Under the sun.

The army stood still, hunting with banners, and the horses roared, dull and depressed.

In front of the battle array, the grenadiers were neatly arranged, all emitting a metallic cold light, and the deep barrel of the cannon was like a demon that destroyed the world and the earth at any time, and it was instinctively frightened at a glance.

At the sound of an order, shells slipped from the artilleryman's hands into the barrel.

"All of them!"

One shell after another whistled away, rushing straight to the pass, the sharp sound of breaking the air made the scalp tingle, and under the gaze of everyone, the cannonball drew a parabola and landed on the pile of rocks.

"Boom, boom!"

The cannonballs exploded, and a ball of fireballs soared into the sky, and the pile of rocks instantly turned into a sea of fire, and countless screams rang out, and many people were blown up and flew up, fell under the pile of rocks, and were killed on the spot.

Everyone didn't expect this explosion, and countless small stones were blown up and splashed all over the sky, even small stones the size of a thumb can hurt people, and many boulders rolled down, forming gaps on them.

As expected, Luo Zhang was a little shocked when he saw this scene, can the shelling still smash stones and hurt the enemy? But he quickly reacted and shouted: "Prepare for the second round of shelling, Niu Shidu, on!" ”

"Obey!" The artillery battalion Wang Hu and Niu Shidu solemnly received the order.

A team that had been prepared for a long time rushed forward, staring at the shields, holding knives, running fast, followed by archers, and when everyone was about to rush to the front of the pile of rocks, Wang Hu shouted loudly: "Brothers, hurry, the artillery fire extends forward, fire—"

Everyone fine-tuned the shooting angle a little higher and fired decisively.

The shells crossed the pile of rocks, and some of the explosions in it were almost all volleys, which were more lethal, and although the view was blocked, the screams were enough to explain everything.

If the artillery fire is extended forward, the stones in the pile of rocks will not be blown down, which will affect the infantry attack.

Niu Shidu didn't know how to coordinate the operation of infantry and artillery, but he could see that it was okay to mess up the rocks with this shelling, and he rushed up first, and the soldiers also knew that if they didn't rush up at this time, they would wait for the enemy to react and die, and they would climb up desperately.

The pile of rocks is not a cliff, it is piled up by countless boulders, it is very irregular, but it is conducive to climbing, everyone climbs very quickly, especially Niu Shidu, biting the steel knife in his mouth, using his hands and feet together, throwing out his subordinates for a certain distance.

It will be the courage of the soldiers, and the soldiers will also be stimulated to howl when they see that Niu Shidu is so brave.

When the shelling stopped, some Tibetan soldiers poked their heads out to check, and when they saw that someone had climbed up, they shouted in fright and opened their bows and arrows, but they were suppressed by the archers who had been prepared for a long time.

Niu Shidu took the opportunity to quickly climb up, waved a knife and cut over a few people around him, quickly looked around, the pile of rocks is a dam, but there are two or three zhang wide, towards the inside is a slope, it can be convenient for the Tubo people to rush up quickly, the passage ahead is very wide, the terrain is flat, full of camp tents, at least more than 30,000 soldiers and horses are stationed.

Where has the Tibetans, who are guarding the rocks, seen this kind of fighting with cannonballs? After two rounds, most of the dead and wounded, the remaining morale was completely gone, and seeing that there were more and more people rushing up, they couldn't stop it, so they turned around and ran.

Niu Shidu led the people to rush and kill, killing all of them, and shouted excitedly: "Brothers, you must hold on, wait for the main force to come up!" ”

"Understood!" Everyone yelled, in unison.

Luo Zhang was overjoyed when he saw the people attacking, and decisively ordered the archers in charge of covering to also rush up to help.

Tubo was also unwilling, and quickly organized people to counterattack, coming up on the slope, and the speed was very fast.

Niu Shidu knew that the time for the test had come, and he couldn't hold on to the busy work just now, and when he saw the stones all over the ground, he yelled: "Brothers, move the stones and roll down, and if you can't move them, you will smash them." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, they threw away their swords, picked up the stone and threw it down.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! ”

Screams rang out.

There were too many Tubo soldiers who rushed up, too dense, and they couldn't dodge at all, and they fell down in an instant, and more stones fell, with a broken accent, some big stones did not hit people, but after they landed, they rolled and jumped, and the speed was very fast, which frightened countless people to dodge and become a mess.

Seeing that the results were good, the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and they continued to work hard to smash stones.

Soon, a large number of archers rushed up and shot at the bottom, where could the Tibetan attacking troops stop, leaving the corpses all over the ground and retreating like a tide.

"Haha, good job, just fight like this!" Niu Shidu shouted excitedly.

"Oh oh oh!" The soldiers cheered, defiant, and their morale was high.

It's obviously a natural danger, and it's almost impossible to capture, but it kills it in one round, and it also kills the enemy back, this battle is simply incredible, and everyone feels like a dream.

Soon, more people rushed up, Luo Zhang was also among them, staring at the passage in front of him to observe, the passage was not long, it was open land when he went out, but it was wide enough, in addition to the dense tents, there were many war horses, food, equipment, etc., it seemed that the enemy planned to fight a protracted battle here.

"General Luo!" Niu Shidu stepped forward excitedly.

"It's a good fight, there are about 30,000 below, what do you think?" Luo Zhang asked with a smile.

"The terrain is flat, there is no danger available, you can only fight hard, rush down and do it!"

Luo Zhang smiled noncommittally, and continued to stare ahead to observe, while thinking about countermeasures, round troops, there are about four thousand more on his side, all of them are invested, and they can't be used below, and the price of frontal toughness will not be small, it is not undesirable, or you have to outwit it.

After a moment of silence, Luo Zhang called five division commanders, pointed to the front and said: "The enemy's tent is a stone's throw away, you can attack its tent with fire, once the fire starts, the enemy has nowhere to escape, but to withdraw, and our army can take the opportunity to pursue and kill." ”

"Fire attack?"

Everyone's eyes lit up and they smiled knowingly.

Luo Zhang quickly assigned the task, two divisions prepared rockets, two divisions were responsible for carrying boulders and clearing a passage, and the remaining division was responsible for guarding against enemy attacks.

The whole army moved quickly and worked in full swing.

At this time, Tubo also made adjustments, a large number of archers pressed the formation in front, but only defensive, not attacking, after a war drum, a general came out and shouted: "Dare to fight!" ”

Niu Shidu saw that someone jumped out to fight, can he get used to this? Immediately said: "General Luo, the last general is willing to go to a battle, please allow it!" ”

"Shut up and stay put." Luo Zhang scolded angrily.

"General, we can't let those Tibetan dogs be arrogant." Niu Shidu persuaded unwillingly.

"Kill them all in a while, how can you be arrogant?" Luo Zhang asked rhetorically.

Niu Shidu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said: "It makes sense, the general is domineering, but the last general's vision is too small, there is really no need to worry about a group of dead people, the last general has been taught!" ”

"It's good to know, the situation is in my favor, it's them who are panicking, why do they still fight? Our Hanzhou army relies on the collective to fight the war, it is a coordinated operation, pay attention to the minimum cost in exchange for the greatest victory, and never allow individual martial arts, if you are strong, aggressive, regardless of the casualties of the troops, this general will remove you, understand? ”

"Remember!" Niu Shidu replied solemnly.

Luo Zhang nodded silently and continued to observe ahead.

The challenging Tubo general saw that no one came up, so he began to scold, but there were only a few words over and over, and the Tang language was not standard, and he was so angry that he was like thunder, like a gorilla.

Luo Zhang sneered: "You can't sing this opera, it's hard to hear, don't try to deceive General Ben to reward silver." ”

"Hahaha!"

The soldiers reacted and laughed excitedly.