Chapter 361: Shooting the Sun (3)

This is the fourth watch today, there is one watch in the afternoon, two watches in the evening, the old afternoon is very hard, these days the sleep is less than five or six hours a day, so I ask everyone for some tickets, cheer up the tired spirit.

In addition, this month is not only the battle with the Qinling, but also a funny storyline, and the crown prince's accession to the throne, so this month Lao Wu wants to fight for it***.

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The next day he made a comeback, and Malaj took another approach.

The first day suffered heavy losses, not many people died, several hundred, but more than 2,000 cannon fodder fled into the city, which was about the same as dying in battle. I can't bear to let the children trap the wolf, and I don't mention whether I attack the city or not, at least I have to fill this nasty moat.

At this time, you can see the role of a moat, which can drag on in time, and can also use this river to kill and injure many enemy troops besieging the city.

So let the cannon fodder continue to be in front, and the regular troops were held back, with shields in their hands, and some siege equipment, such as crashing wood, crashing cars. The Tibetans themselves also had trebuchets, the kind of trebuchets that were very backward. This is also thanks to Princess Wencheng, she married to Tubo, and also sent a large number of dowries, not only items, but also many craftsmen, and later Princess Jincheng married and shot luxuriously. These craftsmen lived a life that was not as good as pigs and dogs in Tibet, and in order to survive, they had to pass on their skills to the Tibetan people.

Some of the weapons used by the Tibetans to kill the Tang Dynasty today were invented by them, some came from other ethnic groups, and some were made by Han craftsmen. This trebuchet is also related to this group of craftsmen, but it is rougher than the original Tang Dynasty trebuchet. It is slow to fire, has a short range, and has a limited weight of the objects it throws, making it a long-range attack weapon.

With the cannon fodder in front and the archers behind, they used their bows and arrows to reflect off the city, while forcibly supervising the filling of the river and preventing them from surrendering. Then came that trebuchet, and even launched two towers. Slowly coming to the front of the moat, one arrow after another flew towards the city, especially the tower became condescending, but it was far away and did little damage to the Tang army. However, under the pull of dozens of people, the trebuchet smashed more than a dozen large stones, two of which fell on the top of the city, killing more than a dozen Tang soldiers.

Li Wei ordered: "Concentrate the gunpowder and throw it at those two towers, as well as the trebuchet." The rest of the archers, shooting indiscriminately. ”

There is no way, although the moat has advantages, it also has disadvantages. The closer the moat, the more the defenders at the head of the city were able to kill and wound the enemy. However, it was too close, and the river flooded the foundation, endangering the city walls. It also depends on the situation, like the city of Nanjing in the later Ming Dynasty, the soil is soft, and the city walls must be far away from the moat. In some places, the wide Qinhuai River is used as a moat, and even on the head of the city, ordinary bows and arrows cannot shoot on the other side. However, although Hongji Bridge is close to the Yellow River, the soil strength in this area is higher than that of Nanjing, so it can be slightly closer.

This is the shortcoming, if you want to effectively kill the regular soldiers of Tubo after cannon fodder, there are only strong crossbows and strong bows, as well as stones and gunpowder thrown by trebuchets. But there was too much cannon fodder pouring in, and if it weren't for the indiscriminate shooting, it was very likely that in a few moments, several pontoon bridges and embankments would have appeared.

Of course, without his orders, his subordinates also took the initiative to avoid the party members, but there were many people, crowded together, and from time to time, some party members were shot by random arrows and fell.

Tuoba Yuan and the rest of the party were anxious to walk around, but they couldn't say anything more. It is not easy for the prince of the Tang Dynasty to reach this point. If it is released again, I am afraid that the Tubo people will see it sooner or later, and once the Tubo people see through it, the party members will immediately suffer a catastrophe.

In the midst of a miserable shout, the trebuchet aimed at one target after another, and its practical aim was not a precise word. The direction is aiming, but the range is adjusted by the weight of the pressure and the speed of the release of the pressure arm when throwing.

Launched this way, the accuracy is poor.

Therefore, once in the field, the effect of gunpowder and trebuchets will be infinitely weakened, but when attacking the city, it is impossible to come to the siege on horseback, and get off the war horse one by one. And there are no fewer people attacking the city, if there are a few sparse ones, they don't need to get close to the city wall, and they will be killed by random arrows a long time ago.

Dozens of gunpowder packets were finally thrown into the sky, and this time the Tubo people had more experience, and when they saw them rising to the sky, their eyes stared at them together, and when they saw them falling in their own direction, they immediately turned their legs and fled. It has not yet fallen, causing panic among the Tibetan people.

Another wave of gunpowder rose into the sky.

After the explosion of three gunpowder packs, more than 100 people were killed, and the trebuchets and the two towers were all blown up. Without the cover of these two weapons, the casualties of the Tibetans under the city gradually increased. But it also caused them to throw a lot of debris into the moat, and in some places there was even a small half of the embankment. Malaji then sounded the horn of withdrawal.

Tuoba Yuan watched the enemy evacuate, so he followed Li Wei and turned around.

In fact, after standing on the city tower and watching for a long time, Li Wei saw another opportunity. Compared with the Qinling, there is a distance, but the average general really does not have his vision to see far. And since Li Jing's vein, they are all tricks that don't pay for their lives. The vision is not as far as the Qinling Tomb, but the ability to see the loopholes is no less than the Qinling.

After most of the battle, the loopholes were visible.

Looking at these party generals, Li Wei couldn't help laughing, and said with a stiff face: "You guys follow the lonely behind, turn around, what do you want to say?" ”

"That, that," Tuoba wanted to say, but he couldn't open his mouth.

"If you have something to say, why bother to spit it out."

"Your Highness, can you think of another way?"

Hongji City is different from Lily City. Lily City was also fighting, but Lily City did not have a tall city wall, so it directly attacked the city. Although the party sent 35,000 soldiers, the proportion of the more than 300,000 troops was still very small. Directly attacking the city, the Tubo people never counted on the party members.

It's a delusion.

is too cruel to the party members, and it is also cruel to Tuyuhun, but it also attracts the upper nobles, even if it is cruel, it is also more preferential than the party members. Therefore, when fighting for Tibet, most of them did not contribute to work. Either after victory, when grabbing the fruits of victory, one is braver than the other, and the poorer.

This made the Tibetan people look down on them very much, thinking that this is a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are insatiable, and they even neglect this matter in Qinling. Therefore, the party members on the side of Lily City can escape in a catastrophe. However, Hongji City is different, to fill the moat, you must be cannon fodder, and the party members can't fight, so they can be cannon fodder. If this development continues, more party members will die tomorrow, even at the hands of the party members themselves in the city.

But this became a great fighter, Li Wei did not say it immediately, and continued to say with a stiff face: "General Tuoba, you are also an official of the Tang Dynasty, is it for the sake of the two or three thousand people of your tribe, the lone general will take the entire Hongji City, the entire Hongji City more than 10,000 soldiers, and even the entire Jiuqu situation is erosive?" ”

Tuoba is far from speaking.

Li Wei's voice changed, he groaned for a while, and said, "Lone come and think about it again." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." Tuoba Yuan's face was immediately overjoyed, and he bowed down and said.

Li Wei pretended to be pondering, turned around, and said, "There is." ”

"I knew His Highness must have a way."

"Don't praise me, if you want to save your thousands of party members, you have to take a risk."

"Please instruct Your Highness, your subordinates are willing to go up the Sword Mountain and go down to the sea of fire for Your Highness."

"It's not that serious, don't you see a forest over there? At night, use a rope to lower you down the wall, don't be afraid of the cold, dive across the moat, and quickly enter the woods. Not far from the woods seems to be the camp of your party members. Gu has been paying attention for a long time today, you quietly entered their camp and said a word for Gu, not only can you save your people, but even make a miraculous achievement. ”

"What?"

"You come here." Whispered in his ear.

"Your Highness, you should have done this a long time ago," Tuoba said happily.

"No, I don't want to do this, it's for your people, in a war like this, it doesn't matter if you win or lose a battle. Lone is afraid to take this lead, and the other departments are greedy for merit, and they all learn from Lonely, and they rush forward one by one, so it will be a big thing for Lone. ”

"Yes."

"Let's go down." But Li Wei was very cautious, and the arrangement had not yet begun, so he immediately wrote to the generals from all walks of life, and if he wanted to learn this trick, he could not chase more than eight miles, and before the pursuit, he would make a military order in front of the supervising troops of all roads, and if he was not successful, he would be beheaded to show the public.

Indeed, blindly defending, he also made many mistakes, for example, this time the Tubo people were very arrogant, and it was precisely because he only defended and did not counterattack. But once it attacks, it will give the Qinling a chance. Therefore, it is only allowed for eight miles, which can expand the results of the battle, and the distance is also very safe. When you climb to the top of the tower, you can't see it from a distance, and you can't see it from a distance like eight miles, but if you ambush a large army, you can still see it. This eight-mile land can make blindly defending the city flexible, otherwise the tactics are too rigid.

When night came, Tuoba Yuan asked the soldiers at the head of the city to quietly lower it with ropes, came to the moat, and quietly waded into the water. By the end of September, the weather in Qinghai had officially cooled down, and I swam across the moat and shivered non-stop when I went ashore. Then the cat trotted around and dived into the woods.

After a long time, Tuoba Yuan returned, entered the city, and was just about to report, Li Wei said: "Don't be in a hurry, go change your clothes first, and then speak." ”

"Whoa!" After changing into dry clothes, he immediately bowed down and said, "Your Highness, our people can't thank you enough. ”

"Lone is a blood oath with your party members, and you party members will be regarded as the people of the Tang Dynasty, and this is the right thing to do, and there is no need to thank you."

Tuoba Yuan burst into tears, and suddenly knelt down again and said, "Your Highness, let your subordinates be your house slaves." ”

"You get up, Lone is the prince, not another general, you can have a house slave. The only one is just a personal guard, which is a guard, not a house slave. ”

"Then I'll be your bodyguard."

"You kid don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and if you want to be a guard for His Royal Highness the Prince, you will compete with me first," one of the captains in the guard, Qi Bi, was in a hurry. It's not uncommon to have a lot of this stuff, and when you see your own group of people, you don't have your head held high. You kid, the prince helped your people, but he didn't know what to do, and he had to get an inch.

"Don't," Li Wei stopped Qi Bigang and said to Tuoba Yuan: "You are a ranger general, and Lone is also observing you, and you also have the talent of a general, but you are illiterate and don't know how to write or write." After this battle, the Lone Club will send someone to teach you to read and write, and then give you some military books to read, and in the future, you will not only be a ranger general, but also a general of our Datang. Do you understand? ”

"Whoa!"

There was no word for a night, and the next day, the Tibetans began to fill the river again. There is no way to attack the city without filling the river, Li Wei looked behind him and said to Luo Wucheng: "General Luo, are you ready?" ”

"Ready, Your Highness."

"General Li has been praising you, but Gu didn't see you fighting, can you let Gu see your majestic posture on the battlefield today?"

"Whoa!"

"And Lone will personally cheer you on."

"Whoa!" Luo Wu listened to it, and his whole body felt his blood boiling.

"Go down and get ready."

Luo Wu took down the city. Li Wei began to order again: "Put gunpowder, don't deliberately aim, the faster the speed, the better." ”

Batches of gunpowder flew out, but in fact gunpowder was still very effective, and without it, the difficulty of defending the city would have to increase. With the sound of explosions, screams, and the tragic image of some soldiers being blown to pieces, the Tibetan army began to panic again.

At this moment, the drawbridge fell, and the gates opened almost immediately.