"Hurry up, hurry up, fathers and fellow villagers, work hard, and make sure to fill all the stones in the frame before dawn!" The king stood on the tower with the hilt of his sword in his hand, shouting loudly.

Men, women, and children, men and women, old and children, each panting and holding a stone, marched quickly up the city walls to the arrow towers everywhere.

There are very few stones in the city, in order to ensure the use of trebuchets in the city, the king rarely had to organize the people to go out of the city to pick up stones outside the city wall, these stones are launched by the Tubo people with trebuchets, most of them are smashed on the city wall, the outer wall of the city wall is full of potholes, and there are thousands of holes.

Everyone was panting heavily, and no one was crying out for tiredness, compared to the humiliation of death being captured by the Tibetans, what was this bitterness? Hexi has not been broken and occupied by the Tubo people, the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo fought and made peace here, the Tubo people carried out a massacre every time they captured here, and there were very few people who could survive, but the ferocity of the Tubo people was passed down from generation to generation.

Although the Tubo people are ferocious, the Tang people here are not afraid, and in the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo, the Tang Dynasty basically has the upper hand.

On the one hand, because of the climate here, close to the desert of the Western Regions, there are Gobi sand seas everywhere, on the other hand, there are often wars with Tubo and Tuyuhun, and the damage to civilization is extremely serious.

After a day, the temperature rose slightly, and the ice wall built by the Tang army began to melt slightly, which Zhao Ziliang had long predicted, and the ice wall could not be maintained forever. As the temperature rises, the ice wall will inevitably melt, so that night, all the people in the city were mobilized, and various tools and materials were used to reinforce the city wall to make the city wall still stand after the ice melted.

On the tenth day of the siege, the Tibetans still came. This time, in addition to the large number of siege ladders, they also brought six well railings, under which there were wheels, on which there were not only archers, but also a large number of spearmen and sword and shield hands, and there were Tibetan soldiers pushing the well railings forward, approaching the city wall step by step.

On the tower of the city, Zhao Ziliang observed through the telescope for a while, put down the telescope and ordered: "Order, use our trebuchet to destroy the enemy's catapult!" ”

"No!" The herald immediately gave the order.

In the manufacture of siege equipment. The technology of the Tubo people is obviously inferior to that of the Tang army, and in terms of performance, including range, the trebuchets made by the Tubo people cannot be compared with the Tang army. What annoyed the Tubo people was not only this, the Tang army trebuchet hid behind the city wall, and the Tubo people could only guess the location of the Tang army's trebuchet, which was much worse on the head, but the Tang army could quickly hit the Tubo people's trebuchet.

The Tibetan catapult kept throwing stone bullets at the Panhe city wall, and one stone bullet after another smashed on the city wall. A large amount of plaster and rubble fell on the already potholed city walls, and the outer city was plastered and fell. The masonry of the interior is exposed to the outside.

Under the continuous throwing of the Tubo trebuchet, the Panhe city wall began to crumble again, but after Zhao Ziliang ordered, the Tang army trebuchet behind the city wall quickly launched a counterattack, and one by one the round stone bullets flew into the military formation of the Tubo people outside the city, and a large number of screams were made during the flight of the stone bullets.

"Bump"

"Bump"

"Bump"

With the Don army trebuchet launched a counterattack. The trebuchets of the Tibetan army began to be destroyed one by one, and after the trebuchets were hit, the wooden skeletons were scattered all over the place, causing a large number of casualties.

The Iron Blade Sinoro looked at it painfully, but wanted to break through Fanhe City. This level of casualties must be endured, who made the siege technology of the Tubo army inferior to the Tang army?

Seeing that his own trebuchets were destroyed, Iron Blade Sinoro immediately ordered while his flesh hurting: "Order all the trebuchets to replace them with fire oil bombs and launch them into Fanhe City at the fastest speed, General Ben doesn't believe that he can't destroy the Tang Army's trebuchets!" ”

"Yes, General!"

The remaining trebuchets of the Tibetan army were quickly loaded with fire oil bombs, after ignition, one after another trebuchets were launched, one by one smoke and violently burning fire oil bombs under the huge throwing force, roaring towards the city, at this moment, these fire oil bombs seemed to be meteorites falling from the sky, and the Tang army at the head of the city felt that the end was coming.

One after another, the fire bombs fell in the city, some smashed on the houses and caught fire, some smashed the trebuchets of the Tang army, and some smashed directly into the crowds on the streets.

The destructive power of the fire oil bomb was too great, Zhao Ziliang turned his head with a solemn face and saw the thick smoke rising from the city that had been attacked by the fire oil bomb, and immediately pointed at the trebuchet array of the Tubo army with a chopping knife and shouted: "Destroy them!" ”

With Zhao Ziliang's order, the Tang army trebuchets in the city wall have made every effort to fire stone projectiles at the Tubo army trebuchet army array outside the city, and the Tang army's trebuchet firing accuracy is much higher.

Iron Blade Xi Noluo's face was a little ugly, his purpose had not been achieved, his own trebuchet was almost destroyed, and the fire of fire oil bombs was getting less and less, it seemed that he could not count on the siege weapon of the trebuchet, and after observing the defense of the Tang army at the head of the city, Iron Blade Xi Noro ordered: "Order the siege troops to attack!" ”

During the time when the order was conveyed, the Tibetan trebuchets had all been destroyed, and the Tang army no longer used trebuchets in order to save stone bullets, which just allowed the siege troops of the Tubo army to launch a siege.

I saw that the overwhelming shouts of killing came from outside the city, and the soldiers of the Tang army at the head of the city looked at the countless Tubo soldiers who came out of the Tubo army formation in the distance, densely packed, and could not see the edge at a glance.

The faces of the soldiers of the Tang Army at the head of the city began to be solemn, their expressions began to progress, the hands holding the weapons were unconsciously clenched, and many people were shouting in their hearts: "Coming, coming!" ”

Zhao Ziliang yelled: "Don't panic, everyone, I'll wait for how I fought a few days ago, how to fight today, the Tubo people can't help us, the archers are ready to shoot a salvo-"

The archers of the Tang Army, who were originally squatting under the arrow stacks on the city wall, heard the order and stood up together, and the longbows made a rattling sound as the bowstring was opened.

The archer lieutenant took over Zhao Ziliang's order: "Shoot at 45 degrees upward--release arrows-"

As the order was given, the archers released their arrows almost at the same time, and the arrows like locusts flew into the sky and fell quickly like raindrops.

The archer captain saw that the effect was good, and the Tubo people had not yet rushed to the foot of the city wall, and immediately issued several orders to release arrows in a row, and every time they fired a salvo, the Tubo people had to fall a large piece, and the Tubo soldiers who were hit by the arrows were either killed or wounded, and the Tubo people were not afraid of death, although the casualties were not small, but such casualties could not make the Tubo people timid, and they still rushed to the city wall with a hideous face with their weapons.

Seeing that the Tibetans had rushed to the city wall, the effect of the archers to fire a salvo was no longer great, and the captain of the archery immediately issued an order to release arrows freely, and after that, arrows were fired downward from time to time on the city wall.

As the Tubo army rushed to the city wall, the siege ladder has been erected on the city wall, and the fierce Tubo soldiers climbed up along the ladder with their hands and feet, some people held a big knife in one hand, climbed the ladder with the other hand, and some people put the big knife in their mouths, and climbed up quickly with both hands.

Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "The pikemen stepped forward to assassinate, and the sword and shield soldiers covered on the left!" Is the water boiling? Pour boiling water on the Tubo soldiers under the city! ”

"Kill-" A Tibetan man had just climbed to the top of the ladder and had not had time to jump onto the top of the city when he was stabbed in the chest with a spear in the hand of a Tang soldier, and the body then fell down and smashed down several Tibetans under the city wall, but soon another Tibetan soldier climbed up from the ladder.

The tragic siege war was in full swing, people were constantly dying and wounded all the time, and the city heads and city walls were full of shouts and screams, and at this time anyone's mercy was thrown out of the clouds, either you die or me, if you want not to die, you have to kill others.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and both the besieging and defending sides paid heavy casualties, but for the besieging side, no progress was made.

Iron Blade Sinoro knew that this was not the way to go on, and he had to make a killing move, so he immediately ordered: "Let all the six well railings built yesterday be dispatched, equipped with more archers and sword and shield men, and once the well railing is close to the city wall, put down the bridge and let the sword and shield soldiers rush up the city wall, and order the soldiers at the foot of the city wall to be replenished continuously."

"Yes, General!"

Today's well fence, is no longer the spring and autumn period of the well fence, after time and the accumulation of countless wars, the manufacture of the well fence has also undergone some changes, the well fence is relatively high, generally higher than the city wall, the top is the platform and the guardrail, gather a large number of archers, can shoot arrows from a high place to the head of the city to suppress.

And now the platform area at the top of the well fence has increased, and the whole well fence is much larger than before, which can not only be installed in a large number of archers, but also can be equipped with some sword and shield soldiers, and the well fence is installed on the bridge, once the well fence is close to the city wall, the soldiers on the well fence can put down the bridge to link the well fence and the city wall, and the soldiers of the besieging side can step on the bridge and rush up the city wall to fight with the defending soldiers.

"Whoosh ・・・・・・"

As the well fence of the Tibetan army got closer and closer, the Tibetan archers above kept shooting arrows, causing a large number of casualties to the Tang army at the head of the city.

Zhao Zi's conscience became more and more anxious, but he couldn't give the order to counteract now, because the well fence of the Tubo army had not yet entered the range of his move. (To be continued.) )