Dazaru Gong stood on the handsome platform in the camp and looked at the city wall of Xiping City in the distance, and whenever a Tang army trebuchet was smashed and ignited a fire, he shouted happily: "Good, good smash, good burn, smash those damned Tang soldiers, burn them・・・・・・"

After firing the fire oil bomb for half an hour, sixteen piles of raging fire were ignited on the wall of Xiping City, and Zha Ma, the head of a thousand households in Tibet, ran up to the handsome platform to report to Dazha Lu: "Marshal, Zha Ma is fortunate not to be dishonored, and ordered his sons and daughters to smash and burn all the sixteen trebuchets of the Tang Army!" ”

Dazaru Gong laughed happily and said: "Hahaha・・・・・・ it's good, Ben Shuai has seen it, Zama, you and your subordinates have done a good job!" Zha Ma listened, Ben Shuai promoted you to the head of ten thousand households, rewarded ten brocades, five hundred cattle, one thousand sheep, and two hundred horses, and when the city is attacked tomorrow, you will take your sons and daughters to continue to fire fire oil bombs at the Tang army city wall, and it is best to smash the city wall down! ”

Zha Ma was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted: "Marshal rest assured, Zha Ma will definitely live up to the marshal's expectations!" ”

On 19 June, as soon as the day dawned, the soldiers of the Tang Army's catapult crew were woken up, and a large number of soldiers and civilians carried various components of the trebuchet to the mound of earth by the city wall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Don't be in a daze, the people in the city have already helped us carry all the components of the trebuchet, the soldiers quickly assemble them, and we must complete the assembly of these sixteen trebuchets before the Tubo people attack the city!"

The soldiers of these trebuchets turned around and began to assemble the trebuchets one after another, and the soldiers were too busy to even have breakfast, and they must assemble all the sixteen trebuchets before the Tibetan army launched the siege.

It was a lot of sky, Zhao Ziliang took the generals and soldiers to the city tower, first checked the assembly progress of the trebuchet, and walked to a trebuchet that was being assembled, Zhao Ziliang asked: "When will this trebuchet be assembled?" ”

A soldier looked up, quickly stood up and said, "Meet the commander, it only takes a quarter of an hour to complete!" ”

"Okay, be careful, don't forget any parts!" Zhao Ziliang explained, and walked towards the next trebuchet assembly point.

By the time Zhao Ziliang had inspected all the trebuchet assembly sites, the sixteen trebuchets had almost finished assembling.

Er Zhu looked up at the sky and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Dashuai, look at the time, the Tubo people are afraid that they are about to launch an attack!" ”

Zhao Ziliang picked up the telescope on his chest and looked at the Tubo army camp, and sure enough, he saw the smoke and dust in the Tubo army camp, reaching into the sky, which was a sign that the Tubo army was gathering, and he looked at the Tubo army trebuchet position again, and found that many Tubo soldiers were sitting around the trebuchet and eating.

After observing for a while, Zhao Ziliang immediately said, "Why should we wait for them to do it first?" Order the trebuchet to take the lead in firing fire oil bombs at the trebuchet position of the Tubo army, and destroy all the trebuchets of the Tubo people for Ben Shuai! I'm going to let all Dazarugon's plans come to naught! Destroy the trebuchets of the Tibetan army and then let the soldiers have breakfast! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

The order was issued, the Tang soldiers of the catapult unit began to mobilize urgently with hunger, the soldiers ran to their posts, the observer climbed up to a high place to observe, and then reported the distance and direction, the heavy loaders filled the basket with lead and iron, and the direction control hand adjusted the moment direction scale, and when the heavy object was filled, more than a dozen big men pulled the rope with a number to pull the heavy object to a high place and lifted it, and then the heavy object was supported by the launcher bracket, and the stone bomb loader opened the valve to put in the stone bomb, and the oiler poured oil on the stone bomb.

"Group One, the oil bomb is ready!"

"Group 2, the oil bomb is ready!"

・・・・・・

The trebuchet commander drew his waist knife and pointed out the city and shouted: "Ignition!" ”

"Ignition!" The flag-bearers kept waving their flags.

"Ignition complete!"

The commander waved his waist knife in his hand and shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Whew"

"Whew"

"Whew"

One after another, the fire oil bombs soared into the sky and took off outside the city, "boom-" "boom-" "boom-"

The oil bombs that flew in the sky and dragged a long black smoke finally smashed on the ground, the burning oil splashed out, and all the utensils stained with the oil burned, and three trebuchets of the Tubo people were hit, igniting a raging fire, and the Tubo people were ready to attack, and a large number of fire oil cans were carried over and placed nearby, and these fire oil cans were smashed and burned, and some even exploded.

"Ahh

"Tang army attack, Tang army attack ・・・・・・" The Tubo soldiers on the trebuchet position fled in fright, and some people who were on fire were burned and rolled on the ground, screaming again and again.

Dazaru Gong and the Tibetan ministers and generals who had just come out of the camp saw the fire oil bombs flying from the sky in the distance and smashed on their trebuchet positions, causing a large fire, and their faces immediately changed greatly.

Dazarugon was furious: "What's going on? Didn't you destroy all the trebuchets of the Tang Army last night? Where did the trebuchet come from? ”

The ministers and generals of Tubo looked at each other, and after a while, Zha Ma, who was already the head of ten thousand households, ran over in a panic and saluted: "Marshal, the Tang army is too cunning, their stones were smashed and burned last night, but this morning they brought so many trebuchets, and before we could start the siege, they took the lead in firing oil bombs at us, and our trebuchets have now been smashed and burned half!" ”

Dazarugon said angrily: "Why are you so stupid, why don't you quickly order the sons and daughters to retreat the remaining trebuchets and withdraw from the range of the Tang Army's trebuchets?" ”

Zama smiled bitterly: "Marshal, disassembling the trebuchet is not something that can be completed in a while, I'm afraid that when we dismantle the trebuchet, the soldiers who operate the trebuchet will have already been stoned and burned to death by the fire oil bombs fired by the Tang Army, it is not easy for these sons to accumulate so much experience in launching trebuchets, if these people are all dead, and then let other soldiers operate again, the accuracy will be even worse!" Besides, the trebuchets of the Don army are at a high place, we are at a low place, they have a longer range than ours, and if we retreat, we will not be able to hit them! ”

"Bastards, bastards, why are we always subject to the Tang Army everywhere? You know, we're the besieging side! Dazaru Gong was furious.

A Tibetan minister next to him comforted: "The marshal is angry, the Tang army is trapped in the city, and the stone bombs and wood are limited, while we can continue to build trebuchets and oil bombs, as long as their stone bullets and oil are consumed, their trebuchets will become waste!" In addition, judging from the situation in the past few days, the Tang army does not have many bows and arrows, as long as it lasts for two more days, when the Tang army's defending materials run out, it will be the time when we break through Xiping City! ”

Dazarugon gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then let's spend it with them!" Pass my order, today's siege is also the same as yesterday, increase the strength of each siege echelon, and shorten the gap between the replacement of each echelon, to continuously attack the city wall, so that the Tang army can not rest, since you have to fight for consumption, then fight with the Tang army to the end, see whether they hold out for a long time or we hold out for a long time! ”

The Tibetan ministers and generals saluted one after another: "Yes, marshal!" ”

The Tibetan army then left the camp and lined up a stone's throw in front of the city wall, and Dazarugong's handsome platform was immediately pushed into the formation.

"Let's get started!"

With the order of Dazaru Gong, a new day of siege battle began, countless Tibetan soldiers rushed to the city wall with shields and blades, and a number of siege ladders were erected on the city wall, but soon several ladders were pushed to the ground and knocked over several groups of Tibetan troops, and then these ladders were lifted to the city wall by the soldiers of the Tibetan army with a roar.

Arrows continued to shoot down from the city wall, thunder stones were also dropped one by one, rolling logs rolled down the ladder from top to bottom, and the Tubo soldiers under the city were shot to death, stoned to death, and crushed to death, but the other Tubo soldiers still climbed the ladder without fear of death, one after another.

Siege for an hour, the siege echelon of the Tubo army changed twice, Dazaru Gong gave an order, thousands of Tubo soldiers pushed more than a dozen well railings to the city wall slowly, and when they were about to enter the range of bows and arrows, a large number of Tubo archers climbed the well railing, and other Tubo soldiers still pushed the well railing forward.

The Tubo soldiers who climbed the well fence began to fire arrows at the Tang soldiers on the city wall, and some of the Tang soldiers were shot before they could react, some were injured, and some died.

Seeing this, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "Order the archers to suppress!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

The archers of the Tang army received the order to immediately release arrows to the Tubo archers on the opposite well railing, and the two sides went back and forth to shoot at each other, but the well fence was higher than the city wall, occupying a certain advantage, and the Tang army archers gradually could not resist, and there were many arrows.

Zhao Ziliang and other officials and colonels of the Tang Army frowned, and Erzhu resolutely hugged his fist at Zhao Ziliang and said: "Dashuai, it can't go on like this, let the well fence of the Tubo people shoot like this, our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and the Tubo soldiers will soon have the opportunity to kill on the city wall, and the last general will ask for orders to take five hundred elite horsemen out of the city to destroy the well fence of the Tubo people!" ”

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but say when he heard this: "Erzhu, what you said is not a good way, but you have to understand that once the gate of the city is closed, it is impossible to open it again, that is to say, it is possible to destroy the well fence of the Tubo army, but the person who goes out will definitely die!" ”

Er Zhu hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, the last general understands!" The last will be a person of the barbarian tribe outside the Saiwai, who has lived in the Western Regions since he was a child, and has been bullied and cold-eyed, since joining the Beiting Army with the marshal, the marshal has never been a foreign race when I am a foreign race, and has always regarded me and my people as brothers, and other Han people treat me as if I were his own son and nephew, and the last general has nothing to repay, and now the war situation is in trouble, someone must sacrifice his life to save the decline, please make me happy! ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "No, if I agree, it will be equivalent to letting you go to death, this matter is absolutely impossible!" (To be continued.) )