Before I knew it, six days had passed.

In the past few days, Tulu Baihu, the chief defender of Lhasa, has been closely patrolling the inner city, but what makes him very strange is that the rebels have been very quiet these days, and there is no siege posture at all.

Tulubaihu originally thought that the rebels, who had suffered heavy losses, would probably become angry and start attacking the city in a hurry after dawn the next day, but he did not expect that after six days, the rebels had not made any movement to attack the city, but continued to besiege the inner city.

What's going on?

Don't the rebels want to attack the city, they just want to besiege it for a long time, and starve to death in the inner city?

It's just that in this inner city, there is still enough grain to support a month, and how can this soldier and horse be so easy to consume.

Besides, Lhasa has become a dead city, and southern Tibet is quite far away, and the longer the rebels stay here, the more difficult it will be to provide logistics, the more demoralized they will become, and they will have to pay more and more costs to attack this well-fortified inner city.

Tulubaihu was a little confused for a while, the rebels' unreasonable behavior made his keen head quite a little unable to turn around, but Rao was so, Tulubaihu still ordered the whole army to pay close attention to the movements of the rebels, do a good job of garrisoning, and strictly prevent the rebels from suddenly starting to attack the city.

It was not until the morning of the eighth day that the rumbling of war drums and the continuous piercing sound of swan trumpets suddenly sounded in the rebel formation.

After seven days of silence, the rebels finally began to attack the inner city of Lhasa Fort.

Tulubaihu was surprised to see that under the urging of war drums and trumpets, countless rebels, pushing many strange-looking and strange objects, were pushing out of the Tartar array, surrounded on all sides, and slowly pushed towards the four walls of the entire inner city.

Seeing these strange things, all the garrison guards were full of consternation.

Damn, I haven't seen you for a few days, the rebels have got something.

As the rebel soldiers pushed closer and closer, the defenders defending the city finally saw clearly what the strange thing pushed by the rebels looked like.

They saw that this strange-looking thing was made by the rebels with four carts, two ends and two tails put together, and a large open space in the middle was used to hide people inside. On top of this pieced together car, there are thick wooden planks nailed, and the wooden boards are covered with cowhide and wet quilts, and the whole thing, from the whole appearance, is a bit like the car of later generations.

"What is this bastard of the shit, what kind of fame is he doing with these things?" Everyone looked at these things that the rebels were pushing closer and closer, and their faces were very surprised.

When the defenders defending the city were very surprised, behind the rebel formation, the fifth emperor had a proud look on his face, and said to Gamu as if inviting merit: "Look, the king, this joint chariot I designed, consisting of four chariots in one place, can hide more soldiers than a single chariot, and can better guard against the soldiers defending the city. On this joint car, because of the cowhide and wet quilt, if the defenders use the hand to throw the thunder to attack, it can be bounced off by the cowhide on the surface, so that the explosive power of the hand thunder is greatly reduced, and if the defender shoots crossbow arrows, because the defense area of the combined car is more expanded, and because of the thick planks, the defender's crossbow arrows, even at close range, can not be penetrated, so it can greatly reduce the casualties of our soldiers. ”

The fifth paused, and said with a ruthless face: "As long as our army can use this joint chariot as a cover, attack all the way to the inner city of Lhasa Fort, and then dig the bottom of the wall, bury explosives, and use explosives to blow up the city wall, and our army will attack again in one fell swoop, this inner city should not be difficult to break!" ”

After listening to the fifth world's triumphant narration, Gamu's face was also greatly stretched, and he nodded and said: "Fifth world, your plan to unite the chariot is very good, if the inner city is broken, you should remember the first credit!" ”

"King Xie." The fifth had a happy face and immediately replied.

At this time, after seeing these combined cars getting closer and closer, Tulubaihu's face suddenly became cold.

No wonder the rebels haven't moved for the past few days, it turns out that they have been building this thing. The rebels did this completely out of their own expectations.

And after seeing the structure of these combined chariots and the direction of the rebels' march, Tulubai's heart immediately tightened.

With a sharp mind, at this moment, he instantly thought of what the rebels would do next to the inner city of Lhasa.

Hmph, these dog tartars just want to use this strange-shaped car to sneak to the corner of the inner city wall, and then use explosives to blow up the inner city wall, so that there are gaps and loopholes in the garrison of the inner city, so that the rebels can take advantage of the weakness, so as to carry out a comprehensive attack on the inner city with a point and an area with the advantage of troops.

Such a poisonous plan is very deceitful!

Sure enough, what happened next, as Tulubaihu expected, these strange-shaped things, crowded with countless rebels below, you can vaguely see these rebels in their hands, all holding all kinds of excavation equipment, and you can also faintly see that the explosive box made of wooden planks nailed with fierce fire oil and explosives inside.

The battle-hardened Tulubaihu is familiar with such an explosive wooden box.

Seeing this, Tulubaihu punched hard and smashed on the battlement.

"Traitors in the dog! They want to dig holes out of the walls and blow down the inner city walls with explosives! ”

Tulubaihu's shout made all the soldiers guarding the inner city unexpected.

Dig up the walls and blow them up with explosives?

How could the enemy have such a trick?

Tulubai Amber didn't have time to think about it, and immediately shouted: "Immediately arrange the soldiers, shoot crossbow arrows at these strange things developed by the rebels, throw thunders, and be sure to prevent the rebels from approaching the root of the city wall!" ”

"Order!"

After listening to Tulubaihu's order, the defenders at the head of the city immediately began to get busy.

The first to fire were the archers, who loaded their arrows and aimed at the approaching combined carts.

"Ready, put!"

In the continuous sound of strings, the continuous arrows formed a dense web of death. As many as nearly 10,000 feathered arrows roared out, shooting towards those strange-looking joint chariots that were still marching towards the inner city walls of Lhasa.

A scene that worried Tulubaihu and all the defenders took place.

They saw that after these feathered arrows were fired, they were basically blocked by the combined carts, and they shot them like porcupines.

And many arrows, due to the influence of the wind, the rate of fire weakened, and even the thick surface of the cowhide on the combined cart could not penetrate, and it was immediately bounced away.

Only a handful of crossbow arrows were lucky enough to hit the rebels who had not taken cover under the wagons in time, killing about seventy or eighty rebel soldiers.

What to do?

Do you just let the enemy soldiers come and attack the city?

If the inner city wall is really blown down, with the only remaining long-range troops in the inner city, I am afraid that it will not be the opponent of the rebels at all, and even the surging rebels may be wiped out with one drum.

At this moment, Turubaihu's mind was spinning like a high-speed motor.

However, as if in the blink of an eye, Tulubai suddenly thought of a plan.

At this moment, Tulubai's eyes lit up.

"Quickly organize the soldiers on the city walls, burn coal, mix in fire oil to help the fire, and then dump down the wall, and be sure to burn all these rebel cars!" Tulubaihu ordered loudly.

"Order!"

Just as the defenders were quickly looking for the coal in the inner city and starting a fire to burn, the rebels' combined carts had already reached the city walls.

Every soldier of the defending army could clearly hear the clanging chiseling sound under the inner city walls.

Under the four walls of the inner city of Lhasa, there were more than a dozen of these combined chariots, leaning against the wall, the sound of the chisel was very harsh, and every soldier of the defending army seemed to be faintly able to feel the chisel sound, as if it was knocking on his own heart, and the city wall under his feet was coming from a slight vibration one after another.

At the same time, it seemed that the rebels below the city could hear bursts of piercing laughter, as if the inner city had fallen into their hands.

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Tulubaihu clenched his fists and his face was as cold as iron.

He knew that whether he could destroy these carts in time could become the key to whether he could successfully defend the inner city, and only by burning these combined carts in time could he finally successfully keep the fortress wall.

In the square inside the fort, there were a large number of defenders and young men in the city, and piles of coal were set on fire. After each pile of coal was burned, other soldiers carried it in large iron drums and carried it under the four walls, and then from the top of the city wall, they mixed these burning coals with fierce fire oil, so that the more burning coals were poured down from the city.

In order to survive the winter, there is plenty of coal in the inner city of Lhasa, and now, it is the key to Tulubaihu's defeat of the enemy.

Because of his long-term savings, the amount of coal is extremely large, and he does not have to worry about the shortage of coal at all. As far as the eye could see, countless defenders, like ants carrying goods, ran frantically back and forth between the square and the city walls, repeating the actions of loading coal and dumping.

After the burning coals with the ferocious oil were poured down the city, Tulubaihu saw that this trick he had come up with in a flash of inspiration was indeed very effective, and began to have a remarkable effect.

These coals, which were overturned on the combined cart and were still burning violently, first quickly dried the cowhide soaked in water and the wet quilt underneath, and then set the whole cart on fire, and the fire quickly spread to the entire cart.

Because the ignition point was at the top, the rebels hiding under the combined vehicle could not extinguish the fire in time, and could only watch the fire get bigger and bigger, and finally completely burned the entire combined vehicle to ashes.

Soon, as the defenders kept pouring down such violently burning coals, more and more Lianquan carts began to burn and catch fire.

It's just that Rao is joint chariot began to catch fire, and the rebels digging the wall under the gear were afraid of the military order, but no one dared to escape without authorization, and the rebel leaders who were escorting the battle inside were still drinking and ordering them to continue to speed up the progress of digging.

The rebels were frantically digging into the corners of the inner city, almost naively hoping that they would dig the caverns before the cart burned down so that they could fill the bomb boxes themselves.

Soon, the rebels began to understand how stupid their fantasies were.

"Boom!"

With a dull explosion, one such combined cart finally collapsed from top to bottom, smashing most of the rebels inside into meat patties, and only a few rebels who were burned like burning men, howling and running for a distance in an extremely terrifying form, fell to the ground and convulsed to death in extreme pain, until they were completely burned into a mass of charcoal.

Soon, four more of these combined wagons were burned and collapsed by the coal thrown down, and the rebels inside were also killed.

What is particularly terrifying and terrifying is that after one of the combined vehicles was burned down, the raging flames ignited the explosive box carried by the rebels, and suddenly, the huge explosion that could almost burst the human eardrum sounded, and the entire collapsed combined vehicle, as well as the rebels who were crushed and burned to death under the vehicle, were all blown apart, becoming scattered pieces of flesh and blood.

Seeing the rebels under the city, being beaten so miserably by their own coal-throwing tactics, the defenders at the head of the city let out a loud cheer, and everyone's face was full of joy.

Seeing the rebels' joint chariot offensive, they were suddenly frustrated, and the rebel general Gamu and others, who were watching the battle from a distance, were all anxious.

They never expected that after defending themselves against the defenders' arrows, the defenders would be able to use such a primitive but very effective way to deal a devastating blow to the combined car that they had painstakingly built.

It's just that now that the rebels are already in the city, they want to make adjustments, but it's too late.

One of the guards next to him couldn't help it at first, and he shouted to Gamu: "King, the defenders' coal-burning and car-burning tactics are really very powerful, and now our army's casualties have increased significantly, if we continue to resist like this, we will only pay more and greater casualties, if you give an order, they will retreat first." “

Hearing this person's words, the Fifth Dalai Lama immediately objected, and he blushed and said loudly: "No! The king, reluctant to let the child not catch the wolf, this siege battle, the death and injury of the soldiers are inevitable, if the soldiers are withdrawn at this critical moment, our army will be in vain! Then this inner city, I'm afraid I don't know when, I can take it! “

Gamu's face was as heavy as iron, but he groaned slightly, but he still agreed with the fifth world's opinion.

You must know that the only hope now is that the rebels can use their numerical superiority to blow up the inner city walls of the defenders in one or two places under the premise of paying a huge price for casualties, so as to find a gap for the rebels to attack the city, then such casualties are valuable.

Finally, even if the rebels were lucky, as many as a dozen combined carts, all of which had been burned, there was a combined cart in the dead corners of the north and south walls of the inner city, and it was lucky to escape the attack of the defenders and dig a cave to fill the explosive wooden box. Then the soldiers who were in the battle immediately waved the banner that they had successfully dug out the pit to the rebel main formation.

Seeing the flag coming, Gamu, the fifth and others were all overjoyed.