With Shi Hao's personal supervision, the scene of temporary chaos because of the first counterattack of Tubo gradually calmed down, although the confrontation for days, the city defense army that had experienced the baptism of war grew up, but compared to the border army that was crawling in the war, it was naturally inferior. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, although the Tang army in the south of the city was close to 3,000 people, but in the face of the fierce offensive of the Tubo, everyone still felt unprecedented pressure, after all, even Li Qing, who had retreated to the city tower, strongly felt that the Tubo army under the city was determined to break through Songzhou City in one fell swoop this time, and there was no room for the Tang army in the city to breathe.

After all, after several previous temptations, Tan Qinling, who had suffered a lot of losses, finally recognized his advantages and did not send small-scale soldiers to test them, but really wanted to rely on his numerical advantage to directly establish the victory of this battle.

Fortunately, the Tang army in the south of the city was mixed with more than 500 Maozhou soldiers and horses and more than 700 elite Jianmen, plus the western battalion of the city defense army after Li Qing's rectification, but also greatly increased the military strength, in the face of the continuous consensus of Tubo, although the Tang army in the south of the city was struggling, but it could barely resist for a while!

The stabilized Tang army defending the city, archers and crossbowmen launched a counterattack again, naturally causing a lot of casualties to the Tubo army under the city again, but despite this, the Tubo vanguard was less than fifty steps away from the Songzhou city wall.

Everyone knows that when the real soldiers of the Tubo army are under the city, the cloud ladder is set up on the Songzhou city wall, next, the advantage of the defending side of the city will be gone, a white-knuckle battle, than which side is more ferocious, the brave wins when the narrow road meets, once the Tang army retreats, the city of Songzhou is broken, and the lives of thousands of Tang troops and 100,000 people in the north of the city are dying, if the Tubo retreats, the Tang army will counterattack, and the reinforcements of Hanzhou, plus Li Qing's arrangement, next, will definitely be able to annihilate the Tubo army outside the city of Songzhou!

Standing inside the city tower, Li Qing, who was carrying his hands behind his back, listened to the shouts of killing outside the door, looked at the deputy general of the East Battalion of the City Defense Army in front of him, who was temporarily responsible for his own safety, and asked, "How is the situation outside?" ”

He replied respectfully: "Your Highness, now that the Tubo army has crossed the moat, and the cloud ladder has been erected on the wall of Songzhou, the next is the really difficult time!" Speaking of this, the deputy general of the Dongda Battalion, whose face was not surprising, frowned, although he had not participated in the battle to guard the frontier, but he could be ranked as the deputy general of the city defense army, this person naturally knew that as the party defending the city, at this time, when the Tubo army was in full swing, as long as it resisted the first wave of offensive, next, the Tang army would be much more comfortable.

After all, if the Tang army defending the city can really withstand the two or three attacks of Tubo, at that time, the morale of Tubo will definitely fall unprecedentedly, after all, with the attitude of winning with one blow, if they are rejected by the Tang army in Songzhou City again and again, how can they not be discouraged?

Helplessly smiled bitterly, dispelled the unrealistic plan in his heart, and knew his own strength, the deputy general of the city defense army naturally knew that it was obviously unrealistic to block the repeated attacks of the main force of Tubo with more than 3,000 immature soldiers, let alone two or three times, even if he could resist it once, I am afraid it would be a blessing!

It's just that these thoughts in my heart, the deputy general of the city defense army will naturally not say it, since this moment, after the repeated encouragement of the Xuanyi Shou King in front of him, the Tang army is in full swing at this moment, and once his arrogant words are said, it will inevitably disturb the morale of the army, and the two, thinking of the layers of arrangements of His Royal Highness in front of him, the deputy general of the city defense army, once launched, will definitely be able to stop the general attack of Tubo this time.

Thinking of this, the deputy general of the city defense army could no longer suppress the doubts in his heart, glanced at Li Qing, who was silent in front of him, and then said: "Your Highness, there is something unclear about the last general, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" "Speaking of this, the adjutant general of the city defense army lowered his head to show respect.

Looking at the adjutant general of the city defense army in front of him indifferently, as if he knew what the middle-aged deputy general in front of him wanted to ask, Li Qing waved his hand and signaled to the middle-aged deputy general in front of him, but it didn't matter.

With Li Qing's permission, the middle-aged lieutenant general who had no worries raised his head and looked directly at the young man in Xuanyi who had always looked confident in front of him from beginning to end, and said: "Since Your Highness has long expected that Tubo will attack on a large scale tonight, and has arranged those preparations in advance, what your subordinates don't know is why Your Highness has not launched it now, if it is started earlier, it will not only stop Tubo's attack, but also save the lives of the brothers outside the door, so that the officers and soldiers of our army do not have to suffer such losses?" Speaking of the excitement, the middle-aged deputy general's face was full of puzzlement, if it weren't for Li Qing's identity, I'm afraid that the middle-aged deputy general would have been scolded head-on instead of just questioning it like now.

Although the middle-aged lieutenant general in front of him had a lot of words, Li Qing heard the last sentence of the words just now, which was the key, and the middle-aged lieutenant general was dissatisfied that he obviously had a way to stop the offensive of Tubo, but he lost the lives of the Tang army soldiers in vain?

did not show the slightest anger because of the middle-aged adjutant general's incomprehension, walked forward, looked directly at the adjutant general in front of him and said without arrogance: "The general is reasonable, but the general has ever thought that even if the Tubo offensive is temporarily stopped tonight, with the arrangement of the Tubo army outside the city at this moment, even if everything arranged by the king is launched, at most one or two thousand Tubo soldiers will be lost." “

"You and I should know that only one or two thousand casualties are not a break for Tubo, and Tubo will definitely make a comeback again, this time we can borrow layers of arrangements to block a catastrophe, what about next time? It is a shame to fall once in the same place as the wisdom of the Qin Ling, how can it fall twice in a row? “

The general should understand that as long as the Tibetan army does not withdraw from the Tang border for a day, the casualties of our army will increase every day.

"The reason why it is not launched now is that the time has not yet come, once the main force of the enemy army steps into the ambush, this king will naturally not let his hard work and arrangement go to waste, and the general does not look down on this king too much, he talks about Qinling wants the king's head, why doesn't this king want to trample on his feet as a so-called Tubo genius and become famous in a battle?" Speaking of self-confidence, the face of the young man who was already handsome and extraordinary in a dark robe showed a touch of the arrogance that a young man should have, and the power of a king!

As for the head of Qinling's desire for Li Qing, the supreme commander of Jiannan Province, it is no secret, after all, the Tang soldiers who have just come down the mountain and shouted like a tsunami to everyone defending the city can also hear it clearly, it is obvious that this time the Tubo commander launched such a fierce attack to seize Songzhou City, and it is the second thing to take Li Qing's head.

It seems that the previous defeats in the hands of Li Qing have already made this arrogant Tubo handsome man move the real fire!

And to the surprise of all the Tang army soldiers, I thought that I would hear the shouts of the city like a tsunami of mountains and tsunamis, and I thought that I would be very angry, and the Tubo soldiers under His Hall Shouwang did not show the slightest displeasure in the face of thousands of Tubo soldiers who kept saying that they wanted to take their lives, but just laughed at it, and several generals beside him could even clearly see that under the light of the fire, the eyes of this Xuanyi Shouwang appeared with undisguised disdain, looking at the fierce soldiers in armor under the city like dead things!

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, the soldiers in the city really couldn't believe that the young man in Xuanyi standing in front of him at this moment was the legendary pampered and idle King Xuanshou, if this is called Xuanxuan, I am afraid that the only person who can be called handsome in the Tang Dynasty today is Wang Zhonghei, who once "matched the seal of the four generals, controlled thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and represented hundreds of thousands"! (To be continued.) )