Under the sudden bombardment of the artillery, dust and flesh were flying everywhere outside the city, and broken limbs were flying in the sky. Archery towers were blown to pieces and collapsed. Most of the Tibetan troops had never seen such a terrifying weapon, and they were suddenly encountered
After the bombardment, he couldn't help but be frightened and stunned. Songhe's face was pale, his eyes widened, his expression was extremely frightened, and he couldn't help shouting: "What, what is this?"
Duosang frowned and said: "This is the cannon of the Yanyun Army! Like thunder, like lightning, it is extremely powerful!" Songhe exclaimed: "This is the cannon!? It's really more powerful than the legend!" Then he frowned.
, "How come the Yanyun Army's cannons have already been brought up?"
Ye Qi Guanyin saw that the first round of bombardment was effective and caused considerable damage to the enemy. However, the firepower was somewhat scattered and most of the archery towers were not destroyed, so he ordered the artillery team: "Concentrate fire to bombard the archery towers!"
The artillery team immediately adjusted and concentrated their bombardment on the jungle-like watchtower. In an instant, thunderstorms and lightning struck, and the jungle-like watchtowers collapsed one after another, and fragments fell from the sky. Many Xixia soldiers below were killed and injured.
The rat scurried away with its head in its arms.
Songhe saw the unparalleled power of his opponent's artillery and wreaked havoc on his own siege troops. In anger, he ordered the heavy catapults to fight back, trying to suppress the opponent's artillery. The Tibetan heavy catapults once again showed their power, and saw countless huge rocks flying towards the city wall, tearing them apart.
The air split with a loud roar!
Huge boulders rained down from the sky and hit the ground. The dust flew up and smashed bricks on the city wall. However, many boulders fell into the Tubo siege troops. In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere! Breakthrough Attack
The city troops were frightened and retreated quickly to avoid being accidentally injured by their own stone cannons! The accuracy of ancient heavy weapons was very poor. They could only hit roughly in one direction. It was impossible to be precise. The Tubo siege troops were too close to the city wall.
, so it is completely normal to be accidentally injured by one's own stone cannon.
Boom boom boom...! There was another loud thunderous noise on the city wall, and fire dragons spewed out. Song He and other Tubo soldiers suddenly saw countless black figures flying towards the hillside at an indescribable speed. The Tubo soldiers had not yet reacted.
, those black figures slammed into the middle of the military formation, and only heard a loud crackling and booming sound. Most of the hundreds of heavy catapults were shattered into pieces, and many sergeants were also blown to pieces.
After everything calmed down, the soldiers were shocked and saw that most of the hundreds of heavy catapults at the front of the military formation had been destroyed. At the same time, hundreds of soldiers died unexpectedly, and those who were not dead were lying in blood.
The water sang softly in pain, and some sergeants rushed forward to rescue their injured comrades.
Duosang looked pale and said: "How could it be possible, how could it be..."
Seeing Duosang's expression was different, Songhe quickly asked: "What's wrong?"
Duosang said: "We have encountered Yanyun Army's artillery before, but it is not so powerful. According to my memory, it is impossible for the artillery to hit this hillside." Song He frowned and pointed.
Pointing to the scene in front of him, he asked angrily: "You said you can't hit it, so what's going on?" Duosang couldn't answer this question at all. In fact, Duosang's words were not wrong, if it were the previous artillery.
, it is true that it cannot be fired, but the artillery equipped by the artillery team in front of us is not the old-fashioned artillery before, but a new type of artillery recently produced by the ordnance field. The artillery body is longer than the old artillery, and there are more holes in the barrel.
The simple rifling increased the maximum range of the artillery. Of course, the Tibetans did not know this.
At this moment, a thunderous noise came again. The Tibetan soldiers had already seen the huge power of the cannon. When they heard the loud noise again, they were frightened and looked forward hurriedly. They saw countless
The black shadow flew over with a heart-rending scream, and they were horrified. They turned around and ran backwards. The shells had not yet fallen, but the Tibetan army's formation had already been shaken. The shells fell into the crowd with crackling sounds.
Seeing blood and flesh flying everywhere in the crowd, screams and exclamations were heard. A shell smashed a soldier's head and hit the ground heavily. Then the shell flew high and fell into the crowd on the other side.
In the crowd, two more people were killed!
The Tubo army hurriedly retreated and returned to the military camp. Songhe was very angry, and the generals looked dejected. Songhe turned around suddenly and cursed angrily: "Damn, I set a trap carefully, but the enemy
Before we even came out, they used artillery to force us back!" Zhan Dui frowned and said: "The Yanyun Army's artillery is so powerful, we can't get close to the city wall at all, and this battle is impossible to fight!" The generals said
They all nodded, feeling that what Zhan Dui said was reasonable.
Duosang thought: "That's not necessarily the case..." Zhan Dui was furious and said angrily: "You have another idea!" Duosang ignored Zhan Dui and said to Song He: "Although Yanyun Army's artillery is extremely powerful,
, but he can’t turn after all." Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not understanding what he meant. Duosang continued: "The terrain outside the East City is very high, we can use the terrain to build mountains and approach the city wall. Yan Yun
Although the cannon is powerful, it cannot hit us who are working behind the mountain. As long as the mountain is against the city wall, we can rush into the city in one fell swoop. In close combat, no matter how powerful the cannon is, it is useless!"
Songhe nodded repeatedly, with a happy face, and praised: "Okay, okay, this method is better than the previous method of digging traps, so let's do it!" Duosang said: "General, once the enemy's artillery cannot exert its power,
The cavalry must be sent out to attack, so the previous arrangements cannot be removed." Song He nodded and said: "Of course." After thinking for a moment, he said to Duosang: "Since you came up with this method, then it is up to you.
Let's pile up the mountains of earth." Duosang bowed and promised. Zhan Dui felt very unhappy when he saw that Duosang was getting more and more attention from the general.
That night, while harassing Yanyun's army, the Tubo army started working on the hillside outside Dongcheng. They excavated soil and piled it into a mountain. Then they carried the soil up from the back of the mountain and dumped it in front of the mountain. In this way, the earth and rocks in front of the mountain gradually piled up, and finally
The Tushan army then moved forward and continued to dump soil in front of the mountain. In this way, the Tushan slowly began to approach the city wall from the hillside outside the east city...
At the same time, in Xuanhua Mansion in the west, more than 5,000 Tibetan elites disguised themselves as Yanyun troops and carried Yanyun's flag. Under the cover of night, they arrived at the gate of the West City. The leading general was one of Awang's generals.
, named Shan Zeng. Shan Zeng galloped out on his horse, raised his head and shouted towards the city wall: "I am a general under the command of General Yang Yanzhao. I have come here specially for reinforcements. Open the city gate quickly!" He naturally spoke in Chinese.
He was very fluent. It turned out that Shan Zeng had followed his father to the Central Plains for several years to do business, so he was very proficient in Chinese, and when he spoke, he was basically no different from a Han Chinese.
A middle-aged scribe wearing a scribe's robe appeared on the city wall. He had three long beards and an immortal style. He really looked like Zhuge Liang back in the day. This man's name was Huang Zong. He was originally the most important counselor under the Yang Jiajun. Since the Yang Jiajun was under Erlang
Shan Yi was framed by the imperial court, and he left the army in frustration and returned to his hometown. Later, he heard that Yang Yanzhao and the Yang family army had taken refuge in Yan Wang Yang Peng.
Yang Yanzhao was very happy about Huang Zong's willingness to return to his banner, and immediately recommended him to Yang Peng. Yang Peng didn't know who Huang Zong was, but since he heard that he had been a counselor of the Yang family army, he simply sent him to Yang Yanzhao to join the army. This
During a battle in the Hexi Corridor, Yanyun's army was overwhelmingly powerful. After Yang Peng occupied Xuanhua Mansion, according to Yang Yanzhao's suggestion, Huang Zong was left to guard Xuanhua Mansion.
Huang Zong looked towards the city and asked, "Who is the general?"
Since Shan Zeng pretended to be General Yanyun, he naturally did his homework. When he heard the question, he immediately said loudly: "I am Niuben, the commander of Qingzhou Battalion." Qingzhou Battalion is an army directly under the army, and most of its members are former puppets.
Adapted from the surrendered army, the commander Niuben was a general in the puppet army at that time. Although Niuben was a member of the directly affiliated army, his usual achievements were limited and he had no outstanding performance, so I recognized him.
There are not many people in the world, so Shan Zeng did not pretend to be someone else but him, so he naturally took advantage of this.
Huang Zong had no doubts, clasped his fists and raised his voice: "It turns out to be General Niuben, I have been looking up to you for a long time!" Shan Zeng said angrily: "Open the city gate quickly!" "Okay, general, please wait a moment." Then Huang Zong said.
He turned around and gave some instructions to his subordinates. After a while, the city gate creaked open.
Shan Zeng suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and led five thousand elite men under his command to rush into the city gate. After entering the first gate, which was the Wengcheng, the soldiers rushed straight towards the second gate and passed the second gate.
The gate is right into the city. Yanyun's side is obviously unprepared, and the Tubo people have a sure chance of victory.
Shan Zeng led his army and rushed to the second city gate. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the iron gates of the two city gates fell down at the same time. Shan Zeng was shocked and quickly reined in his horse. Others also stopped.
Got off.
At this moment, there were loud shouts all around, and the light of torches illuminated the night sky into day. The Tibetan army trapped in the urn city panicked. Shan Zeng still had hope in his heart, and shouted: "Huang
Sir, what do you mean? Open the city gate quickly!"
Huang Zong appeared on the top of the city not far away and sneered: "Barbarians from other countries are actually playing this trick, but it's a pity that they are just imitating others. Painting tigers can't be the opposite of dogs!" Although Shan Zeng was familiar with Chinese, he was not familiar with those refined words.
I don't know what "an imitation of a tiger" means, and I don't know what "painting a tiger will not turn out to be like a dog" means. However, after hearing Huang Zong's unkind tone, I felt that what he said was definitely not a good thing.
Shan Zeng shouted: "Master Huang, don't make such a joke, open the city gate quickly!" Huang Zong laughed and mocked: "At this time, you still don't know whether to live or die!" Then he raised his right hand and raised his hand on the surrounding city walls.
Upon seeing this, the soldiers immediately raised their crossbows and aimed them at the urn city. Seeing this, Shan Zeng knew that there was no chance, so he drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me and fight out!" He was panicking.
When the Tubo soldiers heard Shan Zeng's cry, they roared subconsciously and rushed towards the outer city gate, trying to open the gate and escape.
Huang Zong's right hand suddenly moved down the room, and all the soldiers immediately pulled the trigger, and arrows flew into the urn city. At the same time, another soldier threw rolling stones and wood into the urn city. For a while, there was a loud rumbling sound;
In the Wengcheng, there was nowhere to escape or hide. They were smashed by rolling rocks and trees until their flesh and blood flew everywhere. Countless people were killed by powerful arrows, and the screams were loud.
Countless Tibetan soldiers poured into the city gate and rushed to lift the iron gate. At this moment, there was a loud banging sound in the hole in the gate, and countless kerosene poured down. The Tubo soldiers in the gate were crowded together and unable to move.
They were all drenched. Then a torch fell from the hole above, and the fire flashed in the crowd. Then the flames spread quickly, and in the blink of an eye, all the Tubo people in the doorway were drowned.
The screams were so heart-stirring that the Tubo soldiers were so frightened that they retreated from the doorway. Many firemen burned by the flames ran out of the doorway, screaming and running around. The other Tubo soldiers hurriedly avoided, and it was already chaotic.
The scene became even more chaotic.
Arrows and rolling stones continued to fall from all around. The Tubo soldiers were unable to dodge or fight back. They fell into a pool of blood one after another. This was simply a one-sided massacre. Busan was hiding outside the city waiting for Danzeng to seize the city gate.
With more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, they saw that their own soldiers and horses were locked up in Wengcheng and beaten with dogs. They were very anxious. They immediately ran out of their hiding place and ran to the city gate. Then the Tubo soldiers set up simple ladders under the command of Busang.
, rushed towards the city wall.
Suddenly, a fire lit up in front of them, and countless Yanyun soldiers appeared on the top of the city. The Tubo soldiers under the city wall were horrified. A Yanyun officer shouted: "Attack!" Suddenly, rolling rocks and trees rushed down, smashing them.
Under the city wall, the Tibetan soldiers' flesh and blood were flying everywhere, and screams were heard. At this time, the screams in the urn city were still loud, and the screams from the two places complemented each other.
The Tibetan army outside the city was attacked head-on and quickly retreated. Yanyun's army stopped using rolling stones and wood, and picked up powerful crossbows to shoot. The sound of arrows piercing the air was endless, and the retreating Tibetan army outside the city were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
The officers and soldiers of the Tibetan army were already panic-stricken, but now they were even more frightened, and the entire army quickly became chaotic.
Busang was frightened and angry. He slashed with his sword and killed several officers who had escaped. He shouted loudly: "No retreat! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!" The Tibetan army officers were frightened and stopped retreating one after another.
The momentum of the defeat was immediately halted.
Seeing that there were not many Yanyun Army soldiers on the city wall, Busang shouted: "There are not many enemies on the wall, don't be afraid, attack me! The first one to climb the city wall will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold!" The Tubo army immediately rallied.
Fighting spirit, shouting and rushing towards the city wall again. The Yanyun defenders shot arrows desperately and threw rolling rocks and trees, causing a lot of casualties to the Tubo army. However, this time the Tubo army was mentally prepared, fearless and extremely brave.
The ground rushed up.
A Tibetan officer climbed onto the city wall, shouted and wanted to jump off the wall and kill Yan Yun's army. However, several spears came from different directions and knocked him away. Tubo officers and soldiers kept appearing on the wall, but Yan Yun's army
The Yun army maintained a tight defense and always killed the Tubo soldiers who showed up at the first opportunity.
Suddenly, a Tibetan officer climbed up to the top of the city, beheaded the attacking Yanyun soldiers, and then jumped off the city wall and rushed into Yanyun's army. At the same time, Tubo officers continued to jump from the top of the city and the city wall continued to expand.
The situation at the city head position was very critical. Seeing this, the surrounding Yanyun soldiers came to help. The two sides fought fiercely on the city head, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. The soldiers on both sides continued to fall in a pool of blood. At this time, whether it was the Yanyun army or the Tubo army,
Their eyes were red with blood, and they were entangled together like wild beasts and fought fiercely, with swords and blood raining down!
After all, the fighting strength of the Tubo army was not as good as that of the Yanyun army, and they were gradually suppressed by the Yanyun army. However, the Tubo army at this end was suppressed, but the Tubo army from other places rushed to the top of the city. The Yanyun army had limited strength.
He could take care of this end, but not the other end. Seeing more and more Tibetan troops swarming up the city, the situation became more and more critical.
At this moment, Huang Zong commanded the soldiers on the walls around the Wengcheng to stop attacking the enemy troops in the Wengcheng and instead target the Tibetan troops on the outer city walls. Huang Zong ordered the heralds beside him to beat the gongs, and there was a loud bang of boring, boring, boring, boring.
Word spread. The Yanyun army who was fighting fiercely with the enemy on the outer city wall heard the sound and immediately retreated. Seeing the retreat of the Yanyun army, the Tibetan army officers were very excited and shouted to pursue them.
Suddenly, there was a loud buzzing sound. Before the Tubo soldiers could react, they were shot down in large numbers. The Tubo soldiers were shocked. They looked in the direction of the arrows and heard another loud buzzing sound.
There was a loud sound, and the strong wind of arrows caused the flames of the torch to sway. With a loud crackling sound, many more Tibetan soldiers on the city wall were shot down. The remaining Tibetan soldiers were also frightened and frightened, and they all wanted to escape.
The city wall ended up colliding with our own troops who wanted to board the city, and they were unable to go up or down for a while.
Dong Dong Dong Dong... The war drums of the Yan Yun Army suddenly sounded loudly. The Yan Yun soldiers who had just retreated roared back and slashed the enemy wildly. At this time, the Tibetan people's momentum was exhausted, and the Yan Yun Army went crazy.
Under the counterattack, they appeared to be helpless. One by one, they were chopped down. The Tubo soldiers scrambled to escape down the city wall. Those who could not escape were hacked to death. In desperation, many Tubo soldiers actually jumped from the city wall.
The lucky ones only broke their legs, while the unlucky ones broke their necks. It was almost impossible to save their lives.
When Busang saw that he was almost able to break through the city defense, he couldn't help but feel annoyed. Looking at the soldiers, he found that they were all stunned and no longer had the momentum they had just now. Busang frowned and decided to continue attacking the city.
At this time, a group of soldiers covered in blood, scarred and in a state of embarrassment ran over, and they turned out to be the soldiers trapped in the urn city. It turned out that all the soldiers around the urn city were using crossbows to snipe the Tibetan troops who had boarded the city. Therefore, the urn city
The Tibetan troops inside were left alone. Seeing this, the remaining Tibetan troops hurried to the outer city gate, lifted the iron gate with all their strength, and escaped.
Busang couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the escaped soldiers, and asked hurriedly: "Where is Shan Zeng?" An officer said: "General Shan Zeng was killed, his head was smashed by a stone, and he is dead!"
Busang was shocked. At this moment, there was a sound of closing the door at the city gate. Busang and others followed the sound and saw that Yan Yun's army had closed the city gate. Busang wanted to attack the city by force, but saw everyone's morale.
Already vented, a forceful attack would be in vain. With this thought in mind, he ordered the troops to withdraw and return to camp.
Just as Busang led his army to storm the East City, another Tubo general Awang led his cavalry to station troops outside the South City Gate, preparing to wait until the East City Gate was secured and then immediately storm the South City Gate, attacking from both sides to seize the city as quickly as possible.
.However, he led his troops and waited outside the south city gate for a long time, but did not see the east city gate being breached. In the end, the sound of fighting calmed down. Just when Awang was doubtful, Busang's herald arrived and prevented the attack from happening.
The situation of the trap was informed to Nga Wang. Nga Wang was very angry. Although he gave up soon, he could only lead his cavalry to retreat temporarily.
The two Tubo generals returned to the big tent one after another. Ngawang asked Busang angrily: "What's going on?" Busang sighed and briefly told what happened. When it came to the news that Shan Zeng had been killed,
, Awang was so angry that he cursed: "Damn Yanyun people! When we break through Xuanhua Mansion, I will definitely kill them all!"
Busang frowned and said: "The enemy troops are not many, but they are extremely cunning and fierce. It is not easy to break the city!" Awang snorted and said: "Since this strategy failed, we will attack tomorrow morning
Noisy attack! I don’t believe that we can’t capture Xuanhua Mansion with our strength!” Busang frowned and said, “I don’t know what the situation is like on the general’s side. I hope we can capture Xiliang Mansion before the general.
Xuanhua Mansion!" Awang said: "This is not the key to the problem. The key to the problem is that we must capture Xuanhua Mansion before Yanyun's army arrives! Otherwise, together with Yanyun's army, the entire battle situation may be reversed!" Busang
He nodded with deep sympathy.
Nga Wang's expression suddenly changed and he said to Busang: "I remember that we have a large amount of gunpowder given by the general?" Busang then remembered and nodded: "Yes, there are several hundred kilograms. I have all this."
Forgot!"
Awang said: "Tomorrow morning, when we attack Xuanhua Mansion, we will gather all the gunpowder under a city gate, and then, boom!" He made an explosive gesture with his right hand. Busan's eyes lit up and he said excitedly:
"No city gate can withstand the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder. This plan will definitely succeed!" Awang ordered: "Go down and prepare immediately!" Busan responded and hurried down...
At dawn the next day, the Tibetan people's trumpets and war drums shook the earth. After receiving the news, Huang Zong hurried to the east wall and looked outside the city. He saw tens of thousands of Tibetan troops lined up on three sides: southeast, north and south.
The battle formation was opened and the city was about to be attacked. Huang Zong frowned and ordered each team to prepare for battle. At the same time, he ordered the gunpowder and kerosene to be transported to the city wall.
The Tibetans sounded three drums, and then saw only 10,000 Tibetans pushing various siege equipment and shouting as they rushed towards the city wall. At the same time, there were also 5,000 Tibetans outside the north and south cities pressing towards the city wall. The Tibetans
Plan to attack from three sides at once!
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.