Dazaru Gong, who had led the troops for more than ten miles, looked back and found that there was no shadow of the Tang cavalry behind him, so he stopped his horse, and his heart was still beating for a while, although it was the second time he saw Zhao Ziliang lead the cavalry to rush to kill, Zhao Ziliang's peerless bravery, everything in front of him was crushed into powder, and the scene still made him palpitate. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that the soldiers were depressed one by one and looked demoralized with their dead fathers and mothers, Dazarugon secretly sneered in his heart, it seems that it is impossible to attack the city today, so he can only order his subordinates to gather the soldiers and fight again tomorrow.

After re-encamping, Dazarugon convened his ministers and generals to discuss the siege of the city tomorrow, when a general walked in and reported: "Marshal, all the Tang craftsmen who built siege equipment have been taken away by the Tang army, and the camp has also been set on fire by the Tang army!" ”

Dazaru Gong's face was not good-looking when he heard this, and he said: "Today, the well fence was destroyed by the cavalry of the Tang Army, and the trebuchet was also destroyed in the morning, and now the craftsmen have been taken away, and the camp has been set on fire by them, so if we want to attack the city again, there will be no siege equipment?" ”

"I'm afraid that's so, marshal!"

At this time, a minister trembled and said: "Marshal, otherwise we should withdraw the army, this battle is like this, the casualties are too great, the morale of the sons is very low, if you want to fight, it is not too late to wait until the sons recover their morale and then fight, it is not wise to continue fighting like this, we might as well temporarily retreat to preserve our strength・・・・・・"

Dazarugon didn't wait for the minister to finish speaking, and said angrily: "Bastard, Zampu was shot to death by the Tang army, if we retreat like this to avenge Zampu, what face will we have to meet the people of Tubo in the future?" Can't we storm a city without siege engines? Pass the order, let the sons and daughters have a good rest today, and fight again tomorrow! ”

The Tibetan ministers and generals had no choice but to follow orders.

It was quiet in the afternoon and night, and the officers and men of the Tang Army were able to rest well for an afternoon and a night.

On June 20, the Tibetan army under the leadership of Dazarugong again approached the city of Xiping and immediately began to siege the city, this time the Tibetan army did not use any siege weapons except for the siege ladder, while the Tang army used trebuchets, bed crossbows, Fuyuan crossbows and other instruments to defend the city.

In addition, the Tang army also used a large number of bows and arrows, causing extremely heavy casualties to the Tubo siege infantry, even so, the Tubo army still fought to the death, and the Tubo army suffered more than 5,000 casualties in the whole morning.

In the next two consecutive days, the Tubo army suffered a total of more than 20,000 casualties, and although the Tang army suffered fewer casualties as the defender, it also suffered more than 3,000 casualties, these are the elite men and horses of the Beiting Army, which made Zhao Ziliang feel very distressed, the stone bullets stored in the city have been exhausted, and the trebuchets can no longer play any role, and these large instruments such as bed crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows have also exhausted crossbow arrows, and even the quiver bags of the Tang soldiers who use bows and arrows have been empty.

The corpses under the city were piled up to form a slope connecting the city head and the underground, and the Tubo army could directly rush down the corpse slope from outside the city to the city wall and cut down the Tang soldiers.

June 22nd, night.

The cool breeze blew, and Zhao Ziliang, who was leaning against the battlements of the city wall, only felt a chill on his body, at this time the starry sky was clear, the moon was shining, and the Tianshan Mountains were dotted with stars, this scenery was enough to make people forget that this was still a battlefield, and the corpses piled up outside the city wall emitted an extremely unpleasant and disgusting corpse smell for the soldiers of the Tang Army.

Dead person? Hehe, thousands of people die every day, the soldiers of the Tang Army walk in the pile of dead people every night, they have long been numb, the temperature is still relatively high at night, and the blue ghost fire often emerges from the piles of dead people piled up outside the city, and at the beginning it really frightened many Tang soldiers, but then the Tang soldiers were not surprised.

Now the Tubo people have gone completely crazy, it can also be said that Dazarugan is almost crazy, he ordered the Tubo soldiers to attack completely without their lives, last night, the Tubo people launched a night attack, anyway, the corpses have been piled up as high as the city wall, the siege is already easy for the Tubo people, as long as a charge can rush to the city wall, but they were quickly driven down by the Tang army. In order to prevent the Tibetans from attacking the city at night, Zhao Ziliang and Duan Xiushi decided to take turns on duty every night, one for the first half of the night and the other for the second half of the night.

The Tibetans launched a surprise attack at two o'clock in the morning and did not come back after being driven away. When it was almost dawn, Zhao Ziliang felt that he was very hungry and had to eat, and the Tubo people would not be idle during the day, where would they have the strength to fight when they were hungry? Zhao Ziliang patted the shoulder of a pro-soldier next to him and shouted: "Wang Laosan, Wang Laosan, wake up!" ”

The pro-soldier Wang Laosan thought that the Tubo people had launched another siege, so he immediately turned over with a knife, but saw that the brothers around him were still asleep, and only the handsome man was sitting against the wall, "Dashuai ・・・・・・"

Zhao Ziliang said: "Go get some food and drink, I'm hungry!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

When Wang Laosan came back with food and water, it was already dark, Zhao Ziliang took a few flatbreads and a large piece of raw beef handed over by Wang Laosan and chewed it in a big gulp, the soldiers watched Zhao Ziliang eat so fragrantly, they were in a good mood, Zhao Ziliang can eat so fragrantly, it means that his body is great, his spirit is very good, it shows that the Tubo people will definitely not be able to attack it, there is no, only in this way can they feel at ease! But if Zhao Ziliang frowned and didn't think about tea and dinner, it meant that there was a problem, and they couldn't be happy.

"Someone, someone, I want to eat, we want to eat, I'm starving, you hateful Tang people, even criminals are people, you can't help but give us food!"

"Huh?" Zhao Ziliang chewed and stopped when he heard this voice, and asked, "Where did the sound come from?" ”

The pro-soldier Wang Laosan got up and ran to the inner side of the city wall to look down, only to see some soldiers watching at the door of the barracks under the city wall, so he opened his throat and shouted: "Hey, brother below, what's the matter with the big handsome?" Who is shouting? ”

"It's the three Xiyi people who have been locked up shouting!"

When Wang Laosan heard this, he turned around and came back to report to Zhao Ziliangyu: "Dashuai, the brothers below said that the three Xiyi people who were suspected of being fine a few days ago were shouting at him, and they said that they hadn't eaten for two days and were very hungry."

Zhao Ziliang asked while munching on the flatbread roll beef, "Oh? The soldiers who guarded them didn't give them food? It's too undeserved."

Wang Laosan said: "In the past two days, the Tubo people have attacked the city too fiercely, and the brothers may be busy defending against the enemy, how can they have time to care if the three Xiyi people have eaten?" ”

"That's right!" Zhao Ziliang nodded, thought for a while and said to Wang Laosan: "You take a few people to bring those three Xiyi people over, and ask someone to prepare a little food for them and send them over!"

"Yes, Dashuai!"

After a while, Wang Laosan brought Charlie, Tony and Jason with a few personal soldiers.

When Jason saw Zhao Ziliang, he immediately shouted: "Your Excellency General, I protest, although we are criminals, we also have the right to eat, you can't starve us to death, even if you want to kill us, you should let us eat and kill again!" ”

Wang Laosan immediately shouted: "Shut up, this is our marshal, the commander of the 200,000 army, not an ordinary general!" If you scream nonsense, Lao Tzu will cut you with a knife! ”

Charlie bowed and said, "Your Excellency, I apologize to you on behalf of my friend!" Our motives for coming to the Tang Empire this time are wrong, I apologize for this, how you want to punish us, we have nothing to say, but please don't let us die of hunger, this is the most humiliating and shameful thing for us Vikings! ”

"So you're Vikings!" Zhao Ziliang looked suddenly enlightened, "That's really sorry, I didn't know that it was a shame for you to die hungry, I have already gone to ask someone to prepare food, please take a seat!" ”

When Charlie and the three of them saw that Zhao Ziliang, the commander of a 200,000-strong army, was sitting on the ground, they were even less particular and sat down opposite Zhao Ziliang.

After a while, a soldier came over with some food and tea and put it in front of Charlie and the others, Charlie and the others were not polite, and immediately grabbed the flatbread and began to nibble on it, drinking water while gnawing. During the time when the three of them were eating, the soldiers of the Tang Army defending the city also had a meal, and everyone was eating food and drinking water under the wall with weapons.

Zhao Ziliang saw the three of them gobbling up and asked, "I heard that your Vikings are doing a good job in piracy, and the Anglo-Saracens are often robbed by you, and even the western coast of Franks and Italy have been ravaged by you?" ”

Tony said as he ate, "That's a good thing done by our compatriots, don't take this prestige on us, we have lived in the Eastern Roman Empire since we were children, and we have no connection with these compatriots anymore!" But the Franks really deserve to be plundered, they have been arrogant all these years, they have been conquering everywhere, and they have robbed a lot of territory and wealth! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "I heard that the prince of the Frankish Kingdom is also called Charlie!" Mr. Charlie, you don't look like a northerner from the Obaro continent, you can't be Charlie, the prince of the Frankish Kingdom, right? ”

Charlie's face changed, and he said with an embarrassed expression: "Lord Marshal, there are too many people named Charlie in this world, how can I be Prince Charlie?" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled, did not continue the topic, and said, "How are the Avars in northern Thrace recently?" Are they rampant? ”

Jason said: "The Avars were very arrogant in the past few years, they used superb horsemanship, savage and practical cavalry tactics to conquer a large area of land, now they are entrenched in the Pannonian plain, but not long ago they were defeated by the Eastern Roman Empire and the tribes of the Thrace region, since then their strength has dropped greatly, and now their range of activities has been reduced, but the Eastern Roman Empire and the Franks are not willing to provoke them, lest they provoke their crazy revenge." (To be continued.) )