It was Zhao Ziliang's long-planned plan to classify the combat-ready soldiers by their respective responsibilities.
The number of young men in the city was greater than the total number of veterans and recruits in the Great Dou Army, but they were also the group with the worst combat effectiveness.
People, it is unrealistic to ask all the young men to participate in the defense of the city at once.
Once there are too many young men on the city wall, it is easy for the defenders to collapse when the Tibetan army attacks the city.
Therefore, Zhao Ziliang asked one veteran to lead two recruits and two Strong man.
A veteran leads two recruits and two strong men to form a combat team.
The veteran serves as the main attacker, one recruit serves as a shield soldier, and the other recruit is an archer.
Strong men serve as substitutes.
Other young and strong men do some work of transporting supplies for the city wall.
When the city wall defenders suffer too many casualties, they serve as a reserve team to make up for the losses at any time.
In this way, everyone has their own duties, there will be no chaos, and there will be no idlers.
The shouts of killing were loud from up and down the city wall.
Under the command of Zhao Ziliang, the Tang army killed the enemy like a robot, methodically, with one sword and one shot, and there was a plan and an eye.
When the soldiers in front died in battle, there were people from behind immediately to fight against them.
After the initial panic, There became a tacit understanding, and the Tubo soldiers were stabbed and hacked to death one by one, and corpses continued to fall from the top of the city.
The Tang troops on the city wall cooperated with each other and effectively killed the Tubo troops who were climbing on the ladders or the Tibetan soldiers who had just climbed to the top of the city.
The Tubo troops were never able to attack the city.
Behind the Tibetan army, Iron Blade Xinuolo saw that the progress of the siege battle was not going smoothly and the loss of troops was relatively large.
However, he was not in a hurry.
The siege battle was the most difficult battle to fight in the first place.
Fighting was not something to be anxious about, and he was anxious.
It was useless.
Now he had several times more troops than the Tang army in the city, and he was full of confidence.
Lang Zhidu, who was watching clearly from the side, said to Iron Blade Xinuolo: "General Iron Blade, your attack on the city is nothing, it's not like you can't reach the top of the city."
Iron Blade Signoro said expressionlessly: "At least our casualties have been reduced a lot, while the other side's casualties have increased a lot.
Besides, this is just the beginning."
Having said this, Iron Blade Signoro ordered: "Send the order, let the second echelon take over the attack, and let the first echelon withdraw."
"Yes, General Iron Blade" Iron Blade Xinuolo divided his troops into ten echelons.
Each echelon had a small number of people, less than 2,000 people.
However, this number of troops was just enough to launch a full-scale attack on the southern city wall without allowing the Tang army to rest.
The wheel tactic is a very effective tactic.
At least when it has an absolute advantage in strength, the Tang Army suffered very heavy losses.
The main reason for this is that the Tang Army's defenders had a large proportion of young and strong men who had not received any training, and their combat effectiveness was really unflattering. one Under normal circumstances, the casualty ratio between the siege and defenders will be at least two to one.
If the combat effectiveness of the two sides is almost the same, the siege's losses will be at least three to one.
In this siege, the Tubo army The ratio of casualties to the Tang army was two out of three.
The casualties were too great, and the dark cloud of defeat and destruction hung in the hearts of everyone in the city.
The young men suffered the most serious losses, followed by the new recruits, and the veterans suffered the least losses.
The Tibetan army's non-stop siege for three days resulted in the loss of half of the 8,000 young men in the city, and almost half of the new recruits.
More than 3,000 veterans lost more than 1,000 people, and more than 3,000 were killed in battle. , there were not many other injuries, and those with minor injuries were fine.
Whether those with serious injuries could survive can only be asked to God.
The Tibetan army's siege casualties were not small, and the number of casualties exceeded 10,000.
This level of casualties was too much for Iron Blade Xinoluo.
The casualties in these three days plus the losses on the first day of the siege With more than 12,000 people, the infantry he can use is less than 10,000, and the cavalry cannot be used to attack the city.
But when the battle reaches this point, Iron Blade Signoro can only grit his teeth and continue to attack.
Let's see who Who can spend more.
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On the eighth day of the siege, the southern city wall of Panhe County was already covered with scars, and many parts of the wall were seriously damaged.
One section of the wall was even smashed down by a newly built catapult used by the Tibetan army.
Zhao Ziliang had to personally take Ge Shuhan and Ma Lin, Wang Nan and other fierce generals and a large number of soldiers blocked the gap.
The battle for the gap in the city wall lasted all day, from morning to dusk, and the corpses blocked the gap.
Seeing that it was already sunset and he was afraid that he would not be able to attack the city today, Iron Blade Xenoro gave the order without expression: "Take your troops back to camp and fight again tomorrow."
Zhao Ziliang and others were covered in blood, and there was no clean spot on their armor.
Even the white tassels on their helmets were stained red with blood.
The smell of blood was overwhelming and nauseating, but Zhao Ziliang and others had become accustomed to it.
Seeing the Tibetan soldiers receding like a tide, the Tang army soldiers could no longer hold on to their tenacity.
They sat on the corpses and gasped for air.
Many people even fell directly on the piles of corpses to sleep.
They were too tired and too exhausted.
Tired.
Zhao Ziliang breathed a sigh of relief, sheathed his sword, and looked at the people around him.
Even the fierce generals like Ge Shuhan, Ma Lin, and Wang Ruo were more or less injured.
The horizontal swords of Ma Lin and Ge Shuhan were all injured.
Cut off.
Zhao Ziliang took a breath and asked, "Are you all okay?"
Wang Rao touched the chopped shoulder guard, let out a muffled grunt, and gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, the skin is injured, not the muscles or bones."
Ge Shuhan looked down at the chain armor that was cut open on his stomach, and cursed: "My stomach was almost disemboweled.
Fortunately, I put an iron plate inside in advance."
Ma Lin said: "My subordinate is fine, just a scratch on his skin."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Ma Lin: "Ma Lin, I don't know how the other three sects are doing.
You go check the situation and report back."
"Nuo" Ma Lin agreed, sheathed the sword and gritted her teeth, insisting on heading towards the west gate.
Zhao Ziliang saw that Wang Nanwan, Ge Shuhan and others all looked exhausted.
It seemed that the battle lasted too long and consumed too much physical and mental energy.
He was afraid that he could no longer hold on, so he said: "You guys go back and rest first.
Someone here is watching. " Wang Nan said quickly: "The general is the leader of an army and cannot fall.
It is better for the general to rest.
I am here to keep an eye on him."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Stop arguing.
I can see that General Wang and Ge Shu can't hold on anymore.
I am young, can hold on, and recover quickly.
You go back to rest first.
By the way, find Zheng San and let him take care of you."
People come and clean the battlefield.”
Ge Shuhan cupped his hands and said: "In this case, general, be careful in everything.
If the Tibetan army comes to attack, immediately warn us and we will come as soon as possible."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Go ahead."
After Ge Shuhan, Wang Nan and others left, a new batch of defenders took over from the original batch.
These days, the troops suffered serious losses, and the remaining soldiers were repeatedly reorganized and reorganized to meet the needs of the battle.
After Zhao Ziliang arrived at the rotating group of troops, he immediately made arrangements for their defense.
There was basically no fighting at night.
Zhao Ziliang did not arrange a lot of troops for defense at night.
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However, if a sneak attack by the Tibetan army really happened, as long as it was discovered in time, it would be very easy.
There will be more troops coming from the city soon.
In order to prevent the Tibetans from sneak attacks, Zhao Ziliang also ordered people to light a fire at intervals dozens of meters outside the city every night, using the firelight to illuminate the sight in front of the city wall, and the fires were within the range of bow and arrow.
Inside, if the Tubo army wanted to put out the fire, they would have to withstand the bows and arrows of the Tang army.
Just after arranging the night deployment, Zheng San brought a large number of people to clean the battlefield.
When he saw Zhao Ziliang, he immediately quickened his pace and walked over and asked, "Are you okay?"
Zhao Ziliang shook his head and smiled and said: "It's okay, I won't talk nonsense because you are so good.
Let's start working immediately.
You organize the people to collect all the corpses inside and outside the city and pile them up at the gap in the city wall.
We have no other materials.
Even if you want to repair this section of the city wall, it is too late.
There are so many corpses, don’t waste them, they are all piled up in this gap and bet them.”
Zheng San couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "If anyone hears that this section of the city wall was built with corpses in the future, I'm afraid they will be scared to death."
With a sigh, Zheng San immediately organized the people to start carrying the corpses.
The moonlight was not very bright tonight.
If it weren't for the long fire lit in front of the city wall to prevent the Tubo people from sneak attacks, it would be really difficult to collect the corpses in the dark. of.
In the peaceful times, people would be extremely frightened when they saw a corpse, but now there are corpses under their feet.
It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The common people have long been accustomed to it.
The work of collecting the corpses ended at midnight.
Zheng San and Zhao Ziliang talked for a while before leaving.
He felt that the smell seemed to have become very cold, so he asked: "Don't you feel that it is colder tonight than in the past few days?"
many" Zhao Ziliang nodded.
This was something he suddenly thought of.
He hurriedly pulled over a subordinate and said: "Go and see if there is ice in the water tank."
"promise" Zheng San saw that Zhao Ziliang looked abnormal, so he asked: "What's the matter?"
Zhao Ziliang looked at the dark night sky outside the city and said: "If it gets cold enough to freeze, we can repair and strengthen the city wall tonight.
It will not be easy for the Tibetan army to attack the city tomorrow like they did today."
Zheng San asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
"Excuse me, I'll keep it a secret for now and wait until the retinue comes back."
Soon the retinue came back, panting: "General, the water tank is indeed frozen."
Zhao Ziliang walked to the gap blocked by the corpse, reached out and touched the wound on a corpse, and touched the ice slag formed by the blood.
He stood up and said happily: "Okay, God help me, Zheng San, organize the people immediately , pick up all the utensils that can be filled with water and fill them with water, and also remove all the door panels in the city and transport them over.
We must take advantage of the freezing weather tonight to reinforce the city wall before dawn."
Zheng San suddenly realized that he also understood what Zhao Ziliang meant, and he immediately agreed.
The people who were about to go back immediately returned home to fill buckets, wooden basins, etc. with water, and organized some people to dismantle the door panels and carry them over.
The dismantled door panels were attached to the inner and outer sides of the city wall, fixed and reinforced, and then water was poured on the city wall or in the gaps.
After the water poured down, it quickly turned into ice due to the cold temperature.
Before dawn, the entire Panhe County was covered with water.
The four walls turned into an ice wall
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