Dazalugong stood on the commander's platform in the camp and looked at the wall of Xiping City in the distance.
Whenever a Tang Army trebuchet was hit and set off a fire, he would happily shout: "Okay, it hit well, it burned well."
OK, smash those damn Tang troops to death and burn them to death."
After firing kerosene bombs for half an hour, sixteen raging fires ignited on the walls of Xiping City.
Zha Ma, the head of thousands of Tubo households, ran up to the marshal's platform and reported respectfully to Dazha Road: "Marshal, Zha Ma is lucky."
In disgrace, I ordered my subordinates to hit and burn all the sixteen trebuchets of the Tang Army."
Dazha Lugong laughed happily and said: "Hahaha, okay, I have seen it, Zha Ma, you and your men have done a good job.
Zha Ma, listen, I will promote you to the title of head of ten thousand households and reward you."
Ten pieces of brocade, five hundred cattle, a thousand sheep, and two hundred horses.
When we attack the city tomorrow, you and your sons will continue to fire oil bombs at the Tang army's city wall.
It is best to smash the city wall down."
Zha Ma was overjoyed and saluted quickly: "Marshal, don't worry, Zha Ma will definitely live up to the marshal's expectations."
On June 19, just after dawn, the soldiers of the Tang Army's trebuchet unit were awakened.
A large number of soldiers and civilians carried various components of the trebuchet to the mound next to the city wall.
"Don't be in a daze.
The people in the city have helped us carry all the components of the trebuchet.
Soldiers, hurry up and assemble them.
We must assemble all sixteen trebuchets before the Tibetans attack the city."
The soldiers of these trebuchet units turned around and began to assemble the trebuchets one after another.
The soldiers were so busy that they did not even have time for breakfast.
They must assemble all sixteen trebuchets before the Tibetan army launched an siege.
The sky was getting brighter.
Zhao Ziliang led the generals and soldiers up to the tower to check the assembly progress of the trebuchet.
When he walked to a trebuchet being assembled, Zhao Ziliang asked: "When will this trebuchet be assembled?"
A soldier looked up, quickly stood up and said: "It only takes a quarter of an hour to meet the commander-in-chief."
"Okay, be careful, don't forget any parts," Zhao Ziliang said, and walked to the next trebuchet assembly point.
By the time Zhao Ziliang checked all the trebuchet assembly locations, the sixteen trebuchets had almost been assembled.
Erzhu looked up at the sky and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Commander, looking at the time, the Tibetans are probably about to launch an siege."
Zhao Ziliang picked up the telescope on his chest and looked at the Tibetan army camp.
Sure enough, he saw smoke and dust rising into the sky.
This was a sign that the Tibetan army was gathering.
He then looked at the Tubo army's trebuchet position and found many Tibetan soldiers.
The soldiers were sitting around the trebuchet, eating.
After observing for a while, Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Why should we wait for them to take the lead and order the trebuchet crew to launch kerosene bombs at the Tubo army's trebuchet position?
Let me destroy all the Tubo trebuchets.
I want Dazalugong's We plan to let the soldiers have breakfast after all the trebuchets destroyed by the Tubo army are lost."
"Yes, Marshal" After the order was issued, the soldiers of the Tang Army in the trebuchet team began to mobilize urgently because they were hungry.
The soldiers ran to their posts one after another.
The observers climbed up to observe, and then reported the distance and direction.
The loaders loaded the heavy objects into the baskets.
Loading lead and iron blocks, direction control Adjust the torque direction scale with your hands.
After the heavy object is loaded, a dozen big men pull the rope to a high place and lift the heavy object.
Then the launcher puts the bracket on the heavy object to support it, and the stone bullets are loaded.
Open the valve with your hand and put in the stone bullets, and pour kerosene on the stone bullets with your hand.
"Group No. 1, the kerosene bombs are ready."
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"Group 2, the kerosene bombs are ready."
The general in charge of the trebuchet drew his sword and pointed outside the city and shouted: "Light the fire!"
The "ignition" flag bearers kept flying the flag.
"Ignition completed" The commander swung down the sword in his hand and shouted: "Launch" "Huhu" "Huhu" "Huhu"
One after another, kerosene bombs soared into the sky and took off towards the outside of the city, "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The kerosene bombs flying in the sky and trailing long black smoke finally hit the ground.
The burning kerosene splashed and all the utensils stained with kerosene burned.
Three Tubo trebuchets were hit.
A raging fire broke out, and the Tubo people prepared to attack.
A large number of kerosene jars were brought and placed nearby.
After being hit, these kerosene jars burst into flames, and some even exploded.
"Ah!"
The Tubo soldiers who were splashed with fire oil quickly burned up and screamed.
"Tang Army Attacks, Tang Army Attacks" The Tibetan soldiers on the trebuchet position were so frightened that they fled everywhere.
Some people whose whole bodies were on fire were rolled all over the ground and screamed in agony.
Dazalukong and the Tibetan ministers and generals who had just walked out of the camp saw the kerosene bombs flying from the sky in the distance hitting their own trebuchet positions and causing large fires, and their expressions suddenly changed.
Dazalugong said angrily: "What's going on?
Didn't we destroy all the Tang army's trebuchets last night?
Where did the trebuchets come from now?"
The Tubo ministers and generals looked at each other in shock.
After a while, Zha Ma, who was already the head of ten thousand households, hurried over and saluted: "Marshal, the Tang army is too cunning.
Last night, their stones were smashed and burned, but this morning they were again They brought so many trebuchets, but they fired oil bombs at us before we even started to attack the city.
Our trebuchets have now been smashed and burned in half.”
Dazalugong said angrily: "Why are you so stupid?
Why don't you quickly order the men to withdraw the remaining trebuchets and get out of the range of the Tang army's trebuchets?"
Zha Ma smiled bitterly and said: "Marshal, dismantling the trebuchet will not be completed in a short time.
I'm afraid that by the time we dismantle the trebuchet, the soldiers operating the trebuchet would have been smashed to death and burned to death by the kerosene bombs fired by the Tang army.
These The men can accumulate so many slingshots It is not easy to experience the machine.
If these people are dead and let other soldiers operate it again, the accuracy will be even worse.
Besides, the Tang army's trebuchet is at a high place and we are at a low place.
Their range is farther than ours.
If we retreat we won’t be able to hit them.”
"Bastard, bastard, why are we always under the control of the Tang Army?
Do you want to know that we are the ones attacking the city?"
Dazalugong was so angry that he flew into a rage.
A Tibetan minister next to him comforted him: "Marshal, calm down.
The Tang army is trapped in the city.
Stone bullets and wood are limited, but we can continuously build trebuchets and kerosene bombs.
As long as they use up their stone bullets and fire bombs, Oil, their trebuchets will become useless.
In addition, judging from the situation in the past few days, the Tang army does not have many bows and arrows.
As long as we persist for two more days, when the Tang army's defense materials are exhausted, it will be before we break through Xiping City. hour" Dazalugong gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, then follow my orders to them.
Today's siege will be the same as yesterday.
Increase the strength of each siege echelon and shorten the replacement gap between each echelon.
Continuous attacks on the city wall make it impossible for the Tang army to rest.
Since we have to fight for consumption, we will fight to the end with the Tang army to see whether they can hold on longer or we can hold on longer."
The Tubo ministers and generals saluted one after another: "Yes, Marshal" The Tubo army then left the camp and formed a military formation within a stone's throw of the city wall, and Dazalukong's commander was immediately pushed into the military formation.
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"Let's get started" With Dazalugong's order, a new day's siege battle began.
Countless Tibetan soldiers rushed towards the city wall with shields and swords.
A series of siege ladders were set up on the city wall, but soon there were Several ladders were pushed to the ground and knocked over several groups of Tibetan soldiers.
Then the Tibetan soldiers roared and lifted the ladders up and put them on the city wall.
Arrows continued to shoot down from the city wall, thunder stones were thrown down one by one, and rolling logs rolled down the ladder from top to bottom.
The Tibetan soldiers below the city were shot to death, smashed to death, and crushed to death one by one, but other Tubo soldiers still remained.
Climbing up the ladder fearlessly, one after another.
After an hour of siege, the Tibetan army's siege echelons changed twice.
Dazalugong gave an order, and thousands of Tibetan soldiers pushed more than a dozen manholes and slowly approached the city wall.
When they were about to enter the range of bows and arrows, a large number of Tubo soldiers The archers climbed up the manhole railing, while other Tibetan soldiers continued to push the manhole railing forward.
The Tibetan soldiers who climbed up the well fence began to fire arrows at the Tang soldiers on the city wall.
Some Tang soldiers were shot before they could react.
Some were injured and some died.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "Order the archers to suppress it."
"Yes, Marshal" After receiving the order, the archers of the Tang Army immediately fired arrows at the Tibetan archers on the opposite manhole fence.
Both sides came and shot at each other.
However, the manhole railing was higher than the city wall, which gave them a certain advantage.
The Tang Army archers gradually could not resist it. , many people were hit by arrows.
Zhao Ziliang and other officers and generals of the Tang Army frowned.
Erzhu clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang with a determined look on his face and said: "Commander, this can't go on.
If the Tubo people shoot down the well fence like this, our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
The Tubo people will The soldiers soon had the opportunity to attack the city wall.
The general asked for orders to lead five hundred elite riders out of the city to destroy the Tibetan manholes."
Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but said: "Er Zhu, what you said may not be a good idea, but you have to understand that once the city gate is closed, it cannot be opened again.
In other words, this method may destroy the Tubo army.
It’s a manhole, but anyone who goes out will definitely die.”
Er Zhumou cupped his fists and said seriously: "Commander, I understand that I am a barbarian outside the Great Wall.
I have lived in the Western Region since I was a child, and I have been bullied and looked down upon.
Ever since I joined the Beiting Army and followed the commander, the commander has never regarded me as a Alien, keep treating me I treat my people as brothers and treat me equally with other Han people.
The commander-in-chief treats me like his own son and nephew, and I will never be able to repay him in return.
Now that the war situation is in trouble, someone must sacrifice his life to restore the situation.
Please help me, commander-in-chief."
Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "No, if I agree, it will be like asking you to die.
This is absolutely impossible."