The news of Pu's killing could not be spread ten miles away, and the Tang army sentinels on the periphery, the Tubo soldiers, were killed one by one, Li Qing did not stop, and after simply dealing with the dead and wounded subordinates, he immediately waved his troops north and rushed straight to Shibao City.

At this time, on both sides of Shibao City, two Tibetan armies, one south and one north, were ready, and they were counting down, and the bowstrings of the attacking Tang army were getting fuller and fuller, and they were about to start.

Fifty miles behind them, however, lay in ambush another army, like a wolf that has found its prey, waiting with unchanging patience for the opportunity to come.

Stone Fort City, the Tang Army's attack has been carried out for almost a month, the loss of more than 10,000 soldiers, but the castle is not moving, two miles below the castle, 30,000 Tang troops are helpless, standing blankly on the vast plateau, the cold wind is biting, the banner has been frozen, frozen into a semi-solidified state, the sky is gloomy, the dark clouds are low, and a snowstorm is coming.

The rumbling war drums sounded, and two thousand Tang troops rushed out of the camp, carrying ladders and driving hundreds of cattle and horses to the narrow mountain path, and the tails of the cattle and horses were coated with thick oil.

This is the most effective method that Chu Zhilian has ever used, which can greatly reduce the casualties of the Tang army, and the number of rushing to the cliff is increasing, and even five days ago there was a hand-to-hand battle with the Tubo army, almost attacking Shibao City, but there is a benefit and a disadvantage, a large number of livestock carcasses also obstructed the mountain road, and the blood flowed out and condensed into a dazzling red ice, so that the Tang army's offensive speed began to slow down, and there was no longer the exciting effect of the previous few days. It even made the offensive of the Don army more difficult.

Rushing to the mountain pass, the Tang army ignited the tails of the livestock, the cattle and horses were frightened, and rushed to the mountain lifelessly, and the Tang army followed behind and ran wildly and shouted, the steps were mechanical and did not miss a point, as if it was just a formality, and there were countless failures in the past month. The confidence of the Tang army has long been worn out, but the Tubo army is full of momentum, the stones are like rain, and the logs are like hail falling head-on, smashing directly on the heads and bodies of a group of running bulls, and the running bulls snorted. Rolling down the mountain one after another, the Tang army that followed behind couldn't dodge, and was knocked over a large area, the Tang army began to shake, retreat, and flee back, but there was a prison army at the foot of the mountain to threaten it, so it had to turn back and attack again, and it retreated and attacked, coming and going, every time it was like a wave, and the sound of killing shook the sky. But when he reached the top, he stopped, and no one dared to rush up the cliff. He only hid on the edge of the narrow road and fired arrows at the city.

Chu Zhilian was furious, drew his sword and yelled, "Keep beating the drum for me." From now on, all the officers below the rank of lieutenant will take turns to attack the city, and those who do not go up to the cliff will be beheaded! ”

A month of siege has exhausted Chu Zhilian, he wants to collect troops and return to the state, but the Huangfu Jiedu envoy's offensive orders one after another, sometimes a day seven or eight military orders, his deadline is only three days, and then do not go down to the city. Chop!

Chu Zhilian is like a gambler who loses red-eyed, and he is desperate. All the gambling books were pressed, all the officers next to him were shocked, but no one dared to say a word, the forward general Wang Rare next to him stared carefully at the head of the city, trying to find a flaw in the defense of Tubo, he has been looking for a month, and found nothing, but today is different, perhaps under pressure, he finally found the problem.

"General Chu, the last general has discovered a suspicious point."

Chu Zhilian looked back at him and said angrily: "What suspicion? You just say it! ”

"Yes!"

Chu Zhilian's irritability made sweat flow down Wang Tian's forehead, and he said hurriedly: "A month ago, I found out that there were about 2,000 Tubo defenders in the city, and this month, we killed at least 1,000 people, but now you see that the Tubo defenders in the city are still about 2,000 people. ”

"What kind of suspicion is this, doesn't he have any soldiers in the city to replenish?"

Suddenly, Chu Zhilian's mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, "I have attacked for more than a month but I have not seen reinforcements from the Tubo people, this is impossible!" Did the Tibetans still have a hand? ’

He suddenly understood, his eyes hurriedly looked at the two ends of the Sun Moon Mountain, suddenly, the earth seemed to be flat with a thunderclap, the two sides of the Sun Moon Mountain killed countless Tubo cavalry, the two Tubo armies quickly converged into the boundless ocean, as if the waves were stormy, as if the tide was surging, waving the sword, the heavy chain mail will be wrapped tightly, only revealing a pair of hideous eyes and a bloody mouth, the cold eyes shot out of the cannibal gaze, the sound of the horn of the stone castle city, and the dense army suddenly poured out of the city wall.

"Formation! Formation! Get ready for battle! ”

Chu Zhilian was so anxious that he roared: "Archer! Where are the archers? ”

But the Tang army's confidence had been lost and their morale was low, and some of the war horses had begun to tremble, neighing backwards. Retreating, many people's eyes showed fear.

The cavalry of the Tubo army was getting closer and closer, the sound of the horse's hooves was like thunder, pulling up the murderous aura in the sky, facing the trembling arrow rain of the Tang army, without mercy or stopping, waving the sword to kill the Tang army.

The Tang army was defeated, Chu Zhilian died in the army, and the 70,000 Tubo army poured thousands of miles, opening their mouths and rushing to the land of Longyou.

One, two, countless pieces, the sky suddenly began to snow heavily, and the first heavy snow of the winter finally came.

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It has come to the first watch, the sky and the earth are pulling the wind and snow, the oblique thorns are splashed to the earth, the fog is rolling, nothing can be seen within three steps, except for the whistling wind, but the sound of heavy breathing is heard in the near distance, and the sound of the war horse, an army marches hard in the wind and snow, and goes in the direction of Shibao City, this is naturally Li Qingdiqi's army, the opportunity they are waiting for has finally come, the Tubo army brigade has chased and killed the defeated Tang army, and the defense of Shibao City is empty, which is a rare opportunity, But the sudden arrival of the blizzard disrupted his deployment, and they traveled for three hours, which had been an hour's journey.

More than 4,000 Tang soldiers finally rushed to the bottom of the cliff of Shibao City, under the cliff is a dense pine forest, the Tang army rested in the pine forest for a while, then the wind and snow gradually stopped, and a terrible wind blew from the north, pushing away the thick clouds, the stars drilled out, the moon above the cliff moved westward, and the remnant clouds after the blizzard emitted yellow light, and the ground had been covered with a thick layer of light bedding, exuding a golden faint light.

The sky was clear, but the temperature dropped sharply, the soldiers were so cold that they jumped to their feet, they cut down and tore off the withered vines on the cliff, revealing the slippery stone wall, Li Qing looked up at the straight cliff, stroked the frozen stone wall, and beckoned back in a low voice, "Let's start!" ”

The soldiers soon arrived with a large group of white moving objects, and from them 'bleaw! Baa! Knowing that they were a flock of sheep, Li Siye picked up a sheep casually, looked at Li Qing hesitantly, and said, "Where did Yang Ming hear about it, I have never heard of this method." ”

Li Qing smiled slightly, "I also look at it from the book, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes." ”

He patted the stone wall and said confidently: "Although it is not cold now, the terrain here is high, and it is much colder than before. ”

Li Siye nodded, "Then let's try it!" It's really not good, let's go up from the front.

As he spoke, he pulled out the horizontal knife, his hand rose and fell, a blood arrow was marked, and a leg of mutton was chopped off, he immediately took advantage of the blood heat, pressed on the wall, and in an instant the blood turned into ice, and actually froze a leg of mutton firmly on the stone wall, Li Siye slapped it with the knife with his hand, the knife buzzed and trembled, but the leg of mutton did not move at all, "Okay!" It's really done. ”

Li Siye was overjoyed, and cut off a leg of mutton and pressed it on the stone wall, it was good in an instant, and after waiting for a while, he stepped on it carefully, the sheep ladder was very strong, and his nearly 200 catties of body stepped on it steadily.

"Let's do it!"

Dozens of specially selected soldiers who knew martial arts immediately began their work of building sheep ladders, and once the sheep ladders were completed, Li Siye would personally lead 500 Tang troops to climb the stone castle city from the back mountain.

And Li Qing led 3,000 people to the front of Shibao City, this is his double insurance, if the back mountain fails, he will directly hit the door from the front to attack, time passed little by little, and gradually it has reached the fourth watch, the moonlight is bright, you can see a few small black dots on the head of the city moving back and forth.

At this time, Duan Xiushi came from the back mountain to report that the sheep ladder had been set up, and Li Siye had led 500 people to go up the cliff, but there were soldiers patrolling the city wall, and it was impossible to climb up.

When the critical time came, Li Qingwei groaned, he waved his hand, and three thousand soldiers rushed out of the ambush and rushed towards the narrow path under the stone fort city, but as soon as they got closer, they were immediately discovered by the Tubo soldiers in the city, and the shouts on the city suddenly sounded, and the defenders in the city were only a few hundred, and the sudden arrival of the Tang army made all the Tubo troops panic. They all rushed to defend the city, and stones and wood rained down, blocking the narrow mountain path.

Let's talk about Li Siye, he led 500 soldiers to go up the cliff silently, from the city wall to the edge of the cliff is only more than one zhang wide, but the city wall is very long, there are 300 zhang extended, and more than a dozen Tubo soldiers are patrolling back and forth. Five hundred Tang soldiers held their breath and pressed their bodies against the city wall, waiting for news from ahead.

Suddenly, there was a great chaos in the city, with shouts and scolding, and the garrison was insufficient. More than a dozen soldiers from patrolling the sentry ran below to help move boulders to block the city gate and prevent the Tang army from crashing into the giant logs.

The opportunity came, Nan Jiyun listened carefully for a while, there was no one on it, he and Lifei Shouyu glanced at each other, nodded at the same time, the two of them carried a big bag of quiver and a hook bag, and aimed the arrow tied with the flying hook at the battlements. The two hooks dragged the long rope and drew a beautiful arc. Hooked exactly the inside of the wall.

The two of them tugged, very tightly. At the same time, he threw himself up with all his strength and climbed towards the city. The walls were frozen so smooth that there was no place to exert any strength, but fortunately, both of them had hemp ropes tied to their boots, and there was barely a little friction.

At this time, they were already hanging in the air, and below them was a hundred-zhang high cliff, if a Tubo soldier found the hook rope, they would both fall to pieces, and none of the five hundred Tang troops would be spared.

Little by little, time passed. Nan Jiyun was less than three feet away from the battlements, but suddenly there was a sound of footsteps overhead. A Tibetan soldier appeared in front of him, and the two looked at each other, both of them froze.

It turned out that the defender who stayed in Shibao City was to lead the army to attack the Shazhou landlord general Iron Blade Xi Noluo, he was demoted to defend Shibao City because of Shazhou's defeat, relative to the field, he was more proficient in defending the city, under his defense, the Tang army attacked for a whole month and failed to take the city, but just now Li Qing suddenly attacked the city and caught him off guard, he immediately transferred all the soldiers to carry the boulder to block the door, but when he found that there was no one patrolling the north and south sides and the west city wall, he immediately sent one person back, The Tibetan soldiers who went to the western city wall happened to see Nanjiyun.

Nan Jiyun reacted first, he casually pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, and slammed it towards the Tubo soldier, the horizontal knife was extremely sharp, piercing his head, the Tubo soldier screamed, fell to the ground and died, but Nan Jiyun was too strong to support his body with one arm, and he slid down more than a zhang at once, and the rope grinded out the blood of his palm.

The screams of the Tibetan soldiers attracted the attention of the other two Tibetan soldiers, and by the moonlight, they saw the Tibetan soldier fall to the ground from a distance, and a long knife was inserted into his face, and the two of them immediately shouted in fright.

At this critical moment, Lifei Shouyu climbed up the battlements, but saw more than 20 Tubo soldiers rushing to this side, he didn't have time to think about it, took off the bow and shot the arrows, his eyes were fast, the arrows were not missing, and one person turned over and fell to the ground for every arrow, suddenly, two arrows shot out from the side at the same time, but at the same time shot through the throats of the two Tubo soldiers, Lifei Shouyu looked back, only Nan Jiyun had stood proudly on the battlements, he held the eagle bow, his face was slightly up, squinting at the Tubo army, another string sounded, or two arrows came out together, Shot through the throats of two Tibetan soldiers at the same time.

"Good archery!"

Li Fei Shouyu praised it, and when he saw that more than 20 Tubo soldiers were almost shot and killed, he immediately took out more than a dozen hook ropes, hooked the city wall, and threw the long rope downward.

At this time, the iron blade Xi Nuo Luo has learned that there is a Tang army from the west turned up, he immediately realized that he was fooled, he was angry and anxious, and he didn't care about blocking the door, immediately led more than 200 people to the west city wall to kill, just on the city, but he saw an arrow flying head, fast as lightning, he instinctively bowed his head, the arrow shot through his helmet, and took out more than ten zhang away, the iron blade Xi Nuo Luo was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head again, only ordered the soldiers to rush forward to cut down, but it was too late, Li Siye led the first batch of Tang troops to climb the city wall, he laughed, drew his sword and rushed into the crowd of Tibetan soldiers.

With more and more Tang troops climbing up, the balance of victory has been tilted towards the Tang army, an hour later, the stone fort city, which is very important to the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, finally changed hands, occupied by the Tang army, four hundred Tubo soldiers were all annihilated, and the iron blade Xi Nuoluo was captured by Li Siye, at this moment the city gate was wide open, the dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty fluttered high on the stone castle city, and the Tang army cheered and swarmed up at the bottom of the mountain, Li Qing took off his helmet and waved hard to the stone castle city, his face showed an extremely bright smile.

In November of the fourth year of Tianbao, Li Qing, the governor of Shazhou, who had just killed Tubo Zampu, attacked Shibao City again and succeeded, the battle situation of Longyou was reversed, and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, the Tubo army was defeated, and countless people were killed and surrendered, and finally less than 30,000 people fled back to Qu.

In late December, the Tang Emperor Li Longji ordered Longyou and Hexi Jiedu to envoy Huangfu Weiming to Beijing to offer prisoners, and ordered Li Qing to be the deputy envoy of Longyou and Hexi Jiedu to manage military affairs in the era of Huangfu Weiming's absence. Almost at the same time, Li Qing's wife gave birth to a daughter in Shazhou, and the mother and daughter were safe.