Passing through a valley overgrown with pasture and over a gentle hillside, you can see the stone castle castle on the cliff in the distance. The night is as cool as water, and the moon is bright and clean. The moon rising in the east is like a half face with a strange expression, and the lower moon hangs in the air, and if you look closely, there are some dark spots on it, which can be imagined as eyes, nose, mouth, and so on.

It would have been better if the moon was dark and the wind was high, but tonight the weather was fine and the light was not bad.

Xue Chongxun looked at it with his eyes and could see the black shadow of the castle on the mountain, this situation reminded him of the appearance of the demon castle in the West, probably the same picture?

A cool breeze hit, and he couldn't help but shiver, the night in this plateau area is really fucking cold. To be honest, he was in a really depressed mood right now, and he didn't think he could take this perverted fortress. In a word, the road ahead is not easy to walk, and the troubles are far from over.

Regret it? Because if you kill someone, you have to be held accountable for it! He thought about it and didn't think he had anything to regret. At that time, Jincheng and Qin were already an established national policy, and the time was very urgent, he had no power in his hands, and there was no way to change anything, even if he wanted to provoke a war between the two countries, he couldn't find a way, the time was too short...... Wars are not so easy to provoke. Unless you see Lang slashing like during the day today, it's easier.

He glanced back at the solemn-looking soldiers around him, but he felt a little guilty, they were the most innocent, and they had to pay the price for reasons that had nothing to do with their own interests and the interests of the country. Jet Li said in "Savior" that a soldier can die, but he can't die by mistake. These Tang Army soldiers died precisely because of Xue Chongxun's mistake in some kind of process.

Xue Chongxun thought about it, and his heart was a little gloomy. The higher the status, the greater the cost of mistakes, bleeding and corpses.

At some point, he found himself thinking about the people around him...... Remember that Yuwen Ji gave a rabbit, she just wanted to be like this?

After pondering for a moment, Xue Chongxun shook his head, abandoned many forward-looking thoughts, took a deep breath and said: "The moon is in the east, let's touch the slope of the mountain extending from the northwest to the bottom of the stone castle city, and we can take advantage of the shadow of the mountain to hide." After a while, we attacked the city, and Zhang Xianggong immediately led the horse team to the east, and went their own way. It's hard to get a long night, so let's go now. ”

At this moment, Jin Cheng grabbed Xue Chongxun's hand with a pale face and said, "I can't go!" This is because of me, and I can't leave......"

Xue Chongxun shook his head and said: "Your Highness wants to go to peace with your relatives to promote peace on the border, and you didn't instigate the killing of the Lang clan, what's wrong with you?" You're not wrong! If someone has to sacrifice in this world, then the person who sacrifices should not be a woman! I couldn't stand that humiliation either. ”

He is indeed afraid of death, but it is better to live in humiliation and pessimistically than to die.

This sentence was a bit incendiary, Nan Yabing was originally holding back his grumbling and helplessness, but when he heard this ethereal sentence, he seemed to have found a little meaning in this meaningless matter.

Xue Chongxun looked at Jin Cheng's delicate face and sighed, "Let it go, go to the Flying Tiger Regiment." ”

Jin Cheng choked up and said: "I'll wait for you, I'm waiting for your news in Jingshi, if it's bad news, I'll go with you!" ”

Xue Chongxun said a little angrily: "Don't you still understand? What does that mean? Live well! I want you to end up dying of old age in your bed. The qiē I made for you today is also a beautiful thing to recall when you are old. ”

He didn't say anything more, and mercilessly withdrew his hand from Jin Cheng's palm, grabbed the horizontal knife scabbard and raised it, "Let's go!" ”

The army then advanced along the foot of the mountain, there was still some distance from the city, Xue Chongxun was afraid that he would be discovered by the enemy soldiers when it was approaching, so he asked the Flying Tiger Regiment to stay behind and cut down trees to make ladders, and brought his own Nanya soldiers first.

Who opened the stone city gate? It is even more mistaken to hear the wind and rocks. Jietian Bailing wins Jintang and suppresses half of the southwest sky.

The city faces the river valley and is backed by mountains, with undulating mountains on both sides, and cliffs and cliffs, like goshawks spreading their wings. There is no other way than this narrow trail ahead. The only way to capture Stone Fort is to go up from the trail on the ridge.

When the army came to the bottom of the mountain, Xue Chongxun hugged his fists to Zhang Shuo, Zhang Wulang and others, and said goodbye simply, deliberately not even looking at Jincheng, but only saw her sad expression in the afterglow.

He recruited the generals of the four regiments of the southern government to make arrangements for the attack. At this time, a gray-bearded veteran said in a small voice: "I used to go to this side when I was a teenager, and this castle has two square platforms, large and small, which are former enemy outposts. ”

Xue Chongxun thought for a while and said: "This is a fortress, can the enemy soldiers not leave a sentry point, and all of them can't shrink into a nest?" It's certain that they've been found out before the attack, and what we're going to do is storm and take the city when they're not ready! In this way, the first two regiments were the first wave of attack, with the team as a unit; After the first team arrived at the square platform, they divided into two groups to attack the square platform, and if they could not attack for a while, they used bows and crossbows to suppress them; The second team did not stop, continued to run up the mountain, quickly touched the mountain, and took the city without considering the cost of a qiē, if it was smooth, the two regiments in the back continued to follow up and entered the city together. What's the problem? ”

The generals looked at me, and I looked at you, but they did not speak. Xue Chongxun paused for a long time, and then said, "No problem, just do it, you go back and prepare, start immediately!" ”

"The last general will wait for the order." All the generals hugged their fists together, and the people who begged for life on the knife edge had nothing to be verbose.

The men of the four regiments were arranged at the foot of the hill with no heavy weapons, only makeshift and rudimentary ladders. The first two regiments of the battle sequence were responsible for the assault on the head of the city, and from the second team onwards were assigned ladders, and nothing else.

Xue Chongxun looked up at the trail in the mountains, wiped a handful of fine sweat on his forehead, and couldn't tell what he felt in his heart. When looking back left and right, all the troops had solemn faces, revealing sad expressions.

"Silk ......" accompanied by a thin sound of metal rubbing, Xue Chongxun slowly pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist. At this moment, the team in charge of the first wave of attacks suddenly turned around and said, "Today, I am waiting to fight to the death, because I don't want to lose the face of my Tang Army!" ”

The armies were in awe. Xue Chongxun nodded, waved his knife upward, and shouted in a low voice: "First team, up!" Two regiments of soldiers, followed by follow-up! ”

The people in front stood up, picked up their long and short weapons, and ran in a slender column towards the path. After a while, there was a noise above, probably discovered by the enemy soldiers at the outpost, and for a moment the "bang" strings and shouts rang out. A moment later, the square platform was lit on fire, and the flames rose into the sky.

Seeing this, Xue Chongxun shouted to Zhang Shuo: "Zhang Xianggong, there will be a period later!" ”

Zhang Shuo turned over and got on the horse, hugged his fists and said: "A certain is waiting for the safe return of the county king in Chang'an." ”

Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will invite Li Guinian to the palace to sing songs, and everyone will gather together." ”

The battle on the hillside had already begun, and the left team of the 1st Regiment was attacking the large and small squares in two groups, according to the established plan. The right team crossed over and continued to run up the hill, trying to storm the city with the enemy's ill-prepared troops.

When the soldiers ran to the bottom of the city, they suddenly saw the Tubo people in the city standing behind a big stone and looking down, and when they saw the Tang army approaching, they shouted and began to push the stone.

The right team was standing in front, and he could see the situation in the city clearly, the road was narrow, there was no place to hide, and it was too late to rush up, and his face suddenly became like dead ashes.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the big stone was pushed down the city, and fell right into a hollow tunnel, and rolled along the road.

Seeing this situation, the team was sure to die, and before waving their long knives, they shouted: "Long live the Tang Dynasty!" ”

After a few moments, the stone ran over the people in front of them, and some of them jumped down the hill and rolled down the steep slope. When the stone rolled off the pavement, the men behind mustered up the courage to continue to rush forward and backwards.

The city immediately attacked with ballistas, and the red-hot ballistas were thrown, and the Tang army, which could not be deployed, suffered heavy casualties, and there were many people behind, they could not retreat, nor could they retreat, so they could only rush forward at the risk of death, while returning fire with crossbows.

After a long hard battle, a sergeant came down the mountain and reported to Xue Chongxun: "The big and small square platforms have been captured, and the siege of the city has been blocked. The right team of the 1st regiment was killed, the 2nd regiment suffered half a group of casualties, and the brothers continued to charge. ”

Xue Chongxun asked, "What kind of weapons did the enemy soldiers use to attack?" ”

Humanitarian: "Rolling stones, rolling logs, strong crossbows, ballistas, etc." ”

There are people who pay for their bloody lives in every flick of their fingers, Xue Chongxun is so worried for the first time, this feeling is not that he is in pain, but he is in pain for others, it is difficult to express. His brow was furrowed, solemn to the extreme. He had never commanded a siege, and his first experience was to gnaw on such a stone castle, and when he heard that the attack was unfavorable, his confidence immediately dropped to freezing point.

At this moment, he realized that he was inexperienced, and he wanted to ask the general next to him what to do? There is no shortage of battlefield veterans among these generals. However, the captains and brigade commanders of the two regiments in the back all looked at him and counted on him to make up their minds. Do you have to ask them what to do in turn?

At the moment, there is a way to encounter any situation!

Xue Chongxun's palms were covered with slippery sweat, his fists were clenched, and he didn't even notice that his nails had pierced his skin.

A brigade commander said: "King Hedong, the second regiment is about to run out, do you want Fangtai's team to go up?" Shall we make up for it? ”

Is it to continue to die? Perhaps, the battle itself is suicide!

At this moment, a horse galloped from the foot of the mountain, ran to this side, the knight reined in the war horse, rolled down from the horse, knelt down on one knee and said: "King Yujun, ten miles behind, I found a large army of horses in Tibet. ”

When the army heard this, their faces turned pale and they looked at each other. A general couldn't help but say: "If we can't take the Stone Castle City in two moments, we will face the situation of being flanked between the front and back, and the whole army will definitely be annihilated!" ”M