Chapter 369: The Battle of Songzhou

Standing on the head of the city, looking at the west, I saw only a yurt like the sea, and the flag like a forest. A black tide slowly moved towards Songzhou City. But there are countless Tibetan people.

"General Niu, this Tubo won't attack Songzhou now!" Han Wei stood beside Niu Jinda, looked at the Tubo soldiers who were surging over like a tide, and couldn't help but ask carefully.

Niu Jinda chuckled, shook his head and said, "Attack Songzhou? According to Ben, these Tubo people are not so powerful! Last night, Ben attacked at night, and after a battle, he suddenly lost his courage, how could he attack Songzhou? I'm afraid these people are here to provoke, not to siege the city! ”

For this, Han Wei showed a noncommittal expression.

Niu Jinda didn't explain anymore, looking at the torrent that was getting closer and closer, his eyes were like knives.

At the head of the city, the soldier with a bow and crossbow looked nervously at the approaching Tubo people, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and held the bow and crossbow in his hand more tightly.

The Tibetans finally came to a place less than thirty zhang from the city wall.

According to rough estimates, there are probably as many as 20,000 of these Tibetans. However, if you want to capture this Songzhou City with 20,000 people, it is impossible.

At this time, I saw a person in the Tubo array riding out of the horse, stepped forward ten zhang to the city wall, and shouted loudly in Chinese: "I am the Tubo general Lingdong, is the Han general who attacked my camp last night here?" ”

Niu Jinda listened to the words of the Tibetan general, and immediately laughed and said: "Your grandfather Niu is here!" ”

This Tubo general named Lingdong suddenly raised the long-handled broadsword in his hand: "You Han general, can you go down to the city to fight with me?" ”

Niu Jinda pursed his lips disdainfully: "Lao Tzu is the general of the Tang Dynasty Zuo Wuwei, you are a fart, why do you want Lao Tzu to deign to fight with you?" ”

When Lingdong heard this, his black face was full of anger: "My Lingdong is a Tubo royal family, can't I fight with you?" ”

Niu Jinda smiled and waved his hand: "Release the arrow!" ”

Suddenly, arrows rained down.

Ling Donglun waved his weapon and blocked a few feathered arrows, then quickly turned his horse's head and ran back. However, as soon as he turned his horse's head, a feathered arrow plunged into his shoulder.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

Seeing the Tibetan people fleeing in embarrassment, everyone immediately laughed.

After this challenge, the Tibetans realized that the one who was staying in the city at the moment was a rogue general named Niu Jinda, who did not follow the rules.

For a long time after that, no Tibetan general led troops to provoke Songzhou City.

And so, in the blink of an eye, three days passed. The past three days have passed peacefully, and Tubo has not come to make any provocative moves.

Three days later, Li Daozong's army arrived at Songzhou City and set up a large camp five miles south of the city.

The arrival of the army made the whole city of Songzhou breathe a sigh of relief at the same time. These 30,000 troops, plus the Shuzhong soldiers who have arrived one after another, now the strength outside Songzhou City is close to 40,000, plus more than 10,000 people in the city, it is enough to resist the 200,000 Tubo army.

"Zampu, now that the Tang army has become a front, if you don't take advantage of the new arrival of its army and the unstable foothold, give a head-on blow, and wait for the Tang army to hold on inside and outside, then Songzhou is impregnable, and An can capture it?"

In the big tent of Tubo, five old ministers of Tubo came to the big tent of Songtsen Gampo together. As soon as he sat down, an old minister said earnestly.

These five old ministers are also the father of Songtsen Gampo, and the ministers of the Langri Zanpu period, whether they are loyal to Langri Zanpo or Songtsen Gampo.

Songtsen Gampo pondered for a moment, but said: "But the main purpose of my going south is to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty. If there is a war with Datang, it is not what I want! ”

An old minister with white hair stood up, looked at Songtsan Gampo, and said slowly: "Zampu, now my army has been in Songzhou for more than a month, during which countless rangers have been sent to investigate the places of Songzhou, Longzhou, Yizhou, and Maozhou clearly, as long as the Songzhou Tang army in front of me is completely wiped out, there will be no army in the entire Shu that can stop my Tubo soldiers!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Songtsen Gampo couldn't help but move slightly. This land of Shuzhong, the country of abundance, its conditions are extremely superior, if it can occupy this Shuzhong, then the strength of Tubo can at least double.

At this time, these five old ministers got up at the same time and bowed to Songtsen Gampo: "The old minister asks Zampu to immediately lead the army and attack Songzhou City in an all-round way!" ”

And at this moment, an earth-shattering shout came from outside the big tent: "Please Zanpu order an all-out attack on Songzhou City!" ”

Songtsen Gampo opened the curtain of the door, and saw most of his subordinate officials kneeling outside the big tent, shouting in unison: "Please Zanpu order an all-out attack on Songzhou City!" ”

Faced with such a situation, Songtsen Gampo's eyes suddenly shot out with infinite heroism: "Okay, since everyone means this, then from tomorrow, an all-out attack on Songzhou!" ”

Given that the Tibetans had a powerful cavalry, and the Tang army's mortars, steel crossbows and other weapons were all long-range weapons, as long as they rushed closer, the threat to the artillery would be very great. Therefore, Li Daozong ordered his soldiers to make two horse rejections around the camp and a thick wooden fence. The artillerymen stayed behind the wooden fence and fired, and the shells could easily hit the first line of rejection.

The scouts were widely scattered, with the Tang Army camp, Songzhou City, and the Tubo camp as the center, operating within a radius of 100 miles.

So, in this huge net, the Tang army easily discovered the movements of the Tubo people.

The huge army of the Tibetans gradually divided into two parts, and nearly 80,000 people rose up and moved towards Songzhou City. The rest of the army was slowly approaching the Tang army camp.

Li Daozong immediately knew that a big war was about to begin.

At the same time, Niu Jinda stood above the city, looking at the smoke and dust rising from the northwest, and his face was solemn.

The summer sun jumps over the hill early. Sitting on the city wall resting, the soldiers who had been on guard all night blocked the wisps of morning light that were shooting at them with their hands, and yawned a long time. Fearing that the Tibetans would steal the city at night, these soldiers were divided into two groups, guarding the first half of the night and the second half of the night. Don't look at how lazy they are now, but in the night the eyes of these soldiers are as round as owls.

Suddenly, the soldier who stretched his waist found that there was silence around him, and he couldn't help but look at it in surprise, only to see a famous soldier standing neatly on the head of Songzhou City, and from time to time there were neatly dressed soldiers with swords and bows, running in front of him.

"Brother, let it go!" A voice rang in my ears.

He looked back and saw a two-wheeled cart carrying a large urn about to pass by him.

The soldier was startled, and hurriedly took two steps back to make his debut. But he knew that the contents of the urn were tung oil that had been boiled.

"Hey, why are you still stunned, hurry up and prepare, the Tubo people are going to attack the city!" A lieutenant couldn't help but shout loudly when he looked at the soldier's stunned appearance.

The soldier hurriedly stepped forward, came to the battlement, looked down, and saw that the Tubo soldiers below were like a black flood, surging in, lined up less than a hundred zhang away from the city wall.

At the front of the Tibetan array was a Tibetan general riding on horseback and holding various long weapons. After that, every ten people carried a ladder and lined up neatly. Behind them were a group of scattered and ragged men with all sorts of rudimentary weapons, even stone weapons. At the rear, there were rows of neat, mighty, and well-equipped regular troops.

From the very beginning of the generals all the way back to the back, as far as the eye can see, the figure is vast, and it seems that it is about to be connected between heaven and earth.

"Wow-" The Tibetan general at the front shouted something in Tubo, and then the soldiers who carried the ladder, the ragged soldiers, and the well-equipped soldiers all roared with this roar.

For a while, the sound of "wow woo woo" resounded outside Songzhou City.

When the soldiers at the head of the city saw such a terrifying momentum, they couldn't help but take a step back, glanced at each other, and swallowed their saliva.

Seeing this, Niu Jinda pulled out the horizontal knife in his hand, held it high to the sky, and roared loudly: "Kill-"

Niu Jinda's own soldiers and nearby soldiers also roared: "Kill-"

With Niu Jinda's loud roar, the word "kill" was deducted by the soldiers, and in an instant, the head of Songzhou City also roared to the sky, and the momentum was not weaker than the 80,000 Tubo soldiers.

Like two wild beasts, one roaring and the other facing each other, when this roar is over, the official siege and defense battle will begin.

On the side of the Tang army camp, Li Daozong ordered the cavalry to be ready to stand by at any time in the camp. The infantry, on the other hand, carried bows and arrows and steel crossbows to the second line of rejection. It was only a hundred paces from the outermost horse, within the range of the bow and crossbow.

It is conceivable that when the Tibetan cavalry charged to the side of the first rejection horse, the speed of the charge slowed down when they encountered the rejection of the horse, and the Tang soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to shoot arrows and send out cannonballs.

In order to check the strength of the Tang army, Songtsen Gampo personally took the elite army of Tubo to the Tang army camp.

Among these elite armies, except for the Tibetan soldiers, the rest were all slaves. These slaves, clad in tattered armor and armed with shabby weapons, were the population of the hostile forces that had been captured during the initial war in Tibet. Those who are young and strong are issued with simple weapons, and are driven forward to serve as dead soldiers. It was followed by a well-equipped regular army, both as a supervisor and as a supplement.

As for the armies of the plateau countries such as Yangtong and Subi, which were surrounded by Tibet, they were sent by Songtsen Gampo to attack Songzhou.

For the plateau people who are not good at attacking the city, it is a little difficult to attack this Songzhou City, where the wall is as high as four zhang. Songtsen Gampo could even predict that when Yangtong, Subi and other countries took Songzhou City, it would be a lucky thing to have half of the elite left.

Shaking his head and throwing the distracting thoughts out of his mind, Songtsen Gampo's eyes gradually sharpened. Looking at the Tang Army camp a mile away, he waved his hand violently.

Suddenly, the majestic sound of the bull's horn resounded in the sky.