In a burst of 'dirt, dirt~' horn trumpets, the Tubo people's astonishing number of troops gradually began to gather at the Great Earthquake Pass.

Because there were too many people, after countless footsteps stepped on the ground, the smoke and dust rising up looked like some of them were covering the sky and the sun from a distance.

It's just that all of the above has fallen in the eyes of a group of netizens who are currently standing on the head of the city at the Great Earthquake Pass.

In addition to the God of Wealth, Cross, Yunqing, and Little White Face, these four novice rookies who participated in such a super-large-scale offensive and defensive battle for the first time were very excited and nervous mentally.

The expressions on the faces of the other old birds were extremely calm.

Indeed, the siege tactics of the Tubo people had been taught as early as Qiuci City.

It is nothing more than driving the miscellaneous soldiers of all ethnic groups under his command to step forward, first fill in the moat, and then carry the ladder ants to attack the city; The main one is to use cannon fodder troops to consume their city fortifications, as well as arrows, sasswood, rolling stones and other defensive materials.

When it was almost over, the Tibetans would attack in person.

It's just that Datang's war this time is an internal battle, and behind him is the entire Chang'an City and Guanzhong, and there will be a steady stream of materials to replenish it.

Especially during this period of time, the equipment manufacturing base outside Chang'an City was producing 24 hours a day.

After the use of steam engines and assembly lines, the production efficiency of war materials such as arrows was simply unimaginable to the ancients.

Fight consumption? Isn't that a joke?

I am afraid that the army of the Tubo people has been exhausted, but their supplies are still abundant.

In addition, compared with the former Jinren, Jurchen, Mongolian and other armies, these Tubo armies in front of them are far behind in momentum, which is really nothing.

So, they don't really feel like there's anything to be nervous about.

And the calm mood of Hu Biao and others soon had an unexpected effect.

Facing a terrifying number of opponents, a group of Anxi Army soldiers who were originally a little nervous in their hearts, as well as members of the action unit of bad people, after seeing their own generals so calm.

The mood was calmed down a little bit at once.

The only thing left in my heart is the good expectation of how much reward I have for every battle achievement before the war......

There are several points that need to be explained about the current situation on the battlefield of the Great Earthquake Pass.

The first point is that the Great Earthquake Pass, an ancient checkpoint with a history of thousands of years, was built under the huge Longshan Mountain, in a canyon between the two mountains.

The overall shape is exactly a square of 500 meters in length and width, and the height of the castle wall is more than 6 meters.

Although the overall scale is not large, and the checkpoint is not very majestic, the terrain is relatively dangerous, which just blocks the Guanzhong Ancient Road from Chang'an in the west of the Silk Road.

The Great Earthquake Pass faces the direction of Longxi, and it is also the city in the direction of the Tubo people.

The area of that open space is not too large, and if it were a normal attack, it would be able to put in three to five thousand people at one time.

If there were more, it wouldn't be able to be opened.

It is equivalent to invisibly limiting the opponent's superiority in strength.

Because in the vision of Hu Biao and others, those bare mountains and cols where they cut down trees based on the need to clear the wilderness.

After looking at it, there are all kinds of camps of the Tibetan people.

The number of troops that are really ready to attack is not very large.

The second point is that standing on the city wall and condescendingly, even with a telescope in their hands, Hu Biao and the others couldn't see where the end of the Tubo people's camp was for a while.

According to the Bad Guy Force, some of the information detected by risking death out of the city at night.

In this narrow area before the Great Earthquake Pass, the commander of the Tubo army was Shang Qixin'er, the great enemy of Hu Biao and others.

There are about 100,000 elite soldiers and horses of the Tubo people's headquarters under his command, and about 100,000 servants of various ethnic groups.

In addition, there are a large number of people, the number of which is fifty or sixty thousand; It can be regarded as occupying the army of the Tubo people attacking the Tang Dynasty this time, almost sixty percent of the troops.

As for the other forty percent of the Tibetan troops, they began to make a detour separately.

It is intended to pass through Longshan, a mountain range of 500 miles, and some other passages lead to Jingyuan, Longde, Jingning, Pingliang, Zhuanglang, Qingshui and other ancient towns and checkpoints.

From there, they entered the Guanzhong area and gave Hu Biao and them a front and back attack.

So now in the Great Earthquake Pass, the defenders only have 15,000 Xin'an West Army, 2,000 bad people action troops, and the original 10,000 defenders of the Great Earthquake Pass, plus 10,000 Shence Army.

All the above forces are combined, a total of 37,000 men, and the men with 5,000 men need to deal with five or six times as many attackers.

The nominal supreme commander of the Great Earthquake Pass is naturally Guo Zhu, the acting prince of the country.

It's just that even the soldiers behind their Guo family are now all looking at Hu Biao and Hu Shuai; Everything here is naturally Hu Biao and they have the final say.

As for the troops dispatched by Datang this time, there are also 40,000 other Shence troops, where is it now?

On the third day of the Great Earthquake Pass, he was led by Tutu Chengxuan, a divine army, and this dead eunuch used the excuse that other passes must also be guarded, and they must not be taken advantage of by the Tubo people.

Unusually decisively, he left straight away with the army.

If it weren't for the remaining 10,000 gods, it would have been supported by Hu Biao and them with a large amount of goods, and was gradually led by Li Zaiyi, who climbed up.

And in the past six months, the hearts of those who have been completely won over by Li Zaiyi; will be taken away by Tutu Chengxuan, a dead eunuch, which will make the disparity between the forces of the two sides here in the Great Earthquake Pass even greater.

The third point is that today's time is already the morning of September 26, the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty.

That is, the Tibetan army officially appeared on the sixth day before the Great Earthquake Pass; The attack that is currently being prepared is also the first attack launched by the Tubo people against the Great Earthquake Pass.

The reason why it has dragged on for so long is that Shang Qixin'er launched the attack.

That's because it took almost three days for the extended army of the Tibetans to basically reach the battlefield.

After the personnel basically arrived, many camps had been making the sound of 'ping pong~', and they didn't stop even at night.

There is no doubt that they have been building siege equipment day and night.

Anyway, in the eyes of Hu Biao and others, a group of Tubo people have been tossing until today, and they are waiting for the first attack......

At about half past nine in the morning, the Tubo people, who had been tossing all morning, finally attacked.

As expected by Hu Biao and others, the Tuyuhun servant force of about 10,000 people was divided into two groups.

Half of them, guarded by swordsmen, shieldmen and archers, carrying sacks of dirt on their backs, rushed towards the Great Earthquake Pass like ants.

The other half is in the back, ready to replenish at any time; It can be regarded as an official start, and in the inherent routine of ancient siege, one of them is to fill in the moat.

There is not much to say about this link.

It's nothing more than the people at the head of the city, constantly shooting arrows at the targets below, so that these Tuyuhun people will pay some enough price before filling the trenches.

In this process, except for Hu Biao and others, who had two or three stones with one stone, and even two stones with strong bows, they performed very well after making a move.

There are also a thousand crossbowmen of the Anxi army, and their performance also dazzles both sides.

That's because the individual crossbow in the hands of these people was the prototype of a drawing taken out by the Mo family, which was similar to the divine arm crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty in later generations, and it was very powerful.

Even the Tuyuhun people who carried a bag of dirt on their backs and were ready to fill in the trenches.

Almost every position around him was guarded by a sword and shield hand holding a leather shield; There are also some archers, who carry out suppressive counterattacks below.

But under the greeting of these strong crossbows, the leather shields in the hands of those sword and shield bearers were like jokes; It was easily shot through, knocking the people behind it to the ground.

So don't look at the moat that didn't look amazing before the earthquake.

It is only 500 meters long, more than two meters deep and more than three meters wide.

On the Tibetan side, it took a whole day; Not to mention the 10,000 Tuyuhun people killed and wounded, the other Qiang army that was replaced in the afternoon also suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and it was barely enough to fill this place.

In order to complete it as soon as possible, this kind of death-filled moat filler mission.

The Tuyuhun and Qiang people threw the dead of their side, and even the wounded of one breath, into the trench together, saving the process of carrying soil back and forth, so that such a point was achieved.

In short, after a day's fighting, the opponent suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, but the own side only suffered about 700 casualties.

Among the more than 700 casualties, most of them were shot in the arm because of good armor protection; Soon afterward, he was carried down and treated well by many doctors who accompanied the army.

Not only do you not have to worry about your life, but you don't even have to worry about disability.

Under the advantages of the other, the morale of the defenders on the gate was greatly boosted by the earthquake for a while.

It's just that what they don't know is that everything today is just an appetizer; From the second day onwards, their stress gradually increased day by day.

Within a few days, the stress reached an alarming level......

******

Early the next morning, it was just dark.

The sound of trumpets from the Tibetan camp once again opened the curtain of battle.

Under such a movement, I just took a bowl of millet to cook hot porridge, and my mouth was blowing on the porridge bowl 'snort, snort~', and I was going to blow a little cold before eating the cross.

This one is on the modern plane, as a college cyclist.

immediately frowned, and couldn't help but complain in his mouth: "What's the matter! Did these Tibetans mourn his father? Don't you know the common sense that skipping breakfast for a long time can lead to serious stomach problems? ”

What made Cross's reaction so great, it wasn't that he had any worries and fears in the face of the Tubo people who filled the moat yesterday and were about to officially attack the city today.

It's just based on the Xuange Battalion team, which will make novice rookies splash dung in the battle to defend the city.

That is, pouring gold juice, such a tradition that I don't know whether to treat rookies preferentially or torture rookies; The combat mission of bringing people to pour dung fell on the head of a rookie of the cross this time.

Special! Haven't eaten pork, he hasn't seen a pig run?

Originally, it was a stinky Xiang, and after being heated, boiled, and boiled by the fire, what kind of smell it should be, and the cross thought about it and knew it.

So before the war started, he already foresaw one thing in his heart:

Even if he repelled the first attack of the Tibetans after a while, he would not be able to eat half of his breakfast in the interval between battles.

Even lunch and dinner, whether you can eat it is a question.

But complaining and complaining, this little brother did not discount the task assigned to him at all after he carried it out.

Immediately, he put down the porridge bowl that was still hot in his hand.

A dung spoon with a long wooden handle was snatched up at hand, and a beautiful spear flower danced like a big gun; Wrong! It should be after the dung spoon flowers.

Like a great general, he drank a sentence:

"All the soldiers listen to the order, go, and go to the city with me to kill the enemy."

Under such a sentence, one hundred and ten old and weak Tang border soldiers assigned to him picked up a load of Xiang, or dry firewood, and followed the cross and began to climb the city wall.

And at this time, the cross who rushed towards the city wall first, did not know that this meant that in this mission, the last opportunity to eat before his death was cut off by him.

If he knew the development of the follow-up battle, the bowl of porridge would be hot again, and he would drink two sips.

Don't let yourself die in battle, and actually become a legendary starving ghost......

Not long after, excluding the 100-person dung-throwing squad of the Cross, the other 2,000 or so defenders also climbed the wall facing the Tibetans.

After entering their respective positions, they began to prepare in a hurry.

That's right, there are only so many defenders in the early 2,000s at the head of the city.

Because the length of the city wall is only 500 meters long, and 2,000 people can be put on it, it is already the limit, and no more will make people even move the position.

So in desperation, Hu Biao commanded an army of more than 30,000 people, of which 20,000 people, were organized into ten batches.

It is planned that these ten groups of troops will take turns to go to the city, which can ensure sufficient physical strength.

In addition, there are more than 10,000 people left, who serve as supplementary personnel after the casualties of combat troops, as well as reserves on the battlefield.

Frankly speaking, Hu Biao's arrangement is naturally not the slightest problem.

The real problem is that the tactics used by Shang Qixin'er this time are very unusual.

Because it was not long after that, when the dung spoon was put down and the telescope was replaced, he squeezed to the edge of a wall and looked outside.

Immediately, he found a result that made him not know whether to be happy or sad.

What makes him happy is that he shouldn't have to spill in this battle.

What made him sad was that it was not that Hu Biao was kind enough to let others take over such a not very decent task, but that in the next battle, the means of pouring feces may not have much effect.

Specifically, in some offensive units that should be composed of party members.

Cross saw a variety of siege equipment such as rushing cars, ladders, building cars, Lu public vehicles, heavy ballistas, and catapults like in costume war blockbusters.

One of the carts was a large triangular shelf covered with cowhide and wooden planks, and a thick log protruding from the middle, which was used to hit the city gates.

In the case of ladders, except for the one that is carried by a group of people and directly erected on the city wall, the common style of large ladders.

There is also a folding type that is directly installed on the car, which is not only faster in terms of action speed; It is still completely unfolded and placed on the top of the city, and it is almost impossible to push it with a wooden fork.

The building car is a large cart with a high pole erected.

There is a wooden bucket on it that can be used to observe the battle situation on the battlefield, and there is nothing to say.

Heavy ballistas and catapults are just some old styles, far less advanced than those made outside Xiangyang City and Lao Hui, so don't talk about it.

It's just that there are twenty or thirty doors each, and they are slowly pushed over, which makes people have a bit of a headache.

If you want to say that everyone in the city is currently saying that it is a headache, it is still the kind of Lu bus on the side of the Tubo people.

This kind of thing, which is said to have been invented by Jiang Ziya in the legendary war of the Yin Shang Dynasty as early as the Yin Shang period, seems to be a behemoth at all.

When I looked at it from afar, it was like rat poop in white rice.

The main thing is that this thing is more than three feet high, two or three meters higher than the city wall of the Great Earthquake Pass, as long as you put down some wooden planks to build a bridge, the people inside can go straight to the city wall.

In addition, this thing is dozens of feet long, and the car is divided into four floors, and each floor has ladders for going up and down.

Holding a telescope and looking at it from a distance, I could see that there were two or three hundred samurai in the car; In addition to weapons, such as knives, guns, halberds, knives and spears, they also had a number of one-handed crossbows, bows and arrows.

In this way, on the contrary, they were able to condescend and suppress the shooting at the defenders on the city walls.

In the face of such a terrifying thing, maybe the use of stones and ballistas may still have some effect, but bows and arrows, dung and other means are basically ineffective.

The only consolation is that there are only two of them in the eyes of the cross.

And even with an incredible number of wheels, each one is still pushed by hundreds of strong men, and the process of movement can only be described as turtle speed.

So before this thing gets closer, it will be hit by the improved Eight Ox Crossbow.

As for whether it can be destroyed, it depends on the performance of the ballista unit commanded by Yuanhai, a former game worker.

That's right! If memory serves, Cross remembers that the old birds of the clan said that during the last mission to defend Xiangyang, Yuanhai was engaged in the work of pouring dung.

So I just need to grit my teeth and get past this mission; In the next mission, there will naturally be other rookies to do the of pouring dung.

I don't know when, the cross has already made the decision to join the team in his heart......

(End of chapter)