Chapter 55: Untitled (2)
The fire flickered and smoke rose.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers rode war horses and slashed for a while, and after they had fun, they finally stopped killing, expelled the prisoners who had slaughtered Rong Fort to the grassland, and then began to count the spoils.
The battle was difficult, so there was no fault in the distribution.
Meng Fan took out the white paper and black ink from the Hutian space, not the cinnabar that played a buffing role, and began to gather the ghost male driven by himself.
"What a handsome talisman."
Yan Guogong Li Jinxing did not hesitate to praise.
During the march, the two had already discussed, if the war was won, they would invite the imperial court to arrange blood food and offerings for them during the New Year's holidays, so as to make it even better.
Then it was dark.
The beef and mutton are roasted, and the generals cut them with knives with their hands and feet, first eat the meat that is cooked on the outside, and continue to roast inside, during which they can talk while roasting.
To be honest, this way of eating sitting on the ground can be said to be not much Sven, whether it is Meng Fan or Lou Shide, who was born as a civil official, they are still eating with their mouths full of oil.
"The people and horses mobilized from Shuofang and Hexi towns are already on the road now, we don't have to rush, we can't take the stone fort before the winter completely, just wait for the arrival of the old soldiers from various departments after the beginning of spring, and then deal with it......"
"Nearly 10,000 people were captured on this trip, and I don't know how many Tuyuhun can be sent later, if they are all captured."
For the former allies who have rebelled, the Tang generals are obviously not so generous, and they expect more and more cannon fodder, so that their own people can sacrifice less.
"Tugu is not a climate, the key is to see the big war between us and Tubo, in case of setbacks, these guys are likely to turn back."
"yes, more than once."
After all, the Tang Army gathered at most 100,000 troops from all over the country this time, claiming to have more than 300,000 troops, but the strongholds of military towns in various places must be garrisoned, and a strong army of 10,000 people still needs to stay in the north to guard against other tribes......
From beginning to end, Meng Fan didn't point a finger, he was a layman, and he would only make a move when he encountered something supernatural, or consume Datang's luck and his own merits, and forcibly make a move to reverse the overall situation.
The other side.
Tuyuhun Murong Clan's royal tent.
"Bet on Datang, if we lose, it's a big deal for us to move inward, if we don't insist on going our own way and going to bet on Tibet, once we lose, will we go to Chang'an in a prison car?"
This is the form, since the Khan King has expressed his attitude, the vast majority of people present feel that there is no need to continue the controversy.
The main force of the Tang Army is here, what else can be done?
……
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, the back is a large mountain, and the mountains on both sides are undulating, like a goshawk spreading its wings, and there is no other way except a narrow path, so if you want to capture the stone castle city, you can only follow a path on the ridge of the mountain.
Now, after a short rest, the Tang army continued to attack, and according to the Tuyuhun captives, the defenders here were still the Tubos, and their numbers had not been replenished, and they were hastily called up to be responsible for the attack.
"When I was a teenager, I went to Fan here, there are two square platforms in this fort, which are former enemy outposts, we have to go up first, we have to take down the square platform first, this is impossible not to alarm the above."
A gray-bearded veteran was speaking in a small voice to the crowd around him.
When Meng Fan heard this, he knew that the time had come to use himself, and he could cast a spell and use dense fog and other methods to increase the possibility of success for the success of the night attack.
There is nothing to grind for a life on the knife edge.
The first time I used a spell in a national war, whether it was the consumption of mana or the impact on my personal luck, it was all a bit unexpected.
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"No wonder Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang fell into such a fate."
The moon was located in the east, and now it was completely blocked by a thick fog, and mass after mass of soldiers could sneak down the slopes of the mountain that stretched from the northwest, under the stone castle, and hide themselves in the shadow of the mountain.
Not much.
At the beginning of the battle, the slaves of the Tuyuhun people were attacking the big and small square platforms in two groups according to the established strategy.
This group of guys buried their heads and ran wildly, and when they ran to the bottom of the city, the Tubo people in the city reacted, shouted and began to push up stones.
Hundreds of slaves were standing in front of them, and they could see the situation in the city clearly, the road was too narrow for them to hide, and it was too late to rush up, and their faces suddenly became like dead ashes.
"Winter! Dongdong! ”
With a loud bang, countless large stones were pushed down the city, and they fell right into a recessed tunnel, and immediately rolled along the road.
Without any accident, the stone ran over the slave in front of him, and many of them chose to jump down the hill and roll along the steep slope.
After the stones rolled out of the road, the people who followed behind regained their courage and continued to launch one after another.
Then, the city began to attack with ballistas, which burned red and rained down from the sky, inflicting another blow on the Tuyuhun slaves who could not be deployed, and inflicting heavy casualties.
What is Cannon Fodder? There is no way to retreat, and there is no way to retreat, so you can only rush forward at the risk of death.
After a long hard battle, a sergeant rushed over and reported to Li Jinxing, the Duke of Yanguo:
"General, the big and small squares have been captured, the siege has been blocked, all the Tuyuhun slaves have been killed, and the prisoners captured from death rows all over Shanzhou are about to be exhausted."
Li Jinxing asked, "What weapons did the enemy use to defend the city?" ”
"Rolling stones, rolling wood, strong crossbows, ballistas."
Yan Guogong frowned when he heard this, his expression was solemn to the extreme, he had commanded many sieges of the city, but gnawed on such a stone castle......
Attacking this place, the difficulty is that it can't be launched, no matter how many people you have, it's useless, thirty miles of narrow land, the terrain is dangerous!
To tell the truth, whoever controls this place can control Hehuang and even the Longyou region between applause, which is not false.
"No wonder such a big city can be famous in the government and the opposition, military advisor, if we capture Shibao City this time, we will definitely be able to go down in history and leave such a mark in the history books."
"This city is known as an iron blade, and one man should be closed, even if there are a thousand soldiers in the city to defend it, if there are no casualties of 20,000 or 30,000 people, don't want to get involved......"
Meng Fan was condescending, overlooking the scene of the coalition army attacking the city, and the corpses were piling up higher and higher outside the huge fortress made of stones.
With the help of Tuyuhun slaves, after successfully taking the two high platforms, the Tang Dynasty first sent a death row camp, and then a coalition army composed of some recruits and Tuyuhun elite soldiers.
Looking at this posture, if you want to successfully take Shibao City, you will inevitably have to consume a lot of troops, and of course, the value of obtaining an extremely important strategic location for Datang is also incalculable!