Chapter 1065 Support Yulong to die for the king
Gal Dongzan is not a person who gives up easily.
Although he suffered a big loss last night, there were only a thousand people who closed the door and called him. He led more than 10,000 people and only suffered a small setback. Could it be that he has to admit defeat? How can this be compared with Zanpu explain?
Even his elder brother can't explain it. You must know that he is old, and how many people are staring at the position of prime minister. His elder brother is also the son of the prime minister, and he has made great achievements in countering rebellion. He is also Zanpu's confidant. A strong contender for the position.
But the qualifications are too low after all, and the Gar family is not a serious four Shang family or the Tubo royal family. Their family can be included in the Lun family, but they are not pure enough. Many nobles just regard the Gar family as Zanpu Just the family dog.
If he was defeated like this, he would just become a target for them to attack Big Brother.
Gar refused to admit defeat, thinking it was just a moment of carelessness.
Sixteen thousand people can't beat a thousand people, and the reputation of the Nagar family will be lost by him, and this level must be won.
The sun is rising high.
Gal Dongzan's eyes were red, holding a sword, he first caught several scapegoats in front of the pass, and beheaded them directly in front of the battle.
Garr's patience was almost exhausted. After the murder, he began to rearrange the attack. Today's task is not only to continue to pile up the soil, but also to take down the wall of sheep and horses in front of the pass. The soil they carried on their backs, how could they Become the defense of the Tang people.
Almost all the thousands of Gui soldiers were dispatched to cover Yongding with a volley of bows and crossbows, and nearly ten thousand Yongding were sent up regardless of casualties. The place was too narrow, so they lined up.
Those lumbering carts were also remodeled and dispatched again.
By the way, Gal Dongzan is also in his thirties, but the son of the former prime minister, and now the younger brother of Zanpu, the former first general in the Tubo court, has always been smooth sailing, and he has been praised even more these years. Pu favored him at a young age, but he already held an important position in the court.
When did he suffer such a big loss? If the person guarding the pass was Qin Qiong, or Han Wei, the Ningyuan Army envoy, and others, then he would have recognized it, but it happened to be an unknown person, a thousand people guarding such a building. The small pass can make him suffer such big losses one after another, how can he bear it.
The cowhide war drums rang for a whole day.
No Tubo general dared to persuade him.
This Lun Dongzan was sitting in front of the battle with a knife in his hand. He had chopped down more than a dozen people today, but if there was even the slightest bit of fear and hesitation, he would immediately kill the killer and swing the knife himself.
The dozens of heads were stuck on the spears and stood in front of the battle. Gar Dongzan would not let them go if they died, so they had to have a fox tail tied to their heads.
Thousands of Tubo soldiers fired arrows at the city without interruption, intending to suppress the defenders, while tens of thousands of Yongding were driven to transport soil non-stop.
It's just not going well.
Tang Jun seized those earth bags last night, and built a wall of sheep and horses in front of the pass, and the defenders became even more powerful.
Ningyuan’s army was defending three-dimensionally, occupying all the favorable terrain, and then relying on the narrowness of the pass and the strength of its own bow, it shot the Tubo people for a day.
In the evening, the cowhide war drums of Tubo finally became silent.
The drums were all broken, and there was no progress, except for countless corpses left behind, and a mountain of earth was barely piled up in front of the sheep and horse walls of the Tang people.
If you want to pile forward, you can’t get through it at all. The closer you are to the pass, the greater the casualties. As a result, many Yongding threw down the soil bags early, and then turned around and ran back.
In the end, Gal Dongzan, who commanded before the battle, had to temporarily change his order. Instead of piling up the **** of the passage, he directly piled up a mound of dirt, trying to seize a little high ground terrain, so that he could shoot at the Tang army on the sheep-horse wall and the pass first. .
Since there is no way to pile up the soil properly, then shoot people first, and shoot down your thousand guards, and then pile up again, how do you stop it?
It only took one day to barely build up this three-foot-high earth mountain. Although it could suppress the Tang army in the sheep-horse wall that was as tall as a man, behind the sheep-horse wall was a six-foot-high pass wall. There are two higher pass castles on the cliffs on both sides.
Still unable to lift his head from being shot.
Although they tried their best to defend the earth mountain, but after counting, there were more casualties today, and the total number of Gui Yong's casualties was almost 3,000.
Before the pass, the corpses of the Tubo people were already piled up layer upon layer, piled up like a mountain.
There is no room to step down.
Gal Dongzan had no choice but to let people raise the white flag, and before he came to Guancheng, he asked Tang Jun to let them collect the corpses. Although it was not hot yet, thousands of corpses piled up together was still very scary.
Even a stench has begun to come out.
The closed veterans are fine, they are just like the fish vendors at the fish stalls, they can no longer smell the smell of fish after a long time, and the veterans can also ignore the smell of blood and corpses on the battlefield.
But the brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui couldn’t do it. They were very excited when the battle started yesterday, but after two days of fighting, they have already been vomited several times by the stench everywhere on the battlefield.
They are not afraid of dead bodies, but the smell is really bad. They are pampered in the capital on weekdays. Although they practice riding and archery and love to play polo, they often get sweaty, but the smell of sweat is completely incomparable to this smell. The young master who often puts incense on his clothes and hangs incense **** on his body when he goes out, is about to vomit bile from the stink of this corpse.
Qin Lang just patted them on the shoulder, "I'll get used to it when I vomit."
Gal Dongzan also wanted to vomit.
It was not the first time he had smelled the smell of **** corpses on this battlefield, he was disgusted by Tang Jun.
It's been two days, with more than 3,000 casualties before and after, and they haven't even touched the wall of Leiguan.
Thousands of casualties, in two days, in exchange for a small earth mountain?
So **** disgusting.
Finally, they have to raise the white flag and ask the Tang people to let them collect the corpses. If they don’t collect the corpses, the Leiguan Pass will become a corpse pass. They don’t have to attack the city anymore, and this place will become a world of maggots and flies.
The Tang people allowed to collect the corpse.
But only corpses are allowed, and weapons, arrows, etc. are not allowed to be picked up.
It took almost a day to restrain thousands of corpses in front of the Shura field.
Originally promised Zanpu to win Leiguan in three days, but the third day has been collecting corpses.
Corpses were lifted out of the **** corpse, and many of them even had a little life left, but they were too seriously injured to receive timely medical treatment.
Gal Dongzan ordered that Gui's soldiers be rescued, and for Yong's young men and slaves, the seriously injured were directly killed with a knife. If the injury was not too serious, they were simply bandaged and thrown away to fend for themselves.
In order to prevent further decay of the corpses and cause plague, Gal Dongzan had to have the corpses burned directly.
Thick black smoke rose into the sky, and thousands of corpses burned for a day and a night.
On the fourth day, Songtsan Gampo sent an envoy to ask why Leiguan had not been captured yet.
Gal Dongzan was too ashamed to answer.
He had no choice but to go back to the Tubo camp in person and plead guilty to Zanpu. Although he objectively stated the unexpected tenacity of the Leiguan guards and the fact that the terrain of Leiguan is indeed dangerous and difficult to attack, these words did not satisfy Zanpu .
The prime minister, Shang Nang, also reprimanded him loudly for his incompetence, and even rewarded him with a fox tail.
"Please Zanpu give me all the craftsmen in the army, and give me some time to build a batch of catapults. I will definitely be able to win Leiguan."
Songtsan Gampo shook his head.
The opportunity has already been given, but Gal Dongzan failed. This was originally given to him as a credit, but he messed it up.
"Tomorrow, the whole army will pull out the camp and directly approach the Thunder Pass, and attack directly."
Songtsan Gampo rejected Gar’s request on the grounds that since the fight has not been taken for several days, it cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise Songzhou will definitely send reinforcements, and it will only be more difficult to attack. Taking advantage of the fact that there are not many defenders closed, the most important thing is to attack and win in one go.
As for Gal Dongzan, Songtsen Gampo withdrew his right to lead the army, and also imposed severe punishments such as demoting his official position and reducing his territory as a punishment.
after one day.
Songtsan Gampo came to Lei Pass on horseback and carefully looked at the pass city. After looking at it for a long time, he had to admit that what Gal Dongzan said was right, this pass was indeed very difficult to attack.
The most important thing is that the front of the pass is too narrow, and there are too many soldiers to play a role.
Even if it’s not easy to attack, you have to attack.
Songtsan Gampo quickly worked out a new attack plan with his subordinates. First, they used catapults and cannons to hit them, and then used crossbowmen to cover them, and directly hit the door with battering rams.
The pass is too high to climb, then hit the door.
Closing the gate is ultimately a weak point of defense. Although the Tang people must focus on defending the city gate, as long as they concentrate on attacking one point, there is still a chance.
After all, there are 200,000 people in Tubo, no matter how hard they are to use, even a wheel battle can exhaust the defenders to death.
The drums of war sounded again, and Tubo launched a fiercer offensive. This time, they no longer sent Yongding as cannon fodder to die, and no longer piled up hills and slopes. Instead, they directly threw stones and cannons, shot bows and arrows, and pushed to attack the city. gavel to the door.
Not afraid of casualties, no matter the cost, it is a non-stop attack.
stormed for a day, but failed to capture.
Songtsan Gampo frowned, feeling something was wrong.
"It is impossible for Leiguan to have only one thousand defenders."
Gar Dongzan had a fox tail hanging on his helmet, and he was a little lost. When Songtsan Gampo called him a few words, he came back to his senses.
"It is estimated that Songzhou sent troops to reinforce."
Songtsan Gampo felt a big headache, so he had to ask several Shanglun generals, etc. Finally, everyone discussed for a long time and thought that Leiguan was indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and such a strong attack was really difficult to fight.
It is better to separate a few cavalry and find another way to bypass Leiguan to attack Songzhou. They believe that even if the road is difficult to find, there will be a way if they are willing to find it, even if it takes a long detour.
"What about here?"
"Continue to attack, hold back the defenders here, and attract more Songzhou troops."
"Qin Qiong is dead, who will host Songzhou?" Zanpu asked.
"It should be Songzhou Governor Shi and Ningyuan Army Envoy Han Wei. This is Qin Qiong's old subordinate. He has fought fiercely and has rich experience."
Songtsan Gampo thought for a while, then waved his hands sullenly, "Send the order to withdraw the troops."
The Tubo army suspended its offensive and sent out several troops to find another route to attack Songzhou. Zanpu led half of the army with 100,000 soldiers and stayed in front of Leiguan. Several soldiers and horses provided opportunities, and secondly, they still did not give up and wanted to continue to attack and win this level.
The Tubo army retreated ten miles and set up camp. That night, the flames of the burning corpses of Tubo shone in the sky for another night, and they stormed one day. The casualties were more than those in Dongzan combined in the previous few days.
Night.
Looking at the blazing flames of burning corpses, Qin Lang was drinking tea on the top of the pass city. Up to this moment, he still hadn't allowed himself to raise his banner.
"The Tubo people have divided their troops."
Qin Lang only smiled when he heard the news, "The show is just beginning, that Songtsan Gampo hasn't really seen how powerful I am in Tang Dynasty."
"Do you want to send troops to attack the camp?"
"No rush, take your time."
Qin Lang raised his teacup in the direction of the Tubo camp that was illuminated by the fire, "Do it!"
(end of this chapter)