"Hurry up, hurry up, fellow villagers, work harder.
All the stones in the frames must be filled before dawn."
Wang Rao held the hilt of the knife and stood on the tower and shouted loudly.
Men, women, old and young, no matter they were men or women, no matter they were old people or children, everyone was panting and holding a stone in their arms and lined up quickly up the city wall towards the arrow towers everywhere.
There were very few stones in the city.
In order to ensure the use of trebuchets in the city, Wang rarely had to organize people to go out of the city to pick up stones outside the city wall.
These stones were all launched by the Tubo people with trebuchets, and most of them hit the city wall. , smashing the outer wall of the city wall into craters and riddled with holes.
Everyone was breathing heavily, and no one complained about being tired.
Compared with the humiliation of death and being captured by the Tubo people, this little pain was nothing.
Hexi was not conquered and occupied by the Tubo people.
Datang and Tubo fought here During wars and wars, the Tubo people massacred the city every time they captured this place.
Very few people survived, but the ferocity of the Tubo people was passed down from generation to generation.
Although the Tubo people were ferocious, the Tang people here were not afraid.
In the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo, the Tang Dynasty basically had the upper hand.
The population in Hexi is very small, and even in Liangzhou, where it is governed, the population is also small.
The wilderness has been desolate for a long time.
On the one hand, it is because of the climate here.
It is close to the desert of the Western Regions and is full of Gobi sand seas.
On the other hand, it is often mixed with The war between Tubo and Tuyuhun caused extremely serious damage to civilization.
After the civilization was destroyed, the population would decline sharply, thus forming a vicious cycle.
After a day, the temperature rose slightly, and the ice wall built by Tang Jun began to melt.
Zhao Ziliang had long expected that the ice wall could not be maintained forever.
As the temperature rose, the ice wall would inevitably melt, so today At night, all the people in the city were mobilized, and various tools and materials were used to reinforce it, so that the city wall could still stand even after the ice melted.
On the tenth day of the siege, the Tubo people came again.
This time, in addition to a large number of siege ladders, they also brought six manholes with wheels under the manholes.
There were not only archers on them, but also a large number of people.
There are spearmen and sword and shield bearers, and below there are Tibetan soldiers pushing the well railing forward, approaching the city wall step by step.
On the tower, Zhao Ziliang observed through the telescope for a while, then put down the telescope and ordered: "Send the order, use our trebuchet to destroy the enemy's trebuchet."
"Nuo" the messenger immediately passed on the order.
In terms of manufacturing siege equipment, the technology of the Tubo people was obviously inferior to that of the Tang army.
In terms of various performances, including range, the trebuchets manufactured by the Tubo people could not compare with the Tang army.
That's not the only thing that annoyed the Tubo people.
The Tang army's trebuchets were hidden behind the city wall.
The Tubo people could only estimate the location of the Tang army's trebuchets by guessing.
This was far from accurate, but the Tang army could hit them very quickly.
The Tubo catapult.
The Tubo catapults kept throwing stone bombs at the Panhe city wall.
The stone bombs hit the city wall one after another.
A large amount of mud and gravel fell on the already bumpy city wall.
The outer city was covered with mud and gravel.
Later, the interior masonry was left exposed.
Under the continuous throwing of Tibetan trebuchets, the Panhe city wall began to tremble again.
However, after Zhao Ziliang gave the order, the Tang army trebuchets behind the city wall quickly launched a counterattack, and round stone bombs flew towards the Tibetan military formation outside the city.
Among them, the stone bullets made a lot of screams as they flew.
"bump" "bump" "bump" As the Tang army's trebuchets launched a counterattack, the Tubo army's trebuchets began to be destroyed one by one.
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After the trebuchets were hit, the wooden skeletons were scattered on the ground, causing a large number of casualties.
Iron Blade Xinoluo felt a lot of pain when he saw it, but if he wanted to break through Panhe City, he had to bear this level of casualties.
Who made the Tubo army's siege technology inferior to the Tang army?
Seeing one after another of his own trebuchets being destroyed, Iron Blade Signoro immediately ordered while feeling pain: "Send the order for all the trebuchets to be replaced with kerosene bombs and launch them into Panhe City as quickly as possible.
This general I don’t believe that the Tang army’s trebuchets can’t be destroyed.”
"Yes, General" The remaining trebuchets of the Tubo Army were quickly loaded with kerosene bombs.
After ignition, the trebuchets were launched one after another.
The kerosene bombs, which were smoking and burning violently, were thrown under the huge throwing force.
Howling and flying towards the city, at this moment, these kerosene bombs seemed like meteorites falling from the sky, and the Tang army on the top of the city felt that the end was coming.
One after another, kerosene bombs fell in the city.
Some hit the houses, causing fires, some smashed the Tang army's trebuchets, and some directly hit the crowds on the streets.
There was chaos in places where soldiers and civilians gathered, and people fled everywhere.
Screams, screams, and howls came from everywhere.
The destructive power of the kerosene bombs was too great.
Zhao Ziliang turned his head solemnly and saw thick smoke rising from the city that had been attacked by the kerosene bombs.
He immediately pointed his sword at the Tubo trebuchet array and shouted: "Destroy them!"
Following Zhao Ziliang's order, the Tang Army's trebuchets within the city wall used all their strength to fire stone bombs at the Tubo Army's trebuchet array outside the city.
The Tang Army's trebuchets fired with much higher accuracy.
As the Tubo people continued to throw kerosene bombs into In the city, the Tang army's trebuchets also began to destroy the Tubo's trebuchets one by one.
Iron Blade Signoro's face looked a little ugly.
His goal had not been achieved yet.
Almost all of his trebuchets had been destroyed, and the firing of kerosene bombs was becoming less and less.
It seemed that we could no longer count on siege weapons like trebuchets.
After observing the defense situation of the Tang Army at the head of the city, Iron Blade Xinoluo ordered: "Send the order for the siege troops to launch an attack."
During the time when the order was conveyed, all the Tubo trebuchets had been destroyed.
In order to save stone bullets, the Tang army no longer used trebuchets, which just allowed the Tibetan army's siege troops to launch an siege.
I saw overwhelming shouts of killing coming from outside the city.
The soldiers of the Tang army on the top of the city looked at the countless Tibetan soldiers coming out of the Tibetan army formation in the distance.
They were so densely packed that they could not see the edge at a glance.
The faces of the soldiers of the Tang Army at the head of the city began to become solemn, their expressions began to improve, and the hands holding their weapons unconsciously tightened.
Many people were shouting in their hearts: "Coming, coming" Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Everyone, don't panic.
We will continue to fight as we did a few days ago.
The Tubo people can't do anything to us.
The archers are ready to fire."
The archers of the Tang Army who were squatting under the arrow stacks on the city wall heard the order and stood up together to draw their bows and set arrows.
As the bow strings were pulled apart, the long bows made a clanging sound.
The archer captain took over Zhao Ziliang's order: "Shoot at 45 degrees and release the arrow."
As the order was given, the archers released arrows almost simultaneously.
The arrows like locusts flew into the sky and fell quickly like raindrops.
The Tibetan army that was rushing towards the city wall fell to pieces, and suddenly a piece of the dense scene suddenly became empty.
When the archer captain saw that the effect was good, he supported the Tubo people before they could rush to the foot of the city wall.
He immediately issued several orders to release arrows.
Each time a salvo was fired, a large number of the Tubo people fell down.
Those who were hit by arrows The Tibetan soldiers were either dead or injured, but the Tubo people were not afraid of death.
Although the casualties were not small, such casualties did not make the Tubo people timid at all.
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They still charged towards the city wall with their weapons raised and ferocious expressions on their faces.
Seeing that the Tibetans had already rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and the effect of the archers' volleys was no longer great, the archery captain immediately gave the order to release arrows freely.
After that, arrows were shot downward from time to time on the city wall.
As the Tibetan army rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the siege ladder had been set up on the wall.
The fierce Tibetan soldiers climbed up the ladder using their hands and feet.
Some held a big knife in one hand and climbed the ladder with the other.
The man held the big knife in his mouth and climbed up quickly with both hands.
Zhao Ziliang immediately gave the order: "The spearmen came forward to assassinate the soldiers.
The water covering the left side of the sword and shield soldiers was boiled.
We did not pour boiling water on the Tibetan soldiers below the city."
"Killing" a Tubo man who had just climbed to the top of the ladder and had not had time to jump to the top of the city, was stabbed into the chest by a spear in the hand of a Tang army soldier.
The body then fell down and knocked down several Tubo men under the city wall, but soon another Tubo soldiers climbed up from the ladder.
The brutal siege battle was going on in full swing, and people were dying and injured every moment.
There were shouts and screams everywhere on the city top and on the walls.
At this time, no one's kindness was forgotten.
Either you die or I die.
If you want to survive, you have to kill others.
The battle lasted for more than an hour, and both the siege and defenders suffered huge casualties, but for the siege, they still made no progress.
Iron Blade Xinolo knew that this was not the way to go and that he had to make a killing move.
He immediately ordered: "Let all the six manholes built yesterday be dispatched, and equip them with archers and sword and shield men.
Once the manholes are close to the city wall, put them down to build bridges.
Soldiers with swords and shields rushed up to the city wall and ordered the soldiers at the foot of the wall to be replenished continuously."
"Yes, General" Today's manhole rails are no longer the manhole rails of the Spring and Autumn Period.
After time and the accumulation of countless wars, the manhole rails manufactured have also undergone some changes.
The manhole rails are relatively high, generally higher than the city wall, with a platform and guardrail at the top.
Gather a large number of archers and shoot arrows at the city from high places to suppress it.
The platform area at the top of today's manhole railings has increased, and the entire manhole railing is much larger than before.
It can not only accommodate a large number of archers, but also some sword and shield soldiers, and the manhole railings can be used to build bridges.
Once the manhole railings are When approaching the city wall, the soldiers on the well railing can put down a bridge to connect the well railing and the city wall, and the attacking soldiers can step on the bridge and rush up to the city wall to fight with the defending soldiers.
"Swish swish" As the Tibetan army's manhole fence got closer and closer, the Tibetan archers above kept firing arrows, causing a large number of casualties to the Tang army at the top of the city.
Zhao Zi's conscience was getting more and more anxious, but he could not order a counterattack now because the Tibetan army's well fence was not within striking distance
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