Daza Lugong, who had led his troops for more than ten miles, looked back and found that there was no trace of the Tang Army cavalry behind him, so he reined in his horse and stopped.
His heart was still beating, even though it was the second time he saw Zhao Ziliang leading the troops.
The scene of the cavalry charging and the scene of Zhao Ziliang's peerless bravery and everything in front of him being crushed into powder still left him with lingering fear.
Looking at the soldiers who were all dejected and demoralized like their parents had died, Dazalugong secretly thought in his heart that it seemed that it would be impossible to attack the city today, so he could only order his subordinates to gather the soldiers and fight again tomorrow. .
After setting up camp again, Dazalugong summoned ministers and generals to discuss tomorrow's siege.
At this time, a general came in and reported: "Marshal, all the Tang craftsmen who built the siege equipment were kidnapped by the Tang army.
It was also set on fire by the Tang army."
Dazalukong's face turned ugly when he heard this.
He said: "Today, the well fences were destroyed by the Tang Army's cavalry, and the trebuchets were also destroyed in the morning.
Now the craftsmen have been kidnapped, and the camp has been set on fire by them.
So we say If we want to attack the city again, we don’t have any siege equipment.”
"I'm afraid that's the case, Marshal."
At this time, a minister said tremblingly: "Marshal, why don't we withdraw our troops?
This battle has been fought like this, the casualties are too great, and the morale of the men is extremely low.
If we want to fight, it will not be too late to wait until the morale of the men is restored.
It is unwise to continue fighting like this, we might as well retreat temporarily to preserve our strength."
Dazalugong said angrily before the minister finished speaking: "Asshole, Zampu was shot to death by the Tang army.
If we retreat just to avenge Zampu, how can we see the Tibetan people in the future?
Don't we?"
Can't we attack the city with siege equipment?
Send the order, let the men have a good rest today, and assemble the army to fight again tomorrow."
The Tubo ministers and generals had no choice but to follow orders.
It was quiet that afternoon and night, and the soldiers of the Tang Army were able to have a good rest for an afternoon and a night.
On June 20, the Tubo army, led by Dazalugong, once again approached Xiping City and immediately began to attack the city.
This time, the Tubo army did not use any siege weapons except siege ladders, while the Tang army used They used trebuchets, bed crossbows, Fuyuan crossbows and other equipment to defend the city.
In addition, the Tang army's defenders also used a large number of bows and arrows, causing extremely heavy casualties to the Tibetan siege infantry.
Even so, the Tubo army still refused to retreat.
In the whole morning, the Tubo army suffered more than 5,000 casualties.
This level of casualties not only made the Tibetan army afraid of fighting, but even the Tang army also killed people without mercy.
While the Tubo army died in large numbers, it also consumed a large amount of the Tang army's defense equipment and supplies.
In the next two days, the Tubo army suffered a total of more than 20,000 casualties.
Although the Tang army suffered fewer casualties as a defender, it also suffered 3,000 casualties.
The rest, these are all the elites of the Beiting Army.
The sharp men and horses made Zhao Zi's conscience very painful.
The stone bullets stored in the city had been exhausted, and the trebuchets could no longer play any role.
Large equipment such as bed crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows had also run out of crossbows.
Even the Tang army who used bows and arrows The soldiers' quivers were also empty.
The corpses under the city were piled up to form a slope connecting the city head and the underground.
The Tibetan army could rush directly from outside the city along the corpse slope to the city wall to attack the Tang soldiers.
June 22, night.
The cool breeze blew, and Zhao Ziliang, who was leaning behind the city wall, felt a coolness on his body.
At this time, the starry sky was clear, the moon was shining high, and the Tianshan Mountains were dotted with stars.
This scenery was enough to make people forget that this was still a battlefield, and the piles of corpses outside the city wall were exuding.
The soldiers of the Tang Army were accustomed to the unpleasant and disgusting stench of corpses.
Dead people, tens of thousands of people died every day.
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The soldiers of the Tang Army waded in the piles of dead people every night and were already numb.
The temperature was still relatively high when it just fell into the night.
From time to time, a group of people appeared from the piles of dead people outside the city.
The blue will-o'-the-wisps really frightened many Tang soldiers at first, but later they became accustomed to it.
Now the Tubo people are completely crazy.
It can also be said that Dazalugong is almost crazy.
He ordered the Tibetan soldiers to launch an attack without their lives.
Last night, the Tubo people launched a night attack.
Anyway, the corpses have been piled up.
The city wall was as high as the city wall.
It was easy for the Tubo people to attack the city.
They could rush up to the city wall with just one charge, but they were quickly driven down by the Tang army.
In order to prevent the Tibetans from launching an siege at night, Zhao Ziliang and Duan Xiushi decided to take turns guarding the city every night, with one person guarding the city for half the night and the other for the rest of the night.
The Tibetans launched a surprise attack at two o'clock in the morning and were driven away and never came back.
When it was almost dawn, Zhao Ziliang felt very hungry and had to eat.
The Tibetan people would not be idle during the day.
How could they have the strength to fight when they were hungry?
Zhao Ziliang patted the shoulder of a soldier beside him and shouted: "Wang Laosan, Wang Laosan, wake up” The soldier Wang Laosan thought it was the Tubo people who were attacking the city again, so he immediately stood up with a knife in hand, but saw that the brothers around him were still sleeping, and only the commander was sitting against the wall, "Commander" Zhao Ziliang said: "Go get something to eat and drink, I'm hungry."
"Yes, Marshal" It was already getting dark when Wang Laosan came back with food and water.
Zhao Ziliang took several large cakes and a large piece of raw beef that Wang Laosan handed over and started chewing them.
The soldiers looked at Zhao Ziliang eating so much.
Fragrant, they are in a good mood, Zhao Ziliang can eat it It smells so good, which means that he is in good health and in good spirits, which means that the Tubo people will definitely not be able to attack, and nothing will happen.
Only in this way can they feel at ease.
But if Zhao Ziliang frowns and does not think about food and tea, it means that there is a problem, they I couldn't feel happy either.
"Someone is coming, someone is coming, I want to eat, we need to eat, I'm starving to death, you hateful Tang people, even criminals are still human beings, you can't stop giving us food."
"Hey" Zhao Ziliang paused when he heard the sound while chewing, and asked: "Where is the sound coming from?"
Wang Laosan, a private soldier, got up and ran to the inner wall of the city wall to look down.
He saw some soldiers gathered around the door of the barracks under the city wall and watched.
He shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey, brothers below, what are you doing, commander-in-chief?"
Who is shouting?"
"It was the three imprisoned Xiyi people shouting" After hearing this, Wang Laosan turned back and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Commander, the brothers below said that the three Xiyi people who were suspected of being Xizuo a few days ago were calling him.
They said they had not eaten for two days and were very hungry." .
Zhao Ziliang asked while chewing beef wrapped in a big cake: "Oh, the soldiers guarding them didn't give them anything to eat.
This is so inappropriate."
Wang Laosan said: "The Tubo people have been attacking the city too fiercely in the past two days.
The brothers may have been busy defending the enemy.
How could they have time to care whether the three Xiyi people had eaten or not?"
"That's true."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, thought for a while and said to Wang Laosan: "Take a few people to bring those three Xiyi people over, and ask someone to prepare some food for them."
"Yes, Marshal" After a while, Wang Laosan and several soldiers brought Charlie, Tony and Jason over.
When Jason saw Zhao Ziliang, he immediately shouted: "Your Majesty General, I protest.
Although we are criminals, we also have the right to eat.
You can't starve us to death.
Even if you want to kill us, you should let us eat before killing us."
Wang Laosan immediately shouted: "Shut up, this is our marshal, the commander-in-chief of an army of 200,000, not an ordinary general.
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If you keep yelling, I will chop you with a knife."
Charlie bowed and said: "Your Excellency, Marshal, I apologize to you on behalf of my friend.
Our motivation for coming to the Tang Empire this time is wrong.
I apologize for this.
How do you want to punish us?
We have nothing to say, but please Don't let us die of hunger, this is the most shameful and humiliating thing for us Vikings."
"It turns out you are Vikings," Zhao Ziliang said as if he suddenly realized, "Then I'm really sorry.
I didn't know it was a shame for you to die of hunger.
I've already gone to ask someone to prepare food.
Please sit down."
When Charlie and the other two saw Zhao Ziliang, the commander of an army of 200,000 people, sitting on the ground, they were even less particular and sat down opposite Zhao Ziliang.
After a while, a soldier came over with some food and tea and placed it in front of Charlie and the others.
Charlie and the others were not polite and immediately grabbed the big cake and started to eat it, drinking water while eating.
While the three of them were eating, the soldiers of the Tang Army who were guarding the city also started eating.
Everyone was leaning against the wall with their weapons, eating food and drinking water.
Zhao Ziliang saw the three of them devouring their food and asked, "I heard that you Vikings did a good job in piracy.
The Anglo-Saracens were often robbed by you, and even the western coast of Frankia and Italy were ravaged by you."
Tony said while eating: "That's a good thing done by our compatriots.
Don't attribute this prestige to us.
We have lived in the Eastern Roman Empire since we were young and have no contact with these compatriots.
But so do the Franks."
They really deserve to be robbed.
They have been so arrogant in recent years, conquering everywhere and grabbing a lot of territory and wealth."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "I heard that the prince of the Frankish Kingdom is also called Mr.
Charlie.
You don't seem to be from the north of the Oparo Continent.
You are not the prince of the Frankish Kingdom."
Charlie's expression changed, and he said awkwardly: "Marshal, there are too many people named Charlie in this world, how could I be Prince Charlie?"
Zhao Ziliang smiled and did not continue the topic.
He added: "How are the Avars in northern Thrace recently?
Are their activities rampant?"
Jason said: "The Avars were very arrogant in the past few years.
They used their superb riding skills and brutal and practical cavalry tactics to conquer a large area of land.
Now they are entrenched in the Pannonian Plain, but not long ago they were united by the Eastern Roman Empire.
The various tribes in Thrace were defeated, and their strength has declined sharply since then.
Now their scope of activities has been reduced, but neither the Eastern Roman Empire nor the Franks are willing to provoke them, for fear of provoking their crazy revenge
.
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