When Zhao Ziliang arrived at the city of Xincheng with nearly 2,000 Tang cavalry who had just experienced a killing, the Tubo army on the city wall knew that the 1,000 cavalry cavalry sent out to rescue soon was only afraid that it would be more auspicious, otherwise the Tang cavalry would not appear here.

The Tibetan cavalry on the city wall suddenly panicked, they were cavalry, and there were only a thousand people, but now they wanted to let them defend the city, but they had never done such a thing, panic and panic soon spread among the Tibetan army at the head of the city.

Zhao Ziliang is not worried that someone in the city of the Tubo army will go to other surrounding states and counties to move rescue troops, because before today's encounter with Dazarugong, he has sent several groups of men and horses to block the roads to the surrounding states and counties, as long as the new city is taken in time, it will not be so easy for the surrounding Tubo army to recapture the new city, and holding a few crossings on the Datong River can block the Tubo army coming from the southwest and south.

When the army arrived at the city of Xincheng, Zhao Ziliang looked up at the banner of the Tubo army at the head of the city and the situation of the defenders at the head of the city, waved his hand for a long time and ordered: "Surround the three city gates in the east, west and north, and leave the south gate!" The whole army retreated and camped five miles! ”

The captain of the second regiment was puzzled: "General, don't you want to keep it secret?" What if the siege of Sanji and the 1,000 Tibetan troops in the city fled from the south gate? ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "It's okay, our purpose is to capture the new city, and we can only consider other things on the premise of capturing the new city, since they have given up the new city, why should we care if they escape if we get the new city?" Besides, if they want to escape, they must cross the Datong River to the south, but now several ferries on the Datong River have been controlled by our army, as long as our army gets the news in time, they can quickly kill them and annihilate them! ”

Qingshiping, the Tang army soldiers had lunch, and after enough rest, they began to attack Qingshiping under the rare command of Wang, and at this time Dazarugong was seriously injured and unconscious, if the bleeding was not stopped in time, I was afraid that he would have died long ago.

Bayan, as the main general designated by Dazarugon before he fell unconscious, took over the remaining less than 2,000 Tibetan soldiers, and now these 2,000 Tibetan soldiers are already frightened birds.

After two hours of testing and observation, Wang finally determined that the Tubo army had hidden the grain and grass in a house in the middle of the bluestone flat, and now what he did was to destroy the grain and grass of the Tubo people, so that they had no food to eat.

Four bed crossbows equipped with wheels were pushed out by the Tang soldiers and pushed to the line of maximum range from the Tibetan archers, surrounded by infantry and cavalry to prevent the Tibetan army from rushing out of Qingshiping to destroy the bed crossbows.

"Ready—" the king commanded.

The four bed crossbows were each equipped with a thick crossbow arrow, the arrows of the crossbow arrows were tied with strips of cloth soaked in grease, and the crossbow arrows were pulled by the Tang soldiers who operated the bed crossbows to the firing state with a torque noose.

The team in charge of the operation and command of the bed crossbow is reporting to Wang Rare: "General, all four bed crossbows are ready, ready to release arrows at any time!" ”

Wang rarely waved his hand: "Shoot accurately, let's start!" ”

"No!"

The four crossbow arrows were each ignited by the torches, and the team was waving the small flag vigorously: "Put-"

"Whoosh whoosh" sounded four times in a row, and four crossbow arrows shot out one after another, each of which crossed the sky over the bluestone flat at a very fast speed, shooting through the windows of the houses full of grain and grass.

"Keep loading your bolts!"

Four more rockets were fired in succession, and the crossbow arrows were shot accurately, not far from the target, but they were fired into the house.

At this time, Bayan, the commander of the Tibetan army, realized the problem and immediately shouted: "Spearmen, quickly put out the fire, go and put out the fire!" ”

After several rounds of rockets were fired, the grain and grass in the house were ignited, and at this time there was smoke on the roof of the house, and some Tubo soldiers took small wooden basins and clay pots and ran to the river to put out the fire, but the time was too long, and when the soldiers of the Tubo army brought the river water, the grain and grass had been completely burned.

It was rare for Wang to see that the Tubo army on the bluestone flat was in a mess in order to put out the fire, and immediately ordered the infantry to attack.

"The 1st Battalion Attack—"

Under Wang's rare order, the Tang saber and shield soldiers charged Qingshiping from three sides with shields and horizontal swords.

"Kill—"

The Tubo army was even more flustered, "The Tang army has attacked, the Tang army has attacked!" ”

Bayan's face changed greatly, it was really a leak in the house and it rained overnight, and in a panic, he immediately began to command: "Quick, the sword and shield soldiers are resisted in front, and the archers are suppressed with bows and arrows in the back!" ”

At this time, several groups of cavalry rushed out of the cavalry formation of the Tang Army, and rushed to Qingshiping at a very fast speed in the gap from the infantry charge.

"Whoosh ・・・・・・" the iron hook in the hands of the knights was thrown out and flew to the back of the horse and wooden fence arranged by the Tubo army, the knights quickly turned around, the rope was straightened, and the iron hook hooked on the horse and the wooden fence, as the war horse galloped forward, the horse and the wooden fence arranged by the Tubo soldiers around the bluestone flat were pulled down and pulled apart, and at this moment, the Tang army infantry who rushed over with shields just rushed to the bluestone flat from the wooden fence that was pulled away.

After rushing to Qingshiping, the soldiers of the Tang Army were not in a hurry, they quickly lined up in a neat formation under the command of the team commander, the team leader, the brigade commander and the captains, and blocked the arrows shot in front of them with shields.

After arranging the formation, the captain shouted: "Forward - kill!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill, kill・・・・・・" The Tang infantry approached the Tubo army in a neat pace, and the spearmen behind quickly followed, each sword and shield soldier was followed by a pikeman, and the archers were at the rear to provide long-range support at any time.

Compared with the chaotic scene of the Tibetan army, the Tang army had an organized and disciplined wall, and the soldiers had a high tactical literacy, and their movements were neat and uniform, and every step carried great momentum.

The two armies finally collided, and the Tang lieutenants shouted: "Pikemen, stab-".

Hundreds of spears were stabbed out in unison, even if the Tubo army at the front was protected by shields, many people were stabbed and fell to the ground, and many were stabbed on the shields and retreated again and again, at this time, the Tang saber and shield men took a step forward to resist the opponent's sword and shield men or pikemen, and knocked away the spears or broadswords that were stabbed with horizontal knives in their hands, helping the Tang army pikemen on their sides to block the attack and play a role in protecting the pikemen.

Zhao Ziliang had shot a large number of Tubo pikemen with cavalry running tactics before, and at this time there were less than 200 Tubo pikemen left, and the number was too small to suppress the Tang saber and shield hands, and the Tubo archers were suppressed by the Tang army archers, and the two sides fired at each other, but the range of the Tang army's bows and crossbows was much larger than that of the Tubo army's bows and arrows, and the Tubo archers were suppressed everywhere.

The Tang army has comprehensively suppressed the Tubo army in terms of troops, arms and weapons, and the casualties of the Tubo army are getting bigger and bigger, and the gap between the two sides is not only reflected in weapons and armor, but also in terms of military quality.

In the face of the Tang army's neat chopping and assassination actions, the Tubo soldiers who were in a hurry were beheaded one after another, and the Tubo centurions, big five hundred, and thousand commanders were helpless.

Bayan, who was roaring loudly, watched the Tang army approaching step by step, and with every step he took, many Tibetan soldiers fell, his face turned pale, and his lips trembled. It was over, he couldn't stand it, Bayan's first thought was the unconscious Dazarugon, he shouted an order to the other two commanders with the rest of the men and horses to block the attack of the Tang army, and he quickly ran to a house behind with a dozen soldiers.

Under Bayan's order, two Tibetan soldiers carried the unconscious Dazarugon with a door panel, and the other dozen soldiers each carried a door panel and ran quickly towards the river.

When he came to the river, Bayan asked the soldiers to put the door panels on the surface of the river and nail them together to make simple rafts, and he was the first to carry the unconscious Dazarugon onto the raft.

"The raft can't carry so many people, you all go back to block the Tang Army, and I will take care of your family!" Just go! Bayan ordered loudly, and the ten guards turned around and returned to Qingshiping again with their swords in their hands, while Bayan took only four guards and got on a raft and drifted downstream down the river.

"Where are we going? Is it to return to the new town? One of the guards asked with a wistful sigh.

Bayan shook his head and said: "Xincheng is no longer saved, and if we go, we will send sheep into the mouth of the jackal, we will go to the north bank of the Datong River and go north, hoping to find Lang Zhong to heal the general's injuries as soon as possible!" ”

The Tubo army that remained in Qingshiping was finally annihilated, and a small number of them dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

After the battlefield was cleaned, the Tang soldiers still did not find Dazarugong, and Wang learned from the mouths of several captives that Dazarugon had escaped from the river on a raft with a few guards by Bayan.

At dusk that day, Wang Rare led a large army to the outside of Xincheng with prisoners, and after entering the camp, he and Zheng San came to Zhao Ziliang's camp to report to him.

"General, the last general is incompetent, the army attacked Qingshiping, and after annihilating the Tubo army, Dazaru Gong was not found, and some prisoners said that he was seriously injured and unconscious after being hit by the general's arrow, and escaped from the river with a few guards made of a raft with door panels!"

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but say when he heard this: "I didn't expect that this Dazaru Gong's life is really big, it seems that it is really very human!" Forget it, it's no wonder to you for this, you and the soldiers go to eat something first, and then come over to discuss things after eating! ”

"No!" The king saluted and then turned away.

Zhao Ziliang asked Zheng San again: "Has the baggage team arrived?" What siege equipment do we have now? ”

Zheng San shook his head and said, "The baggage camp is still ten miles away, but it will be there soon!" Since we are going to cross the Qilian Mountains this time, we only brought some parts of the bed crossbow that are easy to carry, and we did not carry any other siege equipment, so if we want to use it, we must start building it now."

Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, it's too troublesome to build siege equipment, maybe when you finish building, the new city will have already been broken by us!" Someone came, and passed on the general's military order, and transferred 300 cavalry from outside the north gate and the west gate respectively to strengthen the troops outside the east gate."

"No!" (To be continued.) )