The Tibetan army camp.
Dazalugong sat on the main seat covered with wolf skin with his eyes closed.
On both sides sat the Tibetan ministers and generals.
No one spoke, and everyone was silent.
I don't know how long it took, but a Tibetan general finally couldn't help but said: "Marshal, we have already killed and injured 18,000 people in the past three days.
If we continue to attack the city with the intensity of today's siege tomorrow, we will be defeated in less than five days."
There are no infantry left to attack the city.”
Dazalugong opened his eyes and looked at the speaker and asked: "Why can't you hold it any longer and want to lead your army to retreat back to Tibet?"
The Tubo general said quickly: "Marshal, that's not what I meant.
It's just that the casualties are too great and the morale of the men is low.
If this continues, we ourselves will collapse first."
Dazalugong shouted: "That's what you mean.
You are greedy for life and afraid of death.
How can there be a great general like you in Tubo?
Drag him out, chop him up, and bury him in front of Zanpu."
The Tubo general was horrified and quickly knelt down on the ground: "Marshal, you are wronged, you are wronged" Several Tibetan warriors outside the tent ignored him.
Most of them came in and dragged him outside, slashing him with their swords.
After a while, a warrior came into the tent carrying the man's head to pay the order.
Dazalugong waved his hand and asked the warrior to take the head out, and said coldly to the ministers and generals: "He was right about a fact just now.
Our casualties in the past three days have indeed been huge.
If we follow today's attack, The strength of the city, after five days we will have no infantry to attack the city, but can the Tang army hold on for five days?
In just two days, the corpses will be piled up to the level of the city wall.
At that time, our army can rush forward as if walking on flat ground.
As long as we can kill Zhao Ziliang and kill all the Tang troops in the city, even if all the 60,000 infantrymen die, it will still be worthwhile.
When Xiping City is breached, I will attack Zhao Ziliang with my own hands and chop off his arm.
With the head, the soldiers can rush into the city and kill the Tang army and everyone in the city.
I have decided that once Xiping City is breached, the soldiers will be allowed to keep their swords for three days.
If anyone is afraid of death and disrupts the morale of the army, they will be killed without mercy."
The Tibetan ministers and generals stood up and saluted one by one and said in unison: "I obey the order of the marshal."
Dazalugong asked again: "Have the Tang officials in charge of building siege equipment arrived?"
"Marshal, I'll go find him," a Tibetan general said and walked out.
After a while, an official from the Tang Dynasty came in with a frightened look, bowed his hands to Dazalugong and said, "My servants pay homage to the marshal."
Dazalu Gong asked: "How many more trebuchets have been built?"
The official quickly said: "Returning to the marshal, after the little people have been working day and night to build them, twenty-two more have been built so far.
They have been fully assembled and can be used at any time."
"Okay" Dazhalu Gong slapped the table and shouted: "Zhama, the head of a thousand households, I will give you these twenty-two trebuchets.
The Tang army lit fires under the city wall every day to prevent our army from sneaking into the city wall at night.
Although we We can't sneak attack, but these fires can let us see The scene on the city wall, I want you to lead your men to push all the trebuchets to the launching site, and take advantage of the opportunity of the Tang army to rest and sleep to destroy the trebuchets on the wall of the Tang army overnight.
Tomorrow we can use the trebuchets to attack without any care.
Fire bombs were thrown at the city wall.”
Zha Ma stood up and saluted: "Yes, Marshal."
While the Tang army was resting and sleeping, the Tubo army's trebuchet team, under the command of Zha Ma, pushed twenty-two trebuchets to the firing position, and the stone bombs were carried one by one by the Tubo army.
Zha Ma held the waist knife and looked at the brightly lit west wall of Xiping City in the distance without saying a word.
The wall was stained dark brown with the blood of the Tibetan soldiers.
A Tibetan soldier ran over and reported: "Mr.
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Qian Huchang, twenty-two trebuchets are ready, and a thousand stone bullets have been transported and can be fired at any time."
Zha Ma snorted coldly: "Huh, a thousand stone bullets, I don't believe that they can't destroy their sixteen trebuchets.
Send my order to fire kerosene bombs at the trebuchets on the wall of the Tang Army."
"Yes, Lord Qianhu" "Master Qianhu has an order to fire kerosene bombs at the trebuchets on the wall of the Tang Army."
"call" "call"
"call" One after another, the big fireballs flew into the sky in a parabolic trajectory and hit the trebuchets on the Tang Army's city wall.
In an instant, the entire sky was illuminated by fire, which was discovered by the Tang Army soldiers on guard duty on the city wall.
"Oh, it's kerosene bombs.
Go and report to the general.
The Tibetans are firing kerosene bombs at us.
Enemy attack, enemy attack."
"Enemy attack" "Dang Dang Dang" the urgent alarm bell sounded.
Like cold water poured into a pan, the city wall boiled instantly.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who were sleeping on the wall stood up and picked up their weapons to prepare for defense.
Duan Xiushi, the general of the Tang Army who was responsible for guarding the city at night, also quickly led his soldiers.
They walked out from the tower with their swords drawn.
A school lieutenant came up to us and clasped his fists and said: "General, the Tibetan army is throwing kerosene bombs at us.
There is no sign of the Tibetan soldiers rushing towards the city wall yet."
Duan Xiushi's face was serious: "Huh, when you find out, it will be too late.
Let the soldiers prepare for the battle."
"Yes, General" A general next to him cupped his fists and said, "General, do you want our trebuchets to throw kerosene bombs at the Tubo army's trebuchets?"
Duan Xiushi looked at it and said loudly: "Of course, it is not our style to be beaten passively.
Send an order for the trebuchet crew to launch kerosene bombs at the opposite side, smash and burn the Tubo trebuchets."
"Yes, General" In the Prefect's Mansion, Zhao Ziliang was awakened by the rapid sound of the bell alarm.
He stood up and shouted: "Come here, come here" while getting dressed.
Soon a soldier came in and reported: "Commander" "What's going on outside?"
The soldier said: "Commander, this is the alarm bell on the city wall.
There should be Tibetans attacking the city at night, otherwise the bell would not ring."
"Hurry up and prepare your horses and put on my armor."
"Yes, Marshal" After putting on his armor, Zhao Ziliang took his saber and led his soldiers to the gate of the prefect's mansion and was about to mount his horse.
Cen Shen and other officials also rushed over.
Zhao Ziliang said: "In the past few days since the war started, the Tubo people have never attacked at night.
The process is just right.
Since you are all here, let’s go to the city wall and take a look.”
Everyone cupped their hands and said, "Yes, Marshal."
Everyone rode horses and quickly rushed to the west city gate.
As soon as they got nearby, more than a dozen kerosene bombs roared from the sky.
Some landed on the city wall and smashed many wall bricks, and some smashed on the roofs of nearby houses.
A large hole and the house were instantly ignited, and two trebuchets hit the mound behind the city wall, igniting the kerosene piled nearby.
Many Tang Army soldiers who fired the trebuchets were swallowed up by the fire.
Everyone quickly dismounted and ran up the city wall.
Zhao Ziliang held a waist knife and walked to the wall stacks to look outside the city.
Duan Xiushi learned that Zhao Ziliang and others were on the city wall and immediately came over to meet them.
"Commander, these Tubo people are doing nothing but firing kerosene bombs but not attacking the city."
Zhao Ziliang frowned and looked at the pitch-black Tibetan army camp outside the city and said, "It's so late at night that the Tibetans don't sleep and only drop kerosene bombs.
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Are they crazy?"
At this time, a school lieutenant ran over panting and clasping his fists to report: "Commander, General, six of our trebuchets have been smashed and burned.
The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and most of them were burned to death."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang looked around and found that most of the kerosene bombs launched by the Tibetan army landed near their own trebuchets.
However, the kerosene bombs launched by the Tang army were thrown several times because they could not determine the specific location of the Tibetan trebuchets at night.
The wheel did not destroy a Tibetan trebuchet.
He understood instantly, and immediately shouted: "Quickly order all the soldiers in the trebuchet team to retreat with the kerosene cans, and ignore the trebuchet.
The Tibetan people's goal is to destroy our trebuchet.
If the trebuchet is gone, we can use it again."
It is important to build it so that the soldiers can save their lives.”
"Yes, Marshal" "The commander-in-chief ordered that all the soldiers in the trebuchet crew immediately retreat down the city wall to rest while holding the kerosene jars in their arms."
The order was quickly passed on.
Fortunately, the hit rate of the Tubo army's trebuchets was really unflattering.
It took more than ten rounds to destroy six Tang army trebuchets.
None of the Tang army soldiers in charge of the remaining ten trebuchets were injured.
Holding the cans of kerosene in their arms, they retreated off the city wall and hid in a safe area.
Zhao Ziliang observed for a few minutes on the city wall and said to Duan Xiushi: "It seems that the main intention of the Tibetans is to destroy our trebuchets and make the soldiers hide to avoid unnecessary casualties, leaving only observation posts to watch the Tubos.
"Military camp direction" Duan Xiushi said unwillingly: "Commander, there are still nine trebuchets intact.
Why don't we let the soldiers go over and dismantle them and carry them away?
It would be a pity to be smashed by the Tubo people like this."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "No need, it is too dangerous to let the soldiers pass now.
The craftsmen have been idle these days.
We have already built more than twenty trebuchets.
They can be quickly assembled tomorrow morning.
When people launch an siege, as long as we can clearly see the position of the Tibetan army's trebuchets, we can quickly destroy them.
Dazalukong wants to use this method to destroy our long-range strike capability.
I think he is delusional."
Duan Xiushi cupped his fists and said, "Yes, Marshal."
Huangfu Xian said: "Commander, judging from the siege situation of the Tubo people in the past few days, the Tubo people must have captured many of our craftsmen, otherwise they would not have been able to build so many siege equipment.
In the past two days, they have Several manhole barriers have been launched successively, but they were all designed by the commander-in-chief.
However, if the Tibetan army does not let the well railings get close to the city wall, and only allows the Tibetan soldiers on the well railings to use bows and arrows to suppress our soldiers on the city wall from a long distance, our casualties will inevitably increase.
At that time, the soldiers will not have enough I have enough energy to deal with the Tibetan soldiers climbing up the city wall."
Zhao Ziliang was startled when he heard this, and then sighed: "If this is the case, we can only use bows and arrows to counter-suppress.
If we cannot suppress it, we can only organize cavalry to go out of the city and destroy the Tubo siege pits
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