The number of young and strong soldiers in the city is more than the total number of veterans and recruits of the Great Dou Army, but this is also a group of people with the worst combat effectiveness, it is unrealistic to let all the young and strong people participate in defending the city at once, once there are too many young and strong on the city wall, it is easy to cause the collapse of the defenders when the Tubo army attacks the city, so Zhao Ziliang let a veteran bring two recruits and two strong men.

A veteran leads two recruits and two strong men to form a battle group, in which the veteran is the main attacker, one recruit is the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, and the other recruit is the archer, one strong man is smashed with stones or boiling water or boiling oil, and the other strong man is a substitute. The rest of the young men did some work to carry the materials for the city defense, and when the defenders of the city wall suffered too many casualties, they were on top as a reserve to replenish the losses at any time.

In this way, everyone has their own role, and there will be no messy and no idlers.

The sound of killing on the city wall shook the sky, the Tang army under the command of Zhao Ziliang, like a robot to kill the enemy, methodical, a knife and a gun, there are examples and eyes, after the soldiers in front of the battle, there are people in the back immediately on top, after the initial panic became tacit understanding, one by one the Tubo soldiers were stabbed to death, hacked to death, and the corpses continued to fall from the city.

The Tang army on the city wall cooperated with each other, and when the Tubo army climbed on the cloud ladder or the Tubo soldiers who had just climbed the city head were effectively killed, the Tubo army was never able to attack the city.

In the rear of the Tubo army, the iron blade Xi Nuoluo watched the progress of the siege battle never go well, and the loss of troops was relatively large, but he was not in a hurry, the siege war was originally the most difficult battle, and the war was not in a hurry, and it was useless to be anxious, and now the troops in his hands were several times more than the Tang army in the city. Confident.

Lang Zhidu, who was watching it from the side, said to Iron Blade Xi Noluo: "Iron Blade General, you don't have anything to attack the city, isn't it the same that you can't hit the city?" ”

Iron Blade Sinoro said expressionlessly: "At least our casualties are much less, and the casualties of the other party have increased a lot, and besides, this is just the beginning!" ”

Speaking of this, Ironblade Sinoro ordered, "Order." Let the second echelon take over the attack, and let the first echelon withdraw! ”

"Yes, Iron Blade General!"

Iron Blade Sinoro divided his forces into ten echelons, each echelon was small in number, less than two thousand, but this number of troops was just enough to launch a full-scale attack on the southern city wall without allowing the Tang army to rest.

The wheel tactic was a very effective tactic, at least in the case of absolute superiority in troops, the losses of the Tang army's troops were very large, and the main reason was that the proportion of young and strong men in the Tang army's defenders who had not undergone any training was too large. The combat effectiveness is really not flattering, under normal circumstances, the casualty ratio of the besieging side and the defending city will be at least two to one, if the combat effectiveness of the two sides is almost the same, the loss of the besieging side is at least three to one, and this siege, the proportion of casualties between the Tubo army and the Tang army is three to two.

The casualties were too great, and the dark cloud of defeat and ruins hung over the hearts of everyone in the city. The heaviest losses were suffered by the young men, followed by the recruits. The veterans, on the contrary, suffered the fewest losses.

The three days of non-stop siege warfare of the Tibetan army caused the 8,000 young men in the city to lose half of them, and almost half of the recruits, more than 3,000 veterans lost more than 1,000 people, and more than 3,000 were killed in the battle. Whether the seriously injured can survive or not can only be asked God.

The casualties of the Tubo army were not small, and the casualties exceeded 10,000, and this level of casualties made the iron blade Xinuoluo unbearable, and the casualties of these three days plus the loss of more than 12,000 people on the first day of the siege made the infantry available to his men less than 10,000, and the cavalry could not be used for the siege. But when the battle came to this, the iron-bladed Honoro could only grit his teeth and continue to attack, to see who could consume whom.

On the eighth day of the siege, the southern city wall of Panhe County was already scarred, the city wall was seriously damaged in many places, and a section of the city wall was even smashed down by the newly built catapult of the Tubo army, Zhao Ziliang had to personally take Ge Shuhan, Ma Lan, Wang Rare and other fierce generals and a large number of soldiers to plug the gap.

The battle for the gap in the wall lasted a whole day, and from morning to dusk, the corpses blocked the gap.

Seeing that the sun had set, I was afraid that I would not be able to enter the city today, and the iron blade Xi Noro gave an expressionless order: "Collect the troops and return to the camp, and fight again tomorrow!" ”

Zhao Ziliang and the others were covered in blood, there was no clean place on the armor on their bodies, and even the white helmet on the helmet was stained red with blood, and the bloody atmosphere was overwhelming and disgusting, but Zhao Ziliang and the others were used to it.

Watching the Tubo soldiers retreat like a tide, the strength that the soldiers of the Tang Army had always insisted on finally couldn't hold on anymore, and they sat on the corpses one after another and gasped, and even many people fell directly to sleep on the corpses, they were too tired and tired.

Zhao Ziliang breathed a sigh of relief, put the knife into the sheath, and looked at the people around him, even Ge Shuhan, Ma Lan, and Wang Rare These fierce generals were more or less injured, and Ma Lan and Ge Shuhan's horizontal knives were cut off.

Zhao Ziliang took a breath and asked, "Are you all okay?" ”

Wang rarely touched the severed shoulder pad, let out a muffled snort, and gritted his teeth; "It's okay, the skin is traumatized, it doesn't hurt the muscles and bones!"

Ge Shuhan glanced down at the chain mail that had been cut off on his stomach, and scolded: "My stomach was almost disemboweled, but fortunately, I put an iron plate in it beforehand!" ”

Ma Lan said: "The subordinates are fine, just scratch the skin!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Ma Lan: "Ma Lan, I don't know what happened to the other three doors, you go check the situation and come back to report!" ”

"No!" Ma Lan agreed, put away the horizontal knife, gritted his teeth, and insisted on going to the west gate.

Zhao Ziliang saw that Wang Rare, Ge Shuhan and the others were tired, thinking that the battle time was too long, and the physical and mental consumption was too great, so he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on any longer, so he said: "You go back to rest first, here is a certain star!" ”

Wang Rare hurriedly said: "The general is the chief general of the first army, he can't fall, it's better for the general to rest, so-and-so is staring here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Don't fight, I can see that General Wang and Ge Shu can't hold on, a certain young, can hold on, recover quickly, you go back to rest first, by the way, find Zheng San, let him bring someone over to clean up the battlefield!" ”

Ge Shuhan arched his hand and said: "In this case, the general is careful in everything, if the Tubo army comes to sneak attack, immediately warn and inform me to wait, and I will come as soon as possible!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Go!" ”

After Ge Shuhan, Wang Rare and others left, a new group of defenders took over the original group, and the losses of troops were serious these days, and the remaining soldiers were repeatedly reorganized and reorganized to meet the needs of the battle.

Zhao Ziliang in the rotation of this group of people over, immediately arranged for them to arm, basically no battle at night, Zhao Ziliang at night to arrange the deployment of troops is not very much, but if the real thing happens to the Tubo army sneak attack, as long as it is found in time, soon there will be reinforcements in the city, and in order to prevent the Tubo people from sneak attack, Zhao Ziliang also ordered people to light a fire every night at a distance of dozens of meters outside the city, using the firelight to illuminate the sight in front of the city wall, and the fire is within the range of bows and arrows. If the Tibetan army wanted to extinguish the fire, it had to withstand the bow and arrow blows of the Tang army.

As soon as the night defense was arranged, Zheng San came over with a large number of people to clean up the battlefield, and when he saw Zhao Ziliang, he immediately quickened his pace and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and smiled: "It's okay, it's very good!" Let's stop talking nonsense, let's start working immediately, you organize the people to collect the corpses inside and outside the city and pile them up at the gap in this city wall, we have no other materials, even if we want to repair this section of the city wall, it's too late, so many corpses, don't waste it, all pile it up in this gap and gamble it! ”

Zheng San couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "In the future, if anyone hears that this section of the city wall is piled up with corpses, I'm afraid that they will be scared to the bottom of the urine!" ”

Sighing, Zheng San immediately organized the people to start carrying the corpses, the moonlight was not very bright tonight, if it wasn't for a long fire lit in front of the city wall to prevent the Tubo people from sneaking up, it would be really difficult to collect the corpses in the dark.

In the peaceful era, people were so scared when they saw a corpse, but now there are all corpses at their feet, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the people have long been surprised.

The work of collecting the body did not end until midnight, Zheng San and Zhao Ziliang were about to leave after a conversation, and felt that the smell of the matter seemed to have become very cold, so he asked, "Don't you feel that tonight is much colder than the previous days?" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded, this is what he suddenly thought of, and hurriedly pulled over a servant and ordered: "Go and see if the water tank is frozen!" ”

"No!"

Zheng San saw that Zhao Ziliang's expression was abnormal, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the dark night sky outside the city and said: "If it is cold to the extent of freezing, we can repair and strengthen the city wall tonight, and it will not be easy for the Tubo army to attack the city like today tomorrow!" ”

Zheng San was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

"Forgive me for selling it first, and I'll talk about it when Hu Cong comes back."

Soon Hu Cong came back, panting and said, "General, the water tank is indeed frozen!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked to the gap where the corpse was blocked, reached out and touched the wound on a corpse, and touched the ice slag formed by the blood coagulation, he got up and said happily: "Okay, God help me!" Zheng San, immediately organize the people, pick up all the utensils that can hold water and fill them with water, and remove all the door panels in the city and transport them over, we must take advantage of the cold and frozen weather tonight to strengthen the city wall before dawn! ”

Zheng San suddenly realized that he also understood what Zhao Ziliang meant, and immediately agreed, and the people who were about to go back immediately returned to their homes to fill buckets, wooden basins and others with water, and organized some people to disassemble the door panels and carry them over.

The dismantled and transported door panels are pasted on both sides of the city wall inside and outside, fixed and reinforced, and then pour water on the city wall or at the gap, after the water is poured down, it quickly becomes frozen due to the cold temperature, so that before the dawn, the four walls of the entire Panhe County have become an ice wall. (To be continued.) )