Dong Yanguang gathered an army of 50,000 and slaughtered the stone fort with great ambition.

When he set out on the expedition, seeing Wang Zhonghe's pretended calm face, Dong Yanguang's stomach almost laughed.

Wait, wait for Lao Tzu to take the stone castle, and then your Wang Zhonghei's face will look even better! The fly in the ointment is that Li Ang's house is gone, before Wang Zhongsi ordered the Longyou army to take the initiative to attack, in the West Sea, Jishi and other places in a row defeated Tubo, Li Ang was also sent by Wang Zhongsi, with 500 elite cavalry haunted in the area of the Jishi army, has not returned, and now it is completely gone.

Dong Yanguang, who was bent on putting Li Ang to death, could only give up, but in his opinion, as long as he won the battle of Shibao, Li Ang could hide from the first day of junior high school, and if he couldn't hide from the fifteenth, he would die sooner or later.

For Dong Yanguang, capturing the stone fort as soon as possible is a top priority.

The army soon drove to the city of Dingrong, with flags covering the sun, Jin Ge was like a forest, and the military might was not prosperous. Looking south, seven miles across the stream, is the towering stone castle city towering above the clouds.

Feng Shoujie, the Anren military envoy who had a close relationship with Dong Yanguang, found him privately and said: "Deputy Envoy Dong, the stone fort is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, Deputy Envoy Dong must also prevent someone from stumbling behind his back, this battle is not easy to fight, can Deputy Envoy Dong be fully prepared? ”

For standing in line, Feng Shoujie was still a little swaying from side to side, but since he learned that Dong Yanguang climbed the high branch of Li Linfu, the left minister, Feng Shoujie completely fell to Dong Yanguang.

Dong Yanguang sneered: "The people who make the stumbling block must be indispensable, let's do our best, it is naturally good to be able to capture the stone fort, if we can't attack it, I have my own plans." ”

Dong Yanguang has been fighting in Longyou for many years, and he is very familiar with the situation in Longyou and Tubo, and knows that it is indeed not easy to capture the stone fort. He was not only prepared to make great sacrifices, but also to fail.

Of course. If you really fail, you must not bear the responsibility on your own.

Seeing that Dong Yanguang had already prepared, Feng Shoujie didn't say more.

"Drumming! Gathering! Dong Yanguang shouted, and the soldiers outside the tent received the order, and the rumbling military drums immediately sounded, and the two drums were not finished. The generals galloped in.

Dong Yanguang held the treasure knife, stepped on the handsome few with one foot, glanced at the more than 20 generals in the account majestically, and said: "Stone Castle, it is the gateway of Longyou, it falls into the hands of the Tubo people, and I Longyou will face the invasion of Tubo at any time!" The Holy One was restless because of this, and now he ordered us to recapture the stone fort to deter Tibet. To the right of Anlong, in order to raise the prestige of the country.

In this battle, if anyone does not obey the order, fears the enemy, and passively slacks in the battle, he will disobey the holy decree and will not be spared! The saint is determined to win the stone castle, and whoever is the first to rush to the stone castle this time. It must be indispensable to add officials to the knighthood, and the marquis will pay homage to the prime minister. Possibly!

Attacking the stone fort is a high-ranking official, taking a step back, that is, the head of the person falls, whether it is advancing or retreating, the generals weigh it themselves! "Speaking of which. Dong Yanguang glanced at the generals, and then shouted: "The king is rare! ”

"The last general will obey the order!" The White Water Army made it rare for the king to hurriedly come out of the ranks, holding his fists and waiting for his life, the armor on his body was sonorous and murderous.

"Ben Shuai has ordered you to be the vanguard. Lead 5,000 troops, and immediately attack the castle with all your strength at noon today! ”

"The last general commands!"

"Goshuhan!"

"The last general will obey orders."

"Order you to lead 5,000 men and horses to defend Bailugou against the enemy from the right flank!"

"The last will obey."

"Feng Shoujie, I order you to lead 5,000 men and horses to garrison Lakaring to defend against the enemy from the left flank."

"The last general obeys!"

“……….”

The so-called assault is that there is no trickery, in fact, it is to defend the two flanks, and then launch a fierce attack regardless of casualties. As Dong Yanguang's orders were issued one after another, the 50,000 Tang troops followed suit, the drums of war were urging, and the men and horses were like a tide.

Seven miles across the stream, between the ups and downs, backed by Huashi Mountain, facing the Yaoshui River, at the top of the red cliff, a towering castle towers in the clouds, that is the Stone Fort City.

The dangerous geographical location of Shibao City, only by climbing over it can you reach the Sun Moon Mountain, and the only way to climb it is a sheep intestine path, the young and strong bare hands are very difficult to climb up the mountain, and people with a slightly weaker physique can not climb up at all.

Moreover, they had to deal with a steady stream of rolling stones and sassholes on the mountain, which showed how difficult it was to attack Stone Castle City.

But no matter how difficult it is, the Tang Emperor's holy decree has been issued, and tens of thousands of Tang troops can only bite the bullet. Under the rare command of Wang, the forward army of 5,000 crossed the Yaoshui River with shields and rushed towards the narrow and steep mountain road, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The Tibetan defenders on the stone fort city have long been in battle, and at the same time quickly sent messengers to ask for help, the Tang army's war drums rumbled endlessly, earth-shattering, looking down from the mountain, the black and oppressive Tang army was like ants, rushing up along the dangerous road between the mountains.

The Tubo defenders on the mountain immediately pushed down the rolling stone sasswood, the boulder fell from the sky, and smashed on the mountain road with the whirring wind and thunder, and for a time the stone broke the earth, the mountain shook, and the Tang army that rushed up was suddenly smashed to the back of the horse, and the flesh and blood were blurred;

The rolling stones rolled all the way down the steep mountain road, and the Tang army on the mountain road could not avoid it, with a large number of casualties and screams, but under the urging of the rumbling war drums, the comrades in front had just fallen, and the soldiers behind stepped on the flesh and blood of their comrades and continued to charge. The rocks on the mountain are like rain, unstoppable, and the lethality is thrilling.

Storming such a strategic fortress doomed the Tang army to pay a heavy price, and the flesh and blood soon filled the mountain roads, the bloody wind was pervasive, and the corpses and bones pillowed each other, and there was no value or cheapness.

After the Battle of Shibao began, the Tang army attacked day and night, and the famous Tubo general Dazaru Gong also quickly gathered 20,000 troops at Moliyi, and sent messengers to Tuyuhun to give orders, preparing to flank Dong Yanguang.

From Qinghai Lake to Shanzhou, there is not only one road through Shibao, in fact, there are three roads for the army to pass, one from the Niuxindui area on the north shore of Qinghai Lake along the Huangshui River south to Shancheng, one from the south bank of Qinghai Lake over the Sun Moon Mountain, through Shibao along the Yaoshui River west to Shancheng; The other is to cross the Chiling Ridge and go down along the southern foot of the Lazhi Mountain.

Shibao City only held the first line of the Yaoshui River, although it was the most convenient passage, but it could not completely stop the Tang army from advancing westward or Tubo from coming east.

Because the stone castle city is on the cliff, it is true that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the square platform on the top of the mountain is limited, and the troops that can accommodate it are only hundreds.

Therefore, in order to defend the stone fort, the battlefield cannot be limited to the stone fort. Dazarugon's strategy was to first take advantage of the characteristics of the stone fort that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, consume a large number of Tang troops, and hit the morale of the Tang army, and then dispatch two large armies to outflank the past and completely defeat the invading Tang army.

Except for the 3,000 men who sent 3,000 people to reinforce the stone fort, the rest of the soldiers and horses did not move for the time being. He had to wait, and when the Tang army suffered heavy casualties and lost morale under the stone fort, the army would quickly attack. (To be continued.) )