Often the most hurtful thing in war is not the weapons, but the huge sense of loss caused by the insignificance and insignificance of life.
Any individual seems so insignificant in the war. An arrow or a rolling stone can end a living life in an instant. When you face the cruelty of war but are unable to do anything, the deep sense of emptiness and guilt will disappear.
will linger around you.
Revenge? Revenge!
This seems to have become the only option. Only by taking revenge on the injured can one regain his self-confidence and prove that he is not a weakling.
Nearly a thousand Tang soldiers, led by captain Wu Hai, struggled to crawl toward the stone plain dozens of feet away. They had no choice but to seize the middle area in order to fight for a glimmer of hope in the desperate situation.
Countless boulders and rolling logs rolled down the mountain walls and hit Paoze next to him. Tang Bing, who was hit by the rocks, didn't even have time to let out a scream and turned into a puddle of flesh, wrapped in the stone surface.
Rolling up and down the mountain. The trickling blood was smeared on the line, and the air was filled with a fishy-sweet smell.
Wu Hai smiled bitterly, but did not complain. As a veteran of hundreds of battles, he certainly knew the severity of siege warfare. Even if he wanted to capture a town in the Central Plains, he would have to have ten times the strength of the defenders to be sure.
What's more, the stone castle is so dangerous in size! Since ancient times, one general has achieved great success. Which war's victory is not based on the corpses of countless low-level soldiers?
He is a soldier of the Tang Dynasty. Since he was selected as a vanguard officer, all he can do is to ensure that he and Pao Ze are as safe as possible while completing the tasks assigned by the commander-in-chief. Of course he knows that this task is extremely dangerous and he will not be careful if he is not careful.
He will die without a body, but he will not escape.
He, Wu Hai, is not a saint, and of course he will not risk his life for the grand ambitions of emperors, generals, and ministers; he, Wu Hai, is not a person who is blind to money. Money is all vain. Even if he earns this fame, he still has a life.
Go enjoy it!
He, Wu Hai, was just an ordinary citizen, a conscientious soldier of the Tang Dynasty. He only knew that if Shibao City was not captured, more people would waste their lives at the foot of the Red Ridge; he only knew that if not,
After beating the Tubo people, they were so frightened that they dared not move for thirty to fifty years, and their wives and children would never be able to live in peace.
We are all children of Longyou, so you should understand this, right?
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, how many years has Tubo been fighting and waging war against us? We have been fighting over every pass and every mountain, but in the end it is not the common people who are suffering?
The prosperity of the people will be miserable, and the destruction of the people will be even more miserable!
Therefore, he must fight, not for anything else, but for this anger, the anger of the Tang Dynasty people!
In the mighty China and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there must still be one or two men standing!
Placing his body against the cliff, Wu Hai moved his body with difficulty.
The palm of his left hand rested on a raised rock, and the knee of his right leg pushed forward again. With just a slight exertion, it moved nearly a foot in height!
He took out an iron wedge from the leather bag and drove it into the narrow gap between the rocks.
"Ding!", "Ding!" After two slight knocks, Wu Hai pulled up his left foot and put it on the iron wedge without hesitation.
He climbed up a vine with his right hand, put his left knee on a stone trough, and moved it up another foot with a strong tug.
Close, close!
Twenty feet... ten feet...
Under the leadership of their own captain, the Tang army moved fearlessly towards the stone plain more than ten feet away. After climbing up the stone plain, they entered the defensive corner of the Tibetan people; once they climbed up the stone plain, everyone could
Take a break and take a breath!
Tang soldiers were constantly being thrown off the cliff by rolling boulders, screaming and wailing endlessly. However, the surviving Tang soldiers never glanced down again. They wanted to turn hatred into motivation and fear into hope.
Only with hatred can we have the motivation to rush to the stone castle and kill all the barbarians! Only with fear can we have the hope of climbing to the top of the cliff and planting the Tang flag!
More than half of the more than 600 Tang troops have been lost, and the stone plain above them is getting closer and closer! This is a game of life and death, and only the wise and brave can have the last laugh!
The Tubo defenders obviously also noticed the purpose of this Tang army. They did not want to take down Shibao City in one go, but they were advancing step by step and advancing layer by layer!
Once the Tang army gained a firm foothold, with their numerical advantage, it was only a matter of time before the Tang army captured Shibao City.
The defender of Stone Castle was Iron Blade Xenoluo, and the Battle of the Long Castle left an indelible impression on him. He led 10,000 elite soldiers to besiege a fortress with less than 1,000 people, and was actually killed by the Tang Dynasty.
The army was defeated! After escaping back to Tubo in embarrassment with only a few hundred relatives, he was naturally ridiculed and teased by his colleagues. After thinking about it, he finally understood two truths. The war with the Tang people must be fought quickly, and they must not be given a chance to breathe.
!
Without rolling wood and stones, they poured boiling oil and boiling water on them; when they ran out of boiling oil and boiling water, they used feather arrows and crossbow arrows to shoot them; when they ran out of feather arrows and crossbow arrows, they pulled out their horizontal knives and fought hand-to-hand.
What a persevering nation this is!
When fighting against the Tang Dynasty, you must also fight head-on. Never try to take the wrong side!
They finally climbed to the top of the city with their numerical advantage, but who knew that what was waiting for them was the Mo Dao Formation, which was the shining cold light of Mo Dao. They had worked hard to break through the city gate and were feeling complacent and happy, but who knew that they would appear in front of them?
The Tang soldiers were not as weak as sheep, but thousands of flaming horses...
"Come here!" Iron Blade Xinuolo became angrier as he thought about it, and shouted loudly.
"Block the stone path for me with feathered arrows. Even if all the arrows are fired, don't let a Tang soldier climb onto the stone plain!" Don't the Tang soldiers want to make a step-by-step plan and fight steadily? Then I will accompany them to the end!
He, Iron Blade Xinolo, wanted to see whether it was the Tang army with more numbers or the Tubo arrows!
A Tubo centurion crossed his fists and went to deliver the general's order.
At the command, the well-trained Tibetan soldiers took off their horned bows from their backs and drew arrows from their quivers.
The Tubo centurion nodded with satisfaction and took the bow and arrows handed over by the soldiers. He pressed his ring finger against his little finger, put his first finger on the bowstring, bent his right arm slightly and with just one exertion, a sharp arrow flew out with a sudden sound.
!
As soon as this signal came out, the Tibetan soldiers bent their bows and pulled their strings.
The bow was like a full moon, and the arrows were like shooting stars! In an instant, hundreds of feathered arrows were shot out together, forming a giant net and spreading towards the Tang army on the cliff.
At this angle, the Tibetan soldiers did not need to aim at all. They only needed to draw out their feather arrows, fully draw the bowstring and shoot out from the crenel to effectively kill the Tang army.
Although the Tang army was able to avoid many boulders by relying on the cover of rocks, they were helpless against the sky full of arrows.
There was nothing to rely on on the cliff. They were completely exposed to the arrows and had no way to avoid them. The quick and agile soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had actually become a living target for the Tibetan people at this moment!