The siege battle in the morning was fought until noon, and the weather was too hot for the Tibetan people who were besieging the city to withstand it, so they had to retreat to rest, and when they dodged the scorching sun at noon, they began to launch a fierce attack again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time, the number of Tubo troops attacking the city was even larger, and a large number of Tubo troops were gathered under the city, and the Tang army could kill several people by throwing a stone casually.

Zhao Ziliang, who was holding the battlement, flew an arrow with his hand, he looked at the dense Tubo army under the city, held the hilt of the knife and shouted: "The order is to let the soldiers pour fire oil!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Several heralds ran forward along both sides of the tower with banners, shouting as they ran: "The commander has an order, pour fire oil!" Splash the fire oil! ”

When the soldiers of the Tang army heard the order, they walked to the iron pot with stone scoops, scooped up a scoop of fire oil, and poured it on the top of the heads of the Tubo army under the city wall.

"Ahh

"Ahh

The constant screams came from under the city, which did not arouse the pity of the Tang army on the city wall in the slightest, and as a scoop of fire oil fell, the soldiers of the Tubo army under the city were burned and rolled on the ground, and this man was quickly trampled by his companions and injured or killed.

Zhao Ziliang saw that the fire oil was almost poured, so he ordered: "Throw the torch!" ”

"Throw torches!" The order was quickly delivered.

Torches were thrown down the city walls, "boom, boom, boom······" One by one, the fire rose, and the soldiers of the Tubo army who were drenched with fire oil quickly burned, and the fire oil on the ground was also ignited, and the soldiers of the Tubo army were swallowed up by the fire and smoke, and the other soldiers of the Tubo army turned around and ran away when they saw this, the fire was too big, and they would be baked if they got close, and a large number of siege ladders ignited a fire, and no one could stand under the city wall.

"Huh!" When Dazaru Gong saw it, he punched his palm, sighed, and then waved his hand: "It seems that the siege ladder was burned today, and it seems that it can't continue today, so I ordered the troops to return to the camp!" ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

Soon a desolate trumpet sounded from the rear of the Tibetan army, and the order to retreat was being issued, and the soldiers of the Tubo army besieging the city finally breathed a sigh of relief, and turned back with their weapons.

Until dusk, nearly two hours had passed, and Zhao Ziliang, who was preparing to order the soldiers to have dinner, found that the Tubo army had not sent anyone to collect the corpses under the city wall until now, and frowned: "What's the matter with this Tubo people?" Why don't you send someone to collect the body? ”

Cen Shen said: "Dashuai, maybe Dazaru Gong didn't expect this stubble, right? ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the large number of corpses under the city wall, shook his head and said: "Forget it, no matter these corpses, since the Tubo people don't accept the corpses, let them do as they please, anyway, it's not our people!" The order is for the soldiers to open up, and after eating, they will start to change guards and set up guards!

"Yes, Dashuai!"

The siege of June 17 and 18 was still fierce and tragic, the Tubo people were completely like crazy and completely desperate to attack the city, in these two days, the Tubo army used the siege weapon of the well fence, but Zhao Ziliang had experience in dealing with this siege equipment, he used ropes to lift heavy objects such as stones of more than 1,000 catties on the arrow tower and corner tower of the city wall, and after the well fence of the Tubo army approached, he used the bed crossbow to shoot out the rope tied to the heavy object with an iron hook, and the iron hook hooked the bed crossbow of the Tubo army, and then smashed the bracket that supported the heavy object, The heavy falling of heavy objects will produce a huge force that will pull the well fence of the Tubo army, and all the Tubo soldiers on it will fall with it, some are seriously injured, and some are thrown to death and stoned to death.

As the sun was about to set on the horizon on the third day, the Tubo army also retreated like a tide, Zhao Ziliang held on to the blood-stained city wall battlements and asked, "How are the casualties?" ”

Cen Shen's face was a little ugly, and he said: "Dashuai, we only suffered more than 100 casualties on the first day, but yesterday and today, our casualties combined exceeded 2,000!" There are many people in Tibet, they can afford to consume, but we can't! ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "The Tubo people have such heavy casualties, even if they have a large number of people, they can't afford to consume it, if they continue to fight at this level of casualties, even if they have more than 100,000 people, they won't be able to spend more than ten days, are they crazy?" There has never been such a way of playing regardless of casualties! ”

While the two were talking, Wang Can rushed over and hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, our people have finally figured it out, it turns out that last time Dashuai led the cavalry to raid the Tubo army, and in the process of pursuit, he shot and killed Tubo Zampu Si Songde, and the spies said that Si Songde had been dead for several days, and Dazaru Gong blocked the news and did not let the news spread to the surrounding areas and Tubo countries, but it was in the army that he wanted to avenge Si Songde, so the soldiers of the Tubo army were not afraid of death one by one!" ”

Zhao Ziliang and the others looked at each other when they heard this, and after a long time, Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "It turned out that I shot Si Songde to death that time, I thought that person must be a big man in Tubo, but I didn't expect it to be Tubo Zampu, no wonder Dazaru Gong would order the army to attack regardless of casualties, he knew that he had no choice now, if he couldn't win, he would die when he went back, Si Songde was killed by us in his army, he couldn't escape the blame, the only way to save himself was to defeat our army in the name of revenge, so that he could return to Tubo with the power of a great victory, Those people have no excuse to fix him! Since he can use the death of Tubo Zampu to arouse the hatred of the Tubo soldiers against us, and let the Tubo soldiers attack the city regardless of casualties, we can also use the death of Si Songde to inspire the morale of the soldiers, pass on the order, and tell all the soldiers that the Tubo lord was killed by us, and such a crazy counterattack of the Tubo people will not last long, as long as we hold on, and when the Tubo people's sharp spirit is exhausted, they will retreat! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

After the news spread, the soldiers of the Beiting Army really became excited, and began to discuss who killed the lord of Tubo and how he was killed, and their morale improved a lot.

The men quickly carried a basket of steamed buns and broth to the city wall, and the soldiers began to line up to receive food, and the soldiers came over with a large plate of steamed buns and a bowl of broth and handed it to Zhao Ziliang, "Dashuai, let's have dinner!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhao Ziliang took the food and ate it absentmindedly.

Cen Jianzhi, who was also eating next to him, asked: "Dashuai, it is a very happy thing to kill Tubo Zampu Sisongde, the Tubo country is likely to fall into civil strife, as long as we can withstand the siege of the Tubo army this time, Dazaru Gong will inevitably lead the army to withdraw when he has nothing to do, unless he wants to be buried here, why do you still look unhappy?" ”

Zhao Ziliang stopped and sighed: "Did you find it, the corpses under the city wall are piling up higher and higher, if you go down at this rate, as long as it takes two more days, the stones will be piled up to the level of the city wall, and then the Tubo army can easily rush to the city wall!" ”

After Zhao Ziliang said this, Cen Shen immediately walked to the wall with his rice bowl and looked down, and soon he walked over and sat down with a pale face and said: "Sure enough, no wonder Dazaru Gong didn't collect the corpse, it turned out that he had long planned to use the corpse to pave the way to prepare for the Tubo army to attack the city wall!" The walls of Xiping City are still too short! The regulation says that it is three zhang, which is actually only two zhang, and the Taishou who built the city wall at that time should really be killed! ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "At this time, it is meaningless to investigate the height of this city wall, you have also been to the Western Regions, compared to the city wall over there, the city wall of Xiping City is high enough!" ”

Cen Shen was a little worried: "Dashuai, do you want to let Dazarugong's treacherous plan succeed?" Why don't we send someone to clean up the body at night? ”

Zhao Ziliang asked rhetorically: "Clean up?" How to clean up? Where are the corpses? Where is it buried? Since Dazarugon has this plan, how can he let us clean up the corpse with confidence? ”

"This ······"

In the evening dusk, a cool and majestic wind blew, and a disgusting smell of corpses was blown under the city wall, although the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army often rolled in the pile of dead people, but they never stayed in the smelly corpses, and many Tang soldiers who were eating dinner asked about the smell of corpses and vomited all the meals they had just eaten.

Erzhu came over and hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, it can't go on like this, these corpses are always piled up in the city and stink like this, the soldiers can't eat at all, and if they continue like this, I'm afraid that there will be an epidemic!" Why don't you order some fire oil to be poured on the corpse? ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head at Cen Shen when he heard this, and Cen Shen said to Erzhu: "General Erzhu, we also want to do this, but we don't have much fire oil in reserve, even if we pour it all, it will not be enough to burn these corpses."

Erzhu couldn't help but scold: "This Dazaru Gong is really poisonous, he actually used the corpses of his own soldiers as stepping stones to let them stink and rot here, and disgusted us!" ”

Zhao Ziliang ate without discomfort, and asked while eating, "Mr. Cen, how is the tunnel dug?" ”

Cen Shen said: "Marshal, since you led the cavalry to raid the camp of the Tubo army last time, the Tubo people may feel that the camp is too close to the city wall, so they withdrew the camp one mile back, it originally only took two days to dig the original camp, but now it takes at least four days to dig into the new camp!" ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't make a sound, quickly finished dinner, and began to patrol the various sections of the city wall with a cadre of generals and officials, the next team of defenders has gone up to the city wall to replace the original team, and the wounded soldiers were also carried down one after another to heal, and the bodies of some soldiers who died in battle were also carried away, and the city wall was very open and cleaned, but a burst of foul smell came from outside the city and it was really uncomfortable.

Zhao Ziliang said to the generals and colonels around him while inspecting the city defense: "Judging from the siege strength of the Tubo people in the past two days, Dazarugong is determined to fight to the end with us regardless of casualties, we will readjust the defensive grouping tomorrow, the original echelon of 1,000 people should be adjusted to an echelon of 1,500 people, and everyone's rest and rotation time should be shortened accordingly, otherwise once the Tubo army begins to attack the city, one echelon will not be able to support the next change of defense!" ”

The generals clasped their fists and said: "Yes, Dashuai!" (To be continued.) )