There was not a single cloud in the night sky, a full moon sailed in the endless blue sky over Qinghai, and the cold light was scattered alone, and the ice was dyed with a layer of silver white, which appeared crystal clear, and a line of black spots came far away on the white and bright ice, and they were actually a cavalry of hundreds of people, extremely fast, and the horses' hooves were wrapped in several layers of linen, so that they could gallop on the ice.

Nan Jiyun took the lead, he kept anxiously looking at the bright spots in the south, it was already four watches, the bonfire on the nameless reef was still burning, at this time, he had seen another bright spot in the northeast, that was the Tang Army beacon tower on a mountain cliff along the coast, these two beacon towers connected Longju Island Yinglong City and Shenwei City, and they were each other's horns.

Now that Yinglong City has been attacked, will Shenwei City rush to help according to the earliest agreement, Nan Jiyun is anxious.

After walking for more than ten miles, the east sky has faintly appeared fish belly white, and it is less than twenty miles away from the northeast shore at this time, at this moment, a soldier shouted straight ahead: "General Nan, look! ”

I saw that an army in front of me was speeding towards this side, getting closer and closer, and the flag of the Tang army could already be faintly seen.

Nan Jiyun's heart sank, and what Li Qingan was most worried about still happened.

The army in front is the Tang army of Shenwei Fort, Wang rarely led 4,000 people to aid Yinglong City, this is the order of Geshuhan, the two castles are each other's horns, one side is attacked, the other party must come to the rescue, when the beacon fire in Qinghai is blazing, Wang rarely leads the army to help.

"Is it General Wang in front?"

Nan Jiyun shouted, and the horse rushed forward, and the king rarely restrained the war horse and said, "I am the king rare, what happened?" ”

"General Wang, my General Li ordered me to report that the Tubo people's attack on Longju Island may be fake, but the attack on Shenwei City is real, General Li asks you to return immediately."

The king was taken aback, and he turned his head to look at the beacon fire in the south, and he also felt a little strange how the beacon fire had not been extinguished.

Wang Rare also realized the seriousness of the problem, and he immediately waved his hand and ordered: "The army will return to Shenwei City quickly!" ”

The Tang army's military horses turned around and galloped towards Shenwei City.

A ray of morning glow shrouded in the snow peaks of Chiling, the snow-capped peaks reflect a magnificent brilliance, at this moment, Shenwei Fort under Chiling is a shouting of killing that shook the sky, 30,000 Tubo troops are attacking Shenwei Fort in a big way, the corpses on the hillside are piled up, the blood is condensed into ice, the entire hillside is dyed red, round by round of trebuchets, the boulder is overwhelmingly smashed to the city.

'Boom! The loud sound came from the city wall, from time to time a large piece of wall skin peeled off, the heavy stone of the Tubo army suppressed the Tang army on the head of the city, thousands of Tubo troops have rushed up the mountain, a ten-zhang long siege giant tree is being slowly transported up the mountain.

A mile away, the Tubo commander Ma Chongying rode on a horse, watching the progress of the battle, his face slowly showed a smug smile, he successfully transferred the main force of the Tang army in the city to Longju Island, how could the 1,000 defenders in the city withstand the attack of 30,000 troops, the Tang army's Shenwei City was already in his bag.

"Whoever is the first to storm the city shall be rewarded with a hundred slaves and a thousand sheep."

The Tibetan army was attacking like a tide, and the ten-zhang long giant tree began to hit the city gate, 'Boom! A dull loud noise echoed through the valley, and the gates shook violently, and cracks cracked in the wall above them.

Nearly half of the Tang troops in the city had been killed or wounded, and a lieutenant rushed to Yang Jinghui, the deputy envoy of the soldiers and horses, and shouted: "General Yang, you can't hold it anymore, if you don't retreat, our whole army will be annihilated." ”

Yang Jinghui's eyes were about to burst and bleed, he lost Shenwei City, and the Tang army's plan to attack Chiling from the north would be completely shattered, how could they explain to Marshal Ge Shuhan?

"Boom!" There was another earth-shattering bang, the castle shook, Yang Jinghui stood unsteadily, fell to the ground, he got up and shouted: "Open the back door, retreat!" ”

The drawbridge at the back gate was slowly lowered, and hundreds of war horses galloped out of the city, along one path to another, and the Tang army finally abandoned Shenwei City.

"Sensational!" The gate of Shenwei City opened, and thousands of Tubo troops swarmed in, Ma Chongying chattered and laughed, and he turned around and ordered: "You can extinguish the beacon fire and attack Longju Island!" ”

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With the gradual extinguishing of the beacon fire, the drums of the Tubo army's attack around Longju Island suddenly sounded, and the black and oppressive Tubo army went to the island, spear army, long sword and shield army, archers, cavalry, infantry, one team after another, wearing chain mail, shouting shocking and murderous.

Behind them, there are more than 100 large siege weapons, ladders, trebuchets, which are all made by Han craftsmen who have been captured from Longyou, trebuchets go to the foot of the mountain, the long arms creak and rattle, and the general weeps and hides a war knife, shouting: "The first, second, and third thousand people are attacking!" ”

The first tentative attack of the Tibetan army began.

The sound of leather drums shook the sky, and the three thousand Tubo troops rushed towards the mountain beam like a tide, but the narrow mountain road made it impossible for them to rush on a large scale, and the huge Tubo army formation became a trickle, flowing up.

On the castle, Li Qing'an stared at the extinguishing of the beacon fire in the distance, he sighed secretly, the extinguishing of the beacon fire means that Shenwei City has fallen, it means that Ge Shuhan's plan to attack Chiling from the north has failed, and the bloody battle of Shibao City will be inevitable.

"Qilang, the Tubo army is here!" Li Fei Shouyu reminded him in a whisper.

Li Qing'an's train of thought turned back to his eyes, he looked at the arrogantly attacking Tubo army below, and couldn't help but smile coldly, Yinglong City is not Shenwei City, even if there are 100,000 Tubo troops?

"Trebuchet ready!"

On the castle, a hundred trebuchets turned the direction and aimed at the mountain road, at this time the Tubo army had nearly a thousand people, because the mountain road was splashed with water by the Tang army, there was a thick layer of ice, it was extremely smooth, there was nowhere to climb, the march of the Tubo army was extremely difficult, they climbed and dug the road, nearly half an hour, only advanced 20 zhang.

He was furious and shouted, "Give me a drum!" ”

The rumbling attack drum sounded again, urging the soldiers to advance, at this moment, there was a strange sound in the air, and the Tubo soldiers on the mountainside looked up, only to see a huge rock smashed above their heads, they were so frightened that they turned around and fled, and there was chaos on the mountain road, and many people were squeezed down the mountain road, 'Bang! A huge boulder the size of a grinding disc smashed on the mountain road, smashed more than a dozen Tubo into meat patties, sticking to the flesh and blood corpses, rolling and smashing towards the dense Tubo army, and suddenly screams were everywhere, and a large number of Tubo troops were smashed over by the boulder, with heavy casualties.

Immediately after that, the second and third boulders were smashed one after another, they were like ruthless mountain beam scavengers, sweeping everything and destroying everything, the first round of only twenty trebuchets wielded power, there was no one alive on the mountain road, and thousands of Tibetan soldiers died tragically under the Tang army's Stonehenge.

The drums stopped, the death-like silence of the Tubo army, and the fierce defense of the Tang army made everyone tremble, and everyone's eyes were on the boss on the weeping and hiding, one husband is the pass, and the terrain is incompatible, how many points can they win?

He saw that the Tang army was fully prepared, and it was impossible for him to take the castle by manpower, and suddenly, he ordered in a loud voice: "The trebuchet stepped forward, intensively bombarded the enemy fort, and the ladder was ready!" ”

It was the only way he could do it.

Nearly 10,000 Tubo soldiers pushed hundreds of trebuchets forward with a bang, the Tubo army did not have the technology to build heavy trebuchets, their trebuchets were medium-sized, the arm length was two zhang, and stones were placed in the back pockets, dozens of soldiers pulled the short arm rope in front, and used the principle of lever to bounce up the long and high and shoot out the stones, the maximum range of the trebuchet of the Tubo army was five to six hundred steps, and a trebuchet needed forty people to shoot.

Four hundred steps away, the Tibetan trebuchet began to exert its might, and the overwhelming boulders rose into the air, roaring and smashing towards the castle, but the Tang army's castle was covered by thick ice, impregnable, and the boulders smashed on the ice wall, only smashing out white rib marks, and the boulders 'bang! Bang! The ground smashed on the city wall, and the momentum was huge, but it had no actual effect.

However, the strange thing is that the Tang army did not fight back, although the catapults of the Tibetan army were within the range of the Tang army's trebuchet, they remained silent, as if waiting for something?

Several Tibetan generals felt a little strange, and they all walked up to Lun Weeping Zang and whispered: "General, the Tang army is very strange, there will definitely be a situation, we must be careful." ”

Lun Weeping Zang pondered for a moment, and said: "No matter what happens, we should fight and have to fight, otherwise how can we explain to the commander, pass my orders, beat the drum to urge the battle, and use the ladder to attack the cliff!" ”

The leather drum of the Tibetan army sounded again, 'Knock! Boom! The huge drum beat stirred people's hearts, 10,000 Tubo troops rushed to the cliff overwhelmingly, mixed with dozens of cloud ladders in the middle of them, the cloud ladder of the Tubo army was also learned from the Tang Army, 'with a big wood as a bed, six wheels under it', the main ladder is fixed on the base, several ladders can be expanded and contracted according to the height, up to dozens of zhang, although it is not enough to directly build the cliff, but can rush up to the halfway up the mountainside, from here the mountain is much wider.

The Tibetan army was pouring in like a tidal wave, but the Tang army remained silent, and thirty ladders were gradually approaching the cliff, following thousands of soldiers beside each ladder.

Li Qing'an stood on the city wall, calmly watching the ant-colony of the Tubo army surging in, and he waved his hand to Li Fei Shouyu and said, "You can start!" ”

The Tubo army under the cliff suddenly found that the Tang army castle was out of phase, the castle was covered with white mist, and a strange roar came from the castle, as if a kind of dragon moaned, this sound penetrated people's hearts, so that every Tubo soldier had a strange feeling in their hearts, as if something was about to happen.

Suddenly, someone pointed to the castle and shouted, only to see an incomparably large cyan long body rise from the castle, occupying the entire castle, covered with golden scales, as the two horns surfaced, a huge dragon head appeared, its eyes were shining with gold, white smoke was spewing out of its mouth, and its huge body was swinging from side to side.

The attack of the Tibetan army stopped, and everyone stared blankly at the green dragon.

"Qinghai Dragon King!"

I don't know who shouted, the Tubo army's position was unstable and began to retreat, and everyone's eyes showed a look of horror.

Although he felt that it was a little strange that a green dragon appeared from the Tang Army Castle, this green dragon was actually floating in mid-air, which made him have to believe it a little.

Qinglong let out another low moan, with an angry emotion in his moan.

"General, what should I do?" A Tibetan officer asked in a low voice, "Are we still going to attack?" ”

He looked at Qinglong suspiciously, and saw that he seemed to have a sign of sinking, so he said, "Wait and see!" ”

In the castle, more than 100 cauldrons of hot water boiling, boiling water vapor permeated the castle, there were hundreds of soldiers lying on the head of the city, they pulled the slender rope, the body of the dragon was controlled in mid-air, and kept swinging, under the hind paws of the dragon, hanging a giant basket, a large pot in the basket, the fire in the pot was blazing, a large amount of heat was poured into the tail of the dragon, two soldiers in the hanging blue kept pouring fire oil into the pot, the heat made the dragon body expand, and slightly floated in the city, from a distance, it looked like a dragon hovering in the clouds in the air, Teeth and claws, extremely realistic.

This is the most primitive dragon-shaped hot air balloon, which is carefully sewn by more than 20 female nurses with the summer shirts of the Tang Army, it cannot fly high, and the height that can fly is just two feet higher than that of the city.

At this time, Li Fei Yuanli waved his hand again, and hundreds of Tang soldiers with iron megaphones roared in unison again, making a low groan similar to that of a dragon.

"Shichiro, hurry up, the oil is running out!" Li Fei Yuanli shouted in a low voice.

Li Qing'an stared at the Tubo army, and seeing that they had almost entered the ambush circle, he ignited an iron rocket and slowly aimed at a black pond under the cliff.

"Launch!" He gave an order, only to hear an angry roar of the dragon, the dragon's mouth was wide open, and two burning fireballs suddenly flew out from under the dragon's head, throwing them high towards the enemy, as if spewing out of the dragon's mouth, just when everyone's eyes were focused on the fireball, Li Qing'an's rocket shot out, the rocket in the air as if it was a fireball falling Mars, accurately shot into the black pond, it was a basin of pre-placed fire oil, with the ignition of the oil burning, a line of fire rushed straight towards the Tubo army, the Tubo army was so frightened that they dodged to both sides, at this moment, The gunpowder packets and cannons buried under the rubble exploded violently, one after another, at the feet of the Tubo army, and suddenly black smoke billowed out, red flames burst out, and the blood and flesh of the Tubo army were blown up, and the screams and cries were all over the place.

"Ground fire mines! Qinghai Dragon King's Fire Mine! ”

The fear of the gods made the soul of the Tibetan army scattered, they turned around and ran wildly, people crowded, people trampled on people, people trampled on each other, as if the tide retreated to the sea, they ran to the Qinghai without their lives, even weeping and hiding could not help kneeling, kowtowing to the gods to apologize.

At this time, countless fireballs on the city flew out, accompanied by the incendiary powder bag dropped, and exploded above the head of the Tubo army, the blazing flames soared, the explosion sound was earth-shattering, the earth fire turned into thunder, and the Tubo army shouted wildly and completely collapsed.

Hundreds of ladders and trebuchets were lit one after another, the fire spread on the island, countless Tubo troops were killed in the sea of fire, this battle, the Tubo army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, and the original plan to besiege the Tang army for a long time and bring more than 100,000 stone grain and countless baggage tents lost on the island.

The manifestation of the Qinghai Dragon King in November of the seventh year of Tianbao made the Tubo people terrified, until the end of the Battle of Shibao City, and even in the following decades, no Tubo people dared to set foot on Longju Island.

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(To be continued)