Wu Chu's eyes froze, and he shouted: "The oil pot is burning!" ”

In a moment, the people carried oil pots and firewood, shouting trumpets and climbed the city wall. To be honest, Wu Chu didn't have much experience in defending and attacking cities, but he was not timid at all, and now he really has nothing to fear.

At three hundred paces, the Tibetan soldiers began to speed up. There is no moat in Lintao City, so there is no need to consider filling the river at all, which is also an important reason why the Qinling chose to attack Lintao City.

Two hundred steps!

Wu Chuan shouted, "Let's go!" Immediately, the command flag in the herald's hand was waved.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the arrows were overwhelmingly shot at the Tubo soldiers under the city, and the Tubo soldiers raised their shields to resist while carrying the ladder, and their speed reached the limit. But the arrows fell at the head of the city, and they were killed in an instant.

The drums in the Tubo army were beating, constantly urging the attack, the Tubo soldiers did not stop for a moment because the arrows had to fall, they trampled on the corpses of their brothers, and continued to run, they had only one purpose, to climb the city, kill all the soldiers of the Great Zhou, and win this war, you can eat meat, drink wine, and sleep with the women of the Great Zhou!

Kill, kill, kill!

The Tibetan soldiers shouted, resisted the rain of arrows, and charged quickly. When the first cloud ladder was set up at the head of the city, the Tubo soldiers cheered, but they were immediately overturned by the Great Zhou soldiers!

Wu Chu raised his eyes and looked at the Tubo soldiers who were going to die selflessly, his heart was shocked, although he was an enemy, but this kind of charge that completely disregarded life and death, made him feel the truth that human life is cheaper than grass. But the enemy is always the enemy, and you do not destroy him. He will destroy you and plague your homeland!

When more than ten cloud ladders were set up at the head of the city, Wu Chuan shouted: "Rolling oil! ”

Barrels of boiling oil were poured down from the city. fell on the bodies of the Tibetan soldiers, and the Tibetan soldiers rolled all over the ground, but in a moment all the boiling oil of the ten cauldrons was splashed, but the Tibetan soldiers still attacked. Wu Chu was ruthless, raised his torch, and threw it towards the city.

At this time, the city was dripping with oil, and the Tibetan soldiers and dead corpses were together. When the torch was dropped, the fire spread instantly. spread all over the city, and bursts of heart-rending screams came.

On Qinling was finally moved.

Gong Ren approached his father's side and said, "Father, the warriors of the Nima tribe are about to be wiped out. Please withdraw it, father. The child wishes that the Shuai Department will continue to attack! ”

At this moment, the victory and defeat of this first siege battle have been divided, but on Qinling did not see the weapons of great destruction, which shows that King Wu of Wei also retains his strength. He nodded, and his heart had no hope for this attack on Lintao City.

"Collect the troops!" On Qinling said lightly, and then galloped towards the rear army without looking back.

There is no doubt that Wu Zheng only invested less than 3,000 troops in this defense. In the absence of large-scale destruction equipment, it blocked the siege of 10,000 warriors of Tibet. If the fight continues like this, when the reinforcements of the Great Zhou Dynasty arrive, he may only have one way to defeat Qinling.

The horn of the Tibetan retreat sounded, and more than half of the 10,000 Tibetan soldiers stayed under the city, but not even one of them climbed to the top of the city, and the stout battering ram never had a chance to be used, so it was thrown under the city.

At the head of the city, the generals were overjoyed, and they saw for the first time what it means to be a bamboo in the chest and what it means to strategize. They also finally saw that King Wu of Wei had seized the opportunity to the point of appalling. The timing of the release of the arrows and the timing of the pouring of the oil all seem to be perfectly matched.

During the entire defense process, Wei Wang Wuqi's eyelids did not blink, and the command was determined, as if he had calculated the entire process of the war.

In short, whether it is the people who burn the fire and carry arrows at the head of the city, or the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they all have a new understanding of Wu Zang, the king of Wei, and look at Wu Zang's eyes, only worship and fanaticism.

Of course, Wu Zheng's self-confidence also gave the soldiers a reassurance. But if they knew that just now, when the Tibetan soldiers almost attacked the city, his vest was full of beads of sweat, what kind of eyes should they have?

But obviously, the soldiers will never see it, success is such a coincidence, Wu Zheng, who has never commanded the defensive battle of the city, with the support of strong military theory, coupled with unparalleled insight, won the first battle!

Next, will he still be afraid? He has already seen the dawn of victory!

Riverhead.

Hence the name suggests, the source of the Yellow River, but in fact, it is not. The Huangshui flows from west to east, forming a long and narrow river valley, which makes the water and grass here abundant, the land is fertile, and it was once the grazing land of Tuyuhun.

But in the third year of Longshuo, Tubo attacked and destroyed Tuyuhun in one fell swoop, and Tuyuhun perished, and he thought about recovering the country in the middle, but Xue Rengui of Dafei Sichuan of the Tang Dynasty was defeated, and there was no hope of recovering the country. Immediately, in order to prevent Tubo from attacking Longyou, the Tang Dynasty was convenient for Shancheng County to place the Heyuan army, and soon moved to Heyuan and built a city.

Since Lou Shide and Black Tooth Changzhi took charge of Heyuan, one is good at Tuntian, and the other is good at attack and defense, so that Tubo cannot cross Heyuan half a step. However, since the death of the black tooth Chang, the Tubo monarchs and ministers celebrated for three days, and since then, the Heyuan army can only be regarded as a Tuntian soldier in a sense.

Now, on the head of Heyuan City, dead bodies are piled up all over the city, there are Great Zhou soldiers, there are also Tubo soldiers, there are stumps and broken arms, broken spears, blunt swords, broken flags, and the dumped oil pot, the war is over?

Suddenly, from the pile of corpses, a hand covered in blood slowly stretched out. Immediately lifted the dead body on his body, a gray-haired old man stared at the front with blood-red eyes only wearing armor, and then looked around, looking up to the sky and sighing.

"Lou Xiang, the Tubo people have retreated!"

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers with tattered armor supported each other and came to Lou Shide's side, their faces full of joy.

Lou Shide looked at the dead corpses all over the ground, and then looked at the city, but saw that the Tubo soldiers were reorganizing the army, and he knew that this time Da Zhou would not be able to resist no matter what.

So, he ordered: "All the Great Zhou soldiers, retreat to Shanzhou City!" ”

A lieutenant cried: "Lou Xiang, the Heyuan Army is gone!" ”

Lou Shide looked up to the sky and sighed, he has been in the army for 20 years, he has become in his own hands, and his destruction is also in his own hands, he hates it. If the black teeth are always there, why not. But in an instant, he snapped: "Collect the stragglers." Retreat to Shanzhou City! ”

When Lou Shide led less than 300 remnants of the army to retreat to Shanzhou, the army of Zanpo attacked Heyuan City, but he did not have the slightest joy. In order to destroy the 17,000 Tuntian soldiers of the Heyuan Army, nearly 30,000 Tubo soldiers were killed and wounded, which was the result of his adequate preparation.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are also bloody men!

"Bury the body deep and rest for two days!" Rontsampa finally gave the order.

As early as the time of the army, the Qinling sent envoys to the Eastern Turks. I hope to be able to make an appointment with Mo Du to attack the Great Zhou, and now that the Heyuan army has been destroyed, Mo Du should not send troops. What's more, his position as Khan also robbed his nephew of the Khan, if he doesn't make some contributions, how can he serve the public!

Shendu, too out of the palace. Lichun Terrace.

Another feathered letter was delivered to the Empress's desk. The empress still let Shangguan Wan'er take a look at it first, in the past few days, she felt that she was a lot older, even if Zhang Yizhi served her in every way, it was difficult to make her a little passionate.

Shangguan Wan'er took the letter, still slowly cut it with a paper knife, took out the song, and then read it.

"On the Holy Side, the Heyuan army fought fiercely for several days. I couldn't see the reinforcements in my eyes, and I blocked the 100,000 army of Tubo on Zanpo for five days. The Heyuan army consisted of 17,000 men. There were 10,150 people in the city, and the battle reached 297 people, and they withdrew to Shanzhou City, not because Weichen was afraid of death, but because Weichen wanted to inform the battle situation, so that his successor could understand that Tubo was a wolf's ambition. According to the spies' report, the Eastern Turk Murdu also led his troops south, please think twice......"

Suddenly, the entire Lichun Terrace suddenly seemed like frost.

The empress could never have imagined that the Heyuan army would be destroyed in this way. So she stood up and said, "Convene the Prime Minister!" ”

There are deacons and eunuchs to inform them, and the empress is in deep thought, although the heir to the great unification has been determined, but now is not the time to hand over power, Li Tang's old ministers are still there, and they occupy an important position, she can't hand over such a court to the next one.

The prime minister was in the official residence, so after receiving the notice, he quickly came to Lichuntai.

Lichun Terrace is a pavilion and water pavilion, there are also palace buildings, especially there is a warm pavilion, which is the empress's favorite place all year round, so the affairs of the court and the middle of the country are also dealt with in this platform.

The prime minister discussed military affairs, Zhang Yizhi was only Siwei Shaoqing, and he was not qualified to participate in the deliberations, so he could only avoid it, while Shangguan Wan'er was the empress's arm and was recognized as the prime minister, so he still stood behind the empress.

Nowadays, the overall ability of the prime minister's group is average, but there are still a few. There are internal history Dou Lu Qinwang, Nayan Yao Xuan, and the rest such as Li Yuanyuan, Zhou Yunyuan, Yang Zaisi, Sun Yuanheng, Su Wei, etc. as deputy prime ministers, among these people, none of them can know the military, among which Yang Zaisi and Su Wei, both of whom are flatterers. Originally, among the prime ministers, there were still those who knew the military, that is, Lou Shide, who guarded his words and affairs, but now the army was defeated and stationed in Shanzhou City.

After the empress and other prime ministers saw the ceremony, they gave them a seat and tea. The prime ministers knew that the empress must have something important, so Neishi Dou Lu Qinwang got up and said, "Holy Lord, I don't know why I was invited?" ”

The empress nodded, and Shangguan Wan'er presented Lou Shide's 800 li urgent report to Doulu Qinwang. Now that Doulu Qinwang has been stained with the light of King Wei, the more he has done the internal history, so he respectfully took the note in Shangguan Wan'er's hand, and after reading it, he immediately fell silent. Then he handed it to Yao Xuan, and after Yao Xuan read it, he didn't rush to speak as usual, but passed it to Li Yuan, the squire of Fengge, so that after several prime ministers looked at it one by one, the exquisite snacks and fragrant tea were also placed in front of the prime ministers.

The prime ministers only thanked each other and did not express any opinions.

The empress looked at these prime ministers, she was a little angry in her heart, except for Doulu Qinwang, Yang Zaisi, and Su Wei, these people all regarded themselves as Li Tang's old ministers, and often asked King Luling to be the crown prince, which made her very annoyed. Now that Longyou is in danger, these people, as prime ministers, do not say a word, which is very hateful!

"Internal history, now that there is not one out of ten Heyuan Army, I am afraid that the survival of Shanzhou City is also in the bustle, what is Aiqing's opinion?" The Empress had no choice but to ask by name.

Doulu Qinwang stood up and said slowly: "Tubo's move, the wolf's ambition is also, and now His Royal Highness the King of Wei is resisting the 200,000 army of Tubo on Qinling, and he is lacking in skills, but this does not mean that His Highness has no strategy to retreat from the enemy, so it is better to send an envoy to ask for a good strategy." ”

The empress was noncommittal, and was about to ask Yao Xuan for Nayan, but Yao Xuan got up and seconded the proposal. forthwith

Su Wei bowed and said: "Wei Chen thinks that Nei Shi's words are very good, but they still need to be considered. The empress shook her head in her heart, and sure enough, it was "Su Mureng", ambiguous. She looked at the rest, but soon, before the Empress could speak, the vice-chancellors seconded it.

Political views have reached an unprecedented unity!

The empress suddenly got up and said angrily: "As the prime minister, do you only know how to second? ”

Yang Zaisi, the waiter of Luantai, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is really very polite in the words of internal history, and now there is no one who knows the military affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty beyond the right of His Royal Highness the King of Wei, if we talk nonsense and delay the military situation, will we become sinners." ”

The empress sighed in her heart, and she also understood that these prime ministers were all born with poetry and songs, and they were confused when they discussed military affairs.

The empress waved her hand and asked the prime minister to retreat, and then also took Shangguan Wan'er away, lying on the chaise longue alone, closing her eyes. (To be continued......)