Under the sudden bombardment of the artillery, dust and flesh were flying everywhere outside the city, broken limbs and fragments were flying in the sky, and the archery towers were blown to pieces and collapsed. Most of the Tibetan troops had never seen such a terrifying weapon, and they were shocked and stunned when they were suddenly bombarded. Songhe's face was pale, his eyes widened, and he looked extremely frightened. 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?"
Seeing that the first round of bombardment was effective and caused a lot of damage to the enemy, Yeqi Guanyin saw that the firepower was somewhat scattered and most of the arrow towers were not destroyed, so he ordered the artillery team: "Concentrate fire to bombard the arrow 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 hands.
Songhe saw the overwhelming power of his opponent's artillery wreaking havoc on his own siege troops. In anger, he ordered heavy catapults to fight back in an attempt to suppress the opponent's artillery. Tubo's heavy catapults once again showed their power, and countless boulders were seen flying toward the city wall, tearing the air and making a loud roar!
Huge boulders rained down from the sky and hit the ground. The dust flew into the sky and bricks flew wildly on the city wall. However, many boulders fell into the Tubo siege troops, and blood and flesh flew everywhere in an instant! The troops who broke through the siege were frightened and quickly retreated to avoid being accidentally injured by their own stone cannons! The accuracy of ancient heavy weapons was very poor. They could only hit roughly one direction. It was impossible to be precise. The Tibetan siege troops were too close to the city wall, so it was normal for them to be accidentally injured by their own stone cannons.
Boom boom boom boom...! There was another thunderous noise on the city wall, and fire dragons spewed out. Song He and other Tubo soldiers suddenly saw countless black shadows flying towards the hillside at an indescribable speed. Before the Tubo soldiers could react, the black shadows slammed into the middle of the military formation, and only heard a loud roaring sound. With the sound, most of the hundreds of heavy catapults were torn apart, 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, 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..."
Songhe saw Duosang's expression was different and asked quickly: "What's wrong?"
Duosang said: "We have encountered the 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 fight, so what's going on?" Duosang couldn't answer this question at all. In fact, Duosang's words are not wrong. If it were the previous artillery, it would indeed not be able to hit it. However, the artillery equipped by the artillery team in front of us is not the previous old-fashioned artillery, but a new type of artillery recently produced by the ordnance field. The artillery has a longer barrel than the old cannon, and simple rifling in the barrel, which increases the maximum range of the artillery. Of course, the Tibetan people 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. Suddenly, they saw countless black figures flying towards them with heart-rending screams. They were horrified, and 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, and flesh and blood were flying everywhere in the crowd. There were screams and exclamations. After a shell smashed a soldier's head, it hit the ground heavily, and then another shell hit the ground. He flew high and fell into the crowd on the other side, killing two more people!
The Tubo army retreated hurriedly and returned to the military camp. Songhe was very angry, while the generals looked dejected. Songhe turned around suddenly and cursed angrily: "Damn it, we set up a trap carefully, but before the enemy troops even came out, they used cannon to push us back!" Zhan Dui frowned and said: "Yan The artillery of the Yun army is so powerful, we can't get close to the city wall at all, and this battle is impossible to fight!" The generals nodded one after another, 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 after all, I can’t turn." Everyone looked at each other, 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. Although the Yanyun cannon is powerful, it can't hit us who are working behind the mountains. As long as the mountains are close to us, Once we climb 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 face full of joy, 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." Songhe 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 mountains of earth." Duosang bowed and promised. Zhan Dui felt very uncomfortable when he saw that Duosang was getting more and more attention from the general.
That night, while harassing Yan Yun's army, the Tubo army started working on the hillside outside Dongcheng. They dug out 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 It was flush with the earth mountain and formed one body. The Tubo army moved forward and continued to dump soil in front of the mountain. In this way, the earth mountain began to slowly approach the city wall from the hillside outside the east city. …
At the same time, in Xuanhua Mansion to the west, more than 5,000 Tibetan elites disguised themselves as Yanyun troops and carried Yanyun's flag, and arrived at the West City Gate under the cover of night. The leading general was one of Ngawang'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 General Yang Yanzhao. I have come here specially for reinforcements. Open the city gate quickly!" He naturally spoke Chinese and was very fluent. It turned out that this Shan Zeng Zeng once followed his father to the Central Plains to do business for several years, so he was very proficient in Chinese, and when he spoke, he was basically no different from a Han Chinese.
On the city wall appeared a middle-aged scribe wearing a scribe's robe, with three long beards and an immortal spirit. He really looked a bit like Zhuge Liang back then. This man's name was Huang Zong, who was originally the most important counselor under the Yang family army. Since the Yang family army was framed by the imperial court in the battle of Erlang Mountain, he left the army and returned to his hometown in despair. Later, he heard that Yang Yanzhao and the Yang family army had defected to the King of Yan, Yang Peng. The already discouraged heart couldn't help but get active again. About half a year ago, he went to Yang Yanzhao's camp to express his willingness to return to his banner. Yang Yanzhao was very happy and immediately recommended him to Yang Peng. Yang Peng didn't know who Huang Zong was, but after hearing that he had been a counselor of the Yang family army, he simply sent him to Yang Yanzhao to join the army. In this battle in the Hexi Corridor, Yanyun's army was overwhelming. After Yang Peng occupied Xuanhua Mansion, according to Yang Yanzhao's suggestion, Huang Zong was left to guard Xuanhua Mansion.
Huang Zong looked down at 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, this commander Niuben was a general in the puppet army back then. Although Niuben is a member of the directly affiliated legion, his usual achievements are limited and he has no outstanding performance. Therefore, not many people recognize him. Shan Zeng does not pretend to be someone else but pretends to be him. Naturally, he takes a fancy to this person. a little.
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 instructions to his subordinates. After a while, the city gate creaked open.
Shan Zeng suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and led his five thousand elite soldiers into the city gate. After entering the first city gate, you will find the Wengcheng. All the soldiers rushed straight towards the second city gate. After passing the second city gate, you will find the inner city. Yanyun was obviously unprepared, and the Tubo people were sure of victory.
Shan Zeng led the army and rushed to the second city gate. Suddenly, there was a loud click, 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.
At this moment, there were loud shouts all around, and at the same time, the light of torches illuminated the night sky into day. The Tibetan army trapped in the Wengcheng panicked. Shan Zeng still had hope in his heart and shouted loudly: "Master Huang, 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 tricks like this, 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. He didn't know what Huang Zong's words meant, and he didn't know what "painting a tiger is not like a dog" meant. 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 the surrounding city walls Upon seeing this, the soldiers immediately raised their crossbows and aimed them at the urn. Seeing this, Shan Zeng knew that there was nothing left to chance. He drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me and fight out!" The panicked Tubo soldiers heard Shan Zeng's cry and roared subconsciously. Then he 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; the Tubo army was dead. In the Wengcheng, there was nowhere to escape or hide. They were smashed by rolling stones 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 crashing sound in the hole in the doorway, and countless amounts of kerosene poured down. The Tibetan soldiers in the doorway were crowded together and could not move, and they were all drenched. Then a torch fell from the hole above, and the fire flashed in the crowd, and then the flames spread quickly, and in a blink of an eye, all the Tubo people in the doorway were drowned, and the screams were heart-stirring. , the Tubo soldiers were so frightened that they retreated from the doorway. Many burning people who were burned by the flames ran out of the doorway, screaming and running around. Other Tubo soldiers hurriedly evaded, and the already chaotic 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. Busang's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses who were hiding outside the city waiting for Shan Zeng to seize the city gate were anxious when they saw that their own soldiers and horses were locked up in Wengcheng and beaten with dogs. They immediately ran out of their hiding place and rushed to the city gate. Down. Immediately, the Tubo soldiers, under the command of Busang, set up simple ladders and rushed towards the city wall.
Suddenly, fire lit up in front of his eyes, and countless Yanyun soldiers appeared on the top of the city. The Tubo soldiers under the city wall were shocked. A Yanyun officer shouted: "Attack!" Immediately, rolling stones and wood rushed down, smashing the Tibetan army soldiers under the city wall with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and screams were heard. At this time, the screams in the Wengcheng were still heard. There was a loud noise, and the screams from the two places complemented each other.
The Tubo army outside the city was attacked head-on and quickly retreated. Yan Yun's army stopped using rolling stones and picked up strong crossbows to shoot. The sound of arrows piercing the air was heard endlessly, and the retreating Tibetan troops outside the city were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The Tibetan soldiers, who were already panicked, were even more frightened at this time, and the entire army quickly became chaotic.
Busang was frightened and angry. He slashed several officers who escaped with his sword and shouted loudly: "No retreat! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!" The Tibetan soldiers were frightened and stopped retreating. 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 fired arrows and threw rolling stones and wood, causing a lot of casualties to the Tubo army. However, this time the Tubo army was mentally prepared and rushed forward fearlessly and bravely.
A Tibetan officer climbed onto the city wall. He shouted and wanted to jump off the wall and kill Yan Yun's army. However, several spears came from different directions and he was thrown away. Tubo soldiers kept appearing on the wall, but the Yanyun army defended tightly 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. Upon seeing this, the surrounding Yanyun soldiers came to help one after another. The two sides fought fiercely on the top of the city. Blood and flesh were flying everywhere. The soldiers on both sides continued to fall in a pool of blood. At this time, both the Yanyun army and the Tubo army were all red-eyed, like wild beasts. Usually they are entangled together and fight fiercely, with swords and blood raining down!
After all, the fighting power 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 Wengcheng to stop attacking the enemy troops in Wengcheng and instead target the Tibetan troops on the outer city wall. Huang Zong ordered the herald beside him to beat the gong, and the loud sound of boring, boring, boring, and boring immediately spread. Yan Yunjun, who was fighting fiercely with the enemy on the outer city wall, heard the sound and retreated immediately. When the officers and soldiers of the Tubo army saw that the Yanyun army had retreated, they were very excited and shouted to pursue them.
Suddenly, there was a loud buzzing sound, and before the Tibetan soldiers could react, they were shot down in large numbers. The Tubo soldiers were shocked. They looked in the direction of the arrow and heard another loud buzzing sound. The strong arrow wind blew away the flames of the torches. With a loud crackling sound, many of the Tibetan troops on the city wall were shot down. The remaining Tibetan troops were also frightened and frightened. They tried to escape down the city wall, but they collided with their own troops who wanted to board the city. There is no time to go up or down.
Dong Dong Dong Dong... The war drums of the Yan Yun Army suddenly sounded loudly, and the Yan Yun soldiers who had just retreated roared back and furiously slashed at the enemy. At this time, the Tibetan people's momentum was exhausted, and they were helpless under the crazy counterattack of Yan Yun's army. They were cut down one by one. The Tibetan soldiers scrambled to escape down the city wall. Those who could not escape were hacked to death. They were in a hurry. As a result, many Tubo soldiers actually jumped from the city wall. The lucky ones only broke their legs, and the unlucky ones broke their necks. It seemed that they could not save their lives.
Busang couldn't help but feel annoyed when he saw that he was almost able to break through the city defense. Looking at the soldiers, I found that they were all in shock and no longer had the same momentum as before. Busan frowned and decided to continue attacking the city. At this time, a group of soldiers who were covered in blood, scarred and in a state of embarrassment ran over. They turned out to be the soldiers trapped in the urn city. It turned out that all the soldiers around the Wengcheng were using crossbows to snipe the Tibetan troops who had boarded the city. Therefore, no one was taking care of the Tibetan troops inside the Wengcheng. Seeing this, the remaining Tibetan troops hurried to the outer city gate and raised their weapons with all their strength. He raised the iron gate and escaped from the dead.
Busan 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!"
Busan 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 Yunjun had closed the city gate. Busang wanted to attack the city by force, but seeing that everyone's morale had been exhausted, he was afraid that it would be futile to attack by force. As soon as he thought about this, he ordered the troops to withdraw and return to the camp.
Just as Busang was leading 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 before immediately storming the South City Gate. They would attack 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 Ngawang was in doubt, Busan's herald came and informed Ngawang that the attack failed to fall into a trap. Awang 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 Busan angrily: "What's going on?" Busan sighed and briefly told what happened. When the news of Shan Zeng's murder came to him, Ngawang was furious and cursed: "Damn Yanyun people! When we break through Xuanhua Mansion, I will 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!” Busan 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 sympathetically.
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 storm Xuanhua Mansion, we will gather all the gunpowder under a city gate, and then, boom!" He made an explosion gesture with his right hand. Busang'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!" Busang agreed. With a cry, he hurried down. …
At dawn the next day, the Tibetan people's trumpets and war drums shook the earth. After Huang Zong received the news, he hurried to the east wall and looked outside the city. He saw tens of thousands of Tibetan troops lined up in battle formations on the north, south, east and west, and they were about to attack the city. 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 Tubo people sounded three drums, and then they saw 10,000 Tubo troops pushing various siege equipment and shouting as they rushed towards the city wall. At the same time, there were 5,000 Tubo troops outside the north and south cities each, pressing towards the city wall. The Tubo people Plan to attack from three sides at once!
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
