When Zhao Ziliang arrived at the foot of the new city with nearly two thousand Tang army cavalry who had just experienced a massacre, the Tubo army on the city wall knew that the thousand cavalry cavalry they had just sent out to rescue were probably in danger, otherwise the Tang army's cavalry would be in trouble.
It won't appear here either.
The Tubo cavalry on the city wall suddenly panicked.
They were cavalry, and there were only a thousand of them.
Now they were asked to defend the city.
They had never done such a thing before.
The panic and fear soon spread on the city. spread among the Tubo army.
Zhao Ziliang is not worried that some of the Tibetan troops in the city will move reinforcements to other surrounding states and counties, because before today's encounter with Dazalugong, he had already sent several groups of troops to block the roads to surrounding states and counties.
As long as the new city is captured in time, the surrounding areas It will not be easy for the Tibetan army to recapture the new city.
By guarding several ferries on the Datong River, they can block the Tibetan army coming from the southwest and south.
The army arrived at the gate of the new city.
Zhao Ziliang looked up at the banner of the Tibetan army and the situation of the defenders at the city head.
He waved his hand for a long time and ordered: "Surround the three gates of the east, west, north, and south.
Leave the south gate and the whole army retreat five miles to camp."
The captain of the second regiment was puzzled: "General, don't you want to keep it a secret?
What if there are three soldiers surrounded and one thousand Tibetan troops in the city escape from the south gate?"
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, our goal is to capture the new city.
We can only consider other things after capturing the new city.
Since they gave up the new city, why should we care if they escape if we get the new city?
Besides, if they want to escape, they must go south Cross the Datong River, but now several ferries on the Datong River have been controlled by our army.
As long as our army gets the news in time, we can quickly kill them and annihilate them."
Qingshiping, the soldiers of the Tang Army had lunch, and after enough rest, they began to attack Qingshiping under the command of Wang Ruolan.
At this time, Dazalugong was seriously injured and unconscious.
If the bleeding had not been stopped in time, he would have been killed. dead.
As the general designated by Dazalugong before he fell into coma, Bayan took over the remaining Tibetan soldiers with less than 2,000 soldiers.
Now these 2,000 Tibetan soldiers were already frightened.
As soon as the Tang army took action, Bayan was given a warning.
After two hours of testing and observation, Wang Rao finally determined that the Tibetan army had hidden grain and grass in a house in the middle of Qingshiping.
What he was doing now was to destroy this batch of food and grass.
The Tibetan people had no food to eat.
Four bed crossbows equipped with wheels were pushed out by Tang Army soldiers and pushed to the maximum range of the Tibetan archers.
They were surrounded by infantry and cavalry protection to prevent the Tibetan army from rushing out from Qingshiping to destroy the bed crossbows.
"Get ready" Wang rarely gave the order.
Each of the four bed crossbows was loaded with a thick crossbow arrow.
The arrow part of the crossbow arrow was tied with a strip of cloth soaked in grease.
The crossbow arrows were pulled into the firing state by the Tang soldiers operating the bed crossbow with a torque noose.
The team responsible for the operation and command of the bed crossbows reported to Wang Jinwan: "General, all four bed crossbows are ready and ready to fire at any time."
Wang Rao waved his hand: "Shoot accurately, let's start."
"promise" The four crossbow arrows were ignited by torches, and the team waved the small flag vigorously: "Let go" "Swish, swish, swish" sounded four times in a row, and four crossbow arrows were shot out one after another, crossing the sky above Qingshiping at extremely fast speeds and shooting through the windows of the house filled with food and grass.
"Keep loading the crossbow" Four more rockets were fired in succession.
These crossbow arrows were shot very accurately, with a small deviation from the target, but they were shot into the house.
Only then did Bayan, the leader of the Tibetan army, realize the problem and immediately shouted: "Pikemen, put out the fire quickly, go put out the fire quickly!"
After several rounds of rockets were fired, the grain and grass stored in the house were ignited.
At this time, thick smoke rose from the roof of the house, and some Tibetan soldiers took small wooden basins and clay pots and ran to the river to flood the fire.
But it took too long.
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By the time the Tibetan soldiers brought water from the river, the food and grass had completely burned.
When Wang Rao saw that the Tubo army on Qingshiping was in a mess trying to put out the fire, he immediately ordered the infantry to attack.
"First Battalion Attack" Under Wang Ranlan's order, the Tang Army sword and shield soldiers carried their shields and horizontal swords and charged towards Qingshiping from three sides.
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The Tubo army was even more panicked, "The Tang army has attacked, the Tang army has attacked" Bayan's face changed drastically.
It was really a leaky house and it was raining all night.
In a panic, he immediately began to command: "Quick, the sword and shield soldiers are in front to resist, and the archers are in the back to suppress it with bows and arrows."
At this time, several groups of cavalry rushed out from the cavalry formation of the Tang Army and rushed towards Qingshiping through the gap between the infantry charges at extremely fast speeds.
These cavalrymen did not hold weapons.
They held a small round shield in one hand and a small round shield in the other.
A rope with an iron hook.
"Swish, swish, swish", the iron hooks in the hands of the knights were thrown out and flew behind the horses and wooden fences arranged by the Tibetan army.
The knights quickly turned their horses around, the ropes were straightened, and the iron hooks were hooked on the horses and wooden fences. , as the war horse heads towards Galloping forward, the horses and wooden fences arranged by the Tubo soldiers around Qingshiping were pulled down one after another.
At this moment, the Tang army infantry who rushed over with shields happened to rush onto the bluestone from the wooden fence that had been pulled away.
Ping.
After rushing to Qingshiping, the soldiers of the Tang Army were not in a hurry.
Under the command of the team leader, team leader, brigade commander and school lieutenants, they quickly lined up in a neat formation and held up their shields to block the arrows fired from the front.
After arranging the formation, the school captain shouted: "Go forward and kill" "Kill, kill, kill."
The infantry of the Tang army approached the Tibetan army in neat steps, and the spearmen behind them quickly followed.
Each sword and shield soldier was flanked by a spearman, while the archers at the back provided long-range support at any time.
Compared with the chaotic scenes of the Tubo army, the Tang army was organized and disciplined.
The soldiers had high tactical literacy.
Their movements were uniform and every step carried great momentum.
The two armies finally collided, and the Tang military captains shouted: "Lancers, stab".
Hundreds of spears were stabbed out in unison.
Even though the Tubo army at the front was protected by shields, many people were stabbed and fell to the ground.
Many others were stabbed on the shields and kept retreating.
At this time, the Tang saber shield bearers stepped forward to resist the opponent.
The sword and shield hand or spearman used the horizontal sword in his hand to knock away the spear or broadsword that was stabbing him, helping the Tang army's spearmen beside him to block the attack and protect the spearmen.
Zhao Ziliang had previously used cavalry running tactics to kill a large number of Tibetan spearmen.
At this time, there were less than 200 Tibetan spearmen left.
The number was too small to suppress the Tang saber shielders, and the Tubo army archers They were suppressed by the archers of the Tang Army, and the two sides exchanged fire.
However, the range of the Tang Army's crossbows was much greater than that of the Tubo Army's bows and arrows, and the Tibetan archers were suppressed everywhere.
The Tubo army no longer had any geographical advantage at all.
It had no city wall protection and no geographical advantage.
The Tang army completely suppressed the Tibetan army in terms of strength, types of arms and weapons.
The casualties of the Tubo army were increasing.
The gap between the two sides was not only reflected in In terms of weapons and armor, it is also reflected in military quality.
Facing the neat chopping and assassinating actions of the Tang army, the Tubo soldiers who were doing their own thing and in a hurry were killed one after another.
The Tubo centurions, big five hundred and thousand captains were helpless.
Bayan, who was roaring loudly, watched as the Tang army pressed forward step by step.
Many Tibetan soldiers fell down with every step he took.
His face was pale and his lips were trembling.
It was over and he couldn't hold it anymore.
The first thing Bayan thought of was the unconscious Dazalugong.
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He loudly ordered the other two captains to take the remaining troops to block the Tang army's attack.
He quickly led a dozen soldiers to Run to a house behind.
Under Bayan's order, two Tibetan soldiers carried the unconscious Dazalugong with a door panel, and a dozen other soldiers each carried a door panel and ran quickly to the river.
When he came to the river, Bayan asked the soldiers to put the door panels on the river and nail the wooden strips together to make simple rafts.
He was the first to lift the unconscious Dazalugong onto the raft.
"The raft can't carry so many people.
You all go back and stop the Tang army.
I will take care of your families and go quickly."
Bayan ordered loudly.
The ten guards turned around in grief and anger and returned to Qingshiping again with their swords, while Bayan only brought four A guard got on a raft and drifted downstream along the river.
"Lord Centurion, where are we going to go back to the new city?"
a guard asked with lingering fear.
Bayan shook his head and said: "Xincheng is hopeless.
If we go there, we will send the sheep into the mouth of the jackal.
Let's go to the north bank of Datong River and go north.
We hope to find a doctor as soon as possible to heal the general's injury."
The Tibetan army who stayed in Qingshiping was finally wiped out, and a small number of them dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
Wang Ruolan ordered that all the prisoners be captured and put under centralized custody, and he sent people to look for Dazalugong.
After the battlefield was cleaned, the soldiers of the Tang Army still did not find Dazalugong.
Wang Rao learned from several prisoners that Dazalugong had been escaped from the river on a raft by Bayan and several guards.
At dusk that day, Wang Rao led his army and escorted the prisoners to the outside of Xincheng.
After entering the camp, he and Zheng San came to Zhao Ziliang's camp to report to him.
"General, the last general is incompetent.
The army attacked Qingshiping.
After annihilating the Tibetan army, Dazalugong was not found.
Some prisoners said that he was seriously injured and fell unconscious after being hit by an arrow from the general.
He was used by his general Bayan and several guards.
The door panels were made into rafts and escaped from the river.”
When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he couldn't help but said: "I didn't expect that Da Zalukong's life is really big.
It seems that he is really very human.
I can't blame you for this.
You and the soldiers go to eat something first, and then come back after eating."
"discussions" King "Nuo" gave a rare salute and then turned around and left.
Zhao Ziliang asked Zheng San again: "When the baggage train has arrived, do we have any siege equipment?"
Zheng San shook his head and said: "The transport camp is still ten miles away, but it will arrive soon.
Since we have to cross the Qilian Mountains this time, we only brought some parts of the crossbow that are easy to carry, and we did not bring any other siege equipment.
If you want to use it, you have to start building it now.”
Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, it's too troublesome to build siege equipment.
Maybe by the time you finish building it, the new city will have been conquered by us.
Come, pass this general's military order to mobilize three troops from outside the north gate and three from outside the west gate."
Hundreds of cavalrymen strengthened the troops outside the east gate."
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