Chapter 1066 Hengdao Lima General
Of course, there is more than one road leading to Songzhou.
It's just that Qin Lang is not afraid of Tubo's division of troops. Leiguan is just a relatively important Songzhou gateway, but it is not the only one. But even if other passes are not as dangerous as Lei Pass, they are not so easy to pass.
To the west of Songzhou, there is the undulating Gansong Mountain, with thousands of ravines, but there are only a few valleys and rivers that can really pass through the army, and the dangerous places on the few passable valley roads are still in Songzhou. The pass castle of the Ningyuan Army is guarding.
Tibetan wants Kou Songzhou, and it is always impossible to get around these passes.
Lei Pass is the gate. Qin Lang gathered 50,000 people from the Ningyuan Army and Tuan Lian here, and the other passes also have their own defenders. He can also mobilize troops here for reinforcements at any time according to needs.
In general, when Tubo invaded from thousands of miles away, Qin Lang waited for work with leisure, so he could stick to it.
If Tubo wanted to reach the Songzhou city, they had to take down the passes and fortresses, otherwise they would not be able to reach the Songzhou city at all, but to take down these fortresses surrounded by mountains, it would take a lot of teeth to collapse.
Leiguan fought here for a few days, and Tubo had killed or injured seven or eight thousand people, but the defenders in the Guanguan had only a hundred deaths and hundreds of injuries.
This is the advantage of defending against danger. Qin Lang has capital in his hands, so he is not in a hurry.
From the beginning to the end, he didn't even let the banner come out.
It is better to make the Tubo people confused, otherwise he is afraid that he will really frighten these Tubo people away if he raises his flag.
Sneered at Yehuo a few times, Qin Lang went down to the city.
Arriving in the pass, Qin Lang first went to inspect the wounded barracks, visited the wounded soldiers, and then went to the camp of the two brothers.
Qin Li and Qin Gui have finally adapted to the cruelty of the battlefield, and they are really used to spitting, and now it's okay to smell the **** corpses.
"Is the fourth brother's wound okay?"
The fourth son, Qin Li, Qin Huaidao, was shot with several arrows during the battle during the day, but luckily, it was just a flutter thrown up, and he was protected by a solid armor. But it only caused some flesh wounds, and the other arrows didn't even break the skin.
"It's okay, it's just a little bit of skin."
"Let me check."
The wound was still red and swollen, but there was no sign of infection. The arrow from the Tibetans was not a poisonous arrow, but a relatively ordinary arrow, and the wound was easily sutured.
"In the future, there will be a scar here, and nothing serious will happen." Qin Lang smiled.
Qin Liulang was even a little envious of the injury suffered by the fourth brother. Only when he was injured did he seem to have really been on the battlefield.
"How is it, have you ever been afraid?"
The fourth child shook his head.
"To be honest, in the first two days, I was excited. I was excited to patronize, and then I was nauseated, and my stomach was empty. Now, I seem to be used to it. I didn't think about it."
Qin Lang smiled, although he asked the two brothers to participate in the battle, but after all, it was just a city defense battle. Standing on the six-foot-high pass with several layers of fine armor on his body, it was really not easy for accidents.
There are still great advantages for noble children to join the army, not to mention the superiority in equipment, they also practice riding and archery at a young age, and their skills are indeed good. From the beginning, Qi Zidi entered the Three Guards and Five Mansions, and stayed there for five or eight years for assignments, and basically became military officers directly.
When they go to the battlefield, most of them no longer need to be directly at the forefront, and they often have family soldiers to guard them, unless they are fighting the kind of collapsed battles. Too strong.
"Have you thought about it, do you really want to join the army in the future?"
"Brother, we are the sons of generals. Grandpa is the God of War in the Tang Dynasty. Brother, you are also the God of War. Naturally, we should inherit the family style. Goro is determined to follow the text. We can't control this, but we are young Let me take Grandpa and Brother as examples, and in the future I will also make contributions on the battlefield and become a great general."
Both the fourth child and the sixth child answered seriously.
Although they had already felt the cruel side of the battlefield when they first entered the battlefield, they did not give up their ambitions.
Qin Lang lamented the ambition and bravery of the two brothers, but was also a little surprised.
The sons of the nobles, who were born in rich clothes and rich food, can still have this kind of ambition, especially this kind of courage to face the war without fear, which is really commendable. This is a real young eagle, not that kind of grass chicken The second generation is comparable.
It's just in his heart, in fact, Qin Lang would rather that they were not so brave.
"Actually, you don't have to join the army. Look at the two of you, one is now the Duke of Jinan County, the other is the Duke of Licheng County, and both of you are favored by Shifeng County Magistrate. You don't have to do anything. In fact, this life is considered a Rich and rich, right?"
Qin Li blushed and said, "Then we can't lie on the merit books of our father and brother for a lifetime. Our titles and titles are all the shadow of our father and brother's achievements. We can sit back and enjoy the achievements with peace of mind? Otherwise, what will happen to us in the future?" How about passing this on to our descendants?"
"Although we are bastards, we still want to be successful like you, brother."
"But it is not so easy to join the army. The battlefield is unpredictable, and it is not always so good luck."
"Third brother, life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, we all understand, but we are not afraid. I know that I don't have the skills like grandpa and third brother, but I don't want to be a dandy waiting to die. They are all shadows of your father and brother, I just want to use my own ability to leave some shadows for my children and grandchildren."
"Isn't it a good day to eat and wait to die?" Qin Lang scolded with a smile.
"Then why didn't the three brothers directly marry a daughter of the five surnames Zheng, why did they have to take the risk of rebelling from Longjing?"
"Forget it, everyone has their own aspirations. Since you have made up your mind, then I will not interfere with you. It is just the path you choose, and you have to go all the way. If you encounter difficulties in the future, think about today's decision and stick to it. Go on, don’t give up halfway.”
"Definitely." The two brothers said together.
Qin Lang stayed that night to sleep with the two brothers. In fact, the two brothers didn't spend much time together. When Qin Lang left Qin Renfang Duke Qi's mansion, the two brothers were just little babies. He has been running around all these years. They kept walking, and in a blink of an eye, those two little babies have now become adults, went to the battlefield, and started to kill enemies to earn merit, not wanting to lose the name of the family.
"Have you ever slept with a woman?"
Qin Lang lay in the dark and asked with a smile.
The two brothers immediately got excited, saying that they had gone to bed early, and then the two brothers broke the news to each other. One said that the fourth child had a good friend in Chang’an Pingkangfang, and the other said that the sixth child had already accepted the girl from his yard...
After all, I’m just a teenager, so I’m very excited when I talk about these things.
Then they talked about their fiancées. The fourth’s fiancée was the daughter of Gaozu’s son-in-law Feng Shaoshi, and the sixth’s fiancée was the eldest daughter of Ying Guogong’s warrior Xun. They had already met in Jianzhou on the way to Songzhou.
The two of them are still very satisfied with their fiancée's family background and appearance.
Originally, it was almost the age of marriage, but now because of the death of his father, he had to wait another three years.
"Goro seems to have been dissatisfied with the daughter of the eldest grandson's family." The fourth child said.
"It's Mrs. Cui who has been dissatisfied with the young lady of the eldest grandson's family." The sixth son said.
The fifth child was betrothed to Changsun Wuji's daughter back then. This marriage was brought up by Changsun Wuji on his own initiative, and then Qin Qiong agreed. At that time, Cui was still very unwilling. A woman with five surnames is his wife.
But it was rare for Qin Qiong to be tough and determined to make the decision. In addition, Qin Lang also agreed to this marriage at the time, so he made an appointment.
"Have you met the eldest grandson's young lady?"
"I went to meet with Goro secretly. In fact, he is not bad. It is said that he can play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, write poems and lyrics, and dance swords, fencing, riding horses and archery. It's just that he is a bit tall. Goro thinks it's not good."
The eldest grandson's family is from Xianbei. Although they have been married and fused with the Han Dynasty for many generations, the Xianbei people still have more blood. Plump, actually very fit.
It’s just that the old five hit elementary school literature and hate martial arts, so he is relatively weak. Although he is taller, he is very thin. His aesthetics also likes the kind of weak and pitiful women, and he doesn’t like the young lady of the eldest grandson’s family.
Qin Lang actually didn't like Lao Wu very much all the time. He thought it was a little strange that such a weak scholar came out of the God of War family in the Tang Dynasty. Let's learn essays, but you can't learn essays so weakly.
The girl from the eldest grandson's family is also good. Although the etiquette of family education may not be as good as that of girls with five surnames, she is also a top-notch family.
Qin Lang also met the eldest grandson lady, the reason was that when the emperor was preparing for the marriage of Princess Changle, both the eldest grandson family and the Gao family wanted to marry women as concubines according to ancient rituals, and the eldest grandson Wuji and Gao Shilian each chose a daughter and a daughter. The niece was given to Changle as a dowry and was going to marry Qin Lang.
Of course, this matter was discussed with the Qin family in the end. Qin Lang also saw the portraits of the eldest grandson and the young lady of the Gao family, and even deliberately found an opportunity to meet the real person, the eldest grandson who was going to marry him, that is, the fifth fiancee His half-sisters, he has met together, are actually pretty good.
Anyway, in Qin Lang's aesthetics, he thinks the girl from the eldest grandson's family is very nice, tall and fit.
The three brothers slept on the same bed and talked for almost a night.
Until the next morning, the sound of horns woke them up, and the Tibetans launched an attack again. This time, instead of using catapults and battering rams, the Tibetans made many simple long ladders. He has learned the method of ants attaching to siege.
Under the rising sun, the drums of war are like thunder, and the two armies are fighting offensively and defensively, fighting desperately with real swords and guns without tricks.
Kill from sunrise to sunset.
The Tubo people had no choice but to withdraw their troops in the twilight, and failed again, leaving countless corpses again. Although the long ladder was also used, the narrow terrain was still the most deadly obstacle. This time, there are still only one or two thousand people who can fight.
In the next few days, the Tubo people still did not give up on attacking Guancheng every day, but they were repelled every time. Every one or two days, Qin Lang also asked people to add a few flags on the Guancheng, telling the Tubo people that reinforcements were coming. .
Qin Lang carefully controlled the scale of the 'reinforcements', so that under the offensive of the Tubo people, the Leiguan had always been in a precarious state that seemed to be on the verge of collapse, but at every critical moment, he could gain a new force The reinforcements held on again.
This made the Tubo people unable to stop, and could only attack again and again, hoping that this time the Tang army would have no reinforcements, and the city would fall when the mountains and rivers were exhausted.
Tibetan attacked the city during the day and burned the corpses at night. The family members accompanying the army grazed cattle and sheep in the valleys, and the war was deadlocked like this.
After the fight, even Songtsan Gampo knew that he must have been fooled by the people of the Tang Dynasty. This Thunder Pass must be tricky, but riding a tiger is hard to get off, so he can only continue to stalemate. I hope that after the main force of the Songzhou Tang army is attracted here, other aspects can be broken through.
It's just that the good news hasn't arrived yet.
Songtsan Gampo could no longer hold on.
(end of this chapter)