After taking the scepter, the princes and ministers immediately knelt down to Chu Fan, and the mountain shouted, "Ahaha." ”

Speaking of which, this kind of politics inherited by tokens is very naïve, and the Han people in the interior have long been accustomed to a political system built on the trust of people.

This kind of political system, where you get the scepter, you are the king, is more than a few jiazi behind the Han people, but the loyalty is higher than that of the Han dynasty.

"Get up." Chu Fan shouted.

The little monk next to him, Zanben, naturally helped the new leader to translate, and said to the ministers: "Suoba." ”。

Chu Fan led a group of ministers out of the palace, stood in front of the towering hall, and looked out of the city.

As mentioned earlier, the Tibetans like to build their towns in depressions in the middle of the mountains, because the royal capital is surrounded by mountains with an elevation of more than four or five hundred meters.

However, because there was no obvious plan for the construction of the royal capital, the streets and the royal palace were not built according to the north and south, the roads were crooked, and the surrounding mountains were even more irregular, with a mountain peak in the east and another in the southeast.

From the northwesternmost to the northeasternmost part of the royal capital, a river thirty or forty meters wide runs through the city, and the palace happens to be south of the river, and a wooden bridge connects the palace with the other side of the river.

Now, Ladakh's troops are facing the wooden bridge, and a large number of troops are stationed on the other side of the river.

At the beginning, in order to be able to attack from all sides, King Sodafa's troops were stationed on the west side of the city, that is, the right flank of the Ladakh troops, and cooperated with the attack, but later because King Sodafa was captured, many people fled, and now only a few monks and soldiers retreated to the west of the city on the mountain, and only one shoal can wade into the palace, and Chu Fan came to the palace from here.

The battle was about to break out, and Chu Fan looked around at the enemy troops outside the city, and gradually had thoughts.

Catholic Church "Our Lady of Hope." "It is located in the square in front of the palace, two stories high, although the foundation and parapet wall are made of Tibetan stone, but the upper part is basically in European style. The most interesting thing is that in order to reflect the uniqueness of this building, the Catholic missionaries specially brought four iron pillars from overseas as the main beams of the church, and the roof was made of four huge timber beams to form the main body of the whole church.

A huge cross hangs from the door, shining in the sun.

Chu Fan walked to the front of the church, waved his hand and said, "Demolish." ”

Tibetans are not very good at building churches, and they are all good at demolishing churches.

In less than half a day, the church had been demolished into ruins.

Don't want anything else, Chu Fan wants those four iron pillars.

These four iron pillars are two inches thick, hollow inside, and more than ten zhang long.

Chu Fan stretched his head to the edge of the pillar and looked at it for a long time: "Not bad, not bad, the iron quality is very good, and the size is also good." ”

I found pen and ink and drew a picture.

In the picture, two sleepers under the iron pillar support the iron pillar, two wheels are installed on the sleeper, and there are some iron parts drawings.

Give the drawings to Zamben and ask him to find a carpenter to make them.

At this time, he took a few ministers and ran to the city to look for a blacksmith.

Originally, the plan of the king of Ladakh was that after capturing Tashi Zabad and King Sodafa, both forces would fall apart, especially the Gelugpa monks outside the city, who used to be monks who chanted Buddha and people who farmed the land, and there was no strong organization and discipline, and the leader was captured, so he would naturally disperse, and then besiege the palace, the best result was that they came out and surrendered, and the worst result was that the monks and soldiers outside the city were scattered, and the troops of Ladakh could attack the palace without worries.

But after waiting for several days, although half of the monks outside the city were scattered, the rest of the people retreated to the hillside and did not disperse.

After many inquiries, I learned that a Han doctor, who had matched the monks and soldiers inside and outside the palace, had reached a cooperation and was ready to join forces to defend the palace.

This made the king of Ladakh a little anxious.

Although his own troops are strong, even if the guards inside the city and the monks outside the city join forces, they are not his opponents.

But the problem now is that the city guards are blocked by a river, and they only need to guard the wooden bridge to wait for work.

Another way to enter the palace is only the shallows on the west side of the city to wade across the river, but the premise of crossing the river in the shallows is that the troops in the city and the monks and soldiers in the west of the city will not beat you.

It's not that they can't attack, but they don't dare to attack with all their might, after all, there is a dagger stuck in their side, which may kill them at any time.

Seeing that the two sides have joined forces, and if it drags on, it will be winter, and the wives and children in the city are hot on the kang, and they are frozen into dogs outside.

The king of Ladakh, having made up his mind, immediately gave the order: attack the royal palace.

The specific deployment was that 8,000 men were stationed on the riverside at the shallows west of the city, on the one hand, to defend against a surprise attack by the monks, and on the other hand, to cut off the connection between the palace and the monks outside the city, and the remaining 18,000 men were responsible for the attack, and the other 3,000 men were stationed in the large camp on the hillside.

Overall, this deployment has no major flaws, but in practice, it does not have a great effect on siege.

Although the river in the north of the city is not big, it is also about 30 meters wide, the river is not deep, but it is more than one meter, the water flow is not too big, but the flow speed is not slow, in short, can you wade through?

Yes. But it's slow.

The wooden bridge over the river can accommodate fifteen people at the same time, but this is the key garrison position of the Guge army, and it is obvious that it is not advantageous to storm from here.

Thus, the troops of 18,000 people were divided into three groups.

The first group crossed the river from the east of the city to attack.

The second group, storming from the wooden bridge.

The third group crossed the river from the west of the city to attack.

It's like an all-out offense, a tactic that leaks everywhere to play Guge.

Early in the morning, the Ladakhi troops, who were ready to go, officially launched an attack on the palace of Guge after the king gave an order.

There are few troops in the palace of Guge, more than 4,000 people defend such a palace, except for all kinds of sentry and patrol, and there are less than 3,000 people who really defend the city and bridge.

Seeing more than 20,000 enemy troops attacking, a vigilant whistle suddenly sounded in the city.

The archers fired indiscriminately at the enemy in the river.

At the head of the bridge, the archers fired from behind, and the infantry withstood hand-to-hand combat in front.

The two sides engaged in a life-and-death battle.

But soon, the palace troops at the bridgehead were somewhat overwhelmed.

After all, the enemy army was outnumbered, and although the Guge troops resisted stubbornly, they still had to divide their troops to defend against the enemy forces that were getting closer and closer in the river.

At this moment, he suddenly saw four fireballs in the sky, reaching the other side of the wooden bridge, and falling into the camp of the Ladakh soldiers.

This side rushed across the wooden bridge. The Ladakhi soldiers, who were desperately attacking at the gap, suddenly found that there were no soldiers behind them who continued to advance, and their own people were fighting less and less, and they were gradually surrounded by Guge soldiers.

They looked behind them, and they couldn't help but tremble, and their hearts said, "It's over."

I saw four fireballs hit the back of the wooden bridge, and suddenly there was a sea of fire, and a raging fire broke out on the grass behind the wooden bridge.

Hundreds of soldiers were screaming and fleeing, and finally had to jump into the water to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

The fire on his body was extinguished, but the fire on the ground was not extinguished, so that no one dared to approach the wooden bridge, causing the soldiers who had already rushed across the wooden bridge to be cut off from the rear, and gradually surrounded and killed on the bridge.

The soldiers on the bridge were confused for a moment.

To move forward is to fight hard, to fight more with less, to retreat, a sea of fire, and nowhere to run.

The smarter soldier immediately thought of a good way - to jump into the river.

So I saw that on the bridge deck more than ten meters wide and thirty meters long, the Ladakhi soldiers pounced like dumplings, and people kept jumping into the river.

The rivers in Tibetan areas all have a characteristic, there are many stones under the water, and there are many large stones.

Due to the special geographical conditions of the Tibetan area, the mountains are stone mountains, the ground is stone land, the houses are stone houses, in short, there are big stones everywhere, and most of the stones in the river are rolled down from the torrential rain and earthquake on the hillside, and there are always a few big stones that are not too far away.

How can people who jump into the river have time to pick a position, jump with their eyes closed, fall into the water with good luck, run back with wading through the water, and if they are unlucky, they jump off the bridge and fall on the stones, either with broken arms or broken legs, after all, they don't fall down, they take the initiative to jump down, and there are not many people who fall to death, and many people are injured by falling.

At this moment, the attack force on the wooden bridge collapsed and collapsed in an instant.

The free Guge troops immediately dispersed to both sides, condescending to deal with the enemy troops wading in the river on both sides.

The people on both sides looked at it, this is too much of a loss, withdraw.

Soon, the first round of the attack ended in failure, and most of the soldiers in Ladakh ran back, although many were wounded and rescued.

The first round of the attack was frustrated, and the king of Ladakh was very angry, and after whipping several leaders with troops, he decided to take a truce and recuperate.

After the previous day's battle, he did not take advantage of it, and many people were injured, some were burned, some were fallen, and the losses were not small, although the king of Ladakh was angry, but he quickly calmed down his anger and began to plan a way to crack it.

But going around and around, I couldn't think of any good way to deal with those four huge fireballs.

It stands to reason that although cannons are not widely used in Tibetan areas, the king of Ladakh has also seen them.

But this is obviously not a cannon, how many are killed after the cannon is finished, this thing, it has been burning, and the fire distance is particularly huge, extinguishing the fire with water? Isn't that the daylily all cold?

However, a king is a king, and he still has a talent for strategy, and he soon thought of a good idea.

Early in the morning of the second day, the troops of Ladakh were not seen attacking again, but were celebrating Songkran.

Chu Fan stood on the high steps and looked at the other end of the wooden bridge, where hundreds of soldiers were splashing water and playing.

And the location is very concentrated, that is, the piece of land in front of the wooden bridge, splashing that is called a hard work, the entire land in front of the bridge, is about to become a wetland, people step on it are soft, crackling.

Seeing this, Chu Fan smiled, turned around and took Qin Hong's hand, and went back to drink tea.

After the Songkran Festival, Ladakh's troops launched another attack, this time the routine did not change, or three ways to attack at the same time, the confident king of Ladakh stroked his beard, looked at the palace contemptuously, and thought: See what else you can do.

But this time he was wrong, he grossly underestimated the level of chemical knowledge of a modern doctor.

It was still the same, under the desperate attack, the troops on the wooden bridge had already inserted into the edge of the city square, and they were about to break through, and four fireballs flew out again from the half-point behind the palace, and the landing point was surprisingly accurate, and it was exactly the same as yesterday's position.

Immediately, another fire broke out in front of the wooden bridge.

However, to the surprise of the Ladakh troops, the fire did not go out when it met the water, and it became more and more prosperous in this wetland, and the grease scattered on the ground by the fireball continued to expand the burning area through the flow of water, which was not much bigger than yesterday's fire.

Yes, the troops who were wrapped dumplings on the bridge had no way out and continued to jump into the river.

But the people who jumped into the river today were not as lucky as yesterday.

Those who jump on the stone today will inevitably fall again, and those who do not jump on the stone may be even worse.

The moment they fell into the water, they found that at some point, there were many slender bamboo sticks stuck in the river on both sides of the wooden bridge, and when they fell into the water, they either inserted their calves or stabbed their arms, and the river was immediately dyed red.

The enraged king of Ladakh immediately ordered the entire army to withdraw.

In this diving competition, fewer people died and more people were injured.

After two days of failed attacks, the team of more than 18,000 suffered only more than 300 deaths and more than 2,000 wounded.

This was not the battle that the king of Ladakh expected, he thought that he could capture the palace with a maximum of 3,000 dead and wounded, but who knew that now the 3,000 combat strength was lost, and he didn't even see the gate of the palace.

Annoyed, just so annoyed.

Tactics had to be changed.

Chu Fan drank enough tea, pinched half a piece of tsamba in his hand, and once again came to the high platform in front of the palace, admiring the fire slowly extinguishing on the other side of the river.

At this time yesterday, he was also standing here, and after watching the whole battle, he ingeniously thought of the damage of inserting barbs in the water, so that the enemy's losses today were even heavier.

Standing here today, what kind of trick is he thinking?

The Ladakhi troops, who had suffered two losses, did not dare to act rashly on the third day, and obediently guarded the large camp and did not dare to come out.

In the camp, the king was pacing back and forth, and the ministers stood on either side with their hands down, not daring to make a sound.

Because the king of Ladakh has not been in a good temper for the past two days, whoever says the wrong thing will be whipped immediately.

At this moment, one of his own soldiers ran in and whispered to the king.

The king immediately smiled and ordered the whole army to prepare for a strong attack tomorrow.

It turned out to be a scout sent to report that the monk troops in the west of the city had retreated and disbanded today, and there were only a few old monks left in the camp tent, and they were also packing their luggage.

He had been waiting for this good news for a long time.

This group of monks and soldiers in the west of the city has always been a sword hanging over the heads of the Ladakh troops.

Although there are not many troops and the combat power is not strong, it is always in the throat, which makes people have to guard against it.

I wanted to divide my troops to annihilate them first, but the king was very calculating, and he always felt that this rabble would dissolve by itself sooner or later, and there was no need to waste troops at all, after all, the palace was the focus, and he had been waiting for them to dissolve themselves.

Now, the 8,000 soldiers who defended them can return to the battlefield, and the area around the shallows west of the city can also be used as a breakthrough, a wooden bridge? Go fuck the wooden bridge, don't hit the wooden bridge, you guys guard it, I'm going to play the shoal landing.

On the morning of the fourth day, a small group of troops attacked in the direction of the wooden bridge, but this time the number of people in the attack was not large.

Immediately afterwards, soldiers wading through the river on both sides of the wooden bridge approached the walls of the palace.

But on the whole, it is not as fierce as the previous ones, and it is obvious that it is a feint routine.

The soldiers in the city are still the same as before, the soldiers are coming to block, the water is coming to cover, and each defending its own stronghold.

Everything is like a repeat of the other day.

But at this moment, a huge procession suddenly appeared on the shallows, and nearly 20,000 Tibetan soldiers waded through the calf-deep river and began to pour into the palace in a big way.

As the shallow water in the shallows, the channel naturally became wider, and the thirty-meter channel became nearly a hundred meters wide here, and although the speed of the troops increased, the distance was also extended.

Facing the open shoals, the Ladakh troops chose to go together, whether you want to bombard or shoot arrows, as long as half of us rush over, you will look good. But they were wrong, Chu Fan would not let one of you go ashore.

I saw that the front part of Ladakh had entered the shallows, but there were suddenly countless floats the size of football floating down the water.

These floats are made of lamb tripe, and after the whole tripe is removed, the air is blown in, and the mouth is pricked, turning into a gray balloon that floats in the water.

The balloons were covered with glittering iron vessels, and upon closer inspection, they revealed that the spikes were made of Catholic crosses, and the four directions of the crosses were sharpened to the point that they glittered in the sun.

The current of this river is not turbulent, but from the upstream, before flowing through this shoal, it is a pot mouth, a large amount of water is stuck at the mouth of the pot, once it flows out of the mouth of the pot, it is immediately scattered on this large shoal, and the water flow suddenly becomes faster.

The balloon filled with small daggers floated down the river and surging towards the crowd.

In order to quickly pass through the shallows, the soldiers rolled up their trouser legs and walked barefoot, leaving their calves exposed, and the knives quickly floated down and immediately poked into the soldiers' legs.

Although the injuries were not serious, but they couldn't stand much, I saw that all the soldiers were scarred on their legs, and each of them was poked with so many small holes, and the blood flowed in the river water of the calves, which was very terrifying.

There were so many lamb belly balloons that there was no way to hide, and almost every soldier was stabbed in the shin a few times, but they were still heroic, trying to endure the pain and move on.

But what I didn't expect was that the Guge people were too vicious.

I don't know which bad guy came up with such a bad idea.

I saw that the tripe balloon had not been cleaned yet, and a group of slender yellow insects with tiger stripes floated down the water, and the number was very terrifying.

These slender insects swim extremely fast in the water, like slender water snakes.

When the soldiers saw these little bugs, they were startled at first, and then they screamed.

These bugs actually bite people.