Chapter 322: A River of Blood
The outer wall of the city wall is full of siege ladders of the Tubo people, the Tubo people climb to the top of the city without dying, and climb up one after another, the Tang army at the head of the city is suppressed by the archers on the well railing of the Tubo army, and the soldiers of the Tang army are constantly shot dead and wounded, and the Tubo people under the city wall take advantage of this opportunity to quickly climb to the top of the ladder and jump on the city wall to fight with the Tang army, and there are more and more Tubo soldiers on the city wall.
The ordinary young men who had not been trained were not the opponents of these fierce Tubo soldiers at all, and they were hacked to death and wounded one by one, and the recruits of the Tang Army were also killed and retreated.
"Damn!" Zhao Ziliang rushed into the Tubo soldiers on the city wall with a slashing knife, slashing left and right, one by one, the speed was very strange, more than a dozen Tubo soldiers were all cut down before they could react, and blood flowed all over the city, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere.
After slashing and killing a group of Tubo soldiers nearby, Zhao Ziliang saw that the city wall had fallen into a melee, due to the suppression of the archers on the well fence that Tubo was getting closer and closer, more and more Tubo people under the city climbed the city wall and fought with the Tang army, and even Wang Rare and Ge Shuhan and others had to join the battle group.
The well fence of the Tubo people is already close to the city wall, and the nearest one has begun to put down the bridge to connect with the city wall, and the Tubo soldiers began to jump off the city wall from the well fence to fight with the Tang army, and it will be too late to destroy the well fence of the Tubo people at this time.
Zhao Ziliang immediately brandished the knife and slashed all the way, and soon rushed to the arrow tower next to him covered in blood, at this time the arrow tower had been killed, Zhao Ziliang boarded the arrow tower to hack to death a few Tubo people who had just climbed up, and shouted to the surviving Tang soldiers: "Ring the bell quickly to implement the plan to destroy the Tubo well fence!" ”
"Yes, General!" A lieutenant said yes loudly, and personally ran to the castle tower with a mallet and kept ringing the bell.
"When, when, when·······"
Zhao Ziliang walked to a bed crossbow next to the arrow tower, picked up the crossbow arrow that had been prepared and put it on the crossbow, and held a slashing knife in one hand. Holding the bowstring in one hand and stepping back, when the crossbow string of the bed was pulled down to the maximum, he immediately let go, and the crossbow arrow tied to the rope shot out, only to hear a "whoosh", the crossbow arrow passed through more than ten meters and was nailed to the railing of a nearby Tubo military well.
Zhao Ziliang's hand rose and fell. The rope tied to the large frame containing the stones was cut, and as soon as the rope was broken, the large frame containing a large number of stones suddenly fell, and another rope tied to the large frame was immediately straightened, and the other end of the rope had been nailed to the well fence of the Tubo army with crossbow arrows, and the huge gravity pulled the well fence of the Tubo army to tilt, and then slowly fell, and the Tubo soldiers on the well fence fell from a high place like dumplings.
"Ah, run. Run······" The Tubo army, which was crowded with people under the city wall, saw that the well fence began to fall, and shouted in fright, but the people were too dense, the front was squeezed to the back, and the people behind were squeezed to the front, and they couldn't get out of it at all.
There was a loud "boom", and the well fence was pulled down and knocked down countless people, and the smoke and dust rose from the ground. In an instant, the surroundings were engulfed, and screams, coughs, and cries for help were constantly heard in the smoke and dust.
With Zhao Ziliang's side. The Tang army on the other arrow towers also started one after another, a crossbow arrow shot on the well fence of the Tubo army, cut off the large frame containing a large number of stones, and pulled down one Tubo well fence, and soon six Tubo well fences were also pulled down one after another, all the Tubo people on the well fence fell to the ground and did not know whether they were alive or dead, and the dense Tubo army on the ground was stoned to death and injured countless times.
Rivers of blood flowed from the city. The corpses are all over the field, without the support of the well fence, the Tubo army on the city wall can not resist, in the absence of a new force, the Tubo army on the city head is fighting less and less. It was quickly wiped out by the Tang army, and there were still Tubo troops climbing up the ladder on the outer city wall, trying to climb the city wall again, but because the Tang army stabilized the situation on the city wall, the Tubo army could only increase casualties.
"It's a failure, it's a failure!" Iron Blade Sinoro was annoyed, he saw that after his side lost the support of six well railings, the soldiers who climbed the city wall were quickly annihilated by the Tang army, and it was very difficult for the soldiers under the city to climb the top of the city again, knowing that it would be useless to attack the city again, just add some more lives.
He ordered: "Summons the order to collect the troops and return to the camp!" ”
The second prince of Tubo next to Lang Zhi did not speak, after several days of tragic siege battles, he has realized the horror of the real war, far from being as simple as he imagined, these days in the siege of the battle of the Tubo soldiers are all fresh lives, and these days the loss of nearly half of the people, an average of more than 2,000 people per day, 40,000 troops, so far less than 20,000 people, casualties are rare in the world.
Back at the camp, Iron Blade Sinoro convened a meeting of his wolf masters, and Lang Zhidu, as the leading general, although he temporarily handed over the command to Iron Blade Sinoro, he still had to attend this kind of meeting.
After all the wolf lords arrived, Iron Blade Sinoro looked at all the wolf lords with a gloomy face and said: "Since we began to attack the city, it is the tenth day to today, and more than half of our army has suffered casualties, which is the number of siege casualties that I have never had in Tibet, of course, this is not that you and your generals do not contribute, nor that you and your generals are not brave, in fact, the Tang people are both cunning and good at fighting!" When the battle is fought to this extent, we will be deceiving ourselves if we do not recognize the combat strength of the Tang army in the city and the talent of their leading generals. These days, our spies have not been idle, after the investigation of our spies and the news from Luo (Lhasa), the general has figured out that the leading general stationed in the city is a man named Zhao Ziliang, this person is not very old, but he has brilliant military achievements, invincible martial arts, and rich combat experience. ”
Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo's words made the second prince of Tubo Lang Zhi very unhappy, he snorted: "Iron Blade General, you are raising the morale of others and destroying your own prestige, this prince admits that this guard named Zhao Ziliang has some talent, and he will keep this Hecheng to the bottom of the water, but Nuo said that he is invincible, but this prince is not convinced, and the Japanese prince will go to the city to call the battle, as long as he Zhao Ziliang dares to go out of the city to fight, this prince will definitely behead him!" ”
Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo's face was a little ugly, and he said, "Second Prince, how can military affairs be child's play? Calling a battle under the city is just the courage of a horseman, and now that it is temporarily impossible to break through Fanhe City from the front, it can only start from within the Tang Army! ”
Lang Zhidu saw that Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo did not save face for himself at all, and immediately became very angry, and said angrily: "What is the courage of a horseman? You actually said that this prince went to the city to call for battle, which was the courage of a horseman? If you have a way, why is Panhe City as stable as a rock after more than ten days? Not only your iron-bladed general knows how to fight, sometimes the main general is brave and unparalleled in combat power can also drive morale and crush the enemy, if this prince can kill Zhao Ziliang in front of the battle, the Tang army will inevitably be in chaos if it loses its main general, and then we only need to take advantage of the situation to cover up and take the opportunity to attack the city, and Fanhe City will be broken! ”
Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo was refuted by Lang Zhidu, his face turned red, but he still didn't let go, and asked rhetorically: "Okay, even if the second prince calls for a battle under the Tang army city, how can the prince be sure that the Tang army will go out of the city to meet the battle?" The commander of the Tang army is not a fool, now our army still has an absolute advantage in strength, although the Tang army is still guarding the city wall, but the losses in the siege battles these days are not small, and the losses of the main combat force of the Dadou army are also very large, the only thing they can rely on now is to rely on the city wall to defend, let them give up the city wall and go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with our army, do you think Zhao Ziliang is so stupid? ”
Lang Zhidu sneered: "There is no absolute in anything, didn't you just say that Zhao Ziliang is very young?" Since he is young, he must be strong in blood and have poor self-control, and the prince of Japan will challenge him alone in the city, if he does not go out of the city to fight with me, this prince will scold him so much that he will be bloody, and he will scold whatever he says viciously, and this prince will not believe that he can bear it! ”
Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo didn't expect Lang Zhidu to have such thoughts, it seems that he really underestimated him, thought about it, and felt that Lang Zhidu's idea was not a good way, if Zhao Ziliang was scolded miserably, he really went out of the city to fight, maybe he could defeat the Tang Army in one fell swoop and capture Fanhe City.
So he said: "The second prince's plan is not impossible to try, but the last general still wants to try to open the gap from within the Tang army first, if the last general's method does not work, and then use the second prince's method, what does the second prince think?" ”
Lang Zhidu looked at Iron Blade Xi Noluo, gritted his teeth and said: "Within three days, if General Iron Blade's method is ineffective, this prince will take back the command of the army and do it according to his own wishes!" ”
Iron Blade Sinoro nodded, "Okay, then it's decided!" ”
······ At the head of Panhe City, the people are helping to clean up the corpses of their own soldiers who died in battle and the corpses of Tubo soldiers, but there are too many people who have died on this city wall in the past few days, no matter where they go, they can smell the disgusting corpse smell, which still carries the corpse away every day, if the corpse is not carried away, the inside and outside of the city wall are only afraid that the corpse will smell long ago.
Zhao Ziliang didn't have much blood on his body, he was mainly in command, and he didn't participate in the battle for the city, nor did he kill many enemies, so he was quite clean, only the armor was stained with some blood, and Ge Shuhan, Ma Lan, Wang Rare and others were just fished up from the pool of blood, and several of them were injured almost every day, and every time they were injured, they participated in the battle on the city before they were injured, so that these days, there were more and more injuries on their bodies, and Wang Rare and Ma Lan limped when they walked.
Zhao Ziliang saw that the three of them were not lightly injured, and they looked exhausted, knowing that they had reached the limit, and if they persisted, they were afraid that there would be problems, so he said: "The three of you go back to rest, the Tubo people have suffered a big loss today, the casualties are very large, and the morale has plummeted, and there should be no siege tomorrow, so you should take this opportunity to rest and recuperate!" The matter on the city walls will be dealt with by the general Ben".
The three of them really couldn't support it, although they were fierce generals, and their bodies were much stronger than ordinary people, but after all, they were still flesh and blood, and the battles these days were too frequent and too intense, so they couldn't support it, so they didn't postpone it, and they all bowed to Zhao Ziliang and left. (To be continued.) )