Chapter 1064
The mountain wind was blowing towards the face mixed with the smell of blood, but the young brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui were extremely excited, their faces turned red like they were half-drunk.
Before Leiguan.
The Tubo army dropped another pile of corpses.
The front of the pass is less than a hundred steps wide, such a narrow terrain, the condescending shooting of the Ningyuan Army on the six-foot-high pass wall of Leiguan, and the two fortresses on the cliffs on both sides of the pass, Rao Gal Dongzan did it in advance. After making preparations, let those mediocre men carry the planks and carry the soil forward, but as soon as they got close to the shooting range, they still suffered heavy casualties.
Tang bows are inherently strong, not to mention guarding the pass and guarding from a high position, and there are many large crossbows on it.
"Ugly is nothing more than that."
The young Qin Li brothers were eager to try, and the fifth Qin Xun had helped Ling return to Chang'an, but the two brothers resolutely stayed.
I also followed Qin Lang to the front line as I wished, but my elder brother has been standing still, and he refused to even display the commander-in-chief flag. Just like today, Tubo tried to close one after another. , Qin Lang only asked Guan Guan to respond appropriately.
The so-called appropriate response is to close the pass. Although there are elite soldiers gathered in the pass, there are countless bows and crossbows, and there are even many ballistas and artillery vehicles that have been reinforced, Qin Lang ordered that they should not be used easily.
Tubo came one hundred, and when it was closed, only a hundred archers were allowed to fight back, two hundred came, and two hundred were returned. In the latest round of attack just now, Tubo dispatched about a thousand people, but only 300 crossbowmen were ordered to fight back in Guancheng, and no ballistas or artillery carts were dispatched.
As for Qingqi going out of the pass to kill and raid, it is even more forbidden.
Qin Li didn't feel satisfied holding the longbow, and Qin Gui also pulled the empty string there, "How about we rush out and kill for a while?"
Qin Lang ignored the two little brothers, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and he was talking about such young people who treat war as a trifle and feel excited, but they have not really seen the cruel side of war.
They thought that this war was just like playing polo in ordinary times. Fighting bravely and fiercely was honor and merit. Just now, they shot arrow after arrow and stood on the high wall. The two brothers competed and shot and killed several Tibetans. Yong Ding can be regarded as his first military achievement, and he got it very easily, without even sweating, it was as easy as shooting and hunting with the disciples of Xunqi in Chang'an.
They didn't feel anything about the corpses of the Tibetans who hadn't come and taken away under the city.
War seems to be just a game for them now.
Qin Lang stood on the pass and didn't show any expression, but his indifference was just that he had already understood all this in his chest.
A group of generals from Ningyuan, including Han Wei, praised the two young masters for their bravery, and even a member of the army who came from a gentry used the adjective "Jiqiu Budiao".
This made the brothers unavoidably a little smug.
"War is not a child's play. Every soldier's life is extremely precious, so we can't be careless. If one day you become a general in the army, you have to cherish every subordinate. Every soldier can't be neglected, and you can't sacrifice in vain. .”
"War is not about showing off martial arts, let alone torture and massacre. You have to be in awe, and you have to be compassionate. Everything is about victory."
The two brothers nodded, but Qin Lang understood that they didn't fully listen or understand.
Pass down.
Gal Dongzan was a little angry. Although this was just a test, the counterattack of the Guan Guan people far exceeded his expectations.
In less than half a day, hundreds of people died after several trials. Fortunately, he also almost tested the guarding forces of the gate.
He increased his troops time and time again, and his counterattacks also increased. However, in the last three additional troop attacks, his counterattacks did not change. About 300 crossbowmen fought back. He speculated that there were only about a thousand people in the gate, and the other party was relatively calm.
It must be that the defenders were divided into two waves to ensure that the troops could respond.
Sharp weapons such as ballistas and catapults did not appear, and it is estimated that they should be used at the most critical time.
"How is the cart ready?"
"About 100 vehicles have been produced."
"Okay, send out the carts, and dispatch Gui soldiers to cover Yongding's carts with bows and crossbows to fill in the soil!"
Gal Dongzan decided to get serious.
It was just a trial just now, and I was also preparing to push the cart.
The whining horn sounded again, and a larger-scale attack by Tubo began. Those who dug soil, loaded cars, pushed carts, unloaded soil, covered with wooden signs, and covered with bows and arrows, each had their own division of labor.
"It's a pity that there are no cannon carriages."
Galdong admired this majestic pass, and felt a little regretful. Tubo criss-crossed the plateau. Although they sometimes had to face mountain fortresses when they conquered Subi, those fortresses were dangerous, but they were not too difficult to attack, because They don't necessarily have to attack hard.
Queen Supi's castle was built on a dangerous mountain, very tall and dangerous, but they first captured it by besieging it, and then using spies to open the city gate and break the city.
The Tubo people are not good at equipment, and the only craftsmen are also obtained from places such as Han slaves or Niboluo.
However, Gal Dongzan still firmly believed that as long as he was willing to pay some price, he would be able to successfully win this Thunder Pass within three days.
Close and fight back again.
The bowstring thunders, and the arrows are like locusts.
Gar was carefully observing the number of bows and arrows. Well, it was still the same as the previous few times. It seemed that his guess was right, the defenders were no more than a thousand.
This is almost in line with the intelligence collected by Tubo from the various departments of the Ningyuan Army. Although the Ningyuan Army is strong, it only has 5,000 soldiers in the end, but it governs the Songzhou Governor's Mansion and Dangxiang, Bailan, Domi and other Qiangs. , has many castles and fortresses, and how many people can there be in each place.
Just like the few fortresses they encountered when they came, the small one had less than a hundred people, and the big one had only two or three hundred people.
Yong Ding walked forward on the rough and crude wooden rafts, carrying bags of soil, and there were improvised carts, full of soil bags, which creaked and were slowly pushed forward. Cover, covered with rawhide.
The car was extremely heavy and moved slowly. A large group of Yongding surrounded the car, pulling and pushing.
When Yongding entered within a hundred steps of the city, Tang Jun's bows and arrows finally began to show their power. The wooden rafts played a lot of roles and blocked many bows and arrows, but people still started to shoot arrows.
Gar sent his family's fine cavalry, dressed in iron chain armor, holding spears and bows and arrows to stand behind to supervise the battle. Anyone who dared to be afraid of the front would shoot directly.
Yongding had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward, rushing to the bottom of the city and throwing down the soil bag, then turned around and came back. The second batch of prepared Yongding continued to follow...
Casualties are much better than the previous few times, but the progress is really slow.
Those wooden carts that had high hopes were too heavy and slow, and they often got stuck when pushed, and sometimes even the wheels broke, or the cart fell apart.
The narrow pass was blocked by these cumbersome big guys, limiting the speed of filling.
Gal sent people to kill several craftsmen and slaves, and asked them to improve the carts. While temporarily abandoning these carts, they replaced the carts with human hands, but in this way, the casualties began to increase a lot.
The Tubo Gui soldiers used bows and arrows to cover the pass, but the Tang army condescended to shoot arrows at the pass, which had many advantages and a much stronger shooting range.
The two sides have been shooting arrows back and forth, while the mediocre men are desperately digging and filling the soil until the sun goes west, and they don’t fill in much, let alone directly fill in Guancheng, and they don’t even come out with a prototype.
Seeing that the men and horses were exhausted, Gal Dongzan had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw.
After some counting, there were thousands of casualties today.
It is estimated that there will be no casualties when the Tang army is closed, which is a big contrast.
The bigger problem is that it is getting dark, and there is such a low **** filled in before the customs, what should I do?
"Yong Ding went back to the camp to rest, and took a thousand Gui Ding to be on duty here. Tang people are not allowed to go out and destroy it. Continue to fill in tomorrow."
Gar Dongzan ordered.
Night.
Tang troops came out of the city to attack, but they did not directly attack the Tubo camp, but under the cover of closing the defenders' bows and crossbows, they directly occupied the soil **** that the Tubo people filled during the day, and then began to move the soil.
They did not remove the soil, but transformed it.
Originally, the Tubo people planned to directly pile up a **** of soil leading to the high pass of Liuzhang Pass. Now that the Ningyuan army came out of the pass, they changed the direction of the soil that these Tubo people had worked so hard to transport during the day.
Pile the soil directly in front of the pass into a horizontal sheep and horse wall, which becomes a defense of the narrow wall.
Galdongzan, who came here after hearing the news, was furious. How can this be unreasonable? Thousands of casualties during the day only piled up such a small amount of soil, and you want to change it into the sheep and horse wall of the pass wall of Leiguan?
He mobilized Tubo soldiers to rush forward to stop them, but who would have thought that behind the Tang army was a high pass and pass fort, and the crossbowmen above were already waiting.
The Ningyuan army in front of the pass also quickly occupied the favorable terrain on the slope, using the **** as a cover, while continuing to move soil to repair the wall of sheep and horses.
The night was dark and the wind was high, and the Tubo army came to fight fiercely, but they lost to the Tang army. Occupying favorable terrain and narrow passes, although there were more than 10,000 people in Gardongzan, no more than 1,000 people could really rush to the front. You have to face multiple pincer attacks from up, down, left, and right.
Sergeant Ningyuan, who was out of the customs, fought back, and continued to move soil and build walls without stopping.
Melee all night.
At dawn, Gal Dongzan found that the low **** where the mounds had been transported all day yesterday had disappeared, and instead a wall of sheep and horses as high as half a man had been erected at the pass, all of which were made of them. Mounds of earth transported over during the day.
And counting the troops again, Gar found that he had lost thousands of people in the scuffle last night. The losses during the day were basically Yongding, while those lost at night were all Guibing.
The most irritating thing is that although the Tang people caused them huge losses last night, it can be deduced afterwards that there were not many soldiers and horses dispatched by the Tang army, only a few hundred people, and the archers who were closed were still ahead of him. Estimated number of thousands.
This result almost made Galdong Zanyusong vomit blood.
"On Dongzan, should we continue to dig the slope?"
"roll!"
Gal Dongzan roared at this blind subordinate.
(end of this chapter)