Chapter 327: Closing the Door and Hitting the Dog
"Kill, kill-" Zhou Zhuchen, Ma Yukun, Liu Chongyang held a big knife and led his men and horses to roar and rushed towards the outer city gate, messy footsteps and a large number of shouts and killings alarmed dozens of Tang soldiers under the city gate, and the Tang soldiers on the city tower also woke up, and when they saw that someone had killed someone from the inner city, the city tower was suddenly in chaos, and dozens of Tang soldiers in the city gate immediately lined up in a defensive formation under the leadership of a captain to guard the city gate.
Li Tiancheng and He Dayou, who were in the palace, glanced at each other, and did not rush to the outer city gate with Zhou Zhuchen and others, but led his subordinates to close the inner city gate, and at this time, only a large number of subordinates led by Zhou Zhuchen, Ma Yukun, Liu Chongyang and others were left in the urn city.
Zhou Zhuchen and the others had just rushed to the middle part of the urn city with a large group of men and horses when they heard a whooshing sound, and rockets were fired from the city walls on both sides.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom・・・・・・" The piles of dry firewood that had already been arranged in the urn city were ignited by rockets, and the burning fire illuminated the entire urn city.
At this time, rows of archers stood up from the urn city, only to see the king standing in the middle of the city wall on the left, the erected palm waved downward, the archers released arrows into the urn city one after another, wave after wave of arrows rained down, and the men of Zhou Zhuchen and others who were charging in the urn city were hit by arrows and fell to the ground with a scream.
The sound of the bowstring kept ringing, and the screams kept spreading around, Zhao Ziliang stood on the city tower and watched the fine works in the urn city who wanted to snatch the city gate being shot by the hedgehogs, the shouting and killing sound became less and less, and the sound became smaller and smaller, he thought of something, and he said to the servants beside him: "Pass the order, the shouting and killing can't stop, even if all the fine works in the urn city are annihilated, the shouting and killing can't stop!" ”
"No!"
The order was soon passed down. Rushing out of the inner city, all of them led by Nur, they rushed into the urn city to block the retreating of the fine workers, and let out a large number of shouts to kill, in order to confuse the Tibetan army outside the city.
In the dark night two miles outside the city, a full 5,000 Tibetan cavalry quietly arrived here in a neat formation under the leadership of the iron blade Sinoluo. There was not the slightest sound along the way.
From time to time, there were war horses snorting in the military formation, but no war horses made a noise, the armor leaves rubbed, and there were constant sounds, but no one spoke.
In the distance, there was a fire in the sky above the west gate of Fanhe City, and a large number of shouts and screams came from the west gate, and a person next to the iron blade Xi Nuoluo said in surprise: "Iron Blade General, Zhou Zhichen, they have done it, they have done it!" Listen to the sound and see the formation. There must be a lot of people they use, and they will definitely be able to take the West City Gate! ”
This person is the right-hand man of the Iron Blade Xi Noluo's lieutenant general, Mo Deli, who is a member of the Mo family of the Tubo State, and the Mo family is one of the few wealthy families in Tubo.
Iron Blade Xi Noluo looked at the flames in the West City Gate, shouting and killing endlessly, and knew that Zhou Zhuchen must have taken a large number of people to the West City Gate garrisoned by the Tang Army, but it is not yet known whether Zhou Zhuchen can succeed.
Ironblade Zenoro hadn't spoken yet. Mo Deli said again: "General, without further ado. We should be prepared, slowly approach the city gate, and as soon as the city gate is opened, our army will immediately enter the city, and completely control the west gate and enter the city as quickly as possible, and our army can also distract the attention of the west gate defenders when they are close. Relieve the pressure on Zhou Zhuchen and them! ”
After hearing the words of Mo Deli, Iron Blade Sinoro also thought that this method was very good, and immediately ordered the whole army to approach outside the west gate.
This time, the Tubo army attacked the Tang Dynasty, and the commander was Mangbuzhi, and the iron blade Xinuoluo was the deputy general of Mangbuzhi. Therefore, his subordinates all called Tiejian Xinuoluo a general, and although the military system of Tibet was modeled after the military system of the Tang Dynasty, there were many differences, and the names were also completely different.
The local administrative organization of the Tibetan state is completely consistent with the military organization, and the whole country of Tibet is divided into four "such as", "such as" is equivalent to a large military region, and each such is divided into two sub-districts (equivalent to military sub-districts) and one directly under the jurisdiction of "Xia Qianhu", so there are eight sub-districts (military sub-districts) and four directly under the "lower thousand households" in the whole country. Each of them is divided into 4,000 households, so that there are 32 1,000 households and 4 1,000 households under the direct jurisdiction. At the same time, there are four Janissaries Thousand Households divided into four towns, these four Praetorian Guards Thousand Households are not under the jurisdiction of each other, they are sent by the Tubo Zampu (King) to the major military regions to monitor and supervise the soldiers and horses of the major military regions.
For example, there is a marshal, a lieutenant, and a judge, and the colors of the flags and horses are different for each division. The smallest military unit of the Tibetan army is a hundred-man team, with a centurion, followed by a "big 500" commander in command of five centurions, and then up a commander of a thousand commanders in command of two "big 500", a thousand households with about 10,000 soldiers and horses, and a commander of 10,000 commanders, commanding ten thousand commanders and 20 "big five hundred", the commander of ten thousand units is also called the Wanhu Mansion, a general in wartime, and a local administrator in peacetime.
Today's Tubo country is no longer the Songtsen Gampo period, Tubo is in a period of great expansion at this time, it is the time when the army is strong and strong, the four countries are "Tibetan Rula", "Right Ru", "Middle Ru", "Left Ru".
"Tibetan Rula" is divided into upper and lower two divisions, the upper Tibetan Ruru La and the lower Tibetan Ruru La each have an army of 30,000 and 300 people, which adds up to 60,000 and 600, with a total population of 720,000.
"Right Ru" is divided into upper right and lower right Ru, each with an army of 50,000 and 300, which adds up to 100,000 and 600, and the two are as if they have a total population of 700,000.
"Zhongru" is divided into upper Zhongru and lower Zhongru, each with an army of 70,000 and 300, adding up to 140,000 and 600, with a total population of 950,000.
"Zuoru" is divided into upper Zuoru and lower Zuoru, each with an army of 50,000 and 300, adding up to 100,000 and 600, with a total population of 700,000.
Among these four, the middle one has the largest army and the largest population, and all the four add up to a total of 400,000 troops, and the total population of Tibet is about 3 million.
However, such a ratio of military and civilian is also very normal for a social system like Tubo that served the army in wartime and served the people in agriculture, although the Tubo soldiers were very fierce, their combat effectiveness was still far worse than that of the Tang army, which was also a shortcoming of serving the army in wartime and serving the people in agriculture.
The shouting and killing in the west gate continued, in fact, the battle had already ended, and the soldiers of the Tang army shouted kill and kill while collecting the arrows on the corpses, so as to confuse the Tubo army outside the city.
After the battlefield was counted, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand, and the shouts and killings of the soldiers of the Tang Army gradually became scarce, and the soldiers left the urn city one after another, hiding above and under the inner city wall of the urn city.
Zhao Ziliang stood under the city gate with a hundred people, and made a gesture to Wang Rare on the arrow tower of the city wall on the left side of the urn city, Wang Rare immediately passed down the order after seeing it, all the archers were hidden, and the Tang soldiers staged a slashing scene on the city gate tower, and all the Tang troops on the city gate tower were "killed".
More than 100 black-clothed people wearing black clothes and pants and masked scarves stood at the city gate with swords, and after the torches on the city gate tower shook a few times in a row, under the command of Zhao Ziliang, these pretended black-clothed people divided into two teams to put away the noose, and the city gate was opened by the noose, making a creaking sound.
After the torches were lit on the tower of the city gate, the Tubo army outside the city soon found that the deputy Mo Deli pointed to the west gate and shouted: "General, look, Zhou Zhuchen has succeeded!" ”
Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo calculated the time, and did not doubt it, nodded and said: "Zhou Zhuchen has just the right time control, Mo Deli, ordered to lead three thousand cavalry as the vanguard, and rushed into the city first, and General Ben led two thousand cavalry to follow!" ”
"Command!" Mo Deli became excited, agreed loudly, and immediately pulled out the scimitar at his waist and shouted to the sergeants behind him: "The first, second, and third thousand commanders, lead your men and horses to rush into the city with me to kill all the Tang troops and Tang people in the city, kill—"
"Kill—"
At this time, the Tibetan cavalry has arrived at the west city gate less than a mile, three thousand cavalry pulled their legs and ran wildly, the earth began to shake, when the three thousand cavalry ran up to speed, the sound of the shock was deafening, the soldiers and civilians in the city felt that the ground was shaking, the distance of one mile was too close, the three thousand cavalry of Tubo soon rushed to the city gate and lined up in four queues to rush into the city gate.
The black-clothed people on both sides of the city gate held swords and watched the Tibetan cavalry rush into the city continuously, and these Tibetan cavalry did not look at these black-clothed people.
"Kill, kill—"
The overwhelming shouts of killing were intertwined with the vibration of the cavalry galloping, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were so frightened that they began to flee and hide before they saw the Tibetan army.
Seeing that more than half of the 3,000 cavalry with the vanguard had rushed into the city, the iron-bladed Sinoro immediately slapped his horse with a broadsword and followed with the remaining 2,000 cavalry, and the sound of the earthquake once again spread from outside the city to the city, from far to near.
Just when Mo Deli led a large group of cavalry to rush through the urn city and was about to rush into the inner city, a large group of Tang army spearmen suddenly rushed out from under the city walls on both sides of the inner city.
"Kill" Mo Deli kept slapping the buttocks of the war horse with his weapon, staring at Nur standing at the front of the spear army, and when he galloped in front of Nur, he raised his big knife and slashed at the top of Nur's head.
"Roar-" Noor roared, his voice shocking everyone's heads with its penetrating power, and Mo Deli almost fell off the horse.
After seeing Nur let out a roar, he raised the huge axe in his hand and slashed it from top to bottom, not only chopping off the big knife of Modeli, but also splitting the people and horses of Modeli in half.
Warm blood sprayed Nur all over his body, but Nur was not affected in the slightest, he kept raising the giant axe in his hand to slash, but all the Tibetan cavalry that rushed towards him were chopped to pieces.
Mo Deli died, but the Tibetan cavalry that rushed behind did not stop charging because of his death, they rushed to the spear array led by Nur without fear of death, and rows of Tibetan cavalry were stabbed to death by the Tang army's pikemen, but they still rushed forward one after another, with that never-ending momentum. (To be continued.) )