! - Once, our Eighth Route Army killed the bunkers of Little Japan and the puppet army in this way, when Lao Tzu was in the military academy, so many patriotic anti-Japanese war movies were not in vain! ”

"Garqinling, you think you're unlucky!"

Three days later, late at night.

In the camp of the Tang Army, a series of trumpets and artillery orders suddenly sounded, which alarmed the night sky of the plateau.

The sentry tower of Luoqicheng, which was already in full swing, instantly lit up with countless lights, and gongs rang out all over the place!

"The Tang army has attacked the city!!"

The entire royal city was in an uproar, and he woke up from his slumber in an instant!

The strange thing is that the Tubo people did not see a single soldier of the Tang Army, but only sharp-eyed people, and saw that in the night sky illuminated by torches, there were countless "UFOs" coming all over the world.

"That'...... What is that? The Tibetan soldiers pointed to the air and shouted in fear.

A large number of "UFOs", like demons and monsters walking through the clouds, flew into the sky above the royal city in unison, and then began to fall.

In an instant, "Boom, rumble!!" ”

Flowers bloom everywhere, explosions and flames soar into the sky!

The lead design of the genius Qin Shi is as accurate as a computer!

In the middle of the city, it suddenly became purgatory!!

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Looking at the fires in the distant city and the smoke and flames soaring into the sky, and the sound of frightened people shouting horses and fighting shook the night sky, Qin Mubai's face was as silent as water.

"Mr. Yuan Tiangang, the demon star in your mouth has created a lot of killing." He smiled indifferently and said to himself, "Phantom Moon Valley, Dafei River, and Golmud are buried alive and flooded more than 200,000 times. There were 300,000 troops and 400,000 civilians in the royal city. I don't know how many people will die in this trouble today...... Good! At this point, the great sin has been bought! War is war, either you die or I live - Garchinling, I don't believe you can still hide in a turtle shell! Your iron tortoise shell is no longer useful in front of me, get out of here and fight to the death! ”